good evening everybody it's May 20th it is 6 p.m. I call the meeting to order will everyone rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I to the of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy
and justice for all uh roll call we are missing Lee tonight uh he had to attend to a cousin's funeral so he will be uh missed tonight but uh the four of us are here to keep on pushing forward so thank you all for joining and thank you in the
audience for joining as well we'll move on to adopting tonight's agenda can I get a motion in a second please I'll make a motion I'll second great any discussion on tonight's agenda well one thing came up today um
and it's rather timely I believe it's time to schedule um a performance six Monon performance review for sh okay so I'm wondering if we can add that to the agenda because I think Sher what
was your November 27th May is six months so um I think we should try to find a time tonight if we can get together sometime in the next month so we can put that as number 10 on new business okay yeah thank
you it's coming up next Elizabeth's coming up on her annual um we don't have that scheduled either and what's your anniversary date on June 20 June 20
so we have a little bit more time on that one but we want to do them both tonight TR sh some time we'll put that as number 11 thank you any other discussion anything we
need to move or ADD any anything else Jo no very no all right all in favor of approving tonight's uh new B well tonight's agenda with adding Sherry's six-month review number 10 and number 11 will be the onee
review for Elizabeth say I Hi and then adopting a the consent agenda I need a motion in a second a motion second I'll second any uh discussion on the consent
agenda tonight um just one little number here in the fund balances uh Park fund uh count 403 it's still showing a negative
$216 I don't think anybody knows to what it is so when it comes to budget time we should zero that out okay I'll see if Michelle can look into that too she was out today so we'll send her an email okay anything
else I have one question on um check number 191 925 this is page 14 just curious to leag of Minnesota City's 2022 PC Insurance dividends
so is that a receipt turn back in from 2022 must be um everything from page I think 13 and 14 are Revenue um I I don't know if it's from this year I assume it will be from last
year but I'm not sure we can ask Michelle about that yeah it's quite a delay if it's 2022 I I can send Michelle an email I'll just we'll have her send out an email to the council EXP expl you look into that tomorrow
Tim um I had one question with Michelle I stopped up to see Michelle today and she wasn't in but the first item on page 15 uh minus $2500 um it's the there are a number of them
that are listed as negative numbers um and I don't know why they are expenses but uh majority the exception of just two I think are all positive numbers so I was going to follow up with her just try to figure
out what okay and I didn't go through the list to add them all up to see if that was a credit sure yeah that I would I saw that too and I just wondered if that if that means that's a credit the check sequences obviously out of order on that
one so I can take that on okay follow up on and I'll have her include that in the email as well then okay uh just in case anybody's going through the packet as well if you look down um to the bottom of page 15 um we
have two life insurance payments part of our benefits we provide life insurance to our employees and there were some issues uh since Kevin had started and then as well as um the rest of the crew they weren't up to date taking out the
amount so the amount this time around was a lot more because Michelle finally got somebody on the phone and they back build this since they all started so everybody has life insurance it's all paid up now so that dollar amount will go down as well per month so and
Michelle told me that about that last week when I stopped in so I just wanted to cover that so everybody know was it s fire oh okay yeah yeah so any other
questions no not for me oh all right uh all in favor approving the consent agenda say hi hi right we will move on to public forum thank you very much all right
Diane please join us and sorry I thank you welcome hi everyone I just wanted to give a quick can you hear me yeah I just wanted to give a quick update on the community
garden project and what has transpired with that um we started the planning committee started um talking with Becky Nelson Holden uh daughter of Leo and Carol they live out on County Road 20 they've had a
farm there for years and we um we met and we started talking about the possibility of putting a community garden there and they have graciously um consented to that and so we began um the project and we are
having an open house uh this coming Sunday May 26th from 1: to 3 at the farm um so come on out we're going to be sharing information on what a community garden is what the rules or guidelines
are registration forms um Becky has been um in the past for I think she said 15 or 16 years a community Gardener up in Morehead so she's very knowledgeable she knows a lot about farming and gardening it's pretty amazing so we're pretty
lucky to have this opportunity come up so I hope people come out we got a couple um we got a letter to the editor in the paper and um a community event listed so trying to get the word out about that and then I
just want to say a quick thank you for the um the crew of people that came down on Saturday for the cleanup day we had families and business owners um community members and we got a lot done and it was a definitely a successful
productive day and we're going to do it again so just want to say shout out to the city to Paul Kevin for lining up that uh recycling I think there were a lot of people out my husband drove by and said there's a bunch of trucks lined up dropping stuff off so it was it was a
good day so just wanted to say thanks to them okay thank you what time was the open it's from 1 to three 1 1 to three y thank you D thank you to the Coalition as well oh yeah clean up yeah you're
welcome next we have cine Shum well I too just wanted to start out with a shout out for everybody that helped with the cleanup day I just happened to drive through um downtown today and it just was a little bit of an extra of a shine and it just looked good so um in a
sense had I wasn't aware of what's different what's missing but it was just looked good so again just thanking everyone Mir and his family the T Falls Community Co Coalition the business owners like Diane said and just the citizens that came out it was really a
great thing of just pulling the community together so really appreciated that um what I really wanted to talk about tonight was um National Night Out um plans are underway for that and just wanted to um sort of clarify a few
things um the national night for National Night Out is the first Tuesday in August but each Community is free to set a date different than that or for whatever fits or Works in their community and for the last several years
we have done the third Tuesday in in August and just from time to time I just hear reports of you know I hear the police and the fire department and things like that aren't happy with the date and they want to go to the the national date and things like that so I
just wanted to clarify a little bit uh why that change was made and first of all to say that I have personally checked with the police and with the fire department uh to confirm if that date does work for them and it's good for them and they have always said
absolutely that um you know it's it's up to the community to set whatever date that we would like and they're glad to work with that one benefit or one reason for the change is Taylor's Falls has an incredibly unique situation that is a
wonderful community collaboration and that is between the school and the community and as far as I know I don't know of any other Community National net out event in in the in the area that the school is as involved in it as our
school is and the School Employees take the month of July off by and large and so when it's the first Tuesday in August at times that has been the day they come back or the day after they come back and it just is really a difficulty for them
to to to be you know just coming back and then to have this event where 200 people are coming to their property and things like that so that's went into a large part of it um the second thing that we found over the years as we switch the age is that we actually have
more access to some of the National Night Out events such as the lifing helicopter coming um when it was all on the same night as everyone else rotated years of when they could come and it was who got there first to ask for it and we just have had better success in in being
able to arrange for that to come when it was on a little bit different time um a third reason that we made the switch was just realizing that wanan days is the third week end in July so if we have it the first Tuesday it's just two weeks or
two and a half weeks after Wan days so moving it to the third Tuesday it sort of puts it a month out from um one days and so it just gives that another chance for a community event um when people have had a little chance to in a sense recover from the first community of that
to so basically I just wanted to say um plant are underway um save the date it is the third Tuesday in August and it will be again held jointly at the First Baptist Church with the meal portion of it and some of the music events and at
the school field the larger events uh whatever um services are able to come um whatever field demonstrations there are and things like that that'll all happen at the school he field so thanks everyone for your support and just wanted to give you that update and the
reasons for it so thank you two things first of all Cherry Hill Park looks fantastic the flowers are all coming up that you put in and they're gossiping and it's you know looks fantastic and thanks to Diane for doing the Market
park on the cleanup day oh yeah very nice thank you than coming along and I guess we just one other thing I can mention is that um this year the The National piony Society show and Convention is going to be in Minneapolis
I believe it's the first weekend in in June and um I'm not involved in that directly but I am a member of the Minnesota P society and they're going to have a volunteer appreciation picnic for those P members that have um helped with
the national show and I'm going to host that here in jaylor Falls and will um planning for a visit to Cherry Hill Park which the P Society has donated to in the past so just a fun thing to be able to share that with others and maybe some more interest in in helping with that
today lots of buds yeah thank you I was late to get here when I I wanted to sign up just for yeah yeahum up yeah right they never tell people you don't um I was out of tone this weekend
I have to ask and need to help me out on this but I uh read an article about water L pipes water supply lines something about I think it's either North Branch or Force like one of those cities has been contacted there's a big Federal
