The city council regular meeting for the city of Wyoming, Minnesota, March 17, 2026. Let the record reflect we do have a quorum. Member Luger, member Anstad, member Joerger, and Mayor Iverson are present. Member Schilling is absent. Uh
please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all. >> Uh, is there anybody here for open forum? I'm assuming you're not. So, okay, sounds good. Um, what I'd like to do, council, is I would like to make an amendment to the agenda. I'd like to add a number 13 onto our agenda and that
would be um to consider authorizing the refurbishment and repair of the city of Wyoming aerial fire apparatus by Rosenbower and Blaine Brothers in the amount of $296,882.99. So we need to make a motion on that. Correct. >> Okay. So I'll make the first on that. We
need a second. >> We have a second. All in favor for that addition. I opposed. We have that on the agenda. All right. Um, moving on to approval of minutes. Number one, consider approving the minutes of the regular meeting of
the Wyoming Minnesota City Council for March 3rd, 2026. If there are no comments or questions or changes, do we have a motion? >> We have a motion by member Anstad. Do we have a second? >> A second.
>> Second by member Luger. All in favor? I opposed. So appro approved. Consent agenda number two, three, four, five, and six. Does anybody wish to put pull an item from the consent agenda?
Seeing none, we need a motion to approve consent agenda 2, three, four, five, and six. Do we have a motion? >> So moved. >> We have a motion by member Anstad. Do we have a second by member Luger? >> Yep. >> All in favor? I opposed. So approved.
Moving on to receipts of reports of officer boards, commissions, and department heads number seven, 8, 9, and 10. Does anybody wish to pull an item um from the reports? Seeing none, we'll move on to communications number 11, board of
equalization hearing for the city of Wyoming. I have this down for Mr. Rick Fararland, but it might be Mr. Lynwood. >> I can take it. I think we're probably both capable on it, but uh >> thank you, mayor, members of council. This is just a reminder um that we will have the city's uh equalization hearing
coming up. Um change as we discussed this with council uh previously that it'll be moving uh to the Chicago Countyy's assessor's office on April 15th from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 pm. Um as council discussed that, the idea was that we would give an opportunity for
our residents to have a much broader time um to go and attend that other than the one that would be locally held for a much shorter duration of time, probably for a few hours in the evening. Um, we will be publishing this in the city's official paper, the Chicago County Press, and then we will make some social
media posts just to try to raise awareness on this if there is a change to our residents. So, that's it. >> All right. Any questions from council? >> All right. Seeing none, we'll move on to number 12. Number 12, to consider resolution 260337, a resolution approving an interim
conditional use permit for a cannabis micro business located at 26615 Fbrook Avenue. Uh applicant Hunter Fedricson of True North Holdings LLC and Owner Estates Development Corporation. I did let um council know that we'll do a
roll call vote on this. So >> um thank you, mayor, members of council. This is just a a brief presentation to give some background on this particular item. Uh this is for an interim use permit for cannabis micro business at 26615 Fbrook Avenue. Um overview you can
see uh the building there. There is an request for an inim use permit per our ordinance. Uh the applicant requests an interim conditional use to establish a cannabis micro business at 2615 Fbrook Avenue. Um it is a production site only. There is no retail or public access
required and they're all oper excuse me hours of operation would be 9:00 a.m. to 6 pm. Um site characteristics it is 0.96 acres one tax parcel. It's the property is zoned industrial. Um you can see that the one industrial building does include parking stalls.
Site proposal. Uh the proposed business will occur with an existing industrial building footprint. Uh the building interior includes seven spaces for storage, cultivation and security stall stalls and loading area located on the pre-existing paved area on property. Parking there's 39 spaces to accessible.
