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Good evening everyone. I'd like to welcome you to the Adiggo City Council meeting. Tonight is Monday, July 27th. Audrey, can you have the record show that our assistant attorney is here, our city planner, our city engineer, all council members are present along with

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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

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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 where you can come to the podium. State your name and address and limit comments to 5 minutes or less.

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Would anyone like to speak? >> Kathy Kohl's 15613th Street Northeast. Here's this month's picture. >> Dan, >> mayor, we will follow up again with the property owner. >> They go out once a month >> basically.

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>> Basically. Great. Thank you. Right. Any other comments? Right. We will close the open forum and move on to consider our agenda for approval. Does anyone have anything that they would like to add or delete at this time? >> Oh, sorry.

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>> I was going to do it for you. Go ahead. [laughter] >> Madame Mayor, under the consent agenda, I would like to bring down item 3.3. >> We can make that 7.1. I would also like to add item 8.2. two considering approval for a contract with

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Wright County Community Action, Inc. >> Thank you. >> And 8.2. Everyone would have gotten that at your last meeting. >> That one. >> Thank you. Any other changes? A motion would be in order. >> Madam Mayor,

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>> yes, Ryan. >> I move to approve the agenda as amended. >> Second. >> Motion by Ryan, seconded by Corey. Is there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion

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passes. Next item is our consent agenda. A motion would be in order. >> Madame Mayor. >> Yes. Ryan, >> I move to approve the consent agenda as amended. >> Second. >> Motion by Ryan, seconded by Corey. Is there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I.

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I. I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Next item is a public hearing. It's for an interim ordinance data center land use. I will turn this over to our city planner for his report. Thank you, mayor. Um, so this item is on the agenda

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due to the increasing attention being given both at or at the local, statewide, and national level to uh development of data centers. Uh this is an issue that uh has been around for a while. Data centers exist in many communities throughout uh the Twin

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Cities. uh there are none in Oiggo currently uh and we have no current applications or pending applications for any uses uh such as this but it's the increasing demand and the scale of these facilities that is raising uh question

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and concern uh in other locations. Um obviously there are a number of issues that are related to data center development that are uh coming up that involve broader regional uh consideration such as ground or surface water resources, energy uses, things

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that if it's developed in AIGO or adjacent to uh is going to have an effect beyond municipal boundaries. Uh for the most part, the city's regulations deal with time, place, manner, development of specific land uses and the actual activity that occurs

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on a property. So, uh the purpose of the public hearing tonight is to consider uh the need for a moratorum. Uh the city is not deciding at this point whether to allow data centers or not within the city. Uh but the process to establish the moratorum requires this public

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hearing uh to receive comments uh from the public uh basically because things will change once this is in place as to uh what can come forward. So the process involves 10-day publish notice within the Elk River Star News. Uh that notice

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is also published on the city website. Uh the city would also be required to provide written notice of the uh moratorum uh being considered to any potential applicants that may be working on projects but again we're not aware of any uh so no such notice was provided.

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Um so the notice is published as consideration of adoption of an interim ordinance uh that would basically establish findings as to why a pause in development applications or development of data centers is necessary. uh and then directs the

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excuse me it would actually establish the moratorum and then direct the planning commission to lead a study of data centers as a land use and potential regulation of that activity within the city. Um so what is a moratorium? Basically it's a pause. Uh if the city

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adopts a moratorum the city cannot receive an application for a data center. uh any application any site that's been approved or is within the city can't uh proceed with developing their site uh and also uh any construction or expansion of an existing

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data center cannot occur. That's authorized by Minnesota statutes. The purpose is basically to allow the city to uh not be under pressure from any type of pending application or a current application to step back from very sight

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specific issues and look at the matter in a broader uh perspective as to implications to the city. Um then it also gives the city the opportunity to develop regulations that would be appropriate to allow for these types of land uses and regulate them to address

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any potential negative effects. So that process uh can last for up to a year. There are provisions in the statute where the city can extend up to an additional 6 months if necessary to complete that work. Um but the expectation is that uh city would

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proceed in a timely manner to wrap up its study and uh any ordinance amendments within that one-year period. So the existing regulations for data centers within the city and again we're emphasizing no current or pending applications before the city at this

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time. Uh but they are allowed as permitted uses within three zoning districts. Uh what that means is basically they are allowed uh subject to the general performance standards of the zoning ordinance such as lot requirements, setbacks, building materials, lighting standards, etc. uh

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there isn't any ability for the planning commission or the city council to look at a specific requirement and say, you know, we're concerned about where this facility is, so we should increase a setback. Um it basically is a black and white matter as to uh this application

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meets the requirements stated in the ordinance, so it therefore must be approved. Um there are varying types of applications uh that the city has uh available to allow different uses under including conditional uses which does

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allow the city more discretion uh as to allowance for certain uses and the ability to establish conditions uh that a particular development may cause uh to a given area. Um the the process today is basically that it would be a site and

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building plan review application before the planning commission and city council. Uh there is no public hearing component of the site and building plan review process. Um environmental review uh in terms of what the state establishes for mandatory categories.

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There isn't any specific category to data centers currently. uh that's an issue that the state needs to uh step in and weigh in on as to uh what would be an appropriate level of review. I the important thing to understand is that

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even if the city were to require an environmental review of a data center request under a discretionary uh provision, it's not a basis of whether you approve or deny the request. It's really an information and communications process so that all the state agencies

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and any affected jurisdictions and the public has an opportunity to review in detail uh what's being proposed, what potential effects that may cause and any measures that need to be taken to mitigate that. Um but through the site and building plan review process, again

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this is planning commission recommendation to the city council for a final decision based on the strict provisions of the the ordinance. >> [clears throat] >> So the concerns generated by uh data center uses include potential effects related to energy use. Uh this is one

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area of concern that's particularly problematic for cities uh because it's not within a city's purview to regulate >> [clears throat] >> uh except under very limited stat uh statutory provisions granted by the state. Otherwise, things like environmental effects, the utility

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capacity of the current grid, utility rates, that's all handled at the state level by the util public utilities commission. The city can only really address transmission facilities uh within a certain capacity uh that cross

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through the city. So in terms of a data center proposal, what the city would be looking at is saying, okay, if this facility is going to be developed in Oiggo, are there going to need to be transmission facilities that would be subject to its review that are also required to be developed? So that you're

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looking globally at that water usage is also a major concern. Uh when the water is used basically as part of the cooling system, unless it's a closed loop system, it can be a significant water user. uh obviously that can be mitigated if uh it's basically an internalized

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system that recirculates and reuses the water as part of that. There's also emerging technology uh for alternatives to using water resources that uh avoid this issue. Um noise is problematic from a land use compatibility standpoint. Uh

