chamber what happen well I think it's too nice though I think it's too nice we I de sh up and I went down and pick up a chisel chisel now you
do it's running it's closer to please okay there how are you how you doing young F I'm doing good all right we at meeting the other night we talking about the city what's that term
that we're using weiz know that remember every so many years oh comprehensive comprehensive tell everybody our vision it's our vision plan anyway good how are you
doing there you go I forgot the number that's in my are your weeds going crazy likeit yeah well there a good breeze it's not so bad not so
bad little fences around blueberry bushes some rolls a nice green I love [Music] the back sits down okay everyone call the
meeting to order on here Monday June 10th 602 everyone could stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liy and justice for all uh roll call uh everyone's here except for mayor Brandon previous engagement
uh adoption of the agenda can I have a motion I make motion a second any discussion yeah um could we move new business item number six up to old bus number two just so ly doesn't
have to stay here the whole meeting for okay Lan related things okay anything else that was it for me correction on number three in her whole business um that has I did not add that to the agenda that was added to the
agenda by the mayor so just that that be corrected okay anything else no no if not uh can I have
uh a vote with those two changes all in favor say I I all okay now on to the adoption of the consent agenda can I have a motion I'll make the
motion to adopt the consent agenda on a second any discussion I just had probably get this closer sorry about that um I just had a couple things uh first on page
11 um just to note that the general fund balance attive - 171,000 um the balance includes the public safety funds that we received back in
December of last year so just so everybody remembers that those are are included in the general fund uh whatever it was 64,000 something like that or 40 46,000 I think it was um so that's there and um
what was that pardon what was that for uh under the general fund current fund balance the public safety funds that's where they exist okay so are you are stating that the current balance is correct that at negative 171 yes okay
yeah and we've expended I think about half the funds I think we've approved everything and we have't been expended um the second thing was Cherry Hill Park Improvement fund
42 shows a positive balance of $615 and2 but there's actually a um $1,120 expense back in 2022 that was incorrectly um expensed to or accounted
for in the 403 fund so not that we need to take action on it but I just want everybody to know that that error took place um back way back in 2022 so that fund would if done
correctly would have shown a negative balance and it does show a negative balance in the 403 fund so we've talked about about fixing all the park fund stuff when we do our budgeting for 2025 so like I said no action necessary I just wanted people to know that there
really aren't any funds left in the Cherry Hill Park fund do you know what that was from that was it was and if I could get the amount again too it was uh $1,120 okay Valley
Landscape it says Cherryville park Flower B flower it might be truncated I don't know that must have been for U when we started the Pion cards okay okay um let's see and just a reminder that um for
everyone's sake we haven't received any LGA funds yet this year we do expect them this month I believe um our first payment uh and also our uh first round of County funds Revenue should be coming in in either jul June or July so um we
should get back closer to positive territory in our fund balance and then um on page 20 just um you see some some anomalies I'll call them in
the payroll um section those just include the election budges that worked for the primary so there are some extra names there if anybody was wondering that's all I
have all right I have a motion to approve with those uh Corrections and additions make a motion to approve the correction I'll second all in favor say
I I I good and we'll move on to uh public forum and we have one here Diane Nelson says you're going to talk about Community event a community event it's
it's a proposal from a resident named Chrissy lth she couldn't be here tonight um her whole family is dealing with some and Bug so I told her I would read it on her behalf um um she says good evening
my name is Chrissy lyu I've been a resident of Taylor's fall since 2019 and before that I grew up at tourist of Taylor's Falls living in Marina and St Croy we reside in a beautiful town full of amazing people amongst everyone I have noticed is a lot of little hidden
talents and gems I had L late last year but unfortunately it was too late here to really execute the idea my idea was to Showcase what our town has to off other than what Nature has already given us I see it all daily and I don't mean
just artists per se when I say talent talent and gems I mean we have it all artists Potters photographers gardeners Farmers beekeepers fresh syrup mle syrup coffee Brewers small business owners The
Works sure some of this is out in the open where tourists can see it on display in the shops that line our busy streets during tourist season but what about all the ones we don't see on a regular basis let's bring that out let's show everyone that visits what else our
town has to offer even if it's only once or twice a month during the spring summer and fall let's come together as community and offer a space for these people to set up and bring what they have not only do I see this being a fun thing for tourists I see this as being a
great way for our residents to come and meet more of each other greet each other other be one and actually enjoy each other we don't currently have that other towns and cities around us do and when the turnouts and the turnouts are
astounding look at the Arts in the park in Forest Lake for example They are packed weekly for their event all season long let's try it here let's bring that smalltown field to everyone visiting so that they remember and spread the word and come back and come back bringing more friends and family with them our
town thrives during this time of the year let's invite our entire Community to be part of it my proposal is to use the Overlook with a secondary backup spot of the vacant lot next to the drive-in there is more than ample space
for setup parking and there are restrooms which we all know are always a bonus at the Overlook setup would be easy everyone is required to bring their own canopy tables chairs Etc obviously we would just need sign ups so that we can ensure everyone has a spot anyone
selling food B baked items canned items jams jellies Etc would need a Minnesota Cottage food license we could offer it up to any local food trucks musicians and such but my thought is to first and foremost keep it local keep it to the
residents first my other thought is what about the weekend of wanan days as sort of a kickoff we barely have any events on the Tor fall side for this let's um let's bring some of that attention here if we do well then let's
expand it to a few more dates over the rest of the season whether whether depending we could even go into Leaf changing season throw in a catchy name or as she says something like the taste of Taylor's Falls or something like that we could make some signs with
interchangeable dates so that they are reusable um I met with Chrissy we had coffee because I'd seen her post on Facebook and um I thought it sounded like some good energy and some fun and an idea
that we could possibly pursue so we were we're thinking Sunday of Wan days um there aren't a lot of events that day um and if Wan days isn't a good weekend you know maybe try it in August and then see
how it goes um we talked about publicity getting it out bya social media posters Flyers publishing the upcoming events in the local papers the city's website and then the only thing would be to find out about licensing and the
permit requirements um so I think Chrissy's been working with Sher a little bit on that um and we thought maybe we could check with winster or sry PA see how they do it and then um we wanted to connect with the WAN Bas committee Lyn
longer too and I kind of had a chance to talk to Lynn about it so I just think it's a lot of enthusiasm and we like to see that roll into something so um we're putting it out there great Weller thanks
okay yeah thank you you're welcome thanks a lot y anybody else Lee I was just asked by uh hello everybody it's been a while Jeremy Jeremy here over there uh I was asked by
Kevin to stop by um regarding the retaining wall right we got that we got that coming up here oh okay I apologize I didn't see the agenda okay I'm sorry strike thatly yeah you're last on the agenda stay till midnight
yeah all right I'll keep my mouth shut until got you in the beginning yeah you're going to be right after the WAN days okay stuff so let's start out then with old business uh wanan days update ly long
Necker well here I am again things are things are transparent well we're we're getting some funds together really working hard we've got we got a lot of big goals out to this year to meet and slowly but surely
we're we're starting to meet some of those um as far as financially get to thank the Mr attorney thank you for your donation it's appreciated everything everything really helps it you know so things are moving
along and going well um kind of the things that this stff you probably all know what's going on Friday night we have the car show here at the fire hall we have parks recreation and bingo cash bingo cash Bingo we
have um a van down called the jordanson it's sponsored by the drive-in down on Main Street stage down there Saturday morning starts out um it's a little slower we do a lot of setup but uh the street stay closed
basically Friday to till Sunday afternoon down there um Ravine Street in that area so but we'll bring the stage will come down about 9:00 but then we got uh down in that area we got
uh uh some uh bean bags tournament on Sunday but after that it's torn down so any we pretty much close it off uh on Friday continue through the weekend Saturday starts out um well we got the uh The Lumberjack breakfast starting at
8:00 in the morning and then the lumberjack show is start at 11: and 2 but prior to that starting 11: to 3 we have we call it family fest day because we wanted family orientated um down there we'll have uh
dumpy houses we got a petting zoo from 11:00 to 3 we've got the Lumberjack shows the Lions prob will be serving food down there we have face painting and balloon tying um let's see what else was down there I think that's pretty much covers
family fest um it's looking good should be pretty full I I'll mention something here in a bit but on Sunday we've got um basically bean bag bean bag tournament and I'm I think that's pretty much it
