Conference will now be recorded. >> Ready? >> Yep. >> Answering Caroline from I have six o'clock. We'll call the meeting to order. Pledge of Allegiance.
Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Uh
we have uh one amendment to make to the agenda. Uh we are removing item 8A. >> Removing. >> Removing. >> Taking it off. >> I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as amended. >> I'll second.
>> Have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I >> I passes 40. >> Um I will open the public comment section of the meeting. Uh individ individuals may address the city council about any item of concern. Speakers must
state their name and uh limit their remarks to three minutes. I'll open the public comments portion of the meeting. >> You want public comments in regards to RV ordinance now or later? >> That will be a separate um item
there. No public comments. I will close the public comments portion of the meeting and we'll go to the consent agenda. All items on the consent agenda are considered routine by the council and will be approved by one motion. Uh there will be no separate discussion on these items unless a council member
requests. So um all things on the um let's see. I sorry that's all right. [laughter] >> Any uh discussion on the uh consent agenda questions
>> or ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Second. >> Further discussion. All those in favor? >> Passes 4. [clears throat] Uh accounts payable. Joan.
>> Okay. I had uh just two to make note of. Uh it's 82158. It's Empire Pipe Services. And that was some sewer work for $92,91.95. And there was one other for sludge hauling that was 82164.
And that amount was $29,1928. Everything else was uh pretty normal. Does anyone have any questions or comments on the accounts payable? If not, I would make the motion to approve accounts payable in the amount
of $164,48949. >> Second. >> Have a motion and a second. Uh pass the accounts payable. Further any further discussion? All those in favor? >> I I passes 40. Uh we'll go down to number six. Now
we'll have a public hearing uh for the ordinance 20252 recreational and specialty motor vehicle ordinance. We'll open up that hearing. >> Yep. And then just uh state your name. Um and I guess we usually want your
address as well. Um, and then yeah, we'll need to have a mic for you. These little deals here, the mic. So, if you want to talk, grab one of those. >> Just curious, is there any copy of what's currently on that uh ordinance?
>> It was in it was in the packet. >> It was published, right? Um, and uh we I can make some copies quick if you want to just pull that out. You want should I make copies for everybody quick? Oh, actually here I've got it
right here. >> Put it right on there. >> I forgot. So this is it. Can you summarize changes from the last meeting? >> Miles uh to do that >> changes from the last time we viewed
this ordinance is that we added a definition for public rightway which came from Minnesota state statute. We changed the front yard setback from 15 feet uh to five feet. Um and then we added a
provision in the prohibited act section that made sure that publicly owned land or where where it's unlawful for people to operate recreational vehicles. Made sure that we added a provision that did not include the Coverbridge campground because that you're allowed to have RVs
there. Um, other than that, that's basically the changes and other than that, it's just formatting so that we can pass it officially at this meeting. >> Is there any language for granting exceptions?
>> There will be no exceptions. it will be all for compliance in the ordinance is our goal. Um, adding any exceptions would be too wordy for an ordinance such as this and we felt as though it wasn't worth the time to go into that. >> Our city attorney, it's not really it's
hard to uh to do exceptions because then it's u who makes the call on exceptions um and how is that enforced? Is that right, Kevin? Am I summarizing? >> We opened up the door to partiality. So by having one rule for everybody >> I was
>> because I know that had been a question before. So I just asking for >> and and the way we had gone about it was to try and build a mechanism that uh could accommodate lots that were just not the right size to give a little more liberty to that. And the way we ended up
doing that was just shortening the distance in the front yard down from 15. So that's that was our a ability that the lawyers recommended that you can do it this way that way everybody's fits to the same rule 356 Warren Avenue.
Um does that one need to be Yeah, we can hear you. It's good. >> Yeah, it's echoing though. >> Oh, okay. >> Um, so I know we've been here a few times now and there's been a few iterations of this ordinance. Um, I think it's looking really good now. I think it's a good balance of public
safety versus, um, individual freedom to, you know, have the recreational vehicles you want and store them the way you want without, you know, getting in the way of public safety. So, I just wanted to say thanks to the code committee and the uh city council for working on this one and I personally
think some coming up with something that is a good um you know reasonable ordinance for everyone that [clears throat] >> Yeah. No, thank you for that. And and I think that is the reason for the code committee was to bring in citizens um uh
to work alongside of us on tweaking some of these uh and putting ordinances into place that that we think are needed. Um it's good to have all the public comments and and we have the citizens involved with the committee as well. And that was the whole design of it and the reason for it. It moves a little bit
slow because there's so many things to consider but but I I think they did great things with this one. Any other comments? That will close the public hearing meeting section of the meeting.
