[Music] call the meeting to order I'll rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge of aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one
nation under God indivisible with libery and justice for all roll call all members are present approval of the agenda um 7D will be scratched from the
agenda and we will add the under 8A an update on Birch and pine streets and and 7g approve resolution 2024-the County any other changes
Council mm do I have a motion to approve the agenda with those changes I'll make a motion to approve motion by Shon do I have a second second second by Joel call a question all those in favor signify by saying I I oppos motion
carries five in favor none against approval of the minutes of the July 3rd 2024 regular meeting received them in your packet is there any changes or Corrections needed within
those minutes hearing nothing do I have a motion to approve the July 3rd regular meeting motion to approve motion by Heidi do I have a second I second second by Diane call the question all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed and
I was gone so I will abstain so four in favor one exstension this now brings us to our public open Forum comment limited to three minutes is there anyone here that would like to speak to the
council is there any state your name and your address for the record please can you hear his microphone I think it's on as I stated before at the last
meeting Dustin V waly had one job to bring this child to a licensed foster care provider but instead he lied to the family and actually brought the child to go live with their romantic interest I felt that I should clarify a few things here here first this home had
no license to foster a child a single mother dating two men at the same time the first man lived in her home he owned a bar and almost every weekend the mother would go there and drink and play darts leaving the child and her own children
unsupervised the second man lived in Alexandria and this mother would often drag the child and her own children to his house to spend the night even on school school nights Minnesota guidelines for foster parents states that all adults over the age of 18 who
live in the home or will be in a home that a foster child will be spending the night must submit to a background check and neither Von waly nor the social worker ever subjected these men to that Von waly was just fine with sending this
child to spend the nights in the homes of strange men well I heard you say when you were telling me about the people that you have St with that this family was toxic did I hear that right tell me more about what made them
toxic well the mom will constantly go from this guy back to this guy back to this guy back to this guy and then sometimes like the mom would never be at home it' almost be like us kids always
alone this love triangle obviously led to domestic violence both inside and out of the homes a fist fight in the St Cloud McDonald's parking lot a domestic call to the police at the home to which we had the sock Center Police Department driving the children to school and of
course this child's own allegation of abuse in this home but before the child could even state that allegation at the Children's Advocacy Center when waly at that time had already put the child in a new home another single mother who had
no license to foster a child and whom would you guess that this woman was dating at that time well no other than the same man living in Alexandria that the first foster parent was dating and whom was the child to be able to date while in this home that man's
child I want you to stop and think about that for a moment what are the odds because they have to be astronomical faly had one job to call the county find the nearest foster care provider and to see the child to that provider but instead said he instructed
Officer Nelson to allow this woman to come pick up the child Mr SMI your 3 minutes is up thank you is there anyone else who would like to speak to the councel is there anyone else who would
like to speak to the council the public open forum is now closed we'll now move on we have a public hearing tonight I'll recess the Reg meeting and enter into our public hearing we have one public hearing
before us this evening in accordance with the official mailed and public notice in the matter of the proposed amendments to the rental code it is Our intention that everyone has the opportunity to be heard if you wish to speak please sign in on the signin sheet
at the back of the room procedure is as follows presentation by staff followed by questions of staff then public input raise your hand when recognized by the mayor approach the podium and state your name and address for the record State
your comments and position no one will be allowed to speak a second time until everyone has had a chance to be heard first we will hear clarification questions for clarification second public in favor of the proposal third public speaking
against the proposal after everyone who wishes to speak has had the opportunity to be heard the hearing will be closed after closure of the public hearing the council will deliberate and take action as appropriate members of the audience do not participate in the council's
discussion unless a majority of the council concedes to hear additional information or questions the hearing is now in session Vicki hello so the city council as you know is to conduct this public hearing to consider proposed
changes to the sock Center residential rental license licensing code uh the city council began enforcement of its rental code on May 1st 2023 now that over years passed we have some modifications recommended to that code uh I did give you all a copy of the
entire code with everything underlined and highlighted so you could read in context what the changes are expected to be and I will cover those with you tonight my first one clarifies that the inspector or a building in official can placard a building as unfit for human habitation uh the reason this language
is in there is because our inspector for our residential rental licensing and our building official are two different individuals and so uh the Minnesota state statute always refers to the building official because a lot of times that's the person uh that's doing the rental Licensing in our case it's
different so I have them both lifted listed in there uh we did a recent placard and the building official did actually sign the placard itself according to Minnesota statute but at the recommendation of the inspector this just kind of makes some so they can work together to make that happen uh the
second uh item that we have in here adds language that every dwelling unit shall have a minimum two foot wide Pathway to All Points of egress and common areas shall be clear of storage the full width of the egress system the reason that we have this in there is we have found some homes where you actually cannot access
the egress windows you can't get to the kitchen sink because there's just not even a pathway in the home to reach it there so you get the inspector gets there and he is not really given access to do these inspections then that then he can just leave he doesn't have to try to to find his way over everything to
get to those points so this just kind of U just has a little more clarification that we expect access to do the inspections um another option another thing that's in there is the requirement of carbon monoxide detectors and that they be operational as required by