it's pretty slow Sunday uh Saturday night we have uh the band is called sponsored by rains it's called the after hours band they were here a couple years ago some of them are graduates from s Lake school and they're they're pretty good so we got good coming up um we've
had some good supporters step up to the plate which is nice um I don't procee any problems i' I've talk to the maintenance department Kevin and and kind of do the same thing that we've done in the past only and I touched Bas with the sheriff and he's called me back and and just make sure
that we have pray permit for that day is the biggest thing crossing highway um that's looking good now a couple things what she brought up one is the uh Farmers Market I'm all for that
um and maybe we have room down there for a farmers market down there on Saturday if they want to do it Saturday or Sunday is fine if you want to do it up in the hill we're pretty open only thing is we don't bring in is food trucks during the event because we want to support the
local people that are paying for the events this weekend we don't want money just picking up and going out out out of the city I agree with you so that's been my focus is that they're the ones that are supporting us I don't want to take money away from at the same time correct but you know the farmers Market's not
going to do that type deal if it's downtown on Saturday but you know that's something we can work on I'm not I'll get that so other than that you guys have any questions I think it's moving quite along quite well I think uh just wonder
two things um one thing that we just um booked if you will is the Taylor Falls log Jammers um oh I forgot about them yes I'm sorry the group that plays at the community center on Mondays yeah they're going to do music at the stage
area from 1:00 until whenever they get kicked off yeah for set up for that evening where the sound system comes in so I I think that's great I local musicians I gu so very oh I forgot the dunk tank yes I forgot the dunk tank
down there uh the dunk tank was going on especially for politicians if anybody wants to get in contact council member Jim gr he'll get you on the schedule there one thing I have't contact about and one thing I'm proud that we've done with Wan days is we've kept politics out of Wan days it's a
city celebration so we don't bring in Moose and stuff for politicians what we do offer them is to be in the parade you know to be in the parade and also if they want to be in the dunk tank you know if they're running for office I think that's the easiest way to do it I I don't really want to get into politics
you gave this person this that one this I don't want to get into the politics it's it's a family fun city celebration let's keep politics out of it for a weekend kind of kind of my goal um I'm sorry I got a quick question
on that issue uh do we have any issues with w9s this year nope everybody's given them out been back y yep yeah in fact as soon as we book they get that and that's sent back before they get a check so that has been
followed um and I don't know if the council members have read this in the position description but it's a requirement be in the I've served my time you have served time you have served time but no I will be reaching out to see if there's a time slot that you want to do the sheriff
will be coming later after the pray because of previous commitments he'll be in R City during the day and then come back here for the pray and after pray you'll come down and do the dun for us for the LI Lions SP serving sweet corn ped pork hot dogs we're our goal is try
to get that Wan float down at the North End of the lot together and organized put together but we decided we're going to leave that as a backdrop and put a tent outside and serve underneath the CH would be the easiest this year we've had a lot of work to do in on the parks it kind of take a precedent to keep them
cleaned up but we'll make that into a certain quarters hopefully but it's so that'll work out good um any other questions do you want to mention uh Platinum donor that was kind of a nice
surprise yes we we've had a few Platinum donors one of his Drive-In has always been gracious um Romain has always been gracious so we put the city of Taylor SWS there and we also got surprise one from hsh M work sent him
my spons high sponsorship which was a surprise so great I'm very I was very happy with that and that really relieved a lot of a lot of stress I think so very grateful for that but yeah the donors have been coming in and they've been pretty gracious there's a couple out there I've
still touch Bas with that haven't received and hopefully we receive something in the shortly but it's only basically a little over a month away be jumping in on now you moved that other item up yep and if you guys don't have
any more questions I'll let I come up or whoever is taking care of the colle you want to come up sure I can long as you're done I am yeah well I just found out about this
today be been kind of yeah it kind of okay so I heard someone talking about the comprehensive plan earlier and Brandon and I were in a meeting and I had had a copy of the design team article and one of the
things they talked about way back then was a shuttle for um dealing with the parking and that sort of thing in town so one thing led to another and Brandon said it would really be neat to have it a trolley and he said I've been thinking
maybe the Still Water trolley so I said well I'll just make some calls so I did uh still letters not available on the 20th and so I reached out to another company and they've been really great to work with they've had to redo the quote
a couple times because you know Brandon said I have to meet with Kirk mayor s Falls and then Woody McBride he had a phone conference on last week sometime and they're a very young home they will
hopefully be splitting the cost with us and they asked if the Trolley Company could expand the time until 4:30 so it's from it'll run from 10: to 4:30 and it'll get people back and forth
to the events in Taylor's Falls and back over Sr Falls so um I I don't know I I guess Brandon said Put it on is the total cost 20 600 yes
so we'd pay half yep that's what Bron told me we would pay half oh and the $500 nonrefundable deposit had to be made in order to keep that quote and that date so um this they
asked if the city had a credit card and I didn't think so so I gave my credit card but it won't be there will be no charges it's just a technicality that they need to have a number on file so that's okay you sir a credit card it's
fine with me um but no I I think I think it's a good thing to trial you know maybe we'll is it just to bring people back and forth between tayis Falls and SRO Falls yeah to kind of help with the the park
gain and the okay so people could park in s Croy Falls if they can't park in Taylor Falls Versa and vice versa yeah well I think it could be changes to us especially around the time of the L shs to get
people across instead of trying to park people we're Liv up parking any home I I see some advantes I gu with Brandon or something would have contacted me it kind of came up really quickly yeah um and yeah um so
yeah that would have been better for you to know instead of the yeah can work at the first time that the yeah first show or whatever it makes stops pick picks up people for the show still have to figure out those drop off Logistics but kind of
have some ideas down the road we're thinking um maybe for the leaf weekends uh we will um sell wristbands that people will pay and you know because people are used to paying for parking so we're thinking
people would we pay for wristband help put that money towards paying for the trolley Services too so I'm just curious how does the trolley have preference coming across the bridge or something I mean how is the trolley going to navigate through this the traffic they
do it and actually when I called I said how does the trolley get up here do you trailer it up or what she said no it drives right up the interstate they go all over the state I guess um it's air conditioned that 30 it's holds 30
passengers um so and they I like I said they've been really great to work with so um one thing I forgot to say in my thing is that I'm very guilty of not knowing social media and I'm not on it much and
putting things on social media Sherry's working with us now she's putting together something and she's going to relate to Becky Kennedy Stu we need to put on to the website and maybe she can do some advertising yeah media yeah um of
course if we had pictures of the trolley or whatever and that stuff that would be great I'm not opposed to it at all I think it's great getting people across and stuff it may help us for bringing people down to the logging shows yeah you know it's kind a rush deal and
financing it's another things yeah St Cy is willing to pay half makes it much more yes yeah lot I know I I was I'm glad to hear that as well that's why I asked about the $500 deposit if we're actually
talking about 3,100 or um well yeah because we'll have to cut a check to send it but the deposit is just part of the fee addition it's not additional it'll be yeah got it sorry yeah it's just to
hold it okay it's to hold it yeah um Brandon said that there was money for it he told me yeah of course I can't remember what he said I think EDC yeah oh EDC yeah that's
what it was oh good good yeah we've got we got that too yeah yeah and you said Woody was pumped good so what that sounds good yeah that's that's a good thing yeah unfortunately he's made the posters of he put it out already but
yeah that's something um yeah I think it's all it's all a good thing I'm not against that at all you know trust me I think it's good I was just worried who's going to pay for it now I'm going to pay for it when I'm scrambling on these other things oh yeah no so the proposal said 10:00 that
seems a little early the First shows at 11 yeah so if they start here it might even little early but if you're going to be you got to pick up at St cor at 10:30 you'll probably have a couple stops I would imagine in St Roy and then then
probably a couple stops downtown or something to get so the lumberjack show they're both not both going to be in the afternoon not one is going to be well that's right it's at 12 and 2 I'm sorry is it 12 and 12 yeah I'm sorry yeah well hopefully those people wanting to come to The
Lumberjack breakfast yeah 11 to 3 is the 11 to three is the is the family guest know Kids Fest whatever but we want to include families you know we got the petting zoo down there and the logging show is going to go at the north end because it's more solid ground and
