Good evening everybody. We're going to 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. over here. All right. Welcome to the city of St. Paul Park regular council meeting for September 2nd, 2025. Um, this is an open meeting. Um, is being recorded by True Lens comedia
community media. You can view the 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. First item on the agenda this evening is
approval of the minutes and for August 4th, 2025 regular council meeting and wave the reading of the same. So moved. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. I. Motion carries. 50.
All right. Um item number two, we are going to be swearing in some new firefighters. Congratulations on that. Um, this evening we're going to switch it up a little. Council member Char Whipred Hemingson is very close to the fire department. So, I've asked her to
swear in our new firefighters. She's a little hesitant, but the fire department is very near and dear to her. So, we'd like to give her this honor. You have to get up. Oh, okay. There.
Come on up, Levi. Can you follow me or should I show it to you? Okay. Okay. I say your name. I Levi Moran do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States
that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Minnesota and the Constitution of the State of Minnesota and faithfully discharge the duties of a firefighter and faithfully discharge the duties of a firefighter for the city of St. Paul Park for the city of St. Paul Park
and the county of Washington and the county of Washington and the state of Minnesota and the state of Minnesota to the best of my judgment to the best of my judgment and ability and ability. So help me God. So help me God. [Music]
Congratulations and thank you. All right, moving on. Um, items from the public. Item number three. Anybody have anything not pertaining to the agenda this evening? Um, if there's anybody on the list,
we'll call you forward and give you like two minutes. When you hear your name, step to the deas. That bring me the list. Oh, did you sign up? Yeah.
Yep. Just stand right there at that microphone. Okay. And then if you're coming up, give us your name, address, 1665 Lincoln Avenue, Kent Anderson. Um, and hear about the the the construction traffic.
Um, basically I have one request probably all of you. I want to say thanks for allowing me to speak. Um, uh, Lincoln Avenue. I want to have residential traffic only, no trucks. And I'd like an ordinance passed to that
effect and have the police be able to enforce that. Now, if you I got few few more seconds to speak. So, that's what I really want. So, if you give me the gong and I have to get out. That's the one thing. That's the one takeaway.
Um, I spent a lot of time out on Great Cloud Island and there's two gravel pits out there and they send trucks through St. Paul Park routinely. Um, LAR,
it seems, could do the same thing if they did what most um, developers do, build some infrastructure first and then build the subdivision. They've skipped that first step and went right to doing the subdivision.
There could be a road built between Geneva Meadows and Third Street or Great Cloud Drive, whatever we want to call it, and their traffic could be routed there. So like on days today, like today in particular, where the trucks are
queued up and blocking everybody that was as far back as Gary, every road, cross street, and driveway. Farther than that, farther than that. Okay. Farther than that. That's what that's all for that I could see. But
a long ways um and it's very disruptive. So I think they they need to spend some time and money on building that infrastructure. Um there the I don't know what the plot of
land costs. My rough estimate is $100,000, but the future value of that I estimate at 20 million. I think they can take some of that and you know they don't care about any of us. They care about their shareholders. That's it.
This is our opportunity to turn some of that $20 million into something good for us. That's what I want. So, no trucks on Lincoln Avenue, residential traffic only,
and enforce that law. That's it. Thanks a lot. Thank you, Kent. Yep. I would ask that maybe you stick around afterwards and maybe some of those questions could at least try to answer. Yeah. Um All right. I have
Tim. Can I sign that, too? I got you, Walter. I'll just have you fill in the rest of your information at the end afterwards. My name is Tim Sam. I live at 1696 Lincoln Avenue. I survived the Stevens
Ridge development and now it sounds like they're going to put more houses down there. You're going to put a new road, more traffic going right by my house. I don't like that. Um, is anybody testing this dirt that they're dumping there? Do you know where
this dirt came from? I mean, they're not dumping somebody else's problem, are they? You know that that dirt should be sample tested and make sure that it's safe to put down there. And uh get rid of that lime green truck.