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the cooling system fans generate a low frequency noise that's constant. Uh there's also use of generators uh diesel generators to supplement power from the utility grid uh that cause noise to surrounding properties which would need to be addressed. And then uh more of a

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general requirement that the city would impose would be a lighting uh limit on uh the exterior illumination of these sites as part of their nighttime operations. So what the city would be looking at in terms of uh this land use study is

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evaluating those potential effects and then looking at standards within the zoning ordinance to address them to the extent possible if they are to be allowed. So you define the use, you'd establish which zoning districts the use is allowed in. Um and it can be one

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zoning district, it could be multiple zoning districts. Uh you'd look at making it either a permitted conditional or interim use. Uh and then performance standards such as minimum lot area requirements, setbacks from the perimeter of a lot. You can also have

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additional setbacks from residential uses that are greater than just the basic lot setbacks so that you create uh physical separation between those. Uh and then additional requirements as would pertain to building development standards, screening, lighting, noise,

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etc. uh that would all be kind of drafted and considered as part of the typical amendment process during the moratorum. There would also be uh criteria adopted as part of any ordinance that would allow for evaluation of uh data centers in terms

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of those potential impacts and whether they're complying with the standards that the city has adopted. You would also require specific information requirements for a data center request such as um utility infrastructure capacity evaluations, demand on both

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electric, water, uh and any other city utilities, uh noise studies, u both pre-development, post-development, and also the ability to have compliance checks going forward. uh and anything

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else that is necessary for the city to evaluate a specific proposal, its potential effects, and whether those have been mitigated by the construction that's proposed or any additional conditions the city would need to add to any approval to ensure that there aren't

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uh any negative effects once the the use is put in place. So, um, city staff's recommendation, uh, is that, uh, the current allowance of data centers as permitted uses within three dis zoning districts, uh, doesn't reflect the

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reality of the scale of these facilities and those potential impacts. Um, particularly with concerns related to land use compatibility and also city infrastructure and service cap capacity. Again, we're avoiding the uh utility

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issue from electric service standpoint because that's beyond the city's jurisdiction and uh purview. Um so our perspective is that the current zoning ordinance isn't adequate to address uh these potential impacts and needs to be reviewed and studied. Uh and again since

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there isn't any application before the city currently uh and none pending that we're aware of the time is now to put this moratorum in place and to step back and develop the regulations appropriate for this use going forward. Uh the planning commission discussed this

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matter at their special meeting on July 6th. Uh they had about an hour and a half long discussion about it. uh they were strongly in support of establishing a moratorum and voted unanimously to recommend the city council take that action. So, city staff has drafted the

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necessary interim ordinance 2026-11 uh for your consideration. And again, we do recommend approval as presented. >> Thank you. All right. At this time, uh we will open the public hearing. So you if you would like to speak regarding

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this you can come to the podium state your name and address and limit comments to five minutes or less. Would anyone like to speak on this issue? >> I'm going to try to keep it to five minutes as much as possible. Um thank you for recognizing the need to

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put a moratorium in place. Can we get your name and address? Mary Bartholomew. Address 7589 Odell lane northeast.co. I didn't think I'd be spending my nights and weekends reading and saving articles to on people pushing back on data

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centers that are impacting resources and damaging the environment. But big tech companies are running at breakneck speed. And here we are. 70% of Americans don't want data centers, including me. My discussion will stick to what you are

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trying to accomplish and how it affects the quality of life of of people in Oiggo and expectations as regulations are put in place. A medium-sized data center can consume 300 to 500,000 gallons of fresh water a day while

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larger facilities can may use up to 5 million gallons per day. They're looking that that could double by 2030. My question would be how would you ensure if a data center data center consumes more water than projected who pays for

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the additional infrastructure as you spoke about and if they are connected to the city water utilities as it's in your planning meeting notes will our water be safe? How will you ensure that during drought conditions or emergency water restrictions that residents will be

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given priority to fresh water for power? I understand that's not that's at a state level as you noted. Um they can take as much power as a 100,000 homes. Electric bills are going up around the country and requiring

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consumers to pay billions for big tech grid connections. NERK recently issued a level three alert warning that large loads with data systems pose immediate risk to grid reliability. And in recent news, you've probably

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heard 50,000 residents in Lake Tahoe were told that they need to find new power sources by May of 2027 because Nevada utility looks to redirect their lines to data centers. The noise, pollution, and environmental

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impacts, the energy studies said that noise can reach up to 96 dB 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Diesel generators used to run these facilities run at 85 to 100 dBA and 85 dB is considered

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dangerous to humans. The emissions from these generators are raising health concerns such as nausea, vomiting, insomnia, high blood pressure, and there's also downstream impacts. These companies are counting on us not

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to pay attention or push back. Data centers are showing up in communities using masses, massive amounts of water and power and turning around and fighting every rule meant to protect the people that live there. They promise jobs and investments to get tax breaks

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and then push back on every oversight that keeps water safe and rateayers protected. Why should taxpayers be funding private businesses for billionaires? Why should we not why should we be letting our community resources be handed over to out ofstate

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for-profit corporations that don't care about any of us? And here's a few examples. Larry Frink, CEO of Black Rockck, stated trillions of dollars from American retirement savings could be used to finance construction of data centers and

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AI infrastructure. Jeff Bezos said that in order for AI to reach its full potential, certain resources must be allocated and prioritized for technology rather than human consumption. I can guarantee you either one of those will

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not run out of water or electricity. So my ask of this committee is as you put these regulations in place that you put requirements in for data centers that are based on verifiable data, public disclosures, public participation

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as well as measurable community benefits rather than assumptions, confidential negotiations or generalized perceptions of impacts. that community benefits agreements, transitional service agreements that will help prevent negative impacts on data centers and

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secure enforcable promises made by developers. No NDAs be signed by this panel or city leaders that restrict disclosures to the public of water demand, power demand, environmental impacts, tax incentives,

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locations, and infrastructure costs. actual knowledge of the site equipment being used that will provide accurate water consumption and decibel levels. Setbacks and closed loop systems alone in the planning notes won't solve this.

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Remove any options for large hypers scale or data farms cannot see. I was a little bit confused on the moratorum. I'm not going to lie on sections six and seven that appear to say it may not be a full year or that parts of the ordinance can be severable

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which I didn't understand that piece. Um residents need to be fully on board with what the requirements of the moratorum are. Is it a full year or can it be shorter than that? I heard you say it could be longer than that but can it also be shorter?