at the south end because last time we had a loging show they buried their unit and called tow truck so we're going to put on the north where it's all that gravel is where the parking lot is there and the fence is going to come down we're going to set them up down at that end and I talk to the P we're going to
put them at the south end so we keep the animals a little way away from the noise and the chainsaws and the louders so we don't grab any animals so I'm trying to keep part and then put the other kids festivities in the middle so and then we got a tent coming in we're
going to put up in the middle if it's really hot and I talked to the maintenance department they're going to take care of the benches down there we have those the bleachers bleaches on there they're going to try to get those painted and moov to nice yeah it's coming together coming
together so all right all right I guess you just need the check right yeah do we need what do we need to vote on I I think if this is I don't know I mean we've cut we've
allowed the wanan planning committee to cut their own not get approval in advance correct well we talked about yeah we formal C formal council approval but this is something you might want outside of that outside
of that it's it come to us right and something extra so I think yeah so I think we should uh have a formal motion okay so so what would be the actual amount of the check would
be 2600 minus the 500 and a half of that they want 500 like right away so like I said two tomorrow maybe check it or whenever or wait does have to be signed at they have to be approve that the next
Council well I think they can approve it approve okay okay so if that goes out then then the balance isn't do until the day okay at the end yeah you just need a check for $500 and then Brandon can talk to s c he
wants to get funded or how they want to cut a check or how they want to do it reimburse maybe we'll pay and they'll reimburse us or something that's something brand Tak care of it's been outside of our perview so okay so so I can make a
motion yeah I'll make a motion that we approve the trolley um as proposed contingent upon St Croy Falls pay half um and allowing the $500 deposit
and the EDC would have funding if and something fell through and it's um the accountant should be charged to is The Economic Development Fund which is uh fund 230 230 there's currently a $
7445 balance in that fund so what about the check to you Diane are we reimbursing you no that's just a technicality no nothing's being charged so soon as the $500 check gets cash she sends it down and that's work
so they're just holding their credit card in case yeah the meantime that make sense y I will second that motion any more discussion okay then all in favor say I I I
I very good passes thanks you guys for all your work thank you uh oh your next I know I think so okay next item on the agenda
funds update I think jerem's up next y sorry Jeremy's up next yesing uh so Kevin had just asked me to stop by I guess there were some questions from the audience and the council members uh uh regarding this
wall so I'm here to play ping pong with you so any questions I I brought a little bit of literature and a really old beat up box of samples
um um I understand there was one question about a different color Yes did we had that conversation I did check into that there is an extra cost uh just a long story short vers lock and Patio were just recently sold by another big header out of the Twin Cities so they're
going through a lot of weird things right now internal things uh a lot of the salesmen were let go um so it's it's it's it's really difficult for us contractors to deal with things right now and get straight
answers so with that being said uh there could be uh price increases I I I don't know um it everything is very Vol right now um but with that being said um the
uh there was two questions I know that you guys had one was uh going from grade to 10an um and it's could have been probably another thousand bucks to do that um to add a different color because this is such a special order block don't ask me why it's become such a special
order but it has the other big caveat to this is It's a about a two-month lead time from when uh they're paid to order so uh time is little the essence but you know I've done prain wells in the winter
it's not a huge deal but um I just don't know I know Jason wanted to get his parking lot refinished and I I you know I just don't want to get in the middle of it is what I'm saying U I'll do whatever you guys want to do or if you guys want to go
another rout I totally understand um but this is what I had come up with um as a as a cheaper alternative I guess know different walls out there they get very expensive as you guys have found out so I don't know if if if you guys
are privy to any of this information I mean I have a couple of little stupid uh brochures that I printed off I I don't know if you have any idea what the wall consists of looks like if you even care um but that's what
I have I'll stop uh well it's it's it's brute is a is a uh is a terminology for a certain versalog product so this is the one that I had bid on um and I certainly pass these out if
you'd like to look at them or we can start a campfire with them it doesn't matter me so what I'm sorry what do we have in our packet here I'm looking at Koda and outcropping walls excuse me I'm looking at something is it and outcropping walls Cottage I've got
something in my packet no that's not me that's that was given to Kevin by an HBC member oh okay I yeah no that's that's a little faner what I okay that I propos
mine are uh mine's more of a practical set of an aesthetic wall and if you guys want to take a look at them it's a 240 lb block so it's it's quite uh it's a
substantial um it's it's more of an industrial commercial type of blck the reason I go with verse lock the main reason is because they they're are pinned product they're a solid concrete and they use uh they use a uh synthetic
pin and it they pin together so uh they're proprietary they use their grid they're they're an internally um engineered product so if you if you're a contractor like me and
you buy their product they'll actually engineer the wall for you I've worked with them for I'm getting old guys I'm almost 30 years so um and knock on wood I've never had a wall fail they move a little bit but I've
never had one fail okay so is strong absolutely um if you go down if you go down behind the Taylor Falls boat company stand there that's the wall they got down you can go behind the the s c Tavern I did
one underneath that apartment building you have one that I did at the Catholic Church um they're all over the place so I think the main concern that Kevin Rel to me I haven't heard no has contacted
me about it so I'm giving kind of second hand if you will um it's just the aesthetic kind of right can we do something that looks more like TR Rock because that's what Smalls I had I had a resid call for for
the two things we just talked about one of them was the color of the brick to match what's already there and then U make it more aesthetic make it look like Trap Rock So Jeremy and I had a conversation about you know if you look through the weaves that are there well I
rock is still Tumbl down from the original wall so I asked him if it's possible to use that trap rock put back what once was that's that's just not going to last so yeah so here's the deal uh trap Rock's getting very expensive
because it's getting very popular I know we've had it here we're used to it you actually take it for granted oh that was good I you caught that before I CAU that um the
uh they're blasting right now and they're they're they're really uh they're into some really nice stuff a lot of Reds and it's really it's really pretty stuff um and it's gotten very popular all the all the people with more
money than me are buying them and putting them up in the F cities so however uh this wall and and I'm not an engineer uh but I would not I would not recommend
that's what I told Larry I would not recommend a dry stacked wall in that area simply because uh there's a reason why this old wall failed and one of the reasons is that I believe this is my humble opinion is
there's a road above it there's search Char and they're constant and and the biggest spring in Taylor's Falls is r so you always constantly have some sluffing going on that bluff I'm sorry to say and I'm hopefully this isn't on
the record but that's that that thing has looked like hell for as long as I've lived here 50 years I've never noticed it until all the trees were cut you could really make that whole area look beautiful but I would not do a dry stack
wall at just my opinion and I would step out of the game if you wanted to do that I understand the Aesthetics I s steers Falls trap rocks gorgeous I just don't think this is the great setting for it and it's expensive and it's very expensive just for somebody to come in
and dry stack that whole area you're you're going to Triple what I just gave you materials yeah yeah the other thing is that old Trap Rock I call it the old patina the oldfashioned Trap Rock you can't find that stuff anymore as soon as
those guys blast that stuff it's sold it's either sold to the guys that are buying the 2,000 3,000 lb rocks or they're throwing it through the crusher there is no more of the old stuff when the semi ran into the wall years and years and years ago
down by the old conico we had to find some tra I couldn't match it we just put in what we could find you can't find that that old dark blue anymore what can we do with the old tra that's still to be honest with you I was going to dig it out use part of it has back F
and it's good interlocks it's great Rock it's just it's not suitable for that wall well that would end the Aesthetics well it' be very very yeah it' be a back of the ball yeah
Phil it'd be Phil correct P it up here and or if somebody wants it I'd be happy to dig it out and you guys can come grab all load a truck how high how high do you got to go with this well at the beginning to
it's kind of weird tying into the county thing I don't even want to call that wall uh I was going 9 ft there's part of a concrete abutment there it's almost like there was dry stack and then somebody tried putting a a pour concrete
wall in front of it to help but that's already failed too so we're trying to split the difference with Jason and do it to where it's a little on his property if we're going to do this to stack it and stay I don't I don't want
to disrupt that concrete apartment cuz it's tied in underneath when they built Colony built that wall it's sitting on that concrete and I don't want to disrupt that or we're we're in for a huge mess it's hard it's hard to explain
unless we're down there and I can show you but at the beginning it's roughly 9 ft tall and then it's steps down 70 ft down to nothing how much how much higher would you have to go to make it so he can have
