e what day is it 15th uh July 15th please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge Al toag of the United States of America stand na God indivisible withy
and justice for all did Kevin leave oh there he is item two public comments anything okay item three approval of the agenda moov second motion second on the agenda any changes or concerns all
those all those in favor signify by I I opposed motion carries item four consent agenda so move second motion second on the consent and concerns there all those in favor signify by I I opposed motion carries item five Hansen and
Company this is you uh that's me okay sorry I thought I was didn't think we get through the agenda quite this fast I ready so hey I want to get home and watch the RNC all right so um that tonight so this one is fairly
simple I would say so the um so H as you're aware Hansen and companies the Woodworks has been working with the city over the last year to construct that new facility uh this is one of the things that he'd been talking about since the beginning when we first started talking about this this is one of the things
that a neighboring City had offered um so there was some discussion about whether we could match it or not so with that was to cap the building fees um and those other perit fees at 100,000 so after review with the building inspectors he said actually the building
is fairly straightforward So the plan review fee according to our schedule was $2,675 and so to get to the the to match what another city offered we would need to reduce that by $1 18,160 18 and our building inspector did say
that that still would be plenty to cover the time that they have in their plan review so with that that would be the recommendation uh for a motion to reduce that from 2,675 to $7 75148 I moveed to reduce the plan review fee from
$2,675 to $ 7,514 182 second Motion in second reducing by 18 or that fee by 18 or the ential fee by 18,000 um I didn't read this but where does the money come from like
just it's actually just not incurred by us either so very good okay motion second reducing the fee by $188,000 other questions or concerns all those in favor signify by I I opposed motion does carry thank you David uh
item six well mayor council or you have two resolutions for the 2024 Street improvements and the 2024 Elm Street improvements this is the next step in the chapter 429 process moving the assessments through so the first one
would declare the cost to be assessed and order the preparation the proposed assessment the second would uh set the a date for the special assessment hearing so we did open bids uh th th last week I
believe Thursday uh those bids came in uh well slightly below Engineers estimate so our recommendation would be to approve the two resolutions and set the special special assessment hearing date for the first August meeting August
5th I move to approve resolution 2024 d44 motion second resolution 20 2444 declaring costs are questions are concerns all those in favor signify by I I
opposed motion prevails I move to approve resolution 202 24-4 five a second motion and second 2024 45 and the special assessment
hearing is going to be on what date again August is it August 5th special enrollment on August 5th at 6 PM questions or concerns all those in favor signify by I I opposed motion carries thank youart reports oh yeah Department
reports anybody got anything David no I do I not because I have a feeling you will handle the uh the upcoming event that I was that I no you've been involved more than I have no I I'll leave that to you mayor okay no problem anybody else um I'll just throw
a couple quick updates um in terms of the Planning Commission uh so the Planning Commission has been discussing the two topics of the hunting bees and the short-term rentals um in the last meeting we went through a draft on uh both of those and kind of the direction that um the Planning Commission is
pushing towards is allowing you know honeybees um and Residential Properties uh not requiring a permit but limiting the number of colonies that you can have um based on your lot size and then short-term rentals um allowing those
through a similar process like our standard rental license are handled uh so there'd be a license then there' be a yearly renewal and yearly inspection all those would transpire at the same time as our standard rental license so we're pushing all that out at the same time so
I just wanted to provide those quick updates um since we didn't get to them in the workshop and that and did include those drafted ordinances for your uh information as well as part of that Workshop anybody else anything my
next your project I guess okay mayor and Council reports so I have a couple things to go over I have been involved in a couple of groups and I'm going to try and explain it be as concise as I can you guys can
ask questions but there's been a group started by Central car to look at housing cost and uh possibilities of changes in central Minnesota it started with centri care it's got some local Builders Association got cnba it's got
um a lot of non nonprofit organizations getting involved with it and uh it's really it's not going to get done this year trust me I've been around that way too long but um but they're talking we we had a big meeting to talk about what are all the obstacles now we
broke we're breaking into small groups to talk about infrastructure costs and firsttime housing and transitional housing and then ideas around that and it's certainly not g to get done by the time I'm not mayor any so that's one of
the groups okay the other group there's a a local group from CSP St John's Great St Cloud development Corp indeed and me they've been talking about uh trade and education exchange with