Lime green truck. He's one of the haulers. Oh, okay. I thought you were talking about one of our trucks. Oh, okay. All right. We might have an answer for you. Um we do have somebody from our um
our planning firm here tonight. So, we're taking notes and so please stick around. Tony list sign it, too. But my name is Stuart Bowman. I live at 1748 Lincoln, the Dust Bowl of
St. Paul Park. I want to sir 1748. And uh for the past 10 days, 11 now, but the rain came, thank God. Uh we've been dealing with 25 to since I'm retired I
can count the trucks. Uh 25 to 30 trucks an hour, not a day, an hour. And if there's 35 30 trucks going in, there's 30 trucks coming back out. So there's 70 truck traffic an hour. And I've been
dealing with this for 10 days. My house is a pitfall. It's full of dirt. I can't keep my furnace uh filter clean. Uh, I change it normally every other month. I'm changing it every other week. It's not black, it's brown from the dust that
they're creating. I've got neighbors and uh my daughter's house, they had to close their pools down because the dirt is so thick, they can't keep it up cleaning the pool for the kids. Okay. The um other thing is I mean my deck, my
house needs to get washed. I mean powerwashed and I think most of us that live down at the end of Lincoln and probably even up to Gary and beyond your house is dirty and it gets dirty because of all this traffic. The other
thing is there's another street called 85th Street in Cottage Grove. Now what I heard was is that they were hauling trucks down 85th but the city of Cottage Grove told them they couldn't drive down 85th with those truck. I want to know
why my council can't do the same damn thing. This is a residential area and I urge all of you to go down to the 1700 block of Lincoln and take a look at the right hand side of the road. The street sweeper, they're they're literally
chewing it up. It all needs to be replaced now. And it's just going to get worse. I heard there's another 2,000 trucks over the next five weeks that got to get hauled down there. I can't deal with this, you guys. My health is more important than this. I mean, I can't
even breathe out in my backyard. I've got to stay inside the house. And my son-in-law will speak earlier, but he's down at 611 85th Street, which is right on the corner, the worst house you can be at.
So, every truck that goes by is infiltrating his environment than his house. I happen to invest in flowers a little bit to try to keep my house looking nice. I've had to wash them off every day. is killing my flowers and I've got five six hundred bucks invested
in them and they're literally dying because of all the traffic. It just doesn't make sense to me that we allow this to happen. I agree with the gentleman earlier that we they need to find a different path. Get the job done. whatever you got to do. Just don't drive
in our city streets because you're going to be asking me in a very short period of time with all these trucks going, "Well, Lincoln needs to be resurfaced." And who the hell's going to pay for that? And LAR, please.
It is. It should be LAR because of all the traffic. And so I'm frustrated. I'm tired of this. I've been putting up with it for two weeks. And now I'm on now I find out there's another four or five weeks coming. You got to pick a different path for my health and
everybody else's health down there. So, thank you for letting me speak. All right. Thank you. And you're going to stick around, too, right? Oh, yeah. All right. All right. Is there anybody else that wants to speak other than Walter on this?
No, Walter. Go ahead. Thank you. Sorry. I just wanted to make sure this one right Walter Wre 611 85th Tony and I'll get to you. I'm just going out of sequence here. Where are you? Okay, go ahead.
So, um 611 85th. I'm on the Cottage Grove side of the dirt road, so to speak. Um what everyone's calling ground zero, whatever. So, I'm I'm just east, so all the wind. So, everyone else gets and I feel bad for everyone. It does stink. Um, there's a couple things I'll talk
about. The dirt's one of them. Uh, the traffic has been awful with the trucks. That's one thing. Uh, the safety for my children is another thing. My father-in-law lives four houses away. We can't even walk over there without getting possibly getting run over by a vehicle, whether it be a commercial vehicle or a regular residential person.
