Order. Stand algiance, 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 roll call starting on my right. Council person Josh, Council Person Brener, Mayor Jimmy John Kang, council person Craig Anderson, Council Person Jer. Looking for approval of tonight's agenda. Any additional through the
table? We got to move to approve. Motion to approve. We have a second. We have a second. Okay. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. That'll carry. Approval of council meeting minutes of July 22nd,
2025. Make a motion approve those minutes. Are you here? We got a motion. Do we have a second? A second. Questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I.
Opposed. That. Okay. Finance and budget. You got the accounts payable and you got the additional accounts payable listing there. We got a big stack tonight. Any questions? The finance officer, Kelly, please. I just want to mention that the check for 153,000
First National Bank of Omaha was for the 2015 assisted living bond, the annual payment for that, in case you're wondering. It was kind of a big check. So um it'll be paid off next year actually and those payments are offset from um lease receipts that we've
received from River Estates. So just wanted to let you know on that one. Thank you. I'll make a motion to approve. We have a motion to approve. We have a second. Second. We have a second. Any other questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor
say I. I. Oppose. So I will take this reading. The motion is general business. The first thing on the motion general business tonight is a public hearing. And public hearing amending chapter 13 to include canvas.
the planning and zoning commission. Second, you want me to go to the public hearing right away? It doesn't set up. You can you can read it first and then. All right. The planning zoning commission is recommending the attachment be included in the city zoning ordinance chapter 13. The areas of the ordinance that are highlighted is
proposed language to be included in the various sections of chapter 13. staff recommends that the city utilize an interim use permit process rather than the conditional use permit. While both require public hearing, an interim use permit differs in that it
does not run with the land and cannot be transferred to new owners unless specifically authorized. The planning commission and city council will still have the ability to establish conditions during the public hearing process similar to a CUP. However, an interim
use must include a defined termination point which will be established at the time of approval. This will require a follow-up public hearing for review and prevent potential renewal or discontinuation. So, I'm going to close the right meeting now. Open the public hearing. Public
hearing is now open. Um, written oral any written oral from anybody? Nothing. Um, Maron, do you want to speak on Are you here to speak on it or do you want me to speak on it? Would you want to highlight a little bit of this, please?
Yeah, for represent the public. Aaron Schroeder, 603 Michael Circle. It's been a while since I've been here. Hi, everyone. Um, so I had the wonderful honor of working with city staff on getting our cannabis zoning ordinance together. For those that do not know me,
um, my name is Marin Schroeder. I work um, in cannabis policy. I've been in that space for about 10 years. Um, and I've seen a lot of ordinances throughout the state that are bad and that's like
99% of them. So, you over several months of conversations, I think we started back in November of last year, um, looking at what are the highest risk activities and how can we as a city keep some tabs on those. uh we decided in
conversation to move toward this interimm use permit as a way to have some additional oversight but then also in areas that it made sense we just made allowable uses as well. So um everything
was based on risk safety risk risk to neighborhoods um and how that was kind of laid out throughout the city and the zoning. Happy to hang out answer questions. Well, first off, I thank you for all the work you did put into this.
Welcome. Uh, the other questions I have I asked the other day and somebody I'm sure I don't know if it needs to be asked here or what, but do we have just one permit for the city? We don't have anything yet. We don't have a draw, right? What? It's a drop. The county is going to
drop, so we might not have any permits or we could get five or six. So, but as of now, we have not heard anything that's for retail that permit. Do we have to have permits for cultivation and all this or don't we have to worry about any of that?
That's all included in the zoning ordinance. So, your cultivation manufacturing specifically, I think all in all zones require an internal use permit. No, but what I'm asking Mary is do we have to have a draw for every one of them? Like they're
doing this draw for who gets they have a retail store or whatever. No. No. The state will license the cultivators and manufacturers who can establish wherever they want in the state. Okay. And we've had probably four to five
calls on different various properties. There's probably three in town that they've called about. Um and they were all for retail. Okay. You guys have questions? I don't I know the interm is like how
long would that typically be? Like a year, five years or I guess it would kind of depend on the owner and and that kind of stuff, right? Yeah. I left it kind of vague in our ordinance. I've seen it be like it triggers upon sale of the property. I've
seen them be with a time period and we kind of left that open for a case by case basis. Um with an ultimate if the property is sold, if it's a leie that's using the property for that purpose that has the IUP, they need to come back
within 6 months and reup their IUP with the new owner. I would probably suggest two years When's the draw for the county? Do we I can't remember what they I didn't tell you. I know they've been Yeah, they drew eight. Was it eight applicants
so far? Yeah, eight were eight were drawn from the micro business licenses and then they have a separate drawing for mezo businesses and retail license holders and the county allocated those registrations based on the number of applications in each category that the
state received. So they kind of just like divvied out where eight of 12 would have represented that number of state applicants. Any other questions here?