Minnesota statute uh when we had our public hearing initially people were like well not all houses have carbon monoxide detectors and that's why we refer to Minnesota statute because there is an exemption in there or they don't have natural gas or gas they're only all electric if you have an all electric home and you want to get that exemption
through Minnesota statute there is an exemption that you can get so you don't have to have the carbon monoxide uh detector but if you have a a home heated with gas you should have in your rental unit a carbon monoxide detector um it also includes the that
the units the rental units be equipped with fire extinguishers um that's pretty common sense uh it does establish a a requirement that window wells deeper than 44 in have an escape ladder these things are kind of like repetitive of the building code
but they're also in the rental code so that yes if you have an egress window you climb out into that well outside and then you can't get out it doesn't do you any good so a lot of times they just have the ESS ladder or a little ladder in there or something nailed right on the wall just so people can get out uh
it establishes a head count for a total of two times the number of legal bedrooms plus one this mimics the code and it mimics others other code and it also mimics the county when they're doing their lodging so it's like we're all on the same page for that it amends
the licensing frequently as previously approved on a biannual basis when we originally adopted the code it was going to be a third a third a third but then when we actually started to implement it we went to a biannual so this just changes that to the biannual that you previously approved uh it includes a license trans
trans fee you sell the unit there's some paperwork involved in order to transfer it from this person to that one not necessarily a new inspection or anything we're just transferring the existing to you uh it has a delinquency fee for unpaid fees that's that's pretty
standard um it adds language on license revocation susp and suspension for failure of the landlord to abide by the code follow through on appointments or failure to eliminate Health threats so what we'll have is a situation where someone come in and apply for the
license and then they don't show up for appointments they don't get the work done and you're just wasting a lot of everybody's time and so what we have on there is that we can uh just proceed with either revocation or or charge them extra for
each of those no-show visits and those are all lined out in the code that I gave you another one is they add language if it's um if we list if we rocal license it won't be ISS issued until a date set by the city council and all deficiencies are corrected so if the
city council revokes a license then you're going to set a date you okay by this date this has to be corrected and and we can't issue the license until all the corrections are done a lot of times people will say okay I got it all planned so let me let me get it back going again it's like no you have to correct your deficiencies you're not
getting your license back and then it adds additional language on giving access for inspections um that's the one thing that we found is able to to um get in there be able to do your inspection or even when
um the the the landlord doesn't want you in but the tenant lets you in or the babysit lets you in there's a lot of different moving Parts there and so we just wanted to clarify how we can get access for the inspector so these are um pretty common things things that we found that were maybe a little unclear
in our code you know we thought we had it pretty clear in the beginning but once you use it for a year you discover things that you'd like to clarify a little bit and so those are the changes that we are recommending and I did email out to you the full body of the code like I said so you can read it all uh if you have any
questions regarding any of these changes or anything about the rental code in in general uh the inspector is here tonight he'd be able to answer those questions or I can help answer the questions so okay any questions concerns I we we just went through this
with my house and uh I had an electrician replace all six smoke detectors and when they're hardwired when one goes off they tell all the other smoke detectors throughout the house to go off I didn't know that and they're they're only they're only good for like 10 years so we just put all new
ones in but the question I have is are the CN monoxide detectors are they also dated for only like 10 years or should they be replaced after 10 years too or so we always look at what the manufacturer recommendation is because
you'll have different different ones they have different dates okay you know you buy a more expensive one it's going to last longer if you're going to buy a less expensive one it's going to be less okay um that one you kind of have to look at um the U the landlord to make
sure to comply with that but the inspector checks him every time he does the inspection okay so thank you thank you viy any other questions comments on the carbon monoxide detect I
think they need to be in all of them cuz my personal house is actually all electric I don't have anything gas in that house but it was also brought up to me that I have an attached garage mhm so
that car is running in there the carbon monoxide is coming into the house yeah so I think that it should be a flat out requirement well the state state statute offers the exemption I think you're looking can not complying with state statute on that though yeah the only
thing is we don't know if there's rental units that are using space heaters or something like that to keep certain rooms warm it shouldn't be but once we inspect it and we give it okay doesn't mean they don't do it where carbon monoxide detector for as cheap as they
are yeah could solve a problem yep just my opinion that I think it should be mandatory does the exemption cover homes with attached garage is that I read through it and there's a couple
different criteria that you have to certify and one of them they do talk about the attached garage but I can't speak to exactly what the language is on that I would say majority of the Ral units don't have attached garages yeah you know like you've got like the main Streeter apartments or whatever A lot of them most of them don't unless it's
actually a house or maybe a twin home like we have or a condo like we have across the street from City Hall um if you want to be more strict than State Statute you certainly can be I think you'll probably get some push back from um some landlords that have all electric
units that want that exemption that's your call I agree with you I I guess I'm leading torous following State Statute offer the exemptions that are there if they they have it I mean you know landlords they got to decide whether or not they they going to take that risk of not if they're going to apply for the
exemption what would uh you have a strong opinion Kelly he has no opinion it looks like huh that you that one of the well your family was saved you're an example of that exact
scenario the other thing that I was you know and we can get into that when we get done with the public hearing then we can get more discussion on that for right now um the other thing is is we do have a few three or four out
