this conference will now be recorded oh that's a wh KS guy oh yeah wasn't the Insurgent one the other day that posted he looked adorable on that one too I got six o' we'll call the in order
we'll start with the Pledge of 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 uh I just need approval adoption of
the agenda so move second any further discussions all in favor I oppos passes 500 uh review the minutes from my regular meeting on June 20th something happened J
I'll make a motion to approve the June 20th meeting minutes as written I'll second any further discussions all in favor I oppose passes 500 uh review the minutes from the north
zro Sanitary assur District meeting from June 26 uh no need for motion everybody have time to look over that uh review the minutes from our Council work session from July 10th I'll make a motion to approve the
July 10th work session meetings minutes excuse me second uh any further discussions all in favor oppos passes uh 500 uh review the counts payable or sorry Joan will'll go over
the counts payable for July 18 okay so we had two uh big payments one is um 8485 it's for $357,400 6 Street and then there uh
8096 was whks for 74483 181 and that again ties in with work that we're preparing and doing other notables were um 80430 which is um solar
electric for 9,527 Excel had a bill um on 8043 7 for 8,890 98 and then CA had it on 80447 for 87354 everything else is um pretty uh
normal does anyone have any questions if not then I would recommend that we approve the accounts payable in the amount of $514,000 14,3 3537 second any questions or concerns
with Cera Joan all in favor I I oppos passes 5 Z thanks Joan uh we'll open the public comment portion individuals may address the city council about any items of concerned speakers must State their name and limit
their remarks to five minutes if you're here to for public comments on the grass ordinance or the limited time ordinance we will open that when we discuss that which is later in the council any other
comments public comments yes Roger Roger ball Township chairman um Brian and I sat down a couple weeks ago and went over the Township's concerns that at that time with the annexation that's coming up tonight or the proposed
whatever however you call that and at this point uh we're we're well aware what's going on um when it comes to us if we have questions we'll do with the then but for right now Brian and I kind of covered that a couple weeks ago our concerns and
I'm just relaying that to the city council um nothing else I can think of right at the moment coms other than the grass or the parking comment
yeah so hi my name is Ryan moski um I'd like to point out that no public notice of the revised code ordinances um in their current form was given for this meeting nor was the meeting agenda publicly posted my understanding is that the person who normally posts these is out and others were unable to post them
if the goal is to encourage more Community engagement it is difficult when the community has no or limited notice there should be alternate and redundant means of communication between the city and its residents Minnesota statute 41519 states that new and amended
ordinances are required to be posted 10 days prior to a vote if the city has an ordinances posted online skipping this step leaves residents out of the loop and ultimately leads to more frustration all around I spoke to Ray BH Hower president
of American legal publishing who compiled our existing ordinances um would we like to scan PDF on the website he said it would cost around $600 tover our existing code to the online platform plus an plus an annual hosting fee of $595 per year to me that sounds like a
very good use of tax dollars unless there is an alternate plan to get the current codes more accessible in the near future thank yous um yeah we had a couple of revisions uh had sent the packet out and the code committee made a couple of revisions on the the grass and weeds and
so I made those revisions and we got them out to the council uh it is true that we Kim and I don't know how to put it out on the website which is where it usually goes it's uh by ordinance it needs to be out there a day ahead of time um I've got it up here now uh partly for that reason uh we will
Rectify that for sure uh and get it out there and I had this this whole conversation with you as well yep you were in so um and uh the legal publishing and all of that yes I think we did that 10 years ago or so what you
said yeah yep yep and so we are have looked into that again and I think like you said we I think we do have a quote somewhere I don't think it was that I think it was a lot more okay but um he said there was three options given and I'm not sure what those were yep so yeah
those things are are things that we have talked about and um and yeah get getting the you know typically the packets out there this time it was not uh it happens to be the biggest packet we've ever had I think so bad timing but uh but yeah no I agree and uh Matt could you shed some
light on the um the proper way for you know we had a uh a first reading of these ordinances and then we uh had public comments um at the last meeting and then now we had a couple of more revisions do they need to be reposted
and and uh for 10 days before we we act on them it's probably a good idea but I'm trying to remember I do have a cop of it that's helpful and also it's helpful the statute itself has a provision saying hey if you don't want to you don't have
to do this so I don't know what good the statute does I don't think it's fatal no it's not yeah you can still pass stuff I just you know if you want communic engagement and transparency that would go a long way so everyone knows what's going on sure yeah in this case we made some
changes based on your comments uh so we want we're going to move it forward um but yeah the hosting was that $5.99 or5 $595 per year gotta which I know Council
or some of us at last meeting have talked about possibly or we need to do something to make make it easier for the public so it's been discussed since you brought that up last meeting too so it's and maybe it's something we can host ourselves and we just paid them a different you know one
of those options gave us maybe was to say hey this is now ours we own this we have the word document you know it's just just a possil there's and we're dealing with some it stuff later too so it's with the changing of stuff it's we did software what couple years ago so
we're working on that yep we're working on that um any more public comment portions I will close the public uh comment portion and we'll start with public hearings uh North zum Sanitary schwart District annexation Bill uh thank you mayor uh in
your packet is a a series of figures and diagrams Brian's going to pull some of these up uh what we're uh here for tonight is this is a public hearing to receive comments on the annexation of approximately uh 88 or 89 Acres uh
currently owned by Jim and Connie went uh Brian if you could go to one more page down okay this is this is the survey certificate of what we'll be annexing which if you can kind of picture that then if you go to the next page Brian maybe helps
uh this is where we're at so the intent of this is we are annexing this property into the city uh so that the city and then later on tonight we'll be considering a plat of this property so that the north suo Sanitary District uh can can purchase approximately 45 Acres so this is the proposed site of the
future North somro Sanitary District Wastewater Plant uh which will treat Wastewater from Wanamingo good hu sroa and Pine Island and what Brian has on the screen there now this is the 40 approximately 45 Acres of that 89 Acres that would be
sold to the Sanitary District uh this is a concept drawing of what the facility would look like uh one of the comments that we had at the Planning and Zoning commission meeting is timing uh when would this occur this is currently slated uh to occur uh reconstructed
starting the fall of 2026 27 and 28 that is contingent upon receiving further funding from the state so uh Council what we're here tonight is to receive uh com comments from the public uh you will act on the anation
request under new business below so with that mayor uh I'm finished with my portion of that so now is the time to ask for public comments anybody have public comments concerning the north Zell sanitary annexation I know we've been working on
this for a few years so it's not new any comments I will close that public hearing and we'll open up a public hearing for the chat cha annexation bill again thank you mayor right so uh Tammy and John Champa
uh have requested uh to Annex in approximately 18 acres into the city uh this this would then facilitate development of their property but from the city's perspective this would facilitate us to rebuild 9th Street in
Jefferson Drive this is this is tied to our construction project uh Council you have seen those plans this is rerouting Jefferson Drive uh to basically eliminate what I'm what I'll call The Hairpin turn uh later on in the uh
Council agenda we have the bids that we'll be acting on for the Ninth Street Jefferson project uh also later on tonight uh there is a land transfer uh for this to occur in order to reroute Jefferson to connect to uh 9th Street and 460th Street uh there is an
agreement uh for 1.94 acres to be transferred from Champa uh to the city we have that agreement later on tonight so again this is a public hearing to receive comments on that with uh the other actions other action items to occur uh further on the agenda perfect
thanks Bill think I'm G to be saying that a lot tonight any public comments on the uh Chapa annexation any public comments I will close the public uh hearing on the chap annexation and we'll
open up 9A unfinished business the ordinance 20243 amending the weeds and grasses ordinance before we open public comments we'll let uh Chief and Brian talk about that you want to go first Brian uh yes
just let me pull up this one this is the correct one weeds and grasses so as you know we we proposed this we had a first reading we took some public comments um at the last meeting uh we took it back to the code committee
made a few changes and and and we're bringing it back tonight um um Chief Callahan does a does a very good job explaining uh since uh him and his staff are the enforcement of these um so I'm gonna ask Pat to to speak to what we've
got on here the reason why uh the decisions were made to to put what we've got on there uh some of the changes that I made just real quick quickly is after the comments we added native Landscapes uh which is a required State Statute that was pointed out so appreciate that um and then we decided that we would go
with the state statute of8 inches um in in height rather than the foot that we were proposing um and then we changed the 72 hours to four days so uh a little bit more time um to to take care of uh
grass once it's once you've been notified but uh Pat you want to grab a mic just to clear four days of State Statute too right no okay what was state statute on that I don't believe the state statute the response it just declares
