Call me into order. Start the pledge of allegiance. Stand if you're able. >> 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. >> Roll call. Starting on my right. Council person Josh. >> Council person Brener. Council person Jeremiah. >> Approval of tonight's agenda. Staff, do you have anything more to add? >> I think we're all good to go. So, thank you. >> Anything at the table?
>> I'll move to approve. I'll second that. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Approval of council me minutes from February 10th, 2026. I'll make a motion to approve those minutes. I'll second that. All in favor
say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Finance and budget accounts payable listing is listed in your packet. Any questions?
Direct to Kelly, please. I'll make a motion to approve the budget. We got a motion. We have a second. >> Second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Passes. On to motions and general business. First is Meadow Park South
Hockey Rink. >> Bids were solicited for replacing existing asphalt at Meadow Park South Hockey Rink. The scope of the project would include mobilization and fine grading in preparation for the asphalt placing asphalt in a 4-in depth and two lifts.
We got two of them. First one is Rochester sand and gravel for 48,580. Second bid was for Elcore Construction 55,700. Um council action requested is approved into the contract which would be
Rochester San for 48,580 with the lowest for the lowest bidder. Any questions? Is it just going to be the rake area or is it going to be the whole the parking lot. >> No, just a parking lot's been redone when we did some in the past. So, that's
all fine. I test drilled and I felt down there. It feels like there's 4 in of at least of asphalt. So, I got a pin for 3 in and 4 in. I'm basing that number is off the 4 in the worst case scenario. Uh if we peel that off and it ends up only
being three or whatever, but I it feels to me like it's the full 4 inch depth. So >> would one inch make a big difference for a hockey rink or >> out there? Because the only time you're ever on it is when the grounds froze with equipment. >> Yeah, >> we you can get by with three, but if I go with three and we had four there,
then elevation of all the land around it and stuff like that's going to be. So I want to put back what's >> Okay. >> So I kind of left it opened that way and gave you the worst case scenario. Are the boards going to stay up then? >> We'll take the boards down in the process of doing >> Yeah, but do they stay I can't remember if they stay up all all summer long or
do we take >> Yeah, they usually stay up all summer. >> Okay. >> They use them for pickle ball. >> Okay. >> Cuz that's what when we get done with this little straight pickle ball courts the whole length of it going sideways and then they got the boards up to stop their balls which is one of the common requests that we get for the others.
>> Any other questions? >> I'll move to approve. I'll second that. We got a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> Motion carries. >> Who Who made the motion? I'm sorry. >> Josh.
>> Second. Jeremiah. >> The next uh item under general business is massage therapist license. The city has received an application for approval from massage therapist license and business license for massage Asian massage and fitness located at 105 South
Main. Action council action requested is approved the renewal for of a massage therapist license for Mrs. Hoyer and the renewal of a business license for Mrs. Hoyer at 105 South Maine for 2026
licensing period contingent upon the completed application. Does the application go through the city or the county? >> It goes to the city but the county does check them for us. >> Okay. Justin, any comments, questions, concerns?
>> No comments, questions or concerns. >> All right. I'll make a motion to approve. Got a motion to approve. Approved. We got a second. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. I. >> I. Opposed. Motion carries.
2026 library expansion. Um, in our packet, you can see the uh pictures and drawings. And I see Nate's up here to talk to us. So, um, all three of you have served on
the library board while we've wor been working on this, so this, uh, plan as a whole shouldn't come as a, uh, anything like a surprise to you. But, um, we are, uh, getting darn close to breaking
ground on the project. And, um, it this is a project that has a lot of features in it that I think will be of enormous benefit to the community of Steuartville. And um you know whether that's meeting rooms,
quiet study space, additional library collection space, um areas to feature art and history, um community gathering, uh areas to spark creativity and uh house library
programming. And um we have been working diligently with uh the financial staff at the city to pay for the project and um we feel really good about where we're at.
building of >> uh we've got the full set of documents if you want to look through those, but what we've attached are at least um a rough site layout of what it will look like and then Nate put together the actual inside uh at least proposed
layout. One of the nice things about it is going to be flexibility uh based on events uh programs or seasonal uh projects, programs that the library will have. So it'll give us the flexibility of moving things around
>> including how uh librarianship changes over time. This this space has a great deal of flexibility to it. So if there's a movement towards you know different trends if uh you know there's a push back towards physical media we could
adjust to that. At the same time too, if physical media activity continuity is to dwindle, we can redirect staff space to um you know other collections. So um yeah, I think this is a darn good plan that a lot of people
have including almost everybody in this room really uh given some input into. >> Nate, can you tell us what the next few steps are? Yeah. So, actually right now, just today, we were um swapping out the
windows uh uh doing a little energy efficient project on the um on the existing library space. Um uh next we go to planning and zoning in,
uh at their March meeting. Um and uh we we're ready to go out for bids on on the various uh sub packages of this project. >> And shovel you're going to start I mean obviously this spring >> optimally April. Yeah.
