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 like to welcome everyone to our
April 15th council meeting a very long agenda so we'll work through it so we can get out and enjoy the sun while still up we are going to go to our consent agenda which includes our March 18th 2025 council meeting minutes April 1st
council work session minutes Pine Island Chiefs Festival track and pole road closure request to use the city parking lot for a fundraiser request to approve grove security camera quote your request to approve custom alarm access control code and a custom alarm monitoring
agreement second a motion and second on the consent agenda any other discussion [Music] I would be I thanks staff for getting that all in
order public input do we have any correspondences no one signed up no written correspondence we got Earth Day this month on April 22nd and I just want to do a shout out to the root machine at the school for the work they are doing and calling
attention to Earth Day efforts and I appreciate the work they're doing at the nature park down there if you get a chance to go down and see it it's really neat area thank you to the students back there we will go into administration we
have a few items and we'll start with item A which is resolution 25-9 authorizing official official signatures i'm going to do some rearranging for that make that signature to make a motion out of that
resolution 2519 i'll take it motion in a second anything you want to add to that with us just updating uh who can sign for certain city council cons no discussion delena hi hi veroni Brandy
hi and I it pine chief basketball fireworks display permit they do fireworks again got to get the work in and they've been in conversation with both city and the fire
department about their show second motion in a second we appreciate all those involved with fireworks show um any other discussion council questions delena hi holton hi hi hi
david i item C island Relief Association's temporary liquor license in the beer garden Friday Saturday they are taking their serving
class today [Music] i believe it motion second anything the staff needs to add to that other I will add so the the packet states that the alcohol
will be served on June 5th and June 8th it should actually be June 5th and June the boys they're going to be down there four days all right and we have a motion a second with those recommended dates any other discussion
delena hi Colton hi hi Randy hi and David Robin down the working resolution 2520 which is the 2025 tobacco license who wants to take this so this
is just a new tobacco license um the current gas and go company was purchased by another company so tobacco licenses are non transferable so that's for the new owners to the other to I move accept resolution 2520
oh second we're keeping the same business name it was doing business as smack so it sounds like the business
name that's back any questions all right hi hi Vernon hi Brandy hi David hi right on we are going to go to item E which is going to be our first request
to approve the chicken permit for 405 Avenue South East went through their paperwork who's the chicken man stephen yep so we received this chicken permit application from the Driscoll family
located at 405 First Southeast um their paperwork included all the required documents um I had kind of some back and forth uh with them to nail down exactly what the dimensions need to be and things like that i got them like squared away um all of
the diagrams what they have all reflect um hoop size and line size that are in accordance with what our ordinance is um and then like the memo says the issuing of this permit uh will be final on inspection by the city once
it's perfect to get my early backpress motion and a second approve permit contingent on the final inspection by city staff any others questions council
so neighbors okay with having chickens I think bring their nets bring their nets um so the way our ordinance is written um as long as they meet all the setbacks they have to be I believe 40 feet from
any neighboring property buildings um which they are um they measured out and included that um at the way our ordinance is written there's no public notice period for chicken permits that they have to notify um for our beekeeping ordinance and things like that there are specific um laid out but
um for this there is not so there really is on your diagrams yep so the property line setbacks they only have to be 10 ft from the property line have to be 40 ft from any building on
which questions council I to our next request would be for 860 8th Street Souththeast so this chicken permit is a little bit different um as our code is currently written um section
10.07 um we allow up to three hens um no roosters or crowing hens um the request for 868 Street Southeast is for 12 hens um the difference in application being the applicant lives on a larger lot um I
believe it's over acre acre and a half um size um or two yep um it butts up to the Douglas Trail and the golf course um there's no other residential buildings behind it
um so as the ordinance is written um 12 obviously goes above and beyond the three that is allowed um same with I kind of laid out the size of the proposed hoop and run um the sizes that are in the diagram are sufficient for 12
um they are overly allowed to move up three um so it's kind of up to council if they want to make the exception i will note last year an exception was made for an application for 10 um I guess bigger picture if we're
going to continue to receive applications requesting exemptions maybe if council would like we can revisit how the ordinance is written um whether it's a tiered system based on lot size you can have x amount um or you
know that can be added up but we're kind of seeing a trend in requests for more and so instead of making exceptions on the regular it might be better to just review it that obviously doesn't do much
for you here on this decision but just bigger picture it's yeah the ordinance is doing exactly what we wanted it to do which we started start small i remember we talked about five just to start small and see how it was going to go uh and but I would say
in the time since we started doing the chicken or people that are serious about it are the ones that are doing work and getting the pen houses ready and we have made allowances for more yeah what's nice about this one is the size of the
pot on you know I'm sure your father I will also note I appreciate the work that Mr paul put into the application um he did this homework and provided a lot more
context i appreciate the ISO 860 obviously with the exemption for the chicken second motion second what kind of chicken are you getting great
question my wife has an idea [Music] another question thanks for working on that i like that so then with this we'll put this on a
future work session because other communities refer to our chicken i get a kick out of chickens and we have a couple of chicken permits i think unfortunately we have more
chickens than we have permits for 100% hopefully if we make it a little more accessible and easy to abide by we will get more applications especially with the enrichment that current hi and David
yeah um if I understand the ordinance correctly is that something we should return that like application status every year so our city staff will send it out to you each year so anyone with a current chicken license we'll send a renewal to
you to fill out and just essentially see if there's any changes at all i just didn't know if we plan to get an away next spring unless we have complaints or something like that it would just continue okay so you'll have to council
Thank you council uh planning commission we have nothing tonight we'll jump right into public works and engineering which includes item A our 2025 mill overlay southeast project will be presented by