what what the height is but um so for for uh our purpose uh again was to clean up some uh ordinances and that's why we establish the code committee um and some of the things that we would get frequent requests on um and complaints is in
regards to violators throughout the city of grass ordinance amongst other things so we had to kind of prioritize what seems to be the more frequent of complaints um and being that we were coming into the spring which is about when we started working on this
ordinance um actually we started it prior to this spring uh so we we tackled this one and so ultimately the the the the process that the police department goes through is we'll get a complaint on
a uh long grass complaint it's us usually very clear that it's in violation when you look at it um and so our process is is then just to notify the homeowner and let them know that uh there was a complaint and they've got
you know at the time our ordinance said that there was 10 days to uh Abate that nuisance and there was a length of 12 in so that would uh ultimately for the person that filed the complaint we'd continue to get complaints because
nothing's been done about it um and so we were looking for a way to streamline this to make it more of a process um and so changing it to uh 8 Ines um is based
on what the statute States um giving people four days to do it should cover generally uh enough time for someone to Abate the nuisance um before we actually site somebody so that's that's kind of
the goal here we don't we're not out to look for violations we base them on complaints and that's that's the uh kind of the nuts and bolts of this ordinance so it's basically to clean up some language to make it a little more
streamlined perect than I will open the public comment portion of the weed and grass ordinance any public comments I do and I also have um so first I want to say thank you for listening to our public comments
last one oh I'm Laura mesy by the way um thank you for listening updating you know the native Landscapes and I think you removed some other references to statute statutes that have been raled things like that um however the change from 72 hours to 4 days um and then also
changing 12 Ines to 8 in really you made it stricter which wasn't really what the public comments were about so I went through and I found 12 local communities I looked at what their inches and their time to remedy is um sort of the median
time to remedy I would say is seven regular business days or seven days um regular business days I personally like that language because if it's over a holiday weekend you know that doesn't count as one of the days um quite a few of the communities
are also at 10 days the shortest um is 48 hours in Rochester um but that's 12 in and it's not enforced during no maay um the next shortest would be five business a in carabo that's 8 in um I
personally believe that five business days is the minimum we should be um we should have in the ordinance and I think seven regular business days would be more in line with local communities um then I also wanted to ask
um about the process so if someone you know doesn't comply with ordinance who is like contracted to you mow the lawn or does the city mow the lawn or how does that work um so if if this if it doesn't get Abit and there's clearly no
movement to do that then the city can come in they can mow it but it's at the owner's expense whether they a bill is sent and if it's unpaid then they will ultimately send it to taxes just like any water bill or anything okay so they
won't contract like any local Lawn Care haven't so far and it's been extremely rare that that there's been it's gotten to the point where the city came in MO most people usually take care of it right away so okay but that was under the 10
days correct okay all right thank you no further comments any questions on anything I said or okay thank you coms I will close the public hearing portion and we will open up to uh The Unfinished
Business of ordinance 20244 The Limited Time parking ordinance Brian you want to take first sure yep uh again there were some couple of public comments on that we made a little bit of a a change um the 100 feet wording uh to be we changed
that to reasonably moved so that's a little bit subjective but um um Pat will be able to expound on that a little bit to what reasonably moved would be um you know and uh the the code committee uh would like to stick with the 72 hours
and then the 24hour um 24 hours to move a vehicle and and chief Callahan can explain uh that uh as well uh again he's the the code enforcement officer and he does a very nice job explaining reasons why so P can
you sure again this is another one of the uh ordinances that we have have uh a lot of complaints that uh were required to enforce within the city um some of the issues involved you know things that
aren't necessarily a motor vehicle um so there was a lot of uh uh tweaking of the language to make it more clear as to you know what constitutes a vehicle what constitutes a violation um and so our our
overtime uh limited time parking uh was uh any period after seven days so ultimately what happens is someone calls in a vehicle that's been sitting there for three or four weeks and so we go to
enforce that so in order for us to um actually site that that vehicle in that violation we have to witness that violation it's uh there's only so many misdemeanors and Petty misdemeanors that you don't have to visual usually see or
be witnessed to there's very few most of them you have to be witnessed to um and so we would have to wait another seven days before we would take any enforcement action so that's been kind of the again similar to the grass
ordinance the complaintant wonders why nothing's happened well we we have to wait um again our process is typically we take we get the complaint we go check the vehicle um we run it we find out who
you know who owns it make sure it's not stolen um and then we would end up chalking it and then posting a just a like kind of like a warning letter that's on the windshield just a little third sheet thing so that that owner is
aware that there's a an or or a violation there potentially violation but we wouldn't be able to enforce it until after the period so that means we wouldn't be able to sight the vehicle or tow the vehicle we would have to witness that that vehicle that did not move
still um even though we marked it with a chalk and then put some sort of indicator that hey we checked on your vehicle some places will you know they'll they'll use a paint marker and they'll put a date and stuff like that on the back window um you'll see that
throughout other communities so that is the reason why we streamline that because it just seems like seven days is going to be in a longer period of time for the complainant and so we tried to put this more in line with what we would
do um if the vehicle certainly didn't uh move um you know then it's subject to a citation usually I mean we haven't been too uh egregious on Towing Vehicles if we don't have to um I know this has been
a problem especially for our public work Department um especially in our like public Lots because we have people that actually just store vehicles in public Lots because they have nowhere to put the car and so that seems to be a very
common issue and that uh public Lots fit within our parking ordinance if because it's a public uh use uh area so and then we we changed the portion um from 100t to re to reasonably
moved 100 feet is too far uh for someone to have to move their vehicle um especially you know if it's in a residential neighborhood it doesn't seem reasonable that that person has to actually move their vehicle so far away
from their house and you know ultimately um we they just got to drive it somewhere and park it again ultimately um it doesn't matter if it's parked in the same spot um sometimes
people do get uh um mistaken when they see a car that's parked in the same spot every day and you know if we get the complaint and chalk the tire and it gets moved it's it's not a violation so there's there's it's unfounded but that
that is the uh the goal in revising this particular ordinance any public comments on the parking ordance does this also apply to trailers and campers and whatnot yes it does it
does yeah so and and so it it applies to any vehicle or a trailer um we we've had a number of complaints throughout the community of like campers that are parked there almost all summer um rarely moving and you know they often because
of the size it could be a hindrance to the the corners and so forth so and and the thing is is that you know people that often complain about these things they're using our ordinance and expect us to enforce it so that's
another part of cleaning it up to make sure that it's very clear as to you know what we can enforce and what we don't um but um we're also working on recreational vehicle ordinance um Al together um and that's that's another thing that'll be coming up in the near
future as to how we're going to do that because we do have a number of issues with how vehicles are parked in in yards and so forth and thank you yeah I I kind of support this um and maybe support an
additional few hours or five days but uh my greater concern on this is I it's just it's kind of an epidemic almost when people Park other bonds already in you how many more is that going to create and I've lived in this town 12 years um just in the last for three
years and I don't agree with people parking on their WS in the winter but especially in the summer just walk extra 10 feet and and that's something I would like to see actually enforcement I don't think citizens should have to complain um you know very few people want to be a
bad guy I don't want to call and gpe and take up someone's time but it's you come in town off the three three roads coming off 52 there's vehicles and every one of those streets coming in and it looks it looks it looks crappy looks poor um I pay probably higher taxes in a lot of
places in town and right now and one of my neighbors Parks daily on their lawn I've got a fifth wheel trailer that never moves got a dilapitated house I got junk in the yard and just so You' see these things I'd like to see some enforcement of the current u rules and
regulation so and so again you know our typical approach is complaint based and the reason why is because if it's if it's strictly based on me who who is it affecting is it affecting the community or is it just affecting the officer that
enforces it and I've been down that road in and they dismiss cases like that because it didn't bother neighbors why did it bother the the police um there are certainly cases that are so egregious that you can't you know when
you see a car that's like missing half of its rear quarter panel that's been there for six months and no one's complained about it pretty reasonable to take action on it um but um that's that's TP that's how we've done it um and
so and it also gives more backing whether that person that complains is anonymous or not that doesn't make a difference the complaint came from somebody affected by it so and and I know that Council they've all been they've had complaints of similar things