there that after since we started this still haven't allowed anybody in and I think we need to look at putting more teeth into that where if a couple no shows on appointments and
or they just won't let us get in to me it's an automatic placard and if they don't get back to us within a week after after it's placarded mhm saying uninhabitable on how they're going to fix it we just start condemnation and we
get rid of it because we got to have the rules there and we got to have some teeth in it m have we pursued the warrant side of things don't do we have the option we we do have the option to take those and get an administrative warrant to allow our access as an
alternative to uh you know like you were talking about placering placard him is unfit because we have no idea because we haven't let us in there's that option and then there's the option of of getting the administrative warrant and requiring them to let us in
so if they don't let us in we can't see it we have to take the assumption that it no one should be living in it Y and we have that option rather than spend all the money on an attorney to get warrants and then everything else to go
in yeah you know it all depends on which way we want to do this but you know and it's been almost a year or over a year for some of these properties and they've told us straight out they just aren't doing it then it's time for us to push back
amen warrants aren't going to do us any good if they're not going to get the do the license yeah or they won't let us in after a year there's something wrong so so do we just do we consider language
of I mean I guess we can discuss that later too but right but it's something that I wanted to least let the public know that I'm pushing for that side of it and if there's anyone that has a comment to it you
know to me milk in the system doesn't get us anywhere right it just makes us look bad yeah well I mean and ultimately in this case it is to protect the renter it is to protect the safety of the people who are in the units that so so okay any other comments
or questions otherwise we will y I'm getting to that point um no questions of Staff any other questions at our level okay then we will now go into public input um if you would
like to speak and come up state your name and address if you're in favor against or just needs clarification um I just want to um I don't know make a recommendation or whatever that we've
had an apartment your name and address please lyette schmi sock Center uh we own apartment building in town here and we've had trouble with the smoke detectors people taking the batteries out of them whether we do routine inspections maintenance whatever when they move out the batteries are always
gone sore lights but with the battery being gone it's not only risking their safety but the safety of others plus it's our property isn't protected either but players should start out now we had our inspection last year he informed us which we did not know this they do make
battery detectors that are ENC cased so you cannot take the battery out that I think that would be a good recommendation to have in the bylaws or someplace in there and stuff that they're the self-contained units and those can be used you know whether you
have gas electric whatever your heat is and stuff but um I know that's saved us a lot or I feel a lot safer with them knowing that they're not coming out it's very frustrating always seeing them being removed that they just don't know what they're doing for their safety on others
in the building okay good point Thank you thank you is there anyone else who would like to speak to the council in favor against or needs clarification call the third time is
there anyone else wants to speak to the council in favor or against or needs clarification Council have any last minute questions okay our public hearing is now closed we will now reconvene our regular
council meeting reports and presentations Police Department good evening mayor and Council I got two months worth of uh reports uh since we didn't have that
middle of June I got the May numbers uh as you can see May was busy as far as this calls were service proactive activity um I think the I had mentioned that we're going to crack down some
traffic and you can see we did that with 615 traffic warnings and then a bunch of tickets mixed in there as well um along with we had 17 crashes in May uh and then just pretty much the just the schmorgus board of everything
else mixed in there if you look at the numbers yeah a total of 1,485 uh for the month of May so that was our busiest May probably ever it to be expected it was getting warmer and nicer MH uh when we move over to June uh
looks like some of it didn't get into the M back got cut off but uh June kind of the same thing another busy June not quite as size numbers as we had in May um but you can tell that some of our
traffic efforts did work a little bit because we cut our traffic crashes in half uh we went from 17 in and may like I said down to eight traffic crashes in June so that's pretty good especially for June when the vacation season's starting off
um and then just kind of everything's been kind of the same as usual you look like just uh nothing heavier as far as calls in the other but just steady like we're steady pretty much all day through the evening
uh so yeah 1,29 for for June which is still pretty busy for telling our size um we did get so we are now 100% rolling with our on fleet is completely in our
squad cars so that project is complete and full or body cams and and the cars so and it's working much better than our old system it's working Flawless and that's nice thing about that is it's a it's also an insurance policy for the
city also because the proof is in all the video now and there's it's always there um so that was a good investment um I'm still waiting on one of our squads completed still up at Star squads in Verndale crossing my fingers he calls me
Friday morning tell him we come pick it up but we're in same Bo every else we're just waiting so we're still we're still running uh the car is pretty heavy because just they're not getting brakes so I'm really anticipating hoping that car comes I'd love it for Friday but
that's we'll see what happens um busy next couple weeks coming up we got sin for Lewis D Affair you're going to see a heavy presence of officers working both events um a lot of stuff going on with active threats throughout the country I'm going to make sure that we are stack
thick when we have big groups of people in towns so you're going to see you're going to see us heavy at those events because we're not going to let nothing like that happen any questions you're doing a great job Joe thank you thank you anyone else have any questions I got
one oh go ahead juvenile problems I seen it was 20 on May is that kind of like curfew or something you don't want to get uh especially the may there's still some that had to do with juvenile problems at the school okay we did have
a kind of an influx of juvenile issues at the end of May when school's getting out but we laid the law down pretty hard the end of May in that first part of June and we started when juveniles are goofing off because they curfew stuff we're bringing them to the PD and making their parents going pick them up and