Um, the police did come out there. I I witnessed it was really neat about two weeks ago. Um, as this was all kind of starting, they stopped the first time I've seen anyone. I've lived there seven years. kind of parked out there, pulled over three people in the 15 minutes I watched. I was like, "Yes, finally." Because that's already been hell over
there. The whole time I've been there, that round that um turn. So, that was cool. I'd like to see more of that. Um on top of all of this, but also for the trucks. Let's pull the trucks over, too, and give them their tickets. Um also a concern. School starts tomorrow. Kids walk. The roads are I know you put the
tractors and things on people's property, and I'm sure that's making people mad. There's all that work going down Lincoln. Where are the kids supposed to walk with all these trucks hauling ass up and down? Um, that's concerning first and foremost today. Um, then I have a whole bunch of other crap
so we can talk about it later. But yeah, the dirt stuff. I'm changing my furnace filter every two days. People are laughing at me like I'm blasting out of control. I'm not. It killed my garden. It wrecked our pool. Um, the outside of the house is caked. I've washed it many times and I can't even get it all off. They've come on the driveway and tried
to sweep some of the stuff, but I literally power washed and I still can't even get it all out of the cracks. Whatever. I get it. That part is what it is. But it's wrecking my house. Uh, structurally thought my house was fine, but I'm discovering settling all over. Suddenly, I've cracks in the ceiling in
my living room. I have cracks in my garage. The floor in my garage is cracked about this far. We get shaken awake. And it's been better recently cuz now they're farther down the hill. But for the first week or two, the rumbling and the shaking was so much that it's literally caused damage to my home and I
don't know what I'm supposed to do. Who do I go after? How do I prove it wasn't there and now it is. So that on top of some of the other things, there's a lot of financial things that are bothersome. But um yeah, I have photos, broken things falling off the walls, exploding glass,
you know, just picture frames, whatever. It's just a pain in the butt. Um yeah, just the dirt cloud. can't even breathe. The kids don't want to go outside. You try to mow the lawn, it's just poof, you know, and then like nobody wants to do anything out there. It's it is what it is. But I'd like to
know more about the safety and then what do I do about potential damage to my property that wasn't there? What what does someone do in my situation? Right. I'm looking to you guys as our leaders to help me with that. All right. Thank you.
Thanks, Walter. All right, Tony. Good evening everybody. I am here to represent the Heritage Days Committee. I just wanted to stop by kind of an update or a Q&A or whatever you want to call it. Um I kind of just prepared a little
something here just to kind of fill everybody in. Um so Heritage Days is is done and over. Um Heritage J committee is taking a little bit of a break right now, but um just a few things to to touch on to pull off Heritage Days. It is a full 10 plus
month planning experience. Um we have a long list of people, businesses, um and others that we want to thank. Um many donations from businesses from St. park and the uh surrounding communities. Um there are many pieces of the puzzle
to uh tightly put together before the third weekend in August comes around. And it's everything from volunteers, fundraising, uh working through permits and road closures, preparing for the parade, uh being able to use the park, um and all the hours that the city, the
city employees, public safety, police, fire, public works, city administration, um city hall staff all put into helping us pull off this one weekend event for the year. Uh but most of all, what we want to do is thank the citizens of St.
park and the surrounding communities for actually coming out, supporting us, showing up, you know, spending their hard-earned money, um, and enjoying that weekend, uh, the best that we can, um, minus the bad storm that came through on Friday. Um, we salvaged the weekend on
Saturday and we, uh, I think we had a really good time. Um, so this group, we're lucky enough to have about 12 people, local citizens, um, that pretty much show up week after week, meeting after meeting, month after month to put on the event up at Heritage Park. Um,
and it's amazing on on Saturday to be up there when the band is playing and just kind of step back and look around you and just see all the people enjoying themselves and the band playing and and the food trucks and everything else that
that went on up there. And it's it's uh I'm proud of the group that we have put together. um and and the almost year of uh decision making. Um the ups and downs,
the hurdles that we have. Um but it's it's truly when that night comes, it's it's nice to stand back and look at it and kind of go, we all pulled this off somehow. and and uh
now that it's done every year, you know, we have things to to learn, things we have to tweak, things we have to change. Um a lot of things we want to add, you know, and maybe some things we want to take away, but um along with adding all these things, a price tag comes with
that and and that that's it's a struggle. And we know a lot of things like fireworks, um carnival, and all these other things that we eventually want to get to. Um, so that is somewhat of a goal that we have to make it bigger and better every
year. Um, but I also want the council and citizens to know that when this committee gets together, you know, there's a lot of back and forth, but the bottom line is the committee has the best interest of the city um, whatever that outcome may
be, how popular it may be or unpopular it may be with some people um, to put on the best show that we can, you know. So that that is the ultimate goal. Um so what I want to do is have you mark your calendars for next year, the 14th
through the 16th. Always the third weekend in August. Um I think maybe next month we're going to start start the planning for that. Um we always have our meetings up at Heritage Park on the second and fourth Mondays. Uh very similar to what happens
here. We all come in, we discuss business, we have an open forum. Anyone can come in and go, "Hey, you should do this. Hey, you should do that. You need to think about this or maybe not do that." And any feedback is good feedback. Um any constructive
criticism, anything, you know, we want to make everyone happy. We want to make it as enjoyable for everyone in the community. So, um we have a Facebook page, we have a a website. So, uh what is it? spheritage.com.
