All right. Good evening everybody. 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 regular council meeting for Monday, April 20th, 2026. This meeting is being recorded by True Lens Community Media. You can view city meetings live and replayed on cable
channel 799. Meetings are also streamed live and archived on the city of St. Paul Park's YouTube channel. Um, uh, note of housekeeping. Council member Conrad is joining us via Zoom from where
is your location, Council Member Conrad? >> Cape Coral, Florida. Cape Coral, Florida for the record. So, thank you for going through the trouble to join us, Council Member Conrad. We appreciate that. >> Thank you.
>> Um, first item on the agenda, we are going to be honoring and recognizing Pete Kerner, formerly now of the city of Cottage Grove. Pete, if you want to join me over at the deis. Is this thing on? There we go.
So, I don't know who all knows, uh, Pete Kerner. I know everybody here does, but for anybody watching in the city of St. Paul Park, Pete Kerner has been the chief of police or I guess what was your title? >> Director. >> Director of public safety at the city of
Cottage Grove. Pete has been with city of Cottage Grove and grew up around here. >> Um, and how many years were you with the city of Cottage Grove, Pete? >> July would have been 34 years. So July would have been 34 years. I've known Pete for a lot of years um during his service and mine and even prior to that,
both of us growing up in this area. Um I wanted to take the time since Pete is retiring um to let Pete know how the council and I and the citizens of the city of St. Paul Park appreciate your service not only to the city of St. Paul
or the city of Cottage Grove, but your partnership for the city of St. Paul Park. um for years, many many years past and many, many years to come, our cities have all worked together um locally with our PDs, fire departments, our city
councils, our staff. Um we've always worked well together and I just felt that especially over the last several years. Um Pete has been a great partner to the city of St. Paul Park. um making sure and having his guys help us out in
certain situations and always being there to have an ear or lend a hand. Um most recently, Pete helped us in the hiring of our new police chief, Scott. Um and was more than happy to step up and say, "I'll take part in that to help you guys move forward along with
others." But that's just taking the time out of his own life to help his neighbors. And that's the kind of selfless um giving that Pete's always done. And so I wanted to make sure that um as a council and as a city, not only do we recognize our own, but we
recognize others that um work for us, with us, and who care about us and care about the prosperity of our citizens. So I could keep rambling, but I'll just get to this part. This is a proclamation honoring Chief Pete Kerner. Whereas
Police Chief Kerner spent most of his life serving the greater South Washington County communities. And whereas Pete was a longtime friend and partner with the city of St. Paul Park. And whereas Pete lived a life of service and hard work, wearing many hats throughout his law enforcement career
and mentoring dozens of law enforcement officers along the way to include our own St. Paul Park Police officers. And whereas Pete loved working with the community members to solve all manner of quality of life issues. Now therefore, I
Keith Ranky, mayor of the city of St. Paul Park, Minnesota do publicly thank Pete Kerner and acknowledge his legacy to the greater statewide and regional law enforcement community as well as our local community here of St. Paul Park. I
urge citizens to honor Pete's legacy by making a difference in the lives of others as he has done throughout his storied professional career and personal interactions with each of us. Signed today
April 20th, 2026. Mayor Keith Frankie. So there you go, sir. No. Is this thing still on? Check. Check. >> I was going to name today Pete Kerner Day,
>> but then I realized today is 420. >> So good. >> I wasn't really sure I wanted to do that to you, but then I thought between me and you that would have been a good one. Um, so if you wouldn't mind, sir, just can you the council come up and we'll grab a picture in front of the St. Paul Park sign here and we'll let you get on
your way. But from myself and from the council and the citizens of St. Paul Park, thank you for everything you've done. We wish you the best and all the happiness. >> Perfect. >> Thank you, mayor. >> And I worked at Duffy's in high school. My wife worked at Park Cafe. So I went
to Olman Middle School back Junior High. Right. >> Well, good. >> We did. Okay. Right. Yes. Exactly. >> Kind of >> kind of. Yeah. >> I got my >> high school. >> Get in here.
>> One of us probably made it. Wave to council member Conrad on the screen up there. Thanks, Tim. >> Thank you much. >> Yeah, I appreciate it. >> Oh, yeah. Congratulations. >> Thank you. Very nice.