that made a big difference when Mom and Dad have to come get you from the police department is there a fine on that there can be a lot of times we'll the first one they come down on the police department everybody kind of gets educated and then if it continues
then we will um uh you know is you fines if if we need so we haven't had to I don't think we wrote any curfews yet the curfew stuff's been pretty good basically a lot of shenanigans are happening midafternoon till 8 o'clock at night
they got to go home but it's been knock on wood like we've been pretty decent as far as I just noticed there's more and more cities going to a $100 fine to the parents for every time there's a curfew violation so I was wondering if typically and typically like I said kind of case by case cuz some of the curfew
warning and stuff too it's um you know they're they're leaving the theater but then they're dragging their feet getting home so not necessarily doing anything really naughty but you know it's just like you guys need be home type they're dragging their feet getting home which is we're
cool with that like we'll be you know it's if they're going to be out causing issues then we'll bring them in call the parents and then if we need to find we'll find them but this year not like not going W so far like I think since we we hammered them early and said we're not going to put up with this this
summer it's been pretty good okay I really don't want to open up a can of worms with my question but um having experience with the foster care system it typically isn't an offic 's uh decision where somebody gets placed from
my understanding in my experience the county or the social workers at the county are directing officers on where to place people who are in the system correct so uh to touch on the the ongoing
complaint anytime that we we have all we have the power to uh make the decision if we need to put a child in protective custody but we don't say where that child goes so for example if I go to a house tonight and the house is not a
safe circumstance for those children what we will do is we have the powers of the police department we will say we'll call human servers and say uh we got for example two children need a protective services um and we need the a foster
home from there that entire process then is on stents count to Human Services the B basically typically how it work is we'll make that initial call say this is what we need we'll talk to the on call Human Services person if it's after hours or during the
day once that initial calls made they make a few phone calls and there's typically two options of how they handle it they'll find someone within the family or they'll use one of their Foster families to do it we as the police have zero say in where those
child child can go we will once we get told where they're going to go we'll do the transport we'll get the kids there if need be sometimes the people that are going to take the froster process they'll come to the police department to meet us so we make the phone call but we have no say in where they're going to go
after we determine they're going to be not protective custody so our job as the police is to remove that child from a dangerous situation then it goes to Human Services to tell us where that child needs to go we don't
have a phone bank or anybody who we call for placement that solely falls on human services and we'll take the recommendation we may we may help the situation or uh if there's a grandparent we may know there's a grandparent that's that we feel to be a safe we could call
and we could say yeah we got this grandparent or this family member here if you want to give them a call they said they'd be willing to work it out but they make that determination not us and even just ask one more question and maybe you don't know the answer to this but my my understanding also is that if
it is if a child is placed with a grandparent or familial um member family member that person still after so much time is asked to go through the licensing process as well yeah I'm not sure I know that there's always the
initial placement and that's uh don't quote me but it's a 24 hour to 72 hour period of that placement and there's a court hearing so then typically what happens is there's a civil court hearing where Human Services and I believe maybe
they they deal with a civil judge they'll kind of make determinations there's there's meetings after so most of the time when we place someone in Foster it's a temporary until there can be some sort of uh hearing or meeting so anytime when it comes to the child
protective custody we we make the determination if that child needs it we make the phone calls to other agencies and we make the process on there we we have no say in where that child gets to go right thank
you thank you thank you Joel thank you ambulance department ask question good evening mayor and city council I'm here to present the second quarter report for 2024 um in April we had a total of 84
runs or activities 23 of those were no loads three were ALS transfer and 15 were BLS transfers um last year we had 78 I can't read my writing 10 years
ago we had 61 for the same month so of the total reports for April of this year the total that were built out was 61 for 69,8 1883 and two of those were Medicals that
were ALS um where Medics were able to respond to Medical calls we had and perform ALS duties in may we had 68 runs or activities 19 were no loads three were
ALS transfers and 18 were BLS transfers that compares to 88 last year for the same month and 55 10 years ago in the same month and of the total 68 runs and activities we build out 45 of those for a total of 61,500
had 78 total runs or activities 22 were no loads one was an ALS transfer and 24 were BLS transfers and we had 55 in the same month last year and 65 10 years ago and of those 78 for this
year 55 were build out for a total of just over 65,500 and one ALS medical that month so total build out for second quarter was 19654 and and then you can see from the report I have the uh receiving
facilities and the no load reasons and the uh transfer destinations all combined into the first half uh second quarter special details public relations that we participated in these don't generate a run activity report in our system these are just off
the books uh CPR in the schools for healthcare we actually do that every every quarter semester for the school our healthc care class we did a standby for River of Life Church for their 5K 10K half marathon and then we did uh for the sex
Center rotary club we did a tour of the ambulance garage and Rigs and Equipment demonstrations for them for Mutual AIDS that's where we go into another ambulance service area to um take Medicals for them if they're tied up or transfers for them we did
transfers Mutual Aid transfers for censal care EMS and that's um lung Prairie and Painesville ambulances they go by cental car EMS now so we did a transfer from Long Prairie to Prairie St John's and Fargo one from St Cloud to Prairie St John's and then one from Long
Prairie to St Cloud we did a mutual aid for Mayo ambulance out of St Cloud where we took a patient from their hospital to perie St John's in Fargo we were just finishing up transfer to St Cloud from our own hospital and they had one waiting so they asked if we long as we were coming back this way if we would
take their transfer for them so that worked out pretty good for us and then we did uh for North ambulance out of Alec did an ALS transfer from Alexandria to asentia Health in Fargo and we had one BLS transfer from Alec to St Cloud that they cancelled on us and then
