Good evening everyone. I'd like to welcome you to the Atgo City Council meeting. Tonight is Monday, January 12th. Audrey, can you have the record show that our assistant city attorney is present this evening? Our city planner, our city engineer, along with all council members, 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 algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Our first item of business this evening is 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. Would anyone like to speak at
this time? >> Sure. [clears throat] >> Hello again everybody. I was here last month. David Swab, S W A A B is in boy 16135,
71st Lane Northeast. Well, the unthinkable happened again. The 23rd of December. I was coming home from Target, ironically, from only going to buy batteries for my smoke alarm.
I saw the smoke. I saw the orange. I thought, "Let it be across the street. Let it be down the street. Let it be quick trip." It was us again. >> [sighs and gasps] >> I drove the route tonight from
the scene of the fire, 100 ft away from it, from my driveway, most likely the same path that the fire engines would take if they were in service. It was 4 minutes. I think Albertville this time may have
been the first responding uh units, but I'm not sure. Uh, one unit was gutted. The neighboring units were smoke damage, broken glass from house, uh, from the firemen needing
to get entry. I've got pictures tonight. Madam clerk, you can have these. Uh, these are not copyrighted. These are my own. Just want to say I can't wait for that fire department to get up and operational. It would have been four minutes.
Um, I was hoping the chief was going to be here, but I'll I'll check with him this week by email to see how long the original or what the uh response time was this time. So, um, that being said, I'll I'll pass these
then and I'll bring them up to you guys. [snorts] Um, do we have any further word and are everything's going on time to get it open and hopefully sooner than later? Um, David, yes, if you're available tomorrow evening, we do have public safety.
>> Yep. I will be here. >> Okay. >> Yes, >> you will you would get a chance to talk with the chief then and Okay. He would >> probably be updating the rest of the commission >> for the next one. Okay. >> Yeah, I will be here for that one. Um, okay.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you. Very welcome. Thanks everybody. There's some nasty things going on Facebook, too, about somebody not being here all the time. No, no. Oh, that would be you. Okay. Well, hi everybody. I'm glad that everyone's here tonight. So, I've tried to post on that
onto that website, but unfortunately they it's moderated and it's not an open forum. It seems to be a very close-minded forum. So anyway, hi Jeannie Holland, County Commissioner.
Happy New Year's everyone. Um, didn't get to come uh in December. I was planning on the 20th and that was the meeting that you guys didn't have. I hope everybody had a nice Christmas. Um, want to say a huge thank you to Adam um
for helping the county uh get that final nail in the coffin for our tree chipping um apparatus that we're buying. Um, as you probably know that we are the county because of the the voices of the city
were saying that because of the emerald ashbor and a lot of the the tree chipping that needs to be done. Um, we put a plan together that um, we are going to hire somebody uh, that will
Anna and get equipment to to come in and do this for the cities at a a a lower rate. All of our cities were seeing that the the cost to to chip was going up
like double every year. So, we're really happy to help the cities in this regard. We didn't have any. We had a couple cities that were sitting on the edge not wanting to really uh sign on to the JPA and we needed all the cities to sign on
to make it to make it feasible. Uh the nicest part about this is that now you guys have a you know for the next what is the JPA five or 10 years >> there? Five years. >> Five. So for five years it's not going
to double like it's been doing. Um, so I want to thank Adam for uh helping us get over that hump of um making sure that that happens. So we're on board with that. That's going to we're hiring somebody to do that in the summer and
then they will snowplow in the winter. It's a win-win for our cities. It's a win-win for our highway department. Um so thank you uh Odd Sego and um Albertville. We are glad that all of our
cities in this area signed on to that. And and then the next thing as you heard in that fraud is a big thing in the in the in the news. Um, I went to the AMC, uh, Association of Minnesota Counties
convention in December and I said to the head of, uh, the AMC, I said, I don't understand why we have, um, non-government agencies or organizations, GMO or uh, NOS's getting
this money um, to disperse as they will because counties have auditors. we have elected officials and she said it it was always dispersed by the counties but they thought that they would privatize it you
know like 2018 and and that is where we're seeing it. Uh last week we had our county meeting um and our the head of our HHS said that we are very very uh
watchful of fraud. We are we're very good at going after anything that even flags fraud. So you can rest assured that Ray County is watching it. We have good auditor and then of course we have