Water usage would be approximately 1,287 gallons a day and wastewater usage would be 305 gallons. Uh the city engineer finds that acceptable. Uh storm water plant in this instance is not required. Uh the proposed security measures are consistent with the office of canon's
mismanagement. Um restricted access areas, secure storage practices and policies, use of a vault for lock access doors, egress egress doors, uh excuse me, ingress ingress egress doors with alarms for employees and deliveries, 247 video surveillance, key card access,
intrusion detection system, uh fencing located along the back of the structure on the north side of the property. the that was discussed in regards to fencing on the other side, but there is a shared driveway and space. So that would not be allowable for this particular uh in this situation due to the other um areas that
are utilized by this space. Um lighting meets ordinance and illumination standards. Um they will need lighting cut sheet sheet details. Trash storage and clothes will be screened by three walls and masonary bricks along the north lot line. order mitigation uh carbon filtration, closed loop HVAC
systems, hepailter, order absorbing carbon canister, uh pleated air filter, uh cup standards, uh the use is in conformity with the development policies of the city, will not create excess demand on existing parks, schools, streets, public facilities, utilities sufficiently compatible with adjacent
land. Structure site appearance will not adversely affect adjacent properties. The use is consistent with the purpose in the city ordinance. The use is located, design, maintained, operated by compatibility intended characteristic of the zoning district. Use will generate little to reasonable traffic with unsafe
access. Without unsafe access, existing business will not be adversely affected. Establishment of use will not be detrimental to public health, safety, general welfare. Use will not be hazardous to surrounding land use due to pollution, odor, or fumes. Use preserves and incorporates sites natural and scenic features and the use will cause
minimal environmental adverse effects. IUP standards for the interim use component conforms to zoning regulations. Uh recommended the IUP be terminated with change of owner sale of property or loss of the state license. That would be referring to the user after the individuals that are coming in
um today that are purchasing the building and are applied for the use. So it would not be pertaining to them. That was something that was brought up a planning commission. It be for a future user or future u sale of property. Uh permission will not impose additional cost to public whether the land owner
agrees to the kitchen conditions uh the city council deems appropriate or permission of the use uh cup and IUP PC recommendations. This did change a little bit based from the staff recommendation that would be for the first one. Uh development of the
site shall comply with all representations of the applicant and the application materials specifically relating to lighting the production. Processing facilities sh facilities shall install and maintain enhanced ventilation systems designed to prevent detection of odor at or beyond the
property line. Um water use employee count to five provide the proper maintenance of the system to ensure compliance. The property shall comply with all applicable local, state, and federal regulations necessary for operations on a cannabis micro business, including meeting all zoning ordinance requirements. The IEP will terminate
upon sale of the property, a change in business ownership, or the applicant does not maintain his license to the Office of Cannabis Management. The permit will expire on January 1, 2036. The storage and operations building shall comply with appropriate building code requirements. The applicant will submit a detailed sheet of wall-mounted
lighting fixtures prior to installation. Planning Commission recommendation. The planning commission is recommending approval of the requested interim use interim conditional use permit with the conditions proposed by staff along with the one change regarding to the odor system that was identified as the the
first one out of their five. And with that staff can stand for any questions. >> Okay. Um council let's start with member Luger please. Any questions? >> I have no questions. Member Anstad. >> Is this the former regal machine? >> That is correct.
That's the only question I have. >> Okay. Member Joerger. >> Um, actually no questions on this. I, you know, I was hearing what from, uh, people from Grace Church and I honestly I understand their concerns with the
business going close to their church. However, I did look through the findings of fact. There was nothing that I could challenge. So, and it's not like I didn't try to
punch a hole or anything, but since you've done this very well and everything is in order, I have uh no no reason to oppose.
>> All right. So, we need a motion to approve resolution 260337, a resolution approving an interim conditional use permit for cannabis micro business. Do we have a motion? >> So moved. >> Motion by member Luger. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Second by member Anstead. Roll call,
please. Mayor uh member Joerger. >> I. >> Member Anstead. >> I. >> Member Luger. I. And Mayor Iverson is no. It does pass. All right, we're going to move on to number 13. Um that is um by the way, it passed. So there you go.