Melrose we took an ALS transfer from Melrose to St Cloud for them um we did have to give up seven ALS transfers in the second quarter due to unavailability of our Medics we had three Medics at the time um if we're not available any of
our three Medics and we call Melrose and see if they have a medic available to take our ALS transfer and they do the same for us so that's why you see a lot of the mutual Aid with Melrose where we're taking their ALS transfers so and then if neither of us have a medic available then we'll turn it over to
Centric here to take it for us but we work together with Melrose to try and get all the our transfers taken care of um so overall we remained pretty busy May was a little slow for us with only the 68 runs but um our Medics are handling a lot of the ALS transfers but
we did just hire the two additional Medics that live in our community that work full-time for other services just like the three original Medics we have so now we do have five paramedics on our crew to help with these ALS transfers and if they're available and um ALS call
comes in or call that they feel could be ALS and they'll respond to Medicals in in our city as well so um and then we have our busiest time of the year coming up as well too with uh fair and slar listies so so any questions for me
questions keep up the good word right thank you thank you public works department good evening May and Council this past month uh the parks getting a lot of Maintenance taking place in those right now such as mowing sprinkler
repairs a lot of edging did pressure wash all the sidewalks in the front and middle Park um just cleaning up the buildings Fountain needs weekly maintenance those types of things so that takes a lot of time this time of year bridge in the middle Park had the wood on the Walking surface that reached the end of its life so that all got
replaced prepping for the sincl Lewis days events has been ongoing this week and last week tar patching was completed we did uh rebuild the chain drive gear case system on the payloader snowblower so that's done and ready for winter now
front step project at City Hall we did all the demo work and the rough excavation for the concrete contractor then we put in the flag pole in the Landscaping so the railings are getting welded this week they'll get powder coated and likely on by the end of the month so that's the plan there and then
that project will be totally completed um they put some new doors on in the middle Park bathrooms the playground mulch was removed around the middle Park structures there's four areas down there and we put new safety mulch it's uh called Safety mulch from the manufacturer so it's for playground
specifically so that is all in planted several new trees in the Parks Splash Pad we did have an activation sensor go bad so we replaced that no issues since that's been replaced and no other major issues have been going on there just uh normal routine maintenance so that's
been working well we did do a bunch of tree removals of dead or dying trees that were in the boulevards or a couple were in our Parks way to grind the stumps planted the grass so that's all done gravel roads we' bladed those again we have not actually sprayed dust
control yet this year since we've been getting about an inch of rain every week if it is going to dry up then we're still on their list to do that so we're just kind of playing the weather a little bit I don't want to spend the money if we don't have to but if it gets really dry and gross then we will have them come out and spray that yet this
year our one ton truck did arrive so we actually sent that down to jcraft already they had some people in town that could drive it down so that's down there scheduled to get all the uh the box and the plow put on sometime in August we'll probably get it back mid September and then our 3/4 ton truck
that we had ordered um is arriving tomorrow down at our shop so that's good news there and then we'll get our Tan Ford up on the Min bid auction once that new one is in and we have everything on it any questions those front steps look
great on City Hall you did a great job Ben thank you well the new city signs look really nice too or the new covering in City yeah there's one up at bear trap and then one by Caribou there yep great any any possibility or thought of putting lights on those uh I guess we
haven't thought of it anything's possible so thought it might make them pop a little bit I don't know yeah you can look at that okay thank you thank you Planning Commission good evening mayor and
councel um in your packet you have a copy of the Planning Commission agenda we did hold a public hearing at the July 9th meeting which is an action item later on your agenda we have a few informational items um due to the primary election on August 13th uh no
meetings can be held and then also Sterns County household hazards waste will be having August 21st um has his waist pickup and the hours are going to be from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. they're extending the hours to see if that can benefit more people after
work then you have a copy of the building permits and in the month of J June we had uh 20 permits with 276 thou $276,000 in value and a year ago we did about $1.6 million in construction
value any questions questions okay thank you Sarah thank you airport board so the airport board met in regular session on Wednesday July 10th 2024 we discuss the next steps on the
land airport land acquisition project that has drug on quite a bit and a lot of it has to do with the reimbursements and and allocation of funds and so you will be probably seen an updated purchase agreement and and an updated
recommendation at a future meeting we talked about the relocation next steps for the awas and that's the weather observation station out there it's not eligible for for a state Grant and so the FAA is looking for possible ways to participate in funding the relocation the need for the relocation is simply so
that we can uh proceed with a possible another hanger at the airport but it can only be within so many feet of the awas under the new regulations so we need to move it and because it's actually a newer newer equipment mot is funding older equipment ones so that makes it
fall on us so our hanger Grant is ongoing we can't proceed until this awas situation is uh resolved uh we did look at a potential land lease for a private hanger construction we had somebody request uh the lease of a pad of ground so that they could build their own
hangers so we're looking working forward on that the fueling Grant is finalized and all funds have been reimbursed to the city and also the final closeout documentation thinking back looking back at the seal coding and the environmental assessment it always takes about a year after the close out for all of paperwork
to come through and that has been done uh we have reached the maximum reimbursement for the Amo grant for fiscal year 20224 we have a certain amount of allocation of funds and we usually get reimbursed the maximum by the third quarter so uh we always we don't usually get reimbursement in our
last quarter because of that uh the final paperwork has been completed for the loan of the federal entitlement dollars to Hutchinson we had some expiring dollars we hadn't been able to use because of the delay of moving the awas and the land Acquisitions so we lent uh our allocation of federal
