good evening everyone I'd like to welcome you to the oigo city council meeting tonight is Monday August 12th audre can you have the record show that our City attorney city planner city engineer along with all council members are present along with our assistant City administrator and our city
administrator at this time I'll ask you all to join us in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge alance to the of the United States of America to the for it stands one nation indivisible with libery 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 residents can come to the podium State their name and address and limit comments to five minutes or less would anyone like to speak at this time
hi guys uh jie Holland County Commissioner just wanted to give you an update uh it's been a while since I've been here I think a month um we uh in the the meantime since I've been here our County Administrator uh resigned so
uh last week we have now put in an interim County Administrator who is Greg kryer he's our civil County attorney he's doing a dual role as civil County attorney and a interim um and probably
until you know we get through uh this budget season because we are in the thick of budget season right now and then you know kind of figure out our plan and then kind of work in how we're going to get our next
administrator but for now he's well well versed in the county he is uh um able to do so Brian loot said uh he's been doing a lot of this our services already as County Administrator so we're we're just
really excited that he's uh at the Forefront and right in time for Budget season we're in budget season now and it's been uh very very uh intense uh our goal is to get it between 4 and
six um it came in high at like eight but we've been working that Levy down and we're really hoping uh that we can get it in that uh Levy area so because we know especially I'm fighting for you
guys of all the cities in Ray County you guys are the most impacted because you know just your volume of people and the the size homes you have it will really impact uh your your
City so just want to tell you I'm fighting hard for you and um other than that I know you guys have your Festival coming up and if you could tell your parks department Connie to call uh
Health and Human Services to get that uh lactation station uh all ready to go because uh they were um last year Public Health couldn't believe how many people came out to your especially young families
even though I told them that and they said oh my gosh we couldn't believe how big that Festival is so just if you could remind her that hey this is this is coming up and and get her uh in contact with public health that would be
great but otherwise I'm looking forward to it I'll be there all day and uh anybody have any questions right now for me yes uh who be the appropriate contact at HHS um you know what I would call uh
Sarah Gan Sarah she's the head yeah thank you and I do want to thank Adam he's been at a lot of our cannabis uh meetings we're also mucking through all that cannabis stuff that's going to hit us hard on January 1 uh we're lucky
Sabrina too has came um we're we're really lucky that you you guys are really lucky to have these two to come and get all the information it's going to be the Wild Wild West we we know and uh hopefully it it goes a lot smoother
than we're fearful um Public Health um our county attorney's office and and Sheriff's Department are all like holding their breath and then hoping that you know in the the first six months it goes better than what they
think so but it's nice to have your two got your two people at the table it really says a lot about what you know representing the cities the city people ATO so thanks does anyone else have
anything for Genie thank you we will pass on that information to Connie I'm on the festival committee so make sure we have them there great thanks and I'll see you guys I hope on the what is that the 17th
21st 21st but you I'm 17 then just stay actually you work the 17th is when I'm in Washington for I'm on the uh I'm going for the Transportation Alliance so
are you going anybody else I'll I'll power through for you guys too okay awesome thank you Genie thanks thank you commission all right any other open Forum comments
okay we will close the open form and move on to item two to consider our agenda for approval does anyone have anything that they would like to add or delete at this time Madame mayor yes I move to approve the agenda is written second motion by
Ryan seconded by Tina is there any discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I all those oppose same sign motion passes next item is our consent agenda a motion would be in order Madam mayor yes Ryan I move to approve the
consent agenda as written second all right motion by Ryan seconded by Britney is there any discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I all those oppose same sign motion passes moving on to item four public
hearing 4.1 Danel ocation I'll turn this over to the city planner thank you mayor uh Park and record commissioner Matt danzel is here this evening with a request related to an improvement on his property uh 14667 71st Street uh that's
