Good evening. It's now 6:30 and I call to order the regular meeting of the Victoria City Council. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one
nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The first item on our agenda this evening is announcements. City Hall will be closed on Monday, May 26th in observance of Memorial Day. The regularly scheduled
council meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 27th at 6:30 p.m. Due to the holiday, all meetings of the city council, including workshops, are open to the public and held in council chambers unless otherwise noted. Anyone wishing to attend our council meetings
or workshops in person, please contact our city clerk in advance. In other announcements, the city council will host its annual volunteer recognition event on Monday, June 9th at 5:30 p.m. at Bayfront Park and Charleston Thoon Band Stand. Council will also name the
2025 community builder at that event. Everyone is welcome to join us and we encourage anyone who is planning to attend to register in advance with the city clerk. With that, there are no other announcements. I also have one proclamation at the dis this evening
which is recognizing May 18th to 24 2025 as national public works week. I'll read that from the dis. Whereas public works provides services that are of vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and the public health high quality of life and well-being of the
people of the city of Victoria. Whereas these infrastructure facilities and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of all public works employees who are responsible for planning, improving and protecting our city's storm water management system,
construction projects, streets, public buildings, parks, trails, and other structures and facilities essential for our residents. And whereas it is the it is in the public interest for the citizens and leaders in Victoria to gain
knowledge and maintain ongoing interest and understanding of the importance of public works first responders and public works programs in their respective communities. Now therefore be it resolved I the mayor and council members of the city of Victoria to hereby
proclaim the week of May 18th to 24th as National Public Works Week. Our next order of business is to adopt the final agenda. Council, can I get a motion to adopt the final agenda? Motion to adopt the final 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. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Our next item on the agenda this evening is open forum. This is the opportunity for anyone to address the council on an item that is not on the agenda nor an
application form that will be coming to the council at a future date. No one has registered in advance to speak at open forum. So if there is anyone uh who would like to address the council, please step forward at this time. Seeing no one, we'll move on to the next item on our agenda, which is
the consent agenda. Items on the consent agenda are routine, administrative, 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 consent agenda
items for separate discussion and vote this evening? Mayor, yes. Um staff is going to pull um my computer restarted, so I'm looking for it. I believe it is um item 5.6, six, the 2025 commu community builder. Got
it. Council, are there any items that you would like to see pulled from the or anyone in the audience wishing to pull an item from the consent agenda for separate discussion and vote? Clerk, please record. Uh, let the record reflect that item 5.6 has been pulled
for further discussion. And council, may I have a bal a motion for the balance of the rest of the consent agenda? Motion for the rest of the or 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. Moving on to items 5.6, which was removed from the consent agenda for separate discussion and vote, please. Thank you, mayor, members of the council. Um, I'm pulling this um as just for some transparency purposes here.
Um, so the 2025 community builder nominations, we did receive four nominations. The internal review committee did um did assess that two of the nominations were not eligible per
our policy. So that really left two um nominations and after review um staff and the internal committee are making a recommendation that the Victoria Business Association be named the 2025 uh community builder. And with that, um,
should council decide to, um, approve that recommendation, I just wanted to take a moment to read, uh, the list of current members that was not in your staff report. And I thought, um, that it would be good to share all of the
businesses that are part of this um, current organization and, um, are aiding in the in the community building work that they're doing. Uh, so if council would allow me to do that briefly, um, I'd like to just read off the list of
the current BBA members. Thank you. Um, Aspire Artisan Studios, Blended, Budget Blinds, Cabin Fever Sporting Goods, Charleston Meadows, Cornerstone Insurance Agency,
Deerrun Golf Club, The Dog Nanny Boutique, Greenwood Design Build, Guitar Tech Luier, Hartman Communities, Hartman Companies, Hometown Bank, Just Naturals,
JW Real Estate Group, Remax, Advantage Plus, Kelly Green Irrigation, Mini Organics, Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative, Nautical Bulls, Old National Bank, Omni Brewing, The Parlor
Salon and Spa, Power of Life Alternative and Holistic Health, Regarding Dentistry, Seek Eye Care, Spalding Law Office, Storms and Alpa, PL PLLC, The Blessing House,
The Noble Lion, The Wellness Studio, Victoria Auto Sales, Victoria Automotive, Victoria Burrow, Victoria Living Magazine, Victoria Rose Floral, Victoria Veterary Hospital, and Wakonia
Dodge. Very good. Thank you so much, council. With that, can I get a motion? I'll make a motion to award the community builder award for 2025 to the Victoria Business Association. Thank you. We have a