program to go out to the United States and they the goal is to replace all water lines lead pipe water lines and if I'm correct North bran of course like wi who are sending out information to their citizens to say we need to just St we
need to get a poll we need to get a number to find out who has lead pipes who has copper who has iron and I'm going heating an air conditioning gu but they say if you don't know how to figure out what's coming into your house there's a ways to find out now Locus
Lane and Bri we've got copper lines there's copper lines coming in so but I'm going to guess that some in this town maybe Angel Hill they might have lead pipes and there's going to be this funding available to that where people this would be a major project to
go in and eliminate these pipes and put in new piping so I don't know is that I know has the city ofs been hearing about this yeah Kevin is on that working up plans um they're putting together an information packet on it that'll be going out I'm not sure when okay but
sometime soon um we'll have pictures of what a meter looks like like mine has a plastic line coming in um how to assess your own and all kinds of information on that so yeah that'll be coming out I would guess sometime shortly I next
couple months yeah thanks y anybody else like to chim in no we're good okay well thank you everybody um we're going to do things a little different we're going to start with new business because we have some uh speakers here today uh so number one
on our new business is we're taking a look at uh health insurance for our employees and we have Bill joining us from the ET group so bill would like to come I'm primarily here to answer questions uh but my name is Bill singer
um I'm with at group and I work with an agency that works with 50 170 cities across the state of Minnesota and Michelle contacted me about employee benefits um because she got the reference from schaer we worked with
schaer on their employee benefits and so I provided some numbers had a little sit down with the employees and some of them numbers I guess are in your packet uh a couple different options that we uh talked about um probably more numbers
than we really wanted to go over but but uh I think we showed eight different plans um covering two different uh levels of benefits one gold and one silver and uh the numbers
are there you can kind of see what the monthly costs are the only requirement from the city uh is that you pay at least a minimum of 50% however I think in the memo that I attached most cities
pay almost everything the employees coverage so uh with that I'll stop because if you had a chance to look at it I'm guessing there are questions and if not I will continue to to uh continue
to elaborate oh that's one real quick question here in your um introductory letter um you mentioned we're unable to like join forces with other communities to you know have a group plan with like schaer can that uh not unless you have a
business arrangement with them which I don't think you do U plus it doesn't make any difference until you get over 50 so and if you're not over 50 doesn't matter so I just had a couple questions in your
letter you noted that each help Partners was the I don't remember the exact word but preferable um comparing the cost Blue Cross came well in both the gold and silver is there a reason why you noted HP Health
Partners um because for least the last 10 years Health Partners has been um the lower cost in the metro area and if you see the reason that Blue Cross came in lower is that their deductible which is the amount that comes out of the pocket
of the employee is uh $550 higher so in that sense it's not any cheaper it's just that the costs are transferred to the employee and at some point when deductibles get too
high uh employees are think this isn't really even insurance anymore because it never covers anything so um so that's that's kind of why the combination of uh premium and um uh risk or out of pocket
to the employee has almost always favored Health Partners uh in the region 8 which is the Metro through St Cloud area so yeah and St Croy is on their on their plan they're Wisconsin right
that's where a lot of our people would go that's one of the reason I S yeah um I don't think we had any problems with network this is the Open Access Network so I'm going to say yes okay but uh and then are these high
deductible plans all these plans are high deductible plans which means the deductibles that you see there on the gold option um for example the $3,200 deductible is $3,200 out of pocket for the employee before anything's covered
with the exception of preventive uh items okay and then the second exception is um and this is one of the reasons that Whole Health Partners is highly favored is that uh Health Partners has
taken 13 Pages 13 maybe it's 15 pages now of what they call preventive um medications medications that you can take to prevent something like high blood pressure uh cholesterol um some
diabetes medications they're and they've moved them to the preventive category so now those 14 pages of preventive drugs are pre- deductible as well so that's uh that that really makes a
difference for a person that's got1 or $150 worth of medications that they're paying for every month all of a sudden they become pre because they're pre- deductible now Blue Cross has some Medica has fewer uh they all have some but nobody has as
many as uh health recers so that's also changes the equation there so so preventive visits are no cost and drugs that are considered preventive drugs are also no
cost I think this is my last question um you mentioned that family coverage is available as well it is available would you be able to provide us with the premiums for the family coverage as well sure um so what what happened is for
example on the Health Partners plan the single dedu was 3200 if you were have the family the family deductible is 6400 okay now that's why the Blue Cross plan at a
3750 now the deductible comes 7500 you can see where you obviously can get you know it gets out of it gets out of what people want insurance for but yes um you also notice that all the ages are different
and all of the premiums are different so I can get family premiums but the premiums for the families are dependent upon how many people and the ages of each family so I can't get anything unless I have a family configuration so if you had two people
that were 39 instead of 579 or let's say 580 get two people at 39 it's going to be what 1,160 that's how a family would work so just you add the individuals together for a family and then you have three kids you're probably going pay $350 a
kid something like that um but family is available so at this this point I the numbers I provided were what I was told would be the most likely enrollment so and of course that also depends on
the contribution that comes from the employer because often if there's not much contribution families can go other places to find other options so
um okay any other questions yeah got a couple like an invigorating discussion so um in your in your letter you mentioned that you work close with 180 public groups cities counties school district and Public Utilities tonight
you said it's mainly cities mainly cities okay so that's mainly what it is work with um the health insurance option the Health Partners um it's been popular most attractive for about 10 years how
long has AI or been with working with them oh 30 okay yeah the day I started yeah okay it's just Health Partners has changed has become the more popular one for the reasons that you mentioned
um did I mention a reason I mean Health Partners doesn't tell you why no no one tells you what the what the the secret sauce is behind the rates but my best guess is that Health Partners also has a
clinic system as well as a health insurance system and I'm guessing that there's efficiencies in their Clinic system as considering that Blue Cross doesn't own any clinics and Medica doesn't own any clinics but Health Partners they have insurance company and
Clinics and gu there's some efficiencies there and that's where their advantage comes from there's an that's my that's that's the way things seem to be working right um under pretext contributions you
mentioned um uh contributions out of their check on a pre-tax basis the employer would have to implement the flex plan so if they want the contributions to come out of their check right the premium contributions it has to be connected to the flex
plan why is that um so it's like for example a building permit someone wants to build a building in the city they have to come to you to get a permit to do something you also have to have a permit to pull um premiums out of an
employees check on a pre-tax basis per the government's rules the federal government's rules that permit is called flex plan or a section 125 plan so you're buying you're buying a permit to do something even though you're still
doing all the work right so it's like a permit to build a shed we ask for a permit to build a shed but I still build the shed so yes so that's and in the pre-tax portion of the premium would only be the portion that the employee
has to pay so let's just say for example the city charges is the employees $300 if they want family coverage okay I'm just making that up uh then the employee could have that $300 taken out of their check on a pre-tax
basis and save them what $60 in taxes so can Troy can I ask a followup to that one that's a good question um is a flex plan different than a flexible spending account no uh a flex plan is the umbrella over which there are flexible
spending accounts yes so there's a the there's the premium portion where you can do that free tax there's the dependent care portion we' probably heard of that pay for daycare expenses you can do that and then there's the medical expense account
portion where you can put away money for medical expenses on a pre-tax basis as well so would we be required to contribute to a flex spent you are not okay you just required to have it if you want to do pre test thank you which
which which is a good idea because on the $300 that the employee has to pay the city is going to save 15 to $20 in payroll taxes on that $300 and so the flex plan only cost $50
a month and you've already saved $20 off of one person if they do $300 so it it pretty much pays for itself in most situations but you're selling something that is pretty much required yeah right it is
y like a building perm you got to have it yeah the flex plan is the health insurance isn't yeah right right y y is the flex 50 you mentioned $50 a month per employee no $50 a month for
the plan for everybody as long as you have probably less than 12 employees and so you're not quite there yet so we got time is that what you're talking about the flex savings plan is that the same as the health the HSA it's similar
similar uh and a health savings plan would also be Health Savings Plan Health Savings Account contributions would also be uh a component of a flight's plan is the city
required to contribute to HSA they they don't have to many do but you don't have to right and then um looking at the actual gold options and silver options what is the act what's the difference I mean I see the premiums are
less for the silver options sure the premiums are less and is it less coverage um oh yeah look at that yes okay for example take the Health Partners option the gold option
