this conference will now be recorded ask there besides Brad okay Brad that is I don't know I got six: clock we'll call the meeting order we'll start with the pledge allegiance Al 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 [Music] uh just one quick note uh the Brad that's viewing uh just can you please
state your name yes this is Brad Brad can you say your last name too please yes this is Brad Rob oh sounds good thanks R uh I believe we have no amendments to
the agenda so just need approval adopt the agenda any further discussions all in favor I oppos passes 5 accounts payable uh Fred yeah well I just went down them a
little bit and a couple highlighted there there uh machine electric is City Hall lighting and Campground it's pretty self- implan but majority that's for the new Services out at the park there um and then I I had more questions probably on
this anyway the the Motorola Solutions body cams I had uh Pat come over and explain that all to me and that was that it's a yearly yearly what do you call the subscription subscription to
that that covers the four four body cams and the four cameras in the cars right and so that's that's what that is there and that's that's what all I had you just want to make a motion on the grand total and then
second I'll make a motion to pay the accounts payable of 30623 761 second I pass 500 thanks spread uh we'll open the public comment portion individuals may
address the city council about any item of concern speakers must State their name and limit the remarks to five minutes any public comment portion you speak that way we can people online can hear you too do you want my
street address or I say I'm with the Township Board of supervisor that's good enough if I'm flint and stair I just wanted to ask the council for comment and or if I am missing anything uh
2023 state of Minnesota awarded city of Z broa and every other city county and Township in the state money city of zota got [Music] $
58 this was designated as Public Safety aid for personal and personnel and Equipment cost for fire rescue and Emergency Services another one of our supervisors says it's been brought up at the player
board meeting numerous times response from the city is we haven't decided what we're doing with it yet is there a reason that that has not happened happened it's supposed to be a pass through thing it's not City money
it's money for emergency Pur responders Etc what's going on with that go with it and then you kind of run with whatever I'm corrected okay so the city of Zoda got the 165,000 for Public
Safety what's the population that if you're under what I don't 10,000 are under so we as a Township got zero so good Hugh County got all the to townships so then your money as townships went to goodu County right so
but our money was lotted for the city of zambro but is that not for your budgeted expenses with by your ambulance Etc then you're getting because we have joint powers on all those so so then our
city of residents are already paying property taxes and they already pay for services for ambulance and they pay for services for fire correct so that there's some things associated with that why we where it gets kind of sticky when
the money went to goodu County for the townships goodu county has decided how they want to spend it we have not as a city decided how we want to spend that yet and the reason we haven't because there's no timeline we had arpa dollar
we had a timeline that we had to spend that money and we were doing that in November and December to figure out how we wanted to do that I do know or correct me if I'm wrong that we were going to plan on
discussing a little bit more detail of this public safety money at a work session in March correct that's on the agenda just to kind of get Council deciding what do we want to do with that I came I didn't know if Council even knew knew that the money
was there if you talked about it at all yeah we've all talked about it townships have talked about it I'm on part of the fireboard uh I think it's lman that brought it up and I said we haven't decided what we're going to do with it yet because of how the state divied that
money it kind of gets stuck sticky because that money was for it was for the city of umro residence the township residence was lump some inside of the goody you County's Public Safety so
we've seen I don't know if Council has seen it we have broken it down to percentages and per Capas that I think our accountant had broken that up too so we've seen some of that it it's going to get sticky because our residents pay property
taxes and we have joint power forer tax but but our property taxes help pay for the joint powers or a fire joint powers or an ambulance so what you got ambulance you got fire you got police all asking and saying they
need money for equipment I'm not here to say it needs to go anywhere I'm just saying it needs to get spent where it was supposed to go there's guidelines we have to spend it so I me we all we know all that we've talked about some of that
it's just we have no deadline on that so it's just let's we're just finishing up the year budget stuff like that so I know it's been addressed that we are going to to talk about that and bring Council up I know Fred maybe has not been part of it but I think the rest of the council has been part of that and
know where we're at the dollar Mount there just hasn't been any decision annual meetings is and it's the same at every meeting you know we need radios we need this we need that and it's just it's frustrating knowing there's dollars there that's the city is unro against the same thing our employees want to
raise us and we got our health insurance CER insurance is I mean it's a constant battle in everything you do so I didn't know if it had been the whole Council had been brought up to speed I just yeah yeah I appreciate I