Any other further discussion with this ordinance? >> I'll make a motion to approve the Am I wording this right? Ordinance 20252. >> Second. All those in favor?
>> I >> Oh, we got to do a roll call. Excuse me. >> Oh, yeah. That's >> Well, it's an ordinance. You don't necessarily have to do a roll call, but Ken >> I and I I passes 40. Uh we will go to number seven, unfinished business. Um 26, budget and
levy. Kim. >> All right. So after the meeting with the proposed pool, um we will not be going forward with bonding. So we will not at this point. So we will not have a bond payment due in 2026. So [clears throat] if you will look at your uh budget, I removed that from
there. I did keep the pool portion of the operating levy in there as the decision was made to try and bid it again. Um we'll see what happens with that. I u moved one half of a public employee into the water fund. Uh it
shows the addition of a spe an additional officer and then the increase in our costs. Um when we first looked at the levy and we set our initial levy, the levy increase, not the increase per property, uh but the levy increase was
about 14.6% I believe. But with this I was able to get it removing those I was getting able to get it down to 8.389% for a levy increase. Um, when I looked at the impact on a one per $100,000 of
home, initially we were looking at an impact of $56 a year per $100,000 of home value. Now with this, we're down to 33 per 100,000 of home value. So, what I'm guess I'm looking for is if you have
any uh concerns about this, let me know because we do need to bring this forward for public hearing uh the first meeting in December. Any questions? >> Levy looks much better, but we'd rather be doing the pool, I think, but [laughter]
we're still working on that. So, yeah, it sure uh brought the levy down this year, which is good. >> We've already set that date, haven't we? >> The public hearing date. >> Yeah. Yeah, it's Yeah, we had to set that. It's It's the fourth. is the called the truth and taxation meeting uh
on the 4th and then the second meeting of the month on the 18th is when we approve the final the final levy. >> Yeah, big thanks to Kim. she uh been working hard on this [laughter] threw her for a loop after we she kind of had everything dialed in and then
take the bonding out of there and so did a nice job pulling this all back together and reformulating the numbers so we can uh you know pass along understandable you know taxes are are tough thing to understand sometimes but uh you know bottom line is the you know
the $100,000 number you can equate that and you can figure out what the increase will be for for yourself uh thereabouts for for the city portion. That's only the city portion. >> Thank you, Kim. Um we'll go down to uh
uh new business 8B. Um fee schedule, Brian. >> Uh yeah, we put the fee schedule on here um early this year. Usually it's another couple of meetings before we put it on there, but um the reason we did it, hopefully it's in there somewhere. Uh
the reason we did it was um just to give you guys a a start thinking about look it over look at the fees um is if there's anything you want us to take a closer look at um let us know. Um you know we always take a look at everything anyway. Uh but to have a little earlier
council input on on things that you think we should take a a a closer look at. Um but so it's just in here for that reason. Now, uh we'll we deal with the fees at the first meeting in
January, uh typically. Uh so, but this will give you a little bit of a head start on uh letting us know uh any thoughts you might have. Uh Miles has already spoken with the planning commission about the fee changes there and with Safe Build, our
our building official, um about uh fee changes uh in relation to that. Um, that's this whole second part of the fee schedule. Um,
so yeah, just information right now and let us know if there's anything you think we should uh look at. Thank you. >> We will be adding a fee for manual um meter, manual water meter readings.
We had a couple requests to not have the uh the new meters that are basically Wi-Fi type type meters. They don't really spend much time on Wi-Fi. It's just like that. But but still there people had some concerns with that. But that'll be
a fee that we'll we'll have to add because there's a couple of them we'll have to read manually. >> I'll move to 8 C. Uh move the January council meetings. Um, I take it we're going to move it to the second and fourth. We're proposing to move it to the second and fourth.
>> Uh, second and fourth Thursday in January. >> Um, yeah. Yep. Second and fourth. Uh, the uh the first meeting falls on January 1st, but we can't have a meeting on on on a holiday. Um, so we need to move that meeting. If we move that
meeting a week, then there's meetings two weeks in a row. And so we thought, well, let's move them both. uh because there would have been three weeks between the second meeting and the first meeting in February. So this way it's back on an every other week schedule if we go with the uh January 8th and
January 22nd. >> Do we have a motion for that or discussion? >> We need 22nd or the 8th and 29th. Ethan 2. >> I think we talked about it at >> 22nd, I believe. >> Right.