from people in the community to to enforce and that that's and certainly that's a reasonable method to enforce it um but there's a number of ordinances that we are reviewing um and and we're we're we're
not moving forward with um updating our manual fully until we understand what needs to be taken care of and and it's certainly an important thing that our community has access to all that and uh so but we need to make sure we've got
every all our D in R too and we live in a nice Town beautiful be nice see it remain that way absolutely got can I just uh remind Council I think this was before but Bob and SAR and I got letters from a
resident with seven or eight ordinance violations with vehicles so it's been a continuous issue and that's why part of this code is dressing with that to clean up some of them cards and what was that two three years ago we got all got a letter and they went around town and I
think that was before Kevin and Jo yeah yeah so it's been an issue and that's why we're addressing this issue too so any more public comments yes sir um so yeah overall I me I like it I personally would like to see it maybe a matter of
like five business days not 72 hours I think that's a little short um in nitpicky personally if we're going to keep track of ours but overall um I think it's probably a good thing there's a lot of messy stuff around that just gets left um I don't own a camper I don't own an RV and I don't have plans
of doing that but I do have a concern for the people that do um a lot of those people bought them with intention of storing them on the street in front of their house during the summer you see it all over town I'm sure there's dozens or hundreds of them um you know people store stuff I we store a car at the at
the fs a lot of people literally do not have summer storage so I guess my comment is if we do enact this um if you guys could make some type of exception or a permitting process to say hey look this is my camper I'm going to park in front of my house this is a a safe
designated spot and allow those residents to do that at least for the remainder of this year um I just you know hate to see everybody getting mad next week oh crap I don't have a place to put my camper um that just not a good experience for anybody so thank you like
said it's a complaint basis only so if there's no complaints the the officers are not going to go out and address that issue until it becomes a complaint I mean and that's why I tell you need to get along with your neighbors I mean we deal with that on a regular basis if you don't get along with your neighbors
you're I mean that's where a lot of the issues come off so yeah and that just makes it tough and that's kind of why I'm saying you know just for the remainder of the summer as a a patch work because people are you know people already this is my you can't get into storage right now if you don't already have storage you know some of the stuff
books up there's a lack of storage phas there okay yeah um you know I know like to get in the fair grounds you've got to have that if you don't have it the year before you're not going to get in there um so [Music] perfect any more public comments on the
parking perfect we'll close the public portions now we're going to go back to 9A and have Council have discussions and figure out what we want to do on the ordinance 20243 amending the weeds and grass ordinance Council comments
ideas I appreciate all the comments but I think that that's why we have the code committee and they've gone through all this and done it and for me it's like just moer lawn every you know other week and then there's not the problem
so and the these are mostly for people who are problems you know it's not the random or most it's it's the point0 one% of the town that doesn't you know doesn't M their lawn and it's not
um I think that four days is plenty of time to get your lawn more basically my yeah and this isn't for the you know every most people it's for very very few percentage and it puts things in writing
um for people to see and and and take care of and I'm sure Chief can it's not many people it's not many times that it happens actually true like like Sarah said it's there's a lot of like repeat
offenders that just don't take care of property and it's the same people complaining about it usually and so um but you know things time gets away rain gets heavy sometimes it does get long but we're trying to do it as reasonably
as we can on the in the code committee discussion the very first time we passed it we were not unanimous in our decision but with the adding of the um the native grasses specifically having an option
for that and giving it a 4-day window versus just a three-day for the recovery of the yard it was unanimous passing through the committee this time so I'm kind of with Sarah on the you know the committee has done some work on
it and I'd have to kind of think that what they've done um and with it not being a large amount of the citizens that are going and and violating the ordinance 4 days I mean
seems reasonable to try to get it mold I make a motion to approve ordinance 20243 I'll second it any further discussions resolution right y all in favor I oppose
passes 5 I want to just uh thank the public for their comments and uh the work that you guys have done and uh what council and the code committee has done uh let's jump back to 9B ordinance 20244 amending the limited time parking
ordinance comments by Council opinions ideas okay so I'm questioning Pat you said said that so you have to visually see it and then that's 7 days and then then this 72 hours have that violation
we have to witness that violation so that's why we would we would jock it so that it if it moves If It Moves any reasonable amount that Chalk's not going to be on that tire anymore
so I might be wrong but um so it's been sitting there for like a month and then someone complains and then now it's got to be seven more days right and so it's getting you know it's it's again it's these repeat offenders or people who Park their you
know they got their their blocking parking for the in the public lots and they've got a broke you know they have four flat tires and it's sitting there you know things like that it's not really for you parked in front of your house for a week because you were on
vacation or something it's not for that it's for these kind of repeat offenders that um take advantage of and it's the same thing our Public Works complain about uh cars sitting in a public parking for
long versus just the streets I know uh Larry has come a couple times especially with the parking lot next to well and I know yeah that that's bad but like where Jill lives you know and Pearl Street where that cuac so people sell stuff there so there's they have a bunch of
cars there for seven days and they're in the way and they're and so I know they've had a lot of problems she was super happy with the 72 hours because you know it'll get get them out of there in a time more timely
manner so I mean I know this week I had somebody complained about the camper right out here on West Third right next to they called me and said how do I complain I said I said direct it to the not emergency don't call 911 on that but uh and I think you guys got the call
didn't you yeah so I mean it's we're still under the old ordinance so we gotta we got to wait till that timeline runs out how long was it sitting there prior to the complaints yeah so I mean that's the purpose of some of these I
mean on these ones the shortening of that window still effectively there's a long period of time before anybody complains about it that people can still sit there and it's really targeting specifically the lots that people
certain people are using as Public Storage instead of public parking which is its intended purpose so that's main goal of that 72 always so much better at concisely saying what I want to say Kevin it amazes me been talking about
this for long right you be so concise it's so good I'll Make a Move to approve the ordinance 2020 404 par second uh any further discussions all in
favor oppos passes 5 Z Z again I want to thank the public for their comments and the police department and the co- department for their time and effort on that uh let's jump to 9C 2025 budget
discussions Kim do you want to go first sure I just no changes from our work session which we what we discussed so uh I haven't heard any questions from you so we'll just keep pressing forward waiting to see if anything comes up occasionally during the year we have something CR up that is unforeseen um
hopefully we won't but we'll keep on touch with that so we'll have another work session in August to discuss this I think we got that set was 13 14 lection perfect any questions or comments on the
budget discussion Council perfect let's jump to uh new business 10A resolution 2024 202 approve the north zumro Sanitary District annexation Bill do you have anything else to comment on that other than this would be the time for the council to ask any of
their questions once again I think we've been working on it for a little bit and we've asked some questions probably in work session and meeting so I'll make a motion to approve resolution 2024
20-22 uh any further discussions uh we'll do roll call Sarah I Bob I Joan I Kevin I and I I passes 5 z z thanks Bill on that uh 10B resolution
2024 A and B approved Chapa annexation Quest bill you got a note or two time for any Council questions uh note that there are two resolutions because the property is split part of it is in zro Township and part of it is in Pine Island Township hence the the two
resolutions so do we have to vote those uh a and be can we do them all Matt do them separately sear I got to fill out the I'll make motion for resolution 202 4-23 part a second any further
discussions so we will do roll call Sarah I I Joan I Kevin I and I I passes 500 this to resolution 2024 23 B move second any further discussion
Sarah I Bob I Joan I Kevin I I I passes 500 Z thanks Bill uh let's go to 10c set a public hearing for annexation of a portion of RightWay along Jefferson thank you mayor Brian if you could go to
page 62 of the PDF so we are asking uh the council to set a public hearing date for August 15th uh after we submitted the Champa information to the state uh there's a small portion of right of way that is outside of the Cher property so
this is actually public right away that'll be annexed into the city uh you can kind of see there in the bottom there that little arrow it's just a tiny little sliver of land uh that's currently Township Road RightWay that will become City Road right away so there's no property owner attached to
this so but as annexation we still have to complete the same process so uh asking you to set a public hearing August 15 at 605 roughly and this is Pine Island Township this is Pine Island Township correct is that or
annexation by uh I believe it will be orderly all three okay [Music] yes what was that date August 15 I'll make a motion to or set that
public hearing and dat got a second with Joan uh any further discussions all favor I opposed fast as 5 thanks Bill uh let's do uh 10d Chapa