elected officials. So um it's really a it's an it's a comforting feeling. Hopefully we can get that back into the county's hands a little bit more than these NOS's. And we did have a meeting
this morning with all of our legislators. Representative Noatne was there, Senator uh Lero. Uh we didn't have Hudson because he just came back from uh Washington DC. But we had uh uh
all all of our all of our others from across the county came and we did talk about fraud. We also talked about um if you can believe it and maybe Jessica probably knows but our our uh systems
for our DHS which would give out like child uh um payment child care payments and our and our elderly waiver. That is the most antiquated system. I actually thought somebody was like being
sarcastic when they said it is a 1990s DOS program. And then when I had somebody from Sego that wanted me to look something up and I went and I said, "You're right. It is. It is a green screen." And it and today they showed
the legislators how long it takes to go step by step. And there is no guarse. So like somebody that's pregnant uh that gets benefits, if they don't personally go in in 9 months, they could be paid
for 17 months because the computer doesn't realize that people are only pregnant for nine months. So it's it is it is a insane system. You're going to probably see a lot more of it on the
news in social media because we want people to be aware that if we could get rid of this system, we could streamline HHS down to where it would be way more coste effective. And we do go through a lot of uh social
workers because some of them can only work for about a month because it's so frustrating. So we we go through a lot of uh uh specialists in this department. Um so hopefully I think we have buyin
from both parties. This session is policy and bonding year and so it's going to be fast and furious. So we're hoping that we get some bonding money for uh a system and a system that is not
like MLARS. We would like them to have something that another state has um and so that we can go and be it and not have 10 years to do it and uh so we and we had a lot of really good discussion
about things affecting our county. Um we have great legislators. It is really fun that when they come, you know, we we put the uh invite out and they come and we had an hour and a half of engagement with them and they are very much in um
we have we're kind of a powerhouse in Wright County. Uh thanks to all of you that advocate on our behalf. They know that they're going to hear from our mayors, they're going to hear from our our our council people, and they're going to hear from the commissioners.
So, and we have some really great legislators. So, it was a really good meeting and so hopefully we get something out of this session. So, do you guys have any questions for me? I have one for you. So, you talked about I
don't actually have any families that receive any benefits. It's all private pay for me. >> Um, so what I've heard though is that it's very hard for counties to get people on to the programs. So is that
true? Is that not true? Because you talked about having HHS and it would reduce the workload if they had this better system. >> Yes. So what it is is we have a very long waiting list because to input
somebody they said it would take something that would take a normal person on a a regular program right now 15 minutes takes at least 45 minutes to an hour. So, we would eliminate the waiting list for that and for elderly
waiver because that's very frustrating, too. Somebody's coming out of a nursing home and they they won't know for a long time just because they're sitting on this end of a waiting list and and it basically is just inputting information
and then it goes to the state. Nothing reads together. Nobody knows, you know, if there is, and that is part of the fraud thing, too, is that they're not seeing. There can be an address that they could use multiple times and none
of the computer systems are reading each other. So, we're basically going to go after this new um funding source because of the fraud, because it is a big player in the fraud. So, our legislators went
out with some really good points after seeing, you know, kind of how the system works, how we as commissioners want them to go forward. Um because ultimately we said our goal is to streamline to get
all we we don't want property taxes to go up and and if if we keep having all all thisi these systems that aren't playing well and we have to have so much staff then you know it's just going to
get worse and worse. So, because our our county is growing, but we did have one uh one senator from um CO who had thought that it would be um uh nice to be able to block all cities and counties
from only a 3% raise and if they want or 3% levy. Uh um and if they wanted to do more than that, then they would have to go to the voters, which sounds nice, but a lot of people don't know what counties
do. And we're growing county and we have way more bills because of the we're constantly growing and we have more houses to serve. We have more roads to plow. We you know, so it was a it was a it was a really good meeting. We had a
really uh a lot of good discussion. >> Any other questions or comments? Corey, >> I just had a couple kind of on those same lines. Um so that antiquated system you were talking about, is that across the board in the state? >> In the across the board in the state.