apprciate I mean I think fr's probably only one that doesn't maybe knows a little bit about but I know the rest of us we've discussed it last year and we know where we're at on that and I guess my view you say it's yes there's joint pow but it is still three hometown
organizations it's not you're not giving it to mppa fire good you fire and it's still going to benefit zro the most but if you look at it it could fect our T taxpayers differently depending on how
we divy it so that's what's going to be an extra thing then that doesn't affect your budget it could affect your budget if we use it for our police department and okay answer me this because I looked and I didn't can that be
considered your budgetary dollars or is this extra we can think we can use it for a budget part if we want we can offset things with it and and that's the whole discussion is because that's the part that I didn't see that was clear yeah and if you guys are allowed to use
it as your budget well then that's what you're going to do nobody has ever said that there's not going to be any money going to you know ambulance and Fire you know we have a police department in town here to pay for and Todd's right in the fact that how this was structured it was per capita so basically in simplistic
terms it's a return on taxpayer dollars per capita right per capita in the townships went to the county per capita in the city went to the city so these are city tax dollars our city tax dollars are paying for the bulk of the
fire department uh uh our city tax payers are paying for the bulk of of uh the the ambulance along with Pine Island the big cities which is the way it should be I me that's the way it is it's per capita so the the philosophical debate there is do we say okay taxpayers you have to pay the bulk because we're
bigger per capita and then we're going to take this safety money that came back your dollars City taxpayer dollars per capita and we're going to give a equal of shares to each one as well maybe maybe we haven't you know um there was a
thought that maybe we break it up on percentage of budget you know Police Department is whatever percentage of our Bud budget fire department is another percentage ambulance is another percentage break it up that way you know um so there's thoughts and we just haven't sat down to Hash all that out
just like like Todd said there's there's a lot of things with budget going on we get through the budget we get through some other things uh there was arpa dollars there too um that that we ran into a deadline that so there's all kinds of decisions to be made and we want to make this one carefully because
it's very passionate everybody you know we talk to the fireboard when we're at those meetings every time and we talk about this and yes we're gonna we're going to discuss it and I didn't I was doing research and I found out the dollars that the county got so I will be in contact with the county to see where
that went and that's what we keep saying too you know and and you do benefit some for that they spent I think they spent theirs on policing you know so you get police coverage and theoretically something they I think they did body cams did they not p with them with that safety money or was that whatever money
they use but so so that does benefit the town the townships as well so so there's a benefit there from the county side but uh yeah it's it's we haven't acted on it yet we're going to um discussion the fighter Chief was in here several
meetings ago and requested his third which that you expect that because yeah but yeah but I mean that's so we already know that we've already been aware of it it's just it hasn't then discussed because there's no timeline we know we know the budget very well for the fight
because both Todd and I are on that board and we know they spent their budget money their turnout gear budget money on on equipment that was needed no truck you know so they need to turnout gear money well that's very important that's protection for those
firefighters so yeah that's part of our discussion as well but it's all going to happen we're all we're going to have those discussions just hasn't happened yet everything happens at the speed government yeah I I understand you're concerned we've got dollars there and you want to
spend them um I'm on the fire department as well and I know we've got trucks and we've got gear and we've got other things that are coming up and it's not necessarily things that we want but it's things that are NFPA standards and terms we have to spend money on and if there's dollars there we want to use them as
soon as possible so I get your concern that's where I'm it's we know there's a need sooner the better and that's where I see if it's considered above and beyond budget but you're kind of saying that you might use
and it's a city dollars it's I guess I thought it is extra well we did we did use some of it uh me we did use some of it because we had a police officer leaving took a job elsewhere and if we're caught with u
a training period after a police officer leaves then we're short more short um so we did use some doll to hire as soon as possible before the other officer left so we were paying another officer during the training period and we use safety
dollars for that but that's what it's for it's for recruitment retention things like that that and that makes sense because it's above your budget so that yeah it's it's it's more of the frustration that the city seems to just want to hold it and that's that's where
the frustration is coming from short of put it and you know yeah it' be above and beyond I'm I'm almost certain whatever it is it'll be you know some of that equipment type stuff or you know but how it's divied out is the is the debate and the discussion that needs to
be had that's all perfect thank you thank you thank you any more public comments we'll close the public comment portion and we'll run or jump to uh consent agenda uh all items listed in the consent agenda are considered