pre-development agreement Bill uh thank you mayor uh so in your packet is a pre-development agreement so you might ask uh why are we having a pre-development agreement uh typically what would happen normal process is after we annexed in property the developer would then propose a plat and
then we would have a development agreement uh our timeline was uh being the city is that we wanted to construct nth and Jefferson this year so in 2024 uh we were hoping that through discussions with the champas that they would be ready to come forward with a preliminary plat uh they are not ready
at this time uh but our project we want to proceed uh so in the absence of development agreement uh both parties it's in the best interest of the city of Zoda and it's the best interest of the champas that we spell out all the terms that are going to be in this future agreement so that's this is what this is
and again the the focal point of this is the land trans that will occur uh so the champas will be transferring to the city 1.94 acres plus RightWay that's already there the right away being you know the hair pin turn Etc uh to the city in lie
of that the city will not be assessing them to build the road uh the city will though be assessing them for the sewer and water which we're going to act on later tonight and then there's some other Provisions in here that are spelled out as well uh this one is uh complicated enough with enough moving
parts we did uh have council member priy and mayor Hamill involved the discussions as well again just to make sure we're getting feedback on this because again there's a lot of Provisions in here so um this one is a Brian's recommendation but uh Brian Brian it's
Brian's recommendation to approve this so uh again uh answer any questions or any comments from the council and then we do not have a time frame from the champers but I would expect to see something coming back from them in the next couple months is what
they've uh what they've told us as a development as a development correct but now we have everything spelled out on paper so we're in a good position for the city I'll make a motion to approve the pre-development plan in agreement with the champas champas how say champas
second discussion um favor oppos pass is 500 thanks Bill thank you mayor uh let's go a little bit more exciting news let's do uh 10e the 2024 covered bridge festival fun stuff
the fun stuff getting ready for that Holly I'm just here to officially you know ask if we can have a festival for the town OFA um on the weekend of September 21st 22nd of 2024 um and just kind of give you a feel
of what we have planned um it's um will be similar to what we've been doing the last couple years so we moved it to a fall festival being a Saturday and Sunday um event um a little recap of some of the
stuff we have planned that we'll be redoing so the 5K 10K on Saturday morning that would should be able to go out through the park and back um I think that's what we were able to do last here as well um we'll have some sports stuff going on down there we'll do the vendors
and um music and all that stuff in the park um intentions to have fireworks again on Saturday night um Sunday would be the repeat of the car show up in this area um and the
parade in the afternoon on Sunday so a real similar lineup to what we have been um doing the past few years so logistically just kind of getting some approvals on we'll say road closures and then the permits that we'll go forward and
work um I guess are there any questions or comments on how things have gone in the past of the festival it's been great I mean I know after last year's it was h a lot of great comments and beautiful
weather which helps you've been blessed in the September uh Festival so hopefully we will continue to be um okay I will just kind of hit up some of the things that we are um again asking for permission on one of the I
won't say new but changing so last year we did the fire department water fights after the parade right in front of East Park um they would like the fire department would like to move it to Saturday so it's a little bit more fine time um and the location
being First Street right in front yeah First Street East so between Jens and the on that little guy right here so and I don't know how much room it needs so it will probably
be Where the Sidewalk is toward where East where that building where the trash goes make sure we leave where we can get to the parking lot in the back as we do need it might we might not need but in enough space to do the dump trucks
enough for them to get their Barrel back and forth and all that for their uh for the water fights and go from there um and I assume the BFW has been asked and okay with that I did speak with Matt um
and he said it was fine so um yeah so so I think time frame on that for them to get set up um they were looking at probably about 1 p.m. on Saturday the intentions of the fire water fights
going from maybe two to five or two to six or it's it's hard to say how long because they don't have all the teams in yet yep it kind of depends on how many teams come in last year as it was on a Sunday and it was later after the parade we're hoping for a better turnout as we
did here this year down in mppa more groups more towns were're talking about it so we're excited to kind of have hopefully um more you know more people show up from more towns around the area from other fire departments um and being
on a Saturday so it kind of depends um how many teams show up it could be a little longer so we just want to leave enough time and then also have the kids you know have a little bit of fun you know after that so if we do get down a little earlier then we will but we just
want to have enough time to tear down everything and put everything away as well so I think like one to seven was the tentative could we have that section closed and then I don't know how you want to act on these maybe we get the
whole laundry list and then you can act on once you're able to act on yeah a little a little laundry lift so I don't know if you want to H hit them as go as we go easier there's be a couple there's gonna
be a couple of them so I'd make a motion to approve a street closure on East First Street from 1 to 7 on Saturday September 21st yes there Sergeant I've got a concern from our
Police Department side for that location girls um yeah with it AB buding to the State Highway uh closing off that access from East it's going to you're essentially going to have to close off East Avenue all the way down at second to get people redirected around it is
there any reason you couldn't use First Street East East of East Avenue towards that gravel there just to keep traffic to be able to freely flow otherwise you're going to have people coming south on Maine who aren't going to realize like this yeah use that stretch
otherwise coming south on Maine aren't going to realize that that's exposed until last minute with all the chaos of the vehicles that we had parking on Maine last year you're going to have a traffic back up there that's going to interfere with your pedestrian Crossing uh and then people who are on East
trying to get back out to me they're going to end up going up to First thinking that they can make that left when instead we're going to send down to the brush down to turn around I mean we could I mean could we close East so they don't go in there I just don't want to
eliminate the parking I guess because I thought we couldn't so that's why leave away so they can get through back there so that's why um I just that's why I thought we could leave a g yeah we're going to close off the dump
too and I don't know how go to the dump that day but so that's why coup hours the dump could be closed okay so that's that's why I wasn't Public Safety wise for cars coming with the state highway it's going to be a mess and it's already a mess with people parking the entire way to
the festival having your pedestrian cross so could we close then to where you know where a parking lot of where like the goose or Aces there Park you know from there so then nobody goes back back there in theory yeah you could but then you're taking all the parking away from the B you're closing and
affecting why don't you do it this way can we do it from East Avenue from first to second along the elevator water AIS I think we were looking at the water acces I think when I was looking at I think Ry was helping me and there's aess right
here and right there where we have them in between that'd be the better place and try you know so that's why in the more flatter area that we need is where we need so that's where we found this is where it's more flat I was looking at
this totally wrong I thought you were doing it on East Avenue right behind the green bins no so it's right on first right in front of that side door you can say of the BFW going Street East because this is the
flattest area well it is on the other side too I'm saying could you do it just right around the corner there it's not as we were looking at we were trying to find as flat of a area that we can find so that's why okay and that's where this
part works pretty good for us in the water axis everywhere else the other concern I wanted to talk with you too Is We I think we did pretty well on our pedestrian safety Crossing
you know up the way last year um so you know our concern as a committee was now we're going to have to add another potential uh crosswalk you know a lot more signage right there because we especially a lot of people are going go where you want to go you're gonna have
to have more signage yeah so I and and another probably attendant area correct so I so we had some concerns too and we are still I agree with that site from a law enforcement yeah sorry I just don't think it's a
safe spot no that's fine I mean yeah I can so that's what we're here for us to to talk and plan because it's a yeah it's a new location but I also think that road is not highly traveled
necessarily I think if the signage is there and we do another crossw walk there but I understand remember you're working with mindock who does not want you put putting signs on their RightWay they do not want you to technically we're not supposed to put the crosswalk
signs that we borrow from the school in the middle of high 15 so it's I think we're asking for issues with that I think if we used East Avenue and left First Street open would be a better idea than closing First
Street but does that eliminate the need for a Crossing there potentially because people could still access both of the and we might have to see how it goes to you know how busy it is if there's a lot of traffic we might have to add some
flag people um but yeah it's a they have to have water sources so they were looking at ideas and this was one of them so I guess we can continue to to do a drawing board or you know put
a pin in this one if can we move them signs out of the RightWay so you're up to buy that donation box so they at least have a couple cars and do no parking there so if somebody does turn
they can at least turn there and turn around so we so we basically where that donation box is close it from there back because then we get out of the right away these lines the other thing you can do too is permission from the