Yep. >> Who like who governs that now? Like what department? >> Uh DHS. >> DHS. >> It's DHS. Yep. And uh every county has been crying about this for the last 10 years and they said that 10 years ago
they were going to fix it and here we are and the cry is getting louder. So I think now they're having a hard time skirting the issue. So I think every single county has had their legislators
look at the green screen to really show them how it works. And every single legislator, it's jaw-dropping. And they will tell you that they are just stunned at the amount of work. And this gal that
was showing us, she's worked uh for Ray County for two years. And she said literally she she was in tears for the first two months. She's getting the hang of it. She said, but she was ready to quit. Like she was she said it was very
frustrating. And so when you think about all the people that you know that really need our services that we want to be able to help and they're sitting on a waiting list waiting just because of the
amount of work uh and at this point we could hire 12 more people. our uh Jamie who runs our HHS said like to get it done in a quicker amount of time, we could easily hire 12 more people and we
would still be behind, but we don't want to do that because we don't want our property taxes to go up. So, that's where we sit. So, we hope that the legislature will start moving in the direction. Um,
I know that uh the lobbyist for AMC was there today and he is going to Washington and he's going to play with uh um Congressman Emmer to see if maybe we can get some federal funding to come our way as well. Uh so it it it really
is a a problem and if anybody would ever want to come to the county, I will be happy to show you what it looks like. And uh it really is it's really hard for you as a city. It's really hard for me as a commissioner to see the people that
we want to serve in our community that have to sit on waiting lists and then to actually have so much time invested just to get them and track them and make sure that they're being served correctly and
that we are doing it in a cost-effective way. I'm sure the the people, you know, who are face to face with the the applicants are taking the brunt of people's frustrations, too. >> Oh, absolutely, Corey. That is so true.
Yes. Yeah. And it and it really is. It's hard on them because they just they're there to serve people, >> right? >> And and that and basically uh when they have to, you know, hold somebody off when they really want help. Now that's
and I think that's part of it too. They just their their heart is in serving people. So and and as yours and and the counties like we want to serve the people that are vulnerable in our community. So we're hoping that that we
can streamline this and be better way more effective. >> Thank you. >> Any any other comments? I don't know. I don't >> No, we have no fraud. >> No, we don't. We don't. The Our County
is very good at at uh nipping everything. Uh so yes, it's on the state level >> and it will stay at the state level. >> All right, Liz was there there's no other questions. Thank you for coming. Thank you guys.
>> All right, we are still under open forum. >> The pictures. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. I just want to know like if you mayor if you um are thinking about like the
welcome oneonone with the community to ask questions about the fire department and it does any schedule if you schedule at any time because a lot of people are wants to do that. So I just another
thing and I just um I always I really want to do this one for a very long time because I hold my myself and did not like I don't come prepared but I do talk to from the bottom of my heart to all of you. I am I
came to America 30 years ago. I have the privilege of have being an American citizen and you guys that have the privilege of born in this country. This country is being thrown apart for fraud and for a lot of uh people who want to
take advantage of the situations here. Love your country because I lost mine through communism. It's very easy for you guys to come over here and not and just take advantage of the
spoiled kids. Not love your country. Love your country. We need more Americans to love the country. You have no idea what it means to come and leave everything behind. this this community is taking apart because we are spending way too much
money and people are going to lose their houses. And I know what it means. That's what is kind of personal to me. I don't want to have anything personal between any of you or the guy who was talking about me. Yes, I fight because I when I
was little, I could not fight. But I'm going to fight today and it's nothing personal with any of you. Thank you guys. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Any other comments? [clears throat] >> These are pictures being passed. Make
sure Aubrey gets >> Sure. >> All right. We will close the open forum and move up to consider agenda for approval. Does anyone have anything that they'd like to add or delete at this time? >> Oh, sorry. Uh I just on the consent
agenda >> um I'm going to bring down the minutes. So 3.2 we can make that uh I guess 5.1. >> Okay. >> Um my addition is I will then we'll add
5.2. Um council goal setting for 2026. >> Does anyone else have anything? >> Madame Mayor. >> Yes Ryan. I move to approve the agenda as amended. >> Motion by Ryan. Is there a second? >> Second.