Any questions from the public out there? Actually, yeah. I'm actually one of the persons that are trying to open a retail business down here cuz the other ones went for dispensaries. They already have those out there as she said it. Um I was just a little confused. Are you guys going to have a lottery for retail also
or is that just not applicable to the dispensary ruling or rules that it has. I love how you guys are looking at me. Um, the city delegated its registration authority to the county. So, you must have a county registration to operate
retail in storeville. As far as I know, I got a partner that already had taxes bill. uh I don't know exactly with who but uh I guess it was approved as a retail and we also have a building that the uh landlord is
actually waiting for the approval to give us to go ahead. So be the options are either breaking ground somewhere if allowed or renting space to uh the retail. Were you did you have a registration application in with the county?
Yes. Were you in the micro business? I was in the m uh I wasn't the previous one cuz uh I guess they put me in the wrong category. But that one would have taken it if but it's like that's just millions of dollars
just to open up a spree. It's like no that's too much. Yeah. I mean I'm happy to connect with you after the meeting if you want. Um I kind of like your specific situation if that's helpful. This is basically the first reading tonight for the public. So no decision
real decision be made. Yeah. I got to go to the county. Also, uh they told me that the registration will be open on the 11th and I think the reviews of their processing is going to be done on the 22nd. So, Bill,
I just want to thank Marin, too. Obvious territory for all of us cities in Minnesota. uh she struck a good balance between the state law which now allows it and then um working with the county since we're delegating a lot of our authority and working side by side with
them and then of course more specifically our zoning which is ours and so at least for this first u foray out into it um and it can obviously be subject to revision if we run into issues but u hopefully we've set a good
um startup uh situation Okay. Yes. Thank you. Thanks, Baron. Welcome. Thanks. All right. Any other comments or questions? Otherwise, I'm closing the public hearing. We're back to the regular meeting. As I said before, this
is the first reading of the ordinance and it was brought back to the council at the August 25th 26th, excuse me, meeting for adoption. All right. That'll take us to barric split. City received two applications from
Barricade Estates LLC for two lot splits. The first to consider involves dividing out lot A into four parcels. Parcel G will be needed to the current homeowner of lot 11. The remaining three lots will be included in the future
adjacent lot sales. The remaining portion of outlot A, which includes the pond, will then be deed to the city. The second to consider involves dividing outlaw C into four parcels. These parcels will be included in future adjacent lot sales. The planning
commission held a public hearing on August 4th and we're recommending approval of both of these splits. All right. You got anything to say about that? Easier just beed like this. Just go straight straight back like
this. I imagine that's what you're going to do in jail. Just deepen the lot back to the road. Make it more desirable. Any other questions or discussion on this from anybody here at the table or we got
anything from the staff? No. That being said, come on. Council action requested will be to split into two actions to approve resolution 2025- a resolution approving a lot split of
all lot A barricade of Estates. We have a motion on that. I'll make a motion to approve. We have a second. A second. Any other questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I. Opposed carried. The second action will
be to approve resolution 2025- a resolution approving a lot split of all lot C bar estates. Do we have a motion? Motion. Motion to approve. Do we have a second? Second. Any questions or discussion? Hearing
none. All in favor of that? I oppose. That carries also. All right. That'll move on to Mindot 63 at Schuman Drive traffic light. A lot's changed in two weeks.