well yeah but these lines should don't roughly show the RightWay these are the property lines excuse me those have right in there fire on there do you see them the boys I mean I like that idea because of the proximity
to The Covered Bridge yeah and that's but I also I like Tony or Tony's concerned the safety issue because you got that bridge cars parked there I understand all that what's the correct
answer and maybe we'd keep working with Tony on that and we come back and ask about Street approval in a couple weeks because if we move the close signing up to that donation box we can do it from basically there to the dumpsters or to East Avenue if they have enough space
you'll bail use the parking lot for parking too think that'll be enough room for from what I I the barrel they need they need that much of a yeah of a whole block have you looked at West Avenue
here at all I know you'd be losing some of your parking and walking access but if you're only doing it for a couple hours where right out here they're using that out here they're using that so that's why
that's why our options was there could you put food stands there right food trucks there what are you talking abouton yeah so so that was our first thought that's why I asked so that's why we were kind of you know we brought our different
options intentions for a little bit more going on up here the library's got stuff going on I don't know exactly timing on Saturday um it's not entirely off the table if it were in the afternoon the the other concern we had was it a little
bit it makes it a little bit tricky to get in or you know if you're coming into the the park and you want to enter on the bridge but workable um I would ask that we have some more time to discuss safety before the council
asks Public Safety side but that takes it away from from down here so that's why oh I guess their fire hall is down so that's why just trying to keep it central where everybody can just go get something to eat come back and I go back
and forth yeah well let's put a pin in that and we'll keep working on on options and and maybe as we finalize this area this might work too potentially so put a pin in that I'll
move on to my next closure ask um the car show is going to continue to be on Sunday in this area which has been incredibly successful the past few years um of course they you know have intentions to continue to have more cars
um but I think it was a little bit of a pedestrian safety issue again with Second Street so do you mind you still have the got it um oh let's see so here's neilson's um um so this street remains
open um and there's there's cars parked all here they had cars parked all along here and they'd like to continue to to park cars here um so this was just a really risky area with with Crossing and they had their pedestrian or yeah their
cross people but he said well I almost got hit and so we'd really like to continue to pursue closing that stretch wor now again here um I know that that's a truck route
and that's always been issue so and that's going to count that's going to be a county road so I mean we as City can't make a decision on that so I guess it uh we are aware that it is a a county need and probably a tricky one that one would
be probably tough but it's it's a tough safety spot and it's there's not a lot of other places for them to expand on um we can continue to beef up the signage for for flags and whatnot um but they
yeah last year felt a little bit unsafe with the pedestrians Crossing and how about going up East Avenue because we could have a better idea or opinion closing that intersection up there on was it third close it from second to
fourth or something for you have two blocks of Roads that's in front of the tattoo and move your car show them two blocks on West avue on West Avenue sorry from like first to third is it so this oops again I think they're
trying to keep it yeah yeah keep because we have the bulk right here a lot of car room space here and you just do it just yeah so I think I think they could fit almost a 100 right here well what about if we opened up the city parking too
could they that would add more so it wouldn't be so already in there they are oh I didn't was all the way through it was really I just thought I saw it in the um yeah I I think even if they don't park on that road it was just it felt
still heavily trafficked with cars and so they were like it would just you know there's lots of people walking and so that heavy traffic is where it gets tough to close it too no the other trouble we've had in the years is Jefferson's been under
construction so there really wasn't a reroute option we now are finished and so we could put those signs way back on Jefferson that if you know I know it's a truck route that the trucks continue on on Jefferson if you can get the
county then we'll probably be open is just going to be getting it through the county to close I guess could we have permission to approach the county and by that I mean the the people are taking this on he was unable to be here tonight he said he could come
back but um I mean if the county think I don't don't think you need permission from us okay much have to say well we'll try let us know you know what being but I agree
with the concerns with the traffic and that being a busy road so if we can get it closed more of the merrier think our time frame was you know 7:00 a.m. to to 2 or so 2 o'cl would probably be good because they they're done with the show by 1 so they could even open it probably
1:30 but okay I will pass that along and see if we can make any progress again it's it's helpful to it's hard to get so many um volunteers to help at those crosswalks so we want to keep the people
safe number one goal yeah um next is the parade would be Sunday um um East Avenue we're going to do that same route from Jefferson and I think we shortened it a little to go to fourth street so we wouldn't have to shut that County 10 um
we we plan to repeat that route and request to shut down East Avenue from 2 p.m. to 4:30 the parade starts at 3: it's probably about an hour um we'll say 1 to
4:30 that's yeah it's probably more than we need but we'll we'll have signage up and then again work with you guys on our barricades and some fine tuning of what we did last year I think we've talked about stuff already so do we have any problem with closing this one Jefferson
to F we almost closed it a little too good in some spots so yeah they wouldn't let me back home that's a lot people said I'm remembering now why is it that like this so um ID had offered to come and help Park their cars um but it was
like one guy and he had about 20 cars parked so it took him a while so it took him a while to get them moved and his our communication wasn't clear enough at the beginning on hey we got to pull those back as soon as the Parade's done so people couldn't get past the Cs so I
don't think we would yeah we've kind of discussed a little bit but we'll we'll work with Tony again or the police department on um barricades to just keep safety I think it was cuz people wanted to like sit you know when maybe some
people will like to sit in the road it adds a lot more space and they were like but they couldn't because there was they would be in the road because they parked it like right at the end so you couldn't yeah Park back a little bit so people could sit there to do the cars again
just well let's vote on the time I think that's one that we can okay if everybody agrees on that time I'm closing uh East Avenue from 5ifth to Jefferson from roughly uh 1 to 4:30 and Holly and the
committee will yes I said fource but you're correct Fifth Street take care of any uh Road blockage with their PD and or Tony so I'll make that motion second any further discussions
all in favor oppose pass is 5 z z so we got one out of three done already um Park preparations really I work with Mike on this um as far as getting the the park ready they've done awesome at at Mowing and clearing out
things and making it look beautiful um volleyball courts we intend to use again so just getting fine tuning of that and then basketball courts um I do have a question for you Mike do you know if those Hoops can get um raised so the
style of hoop that you have has started to Sag because of people probably hanging on it so I don't know if there's a way that it can be raised back up to to hit the 10 ft um you know at any point in time or at least by by the
festival um and then I think you painted lines for us too last year we are not doing pickle ball so I don't need the pickle ball painted unless you want to but at least the basketball that work you m and Mike and the park staff or the street guys do a
great job yep they do awesome for us so I I can kind of work with him almost that I don't think I need um specific approval other than thank you for the help on that and for garbages um that I work with Brian on getting those set up
um the library lot I guess just to talk about closure during the weekend um so I did I mentioned this to a few board members of mine when I saw this memo the Sunday is
fine we're closed on Sundays as it is is but um they were not in favor of any closure on Saturday um because we're open all day for one thing we do have some programs um and my experience has been also that parking is already really
tight there on that day um but also elderly handicap accessibility would then be removed and um that would probably be illegal itself so so short of closing the library the whole day which don't think we want to do on that
day okay um the the reason for our change or like interest in that this year was we were going to be doing so we've got the the food vendors are set up near the in the grass space here we were just going to have a little bit more kid
entertainment we'll say just right out this window kind of the grass area um but really that that isn't parking space the we were thinking about doing kind of a farmers market like vendor setup
near your parking lot space but it's something that just has a few more Logistics we haven't got into and we we won't what we'll do is just plan on keeping that section open for parking maybe just limiting some of the the entry on or just having them
parked there so like you know if maybe you cut off a little bit of parking say at this end or something like that that would be okay but really like I said the parking's really tight as it is and the Library board didn't want to want to close it off entirely that sounds fine
okay if you have a game plan or get something you want or put there talk to James and we'll just make a yeah a map out of exactly our intentions and make sure we still have the space that you guys that makes sense sure so well I and
I do want to make sure too you are you sure you even really want to be eliminating parking spots right by the bridge like that anyway because it gets tight anyway on on that day and taking all that out everyone's going to be parking all the way and and they're
going to flow into neel's and neon's probably not going to be real happy about that so just throwing that out there but I guess we thought you know Saturday is busier but we do it on Sunday and so it's kind of like well we make it work on that day but it's a it's a different