>> Seconded by Corey. >> Right. 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 passes. Next item is our consent agenda.
A motion would be in order. Madame >> mayor. That's right. 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. >> I.
>> All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Moving on to item 4.1 is our appoint acting mayor. Do we have a mayor? I can make a motion. Okay. To appoint Corey Tanner for acting mayor.
Second. Um, we have a motion by Tina, seconded by Michelle. Or do you accept that nomination? >> I do. >> Okay. Is there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion
passes. I will pass you guys all your appointments. Read off the appointment. There's one for a two. Uh planning commission will be council member Dunlap alternate mayor Stockamp. Park and recreation council member Lun alternate council member
Tanner. Heritage preservation as council member Tanner alternate council member L. Public safety council member Gaty alternate mayor Stockamp. Fire advisory mayor Stockamp, Council Member Dunlap. Public works subcommittee is Council Member Dunlap, Council Member Lend and
alternate Council Member Gaty. Administrative subcommittee, Mayor Stockamp and Council Member Tanner, alternate council member Gaty and the Creek Authority as listed will be determined if need be. >> Is everybody good with your appointments?
>> Yes. Thank you. >> And I will make a motion to um present the subcommittee and leazison appointments as presented. >> Second. Motion by Jessica, seconded by
Corey. Is there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Moving on to item 5.1. Right. Hold that down. >> Uh yes, Madame Mayor. I uh just had a
change to the minutes. Okay. Um I guess did you said copies remain publicly convenient handy though. Um, so just a small change uh on page
five of the minutes uh to add a line uh fifth line down would state uh council member Dunlap raised a point of order stating that the item being discussed did not receive a second and therefore the item cannot be discussed.
Mayor Stockamp did not recognize the point of order made by council member Dunlap. I did recognize it, Ryan, but I I I wanted to discuss it further. So I I think when I said that it was more just that as the presiding officer, I just thought that we could discuss it
further. And yes, I agree. I could have seconded it that motion to continue that discussion, but wanted to have a candid conversation. So since we all don't get to speak, it was maybe not handled appropriately that the way that
you wanted it to. So, I just wanted to give my reasons for that since you're asking for the minutes to be changed. It it was in the recording, I'm sure. So, are you making a motion then to
>> uh Yeah. So, I would move to uh amend the minutes uh as presented. >> I will second them with your changes. There any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> All those opposed, same sign.
>> Motion passes. All right. Item 5.2. I had asked that to be added. Um when we went through the budget, we did not set aside a budget to have someone come in and work with us on kind of setting goals and getting the council on the same page and on track.
But I do think it is important that we do set aside some time and talk about what 2026 looks like. Um, if you guys are all on board with that, I will to staff to I I I think all of
you could put that together for us if you screener if it's each department head kind of checking in with us. But those have been very valuable and I know Corey and Michelle have not had a chance to participate in something like that. But um I would be looking to you guys if
you could pull that off. Mayor Council most certainly um obviously we asked the mayor and the council members to give some direction on what you would like us to prepare but um I think we can do that through uh email getting thoughts and ideas
individually from all of you to help streamline that conversation and bringing that together for the group discussion with you. uh if the rest of the council is on board with that approach, we could also send out um like a doodle poll getting some available dates um for that type of a meeting.