Yep. Minimum of understanding April 22nd, 2025, the council approved a partnership agreement with Mandot district 6 for the highway 63 and Schuman Drive intersection traffic signal. Since then, the staff in district 6 has years of continued
discussions, particularly regarding the reallocation of funds. The attached is now being presented for approval. Short-term traffic signal cost breakdown. Total cost 800,000. Let
excludes power and construction administration at 8%. MDOT will be 2/3 at 533,000. City 1/3 at 267,000. Questions or discussion about that? When they say short-term, was it
discussed like short-term or not? We still call it temporary. That's short-term. temporary could be a year could be definitely permanent mass uh setup out there just like you see downtown as opposed to the cables or anything short term
but the short term could last 2 years four years 6 years 20 years when could this get started then when can it yeah so they're looking at August of 2020 to have it installed at least there
so we're already The plans and specs, we would look to bid them this fall. Um, materials are a little more timely than our regular street construction and that would set
us up for spring summer construction. And this is a change from 50/50, correct? Well, remember way back when the EDA 10 12 years ago started this process. At that time, Mandod said it'd be 50/50
because uh each side takes their two wings. Well, in the time that's transpired here, uh this will be the 1/3 2/3 thing. So, the council action requested to authorize Mayor King and city administrator Shiml to enter into the
memo of understanding with MDOT. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve. Second. We have a second. All in favor say I. I. Oppos. That'll carry. Next item, resolution approving advertising for bids for Legacy Drive.
City engineer has been working with BP pipeline to update the plans and specs for Legacy Drive Northwest. At the Monday, August 11 meeting received approval to move forward with submitting the plans as discussed. Staff is now requesting authorization to bid
once formal approval pipeline is received. Questions or discussion? So the the BP still hasn't rubber stamped it yet. They have not rubber stamped it yet.
Correct. Um, we had verbal compliance yesterday with a concept, but um, my staff still had to nail it down to actual sizing of pipes and um, so we are fixing up those plans and
Dan said he was going to get them done today. So, um for them to actually do the permit on. Um but we will have those sent in this week and hopefully since we've already verbally talked it through
and they like the direction we're going, we will get approval. And this request is then to just allow us to go right into bidding procedures instead of waiting to come back. They got to get the they got to get the approval first. That's what she's doing.
But if she has two meetings, any other questions or discussion for motion to approve of resolution 2025, a resolution authorizing advertising for bids for Legacy Drive Northwest. I'll make the motion to approve. We have a motion. Do we have a second?
Second. We have a second. Do we have any other questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. That'll carry. Best of luck, Jenna. All right. Next item is equipment
agreement with Homestead County. Tax based line. The annual equipment agreement is submitted by Homestead County. This agreement covers equipment operators. The city would need to use them. This year we saw an increase in each line item which was to be expected. Public works director A recommending
approval of contract. So there laid out for you what the rates are and I guess in the 17 years I've been here we've used very little honor is recommending because these rates are the
rates that's the way things are right Any other questions or discussion? I'll move to approve it. We have a motion to approve. Do we have a second? Second. We have a second. All in favor say I.
Oppose. Carries. Six is on the final item here. We have approval. Library page pages. After interviewing a number of candidates, we are recommending Reese Nelson and William Tyler Smith.
Will we call him William or Tyler? Tyler is what he prefers. He hired his library pages. And Nate, the reason is they're awesome. Are we losing one or two or We are having two of them starting in
college in the next two weeks. Okay. I'm glad you're awesome. All right. Any other questions from the table? Discussion. Action requested is to either approve or deny Race Nelson to be hired for position of library page at pay grade
two step one. And Tyler Smith to be hired for position of library page at pay grade two step three. Why step three on? Uh he's a grownup. Uh so we can have him do more stuff. He has more life experiences. Um, and uh, he's like a
stay at home dad getting back into agreed when I be at Oh, like at least Okay, three is our floor, Mr. Mayor. All right, we have a motion. I'll make a motion to approve. Everybody wants to make a motion. We got a motion to approve. We got a second.
Second, Jeremiah. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. That will carry. That's going to take us out of motions. general business and the mayor's staff of assault reports the mayor's report tonight city would like to send their sympathies to the
families of Doug Ferguson Robert Nord Bob Pat Musman Brad Musman and Ed Dodie tough for our citizens
uh night to unite that was last Tuesday night we had some pretty good parties pretty good turnouts. Justin and the sheriff's department showed up, drove all around, Brandon, all the fire guys showed up. It really made the day for a couple of them kids at a couple.
