--------- e e good evening it is now 6:29 and I call this regular meeting of the Victoria city council to order is our tradition to start with the Pledge of Allegiance we invite you to stand and join us pledge aliance United
States the na godice first item on our agenda is announcements our next Workshop will be held on Monday March 10th at 5:30 p.m. during this Workshop the council will interview applicants for both the
Planning Commission actually just the Planning Commission additionally committee appointments for all our citizen advisory boards will be considered and announced at the regular council meeting on Monday March 10th at 6:30 p.m. all meetings of the city council are open to
the public and held in the council chambers at City Hall 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 we have two upcoming open houses houses for transportation project improvements that
residents may be interested in attending the first one is the fall construction 2025 to fall 2027 Highway 5 noise analysis on Wednesday February 26th 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 at Chanhassen Recreation Center at 2310 couter Boulevard in
Chanhassen the second open house is regarding 82nd Street project improvements on Thursday February 27th from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Victoria Lions Pavilion 1505 82nd Street in Victoria for any questions or additional
information about the streets improvements please check our community page then click Street and utility projects or reach out to our city engineer carig Garen there are no other announcements uh the first item let's see here our next order of business to
is to ad adopt the final agenda council is there a motion to adopt the final agenda move to adopt the final agenda motion by uh council member peton can I get a second second second by council member re all in favor I I opposed
motion carries uh we will move on to our next item which is open Forum open forum is the opportunity for anyone to address the Council on an item that is not on the agenda and is not in application form that will be coming to the council at a future date please do not expect action
from Council this evening regarding your comments council members may ask clarifying questions but open forum is not intended to be a back and forth discussion Mr Steve Curtis from the southwest chamber has requested to speak uh don't you come up and introduce
yourself thank you I appreciate you letting me speak during the open Forum my name is Steve Curtis president of the Southwest Metro Chamber of Commerce almost a year and a half in that seat so just excited to meet you big on building relationships and enjoy the partnership we have with the city of Victoria with
all four cities if you're not familiar it's Victoria Chas haror and Chan Hass and of the four cities that make up our s mro chamber and Deb she's the one that got it all together she did it seven 17 years ago in January so it's pretty
exciting so anyways I just want to let you know we've been working working for the last year on ideas and getting a lot of things done on paper and we'll hopefully be back at a work session to talk about tourism bringing that to the Chamber of thank you does anyone have a question
for Mr Kurtis while he's up here all right thank you right thanks thank to you all right is there anyone else in the audience who would like to address the Council on an item that is not on the agenda and not in application form see no one uh we will move on to
the next item on our agenda the consent agenda items on the consent agenda are routine administrative do not require deliberation or are housek keeping items required by law consent agenda items are approved with one vote unless someone requests an item to be considered
separately Miss Hardy does staff wish to pull any consent agenda items for separate discussion or vote none from staff Council are there any items you would like to see pulled for a separate discussion and vote I see none uh can I get a motion in a second or sorry can I get a motion for
the consent agenda I'll make a motion to adopt the your for consent to we got a motion from council member yansky can we get a second second that second from council member Pon all in favor I I opposed motion Carri carries we're now
moving on to the regular agenda our first item this evening is item 6.1 resolution awarding the sale of series 2025 a bonds presenting this evening is assistant city manager Trisha Pollock and our financial our financial planner
Tammy andall with Northland Securities Inc Miss Pollock the floor is yours thank you mayor members of the council um this evening Tammy omdal um our Municipal adviser is here to to um give you the information and the results of
the um sale of the 2025 B bonds this morning good evening good evening Mr acting mayor council members before I um get into the results which the city received excellent results this morning um I would note that as part of this
process that the city s a rating on these General obligation bonds and that rating of AAA was affirmed by S&P Global so congratulations to the city and I would also note that rating was affirmed in light of the bonds that are being
issued to finance the fire station Improvement so great results with respect to the rating and that AAA rating um made a difference in my opinion this morning in the market the city received 11 bids for the sale of these bonds the low bid was from RBC the
final true interest cost and true interest cost is the rate that weuse to evaluate the bids which takes into account both what the underwriter is paying um themselves for the sale of the bond and their offer to purchase and this offer did include a premium the
final true interest cost was at 3.89% approximately I would note that the cover bid was very close at that 3.89 so the low bid was at 3892 the high bid um of the 11th bid was
at 4% so great results in January and where the market was at at the time we had estimated 4.43% when I was before you the um set sale so final result means less Debt Service tax levy to support the
repayment of bonds so great result the bonds are structured over a um 25e term and with that um Mr Mayor members of the council I would recommend that you approve the resolution I would note the final resolution is for 20 milon
905 that is lower than the resolution that was in the agenda packet and also the agenda item the reason for that was the offer of Premium that premium was used to reduce the power amount the principle of the bonds being issued so
in your motion the final power amount of the bonds is 20 milon 905 all right thank you that's great news uh we uh it's a testament to the hard work by uh City staff and the council uh you know getting that triaa
bonding and made a big difference uh do we have any discussion or questions for Tammy I think so all right we'll take a motion uh I'll I'll make a motion to adopt the resolution awarding the
what is it 20 million do we have a sample on the the final power amount 20 million 95 20 million 905 General obligation Capital approvement bonds series 2025 a f inform and specifications we have a motion by
council member evansky do we have a second second have a second by council member R all in favor I I opposed motion carries our next item is is item 6.2 thank you
Tammy uh our next item is 6.2 a variance request for installation of a pool at 6580 asra Trail the applicant has requested that the item be tabled staff will reschedule this item uh for March 24th or as soon as possible after that
date we need to make a motion though to table that correct yep so can I have a motion to table that um I would like to make a motion to table that item 6.2 we have a a motion by council member uh Pon do we have a
second second we have a second by council member re all in favor I I uh all opposed that motion carries next item is uh 6.3 a notice of intent to accept applications for a
cable franchise presenting this item is assistant city manager Nelson Miss Nelson the floor is yours thank you acting mayor and Council like you mentioned today is for you to consider a notice of intent uh for cable franchising um why are we here this
evening we have um staff has been contacted by a local cable franchise provider to begin Cable Construction within the city of Victoria and as the uh local cable franchise Authority um there are specific rules and steps that
we have to go through and all touch on that later um but just to get into the local cable franchise Authority what you as city council do with that is that one what we're here to do tonight is or at least talk about tonight is issue a cable franchise so a cable provider can
work within the RightWay in the city of Victoria and then two you represent residents on issues related to to cable and access to right of way as well um currently Mediacom is our only cable franchise in the city of Victoria that
was issued in 201 2013 and then um two years ago in 2023 there was a 5year extension on their cable franchise and um just as something to note CC and the state statute regulate this quite heavily um and through their regulations
you cannot exclusively issue a cable franchise to a specific company related to that so the company that made the request uh for cable franchise was Comcast um they are also look at doing
fiber to Victoria South growth area they've already started um with the permitting process to that so hunterbrook Victoria South Marsh Hollow um in addition to fiber they would like to bring their full service package to Victoria so that includes um their exfinity services security and then of
course television cable and that's why we're here this evening because once you ask for cable franchising um you need to go through this process so what is that process um like I mentioned State Statute regulates this pretty heavily so one um you authorize
and publish the notice of intent to accept application for cable franchise this is what we're here tonight for um assuming that you accept that then we move on to um publishing that in Victoria's newspaper wone Patriot twice
um and we leave the application period open for 20 days once that application period is over uh we have hold the public hearing at Council um to which you listen to the applicants talk about what uh they're interested in doing and then you have the authority to direct