>> Is everybody good with that? >> Yeah, I think it's great. >> One question, mayor. When when were you thinking what >> kind of what time frame for that? >> Um in my mind, I just know that this month is pretty packed and then the first part of February, we have our
league training and I believe most of us are attending that. So, probably something after that. It just usually we come back from some fresh ideas after we've had our leak training. So, in my mind, I would like to see it happen after our leak training. Um, if it's a Friday evening, Saturday morning,
something like that. I just I know that we all work. So, getting together and trying to carve out rushing here at 5:00 to do it before a meeting isn't necessarily fair as we're setting goals for ourselves and working together. Teamwork is really important. And I
think that that takes more than just limiting oursel to an hour and a half before a quick council meeting in my opinion. I just I don't want to rush it. I think it's there's great opportunities for us to be working together, making sure that the goals that we have in
place for the city are continually going to be goals that we support as a full council and moving forward. And there's check-ins on the departments that we get a check-in when we do budgets with them, but we're not kind of you know, at that point we're looking at
dollars and and what's going ahead. So, I think a fresh perspective after our first meeting in February with the lead training would be would be what I'm looking to do, but I'm open to what the rest of you have available.
>> So, it sounds like maybe latter half of February, maybe an all day meeting. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I mean, I guess we'll know once we get the doodle poll uh what people have with schedules, but um yeah, our
February 6th and 7th is elite training. Obviously, I don't think you guys want to spend Valentine's Day with each other. I mean, I love you all, but we probably have other things I want [laughter] to do with our loved ones. I mean, I'm assuming Adam's giving me the
the shake head. Yeah. Um, but if it can be broken up, I know in years past we've also done like a Friday night and then come back on a Saturday morning to do a half day, but if it has to be just a one day Saturday, >> um, whatever we can make work.
>> So, [clears throat] a question. So, I wasn't involved in the earlier goal setting >> scenarios. So, is it is this the same thing as the strategic vision or is it something separate? >> Um, I think it could be something a little different. And when I talked to Adam about it, it's like when we did
strategic vision, it was, you know, we we hired someone to come in to kind of lay that out. Since we're not hiring someone to come in, we're using staff and it would be council work together. And if Sabrina, if you want to jump in since >> uh Yes, >> you may have ideas. >> Um I I guess that would be helpful on
the staff side for direction given if you guys are looking more for goal setting. So is it shortterm, long term, and then maybe more of if it's looking at goal setting versus strategic planning? Uh obviously we're not going to be capable of doing a full strategic plan. Yes. Um >> but at least something along those lines
of like what are what are we looking to get out of it. Um we can try to put some different things together. But at least having a general idea of like what you're expecting to get out of it. Uh whether it's just maybe for this upcoming year and two years kind of just
like a forecast. um that helps us for putting at least putting together some different materials uh to hopefully provide >> I mean it's hard to say I wouldn't want to do the full strategic plan because we we've talked about the timing with that
that as it's years where we have elections it doesn't make sense to you potentially have people outgoing it's best when you when we've kind of laid it out where we've got two years to be working towards something. Um, but most of those goals as you're referring to
Ryan, that's never been probably discussed with Michelle or Corey and and you weren't part of it when we set that up initially, but Tina and I were there and you know, so is it taking those out, showing us like where we're at, where we've gone. I I look back like where
Richard would do kind of a checkpoint of like here's what the strategic >> goal was. Have we met it? Have they changed? What are each department doing to help us >> get there? >> Part of the original one group. So, I do
a couple of them, but I think like a hybrid type thing would be good. >> And since we're asking staff, it would be more that I know that you guys had your um staff event in December where you guys >> did all your check-ins and >> from what I've heard, everybody really
enjoyed that. So, those are things that we aren't part of >> that I think would be very beneficial. so that we also can see if there's if we're expecting you guys to be meeting some goals that aren't you're you're never going to be able to make
them and that should be our check-in. >> Yeah, >> Mayor, I think uh we can put together maybe just a kind of general outline of what we're thinking probably setting more on the goal setting. So, kind of a looking at, you know, this upcoming year and then maybe the following year. Um and we can kind of work towards just
putting a general layout together of how that will look. um and maybe getting some probably reaching out some colleagues to get some feedback on maybe some advice and other stuff like that as well. >> Mayor, what I would suggest then is that we sort of just in our heads as council
members, we consider this is the strategic vision and the goals would be how do we accomplish some of these or >> you know the goal is how do we meet these over the next year, two years, >> right? And and that's where then having staff and the department heads kind of
giving where they're at their check-ins on it, too. I mean, you and Michelle attend the public works subcommittee. We see the minutes, but we don't, you know, maybe we don't see the full long-term piece to it. So, I think
that there's a lot of value us all being together and working through that. >> I agree. >> Well, thanks for your support. I I would leave it to staff to send it out since it's >> they still need to work on their end to
get us >> information. Mayor, council, they're not asking for any formal approval or action tonight. Staff will follow up with the survey um a doodle poll for scheduling. Um and we'll go from there. So, >> okay. >> Sounds good. >> Perfect. Thank you.