Uh we really appreciate that you guys will come out and do that for us. And same with Justin and and county. Bill had a good time. You did, didn't you, Bill? Oh, yeah. Yep. Yep. citizens were all nice. We actually got quite a fair number of
compliments on what's all been happening around town. So, we did thank the people that put on the parties. They went through a little work. Some of them were quite the parties. We're getting bigger and better every year. All right. Brad Boyce. He's got a new
gospel gospel concert to be held Sunday, August 17th at 2 PM. Is that at United Methodist or is that an amphitheater or where's that at? Methodist. United Methodist. All right. Now, you've never been to one of his. I don't Does he do this one Elvis style or
is this a whole different deal? I mean, he is Elvis when he wants to do Elvis. I can tell you that. Stewie Cruiser's car shows have started every Friday evening until late fall. Let me get some great turnouts on them. We've got another concert tomorrow night. We'll see if we can pull another
one off. We had a great turnout again last week. Great band. Stewart Cruz got them farmers market at Sturf United Methodist Church is every Wednesday through September. So you swing out, buy some cucumbers and tomatoes, swing out to the concert, have
a good time, go home before dark. All right, that's all I got except I would like to really thank a big thank you to public works. They put in some pretty extra time and pretty good time for all the citizens after that storm. That was kind of a surprise
to everyone. Feel real bad for a couple guys got their cars squished down there. That's the way it goes. So, thank the guys for that. I know it's in your report, but I I would really like everybody to know that they kind of went above and beyond on that deal. You even help an old man that's getting
pooped out out there at the tree dump. I seem to jump right out and help that old guy. Good for him. All right, that's all I got. City administrator Bill, you got a report for us? Yep. Short report in your packet. And
just we appreciate your flexibility and letting us do those things uh for the cleanup and flexibility of how we take care of our good old community. have a short report. Yeah, good for you.
That's my part for finance report. I just have a couple things I wanted to mention. Um, we opened a new sweep account the beginning of July and just in the month of July alone, we got
$6,500 in interest on the money that was sweeping into that account. However, I noticed that the rate was incorrect versus what they told us it was going to be. So, we actually should have gotten about 10,000 almost 10,000 in interest. So, they're going to correct it for us
and retro it back to the first July or whenever it was open. So, that's good news. for earning more interest. Um, I also am working on the budget and if you have any requests or changes or need, let me know. Um, I'd like to do a
special meeting before the next council meeting on 8:26 at 5:00 to discuss it. All right, we should be able to make that work. Any uh other questions for Kelly?
All right. Thanks, Kelly, for all the work. While we work, Sean, you got a report? Yep. Report's in there. Uh, one thing I want to bring up that I didn't put in the report yet, but the swimming pool, we are looking at resurfacing the Diamond Pride surface. Uh, it's due. Uh,
we have some leaks going on there. We're hoping this correct some of the leaks because of the condition of the shell. Um, but the early bids that came back are to the point where we need to go out for advertising because of the cost of it to go through the process. We were
hoping to start this this fall and get it done this fall. So, we're not pushed up against opening in the spring because you never know what spring throws at you because we have to advertise and go through this. Not 100% sure we'll make it work, but we're going to try. Otherwise, we'll have it that it has to
be completed by miday so we can get it opened up in time for beginning of next year as part of the specs. So, just a heads up on that. Have you started reaching out for any bids yet or anything? We have two bids and the bids were to
the high enough that we got to it pushes us over the threshold where we have to advertise. So it slows us down because it would have been nice just to award off what we got back for bibs, but we have to advertise now. So is there a lot of people are going to do that or not? No.
One of the bids we got is out of Missouri, something like that. All right. Any questions for the two parking lots?
Oh. Oh, the parking lots at Barricades, as you guys notice, have been disconnected and we have them coned off. We are going through the process of seeing what this is going to do with them disconnected. Well, they're going to stay disconnected and we will look at whether we're going to move the parking
lot around or the driveway around at the SYA building so that it doesn't enter right where all the activity is there. But we're going to try it this way after the street project was finished up there and this was part of the street project. So if you guys go out there, you'll see where it's coneding off now where
they're no longer able to go through there. So So the new west entrance will be for the ball field complex basically only. Obviously if Summerfest then people are going to mix and match, but that's the idea we want to try out,
experiment with. And then where the big lawn parking lot is, that would be for all the SYA activities. Um, rest of the park activities that people with the intersection come and meeting there, the driveway that was there for the ball fields before was close to the intersection, which makes for not a a
safe area there as much traffic as you're getting with the school and stuff there. That's why it was closed on and moved to the side off of 11. So, at least for now, it'll be experimental. We'll see how a season
goes with the different sports, the different activities, and if need be, like John said, we'll look at adjustments maybe at a future date. We also increase the the softball complex. Some of the rock from there was used to
increase the size of the parking lot at the softball complex. All right. Any other questions for Sean? Thanks, Sean. and make sure you thank the guys we get. We'll do things. All right, city engineer. Yeah, they got a report for us. I
think we've covered most of it. 11th is paved, open. Last week, there was already bikers going down the trail. Um and and we're getting ready for beds for more. So, just keep going.