staff to negotiate a cable franchise from there now thinking if this were to move forward what the proposed timeline would be um obviously tonight we're looking at that notice of intent um March 6 and March 13th would be those two Publications in The wone Patriot March
6th would start the clock on that 20-day um time period to accept applications and we would close the application process on March 27th and then we'd hold our public hearing on April 28th in addition to that process there is an application fee that needs to be
set um to cover staff costs as well as legal costs regarding reviewing the application um staff recommends a $10,000 application fee which is in line with other metropolitan area cities that are going through this process um as well as recommended by our City attorney
additionally we did this process in 2021 um with consideration of Metronet coming in for cable franchise and $10,000 is what was said at that time as well and with that I will hold for any questions for Council um also hold if
Bob has anything additional to say regarding this matter but I do have the three motions on the screen for you for your consideration thank you Miss Nelson uh council do we have any questions just have one to do we feel like the $10,000 is right size within the range
of where uh other competing cities are charged with this consideration to having something that maybe acts as a deterrent to other competitors putting in Nuance bids even
though we would reduce it down to our actual costs um would we be served with a higher fee coming in so that we're only bringing in people who want to franchise and they're serious about
it acting mayor council um regarding the question on if this would deter um companies I am going to defer to to Bob on that one I don't have specific knowledge on um whether this would prefer or deter any companies and as the expert in cable franchises in the area
um I'll go to his advice on that attorney Bose mayor and Council uh good question um you know I I'm quite uh comfortable with the $10,000 amount apart from your question council member that just as to the $10,000 amount I
will tell you that um uh this is a thing happening out here in the western suburbs um both a company called Midcontinent and Comcast are interested in now competing with primarily Mediacom but there's at least one other provider out here so this is a thing that's happening in communities around here I
will tell you as an example Min Trista a standalone own City like Victoria uh has just been through this process and charged a $2,500 uh fee uh that said the lake minaka cable commission which this city was a member of some years ago that's an
11 City Consortium and the the fee that they are imposing uh is $10,000 I will tell you that and Comcast is going to be an applicant or is an applicant in front of the lake minona group their application there is going to be more complicated because they're not actually looking as we understand it
to serve all of the 11 cities whereas they are intending to serve all of Victoria as I understand it which there's a comp legal complication with that and yet I'm comfortable with the 10,000 with the lake minetonka group so just as a matter of covering your legal fees and and staff expenses I think
10,000 is is a good uh number that will fully cover you as to your question though council member about sort of um uh keeping away nuisance applicants I I guess my answer is that I think that is also a yes answer um in in the case of
Minista $2,500 there was a little bit of resistance from midco at the time to that fee amount um just because they intend to go to a lot of cities so I don't think that anybody's just going to throw in an application at a $10,000 application fee to just sort of see what happens I think you'd have to be pretty
committed uh to do it so I think this is going to this this will make sure that Comcast is serious and that if anybody else is serious they're willing to put in the the $10,000 application fee thank you for that guidance app any other questions council member
evansky none for me anyone else I guess I just have what's the downside of not approving a notice of intent at this stage in the game I will defer that to attorney Vose as well yeah mayor council good question
um this is uh you don't pay me for uh policy advice but now I'm going to say something about policy it's been my observation as a person who works with a whole bunch of cities around the state on cable franchising that on the whole cities would like to see more
competition not less in Telecom Services generally Cable Television services particularly so in general I think cities want to encourage uh additional companies to come in simply because it pushes the price down it improves Services um and the The Only Way Forward
under state law I've described it to staff in in some terms that I won't use here today it's it's an old law and this sort of uh overly complicated in my judgment process we have to go through is just a reflection of an old statute that hasn't been updated for a long time
uh the only way forward though is to go through this process and so if you were to say no tonight that's the end of the process there is no other way for Comcast to provide cable TV video Services here in in Victoria so I guess putting those two together most cities
would say let's move forward with this because we think competition is probably a good thing so so it lends to healthy competition that's right yeah so we get a choice of who we can use for cable TV and most likely internet connectivity
and everything else um I guess my only thoughts on it would be the only bad thing to come out of this is people are going to get their yards torn up a little bit as we're putting in new cables in the areas where they want to put the new cables but approving a notice of it intent hasn't
even gotten us to that point yet so if there's a lot of push back through public um through the public forum will be able to see that at that point so I don't see any reason why you wouldn't approve a notice of intent at this stage of the game that's my two cents thank
you yeah acting mayor council I I sounds self-serving to keep saying these are good questions or good comments but I'm gonna say it about that too that I mean that's a really good observation um it it is not a small thing right um as these companies come to town and install fiber primarily buried so they have to
either direct board or actually dig trenches it's absolutely right Point you're making and that is something that I would expect me and your staff to be looking at is how do we minimize the disruption to traffic disruption to yards disruption to people's Summers
coming up um all totally legitimate things just personal experience I just had this done by a different company where I live in a Dina and it's still happening and it's it's it's intrusive it's it's disruptive so it's a very real thing that you're asking about and I think your staff needs to to to um take
it seriously and we we intend to do that so it's a good point and just be clear though the because this only holds to Cable right so they could still even if at some point if we Deni this because we don't want intrusiveness they could decide we still want to do fiber and we
don't have a say in that really right yeah acting Mar Council that's absolutely true I will tell you as a matter of their business models they want to have all three sources all three streams of Revenue of course they bundle these Services together and get a single source of Revenue with a bundled package
but the point is to to make the the economics work they want to provide all three services but you're absolutely right legally they could roll out phone and internet without your approval other than right of way permit approval that's right thank you any other questions
Council all right see no more discussion uh we'll move to the Motions this item requires three separate motions one to establish a cable franchise application fee one to approve the notice of intent to accept applications for a cable franchise and one to authorize the
publication of the notice may I have the first motion motion to approve the establishment of a $10,000 cable franchise application fee motion by council member Reef can I have a second second second by council member evansky all in favor I I
opposed motion carries may I have the second motion I would move to approve the notice of intent um to accept the application for the cable franchise motion by council member Pon can I get a second second second by re council
member Reef all in favor I I opposed motion carries and can I have the third please I'll make a motion to authorize the publication of the notice of intent to consider issuance of franch motion by Council Marie vansky can I get a second second second by council member
Reef all in favor I I opposed motion carries thank you anything else you need from us from staff thank you thank you Council there are no more items on our agenda uh we will now move to our reports and emerging issues attorney
Bose any reports I don't mayor thanks uh Miss Hardy any reports none from staff Mr acting mayor all right any council members do we have any other reports to talk about none for me all right members of the council there are no more items to come before the body this this
evening uh may I ask for or I ask for a motion to adjourn I'd move to adjourn can I have a second second all in favor I I motion carries We Stand adjourn Part: 2
e e was good evening it's now 5 o' or yes 5 o' and I call the workshop to Victoria city council to order our workshops are informal and with that we will Dive Right into our agenda we have two items on our Workshop
agenda this evening the first item is an update on the various Transportation produ projects in Victoria kicking us off this evening is city engineer Carrie Garen Miss Garen the floor is yours good evening acting mayor mayor proem and
Council um so we are going to give an update tonight on the transportation projects um generally I for the most part we aren't going to be covering any new material with the city council um but believe it or not it is nearly March
