All right, everybody. 6:30. Let's open the meeting with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. All right. Good evening. Welcome to the city of St. Paul Park, Minnesota regular council meeting for August 4th, 2025. Um, this is an open meeting and it is being recorded by True Lens Community Media. You can view these city meetings
live and replayed on cable channel 799. Meetings are also streamed live and archived on the city St. Paul Parks YouTube channel. Um before we get into the items on the agenda, I just want to welcome our new
addition. Um very excited. Hugo McI, our new city administrator has hit the ground running in the last week and uh I speak for myself and I think the rest of the council. We're happy to have you and we look forward to a bright future. Very excited. Well, um thank you Mayor Frankie and
council members. Um, I'm excited to be here and have been uh hitting the ground running and uh it's it's a a great opportunity. So, thank you for uh for the trust and helping us connect with community, etc. So, I'm glad to be here. You're welcome.
All right. Thank you. All right. First item on the agenda is approval of the minutes for the July 21st, 2025 regular council meeting and wave the reading of the same. I'll make that motion. Second. I have a motion in a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I.
I. Motion carries 40. All right. Item number two, items from the public. Is there anybody signed up that does not pertain to the agenda this evening? Mr. Mayor, I see none. All right. Seeing none, we will move on to item number three, the consent
agenda. This evening on the consent agenda, we will be paying the bills from July 23rd through August 5th. Um, we will be updating the mayoral appointments and adding Hugo MCI, our new city administrator, to the personnel
committee. Um, resolution 1749A and 1749B designating deposiitories. Um, that's just naming our bank. Uh, pay request for WSB. Um, another pay request for WSB, both
pertaining to the water treatment plant project. and uh approve resolution 1750 um lawful gambling premises permit which I believe is for Carbon's Pizzeria down on Broadway. Correct. So you will have something to do while
you eat your pizza and also contribute to a good cause. I believe the Lions Club. All right. And that is it for the consent agenda this evening. Motion that we accept the consent agenda. Second. I have a motion and a second to accept the consent agenda. Any further
discussion? All in favor say I. I. I. Motion carries 40. All right. On to new business. Third Street Reconstruction Project. We need to make a slight change. Morgan Dolly, WSB. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the
council. This next item before you is to consider um approval of change order number one for the Third Street Reconstruction Project. It's relatively small. I think it's worth stating just in terms of context that uh whenever you have a state funded project such as the
third street uh re improvement project reconstruction project um every tiny little contractual change is documented in a change order. Usually for city projects you don't see this as often. Um so with the relatively small amount $6,200 in relation to the overall
contract amount over 71 $1 million uh it's just the formality of the state funding. And so I'm here before you presenting uh change order number one which contains basically three items that were included um because of initial conversations with the contractor as
they were just getting going uh after the pre-construction conference. One of them was the inclusion of surmountable curb. That wasn't something that was originally in the contract uh to be able to better facilitate some driveway uh entrances at commercial properties. Uh
number two was some enhanced traffic control. So public works felt it was important to make sure that the detour that is going to be in place from third to Pullman to Hastings and around that that would be an allseason detour to protect the new road or the portions of
the new road that will be completed this year through the winter and into next year. So the plan will be to have some permanent uh detour signs actually pounded into place. the posts are pounded as opposed to just tea bars sitting for, you know, during the regular construction season. So, a
little more permanent detour that will be in place through the winter and through the whole project. Uh, and then the third item was the uh pole that uh holds up the flashing red light at Third and uh Broadway is in the way of some of the pedestrian uh approaches with the
new sidewalk that's going to go on the east side of Third Street. Um and so public works kind of made an evaluation determination to pull that right now. Um evaluate some options, but for now the the light and the pole is going to be salvaged and then public works is going
to be doing an evaluation of whether or not there's going to be a different way of configuring that or um placing a new poll. Maybe that doesn't have to be at that corner. Possibly one of the other two corners. So with that, I'll stand for any questions the council might have. The actual uh amount of change
order number one is a net increase of $6,296.40 uh increasing the contract amount from $7,151,90026 to $7,158,1966. So again, with that, I'll stand for any questions. Um the action in front of you is to consider approval of change order
number one. All right. Thank you, Morgan. Still keeps us within budget. Absolutely. Uh this is and all three of these items are funded uh through either the grant or state aid funds. So we're not um proposing that any of these
changes would be uh funded by city dollars. All right. Any questions for Morgan? So the so the light could possibly go back up. Flashing light. It could. So at this time undetermined, public works is committed to, you know, taking a closer look at it. Uh it's
certainly at least from my understanding you know I'm I'm the engineer not in terms of operations but it is uh awkward to maintain and I you know I think hard to get parts at this time. You really you kind of see those lights like in northern Wisconsin um and and there may
be ways to enhance the stop signs at the intersection itself. kind of a more modern version of that would be flashing LED lights um for the four stop signs that can be set up such that uh they're only flashing when cars are approaching, right? So there's a motion detector. So
it's not like they're flashing in somebody's window all night long, but if there is a car coming, they can flash. So yeah, somebody's window. But uh that's just an option. I'm not saying that the cities would go there. Um, but that's a little again more modern option that easily uh more easily and maybe
less expensive to maintain over time. Um, the fact that that light is kind of supported by two poles in addition to the other power poles that are all there, it is kind of congested and it was very obvious when we were staking out where the trail and the pedestrian ramps are going to go that there just
really were no other options right now. but to pull it out for now and then we'll we'll see, you know. All right. Any other questions? All right. Well, I'll make the motion to approve the change order one to the
third street reconstruction project and second. Have a motion second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. Motion carries 40. Thank you, Morgan. All right. On item number five, reports from the council.
