call me to order we'll start our pledge of allegiance stand for granted please i pledge algiance 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 call for a roll call starting on my right council person Josh council person Bren Fire mayor Jimmy John King council person Craig Anderson council person Jeremiah Alen looking for approval of tonight's agenda do we have anything
additions from staff anything from the table if not looking for a motion to approve move to approve second second all in favor say I i opposed that'll carry approval of council meeting
minutes from the last meeting move to approve we have a motion to approve do we have a second second we have a second any questions or discussion on that hearing none all in favor say I i i oppose that'll take us to finance and
budget you got the listing with the additional listing there you have any questions we'll direct it to staff someone on staff will answer for us what's the air conditioning thing for the 53,000 is that Civic Center
those six units HVAC units on top of the units are in though we'll install on property in May but we have to pay for the units cuz they are in i'll make a motion to approve we have a motion to approve do we have a second second any other questions or
discussion hearing none all in favor say I i opposed that will carry that will take us into motions and general business first item motions general business tonight is property cleanup at 126 2nd
Avenue Northeast someone's got five bucks you need it here do you need it it's right here i got it up here the city has received complaints regarding the condition of the property owned by Michael Griffith 26 2nd Avenue Northeast we have pictures
attached in our packets notice of the public hearing was sent on March 13th pictures are from Monday April 7th are also attached so I'm going to close the regular meeting and open the public [Applause] hearing pursuant to city code section 610.02E 02E and
610.04M the city council will consider the above described nuisance this public hearing is your opportunity to be heard on this matter and to be to present any evidence or arguments you believe the city council should consider regarding the ordinance
violations the violator is not present tonight any written or oral statements we did have neighbors come in to talk to us about it they got the notice so more of them responded is that all something that Did it just happen like really
really quick out of nowhere no like that truck is that truck is that part of cleaning up or is that just part of the That's part of his That's part of the nuisance he just leaves it there it's been there for a long time 6 months 8 months it was in the back and we had a chat with them and it got moved to the
street and then it got moved to the front yard and then it's just so we deal with him every year um with mowing um cleaning up around that canoe all of that so it's constantly ongoing
we got it any other questions or comments anything else from the public if not I'll close the public hearing go back to the regular meeting based on the findings of facts the city
council hereby orders the abatement of the nuisance and will enter upon the property and remove the offending items finding the facts that the property owner has failed to abate or prevent the nuisance on the premises of 126 2nd Avenue Northeast and is currently present in plain view of the budding
property owners that photographs documenting the truck full of miscellaneous junk show that the owner has failed to obey or prevent the nuisance on the property and are attached here too as exhibit A that the failure to obey or prevent the nuisance on the premises of 126 Second Avenue Northeast is in such quantities as to be
reasonably annoying injury or endangering the safety health morals comfort or repose of the public that failure to abate or prevent the nuisance on the premise of 126 Second Avenue Northeast is in such quantities as to be indecent or offensive to the census and
obstruction of the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property of the public it shall also be responsibility of the property owner to pay for the cost of set abatements including attorney's fees and administrative costs which may be assessed the property to be
paid with your property taxes so we need a motion to do the abatement we're looking for a motion carry out the abatement quick question does everything go like the truck or what's Yeah it's got to
disappear it can't stay it can go in the garage if you have so what exactly so you go in and clear out the back of the truck and then give them the opportunity to move the truck somewhere I guess or Mhm and this is exact this exact same thing has happened before basically
did somebody make that motion already no motion made yet i'll make a motion to go ahead and clean it up we have a motion to debate do we have a second second do we have a second all in favor say I i opposed that will carry that will take
us on to the Schuman business park 7th uh GDP revision and preliminary plat the planning commission held a public hearing on April 1st to consider the general development plat revision and preliminary plat for SBP number four
they are recommending approval subject to engineer Obernalti's review letter council acts requested will be the approval of the revised GDP preliminary plaque for Schuman's business park 7th questions or discussion are you guys familiar with what they're
doing there what's that do you see what they're doing there like instead of that Henry Road going all the way through it's just going to turn into a culde-sac and then is it two lots and a pond or is it three lots in a pond two lots in a pond two