which I find mildly terrifying um because it means construction season is very quickly um Coming which means all of this talk about um these projects
happening um someday well someday is here so we're hurdling very quickly towards actual construction of the improvements that we have frankly been talking about for five years now um as it relates to
Highway five even longer um prior to that but so um this is our Transportation road map and I would be remiss to not highlight light um people who are following the city's social media and receiving email updates from
the city should have very recently seen a very detailed update from our Communications team highlighting some of this information so um we're really looking to expand on some of that communication that was shared digitally
recently uh with the city council um but we will be focused tonight on the projects that are highlighted here on this map and really these are the transportation projects that will be affecting the city of Victoria in the
next 25 26 27 and a little bit of spillover into 28 as the projects get wrapped up um I won't be revisiting the need for these projects with the city council because we have talked about these extensively um so the first project I
want to talk about is 82nd Street and I do want to note that the graphics that I'm using um for the projects are the same Graphics that I used in the fall so there may be um some tweaks that have occurred through the final design process that may not be um apparent in
these Graphics um when the project moves from um preliminary design to final design to detailed construction plans um tweaks occur within the design the graphics haven't been updated to reflect those final design plans um but
generally the scope of the improvements have remained unchanged so 82nd Street Street Highway 18 um the design is complete the project has been bid a contract has been awarded um the pre-construction meeting has been held
um weekly construction meetings are starting tomorrow so um construction on this one is happening um so the way it's listed in our communication is that constructions
anticipated to begin weather dependent in April um but you're already seeing work happen in and around the project area so some tree clearing has already occurred um if you're around and in the area there's
been utility work happening so um when we talk about utility work we're talking about anything from City sanitary sewer and water facilities to um underground cable lines underground telephone lines gas lines electric lines all of those
facil ities have to be relocated to accommodate projects like this so that work already started happening in advance of this construction so some of that work began last fall um you might see signs of it occurring already today
um so that project is in full swing um once construction starts to begin in Earnest 82nd Street will be closed to through traffic um essentially from April to November
so the entire construction season the road will be closed to through traffic local access will remain for the residents who live along 82nd Street and those folks will be communicated directly with by the project team for how and they'll get in and out to their
homes and that access will change there'll be periods of time where they will have to come all the way to Victoria to get to their homes um and then there'll be periods of time where the people um living in Toria may have to go all the way to um Chanhassen and
chasa to get to their homes so um those folks will have specific directions from the project team with advanced notice um now as the council's aware we do have a roundabout plan for construction at the intersection of Bavaria um as is going
to be the case with all of the roundabouts that we're talking about here um the intersection will have to be fully closed to through traffic which we've discussed with the council previously to facilitate that construction um so right now the targeted plan for construction of this
roundabout is mid July to start um and so when that happens Bavaria will be closed to through traffic um and right now we're hearing mid July um up till September for a full closure but we'll
start to have more detailed information on that timeline as the contract ctor lays out their schedule and that information gets communicated to us when the road is closed to through traffic there will be a posted detour um when a County Road is closed detours are posted
to County Roads um but we would anticipate that we'll see an increase in traffic on roads like coia um you can all appreciate that our local residents um while they're may be a Posta detour that tells the traffic to drive over to
County Road 11 um we're going to see an uptic on in traffic on a road like coia um because it's obviously parallel to Bavaria um those of you who live there are likely to see more traffic in
that area so um as we get more information about the closures and the timing we'll continue to share that information as um it becomes pertinent so with those weekly construction meetings um we'll be monitoring them um
but as then the construction gets closer to the city of Victoria then we'll start attending them more regularly um the can I ask you a question it um do we know so I know um I've heard from a few residents in my neighborhood
in The Woodlands that's a bit uh affected by this and then you know there's a couple other neighborhoods that are close have they been looked at um you know in those other neighborhoods if as part of this roundabout they're um
like creating turn Lanes on Bavaria into some of those neighborhoods to take uh that aren't there now that that won't stop traffic I thought I heard that that was maybe being done but I just want to check yeah so there are no um planned expansion or improvements to
Bavaria as part of this project um the county is completing a millon overlay on Bavaria as part of the highway 5 project um south of this inter section on Bavaria that actually is a city street so if we wanted to explore in making improvements on Bavaria that would be
something for us to talk about and then the only other question I had was I know at one point there was some talk about still potentially trying to get the um Trail on Bavaria going to five did that ever get added to this that is included
in the highway 5 project and is funded okay perfect it's part of the highway five project thank you yes um Marsh Lake Road Highway 11 and 14 that roundabout is funded that project has been bid the county is in the process of awarding a
contract so that construction is planned to begin in um Mid April um provided that the contracts get awarded and they can get going with construction um this is another full closure so this intersection will be closed to through
traffic um looking like mid April to early July once the contracts have been awarded um we'll have a better idea of what that refined project schedule looks like this will be another posted detour um we'll share more information about
what that posted detour looks like when we have um that information handy in front of us but if my uh recollection is correct um the posted detour would be County Ro 43 um so from 10 over to 43 up to 11 um depending on which part of the
construction we're talking about the project as it's getting awarded does include the trail extension so the trail um from the lak toown neighborhood that just ends um right now will be extended down to the huntersbook
neighborhood um so we did include that in the project scope um and ended up the costs came in favorably so it is getting included um that is a big when we talk about these Trail gaps um being able to construct them as part of these Highway
projects is significantly more coste effective than coming in and building them after the fact so um as part of that too this trail system will Connect into chasa so this is a this is a big win win for the community also in terms of getting another Trail connection
completed with with the closures like uh the roundabouts specifically I know we don't know exact dates and we won't until contracts are awarded and all that but how much in front of the closure do we put those signs there so people know
is it a week two weeks what um I can get back to you with what the specifics are for each contract um okay because that's important if you know not everybody's on the website right yes and so if they see it okay it's going to be next week starting next week or the week after or
whatever is yeah I don't want to speak what specifically is in these contracts if it's a 14 day notice or a 7-Day notice without confirming that as fact um the next one Highway 11 North so
that is the um Improvement to 11 North of the city's project at 5 and 11 to um improve uh wind out the shoulders improve some of the curves adjacent to the Carver Park Reserve um this project
can be built without a full closure except for a couple of areas where they have to do some Culvert work so this work can happen under traffic um but the project timing is being coordinated with the city's 5 And1 project um so that
we're coordinating our two projects this project has been bid um and is in the process of going through the County's process to be awarded um so being awarded um and then uh we'll have a more
precise scheduling information for this this one shortly too um the last one for 2025 is the highway 5 and 11 Improvement project that is being led by the city um I'll just have the same note about this graphic this one too is a little bit of
out of date um because I am showing um this connection as not being included in the plan set it is now included in the plan set we are connecting through here um at the time the graphic was um developed we were still waiting for the
um Olivine project to be solidified so that's been completed now so we have that in the scope um the timing of this project we are still working through the final approvals for this project and the enir final environmental process so we
aren't bidding this until April um construction would start in June the way we are staging this project is that all of the um work North of Highway 5 will be completed first so um ruction of stiger Lake Lane and the northern
