Good evening. It's now 6:30 and I call the regular meeting of the Victoria City Council to order. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The first item on our agenda this evening is announcements. We have several announcements this evening. First, there is a city council workshop scheduled for Monday, April 28th from
2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. The workshop will be held in the multi-purpose room at the Victoria Recreation Center. The purpose of the workshop is for city council to discuss its strategic plan as well as the long-term vision for the Victoria Recreation Center. All meetings of the
city council, including workshops, are open to the public and held in council chambers unless otherwise noted. We encourage anyone wanting to attend our council meetings or workshops in person to contact our city clerk in advance. In other announcements, join us for Donuts
in Victoria this Wednesday, April 16th at 9:00 a.m. This month's presentation will be an overview of the upcoming transportation projects presented by our city engineer. Donuts is held at the Victoria Recreation Center and more details can be found on the city's
website, victoriaamn.gov. Also, make sure to stop by Victoria's downtown on May 3rd to celebrate spring with our local businesses and at our Victoria in Bloom event. Many of our businesses will have specials and activities throughout the day. Again,
that is May 3rd and the city's website has some additional information on that. And that concludes our announcements this evening. Our next order of business is to adopt the final agenda. I understand we have an emergency ad to the um agenda
this evening. Uh Miss Nelson, you have something to say about that. I think members, just to note, this is an emergency item. We were asked by the Lions Club last week to have their temporary liquor
license this. All right. So, we will add that item as 6.2. Council, can I get a motion to adopt the agenda with the addition of that item? Motion to adopt the agenda with the addition of the Lion's temporary liquor
license uh item 6.2. Thank you. We have a motion. Can I get a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item on our agenda is the open forum. This is the opportunity for anyone to address
address the council on an item that's not on the agenda and not in application form that will be coming to the council at a future date. We have the owners of Omni Brewing with us this evening. So, um, who want to address us? So, please approach the podium, introduce yourself,
and state your business. Hey, mayor, council members. I'm Justin Walsh uh from a founder of Omni Brewing. And I'm Zach Ward, uh other founder of Omni Brewing. It's Ward. Yes. Got it.
Got it. Yeah. Um we uh have been working with John, I think as some of you may know, to um to take over the operation there. And um we are are going to have a on sale intoxicating um liquor license coming on the next council meeting.
However, Zach and I uh will be out of town at a conference that day. So, we wanted to come here, introduce ourselves, give you a little overview of what we're going to plan to do and um see if you had any questions. Uh we will have someone representing us at that meeting, but we wanted to take this opportunity to introduce ourselves in
person. Very good. I can give you guys a little bit of overview and background about us if you're not familiar. Um so, Omni was founded in 2015. Um, first location was in is in Maple Grove. Um, so we're coming up on our 10-y year
anniversary. Um, learned a lot in the early years, including some from John and his uh, business partner Dan Norton. Um, uh, business partner at that time. Anyway, um and uh we now uh have really shifted our focus on the tap room
experience and creating that third space through great craft handcrafted beer, pizza, as well as um offer it offering uh coffee and cafe um type services. Um really um Justin and I fell in love with
the early tap rooms in Minnesota, including the original Enki tap room. Some of our early business planning was done there. And uh we've really kind of come back to our roots and tried to focus on bringing that that great um place where you can catch up with an old friend or meet a new one to more
communities. So that's what uh we're coming to Victoria to do and to expand on what John and Dan have have built here. So, um, yeah, love to answer any questions you all have. Yeah. Talk to us a little bit about, so John had given me kind of a a heads up that this was
coming. So, I'm delighted to have you guys in town. Um, you guys come highly recommended by some friends of mine. So, thank you for that. And thank you for um honoring what John and Dan have built here. Um, we love Anki Brewing. We love
having a brewery in our town. It is a really great asset to us and we love that it's going to be it's going to carry on. Um so tell us a little bit about what you what's going to change, what's going to be different from um what Anki looks like now. Yeah. Um I
think the physical space, you know, you'll see some changes in paint colors. Um we will be expanding um the operating hours. Um, like I like I mentioned before, we operate a cafe in in our Maple Grove space and plan to um take some of those learnings and bring them
here and open at um 7:00 a.m. for for coffee and breakfast sandwiches. Um we have a pizza concept um that we've been running at our other two locations um for couple years now. Um we plan to so slightly expand the food offering um in
the current space. So, there'll be a coffee nook built out um adjacent to the bar area um there, as well as a slight expansion of the existing kitchen down there. Um uh you'll probably see an uptick in in
marketing and events and programming. Um we we have uh heavily relied on uh expanding our customer base through events and um promoting private event space. Um, so, um, and and great beer as
always. Uh, and, uh, friendly atmosphere, but, uh, we you won't see, uh, nightclub type stuff or, uh, or or maybe your traditional bar, uh, events, but, um, some some expansion of of hours
and programming. Very good. When do you guys plan to be open? Uh, well, we we will officially take over operations in miday. uh if if state uh approvals go as they should and um hoping to do more of
a grand opening with with kind of the expanded hours um in July. Okay. But uh there's a there's a lot of moving parts to that. Understood. Well, welcome. We're delighted to have you council. Any other questions, comments for these gentlemen? You keeping the Yankee name
or is it going to be rebranded as Omni? Uh it is going to be rebranded as Omni. We will have some Anky beers on tap for that was my question. Are you going to keep some of the original Anky uh taps? So, we do we will be using some of the the flagship beers for a while.