routine by the council and approved by one motion uh the only thing we have to approve is the minutes from uh February 6 meeting make a motion to approve the consent agenda second any further discussions
all in favor I I opposed passes 5 z0 uh we'll jump down to uh 7A unfinished business Fifth Street West Avenue crosswalk study update Brian uh yes um like I had said in my memo there we are
still studying all kinds of different uh options there uh taking a little longer because we need to put together some pricing for different options um you know we understand the concern um for that intersection and so we're going to we're going to bring back um any and
every option uh whether it be painting the crosswalk regular cross crosswalk signs uh bump outs rapid flashing Beacon option with costs um you know all of that stuff um it's just taking a little bit longer I couldn't get it together in
in the two weeks I had to to put it together so just an update that we're still working on it um I let the gentleman know that was here uh to to speak to the council about it I let him know where we're at with it and and he's good with that so um we'll just plan on bringing something back to the March 6th
meeting um with some options just so Council can decide where we want to be with it all thank questions on that uh let's jump down to a new business 8A southeast Minnesota multi-
County Housing semra Pat take it away all right well good evening everybody I'm Patrick mner I work for semra um we've been working on the Deeds small cities development program over the last year and a half or so um as announced last fall early winter that the city of
Zoda was awarded just shy $600,000 for owner occup P rehab within the city limits of zto um since then been working on environmental review with Brian U work through that that's been officially posted public comment period is over on that and we're waiting on Deeds feedback
on that um that should end March 1 I'm here today to pass a small Litany of policies procedures and plans um the plan here I'm going to touch on all 16 of these as quickly as I can I'll try to pause for any questions
at any time feel free to interject as well um the only thing there's a couple dates on here that say February 19th they should be February 20th they will be corrected on the final versions um all
right we get this um first grant contract this contract is between the city of Zoda and the Department of Employment and economic development indeed um it lays out all requirements page three has exact award amounts um you'll see there at the top of the table
number of units award amounts other funds use of funds um and a Litany of other specific requirements I'm G lump that into the second one which is the administration contract which states
we are responsible for whatever is in that Grant contract to administer so we will be doing everything in there ultimately believe point three there states that um do any questions on that so we'll be doing pretty much everything top to
bottom for this program uh number seven on the administration contract is regarding financial reporting and controlling keeping we are responsible for all of that we report that to deed every year on your behalf there will be small questions and small things you'll
have to report as well um but we lead that charge there's no kind of ongoing reporting for that so any questions on this only thing I had is so basically you're taking care of all the paperwork the city doesn't get really involved with any of that correct that's all on
on you okay so if you get complaints about it or questions on it come talk to me I'd be happy to talk further on it um the resolution there is acknowledging that contract um that Administration contract at least so the
2A um point three excessive force we've had conversations on on this policy this is often the most questioned policy that we have um it's in addition to the use of force policy that the city of Zena police department has that policy is
much more in-depth than this two paragraph policy um these are required through Housing and Urban Development Community Development block right funds which these are ultimately channeling down from um this is just covering ourselves and making sure we have all
the right language in place for any audits um any questions on that okay anti-displacement um this policy pretty much
states um if any unit of low moderate income housing is um changed in terms of use or demolished it must be replaced within three years um this has never come up in my experience um however it
needs to be in place again from HUD Community Development block r funds questions okay uh authorization release of funds this means that my my accountant or my executive director can go directly to D to release the funds we
don't have to middleman the city of Zoda to release those funds um it's just easier more streamlined less work for you all easier for us as well we'll do all draw request directly to deed
um okay uh free workplace um kind of in the name there City Andro is a drug- free workplace um State some steps to take if that is violated um by a staff member um pretty
self-explanatory any questions on that um fair housing plan there's a small list of what fair housing is what fair housing isn't um and then in there there are a number of activities that we have to take on annually we have to
report that fising activity to deed every year um and again we are responsible for doing that um annually we'll post Flyers at City Hall we'll put things on City websites um distribute different pamphlets that sort of
thing uh program income it's a this gets a little in the weeds but um there's program income and local income so funding for these projects is structured as a seven-year deferred forgiv a loan um after seven years that you own that
property that dollar amount is Forgiven if you were to sell that property prior to that seven year um the loan is repaid back into a revolving Loan Fund that revolving Loan Fund must be used for the same activity again owner occupied rehab