roundabout and all of the work on conard 11 will be completed first and the intent the way the contract documents are written will is to have that completed by August 1st so that um we can have access from the north into
downtown before Highway 5 is closed um this project will require full closure of Highway 5 as well um to construct the roundabout um if you take a look at that intersection it is very tight it's a
frankly A Small Miracle in my view that the designers were able to fit that roundabout in there without having to take a business um from any one of those corners on that intersection um but it is a tight location with all of those utility
Replacements that I highlighted um our sanitary and Sewer both need to be relocated or modified to accommodate the roundabout Construction in certain areas certain parts of the roundabout and then other utility um underground facilities
are going to be impacted as well and then of course the construction of the roundabout does need to occur um as we look to finalize the um construction documents we are looking at different tools we can put in place um to
um this isn't the word we use in these um documents but I'm going to use it here because it's easier um but to incentivize having the construction completed on time or early um to get Highway 5 open as fast as possible
because um this is going to be a real challenge particularly for our Victoria residents that live to the west of here in the Lakebridge neighborhood and the Auburn neighborhood um with this full closure they those folks are going to have to drive West towards Waconia to go
East um which which is going to be a challenge for those folks so um we want to make sure that they're hearing about this preferably sooner than um when the sign goes up seven days before the closure so they can at least um not have
it'd be a surprise for them so um we are aware that neighborhoods neighbors are aware of it by previous attendance we've had in our previous open houses on the project but we want to make sure to continue to get the word out and then of course lastly I don't want
to not mention the big five project which is scheduled for the majority of the construction to be in 2026 and 2027 that covers all of the roads shown here in Orange on this graphic Rolling Acres Road I'm going to simplify here
but Rolling Acres Road will be closed to through traffic in 2026 and uh Highway five will be closed to through traffic from Victoria from downtown Victoria all the way to 41 um for all of 2027 construction
season so it is fair to say that all of the residents of Victoria are going to be greatly inconvenienced at one point in time or the other of the next three years so um
we do have a number of meetings coming up um that I want to draw everyone's attention to um the the first one actually is coming up on Wednesday this is actually a town hall related to Highway 5 noise um so this isn't
specifically construction related um this relates to um specifically the process on noise walls so through the many meetings on the arbor Maria Transportation project we've gotten a lot of questions about how the process
lays out to have noise walls considered to be installed along a road like Highway 5 so at the meeting um the noise team will inform attendees on the noise process um so there'll be an overview on
the noise analysis requirements and the process that Carver County and mindat are required to follow under both state and federal regulations so when you're talking about whether or not a noise ball gets built or not there's precise criteria that must be met in order for a
wall to be built the criteria is precise to ensure that there's an objective process that results in the efficient use of public funds City staff the city council the County Board County staff has no influence on the process or on the
outcome of whether or not a wall is considered or um put installed in a particular location so it is is a very um specific process with precise criteria that have to be met for one to
be um considered so as part of that town hall the results of that noise study will be shared with the public um and then there'll be an opportunity for a conversation between the community and the project team members about the findings of that process so of course
council members are welcome to attend um the information from the meeting will be posted the site and be made available to Residents after the meeting so um we'll make sure the council has an opportunity we'll share that information with the council after the meeting um but
certainly if anybody's interested that's not a process I personally have been through um from a technical perspective I will be attending the meeting to um be able to have an opportunity to hear about it firsthand myself and because we like to have um
night meetings on Thursday night will be an open house specifically on the 82nd Street project and the 11 and 14 roundabout project that's going to be at the Lions Pavilion from 4:30 to 6 um that's an openhouse format so folks can
attend at any point they want the purpose of that meeting is really to um learn more about the traffic impact so if you want to understand maybe you missed the previous many open houses about what the scope of the project is so that's another opportunity to F for
for folks to hear about what the plan improvements are but also to really understand what the traffic impacts and construction schedule is for the project so that team those teams will have information about posted DET tours and um you know more detailed information
about project duration stuff that I shared as an overview tonight and then um for the cities 5 and 11 downtown west project that open house has been scheduled for March 27th that'll be from 5 to 6:30 same thing
we'll be covering the traffic impacts and more construction related items and that'll be held here from 5: to 6:30 in City Hall same format there won't be a presentation um and you know the project teams will just be
here at that meeting though I didn't list it specifically we did ask the Highway 11 North team to attend that meeting as well so the project that runs up County Road 11 they they'll be in attendance as well if folks want to
learn more about um what that project entails so they will be there as well um so again we have a whole lot of improvements heading our way um certainly the city will continue to use
our social media and our um platforms to push out information the county will continue to do that as well so we will be sure to share links um I didn't include it here but the county does have a
um link to a GIS map where they provide updated information about closures so um what roads are closed in it I wouldn't call it as real time as like the Mind do page um but it
does have information that will end up pushing out once these closures start to move towards reality um the other thing that's worth noting is that information does get shared with um the mapping apps
when you're talking about closures on these major highways that system can be a little bit quirky we saw that this past summer when um Google was showing Highway 5 closed for the soil boring work when it wasn't
yet closed and so we had to do a bunch of scrambling it originally was supposed to be closed and then the closure got delayed a week so then we had to scramble and figure out how to get a hold of Google to tell them that the road wasn't yet
closed and it's not a perfectly seamless system um so I you know I think of course it's going to be a bit bumpy um and what's going to be certainly very important to all of us is to make sure that people remember through all of this
that our businesses are open um so our community development director is going to be continuing to work with our businesses as will our Communications team um we will be having all of our events this summer and we want want to
make sure that we continue to encourage folks to come downtown despite the construction we will still be open for business everywhere so with that I will take any question questions with the I'm
ahead I'm not late so with the few minutes I have left before you move on to your next item right council do you have any questions or discussion I don't I was just going to ask it feels like a while ago uh but you know you've
asked us to you know pay attention to roundabouts right and what we want to um being that they're not going to be done till the end of this year I'm assuming will we be talking more towards the end of the year thinking for spring of 2026 of whether it's plantings or whatever in
these roundabouts what we want sure so we that is a wonderful question council member Roberts actually we have taken a lot of the feedback that the council did share um and have Incorporated that particularly into the 5 and 11 roundabout um so it sounds like I need
to show you some pretty pictures about what we we've been incorporating so you can see um what has been reflective of the feedback that the council has provided to date so we'll be sure to bring that back to show you the direction we're headed um now
specifically we focused that aesthetic component to Highway five so the roundabout on Marsh Lake Road and the roundabout on Bavaria um that we are just planning to keep that just low
maintenance grass type uh finish because our public works department certainly doesn't have the resources to uh take care of fancy landscaped um roundabouts and our new
medium on Rolling Acres Road all over the place so we are of course trying to be costc conscious with the community's resources but we'll be sure to bring that information back for the council thank you anyone else have any more questions just a I guess and you may or
may not know this on the main 5 and 11 part of the uh project with with uh well maybe it's even the improve when you say close Highway five for the majority of 27 I
think oh yeah the big one the big one um Highway five improvements I'm sorry um is there a way for us to look at closing portions of five or is that what they're thinking because cuz I'm thinking like minowa Parkway could be a great Avenue
for people to get over to s or whatever is that or do you know if there's ways to kind of so segment some of those closures on five so they can use that artery to get to other areas sure so the project team
