e oh that's a sad State of Affairs you're going today guess we call a meeting to order roll call Mayor Reese here council member OS here
Nelson here Gilbertson Here Gardner here faggle here Butterfield here andeles here council member Davis is excused eight present one absent stand for the Pledge of
Allegiance I pledge Ali to the flag of the United States of America and to the rep for it stands one nation indivisible liy andice for all any proposed to addition or
deletions Mr Mayor Yes Rick we need to pull item 9 C the Waste Water treatment facility biosolid tanker purchase motion to approve a revised agenda second got a motion and a
second discussion roll call council member oos I Nelson I Gilbertson hi Gardner hi baggerly hi
Butterfield hi Andes hi seven eyes zero NOS that motion passes next I'll call on ber Larsson our city clerk for consent items Mr Mayor councel for your approval
and information this evening I have the city council minutes from March 3rd 25 the Planning Commission draft minutes from March 5th 2025 the wilmary Municipal Utilities draft minutes for March 10th 25 project number
23- D advertisement for bids the DNR fishing platforms at Robins Island the Wilmer Township Fire agreement the liquor license renewals the Civic Center Arena special event by on sale liquor license holder permit
Green Mill Wilmer consideration of Valley Golf of Wilmer inc's on sale Wine Liquor License the 2026 budget calendar the accounts payable report for 22725 through 31225 for your information there's also
the February 2025 building report the finance report through to 2825 the wmer Municipal Utilities Finance report for January 2025 and the director's reports motion to approve the consent
agenda second got a motion on a second to approve the consent agenda discussion B call council member Nelson hi Gilbertson hi Gardner hi
faggle hi Butterfield I shes I an o i seven eyes zero nose that passes open Forum we don't have anybody sign up okay we'll go to regular
business um due to some recent uh disruptions of oh I'm sorry thank you that's at the end at the end mhm on the back side I don't know where I put
it there it is oh that's do you need another copy Mr Mayor yes okay yeah there was something that uh Robert no uhuh no that's after that's at the
end that is yes okay on to regular business okay I'm sorry for the confusion um call on Wilmer Municipal Utilities uh jiren Smith and Kevin Marty
is here also uh in regards to the meeting minutes of February 24th yeah thank you Mr Mayor m members of the city council um look forward to sharing some more information with you and having an opportunity to answer more
questions you have so at the last meeting you raised some questions about our purchase agreement and you essentially the takeaway I got from it is why did you pick this East Side property it costs more and it's in a weird spot and that's a common initial
reaction that was my initial reaction to so to understand how we got here I'm going to share our Miss statement so Wilmer Municipal Utilities will provide safe reliable and quality utility services at competitive rates for their
customers so this property with a $600,000 price tag can meet this Mi mission statement better from the East side property than from the industrial park property because there are huge differences in efficiencies over the long run we've got 28 employees and
we've got 20 vehicles for those employees that nature of our work is to travel throughout the city if a sto storm rolls in at night pushes a tree into a power line our staff has to commute in to our service center and
then they need to respond to the incident and it's not just one vehicle we work in Crews so we have to have multiple staff come into our service center multiple staff go out to the service location same Pro process for
water if there's a water main breake our crews need to commute into the office building and then respond to the incident the bigger the incident the more Vehicles the more travel time and I don't know every one of our staff has caught themselves on the wrong side of
the tracks in our current location and we only have one track to cross that Industrial Park site has three tracks to cross there's three out of the four directions to get out of that site has to cross railroad track railroad tracks our response time matters
so you know the the old adage the only thing worse than your lights not working is the toilet not flushing you know that's our responsibility is to get that working for you guys so I just want you to keep this in mind for tonight's discussion we've got multiple vehicles and multiple trips for each event that
we need to deal with now I'll back up a little bit and summarize that letter that's included in your packet so at the top you'll see that we met with City staff March 10th and presented cost estimat for City Waste Water and Wastewater Services as well as private
Services after some discussion it was the request of City staff to develop a pros and cons list for the Wilmer Avenue site and the industrial park site and that's what we have to present to you this this evening the project background section highlights the extensive
extensive work we've completed to date the project really kicked off in 2010 it was slowed a few times for other capital projects but since 2016 it's been a consistent topic of our conversation throughout committee meeting meetings
and commission meetings it's also been in front of the city council four times each year since 2016 in the annual budget the annual audit our annual tour and the annual Wu update to the city council we've evaluated over 20
properties here in Wilmer and we've got contingencies written into this purchase agreement to ensure that the project will only proceed if satisfactory agreements can be reached so that we can continue to accomplish our mission of providing safe reliable and quality
Utility Services to this community so I'm going to hand it out to Kevin to talk a little more about our site criteria thank you uh thanks for having us again hope everybody's having a good day we'll go
through the site criteria a little bit comparison to properties um the first document after jiren's opening letter in the packet was the um property purchase compar comparison uh form we've talked uh quite
a bit in the past about our site criteria this is the list of the site criteria that we have scored properties against and and used to uh to vet properties in the past so I'm not going to go word for word but we can
uh just maybe highlight some of the ones that um kind of jump out at us a little bit more uh the first one um maneuverability for large Vehicles the second one down the uh that includes within not
only within the property uh being equal we can design The Yards to move trucks those kind of things but getting to and from the property easily and we feel that the Wilmer Avenue property uh meets those needs better um access to arterial
streets uh as jiren mentioned um three to four of the directions from the from the uh Industrial Park property you have to deal directly with with uh railroad tracks the fourth or the other option is to use Highway
12 um which is a busy road has multiple stop signs um we know that that road is set for uh a project a reconfiguring reconstruction project and the and what we see is the short term and and may go from a four lane through town down to a
two-lane with Center Center turn lanes and and some reduction of traffic controls um avoiding heavily trafficked areas likewise uh getting away from Highway
12 and County Road 5 we feel that the LI Revenue property is the better option we've already covered the railroad crossings um access to our service territory we feel that and we'll we'll touch on that in a map here in a few
minutes that we feel that the wmer Avenue property has a little bit has an advantage there also obviously it has advantage to the bypass um customer access we feel that the Wilmer Avenue property once again uh
is better than the industrial park because um customers don't have to go into that Industrial Park and not that sad traffic to find us when they need zoning requirements obviously um the industrial park property has an
advantage there as long with along with proximity to existing utilities the facility D design flexibility uh we've always tried to find a parcel that we could design a building that best fits our needs rather
than best fits to fit the property one that's one of the huge reasons that we stopped looking at our our Jason properties downtown through the years is because we're very constricted in those properties uh you know the 7th to 10th
Street um adjacent to where we currently inest um both can be designed with out parking optimize land use um a lot of that had to do with staying away from retail and residential areas if at all
possible and um avoiding locations that would limit commercial or industrial expansion a lot of the properties that we've looked at are we've looked at four or five different ones in industrial park and when they've had other interest or first
R refusals for example we've we've never tried to bridge that and impede on other people's commercial expansion um clean energy potential obviously the wmer Avenue property having more useful space uh gives us
those advantages to to build out um clean energy initiatives as part of the site design and then consideration for future service expansion um we feel that with the city kind
of um moving more towards the north Corridor and in the East this opportunity uh sets the Wilmer Avenue proper um ahead of industrial park questions on
this sheet before we go to the maps hi um I do have a question the color coding on this is green good orange Square okay and red X bad is that kind of the generalist of that yes um we actually have a numbering system in the