in the city of zabota um if we receive more than $335,000 of that Revenue it's considered program income we must report that to the state if it's less than $35,000 per year local income don't have to report that to the state the state will track that for eternity until you
use it um questions on that again we're tracking all that for reporting requirements uh section three plan section three business is any business owned by lowincome uh individuals we must recruit a low income section three
or we must attempt to recruit section three businesses um every single contractor we work with has to fill out a section three business sheet saying if they are or are not a section three business questions okay Rehabilitation
standards it's just five six pages of what the minimum requirement of a home that we Rehab on must meet um if we cannot get the home to meet that standard through a $25,000 project we cannot do that project um so we have a
former contractor on staff he will go out inspect every single home that we are doing a project on make sure that we are meeting those standards um they're fairly basic but they're kind of a melding of different building standards from across the
state any questions on those okay policies and procedures um this is pretty much exactly everything we have to do to do the program um conflicts of interests residencies um there's a long
list construction requirements marketing and application um I will note our marketing depending on need to get more applications is typically just a postcard that we send to every owner occupied house in the city is z broa we
get that information from goodu County uh GIS um if we need to we will ramp that up into online advertising posters door hangers whatever we need to do um and we are first come first serve Ser so the first people to get in the door will be
the first prioritized project with those funds um mentions inspections approvals contracts I will note contracts are between the homeowner and the contractor we are an agent there we do not have any contracts with any contractors or
homeowners um and then that kind of final point is the whole list of processes um if you guys want more information on the whole process I'm happy to share but it's all listed out there for you to read if you wish any questions on our policies and
procedures walk away policy states for any of the listed reasons that we can walk away from a project if it's not a safe environment to be working in if the contractor feels like it's a liability to them if we can't get a contractor do the job um if the value of the home is
less than the value of the project we can walk away at that time um not typically invoked um but is there just in case next page is contact information for all of us for your record
um next page is a list of you all um and City staff and on the back of that is a timeline um pretty much we will hopefully get the release of funds come March um a little more detail in here we have a a number of
these other programs open in other small cities across our service area um we're looking kind of later spring to start beginning marketing here um March 30th is the deadline for those other programs that are going to be closing in September we'll have a small lag time
and then we'll start marketing in Zoda we're also bringing up program on in Manville so we're hoping to do those two simultaneously you two guys simultaneously there for marketing start taking applications come summertime hopefully um projects start fall time um
so these projects do take on the good day four months on a bad day nine months to get from start to completion depending on lead B lead base paint right on year of construction type of work
um and then this will hopefully close September of 2027 and then the last one is called post Grant Administration contract so starting at the close of our current or the first Administration contract this one is invoked
um with the seven-year terms on those loans after that Grant contract closes there may be repayments on that we are then responsible for administrating any sort of repayments and tracking financially of those um and if we were to revolve funds back again we are
responsible for that okay I think that's all I have we have questions on any of that question I have sorry I should have asked earlier you have on number nine you have section three plan yes what is that the section three plan so that's us
trying to recruit low income businesses so section three business what is a section three business then what does a lowincome business mean or what is that standard the the it's 51% I think it's the in 51% of
the ownership has to be low or very low income and then where is it or 75% of the individuals working there have to be low or very low income or 51% of the business has to be owned by an
individual on Section 8 uh voucher program or in public housing so you have a list of these people or can they be local but then you're going to be digging into what their income is or what their um tax statements stay and things so we would
what we do when we're working with the contract is we have a section three business identification so they can either identify as a section three business or not and or and we have to try to recruit section three businesses to participate in our
program so that you're going to recruit them to use them of use but we have an at least an attempt to recruit you understand all just been over a year hasn't it year and a half a year and a half this is about a two-year writing process and a
three-year Administration process so two really good things about it is we're going to have some rehab money in town what is it about 640,000 six if you go to 697 713 from deed uh we have match dollars from the county and then you
guys provided I believe 10,000 in Levy that so so I mean it's I think it's great through the community what are some other small toal just that are in the area that got you said manille right yeah so bringing Manville on uh we Canon Falls some um Can Falls mappa um Pine