parking oh off like yeah probably another four to five ft it's that something that's on the City's radar well no I I was just looking at it you know you park all the way along
there it' be a bunch more parking it' be a great idea but I don't even know if I do if you're going to do that go to the next stage which is a 800 PB block yeah but I think the 800 pound block is what they Ed
yeah just from a cost perspective to what was provided Kevin I don't remember who gave to him but those materials are more than whaty proposed the whole project including
yeah and it wouldn't match what the county has any so no all right if you wanted if you asked me to do that I wouldn't do it that County wall to me is doesn't belong there that's just my another humble
opinion they're moving they yeah that's so I think your estimate was 25,000 change 455 I think yeah um does that cover it is that can you can you anticipate can we anticipate addition
cost um if you want to go tan yes uh if you wait any longer possibly cost concrete is constantly going up um Logistics are constantly going up like I said this versalock Patio Town dilemma
is so I I I can't guarantee trit we're not talking tens of thousands I'm not that type of person who's going to come back and demand everything but um but yeah if if if you want if you want the tan it's going to be B but you don't see
a potential for any problems that could cost more money no honestly I'm coming in I'm I'm planning on this being a three-day build I mean I just want to come in and bom leave um we're we're addressing
something that's been an issue for a long time um and when people hear about that and step forward their ideas and I we all welcome those absolutely that's kind of what's happening right we're
making progress we're doing something we're addressing a problem and and I I appreciate people coming forward absolutely that's why I think that's another reason you want to be here right now is just oh no I'm just stra I'm just a smart ass but it would be nice if you
guys could do the whole thing you know go all the way across and then you can do small croppings I mean we could really make that whole they look beautiful especially I kind of heard through the great finding you want to put some toilets in there at some point Corner yeah I mean we could I mean
that whole thing could be beautifully landscaped it's always been kind of an isur no offense but it just it's been a wall yeah but this is a product that will be available likely in the future so seems
to be a so we yes yese I mean I did mention there was one other option you could you could do some old croppings of some very large Trap Rock I mean car siiz Trap Rock and stack
them they're not going anywhere but again you're up you're going to be in the 80t dollar range just it's just is what it is you know then you could do some few
plantings and mulch it all and I mean I can make it look sexy our zoning administrator has a comment yeah the longterm planning part of coming out I didn't really look at the opportunity for parking um and I
need to delay Jason any longer but I just have to you look at how restricted we are on parking and if we have an opportunity um what how much more do you think it would be to raise that wall F into parking here's what I would say um
and I'm not trying to get out of it but I would defer to the engineer um if if you're at all thinking about putting which is I think is a great idea I never thought of it either but if you are all thinking about putting parking in you have to be
engineer to is it something that can be added on to so like do this portion now add add later that well again I think I'd go to a larger block oh yeah the B right yeah
you know if you're going to have cut that search charge and those cars parking there and especially with the the spring underneath there uh I don't know if maybe some of you guys don't know but there's a very very active spring very close there and uh it
there's things that are constantly moving not put more weight on that well you could you just got to work with the water you know you got to you got to you got to be smarter than the water yeah like I said just you know I
don't want to hold back anybody I think it's but you may want to take a pause and consider we do have another meeting in June coming up in two weeks are there utility PS there just
have one on the corner I can't remember if there's one over farther or not I think they're both on the corners but one on corner where the street right there the other one is behind I think Park is a great
idea yeah yeah I have no problem if you guys want to wait it's it's not going to hurt my feelings I I'll bid whatever you guys want want to put in how many I think you know I would think at least you'd have to measure it all
see far you got to be back from the county road but yeah angle par cuz there' be a fair amount of room yeah so if we started with the bigger
block now you know the foundation is the bigger block and then continue later is that a possibility it should be is it best to do the whole yeah are we back to the engineering I I think we're back to the engineering yeah
I I I would defer to the engineering so the only I'm going to be Debbie Downer um I love the idea too um it's a lot of money for a handful of
STS um and from a funding perspective we don't even have money to do stream Improvement this year um on streets we already have and that's where the money would come from we've already taken 25 out of um that fund um
it only has a $7,000 fund balance we budget it 8,000 I think this year which will give two 40,000 in sums so we're probably not going to be able to do any Street improvements this
year I don't think we're going to have money we'll have to wait till next year so that's my Debbie Doner position that um we really don't have the money in the foreseeable future to do it yeah no I I agree um that's just
common sense speaking I think at this point um so I would I would make a motion I I would I'm not but I would make a motion to approve the addition F to get the um tan Block versus the gray because then
at least they're matching um won't be as as B when isur um and we can revisit it later at some point maybe in a 10e capital planning process we can take a look at it did you say how much more for
get tan bar roughly F bu okay and the tan would be matching what already oh yes okay okay the one on the north south or an East West okay you want to make that motion I can I make a motion that um we approve an
additional amount of $1,000 to um change the color from Gray to tan second I'll second any more discussion just before you close the door on is that a hassle for you to do
that no no okay good okay okay no more discussion we're good I'm good okay uh all in favor say I I all right thanks guys have a great thank you
thanks all [Applause] right okay now we got fire truck fun update yeah I got my name on it just I guess I uh I'm not sure I questioned the
propriety of a council member throwing an agenda item on under another Council member's name but um from what I understand there was some information on the packet in what uh the mayor is looking for um
I guess if there's if there's any discussion that anybody wants to have I I'm guessing what he would like me to do is contact the fire chief and uh sit down with him and maybe discuss some Alternatives some alternative bids he's
talking about a Bare Bones truck he says um just to discuss the next step so I I'm open to any information any if you want to share that I can possibly bring back to uh the fire chief um I do believe that is the um is
it the capital maintenance fund Capital Equipment Capital Equipment fund yes uh 234 or something I believe is a balance right now or something like that 234 716 is the current balance of
the Capital Equipment fund so were those guys looking grants and different things department or they I believe they are yes yes I'm sure they are um I the truck they're looking at is you
know the truck they've been hoping for thinking about is fire exceeds these limits right I mean that's that's yes right so if if I don't know if any of you have any more information even Sher
there's something more you heard or I guess I guess that's what the mayor's asking me to do from what I okay and I'm thinking that um he was thinking that there these
things were in motion that you were having discussions okay um yeah I I think I think maybe what Brandon was trying to do is not Kick the Can down
the road any longer than necessary if we had some more concrete information we could maybe get that into the 205 budgeting process I I don't know that so I'm just making some assumptions but you mentioned there was a used vehicle for
sale nearby um and then to get two proposals I think from um each of the two local manufacturers um on the base model this this says
um um discuss next steps which includes getting obtaining another quote do we have a quote already we had a we had I wouldn't even call it a proposal it was more of an estimate um just to give a some idea what the cost we're looking at
is and kind of what the fire department vision is it gave the all if I remember right it gave all the the customization options that they had desired um and I think it came in at just under a million dollars and that was a year ago so my
guess is even that has gone up quite a b um and so the Mandate is to have another truck by 2027 so so there is no I believe what we've found out is there is no regulatory mandate
uh federal statute State Statute anything that would require us to have a new truck I think there's best practice um probably industry standard type of things but there's no requirement
so and FEA doesn't help out anymore I believe what I heard is they stopped offering grants for this a number of years ago this sort of thing years ago I don't know what the state does
but good anything else anything else on that okay I will keep keep moving along I will set that meeting up I'll reach out to Jake and we'll sounds
good uh next item is earn sick and safe time resolution and Amendment for personnel policy Sher are you the expert I am no expert but I can try and answer
questions so this is a new new state law um and uh there are certain requirements and I I believe we already meet or exceed the um the earned hours portion
of it um it really is putting it in place a policy surrounding it um and we uh are required to track sick and safe leave differently than we have regular PTO
correct yes correct so there is a category um that will be on our STS in addition to tracking PTO time that we've accured there will also be a category delegating essu time team
time um and we because people have that option have will approve the time um they canf what they want to use their time for or need
to so is the ESS state required is that state law it's something we have not been doing and we need we need to do yeah it would just became same law at on January 1st and with these amounts of 80 hours that's all okay that's all covered