>> Yeah. So >> basically turn around that fast. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Yeah. We've really measured and measured and measured and measured and measured and now it's time to cut. Um, couple things for you. Um, just on the layout, um, if you look in that
lower left hand, uh, uh, corner, um, that can be future space for an outdoor um, activity event area, uh, reading garden. Um, there's been several ideas that the library board has had, so we'll kind of see how bids are and see if some
can progress there sooner than later. Otherwise, that would be a future phase. Um Jenna's staff has been very um helpful with our architects and uh the construction manager on getting the behind the scenes things in place. And
so then Jenna will basically complete um uh her review of the site plan and um then like said uh once the bids come in um then you'll get one more chance because hopefully they'll come in favorable for us and uh then you give
the final approval to those. Uh, one thing we're hopeful for is if they do come in favorable, we have asked the architect or construction manager um, might they be able to add a little bit more brick veneer on the front just to match up a little bit more of the brick
you see on the existing. Um, but at least this is the layout that'll work for now. And if that feature helps out, it's just it'll add a little extra accent to it. It it also is a planned 10-month of new construction with a two to three month period of renovating the
existing library space. Uh so with a planned grand opening um in May of 2027. >> Nate, I had a question on the kitchen. Is that like a does that have to be like a commercial kitchen or >> It is not a commercial. It's more of a kitchenet. And so, um, you know, we
have, uh, we have some plans for some other kitchen features in the, um, existing staff room, but, um, yeah, this is going to be pretty a pretty small barebones, um, uh, feature. But, you know, like what you could do, you could still do a
a small catering event or, you know, uh, that's going to have a serving window um for like popcorn or appetizers or something for that kind of thing. Any questions for me? >> So, you'll be able to stay open like
during the Is there any time you're going to have to close down like if they make the connections? Obviously. >> Yeah, there'll probably be a few a few days here. Um today was honestly like if you would have swung by it was so loud in the library today while they were redoing windows and there were dudes on
the roof. Um but um mostly, you know, I've gone through these construction projects before at other libraries and most of the stuff that happens is isn't as loud as you know it's it's outside noise and there are going to be walls in place for most of it
>> good thank you for all your hard work >> thank all three of you for your service in the library >> so can you guys just do a more you've already approved the library project going ahead but just to um approve the
library board's uh recommendation. They did one at their meeting the other night to go ahead with these final plans. >> Okay. So, they'll want us to make a motion to uh approve the library board's plans that we see in front of us. >> I'll make that motion. >> Got a second.
>> I'll second it. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Okay. Motion carries. >> Thank you, John. >> Thanks, Nate. On the mayor, staff and consultants report. The mayor's report. Sympathy to
families of Steve Schwarz, John Malone, Nancy Bamlet, and David Hansen. Open Hearts Food Shelf at United Methodist Church is now open. Check the Star for operating hours. Kuanas Food for Kids will be participating in Fairway Roundup
Program through February 7th. Good luck at state and girls wrestling. Morgan Olsen. She's making Steuartville history by being the first female wrestler to advance the state tournament. We wish her uh good luck. Morgan Manning. Oh, sorry.
>> Oh, I'm sorry. >> Morgan Morgan Manning. Sorry. >> Thank you, Josh. Sorry, Morgan. Congratulations to Ed Krueger being named Chamber Volunteer of the Year. He's always the first to help out and the last to leave. Keep up the great
job, Ed. City administrator's report is in your packet. Um, Bill, you have anything to add? >> No, the main part was um working with Nate and helping um get all this stuff put together. So, should good shape.
>> Finance off. Finance officer Kelly, do you have any thing you want to add? No report. public works director Sean reports in your packet >> reports there. Uh, one thing I wanted to bring up is uh, Geotech has asked for
some consideration on the parking areas out there along their property on Second Avenue. Uh, if you guys go out there during heavy traffic hours, you see the trucks trying to back up and get in there and it is a congested mess. I have spoken with Sidums who own across the
road from them and we would like to put no parking along both sides, both parties are in favor of it. Nobody's contesting it at all. And if we can get some signs and put up there and at least see how it goes, but just to clear up
some of the congestion that area because they have semis back in all the time and it's hard for them to get in and make turns. >> So those employees, the ones parking in the street out there. >> Yeah, most of it. Not not all of it, but most of it is their employees. >> In the winter time, they are paid yellow
for most of it. We are just going to stretch it and make the whole thing in front of there. Uh, no parking. Uh, just to clear up any con, you know, ideas of congestion because it's confusing if you have no parking here and then parking for a small space and then no parking
again right after. So, we're just going to kind of clean up that whole area. Both sides are willing to do it. Uh, but I wanted to make sure you guys were aware of it and we don't go sign something and tear them down two weeks later. Uh but if we gave that a go and >> with that being a right, we need a no
parking resolution. >> Yeah, we'll have to come back with the resolution the next meeting. >> Okay, >> there you go. >> It's totally done. Did you just say no park is what we're looking for? >> Second. >> Oh, that was way easier.