motion. Can I get a second? Second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Now moving on to our regular agenda, which the first item on the regular agenda is item 6.1, which is the independent auditor's report for
year end 2024. Presenting that this evening is assistant city manager Trisha Pollock. Miss Pollock, please. Good evening. Thank you, Mayor, members of the council. I am here tonight to introduce uh Jackie Hegel, our auditor,
um who is going to present the audit report for the year ended December 31st, 2020. Very good. Thank you, Miss Hegel. Welcome. Thank you. Good evening and thank you for having me tonight. Um, as Trisha said, my name is Jackie Heagel
and I am a partner with LB Carlson. Um, I did want to just quickly comment. Um, I was previously a partner with MMKR for some of you that have been on the council. Um, as of effective January 1st, MMKR merged with LB Carlson. So now we are operating under the LB Carlson
name. So something I'm still getting used to as well after 20 years of saying MMKR, trying not to say that and say LB Carlson. Um, but I am here to present the audit results for the year ended December 31st, 2024. Um, as we go through the presentation, you're going to see it's
all very positive um, results. A little on the scope and timing of the audit. Our team was out in January. We come out and do what we consider our preliminary audit fieldwork on site for a couple of days. Uh, and then we were back in middle of March where we do our final field work, which is the bulk of the
audit procedures. and from there move on to prepare the audit reports that annual comprehensive financial report that you you have in front of you um and then here tonight to present those results. So starting off just giving a little background as our role as
auditors as an auditor my role is to issue an opinion on that basic financial statement noting that they are fairly presented in accordance with accounting principles. uh your city did receive less than 750,000 in federal funding in the
current year. Um and so there is no separate audit of the federal awards. I just wanted to comment on that. That's the threshold that triggers what we call a single audit. So if you ever receive or expend 750,000 or more in federal awards, there's a separate audit of just
the federal audit. Uh in the current year though the diddy the city did uh spend some of those federal ARPA funds those American Rescue Plan Act funds that you received a couple years ago. Uh you did spend about 294,000 of those funds in the current year and then the
remaining amount was obligated by December 31st 2024 as part of our audit. Then we also test the internal controls and the compliance over that financial statement audit as well as with the Minnesota legal compliance manual. So each year
the office of the state auditor releases what's called the Minnesota legal compliance manual and those are the specific statutes that as auditors we're required to test from year to year. So those can change. A lot of times we do see some of the same questions in there as well. For the audit results over that
basic financial statement, we issued a unmodified or a clean opinion. Uh that is the opinion you are looking for as part of the audit process there. Um as part of all of our testing of the internal controls over that financial statement audit as well as the compliance over that financial statement
audit, I had no findings to report in that area. as well as when you're looking at that Minnesota legal compliance audit, no findings to report under uh that opinion as well. So for the 2024 year, all very good audit opinions, all clean audit
opinions and good results. Moving on then the first slide here or moving on to the I should say the financial results. The first slide of the financial information here uh summarizes what we consider the governmental funds and that change in that fund balance when you're looking at
all your governmental funds in total. Uh the top portion of that table shows it by classification of fund balance those non-spendable restricted committed assigned unassigned dollars. The bottom portion shows it by the major funds of the cities uh with the all the other
funds can included in that non- major row. So overall, when you look at the governmental funds, you're seeing an increase in that fund balance of about 235,000. You look in the top portion of that table, you're seeing your committed fund balance went up about
880,000. Most of that is due to amounts uh that are committed for that revenue stabilization in the general fund. Um offsetting that, you're seeing a decrease in the assigned fund balance. Uh most of that was in the general fund assignments as well as in that permanent
improvement revolving capital project fund just spending down some of the resources in that fund. Next few slides then focuses specifically on the general fund. Uh this one shows the general fund financial position that cash balance and
the fund balance for the last five years. Year end 2024 that general fund cash balance ended the year about 4.9 million. you're seeing an increase of about 685,000 from the prior year. If you're looking at that blue bar graph,
that's the fund balance. Uh ended the year at about 4.9 million. That was an increase of about 555,000 from the prior year and that's compared to the city council did approve a budget expecting a deficit of about 71,000 but end of the
year increasing about 555,000. At year end, December 31st, the unassigned fund balance in that general fund was approximately 31% of the subsequent year's budgeted expenditures and that is in line with the city's fund balance policy of a minimum um
unassigned of 30%. This graph here shows the general fund revenue of the city budget to actual by the various categories. Um overall the general fund revenues were about 9.4 4 million. Um, when you're comparing that to budget, they ended the