Island we're down in Wabasha good view St Charles um if it's a small town in when know know Wabasha good here were Dodge County we're probably at West conquer Claremont even so we did have this program many years ago 2012 I 2012
was through here before but yeah so rehab dollar coming into town and he's doing all the work perfect we are happy to do it that's right he maybe covered this but I this was put out like a year ago and people applied for it then so because I know I
got a sheet in the mail that said well would you be interested and what would you be interested in how to get a price right so this money hasn't been allocated to anybody so that so as part of the grant writing process is we have to survey the whole town or survey all owner occupied homes
in the town um and so that Shea that you received was that an idea what there was a certain threshold that had to be met in order to receive these fun correct so the the more people interested in income qualified the more competitive our grant was um we got our full ask so it was
compe so we are going to do a roll call and we're going to just put all these in one kind of consent and agena instead of going through the nine 10 of them that are on there so I just did a motion a second and then we'll do a roll call
I'll make that motion any further discussions little bit just um because I'm going to plan on voting no here and I just want for the record the um to understand why my process is that these are um publicly gathered federal funds that
are now being allocated to personal private individuals through the rehabilitation aspect and it's a it's a principle of mine that public monies get spent on public purposes and this is a
private purpose as its reception so in in that vein I'm planning to vote no on this for the record we got a so we got a motion in a second uh Bob hi J hi Kevin Nate Fred hi
and I I passes 410 thanks Pat for your time and explaining absolutely in a nutshell um let's jump to 8B approving hiring miles Rob um I'll have miles Rob stand up a
little bit uh quick uh he's going to be our new Deputy City administrator this is Miles Rob um uh Bob and I and a few others had uh a second interview with Miles and Renee W um it was a tough
decision um and we're excited to have miles board we offered him a job last week uh he was uh hopefully excited and accepted I think his projected um uh start date is
March 5th give or take a day or two he might be here on March 4th um he's a little bit of History he's from he's working in Savage right now or um Shaka Shaka as a administrator intern
um went to you and I School in Iowa um he's ready to go that's what we like about it so uh I just need a motion in a second to approve miles Rob uh hiring and uh uh excited to have him on
our team one other comment he already has an apartment in town so does he oh yep so be he'll be moving down on the Monday and starting here on Wednesday unless I can talk him into coming on Tuesday told him we come and help him move but so I just want to welcome Rob
or miles and just need a motion in a second second any further discussions all in favor I oppose passes 500 welcome miles and we're ready to have you on the team uh let's jump to 8C resolution
20257 recognition of donations for the Schroeder Memorial yeah this is similar to the resolution we did for the pool um donations uh we had to grab all of the donations that have come in so far um
got them on a resolution uh to accept them we'll send a letter of acceptance as well to each one of uh of these people uh early next week everybody's getting going with their taxes and we need to get those letters out so um Mike flare just reviewed my draft and gave it
the okay that was for the pool one I'll use the same format for the uh the schroer and we'll get those letters out starting next week um from here on out we'll we'll you'll see resolutions more frequently as donations come in um if
it's a big donation it'll be on its own resolution if there's a bunch of smaller ones then we'll lump them together just so it's not so many resolutions but um yeah it's been a I think we're pretty close uh to getting the the memorial started uh
we're already planning for a groundbreaking and and so more to come real soon on that Chief do you know what the total is roughly what part um just based on what numbers we had it was just under 31 ,000 um but
there's been some donations that have come in since then that I I don't have the total on and I think we're waiting on one that it was uh pledged from the Community Trust yet too so with that we're very close probably at 43,000 now
give or take uh but the resolution is only those that we have received there there's a pledge there yet a bigger pledge and then some other money that has come in since we did this so probably 43 44,000 now of the were we 51
we're looking for I think it's around 50,000 so things have been ordered um and uh we're going to try to break ground on the 17th of April perfect like you said when you get small
ones in you can lump them in and not have to name everybody just is it more of a dollar figure or no if they come in with then my clity can correct me if I'm wrong but if they come in with a name I have to put the name and the dollar amount in there because we have to recognize that donation for the specific
purpose the letters I send out have to say that the money is accepted for the specific purpose and it's going to be put into a dedicated account to be used for that purpose when the memorial is built or the pool is built the last one we did I don't know if you got any phone
calls at all but they got listed in the newspaper each individual I I I I didn't know if he just lump them all together or Y no I mean we have to recognize each each donation is is my understanding of the statute oh Mike go
ahead I think that's right I the statute doesn't specifically state that but I think that's implied but people can always donate anonymously too if they want and then if that happens Brian you would just list probably you know you could lump all the