>> All right. We are still under city council reports and updates. Does anyone have anything? All right, we will move on to staff reports and updates. Item 6.1 is to consider scheduling a special meeting for the advisory commission interviews.
Audra, thank you, mayor. Um, right now we've got five applicants. Um, traditionally we've taken an evening to set aside 15inute interviews per applicant. I'd be looking for a date that works for all the council to attend.
>> And when does the application timeline close? Yes, it closes next month uh next Tuesday at 5:00 pm. >> Okay. So, anytime after that, we'd want obviously some time to reach out to all the candidates to schedule it
>> and we're going to interview all five of them and it might be more >> and it might be more. >> Yeah. Okay. Oh, right. Yep. It'll be everyone that applies. >> And I looked back, most of our meetings have started at 5:30. We held them here at the
fireside room. And I do have one that does need to zoom in and that would be our top room. >> Okay. What do people's calendars look like? February 12th or 19 that that would still give us plenty of time.
Or are you looking earlier? >> I think I think she was looking for earlier because it closes next Tuesday the 13th. >> Whatever works for the council. We just need to approve. just has to be in the last meeting in February. >> Okay. >> I think the 12th will work.
>> Is everybody available the 12th? >> I'll be hanging around. >> Yep, I can do that. >> Tina, >> yeah, I think so. >> Okay. >> Go for the 12th. >> All right. Then I will make a motion to call for the commission interviews for
February 12th starting at 5:30. Second >> motion by Jessica, seconded by Ryan. Is there any discussion? >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion
passes. All right. Next is to consider scheduling a meeting for the economic development authority. Mayor, councel, uh staff would propose a date of February 9th, uh possibly before the city council meeting. A 5:30 or 6 p.m.
start time would be adequate for the proposed agenda uh for that meeting. >> I'm sorry, did you say the 9th? >> Uh February 9th. Yes. >> What time? uh up to the council, but 5:30 or 6 PM would be adequate for the
proposed agenda. >> February 9th at 6 for for people. >> Yep. >> Okay. And I will make a motion for February 9th at 6 PM for the EDA. >> Second by Michelle.