year about 1.3 million over budget. Most of that budget variance is in that license and permits as well as the charges for services. Both of those just more than budget uh with more building activity than initially expected in the budget. When you're comparing current
year to prior year, you saw an increase in your revenues of about 970,000. You're seeing an increase in property tax revenues of about 500,000 as well as an increase in charges for services of about 260,000. Most of that charges for
services related with building activity throughout the city. Excuse me. Similar bar graph here then just of the general fund expenditures. Um overall the general fund expenditures were just under 6.4 million for the year. um that
was about 285,000 less than the budget. Um when you're looking at that budget variance, uh your general government function was under budget about 180,000. That was spread across um all the various departments within the general government function. Um you also saw
your culture and recreation under budget about 150,000 as well as public works coming in under budget. When you're looking general fund expenditures uh current year to prior year, you're seeing an increase uh in those expenditures of about
530,000. U most of that was in that public safety function specifically in the police department uh department with adding a full-time community service officer in 2024 as well as a vehicle purchase. Um you also saw ex spending in the general government increasing with
some added positions in that function as well. Uh but overall the general fund did end the year where you were able to transfer out just over a million dollars uh more than was budgeted for the capital projects and equipment needs um in accordance with that fund balance policy that the city does
have. Moving on then this summarizes the enterprise funds and the summary of the changes and the net position of those funds. So these are those specific business type those utility operations. Uh once again the top portion of this table shows it by classification of net position. The
bottom portion shows it by each of the individual enterprise funds. So overall you saw your enterprise funds increased about 2.1 million. If you're looking at the top portion of that table that net investment in capital assets is decreasing just due to more depreciation
in the current year from utility infrastructure assets that have been added in previous years. that unrestricted net position um is increasing just due to the positive operating results throughout uh the city enterprise funds. If you're looking at the bottom portion, you can see each of
those funds, the net position increased in both the water fund, the sewer fund, and had a slight decrease of about 40,000 in that storm water management fund. I have a graph showing the operations for each of the last five years specific with each enterprise
fund. This first one starts with the water fund. You can see very positive operations for each of the last five years. Uh this fund specifically ended the year with an increase in net position of about 1.7 million. Um your
operating revenue, which is that blue bar graph for 2024, saw a decrease in operating revenue that is directly related to consumption. So the city saw a decrease in consumption in the water operations for 2024. um your operating expenses. That blue
bar or the yellow bar bar graph decreased about 130,000. That was mainly in materials and supplies. Um but overall end of the year with an operating income, that green bar graph of about
46,000. Um if you exclude depreciation, you're seeing that red line that shows the income before depreciation of about 1.2 million. So overall very positive operations for the 2024 year. This next graph shows the sewer
fund um operations for the last five years. This fund saw an increase in net position of just under 500,000 for the year. You saw your operating revenues in this fund increase about 180,000. Most of that was just due to an approved rate
increase in that sewer fund. You also saw your operating expenses increase about a h 100,000. Most of that was directly related to the increased disposal charges that you are being charged. Um overall the operating income loss that green line you're seeing a
loss of about 400,000. Um that if you take exclude depreciation the red line then shows operating income of about 190,000 when you exclude that depreciation. The last enterprise fund, the storm
water management fund, um ended the year with a slight decrease in net position of about 40,000. Overall, your operating revenues, you saw an increase. Uh that is due to a rate increase in 2024. When you're looking at your
expenses, you saw a more significant increase about 240,000. Um, a couple items there. You're looking at your operating expenses. Uh, you had personnel service costs went up. You had an added position in 2024 compared to 23. Um, your
professional service expenses also increased just more pond maintenance uh cost in the current year compared to previous year. If you're looking at that green line had operating loss of about 135,000. um when you exclude that depreciation,
you're seeing operating income of about 172,000. And then the last table I have here summarizes what we call the governmentwide financial statements. So this is that second reporting layer in that acter that you have where it includes all the funds of the city um
and rolls it into what's called the governmentwide financial statements. They're the full acral financials. So it shows all the capital asset activity as well as any long-term liabilities. So any bonds, any debt, any pension liabilities the city has and gives a
snapshot at year end. So overall that governmentwide uh statement of net position, you're seeing an increase of about 5.6 million in the net position. The top portion of that is your governmental activities. You're seeing
an increase of about 3.4 million. most of that in that net investment in capital assets and that's just due to the continued uh investment in infrastructure throughout the city. And then the bottom portion is those business type activities that we just previously discussed uh but mostly due