is a $3,200 deductible and then the plan pays Health Partners would pay 100% of your expenses okay now a silver option would be a $3,200 deductible and then Health Partners pays
70% and the employee still pays 30% until the employees 30% 30 and 30 and 30 and 30 gets up to $6,000 so so that's after the deductible has been after the deductible on a silver plan you keep paying until you
get the $6,000 under Health Partners yes so that's the difference out pocket what until you get to the maxim yeah until you get to the ma maximum out of pocket you guys are experts almost now you gave us too much information I you know I tried to narrow it down as
much as I could so um but I'd also let you know that uh you know we the employees and Michelle that have looked at this didn't just go to one carrier we looked at all four of the carriers there's only four in the state of
Minnesota that are fully insured um and uh so you're you know we don't have to do 15 there's only four options and we narrowed it down to what's typical with cities which is gold and silver and then we narrow it down to hsas and typical
hsas so what um I know I was in the meeting we covered a lot um what is the you explain this the embedded plus well the plus under Health Partners means that
the plus is their signal that this plan adds all of the those medications pre- deductible it's no it's a sales thing it's telling you that that's telling me and that's that's
indicating that there's more to this there's plus something else which is all those preventive medications are deductible for no cost so you go in you give them your health partn card and you get no charge and you leave so um the embedded means that if someone takes
family if there are um if someone has multiple people in their family there's a single deductible embedded in the family deductible so with the health partners plan under family would be a $6,400 deductible but if I was the guy
in the in the family with Health Partners and I ran my four-wheeler into a tree and broke both my legs I wouldn't have to satisfy the whole $6,400 deductible there's a single deductible of 3,200 embedded inside of
the family deductible so I only have to go to 3,200 before my claims with as one person within the family are covered now at 100% so there's Ed means there's a single deductible embedded in the family
deductible that's not the case with every planet out there out there um but that's those are the those are the ones we're showing it embedded so okay they're all embeded uh they yes
okay they're all embedded meaning what uh all the all the all the plans here reflect uh reflect a plan design that has a single deductible embedded in the whether it's Medica Blue Cross yes okay
because it doesn't it only shows that on not Health Partners the Health Partners is the only one that includes it in their name that's why it's in there so Med doesn't call it the embedded plan okay they just what the numbers out there yeah how
do you determine who is the the designated single uh it would be either it would be me and my wife and my kids it doesn't matter if it was my kid that ran into the the tree and broke both his legs then he's also got a single
deductible and my wife would have a single deductible and then I would have a single deductible all within that family deductible and then once we got to the total of 6,400 then the families met their deductible
okay any other questions sure no thank you maybe just a comment so um I have two kids and I've gone through Health Partners mea Andross Shield before and I just want to say the customer service
with all Partners exceeds prob a mon for my experience which I very um but um really what stood out is that preventative care list because we're pretty healthy youal accidents happen with kids um so that eded concept is
good for family but I mean the it really gave you an incentive to take care of your preventative care visits when there's so many that's covered so I would say just I would prer plan from my experience um the rates are third
quarter rates so they go through 91 uh if you wanted to do something within the third quarter you have to start six weeks in advance is about as far as You' want to go I mean you can do
it at last minute but what happens is all the administration and all the cards and all the documentations and all the coverage show off way after the start P you don't want to do that makes frustrating so so when you start paying um the payments would always be
due on well initially it would be the when you send in the application so if you're going to do something for a 71 we would want to send the application in with payment by 61 okay and then the payments are always at the
first of the month for that month all right anything else thank you very well we got a lot to think about so if we have other questions just um send them to Sherry and we can send them to and uh be in touch yep okay thank you very
much for coming I appreciate it all right um next on new business is uh the request to move forward with the grant applications and bids for a generator for fire fire hall I
think Encompass the entire okay so our entire city hall okay um is there anything you want to add on top of your email that you sent us I know you put it in so I
read go ahead Jake thank you and thanks Neil um and I'd also like to thank the group the community group that um kind of brought this to my attention because I think it's important and it's it says a lot about about our community in Taylor's Falls these people are stepping
forward we've got people coming on commissions tonight too and I I think that's important because you can you can make me and other council members more aware um so this is this is for a generator for the whole complex here um
originally we thought it would be better if um we went through the fire department and it is we have a much um much more captive audience if the fire department U pushes forward with this or weast suggest it um so Neil uh
wrote up this letter which I I thought was fantastic I think it's great uh there's a lot of details in here um but like Jake said said in his email he would suggest that we send out the project for bid first to be sure so we have an amount there's an amount of 100,000 in here and I think that's just
kind of that was kind of historical projects he worked on all the the scope and everything the demand of that project be different so I just want to make sure we're dealing with real world numbers we don't get a grant for 100,000 it's 150 the just don't sure or the
other way around and and we'll just WIP that out and change it you know yeah it's it's on Word document once we decide what we can do and we get the bids I can tailor this a little bit and then we can send it out use that information to put into grant documents and all that stuff but
to do a grant I need Council approval I can just run it through the fire department um as under the city um it can go through the relief either you know either way the relief is a nonprofit so we could use that side of it too to see if we can help with
funding so you know work at it from both angles yeah so thank you uh to you and Ne and like I said to the group because this would be something that um you know we we haven't really thought about and we should we really should be thinking
about these things we had power outages that come up and we can't get the big doors open and it takes 15 minutes 10 minutes to get the doors open get out how do you get them open just TR uh some of the old ones used to have Po and three four guys to shove it up these
ones have chains on it but it still takes time to run in an emergency yeah yeah so anyway so I would you know that's the deal I I guess I'd like to start with that that we just asked um we just give approval to at least s out for
estimates and proposals on on on this project okay just have one question the 150kw how was that validated I think that was from one's other projects this is kind of a sample letter he threw together for us on kind of the content we want
to use to go after so okay yeah I think that's one of the things we have to get if that's correct if that's too much if it's too little those are the kind of things that at time of conception of this we just don't have those details okay
thanks are there any other I mean do you know as far as I know I don't believe that our school has power their whole building for president go to right no there's no emergency back okay the last time we had a big storm come through and not power up we brought
a lot of our portable lighting up there so they could get some functions done I need a motion a second for us to approve the bid make a motion second
okay any discussion on getting a bid for well we did two bits for um generator for the entire building any other questions or thoughts just a comment you know it's U I think it's critical that we chase the grants for this because you
know every day every week you you see on the news some town or city that gets clovered by a storm or what have you and it seems to be more frequent and uh you know safety of our residents is is Paramount so you know I think that this
is really we should Chase hard in a big in large scale incident say a tornado which we haven't had since I think the 1920s but if something like that were to happen we need a command post to handle a large scale incident which would be our fire station upstairs and then a
place to put people that are you know without a place to go if something happens to all them a place to keep them that's got running we can have all that stuff so it's really AIG do you so FEMA doesn't give these grants
out anymore is that they used to they don't so much anymore actually Neil said he hasn't got one if he applied for one he wouldn't it okay and he this is what he does his righted is he familiar with or are you familiar with any other sources of Grants yeah there's some
grants out there oo braer trust you can do um a lot of just get these letters out to local you know businesses communi GR stuff like that which is kind of a lot more to go after but as far
as did Neil give you a date whena stopped I mentioned a few years now if I want to go after a portable well we can work through I'm guessing the Le
do we'll work on that I'm just wondering if we have to go to the extent of as compared just getting estimates this should be fully engineered put something be fully engineer I don't think we want to that money up front so
if we get a somewhat app to app estimate not a not a bid wouldn't hold them to it but just let them know that we're pursuing other funding Avenues um wouldn't take can we increase a number of bids by
doing that you think well could we once we figure out we can get once we figure out our funding um we can put the open markets so you just need a ballpark to do your letter and then we can get more of an idea
of it's going to be a longm project to get all data together that six months sometimes it's a qu sometimes it's a year I can I can help very familiar
with those working in okay any other questions okay well let's go ahead and vote to approve uh getting uh multiple bids for the generator project all in favor say I