You can uh check that out for upcoming meetings or on the Facebook page spheritage days. So again, we just want to thank everyone for for the support getting us through getting us to that event through that event and and making everything happen, you know, uh for the
citizens and and like we always like to say in our meetings that this is uh an event by the community for the community and and that's who we think about when when we're doing it. You know, much like you guys will sit up here and you have people come in and say, you know, you
should do this, you should do that. They're not always popular decisions, you know, but you you try to make the best decision you can for, you know, whatever you have in front of you. So, on behalf of the Heritage Jace Committee, I appreciate a couple members came here tonight. Um,
we just thank you for everything and we'll be knocking on your door in a couple months and, uh, August will be here before you know it. Thank you. Thank you, Tony. And we definitely would like to thank the Heritage AIDS Committee and all the
volunteers that take part in that. It was a great job. Um, yeah, it's always fun. All right. Now, I lost my spot. Here we go.
Miss here. All right. No one further. Item number four, the consent agenda this evening on the Could I say a few words? Julie would Julia wanted to speak. Sorry. Sure. I'm sorry. I didn't know that you had to sign up beforehand. I'll just have you sign. Just anybody
who comes on camera, we need to have the your actual name and everything for the record. So, go ahead and come on up. I am Julia Lavali. I live at 1612 Lincoln Avenue. Um, and a lot of what I wanted to talk about has been mentioned already, but I would like to kind of go
a little bit deeper, specifically in the safety aspect of everything. Um, I live two houses down from the corner of Lincoln and Gary, and that is the first stop sign. And if any of you have ever spent any time from the Gary stretch going south, people like to take it as a
racetrack and it is very dangerous. And to most people, whether they are residents or visitors, that stop sign's an option. Um that I have a little girl. I walk her almost every single day. There's a bus stop on
the southwest side. Um yeah, I believe that's the right direction. on the southwest corner of Lincoln and Gary, there's a bus stop and there are multiple kids that are going to that bus stop for pickups and drop offs. And um I personally think that there needs to
be a police presence on Lincoln and Gary intermittently throughout the day. Um throughout the workday, I should say. So probably I don't know what time they start in the morning. I believe it's around 7. I think it's 7 and then they go till about 5:30 to 6:30 depending on the day.
Um, I'm sorry, what? Even before 7. Even before 7. Oh, boy. I get lucky and I don't have to wake up until about 7. Um, but almost all the trucks roll or run that stop sign. Um, to the point
where I have witnessed people almost getting hit. Um, that is a bus pickup. I mentioned that. Um, and it's a very popular road to walk, especially that stretch where there isn't um, the more north side towards Hastings Avenue. I don't really see a lot of people walk
there, but on this south end of Lincoln, there are people constantly walking by with their children, with their dogs, by themselves. There's one woman that I could probably set my watch to. I see her walk every single day. Um, what with the avoidance of traffic laws, the
presence of pedestrians, and the amount of workers and equipment on the streets putting in pipe and bringing in all of the uh dirt and gravel, um, something could easily happen. something for the worst could easily happen. And I wanted
to first reiterate the safety aspect of that, but the property damage. Um, not only for the cars that are parked, I don't know if you've seen some of the rocks and the chunks of mud coming off them. They're the size of baseballs. Anybody who parks on the street,
obviously it's an option. I mean, they whether they can or can't park in the driveway, that's none of my business. but they decide to spark park on the street, which is their right as a citizen or a visitor of our town. And I haven't seen any damage. I'm just trying to think of my neighbors, but some of
those some of those rocks, some of those chunks, they could probably bust a window if they come at it fast enough. Um, so yeah, I would ask I know um I can't remember who had mentioned something about seeing the cops pulled over or pull people over. uh a friend of or I
mean he's a friend, but a neighbor of mine actually ended up calling the non-emergency line to ask if somebody would just check him out because it was so bad. I mean, one after the other, you know how quickly they're coming through. And um they were running the stop sign.