evaluated lots of different staging Alternatives and concluded that closing Highway 5 and constructing it at once was going to be the least disruptive to the community um they are gonna try to
prioritize getting the um Westerly segment open between Rolling Acres Road and downtown as soon as they can but as you're aware the um widening of five through the Wetland is going to take the longest duration regarding your question
to minta uh the minowa residents are greatly opposed to what you just suggested and are very concerned with what you just discussed happening because of traffic on correct they do
not want minowa to serve that function so um the city of Chanhassen is working with the project team to come up with what mitigation measures can be implemented on minowa to have that not happen so they're talking about
temporary speed humps temporary um chicanes being implemented on the road um that's why you see the improvements happening in to Rolling Acres Road in 2026 and I didn't cover it because it's in Chanhassen but the improvements on 41
are also happening in 2026 what the team landed on was getting the north south roads improved first will help the situation um but you can imagine even the intersection like
of Rolling Acres Road and seven is a concern the intersection of minow wasta in seven is a concern um Shorewood is concerned about the added traffic on seven so they're the project team is actually analyzing all of those
intersections and Signal timing to see so they're even talking about whether we need to make some temporary Lane improvements up on seven and Rolling Acres Road to accommodate that additional traffic you know you're talking about 16,000 cars on five
needing to be rerouted did um you know we haven't mentioned it a bit but in a little bit but the intersection of five and 11 South by Dairy Queen We are going to be making modifications to that signal in
2025 to improve the game of chicken that people have to make to you know to give a dedicated left turn lane and that's part of the puzzle we really need to have all of those in intersections functioning much greater than than they are today to
accommodate shifting all of that traffic for such a prolonged period of time but yeah there's there's a entire team of folks that are working um spending a great amount of time trying to figure out what the what the best staging
strategy is to um get us all through that no and I appreciate that I uh I do see it from the minowa parkway residents I was asked that question by few people about minowa being an option so that's
why I brought it up I appreciate that though thank you yes anyone else any other questions from Council all right thank you Miss Garen thank you all right so uh next we will be conducting our interviews uh with our
park and Rex committee for our park and Rex committee um I will also note that while we were also scheduled to conduct interviews for our senior advisory committee we had one applicant who was unable to attend this evening uh because of this conflict staff recommended that Council wave the interview for Jennifer Spalding who was
this applicant uh so is there a consensus from uh Council to wave Jennifer's interview yes all right great you need a motion we do not just a shake of the head all
right all right so now on to our Parks and Rec committee interviews Council we received uh three applications and one incumbent Miss Terry cope Express best interest in being reappointed to the Parks and Recreation committee Terry was not able to attend this meeting um additionally for the Public's benefit
all applications were sent to the council prior to our Workshop um so it looks like all of our applicants are at the table already so thank you for taking the time to apply um we really appreciate uh your interest in serving our community um we are going to kick
off this evening by giving each of you two minutes to introduce yourselves and share with us a brief overview of why you're looking to get involved with the committee I'm going to ask our city clerk to use a timer so that when you hear the alarm please wrap up your thoughts uh as promptly as possible so
that everyone has an opportunity after introductions the council will ask a couple questions each of you will have a chance to answer the question before we move on to the next question we will rotate who answers first are there any questions from the applicants before we get
started all right with that let's begin with introductions why don't we start over here with Alexander live on Woodstone Drive my wife and I have recently bought a house over there in April um the reason I want to be part of the Parks and Recreation committee is because uh kind of two main
reasons one I'd like to be part of government and uh this has kind of be my first step into into government I see myself going further uh within government as well um and then the second step is is I used the trails while my wife and I were training for a
marathon and I I was blown away by the quality of of what was there and that was something that was it really impacted me and I thought that that was something that more people should go and see and more people should go and experience and the second portion is I'm a bow hunter and I think that the Archer
range and the walking trail back there are incredible um I think that these two kind of main things that I've been able to experience have drawn me to want to be part of this committee um and I think that the the ways that I can help benefit is I want to help drive more Young Folks to get out there and and
experience it especially children I want them to uh be outside I want them to get experiences outside and I think that uh as the parks and R committee you should we should be pushing them as as hard as we can to get them outside give them opportunities to go and experience these things thank
you all right Adam we'll move on to you why don't you introduced yourself all right thank you appreciate the opportunity uh to be here tonight my name is Adam derer I live at uh off Scenic Lup run my wife and I moved here uh in November of 2024 so three months
now but when uh we moved from uh the north loop of Minneapolis I knew I wanted to get involved right away and do what I could to get engaged with the community um you know I think I have a special interest in kind of the Parks and Recreation just as a as a runner
like Alexander uh you know utilize the pathways have a young child who utilizes the parks and I think that you know the parks and recreational facilities are often a Gateway for people when they come it's the first welcome it's the first impression um so this is a way that you know visitors are seeing our
community um seeing our values our character um and who we are and I think it's also you know the parks and recreational facilities are a great way to just enhance um residents lives um so I think you know I'm I'm passionate about that um I want to be involved and
help out I think in my day job um as an attorney I have a lot of experience advising boards and working with committees and so you know I understand the value of of listening hearing different perspectives understanding other people's perspectives knowing your answer might not be right uh respecting
that listening to folks and kind of coming to a resolution that that makes sense so like I said excited to be here be part of the community and look for a great opportunity to be involved with the Parks and Recreation committee that aligns with uh my values and what I like to do outside so thank you thank you all
right Chris yeah my name is Chris Casey I live at 10145 Crow way so the Victoria South area and just uh thank you for letting me come in and speak today super excited like all of you to kind of take a first step in government which is pretty cool
uh for me really three big reasons why I'm interested first of all I'm passionate to give back to a community that my wife and I we intend to be here for the next 50 years we have a chocolate lab we've loved running around all the parks already we have our first kid coming here in June and this is the
community we want to give our time to so passionate about that second is I love Parks and Recreation just like both of you I ran the marathon so I can tell you there's a lot of trails that I couldn't even run there's there's so much to do here from a road biking side that's the other kind of passionate part that I'm
involved with and I learned kind of where Victoria Drive needs maybe some more improvements being in the Victorious Health area there's a lot of feedback that we have as we continue to grow so hopefully can be someone on the ground giving connections for that and then lastly how do we bring technology
into the conversation I love straa if you haven't heard of it it shows a lot of good trail mapping and where people are finding new trails hopefully we can use the digital and Technology tools so everyone can either map around our community but also as someone coming from Shaka I know where you need to be
able to connect from nearby communities too so lots to be passionate about thanks again for giving me the chance great thank you Chris all right Council we'll open it up here who would like to begin uh with our first question oh why don't we just sort of do
it clockwise I I'll take number one and I'll just take them in the order that we have printed and then we'll rotate from there so um Mr Heim question for you and then your contemporaries here uh what are your and you probably have covered some of this uh please tell us about
your interests and passions related to park and wreck and how would you bring those to the commit committee police sure um interest would be uh triathlons so biking um running marathon running and then bow hunting that's that's the biggest one um and then bringing that to
the committee would be you know giving more people the opportunity maybe even improving those improving the the archery range out there um finding different ways to to incentivize maybe not incentivized but influence people to go and try that out and really go and
