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Part 1 (Video ID: MmUdLwWgUXM):
- 00:00:05: Call to Order, Pledge, and Agenda Approval
- 00:01:14: Approval of Minutes and Consent Agenda Introduction
- 00:02:56: Consent Agenda: Clarification of Downtown Parking Changes
- 00:05:28: Consent Agenda Discussion: Downtown Parking Survey Review
- 00:07:39: Consent Agenda Discussion: Reservations on Parking Policy
- 00:09:15: Tennis Court Conversion to Pickleball Courts Discussion
- 00:12:14: Park Board Discussion on Pickleball and Tennis
- 00:14:56: Pickleball Courts, Lighting Discussion and Vote
- 00:17:04: Street Seal Coating and Parking Lot Bids
- 00:19:32: Highway 169 Sanitary Lining Project Discussion
- 00:22:32: Sanitary Lining Costs, Funding and Vote
- 00:23:38: Utilities Fee Schedule Revision for Copper
- 00:25:14: Copper Fee Vote, Bituminous Material Bid Discussion
- 00:27:14: Bituminous Materials and Scholarship Way Renaming
- 00:29:14: Naming City Hall Driveway to Civic Way Discussion
- 00:30:14: Civic Way Vote and Unforeseen Circumstances Microloan
- 00:33:11: Microloan, EDA, and Personal Guarantee Discussion
- 00:36:26: Microloan Repayments Discussion and Establishment Vote
- 00:39:05: President's Corner Subdivision: Background and Details
- 00:42:24: Details and the Zoning Regulations Discussion
- 00:45:10: Subdivision Benefits, and Community Planning Vote
- 00:47:06: Public Feedback on Planned Building Development
- 00:49:17: President's Corner Approval and PUD Ordinance
- 00:51:23: Comprehensive Planning Steering Committee Appointments
- 00:53:00: Comprehensive Planning Survey and Committee Approval
- 00:53:49: Community Center Room Renovations and Tour
- 00:55:25: Closing out Center Renovations and New Hemp Registrations
- 00:57:01: Hemp Regulation and Approval, Park View Manor
- 00:58:52: Park View Manor Projects: Federal Objective, Details
- 01:01:30: Transformative Roof Transformation, Close Out Discussion
- 01:03:41: Proclamations, Reports, and Adjournment


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Good evening and welcome to the regular city council meeting for the city of St. Peter, Minnesota. It is Monday, April 13, 2026. At 7:05 p.m., we are called to order. Would all please rise for the pledge. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the

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United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Uh, everyone should have received a copy of the agenda. We do have one addition

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to the agenda item un uh, letter M under new business. We have uh, the Parkview Manor roof closeout. Everybody should have received a handout and a resolution relating to that uh, item.

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Are there any questions or any revisions to the agenda? Hearing none, is there a motion to approve the agenda as modified? >> So moved. >> Second. All those in favor of approval say I. >> I. Any opposed? Our agenda is approved.

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Moving on to the approval of the minutes. The minutes appear on pages six through nine of the packet. Are there any revisions or corrections to the minutes? Hearing none. Is there a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. >> Second.

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>> All those in favor of approval say I. >> I. Any opposed? The minutes are approved. As is usual, we have time on our agenda for visitors. Are there any visitors who'd like to address the council on an agenda item?

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Hearing none, we also have time for general visitor comments. Is there a visitor who'd like to address the council on another matter? Hearing none, we will move on to the approval of the consent agenda. The consent agenda begins on page 10 and

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concludes with a resolution that appears on pages 20 through 21 of the packet. The agenda uh the resolution approving the consent agenda includes the following licenses. A temporary gambling license to the St. Peter Baseball

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Association at the location and date listed within the packet. The following vendor purchases are approved. the uh SealPro at Hopkins, metering and technology solutions in Burnsville, and metering and technology solutions in Burnsville, a second one. The items,

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prices, and funding sources are listed within the packet. We have a lengthy list of employee appointments. >> And Madame Mayor, I do have one change to that. On page 21, one, two, three, four, five, six, the sixth person down, Cameron Nelson, um,

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is appointed as a lifeguard. not a head lifeguard but a lifeguard. >> And so we will adjust the pay. The 1950 is for head lifeguard. So we'll go back and look at Cameron's tenure with us and we'll follow the scale. >> Okay. Uh so there's a lengthy list. The

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there's names, positions, and wages listed within the packet. And the following changes will be made to downtown parking. The east west streets of Park Row, Nassau, and Grace between Front Street and Third will be changed to odd even date parking. And there will

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be no parking 2 am to 6:00 a.m. on Broadway and Malberry Street between Front Street and Third Street. And no parking 2 am to 6 a.m. on South Third Street and South Front Street between Malberry Street and Broadway as well as the schedule of dispersements for March

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20th through April 7th, 2026. >> So, Madame Mayor, under item number four, it's a technically for us it's a signage change. So, that's why it is on your consent agenda. This is not a small item. This is a big item. You've talked about this a couple of times, so I wanted to make sure to call it out very

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specifically related to the downtown. As you'll note within the resolution, we set the action timeline for this as being the 1st of June. I want you to know that our plan from an administrative perspective is to only provide warnings to start for that first

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month. And so ticketed enforcement won't begin until July. I would also say that at least from my perspective, we have a really good database related to building owners, business owners, um managers of

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um rentals and other real estate downtown that will receive notice. This is a substantially similar list to the list that we used when we had our public meetings and opportunities um for folks to come and talk in addition to the survey that was provided. The other

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thing that I mentioned madame mayor members is that this is problem probably probably something you got to hang with a little bit. I have great faith that no one will be happy to begin with and it just takes a little bit because any change is hard and so it it'll probably

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take a couple of cycles here and but I mean by cycles is snow removal activities for it to really hit home. Um but we'll do everything that we can to educate folks and to make this go. This does fall in line, at least from the staff's perspective, with the goal that was set by the council to provide

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additional parking and utilization in downtown and those hours which are now no parking 2 to six. So, this will establish an odd even process. And um anyway, if I can answer any more questions, I'm happy to do my best towards that. >> Sure.