volume of crowd on Saturday than it is Sunday so um okay [Music] um we have a lot of you know vendors that we set up in the morning in the
park and just they leave at the end of the day and so we are wondering on maybe I just work with the city on this but is there a way that we can go out the back towards the pool instead of having all
of them drive through and um Drive yeah I mean is there anything up there that we can it's a hill and I know we got New Path so I mean I'm not too hip of new vehicles driving over the walking path
with it being new PA oh will you back out just a little bit so I can see the the vendor area I'll show you what we did last year sorry um okay I'll let it load I think so here
is like the walking path that's brand new and we put all of the um the vendors in here and what we did to just Escape last year because this is full of food vendors and people walking so driving through here was non-negotiable we did that two years ago it's terrible so what
they did was they're parked in the grass and they scooted over and went this way not on the rink but they kind of were able to escape with the grass which is doable but I was just wondering could we just have them take the road is there a
way we can get to this parking lot or wherever the pool is like can you take this road anywhere to escape this way instead of going over the grass and heading out this
way I don't think not right now maybe in a year we have a temporary really steep there just don't deep there have you I mean is problem and you're talking about this little path I haven't been over there
super lately so the little path up to the pool is that correct and maybe yeah maybe it isn't I like that idea if it's doable but yeah it looks farther on here than I
thought oh I guess kind of right yeah it's a little snugger than I was thinking um so if pedestrian wise it was it was okay to do what we did last year but I thought if if there was a
route this would be a nice way to say hey we're gonna have flags and you go back that way and see you you know we've got people making sure they don't get run over but but maybe this is maybe this is something that you talked to Mike about too and yeah I'd be happy to with him on that too best thing to
do we can walk that together if that's okay to just move on work with the city on that um I think the only real ask that we were um going to run by you is you know we have a lot
of um food vendors and trucks again and with this little Outlet electrical pole unit that you have in the middle um it's got 250 watt connectors and we were curious
if that one could hold an additional 50 it's got a heck of a lot of 12s um but all these food trucks and everything uses the 50s um so just cu ious we were incredibly grateful for the installation of those last year um so if that would
be a possibility to just get one more additional one added to this this PO right out here talking about Brian and I talked about a little bit Mike do you know how much that cost was to put that in roughly and can they do another 50 yeah so is it possible and I think last
year they put two in at the um on the Park Road I want to say it was like 133 00 bucks or something put more in than two I think we put a lot in so Brian and I talked about it and my opinion is the city used
to run this festival and it wasted a lot of City time and hours doing this now since we have Holly and has done a great job that do we have money can we find money to put another 50 in there for it's there and we're we're
going to continue doing this festal that maybe a city we can put another one in there or two is if it fits yeah um because I don't think with it growing and having more vendors that I think as a city and
not our city staff dealing this and Staffing because I know the first year I was mayor I think Kim's Hair got real gray that year um doing that and I know she was grateful and there was other issues why we had to go away from it so I think as a city
standpoint and and it drives people to our town it drives our residents and our community being together that we should or could look at the option of putting at least one more or two more at a city expense is my opinion and there is the
installation cost to consider but uh we believe that there's a monthly cost of to have those there is that is that correct or not correct I have one on my building so if anyone needs a spot
from there so that's my opinion on that 50 watt on the pool can we just find out more information on it and see what it cost us yeah I mean and it's just get a point but my opinion is that as a city and I know Kim is glad that she's not doing this anymore so I just think thank
you guys so I just think that Brian and I talked about it and that was kind of the opinion that hey I mean if it's 30,000 let's talk about it but if it's a thousand or two even 24 2500 bucks saves us a lot of time from City Miranda and
everybody else doing it so that's my opinion but I agree with boets can Mike can you get bids will you use shanes or something like that or whoever ask so I'll check into it yeah could you just get us some prices even if there's monthly prices and stuff like that where
we kind of know where it's at that work for Council so hopefully we can have a decision by next council is that a couple weeks okay for you Mike okay perfect that um I want to work with the
police on some things but I don't think I need to go over that with you so um Tony's a man and chief yeah um thank you for all of your support on those things thank you for the electricity installation last year
again it's a huge draw to have all those food trucks and just we've been able to build that up and I think each year we're able to replicate and build on it it's and I think it makes it easier I think it makes it easier to have them plugins versus 13 generators running
around and it's a noise thing too so it's nice to not have all that um so we are extremely appreciative of what was able to be installed last year and like we thought this one has so few maybe we could even swap out what's there um because there's a lot of 121 so that is
all that I have thank you for your time I didn't plan to talk so long so thank you she does a great job why no pickle ball Hol I mean I don't play but I'm just curious so um it seemed to be really intimidating for people last year
to sign up for an actual tournament they kind of were like I you know that I'd like I like playing but I don't want to do the tournament so we didn't have a huge crowd on that we outsourced the actual tournament uh people who ran it um and I don't
think they felt like it was extremely worth their time so I think we'll probably encourage this the social like hey you can come play pickle ball again we set up the Nets but um yeah as far as we were going to try to work with um like Earl Mack and see
if he could you know they've already got I think a league or something you know that play So maybe if he has some interest taking it on but we haven't we haven't had a lot of uh momentum on it and it just curious I don't never played but I was just like you said he'll pick
up all yeah um and I shouldn't say that that's final but we haven't pursued the the um company that we used last year so it would be more of a um open pickle ball is probably what it it might be
so thank you um so I will just maybe follow up with emails or calls Mike and Brian and then as far as um the quote do you want me to come back to get the approval after your quotes or how will you just keep in touch with me
on I just think once you get the quotes I mean you don't necessarily be here because I think we're all on the same page and Council can make a decision of what they want to do or not on that sounds great and then they can let you go or let you know thank you perfect and let me go to but but we'll want you back
to talk about the water the water the water fight the it we'll work on that work with Tony then too as perfect thanks thanks hly let's jump to the festival temporary liquor license I believe uh s by
Southeast LTS brewing and zumbro Falls Winery have applied and got all their paperwork in correct yep I approval for them three for liquor license any further discussions all in favor oppos passes 5
Z to ask about um Fireworks do you give permission for fireworks do you need I think you have to they have to have their permit in place and then he might be submitting or submitted okay I heard it was in the
work so okay I think so what they do Mike that yeah okay brought it in last time yeah I think yeah I remember that it was on my list and I just want to make sure I didn't need to um yep he's it's the same guy we've had so he
he knows what paperwor and we'll work with the fire department for safety again so okay thanks do you need me to have a band on Saturday night again or are you GNA have's been trying to connect with somebody at your place to do that um because we're gonna have band
and tell fireworks so we don't have anything planned after fire I just didn't want to have something and then you ran well we're having a thing okay that would be awesome if I'll tell Terry to swing in maybe thanks perfect thanks H take
care 10g uh manage it contract uh I was told Mike is going to do all the talk no Brian sorry Brian you want to take care of that yeah absolutely as you know we went out for rfps for managed uh it contracts
and um we reviewed was it four of them I believe Kevin took a look at them as well James and I went through them um and the one that stood out was onsite uh computers uh and Mike Bo he's in attendance tonight um we've got a ton of
Technology now a lot more than we had four years ago when I when I got here um and so we have to keep it going if it goes down we're we're kind of at a standstill with billing and uh emails and Communications and all that stuff so so it's essential to have a technology
partner who has a an intimate knowledge of our work workings uh we've been working so far with on call um as needed with Marco and and it's been okay but they just were not intimately knowledgeable about our whole system so
we wanted to get a partner that would come in and do that um and onsite offers um all of that um and and value uh in the unlimited remote labor and we also have an opportunity where we pay for some block time we can bank that and
that'll be used mostly for or if we need something on site um and yeah they'll just they'll dig into all of our technology make recommendations uh give us some education they've got a a whole array of of online education things that we can
send out to employees um there's also some fishing stuff that they do and there's other educational things we all kinds of opportunities to to send things up went over it and
yeah yep and and and also onsite is the technology provider for several other area cities and uh and uh they speak highly of Mike in the company so if you wanted to give a speech you certainly could we move
this this quite extensively but okay I told him i' get him on right away in well hour and a [Laughter] half so hopefully we we won't have to see very often I hate to say that about a
person but you're one of them V call when there's a problem don't sit there and try to fix it yourself no just call it makes it worse y so we're just looking for you know approval to move forward with the with the contract you've got that uh in front