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You know, people are exhausted from having to constantly hold leaders accountable in relentless pursuit of money and greed, which overshadows duties to serve the public. I'm counting on that I don't have to ask you to prioritize integrity and the welfare of

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the citizens of ATO. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments? Well, good evening. >> Good evening. >> My name is Jonathan Hilix. I live at 1468 14695 92nd Street Northeast in

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Sego. And I'm sitting here and I'm looking at the map up here. That's at Sego. And you know, I'm pretty sure everybody here is a capitalist. And I don't know a single person who's going to say, I want to move because they have a data center. No one ever is going to

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say that. Point number one, we care about our property values. This isn't going to help. So, I really support this um initiative to look at this very, very seriously. I look at the map and I see that we are responsible for a great deal of the Mississippi River, at least our

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side of it, and data centers require a whole lot of mum a whole lot of water. That's not good. And because of the way we structure our energy cost, we because they can't separate their energy from

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our energy, it's over 90 degrees out there. Electricity is keeping us cool. The price that we're going to pay for electricity if we start um pumping electricity into data center is could be

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spectacular. And we are building a lot more homes than at Sego. All right. So, so the billionaire beggars need you guys. All right. None of them live in that square. If you look at that map and

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you find a billionaire tech um guy, you know, who's begging for your approval, all right, we need to talk to him because that's not serving our community at all well. And if we're going to live a fact-based life, the idea of sitting

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down and and analyzing exactly what the benefits are because come on, a year and a half ago, two years ago, none of us even talked about data centers. This is brand new. And when AI comes online,

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there will be no jobs. There's no reason to think that it will produce a single job. So they show up, they get our energy, they get our water, and they give us nothing. So I cannot imagine anything on the side

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that says we, the citizens of the city of Atgo would do better having a data center here. And that's not even talking about the health benefits. That's just straight up dollars and cents. So I really support the initiative that I

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heard to step back, take a serious look at this. Thank you very much for your time. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Hello Patty Kesler, 1064074th Street Northeast. And that's basically I was going to comment the same things he did. Number one, our

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property values are going down as it is. The more and more homes that are built around us causes more and more traffic. Nobody wants to come into an area where that is happening. If you build a data center, we're going to have the same issues. I don't know how many people

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they employ. My guess is it's not a lot, but it what is it going to do to us? You know, all of the impacts. And my biggest question is if if they someone came in and applied for this and it was approved, what actual benefits would the

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city of Seiggo receive that it would be worth our while? >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments? Any other comments? Less one last time. Any other comments?

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Right. I will close the public hearing and bring it back up to council for discussion. Dan, there were a few questions uh brought to us by Mary and then also uh Patty had a specific question. What benefit? So mayor uh all the speakers had excellent excellent

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questions regarding what the benefits of data centers are to the city uh and what the implications of them are. That's the purpose of the moratorum to study that identify all those questions evaluate from the city's perspective what the answer to those questions is and then

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decide a path on moving forward. Um there were two questions specific to the action before the council tonight. Uh specific to the uh ordinance section six addresses the term statute allows a moratorum to be in effect for one year

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and again the purpose is to allow the city to study the issue and make changes to its official controls. Once the city has decided on the official controls that need to be put in place and those are adopted. the purpose for the

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moratorum no longer exists so it expires with the effective date of that ordinance. Um the second section seven addressing severability um that's a standard provision in ordinances. It's in the city code that says if somebody

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sues the city over a specific point in uh an ordinance and a court upholds that as invalid, it doesn't invalidate the entire ordinance. So they get their judgment on the one section, but the remainder of it is still in place and

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still valid. >> All right. Hopefully that answered your questions, Mary. >> Mayor, that's correct. If the study is completed, the ordinance amendments are drafted, the city council adopts it, it's published in the official paper,

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then the assumption is that everything is set up the way the city wants it and then the moratorum is no longer necessary. So it would terminate in advance of a year if everything happens rapidly.

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All right. Questions for council after hearing input this evening or your own questions for staff. >> Madam Mayor, just I guess a couple comments as I was listening at some of the the statements made by residents and thank you everyone for coming out. I

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know this is a a strangely um I guess bipartisan issue. This is an issue that I think a lot of people are concerned about. Um and I I've watched a lot of city council meetings in other cities where

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uh it's been quite contentious. So it is nice that we are able to do this without having an active application in front of us because it allows us to really consider uh what we want to do without the pressure of a developer breathing down our neck and telling us you can't do this, you can't do that. Um so I

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guess my just my thoughts on on what we heard and and the issue that's before us, you know, the my biggest concern is that as a city we're out of water. um we are uh really at our capacity for water. In fact, we're we're paying fines

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because we're drawing too much water um from the wells that we have. So, if a data center were to come in, even if it had a closed loop system, I think we're asking for trouble in that scenario. Now I will say that I still think it's

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possible for a data center to exist in Oiggo on the west side probably far away from any residential kind of in our industrial area as long as they can meet the standards of making sure we have enough water making sure that it's not

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going to create a noise problem. Um, and the noise issue is one that I think other cities have have dealt with. And this is, I think, to the gentleman's point, developers are coming in and saying, you can't measure noise a certain way, right? You can't measure it to the to

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the degree that it's causing, you know, the the steady hum. You can't measure that. So, you can't regulate that. And I think that the state law right now doesn't effectively address that. So, I'm hoping that by the time we have some of these regulations in place, it will

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address that because I think the decibel level is not really a concern for a lot of people, at least in the ones that I've seen. It's the constant hum that just causes people to go insane basically. Um, and what I've seen in the other cities that have had to deal with

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deal with this again with active applications is kind of like what you were what [clears throat] the gentleman is saying, developers will fight every rule and that's their right to do so. I don't want to give the impression that we're, you know, a city that's not going to welcome new business, but

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it would be easier if the rules were nice and clear for them. I think and that's why I think I ultimately do support a moratorum is I think we need to be clear on what those rules are, how we measure noise levels. I think we kind of have to wait for the state to fix

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some things in the laws. Um I I wholeheartedly agree. I don't think a city council should ever sign a non-disclosure agreement. I to be honest I don't know how the cities have done that so far. We are public officials. whatever we know should be public

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information for the most part. I mean, there's some rare exceptions, but I don't understand how non-disclosure agreements are are in play. It makes no sense to me. I would never sign one as a public official. Um, so I think if it's even possible to put that into our

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regulations, that has to be that has to be in there. Um, I guess just in general, like I said, I'm going to support this moratorum. I it's it's actually tough for me because I'm a person who who does not like regulations. I'm not generally a fan of them, but I think that there are so many

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concerns when it comes to this stuff, particularly with noise and water level, noise level and and water usage, um where it could exist in the city, the setback requirements. These are all, I think, very legitimate questions that we

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have to get an answer to. and I think it's probably going to take us a year to get there. Um, but uh I I guess in summary, I'm I'm in support of this. >> I would echo your comments. Um, you know, this, as you said, we're watching

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our neighboring cities deal with this and they actually have applications. We have no application, so we are in a different spot. Um, I'm would say I'm disappointed at the state level that there hasn't been more work done on their part because it shouldn't be city

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by city because we're all taking water from the same area. So, what we do in ATGO affects our neighbors downstream. Um, just like who people doing stuff north of us with, it's going to affect us. Um,

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I do have all the same concerns. Noise setbacks, um, water usage, you know, you can see these developers saying, "Oh, it's a closed system and it's only going to use a little bit of water." Well, okay, maybe it will, maybe it won't. Um,

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I thought a really good point that was brought up during the planning commission was talking about the noise when it's running on the system. Most of the research for the noise decibel levels have been when the power when the plants are or the data centers are

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running on the grid, not when they're running with the diesel generators. And that was specifically brought up by our planning commission members saying if there is going to be some studies, they also wanted it to be when all the diesel generators were running for that facility, what would be the noise level?