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>> Any discussion of any consent agenda item, including the the signage change? Carrie, >> I just had a question about the survey and how that may have shaped the policy or given more information that maybe we didn't know before because I, you know,

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I I know a few businesses especially responded to the survey. >> Yeah, I think it's very interesting. Certainly, it provided more information to us. I I want I don't want to tell you that this necessarily changed the trajectory that we were on in a substantial way. I don't know that it did. Um, if you've had the opportunity

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to review the data that's included or that is was provided as a part of this, um, we had different groups that you thought might think in a similar fashion or respond in similar fashion who didn't. So, we had some business owners who thought this was awful, and some that thought it was wonderful, some

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tenants thought it was terrible, some tenants thought it was great. And so again, I can't speak to the fact that this substantially changed our trajectory, but I think certainly it was good that we solicited that, provided multiple opportunities through a survey and three in-person meetings here at the

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community center for people to be able to comment and um I think it does help us provide some understanding and at least from my perspective provided some input in the opportunity for how enforcement was going to roll out which I articulated just a little bit ago. Was

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there a strong attendance at those inerson meetings? >> There was not. If we had five, six people, that was a big number at any of those meetings. And >> how would they have known about the meetings? >> They would have received direct notice or if they were a tenant, they would have received notice. Hopefully, we

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believe that the the managers in the downtown areas were passing those out because this has been a substantial issue for most of those tenants and for just about all of the rental managers that we have talked with downtown. Um I think if we if the question is is there

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a group that probably gets additional flexibility related to where they can park those tenants that live in the downtown um residential tenants that live in the downtown are receiving more flexibility as a part of this. >> Okay. Thank you.

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>> So obviously we've been discussing this for a long time. Um, we can go back years of I've been opposed to our current policy. Um, I am going to go on the record to say I'm disappointed that we're not going further in easing the restrictions. I'm not going to vote

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against our consent agenda based on that, but I wish we would have even made it more lenient and less restrictive of where people could park downtown. >> I'm also not going to vote against it, but I think that we landed in a good spot. I would not have wanted to see it.

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I did not feel that there was a super from my perspective even looking at the the survey responses and the lack of engagement and communication opportunities it didn't appear to me that there was a strong need. But I think to go through this for a few

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seasons and see how it goes. Um I'm also just I'm not going to vote against it. I don't want to hold up the whole consent agenda for this one item. But I I obviously I hope it will I hope it'll be successful because that's good for our town.

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Uh any questions, further discussion of any consent agenda item? All right, hearing nothing further. Is there a motion to approve the resolution? >> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Call the role, please.

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>> Council member Sharstrom. >> Hi. >> Council member Devos. >> I. >> Mayor Noel. >> I. >> Council member Johnson. I >> council member Pis >> I. >> The consent agenda is approved. We have no items of unfinished business tonight. We have a lot of new business. Our first

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item being tennis court conversion to pickle ball courts. >> Madame Mayor and members, this is an item that Pete would normally cover. However, Pete is not here tonight. Um, so let me cover this one. It does start within your packet on page 22. This is a recommendation to approve or authorize

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Tennis West LLC to convert some of your tennis courts that are located on the north end. These are the tennis courts that are adjacent to Fifth Street in Veterans Park and converting those into six pickle ball courts. The cost would be approximately well the bid is

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$50,397. The pickleball association has said that they will contribute approximately $11,227 towards this and so the city shares just a little bit over $39,000. We followed the appropriate process related to soliciting bids for this.

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This is a change in utilization the courts. Um this has been something that the park board has talked about and I'm sure your park board members can talk to that issue much better than I can. I would mention that as we did designs a number of years ago and future planning

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with the school district, it has been intended for a number of years that the primary tennis courts would be located out at the high school with and they're located at the corner there of um Fort Road or County Road 5 and Magnar Parkway. And so those are still

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available for the public and the public should feel comfortable in utilizing those in times they are not reserved for high school tennis activities. Um, again, the information is included in your packet and the resolution is providing for a recommendation to approve Tennis West um to do the work

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for you. That resolution is included in your packet on page 24. >> Thank you. Any questions or discussion? Brad? >> Um, so I have a question. I had a constituent reach out on on this topic. Um, one of the things I had a question I it's noted that there's lighting here.

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Um, is there lighting up at the high school? >> There is not lighting up at high school. So I mean so if so people yeah we have obviously we do have fewer people who are playing tennis these days more that are playing pickle ball but even those that are remaining in tennis are going to be limited to the daylight hours. >> That's true. >> So is there any any thoughts of

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improving lighting out there or >> so that has not been part of the amenities discussion that we've had but that certainly is something that we can add to a future discussion out at that location. I think >> this is a reduction in utilization for tennis. I mean that's that's what I

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think is I I think that does have to be taken into account is yes there are fewer but there are still tennis players out there and so I think taking into account that some of them will want to play later and you know and depending on in the fall or in the spring it's not as light as late so

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>> I had that question as well so thanks Krie >> yeah I would also like to see lighting discussed just because it is a reduction um in courts and it's not just some at Veterans Park it's all like all of those courts will be converted to pickle ball >> that's correct There's no tennis courts

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out there. Well, there won't be. Um, and I know that the parks board has talked about this for a really long time. Can do either of our parks board members feel comfortable just kind of talking about the genesis of this and how it led to this and the wise >> Dustin.

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>> Um, this conversation actually goes back a couple years. And as part of this conversation, I spoke and met with the pickle ball association about their intentions and kind of gave them an overview of the challenges and what this opportunity would look like if

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presented. I also spoke with the athletic director for the school district, the varsity tennis coach, and the tennis community at Gust Davis. I think it's important to notice note that we actually have more tennis courts now than we historically had with the

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building of the courts at the high school, the additional courts tucked back in Gust Davis that are open to the public to use when there isn't practices going on. Um, actually, as a community, we are a tennis hub when it comes to tournaments. So under even eliminating

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these two courts, we still have a very large number of tennis courts in town that most communities don't have. I mean, we actually have more courts than Mano has access to for their meets, for example. >> And one follow question if you don't mind. Um, as you're talking about this

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at the parks board, what are kind of the pros and cons of make or what was the decision making and not making like that court like mult is there a way to make that multi-use or is it just easier to convert it to one sport? >> Well, under its current structure, we would have to repurp we would re have to

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redo the surfaces anyway in the nets with the condition that they're in. um converting them to pickle ball courts doubles the number of available pickle ball courts that can go in that space. If you use the current existing nets, you have a lot of wasted space. So,

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because we already have the pickle ball courts on the other side, we're eliminating two tennis courts and essentially creating six pickle ball courts if my memor is correct. >> Just the usage. I mean there so many more people using the pickle ball than

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there was the tennis down there too was just the usage for that space. So we were aware that they were losing the lighted that had been discussed by the parks board but just the people waiting and the usage down there is quite heavy. So it just seemed like the right thing to do and with the new fences and things

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were put up at the high school and things it's there there's ample places to play. Unfortunately there's none lighted at this time. There is however lighting inside the building at Gust Davis and that is open to be rented and many of the people in the tennis community already use that instead

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because they can play year round. >> The bubble. >> The bubble. >> Well, uh we can certainly add the the discussion about uh lighting to our future discussions about amenities. >> Yeah, I just have a couple more questions because I got two emails over

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the weekend. Um the there was at one point a tennis association but that has been since disbanded or is it there's still a tennis association out there? >> Best of my knowledge there's not a active tennis association in St. Peter. >> There actually hasn't been an active

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tennis association in over 10 years which is why I ended up going the avenue that I went. is the leadership of the tennis community that runs the camps has actually gone through the varsity coach for the past 8 to 10 years.