they mandated correct right yes um including some of these uh reasons for it um uh ESS purposes stuff like that that's all taken right from State yes
okay so we're not adding anything new we're just catching up to right the state requirement and adding it into our personal right policy yes right so um the PTO time it say shall be applied to any ESS
request is that into I mean can you use the p is a PTO time used for you pally correct okay yeah yeah we aren't adding any more additional time for E non work benefit hours to the program okay it's
just where we have to introduce these requirements into our policy okay and then the tracking the separate track yes have to track it yes it exceeded my threshold in math actually I had to add um it's not an easy read
no it was was difficult to understand and there's still making changes to it so um be prepared we might have to make amendments you know I I did misstate something because we've I believe you can correct me if I'm wrong but we've
never um given our temp summer temp help time off correct so they would earn some time off with this change it's insignificant but um they
would and if they come back within six months of termination if you will so at the end of their season if they come back the next year they get to carry that over um so there will be a few hours but
it's not paid out at termination okay um so it's not a liability um an ongoing liability right right okay um I I got a couple questions on the wording since we can and I don't suspect
that anybody here can answer the questions but I maybe this the stuff they're still working on um page 33 um under an employes own so this is use of earned sick and safe time says the
right about in the middle the employee's inability to work or tell work because the employee is prohibited from working by the city due to health concerns related to the potential transmission of a communicable illness related to a public
emergency so who declares that who who says what's a public Emer can the city say that is that a county thing or who defines public emergency that's a usually it's the governor and under some circumstances it
can be the mayor okay but it has to a declaration it has to be declared emergency yes for and then I had a question on 34 towards the bottom it says for ESS purposes family member includes an employees following then right at the
top it says spouse or register domestic partner so is there an agency what's a register what agency do you register a domestic partner with is that does a city take over that or
no what I guess what is a registered domestic partner well ordinarily where where I would see that is um if somebody for example was on insurance with the with the city and they had a significant
other or um a spouse or anything like that that person would be the the partner that's normally the way it's interpreted now I mean that's that's that that's based on on what I've seen I wouldn't be at all surprised in fact I'm
quite sure there is somewhere very in the statute of definition of that um but that's the way I've always seen it practically done so it's the insurance basically it's the you know that's that's the that's the the um measuring stick for one of a better term
I mean that's usually you know somebody will do that you can't prevent somebody from doing that so they that allows them to make that that declaration and that's sort of where you find your significant others the insurance company uh not the
insurance company but it's the city that interacts with the insurance company has to tell the insurance company these folks are thank you um sorry one more thing on 32 I believe 32 is the actual resolution
adoption or second safe time um in the resolution itself now therefore be resolved by the city of Taylor follows at the earn sick and safe time policy [Music] shown right yes in attachment
a thank you m any more discussion no no no okay um can I have a motion to approve resolution 24- 06-00 I'll make the
motion should I read the whole thing if you like I think that would be best you want to read that resolution Okay resolution 24600 this just this and approved uh
Amendment a to the Personnel policy thank you I'll second any more discussion if not can I have everybody vote I hi hi
I passes thank you Sher for doing all that work Elizabeth for kind of getting the ball rolling on it okay um move on to discussion discuss
the planning commission's short-term rental recommendations Elizabeth yeah so I have attached a very Ross draft of the planning commission's recommendation that they decided um the council and we still have some things to
tweak like creating actual application and um we decided to when that but I wanted counil to really uh you know thoroughly read through each section and give me their input and the
the concepts as a whole because like the canvas the Cano product ordinance there's a lot of different Avenues you can take in regulating the short-term rentals you know you can choose to regulate say the you know distance
between short rentals shortterm rentals or two maps I just all sorts of stuff like that you'll see throughout this ordinance you can regulate as little or as much as as you want and I just want to make sure council is in general
agreeance with what's drafted so that we are not um drafting it on the fly like we did with the Cannabis ordinance I'd like the I'd like to draft your ideas before we approve them this
time well I have two questions to begin on page 40 and this might not be a big deal but under dwelling unit a residential accommodation including a kitchen but complete is is
can is crossed out what is the difference between a complete kitchen and a kitchen it doesn't matter well I think that's the question why he crossed it out um so it's kind of goes into is it just a
what is yeah when you when you look at it what is a kitchen kit in the facility I mean I think um it could be when you rent up the hotel room they have a kitchen at that might have a
small refrigerator and a sink and a microwave as compared to a full kitchen that we would have in a single family that's the way I would interpret it I don't know if that was their intent or not but back to that meeting exactly what the
conversation was Jo you there I was there I was just um remembering it was kind of a nightmare actually wasn't it um yeah it was it was stove no stove refrigerator no
refrigerator um and I think that's the point it just got to be um we got dragged down in in those details and it just seemed better just to say kitchen you know and the other question I had is this um
a couple of times refers to um short-term rentals in the allowable districts now we have them all over town I mean are there allowable districts now in tlor Falls isn't it in everything except for the business and
Industrial trying I can verify that in the zoning orance I think actually it we have it listed somewhere in here the this allowable zoning District so what we're essentially doing is taking the existing zoning ordinance where those
short-term rentals are currently listed as uh conditional use permit allowed as conditional use permits um and saying they're allowed in those same districts but without conditional use permits just as permitted so we're not
changing um so far we can um but we're not proposing to change the location in which those shortterm rentals are allowed in more just not requiring theal use permit and implenting this additional
orance okay and aside from that I think this trans is okay and you know but you can make so Planning Commission has not proposed any changes to what's regulated you know
where I'm sorry I'm stumbling a lot tonight um you can make changes to the proposal to regulate the short-term rentals a little bit differently between the different
zoning districts so we could allow if we chose to to not have any limitation on distance between rental short-term rental units in the downtown commercial District so along Street we could say
they could all be shortterm rentals um gu you could use that Z District as a boundary is what I'm saying and there were some discussions on quantity and how many weren't there we were going to allow yeah you could
you could use those zoning districts in allowing you know x amount in the downtown and you know x amount in small town that's not currently drafted in the ordinance but that is something that could do so if you felt like downtown was an
appropriate location to have more shortterm rentals you could do that before I forget I just want to thank you and please pass on thanks to the whole commission too for all their work on this or probably wasn't a lot of fun but um I
think they did a good job I know hard of it there's a lot of discussion so I've got a couple things um page 43 under 30.5 General performance standards
um unless I am not understanding item a um no physical alterations no physical alterations in the site or dwelling shall be permitted inun fun with the establishment or operation of a short-term rental
um I don't understand why that's in there a um because if you want to make physical alterations to your home whatever business you own have to go through a permitting process correct or and if it's in a district uh Heritage preservation would
weigh in so my example is the house down the hill here that has the red it's a short-term rold that Peter smugs had um come here last year uh requesting a license for you would not have been able technically speaking you would not have
been able to make any of those alterations to the unit and open it as a short-term rental the way I'm reading this is that correct that's the way I'm reading it as well um
they were trying to preserve the way the and their yard set up currently are so I would make a recommendation back to the Planning Commission that
this be taken out and if they want um to state that you know a sentence that says must any alterations must go through the app applicable permitting and approval process um
because that house still may be sitting there empty had it not been for the funds they put in it to renovate it and turn it into a short-term rental it just seemed awful aggressive like you're limiting those short rent to their
improvements more than the rest of theal in the city more as long as those alterations are within the rest of the Cod and it that's the property's value it does City I know one of their concerns primary concerns
on like alterations was to accomodate that increas that was an alteration of their concern or adding you one of their concerns add add BS to the house I don't see the draw do you
remember no I'm just wondering now how does um to make what if you're going to make it accessible right right um and how do you decide why they're doing that right if they're going to make it