Excellent. One other thing just that will change is we are our operation is changing from a brewery tap room model to a brew pub. So, we will have a full on sale license. We actually have a winery in Rose Mount where we produce our own wine. So, that will be available
in the tap room when we start as well. Okay. Good. Do I understand you do your own beans? Is what like the coffee is like you guys do that yourself? Yes. Um so yeah, all of our coffee is roasted in Maple Grove. Yeah. And I I forgot to mention that our our plan is to shift
the vast majority of production actually down here to the beautiful uh brewery that uh John and Dan built. Yeah. It's a little nicer than the one that I built. Will you add jobs? How many additional jobs do you think you'll add with your
concept? Yeah. So, uh, like Zach mentioned, we're going to seven days a week, opening at 7 a.m. So, there's going to be a fair amount of jobs. And then also with our kind of brewery moving down here and adding our third location, you know, I would say roughly
we'll probably be adding about five full-time jobs. Um, and then probably a few additional part-time jobs to what's currently in place as well. um just because we have you know more of a full all hours operating and then moving all the production down here and expanding
production. We we're adding you know one brewer, one marketing person and then some operations staff as well. Wonderful. Great. Well, welcome. Thanks so much. Thank you. Welcome. And John, thank you for laying the groundwork. We
appreciate that. And I hope we'll still see you around. Very good. Good. Thanks. All right. Is there anyone else in the audience that would like to address the council on an item that is not on the agenda or not an application form that will be coming to the council
soon? All right. Seeing no one, uh we will move on to the next item on our agenda, which is the consent agenda. Items on the cons consent agenda are routine administrative and do not require deliberation or housekeeping items required by law. They're approved
with one vote unless someone requests an item to be considered separately. Miss Hardy, does staff wish to pull any items for separate discussion and vote this evening? None from staff. Madame Mayor, any members of the council who would like to pull a separate an item for separate discussion and vote? Only one
thing I would like to pull. Yeah. Council member Patterson on page three of the packet meeting minutes from Monday, March 10th. consent agenda item. Got it. Okay. So, we want to pull that item. It's item 5.1 for separate
discussion and vote. Is there anybody from the audience who would like to pull an item for separate discussion and vote? All right, clerk. If you let the record reflect, item 5.1's been pulled for further discussion. I will take a motion for the balance of the consent agenda, please. Motion for the balance
of the consent agenda. We have a motion. Can I get a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Uh I on to item 5.1 which was removed from the consent agenda. Council member Peterson
mentioned that we had a wrong name in the minutes and we have corrected those. Uh, Miss Hardy, do you want to speak to this item at all? Um, thank you, Mayor, members of the council. Um, this was just a a technical oversight, so it's a pretty easy fix. Um, and Alyssa,
Claudia, and I have talked and um, we hope that that issue is resolved and shouldn't be something in the future. Kind of caught us all off offguard. So, um, we thank Council Member Patterson for finding that error, um, and bringing it to our attention. So, very good. We
want to make sure Council Member Patterson gets credit for showing up. All right. All right. I will take a motion now for item 5.1. I have a motion. Can I get a second? Second. All in favor signify by saying
I. Any opposed? Motion carries. All right, moving on to our regular agenda. The first item this evening 6.1, which is to consider resolutions approving the 2024 year-end transfers, fund balance assignments, and interfund loans. Uh,
Miss Pollock, our finance director, assistant city manager, is here this evening, and she's going to kick this item off for us. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor, members of the council. Cities are required by law to have a balanced budget. Because a city's annual
budget is adopted the year prior, it can be a bit of a challenge to get to a balanced budget in any given year without any shortages or overages on specific line items or the budget overall. So, the city must take action