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>> So, if you're a pickle ball player, the Veterans Park is really the pickle ball hub. That's where all the courts are. If you're a tennis player, you've got options at Community Spirit Park. How many courts are out there? Do you know off the top of your head? >> There are, let me do them. There's eight.

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>> There are eight courts there and there are 16 outdoor courts I believe at Gust Davis. >> Okay. >> So, between those spots, that's a lot of tennis courts. >> Yeah. Okay. I just wanted to make sure I understood

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>> question tucked away so they're not going to be obvious for a lot of people probably, but good that we're having the conversation so people can, you know, who are interested in tennis can look into that. >> True. >> Yeah. Yeah. sections of course tucked back.

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>> Any further discussion? >> Hearing none, the resolution authorizing tennis west to convert the existing tennis courts to pickle ball courts at Veterans Memorial Park appears on page 24 of the packet. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved.

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>> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Call the role, please. >> Council member Devos, >> I. >> Mayor Noel, >> I. Council member Johnson >> I. >> Council member Pettis. >> I. >> Council member Sharstrom. >> I. >> The resolution is approved. Moving on.

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Street seal coding and parking lot ceiling bid award. >> Mayor members. This starts on page 25 within your packet. And um as you'll see as I scroll on this, you'll see that we had four biders for this. The usual folks were bidding. This was done

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through your normal purchase process. This work is what I would call your summer maintenance program and it's for two primary types of work. One of which is for the emulsifier um and for um the work that goes on

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related to seal coating of streets. The other is parking lot ceiling project which is for this location at the community center. So you won't see chip rock at the community center. This will be that black kind of emulsifier covering that will be in place. And so

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the $169,286 is the low bid from Allied Black Top Company. Um the recommendation and the resolution um that we'd like you to approve approves Allied Black Topping for that amount of money. Alli's done

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work for you in the past. Most of these groups have done work for you at some time in the past. It just rotates around who has the best bid. And in this instance, it was Allied Blacktop. >> All right. Any questions, Brad? >> Um, it says it was as part of the street's budget. Do you know what the street's budget was for this?

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>> Oh, for Well, this is within the overall budget, as you may recall, and forgive me for not remembering the exact number, but it's a number that bumps up very close to $700,000 a year. This is a major portion. >> It's just a It's a part of that larger >> Yeah. So, we did have a separate number

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for this um Brad, but I'm sorry I didn't look up that number, but this falls within the overall and so we're feeling good about where this bid was. Actually, from my perspective, it came in lower than we anticipated due to the current state of affairs related petroleum project products. >> Um I just in the future if you could you

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know make put in what your estimates were so that we know where we are and I'm >> sure. So, >> all right. Hearing no further discussion, the resolution awarding a bid for 2026 street seal coat and parking lot ceiling project is on page

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27 of the packet. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Uh we have a motion and a second to call the role, please. >> Mayor Noel. >> I. >> Council member Johnson >> I. >> Council member Pettis. >> I. >> Council member Sharstrom. >> I. >> Council member Devos.

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>> I. >> The resolution is approved. Moving on. uh 169 sanitary lining and Curtis is here to talk to us about that. >> Madame Mayor, members of the council, uh as we've discussed before in the past, following the flooding of 2024, the

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summer flooding of 2024, which is a little odd, uh we did have the opportunity to apply for a implementation grant for wastewater resilience with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. We were notified in January of 2025 that we did receive this

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grant. Um, this grant was for the lining of 15-in clay sewer sewer main. That clay sewer main is our interceptor main, which runs along Highway 169 from essentially Drenal Street, right by the Traverse Sue Garden Center. This portion

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goes to the north edgeish of the Best Western property. This section here would be our final stretch of our interceptor line to line from there all the way down to our main lift station across from Dairy Queen. um with this lining project of the pipe itself, we do

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have two sanitary sewer manholes that also have not been lined. Those are on St. Julian Street and on Drenal Street. So, along with the lining of the 15-in clay sewer line, we would get those two sanitary sewer manholes lined. Um we did put this project out for bid. We

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received four different bids. Um, insi, forgive me if I say this wrong, insitu form technologies, uh, was the low bidder at $186,474.65. They do specialize in this work. Um, it's kind of their bread and butter. So, we, uh, have the utmost confidence they

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will do a good job. Um, of that, the total project for this is approximately $232,838.65. We were awarded $192,280 in grant funds. Um the remaining $40,558 would come out of our wastewater fund

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which was budgeted for lining projects. Um this amounts to about 17% of the total project. So it's it's a very good uh very good deal for us to get a lot of good work done for a very low very low dollar amount.

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anything >> just that as Curtis mentioned this is the final leg of this multi-phase project or the final phase of that so we're happy to get that done >> six that's been over the last roughly 11 years so >> yeah it would be very nice to have this

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portion done again it's our one of our lowest lying sewer mains and being clay tile it is not gasketed so the water is able to when the river level comes up it's able to infiltrate right in that pipe that means more water that we need to treat and that is

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>> money out of everybody's pocket. So this is a really great pro really great project. >> It is it is absolutely great. Um and again with the grant funds funding a vast majority of the project was a great opportunity. >> Yeah. Any additional questions or discussion? Brad.

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>> Uh just quick question Curtis. So uh if people ask you know what are the inind funds that could be our own money or it could be labor that we provide. >> Correct. So with this project, our incind will end up being a lot cash. The project the bid amount did come in about

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$18,000 over our set amount within the grant of that. >> So you are correct in a lot of times that is inind work. Also with this project, a lot of that will just be cash. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Seeing no additional questions or

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comments, the resolution authorizing in insitu. >> Yep. >> All right. to complete the trunk highway 169 sanitary sewer lining and manhole lining from Dantel Street to St. Julian Street appears on page 30 of the packet. Is there a motion to approve?