background of this one through five one being the red x two and three being the orange Square four and five being the green check that's just how we've scored them in the past we just felt it would be a little less muddy to show you the the excuse me
the general one so each of these properties has actually does actually have a numerical score as well okay I I how many can I ask I have lots of questions how many can I ask go ahead okay uh this this won't be
painful I promise um optimal land use thing in here you gave uh the industrial park a apparently a score of a two or a three and one of the locations is chose location is not near retail or residential areas so you gave Wilmer
Avenue must have been a four or a five that is parked right next to one of the newest housing developments that will likely be in town someday but you gave the industrial park a lower score even though it's in an industrial area not near a retail or a Housing Development
can you explain your rationale behind that the we did we looked at the site and what we anticipate designing on the wmer Avenue site um and the space that's out there it's kind of got that natural bumper um directly to the well obviously
to the to the West it's got the bypass to the north there's a cek that runs through there in some area that we would intend to leave is wildlife and then you're on the back side of those homes it's quite a bit directly to the east is got that low land that pond area I don't
anticipate that being developed um we'd love to have it as is because it's a nice Wild Life space so as far as impeding on on residential yes that one wmer Avenue is a little bit closer obviously than industrial part yet you
scored it higher correct uh we scored it higher because because uh the it's we feel like it's adding space to wmer I think I mentioned that a couple weeks ago rather than taking away valuable space that's part of the of the criteria
for that score is that we're not taking away space from anybody else that needs to be an industrial park or you know has that type of a business that's Noble um you guys have mentioned your efficiency study multiple times did somebody do an
efficiency study and if so where is that data can we see it and was the data subjective or objective in nature like um you talk about response times did you clock response times from your facility to different places within town to get objective data do you know how many
times a day the train goes through was the study done before or after the Y project went in because rail traffic is significantly reduced since the Y project went in right the study was completed uh both times by GLT architects in St Cloud from St Cloud the
second time was in 2016 so would have been probably during early planning stages of the why um they Ed data from they interviewed all employees and all all uh departments to you know how many times a day for
example do you go from the service center down on 10th Street to the office on 7th street and they took those employees it takes you x amount of minutes to drive it multiply it by their way you know average loaded wages as a mileage likewise to multiple
locations that we travel daily in town we mostly looked at it's hard to be um really objective with that because we don't know where an outage is going to occur but we know that we have to that the water people have to go to the Southwest water plant and the northeast
water plant and the Wilmer Avenue tower for example we know that the line department needs to go to substations and different things within town so that that's the data that was used in that 2016 study um to identify that I know
that we we do have those facility studies and then we we took uh by radius by moving the facility you know one mile away from at that time the power plant was still in play or two miles away or
three miles away so we tried to Encompass the radius of the city of Wilmer which is roughly three miles get take um I know that just alone the the efficiency just by moving all the employees into one building that are
three blocks apart at that time was somewhere in the 15 to $18,000 a year savings that was in 2016 so we're pushing 10 years on that now um so we' anticipate that today to maybe be 17 18
$20,000 savings per year just that back and forth that you do daily you know the meter guys running up to check customer service and back and forth so let's assume it is $220,000 a year right so it would take you 30 years to pay for this
piece of land you could get for free that would only account for the employees that wouldn't count savings and travel times and those kind of things we have looked at we've we've timed um more not quite scientifically
but we've gone out and timed our time when we were looking at properties uh the the menot property the men West property and we drove those using the bypass to let's say obviously you're going to get you're
going to get the Menards quicker from menot using the bypass and he would through town we we chose other locations as well different substations and those kind of things and that's pretty easy to see that obviously one location has great advantages over the other uh and
then you add in the trains that's a wild card there's no way to know you know we didn't reach out to burington Northern and say how often are the train tracks plugged up but I I do know that from my time living in town and my own nearly 20 years on the fire
department that when we respond that's I think that our biggest thing that we're why we chose this site as jiren mentioned is our ability to respond to the city when there's outage when we do that when the fire department
goes up for example and the call is at ridgew College you don't go down Highway 12 and go across the tracks at 5: you just don't you take the bridge likewise in different areas of town you plan for those things when you
work near the railroad tracks jiren lives in Spicer I can guarantee you he never takes a left out of our office building to go over the tracks likewise when he comes in in the morning he goes over the bridge so you plan to respond to the road you know it's open the roads
we know are open are better served on the east side of town the the industrial park property we we serve this city and so we're often times I'm not debating that jiren at all
where I'm going is we often times are in the industrial park and we're often times in other locations and we know when hit the drain you know it it takes longer it slows you down and when you
want I put the mic please sorry right when when time matters which it does in our in our business we don't want to run into that three out of the four directions we go and we can measure you know
statistically what that is and pro place a value on it we haven't done that yet we've done parts of that yes but it's significant enough for us to say this is a better
choice and I do have if you want to maybe hold that thought when we get to the last map I've got some data some outage data and uh some things that we can look at appreciate it I kind of show that better Audrey has yeah I know I've been aware of that Audrey go ahead I I I
want to ask you some questions too but I'll wait till Audrey's done um thank you I have some questions about Wilmer Avenue in general and while I understand when you have an emergency you take the shortest distance between
two points my concern is that you'll take the shortest distance between two points when you're not having an emergency and there's enough traffic on Wilmer Avenue um whether it's you know whether you're coming from Lakeland Drive or
you're taking 19 Avenue that residential um area has to expanded um both 19th Avenue additional senior housing uh be thda has a big project there my concern is the additional traffic on a regular
basis not an emergency basis but a regular basis that would be using that and the and the truth is we take the shortest distance between two points and so that's my concern is is um I don't see that your regular or your employees
are going to use the bypass um they're going to take the shortest distance between two points and so that's one of my concerns about that location um and just being outside of the city um in general so any comments
on that one um thank you um yes you're it's a legitimate concern and I appreciate that um I'm not sure where I should look to directly look at you look at the so uh it it is a legitimate concern um today
how we operate you know we are leaving from tenth and ten and uh Benson Pacific area out of the service center and we're mostly driving either on Highway 12 which is another busy road or going through town in in on more residential
streets uh 10th Street Southwest to get to trot trot Avenue which is not as nice as Wilmer Avenue with the improvements made we like Wilmer Avenue of course because it's been widened it's much safer than it used to be um it it will
be a training piece too to get employees to remember that they've got really good access to the bypass and to use it uh we feel that unless you're directly going into the center of town like obviously to the Southwest water treatment plant
or uh the Water Tower we're going to go on wmer Avenue we're going to be on wmer Avenue regardless when we're responding to that but there's a lot of options to take a right or left on on Lakeland or a right or left on the bypass so it just gives us more we feel more
options uh to respond and spread from that location I uh I honestly like the location for one reason and that's I've always wondered what's going to be the Catalyst to get us
beyond the bypass with the city limits however can you tell me what our cost is going to be this city proper what our cost is going to be for that
property uh for the infrastructure that needs to be put in because I we need to know that if we're going to move ahead with this I I I I would be if I was a council member making the decision de ision I would be nervous to make the commitment