anonymous donations together or you'd say something like for 14 anonymous anonymous donations totaling whatever or you could list them out each one $200 Anonymous $300 Anonymous the pool resolution I had
about two or three Anonymous on there perfect I motion resolution 202- 07 for the schroer memorial mon second
any F discussions all in favor I oppos passes 5 oh sorry I got the resolution Come on B you got cator Bob hi Joan hi Kevin hi Fred I'm I want to call him ni I passes 5 z z thanks Brian um
let's do 8D new canid license chobby too um uh Brian uh yeah uh Miranda gave me this the other day and staff is recommending approving the cannaboid license for tuby
boutique I'll make that motion any further discussion what what what is this this is for them to sell THC beverages gummies it's the low potency low POC
Yep this does not fall under the all the new guidelines yet no yeah um cupboard bridge I believe coverboard Bridge um super shop um you might be the fourth one I I don't
remember any other ones this quick trip or no I don't think so think so no and is there a limit to places that we allow do that we don't have a limit on have yeah it's kind of the same thing we don't have a limit really on liquor and
on an off sale either and we're not exactly sure where it's going to go once the all the other um adult use um marijuana and all that stuff where that goes this will fall in this could fall in there somewhere but for now uh in our
ordinance um it's a separate deal we're going to continue with what we've been doing until we get further Direction so we got a motion in a second all in favor I I oppose passes
500 uh let's jump to 8e resolution 20252 zro to golf course premises gambling permit which we just they did it just renewing it correct yeah so every two years they want to want to have it renewed um um some Personnel change at the golf course and uh so Howe from the
uh a from the BFW was in because they sponsored it and said and asked if we would renew it um then we'll follow up with the paperwork he didn't have it quite yet but we had to get it approved now and then I'll get the paperwork because he was still working on signatures on that uh but it needs to
get going by a certain time in early March um so I'm just asking to renew the resolution uh same resolution different dates that we passed two years ago 2023 I'll make
that any further discussions all in favor Kevin you're GNA have to more Bob yeah I my finger I know you did Bob hi Joan hi Kevin hi Fred and I I passes 5 z z uh reports Brian oh yeah settle in
because I have a long one I need d uh Sanitary District the Sanitary District we've had a whole bunch of meetings with legislative bonding committee members next week um so that's getting
rolling um yeah we're still after we're hoping they do a bonding bill and we can uh get some money to keep it moving so we're working hard of that uh the pool pool committee has been busy with meeting with businesses um we raised
just over 533,000 I believe now uh we continue the bi-weekly design meetings uh the design is taking taking shape um BR and Troy from the committee I've been involved in that Mike um an our pool manager has joined as she can and if she
can't join she stops in to talk to me and gives me her ideas along the way um I think we should have bid documents end of April they were saying was six to eight weeks yet because of engineering but we've got Bretta and Troy here from the pool committee so if you guys want
to say anything um um just been kind of slow going looking for some of the bigger donations to still roll in as you see the 530,000 is still well over $1 million short so it's kind of the update we have is kind of looking for some of the
bigger donations I know we're going to try and Target some local businesses I think the the well is kind of drying up so we may have to start getting creative as to how we're going to fill that gap between the two a lot of local businesses want to start doing in kind
donations donating materials or labor but until we have that final blueprint and approved things we can't we're we're lost right now we can't even send out for bids locally so things have kind of stalled a little bit here so that's
we're kind of looking for some input and hopefully some creative stuff that maybe the city can help a little bit too if things stall any further yep and we have looked at that Kim and I have looked at that and we'll have more to share at some point on that um as we figure out u
a bidding and in kind and and where we're at at that point uh we'll have more on that but uh you know we need the little donations to anything every if everybody gets involved we're going to get there we need to be at right around a million dollars this spring um to be comfortable getting the pool going um so
we're going to work hard to get to that point one way or another so so the pool is rolling um and then we can continue to fund raise over the next year where when well it's being built I think people see that something's
happening and then we can promote hey this is going on we still need x amount of dollars to get to this next point or we love to put the slide in we need 30 grand help us out hopefully we get
some yep so they've been working hard we haven't been out to all the not the letters we haven't been out to all the business businesses yet either um so once we do that you know then we will be putting things in the paper about uh you know how much is left and how it could break out and how we could get there uh
so more to come they've been doing a great job though it's not a very big committee unfortunately we're hoping to have more people working on it uh but they've been doing a great job so appreciate all the work that the committee does people on the committe that have younger kids that will really take advantage of the pool of all of our