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Because one one generator is loud. Can you imagine how many hundreds they have? I don't even know the numbers, so I'm not going to speculate. Um, so I I really do appreciate that we are able to take a pause. I fully support that. I

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think that nobody wants to live next to these. And so even by saying the west side could potentially house it where because somebody somebody owns that property and there's probably a farmhouse. And so

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just just making sure that we're looking at this long term. Um what what decisions we make today affect our community not just tomorrow, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now. So I fully support it also.

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>> And I agree. I concur with both of you. I'm a little disappointed that there aren't more residents here actually um speaking of this because this is huge and um I would love this moratorium to go longer than a year. Um,

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I'm everything that everyone said out here tonight was spoton. Um, plus some other things that I won't get into. Um, so I uh I concur with everyone. Again, I'm just disappointed that there aren't more residents here um supporting this

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moratorum and beyond. Um, so that's my piece. >> Yeah. And I appreciate everyone coming. Uh, I really do. Um it's um definitely um something that I've dealt with in the construction industry is adding data

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centers into communities um and I've looked at them and um they usually don't move forward um the ones that I've worked on. So um from a perspective of understanding the systems a little bit there's a lot of options that they can consider. what are the good options that

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we can consider as a community to put restrictions on them because I think we are restricted as a city of what we can really do within the boundaries of our laws as a city within the state of Minnesota. So I I'm curious to learn more about that and I'm not versed in

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that as I as well as the construction side of things. There are things that we can add for provisions on the generators and dampening the noises and doing stuff and containment of that noise and and boundaries and stuff like that. It drives the cost up for them and I don't

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care about that. Um, and it's those types of things that we definitely need to look at, talk about all those those situations. The energy is a big one and I don't know what we can and can't do about the energy because they're independent organizations.

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um we can't control that. But what hopefully we can do is require certain amount of you know sustainable energy such as solar or something like that that they have build this big building and maybe re we can add a requirement in

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there that um 50% of their building energy comes from um renewable energy sources such as solar or something like that. I don't know what we can really do. But those are the the things that I would look at and try to add into our provisions to make it very difficult,

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make it very complicated because we cannot tell them no, you don't fit the requirement. What we can do is like here's what here's what we can do. Here's the slowdown. Here's the you know, you're not meeting this, you're not meeting this, you don't want to spend the money, too bad. Go away. you know, um, uh, you know, those are some

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of the things that we need to come up with for strategies and ideas and thoughts, um, as as a city to respond to the concerns and and it is a big concern. I'm concerned. I don't want my water contaminated. I don't want it hot. Um, there are closed loop systems, but

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really, what does that mean? Um, you know, long term, because you do have to purge the system. Where does that water go? You can't dump it here. Where you going to dump it? You got have that controlled somewhere, but they have to default to the state requirements. If the state requirements aren't there, then what do we do as a city? What can

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we do? >> Cory, Madame America, I think uh obviously, you know, I support the moratorum too. I think as you said and others that, you know, there's a larger need at the state level right now. I think with the number of cities that

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have you know enacted moratoriums even right county I think has a moratorum you know and totally agree with Miss Bartholomew things that she said about you have to get an entire community

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behind something like this you can't just push it out there so I think it makes a lot of sense to to enact this moratory for us Um, I guess with that, I'd make a motion.

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Make a motion to adopt ordinance 2026-11 imposing a moratorum and authorizing the study of official controls for data centers. >> Second motion by Corey, seconded by Michelle. Is there any discussion?

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>> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Thank you all for attending for this matter. All right, moving on to planning Jacob's Plat second edition, the Endeavor

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Investments LLC. >> Thank you, mayor. So, this site uh is located at the it's east of Highway 101, east of Queens Avenue, and south of 65th Street. It's currently developed with a industrial

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warehouse occupied by Blue Dot Furniture. Uh the comprehensive plan guides the property for industrial land uses. Uh it's zoned I1 Limited Industrial District. Um the property was established by Platt in 2022.

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Um it's 20 acre lot and a 54 acre outlot. Um the final plat shifts the boundaries between the lot and the outlot. uh surrounding the subject property include uh urban and rural single family homes uh urban homes to

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the south mainly future to the east uh rural homes to the north across 65th street and then there's existing and future uh industrial uh to the west and north of the site as well. So the preliminary plat to change the boundary between the lot and outlot was approved

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in May of this year and the final plat still consists of one lot and one outlot. Uh what's before you tonight is the approval of the final plat along with the development contract. Uh the reason this isn't on the consent agenda as would be typical is there are a number of special assessments that uh

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are going along with this including uh the city undertaking improvement of 65th Street as a public project uh to be paid for by the developer through an assessment. Uh and then they've also requested assessment of the utility availability fees which is a more

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typical uh request. The final plat itself again lot one block one meets all the requirements of lot width and area for the I1 district outlot A is reserved for future development uh and in

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includes a number of wetlands and things that will make that a more challenging parcel to develop in the future. Um 65th Street will be constructed along the north line of lot one block one. This was an obligation of the developer at the time the initial uh plat was

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approved. Uh but because the blue dot facility has been set up and will continue to operate uh with no access to 65th Street, the city deferred the construction until such time as the property was replatted. Uh which is obviously now is the time that is

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occurring. City engineer has reviewed the storm water management and utility plans for the uh proposed final plat and has given their uh approval. Easements uh within the plat are to be vacated and then replaced with the new final plat as

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per practice. Park dedication requirements are triggered by the replatting of the property basically for the additional area being added to outlot or to lot one block one and that's provided for in development contract uh which the city attorney's office uh drafted with specific

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provisions addressing both the public improvement project as well as the special assessments again. And so the 65th Street improvement project um zone the subdivision ordinance does set up that the developer can request the city undertake the process as a public

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project. Um so construction would be anticipated to occur in 2027 improving approximately quarter mile of 65th Street extending east from Queens Avenue. Uh all the work would occur within existing rightway. The street would be constructed to a 46 foot wide

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pave section, concrete, curb, and gutter. Uh there is plan for a 10-ft trail on the south side that will eventually connect to Randolph Avenue and out to County Road 42 in the future connecting those residential areas to the southeast of the site to the overall

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system. Um the project includes in constructing sewer and water and storm sewer facilities within the rightway as part of the street project that serve not only the subject property but will serve uh future improvements uh west of trunk highway 101. Uh the terms of the

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special assessment again it's a 10-year term at a 5.12% interest rate uh with payments start that should say payments starting in 2028 uh once construction of the the street is completed. So with that uh city staff is

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recommending approval of the application based on consistency with the comprehensive plan and compliance with the zoning ordinance and subdivision ordinance. We have five resolutions included in your packet to uh adopt all these uh approvals for you this evening. So,

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>> thanks. >> Thank you. >> We'll do them one at a time, everyone. Uh does the developer wish to comment? >> Hello everyone. I don't have any additional comments. If there's any questions, happy to answer this findings.