without knowing what the cost is going to be yeah thank you Mr Mayor great question and I can't answer that today and the plan has always been that we sign the purchase agreement that doesn't mean we close on the property we sign the purchase agreement we enter our due
diligence phase in that due diligence phase we identify that number and we determine if we can get an agreement in place that's favorable to our Miss and favorable to the mission of the city and if we don't the the purchase agreement
becomes null and void and we don't take that next step of closing so that this is part of the process that we need to get Beyond this point that okay we're able to buy this property now does it make sense to buy this
property if that answers your question yeah thank you I can maybe add to that a little bit we you know we mentioned last time too and there's been numbers floating around that we do have an engineers's estimate to get to the site
to service the site a question that was asked a couple weeks ago is what was that system designed for so we did reach out to Mr vogi and that lift station and infrastructure to get across there's two things to it when you look at it you're wondering like why does it take this
goofy this goofy route and go under the road where it does and that has to do with that's the shortest amount of distance to get underneath the highway with the casing if we went straight down Wilmer Avenue for example we're we're driving casing Underground Across not
only the bypass but also the the 600 plus or minus feet on each side of the bypass that is menot righto so it's actually significantly higher price to go straight down Wilmer Avenue than it did take the path that it was drawn at uh
secondly um that 2.6 2.7 million for example or that estimate uh a portion of that is the the um utilities responsibility as uh we're responsible by agreement for
water main construction I think 800 and I've got it here somewhere 850 some, 880,000 is water of that estimate is water main purely our expense so if the city was going to expand regardless
of us going there for any other reason we we're still going to have that expense the last piece of that is the question was asked you know what is that going to serveice in the future and that uh lift station and system was designed
and I threw out 100 acres last time it's actually designed for 445 Acres of future development that that Li station will accommodate so when you're looking out into that future you know wanting to jump the bypass expand the city those kind of things it
gives you an idea of what that lift station and that initial investment up front is going to service in the future so was that um plan for the lift
station across the bypass from the north side of the proposed property just a minute Audrey was somebody here no okay Audrey go ahead um I I guess as a council member I don't see that the city has money to do
this right now um my concern is if we have to do this what won't me be able to do whether it's streets or whether it's other things um but I also understand you know I heard that comment was made um well the utilities what if the
utilities pays all of it and you bond for it or or so that you make the payments for it but somewhere that money has to come from and does that mean you would raise the
rates um and you we you are the city and so I find frustration in us now having to go through this process you very nicely asked us before about land that you looked at and how would it work and
some of those types of things that I I feel like you truly put the cart before the horse with this one and I I just don't see that the city has money to do this right now at the same time I have been an advocate for us to look at should we be annexing land we provide
services to Eagle Lake you know is there other places we should be looking at but this is just kind of like well what about this and um I find that very frustrating and concerning and I feel like all the teas aren't crossing the
eyes aren't dotted on this and so um I don't know how to support this right now J thank you Mr Mayor I have a question for City attorney by the way nice tie Robert thank you for being festive um it's been mentioned a couple
times that the purchase agreement that's in place has contingencies um and I mean wise to do that that if we're not meeting certain certain levels of satisfaction that that agreement is null and void if agreements
can't be reached my question is who determines if we're satisfied and if we move this forward at at this point from the city council um is the city council still involved in determining that level of
satisfaction in the future or have we given uh have we kind of signed off on that and and we're moving on without city council seeing this back um on the agenda does that make sense uh I I believe so mayor council
member members of the council um it's generally true for any contingency in a real estate purchase agreement that the party benefited by that contingency has the ability to wave it so if your question is could Wu wave
any of these contingencies and proceed to closing anyway sure it could do that um the excuse me there's uh it's probably helpful each of these contingencies a little different which why I'm kind of struggling to answer the question um
some of them are things that really are in the city's control one of the contingencies in this agreement is that not only does the Wu board approve the purchase agreement but that the city council not exercise it's overriding Authority with it so that's the stage
we're at right now that's something that obviously if the council determines to exercise his overriding authority and reject the purchase agreement then that contingency cannot be satisfied and it goes away the purchase agreement goes
away um some of the other contingencies are uh really to benefit the uh buyer here which is Wu um the contingency for uh discussions over infrastructure
extension is the important one that I think is the subject of a lot of the discussion um that contingency allows the buyer WMU to decide not to go to closing if it has not successfully
negotiated an agreement with the city for extension of the infrastructure or receive permits from from either the city or the township or County for private services on the site so either of those approvals an agreement for
infrastructure extension or a permit for private services are uh secured Wu would be able to go with a closing and even if it weren't able to get those respes it would have the ability to wave that contingency and proceed to closing
um thinking uh through this your question about what involvement would the city council have in the future I do think the annexation pce is important uh it's been my opinion and my position that uh if Wu does close
on this purchase uh whether all the contingencies are satisfied or whether they weigh some of them the moment it becomes WMU owned it is City owned for purposes of the orderly annexation statute and in AB buding the city across
the state bypass right away would allow that property to be annexed by the city council if you so chose so in that sense I think the city would uh still have some involvement here which which is the city having the
ability to bring it into its jurisdiction and then control some of that permitting so I guess what I'm really asking is we've raised numerous concerns and questions and we've we've heard um that you know this is all built into the
purchase agreement there's contingencies for this just just pass the purchase agreement and let's move on to the next phase what I'm concerned about is that that next phase does not include this Council that once we move this forward we're not part of the
conversation anymore that that land can be purchased without us and without our involvement is that in accurate uh that is an accurate statement as as far as the land being purchased there is some still potential city council involvement through the
ability to Annex the site if that does occur and Wu does close on the purchase of the property and through annexation then becoming the you know permitting Authority for any of the development there MH y okay thank you and I just I think that's why I at least am not
comfortable moving moving forward until those issues are resolved so thank you anybody else well um I think he's got to go through his next you want to go through you want yeah keeping going
right yeah we've got more stuff yeah all right go ahead Kevin sorry so uh moving on um we were asked by City staff to create pros and cons for each site and I just put a map of each site and some general info the first one obviously
being parcel one on wmer Avenue uh it's 27 Acres approximately in size out of that 27 there's 24 and a half usable acres and that's just cutting out that property North with that cck uh Pros uh like we've mentioned
numerous times we feel it has efficient access uh lots of options for um responding to the city design flexibility um being positioned as it is within the city and service territory for long-term planning and
growth um Economic Development uh contributing to the infrastructure costs uh can stimulate that growth in that area and aesthetic value the cons obviously I would think we'd all agree that it's not in city limits and it the
the big argument that we're hearing is it lacks uh city services uh property two the industrial park the the pros there is that um it's not actually it's somewhat of a misstatement
saying that shovel ready because it's not certified shovel ready I believe but we're assuming that it's a lot easier to build on than the Wilmer Avenue site we've got to go through a little bit more Hoops to build out there make sure soils are good obviously water and waste waterer
availability are close the cons is the congestion of the response options um either having to pick um a busy highway that's become challenging to get on or um not having or railroad tracks