of you um we were anticipating this um and we we worked it into the budget over the years correct Kim and and so it won't be a it won't be a it won't break any part of the budget um but it will be nice to have someone that we can that
that actually knows exactly and be able to pinpoint stuff when when we call and and uh anybody will be able to call um you know with issues um and and they'll get us fixed up quickly so with your Mission will'll move forward with the
contract I'll make a motion to approve the manage it contract with what are they called again both uh onite I got one quick question and James you guys recommend this and it's
necessary well I wanted managed it for years okay it's necessary I mean it really is we're probably the only city that doesn't have cities around C and bu
andion 15 16 different city governments in this area right here southern Minnesota so it it's the uh the environment has changed dramatically to the point that I always tell people in your position I don't
want to see your name in the paper because I don't want my name in the paper that's really what it comes down to it because uh the security is nothing to take lightly you know the idea is to keep uh your data
safe and this will free up some of james' time too because he's been our in-house go-to guy with the things like password changes and and well a whole lot of stuff so I'll second you got a motion on Sarah I'll
second any more questions or concerns with that all in favor I hi oppose passes 5 Z thanks Brian Kevin thank you nice meet you nice meeting
you let's go uh 10 H Jefferson Drive pay request Bill thank you this is reest number 11 uh this project is we're dwindling down and we're kind of getting our last couple items so this is uh work that was done for pavement markings or striping and and shrub work that was
completed the spring uh we I have one maybe two more again as we're finishing up our punch list items uh so recommendation is to approve this pay request for $ 23, $19.75 to Schumacher
Excavating what was that budget on that 5.2 was it roughly was I mean we're still under it right we're still under budget correct I will then make motion to approve request number 11 any further discussions all in favor
I oppose passes 5 thanks Bill thank you mayor and councel I let's do Mill and six Street pay request teen pay requests this will bring us to about onethird spent uh you know all our pay requests lag behind a month so even rain aside
we're still progressing uh when I did talk to Blake our our field engineer and Scott Schumacher uh they felt uh we were ahead of schedule now we're just on schedule so uh the main thing being that we need to have M done before school starts so uh we could use a little bit
of dry some dry spells here uh so what's recommended is uh approve the pay request in the amount of 327,00 thanks Bill thank you mayor uh 10j ordinance 2024 six amended accessory structures ordinance Brian yes you've
got my memo there that kind of explains the whole thing uh we've been kicking this around for a while so you all know um what it is just let me get to the do it on the computer here Miranda is gone this is awful no no Kim did a good job I just didn't want to
go all the way back to the top there is the home button so there's no button yeah that little it's the one down in the bottom of the page the the long rectangle is the button I don't have that oh shoot um oh yeah I think you have like the enhanced
view or something on that thing I don't know what happened but trying to find it anyway the ordinance um again now the discussion started a while back about um whether or not a uh you know we have a we have an ordinance in place now that allows two accessory structures or two
accessory buildings that's a whole another deal too but um allowed on a residential uh lot or site or parcel um and the discussion was well can Big Lots support or can we have more than one or
more than those two accessory buildings on a on a big lot and if so what size lot would support how many buildings uh I think the spirit of the ordinance is to not look cluttered and junky and have these buildings all over the place um so
we came up with uh you know Zer acres to 75 which is a lot 90% of the Lots in town probably or maybe more would would stay with the two you get two that's that's the way it is U currently 76 to
1.24 would be three and 1.25 and up uh I don't even know if we have any of those in city limits that are bigger than a 1.25 um would be allowed for detached accessory structures um that went to the code committee and they agreed with it and
pass it along to uh to council Kevin you have any more insight on that good plan there's two proposals that we um fish through one was zero to anything under one acre got two and we kind of
broaden that net a little bit by bringing that down to0 75 so anything over 3/4 of an acre lot would have that three options so and I forgot a part this was a zoning so we did have a public Hearing in with the Planning
Commission as well I'll make a motion to adopt or approve ordinance 20246 any further discussion all in favor I I oppos passes 500 thanks Brian and planning and zoning
uh 10K sale of the old Street sweeper M maybe that should have beened a little the the junkyard bearings are um out of it now
so it's really not worth nothing it was worth not much and not necessarily who would give us the best price for scrap and the new ones coming next week I'll make a motion to approve the
junking of the street uh any further discussions all in favor oppose passes 500 thanks Mike uh 10l East 99th Street resolution 20249 declaring the cost and assess
ordering preparation of proposed Assessment bill all right thank thank you mayor so you'll actually have two assessments We'll be asking you to act on uh following Minnesota statute 429 We open bids which we did last week and then what happens is now as we if you
recall during the preliminary hearing we've told everybody those are preliminary numbers until we have actual numbers now we have actual numbers so now we need to set uh put in motion our final hearing which will be our August 15 city council meeting uh that will be
the hearing uh where everybody will get notice of that they will be made aware of what their final assessments are that will be their time to appeal their assessment so they would come here and then they present evidence to you after you hear that evidence then we will ask you to consider the contract and
awarding that contract so what you have in your packet here tonight is all the paperwork that it takes to do do that uh included as there in in there is the bid tabulation uh we did receive seven bids uh the low bid was submitted by Schumacher Excavating of Zoda uh their
bid was 741 th000 uh our estimate on this project was 72,000 so their price is higher um what is our goal when we bid a project our goal is that we are within 10% our goal is also that we have some
items built in there for safety safety meaning what happens if we have wet soils what happens if we when we're digging through a hill we find something buried there uh so we don't like to count on that but we have some items built in here this is what we call a unit price contract meaning we pay them
for what they do how many how much rock or dirt or pavement Etc so uh in an Ideal World it goes according to plan and we we'll actually finish about that number uh but again we have to be cautious in what we do and have some
safety Factor in so I did talk to Scott Schumacher and said Scott uh your prices are a little higher than the ones you gave us just last year and he said uh the main item is material costs continue to go up uh that their labor costs have not gone up very much their costs but
the prices of the the items they're installing so uh based on that we feel this is a reasonable price and we are recommending the city council approve the the two resolutions uh how that impacts the people being assessed uh B ironically because it's based on
actual numbers the champa's assessment actually goes down a little bit U because again it's based on actual numbers and but the uh the city portion goes a little higher and the residence goes up a little bit what's a little bit uh approximately $2 to $300 uh depending
on the property so pretty pretty consistent with what we told in the preliminary and that's really our goal is that we want to hit that number but again I want to stress until we open bids it's you know it's it's an estimate so uh so Council we're asking you to
pass resolution 20249 but I'd be happy to entertain uh any questions any questions on that again we've been talking about that for a year or two so getting closer and closer I think that's what starting to when do we know
roughly um well shackers have said uh they would like to start potentially the next week after the 15th hearing they want to start right away okay but they are also uh crossing their fingers regarding rain so meaning we needed to
stop raining I'll make a motion for the uh uh East night Street resolution 20249 any fur discussions all in favor you're right sorry hi Joan hi uh Kevin and I I passes 5 z z
good C uh let's do a 10m East 9th Street resolution 202 2420 calling for hearing of Assessments Bill thank you m just the companion to this uh setting the hearing date August 15th yep
610 all right technically I'll you have to say at six o'clock and then you'll just call it when you get to it on the agenda make motion to approve resolution 20420 any discuss
SAR hi Kevin hi I passes five z uh thanks Bill again thank you may uh 10n cannabis registration delegation Brian uh yeah we talked about this or you guys did a little bit in the uh the
work session um what we've got is uh the county um asking us if we intend on delegating our registration authority to to them um that would be for sales not for grow operations we would still have
to do our own uh licensing and uh regulating of grow operations uh permitting and drafting of per performance standards Etc uh if we delegate reg reg registration authority to the county uh they will handle registration and compliance checks if we
don't we'll have to do the registration and compliance checks um we would however either way we would still be able to have our own zoning rules regulating time and place of operations and those type of things so we'll still put together our zoning
rules and then the county will make sure that our zoning rules for each community that delegates to them our our zoning would be incorporated um um so they make sure when they're registering or licensing um a retailer that they they
are following our zoning um and there is a process for a city to take back registration Authority in the future um if if we if we would delegate to the county now uh we could at a later date say you know what we
want to take that Authority back uh there will be a process for that right now we're just doing a motion to have the county take the delegation correct yes or or tell them yes we're going to have you take the the
delegation or no we're not I'll make a motion to have the county take the registration delegation we have not the staff nor no second any discussions on