Council member Hagerty, Public Works Commission. Right. Uh nothing uh new to report uh since our last uh city council meeting. Our next meeting uh for uh public works is on September 9th at 5:00 p.m. And we
still need one at least one more member, maybe two. So come on down. All right. Thank you, Council Member Hagerty. Um Council Member Swinson is excused for the public safety commission. I see you have the Yeah. So, public safety
meeting calendar. When would the next public safety I'm sorry. September September 4th. So, the next public safety meeting 7 p.m. 6 p.m. city hall for the public safety commission. All right. Council member Conrad,
planning commission. The next scheduled meeting is August 11th at 7 p.m. here at city hall. And I, as far as I know, as of right now, it's still on schedule. All right. Thank you, Council Member Conrad. Council member Whit Hamson,
Parks and Recreation Commission. Um, first of all, tomorrow is night to unite and parks parks and work will be there with our table. Um, we'll be passing out some veggies from our garden. Um, I believe there's going to
be a small carnival. Um, Lions Club will be there handing out hot dogs. Am I right? Yep. C, does anyone know more about this than I do? tomorrow night that can help out help me out. A wide and uh mayor mayor Frankie council members a wide and varied
assortment of uh other static displays I I've heard that haven't been there before. Uh well the state patrol helicopter which I'm interested to see land is supposed to be coming. So um that's that's probably the highlight for me anyway. But uh various uh touch a truck
kind of uh um events. And I believe we'll have very shiny fire trucks. Very shiny fire trucks will be there on them all day. Yes. Yes. I also heard Johnny Pops. So popsicles. Okay. Didn't hear that.
Also, um I don't know if anybody saw it on the Facebook. McMart is also holding an event to coincide not at Heritage Park, but at their facility down on Broadway. Hamburgers, hot dogs, and ice cream from 2 to 8. From 2 to 8. So we want to give them a
shout out for being a good community member. Exactly. All right. Go ahead. All righty. So, we'll hope to see everybody tomorrow night at night to unite. Um and then on August 14th on Thursday night, we will have movies in the park to start off Heritage Days. Um
we'll be at Heritage Park and we set up at 7:00. Movie starts at dusk and movie to be determined. Uh and the Masons will be there with hot dogs, popcorn for a free will donation. That's it. Hope to see you. Thank you, Council Whit Hemson. Council
member Conrad, how are we doing on Heritage Days? We are active in a meeting as we speak and uh it is the weekend of August 15th through the 17th at Heritage Park. August 15th and 16th and various activities down here on Broadway will
carry over onto the 17th. Check out our Heritage Days Facebook and email pages for schedules of uh for schedules throughout the weekend in the events and their locations. And then um we will also have a presence at the
night toite. We will have an info table and we should have a flyer for people that they can get to stay informed. And volunteers, are you guys still looking for some help? We are still looking for help from various things. We have a lot of activities that just need somebody to
watch over it an hour or two at a time. Uh could be gate locations or it could be uh helping the handicapped people get into the handicap lot which will be the lower lot in the park. And uh just a variety of things. And there will be an info tent there that anybody would like to
come and check out assisting in some way. Um stop at that info tent. All right. Thank you, Council Member Conrad. Um, for myself, just been busy working with Hugo and working on some other things. Um, I wanted to take a
little time tonight. Um, I haven't had time to do an actual proclamation for this person, but we had a member of our community pass away. And sometimes you don't understand the vast um, experience that people have had
that you have contact with all the time. Um, I'm speaking about uh Michael Walsth aka Wall-E as we all knew him. Um, who frequented our establishments and lived in our city. Um, and he was just one of the nicest guys. And, uh, you know, I'd
heard some things over time, you know, oh, he used to play a little ball. He used to, um, you know, and he was a member of, I believe, the Lions Club and others and and and just a part of this community. So um we had reached out to
his sister and asked you know what what actually did you know we we hadn't known he had played some ball and stuff but um actually come to find out that uh Wall-E not only played but he was a coach three
three sport high school coach um when he went to the U of M he played baseball for the Gophers. He led the Big 10 in home runs in 68 and 69, which I just found as wow. Some things you you talk to
somebody, you know, I would say I would see him weekly and uh he was a two-time MVP. Um two-time first team all Big 10. Uh played in the NCAA regionals and Big
10 title in ' 68 and 69. and he was drafted in the seventh round, played for the Atlanta Braves. And these are just things that you just don't know and and humble people don't talk about, right? Um those kind of things. And and people are like this. I just
want to remind everybody all over in our community. So get to know your neighbor. That's kind of my point here. Um ask questions, you know, have those conversations. I mean, I knew just a little bit, but I mean, the accomplishments here, he played 10
seasons in between pro, minors, and in foreign leagues um for the Atlanta Braves and others and just seems pretty amazing to me. So, um my condolences to Wallally's family. Um but what a great
person in our community and I just wanted to take a moment to recognize Wall-E this evening. um and uh say what a great life he has lived and and we're sad to see him go because he was a good man and did a lot of things. So I'll end
on that note. Item number six. Do we have any comments or requests this evening from the council? All right. With nothing further, this meeting's adjourned.