and then not having that bypass access it also has limited room for expansion it's 22 Acres total including all six particles as outline there but roughly only 18 of it are usable some of the space just isn't very conducive to
building on and that may be why it's been available for as long as it has been and then the um last map is our service territory View and there's what I'm going to um try and answer the second half to
Mr Gardner's questions earlier so I was interested in the last week or so um 3 or 4 in the morning sometimes about where our outages are do we one of these sites have an advantage over the other
when we're actually talking about an outage and I only uh mapped out the electrical outages because um water call outs typically are um water main brakes and I just didn't have time
to to get that data and they also don't respond with as big of equipment and whatnot so in 2024 there was 59 total outages and I do have a map here if you would like to see one as well
you if you'd like one so there's 59 total outages in 2024 out of those 44 of those are what we call is a sustained outage so an outage can be as something as simple as a trip
at a breaker at a substation you'll notice that for example on the northeast substation if you know where our Northeast substation there was like six outages attributed at that substation so a piece of equipment trips it does a
self test doesn't see an issue it flips back on so you'll get that flicker in your lights at home or the split second off the 44 sustained outages are when we actually have power out at uh for our
customers uh that those numbers are fairly consistent I went back um I had time to go back through 17 the sustained outages going going back from 24 24 obviously at 44 then we
go backwards to 23 at 51 54 31 49 34 45 and 53 so those average outages are fairly consistent each one of those black dots on that map is where the outage location
was we feel that we can respond to almost every one of these outages more efficiently taking railroad crossing into effect and traffic from the Wilmer Avenue site than we can from from the industrial park site this is one of the
reasons that this Industrial Park site has kind of been set aside for four to five years now there's only out of those 59 total outages 44 of them being sustained there is one of the outages that occurred in industrial park that we could immediately respond to from the
industrial park site every other one we'd either be reliant on a railroad cross or using Highway 12 um I mentioned I was on the fire department for 19 years there's always been discussions about I can remember
back when I first got on about a substation for the fire department you know where would that go if we were to build one and this North Area that we're sitting on right now was always identified as a good site to put a a
second fire station for example how to respond the police station is out here I feel that they probably could uh tell you that they do a really nice job responding from here because of the options that they have to respond the
um ambulance garage is centrally located within town we are a service inry industry kind of like they are I'm not saying that we wear pagers and have lights and Sirens but when the lights are out we feel like we have to respond in somewhat in the same way as quick as
we can as efficiently as we can we don't we we aren't having discussions about putting a fire a new fire station or a police station or an ambulance garage if we were going to build one into industrial park we just wouldn't have that discussion I feel so that's kind of
why I put that map together to kind of show you where we do go and where we do respond our response area also the yellow outline our city property and we do have response area that goes outside of those lines we're we're really in a nutshell
we're I hope that kind of answers some of your questions with Mr Gardner unless you've got some followup but really in a nutshell work we understand that it's a burden right on on the onet it's a big hurdle to get across the cost of extending these city services across the
bypass is not cheap and we understand that there is another option in the interim to allow us to get in there and then we could work with the city city staff had mentioned that they would want to maybe do some some studies you know
what does it look like to Annex in more property on the east side of town you know that's not something that you can decide overnight so you know that takes time it takes um you got to you got to poll those people out there you know how interested are you being part of the
city what does that what does that plan look like that could be a 5e 10 year 20e project on the road to make all those kind of things happen so we're we're looking longterm for our our own response and needs and not just being
trying to be focused on the fact that yes it's expensive Mr Scot you advis both the r Municipal Utilities and the city and this is for information only what what is the action
here well mayor council members it strikes me the council has uh I guess three options tonight uh we're sitting here it's been uh two weeks since the council passed
the resolution to give itself 30 days the charter contemplates that I think that can be extended to the next council meeting any have the extra week in March so I believe you can still act on this on April 7th which means tonight if the council has heard enough information and
is comfortable approving the minutes and approving the action the board took to enter into this purchase agreement certainly the council could do that tonight uh I guess similarly if the council just has heard enough and knows
it doesn't support this location you could take action to exercise your overriding Authority tonight uh you also have the option given that the charter contemplates 30 days or the next council meeting uh to uh request additional information and make your decision at
your next council meeting I got the impression when I asked the question of Jaren that if we pass it it still is open for debate and
uh whether we pass it with the amount of dollars that the city is going to have to lay out I I need to understand that yeah so thank you Mr Mayor maybe I can clarify
so M council member asked you you made a very important distinction that if the council does pass this there there isn't another opportunity for the council to prevent the purchase of the property and
you know from my perspective as the Wilmer Municipal Utilities general manager the reason that we put those contingencies in place into the purchase agreement was so that if we can't meet our mission statement if it's cost
prohibitive to not proceed in this site we won't do it we won't do it just because you know because we don't have the the evidence the facts the figures to support it and
so my intent all along was to not move forward if we don't have favorable agreements but I do understand your position that you guys don't have another opportunity after this point so I hope that clarifies an answer to your question well I
I I I don't know what the council's going to do but as mayor I'm uneasy going into it without knowing what our costs are going to be now you said earlier that this
is a process but I got the impression that when we hear the costs we could back out of this situation Wilmer Municipal Utilities Canen but it sounds like as Mr Scott pointed out we would have the ability to
wave those contingencies I don't see a path where we would want to do that but that that is true I think what what I hope to maybe explain is
that yes there's a lot of unanswered questions and that is because we still need to have those conversations and we've always planned to have those conversations but if you know we put all of our resources and time City staff utility staff to come together on
agreement for Wastewater infrastructure development and then we go to the land owner and they say I'm not selling that or $5 million and it's yours now we got a backpedal so getting this purchase agreement in place was a known amount of
effort and it was the easiest thing to do first as a step one so I I get where you're at I hope I hope you understand we're not trying to to sneak this by you or to get you to say yes and then you know pull a fast one on you it's just
the step that is the most efficient and and that's why we're in this spot yeah I'm Audrey and Justin but I need to have that answered before I'm comfortable
with it okay Audrey first um I think what I'm hearing is in I and I believe staff also um from my conversation um to take Vantage of the next two weeks to try to clar clarify
some additional things and um while I just think there's a lot of unanswered questions yet and I don't know how we can move forward and the trust me Factor um right now is a little hard for me to accept so I would ask I guess I would
feel better if we take advantage of the additional time and try to cross them our teas and dots them our eyes for us to make a decision Justin yeah thank thank you Mr Mayor um Mr Scott you mentioned that you I think you used the words like you
thought we could take the extra time can you confirm that yeah May uh mayor members of the council I the fact is the language in the charter is a little ambiguous it says the council has the right to extend
its time to consider an action the Wu board is taken by a time not to exceed 30 days or the next council meeting and I'm just uh giving you my best interpretation of that language and I guess if Wu feels differently I'd appreciate
hearing that but the fact that the charter mandates the council meets twice every month uh for them for that language to really mean anything the 30 days or the next council meeting to me is a provision to extend that 30 days to the next time the council meets after
that as opposed to a provision that would essentially mean that you could never reach 30 days because it would at most be 3 weeks after the council exercise that Authority it's a legal interpretation of language that isn't 100%