thank you thank you thank next on the agenda is approving the Bingo application for Reliance I'm guessing this is is yeah I'll a motion and a
second I'll make a motion that we approve any questions just on the application y um it says has organization the Bingo EV in the current calendar year check off
no should be Chang C any other questions so kind of well this is U this is the par re's annual B of
fundraising and we have a functioning par recission so that the five of us available to come and help and run the show and we also have um four uh residents that have
volunteered to come help us we're in yeah it is any other questions well let's go ahead and vote to approve the Gambling License all in favor say I all right next on the agenda would be
the acceptance of the EDC Commission resignations of Wade Vitalis and BR Brett Lincoln no that's okay we caught it but it was already printed and sent out so Brett's name is Lincoln um we do have
both uh resignations in the packet so with both of those that'll allow the next discussion to to happen thec to do me so I need a motion and a second to approve resignations of both Wade and BR
motion second you any discussion well I would just like to say that you know there anybody in the city that has dedicated more time than Wade and done more good things for the city um I'd like to know who it is because
you know he's been doing things since the early 90s for the City of Taylor for the Governor's to come up and take a look at and introduce the underpass at the bridge which we like more people to use
but um you know um he's just been so generous with his time and things that he's you know he's hired local kids to work at the at his drive in and U you know I'll tell you one personal story when we used to have a uh and we still
do had the St Joe's East on Waring days in front of St Joe's church we ran out of Hamburg so I sent one of the kids down to the the drive-in with 50 bucks to ask Wade if he would give us sell us a box of hamburgers the kid came back
put the handers in the 50 bucks so you know he's always got you know best you know benefit of the city very generous contri he's been a somebody I looked up to even before I went back up here I got
to meet him when I sold a mayonnaise at Drive in he doesn't remember that until I started telling him then he looked at me he goes That's right then it was down food show side we were talking about food but um no he's been a mentor in my life and I'm going to it's sad to see him not going to be on the EDC but I
know he's still very involved in the commity he's going to continue so we're very lucky to have him um any other questions and I Brett just is so busy with work right now that he just can't can't uh can't drive up and and give us any
more of his time so I appreciate him getting us that email through Peter as well so um well uh all in favor of approving both resignations please say I I we'll move on to approving Parks and Rec commission application uh for Tim
La I need a motion in a second I'll make the motion second any discussion well just that U one of the requirements for the um Park Rec commission membership is to have a member of the Lions Club as part of the
PRC so Tim being a member of the lines he just stepped up to join the PRC and glad to have I and I'll take the opportunity to thank Tim because he helped me out years ago when I was doing a writing Festival Bingo he came through and he he he he
does represent the Lions really well because these guys are in our community and they're working hard and they do the hard work and um and Tim's a leader of that group so I think he's going to be a great addition he's a good
neighbor all right uh all in favor of approving uh to join the parks say I I all right thank you uh next we will um move on to the uh employee Equity
report approval for submission um Sher put this on there basically she it's a very blank information that we sent to the the uh state but she needs our approval to go ahead and send it to the state so I'll lean a motion and a second for appr
I'll make the motion I'll second any discussion um yeah just it's good that it's boring right right that's that's a good thing
um and I I think we should we should recognize that I think this Council should recognize that um that we don't have a disparity in Pay um one thing I did notice that I did want
to point out mainly to the taxpayers and that's on page 42 um the city of Taylor the city of Taylor Falls paid out $348,500 where their moneyy is going obviously
and if they have concerns they should feel free to call and they should expect and they have receed um a very receptive staff very kind staff and a very humble staff so um that's the only thing I really wanted to
point out on this and that I'm very pleased that there's really no dis dispar disparity discrepancies when start I just question about the report and then a comment I'll follow up with on page 41
at L years of service um they don't seem to be correct are those are our internal staff or is that an outside Benchmark it's an outside Benchmark we
started um putting the numbers together and we started thinking way too deep about our individual um positions and General um so overall our overall experience um in certain areas that we
were to the us correct yeah we started thinking way too deep and it got more difficult that way um definitions were very broad that they gave us so they wanted us to to stay
kind of above at a higher L and my comment is this is going to be a comment of a question I think um this is an internal assessment this
isn't comparing what we pay our staff compared to other municipalities in Minnesota correct correct so it doesn't mean we're paying our people correctly it means that we have Equity across the board and that's
that's what they're we missed the one last year right the Le the I haven't this come through up this year but that's I think that's a good idea
participate have to participate TOS have question no well uh all in favor of approving the employee Equity report say um next would be number seven is approving the Contracting bid for the
retaining wall down in the city um the the right of way near the shago house the back of the parking lot and the side of the shago house is City home it's our retaining wall that's fall Park and um we got a couple different bids for that
um Kevin worked on it really hard and quick and um so we would like us to improve I believe it's the Landscaping block one that we wanted us to approve um so I'll need a motion in a second for discussion I'll make the motion for a
second yeah um we have a difference of what is it 31,000 39,000 or something can't remember um I did Kevin I was just curious Lawrence Creek was 25500 and
precision heart Steve was 57 418 um I'm just kind of wondering what this this concept they have a Recon so Precision hardscapes has this Recon retaining W system that apparently makes
it better my Lord creep was going to use it I'm wondering how much better I'm not sure we're going to have an opportunity to find out because because the the estimate of The Proposal so high so I have declin obviously to agree
with Kevin on on lawren Creek doing this um the other question I had and this was in Kevin's email maybe somebody here can answer it um the second paragraph he's got installation of a new versalock grou um engineered retaining wall so
this is what I wouldn't do anything okay so this is from Germany I wouldn't do anything smaller as there is a sear charge above all of this with the street so what does he
mean by a sech charge above yeah I looked at that too I wasn't 100% certain but I think um there was some discussion about going shorter of the East West section is um and that
was discounted um so to go the full height of that wall is going to charge us more because no matter what take the full wall if we I don't think it's I don't think it's
monetary I I think it's a it's a Terrain yeah like there could be a potential propensity for a search charge of water going over that area land or something it's the Integrity of the and it kind of goes hand in with
first question um first I just got some estimates on it and in talking with Kevin I suggest that we at least validate it this is already filed once it probably wasn't engineered that so he did and they validated that just loc
proposal is will work as far as engineer perspective so I don't know what the difference why there's almost 100% difference in cost it could be that the one company thought really busy and they
want to be good to us just extra money that's the way don't work I don't know that's the case um so from an engineering and Public Works perspective
La this is similar to retain while by under bass like towards the the Brick the Stacked that was was it I think that's this
is one thing about this too since Lee's not here he did call me and chimed in on this and he was kind of excited because we've had a lot of people asking public restroom like a full-time public restroom inste bter body downtown um he said at the end of
that retaining law that we have plenty of gr things we have to look into this but I told him I bring it up um that we could build a restroom yeah so if you look on the GIS that is actually city property so he said in the future that
would be look nice and any other question either of the proposals I question I just like to comment that you know lawence Creek has done lot I don't know um you know using local
vendors I'm just curious with Bolton and they improve the wall STS is that part of their contract or is that an additional payment we make I don't know I can find that out yeah thank
you I that but that's a good question speaking of all just they did speak to Ryan in their office this is off topic but it's we're
talking about them when they were here at our um Town Hall last month um and it didn't go so well um they apologize um and they will not be billing us for any of that um at all the city won't pay for that um and then for the remainder
of the year um our new goto person that open will still be at our uh Jake's hour of the r for us even though he has more experience so um they did contact me and apologize they're still in it for the long term and so but I want to share
that with you guys because it wasn't in the email format so there's no way I could tell you so the only other question would be this is unbudgeted we can take all of parts this brought this got brought up to because um sh brought to our attention
that it was keing on parking lot and they are going to be redo as soon as we get this done they're going to redo their parking lot so they're kind of waiting and they do want to block the entrance out on to um
they want to keep it so it's one way so um we thought we own that section and then Kevin found the p and we don't so he gets to deal with that portion we were going to do the whole wall all the way to the building so since you mentioned that may
they right now their current parking lot uh that corner of it is is in city property so I don't know if you've seen the GF on that so if they're going to redo it something we want to have a discussion with them about how we want to work that out I think there's three
parking spots that and I know he knows that CU keev talk about so but yes we'll have to because he does want to charge parking and his part so he already hired a company that's going to do an app mobile app break and charge Pary not speaking