India and that's been going on for about again several months um it's really exploratory at this point on how it would come about who would be involved um they're kind of expanding the group as we meet
uh trying to get other local Mayors involved and the bad thing about that is five of the six are disappearing so but what I'd like to do is um get somebody else involved in these meetings because um I can give you background of what's going on I get you involved in what you
know who who we're talking to there's a meeting on the 27th about this trade exchange from uh the group from India and it really started at St John's um there's a couple of professors over at St John's that have some connections to in Mumbai India with an with an education system and
they do this trade education exchange and he's bring he's trying to bring it here to to Central Minnesota but he's also got deed involved and somebody else in the in the state capital I don't know who though um but there's a there's just another Zoom meeting on the 27th I think
that maybe when we have our C gsdc thing so um I'm looking for somebody to join that so we can get you up to speed and I can kind of check out same with the central care thing they're moving at a really snails pace and you know the last time we had a housing Consortium like
this we never really went anywhere a lot of good ideas um nothing you could really apply locally but at least the discussion is taking place on how do you do multi low income um single family transitional and what does it look like
while we're trying to control costs Etc and it goes back to that local versus state government zoning controls and permitting and all those kinds of things that that falls into play here one of the reasons I'm so interested in that is because I don't want them to go back to one siiz fits-all from a from a local
versus State control so I'd also like somebody to get involved with that as well it'll take a while and um I'm in I can't remember really I volunteered for a group like housing ideas or something I don't remember but um again that has
an awful lot of people involved it's very well networked and it's concentrating on housing now just my suggestion is because Kelly's up for re-election Bob is I I'd like these two to kind of tag along one of each one grab one I don't care which
one you want to know now well I mean I don't want to pick it I mean just I'm not gonna do housing want do housing I'll do trade mean I don't I'll do trade well no it's just it's kind of like Personnel it's just doesn't
interest me I just no just my I've been this doing this a long time a lot of these have a just my perspective is they go they have a lot of good ideas have a lot of good discussion but it's very tough to put anything in action anybody put anything in the ground the most momentum is this trade thing which you
know has some interest but I'm not sure how it rolls and it's really a year away at least the housing thing they're moving a little you know they moved a little the need a little bit but it's like all the things we talk about how do you make infrastructure cost feasible how do you building cost construction
cost labor cost all those things to really make it viable and so I think the biggest thing I was interested in there is transitional housing how you go from a new family or first time home to second time home to um senior living and stuff like that yeah that's right in
Adam sweet yeah that's in your sweet you're having babies you're starting a family perfect for you whatever Kevin would like to participate in I'll do I'll do the other okay I mean they're very you know I don't want to take anything away from these groups they're they have these are great ideas and outside the box thinking but it takes a
long time to get anything really concrete and anything that we can might even be able to apply here in central Minnesota but it's good to listen along it's good to create the network and so i' I've been there I just haven't done anything just been listening along so
I'll get you guys the um meeting notes and the schedules okay that you guys you okay with that of course yes okay Bob you okay with that okay you guys I'd like to go oh yeah so the C
gsdc so in two weeks the G sorry greater next week cgc that's yeah next week is it next week next week oh there you go it's next week I would have missed it so next week the Coalition gr associ Summer
Conference is here 24 25 26 and the evening dinner and I hope you guys all attend but the evening dinner on the Wednesday night's going to be at Rolling Ridge Event Center we have the place kind of reserved for a couple hours on Thursday afternoon they're going to have a big tour there I've been told by Emma there's going to be 30
people out here going through the tour and I have John Colleen Peters and Shannon W wager doing the kind of tour assist how we've done a transformation and and their Redevelopment efforts and what's coming up and then there'll be a night on the town right on Thursday night Thursday night we're g to come
back and by tequila or something I don't know they're just going to you know they have free chance to roam around the city and do whatever they want and uh that would be my swans song though I go out I mean we do the final business meeting on on Friday and that's when the new president comes in and all
those things so I wish you would attend I mean I'm pretty sure um there'll be an awful lot like um what was the final count 160 yeah R 160 170 yeah so it'll be well attend and it's a good place to meet new people and get that work so is it is that all you want from us as
attendance or do you want us to help in any way that's what question was no no I think um we were pretty much taken care of it haven't we yep yeah all all the logistics and everything are taking care of yeah the logistics the busing the the meeting the getting bus off here for the 30 or so people are going to be here