clear so go ahead J my response to Mr Scott's question is I would defer to Mr Scott to interpret that for us so what he say says goes for both of us it's wise can I just finish just want to make sure
everyone's on the same page when we're talking timelines on something like this I I also just want to say like I can appreciate like when you're making a big purchase like this what things do you do first um you know how do you how do you enter into a purchase agreement you know
when you want to talk to these different players and which one goes first but I I think in hindsight you attempted or are attempting to purchase land outside of the city limits you're attempting to do that while assuming that the city would
support it you're attempting to do it assuming that the city would spend significant amount of taxpayer money to get utilities out there you're attempting to do that assuming City growth patterns I've I've Heard lots of talk about how the city's growing in that direction from you guys um and you
that that we were looking to add space to Wilmer and so it it strikes me as odd that in the course of you know contemplating this land purchase that you didn't talk to City administrators you didn't talk to the City Planning Department you didn't talk to EDC you
didn't talk to the planning department the Planning Commission you didn't talk to Township you didn't talk to County it it's hard to you know as council member Nelson said earlier like it's hard to have that trust me factor and so I think as as we again continue
to exercise that that 30 days like I hope we can have some of those conversations now um and and try to come up with some agreements there you address that real quickly about the not talking to the entities we actually have
been discussing this with the entities that you've mentioned since October 1 of October not this particular property yes we I I've got notes in my office with phone calls that I've had with Mr
Fox with Mr Odin at the county the County zoning board one of the Commissioners from uh Wilmer Township uh the state highway department so maybe just not the city then I know I've heard from EDC that there is no
communication about this property I we planning direct director you have had communication you have not yeah not directly with Mr Corbett no it's been from the city standpoint it's been with with Mr box so not the EDC cuz we didn't feel
that that was part of the process I guess okay but I've also heard like one of the reasons you like this area is like there's going to be future growth there I've heard from EDC staff that they haven't seen growth in that particular part of Wilmer that they're seeing it actually in in the western
part around industrial park and they're seeing it in the Northeast but not in the Southeast um you know so and again like some of those things at least for me and city council when there's conversations about where is Wilmer grown and what's the growth of the future the people that
I'm frequently listening to are going to be our planning director and our EDC staff so Steve I will point out speaking of growth that the area directly south of the property you're proposing to buy is a Wildlife Management Area there will be
no growth there correct so okay what I'm about I'm going to preface what I'm about to say with a couple things a I can see Property 2 from my window at work right I drive into the industrial park every single day all right I also have a degree in quality management so
stuff like this gets me excited all right so you mentioned in your pros and cons that I will just on a Surface read seem inherently biased just first read through it seemed very biased but that
aside you mentioned aesthetic value as a pro to property one which is the wmer Avenue property and you said a nice vantage point and Gateway way to the city can enhance the sights appeal and enhance the sights appeal to who certainly not the property owners
that live on that side that are going to look at an industrial building out their back door yeah I mean I think it it gives us um a public presence which is valuable to us that our community knows that we
are a municipal utility and we serve the city that that we live in and that we're from is that necessary for you guys to function as an entity that people know you're a public utility it didn't make the site criteria
no okay uh second one was Economic Development you said as a pro contributing to infrastructure costs and stimulate economic growth in the area can you explain that that's just from the standpoint of what the system is designed to accommodate in the future
you know if that if that infrastructure that we put in to get this done is $2.7 million and if we're contributing to that and and allowing giving the city an opportunity to finally jump over the bypass we just see it as as working with
the city and giving the city an you know some sort of an advantage or Head Start in making that happen um I can't answer to what the Utility Commission is willing to spend above and beyond
the the uh the water that we're obligated to do um let's not get confused that's not you you guys are spending money but you're you're spending taxpayer dollars and your customers dollars right so let's not pretend that that's just you guys
are some private organization that have a pile of money you do but it's money you collected from people that don't have a choice on where they get your product from all right uh on the con to to the industrial park property you
mentioned no bypass access this limits the ease of access and affects service efficiency looking at the map you just gave us over half of your marks are left or west of First Street if I leave my office which I can
and I can again I can see property that's proposed out there you can jump on Highway 12 and you can get to every one of those in less than two minutes I do it every day so I don't understand how you're going to get from where again where half
of your outages were at from the swimmer Avenue property halfway across town faster than you can from that Industrial Park property can you explain that you are correct we actually have multiple listings of responding from each one of
these properties to multiple places within to and yes the industrial park property baring no trains let's call it a perfect day here you don't need to see a train leaving here to get across the bridge on 12 but meets or ex or exceeds
response times for a lot of those properties likewise the Wilmer Avenue property meets or exceeds the response times for the other the other properties I have a list I have it with me it's handwritten but this is just one that I
put together last week I have nine different properties that we go to on a relatively normal basis or they're just strategic properties the center of town you know I use Wall's gas station for example um a business on sou
71 Ridgewater College we have a water tower there Senior High those kind of things one property is faster than the other property and that goes pretty well down the line in fact adding them all up if I went if I did a round trip from
either one of these properties once a day to these nine properties that I have it takes me 112 minutes from the industrial park what's the purpose of the visits to those properties routine service or maintenance at the Northeast treatment plant for example the water
department for example goes to that plant to the plants usually daily to do water testing and check the equipment um likewise from Wilmer Avenue you'll be pleased to hear that it's exactly 112 minutes so this was not like some big
Smoking Gun to to say that wommer Avenue site has better more advantages but we're also trying to look at data that is beyond just today we're trying to look this is a a 50 to 100
Year building and property and and investment for the community and we're looking at you know will we get to Ego Lake will we service that water system will we expand to um nor of Wilmer Moore
in that Corridor will we take East Highway 12 business Corridor so yes and there's development happening on the west side of town too but that's highly industrial on the industrial park and the rail Park um we don't have our
outages in those areas that's a very robust system in industrial park it's almost entire it is entirely underground we don't have those kind of outages like we do for the other areas aren't you guys an industrial business we are so shouldn't you be in
the industrial park yes and no I would say from the on from the looking at us from the outside our yard and our storage and such fits in quite well in with that aesthetic we're a service
business we service the community with for Water and Electric and we respond to outages um we don't manufacture anything we don't um distribute build any of the kind of things that happen in industrial
park so FedEx doesn't make anything either but they're in the industrial park right they're a package delivery company I'm just saying from the from the equipment that you operate the buildings that you're going to build you talked about a solar farm you want to put on the property someday at the last
meeting wouldn't all those things be better served in the industrial park instead of across the bypass located adjacent to a housing area that I would guess if we talk to the planning director he's going to tell us we would want that property that's your proposing
to be a Housing Development instead of an industrial property that's all I have um um since you made this decision back in October do you feel you have more and better information from when you initially made
the decision back in October or January well we have obviously we have better information on infrastructure costs um you know finally meeting with those folks we've learned about the annexation process you know the the details of