annually to ensure a balanced budget by authorizing transfers and assigning fund balances. Additionally, staff will ask council this evening to commit fund balance for revenue stabilization in the amount of
$88,46 for building permit revenues that exceeded the budgeted amount for building permit revenues. So getting into those um this year's assigned fund balances um
we have the community development project and studies which is equal to 40,000. Um and then we also have the next three items being risk management items. Um so typically we have um our
legal fees and insurance renewals um which are unpredictable and our as our insurance renewals go from midyear to mid year. So June one through the following May. So um we never know if we're going to have a rate increase, we have to um assign
some fund balance um for that. Um compensated absences would be for um any staff that may leave during the year that we are not aware of and um that would be for payout of um PTO for
example. Um and then employee insurance benefits if there was to have an employee that would change like go from single to family for example. um those kinds of instances can um get
to be pretty costly and so we assign fund balance for those. Um and then we have some one-time carryovers. The playground um replacement at Deer Run um that phase 2 has um not been fully completed. We bought the materials but
we're not able to get that installed last year. So we're carrying over 8,000 for that. Um park sign replacements, we have that project. We're also using um some ARPA money for that project. So, that should be getting underway this spring and summer. And then a small area
plan for the west growth area. Um $25,000 to do that study. Um we had another carryover for vehicle lighting for the CSO vehicle for 5,000 and the puppets field scoreboard um and the NATO
conference. Both those items were previously passed by council. Um so they're just listed here um as the assigned fund balance that we are um going to be using to pay for those. Any questions about any specific
item before I go to the next slide? Council, any questions on this? Go ahead. And then when we look at the um transfers um the long-term street maintenance fund
staff is recommending that 1 million um66,677 transfer into that fund. Um as you know we have quite a few um of those uh street road projects coming up. um uh the five and 11 the
city is heading that project. So with funding um sources not coming in until those monies are spent um for the state and the federal grant portions. Um we feel that it's important
to have some fund balance to carry us over. We could um look at reducing levy transfers into that fund um in subsequent years. Um but right now we are going to need some cash flow um in order to pay for some of those initial
project costs. Um and then again the revenue stabilization fund that I mentioned already. Um the temporary interfund loan um is for TIFF 1-9 which is the ROR project. Um the $500 was for
some county fees to set up the project. Um as you know that has not began generating any tiff revenue yet. Um but we had to pay the fees. So um it's pretty typical for um us to do a interfund temporary loan to one fund and
then we'll reverse it back out at the after the beginning of the year. Um and then once it starts generating um revenue, then that will pay for those those types of costs. Um and then there's two um debt
service funds that we're going to be closing. Um so you just um are required to um do that by approving a resolution in order to close a fund. So whenever we need to close a fund, it's um more of a
a housekeeping item and formality. Um any questions on any of these transfers? Council, any questions on this? Okay. Okay. So staff asked council to
consider approving the following uh three proposed uh resolutions, and I have those listed there um for your cons. Very good. Thank you, Miss Pollock. Um, we're going to take this in three separate motions, but first I want to make sure council uh has any
questions, comments, discussion from council this evening on this item. Okay, seeing none, uh, I will consider the first motion. Motion to approve the fund balance, assignment, and transfers for year end 2024.
We have a motion. Can I get a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. I will consider the next motion, please. Motion to approve the 2024 year-end transfer to
revenue stabilization fund balance. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. And the final move to approve the temporary financial.
