start with the pledge of allegiance stand if you're able please 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 i call order roll call starting on my right council person Josh council person Brend Mayor Jimmy John Kane council person Jeremiah i approval of tonight's agenda staff anything else you guys
anything up here looking for a motion to approve who's that jeremiah jeremiah do we have a second second josh second all in favor say I opposed that'll carry approval of council meeting minutes of the regular
meeting of February 11th 2025 i'll make a motion to approve those minutes brent approves do we have a second a second in mind questions or discussion all in favor say I i
opposed that also carries that'll take us into finance and budget we've got the accounts payable there you have the additional listing any questions we will direct them to uh tonight we'll direct them to see what he can come up with
good explanations i'll make a motion to approve that's scary we have a motion to approve do we have a second second that josh second it any questions or discussion hearing none all in favor say I i i
opposed that'll carry that'll take us into motions and general business there is no motions general business so that'll take us out of motions general business the mayor staff consult reports mayor's reports tonight this is a real oddity thankfully
this week we didn't have any pass any of our citizens pass away which is a blessing but we'd like to send our congratulations out to Thomas and Darlene Meyer on their 60th anniversary you should start making your plans now for the big garage sales that'll be coming up May 8th through
10th there'll be a lot more information in Stville Star between now and then and then everybody got their Sturville star this week and if you haven't pick one up and if you notice you're in the front page the big shout out from Ready to the City of Sturville
for his growth and and and business leadership and the EDA got some high praises from them this is regards to the strong industrial growth in this town it shows that we have the leadership and the staff and the staff is a big big thing
anybody that doesn't hasn't been here and talked i mean when they come here and they meet Cheryl and Sandra and Bill and and Angelie and the rest of them and Laurel it's it's their first impression of our community and it's a good impression they come back again and again nothing but high praises even some
of the new restaurants like Amster Taverns they can't say it enough about Cheryl and the staff and stuff bill when they talk about Bill they have a lot of things to say about Bill and a lot of them are good
hopefully mostly good but I I just want I just want to make an impression on our citizens we have a tremendous staff in place we're we're the envy of a lot of the communities in this area including Rochester right now when it comes to growth we are growing at warp speed and
thank the staff for that and that's all I've got on my report city minister report bill uh just a real short one today or in your packet and nothing really to add we met with Mandat and our city engineer today we're working on that uh performance agreement or
partnership agreement uh as we continue that development of the north interchange and um the streets up there so you need to uh remind me that I forgot to also mention our great public works with Sean and Dylan and all the
guys down at the shop the rest of the I just uh who was it I talked to today was just you couldn't believe the the the public works we have they were very very impressed and that was one of the new businesses in town so thank you guys too bill you should have caught
that finance director's report any questions for Bill all right finance director's report uh no no report public works director Sean uh there's report other than go check out what we've been doing out in the park we're spending a lot of time out
there now i got to get out there we got the We got the new machine yep and did you start over here on They started in the Frisbee golf while it was frozen now we moved into the inner part that it's warmed up because we don't want to tear up in the center part who cares as much but so that we're holding on to what's
solid for the Frisbee golf i got to get out there somebody told me that the other day and I haven't been out that way lately they said text me the other night that it looks good pretty impressive i hope everybody thinks it does but open your eyes but it's good all right any questions for Sean i
appreciate you guys cuz that is we we feel like we're accomplishing something now it's going to it's going to stay on top of it as opposed to what we were doing i felt we were just kicking the wheels yep kicking the dead horse there but it's that machine's working good perfect
great any questions for Sean all right don't thank Sean they're doing good keep doing a good job library director report Nate uh above and beyond what's in my report um you know I just I want to stress those um there's going to be
those few days in April before we have the switchover where uh folks are going to have a hard time checking books out and the catalog is not going to be available and um and uh I want to also give a shout
out to council member Josh for um uh emphasizing um changes that not only how they how they are affecting the changes coming up and how they are affecting the library but not but also how they are going to
be affecting the schools so that is uh worth looking into and um and I have a plan so all right questions for me all right thank you keep it up over
there no fire chief tonight no pool director tonight take us to community commission and board reports chamber comments nothing in our packet all you have anything we need to know all right edh you'll find some minutes in there we had a good meeting on the 18th we
approved some more uh houses in town for the program for the housing improvement program that's going over very well uh finance board library uh we met last week few minutes are in there um I just
basically went over finances and updates on I got Bill and Nate and Bri and um working on me looking at construction managers for projects okay
y board personnel um yeah uh today was the deadline for the finance officer positions uh or position and um so we're trying to narrow down that list uh we'll probably
have a department head review of those applications and then try to narrow that down for the council and department heads both to uh do a final interview so um feel free to um and we're looking at um I think the third week in March um
for you all so try to look ahead on your schedules we get a lot of Monday or Thursday schedule seven 7 any other questions on that one start getting that info out we'll get the apps planning nothing at this time public
safety we got the calls for service in there if you want to preview them for January what happened to all the p pictures of Justin there was a whole roll where I was saving them for uh we'll put them back up public works
nothing ready uh two sets of minutes from the last couple of months that's our community uh communities council minutes and uh that's uh the communities that make up um the actual cities that are representatives on ready
roll code dan do you want to take Well we're planning a long-term study for 2050 uh the in the metro area that includes our area um doing a long-term study plan as
the transportation needs from and around the metro area to serve the communities and um the Minneapolis St paul area long-term study yeah that's they got time to study for
25 years all right any other questions about that transit advisory committee dan you got anything the minutes from December meeting are in the packet and um they're now doing a southeastern Minnesota uh
study for the transportation needs between uh the needs for transportation and southeast and uh looking to see if we need to service um our communities to Rochester and what
the needs are and what we can do to meet those needs you need a train from Steuart to Rochester or what um light rail light rails didn't make it on mine did they make it on no I don't he's actually referring to the ones underneath because part of that deals I
asked transit committee transportation Dan to speak on the communications there okay oh communications oh there we go y communications we got the SEML minutes from December 20 or 4th 24 we got the Southeast Minnesota together regional
collaborative and there we go together Southeast Minnesota together transportation management organization study correct they're also looking at Mayo's um working on some transportation to
service their employees from Bear Cave um and then looking to see if they can meet some needs of the general public that needs transportation to downtown for work sure that'd be great
good any other questions under any of the communications anybody want the open mic last last order of business i'll make a motion to eight years a second i'll second we got a second all
in favor say I i opposed