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>> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Call the role, please. >> Council member Johnson >> I. >> Council member Pettis. >> I. >> Council member Hstrom. >> I. >> Council member Devos. >> I. >> Mayor Noel. >> I. The resolution is approved. And next

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up, a 2026 fee schedule revision. And this one's yours too, Curtis. >> This would be mine also, Madame Mayor, members of council. So, with uh we are asking for a fee schedule change for our copper that we offer to supply for builders with new homes. The current fee

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schedule um is a flat rate of $1,000. What that is is we supply the copper for a home if they choose. They can either choose to supply it themselves or we will supply it. Right now it's a flat rate of $1,000 with the whether that's copper comes in either 60 foot rolls or

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100 foot rolls. If you need 61 feet, you need 100 foot roll. Unfortunately, that's the two sizes they come in. Um, with a current copper height or spike in price, we are actually losing money on our 100 foot rolls of copper. So, uh, what we are asking for is a change to

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essentially make it from city supplying what you need. How that looked in the past is we would supply it, they'd use it, they use 70 ft, we go pick up the 30 ft and we're for lack of most of that ends up being just scrap because there's not a lot of use for a 30ft roll. What

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we're asking for to change is to basically make it if you want a 60ft roll, we'll sell you that roll. If you want a 100 foot roll, we will sell you that roll and we're not going to deal with picking it up. Um what this kind of the price lines up with in the past essentially it was our cost plus roughly

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20%. Um this is we are not in the business of trying to be a pipe supplier. It was always offered as more of a convenience and it turned into being a pipe or a copper tube supplier because of costs. So what we would ask for is essentially changing that fee

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schedule to a 60oot roll for $1,000 and a 100 foot roll for $1,667. >> All right. Questions for Curtis? All right. Hearing nothing further. The resolution adopting modifications to the 2026 utilities fee schedule is on page

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33 of the packet. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Call the role, please. >> Council member Pettis. >> I. >> Council member Charstrom. >> I. >> Council member Devos. >> I. >> Mayor Noel. >> Hi. >> Council member Johnson.

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>> I. The resolution is approved. Thank you, Curtis. Uh, next item of new business, 2026 Batuminous Materials Bid Award. >> Just had like a previous action item for the council. Um, this item is to award Batuminous Materials for your summer

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repair and reconstruction work. Um, the amount that's been bid by Martin Marietta of Casota is $113,562. As you can see, we had a couple of vendors that were in very close proximity related to the amount of money per ton. And then the total amount that

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we anticipate using the reason that I mention this is that we may not use exactly this number of tons but this is plus or minus about 5% and really relates to the number of potholes that we have the amount of additional work that we do and so the tonnage can vary.

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So we're really awarding bid based on the cost per ton here. Um, this does fall in line with your overall project as I mentioned earlier which was just slightly under $700,000 and the recommendation in the resolution is to award it to Martin Marietta um for an

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amount of $113,000 um just slightly over that 113562. We see this every year. So that's nothing too new. But nevertheless, if there's discussion or questions. All right. Hearing nothing further. The

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resolution awarding the bid for 2026 Batuminous Materials to Martin Marietta Material Supply Company is on page 36 of the packet. Is there a motion to approve? >> So move. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Call the role, please. >> Council member Charstrom. >> I. >> Council member Devos.

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>> I. >> Mayor Noel. >> I. Council member Johnson >> I. >> Council member Pettis. >> Hi. >> The resolution is approved. Next up, scholarship way renaming. >> Oh, Ben is here to talk to us about that. Hi, Ben. >> Thank you, mayor, and members of the

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council. Um, so with a new city hall, um, it is advantageous to, um, get approval for a new city street name. Um, so this is an area, this 18 acres at Scholarship Way, um, that probably will

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most likely be platted. Um, and then with a platted public road, we want to have a official name, a public, um, name. So, um, this was this area that we're talking about. It's shown on the the screen there's the north south

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route. It's about 900 ft long um, just south of Jefferson Avenue. Um, so we did take this to the planning commission. Uh, we did some historic research. We worked with the Nicola County Historical Society. Um, came up with a bunch of names. We also came up with some

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non-historic names um to follow some of our guidelines that we have for street naming. Um, we brought that to the planning commission. They gave us a few more to consider. Um, so we took that um and did a survey to the city hall staff and then from there we took those results and brought those to the police

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department. Um then um in early March we brought to workshop and brought those results to you guys. Um so you had noted that um one of the top res uh survey results was Evergreen Lane. That that was a fine name but there was more of a

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preference for civic or community. Um so so we took that um along with some other names and brought that to a leadership group of about 10 people. Um with that the sur a unanimous survey was taken and the results were um that would go to

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Civic Way. Um so with that it would be staff's recommendation to go with Civic Way for the new road in front of city hall. >> All right. Questions for Ben or any discussion? >> Brad. >> Um was there any consideration like Sunbeam way or Power Court or anything

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like that? >> I don't know that that was on the list. Any additional discussion? I would just like to take a moment before we vote on this to recognize the long history of Scholarship America in our community and and that they will

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still be at that location. And so um even though we're changing and we're excited to move there, just wanted to recognize um their good work in our community and uh you know within higher red providing access to a lot of students. So, um, having said that, uh,

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is there a motion to approve the resolution on page 40 approving Civic Way as the new street name, uh, for City Hall, replacing Scholarship Way? >> So, moved. >> Second. >> All right, we have a motion and a

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second. Call the role, please. >> Council member Devos, >> I. >> Mayor Noel, >> I. >> Council member Johnson, >> I. >> Council member Pettis, >> hi. >> Council member Charstrom, >> I. The resolution is approved. Next item of new business, unforeseen circumstances microloan.

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All >> right. Thank you, mayor and members of the council. So, based on feedback from the city council and EDA, the community development department created a new loan program um that could assist businesses to address both immediate and future hardship situations um that would

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uh affect comm community have communitywide impacts. Um attached to this is the guidelines that the EDA is proposing uh for your review. Um so um this could be useful to businesses

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um for a variety of reasons for un in unforeseen circumstances and that would include natural disasters, infrastructure fails, public health emergencies, sudden regulatory or legal challenges or other localized emergencies. um

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in that um it's designed to support businesses in a similar way to the 2009 169 construction uh microloan program and also the uh 2020 and 2021 hospitality microloan program. So it'll be set up very similar to that. Um, if

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you look on page 43, um, based on some outreach to our local, um, restaurants, we found that several businesses probably would take advantage of this loan, uh, right away. Um, and the loan

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program summary is as follows. You get a maximum amount of $10,000. Um, that would be based on about four months of impact, up to four months of impact. So, there's an application that they fill out um and that could be up to

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that amount and you only get one loan um and that's for all not just the downtown area but for all commercial businesses and you get a deferral for up to six months at 0% interest. The payments would be very similar to both of those previous programs mentioned at $100 a

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month. It would take a little over eight years if paid that $100 a month to repay. Um and then the security would be a promisary note. So there would be um the same review team that would review it before the EDA uh um gets a hold of

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it and makes a recommendation and that team would use um indexable income and expense reports as the primary source for determining the eligibility. So, um, after a couple different meetings, uh, on March 26th, the EDA did

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recommend approval of this loan program, and there is a budget set, um, or recommended by the EDA at $100,000. So, this would be about 3% of the entire revolving loan fund. So, not a huge impact to that fund. And then if you do

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get 10 10 businesses that are taking $10,000, you certainly could re if that takes a year or two years, you can certainly review that at that time if you want to refund the program if it's been that successful. >> Ben, questions or discussion? Darl,

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>> um, thank you for putting this together. This was discussed at a couple work sessions. Um, thank you. >> Yeah, Brad and then Krie. >> So, I have a question. Um page 46 under section 5 loan security um 5.2 it says when applicable the note shall be

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further secured but by a personal guarantee. I know previously we required like with co loans a personal guarantee. Why are we what would make it not applicable for it to be secured to not require a personal guarantee?