on his behalf he told me this um you can ask him if you get a chance but that was what his vision is for his spots but we still have two and a half or three so we do need to work that out because people are going have to be able to access our parking or we can access our
par we do have funds in the street improvements um extensively the retting wall is there to hold the road out yeah so that's one spot that we could
from um it's not general fund which is also beneficial um that is fund 650 Street improvements we budgeted $80,000 in additional Levy amounts it's part of our
2024 budget so I've got a current balance for that fund of 7945 y so on the fund y so on June sometime in June we'll get our first payment from
the county which will increase that and we'll get half of that 80 so we'll get $40,000 in June um and then we'll get the remainder in I believe November and the 40K is the total or what would go 80,000 is the total we get
two payments so half half in I believe June and half in November what about that 228 in the charitable gambling fund is that no that's uh pretty that's pretty much a restricted
fund um kids and certain stuff like that right yeah you can fund community events kids things um I think we did like in past years the old Council used that for the bikes and then we use it last year for all the backpacks and school
supplies we we talked about using some of the funds to help augment some of the costs for wanting a a y so that would be my recommendation um it doesn't help our street Improvement fund but
um do we have any other um planned what's the rest of the year look like for plan streets well that's up for debate we have to we have to get a hand on our general fund budget I think a little better before we
commit we haven't made any commitments after what we've repaired up C okay good um do you know what do we know what caused it to collapse just AG I I don't know I would guess um age
the initial um construction methodology and then probably years of um drainage I don't there um um am I trying to say
TI which is included in the there's some money here in the stone Water Utility Fund that'd be a stretch I think from an auditing perspective okay yeah Street improvements looks
like can move forward with it it does look like Jeremy did point out on that sentence about the search charge above of this with the street Etc he said this may have had something to do with why the old wall failed over time so it's
too short yeah okay all right so will you all in favor goad the street okay any other questions all right um let's go ahead
and vote for approving the bid for the city RightWay retaining law behind the shago house going with um Lawrence Creek Contracting and funding it using fund 650
d1010 I'll say I I any oppos next one is approving for the purchase of cameras for the outside of City Hall Inside the Fire Hall and the Heritage Park I need a motion in a second for us to discuss thank
motion second all right so I've got two amounts here for CWS um in in um Kevin's SB he says uh C security I was think
Falls already installed inside City Hall the bid for City Hall came in at 58 5530 and then later he says City Hall 8 channel recorder due to having more than eight cameras total on the estimated new camera system for city hall at a total
of 2445 36 so is that in addition to the 5855 so the 5855 is for municipal building and the
2445 is for Heritage Park okay um but you have also have to add the 6980 the Heritage Park for the electrical and low voltage so the Heritage Park total would be
9425 and the City Hall um would be the 55 5855 and there's certainly enough money in the Heritage Park fund um if we chose to go ahead with with that um to cover the costs um I think there's almost $50,000
there 4,547 um again the work on at City Hall would be unbudgeted well we did we do have the blocks in place I believe they've been done atage so the Tiny Box should be they
should I think he was up there last week when I drove so um I mean do we feel like we need to do that I mean I think eventually we need to do it it's not but it's just like do we want another season and
see well I mean we have money money is there for Heritage Park I'm asking you on Parks and you know that Heritage Park is really the city's best go forward because people it's the first thing they see when they come into town and it's you know the last thing they see when
they go out of town and to have it nonfunctioning is you know not a good thing and to keep the vandals at Bay you know locks on the bathroom doors is one thing but to let them know somebody's watching them is critical and you know
it's costing you know cost us to close the park you know all all winter for one thing and U and and the damage to the bathrooms which we spent a lot of money on was you know was crazy ridiculous so like I said if you
know if they know there's eyeballs on then you know that's determin and it keeps our park open and um you know it gives people the most majestic view of the river around so the money's there I say we spend it on Heritage
Park and the money is there y y most definitely the other half I have no clue I mean part of me wants we need it we need it out here um I mean him and I have talked about it we
started talking about two months ago so it's just getting in the packet now because of the quotes but um I totally agree with the concerns about dumping somebody falling you
know our Porta up there gets beat up pretty bad by the park so we'll be able to monitor that and maybe hold somebody responsible but I just don't know how we're going to fund it do we want to push that until we get paid in June and then look and see where we can find extra
budget I I'm trying to do some work projecting out what our year end is going to look like um I have a few questions for Michelle and but I I would say as much as I agree with the need for it I think it might be best to
defer just maybe until June second meeting in June I I agree I don't feel comfortable I mean just moving money and our general fund doesn't have it right now to do that so you think um yeah I I agree at this
point at least till June um the sad thing is the the vandalism isn't going to go away right we can approve the Heritage Parks separate from city hall right if that's what we choose to do
right if I understand you correctly well do I understand you correctly what do what what is your suggestion at this point so the um Heritage Park fund um has cash available funds available to pay right it do right so um it's being supported by at least the
chair of parking Rex um there's been vandalism there um we understand that so that one I don't have so much of a problem with okay so you're talking about the city hall part yeah just the city hall as much as I agree with the need I don't know as we have the money
right now to spend on it the general right I I I I would agree with that um I I don't like I said I don't think the vandalism is going to go away at this point so um we're going to have to do something um and I we have met with law
enforcement they're willing to work with us on this so um I'm hoping we can capture some of this play some of it back you know if we have another problem um and I hope it's enough I hope it's enough have we had discussion on
placement is that something we'll talk about with here no for Heritage Park yeah Kevin worked with the vendor straight ACR from the bathroom Okay do we know if we ever did anybody
ever call the insurance company about repairs to the V anybody I don't think any yeah I mean he said we can file we haven't yet I'll look into that okay so should we go ahead and vote to
approve the purchase of cameras and the electrical need for Heritage Park and table um cameras for outside and inside of City Hall and
fireal to till June the second June that way we know money's been transferred we can kind of do another budget analysis and then we'll know and I would I would just from a contingency perspective say that our
amount for Heritage part should be not to exceed 10,000 yep okay um so uh let's vote for the approval and purchase not to see $10,000 for the cameras and electrical installation of
the cameras for Heritage Park at this time and we will table the cameras for the outside of City Hall and the inside of the fire hall until the second meeting in June and just for um for Notes The Heritage Park fund is 409
409 all in favor say I iOS right thank you very much um next will be uh number nine on the uh agenda is discussion for herch Iron Works I request to install the storm water
runoff pond on city property that you can fill us in little I had a memorandum here but um essentially Mr gers had called and asked if the city would consider putting a storm water upon the outlaw B of the city property to the north to maximize
the space he has to work with on his own lot you know they're growing um you know lot and it's a lot of impervious surface and his engineer said they need um more than the storm that is existing um so I told I'd bring it to council
Kevin and I had a discussion though and you can see on my memorandum I don't if you want me to go through those you I'm sure you guys have already read them but there's plenty of reasons um for denial Mr H did you read those no okay so I'll
I'll read them out just a few so you know because my recommendation is actually denial um of the request uh because outl B was by the city to be reserved for the future ponic expansion um it has also been that
location specifically has been approved by the state in Minnesota for the sewer Pond um the city does not own the adjacent land around the sewer ponds for further expansion besides outlot B therefore we recommend reserving the full area of the outlot B for the
maximum expansion for purposes of long-term planning so there's plenty of space now but in the event we need to another um you know there's multiple factors to consider there you know is there setback from that storm water Pond to the Sewer
pond that's an unknown at this point um we believe Mr H has not exhausted all other storm water options at this point in time any consideration should only be considered as a last resort we should um we would recommend exercising the following ideas um is there anywhere
else on First Property where this Pond could go I know you on space but is there is there anywhere that you could fit it on property um I mean if this is Segway into the eastern half I so if we're able
to the if we're able to move the parking lot and the office building over to the eastern half it opens up about 60 ft of space with wise on the western half and then we'd be able to put a drainage Pond
right in the corner cor where that road keys on the back end pushing it into the corner right there would be able to put a drainage Pond I don't know how big the drainage Pond needs to be at this point in time um I just I called Elizabeth as soon as I got off the phone with my engineer and
he said hey you know I'm just looking at this and I'm 100 99% sure there's going to be need an additional Pond pond in the front isn't even close to big enough to what you want to do so um there's workarounds I just it was just something that I dead set on it I mean we can try and