handicap accessible with a ramp or something who decides why they doing that are they doing that for their business business right or are they doing it just you know are they doing that to increase business or if there's no first level
bedroom that's handicap accessible when we want them to put in if they wanted to yeah is it something we say no to because if a um any other residents wanted to do that wouldn't them I think is more the concept that Tim
I mean I think the Planning Commission was aiming for more extreme alterations yeah and I think if you you know that question came up like for example a house on Angel Hill that we would go to Heritage preservation
yeah it's a it's a very limiting statement and uh from an enforcement perspective I mean I would have to tell a lot of people know um is that line on physical alteration so I mean if you pull up the definition of
alteration in our ordinance it basically says to make different so I mean be very restrictive um then page 44 uh item G
subb um there shall be a minimum of 100 feet between Parcels used at short-term rentals um two suggestions that they talk about um as I stated earlier I would asked them to take a look at exempting the downtown commercial
district from any of the minimum distance between Parcels um and then I think they uh there needs to be a better definition of what the 100 feet is
from all L lines um does it matter if there's um a street on both sides an alley in between from the rear because this would um the way
the way it's stated if you just take it as it is I'd have to assume that it's from any point on any lot line hbit your neighbor to the rear if your backyard's a butt from doing and they live on a totally different street
they would um prohibit them from having an Str Str as well so I just like them to talk about that and better Define um their intent and and the definition of of how that's measured so do you are you guys you want
to throw it back at Planning Commission or do you want to work on your own and and move forward with the amendment I guess I don't have wording to substitute
at this point in time so well that's where I can kind of take your concept that you like and we can work on like a a proposed wording that I can then bring to councel again okay that' be fine um yeah I'd be happy to work with you if
you have questions on on my one more meeting right I mean we are having a meeting on the 24 and we're not putting the shortterm rentals through on those 24 so I mean could yeah I'll put it on the plan
commission agenda what you guys have said let talk about it and throw it back at you okay good and then I think my last point on the ordinates would be on page
46 Item B occupation and habitation as a MISD demeaning I I just don't understand why that's there it doesn't seem to tie in with a for the whole sub hitting of
30.6 um it shall be a misdemeanor for any transient guest to physically occupy inhabit or reside in a short-term rental property and such violation by the transient guest shall further be subject to all other remedies permitted under
the section the way I read that nobody could book a short-term R in an improve short-term R so I would say unless there there's something I'm missing that could be
stricken as well you mean does this mean longer than 30 days it's allowed I that as like you can't use it as a long or residents so um I use this as an
example like the snowbirds wouldn't be able to rent a when they're gone which I think a lot do and since there is such a demand for both longterm
rental permanent housing and shortterm rentals I'd hate to see something sit empty at any point in time of Regulation transient guest is the here is it
not something in here about 90 days too how how do you read it well I saw that and I was you know basically that's terrible and I think that it gets corrected if the idea here is you don't
want anybody that that isn't permit or you know I at least when I read that it should be a misdemeanor for any Transit just physically occupy inhabit or reside in a short-term rental without a permit and the rest falls into place in such violation by the transit guest so
forth so you know if you're within I'm just saying that you need some kind of authorization or a license from the city is what I was looking at that is and and that makes sense um otherwise if you say to somebody you're a transient guest and you know you just
PID rent to occupy a place for a week and it's illegal for you to do so that makes no sense at all of course so the idea here is that as I understood it was that uh it would be illegal for somebody without the necessary permit or
something like that I the word that a little better yeah oh yeah this punishes the renter right for occupying what they was was illegal right no the language is is awful actually from that point of you but I think it could be depending on
what people were actually trying to do uh I think it's a fairly easy fix that was my perception you just don't want anybody to show up it's illegal if you don't the idea is it's illegal if somebody doesn't have the correct permission or
permit which I feel like cover well yeah but this is it giv this is the one that gets you um and you can get rid of it if you want I suppose but this is the this is the one that gives you other kinds of Remedies in other words it's not just a
misdemeanor but this on the face of it allows you to get an injunction on why God's name you want to do that I don't know um and a transient guest is defined as a person or person's renting using or occupying a room or rooms for fewer than
30 days that's on page 41 which is exactly the kind of person as I understand it that's going to be renting right so I I had to add just that additional little bit of language that's that you there you're in there by
permission whatever um and I don't know that the way this is set up whether they need a piece of paper from the city I think the owner does somebody does it's occupying it without a license or without a permit and the section A of that or sub
a of that section is pretty comprehensive in and of itself as far as um so those those were y for me would you mind drafting your recommendation for Section B and sure I
mean if if you want me to do that and go back and forth it would be useful to me to know if I'm missing something when I was looking at that language and my understanding of it somebody had a somewhat different idea than yeah I'd be happy I draft and I'll just put that recommendation I'll build that into the
next that goes to plan commission Council you yeah want to just one other comment in that regard if you got a if you've got somebody that's permitted to do that let's say the owner is permitted to do that and you've got somebody that
is or should be permitted and isn't this authorizes you the adjunctive stuff is what I'm saying so difficulty understanding it would allow you to do something at the owner as well you know forever prohibit the use in the future or anything like
that take them to court not just Criminal Court you've got more options if it's something more like injunctive relief that's the only way when I was looking at that that was the only way it made sense to thank you nice work everyone that's it anybody else no I
think do we need a motion just to send it back we can I can make a motion to send back for to the Planning Commission for those small changes I we easy to do I just did okay I'll anyone discussion no all in favor
say I I I all right move on to new business approval approve a creation of subcommittee for downtown bulletin board uh one person from each
did speak to you about this idea at all no he didn't no um just just reading the wording here the objective right um I'm not sure how I feel about this because you know it seems like it's may be some sort of an oversight committee for what
um you know Deb and I were asked to do last meeting as you know keep bringing this up as pillars of the community um it's not like you know we would be doing anything uh other than
what we'd be following the footsteps of Barb young and put up you know um you know City activities wanan days lighting festival and you know if anybody else wants to add things to the bulletin board well you know we're not
here to say yes or no just bring it to us so we can all discuss it you know rather than have a subcommittee and add another meeting to you know everybody's already busy schedules um Deb did recommend one thing that we could do is she could set up a um I think she called
it a Google Document and people could send their ideas to the Google Document and we could review and if we feel it needs to be brought to the council or we could just bring it to the council and I would bring it to the council and discuss it so as far as another subcommittee or you
know I don't think that's necessary so it seems like just a education agenda item talking about this in the process on each committees or commissions at their next meeting or
something would go a long way to doing that should I give them the instructions on how to do it and instead of a formal subject right um I agree with Larry on this one I just don't think um no was not but you know
now it's not the time if the commissions want to take that up um on their own and let's build those commissions up and get that point you know sometimes people step forward that's even better you know um to you know to take care of some of this stuff
so yeah now was not the time for me either I think we got other things to you know there's also the city website there's you know the concerned coalition's uh web page Facebook and the whole roster of you know
um of platforms to do that and you know we'll we'll take good care of it and we'll listen to all ideas you know for things that want to go up there so yeah I agree with the sounds good
we talked in the Parks and Rec about and my thoughts about that it's in need of repair or I would even say replacement but where would we start the wheels on that and then there was commentary about input from other people about what this
new repaired or new billboard would look like so how how do we firmly approach that right here I'm not going to be there next L but I want you to take this so it's show some new ones oh of U environmentally
friendly materials okay because you know in looking at the Bullis board that's there now you know it's bolted to that concrete wall and to get that off to repair it I mean that's going to be a job in itself and I think that would be
the best way to do is to you know we're going to repair it to take it down totally to a shop somewhere and get it fixed um but we can you know I'll give you this and you guys can talk about it at the next meeting so do we need to make a motion on this or can
we table it without action how it was just a discussion there is a motion is there a motion it's a suggestion um was this one branding