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>> Um that would be the majority of the time we would want a personal guarantee. Um we also um in 3.3 there was another addition on page 45 and that was um there was talk of the EDA we want to we want to if in certain circumstances we

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really want to get this money out and we want to get this money out fast to the businesses that are impacted. So if there was a hiccup in providing that personal guarantee you know that could be a circumstance where if we're trying to get the money out fast we would try to get that. But I don't know if Todd

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has any Yeah. >> Um I do not foresee a circumstance where there is not a personal guarantee. I do not recall over our entire loan folio portfolio that there wasn't a personal guarantee. Certainly we could modify this as the council wanted. But part of

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the thought here was to provide flexibility on the part of the EDA to make the recommendation to the city council as they thought was appropriate. Um but we have not had one that was not had a personal guarantee or um other guarantees. This is meant to be more of

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what in the banking industry they might call a signature loan with that personal guarantee. >> Yeah. And that's that's that's what I that's what I would be expecting out of this. So, >> and certainly the council gets to review these um as a part of the approval process. So, again, I don't know that

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that would happen, but we wanted to provide flexibility depending on the circumstance. Again, this is really built to be a program that can be um put in play very quickly through just a funding mechanism. So, the $100,000 that would be coming from a revolving loan fund for this, once it's gone, it's

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gone. If there's a want to re-up that or put additional money in there, that would have to be action that would be recommended by the EDA to the city council to do that. I would also anticipate and part of the goal here is that it's a program in a can. So if there was a flood 5 years from now, we

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could fund and we have a program that's really well suited to go forward to help some of the businesses in that circumstance. Again, to answer your question specifically, I don't see where there would be um not a personal guarantee requested as a part of the loan agreement.

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>> And uh then so my then my other question is so the repayment of $100 a month, is that going to basically just go back into the pool to replenish the pool for for future for future loans in this program? No, this program is a one-time fund issue only unless re-uped. So, those dollars go back into the revolving

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loan fund. >> Um because I I mean that would be something that I wouldn't see. I I wouldn't have a problem if we wanted to make this essentially revolving. >> I I don't know how you would feel about that or we >> Carrie carries on the EDA.

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So just to provide context, this was the most robust um good governance and action uh commission meeting I've ever been in. The everyone in the meeting participated like everyone was on board with hey

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businesses sometimes face unforeseen circumstances and there's a lot of different types of circumstances that could come up. Um but it like the devil was in the details like picking that apart and putting it back together and talking about all of these things that um you know we hadn't thought of or

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wanted to understand better. And so I really appreciate the EDA um and their work on this and the discussions that we had because it was very robust. Um, and we all landed in a place where we felt good about one of those places was not

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making this revolving and just kind of approving that one time and then we can always kind of if that fund needs more more funds than to go ahead and approve that. But that's kind of where um is that was that your take too been

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>> where we landed? So >> it's a great great discussion. And I'm really grateful to the EDA members and all their expertise and there was even business owners that from downtown there to to kind of talk about their experience um too. So yeah, it was

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great. Wonderful. Anything else anybody would like to add on this item? Hearing nothing further, the resolution establishing a new loan program titled unforeseen circumstances microloan program along with associated program

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guidelines appears on page 47 and 48 of the packet. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion to end a second. Call the role, please. >> Mayor Noel, >> I. >> Council member Johnson, >> I. >> Council member Pettis, >> I.

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>> Council member Charstrom, >> I. >> Council member Debbas, >> I. >> The resolution is approved. Thanks. and uh especially thanks to the EDA. Sounds like it was a a great conversation. Uh moving on to President's Corner Preliminary and Final Plats.

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>> All right. Thank you, Mayor, and members of the council. Just a little background information. So, quite a while ago, in 1854, we had our plat, the original uh plat of St. Peter, and this established uh three squares. Everybody knows Minnesota Square where the pavilion is.

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Um the square actually right here was called Washington Square. That was another one of the squares. And then the third one was Jefferson where Washington and Jefferson uh meet. So um that square is a public square and um it's showing

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up there on the on the screen. Um so back in the late 1800s um a railroad actually was created and it went through kind of the eastern or the southeastern portion of this property. Um when that uh railroad was no longer was abandoned,

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um it was turned over to HW uh comats. And with that, um that particular east side of the property, which actually had a train depot on it, uh turned out to be a residential development. Um he went through a quiet title action to do that.

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Um and that's why you'll see residential on that side. um our city attorney uh noticed that on the other side um that there was a court order that was actually needed to be able to sell that property and so he has gone through that over the past year and got that uh

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officially taken care of so we can sell this property. This was the property of the old water treatment plant. So, um, back in 2010, the city created a new state-of-the-art, uh, water filtration system with reverse osmosis, and that

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was put just north of Gust Davis on Broadway. When that facility went online, this facility here on the west side of this square was no longer needed. So, in 2011, uh, the building, um, and the two wells that were on there were sealed um, and the building was

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demolished. Therefore, it's been now 15 years that this property has remained vacant um without really a specific use uh in mind. So, um over the years since that it was vacated, there's been a

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couple times where the city's uh tried to get a developer and there's been a couple of times where um there's been some proposals, but nothing's really come to fruition with projects. back in uh May of 2024, uh the proposed developer, Adam Heras with ALH Land

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Company did submit a proposal. Um and then due to timing issues, that kind of uh went on the back table and then re reintroduced in 2025 and with that the it was kind of the same concept that was shown here. Um after uh going through

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the court order and there was some time to think there was actually some another proposal that was brought forward by him that showed two different town home buildings. After looking at that option, it was found that um this project would be uh more successful and more uh um as

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far as construction costs and and the timing goes would be a better project for this particular spot. Um, so during the time too that this was being proposed, the Pine Street property was uh or excuse me, the Pine Pine Street

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reconstruction project was going on. And so it was brought up by the council. Why uh why don't we put sidewalks along uh Washington Avenue and along Pine Street? Um, so those were put in and then also on the north side of the property was a

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uh very crucial uh driveway access and then three uh a water uh sanitary sewer and storm water pipes that went into the back. So it was kind of determined when the Pine Street project went in that there would be a driveway similar to what's shown on the map there. Uh that

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would um all access would be through Pine Street both for utilities and for for driveways. Uh so based on that uh the developer came up with this uh development plan which shows four different twin homes. Um the twin homes

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will take advantage of the grade. So there is going to be walkout garages. These are going to be three bedrooms, three bath, the potential of a fourth bedroom. They'll have front porches along Washington Avenue. So they'll look very sharp. Um and there actually be two

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two stalls inside the garage and then two stalls uh outside parking stalls. So, they'll be able to park at least four uh cars per unit. Um so, with that, um just kind of a recap, the current owner is the city of St.