>> Make sure I have my dates right. I've been on the not once in a while. Every once in a while. >> Yeah. 8th and 22nd. >> Yeah. 8th and 22nd. >> Yep. They were slated for the 1st and the 15th. So, they just shifted a week.
>> Yeah. >> Do we need a motion? Yeah. >> I'll make a motion to move the January meetings to the 8th and the 22nd. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Passes 40.
>> Uh I guess that's it for the agenda. We'll go to reports. Brian. >> Uh yes, we Let's see. Um as we discussed in the work session, um we're going to rebid the pool. Um Jordan from Burbach gave me
the the the dates um um that of for the rebidding and basically we're going to look at advertising bids prior to January 5th. So right after before that they need some time to uh uh make some changes in the plans, the specifications um um to to take care of some of those
overengineered items. Um and it's a bad time to bid right during Christmas anyway and New Year. So, we're going to hit right after right after New Year's. Uh the the advertisement for bids will go out um slated to open bids on February 17th and the March 5th council meeting where
will be hopefully the awarding of the bids where they're going to come back in good this time and we can award them on March 5th. Construction would start on April 9th of 2026. Uh substantial completion would be April 30th of 2027. So that would mean we'd be
open for the the 2027 season. Um and then final completion is after all the punch list items and everything. So we basically run it for the season and take care of anything that needs to be taken care of along the way. Um and then the final where they actually turn it over
completely would be in September of 27, but but April 30th 27th. So we're kind of everything shifted a year. And we're hoping that by doing that it'll make the bids much more competitive and we'll get a whole bunch of bids on each of the contracts. Um, which will help bring
bring costs down. Um, you know, a lot more comfort level for biders to have a whole year rather than winter construction. It's going to be summer construction. So, that's going to help a bunch too. So, they're adamant that they can get it down to the 400 or to the 4.626 million
or 4.3 million where we need to be for bids. So, uh, we're hoping we'll be there and we can deliver a pool for the community. If not, we'll figure it out. We're back at it. Um, and then we've got Donnie and Frank, speaking of the pool, the Donnie and Frank day. Um, Saturday,
November 29th at the VFW. Um, they did that for us last year. It was it was a nice fundraiser. It was all going to the pool. It was about 14 or 15,000 last year. So, that that's wonderful. Um, but we need people to buy the raffle tickets. Um they have a little trouble
selling them right now. Um the pool was up in the air for a little while so people quit buying them. But we're back on. Um and we're going to rebid. So seek somebody out and buy raffle tickets. Um they need to sell a bunch of those. Um because the more they sell, the more
money comes to the pool. Um there's a silent auction involved. Uh there's going to be so baskets. Anybody that wants to donate something for a silent auction do meat raffles 5050 drawing. U the BFW. They've just been wonderful for us in in helping us fund raise. So,
we're grateful for that and and come on out and have fun and support the pool. >> Brian, question. Who Who would they go or how would they get the tickets or >> go you can the VFW? Um, uh, pool committee members, uh, Brea,
Paul Peterman, I can't remember who all Oh, Troy Ness has got a bunch of them. Um, otherwise, Howie Howie Aan Um, and if you want to sell some, grab a whole book and sell them or buy a whole book. Uh, but yeah, the VFW is best place to
go. U quick and easy. Otherwise, I should have Brena put out a list of who's got those tickets >> um to sell. And then I'll have Brea do that just so that people know kind. >> That'd be great. >> That's it for That's it. That's it. All
right. Chief, >> I got nothing today. >> Nothing. Jeff, >> James, >> nothing. >> Kim, >> Miles, >> sorry. >> Just like to thank the code committee for all their hard work. Other than
that, nothing. >> I'd also thank the code committee for all the citizens for their direct involvement. It's very much appreciated. Thanks so much. And uh thanks also to Kim for her diligence on the the budget. I was able to sit down and she helped me wrap my head around some of the stuff
that's just hard to hard to deal with. So, just she's uh she's wonderful for our our town here. So, thanks Kim. >> That's why we're not going to let her leave. [laughter] [laughter] >> And I've got nothing tonight. Um meeting
Journey.