And then there was a police officer that stayed there for maybe a half hour, maybe an hour or so, and I have never seen him again. And I know you guys are busy. I'm not saying that you guys are sitting there lazy and whatever, but I would just please ask even just for the
scare factor of like, ooh, is the cop sitting there? It just just as something that goes through their mind coming up to that stop sign or coming down that road, you know, maybe maybe do Yeah, maybe do it at Lincoln and Gary one day and then maybe Pullman and Lincoln or
something. just please for the potential risk of my daughter and the my neighbors like I at least make them obey the law. If we cannot do anything about them coming down our street at least get them to obey the law. Um because you know
what if I did that with my luck I'd probably get pulled over. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. You said that. All right. We can get into all this later on. Yeah, we need to move this meeting along so we can get to the other session afterwards.
All right. Well, my other thing since the dust has been mentioned and beaten the dead horse, um the notices that were put out, I am a block and a half away from the construction. I'm a block and a half away from the place that those trucks are going in and entering this
land. Why was I not notified? I I know that there was a radius somebody well I don't know if it's a fact but somebody on Facebook had mentioned that it was a radius from the development that might have come in and I mean I don't have a ruler that's 500 ft long or where they're starting it in the middle of the development or from
the area on the edge but I wasn't notified and that upsets me because this is where I live. This is where I'm raising my family and I thought I was moving into a nice quiet neighborhood. I was sorely mistaken. Yeah.
1749. Yeah. Which is right there. Yeah. And we never got a notification. But yeah, those were those were my talking points. Thank you. I just reiterate the safety. That is priority number one, especially for me and my
family. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Now, we're going to move on to the consent agenda. Um, seeing on the consent agenda, item A, pay the bills. Um, lawful gambling permit for Hope Christian Academy, March
21st. They will be having a funding fundraiser. The American Legion October Fest Burger Bash September 20th. That should be a good time. Um approve uh pay voucher for Ginger and Suns for
reconstruction update uh pay transfer for the city hall HVAC control upgrade. Um pay voucher to Taylor Electric for the generator. Um approve the new truck that we
approved in last year's budget for public works. replace some body cameras. And that's it for the consent agenda this evening. All right, Mayor Mayor Frankie, thank you very much. I move that we approve
tonight's consent agenda. I second. I have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. Any further discussion? I just have a couple questions if I could. Um, where's it here? Um, I'm sorry. The Taylor Electric, not
Taylor Electric, the other one. City Hall HVAC control upgrade. Mhm. Is that the one that's for this whole building? Hugo, mayor, mayor, council member. Um, yes, it is. It's um uh some very uneven heating and cooling in in the building.
And um uh this not only replaces the damaged parts, but it upgrades it so it's uh more sustainable um better control of the the different rooms, etc. Okay. Okay. Um I think that was it. Oh, the um the tan
dump truck that was the one that we previously approved. We just need to approve to sign pay the check. Yeah. Okay. All right. No, and Yep. I'll add that some of these things like for the upgrade we they were not budgeted items so we need to approve
them like the HVAC but as anybody who comes in this building knew it was screwed up so hot cold motion a second any further discussion all in favor say I
I motion carries 5. This item is under new business, Morgan. It was not on the consent agenda. Um, under new business, we will be approving a joint powers agreement with City of Cottage Grove, City of St. Paul Park, and Greycloud Island Township for the
joint responsibilities of Greycloud Trail. Um, this is a an agreement. I don't know if the council wants Morgan to come up and give a brief presentation on it. I can just briefly say it's the portion of
Greycloud Trail that we share with Greycloud. Um, Cottage Grove is agreeing to uh that because of all the construction going on down in um
I don't even know what they're calling it now. Mississippi Dunes. Mississippi Dunes, but I don't know what it's called. That's all I know. Um that uh we're going to do some samples or this is Greycloud's thing and then moving
forward if either us or Greycloud can prove that the road was damaged beyond a certain rating then um we can I don't know if it's the developer or the
city would be responsible for repairs. So, is that pretty much the gist of it? Just nod yes or no or am I way off base. All right, here we go. Morgan's much smarter than I am. Uh, Mr. Mayor, members of the council.