should we table it until here to kind of discuss his his wheels behind it I want to say I don't want to put words in his mouth um but I think the objective was just to get the commissions to be more involved and aware which I think you
could do without a sub committee but maybe just having the chairs um bring it up as an update maybe and is there anything and if they want to post is there anything we want to post in the kind of concept I think that's where he was with
it but I'm not sure I think I'll make I'll make the motion to table any more discussion okay all in favor say I I Mar table uh post get
okay item number two under new business uh we elimination resolution and enforcement Elizabeth so we've received some complaints about just Telegraph people not M their WS so I dug in to see what we could do for enforcement and I found
that we are supposed to we the city are supposed to publish in newspaper a notice um as stated in the resolution um and I realized this on May 31st but
we're supposed to do it on June 1st so better late than never so um and it says at other times it's order by resolution of the council so that's why we have a resolution um you know stating that we're going to publish this the Bel
notice so it's kind of a formality and then I did check with Fritz outside of this notice we are able to send specific properties their violation noes
and move forward from there so if you have any question so that's an annual requirement that it be yeah published okay right didn't really know we were supposed to be doing until I stumbled upon it um you know I mean we doing a
lot of the Amendments but we feel like that's not toly necessary we could amend it out but that's what it currently says so we're going to try to do that so is 50401 in our ordinance new ordinance
packet is there somewhere somebody could see this like here was it oh it's not no not but that's the zoning ordinance only so this is just its own separate part of the city code but the objective would be
to the S1 they get that online as well this is what you would send out um [Music] below where it says now therefore be it resolved we'll publish the following notice and then I have notice in bold
that's what I was going to send out this this is the land owner would get correct the template yeah there was a there was a specific right isue yeah okay and I I do
have some comments on the letter Y um page 55 um dear property owner occupant has brought to my attention I I would suggest we depersonalize that a little bit I like that
idea the C ition yes that would be good thank you um first [Music] warning uh yeah so now we're on page 56 first warning failure to eliminate the weeds and violation by date result in removal of weeds by the city employees
as declared into section 5043 of the city Taylor's FSE code where the property owner will be built for said labor I'm just going to suggest something the effective at the cost of the property owner sorry what where are you we're on the first warning on page
56 right now it says where the property owner will be build for said labor just a suggestion that we change that that um at the cost declared will be I will
be removed will be evaded at the cost of the property owner will be Abed be Abed by the city at the cost of the property owner and and then the next sentence I would suggest or the first phrase I would
suggest we move that that the city is not a la mowing service um I I I guess I don't feel that's necessary okay cross that yeah you can just go right in with a second a second violation for
failure H that sarcasm I guess at the very beginning you know just to throw this out there for what it's worth there's is an environmental movement called no mo
may and you know at the end of May my one's almost a foot tall so is there going to be some you know consideration for that if we put a sign up may we still going to get a letter
well this is after June after June after after all right oh yeah after June 1 after may I would suggest those people who do nor May research it more because there's actually detrimental effect on no
M which I was surprised to learn okay and I did learn about that recently that's a thing um does the city has the city ever like declared that they're doing
no uh no but how is it DET do we know that I can't remember it was no started with one city C it and everybody ran with it and other content
expert have looked at M of the council Mr Mayor I I just point out the city has discretion when it's doing enforcement and I rather suspect that if you had a whole city of people that were doing no
more May and out of a bunch of they all ended up getting these kinds of letters and citations and there would be a full likely council meeting people protesting that that would probably be the last time
discretion of the exercise that way so I'm thinking that you know it's assuming a reasonable you can all imagine uh the property or a couple of properties uh that everybody knows where there's no maintenance that kind of
thing this is really design to focus on on the problem properties not every environmentally active person in the city of Taylor Ms well with all the rain I actually caved
exactly man so I just reread this and and maybe I don't maybe I'm not reading it right tonight but this looks like a onetime thing to me um failure to eliminate nuisance weeds by June 20th 2024 may
result there's an extra s there in result um in the destruction of the weeds by city employees but isn't it for the rest of the growing season that's not how I read the initial so where it says where at
that's what it actually says in the ordinance and it says long where do I start sh publish in the newspaper a notice directing the orders
and occupants of the property to destroy all weeds declared by 5041 to be a nuisance and stating that if not destroyed within 10 days after publication of the notice publication of the notice the weed shall be destroyed by
the city employees so so that's where I got putting a date in there from because it says within 10 days after the notice is published so what would happen June
31st after June 20th if somebody had a foot tall how can you enforce what would you use to enforce that I checked with RIT and he said I can send him this letter still again sending this letter out to
everyone like a mass letter or anything that's not going to be no if you know the person who sent the letter to didn't comply send them a letter again or we can move forward with M La yeah and what if like you know end of
July after he's moted it's another foot tall then we do this letter again yeah so to me I don't I'm not sure really why this language is in publish this notice when we can just do their individual
letter you know letters maybe britz can answer that this is like kind of maybe just a a preliminary warning to make sure the residents know that this is a possibility um you know kind of a warning shot maybe I don't know what you think well the underlying idea behind
this this kind of ordinance gener is you got to give people know they have to have the opportunity for due process those aren't weeds those are and through all of that and the reason why you have to go through this is because you're going to want to put
it under taxes even if they don't pay for it so you have to go through the process or a process like this that has to be by ordinance and usually that's a once a year thing and that can be June or that could be it has to be anytime the county will usually tell you give
you a deadline where this kind of thing has to be done that has to be added to their taxes that's normally in October or whatever I don't know whether this fits in with that or not but that's that's basically the reason why you need to do it this way where you've got um a
date and and um you know once you've got the authority under your ordinance to do it then you can tell the county that you're going to be you know be two three four times violations total being somebody cuts the grass you know it could be few hundred bucks easy that
would just be added to their taxes so my question is why have within 10 days of this specific notice why not cover the whole summer well because Grass Grows and and I think that the the problem is is that the city goes out cuts the grass
um two months later normally it wouldn't do it right away there but two months later you get the same problem all over again so you give them another 10 days to fix the problem and if they don't fix the problem then you've got the authority again to go in and cut it and
having done it that way then you Al got a bill that you could certify them to the county at the end of the year that's the idea so does B 4.01 give you the Authority or the city the authority to at any point in time after
June 20th to to do a compliance on this could be worded a little differently that I mean might be a you know a little bit more clear on that point I think is is what you're saying and I think you're right because I think that what you really
want the important thing as far as you're concerned is that end of the year thing where you get to you've got your several hundred dollars that you want to you want to put on their taxes and that you can only do once a
year and and there are a couple properties in town where I they they might once Elizabeth has asked them to cut cut their grass they may do it but then they won't do it for another month or six weeks it's you know a half foot tall again or more and it repeats over
and over and over again I'm not reading that you have or the city has authority to do that unless there's something in get over 6 in tall in your yard I mean isn't that the intent the idea is everything is has to be neatly trimmed yes yeah so I would I would
prefer it be worded something like that in the posting so there's no confusion on an individual's part where they say okay I did that by June 20th I'm not going to cut it I could work on a little bit like there are plenty of examples out there
that Ed do we want to work on wording right now so that way we can get it published sooner rather than later so we can start enforcement or do you want to wait two weeks May that just pushes out our enforcement
as exactly yeah one thing I'm remembering and Elizabeth you're the one that has you know keeps reminding it is the goal is compliance yeah right it's not about making money or meeting a deadline the
is really compliance and if we can get it for 2 months then that's good you know maybe it'll snow and it won't matter right the weather changes yeah and and Kevin described it he's worked in other cities before as time you add
up all the the lawn you know all the C expenses it comes out to be a pretty hefty lawn moing Bill and it really only takes one time before that own will not want that bill again so it's kind of a heavy cam buts from
what need describe to me okay so so yeah I'm not aiming for an ordinance amend I I agree we could use an ordinance Amendment for this but with the language that we currently have to move forward with enforcement um that's