>> Very excited. >> Jumping the gun. >> All right. Is there any discussion? We're all trying to plug in our cameras. >> Great. Audrey, can you send these out to us just so that the dates that we're picking tonight are Adam? Yes. Thank you. >> I think we're all trying to put them in
our phones, but making sure it's correct. Okay, good. Um, so motion second. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. All right, we are still under staff reports and updates. Audra or no,
Sabrina. Oh my gosh, I looked right. I looked right at you and I was like, "Sorry, >> Sabrina." Yeah, I'm skipping I'm mixing things up. Thank you, mayor. I was kind of excited about that. Um, we will be or city offices will be closed Monday for
Martin Luther King Jr. Day. So, uh, all buildings will be closed and that's all I have. Happy New Year everyone. >> Thank you. >> Happy new year. I see Adam. >> Uh, Mayor Council, uh, just a reminder, I did send out a number of upcoming
events to you uh, over the holiday season, but in case you missed that, the next one is the Wright County Economic Development Partnership has their annual meeting this Friday morning. Um, if you're interested in attending, if not registered, please let me know and I can help you get registered for that. So,
that's all I have at this time. >> Okay. Thank you and thank you for registering us for the other. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Quadra. >> Thank you. Um just a reminder, the applications for the advisory commissions do close next Tuesday at
5:00 PM as I said earlier. And then also I wanted um we did have on the consent agenda some violations for liquor um not passing their compliance checks, but I do want to congratulate all the other businesses that did pass the test.
Great. Thank you. All right, Richard, welcome. >> Do you have anything for us? >> Nothing to me. >> Okay. Thank you for coming to this evening, too. >> Nice to meet everyone. >> Same here. >> All right, Dan. >> Mayor, uh, we do have planning
commission next Tuesday at 7 o'clock p.m. preliminary plat application from Foss Swim School located in Great River Center on 85th Street and Parsons Avenue. And then some zoning ordinance text to review. >> Okay. Um, can you make sure that Nick
knows that with the holiday this will impact? >> Yeah, parking. So, >> I was going to say usually park and breakfast is at that time. >> So, they'll just they usually meet up front then. >> Yeah. >> So, just make sure for scheduling everybody's where they need to be. Yeah.
>> Thank you, Dan. Ron, >> no updates. Mayor. >> Okay. Sergeant Almans, >> he did the breathing out. I don't know if that's good. [laughter] >> Sorry. >> We could hear you from the back doing
that. So, [laughter] >> whoops. >> It's okay. >> Okay. Um, beginning of the year. So, um, in case people don't know, the way we structure our scheduling is we do bids every single year. People bid what shifts they want to work and then through that process as well as a kind
of a selection process, we have um well, we have 160 licensed deputies that we need to assign um over the course of the entire year. So, our patrol division at the beginning of the year resets. So, um so like the city of about Sego now has everybody is set. they've been able to
work town now for a couple days. Um, again, typically one of the cities that people like to work and so we typically have the same people over and over again. You know, perfect example is Deputy Kylo Bazoff. She's worked town now for a number of years. So, she's back again, which is great. Um, it's
great having people that really know the city and can just be step right into the next year and if there's somebody new, uh, they have the ability to, you know, relay the message like, hey, this is how this operates or here's a, you know, trouble person that we typically work with. So, um it's cool to see some of the the names that are on here. Um and
I've given a list to one of our lieutenants gave a list to uh city staff and they'll work on making sure all the phone numbers are disseminated as well. Um but like some of the specialties that some of the deputies have also is kind of a um one of those things that is really nice. So, an example is uh two of
the deputies that work town now are on our UAV program. So, they have drones in their squad cars ready to go at a moment's notice. Um that works out great. We've I don't know how many times we've now like if there's a a missing juvenile or um you know there's a kid walks out the door. I mean we have that
all the time. It seems like um where maybe a small child just kind of goes missing for maybe like even 20 minutes. As a parent you know we've all kind you know you turn around and target you missing your kid that panic. Well when it's out maybe at a park in town we got drones now. We can get that flown up. They have uh infrared on them that can
do heat signatures and so we can get that up immediately. Um, it helps for car accidents where we do can we do mapping um on severe car accidents as well as getting it up again from like a rescue side of things. Um, I think we we're kind of slow at first to get the UAV program
off the ground. Crap. Um, so to get that going, um, but the more we use them, the more like we got it to the point where we're putting them in the squad cars now because we're finding it it's that important to have them out there ready at a moment's notice. Um, a lot of the
search and rescue stuff, the water rescue that we had on the Mississippi, uh, a couple months ago, we threw a drone up and it gave the situational awareness. I think I mentioned at public safety is so important from a leadership position or when you scene management side, I can see exactly what's going on.