entitlement dollars to Hutchin and they will lend us back when we need it so it kind of works out really good local airports are it's pretty common for them to swap those entitlements so they don't go back into the big Coffer and end up in another state and then we also discussed adding the replacement of the
courtesy car to an upcoming CIP so our Courtesy car is a 2010 and so it's about 14 years old and it's so it's showing some weere and so we'll be looking at that and this one we have now we actually bought on minbid so it's not like we're looking for something brand new likely it's just that something
maybe uh that's not going to start nickel and diming us to death so I don't have any action items for you tonight from the airport any questions okay we'll move on to action items 7A approve ordinance 837 amending
the residential rental code so this is the ordinance and it is in your packet that uh adopts all of the changes that we talked about in the public hearing I'm not going to read all through through them all again but adoption of this ordinance will Implement those
changes comments questions do we want to change this or are we just make it a work of progress as far as timelines and I was just going to add I know when
we first started talking about it the the um license revocation suspension is there a timeline already in place for for failure to follow through do we set it if it's not within the calendar year that you're on the schedule to be
inspected or you mean like the initial inspection yeah if they're not going to let us on the property what is our so when we adopted the first is it it required everybody to obtain a license so if they don't obtain a license then that falls back under the the misdemeanor section actually for the
failure to and then this part here is if you don't once you do apply it's failure to renew failure to allow us access so there's two different things that were so we have a few of them out there that have never applied and those are going to go the One Direction and then the other ones that have applied but just
aren't following through that's a different uh different step the problem with setting a specific timeline on some of those things is every rental unit requires something different M you know one rental unit might only need a smoke detector they can fix that in 10 minutes
and another one might require egress windows that may take a month because you can't get them you know so we don't really have a set time but then when we issue the order that it needs to be done we can give them a certain time based on what kind of work they need to have done I don't know if that answers your
question if you want us to have something very specific in there like not to exceed or what you're looking for no I guess that the variety of of things that could happen throughout that process doesn't really allow us to set an official timeline like you said
but the one thing that you could do that's maybe separate from this is you could kind of say Okay anybody that's not applied we'll send them one last notice if they have not applied by September 1 then we are taking a more drastic action we're either going to placard your building or we're going to get the administrative warrant or
whatever this is your last chance by order of the city council this is what you're going to do and that kind of gives us a little more teeth too yeah so the one thing is is you know I'm whenever I stop up here which is
probably three times a week at a minimum so a lot of times I see Kelly up here going what do I do I can't get anybody to do this how do I do this I'm trying to like rather than him wearing out his shoes trying to get these people to do
something or banging his head against the wall feeling that we aren't helping him or anything that's the reason why I think we need to do something MH it doesn't pay to have an inspector if he can't move forward because we haven't decided how we're going to handle
it and I'm just trying to make his job a little easier and at the same time the people that think they want to keep playing games find out it isn't so fun mhm so that's the only reason why I
brought it up yeah but as far as we can do you you know put it in the ones that haven't done anything but I don't think the first of September they've already been a year give them another 6
weeks isn't going to solve anything I think we shorten it up we send them to notice by the end of this week and they got a week and a half by the 1 of August to be to us and let us in or we start I agree cuz if a whole year hasn't
got him to move off the yeah but if you a warning and then you got to have a reasonable time to comply right you know I mean 30 days type of thing versus you you got a week I mean one can our inspector get all those ones done and two you know what's their availability and time of year and that type of stuff
too the only thing is is they've had a year Well I yeah I I get that but you know if you're going to send them a warning or like a letter saying we're going to send it to Mr me Court you know process you give them a reasonable timeline to comply yeah I think to apply
though if they've not even they haven't even applied so we don't even we don't have anything to revoke right this is just pure fact they're not going to do it and they they've already got we we we've sent them a couple letters with applications and that say and that each one of them
says okay you need to apply by the state and then you know then we'll give them a second chance so we've kind of exhausted some of that so um I think if we did that a final one that said okay by order of the city council we're doing this is the step we're taking on this day you
know and and most of those those letters go all to certified letters yeah and so it isn't like the last ones have yeah yeah and then they turn around and they ignore the letter they don't sign for it so they know what it is
so I'm you know I don't believe in there's certain things you can hold their hands different situations but this getting to the point where we got to be done holding hands and start doing some discipline mhm because it's reflecting on us as a
counil has nobody with any backbone will do anything so I ain't going to worry about it how many approximately do we have that have not applied I think there's probably maybe five or six landlords some of them have
multiple units in the building not very many very small percent in of the of the whole but it's just going to make the job easier if we make an example out of those five or six so for this specific timeline if we
said if you have not applied you have until August 1st that okay that's separate from the ordinance you're looking to I know yeah do we want to add anything into the ordinance
that's the me DI lines or we and uh when we get to that point change I I thought when reading through the um proposed changes through the code I I thought they all made sense and it fit you know I don't know there' be anything specific to add you know again
it's a learn as we go type of thing too if something's not working doesn't make sense you you know you adjust it amend it things you're seeing since things that Kelly be seeing on the front lines that he relays back to us yeah the battery and smoke detector piece was an interesting suggestion