Perfect. Thanks for pushing BP a little bit today. Any other questions for Jenna? All right, Nate, have you got any besides you want to be here for the AIDS or what? Um, mostly just here for the AIDS, but we do have or the pages, but we have um
our end of the summer tie-dye party is Thursday from 1 to 6 and there will be daily bars. So, what's page eight or page? What's the difference? Uh so library page is like basic kind of shelver and then um and
then the next level up is um they can be a person in charge independent. Thank you Brandon. You got a report for us tonight? Yeah reports in there. Um so we had an extremely busy July. We had 76 calls for
service, 18 fire calls, 58 EMS. Um, so not quite doubled, but pretty close to double what an average month is for us. August hasn't started out too much better, but we have kind of seen a taper down after the first week or so. Um,
other items, the F550 chassis that was ordered in June, um, is due to arrive already here end of August, midepptember. Um, so we'll have that inhouse. So that way when the manufacturer is ready to put the body on it, we'll have that all
ready along with I'm working on radio and all the equipment uh for that. And then had another successful Fourth of July fireworks display. Um, so at our business meeting, thank the committee members who took time out of their Saturday to get everything prepared and
launched those and clean up afterwards. Um, just had a note in there that uh just because I've had some comments, we were not contacted to staff EMS as we have been in the past for uh Summerfest events, the runs or the dance. Um, so
just a reminder and urgent organizers to contact us in advance. We're happy to help out and participate wherever we can. Uh, we just need to know about in advance so we can get people lined up. So, uh, that's all I had for a July update unless you have any questions for
me. We really want to thank you for that fireworks. I haven't seen the rankings this year, but I think last year weren't we like fifth or sixth best in the state. Pretty well up in the top 10 of the best fireworks in the state. Thank you guys for doing that.
Any other questions for Chief? All right. Thanks. Well, second Jake's not here, so no pool director report. I'll take this committee commission board reports chamber of
commerce nothing in the packet here ed we got a meeting coming up we've uh kind of run through the programs the deadlines came and went for some of our home improvement and our commercial improvement now we just need to finish
them up by the first of the year but we're already looking at what maybe we can change for next year or something else we can do finance just the meeting for the as council. Perfect. Library uh meeting next week. Park board
uh met last night. We're talking about um shuffling some projects around and um looking at doing potentially lights at the ball fields and things like that. Personnel
P&Z are in there for last week. Be a busy time last week. Public safety. I was slow to submit my report. So, it'll be in the next one. Uh, obviously 199 went good. Uh,
we had no complaints, which was kind of surprising. Usually, we collect one or two, but we didn't have any, so that was good. Well, my grandson's not happy with one. Well, that's all right. He'll get over it. Um, we did our another set of our checks, our compliance tobacco and
alcohol checks. We had uh three of them fail out of 12. So we ran and hit those three that had failed again and they all passed. So three of them failed last year. Three of
them failed as well. So we do more. No, one of them was the same. But we won't talk about who failed. If you guys want to know about that, we can do it after. We can talk about that stuff later. So, um I don't
know, three out of 15 fails. I was happy when we went back and they were on top of it, which they should have been, but is what it is. So, we'll just keep doing those. Keep them on their toes. Thanks for doing that. Thanks for all
the stuff you do. Public works. Nothing tonight. Ready? Uh reports in your packet. mainly just community updates um by everybody. So, sampling to see what's happening around the region.
Um they're working on or we're working on the uh transportation plan. So, what they've done or the information you got there is a link website link for anybody in the county to reference or take a look at as well as all of you.
Transit advisory committee report. Okay, we got some communication in here from leadership Rochester, class of 2021. Reo that if you want to
um takes us to the open mic. City council welcomes and encourages participation from community members. Please keep in mind that your comments must be pertain business. You must also adhere to the data privacy rules so no employees name may be used. Please do not expect any action from the council
this evening regard any concerns. We also request that your comments be limited to four minutes. As a speaker, you'll be recognized only once. At this time, we ask anyone who would like to address the city council to please step the podium to state your name and address. No one wants to do it. The motion of the
evening is made. Do we have a second? Second. All in favor say I. I opposed. We are very end.