to the positive operating results uh for the 2024 year. So with that I can open it up if there are any questions. Thank you Miss Higgo. Council questions for Miss Heagle. I have one. As a rookie, I get to ask
some questions sometimes that aren't maybe totally appropriate, but you do a lot of assessments like this. Are there one or two things that we could do better? Well, I'll say on the flip side, it's not common to not seem findings. So, um
to not have findings is very good, but to consistently not have them is good. And I I know I'm speaking from the opposite side, but that's not something that we commonly see when we go from audit to audit. Um, I will say you also are the very first audit being presented. Um, so I don't really have a
lot of comparisons to compare to or anything. Fair enough. Um, but you are, you know, your finance staff does get everything reconciled and tied out early, which is very positive to be presenting early in May. Fair to say Trisha is doing a great job with the finances for the city. She is. Thank
you. Great. Council, other questions, comments? I only make a comment that you know that Trish and Abby by the report that's put in front
of us uh continue to do a fine job. I mean, I think that they also it shows the benefit of their continuing education and certifications that Trish uh goes through each and every year just uh makes the city of Victoria's
financial performance and being able to record it and have a clean audit something that just lends trust and transparency to the citizens of our community and her her hard work is on display right here. This proves that U our city
leadership is is picking good people to do the city's business. So thanks for that. Thank you. Very good. Well said. All right. Thanks Abby. Good supporting position right there. All right. Anything else? All right. Seeing none, I will
entertain a motion, please. I'll make a motion to accept the audit report. 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. Thank you
again, Miss Seagull. Thank you. All right. Next item on the agenda, item 6.2, is to review a petition we received from residents regarding street improvements for 80th Street. And presenting that this evening is our city
engineer, Miss Cara Garin. Miss Garin, welcome. Good evening, mayor, members of the city council. I am going to just need a minute to pivot. Sure. Because I did not load
my pictures ahead of time. But um included in your packet tonight is a request from property owners for an improvement to 80th Street. So, um, 80th Street is a street located, um, off of
Bavaria Road on the east side of Victoria. And here is a map of the street. I can make things work today. Um, so 80th Street is located off of
Bavaria, as I just finished saying. Um, and we did receive a petition signed by um, seven of the 10 property owners on 80th Street with the 10th property owner being Holy Family actually owns a portion of property adjacent to 80th
Street, interestingly enough. Um, and what um, precipitated the signing of this petition was just um, questions and concerns from the residents who live on that street relating to the condition of the pavement. Um, so I do have some
photos here too that hopefully will cooperate and open. Um, but the pavement is in um, pretty poor condition. Um, what I noted in the staff report
is somewhat of some interesting history. around the late 90s. I think the specific record that we found was from 1996. The residents who lived on the culde-sac actually requested permission from the city to um complete a
batuminous overlay of the gravel road that existed um back in the late 90s for that roadway. So, they did um pay to overlay their street and the council did allow that um back in the 90s. And so,
um, the road was simply shaped and paved and, um, as you can see from the photos, it doesn't have curbon gutter on it. Um, and so it doesn't have a storm sewer system. And also, because it was a gravel road that was paved, it doesn't
have our city standard section underneath it that we build all of our new roads and all of our reconstructed roads with. So, um that I didn't bring a picture of it, but that would be our um sand section that's underneath all of our roads and drain tile um and class 5
and um pavement and curb and gutter. Um the neighborhood also does not have city water currently. It is available at the intersection of 80th Street in Bavaria, but none of the homes are connected to city water. We did connect the houses to
city sewer in 2002. Um but the sewer is located in their backyards interestingly enough. Um that is how they were connected in 2009. So um I'll back up a little bit. In 2004, we embarked on a
plan to reconstruct all of the streets in the city that weren't meeting city standard. So, as we were working through the process of studying and evaluating all of the streets, um this particular street came up for improvement in the city's capital improvement plan. So, we
did complete a feasibility study in 2009 and presented the findings of that study to the neighborhood. And at the time, the neighbors were not supportive of moving forward with the project. Um, at that time the pavement was probably about 13 years old, 12, 13 years old if
I know how to do math. Um, and so even though at the time we were already starting to see some signs of distress to the pavement, the residents did not want to um have to pay for an improvement after they had just paid in
1996 or so to do the overlay. So, the council at that time um agreed to not proceed with the improvement and essentially kicked the neighborhood to the back of the capital improvement plan. And really repeatedly, we've just
been kind of kicking the project out in the CIP. Um we have completed two rounds of maintenance um which would be consistent with our typical maintenance schedule. We did a um crack seal and seal coat. I think the staff report says