cannabis all in favor I I oppose passes 500 thanks Brian uh 10 resolution 2024 there there's one correction I believe on the actual resolution which uh was just we had it 19 and need to
change to 21 but it's correct in the uh yep that's right just the bottom the final sentence uh read 2020 for 2419 it should be 2021 I have changed that on the one that I'll have uh the mayor signed so um yeah we just need to
appoint elected judges um for the primary and general elections uh we've got a nice list of names there be nice to have a bunch of help um there's no shortage of things to do on on Election Day and we have to do two more of them so looking for approval on that
I'll make a motion to approve resolution 2024 D21 okay any further discussion I got one question this is for the primary and the general election y um my wife is listed there and I don't think she can
be on for the November o that's a good point be on there yeah that's a good point hey Matt do you have any idea how we handle that no um I'm wondering if we can approve this
and then go back and and remove her can you do different resolutions for primary and for the general we could I thought that's when does this have to be approved I think I have to have it in after this meeting
it's uh I can't remember the date I don't think we have another meeting the next meeting um I think they want them both let me but if she doesn't show up I mean well but yeah she's on the approved list
so I don't know how to answer that just make an amendment to that to say for Jennifer only the primary and not the general could you just put her name and then just put primary only so
I'm I'm what do you got stat this is more Matt's field than mine but subdivision 2 individuals not qualified to be election judges uh be no
individual shall be appointed if uh that individual is the spouse yeah blah blah blah of any election judge serving the same Precinct or any candidate at that election right yep and that's what we're talking about that she could do the primary oh sorry yeah so he could she
could do the primary but not the putri only after her name yep yep I'll add that and that's that's a stated Amendment and we did it in the meeting so that should be I think so should be good okay then I can amend my yeah thing to
say Jennifer P as amended the resolution 2024 D21 as amended that's and I'll re second that Amendment discussion all in favor I
oppose passes 5 z z is that a resolution oh resolution this is getting really long Sarah I Bob Joan I Kevin I and I I pass this
500 uh 10 P preliminary and final plat North zro Sanitary District Bill thank you all right now that you've heard the annexation passed that now you can subdivide the or approve the subdivision of the land as we mentioned earlier zro is a party to the subdivision because
they're a party of the north somro sanary Sewer District uh so in your packet is information from Kurt uh interestingly uh we have to revie uh the subdivision from the city Side so you have a review letter in there for me as a city engineer uh ultimately we're
re recommending approval uh now what will happen is this is to facilitate the sale of the property uh so some things still need to happen there still needs to be an environmental assessment worksheet environmental hearing on the project there still needs to be a site plan submitted Etc uh those will all
come back to the city over the next couple years but uh the first thing though is we have to approve a subdivision so we can own the land to make those future decisions so uh with that uh we are recommending approval of the preliminary and final
plat that was the quick version so but I'd be happy to entertain any questions and you'll see that the uh you know the annexation was the 88.8 3 acres and this is talking about
the 44.5 6 yep exactly um acres for the sanitary we'll just have the mayor hold off on signing the plat until the annexation paperwork goes through so some of these things we just got to get them you know a lot of things have to happen in parallel so I'll make a motion to approve the
preliminary and final plat of the north SRO cery Sewer District second any further discussions all in favor pass is 5 Z to make sure was
resolution okay I know 10 Q Northwest water looping project bids uh bill right last one for the night so uh we did take bids on Tuesday for the Northwest watermain Loop as I mentioned when we
set this this is a a long time in progress this project and part of that's because we receive federal funding which is fantastic uh that we are receiving $560,000 Grant but not so fantastic part is it's really taking us a long time to
get here but we're here so we have bids uh the estimated construction cost was 700,000 the bid was submitted for 67874 uh by Northwest asphalt of Shaka Minnesota so we have not worked with them but uh the city or you don't have a
lot of discretion awarding basically uh you have to follow the statute saying is there a reason to throw them out based on your own experience uh based on our discussions with talking with them looking at the projects they completed they appear appear to be capable of completing this project they have
completed projects of similar size and scope and based on the fact that they're $100,000 cheaper and we have no reason to reject their bid uh we are recommending that the city award a contract to them contingent upon uh EPA
approval so that is a requirement so the PA also has to approve this bid as well because the congressionally directed spending money is being funneled or I shouldn't say funneled is being uh appropriated yeah routed through the routed through the yeah so
whenever you receive federal dollars there's all always a federal agency that administers it so that is the op in this case my question to you Bill on this this when I see Northwest asphalt I think of uh paving road company
do you as engineer research check up on it I mean I know you mentioned that they're capable but we do more research because none of us has heard of this correct I mean you look at everybody else on here we've seen them with they've done work for us we've talked to them we said what kind of work it show
us some examples of underground projects so their name's a little misleading they do other projects as well uh you know they do a wide variety of of of projects so so as an engineer you're okay the well the only thing we can consider
me and you is are they the statutory requirement of responsive and responsible so they meet that requirement now personally I don't know enough about them but do I see any red flags no I do not see any Red Flags uh but we're only really supposed to
consider this the strict statute so so again we need dry weather so for this project to go well I mean because I always CL when they're 100,000 cheaper or somebody we don't know why is that right I did too I
thought the same thing but it's if they're nothing to discuss about it unless there's some so you only have you only have two choices your choice is to accept the bid or reject all bids and rebid the project so and then you probably pay
more we've got this far I mean yep and they do have to be held to certain standards and responsibilities as well well that you are absolutely so yep that eases my mind a little bit because that's my same concern is we don't know them from anybody so yep I mean
everybody else on there we know has done work for us right but but are we also know contractors are hurting for business because of the economy getting caught up before a light winter so I mean maybe they were just aggressive and
need to work so but $100,000 is a lot actually that's exactly right that's what they told us they're short on work so they they I think their words were they they hit it hard so so and we've talked about that before in other projects that starting to slow down a
little bit so right so this one we recommend it's just a straight motion no resolution so I'll make a motion to approve the Northwest water looping project lowest bid any further discussions all in favor
I I oppos passes 5 z z thanks Bill for all your work next time you can run Council we did most of it yeah
report reports to go no Brian has none no I I just want to thank whks and that staff uh there's an incredible amount of work that goes into all these projects and uh Scott honii is sending emails constantly the EPA thing went in circles for a long time
and Scott was patient and kept up with them and got it through and uh I was kidding bill before I said this is the bill show tonight so appreciate him coming in to to speak to all these things he uh he can speak to this much more eloquently than I can on these projects so uh so I appreciate that and
then uh the pool committee uh has another meeting on Monday next week um they've decided that they're going to have a table at the National Night Out and at the fair now we're in the in the vote stage so we got to be careful as City staff or Council we can be there we can be at the
table but only to provide facts and information we can't uh talk about a vote one way or the other but we can absolutely be there U to help out to answer questions to give facts so so National Night Out and the fair so if
anybody's interested let me know I'll I'll let Meg uh Meg James is is heading this up uh working closely with Josh ler from from burbach and uh they're moving along and and and we'll see we'll see where it goes mik's done a good job so far on that I mean I don't know if you
none of you talked to her about it but yeah she's and the primary of course is August 13th um then work session the night after so couple of us might have some be kind of tired that night because those are long nights those election nights go
till well I could go till midnight well the primary one we'll have Jen then we we don't have Jen for the general it might go till midnight then she's usually our our one to straighten things out that need to be straightened out so but I could go on but no I'm just
kidding that's it well we know thanks uh Matt thanks uh sge um we had a lot of training this week with the police department for firearms uh I was at the iak task force basic investigator school um very good training we've got a lot of
training for uh various officers coming up as well so we appreciate the funding to be able to have this training to keep us sharp on our skills perfect thanks Serge Bill I'm skipping you no you have anything
enough J I'll I'll skip my normally detailed report for Sarah's benefit just up meeting turn you forgot about all them oh yeah sorry too late what is what I forgot to
ask you guys I have nothing I don't think sir has anything I had a Kevin area ambulance is having a successful fundraising they're at $30,000 for funds raised so far perfect and we've got the budget meeting coming
up in two weeks yep their budget meeting is coming up at the end of the month did AIC solicitation all right well thank you everybody yeah spell ambulance Dave freeze Dave freeze ambulance we're going
in the ambulance tonight holy moly there's so many nobody's gonna typles are bad this is not a comfortable table to type on I'm short bodied I need a taller chair long legs and have a short body
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