So, um, that's great. One of the deputies is on our crime scene unit. Um, so I don't like using the term CSI because that's not what we call him here, but we our crime scene, one of the guys works one of the midday shifts on the opposite side of days. So, same thing. He's, you know, available at a
moment's notice to be able to help out in town in whatever capacity. So, um, couple other little specialty stuff, SWAT guys, couple SWAT guys that are on in town, too. So, it's kind of good having a little bit of the variables, um, and different skill sets and different resources literally ready to go in town and we don't have to wait for
it to come from Buffalo or anything like that. they got it in the squad, they're ready to go. Um, so, um, yeah, a lot of people are happy to be back. Um, I, as I had mentioned prior to kind of the the break from the holiday break into now that December was really busy as I
anticipated, there was a lot going on. Um, a lot of different calls. There was, you know, the update emails that we get as supervisors. Um, every night, you know, Odd Sega was in there for different arrests or incidents pretty much every single night. Just it's busy. That's not anything to necessarily
look at and go, "Oh my god, what's going on?" But that's just it's that time of year. It's that uh when you get this much population is that's what you're going to do. So, um you know, something that's kind of interesting. The flu season was very bizarre in the flu season that's continuing because a lot of the flu interacts with some of the
people maybe our more senior community, some of the medicals that we're getting because of it. there's a lot of uh people that are either fainting, passing out so to speak. So a lot of the calls that we're getting are many more instead of being coded as a medical sick, we're getting it medical unconscious. So like
that number is going to show up in the um because a lot of them are just like the high fevers and the way it's interacting with I think our senior community specifically this flu season we're going to get when that report gets uh sent to the city of the calls that we're going to the medical unconscious is going to be way up than what it would
normally be. Unfortunately most of the cases it's you know they may pass out for a couple moments but it comes back to kind of thing and we can get them off to the hospital. So something to be aware of. Like I said, depending on how in-depth you look at our CFS chart that has a thousand little codes on there,
and you were to go through it line by line, you'd go, "What was going on in town?" So, but that's pretty much everywhere. So, I think that's all I have on my list. >> I have a question. Yes. >> So, you talked about having the variety of people on SWAT, people with the
drones. Do you try to manage that then for your larger communities when they are bidding the shift so that there is kind of a mixture? >> Yeah, we look at that. It's important that we spread that stuff around even from like even if we were looking at it from a southish side where it's like if I'm being honest right now most of our
SWAT guys are on the B side. So I work on the A side A team [laughter] >> and back. >> It just the way it's worked out is I would say the majority of our SWAT guys are on the B side. So there's only a handful of handful of us that are on
this side that are on SWAT. We do try to separate that around where it'd be nice to have, you know, crime scene guys on perfect spots of the, you know, um, different corners of the county at all times and wanting to make sure the UAV, same thing. When we look at making sure
that we have those UAVs available, part of it then tells us, well, if we're trying to separate where the people are being scheduled, maybe we just need more UAVs because we're finding if it's if we're starting to make scheduling changes over where this device is, then
it kind of tells us we need more people on that team. Same thing with some of the SWAT stuff, that's kind of telling us we we probably need some some more of that equipment out there and have more specialized officers and all these varieties of thing. our major crimes unit guys. Same thing. It's nice to have those guys on every little corner of the county. Sometimes it just doesn't work
out that way, but um usually the way it works is it it it kind of works itself out if I'm being honest with you. Most of the time it's not like absolutely every resource is in one part of the county or not. So, but no, it's it's thought about. >> Yeah, that's good to hear. I mean, just as what you talked about just having the
different >> specialties with your deputies. Thank you. Does anyone else have anything? >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you, sir. >> Thanks, Jason. >> Right. If no one else has anything, then
a motion to adjurnn must be in order. So, >> second. >> Motion by TA, seconded by Corey. Is there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> All those opposed, same sign. The meeting has ended. Thank you all for attending.