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Peter. Uh the proposed owner is ALH Land Company and they are the applicant. Um, so in order to make this development happen, due to um just due to the the nature of the site, you can see there's some really big rightaways there on

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Jefferson and Washington. Um the setbacks get a little squished and the setbacks between buildings get kind of squished. So if you notice on page 52, um the R3 district regulations um don't quite fit just perfect. So the

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the next best way to do it is through a planned unit development. Um with a planned unit development, there's kind of three things that are needed. You need to show a public benefit. So on the bottom of page 52 goes through the the different benefits that this PUB will produce, including one of the council's

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main goals, which is more public um housing options. There's also going to be common open space. So, if this plaque goes through, there'll actually be a common interest community, very similar to the twin homes that are across the street here from Gorman Park. Very similar to that,

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where there's twin homes and common spaces um in between. And then with this, and due to the judge's orders, all the parkland dedication money from the the revenue on this uh parcel sale will go to the Gorman Park project. So, um it

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will produce uh new sidewalks, um some open space and then money for park facilities. Um this did go uh before a public hearing um at the last planning commission on April 2nd. And so there's

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three things that are needed. Um one is approval of the preliminary plat, which is good for one year, but developers usually like to do those together if everything's okay. So they're requesting preliminary plat final plat and then an ordinance which would create the the

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residential PUD which was shown on the zoning map earlier and that will have a special hatch marking on the zoning map that'll distinguish it as uh these regulations shown in the ordinance and that'll also be listed in our um in our

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city code and special uh specified that this particular president's corner pud um goes back to ordinance number 70 and so we'll be able to figure out 10 20 years from now what was approved with what setbacks and at what regulations. So with that I'd be happy to answer any

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questions. >> So madam mayor if I can inject >> the order of process here is approval of preliminary plat if you're so inclined. It's been recommended by planning and zoning then approval of the final plat if you are desirous of that. Again, that's recommended by planning and

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zoning. And then the PUB ordinance modification. You have resolutions in your packet covering each of those three action items. >> Uh I I have a question for members of planning and zoning. Um as this went through the planning and zoning process,

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did you receive any public feedback, Brad? Um the only uh concern one member of the public was who who might be leasing it. But once again they can't discriminate against who who otherwise the public seemed uh happy when we laid

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out that um what they were they I think the big concern was that they were going to look like a large apartment building. And when they saw that they're going to be four twin homes and that these twin homes are going to have front porches on them. um that they're intended to blend into the neighborhood. Uh essentially

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the public biggest concern was apartment was they thought an apartment complex was coming in and this is um I think but and after that there weren't any concerns raised. Um I will say this fits perfectly uh what we are looking for and

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one of the concerns is we have multif family in the community but all of them have been coming in at one and two bedroom. This is these are coming at three bedrooms plus an office that could, you know, potentially um it's and it's going to blend in well. It's going to have a potential for either rental or

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home ownership that the the builders would prefer to sell them, but they will rent them if needed. Uh and look at we're not doing tax increment financing. So there's no initial subsidies going up front. So we're going to it's turning it into property tax revenue. We're getting

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our utility revenue and we're getting um and just an opportunity to bring more tenants, provide the housing that is filling up as fast as we can build it. So, >> yes, >> Ben, I just want to provide clarification for the council. There still is potentially one more or maybe

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two more actions related to this. We haven't technically sold the property yet or completed the development agreement. So, those are things that are yet to come back to the city council. Am I remembering that right? Um, we have a approved purchase agreement. >> Okay. So, we're set on from that standpoint.

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>> Yep. So, if if this does pass, I think the developer would like to close later in April or in uh in May. Okay. And get going as soon as possible. >> All right. Thank you. Hold on. I'll just add um piggybacking on something Brad said that it as we've

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had these discussions that's been very important the discussions at the council that it be um harmonious with the surrounding area that it not be a you know a five-story apartment building or something like that wouldn't have really uh been appropriate to that

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neighborhood. And so I'm glad that the public feedback that you received was positive. All right. Hearing no further discussion, the resolution approving President's Corner Subdivision preliminary plat

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1225 South Washington Avenue appears on pages 59 through 60 of the packet. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Call the RO, please. >> Council member Johnson, >> I. >> Council member Pettis, >> I. >> Council member Jarstrom,

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>> I. >> Council member DVOS, >> I. >> Mayor Noel, >> I. The resolution is approved. Next up, we will consider a resolution approving President's Corner Subdivision final plat at 1225 South Washington Avenue. And I just want to note that it is very

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common to approve the preliminary and final plat in the same meeting. Um, any discussion hearing? None. Is there a motion to approve the resolution that appears on pages 61- 62 of the packet? >> So moved.

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>> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Call the role, please. >> Council member Pettis, >> I. >> Council member Shstrom, >> I. >> Council member Devos, >> I. >> Mayor Noel, >> I. >> Council member Johnson, >> I. The resolution is approved. Uh, next up, which was already mentioned, the

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president's corner PUD ordinance amendment. Anything to add on that? >> No, Madame Mayor. >> All right. Um, if there's no discussion amongst the council members, the ordinance amending city code chapter 24

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land use regulations and zoning and amending the official zoning map in conjunction with President's Corner subdivision and residential planned unit development 1225 South Washington Avenue appears on pages 63 through 65 of the packet. Is there a motion to approve?

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>> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Call the role, please. Council member Charstrom. >> Hi. >> Council member Devos. >> I. >> Mayor Noel. >> Hi. >> Council member Johnson. >> I. >> Council member Pettis. >> Hi. >> The resolution is approved. Next up, comprehensive planning steering

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committee. >> All right. Thanks, Madame Mayor and members of the council. Um I do appreciate you guys um taking time to either volunteer or uh submitting nominations to the mayor. Um which which is on page 66. And then later on in the

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resolution, you'll see um that there's a list of uh 14 to 16 names. Um these are leaders in the community that we think will do a great job of providing uh great voices to um serve as this uh steering committee and uh guiding the

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the future of St. Peter for the next 20 25 years. Um so you can see the the names there. As far as the council goes, uh Brad Devos is uh being recommended um as the fifth person and then the mayor uh would be an alternate and can definitely participate. The only other

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one that's like that is Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership. There's just some conflict in scheduling. So both Leah and Mary will kind of have to alternate in in being representatives for Southwest. Um other than that, you may have seen a email from Kesha today.