experience that I think that you can I I would love to even work with maybe cabin fever down the road and and get people you know trained up on how to use use a bow and arrow and and get them out there and experiencing it great thank you Mr Casey Would You Do do you need us
to repeat the question or you feel comfortable with no I think I'm comfortable so for sure just kind of like the others here biking and running is one thing I'm passionate passionate about that I know I could bring the technical tools into maybe some of the conversation especially as we grow Victoria South the other thing I didn't
bring up is I was a collegiate baseball player so one of my side kind of coaching Parts on the weekends is working with the Minnesota Twins so there's a lot that we do with youth camps that we bring into areas and I'd love to find ways they've made it to chasa but they haven't made it out to
Victoria and kind of farther in this direction so I'd love to find ways outside of running and cycling to engage kind of in new ways that are Parks and Recreation thank you and lastly Mr juror uh would you like me to repeat the question
or do you feel comfortable I'm okay thank you um yeah similar to to both right a runner uh a road biker and that's kind of my interest I I think I ran out I found my way out in Victoria in 2017 for the first time training for a marathon leaving from some you know
the ls and Hopkins and and made it all the way to the end of the trail um and was like where am I and was the city of Victoria and always was kind of enamored with it and then here I am now you know seven plus years later in here so I'm excited about that but what you know
what what do I want to do I think you know it's the city of lakes and Parks right so it's like upholding the the name and the motto of the city what you know keeping what we have building upon the the Great Park system that we have the trail system that we have and
looking for ways to improve listening to the residents and other people in the community and figuring out what do people want where do they want that and figuring out how we can utilize resources to repurpose what we have or to find new opportunities to build um you know new development of spaces
whether it's park or Trail um I think the parks and rec you know the the trail system the parks scen spaces it's it's connectivity right it's that's literal and figuratively right we can take the paths down to downtown into green spaces
um but also they are you know community centers where people get involved come together share ideas and and Foster a sense of community and so I want to do what I can to kind of continue to connect you know the new neighborhoods of the South and then you know the new development of the West to make sure
that this city is connected uh for folks to reach you know by foot by bike um to come together to utilize you know the great down town area and other parks that we have so great thank you well Adam you kind of foreshadowed
uh the next question so why don't you start on this one um what does being the city of lakes and Parks mean to you well I think first and foremost you need to uh you know keep your Lakes accessible and clean and you if you have
a city of parks the same thing right you need to provide uh on what you say you are and so you know we there's a number of great Parks here I know there's been a lot of uh kind of revitalization of certain Parks uh in my neighborhood I know there's 5.47 Acres or so of a new
park to be currently developed so um you know I my wife and my my two and a half-year-old are very excited for the development of that new park um but I think it's it's it's just living that motto and it's continuing to look for ways and listening to residents of of what do you want do are we looking for
new green spaces and areas are we looking for parks for younger kids and I think it's just creating spaces for people of of all ages and abilities to have areas that are accessible to utilize um to come together for Community um and I think that's what
build strong community and you know the opportunity to kind of display um through nature through through green sustainable spaces um our values and beliefs thank you Chris I don't you go second yeah so I think for me kind of two parts one I I was fortunate I grew
up in Egan Minnesota so Lebanon Hills is kind of similar to Carver so I've grown up with having access to Trails my whole life and I think it's super important from a park side just to get outside like you were saying to Adam like it's it's how you connect with your community
so that's one aspect the the other is I moov from Egan to Minneapolis and right off of Lake Harriet there's just you don't realize how much Lakes are a way of either just getting people involved to go out for a walk whether it's grabbing a cup of coffee at rubies and
finding ways to connect and find new places or when you have a diverse set of parks where not everything's the same in a lot of neighborhoods it's a really fortunate spot to be here in Victoria where there are a lot of empty Park spaces that you can make each spot unique so people can hit different spots
of vict so I think it's just such a good way to engage with the community and if you don't have a good Parks backbone Lakes Trails it it can be hard to really connect as a broader Community thank you Alexander do you me to repeat the
question or okay um for me it means giving people the opportunity to be outside and and and not it's not really just about you know getting exercise for me but it's about getting away from what our lives have become which is Con L
behind a screen and that that is life out there and so that's what that means to me is that you have all these opportunities to go and experience the the nature and and the life that is real life outside thank
you all right um next question uh and we'll start with Chris um what crystal ball what is your idea park space open Recreation type
space look looking take apart everything else but what is what is it for you what is your ideal spot yeah I think my ideal spot maybe not the pickle ball Trend that that might already be something of of the past but I I think for me it's just
I was just in in Montana I thought what was really unique is they almost kept the green space is just something that was open for people to be a part of but they found ways to kind of build a surrounded Community a big kind of core walkway the more you can keep that open
that's really cool with kind of a a middle grassy area where people really can choose whatever they want it to be so in some cases the best parks sometimes aren't something that has a lot built on to it it's how do you keep it open so people can really dream up what they want it to be as a road biker
I might need to add in a a bike fix station along the way is you definitely get some flat tires so I think for me it's giving people the space and sometimes it doesn't involve kind of building all the the parks all of the kind of places to play you can kind of
choose how you want to play excellent thank you Alexander um for me it is this doesn't mean to be going exactly against what Chris say but I actually view it as I I I want all of if full crystal ball I want to have everything that somebody
would want to go and do outside from pickle ball courts to the archery range to uh playground for children with slides and and things along those lines but plus also an open an open field where people can play Frisbee or just hang out outside have a picnic something along those lines where it's simple I
like the um the the Event Center that you guys have out there like that those are things where I think I think having an outlet for the interest of whatever that person may have is is my ideal scenario excellent thank you Adam do you
need me to repeat question or are you good no thank you I'm good [Music] okay uh I I think the ideal situation if you had unlimited you know space and resources right you probably could put everything in in one spot but if you
can't I think the next best thing is having the ability to connect those Pockets through a a system of of safely accessible path walkway Trail you know it could be a dirt Trail through through a through a wooded area but to connect
those pockets and include some green space some uh you know could be some some workout facility or a bench uh a water fountain right and I think utilizing those spaces and understand folks have different interests but having a way to connect them so it's
easily accessible you don't have to worry about like well how am going to get how am I going to get over here I need to get in my car and pack up my stroller to take my child to the playground or I need to put my bike on its rack to get back over to this other Trail um I think having the
accessibility and trying to do the best we can to connect things without the use of of Motor Vehicle or otherwise to safely allow families uh elderly individuals um young kids on bikes to just be able to walk
around and utilize the space because I think that's the goal for everyone so my crystal ball is to allow to facilitate the ability to access those pockets of interest and and the more different interests you can kind of coordinate together the better um but you know at
the end of the day even you know just some green space where you can have some creativity throw a blanket out and have a picnic and kick a ball around or throw a ball around um creates a great opportunity as well so at the end of the day I think accessibility for me is the key excellent thanks all of
you Adam you're going to get to start with us and thank you for coming I look at you guys and I'm like 10 years ago this is kind of what I was doing too so thank you for sticking your notes out there and trying to get involved all right as a Committee Member you're an
ambassador to the community what does it mean to you and how excuse me why do you think it's important to have Community ambassadors especially for the park and wreck department Adam you get to go first yeah I think as a Committee Member
as an ambassador of the community you just need to you need to carry yourself that way and I think um make sure you're conducting yourself in the right and appropriate way but I think as an ambassador for the Parks and Recreation committee it's it's advocating for what you are interested in and I think I I
