call to order the city council regular meeting for the city of Wyoming Minnesota July 16th 2024 let the record reflect we do have a quorum member Luger member anstead member Schilling uh member joerger and mayor Iverson are present to please stand for the Pledge
of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all first on the agenda is open Forum
open forum is an opportunity for members of the public to address the city council on items that may or may not be on the current agenda items requiring Council action may be deferred to staff or boards and commissions for research and future Council agendas if appropriate you will be limited to 3
minutes and we ask that you conduct yourself in a professional courteous Manner and refrain from the use of profanity failure to abide by this policy may result in the loss of your privilege to speak do we have anybody here tonight that would like to speak in open form me uh commissioner manska
thank you and I I'm not going to time you you're good okay I I'll keep it within the good three minutes two minutes whatever um today I wanted to bring um flyer that the county has put together uh informational package it's
like 60 pages long front and back and I'd like to just encourage the presid how the elections are handled in Minnesota and particularly in Chisago County there's a lot of concern as to the safety of our elections and this
kind of lays out the laws that that the county carefully follows we have to follow what the state law is but we do it with fidelity and um we certainly investigate any uh allegations of improper voting and those
are prosecuted um however often when there's an allegation of false or improper voting it turns out that it was simply uh it looked like like somebody just didn't know what what Precinct they lived in so they would try to vote in the wrong Precinct and that would be
corrected and so that has been at least my experience when there's allegations of improper voting it was really an innocent error and they in fact did not vote twice the issue of who gets prosecuted is of course up to the county attorney and uh the last election I was
aware of one person that may have voted twice I don't know if that was prosecuted however but certainly if there's a concern uh directed to the county we would be happy to look into it uh with a proper um uh assessor office
or uh uh the election uh Department those that work in election so if anyone else would like a copy of this I've got three more of these I don't know if anyone else wants one commissioner mska I think um people don't know that this is the new logo for
shiso County so that was about a year in planning from shago County and this is what you came up with thank you yep um and I just want you to know we're Minnesota not Arizona so thank you for pointing that out so true right all right didn't um support it but I have to
say it is kind of catchy and my colleagues you know they made the choice to do that and I'm living with it because um I appreciate backing our needs in our community and I'm going to back this logo so good awesome all right I think it looks good okay yeah well you
know I kind of like it too when I when I get used to it Simplicity people are looking for Simplicity it's very catchy yeah I need to run I'm so sorry I will try to stay for a long meeting I really enjoy staying the entire meeting appreciate the service that each of you have if you have something that the
county should be working on um if I'm not aware of it let me know I'm happy to to jump to it okay you know my want list I do yes and we're we're still working that you directed us thank you so much for letting appreciate it thank you for
your service all right moving on to the agenda is number one approval of minutes consider approving the minutes of the regular meeting of the Wyoming Minnesota city council for July 2nd 2024 if there are no comments or questions do we have a motion to approve so move we have a
motion to approve by member Luger do we have a second second we have a second by member onad all in favor I opposed so approved we'll move on to the consent agenda number 2 three four five that's
it 2 three four and five does anybody wish to pull an item on the consent agenda seeing none we need a motion to approve the consent agenda number 2 3 4 and five so moved we have a motion to approve by member Schilling do we have a
second second by member onad all in favor I I opposed so approved moving on to acknowledgement of of receipts of reports of officers boards commissions and department heads number 6 7 8 n and
10 does anybody wish to pull a report seeing none we'll move on to Communications number 11 the annual report Mr McFarland is that you the next two uh the first one will be me okay sounds good all right uh honorable mayor
and members of council the uh annual report is a report that has traditionally been done by the assistant City administrator each year uh the report reviews the year prior so this one's the 2023 annual report and it really just gives an overview of different things such as uh community events and kind of goes in depth on each
department and their accomplishments and other things that we thought were uh highlight worthy so bit of a lengthy report but if there are any questions questions on that I stand for those does anybody have any questions regarding the report there are not thank you appreciate it uh number 12 results of
okay I will say this wrong so radiochemical am I saying that right what okay U monitoring Wyoming shago County pwsid 113018 Mr Lynwood is that you thank you mayor members of council um the memo you
see in front of you this is something that we need to share with the council from from the min Department of Health this is just the results from our radiochemical monitoring for the radium and well 3 it's essentially the sampling sites and identifies the dates and the results and the samples and annual
averages that were collected um right now that we have gone through that process and essentially that we are with currently in our compliance stadius with the gallons that we can pump out of well three right now um these results are sent to WSB as we know that they've been uh continuing to monitor that we've