handing out gifts all that stuff's been taken care of I mean Dave has done the majority of the work along with I'm not sure who from White Park sh Johnson sh yeah okay you have your breakfast Thursday oh yeah I have a breakfast Thursday morning I forgot about mention about that they said that you know it's
going to kind of be a last minut to think they don't know how many are going to show up like no really signed up yet and I don't really care about that but Thursday morning at K's kitchen I resered kind of a table for Mayors or whoever want to come out and have dinner I mean breakfast out a cave just I will say that the you got to
pay for your own actually you were asking wasn't it I just I was asking the question because I know my staff will they gotta pay for their own so thing I'll say is that the Thursday afternoon tour um said that is
um said is by far the most um the event that's the most signed up for that we have more attendees there than all the the rest of them so far and really John John and Colleen John I mean John sent me the the pigs got loose in the street I mean that was I could don't remember when that was 2011 maybe maybe before
that anyway but he he starts with that story and then he does hit the kind of the cornerstones he hits meat market and K and B Deads and there's a lot play they haven't changed much but everything around them has just evolved into what
it is today and so having Shannon there was really a a bonus because now she's going to walk him through all the new development that's coming and she'll spin her stories really well so I think it's really going to be a good event but that's all I got anybody have any questions Council got were you gonna
still bring up the street closures oh yeah do sorry thanks Dwight so so uh Joe to rocks we went through the street closure thing we went Clos off Minnesota first to first college Dash or whatever and uh there were at least in my opinion
at least one one issue and that we closed the streets but the Catholic Workers were able to come in and they parked inside the closing area closed area and so when everything was done the workers were trying to leave and the pedestrians were trying to leave and it
was it was chaos it was try what we were trying to avoid the whole season long because Summer were going coming and going as they left work and came game and there's still a bunch of people walking around during that I don't know what was it 2 2:00 4:00 to 10:00 or
whatever so in my opinion we should evolve that to say you can't park downtown you have to put out Post-it signs so that if somebody P Parks downtown we can actually toll them we can get them out of there so we don't have that issue I mean at the very end of the at
the very end of the night it was chaos it was people leaving from work and then wa go ahead anybody yeah it's it's a closure for safety not for convenience yeah yeah and they use it as convenience my workers been parking here and then all of a sudden all the streets were lined with workers cars and we kind of
went in with this when we talked about even like Joe or um um roctober Fest what are we going to do for a street closure leave it up to the event person who's applying for it and we hadn't gotten to Joe toown rocks yet to see how this first year went and so my advice was is we were going to close down from
first Northwest to First Northeast just to try to alleviate some of the walking traffic I can see that this might actually extend as far as to Second Avenue Northwest because there's a fair amount of people that leave the legion and in that area and you're still going to have a right-handed turn where at
night it's still a lot of people however we left it up to the event um people that had applied for it whether or not they were going to park in there or not and it became double stacked full and people didn't want to stay to that event so you have people move barricades people are thinking this is blocked off it's dark they're not paying attention
and cars are just going everywhere so it'd be my advice that next year a street closure is truly a street closure not just up to the event uh person's opinion what's going to go in there so just one more thing did did we close all the way to Ash or just we go to the
alley we went to the alley yeah so that created another problem that you started using the alley as a street yeah and that would was even more concerning yeah and our recommendation would be go to the ash yeah it was kind of set up to to try to benefit some of the businesses
along the ways like Gary's Pizza bad habit to try to leave as much of that open as possible the problem is people that were turning and following the detour route from say the Legion on First Avenue Northwest following around on Ash Street would look down towards College Avenue think there's another way
around it they'd get down get battled like start backing up turning right or left on the Alleyways which are did not design there was a burck truck that was dropping off product behind the lock PL it stopped right in the middle of the alley cars were backing up it actually created more of a hazard so it might unfortunately be a spot where we have to
block off at Ash and continue the detour route so people follow it all the way to First Avenue Northeast and then it's safely done it's it's going to inconvene some businesses downtown but our safety is really what we're truly after for the foot traffic yeah we're gonna really have to find a method for Gary's
delivery because that's right in that area but that's something we can work out I think anyway that's just my perspective on we have to make it hard and fast it can't be convenience parking for the event it has to be hard and fast okay anything else anything else you
guys have I move to ajour motion and second to adjourn all those in favor signify by I I opposed we are adjourned