>> Thank you. Thank you for being here. Everybody, >> did you grab the sheet? >> There's nobody on it. There's nobody on. >> Nobody on there. All right, we will move on. Item number two, items from the public. Do we have
anybody on the sheet this evening? Seeing nobody on the sheet, we will move on to item number three, the consent agenda. This evening on the consent agenda, we will be approving payment of the bills from March 17th through today. Adopt resolution 1774,
accepting some donations. Um 1775 expressing uh donate accepting donations for the first quarter of this year. The other one was the fourth quarter of last year. 1776 awarding the contract to change out
the gak filters at the water treatment facility. We will be approving some licenses. Appointing Alicia Mason to the parks and recck commission. All right. Way to go Alicia. Um, appointing Tim Conrad to the public safety commission.
Um, approve $57,000 to replace a roof at well two, remove some trees and a three-year contract to regroup mass notification for a total of 7450.
And that's it for the consent agenda this evening. Eloquently put, Mayor Frankie, >> I move that we approve tonight's consent agenda. >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? >> Alicia is not here today.
>> All right. Yeah. No, I saw that. >> Okay. >> Um, but yeah, way to go for her stepping up. So, now you guys have another member. >> Yep. >> All right. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. >> I. I. >> Motion carries. 5-0. Item number four,
reports from the council. Council member Hagerty, public works. >> Uh public works. Our next meeting is June 2nd at 6 PM. And we need at least one more member uh for public works, maybe two. Uh so please come on down and uh volunteer for public works.
>> Thank you, Council Member Herty. Council member Swenson, public safety. >> Thank you, Mayor. Uh this public safety meeting is exactly 2 days from that time. So, it'll be June 4th at 6:00 p.m. here at city hall. Uh, I believe we have a full vote.
Um, that's all I have for you today, Mayor. >> All right. Thank you, Council Member Swson. Council member Conrad, planning, >> the last planning commission was cancelled due to lack of agenda. Our next meeting will be at 700 p.m. at city hall on May 11th.
>> Thank you, Council Member Conrad. Council member Whit Hemingson, parks and wreck. Um, we had to cancel our meeting the last time because we have some people on vacation, but we changed our next meeting will be on April 30th on
Thursday at 6:00. Um, our garden event is May 9th. We are still looking for vendors. Um, any kind of anything you want to sell, plants, you know, your crafts, candles, anything like that. Um, go on the website, call Cindy, sign up.
It's a free event. Um, also I don't know a lot about the farmers market. Hugo can probably help, but we are looking for vendors for the farmers market. Farmers, plant, people, >> produce,
>> produce, honey, anything. If anybody you talk to your friends, stuff like that. It's very cheap to have a table down here. >> So once a month. What? >> Um, mayor council, we um have 10 people who've expressed interest in uh having a tent. So, that's a a goodly number with
a a month to go. We have food trucks lined up and uh music uh etc. So, we're really pleased with the initial turnout. Um waiting on a couple of insurance forms from some of those folks, so that number might be slightly less. But if you have an interest in selling uh uh
some of your handmade homemade uh goods, um we want to hear from you. Also, if you um have produce uh the the traditional farmers market fair, um we would love to add to our list. But uh 10 so far is uh I think very very good assuming that everybody gets their
paperwork in. So very excited. It's the first Tuesday of the month. Um slotted for we're going to start here in front of city hall just so the high high volume, easy parking, easy onoff um and it's the first Tuesday of the month starting in June going through October. So, we're going to try that and um we're
pretty pumped. Staff have done a lot of work to to make this happen. So, >> great. Thank you. >> All right, >> that's it for me. >> Sounds good. Thank you, Council Member Whitson. >> Um I don't have too much more to add tonight. Um we will just move on to item
number five, council comments and requests. Anybody have anything else this evening? Um sounds great. Council member Conrad, um when does the car show start? The car show starts May 6th. Um, official hours
are 4 till dusk and I ask for people to not come before 3 p.m. so that we have everything set up. >> All right. Thank you, Council Member Conrad. Just so everybody is aware. Um, that's about it. Nothing further before this council. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you,
everybody.