right I well if that and that'd be up to the landlord if they got people taking the batteries out of the smoke detectors it's up to them to replace them with ones that people can't get to it isn't us up to us to enforce it yeah is it
ever offered as a suggestion Kelly do you see it happen frequently enough that it that the the batteries are being taken or you find that there's no missing well she she did mention that it was suggested that's the way that they
should go by Kelly yes okay yeah missed that sorry so any other discussion okay do I have a motion to approve ordinance 837 I'll make the motion to approve motion by
Diane second second second Joel yep call the question all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed motion carries five in favor none against do we do an action even though it's not on
the agenda for sending them a letter and saying they got to August 1 or is that just a general I think we'll just we could just take that as general consent that's fine General consent on that and get that rolling absolutely sounds good um 7B approve ordinance 8 38
authorizing summary publication of 837 so I guess that was pretty much the whole staff report right there ordinance 838 if approved authoriz us to publish a summary rather than the full text of the ordinance as a cost-saving measure as long as the city council canc concurs
that the summary adequately relays to the public what the ordinance is the summary that would be published would say um that it's an amendment to city code chapter 119 regulating residential rental registration licensing and inspection so somebody body sees that they can come in and get a free
copy okay that's ordinance 838 do I have a motion to approve ordinance 838 I'll make a motion to approve motion by Shon call second second by Heidi call the question all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed
motion carries five in favor none against 7 C approve resolution 20246 granting variance so the Planning Commission acting as a board of adjustment at its regular meeting on July 9th considered a request from Kevin Messer who is the buyer and S William
Property Management who's the seller which I think it's now transferred for a variance from the maximum allowed size of an detest accessory building and maximum allowed cumulative accessory building in attached garages the property is located at 708 8th Street South sock Center legally described as
parts of lots one and two block two Robins and men and dolls and it's about a three-page legal description so I didn't put the whole thing in there the request is to construct a 1,512 ft garage where a maximum of 1200 ft is allowed and also allow a total of
288 ft of accessory structures and attached garages where 1,800 is allowed following a public hearing the board recommends that the request be approved I do have in your packet the resolution which does include that legal description and also includes the findings that the Planning Commission
found they also had two two uh conditions or three conditions the Varian is void within one year not acted upon the second is nothing related to homebased business shall be parked or stored outside and existing garden shed to be removed questions
comments was there any concern from anybody in the neighborhood on that at all uh I wasn't at this meeting um Sarah did say that they she had one person so was more for clarification than for anything else no concerns there was no
uh nobody opposed to it it was simply the clarification any other questions do I have a motion to approve resolution 20246 granting the variance motion to approve motion by Heidi do IO second I'll second second by
Shon any last discussion call the question all those in favor signify by saying I I oppos extensions I motion carries four in favor none against one abstention since I wasn't at
the meeting I decided I'd stay out of that one 7e approve advancement of EMT Kathy stord ambulance director has submitted a request to advance Jordan Harman from probationary EMT to emtb
level one she says I would like to recommend Jordan Hartman for proom for promotion from probationary EMT to emt1 with the pay increase according to the city's pay policy effective immediately this will grant Jordan full Privileges and responsibilities of an EMT with the city of socker ambulance service while
on probation Jordan Jordan has well exceeded the 20 patient contacts required as he takes his fair share of shifts and helps out others as well as taking up back back up when available with his experience his EMT skills have improved and he is an asset to our service so what we're looking to is approve the advancement of Jordan
Hardman to emtb level one effective July 17th 2024 questions comments do I have a motion to approve the advancement motion to approve motion by Joel do I have a second second second by
Diane call the question all those in favor signify by saying I I oppos motion Carri five in favor none against 7 F accept resignation Chief Joe Jensen has received a resignation letter from
officer Leticia Harden Harden has worked with the department since October of 2023 so we're asking you tonight is accept the resignation of Leticia Harden effective July 24th okay do I have a motion to accept the resignation I'll make that motion
motion by second Heidi seconded by Diane call the question all those in favor signify by say and I I opposed motion carries five in favor none against 7g approve resolution 2024 61 governing
radians counting vote County so whenever the city has offices to be elected on a ballot writing in a name is allowed such as mayor or council person so every general election alleged election judges spend considerable time tallying those names and as a general
rule voters will write in the names of their friends of Donald Duck of Mickey Mouse Etc and M Minnesota statute requires those names to be tallied and filed with the county and the secretary of state so new Minnesota statute 204b 09 subdivision 3 now authorizes the city
council to pass a resolution stating that in order for a right in candidate to be tallied they must file that request with the city clerk at least 7 days before the election County state and federal Offices already have this provision in statute automatically but this will give local units of
government to enjoy that same qualification if the council concurs so what it is is if somebody decides to do a legitimate wrin campaign seven days before the election which would be the general election so we're talking by the end of October they need to let me know that they are a legitimate candidate
they are filing a comp a campaign and then I would know that those votes I need to count otherwise I can take about an hour of time off of our schedule at the end of the day after we've all been here about 18 hours to count those tallies and I will tell you that in the
42 years that I've done elections um I've only had two legitimate writing campaigns and one of them was Joe right here so um I've counted a lot of Mickey Mouses and a lot of Donald Ducks in my time and I'm very happy that the state
has finally given us this option so I recommend that you adopt resolution 2024 governing the wrin vote couny any other questions uh first question would be uh the seven days is that seven calendar days or seven
business days seven days just period so the election is on Tuesday Tuesday prior and because this is a new provision you know if any of us become aware of someone wanting to do a right-in campaign we're going to hear about it and so we would make sure to let them know and I'll probably push out on