We have a motion. Can I get a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Uh moving on to our emergency item, item 6.2. Staff would like uh who's speaking to this
item? It's Miss Nelson again. Thank you, mayor, members of city council. Um I do want to introduce you to our club members. in the audience with us. But just um some background for you um for temporary liquor license uh
the state manages and administers those however they ask that cities go through an approval process to ensure that we accept the temporary liquor license. Um really it's a process that we do pretty regularly. However, we do usually
ask for 60 days in advance. that gives us time staff to review the application, get it prep for the city council approval and then the state typically asks for 30 days not as well. Um obviously we're we're not quite at that or we're a little past that deadline. So hence the reason getting this on the
emergency docket so we can get it to the state as soon as possible. Um and then they obviously have their hands to go through the final process. I'm assuming that the council would approve this item. We already received the application from the Lions
Club and then we'd be waiting. With that, I will pass. Mr. Olsson, welcome. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor, council members. Um, I'm Steve Olsen with the Victoria Lions Club. Uh, I live in Chanhasson. The Chanhassen Lions think the Victoria
Lions poach me, but we're just the better club. It is. Um it's a growing club. Um and I first want to apologize to staff for making this an emergency. Um our the gentleman that
usually handled the liquor license and getting the information into the um the city has taken a new position. He's not with the Lions anymore. And quite frankly, this just got lost. Um, so thank you for catching it um and letting
us know otherwise May 4th would have come and we would have been down a rabbit hole. So um our our May 4th event uh ties right into uh your your Victoria and Bloom event comes the
day after and it's truly a community event. It's not a fundraiser. Um we are going to sell hopefully sell alcohol there. Uh we're tying it into Cinco de Mayo, so we we're thinking margaritas and some kind of
festivities around that theme. Um but we're going to have uh an inflatable obstacle course for the kids like we did last year. I've got seven food trucks right now. Uh a lot of the same ones last year. We've got a an additional
um Mexican food truck. Um, and they're talking to each other so that they don't step on each other's toes. Um, and I'm also going to, uh, talk to Medbox. Uh, I hear there's some interest in maybe bringing them out, uh, as well. That would that would be a total of eight.
We've got Hawaiian Shaved Ice and Westies, uh, uh, Comfort Foods, um, Unbakeable Cookie Dough and those kind of things. So, uh, we've got the llamas coming again this year. They were a big
hit with the kids. Um they were a big hit with my neighbor. Um when they told me they were going to have llamas last year, I thought they were crazy. But uh kids love them. It's just a fun fun event. Um so that that's our plan. Um,
yep. Again, thank you for catching that and and I apologize for making it an emergency, but uh now that I am the activities chair on our our board, I'll make sure that we keep that 60-day
window for you. Yeah. Well, you can submit those first thing if as soon as you know the dates for the year, you can submit those all at one time and we can approve those all at once and then you don't we enjoy seeing you, Steve, but you don't have to come back every time. So, what are the hours of that event?
We're going to um there's a little uh bean bean toss bean bag toss tournament um that the C3 lacrosse club is is doing again this year. It's probably a little smaller. It doesn't sound like they have quite as many participants, but they're
going to start that about 10. Okay. I've asked for the food trucks to um be in place by by 9:00 and then at least by 11 serving, but a lot of them uh we we're planning on doing it uh
having them start serving at 10. One of the trucks has mini donuts, so it'd be a great breakfast item for the the families that are attending. Terrific. Terrific. It sounds great. And that's out at Lions Park, obviously. Pardon? It's out at Lions Park. At Lions Park. Yes. Yeah. Very good. All right. Thank
you so much, Steve. Um, any questions, comments about this? All right. Pretty. We need to get the margaritas. I know. Cinco deio is nothing without a margarita. So, um, so seeing no further discussion, I will entertain a motion. Motion to approve a
temporary liquor license for the Victoria Alliance Club for their event scheduled May 4th, 2025. Thank you. We have a motion. Can I get a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. There are
no more items on our regular agenda. So, we're moving on to reports and emerging issues this evening. Attorney Vos, you're up first. Mayor Council, as a reminder, it's a good thing when the lawyer has nothing to report. And I have nothing to report uh tonight. Staff's doing a great job keeping the train on
the tracks. And Perfect. I got nothing. All right. Very good. Miss Hardy, anything from staff? Thank you, mayor, members of the council. Just real briefly, you probably noticed that we have different artwork on our walls. So, this is our partnership with um with Deb Zeller from Zeller Studios. Um Deb is a
Victoria resident and owns the uh Zeller Art Studio in Hopkins. So, um all of our artwork rotates every other month. Um and this is the newest. It's called Snow Folk. So, uh, most of them are melting,
so maybe spring is here. Feels a little blustery outside today. Um, but we invite everybody to come in and look at the artwork when we're open. Of course, the artwork is also available for purchase. Um, and we're excited for this exhibit. Very good. Thank you, Miss
Hardy. All right. Any anything from staff for reports this evening? All right. There are no more items to come before this body this evening. So I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. Move to adjourn. And we have a motion. Can I get a
second? Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. We stand adjourned.