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>> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Questions for staff or for the developer or >> Madam Mayor? I just have one question for Dan because I >> I apologize I didn't send this ahead of time, but I I am kind of curious. Why do we have it in the um

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special assessment that they can't appeal their valuation, Mayor? So the current valuation of the property is approximately $28.5 million um with the roadway improvement project would conceivably increase that to $30

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million. So the city is providing financial assistance through the special assessment um and essentially using its own money to build the improvement project while being repaid by the developer. So the city doesn't want to

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see its tax revenue use during the period of the assessment where it's providing the developer assistance. The but this the special I think I see what you're saying because but the special assessment itself wouldn't go down based on the on the value of the

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property. It's that their total tax bill you don't want to see it go down because essentially you're funding the city is funding a road improvement along their property. Correct. Okay. Mayor there's an opportunity cost

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involved that the city is using its reserves basically to finance this project for the developer benefit and even though it's collecting interest on that in accordance with its policy uh it still has implications for the city's

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financing overall. So, this is an additional guarantee benefit to the city that it's not going to see its property tax revenue generated by the property go below today's levels. >> And that's for the five-year that's for the 10 years of the special assessment.

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And then it would be for the seven-year special assessment on the uh sack and whack fees, which was also written with a deferral that they don't have to pay that until after the street project assessment is completed. So, >> Gotcha. Okay. Thank you.

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>> What is the duration of the construction project? >> Mayor LS the city engineer. [laughter] >> Sorry. >> Uh mayor. >> So we would be designing it uh this winter and then bringing the plans and

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specs to the council probably at around January that February time um to have them approved so we can go out for bids. Then construction would start next summer and uh we'd have the road carbon

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guttered asphalt by sometime in July or August and then uh the second lift would go on the the year after that. >> Okay. Any other questions or comments?

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>> And the mayor? >> Yes. Right. I move to adopt resolution 2026-56 vacating existing drainage and utility easements within the Jacob's plant. >> Is there a second? >> Motion by Ryan, seconded by Corey. Is

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there any discussion? >> Mayor, >> you can make one motion for all the resol. >> I'll do two. >> All right. So, we're on one and we'll do two for So, we're on the first resolution. Was there any discussion on that item? All those in favor signify by

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saying I. >> I. >> I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. >> Madame mayor. >> Yes, ma'am. >> I move to adopt resolution 2026-57 approving the Jacobs Plant second edition final plant subject to conditions as presented. Further

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resolution 2026-58 approving a development contract. Further resolution 2026-59 approving a special assessment agreement for 65th Street. And uh further resolution 2026-60 approving a special assessment agreement for utility

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availability charges. >> Is there a second? >> Second >> motion by Ryan, seconded by Corey. Is there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. I. Those opposed, same sign.

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Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. All right, we will move on to public works item 6.1, our storm water pollution prevention program. I will turn this over to our city engineer. >> Thank you, mayor. This is our annual uh

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storm water pollution prevention program um meeting. The MPCA requires us to hold one of these annually. Uh so it's just mainly forformational purposes for the council and for residents. Um, so we have the outfalls.

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Let's see. I should probably go by Yeah, outfalls. And here the map of all the outfalls that go to DNR waterways. So that would be the Mississippi River, uh, at Seiggo Creek and the Crow River. And all those

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stars that are on there are outfall points that annually we inspect to make sure that they are free of any debris or any other issues that might be occur at those. On the next slide, um we have this all the skimmers of all

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the storm ponds and we inspect one quarter of those every year. So we have this divided into four quadrants and each of those um little dots on there is a skimmer structure that outlets each of the storm ponds within the city.

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Uh next slide. Then we also at that same time we take a look at the storm ponds in each one of those quadrants. Uh so 25% a year you can see in that very southeast quadrant we example of all the storm ponds that

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are there and make sure that the uh they aren't filling up too much with debris or sediment. Uh next slide. And then we hand out these brochures to all the contractors that come into town, developers that come into town, so that

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they understand um that they are under the requirements of this SWIP. Anything over one acre has to go through a SWIP process. They have to have plans uh approved by the city. Um, even though

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some of these are.3 acres on an individual lot, it's because it's a larger development that covers one plus acres that that individual lot is still under the same requirements as long as the development is occurring.

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Uh, next page. And that this is the back side of that same brochure showing all the different types of what we call best management practices to uh reduce the amount of sediment and uh contaminants that can

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enter our storm water system and get to the wetlands or the creeks, rivers. Next slide. We also do a newsletter. One of the requirements is to send out and do some public information. So that gets sent

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out annually. Um gives the residents information, you know, where to to pick up their pet waste, put it in the uh garbage can. Uh motor oil to discard that correctly. Um even like thawn clippings such as that to be uh all

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taken care of properly. And if they do find see some illicit discharge that they believe uh some gas or oil or something else is occurring that's leaking out of something um to give us a call and let us know so we can investigate that.

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Uh next slide. So with each of those inspections we do every year then we make a map of all the uh concerns. So this is all the inspections that were done in 2025. And then the next slide coming down we

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have any you can click on those uh they'll highlight if they have an issue and then the um public works department knows to go out and then they can tell what they're looking for that needs to be fixed out there and then they'll

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click on if it's completed or not so that we know these items have been taken care of on an annual basis. Next [clears throat] slide. So, uh I think this is just showing the storm ponds and outlets. Those were the

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outlets on the other one. But uh again, each of these points, if you actually clicked on them, they would have is there a tree in front of the flared end section or on the outlet or is there some uh broken piece of concrete within

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the catch basin or the uh the skimmer structure that needs to be fixed and then staff knows to go out there and take care of that. >> Ron, is this available on our website to for people to go look at it? Yes, I I we

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can put it on there. We we'll have the >> Just curious. >> You're talking about what items have been fixed and then >> Yeah, just the you're talking about clicking on different things or is that just staff? >> It it's public works. >> Okay. >> It is ones that have it and uh I don't