figure out something you're just looking at your op yeah I just I just have a limited amount of space there with that with that lot we have currently on the western half and lengthwise we're really jamming in what we want to do so that's why called and asked can I is there
possibility take this drain pond off the property um and we're currently working with Exile energy to try to Annex 100 ft of their land um and bring it in so that's if that happens and that's a possibility too is we can stick the drainage P pond off to the side there
near those telephone holes yeah and I just pointed that as an option that hasn't been exercised as well so with the unknown size of the proposed Pond and you know just another option there that was a reason Elizabeth another option would be um undergrown storm
water retention um I think it's kind of pricey I don't know what the cost would be but I know had to do that because they didn't have any room for a pond when they expanded their parking lot it works wonderful
okay I think it was kind of pricey yeah yeah like infiltration pit style yeah it was yeah very robust yeah Rock's expensive um but that would be another option another probably expensive option would be um I don't
know where the storm water infrastructure is but can we hook them up to the city storm water infrastructure so that's something that hasn't been looked at yet as an option don't think we have any yeah just easements from other
adjacent Property Owners would be an option well yeah so just unknown so our recommendation is not this point Thank you thank you any questions for
Elizabeth I got a couple I guess um how about V well the first one you said the business park was designed of the city to be reserved for future sewer Pond expansion so what is a scenario where we would need that um I remember talking to Kevin he
said our our dish our existing sewer ponds are pretty well um established for and for the future so I'm just wondering in what area would you envision that we would need an additional sewer pum yeah and it' be good if Kevin was here to
really answer that but it's my understanding that yeah they are established for what we have right now but there's potential if we have growth um then it could trigger the need for for more and I guess I'm wondering where do you see that growth coming
from um in this city I I don't see I mean sorry we're we're very limited in our but there's there's room for developments or like houses here there or you know even like business part going in I mean
and we're thinking like very long term right and possibly requiring another sewer pond so that's quite a bit right and once it's gone it's gone right right um and I guess I don't um t fall business par has been approved by the state of
Minnesota for the for sewer Pond location I'm not I guess I don't know what that means to me I think like sewer Pond can only be in in certain locations I don't know I don't know if it's the it's more of a keev question too so I don't know if it's like the
soils or the distances from you know certain other things but there's factors that go into the location of and that's the only location that's we would have it's directly
that's currently approved not to say a different location could couldn't be approved but you know we're we're pretty limited and why not keep it all together you wouldn't want one sewer pound you know somewhere else and then our other sewer pounds here I think it' be more
expensive in the long run to have them separated if we had to acquire property to put another on them right right with no guarantees with no guar yeah it just didn't you know the state of Minnesota proving it just
it didn't didn't didn't suitable for us right yeah um and I I do think um it doesn't sound like um Mr H has had a lot of time to really consider them we put the request in and you know see what would happen so I I
think we should give them an opportunity to exercise some other options um and I think if if the east side is beneficial in that I think that would be a good idea too um okay that was it I just had some
questions on that I think we should go with the recommendation of the of Elizabeth and at least so he you know can look at other options there seem to be some possibilities and we can always come
back I put it on theenda as discussion well I think it's asking for vote to support staff's recomendation so I'll need a a motion in a second to support staff's recommendation uh I'll make a motion that we accept staff's
recommendation uh to not approve the um location of any water retention stor water retention on city property I have a second any further discussion no all in
favor say I I all right moving on is number 10 uh Sherry six-month review look at our calendars and obviously I would assume we were going to look for June unless we want to
try to put it in next week but it's a holiday week so I don't know if any of you are traveling or not so next okay wednes Colorado going back out to Colorado no going the other way to DC okay sorry about
that as soon as qu swing not something um all right uh how about the first week of June we the third are Avail do we want to do it in the morning
or is in the evening better for you all I could I can do Friday mornings um Monday through Thursday evenings would be better um mornings are good for me except for Monday or Friday I baseball Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday for the next month so I'm flexible you guys want to do 7th in the morning sure sure like 6:30 I'm just kid um what time 9:00 11 you want to do 11:30
how about we do 9 at on the 7 does that work 9 a.m. yeah okay okay all right Sherry and then you have to decide whether you want it open or not and then if you want it open we need post it post it closed if you want to Clos okay so we have June 7th at 9:00
a.m. down for I don't think we need to vote on that um moving on to number 11 Elizabeth has her one year review should we do it the same day so that we're that's a good idea we're
here yep on Friday y 10:30 1015 give us a little break in between sure yeah 10 10:15 sure any other discussion on that guys okay chit any comments I had to say your name at least
that should be a good thing no I I don't think okay let's move on to Old business uh number one is the business park um determine who to sell the West half Business Park in the
packet if all you haven't seen the packet one of our interested parties uh King kind has withdrawn his application for our business park um basically due to the state La only allowing one license and so they already have a location so they could have a second
location so Elizabeth do you want to add anything I believe we only have one proposal um yeah so um the her companies are interested in the entire half of the business of park I think that's really
the only change um we haven't received the actual tax estimates like the sheet that F out for the the other half um so we like to that um before actual approval um and I haven't heard from the other candidates
that were interested before I left on some voicemails Reach Out get email and I just haven't haven't heard back from so um you guys can you know decide to wait and see if they're interested still or if you want to bring mik Brady back
into it or go I got a couple of comments first of all did we open did we have to vote for open this up for discussion should a motion so I'll make that motion I'll second thank you guys
um uh first of all on um Sean Sean's email it was it was a very nice letter I thought it was it was fantastic U my thanks to him as a council member for for coming forward and and all the all the proposals that came forward I think
in combination with Sean's I I got challenged um as a council member I had to make some difficult decisions and really do some U really some thinking about my role as a council member my constituents um and and the people in
the city about the future of our of our of our city and our community and a lot of that was because of Sean's proposal going forward and those are tough decisions that um I value because uh I think we all grow when we have to make difficult decisions like that so U my
appreciation to Sean for coming forward thank you uh thanks Joel for being here tonight um and the other proposals that came forward now since Joel is here did did you want to speak on any on anything yeah I I can speak on the the proposal
for the entirety of the industrial park sure yeah please come on yeah yeah please Jo us so we submitted a proposal for the entirety of the industrial park um we submitted that kind of after we after we
found out king K had uh rescinded their proposal the entirety of the industrial park would allow us to bring all of our businesses into Taylor's Falls Under One Roof so to speak um it would also allow us to take the parking lot and the
office from the eastern half and move it over to the Western half um which would allow us to expand the manufacturing building in the storage area and the jobs created the
manufacturing in town jobs created um another 10 to 15% up to about 6070 jobs in the longterm future it would also solve the water problem we would be able to put a pond um on the back half of
that Eastern side because we would gain about 60 feet um we would be able to bring our Iron Works business the that's the field business um into Taylor's Falls and what that business requires is
a equipment maintenance and storage building a lot of the jobs although centered in the city would be traveling um that business conduct is currently conducting business in Washington the state of Washington Indiana Wisconsin
Minnesota North Dakota um New York they just that business just finished a project out in Massachusetts so that is that are that business is traveling jobs they higher paying um but it does need a base of operation and the employees that
are employed in that business are local guys so we don't hire from New York to do a New York work job we don't hire from Indiana to do an Indiana Job we might reach out for some help for Laborers but the iron workers travel
from our home base it would also having the Western half would also allow us to bring the her Contracting in although the business is still small um it will it's expected to grow at the rate of our other businesses I have some anovate
executive starting in June that will take over the iron working business for directors and I'll be able to shift my focus over to her Contracting and we expect that to grow at a rate of about 100% similar to our other businesses year-over-year for at least the next few
years uh overall I expect probably a 100 plus jobs in the longterm future um the the Western half is a decision that it's not necessarily something we break
ground on immediately but it is it is a time senstive decision because it would greatly affect our development plans on the other side of the business park we need to know the civil engineer the structural engineer um the Landscaping guy need to know if that office and that
parking lot are going to be there or not especially even in preliminary phasing we've gotten our survey done our geotechnical engineer was done last week our civil engineers is going to submit permits sometime in June and we expect to break around first week of July on
that half and to do those things we would need to know where that office and that parking lot is going to be because especially with the parking lot in the dir work and the civil engineering it's it's a big piece of it question for you would you mention