So, generally, I would have nodded yes. Um, but of course, I got to I got to add a little bit more detail. Um, so the agreement is a three-way agreement. It's between St. Paul Park, the city of Cottage Grove, and the township. So the their developer is not a party to the
agreement. So if there is a need for some remedial action on the part and and this agreement is going to live on I mean I don't know that some of the building activity might be from what I heard out 10 years right so there's going to be ongoing check-ins with from
our staff with the township staff um there's a independent kind of third party like another engineering firm that within the agreement will be taking a look at the roads and providing some um uh I guess independent opinion on you
know kind of wear and tear on the road and so that will uh provide some context I think for all three parties to agree. There is some general uh agreement uh on the part of Cottage Grove to be able to address some deterioration just from a
regular maintenance standpoint um at no cost to the city and uh the township as needed right over the course of the agreement with some certain stipulations. So, it's a positive. It was an ongoing negotiation that started some months ago um between city staff,
township staff, and the city of Cottage Grove. I don't think that the city and the township got every single thing that we wanted to have in the agreement, but it is an agreement. So, there is something that if all three parties agree, if the council approves the St. Paul Park portion of the agreement, all
all three parties agree and sign to that agreement, an agreement is better than no agreement, right? in terms of being able to protect the interest of uh the public for St. Paul Park um the interest of the taxpayers and potentially protect from some future expenditures um on the
roads that may have been you know a part of that development. So um came about because cottage Grove approved that development hall route certainly through uh St. Paul Park because of the low bridge clearance there uh and no other way in and out. Right. And so and and we
were not checked with ahead of time. So that's that's what forced the need for this agreement. And so that's what's before you tonight for consideration u authorization of signatures on the part of St. Paul Park. I'm not aware of the status in terms of the township, but I I believe it's going in front of the
Cottage Grove uh city council maybe their next meeting or sometime soon. Yeah, that's my understanding. So with that, I'll stand for any further questions. Hopefully further questions for Morgan. And I believe the township did um approve this or they were going to approve it when I talked to the town chair.
Okay. If I could um which part of Greycloud road or trail is inclusive to effects on St. Paul Park? Um so it's that portion that is jointly owned 50/50. The the city corporate
limits go right down the middle of the road from County 75. stops at the uh kind of southwest to the corner there. And I'm not too sure exactly what the street at the basically the very southern tip of St. Paul Park of the city limits
when you hit the Y go to the left from the beginning of the Y to the left basically where the tracks component right correct that section. Okay. We know that there are some there is potentially some truck traffic on other streets. That was one of the things that
we pushed for early on the negotiation. and we didn't get everything, but certainly we have that agreement on that that joint section there with the township. So if if what kind of brought this about kind of sounds like Mississippi dunes, but just the extensive traffic coming from the pits
and how that affects our portion of the road, if you want to call it that, is there some form of protection built into that since it sounds like this is a potentially a long-term agreement? uh for the life of the agreement and
there are some termination clauses in there. I'm not an attorney, but again, as I said, uh my understanding is that depending on how fast the lot sell or the home building occurs, I mean, it could be over the course of 10 years. Um, in terms of long-term protection, I
can't comment on that, but the goal would be before the agreement terminates, like before the end, we would have some opportunity for them to cure or provide some dollars to be able to, you know, fix or provide some street maintenance to be able to provide as
much benefit as we certainly could out of the process. So before the actual agreement terminated long-term, you know, that portion of the road roadway is on our state aid system. And so um while the city does have statutory rights to be able to limit, uh weights,
axle weights and truck traffic on certain roads, if a a street is designated from a state aid standpoint, there's lesser uh there's more limitations. I guess the city can't like uh say there's no trucks allowed on a state aid road. that just kind of comes
along with being able to accept those gas tax dollars from the state on an annual basis. Um but other than that, um uh you know, we're going to be keeping a close eye on it through the life of that agreement. And my goal would be to make sure that we get anything and everything that we possibly can out of Cottage
Grove um on an ongoing basis, not just waiting for 10 years and then oh, let's take a look at it now. I think it's going to be something that we're going to have to ask about, get together with them, you know, interface with this third party firm and see what kind of information they got,
uh, and see where we're at because, you know, frankly, if if we need to do something like seal some cracks, um, which actually there's a huge benefit to that. It's fairly low cost kind of thing. But if we need to seal some cracks on the road and we can do that in one year, two year or three year, that's
uh really important and of high benefit as opposed to just waiting to the end of 10 years. That's 10 years of winter freeze thaw, rain, water getting into the cracks. I mean, that's all going to kind of contribute to deterioration on the roadway. So hopefully it's an ongoing thing. Yeah. And that is specified in the
agreement. Should be. Yes, it is. No, I was going to add that part behind the and I think Morgan kind of danced around it a little bit, but we weren't able to have as much teeth into our position because of the
state law around state aid roads. So, the restrictions that we can place aren't as heavy as we would like. So, we can only enforce up to a certain point. So just being able to get something
was beneficial versus nothing because we were also potentially then if we would have went heavy-handed the other way been in a lawsuit that we wouldn't have won. Right. Right. So and then we would have gotten nothing. Then we would have got nothing and a
lawyer bill. So Right. Yeah. We worked with our neighbors. Right. Yeah. As we try to and we will remain in contact and monitor it. Mr. Mayor. Yes. Council member Morgan, just a quick question. I think I heard you state that you're not familiar
if there's an out clause. Well, there is. I remember seeing it in there, but I'm I'm not an attorney, so I don't know all the the uh stipulations that might go along with that. Um, I think one of the things that staff wanted to see in terms of termination,
the agreement is more of a uh joint agreement to terminate, meaning all parties agree that maybe the development is done, right? As opposed to just one party saying we're out, which is maybe not as fair, right? So I council member Hagert's already provided
to me highlighted. So yes, if we have eyes on that then uh then that that was the intent was to make make sure that uh there was some joint agreement on when the agreement was no longer necessary.