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know if it's necessary for residents. I think hopefully they understand that we're doing our due diligence to meet the MPCA requirements of reviewing these every year and then having the public works department take care of them. >> Sure. I was just trying to get an

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understanding of what you were talking about. >> Sure. Uh next slide. I I guess we're just going through the same slides here that are are of our snor pond outlet structures. But with

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that, we'll leave it to any questions I got from uh council or from residents. >> All right, this is our yearly water pollution prevention program or storm water. Um this is the

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time where we will take public comments regarding this also. So, if anyone has any comments, you can come to the podium, state your name and address, and limit comments to 5 minutes or less. Would anyone like to speak? I'll ask again for any public comments. [clears throat]

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All right, we will bring it back up to council for questions. There is no direct >> there's no motions on this, so just >> No, we just have to hold an annual meeting. It's in the in the records that it was uh on this date of course with

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our agenda and it's all that we provide for the MPCA on an annual basis. And I was going to say to piggy back to Corey's question, if residents do have concerns about any of their storm ponds or outlets, they can reach out to city

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hall. And >> yeah, on that one uh >> brochure and also in the letter or they goes into the sele, >> there's a phone number and the contact name >> that does need to be updated.

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>> We did notice that. The contact is wrong, but maybe we just move it to just contact city hall and >> Sure. Come to the podium. Maybe you have a storm water problem then fix it for you. >> Patty Kesler, 10640 74th Street

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Northeast. I have a question. In our townhouse association, we have some wetlands that border our property. And we were told that this is owned and run by the DNR. We have problems with some of the trees that are in their wetlands falling onto

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our property and we're forced to cut them down. Should we be taking this to the city or who do we go to with issues like that? >> Right. >> Is that part of the jurisdiction? Well, we we're we're looking at the

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storm waters and not the wetlands. So, it is it's a little different. Um >> uh some of these wetlands may be owned by private entities at this point, not owned within this the city outs, but if it is a city out, uh

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we can take a look at it. But typically, you know, those are just wild areas that are not uh maintained. >> Okay. So there's nobody to go to other than take care of ourselves. >> Mayor, >> I would say if you want to leave your contact information with the city clerk,

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um we can follow up and see what the circumstances is with the outlot or with the wetland adjacent to your property and see who's responsible for that. >> Okay. Um >> but obviously she said the concern is that the tree is in the right or in the wetland, but it's falling onto their property. So now they're dealing with

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that. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And I don't know if it's that neighbor situation where if it's a neighbor's tree that goes down, but it goes down partly in your yard, you're still responsible for that >> portion that falls in your yard. >> Mayor, there are all kinds of unique uh

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laws that pertain to trees and tree branches and tree trunks and fall trees. >> Oh, yeah. >> I I think we can >> we can help address questions. So, >> yes. >> Well, it's good that Patty got up and asked the question. So you guys

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>> Patty, thank you for asking the question. They will follow up with you. >> All right. Any other questions or comments? >> Thank you for your update, Ron. >> Thanks, Ron. >> Thank you. >> Thank you.

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All right, we will move on to item 7.1, which is pulled from 3.3. Ryan, >> thank you, Madam Mayor. Before we move into discussion on this item, I would like to ask if any members of the council believe they have a financial or personal interest in this matter that might necessitate a disclosure and

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recusal. >> No, I do not. >> Well, Madam Mayor, given that the state law is clear, the mere existence of a conflict of interest would nullify any agreements the council made, regardless if they would have passed by majority

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vote. A recusal protects these proceedings in that regard. At our last meeting, the council member stated they would be recusing themselves. Since they will not be following through on that commitment, we as a council must. I move that the council finds that

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council member Gaty has a potential conflict of interest with respect to this agenda item to protect the integrity of the council's proceedings, preserve the validity of any action taken, and safeguard the public trust. I further move that the council member be requested to refrain from participating

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in discussion and voting on this matter and that the minutes reflect the nature of the conflict and the member's nonparticipation. >> Can I ask for a comment from the attorney on this? >> Uh yes, mayor. Um I know that this issue of conflict of interest has been came up

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in a previous council meeting and you know looking at this issue this item involves request for payment of pay applications from contractors doing work on um the fire department facility. Um you know in this context for a conflict of interest to exist it would have to be

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a situation where say council member gay was a party to the contract under which that work was done or would have to be you know an employee or have some sort of ownership interest in those contractors receiving payment for that

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work under this contract. Um in this case um the council member as a part-time at will employee of the fire department she doesn't have any of those kind of personal beneficial interests in the payment under these contracts. So

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the position of the city attorney would be that this wouldn't amount to a conflict of interest requiring >> mad mayor. Yes, Ryan. >> I think that uh the council member in question is on the other side of the transaction. As a fire department employee, she has direct personal

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interest in the outcome of this decision because she benefits from the completion, layout, amenities, and equipment funded by this application. Residents could legitimately question whether the conflict created here means that the council member is representing her interests in the fire department. As

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a result, it's impossible to untangle those interests, and the proper course of action is to disclose the potential conflict and then recuse herself as she promised she would do. If anyone is still confused as to whether there is a potential conflict here, the test here

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is simple. If the agenda item were to fail, what would be the possible outcome? In this case, the non-payment would signal that the project has stopped and the council is exercising its right of nonappropriation for the fire station agreement with the EDA.

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This could potentially lose the council member her job. That's textbook conflict of interest. Her loyalties are divided by the question being posed to the council. >> Again, I would just reiterate on that point of conflict of interest. you know,

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while she's affiliated as an employee, the way the law would view a conflict of interest in this situation would be that she would be deriving some sort of personal financial benefit from this item, which would, you know, and here the the benefit the financial benefit is going to the contractors. She doesn't

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have any legal relationship with those contractors. Um, and as a result, under the law, this wouldn't be a conflict of interest. >> Thank you. Any other comments? Otherwise, a motion would be in order.

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>> Madame Mayor, >> that's right. >> Just a point of order. Uh, I made a motion and then there was a discussion. So, that needs to go to a vote. Again, the motion was on. >> There was no second, Ryan. >> That's correct. There was no second, but

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you moved it into discussion. Discussing the merits of the motion, bring it before the assembly and it must now be voted on. If you need the wording of my original motion, I have it for you. >> I think at this point be appropriate to vote on it.

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>> Vote on Ryan, can you repeat what you what your motion is? >> I can. I move that the council member find I move that the council member finds that council member Gaty has a potential conflict of interest with respect to this agenda item to protect the integrity of the council's

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proceedings, preserve the validity of any action taken and safeguard the public trust. I further move the council member be requested to refrain from participating in discussion and voting on this matter and that the minutes reflect the nature of the conflict and the members non-participation.

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But by my question is to the attorney. So Ryan, because I moved it to discussion, by voting in favor of that, we would be supporting exactly what your motion said. And by voting against it, we would not be supporting that comment.