lots in a pond we didn't have any problems that planning and zoning with it whatsoever think Z's good with it what do you guys Any questions or discussion jenna's fine with it her review letter
is in there so it's based on her again our motion was based on her appro you know approval approval of their response i never realized how last minute you get some of this stuff kind of learning in the last two months
here it's moving fast oh my last response came to Cheryl at like 11:30 last night jeez i'll make the motion to approve we have a motion to approve do we have a second
i'll second it we have a second no further questions or discussion hearing none all in favor say I i i opposed that will carry that will take us on to Yep in general business personnel
two rounds of interviews were conducted for the finance officer position the initial interviews involved department heads four candidates based on staff recommendations two candidates were presented to the council for further interviews kelly Gravo is being recommended for the position at paygrade
14 step three if approved she will be starting on Thursday April 10th three employees were also considered for paygrade increase based on completed testing and changes to their job descriptions including additional responsibilities
jacob Chop to pay grade 11 step 11 angelie Hobie to pay grade 12 step eight laurel Jacobs to pay grade 9 step 12 council action requested to approve Kelly Gravel for finance officer position authorize the recommended pay grade increase for the three employees
listed above questions or discussion hearing none I'm looking for a motion i'll make a motion to approve we're a second is it all able to be made in just one big motion unless you have an issue with any
i'll second we have a second all in favor say I i opposed that also carries that will take us to Congratulations Kelly congrats thank you this is just the beginning
Brent they don't yeah you probably haven't had the introduction yet i got I'll talk her out here well she's gonna have to give a speech i suppose that's true that takes us out of motions and general business mayor staff consult reports
what's that what do you want you got something special you want to do right good mayor's report tonight we'll send the city would like to send their sympathies to Viny Burn Beverly Day Orland Colbeck and Lester Hankle
Jr the Sons of the American Legion will be hosting their Easter egg hunt on Saturday April 19th Bear Cave Park what time you thinking the bunny will show up bunny will probably be there 9:00 or so 9:30 no depends on how much bloody stuff he's
got to do the night before it still fits don't forget citywide cleanup day is coming on May 14th and 17th garage sale weekend is coming up on May 8th through the 10th get ready for that one and I'd
like to along with everyone else send a great big thank you to the foundation Stville Foundation they have their toast and taste last Friday it was to me it looked like a tremendous turnout and everyone got a good time good food good friends i think they did well again so
thank you for all they do and for putting that on that'll take us to city administrators report um porting your packet pretty short it's just been all this behind the scenes either with the projects and the paperwork or the map reviews or the
project reviews or filling in blanks here and there so all the stuff your staffs do well thank you for that that'll take us to finance director's report
[Laughter] no no report this week all right public works sean you got a report there's a report in there and I'm going to talk to you guys enough in a little bit afterwards here so I won't I don't understand the one thing
you're saying about you holding off on the broom because of some rating change or something we became MS4 uh which is a storm sewer uh which we've been going through and some of the things with that are tougher stipulations than us regulation and what we can rake into the
curb uh and stuff like that they don't encourage raking stuff into the curb so I don't want to go out and buy $160,000 machine that a year from now when we become this MS4 that is obsolete we may not be able to put leaves out there anymore i want to make sure that we can before our machines working it it'll get
us through another year until then I just didn't want to take a chance what do you think any other questions for public works director Sean [Music] i think the parks are looking great i suppose when it dries up a little more you can get back in there and do some
more huh starting to get busy this week which is good good thank you all right thanks Sean tell the guys keep it up doing a good job let's see city engineers report jenny you got any for us
um we had our preconstruction meeting today for 11th Avenue um realignment uh they are looking to start as soon as tomorrow but we do not have
um it's March forum so it'll be end of this week maybe Monday that uh clearing and growing will be starting um it wasn't requested that it until today for it all to be marked so that is the
reason why it has not been marked for though Um but they would like to come in and get started and get moving so um we're ready to go good so we had a
good meeting today once we found a spot to have it we did um then we do have um Legacy out for bids and then there's you know three more roads that
are being done by developers right now and a couple more that we were meeting about that still want to get in this year so we're a little busy when are we expecting the bids back for legacy legacy is the end of the month and we
would bring them to the first meeting in May or award all right any other questions for the engineer thank you