within linbar Estates uh the area along County Road 38 was developed with a storm water basin and Grading leading down into it the danzel wish to construct a detached accessory building in the Southeast corner of the property which would encroach on an existing
drainage and utility easement um that was dedicated with the Plaid it encompasses that Basin and some of the slope uh basically the East end of it uh so they put together a grading plan how showing how they could modify the slopes within the property to uh continue the
functionality of that storm water basin and maintain its capacity uh that grading plan was approved by the city engineer uh so the area highlighted on the screen is proposed to be vacated as drainage and utility eement and that it no longer serves public purpose and would allow for the construction of the
building so it's necessary by Statute to hold a public hearing to consider the vacation uh that vacation request again the per for the purposes stated and the vacation is appropriate because the easement no longer serves the public purpose uh with the modification of the
grading uh so City staff recommends approval of resolution 20246 okay all right at this time I will open the public hearing you can come to the
podium state your name and address this time we have any comments please come to the podium I'll ask one more time any comments for the public hearing the danzel property one last
time I will close the public hearing and bring it back up to council for questions or a motion Madame mayor yes Bry I would like to make a motion to approve or to adopt resolution 2024 D50 vacating existing
drainage utility ements okay is there a second second motion by Britney second by Tina is there any discussion May clarify what resolution number said 2024
D 6 I should have brought my glasses tonight okay so we have that clarified is there any other comments all right all those in favor signify by
saying I I all those oppose same sign motion passes yeah thank you enjoy the we U sorry with the confusion over here did we who was who made the second T thank you it was Tina Andra
raised her hand thank you I was like wait what's happening all right hi thank you thank you okay moving on city council reports and updates does anyone have
anything I have one item oh sorry sorry je I'll go after you go ahead okay um I just wanted to pass along i' gotten um a letter from the league of Minnesota cities and since we have Joanie online and people in the audience tonight um this is just notifying us that out of
the 839 cities that are members of The League um each year they choose representatives from the House and Senate there's 16 from the house and nine Senate uh members that are recognized for working hard for cities
and uh representative Paul nney is receiving the award this year so just wanted to pass it along thank you Jack mayor thank you uh with the upcoming election and since uh tomorrow
is is Adam is tomorrow the end of applying to either Council or mayor mayor yes at 5:00 P pm tomorrow okay with that being said uh just to make sure that uh we are counil the present Council and future Council and also people running for Council and mayor to
make sure whenever everybody uh hits enter online basically comment you want um of course this is no by no means a step on anybody's First Amendment you can speak and do whatever You' like but as
a when you comment online as a person uh working for the city as of course it'll be noted not of course professional or excuse me private we discussed that I believe uh with our LMC meeting and uh Social Media stuff but when you're running for councel and when you're on
councel basically once you hit enter you approve your message so we all know about you know when the federal you know I'm this and that and I approve this message so as soon as you hit enter on social media you approve that message so when I or anybody on Council here to
comment online as a it says city council member or running for city council as soon as you hit enter you approve that message that's my feeling on that thank you mayor any other comments we'll move on to staff reports
and updates the bring up thank you mayor no updates Adam mayor uh just a reminder to the council there is a groundbreaking for the I94 uh Gap project this Friday uh held here in oigo at the m road facility uh if you need more information
just please let me know okay rer thank you mayor um kind of add on to what Jeff said the candidate filing does post tomorrow at 5: PM staff will be there if anybody wants to come in and fill out an application and tomorrow is primary elections and the
precincts will be open from 700 am to 8:00 pm so come out and vote thank you Dave no updates thanks mayor mayor the next Planning Commission meeting is next Monday August 19th we have an
application for a six lot subdivision west of the soccer fields at Prairie Park uh application for an XL Cent energy substation south of I94 and Michaels is proposing a significant significant expansion of their office
building over on the brewery Industrial Park Michael's on the west not Michaels on the East Michael's construction not craft stru yeah I was thinking that right off the bat I got it Ron thank mayor just some update on
construction projects that are going on in the city you may be seeing a lot of trucks moving around um alling out uh millings and such so the Reconstruction project that's bass okova states which is just to the uh south and east of City