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So, our our survey went live today. So, make sure to fill that out. But there'll be uh besides this group, there'll be plenty of opportunities for for people in the council and the advisory boards and uh everybody to to be involved in the comp plan over the next year. So, but looking forward to uh meeting with

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this group. It looks like a great group and staff would recommend approval of uh the names listed there. So, >> all right. Thank you, Ben. Any questions or discussion? Brad, >> because I didn't get a chance to ask Kesha this question by email. Uh, should we be sharing the the links in the

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should should we be sharing the email of the survey or is that just for like internal? >> That's a fun question. >> Yeah, we're going to try to get it out to as many people in the public as >> So, so it is meant for public to send. >> Yeah, I think it's on Facebook. >> Is it? >> It'll be featured on our website and other places as well. Yeah.

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>> So, pay attention to the survey folks watching at home. Yep. >> Covers lots of topics. >> Yeah. All right. Hearing no additional questions or discussion, the resolution establishing a comprehensive plan steering committee appears on pages 68 through 69 of the packet. Is there a

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motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Call the role, please. >> Council member Devos, >> I. >> Mayor Noel, >> I. >> Council member Johnson, >> I. >> Council member Pettis, >> I. >> Council member Charstrom, >> I. >> The resolution is approved. Thank you,

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Ben. Thank you. >> All right, moving on. St. Peter Community Center, rooms 215 217, renovation closeout. >> Mayor members, you're aware of this work and you've taken a tour of this. This is something that was planned as a part of the budget process and so that work is

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finally completed. Um, what we're looking or recommending you do is approve the resolution authorizing final payment to web construction in the amount of $93,637. The project is primarily complete. Web is done with all of their work. We have

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a few things that we're doing like a countertop and some things like that. Um but everything is set to go and it's my understanding even though I wasn't on the tour with you um that you thought it looked pretty good and we are very confident that it'll be utilized heavily within the community. Um this certainly does meet a couple of goals that we have

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for the community center as a whole and for your community as a whole. One of which is to continue to provide opportunities for not forprofits and others to utilize this facility. This configuration will be used as compared to the room and then the separate apartment which was originally built in

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this facility. Many people didn't know there was an apartment here that was for a caretaker and it hasn't been used for that purpose in a number of years. Additionally, this follows some of the work that you've done as a part of your community conversation project and or community conversation plan and um

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provides opportunity for modified restroom facilities within the community center. Um which is something that a couple of the groups have talked about a more family style restroom um has value within your community and certainly to users of this facility. Um so those are the goals. That's what's happened. it was bid under the appropriate process

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and it's appropriate through the resolution to close it out and provide um that final payment to web construction and accept the project. >> Questions or discussion? We did all tour it. It looks great. I think it's going to be a much better use for residents uh

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who use the community center and the family bathroom will be is a great addition too. So >> I bopped in there the other day and it was senior movie going on. and they were watching the Bob Dylan movie and so it was a crowded house so it was a lot of fun. >> Nice. >> Yeah. >> All right. Hearing no additional

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discussion, a resolution providing for closeout and final payment for community center rooms 215 and 217 project appears on page 72 of the packet. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Call the roll, please.

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>> Mayor Noel. >> I. >> Council member Johnson. >> I. >> Council member Pettis. >> I. Council member Sharstro. >> Hi. >> Council member Deos. >> Hi. >> All right. The resolution is approved. Uh, next up, new registrations. >> Mayor members. This falls into your

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action items because these are not renewals. These are new license applications for low potency hemp edible retailers. And so the three that are here are River Rock Coffee, which is located at 301 South Minnesota Avenue,

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and then the two Quicktrip locations, one at 1815 Old Minnesota, and one at 1305 South Minnesota Avenue. Um, through your approval, they would be provided the opportunity to sell low potency hemp edibles at those locations. Um there's

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nothing that we saw within the background checks that would prohibit them from having this licensing or technically registration. >> Uh questions or discussion? Just a a lot of this is regulated at the state level and so municipalities have

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very little opportunity to regulate >> really for us. It's a matter of them making sure that or us making sure that taxes and utility payments are up to date. And as long as they've done that and the state has approved them, they're eligible.

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>> All right. Hearing no discussion, the resolution approving new registrations is on page 74. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. We have a motion and a second. Call the role, please. Council member Johnson, >> I.

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>> Council member Pettis. >> Hi. >> Council member Charstrom. >> Hi. >> Council member Devos. >> I. >> Mayor Noel. >> The res. Uh I >> the resolution is approved. It only counts if I say it out loud. Um our last item of new business tonight, Park View

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Manor roof closeout. >> So mayor member Ally is here from Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership and she has been unbelievably patient with me tonight. So thank you very much Ally for being that way with me. >> Thank you for sticking with us. Ally >> Ally can talk about the project a little

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bit. Ally, if you just want to go beep and I'll flip the slide if you'd prefer or if you want to just cut to the chase, that's up to you. But mayor members, we do have information on your table, including a resolution. This is part and parcel of the process for the deed funds that you received. >> So, um, St. Peter received small cities

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development program funds um, in 2022 um, for Park View Manor to do some replacement of the roof and some other items. So, you go to the next one. So the federal objective was the primary

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the primary objective was to maintain 62 affordable housing units by replacing the roof and skylights in the common area, install an air exchanger and condenser and install new a new water heater. Secondary impacts were the to encourage the improvement of the general

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appearance and condition of the building and improve energy efficiencies. So funding was for small cities was $575,000. We we didn't St. Peter received um a community

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project funding grant that was federal funds in 2022 of $300,000. Those were federal funds. And then the St. Peter H put in $261,726.54 a total of 1.13 $136,726.54.

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I'm sorry it's been a long day. >> It's okay. So, basically what we did is um removed the existing roofing down to the deck and replace with a new pre-engineered insulated shed sky roof system. Don't ask me what that means

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because I have absolutely no idea. Um >> it sounds good. >> Yes, it sounds really good. >> It looks great, too. >> Okay, it does. Okay. And um replacing all the skylights. Um there was one new hot water um replacement, a new air

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exchanger, and a new compressor and condenser. All right. Uh there were three contractors that were working in the project. All of them were from Minnesota. Um and then the rest is just the information of what they have done.