Jenna trying to keep your plate full all right no library director tonight so fire chief Brandon you got to try to fill in for everybody now do my best well you got the wrong socks on to begin with
so we have an average month for um incident response six fire calls including one aircraft accident 40 I see I've got a typo there 42 BMS um our new SCBs are in service so we
did the onboarding training for the everything's barcoded now so any maintenance that's ever done to them will all be able to be tracked by barcode so if we take one in for repair they'll be able to track it so we'll have a lot better record keeping for any maintenance repairs things like that um
so all the inserts training is done they're on the trucks everything's uh retrofitted to work um contract was signed with Heyman Fire after our visit last month on the light duty rescue making a couple last minute revisions uh to make sure that it was
what we were going to need and that has been done um so about a 2-year wait period for the build to start on that we'll be supplying as in SFD we'll be supplying the chassis uh we were able to get chassis a little bit cheaper
sourcing it through Greg House rather than going through the uh truck manufacturer um so we'll just have to align and coordinate when we purchase the chassis to be ready to take out to Sou Falls for the mill of the trucks so um that's a couple years out before
we'll see that i got a handful of public events coming up uh Easter egg hunt on April 19th May 3rd i was contacted by the Red Cross for a sound the alarm event uh so we'll be in Southern Hills mobile home park um
they'll train us how or how they want smoke alarms installed and we'll be going into homes as people want uh they'll be getting free smoke alarms as needed through the Red Cross so that was a program I was excited to get on board with the Red Cross when they called um
the earlier we can let people know that that helps us out too so um and then the last one will be June 10th grade fair and bike rodeo will be participating in that again um we voted to amend a bylaw bylaw
2.5.1A which is for our on call rotation for EMS shifts we used to do um a oneweek period and then we'd have what depending on numbers we'd have either six or seven crews all depending on the number of personnel uh we um did a
six-month trial period of doing a twoight shift and then just rotating with however many crews we have so now we're two nights every I think it's 16 days with the idea of um if we get a rough week um taking into account
people's mental health and lack of sleep and things like that getting up in all hours of the night uh it was really wellreceived in the trial period so we voted to amend that bylaw to the new language and that passed last month and then a brief update with the
highway 52 and I90 project um at our Homestead County Chief's meeting we uh agreed between Stewartville Rochester Chatfield and Yota there's going to be a small area that with that interchange closed of Rochester Fire District that
they'll have trouble accessing it'll take them some extra time they'll actually have to come down like through Simpson um so it's already set up through dispatch where all four of those departments will be auto aid they'll be automatically dispatched whoever gets there first will handle it and then turn it over to Rochester whenever they get
there so with the idea being we just want people to get the help as quickly as they need it so uh but that'll be a temporary auto aid um through the construction period then that'll be taken off uh whenever construction's done and then again next year when they
quoted again for the other part the other bridge so um that's all I have unless any of you have questions for me any questions for the chief sound like you guys are going to have a busy month you're going to get busier now with that I90 deal too
all right tell the guy thanks pool director none tonight but I bet by next month we start hearing from him so that takes us to committee commission board reports chamber of Commerce nothing in my packet about it eda H we've got all the minutes in there
uh we've had another good round of applications for the beautifification project for the houses and we've got another bunch of them coming up at the next meeting so it's been wellreceived uh finance auditors here on Thursday so
we'll see a couple of you um for that uh audit preview so over the noon hour always look forward to that once you Oh yeah I don't have to do that no we need to watch oh yeah
that's library um meeting next month yep no park board is next week personnel just had a bunch of We saw that we voted on i'm told the union is
preparing their presentation for you so we'll just have to let you know we can meet and start reviewing that planning zoning we voted on it tonight public safety uh nothing special
to add with summer around the corner we got our little events that are starting to be emailed out to us but we have a community engagement deputy now so I don't really know how much I'll be interwoined with that
just because now we'll have a certain guy go to each of these events so we'll see we'll keep you taking a bite out of crime something like that public works
nothing ready no report rooff no report tonight transit advisory committee well believe it or not you'll get to ride on the new bus tonight that's part of their uh All right
communications nothing in the packet anyone here like to use the open mic tonight mark you got anything to say wait for you to tell me I can leave i'll make a motion to adjurnn we have a motion we have a motion to adjurnn do we have a second second we have a second
all in favor say I i opposed we're journed