So we got four quotes in U for a mill overlay and we got great price so we're thinking about doing three more blocks so I got your permission to go
ahead and sign a contract so we'll be doing all fifth street up to the pool and main street also the original came from sand gravel 124,885
yeah we'll be we'll be good so and we'll stay below the $175,000 Yeah so I was looking for your sign that go
no last shape so so I'll speak in attorneys absence i I'll try to make him proud but just for councils um just to refresh your memory
so any projects over $175,000 we have to put out the competitive bid um so we looked at multiple quotes that's why we just got quotes didn't put it out for bidding because originally the um engineer estimate was below 175,000
uh like stated even adding an additional three blocks action quote with additional second motion or second any questions for Thanks for doing this
just for those wondering if that's gonna deal with it every day just for the council member when we started doing the projects Um one thing I really I really want to call attention to is I think city staff agreed with
council and we really wanted to do our abilities keeping our streets up for a long time the council very catch up and keep on top We had a question can you specify who we are
delena Bern and David taking item D2 which is going to be a request to purchase the brush hog so right now we have a brush hog that it it works but it's not very efficient uh
with our Bobcat um skid loader we need to invest in a different one that works a lot better so we can make a little more progress right now we just with the other one but this other one we can pick up a little more
pace we we mow a lot of behind us and ditch so anything that can help uh the one we're looking at is the burning B5072 in
$8,400 uh trade in with one that we'll trade in it's $3,500 so we have a end price of $4,900 and that will be split out between three different places
yeah so the size is the same 72 in 14 that's what fits our head the other one the other one requires more flow to 26
yeah so this one is bit forever we tried it just took forever to Can you verify that we're looking at capital funds correct or we looking at three different funds coming out of parks between the capital the 250 fund
is that what we're looking at or are we looking at just small small so these are 2025 okay sorry yeah second to approve the
[Music] 409 hi to the park the trail I I know the question will be asked by some other community so I mean we use it everywhere
all the ditches clear out so All right all right thank you we'll jump in legal you want to take legal second legal i'll just add that uh we are
tonight so I know we're looking at a special council meeting on 6 uh for Saturday so if we have something by then we'll have that special meeting thank you
all right claims motion a second of claims elena I we're going to jump right into department updates we got administrative first uh one thing I would just like to highlight on my report but we did have a
ribbon cutting for Joe's copy uh very good copy i highly suggest anyone stop by yes and then the only other thing I'll add as I stated um we will be having six at 6 p.m and that is to
approve the final hours oh great rachel yes sir hi guys uh we've been pretty busy this month at the library i just wanted to highlight that we've got a couple of programs coming up starting on April
28th uh next four Mondays after that we'll be having a pollinator garden talk so different topics with gardening and pollinator gardens um 6:30 at the high school different classrooms for some of them but looking forward to seeing um those actually come to fruition and
planting will probably be taking place in mid a uh mid May but we've already got a couple of bare vigins so and that was very exciting to see last week go into our garden i wanted to highlight the fact that libraries have been in federal and um state news just with some
of the different uh things going before the Supreme Court there's a there is a contestant with how -ate is funded that is a fee that is applied to everyone's cell phone bills I believe and that helps pay for all public libraries and a
lot of infrastructure for internet um and that is currently um has already been argued and I think they're expecting uh something to come out of that by next month so we may have to be looking at different ways of funding our internet access at the library depending
upon how that is ruled so I just want to call that to your attention also with the Institute of Museum and Library S uh services um administrative leave that was placed by the Dodge staff um Doge staff they um that does that kind of uh
terminates all the grants that libraries have had from the federal government this year and we're not sure how that will affect state delivery services so we currently have a network of a lot of the libraries public libraries in the state are sharing materials with every
other public library in the state a lot of colleges are in on that too so um we don't know how that funding will take place after June of next year so they're looking at options and doing things like that so hopefully I'll have updates for everyone on how that affects us
otherwise I forgot to include it in my report but it's a thing that's going to take get all of my time um we're doing a migration with our catalog right now so library catalog of all the different public libraries in Selco we're switching platforms so currently we use Horizon we'll be going into Evergreen at
the beginning of May um so we will be we're actually no longer doing the minink the statewide inter library loan requests um that stopped as of Friday just while we get everything going with the new system so um next week we'll be
doing card only services we won't be having able any able to do any requesting and other things like that just because the way this everything is switching over so just wanted to warn people to bring in library cards if they come into the library without them normally because we won't be able to
look you up check things out to you so thank you for your patience with all of that because it's going to be an adventure as we switch software just like everything else is so um that's what I have for you today any questions for me
looking forward to your meeting it'll be fun meetings on Monday oh yes thank you and our our meeting for the library board did get moved to this coming Monday instead of the following because of the library programs that are going to be happening
so thank you thank you anything from public work uh the only thing like my memo where I mentioned that we're having a little trouble with our related
to give you a heads up you see a rain down there that's what we're doing sure you don't want to stop and take a look that's fine too elizabeth I'll take you out on the road
absolutely and passenger correct open for the season um just another park for that um clipped i only per section but um we did get the grant submitted
for childhood park so that's been the DNR so that'll be an entire overhaul of all equipment so we'll find out do you know when the uh cameras will be we do not once it's approved since it
was approved tonight we'll be in contact with them tomorrow we can let you know schedule once we know they're going to be I'm guessing I'll take an order before they just one thing that I wanted to uh point out it was impacted but on May 7th
we are having our business after hours event at Miss Angie's place that'll be from 6:00 p.m till 7:30 8:00 p.m um but it's open to all businesses if anyone wants to stop by you're more than welcome to as well fire department's not here i will pitch
for them they have the be coming up beginning May to May 3 so watch for everybody that social media been a very very very
And no one else anything else