That was a mess. >> Any questions for Sean? city. >> So, one other thing is the deck is tore apart over there. They are repairing that this week. It'll be uh they tore out the old pier footings yesterday or the peers and it's just soup that
they're in there. They're going to try and get all the way down to bedrock and we are going to bolt those together some heavy gauge steel from peer to pier to try and stabilize it so it doesn't do this again. And they are getting it all the way down to bedrock. So, I did have
them tear out the back pier last week. We The bid was for 12,500. You remember approving that? >> Yeah. >> A couple weeks ago. >> I had them do two bids. We thought we were going to go once we tore the deck off and the back ones are all shipped to. So, we are going with the second bid, which is going to be 145. Uh, and
we'll see what we got. If we might have some extras because they got to go so deep. I don't know. But hopefully we keep it around at least the 145. But they had submitted two bids for that. I just thought we were going to get by with a cheaper one and it is going to be 14
and replace all eight of them. >> You usually have the culverts raise up I see at Maple Brooks the subdivision. >> That's the second time that's happened there. So I just the extreme cold and the pond was pushing it through from over in Georgetown. I was surprised that it
would be running at all, but it was. >> So this has been cleaned out and it's been working since. Any other questions for Sean? >> City engineer Jenna, do you have anything to report for us?
>> Yep. We will be coming forward to you guys um to approve a couple different resolutions, but one for sure would be changes in our state aid route. Um, so we'll have a few more, we've been adding roads and we have a few more miles we can use and put on and we want to shift
some things because the way the state aid needs formula works is um your heaviest traffic gives you more money. So we want to apply those miles appropriately. So just want to make you aware that we'll be doing that here this
spring. Um, other than that looks like We'll be trying to do the signal system bidding here early summer, late spring. Um, and that's about it.
>> Signals out here. What's the Do you have any idea like the timeline for that? Like when they'd be up or what are hope what we're hoping for? >> I don't know manufacturing time at this time period.
Any other questions for Jenna? Thank you, Jenna. Library director's report. >> Okay. Um, so I gave you guys an 18page report that
I would be surprised if you all read. So, um, but the good I, uh, the good news in it is, uh, circulation's up. Um, number of programs is up. Um, I think it is it tells a really uh story about a
vibrant uh civic um uh feature that um is ready to expand. And um and also we are we were one of the first communities in Minnesota to submit their
annual report this year. um which was just we had to just get it done earlier to get library board approval because they meet every 3 months. So um we just we got it done really fast. Um and I
don't know do you guys have any questions about it? Um otherwise you know we've really um been churning through a lot of programming. Uh we our um story stroll at Central was a big hit on Saturday. Um, and we're probably
going to reuse that for Music in the Park this summer. Um, and um, if you've never done a story stroll, it's basically like you take a picture book. Uh, and every few feet is a different page of the picture book. And
we did a two-sided one so that like when folks walked into to Central, they could read the berry ate your sandwich. And then on their way out, they could read uh, when I first came to this land. Um, so kind of just double-sided it and um,
I thought it was cute as could be. So, well, Nate, keep up the good work. You guys have any questions for Nate? >> No. >> No. >> We have no fire chief and no pool director on committees, commissions, and boards.
Chamber of Commerce. Ally, you got anything for us? EDA H meds are in there. Anything to add? >> I missed the last meeting, but the minutes are in there. They had a lot of uh lot of residential applications for
the beautifification project. So, >> it's crazy. >> Sorting through a lot. It looks like it's great. >> Library. >> Uh we met last week. Uh actually went over a lot of what Nate's already talked
about and what was in his packet tonight. So, nothing more to add there. Personnel >> um did meet will have minutes forthcoming probably at your next meeting. So, >> okay. Public safety.
Last week we had the potential bomb threat at store transportation that was proven to be false. But I just wanted to say thank you to Sean to have your guys out there world there. I mean, well, John and I were on the phone while I was on my way out there, and by the time I
got out there asking for barricades to be put on each sides of the streets, the guys were there in less than 2 minutes. So, to put themselves in potential harm's way uh to help us block things off is a huge benefit for us to have.
So, appreciate that. Public works. nothing ready. >> Uh community council minutes are in there. Uh basically all the talk was about Pine Island and what they're working through uh with citizens and
this proposed uh data center. So >> roll call. >> Uh no report >> transit advisory committee. >> No report. >> No report. Um I see people electric uh their annual meetings coming up.
Um otherwise open mic. Does anybody want to speak? Al Dan. >> All right. The last motion of the night. No.
>> Second. All in favor. >> That was the slowest