Thanks. Mhm. Y Mr. Mayor, Council Member Swanson, I believe this requires a resolution. Yes, it does. Okay. Well, I move that uh we approve the joint powers agreement among the city of Cottage Grove, the city of St.
Paul Park and Greycloud Island Township for joint responsibilities of Greycloud Trail. Second. I have a motion in a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. I.
Motion carries 50. All right. Reports from the council. Council member Hagerty. Mayor, I think the firemen have something else they wanted to do. Am I right, you guys? Yeah. Sorry. I don't know if it was on the thing, but real quick. What do you need to do?
Do something real quick. Oh, well, let us get through the reports and then we'll have you come up at item seven. How about that? Sorry. All right, Council Member Hagerty, public works. Yep. Uh public works uh commission is
having our next meeting September 9th. Uh and we still need uh a member uh to join public works commission. So, I see a lot of volunteers in here. Uh, just come down to the city uh administrator down here, sign up uh and I'm sure
you'll get you'll get on on the board on the commission. Oh, and it's on Yeah. So, September 9th and it is going to be at 5:00 p.m. Thank you, Council Member Hagerty. Council member Swson, public safety. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, actually, uh,
Council Member Hagerty and I have done some horse trading. uh he is now the public works liaison where I previously was and I I've taken public safety and public safety is this Thursday at six o'clock here at city hall and maybe council member Hagerty could tell me how
uh many seats are available for that it's either one or two okay two two we got two so if anybody out there's interested come on in and see city staff thank you council member Swanson council member Conrad planning commission planning commission was cancelled
due to lack of agenda. And the next one will be October 13th at 7 p.m. here at city hall. Thank you, Council Member Conrad. Council member Whit Hemson, Parks and Recreation. Um, our next meeting is September 11th. Um, I just want to let you know we've
got almost 200 pounds delivered to Basic Needs Food Market. Um, we do need about five members and if anybody wants to come and help be appreciated. And that's it. Thank you, Council Member Whipred Hemingson. Heritage Days. I You want to
talk on that, Council Member Conrad, or we kind of got the update already? I think Tony gave the update. Just a sincere thank you to everybody involved as attendees, participation, and getting things ready. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Conrad. Um, as for myself, been working with the staff
on the I don't even know what we want to call it anymore. Well, currently it's called Geneva We didn't I don't like that. I know. I don't like that. We don't like that. Um and uh other stuff and other JPAs and things with our
neighbors and so we're doing a lot getting Hugo's feet wet. Definitely fast and furious. Um so that's what we got going on. Item number seven, council comments and requests. So I'm
requesting that the firemen come on up and give us their brief presentation. Hey everybody. Uh I'm Dustin Isiki with the uh the president of the St. Paul Park uh firefighters fund. Um here to repres uh drop off a check for
um you know we do our meat raffles and stuff. Um we were able to buy two AEDs. Uh one for upfront and uh replace one for the chief's truck. Um so I know the city purchased it, but we want to pay that back. So, I'm here to uh donate you guys a check for $3,41.70
for the purchase of those AEDs. So, thank you. [Applause] Good job. Thank you, guys. Thank you. All right. Anybody have anything else this evening for the council? Nothing further. This meeting is
adjourned.