the time sensitive nature of it if we deferred this to our June 10th meeting would that fall within a reasonable sensitivity it it would it would probably kick um the time construction timeline down a little bit
we're yeah and I mean it's it's construction so it's not it's not something I was expecting to get done tomorrow but we've had some issues with our geotechnical guys which kicked it out a couple weeks and right now for a certificate occupancy on the first
building the first manufacturing building we're hoping for January 2025 but every little thing that's happening is just kicking it out kicking it out so the goal the goal was was originally December to be in there and now in
January February of course moving you know all that material on those guys and that equipment and 14 Ines of snow which is going to happen because we didn't get any snow last year a lot ofun but you're pretty safe with from a construct
construction perspective from Winter conditions you won't be dealing with a lot of winter conditions then if you get started right yeah yeah we we need to get started earlier we need we want in right now our timeline has Us in closed sometime in September October so far we kick that out then
we'll be in it's in trouble because we we intend to the real issue with winter conditions on this project is the building will be enclosed and the concrete will be poured but the equipment there's some concrete
pedestals and stuff outside that'll need to be poured after the building is finished because that equipment won't be it'll be located but we know exactly where it needs to be until the building is close to being wrapped up so doing that in December January is is going to be difficult more
cost the reason I asked was I it would be beneficial for me I'll speak for myself to see the the same information we got from the county on the propos taxes yeah before we made the decision
how long does that usually take days I thought I don't think it took a week it was like less than a week so if we voted on something tonight contingent I'm getting that can we do a contingent on that we don't know what it's going to look like
I mean what are we going to contingent to right yeah I don't know how that it's information it's a piece of information we don't have I mean I guess we can push we don't multiple candidates so like today was supposed to be kind of like who are you approving um so maybe we
could just go forward with you know pushing to the next meeting with the actual approval and having the documents drafted just like we did before which should be easier now because we've already drafted some if you guys are leaning towards
approval and say we can draft everything and do approval if you're aush on one day well I don't you know here's the thing I've been thinking about this it's not like it's not like we're really in a rush um this
is another I know I talked about King K in that decision this is another one it's like are are we ready to make Taylor's Falls the home of her IRS I mean it's a big decision I'm out forward I'm ready to go I'm not going to
you know uh I'm you know I'm ready I'm ready to do that so and whether we do it now or later um or one month I I am ready to be as accommodating as I can to Mr hirs
to get this moving when it's all said and done I think we all should get hats whatever you want for FR that's right that's right it nothing to do with what but I'm really excited about this and
and the sooner the better um you know I'm I'm looking through um Elizabeth's email to you on some of the things and the setbacks and some of the the buildable areas and even with this the sewage Pond um I think you've been accommodating uh and and you've worked
with with Elizabeth on these things and I don't I don't think you see them as obstacles I you know I I think we're be able to work through those even with the Planning Commission so um I guess that's my position I I don't I don't want to get in the way of
this anymore I see something really good um not only for Taylor's Falls her sh works but for Taylor's Falls for our identity uh for what we can do for our tax base um you know just it's just all it's all good to me I don't and so I
just don't want to get in the way of it and um I'm I'm in favor I I could approve this tonight I mean we have something you know and then with the other ones dropping out and Sean dropping out it just seems like what else what else do we need what else do we
need to give it a green light and I need nothing else so I'm good to go and if I can speak on that a little bit a point he made uh her Ironworks wants to make Taylor's Falls the home for the next 50 years um it's a all of the companies
rapidly expanding there may be hiccups in the future but we want to work hand in hand with the city as well as the citizens because we we want to be here for the next 50 years and be a key part of the city and the city's future so that's everything that's come up isn't a
deal breaker where there's ways to work around everything and make everybody happy and I'm more than happy to do that and all of my employees and partners are more than happy to do that as well to confirm PR communication working through
things that have come up If This Were if we were playing you I would inkle um so from a zoning perspective from a legal perspective have we done our due
diligence thus far thus far sure for the last okay you can do more I've seen do things a lot less so I've certainly been operating in good faith and I think
you've done ample investigation to justify decision like Troy I'm I'm excited to get this done too there's just that one piece of information that we had with the first proposals that and the other proposals that we don't have for this
that was my only kind of sticking point um but the prospect is exciting have you those numbers before elsewhere they like similar tax to the
other yes ex so they would likely be higher tax based because the office that building is going to be taxed more than the manufacturing buildings would be and this would allow the office to be much
bigger than the original plan so I see longterm I see the tax base being much higher relatively I don't want to be up front we're the game plan is race to the Finish get the certificate occupancy on that first phase of the manufacturing
building over there so we may do some we're going to do some surveying and some geotechnical and some planning and stuff but we're not breaking ground on that half we our occupancy and our manufacturing started on the first half of the the park so I don't I just I want to be up front about that I don't want
the vote to happen and then you know 6 months 9 months down the road it's you know we gave you the whole part why Haven you Broken Ground on the other half yet we're going to we're going to phase it well it seems like everything's changing if if we vote you know I mean it's going to look way different I I look at it as everything happens for a
reason and our other for whatever reason the other two didn't show you know an interest maybe things changed in their business world and that happens and every day it changes and then King K gave us very nice like you said I make sense why he can't so I'm not going to
be here on June whether we vote tonight or not it doesn't matter I mean I I'm all uh I'm excited for her to join Taylor's Falls and its entirety I have no problem with that and I I guess um I agree with you it'd be nice to see the tax base numbers on it but versus it
being empty I guess no matter what we're going to grow I mean I it doesn't it doesn't scare me it's just it would be nice to see it um but I'm well we could I can write a wonderful letter if you want and you can read it if I'm not here but I I'm all for it I'm
in favor of of going forward with this as well I mean that Park sat there empty for so long and now we have a great opportunity to make it something that we can be proud of and you can be proud of and um you know make a little money along the way so I think
it's great I think it's a great fit and we'd still have to approve the final sale document correct y so we have that protection if you will and we'd have that information by by the time we get to whether it's even we sign the
papers middle of June or whatever right so tonight we can approve moving forward contingent on the fact that we agree on the final purchase agreement and conditions um that would give you some time to do a different site planning
exercise yeah I'm good with that um the other thing I'd like to say from from staff memo um regarding the setbacks um there are some I don't know if they're significant or not they're
pretty standard setback requirements I would imagine but um one of my questions was on the um on the west parcel or I'm sorry on the East parcel that's already been um agreed upon um the
East and the north sides of that section there's no development there and there never will be can uh is it possible would variances to set go to a 10ft setback instead of a 20 foot setback provid any benefit
to um he'd have to apply for the variance and with through the variance process um so I mean you really have to Reon if you need it when that time comes but I can't
guarantee easy right yeah the variance process has changed I don't know if you've gone through the criteria but um we can't just it's not just yeah there's there's defined things you have to go through
my um does have a VAR process one buil into the proposed Z that's one of the things that they did update okay well why don't we go ahead and vote um for the uh sale of the West half
business park to a hsh pending final contract approval purchase Okay purchase agreement and conditions all right U all in favor say I
I Mr you can go ahead and start that business assist application repeat I'll please okay I will thank you thank you congratulations um number two on Old business is down tone bulletin board discussion I threw
this on here I had a number of individuals in the community reach out um a lot of people are really excited um I'm excited that we own it now so we know what we can do with it um but um I just wanted to explain my thought process and Larry and I were working
together um I did send Larry an email because Larry if him and his wife could kind of take on what uh the had done in the past and be the caretakers of it um maybe I shouldn't have just went ahead and said to me Emil saying sure it's all yours um
but I did I sent it and my oppress process behind it is the city owns it but we need somebody that's going to keep an eye on it if it needs painting if something gets broke whatever it needs um you know L and his wife can come and say Hey Kevin or Paul or
whoever um and then they can also put things on the agenda um so nobody's going to be able to just post anything they want there were some concerns about that um you know being City owned that still has to come through Council if somebody wants to follow something on there um but I think it's still a wonderful idea that they've out there to
do it and I think being you know pillars of the community it only make sense so that was my thought process I'm going to let you talk about it too Larry I would have agree with you it would be an honor to take huh maybe but it's an honor to take that