we've had conversations and discussions with Council about that well so that was sent to WSB and I think it's gone through their through water expert uh Department to kind of just keep that analysis going and to to watch that as we uh continue to um do preparation if
we ever did need to um do any kind of system or new well or things like that as we've kind of chatted with Council but with that I know Mr ericon if you have anything to add just the only thing I would add is share that information with us and we kind of a lot of that rep occasion
just okay perfect any questions from Council um member Luger no questions member instead no questions member Shilling no questions uh member jger no questions all right um we'll move on to new business moving right along um
number 12 to consider resolution 24770 a resolution providing for the competitive negotiated sale of 2,885 th000 General obligation Improvement Bond Ser series
2024a is that uh Mr starting yes mayor if I could start and then we also have Chris Hogan here from Baker chly who I'll introduce to the council is I don't think You' had the opportunity or some of you may know Chris but uh gives you an opportunity um to to meet Miss Hogan but essentially this is in regards to our 2024 Street
project um kind of goes through and I let Miss Hogan speak to the pre-sale summary and then the preparation of this process and kind of the timelines and then along with um approving that resolution tonight for the negotiated sale uh for the 2024 series A bonds so
with that Miss Hogan thank you mayor and members of the council again Chris Hogan from Bakery serving the city as the municipal advisor and I'm here tonight to provide information relative to the resolution that the city's considering tonight for the authorization of 2,885
General obligation improved bond series 2024a uh the proceeds of the bonds will be used for financing of the 2024 Street Improvement projects uh as part of the key events related relative to the bond issuance tonight we're considering the
resolution to move ahead with the sale uh July 31st the city and Moody and bakertilly will have a reading conference uh the bids proposals will received on the bids on August 7th at 10:30 with um award and consideration of
the bonds that evening and proceeds of the bonds will be received on September 17th uh currently like I said the rating conference will be held on July 31st City's current rating is a A3 by
bodis the bonds are being issued pursuant to Minnesota statutes 475 and 429 that's the tool in which the city is authorized to to sell the bonds uh the bonds will be repaid through general tax levies and a portion of it will be
repaid with special assessments the term of the bonds is going to be a repayment over 15 years with a cenal level annual Debt Service the current ES estimated true interest cost on our 15-year Bond structure is
3.89% um and then just some of the additional terms um they'll have optional prepayment in 10 years so if if the city would want to call them early for any reason they have that option and the bonds are considered Bank qualified
because they're less than 10 million can you explain the double A3 what does that mean for our city okay so the rating is um a AAA is the highest and then it's a A1 a A2 a A3 and it goes to single a so anything in that double a
category is a very strong rating so um the higher the rating the better your interest rates you will get on the day of pricing okay perfect thank you all right questions from Council we'll start with um member Schilling no questions
member Yer okay um we won't get the bids in until the end of the month is that correct right okay so do we usually take out the bonds not knowing what the bids are coming in
at in regard in regards receiving bids for that well um what if the bids come in for less than 2.88 million well the part of the um terms of
the bonds is that it's um on the day of sale you can make an adjustments to the bond size so if it happened to come in 20,000 later or less than the bids we have the um opportunity to make that adjustment on the day of
sale and and and Underwriters the biders are fully aware of that oh okay cool so we can change if the bids come are come in good yes okay all right all right um member
Luger I have no questions member on no questions all right thank you very much we appreciate it all right so we need a motion to approve resolution 24770 a resolution approving um providing for the competitive negotiated
sale of 2885 million General obligation Improvement bond series 2024a do we have a motion to approve so moved motion to approve by member Schilling and I will second that all in favor I opposed so
approved number 14 to consider resolution 24771 a resolution adopting a posted speed limit of 30 miles per hour on Pioneer Road is that Chief b or who's who's okay Mr Ericson's going to start
thank you madam mayor members of council you may recall uh Pioneer roadway was reconstructed in 2018 and as part of that process we worked with menot as a state aid roadway uh we did receive uh local Road Improvement program funds for that we did have to meet uh their design
criteria and and part of that um we work through the process in trying to modify the speed we did have resident input wanting to lower the speed at that time um we were uh able to complete the urban section at a 30 m hour but the other portion we were not allowed to since
that time uh Minnesota Legislature did offer more flexibility for communities to set speed limits and we've worked um for quite a while waiting for some guidance on that and and got some recent information um and so today um we are uh recommending moving forward with a
modification to that speed limit and it is based on uh a number of uh findings um our public work staff um had set up uh equipment that the police department had purchased uh with related to a speed study um along with some other data that that did collect uh we did review that