the language I'm looking for in the notice so we could approve this and then we could bring back an ordinance Amendment at a later date okay I I with that trying to compur
ordinance so I would make the motion to approve this with the with the changes that were suggested at least a letter or you just want to do the ordinance or you just want to do the ordinance just a notice um so we be looking at
the the res Olu resolution 24602 I mean could we for get by with taking the data out I'd leave it as is okay my suggestion that's what's been noticed and in a relatively short period of time you can
tweaked but at least with this you can go right out and start set okay so Troy I think you want motion I will make the motion to approve um resolution 24- 06-02 I'll
second any more discussion uh not all in favor say I all right on to the next one the EDC recommendations of city code Amendment
section 2453 that's proba we Los so I wasn't at the meeting but EDC did meet and propos the amendment attached and the driving Factor was to try to get
a a quum a little easier so I wrot so it shows what the the cross text is what you took out of the code and the underl text
the um I talk about this earlier today the only um the only comments I had uh was to make all pertinent documents gender neutral it notes counil man numerous
times council member I would agree with that I guess to summarize the change of water right now thein is very specific to having
M and additional coun member to be to be as well and currently only have the Pres Cil member changed it
to council member whether it's the mayor or someone else not vot so it's just meant to help assist you know moving business forwarders think about you know they kind of you know potentially ping away
for changes for the other commissions as well we discussed this and in the absence of on council person can't
be no disagreement anything IDE there's nothing changing that for obviously I I do agree with council member bro that we change the language to council member we need
a motion on this I motion I can make a motion to approve resolution 24601 with stated revisions second I will
second any more discussion one let's see look at page 63 page 63 uh 20246 amending is that part of this or so you
have a solution adopting this ordinance okay um I just had a question in the middle is uh the liaison shall only be a voting member of the economic development commission does not have the required members for to vote makes sense the
balance of the membership shall be residents who may or may not own a business in the city is that exactly what we wanted to see they they shall be residents that was existing they did not propos to
change okay so they they they need to be residents and owning the businesses for so that tells me that somebody who owns a business but does not live Taylor's Falls cannot be on this
commission we talked about that before be the other way no it is the membership up to 50% maybe members who are nonresidents okay so that I think that was the idea
right langu the balance so they're saying they want some business um I just have one more comment on on the actual ordinance um leaon shall only be a voting member if the economic
development commission does not have the required member members MERS to a um would we also not want to give the council aison um the ability to vote if
there was a TI to break a Time just a question otherwise it just gets pushed off to the next meeting or whatever they have AUM the council m not
voting as it read right now right right but what you're doing is you um you really are the sense that there will be no T and TI function you know that's that's it up I don't know no
no that's good point but I just want to make sure that that my understanding is that that upgrades let's say the liaison R to something a little bit more than juston and I was just thinking if we're giving him the vote in
not but I'm fine fine ready to vote no more discussion or you still thinking well that one sentence still needs to be cleaned up just a little bit it doesn't I that as well when I first read That's
well just M for take the required number of members necessary for necessary for did all right any more discussion no ready to vote Yes okay all
in favor of the resolution please say I I changes okay that good okay next is approve Elizabeth H as full-time permanent
employee yeah can take this um first of all I I'll just make a motion um that we approve house as a fulltime permanent employ and after a second we can open discussion
second second okay any discussion okay just a little background as a reminder um we in our Personnel policy manual we have a oneyear probationary period that would require uh for new hires u a six-month evaluation and an annual
evaluation after the annual evaluation the council needs to determine whether or not they want um to take the set employee off of their probationary period to um put that as a time inlo so that's why this is in here we had um
Elizabeth's annual review last Friday um and now this is where we we want to move forward and make per got discussion good TR I'm Goodbody good I'm
good yeah all right let's take vote all in favor say I I I job all right next one on the list approval approval resolution
24- 06-03 the delegation of Authority for paying certain claims Sher us so according uh to state statute um these really are um the types of claims
that can be um paid for prior to counil meeting or in between um these U payroll um any bills that could add um additional um fees or
um penalties to the city um so we're just stating that um in our resolution that this is acceptable with the with the treasure and
City so we're looking at payroll and uh any payments that would approve penalty correct is that that's the two categories it's that's what it comes down that's comes down right and would the council still see those payments
even though they were made they would still show up in the registers just as so do you already by stat you have the authority to make a payment um let's just take Jeremy for an
example um Jeremy's done the work we Council approved the work his invoicing meets um what he proposed have the authority to make those payments without cons approval already I I wouldn't be comfortable
doing that do you I don't know if that falls under this you know usually it's non routine things that that are that are directed to you and the effect of this is if you've done these routine things um and have done that
authorization you're essentially ratifying every month you'll be revie everything um that's the way it normally works and there very off is a separate list that's called the routine or whatever but it's a separate list of
bills you know paid or whatever and then the ones that are still outstanding and normally I would expect that something that is unusual or not not a weird unusual way but say it's out of routine uh that that would be something that you want to have
separately considered so that's the way it works the exception exception right that the nonroutine so payroll or some other things where it might actually create sort of an awkward situation legally for the city not to have the prior approval you don't have
to worry about that but you do look at that and um there's the proverbial heal to pay if somebody's you know sending out checks they're not supposed to I don't think that's a problem especially because you're well insured in that regard Cher
is very reliable but it's uh that's the idea here as I understand it and I frankly didn't realize you didn't have this it's very right it's very common very common Co and it sounds like those those could be itemized separately
they should be I would expect them to be in words saying that's up to you know staff obviously but I would expect that to be one of one of the lists that you have routinely in front of you during the uh city council meeting bills paid under these kinds of circumstan we do
okay but it would be still be a separate section right but that's what you that's what I've seen and that's what I would expect I can work with Michelle on and then one question on the wording actually in the second line now therefore be resolved it says below that
that the city and The Treasure of the city of Taylor's Falls are authorized to pay certain claims so are we adding the treasurer in here or how is this working or we adding the the clerk in here um should it be and or does it
have to be both oh that's a good point we have double signatures on all your checks don't we do and I think that's recognizing that great um initially um it only stated city
clerk but um Michelle is basically the first delegated person to sign checks um behind the mayor so in this case it would would it be both of your signatures in in these
special cases or could it be one or the other it could be one or the other but then we would have hopefully the the mayor would sign as well okay we always um that's our first goal all right there's a been very few times that it's
not happened um but yeah Le sign's I guess like worst worst case scenario we don't we have it set up to like we Brandon both not be here and then you
and Michelle could in theory right if it couldn't wait yeah B City staff do it together it's a very very last resort but we are but on the we can do it we're on the bank account to sign
okay any more discussion okay did we have a motion not yet I'll make the motion to approve resolution number 24- 06-03 I'll
second any more discussion if not uh all in favor say I I I I passes um anybody else have anything uh that looks like the last
item I just like to make two comments number one um Cherry Hill Park looks outstanding with all the PES and the work that Kevin schum has done and I recommend everybody take a look if you haven't seen it already and also the
Public Works guys and the downtown flowers with fantastic yep I'll make a quick comment on the the community center actually the pavement now when our water running we've had a couple days of heavy rain and I've been
watching the water not puddle not stay there it's actually it runs down back and and down the hill so thank thank you very much for that that's another one of those projects that that we're tackling that we're taking you know taken care of so it's
good to see great I would just like to thank staff for the reps they're very very beneficial appreciate to thank you guys for support as well okay with that can I have a motion
to adjourn the meeting so moved second all say hi hi hi hi meeting thank you everybody right the beginning next me one time long it's a long time
I was going to be home Wednesday and Thursday but now CLE the guys want go fish in ATV and so I got to do that hey good plan [Music] you take a look at talk about I don't want to H anybody else oh no no 5:00 no works good okay
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