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Just want to make sure that we're all clear on that. Okay. Uh Ryan has repeated the motion. Audrey, do you have it in the record? I I can get the rest from the audio. Thank you. Thank you. Um all those in favor signify

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by saying I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. >> I >> motion fails to pass. [clears throat] Right. We have uh pass uh pay application number 19 that is in place.

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>> Madam Mayor, >> that's right. I oppose this action because our city is able to receive excellent service from our existing contract providers at a price point that is costefficient for the taxpayer. If approved, this action will increase the total cost of owning our own fire department to 22,595,72847

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so far. Corey. >> Madame Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve SC pay application number 19 in the amount of 167,813.70 for work completed on the fire station. >> Second motion by Corey, seconded by

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Michelle. Is there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> All those opposed, same sign. >> I. >> Motion passes. forward one. [clears throat] Sorry, I left my >> All right, moving on to city council

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reports and updates. Our first item is heritage preservation. >> Thank you, madame mayor. Um the hotiggo herit heritage and preservation commission will meet on August 19th. At our last meeting, we were discussing new

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ideas for the uh prairie festival. A lot of good ideas coming, so we're excited. Next is park and wreck. Michelle, yes. Um, park the next parks and wreck

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meeting should have been um I believe uh the Yeah, it's canled for this next month. I think it was supposed to be on the 11th if I remember correctly. That's been cancelled um due to lack of topics to talk about. what recently was covered and approved was moving forward with um

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a design for the um Prairie Park phase one. >> Thank you. Thank you. Next is planning commission Ryan. >> Madame Mayor, the commission recommended approval of the Hemple Properties outdoor storage permit that the council approved earlier tonight. Uh the August

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3rd meeting is canceled, so the next meeting is scheduled for August 17th. >> Thank you. Next is public safety. Tina, >> I don't want to steal Chief's thunder, so I'll just keep it real short here. Um, we had some internal discussions in

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regards to ambulance service and such. So, we're going to kind of dig into that a little bit more, invite um an external individual and have a conversation um hopefully August 18th around that time frame. So, and I'll let Chief discuss

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the rest. Thank you. We still are under city council reports and updates. Does anyone else have anything? All right, moving on to under staff reports and updates. Item 8.1 is to consider scheduling a special city

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council meeting at 5:30 in August 10th and August 24th. >> Mayor Coun uh thank you mayor council. Uh both these would be [clears throat] for purpose of budget review um during the month of August. Uh as a reminder, the city needs to adopt a preliminary levy by the end of September. Uh so

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usually August is a budget review heavy month. Uh both of those nights are normal council evenings. So this would be 5:30 leading up to 7 o'clock uh regular meeting >> that work for everyone. All right. >> And I will Yes. Oh.

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>> All right. Corey made a I'll second it. Um motion by Corey, seconded by Jessica to call the special meetings which will happen right before regular city council meetings. Is there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I.

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>> All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Next item was item 8.2. This is regarding working with Wright County Community Action. Adam. Okay, mayor, councel, thank you. Uh,

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this item was added tonight. Uh, some background information. Uh, the city has received statewide affordable housing aid money uh for the last few years. Um, this money is uh has time constraints and use constraints set forth by the

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Minnesota legislature. uh most recently discussed at the February 2026 EDA meeting. Uh staff presented some uh options that have been under discussion with Wright County. Uh we took those uh that feedback and [clears throat] continue those

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discussions with Wright County uh and some of the larger cities uh in the county as well. So uh what we've come up with is a proposed agreement uh with Wright County Community Action. Uh under this agreement uh with the city of Adigo, the city of St. Michael and Ray

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County. Uh WCCA would provide um housing stability uh resources to outgo residents um looking to either stay in their homes or be able to find uh other housing within our own community. Uh the funding is again from the state. Uh the

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allotment under this agreement is $52,757. Uh so this represents our first year uh of housing aid from the state. uh it does cap at that 52,000 uh under this agreement. Um there's also

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verbiage in there about if that funding uh is no longer available that the city can pull out of this agreement for those reasons. Um again, so WCCA uh is setting up this program. They're providing housing research assistance, uh case management, financial training to those

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people, uh employment opportunity support, and declining rental subsidy. So, uh the program is set up at the beginning of uh subsidy. Uh they are provided with 100% uh funding for their housing identified through the program.

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And then by the time that 12-month uh duration is over that the homeowner uh or the person involved in the program is able to fully pay that on their own uh through some of the other resources provided under this agreement. Uh city staff has run this through the

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uh city attorney. Uh the Ray County Board is expected to take action this week uh as is the city of St. Michael on this program. Um so in the packet there is a purchase of service contract with uh Ray County Community Action. It has gone through the city attorney's office.

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Uh we did send comments back and forth uh to Wright County and those changes have been made uh and accepted by their legal team. Uh the action tonight would be to approve a purchase of service contract uh with this group and I can answer any questions. Um I had contacted

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Adam earlier today. I just had questions about you know if there's not um someone in Sego what's where does it go? Um questions like that. >> Uh obviously I think we all were hopeful that there would be some level of um

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partnership that we could figure out with the county to use these dollars since it it came to the city and we didn't really know how we were going to manage that also. So, I'm happy to see something in place. Um, correct me if I'm wrong. Was there

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another city involved? And if so, because it's just this is between St. Michael at Sego and the county. Was there another city involved in Right County? And if so, what are they doing with their bodies since it's only between the two cities? >> Mayor, council, uh, the four cities that

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received funding through the state program were, uh, you had to be in excess of 10,000 in population. So that included at Seiggo, St. Michael, Monaceel, and Buffalo. >> Uh the other cities and township money uh ultimately ended up in the county's pool and that's why they're also

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participating uh in this program. Uh as you noted, uh St. Michael and Atiggo are parties to this agreement. Monaceel and Buffalo have developed their own internal programs. Uh I don't have specifics on exactly what those are, but they're handling that internally at least for now.

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>> Okay. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? >> Madame Mayor. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Just to reiterate the discussion we had kind of at the EDA is this is not um property tax money. It's money that we get from the state and it's kind of a

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small amount relative to what we need it for. So, if we were just to hold on to this money, first of all, the clock runs out and we no longer get it. But second, it would just all get eaten up in admin costs and and administrative, you know,

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trying to administer some brand new uh function. So, it makes sense for us to pull this money with um with Right County and with another city to um just make it more effective. So, I'm in support of it. >> Any other questions or comments?