think everyone up here can probably say that's probably pretty natural for them I think everyone has their own different interests and aligned interest and why they're interested in this committee and I think it's being able to go out there and be a a cheerleader a sponsor um and also just a listener asking the
questions right when I think of what an ambassador is it's I know what I'm interested in and I I I also know that some of my interests can be more narrow than others and people have different interests than I do and one of my favorite things in all walks of life is to ask a question or multiple questions
and listen um because I think the sharing of ideas and the listening of ideas expands my knowledge my thinking and you know provides different opportunities for me where I'm like I've never even tried that before bow hunting for
example um so as an ambassador I think first and foremost it's putting your you know putting the right foot forward for the community and when your name's out there and it's attached to this committee you're doing the right thing um and I think it's talking about it talking
about what you're doing talking about what you're doing generating conversation and that leads into the third thing questions and listening and hearing what people think and then taking that information back and seeing what we can do as a committee um and talking with the council about what
what makes sense what are people saying and and what makes sense for our community um I think you're up next Alexander thank you um you need me to repeat it all right uh so what it would mean to be an ambass uh to me would
be I should be acting how I would expect other people to act so if I want people to be outside I should be outside myself and and kind of going off what what Adam was saying I completely agree I think it's being I view as an ambassador as a
person that you would go up and ask questions to her or you know give them pointers on where to go for something I think there's so much here in Victoria that I don't know if everybody knows exactly what they can go and do and so being that point of contact for the
community um is by far one of the most one of the most important things to do but second off would be when going to make DEC decisions you aren't just making the decisions based off of your specific interests it's more so focused on what are the interests and the needs
of our city and how are you going to help influence that by the decisions that are made by The Parks and Recreation committee yeah I'm for sure I'd Echo like both of what you were saying and maybe one thing I'd add that's different is like moving into the community
there's really not an inventory to figure out how you work your way around Victoria I know our Builder that we use said here's a park it's in your neighborhood enjoy the park and it's just a really unique experience where you need some type of ambassador to kind
of say hey not just don't just stay in your little neighborhood bubble you've got Parks just across the street I every time I go run or anytime I bike I find five new ones that I didn't know about and it's your job being a Committee Member to really be that ambassador to
go out and educate all that we have and I know the city puts a lot of programming on that I'm a social media Hawk when it comes to what Victoria is putting out so I'm kind of raw ra for that but how do I just help to bring that to all the new neighbors that are coming into my area so I hope to be
someone that can be that that feedback person for a lot of people thank you all right we went through our our set questions does anyone have anything else that they would like to ask I think I'd like just a a quick question from each one of you
uh very quickly and I'll just take the same order that I started with so with uh Alexander tell us really quick in two points each what do we do well what do we need to do better I think the maintenance of the
parks and the recreation uh areas are are done very well um I think what what could be done better would be somehow displaying the information and and getting that information out to more people um I'm also a social media Hawk
but I I don't know if if a lot of people are familiar with the offerings that the city has in in the Parks and Recreation Area thank you Chris what do we do well and what do we need to do better yeah what we do well everything here is beautiful and
it's expansive which we're really lucky about I think what we can do better is don't want to copy it but how do we connect everything together so you know you can get from point A to point B and not worry about kind of getting stuck I think there's a lot we can do to kind of
promote that and use kind of ways to map out the city in a way okay great thank you and lastly Mr jury I think the resources currently here are are are great and they sub you
know the the parks in in the lakes and Parks motto um is there for a reason um so I think that is done well I I think you know kind of with with what Alexander and Chris are saying is like getting that information out there and connecting I guess I would just take it a step further to say yeah we need to we
need to make it you know readily accessible this information to people in ways that they're used to consuming and thinking about what our residents are and how they consume that information not everyone consumes information in the same way and making sure that we're communicating in information to those individuals who are going to utilize it
in the way that they will consume it so whether that's social media uh standard mail email Etc in in soliciting that information I think would be be helpful but I think it's also from a connectivity standpoint there's the other side of it it's connecting people like I said earlier with with trails
from neighborhoods to to downtown and otherwise and I think part of that is leveraging maybe certain public private Partnerships that maybe haven't been utilized before with some of the new develop new um developments that are here with some of the builders um you
know for example as part of these processes saying okay this is great we would love to have this park here but we we want you know you to you to you to build it or you to contribute towards some of this park building we're happy to manage it and you know as as part of
that whole permitting process I'm I'm sure that's something that you know could be worked through and and and help leverage resources in a way that's efficient for the community and also beneficial to you know the the constituents great thanks thanks for those questions and answers
gentlemen Andy do you have anything else I think I'm good thank you Christian can I ask some other questions absolutely um start off with um are you a member of the Victoria uh rec center and if you're
not why not we'll start with Chris I am not currently a member um I think for me it's just education on how to sign up so that's on me for not getting set there yet are you a member someplace else at this point in time I have
lifetime yep yep all right that's what I figured um Adam on to you same question I am not currently a member I'm not a member anywhere else uh my membership is in the basement um on the treadmill um fair enough so but
it's something that I do know about it does interest me knowing about the The Rinks and the open skate and having a two and a half year-old who's been out on the pond now twice and very eager to skate and get out there it is definitely something that our family is looking to
to leverage more um you know getting settled here after three months I think getting accustomed to to what's there um it's something we're interested in but not a member yet I'm also not um and the reason is uh
I travel a lot for work and the gym membership that I have allows me to go to like 30,000 different gyms and lifetime happens to be one of them so easy enough to get there good deal thank you can I ask one more we' got time we'll start we'll start with
Alexander um this is basically a position where you're volunteering your time what other organizations have you volunteered your time to um I have nothing as of yet um that I volunteer my time to um but this yeah so outside of work that's
that's it Adam just to clarify did you say currently volunteer for or what just like where you've donated time in the past you know I've got a golf tournament that I put on with some folks or you know we I volunteered time for the Twin Cities Marathon as a guy that gives out
water I don't know what they're technically called or you know stuff like that yep no appreciate the clarification um prior to moving to Minneapolis I've lived in uh Denver Colorado and when I lived out in Denver Colorado I was in the board of directors of the Alzheimer's Association there
which is a caused uh very close to uh me into my family um moving here and then now starting a family I haven't been um as involved um so I have no kind of other outside volunteer commitments right now kind of when we moved here
this was kind of my opportunity to say okay I'm ready to to get back get involved um life's calmed down a little bit and and you know now we're two and a half year old hey better than at one and a half I right so we're on we're on the right
totally interrupted you I'm sorry about that no no no that's fair enough I appreciate it um but no like I said it have volunteered in the past with a mentorship program in college for at risk children so it you know when I have the time to commit to it I guess that's just my personality when I'm in I'm in
um and I want to make sure that if I if I commit to something or present myself with the opportunity to to have the chance to do something that I can commit to it 100% so you know this is the opportunity I was looking to seek right now and did not have any other involvements so uh would be fortunate to
have the opportunity to serve on the committee thanks Adam last but not least Chris yeah volunteer work yeah so I um in high school did a lot of work with district 196 Community Education that was all around helping adults with disabilities