Facebook and maybe even in the paper that if you are conducting a right in campaign to please let us know so your vote is counted Y and that would have been my other point is education to somebody that's doing that cuz obviously being a right in candidate to my initial term I wouldn't have known that so
right okay do I have a motion to approve resolution 2024 61 I motion to approve shall I I'll second second by Joel call the question all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed
motion carries five in favor none against unfinished business update on Birch and Pine Street Keith all right good evening mayor and Council actually I'll give you an update on several things tonight uh the Birch and Pine Street the 2025 Capital
approvement project um be at the next meeting still cranking through some of the assessments um preliminary assessments for that getting close on that as you recall we talked before there's kind of a large storm drainage area that really is sort of related to
Highway 75 projects which trying to figure out how to deal with those costs and those assessments and those kinds of things because that pipe all that flow goes through the project so it makes things a little complicated but we're we're cranking through that but we'll
have it for your next meeting uh but everything's going well with it it's just taking a little time um the self truck stop project the pipe on it is about 75 plus percent complete at this point um contractor doing pretty well
couple rough spots at the very beginning they're kind of new doing this kind of work but uh they're actually very responsive and willing to to learn and willing to do it do it right and they're doing a good job so U so we appreciate that from them but things are going well there um and just kind of an update on
the the there's a project for the public utilities where the large trunk sanitary sewer main it's a 36 inch main that goes basically from the um from the from the shop all the way down to the treatment plant has never to my knowledge it's
actually never been looked at since it's been installed so uh that project's going to be cleaned and televised and do an assessment of kind of the condition of that pipe and hopefully we'll cross our fingers that things look good in there but um but that's going on just
for your information so any uh questions of me you mentioned um Highway 75 originally with the storm pipe on the pine and Birch you meant 7 correct I did meant 71 sorry 7 sorry
71 okay any other questions thank you okay thank you J new business consider amendment to city council pay so so with the upcoming election for city council coming up in November uh
now is the time for the council to consider a change to the pay structure if they desire uh the pay for councel has not been adjusted since 20 05 uh the council pay right now is a straight monthly stien some cities pay per meeting some pay per DM for extra meetings there's several ways that we
can explore this uh any adjustments to pay if you approve it would not go into effect after the election so in January of 2025 is when it would go into effect so what I'm looking for tonight is is Direction I'm proceeding with this analysis and recommendation that finance committee wants to review it if you want
me to bring it back for the full Council to talk about but first we will go uh the core cities that that we normally uh compare with uh Long Prairie Benson Melrose wadina ois um that type those that kind of core city is who a lot of
times that we will look at we do similar similar things than those cities do uh so if you want us to proceed with that and bring it back if you're happy where you are that's fine um if you want want us to do that analysis and get together with the committee or the full Council we'll do it that way I just wanted to
know what your thoughts are on this comments personally I think it it's a good idea to look at it and take it into consideration I I don't have a strong preference on whether you bring it back to the full counsel or the committee but at least looking at things
I think makes sense any other comments it never feels good to vote for your own pay increase but it does make sense to look at it since it hasn't been touched since 2005 yeah the main thing is is yeah we to look at the time and when it was RA and if you're on a city ccil thinking you're
going to make money you're you're in you're in it and for the wrong reason it's supposed to be for the city so to look at it isn't going to hurt so you want it to go to the committee or just bring the results to the council Jah I think can you want to take
a look at it sure okay okay then recommendation I would say would go to finance committee okay do we need to vote on that or is that just General consense unless somebody doesn't want it to go there fine
okay we have uh the consent agenda uh the council consider the following consent agenda items schedule of claims unpaid claims of $189,800 53 that was being paid to esler Electric
for the flag pole and the landscaping lights at the memorial so that's what changed that so we have a total of 1889 8746 and we have June checks paid claims
SL payroll of $ 366,924 2024 at the Holy Family School is there any questions on the consent agenda do I have a motion to approve the consent calendar as presented motion to approve motion by
Diane do I have a second second second by Joel call the question all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed motion carries five in favor none against informational items
a couple informational items related to the upcoming election uh affidavits of candidacy which is filing for city council we have two seats available for four-year terms it is open from July 31st to August 13th so those are the days you come into City Hall pick up the
affidavit and apply and pay your $2 uh to be on the ballot so anyone interested they now they have to come in during those dates to file that affidavit uh primary election day is August 13th from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. so we'll have the poll open here at City Hall during those
times also we are an early voting Direct in person schedule or or location so anybody in the city of sock Center then come vote up to a week ahead of time so that August 6th through 10th so that's Tuesday through Friday ahead of the election we're here 8 to 4:30 our normal business hours on Saturday August 10th
we'll be here from 9:00 to 3 on August 12th the day before elections we're here from 8:00 to 5: so have different hours it's kind of an odd you know they're mandated hours so uh that's those are the hours that we will be open uh last year we had or four years ago or two years ago I guess it was we had quite a
few people come in on Saturday prior to the election and vote and then we did have a fair number during the week uh they just didn't want to have to come on Election Day so those are informational items for you if there's anything else relating to the election that comes up you know I'll let you know so otherwise
that's it okay any questions on those two items if not that brings us to the end of our agenda do I have a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion to adjourn motion enen seconded by Diane call the question all those in favor signify a say and I I oppos motion carries five in
favor not against meeting and jour [Music]