Hall here uh that and Hall's addition which is just east of Odin Avenue North of 85th Street those two are being uh the the pavement that's there is some such uh poor shape that they're
being is being rehabed so it's ground up um within basser Grove Estates they are removing three and a half inches to keep that level of the street the same because of how narrow and steep those slopes are already so if anyone does give you a call that uh this is going to
make the road steeper keep in mind that they are going to be lowering that road to make room for the three and a half inches to come up we've had some calls already I just wanted in case you guys receive any calls that you're aware of that and uh that's a three to four- week
project so they started these projects on Wednesday of last week so um three to four weeks for the Reconstruction project they're working on the cirts right now and then they'll be regrading the pavement with vasal coves after they
remove three and a half inches and with Halls addition they'll leave that material on there for strength and then build up from there on the mill and overlay that's a two to three week process I don't have the map with me here but uh I think if you drive around town you see a lot of streets that are
are milled at this point and they will be getting the inch and a half of new pavement uh to bring that back up to the level of the curb or the edge of the street um like it was before uh that's a two to three week project so again they started the same
day so another week and a half to two and a half weeks of of work on that uh the micr surfacing and fog sealing project we had a precon meeting for that today and they will be starting August 20th and be running through that full
week so August 20th through the 24th that is for the Micro Surface is catler Avenue on the west side of town Nashua Avenue which is right here in front of Prairie Center and city hall and then oo Waterfront East and oo
Waterfront West which is basically quite a bit of the downtown area of O SEO um and then there'll be fog seiling of any streets that uh were paav two years ago so I guess that's my update so NASA
is micros surfacing right correct okay and then so the Halls Edition was it is that one being taken down three and a half inches or no it's not okay uh we don't have the steepness and the width issues that we do in bass Ro growth so
we can use that uh material to keep that grow make it even stronger got you next okay thanks anything more WR no uh mayor and councel if you remember back to the last council meeting there was a resident here with some concerns over drainage so we did prepare some
materials that was distributed to you by email last week so uh I can bring that up on the screen I do not believe that Resident is here this evening but uh that way of you can receive the information and ask any questions to either Ron or Dave about that so I'll share that on the screen Ron if you kind
of want to rehash um that item from the last meeting sure uh the resident with the the number ending in one Z one0 was at the last council meeting the Shaded area the kind of white shaded
area is the drainage area that runs uh through through that resident's backyard um it's 085 Acres as it's shown in this uh exhibit it goes through a 15inch culbert underneath the street O'Brien and then it it crosses
diagonally across um that property and then goes back to the city ditch and and then down to a a drainage sale um that whole area was platted 1972 so that's 52 years of that water run
through that direction and that street was last paved in 2022 uh the only reason I put that in here that these streets are fairly new and any work being done on them if if there was to be any work uh you know would impact a
brand new basically a brand new Street uh he asked at the meeting if it can't be um brought through storm sewer down to the catch basins within Heritage Hills which is to the north and was ploted in 199 7 that would be 720 ft and
can imagine what 720 ft of storm sewer herb New Street and not to mention sprinkler systems driveways all the inconveniences of those residents would be I guess the the main thing I'm we're putting here is that this is an existing
drainage pattern that's been there for 52 years and uh we don't see a reason that it needs to be changed I did take some photos a day after um two and a half inches of rain fell and as you can see the culbert is is dry this is
literally hours after two and a half inches of rainfell um I took the entry of that's the entry side the last one was the exit side and then Downstream of the exit side is I believe the next photo uh going down the rear property line of
that Resident and then it turns and crosses and then it it pops back out um crossing the neighbor just to the East and then enters the city right away ditch again but uh there was no indication of water standing anywhere on
that person's property uh there is a little water if you can see back there that dark shadow a few inches deep standing on the neighbor's property but they haven't come in and um made the same uh concern as the resident that
came to that meeting so that's just a update and I can let uh Dave talk about any legalities that may be at that I don't know if you want to ask specific questions mayor um you know I