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So we have the roof there and some of the work that they have done and the differences area. Yeah, this is my favorite because the yellow has not been fixed. However, the other side is the new ones and then

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you can keep going and you'll see all of them have the full skylights now. >> Yep. >> Huge difference. >> It is. It's really nice. >> Difference. >> New air exchanger. And then the condenser

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and the enclosure. And that's all I have. Is there any questions? >> Well, we had we had the pleasure of touring Park View Manor this fall and got to go up on the roof and see the the work that happened and just want to say

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what a transformation and thanks to everybody that made it happen, including Josh, our council member who serves on the HR who couldn't make it tonight, our chair of the HA. Um, it's just amazing the transformation, especially the skylights. I know how much more light

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comes in. But Parkview Manor is such an important place in our community and so many wonderful uh residents and so it's really exciting to kind of do this. So thanks for sticking through through a meeting with us. >> Well, thanks for sticking with us. We had a lot of change over the last three

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years. So >> Well, we got it done. >> Yeah, we got it done. >> We got it done. >> Yep. >> Uh any Carrie? Yeah, I know we um had talked to our congress people, senators, all of our representatives about this project. It's important when the feds or

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the state or the city build something that they take care of it in the long term. It's a responsibility and so um this is a coordinated effort and I it I mean there's a lot of heart there with the residents that live there and um the

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people who manage it and our H and so it's they deserve to have um a building that is updated >> and there's a lot of joy. I mean, even today when I w when I stopped by this, there was a person sitting outside and

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she just said, "Oh, it's so nice now." >> Yeah. >> So, >> yeah. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> You have something to add on? >> No. Madame Mayor Alley speaks for us on this issue. There is a recommendation though to approve the resolution. This is part of the overall process to close this out and meet all of the audit

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requirements that are in place by deed um through the state of Minnesota. >> All right. Well, if Ally doesn't have anything else to add and we have no additional questions, uh, we all have the resolution before us. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Call the

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RO, please. >> Council member Pettis. >> I. >> Council member Charstrom. >> I. >> Council member Devos. >> I. >> Mayor Noel. >> I. >> Council member Johnson. >> I. >> The resolution is approved. Thank you again. >> Thanks, Allie. >> All right, we're going to move right

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along to reports. And first up is the mayor's report and I have a proclamation for Arbor Day and Arbor Month. Whereas Minnesota forest treasures were a significant attraction to early settlers because of their usefulness and the beauty environment and the beautiful

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environment they protected. And whereas trees are an increasingly vital resource in Minnesota, enriching our lives by purifying air and water, helping to conserve soil and energy, serving as recreational settings, providing habitat for wildlife of all kinds, and making

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our cities more livable. And whereas Arbor Day was founded on April 12th or April 10th, 1872 by J. Sterling Morton at Nebraska City, Nebraska. And whereas in 1876, Minnesota became the fourth

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state to adopt Arbor Day. And whereas the citizens of St. Peter have proudly participated in the celebration of Arbor Day in Arbor Month for many years. Now therefore, I Shannan A Noel, mayor of the city of St. Peter, Minnesota, do

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hereby proclaim April 23rd, 2026 as Arbor Day and May 2025 as Arbor Month in the city and encourage citizens to participate in tree planting activities in their homes and businesses. That's the only report from me. Do we

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have any council members with reports tonight hearing? None. Oh, Carrie. I just want to give a shout out to council member Pettis for testifying in front of the transportation committee. I don't know if he wants to talk about that at all, but it's great to see our representation

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up at the capital. >> Absolutely. Thank you. Do you have anything to add or not? Thank you either way. >> I won't add anything. So, thank you. >> Yeah. >> Trying to figure out if you ever talked about the coalition day at the capital.

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Good point. Uh, that's been a while ago. I think we did. >> Maybe I would. >> Oh, maybe. But yeah, I believe Carrie did. I believe Carrie did. >> I just wanted to verify that we had talked about it and had one of our >> I had to ask Darl if we did the pledge earlier.

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>> Yes, we do. >> I think it's just the temperature in the room. It's just the right >> the temperature and it's a dark and stormy night out there. So, >> she went to a journ while you were talking with her. She gave us a story that she was talking about how important our things were at

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St. Peter then went to the floor to vote on a journey sign die at the same time. >> Yeah. Correct. >> Which was kind of a >> miss but yes. So, transportation committee, Darl, >> transportation committee. I testified for the House Transportation Committee on the greenhouse gas bill and the

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mitigation efforts that would be required of any additional lane in excess of 2500 ft on a trunk highway or any interchange project could potentially add between 25 to 50% of the project cost for greenhouse gas

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mitigation. Well, I can't think of anything directly that would affect St. Peter. We don't have anything planned. The 169 project wouldn't impact the highway 22 project would if that were going on right now for planning because they're adding a lane longer than 2500

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ft. Potentially any type of interchange if they were to put an interchange in at 22 and 169. Generally, those greenhouse gases would have to be um mitigation would have to be paid for by the local entity if the local entity was the

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sponsor for the project. So you are looking at project costs a substantial increase in project cost plus they really haven't figured out where or what is going to qualify for mitigation. Is it densification for housing lots? Is it

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purchasing property to be taken off of agricultural and put back into native plantings? Things like that. So um well the intent is probably good. I talked about some of the good things we're doing in this community with greenhouse gases, some of our water heater

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programs, things like that, our sustainability corner coordinator. Also, we've been waiting since 1991 to get the last piece of 169 fixed according to Pete and his team. So, it's only been 37 years we've been waiting to get that

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done. So, any taking of funds to do projects like this would probably continue to push that project further and further out. So that was kind of my testimony. So, >> and you only had one minute. >> I had one minute to talk. >> And they were they were at each other.

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The two sides were not happy with each other. It was a bunch of like kindergarteners fighting sometimes. >> And I shouldn't degrade kindergarteners like that. >> That's all I have. >> Well, that's a great note to end on.

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Uh, any other council member reports? All right, we'll kick it over to our city administrator. >> Madame Mayor, you've asked me to provide this type of report in the future. You've talked about this a couple of times about how long this report would continue. And so, as I recall, this was the last time that you asked me to

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really report on each of these in the future. This will continue on the list until you tell me otherwise, and I'll only report on things that have um new things that have emerged as a part of that. So just to remind everybody where we are right now in that first bullet point is approximately 20ish contacts in

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total over that time frame. So nothing new over the last three or four weeks at least that we're aware of. The utility count still is in that 8 to 10 neighborhood as best we can tell. The economic development assistance program is something well that you just approved tonight. Um so that has moved forward in

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a way that I think you can feel really proud about. There are very few communities that can make that kind of thing work or have made it work um in similar fashion of the past. So, um, that's fantastic. Facility requests have been at zero. Collaboration with local units of government, you all got that more than I got that in working with

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other groups on these types of issues. Data requests have continued at zero. And additional communic um, community communications that now will switch to primarily the economic development program that you approved um, just earlier in the meeting. So, that's my

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list for this evening and I'm happy to answer questions, Madame Mayor, if folks have any. >> Absolutely. Questions for Todd? Madame Mayor, that's the last report that I have for you for tonight. >> All right. Yeah, Brad. >> Um, I would just like to note for our guest, it's usually not that hot in this room. So, if it's your first time here,

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it's >> it is a little warm. >> The council has approved a chiller repair, which is hopefully only a week and a half or two weeks out from being completed. So, um, think cool thoughts, everyone. >> Come back in a couple weeks. >> Yeah. >> All right. Um, hearing nothing else, we

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are adjourned. >> Can I how about a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Second. >> All those in favor? I. Any opposed? We adjourned.