we looked at site distances we looked at crash data uh we looked at uh vertical and horizontal uh alignments and we do feel there would be a benefit um in lowering that speed limit to 30 m hour from Wyoming Trail to Iris so that's the entirety of Pioneer Road within uh the
city of Wyoming we have communicated this with shago City uh they also will be discussing that at an upcoming council meeting so we can't uh dictate what they do but uh we certainly are recommending that uh we feel comfortable with that recommendation and we'll stand
for any questions that you might have okay um so we'll start with uh member on no questions uh member Luger no questions member jger no questions this was well
presented to justify the action member Shilling uh you would answer my question I was wondering what they were going to do because you know it goes from 30 to 40 and then it would go back and then go back up to 40 so if they're talking about it I mean so ideally it would end up all the way out
to eight correct correct is that the goal ideally yes and they will be as Mr Arison said they will be talking about at their next council meeting with the council as well I have um I have a question for chief bow so Chief power I received an email perfect timing uh this
afternoon from a Miss Seer who lives on pioner and she um talked about an accident that just happened recently something caught on fire we had a drun driver that sort of thing um and she asked about the speed limit change so this is perfect right this is really
good my only question is um some she wants to know if there can be a little more police presence out there um just to kind of as that gets implemented if police can be out there a little bit more I'm not sure I think we always talk about it's hard to put a squad car on
that road right um part of this implementation plan would include uh increased and I just emailed the officer that's kind of assigned to that area last night to do increased enforcement um on the front end would be just advising people of the change we're not looking to right side initially but just
to do a visible presence in the area and also just hey did you happen to see the the new sign with little you know orange thing on it um to tell people that just there is a change in the in the speed limit here um and our goal is to educate um and and then um ultimately do another
speed study out there after it's been out there for a while to see what the impact of that of that speed limit reduction is so yes that's the that's the objective it is a difficult area just because of the design and there's not a whole lot of shoulder which is kind of part of the design there um that
there's not a whole lot of space to do a traffic stuff but we'll we'll make sure that it does happen that roll I'll let her know if she's not watching tonight so I mad mayor I one additional item that I I should have maybe presented and I hadn't communicated with Steve so I'm not sure the timeline um if you're
inclined to move forward with this um public work staff would do that we would flag this changes with you know the red um FL red flags if you will um do you do you know a rough timeline and and on when this might be implemented I don't know if the I I
think you were ordering uh signs but wanted to make sure you had things on hand and not sure where that's at yeah I would think we'd be able to get this done within the next week rather than the flags I was going to go at the orange bar okay um above the sign if that's all right with you um but I would think hopefully by the end of the week
but for certain within the week so okay perfect all right um so we are going to need a resolution or we need to approve resolution 24771 a resolution adopting a posted speed limit of 30 miles per hour on pyer
road I'm going to make that first do we have a second second we have a second and a third so we have a second from me from Member onad a third from Member Luger so all in favor I I opposed so approved which is great all right so
Council reports we will start with um member um I attended the shago Lakes Joint Sewer Commission meeting last night thank you all for coming all right and member onand I attend the work session budget work
session just prior to this meeting and I believe that's it perfect and member Shilling um thank you all for coming I have no report okay um member Yer oh and I just attended this work session before the meeting and thank you all for coming
and thank you all for watching all right I had a busy couple of weeks um the Eda meeting was cancelled we'll get that um on for next month I also um chair The Joint Sewer shago County Sewer Commission um we will be have some
changes up in that commission just based on what I'll be talking about in a minute uh the work sess work session also um we had a Bus full of County Commissioners and staff that to toured the city of Wyoming and that was pretty
exciting um for them to see all the great things that we have going on and I believe the comment was we didn't realize all the great things that you had going on so that was really great that they could um come and and see what we're doing here I'd also like to say um
congratulations to lak's gas on their 65th anniversary is that correct Mr Lynwood 65th correct anniversary um being in business I think that's wonderful and that they're here in our city um I also would like to say congratulations to a business owner who
has retired she's a big supporter of um our city and also for um the Fire Relief and the um Stage Coach day so congratulations to Candy girtz first service a agency who is now officially
retired so very excited for her and last but definitely not least I would like to send our condolences to mayor guston's family um for his passing a couple weeks ago he will be greatly missed within the
county and also with his City I learned a lot from him as I've been mayor the last eight years and it's definitely going to be um a lot different without him in our County so we want to send on our condolences to him that's all I have
um with that we need a motion to adjourn so moved we have a motion to adjourn do we have a second second we have a second all in favor I opposed