2010 and 2017 if I remember correctly those years but um really with the pavement um being coming up on 20 years old uh the pavement itself is beyond its useful life and the types of pavement failure we're seeing here is indicative
of subgrade failure. So the road does need to be fully reconstructed to our new city standard. So, um, the public works, uh, Ryan, our public works superintendent, has been talking with the folks in this neighborhood and
worked with them, um, because they were asking how do we, how do we make this project actually happen? Um, and so he worked with them and talked through what the petition process would look like because they really want to understand what the costs would be. Um certainly as
with all of these projects um once they understand the costs they may feel differently about seeing the street improved but um that would be the next step in the process for how these projects work. Um this project is actually scheduled in the capital
improvement plan for uh 2026 currently. Um so petition or not, our process for moving a project forward would be to complete a feasibility study. Um that would need to be authorized by the city
council. Uh you have a petition. Nope. You have a resolution included in your packet to authorize that feasibility study. Um if we didn't have that petition, the resolution would be worded slightly differently. Um but what would
happen next is we would um uh complete the feasibility study to determine the costs of the recommended improvements. That would include evaluating the cost to extend city water to the neighborhood. We would present the findings to the neighborhood first is
our typical process. um prior to bringing them back to the city council so we're able to um share with you all what we hear um in the neighborhood meeting and then should the council um elect to move forward the process from there there would be a public hearing
where you would formally hear from the residents um before deciding if a project were to move forward. Um, also in that neighborhood meeting, we would be um describing the entire public improvement process to the neighbors because we've been getting some questions about how the process works
and how assessments are paid and all those sorts of questions. We would cover that for those folks in a neighborhood meeting format as well. And so I think that is all I have to cover, but happy to answer any questions that you all may have. Carol, if you know, we h we have
this capital improvement plan. All our streets are get are getting redone and brought up to standard. Um the neighborhood has petitioned us to do that. Could they say we don't want our street done? Um so we would be okay with
that. That that would be a council decision. So, um, in any case of these, uh, 429 projects, you hold a public hearing and then the council, um, gets to make a decision about whether or not a project moves forward. Um, this pavement condition is certainly beyond
its useful life. So, it will become increasingly difficult for public works to maintain it. um when you start to see these types of failures, there's only so much um pothole patching and um like thin overlay type work that the public
works department can do to keep it bandated together. So, um certainly I wouldn't recommend that we continue to defer it for much longer. Um but the timing of when a project is completed is at the council's discretion. Very good.
Um, and you said that there is no city water to this neighborhood. Have neighbors indicated they would like that? Um, I have not had that conversation with them at all. Um, and certainly this previous city councils have um elected to not extend water to
neighborhoods um when the residents have not had that interest. Um there's a couple of neighborhoods up at the north part of the city who don't have them. Um I I should note that in the last few years within the existing part of the
city, we've seen a lot more people um elect to connect where water has been available. So that's information we'll share with these folks. Um it, you know, really comes down to what the age and condition of their wells are to determine it's expensive to connect to city water. So, um, we lay out, you
know, what the fees are and what the assessment amounts would be for connecting to city water under the city's assessment policy. That is 100% assessed to the property owners. Um, so the questions we've been getting are about the road, not about the water. But
because we'd be um reconstructing the road, that's the most cost-effective time to install water would be when the road's um excavated, obviously. So, so we would we would um install that utility underneath the road and then uh
residents could connect up to it as they would like to. Correct. So, that has been the city's policy. We would um put in a service connection for each home. Um but the city doesn't currently mandate connection, but they would have to pay that assessment. So, um but yeah,
it's been the city's policy that homeowners can choose um when to hook up to it. So typically what we've seen is that um residents don't connect until they're at a point where they have to do major rehab to their well and then that's when
they decide it's more cost effective them from the road to their home. Correct. Okay. Got it. Yep. Okay. Very good. Uh council questions. This would have come to us next year anyway without the petition. Uh correct.
Correct. unless um for budgetary reasons when you went through the budget you made decisions to shift it. Um certainly once you have the feasibility results back and hear from the residents you could conclude to not complete the
project next year. Um it is as I noted it's the council's discretion to move forward with the feasibility study. It's the council's discretion to when to do a project. So got to put it in summary. We're just being we've been petitioned.