those having the discussions with the highway department we've learned where we can and can't put driveways right of ways those kind of things as far as choosing that property it hasn't made any difference this property has been very high on our list for a very long
time we we pulled it back in it was always set aside because of the challenge that we're talking about tonight because it's outside of the city limits because it's expensive to get water and wastewater to it that's one of the reasons it was set aside and we we
investigated embedded and worked to purchase those other five properties that just didn't work out um this property scores quite a bit better than the industrial park property um if you want want to vote this one
down we'll go back to the drawing board there's other properties that are better in our opinion in our scoring system than Industrial Park uh we would have to investigate those they have some traffic issues you
know our next best one comes to mind has a we feel a significant traffic issue um it has bypass access it just they score differently depending on so you have not received any additional information
feedback the comprehensive plan that information that would change your mind at this point in time no our discussions with the people like I mentioned before that we've talked to have always been um positive for this
site um from the land owner to um the city engineer to the county to the anybody that we've spoken to we've never been told absolutely not you can't go there it's going to be too challenging we've had those discussions with other
sites that's why we moved on from them and not the site Tom B then Audrey I'd like to make a motion to reject the purchase agreement for wmer Municipal Utilities on parcel 33013
0380 we have a second we have a a second motion fails second um all right Audrey go ahead sorry thank you um you made a couple of
comments about all the people you've talked to but and um I did ask um and I I believe I was told and and Mr Box can address that but how many times did you talked to the city administrator have we looked at other
land in the industrial part um the some of the comments you just made about how long you've been talking about this still clarifies to me that you excluded the city in the conversation so how many times had did
you talk with City I believe I have to refer back to my notes I don't have those with but I want to say there're four or five times I had conversations with with Mr Box um why I I guess we chose to talk to
Kyle rather than Miss Valiant I I can't answer that but he's the operations director it made most sense to have those initial conversations at that place um and I guess we're assuming that he's letting Miss Valiant know that
we're having those discussions likewise the conversations with Mr vogi I think at least two or three times I've spoken with him about the options for this site they've always been very I have to commend Mr Box for these conversations
they've been very positive they've been uh fact-based they we've had discussions back and forth about our options and what our next steps are and we follow those steps to get to this point this discussion has been for information
only what do we do from here I umre do you have something no I I don't want to get into that he said she said but I did ask Mr box that question and and um it's my understanding that he said you needed to
meet with the city and that that didn't take place and so I think we need to use these next weeks to try to clarify some more things rck Mr Mayor you know we do have a representative from the council that
sits on the MU board why wasn't that person telling us what was going on time just got on yeah I would say just not you I I I we can't answer that question I guess why why that information wasn't
being relayed I know we've had conversations after after commission meetings with general manager Heron um you know interm general manager Johnson general manager um Smith sorry with our Council
liaison after those meetings there's typically a conversation after those meetings and we've had them with everybody that's ever come over and been that person we tried to keep those lines of communication open if it didn't get back to you I apologize I can't answer for that I
understand that and then my other question we have public works it's out there in industrial park how do they deal with emergencies do they have to go out at night too during storm say anything about that do we have
issues with TR yeah thank you uh council member ferly Council um um I will be perfectly honest and say Yes trains cause delays I think everybody in Wilmer knows that um
it's especially frustrating when you pull up to a crossing and there's a train stopped and then all of a sudden it backs up and you don't know which way it's going um but that's just the reality that we've faced all the time we
go on Highway 12 we take the bridge we typically go another route or else we just have to wait but we have been able to utilize Highway 12 for our equipment you noticed today cuz they
were cutting trees and there was a dump truck that went with the logs and they were on Highway 12 they went West must be cut off somewhere yep I was in Benson today the train blocked
the rail The Crossing for 20 minutes I couldn't do the car back up it is an issue sometimes they have no bridge over there so we're lucky and is there any other land in
industrial park they could look at if they're not happy with I'm I'm sure that there is they haven't looked at any yet I can't answer that I'm not aware seems like no one's aware of
anything so must be a lack of communication there is a property just north of Geno which is a very desirable location we don't feel that we should take that spot we feel that jio should expand there if they so choose so where
where are you talking um north of Geno there's a an open bought did they buy that now it's off the table then yeah we've been working on on this property or this project for a very long
time and you know we had talked about the EDC earlier at the time we were looking at this Industrial Park site the EDC told us that there was another industry looking at that and they had a six Monon period to evaluate whether or
not they wanted to Mo forward so it because this has been such a long and ongoing process things have changed throughout the time and when we're looking to purchase real estate to talk with everybody and get you know a feel
for what it's going to cost what the timeline is eventually Property Owners get wind of that and it influences price so I mean fortunately right now we're in a position where the price is on paper uh but had we done this in a different direction which you guys are requesting
it could have come with a different outcome so I understand we're in a really difficult situation right here so I I appreciate your time and I appreciate the questions that you're asking to try to get us what's best for the community that's that's what we're here for we have
been I don't say debating this an hour but been about an hour reviewing the situation to where we need to be I don't know where we're supposed to be because it's
for information only what do we do well it's up to the council I think Robert gave you the three choices but right now it was presented as information only so that if council did want to make those motions we were not going to
influence whatever the council wanted to do we do have to know there's work to be done um mayor members of the council my belief here is that if there is no motion tonight no action and there isn't
anything specifically recommended this is what uh I would expect this to be on the council agenda on April 7th which would give staff for both the city and the utilities that amount of time to see if any additional information can be uh
compiled or uh optimistic ically agreements reached and any of the key issues you've talked about sounds like that's going to get done I mean if we just move on this is f for information only we're going to get done what I was hoping we
would get done before we took action that's correct I mean it's um I just want to say I think most of the conversation tonight has been focused around a couple things one is that communication which before we start tonight all of us would have agreed we
can always improve that um I'll say that like council member Nelson and I had heard that maybe some communication that has happened had not happened so I apologize if I quoted some folks that you guys actually have talked to in that process and I certainly understand that you have limited opportunity to do that
when you're negotiating a land deal the other thing we've spent a lot of time talking about is is comparing these two properties which I think Mr Marty rightly States like that's really not what this is about you know it the question is the Wilmer Avenue property and you wrote that down it
doesn't mean going to the industrial park you guys will start the evaluation process again so I I guess I'm kind of curious you know where maybe some of my colleagues are is Staff spends two weeks trying to figure out what the next step
is unless similar to what council member Gardner said unless staff's able to come up with what I think we thought was 6 billion last time but maybe it's not to extend the utilities to make this project happen unless staff's able to find a way that is not from taxpayers
Pockets or utility charges I'm going to have a hard time supporting the purchase of the Wilmer Avenue project in two weeks um which maybe is what council member Butterfield was thinking and he made his motion I want to give the opportunity but I'm kind of curious what
my colleagues want to see in two weeks thanks I think I'd be interested hearing from the Planning Commission you know I there's a job I said every week so somebody maybe I'll stop saying it um but what does the Planning Commission say as far as what the future annexation