so putting on different programming for anyone ages 18 to 84 so it was a really broad range continue to do that through college a little bit and still go back now so that's one area the other like I said is some work with the Minnesota Twins and baseball communities so
staying involved kind of on the opposite side working with toddlers all the way up to to 16 year old so kind of arrange on different things I've done excellent thank you anything more Christian I could go on forever but no got to be respectful of people's time I got one
more that's all right um what you guys have all moved here within what 3 months 6 months a year maybe that type of thing what one thing brought you to Victoria what was the main thing that brought you and your family to Victoria we'll start with Alexander he's already grabbing his
mic there um I played Deer Run 75 times before I moved here and uh a house came up on the market and it was on Deer Run and I was like we need number one to get that um but number two
every time I came out here I was like this is what it is like this is you're I wanted to be away from everything I've I've spent my time living in Minneapolis I don't I don't want to be around that many people I want to I want to move and I want to have a city and a community feel and um that is something that I
noticed right away here and it was it was actually it it was pretty incredible because I was the the the Cars and Coffee I think is what happens on Wednesdays in in the evenings I I would I would go down there and it it would be kind of shocking because I lived in Prairie when I when I was growing up and
there was nothing like that I mean it was there was nothing even close to that and so being able to see all these people come together and do things together was kind of a sight for Sor I and uh that kind of sealed the deal for us where it was like yeah we we all need to we need to move our our lives here
thank you we'll go to Adam the reason I moved here was just community and and I think I highlighted in 2017 when I ran out here for the first time was kind of like what is this place um had some family move out to to Minista um um about eight years ago and
got a little closer to here and kind of always admired from afar um but when we were looking to move away from the city I knew that I wanted a a community um that we could be involved in um and one that was about this size um I even look back
to like my college experience of looking at Big universities and I ended up going to a small liberal arts college and part of that was the opportunity to be involved and and contribute and and be impactful and get to know people within your community um you know it it it all
works both ways when you're in a a small smaller Community the the light shines that much brighter and everyone knows you so they know what you're doing and and that's a that's a good thing um and it's the opportunity to raise a family here where you have neighbors with other
children and people looking out for the other kids in the neighborhood um we came out to the pool in our neighborhood over the summer before we moved in and exemplified that and was kind of one of the the dads was talking about how it's great because he's got you know five or six kids running through his Pantry
earlier that day and how all the you know the neighbors just kind of look after all the kids and it was kind of like all right you know this is this is the environment that I want to be in and kind of solidified that decision of being somewhere where you know people um you'll see people people you'll
recognize people and they'll recognize you um and that's a that's a great thing thank you Chris yeah I went to college in Northfield Minnesota with my wife so one of our favorite things as we were looking is we were in shock it's really kind of hard for us where we were to
find a small town and for us it's it's a small town but it's connected to a lot of bigger communities so we love that we can just walk downtown bike downtown we can go to lunch or get coffee it's a beautiful place like I said we have a chocolate lab so she's got to run and
there's a lot of really nice Parklands here that we were just attracted to so it it was for us an easy decision to move to Victoria just for everything that's here great thank you all thanks so I just have one last question so uh
so I like to refer to parks and wreck as the fund committee right because it's not it's not just houses and stuff right it's parks and the fun stuff but sometimes right like we don't have a unlim budget right like we don't get that uh you know best case scenario and can build everything so um how
comfortable are you making decisions uh that may be unfavorable right people might want a pool or you know you know N More Trails right but it might not be economically feasible in that area right so how comfortable are you being that
Ambassador um you know explaining to people you know yeah we would love to do this but you know like these are the reasons why so so uh we'll start with uh Adam I guess on this one yeah I think when the you know going back to just the term Ambassador right
it's Buy in you're part of the committee right and and you stand by the committee and I think it's about messaging right not every decision most decisions aren't easy right and and and when you have information that may not be favorable
just like any bad information the best way to is just deliver it right away and and deliver it succinctly and clearly um and communicate timely right I think at at the end of the day so often when when bad things happen or or issues happen I work in the utility space so there's
occasionally outages and things like that it's having you know prompt communication and accurate communication right and so decisions aren't always going to be whatever it uh make everyone happy so I think the most important thing is is standing behind the
committee's decision as a group um not not going out off on your own and and suggesting what you would have done or how you would have done it but but standing behind that and and having um taking responsibility and ownership for
that decision and the decision of the committee and communicating clearly why it was done because I think that's just as important as the decision thank you Chris yeah I did student government in college so we had a we had a $500,000 budget for All Student Activities for
the whole year so it wasn't for us a huge budget so I was always getting students coming up to me why didn't you make that enhancement to that dorm or why don't we have this on our campus now so I think you you have to really be comfortable making that hard decision
and just kind of be transparent on why like get your feedback make the decision to just really be a good communicator and that's just something that you you have to grow in as you get into these roles so definitely comfortable with it thank you Alexander yeah also very
comfortable with it um I am a management consultant and so the majority of my job is making unfavorable decisions for people um and things that I've taken away from that are true transparency so if you didn't make a decision here what did that what did that time or money end
up going towards why did you select that what require what is it going to do for me that's going to make because maybe you know they they wanted option A but we ended up going with option b maybe they don't know how good option b is going to be for them and so showing them that transparency and communicating that
effectively is is how you get around those and definitely something that I've I've learned through my career great right thank you all all right anyone else with any last questions all right doesn't look like it so uh we are not going to make any decisions tonight so we will uh make the
official appointments at our regular council meeting on March 10th after we've also had an opportunity to interview our Planning Commission applicants uh council is there any further discussion or is there any other information you need to help make a decision by that
time I I'll put this to you mayor bent we are are blessed in Victoria I mean we have three people here that just come and said they they've embodied everything that Victoria means and we've all sat in those chairs at one point in
time in our you want to call a career here at the city so we understand like the commitment that it takes we understand wanting to serve your community we definitely appreciate step one willingness to step in the breach you do have a candidate that is also an incumbent I think that it would
be beneficial from my view to have Miss cope uh be interviewed by us as well and then be able to bring uh her question and answer session into our decision-making processes to who we'd like to appoint for these two positions
Miss Hardy thank you acting mayor members of the council council member evansky excellent question so should the council decide to direct staff to do that um we would be happy to contact Miss cope uh she had a prior engagement
tonight so uh was not able to attend um but our city clerk did have some conversations with her letting her know that there were going to be Planning Commission interviews on the 10th and should Council um want to interview her um that that opportunity could be
provided for her during the planning commission interviews of course would be separate you would go through the same questions here um but we would have set aside time to do that on March 10th should you decide to do that I think it's an excellent idea so unless there's
disagreement with uh anyone on the it's fair yeah so Miss Hardy can we have that done we will do that thank you anything else counil member evansky um no thank you very much I'm I've concluded all right to all of our applicants thank you
very much for applying uh again we always have a a great stable of uh residents that are willing to give their time and and efforts to uh making Victoria as great as it is so um again we'll be making our appointments uh
during the regular council meeting on March 10th and with that there are no more agenda items become before the the this evening so may I have a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn second all in favor
opposed motion carries we are adjourned