kids um gone through the lessons and Nows and whatever our so I don't think there's any young kids up here Bob no no Fred you have any young grandchildren
yeah g to have some more yeah well Fred was pretty close to it all those years in the park board so I got all these kids and grandchild around got a lot of extra money put for the pool either you don't want me in the committee yes that's a good point
too well thank you thank you for being here um The Bridge View Apartments that's the the the next Keller Barton building over here on the bank lot I just want to give an update on that U we've submitted the tip developers agreement to them um we're waiting any
comments that they might have uh on that um we've seen very preliminary site plans the the building had to shift a little bit and once they get into all the civil engineering and and site utilities and things like that so we've been seeing bits and pieces but we really don't have anything that we can
do a full review on yet we should have those civil plans and site plans um I'm hoping in the next week or very first week in March where we can really get going and and from that we will have a local developers agreement to piggyback on the Tiff developers agreement um the
local developers agreement will have all the local requirements uh in it as far as fees and whatever else might go into that parking numbers yeah all that stuff um we have heard some concern from across the alley
about the potential loss of City parking in the alley um so I've been I've been working hard on that and talking with uh Andy Bartman and Bob Keller I just had a meeting with them the other day um and the proposal is to put in 18 angled
parking spots back there um and curbing gutter in the alley um depending on how you look at the parking back there now which is there's no lines there's you don't see the property lines of course um so people are kind of parking
wherever um you know um there is there there's there's five basically that are on city property at any one time there's another four more that have to back up onto bank property or killer Bartman property to get out of
there so call it nine spots back there now that are viable um and so there's anywhere there again a gain of 9 to 13 parking spaces by doing what's proposed by by Keller Bartman um and I verified with them that none of those spots will
be designated for apartment parking they're just going to be open for whoever um even though the bulk of those spots probably 10 of them no probably 12 of them or 14 of them are on their property but they said no we don't have
any intention of of designating them so hopefully that alleviates some of the concern with loss of parking in that alley I I think I really feel it's going to get better so um transportation alternative Grant this is The
Trestle um Bill anger and I presented to the TA Grant committee last Friday on Valentine's Day in in Rochester uh we stress the importance of The Trestle to our not only our citizens but the region we get a lot of people people at the campground we got a lot of people coming in town to ride their bikes use our
Trails um and the snow wheel Club is that's a just a vital connection for I think it like 386 miles of snow bile Trail that's the crossing uh across the river right there uh without having them to have to go over the 58 Bridge or
something like that um there were a lot of quite a few good questions I think there must have been 12 or 13 people listening to the presentation uh what went very well feeling really good about our chances to get uh maybe all the money we asked for we
asked for $1.4 million um or most of that money um a lot of times if there there would there was at least I don't know how many they had they don't tell you how many presentations but we know there was at least two more because one was there at the same time we were another one came in after us so um it
could be possible that they offer us something less or nothing or all of it uh so we're just kind of waiting I checked my email frequently to see if we've got an email from them so once we know about that then we will talk some more with Council about next steps um if
we get the grant there's still going to be a lag time and when the money comes it's $229 so we'll have decision to make there on on how if we want to pre-build it which we can do but we have to pay for it up up front before we get the money um or if we don't get anything
then we we'll talk about possible repair will we regroup and look for other grants over the next few years so more to come on that told you it was a long one that's it I know we're going to have to look at
options down the road I mean there was a company that worked on that bridge that got us by for a little bit yeah I mean would it be in their best interest to talk to them again maybe they got different ideas that that you know they
they'll look and say oh yeah I think we can do this I mean they they do the work sure you know they probably got some things that would that we're not seeing I mean I I personally would like to see get a company that does this for a living to say hey take a look at this
what what do you think we should do yeah get their total opinion on either repair it or they'll say no from what we've seen let's build new you know yeah yeah I mean we've been working with our city
engineer um wh has a very large uh Bridge section Bridge Engineers on staff they spoke with the engineer that shut the bridge down uh about potential fixes as an option for Council to consider um you know um you know present
potential designs um for a new bridge uh you know we looked at $2 million will it be that maybe you know we're not 100% sure until we really get into it and that could involve just as you say Fred um looking to at I think it was icon Mike is that who who we had talked to or
who did before yeah so yeah that's all it's a high dollar thing the more and more input we can get on it and get different options I I think would be a great especially with yep the the fix has been vetted with the engineer that close the bridge down the potential fix the meaning are are our city