We're going to use this petition opportunity to advance what we would otherwise do in 2026 to look at doing it now. The um if we had let it go to
2026, then it it's possible that council could look at it and say we don't want to make that decision to improve this. Now, I suspect strongly that your professional opinion would be a recommendation to the council
to consider this project at that time and maybe choose another project to delay should we not have the capacity to do that. Is that a fair assessment? Yeah, I do think that um the timing of
the feasibility study is um well timed because we'll have the costs and by the time if we were to move forward with it, we could complete the design over the winter and go out for bids early in the year and construct the improvements in
2026 when the northbound roads are under construction. I think it would be better to be doing this improvement when the northbound roads for the Highway 5 project are closed versus when all of Highway 5 is closed just from a um
access to materials when you're in terms of getting bids for the project. I think it would be better to do it in 26 and 27. Um, but by the time you have the feasibility study results, we'll also have um pretty clear-cut costs for the
highway 5 project for the city. And so you'll have a much better picture of your budget scenario for the transportation improvements. So, I think it actually will be a benefit to have the feasibility numbers in conjunction with the transportation projects so
Trish can plug those all into the budget at once and you can um make a decision with with more information because right now I don't have updated project cost to you. You know, we have a we have a number plugged into the CIP that isn't
based on actual projected costs for the neighborhood where this would give us a detailed cost estimate. So you could plug that into the budget to help you make decisions. So this wouldn't get done this construction year. No. No. Correct. The feasibility would kick off
though. Yeah. Correct. Initially, yes. Under no scenario would you be constructing this project in 2026 because it's already May. Y in 20 this year. Sorry. 2025. Thank you. It's been a long day. This is probably always
living in the future. All right, this is probably a Bob question and it's the nefarious side of me coming out, but is there a way that by filing the petition, the street owners have more um responsibility or more power than if
it just came up on a CIP? Yeah, mayor and council. Um I I can't think of a way that that would be true. I guess maybe um in a petition you could um craft the scope of what you're
petitioning for different than the city might have crafted it. Uh I suppose that would be a way residents could try to have some influence that they wouldn't otherwise have. But the fact of the matter is if you just do this in the normal course, you just wait till 2026. uh as Cara has said, as the engineer
said, uh you would do a feasibility study on a project that you think is appropriate and then you'd have a public hearing when the residents would have the same right to come and say, "No, don't do that project. Take this out. Add this." So, I mean, I I think the answer is no. There's no real meaningful
difference. Thank you. Yeah. I couldn't think of one, but just popped in about then to clarify, we wouldn't necessarily have to accept the position petition. Correct. Yeah. Mayor and Council, um that the fact of the matter is um uh the city doesn't have to proceed with any
public improvement projects whether they are petitioned for or not. Uh just as when uh you get to the feasibility stage, you get a feasibility report that includes some likely costs to the residents. The residents show up at the hearing and say, "We don't want you to
proceed with this project now because we've seen the feasibility report." The ball is still in your court. There is a a little bit of a different voting threshold depending on whether it's petitioned for or not. But ultimately those decisions whether to go feasibility study or not and then whether to order the improvement or not
after you get the feasibility study, those are all purely council decisions. Council, thank you councel. Other questions? Is the feasibility study something we can handle within our current budget or is it something that's kind of popped up or
Yeah, Miss Hardy, please. Mayor, Council Member Patterson, uh, members of the council. Um, we do we would we don't have a specific line item budgeted for the feasibility study. What we would do is take that those funds from our long-term street maintenance fund, which
we do have fund balance in. So, that is something that we would be able to fund this year. Okay. Thank you. Other questions? All right. Seeing none, I will entertain a motion. And I don't have a pretty little slide.
I have it here. Okay. Motion to approve a resolution declaring adequacy of petition and ordering preparation of a feasibility report for the 80th Street improvements. Thank you. We have a motion. Can I get a second? I'll second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any
opposed? Motion carries. Uh there are no more items on our regular agenda this evening, so we'll move to reports and emerging issues. Attorney G, you're up first. Mayor and council, I guess I just want to say we had a meeting prior to this meeting um session. I just want to thank you for um coming to that really
well uh informed and good. Thank you, Miss Hardy. Anything from staff here? All right. Anything from council members this evening? Uh I just have one little thing to say.
Uh new park signs are going up in our parks. If you have not seen them yet, they are beautiful. Um, take a look, watch for them coming soon to your neighborhood if they are not there yet. They are absolutely beautiful. Um, with that, we have no more items to come before the body this evening. So, I will
entertain a motion to adjurnn. Move to adjurnn. 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. We stand adjourned.