saw an email saying the situation is illegal in my opinion it's not I'm not I've not seen any specific legal claim outlined so in the absence of that um I can't really make a d mination but I see
nothing based on what Iran is saying here I see nothing illegal about the situation hey council members questions just a just a quick clarification if if that homeowner wanted to on their own uh with proper
permitting and everything could they redirect it to something that was more desirable to them like to the South there or is that does it have to kind of stay as is mayor with the grading plan shown to and
reviewed by myself um and then we'd probably also ask for drain and utility easement with that change and then all the costs would be associated with the change would be born by that Resident okay but as is they they are required to maintain
that drainage pattern they would not be able to block that and maybe Dave can answer that a existing drainage pattern and blocking an existing drainage pattern that would cause harm to other people's property would not be allow yep
okay thank you and uh one question for you Ron what is the grade uh for the pipe running across the road if as though to Ryan's point if he was to get it to go to the South what is the what's the slope difference I can't tell on your map here
sorry yeah so the arrow the arrows on there are indication within the with on the the ditches which direction the waterers running so you can see from the 82nd and obrien intersection y on that Resident property that actually runs to
the North and then goes through that diagonal area to go south so it's kind of a hill at 82nd in O'Brien is the top of the hill and to try to turn that around and go the opposite direction the corner would require another four and a half fet of cut so it's very significant
and if you recall he was also stating that he felt he had too steep of ditches so that would significantly increased the steepness of those side slopes without doing some sort of pipe work right you'd have to right without doing
pipe work but then you get into expense yeah and you you could do some grading there they do have 10- foot drainage and utility ements on the outside of the lots that are next to the RightWay but not in in the back or the side Lot line
so you know with with removal of trees to get the dirt out of it you know there's some potential to do some of the drainage by grading but again you are losing a massive amount of trees that I would assume the property owner would
like to retake any other questions thank you for the follow up uh the maps on this and for your legal comments Dave also okay does anyone else have anything and a motion to Excuse me yes
uh do we have deput sorry I'm used to sitting over there so I'm sorry an update from the right he was sunbathing oh yeah that's all right I know if I was supp sorry no no you it's fine they usually just sit at that table so I gled
up and way to go Kevin yeah so I'm just filling in for sergeant BTO tonight uh he's a little busy so um unfortunately I have a ton of report today uh I've been off and our system is down so it would take me like
three hours just to look through so it's like we don't need you to do that so I do have a couple big points so 36 construction by the river uh we've had been we have been having issues with we their barricades and stuff like that uh
we have been looking into doing a temporary permanent barricades instead um I just drove by there just before now and uh the construction crew did um at least on the east side uh make it plainly blocked off by their uh their um
some cones as well as some of their Machinery obviously you can't see around the curve on the west side which I think is where the main violators are so we are keeping an eye on that because it is Gess gone and all that stuff so for safety issues and the uh other thing uh to note is uh I you go
Elementary School issues recently with vandalism and you just wanted to let you guys know we uh do have deputies out there almost every night between those hours of I believe eight and 10 you know sitting out there patrolling out there trying to deter any more of that
activity so I'll have more well we'll have more for next time so as long as it's just mes so any other questions comments concerns I so question so when you say Elementary is it is priew or yes
the noo Elementary the southeast one the one along yeah it's at school park schol park Noto oh sorry okay yes all right I knowes there I didn't know if this was Prairie now I'm like oh gosh okay let's keep it at one school and get rid of all
that but yeah okay thank you I just wanted confirmation on that lots of graffiti on the tables broken windows yeah so it's at the school do Park and at SEO Elementary they're kind of going back and forth okay kids need to go back to
school find a hobby anything else does anyone else have anything all right thank you thank thank you all right scanning The Room everybody spoken no one has anything else then a
motion to ader would be in order so move second motion by Tina seconded by Jeff there any discussion all those in favor signify by saying those oppose same sign the meeting is ended thank you all for attending yeah