engineer his their Bridge people spoke with the engineer that shut the bridge down about you know hey what would you think of a fix if if the council were decide to let's do a a repair and how many years we can get and so it's
looking like possibly five to nine or five to 10 years um I don't want to put costs out there yet because we're not quite sure but that that potential repair has been discussed with the engineer that closed the bridge down and so everybody's on the same page on what
we could do and most likely um be okay for a a temporary let's keep it going for 5 to nine 5 to 10 years if we don't get this current Grant um or if we don't we can always bond for the whole thing but like like I said The
more options we can get you know maybe they see something different than that they see and being that they've already worked on it once before yeah I know is that something we can request to do or is it just AB absolutely but let's give it a little
bit more time here let's see what the TA Grant uh turns out we know even we get that Grant it ain't going to happen till 20 well $229 but you can pre-build it you just have to figure out how to pay for it ahead of time so we could bond for the dollars probably would have to
depending on how much money there's I mean there's another option or two that we could do or there's yeah there's a way to trade for federal dollars someone who has current federal dollars so there's all kinds of things yet time you know somebody saying yeah no and I've heard that before I said oh we should do
noon then all a sudden somebody said well I think you can get this to last if we do this for 30 years or whatever that's why I said no reason to wait for them guys to get their opinion on it you know why we're in this LW area anyway
well I mean we have a repair in mind if we need it and but we're not quite ready to to roll that out yet right but that's what I'm saying though if we get their other people options too to look at the whole thing at the same
time yeah yep we'll we'll present whatever the council wants us to present um keep looking at other options and whatever options you guys want to see we can put that out there but let's uh give a little bit more time to see where we're at with this grant because that
that could change your opinion on on how we move forward I think that's finally per Mike do you want to say anything nothing think tonight mayor okay thank you please Chief
um so uh we haven't uh come through the PD uh we're happy with our new transformation um it's a definitely a significant difference um with the the renovations that have taken place um
with that said we we did find some problems with ceiling um I brought it up to Mike and uh Brian um we're having some sag going on so we're hoping that uh we can get that looked at um in straightened out um and hopefully it's
nothing major that it can be dealt with uh well but uh other than that uh we're again very happy uh had a lot of good comments on on the work and uh certainly the speed of it was right there I mean
the they did a good job in a short period of time and so we're very happy with it so that is all I got yeah and if I can just talk about the SAG I forgot all about that thanks for bringing that up um there's a 26 foot Span in their their open area I believe it's 24 inch
truss's engineered trusses um that shouldn't be sagging you know four inches in the middle or six inches in the middle especially when there's no snow load there's no load up there right now so I don't know why it's doing that but it's a little scary if we get a big snow know so we've got um um again our
city engineer uh they do structural as well uh they're going to have someone stop out early next week um to take a look at it and then we'll go from there but yeah um started noticing the ceiling tiles sagging um actually they
thought they heard a dripping and so my head Mike and the guys go take a peek above the ceiling and they're like oh look at this and yeah so it's it's pretty big sag so anyway we'll get that checked out and hopefully the no it'll be fine as long as it doesn't snow a foot between now and next
week probably be fine then too but looks terrible that it Chief thanks sir Mike I have nothing Bob nothing Jo Kevin FR that Crossing that you're looking at
options and stuff for yeah um you're going bring back options and but is do I mean if I want to know the opinion of like police officers and the street department what what kind of way they they lean is that something I go do or is that something that gets brought to
us then yeah you're you absolutely you can go talk to whoever you want to to get but I I I would like you know all the street guys input on what they think would be a great thing to do instead of just coming to me with the price you know not necessarily go with the cheaper
because it's cheaper but it would what would be more beneficial IAL to us yeah no I mean I think we're all on the same team and we're after pedestrian safety concern was brought up so we'll look at uh look at it from the eye of pedestrian Safety First obviously right if there
there is option it would be nice to get the Public Works opinion on all this and sure and we had Tony to when this was brought up to us sit out there at least one day I don't think he did two y but he sat out one day what Shannon did too
so and you know this been brought up they're over there looking so then I just you know when we get these options I want to get input from all these guys to not yeah they're they're dealing with it and stuff talk to the street guys talk to the officers to get their input
too ad options all done and everything you it might be better just to get some of their opinions now which I have already just to I mean for you can when you get those you can have other information to make them decisions too so perfect do you have anything else uh
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