>> In case you didn't hear me say that. All right. Number 13, uh, to consider resolution 260338, a resolution authorizing the refurbishment and repair of the city of Wyoming aerial fire apparatus by
Rosenbower and Blaine Brothers in the amount of $296,882.99. Chief Bower, are you gonna redo this or >> word for word? >> Can hardly wait. Uh, no. I'll just do a brief summary just for the for the for the record. Um, as you know, our our
ladder truck is a uh 25 year old piece of equipment um that has been on the CIP um replacement schedule for 2025. Due to our ongoing projects to get a
uh facility in place, um we have gentlemen, thank you. Um, and in the interest of getting uh the facilities uh squared away, we have put this off and we're looking at doing a refurbishment
on that at this point. Um, new ladder truck is approximately 1.7 to$2.2 million. Um, we would be looking at moving that down the road to 2035. Um, essentially that would take about
three years from initial design process until delivery. So, at this point, we're looking at refurbishing our current um piece of equipment. Um this is important for the service delivery that we provide to our community. Um it's involved in rescue
operations, roof ventilation. Um especially considering our industrial park area that we have, we want to make sure that we are able to provide this um piece of equipment for our fire departments. Um, Blaine Brothers would be doing the initial engine rebuild to
the uh for a cost of approximately $33,000. That would include the oil place pump oil pump replacement, oil cooler, uh, radio replacement, engine block rebuild, and tires and rims. Um, then once that is completed, we move that to Rosenbower
who would be doing the refurbishment of the rest of the apparatus. um to a total of $2363,000. Uh that would essentially be going through top to bottom. Um everything that's not engine related. We did have the suspension redone last year. Uh that
was about a $7,000 cost. Um this would be going through this piece of equipment from top to bottom, making sure all the seals replaced. Uh and everything would be brought up to uh current standards, including lighting. Uh the ladder would be gone through to make sure it meets
standards for today. Uh this would include the delivery of the vehicle down. There might be some costs there uh for our staff to deliver this truck down to Nebraska at some point. Um but we would manage those um
internally. Essentially, we're looking at just under $300,000 to have this accomplished and looking at getting this done started this fall so we could uh maximize the uh not having this piece of equipment here when we're looking at our
remodel for the facility. So, um we got into much more detail at the work session prior to this and I'm happy to uh go through anything that was discussed at that point. Otherwise, we'll uh I'll answer any questions you may have. Okay, Chief Bower, the one question I have is, do I need a special
license to drive it to Nebraska? Because I could offer to do that. >> Uh, like I I mentioned, there's definitely going to be a long list of demand who >> I'll be at the bottom of that list. Okay. I do want to remind council that this is specifically on the reurb of the
um fire truck. It's not in anything else, but specifically that. So, if you can get keep your questions um to what the um what we're voting on. So, we'll start with member Anstead because you haven't started yet tonight. So, >> no questions. >> Okay. Member Joerger.
>> Most of my questions were answered at the work session. >> Okay. And um member Luger, I have no questions. Okay. And I have none either. So, I'll make the first motion um to approve the resolution uh to approve Hold on. to approve resolution 260338
authorizing the refur refurbishment and repair of the city of Wyoming fire truck. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Second by member Onstead. All in favor? I opposed. >> So approved. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Um okay. So council reports. We will start with member Onstead.
>> I have no reports. Thank you for coming out tonight. >> Okay. Member Joerger. >> No report. Thank you for coming. Thank you for watching. >> Uh member Lucer. >> I attended the work session prior to this meeting. >> Oh, thanks for coming out.
>> We all did. >> She beat us to it. Okay. Uh I attended the sewer meeting as well, the joint sewer meeting, the work session. Um I'm missing something in there, but I can't remember. What wasn't there? I'm pretty sure there was something
else. >> Lead comp. Oh, yeah. Yeah. the um uh how to be a better elected official. Let's just go with that. So, we need all the help we can get. Um and Chief Bower, how is the raise the money between Forest
Lake and Wyoming? >> We're really hoping for a great turnout at Bruce's on I believe the 24th. Remember off top of my head. Okay. >> Um we'll be doing a food drive that evening. That's usually where we um you know people are while they're shopping
we'll purchase additional items and then we'll have uh our reserve officers out there collecting them that night. >> Will you have the QR code available too so people can just do the QR code and >> yeah that is a little more difficult to track who is getting it. Um I mean if
we're really in this for competition u I'll just say yeah right >> okay bring cash in other words bring cash if you're not going to buy food. So okay that sounds great. Um, with that we need a motion to adjourn at 7:17. >> So moved. >> We have a motion by member Luger. Do we
have a second? I'll make that second. I'm done. Okay, I'll make the second. All in favor? I oppose.