over from um Bill and Barb young who have done it you know tirelessly for so many years but getting back to um what might need to be done it needs a facelift and so we at the park and rec
commission I've got a couple of fellas going to take a look and and uh bring some recommendations to the council as far as um you know what needs to be done to get it you know looking nice because it's showing some it's showing its
tiredness yeah but yeah so we you know we're glad to do it and um and like I said we'll bring some recommendations to the council for um up upgrading the U The Bu
board and one other thing too I kind of Envision this with the board I mean after we get it all spruced up and looking good again I'd like to see like one member of from every committee or commission meet with come to the parks uh commission and show what they'd
like to put in the board you know whether it' be um HPC you know or the Historical Society wants to put a walking tour in there you know when we update the maps or whatever you know I mean there a lot of great ideas but I think every commission can add something
to it and citizens as well so you know I think having one one commit commission kind of take the the head of it but then I still expect at least one person from every commission to come to the meetings when they have something and then come
to council after that and then we'll make final decisions on what we see because we're going to have to prove the paying and the expensing of it anyway but that that's my vision um I know not everybody's here is on a commission but we all know them and so we'll talk about it at all our commission is coming up
come with ideas and go from there comments 10 it's good to have a home I think regardless I think it's a great great home for and U was Harley interested in doing
some artistic maps of the get together and gather with us and put some ideas of she's a designer of those sort of things so she can come up with a map sure so TR any comments no okay okay all right well we'll move on
uh next is the city code Amendment section 245 Denise I'm sorry what pillar of community you got that oh yeah p i [Music] l when when they come out let me know
I'm gonna have them sign mine um all right uh city code Amendment sorry section 245 03 subdivision one for the economic development committee membership um let's put that in the packet
and um I guess we're going to need a motion in a second because we it may or may not approve to change so I'll make a motion okay for uh revisions to the code ordinances pertaining to the economic development commission
membership and I'll second thank you all right it's in the packet the the changes that were made um they're kind of ahead of it all our commissions have this it's all almost the same but it's ordered at a little different fre each so they met I was
there with um Diane and they changed it from 25% to 50% like we already talked as the councel um so they did do that um with the hopes that you know in the future we're make it so it's easier to fill the commissions and this would
allow applicants that are up next to be able to be approved technically they could be approved anyway though currently because they were the other two members that resigned were already non residents right without changing um but there's
only two after those two resign there's only two left so currently only one would be able I get until it's full y I don't count we need one more we'll find thank you I never think about that
I just think it's full andas business owner so we just kind of % out there so the I support this the only complexity and I talked to Elizabeth a little bit about it today is what's the 50% based on
plan um the minimum number of commission members is six so three and three um what happens when it's seven what happens when somebody res
resigns and all of a sudden makx it's more than 50% um I think I understand what the intent is have an issue I don't know if there's a different way it can be worded um like current and
perspective members um but you can't kick somebody two residents resigned that left for business people for example wouldn't fire them say you can't be a member any
you just have to go recruit more so um youd have two vacancies but you still have let's see you do the 3 Split you still three that were the
50% and that doesn't impact whether or not you know the other two are making or not I if you designate them as n out of say if you designate three of them as the non-resident ones you're not causing
any confusion or any kind of difficulty in the process you don't have to KI them off while your to somebody else so as long as we all understand what the intemp is I think it's fine I just wanted to point that out can look
skew probably will be in the future and it designed to be more open right um so we don't want to turn it the other way around and make it discriminatory right by piing a part too much so the objective is to allow more
people to come in I think business owners have just as much really in this they're applying themselves very much you know quite a bit by by here operating their business here so I think they have they certainly have a right to to Jo these commiss be part of it I
think it'll make better and we also have hopefully can hope right makeu direct I did look at it it looks fine would be in favor this okay and I mean I think all the commissions are going to start meeting
obviously looking at this we'll figure that we I'm glad we got this one well I mean after we're done the next one
unless yeah don't stop me meetings tomorrow right okay um well let's go ahead and uh vote to approve uh resolution 24-
05-00 and ordinance 20 24-5 all in favor say I I all right U moving on to number four uh review and approve economic uh development Commission applications for buck Duncan and Peter V Talis we kind of preliminary approved them when we last
spoke but we had what we just voted on as a roblock as well as uh we needed to get the rest of naations of the two members set so um I'll need a motion in a second to approve these two applicants I'll make the motion a second any
discussion well one comment it's great continuity to have P come on as we steps up my comment is thanks to both of them for stepping up get involved I think they're valuable both of them are coming from you know
different businesses but they're going to bring they're excited for Taylor's Falls to grow um I know they were um they watched our last meeting they after room with us um but uh they they have good ideas and
I've got to meet with both of them so I'm excited for both of them two great appli so all right I please when the next tomorrow okay so technically this isn't going to be published until Thursday the
30th decision can they have a workshop tomorrow and not have and and I won't be at that just be at baseball so um after June I'll be back on so you do move it just let me know otherwise I
think Monday we okay so just uh the DAT all right anything else good right good uh all right uh all in favor of
approving both buck and Peter say hi hi hi all right and oh I put number five on there just because I'm trying to stay on whole business and remind myself that we need to still do some things uh followup discussion on the audio and video for
this room um we did get a $1,500 um credit back from our friends over in for Lake um they came back and picked up some of the equipment that we purchased in the past they thought it back is used even though never been used
that's their company policy but we did get some money back um we still need to get a second um proposal for audio video I did find a place in miniapolis um I can call I found it through League um I've just
been kind of aan just because I'd rather have somebody up here do it because it's coming from Minneapolis I just assume it's going to be a lot more um another thing I want to look at too is this camera's been fine um Kirk over at St
cro they use an owl and so um as much to say I'm going to look at that to it get uh more information to discuss um it's an out Cammer it's what they use for there it follows us and after I told him everything we went through he goes
why didn't you just get the Y I'm like Paul you could have told me what you're like I want to you doing so um I'm going to look at that and just see how much that is um the stinky part is is we have still a lot of equipment that we spent money on and um if we go a different route um we'll have to use the garage
Sal site or um find out what other options we have to sell ourselves the camera and the other equipment that we still have so that's where we're at I know some people were wondering um do you guys have any questions are you guys okay if I do the research and then last
resort I'll call and get a quote but I don't want to drive all the way up there if it's going to be 3040 50,000 it's just not in our budget so good good I'll check theowl out and then I'll report back all right anybody want to say anything on their
commissions anything you want to report well par had two productive meetings um a lot of enthusiasm done sted to get par back up on his feet projects again um did we want to say
something about our meeting sure please we had two Representatives come up here from IND dri Thomas and Adam Josephson and um to talk about
the AA Bridge Project and um long story short there'll be a u a public meeting probably down outa the end of June as soon as they pick a date and they'll go over the same things that we went over here traffic patterns dates of the uh
construction and timelines so um something that we all need to be aware of because it looks like the traffic patterns may be coming our way um for a pretty good length of time until the Bridge Project is finished so we'll keep we soon as the date is
announced we'll get everybody involved we put it out public notice put it on the website so you can all attend anticipated construction start 26 yeah push
26 we can so we get the DAT meeting we this C stuff that they gave us I mean this it's so small if we listed on the website people are going to have to zoom in on computers just to see it so I did email him to get an actual copy of the PowerPoint so if he sends that it won't
be printed off um it's just really TI if you guys want the paper copy that's available we can make copies here at City Hall um but uh we get a nicer copy we have website so very informative good people yeah
so um anything else no all right I just want to say thank you uh everybody for sticking with us the E five tonight um I hope everybody stays well smiles a lot it's you know going to be a wonderful summer I think
this year for everybody so keep a smiling it's contagious and I uh on that note I need a motion and a second forour thank motion to adjourn second all right all in favor of joury say I know what you
mean I 59y old her body's in as as little different situations I think the concept is relative my I for whatever reason so that's the
reason I my it's not just all a sudden came down you Mo oh my gosh I see you're over I think think St Club for a week and there
least I think he'll just pay raw land until January next year good to see you yeah what I think and when he said know I think if you mov on De
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