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Otherwise, a motion would be in order. >> Mayor, I'll make a motion. >> Yes. Motion to approve a purchase of services contract between Wright County Community Action, Inc., Wright County, and the city of St. Michael. >> Second. >> Motion by Tina, seconded by Corey. Is

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there any discussion? >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. >> Motion passes. Mayor, councel, uh the city will be receiving uh ongoing updates from WCCA on this and we can

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report back to the council on how the program is going and and residents that we're able to help in our community. If we find this successful, we can certainly renew this agreement with some of the additional years of funding. Uh as council member Dunlap said, total funding received to date is 155,000. So

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for the city to be able to stand up its own program uh hire staff administer that uh in terms of the guidelines set by the state it would be very very difficult for us to do that in a small community. So >> and this agreement is only using that set of money. So there is

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>> correct this is the 2023 aid aotment. >> Correct. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. We were are still under city council reports and updates. Adam, >> mayor, council, no further updates for me. Thank you,

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>> Audra. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Uh, just to remind everybody, candidate filing closes tomorrow, Tuesday, July 28th, at 5:00 p.m. And if any candidates uh want to withdraw, they have till Thursday at

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5. And if anybody's interested who's applied, it is available on the Secretary of State's website. And last thing I had is early voting did start on Friday. So if anybody wants to vote for the primary election, they can come to city hall during office hours Monday through Friday. And then on Saturday,

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the day before elections, um we will be there from 9:00 to 3. Thank you. All right, Richard. >> Nothing for me, >> Dan. >> Mayor, nothing for

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>> Ron. Thank Chief McCoy. Good evening, mayor, members. Um, we continue to work on the station um getting items off our list uh with the contractors, working with Wald and Krauss Anderson um to get that finished.

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Um, council member Gaty uh brought up an item that was brought um talked about at length um dur safety commission meeting. Um Chief Scott's taking the lead on that and he's reached out to the the outside parties to try to

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schedule a meeting with that. So, and it really has to do with um a topic conversation that's been around for a while and that's ambulance service in the city of Oiggo. So um we have received quite a few phone calls on the u the grass that's um we're trying to

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follow city ordinance on and keep alive on the a watering schedule. So I know that we're working with u our park and recck department to uh green that up and then get that looking good again. So other than that we continue to plug away.

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>> So any questions? >> Isn't there a provision if it's new sad? Yeah, I was like, I'm pretty sure I've read that before. >> We have 30 days, don't we? >> So, >> we want to be good neighbors and we want

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to follow the rules as well. So, I think we're past our 30 days now. >> But, uh, we'll get her there. >> Pet's not helping anybody's yard. >> No, it is not. >> Okay. Anyone have any questions for the chief? any any do we have all the

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equipment or where are we at with that? >> So, all the trucks are there. Um we're working on equipment. So, we did get um some things in last week. So, it's it's always slow >> and [clears throat] then it'll all show up in bunches. So, >> yep. Awesome.

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>> We're gaining. >> Good deal. Good deal. Thank you. >> How's our uh fire marshall working out so far? >> Uh excellent. >> Yeah. >> So, um you'd be surprised the number of items that come in. um regarding the fire code and it's nice just to be able

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to um email him. Um it's stuff that um Jason would have taken care of uh in addition to myself and u so he's freeing up Jason's time. He's freeing up my time. >> Awesome. >> Yeah. >> Great. Thank you.

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>> Thank you. Thank you, Chief. Sergeant Alman's, >> you got to teach Chief McCoy how to raise the podium for himself, too. [laughter] >> We have two more presets here. So, we got all sorts of stuff.

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Uh, my formal apologies to the community of Atgo. I was asked for sheriff's stickers four times today and I had to decline each one because I didn't have any. >> So, I'm feeling pretty pretty rough on the uh community policing side of things today. So, uh you have baseball cards.

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>> Yeah. Do you got some you can give them? >> I would love to have like my own like baseball card of like me on there. >> We can make we can make that. >> We need some pictures. Yeah. >> Couldn't play sports for anything and so I didn't never got to be shortstop

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twins. like nice sergeant. But >> I can see Greg Dagney and you >> That's exactly right. You have to use a older baseball player. But >> that's that's my era. >> Is it are baseball cards even a thing? I mean like Pokemon card here's my special

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power [laughter] >> Pokemon cards and then I get stolen. But but yeah uh okay busy. Uh I keep reiterizing there seems to be a very strong correlation as far as the time I've been a cop where when the temperature is hot. It absolutely is

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correlation between call load and the temperature. You can imagine all the different things. I mean certainly whether it's just people get more irritable when it's this hot out. Certainly the medical side of things is absolutely um really straining on the EMS system when uh we're having fly over heat

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stroke, heat exhaustion and then every call that you go to the heat just adds to the problem in general even if it is heat related. Uh so we had that we had the county fair at the same time. So I we had a lot of deputies and reserve county fair that really had to sweat it

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literally sweat it out. Uh we had a number of them down there. I went down there for like an hour. Um, I used to do that as an explorer back in the day. Uh, parking cars out the parking lot or directing traffic out the parking lot for 16 hours and wouldn't get paid for that.

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What the heck? I was 15. So, I was just like whatever. But, so a lot of a lot more work out there at the county fair. Same thing. They had a ton of medicals and a lot of people out there. So um certainly otherwise really I wish I could get into specifics on a couple

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cases but um really can't at this point. So, uh, like I said, busy, time constraining, and labor intensive things that are kind of going on. Um, I know we have a number of trials that are active right now that involve a

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couple of our deputies. So, we're having to go testify and then come back up here, wait, and court and jury trials are kind of a long drawn out process. if anybody's had to do jury duty that uh when you're sitting on the other side of it trying to be one of the witnesses that get kind of stuck

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in the courthouse sitting in a waiting room for hours on end. So I'll be doing that tomorrow probably the entire day into Wednesday. So other than that questions for me otherwise hey we're busy. Sorry I don't have specifics. >> Anyone have anything?

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>> Correct me if I'm wrong. Jason did you mention that you had hired um five new deputies? >> Yes. >> Okay. How are they doing? >> Yeah, really good. Um, I just uh had another just met I think the final one of the five today. So

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had to watch myself. I'm being complete smart Alec with him because he showed up on a medical and he only had one medical glove to put on and he went, "Oh crap." Look at the other one. I was like, "Oh, interesting. Not a good start, man." So he was literally so we had a medical at

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O'Reilly the O'Reilly's fighter parts and uh in Monaceel and so he was literally gonna go buy a box of gloves that were at or oh my god he's felt so bad he's like I'll just buy a hold on you go find you something one of those things here make sure you

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check your stuff >> so >> he's never going to forget now >> and he can watch the recording back and see that you talk about >> teachable moment And then make sure his trainer gets the the YouTube link.

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>> Jack, remember your glossery. >> All right. Does anyone else have anything? >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Sergey. >> All right. If no one else has anything, then a motion to adjurnn would be in order. So moved. >> Second. Motion by Tina, seconded by

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Michelle. Is there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. The meeting is ended. Thank you all for attending this evening.