for property to add to one it looks like is this even part of it is it not um are we is the utility pushing Us in the direction we don't want to go is it push in the direction we do want to go and if if we do want to go that way what does that look like like I just haven't
looked through this yet just got it um but I'd be interested to hear what what the Planning Commission has to say all right information only move on Carl did you have I I was just going to say
Justin I think you summed it up really nicely and and I'm with you I I struggle with the idea of trying to find 1.5 2 2.4 whatever it's going to be uh million that we don't have um and if we can find
ways or a way to do this that's going to make this much more platal but right now it's It's A Hard Sell for us to spend that much money that we don't have could I could I ask a question is
it this the Hard Sell is the the direct cost to the city right for the infrastructure or the location for the infrastructure for me so if there was another option if we could if there wasn't a way to get with an agreement between utility staff and City staff to
find that money and would there be an entertainment for um private services that we already have in our building budget that would not
affect project rates or it's actually a small part of the project I guess I feel that if we can find a way to make this happen at minimal cost to the taxpayer to the consumer then this is not a bad
thing but I don't know that I can commit to this if it's going to cost the taxpayer and take away from other things like Street improvements or whatever that we're trying to do completely understandable and we we made it well aware when we met
with City step last week that we did absolutely do not want you to Short change any planned project or anything like that to accommodate this it's not what we're asking there there is an option like like other city um entities
have would be to go with with private water and and Wastewater service with the with as laid out in city city uh ordinances that with the understanding that if and when the city does extend out there that we're going to we're
going to hook up that's just how it's set up in city ordinance so that would be the I guess the alternative to to consider is their appetite for private service and I I don't know enough about
have to get more information on that too so and I will say it again I like that location because of the possibilities of annexation and extending
Services because I I there has to be something that trips it up to allow the expansion to go to the east because that bypass is a a real barrier to
expansion I that's why I like it I guess I about doing private services within the city limits uh obviously sets a precedent for any person in the city of Wilmer to say I don't want to hook on to the Wilmer Municipal Utilities power grid I don't
want to hook on to their uh Wastewater going forward and I don't think it's in your best interest to do that yeah I would agree with that I think UL best finished product be for us
to be hooked up to Serv we don't want be another airport they're on their own system out there and that there's challenges with that it was um I'm paraphrasing now but in city ordinance it says if it's exorbitant costs or
unreasonable costs that you may permit private Services that's what we would ask here if there if there just isn't money in the cookie jar to do this that would be what we would ask and pursue for this property until such time the utility can contribute to the
project and the city's ready to move on it as well and that may be 10 years down the row and there is like I said there there is a a handful of private Wells within the city still it just hasn't been go disservice
them so they they do exist St if we don't Annex and you guys put in private that's not our jurisdiction jurisdictional decision to make though right that's got to be the Township's decision isn't it oh the county county will have County will always have jurisdiction on any U
sewer system okay with even if it's in town count is still going to have jurisdiction we on sewer systems if we don't Annex it's not our decision to make no but it doesn't matter even in town what I'm saying in the industrial park if somebody doesn't want to hook up
to the sewer and it's right there the county would have that jurisdiction thanks all right thank you gentlemen for the information sorry it took so long it's okay thanks for having us all right
thank you have a good evening Iverson Park West station replacement for Professional Services Justin thank you sir good evening good evening Council the item in front of you this evening is a resolution awarding Iverson
Park lift station design and construction Professional Services to boltman mink in the amount of $257,700 to serve um the area um it was identified as well in our
recent um rate study that Council um adopted last late last year so it is included in that the only difference um from this particular lift station versus the other ones we've done recently is um
we will be bonding for this uh lift station so we will be taking out a loan so we can keep on top of this upkeep um and then pay it back with with our rates um I apologize in your overview section in the second paragraph there is a
timeline that I did not update um it talked about preliminary and final design being completed by June um that is not correct preliminary preliminary and final design would be completed by year end bidding would take place in
February of 2026 6 and um the construction would start in the spring of 2026 so if you look farther in your packet I believe it's page 146 that has the correct time frame on it just the the overview on the the sheet is
incorrect so um construction actually would not happen until about a year from now um if council is agreeable to the first resolution there are two more resolutions um contingent on that a PR minary budget and then an intent to
reimburse um with the bond so with that I will stand for any questions you may have what is the expected life of a lift station I anywhere from 60 to 70 years I would say currently because this Iverson
Park that lift station 6 late 70s 68 6 8 it was 68 68 was the original construction yep because we had a when iers Park came into the city
correct we had a we had a knockdown drag out battle with candy high power Co-op oh sure for po iers well hopefully that's not the case all right thank you um we need a
motion to award project to V and make I'll make that motion second got a motion and a second any discussion Rick so did we get any other
bids on it on the design we did not no so how do we know if it's reasonable or not we I can we hope we hope um we haven't gotten that's typically since I've been involved this is the direction
we we've gone um obviously if that needs to change we can do that who who who is a successful bidder I wasn't we haven't had them no no this for the per for the Professional Services we just we have have gone
straight to Bolton The Mink since they are um act as our city engineer I thought you were talking about award for constructing and I didn't think we had that yet no we don't no we don't have that all
right roll call council member uh Gilbertson hi Gardner hi ferly hi Butterfield hi sches hi o i and
Nelson I seven eyes zero nose motion carries next we need a motion to adopt the resolution approving preliminary budget of project number 2510 a Iverson Park lift station in the amount of $1,495,000
almost second a motion of second discussion hearing none roll call council member Gardner I baggerly I Butterfield I shes hi o i
Nelson I and Gilbertson seven eyes zero nose that passes next we need a motion to adopt resolution for intent to reimburse project costs with Bond
proceeds nobody wants a motion someone second here we have motion and a second discussion any roll call council member faggle hi Butterfield hi sches Hi O hi
Nelson I Gilbertson hi and Gardner I seven eyes zero nose that motion passes thank you thank you judge call in Jared RI uh city engineer
for project number 2505b trunk Highway 40 drain tile repair good evening mayy Council uh enclosed in your packet are the bid results for the trunk Highway 40 drain to repair project uh we did Reed bids on
February 26th five bids were submitted for the project they ranged from a low bid in the amount of $492,500 3, $780 um this project is a result of an
agreement with BNSF uh to repair a excuse me drain tile uh beneath the Wilmer y um provided Council uh wants to move forward with this project there is a resolution in your packet this evening
as well as the asid budget and I would be um happy to answer any questions that Council might have at this time Jared this sticks in my craw they say a little bit
BNSF crushed that tile and we're paying for it correct yes I it bothers me why are we paying for it uh I will defer to um Mr Scott however um it's my understand
understanding that as part of the agreements um that went on during the Wilmer y project um there was well the tile existed there uh it's no secret that it was crushed or severed uh as part of
that project uh however I don't know what the um agreements back then were specifically however um I believe as part of the purchase agreements um and I don't know if you have any additional Insight but as part of the
purchase agreements my understanding that that specific tile line was not um disclosed so that's my understanding um certainly that's up to um Mr Scott to
collaborate it's a lot of money agreed this was part of a an agreement that was reached after the tile was damaged though right we don't we don't really have a choice on whether we do approve this Pro project as I understand it right correct
that was an agreement with BNSF um also yes for from the city BNSF and the City of Wilmer entered an agreement for that they're woled at some level too aren't they they have their own agreement I believe the county has theirs as well
yeah state and federal government were involved correct Robert you got anything um mayor member of the council no I have not uh been in the loop on this project certainly I worked on those agreements
at the time and I could go back and see what they say in relation to this issue but I haven't uh provided any opinions recently on whether those agreements apply here or how they apply I mean we approve this to go out for bid so I'll make a motion to approve
the the awarding of the bid second we got a motion the second discussion and I will be part of the discussion I really have a hard time with this we we got $1.1 million that
we're going to spend on this project and we're fixing something that we did not it wasn't a natural catastrophe or anything that destroyed
this it was lack of knowing what was underneath where they were working and they crushed the tile life no more discussion roll
call council member Butterfield hi shes hi hos I Nelson I Gilbertson hi Garder Hi and fagly hi seven eyes zero
nose next call for motion to adopt an as bid budget for project 25 5 b in the amount of $66,900 so moved second got a motion and a second discussion I just want to be clear Mr
Mar you said this is 1.1 it's really 606 and you don't can't add those two together one is the construction and one is the Professional Services right Jared correct so it's $66,000 total cost of the city just want to clarify that thank
you roll call council member Shel is Hi O hi Nelson hi Gilbertson hi Gardner hi baggerly hi and Butterfield hi seven
eyes zero nose motion passes Jared tell us about 253b sure the second item in your packet this evening Mary council is related to project 2503b uh that is also referred to as the West Street improvements project project
it includes a couple areas on the west side of town also on February 26th um bids were received for that Improvement we received three bids um for the project the project included a couple Alternatives alternate a and Alternate B
um these are related to the construction along 7th Street and access uh into that neighborhood the first alternate alternate a was to construct half of the street at a time uh alternate B identified accesses through Regency and
valleyside Regency um mobile home park and and uh valleyside Town Homes there are there have been discussions with those property owners and uh they are agreeable to easements which were incorporated as part of the alternate B
and uh just pending cil's um action this evening on the Improvement City staff is recommending um uh the base bid plus alternate B which is the option uh to utilize those temporary easements and
allow sth Street to be closed during construction and ultimately completed faster uh there are similar to the last item we just had uh there is a resolution in your packet this evening as well as uh an as bid budget for your
consideration and I'd be happy to answer any questions that Council might have your motion I'll move to uh approve is it alternative to whichever one you guys uh
recommended B alternative B through the the easements through the trailer park and the the Housing Development we have a second second we got a second discussion just thank you Mr Mayor um Mr
Odin could you give us an estimate of the tax implications for this project need to play some Jeopardy music while we wait it feels a lot longer for you than it does the rest of us don't worry both of
these it's we really rough numbers but uh considering using last year interest rate on our bond um it'd be roughly $510,000 a year okay that's uh there are
a couple value um VAR that play um that's using last year's assessment role you know how much was levied to the city city cost and also the levy to the taxpayer on the assessment role um as of now our assessment policy stands the same so um just those caveats there it's
interest rate risk what what the bonds come in at so roughly solid 110 okay thank you any further discussion roll call council member sh
I askos hi Nelson hi Gilbertson hi Gardner hi baggerly hi and Butterfield I seven eyes
zero nose that passes now we need an asid budget adopted for 2503b in amount of 2,510 ,100 so moved second motion and a second
discussion roll call council member o i Nelson I Gilbertson hi Gardner hi baggerly hi butfield
hi and shoulders I seven eyes zero nose motion passes thanks Council thank you jarge next is a Fisher first edition zoning map Amendment proposed ordinance and replot
Christopher good evening Mr Mayor members of the council um I'm going to pull up a PowerPoint for us in just a second just to show you them the map on March 5th um planning Commissioners they met and and voted to approve um or
recommend that the parcels um 95630 830 as well as 95630 80860 or um you all may know this parcel as 425 and 427 lville Avenue Southeast
is there a way we can get a smaller council member Nelson face and a bigger power Point presentation I just shut my camera off that would help actually that might no doesn't help we're working on
it all right okay you wow it's pretty close to what we have in the packet though yeah okay right of the walking bridge cross street from the old dominal yeah you're correct so um you're probably familiar with Ben fiser moving the property from
the corner lot the um Far East lot over to the Western lot just one lot over Mr Fischer is looking for to reone the two Corner Parcels as general business three and historically the home that he did
move over one lot was a triplex in order to he gutted in and so he had to comply to new zoning rules in order to go back to a Triplex which is the natural state of the building he is looking to um reson to General business 3 because he
can do so with the conditional use permit on March 5th the Planning Commission did approve a contingent upon U resoning so what I'm looking for today is a motion to set a public hearing for April 7th um of the two lots to be resed
from R2 to General business 3 and I'll St for any questions I don't know who was first Carl I guess I was going to ask do we have assurances that he's actually going to do something with the building he been sitting there for years uh in a
horrendous state of disrepair um what what assurances do we have that he's going to do anything that it's not just going to continue to crumble um Mr fiser did share with planning
Commissioners and staff that um you know this is he had a different plan in the beginning and so this one that he came forward forward to um staff it seems more practical and logical and I feel like he can do it he has said that this has been a role block um for his
development needs that he needed to do and so with this plan if we do reone um he should be able to get it done he hasn't given us any assuring any Assurance um per se but um you know we there's nothing we can
really do to inforce that he complies with X Y and Z so if he if he's requesting it we take this as Case by case um and we you know Planning Commission and granted a contingent upon the resoning passing well might will kind of piggy
back off of his the house used to be a little bit more to to the east yes we did a basement more to the West mov the house over put on top new basement that going to be on one parcel
or is it is the house cuz the way it looks from the street it looks like it's in Center both of those Parcels So currently the home is on the western lot and the Eastern lot the corner lot will be turned into a parking
um a parking pad for the tenants of the tri okay well it's not right on in the center of the lot correct did it used to be in the center of the lot I can't answer that but um you know if if if Mr fiser goes and combine the Lots he he
has the right to do so so he could combine them yes would this be a rental then as as a residents or is he looking to rent it out to contractors or business or what it is a he's proposing in Triplex my understanding that it will be three
rental in um units Christopher yes the red area is where his resoning is does that include the two houses that are east
of the old dominoes and the old um what there's a small business there but was U Matt Stark had a Procol Graphics in there does that include all those properties y So currently you're looking
at the current Zoning for the area so east of the proposed reone is General business 3 as well as the Lots behind Mr Fish Fisher's property those are all General
business but the this is a change in the two highlighted the two green highlighted lots are being proposed to be General business to fall in line with the Lots behind and across the street but the red isn't being changed no okay
you're correct thank you yeah you're welcome all right i' like to make a motion to set the public hearing for April 7th the prop for the proposed ordinance the zoning map Amendment we have a motion do
we have a second second we have a second discussion roll call council member o i Nelson I Gilbertson hi Gardner hi baggerly hi
Butterfield hi and sheldes I seven eyes zero noas thank you motion passes thank you Christopher um I'll have announcements but I'm I'm I've got something that uh I want the council to consider and doe to
recent disruptions of our City Council meetings I'm working with City Staff Law Enforcement and the City attorney to develop some standard rules of decorum that if approved anyone attending or
participating in a council meeting will be required to follow in particular the issue of members of the public approaching the council table during meetings presents a public
safety issue for city council and it needs to be addressed in a fair and uniform manner going forward the proposed rules of decorum will address this and other basic issues to
facilitate orderly Council meetings and they will be a on a future Council agenda for the consideration by the full Council that's for information only and we'll be working with staff on
that if you have any input I would be I would welcome it all right any other announcements if not uh we need a motion to journ so move second we are jour