[0:00] Greg Isakson (Goodhue County Engineer): not actually on the structure excuse me don't worry okay all right sorry about that um so um like i said so the this is being treated in the same fashion as uh as the as a township bridge um as far as additional funding is concerned there is generally when mndot has a federal project like this when they find out what the original bid mount is they take all the rest of the federal funding away from the project and put it somewhere else in this particular case since it is for a small city and as neil said this is a repair project srf has done these projects before but [0:46] Greg Isakson: there's a lot of time you don't know until you take these two pieces of metal apart what it actually looks like in between the two of them so that's why they're just there just is a possibility that we're going to have some change orders now one thing in in the agreement it says that that we as the county we need the authority to make those change orders when those change orders need to be made but we have no intentions of making any change orders unless it's actually required by a state statute such as the historic issue or it's required for the structural integrity of the bridge this isn't a typical project where you can have a change order and all of a sudden oh we want leather seats instead of we want plastic seeds those are not the kind of change orders we're talking about here we're talking [1:31] Greg Isakson: about if they take something apart it's going to take a little bit more work than what was bid on originally um but it needs to be done for the structural integrity of the bridge that's the change orders we're talking about that we would potentially make here um as at this time there is we've got about 2.3 million dollars sitting up in st paul set aside for this project when you throw that on top of what the design was at that point there will have been almost 2.5 million dollars of state and federal money involved with this project so far as neil said we have two different agreements to discuss here today the first one is an agreement with srf and srf [2:19] Greg Isakson: designed it in fact jameson is going to be the the lead point of contact for for srf and he was the lead designer on it originally the cost for this when i first saw it was a little shocking um to 294 988 we did have a conversation with the folks in the bridge office that have been have worked on similar historic bridges like this and they say yeah it's a lot more on a percentage basis than a typical bridge but this is not a typical bridge and they were fine with with that number right now we have set aside motor vehicle sales tax to cover that entire cost [3:05] Greg Isakson: of that project and we have between federal and state money enough money set aside to handle the initial bid price for the project as assists today so srf's contract does lay out the work that they are are going to do and i'm recommending that the city sign this agreement these guys are are experts in what they do and like i said the state folks who have worked on these historic bridges before um have blessed off on it that this is actually reasonable price for this type of work so i would recommend that the city move forward and sign that agreement now the second agreement that [3:50] Greg Isakson: we need to talk about is an agreement between the county and the city and i have an agreement like this on every township bridge that we build it's very similar this was a little unique because you have a unique project here but it basically says is we've got enough money set aside for to get the project the known cost for the project the county is required to do the contract administration for this such as the advertising which we've done the leading and the awarding of the construction project and in negotiations for change orders and making payments to the contractors and in this case making payments to the consultant so even though the contract srf is with you guys the funding for it [4:36] Greg Isakson: will come through the county since the motor vehicle's lease sales tax comes directly to the county from the state because we have that financial relationship that small cities do not have county technicians will set the the bench survey benchmarks that the contractor can use to move forward with the project and this talks about that the city is responsible to hire srf and who will take care of the contract administration contract engineering additional design support material testing paint inspection as built and they have hired a historian because a historian is required on a project like this since it is a historic bridge [5:22] Greg Isakson: um as with town township projects the city is responsible for the first ten thousand dollars of bridge approach cost um now the county we will will apply for these minnesota vehicle lease sales tax funds we can't apply for it until the project is approved so they have the money setting aside i just have to fill out a grant and then have the county board sign that a grant to move forward with it for these funds but the funds are sitting in saint paul with this project's name on it so so we have funds available for the original construction cost and the consultants fees in summary what is what the the city is looking [6:08] Greg Isakson: at like neil said before is ten thousand dollars the first ten thousand dollars in engineering fees are in this cost construction project management the initial ten costs and ten thousand dollars in approach cost anything performed by the county engineer to our technicians basically we're gonna set the survey benchmarks and i also threw this in here there just may be a situation where if something say material a sample needs to get sent down to rochester and we could either have srf have one of their technicians drive from from the cities and come down and pick it up and take it to rochester and charge you three times as much as what i charge for a technician if it makes sense that i could send one of my technicians over we could pick it up and they know exactly where to take it to in rochester we would do that [6:53] Greg Isakson: because that's a lot cheaper than having a consultant do the work i don't expect that to be a lot of money if it's going to be yeah unless there's a lot of requests to have the technicians get involved i don't see that being anywhere over two thousand dollars at the most so um the agreement goes on to say we will apply for these grants as soon as the approval process gets through the county does need to be able to make these change orders as i've talked about and like i said we're only going to be making changes that are required from a historic standpoint or from a structural integrity standpoint so with that i'm asking that the that the city council approved this agreement with the county also now as the conversation neil and i had [7:39] Greg Isakson: that we both have us worried is there there is an unknown if these change orders do get to be more um now i talked to the folks up in state aid they're the the group that i'm working with and so we've got we have some federal money set aside but federal money can only be used for 80 percent of any kind of a change order so there's the other 20 percent of the change order that we're talking about but they since this is a you guys are a small city the last thing they want to do is get into a situation to stick a small city or to stick a county on a project like this because if they do other small cities that have a similar project like this are not going to want to work with them due to a lack of of trust so they're telling me that they'll do [8:24] Greg Isakson: whatever they can do to try to find the extra funds for that 20 percent they just can't make a guarantee right now because i can't i can't guarantee how much these change orders are going to be this funding isn't a an open checkbook there are limits to it but they will do whatever they can to try to minimize the financial risks to the city with it considering i've been working on this for not three years but city three city administrators at this point i'm recommending and hoping that you guys agree with these um to sign these these agreements and we can move forward and get this thing started as far as the project itself goes if if you approve these agreements [9:10] Greg Isakson: tonight we'll send the next series of paperwork up to the state this the county board did approve this award contingent upon the city agreeing to these agreements this evening and then we'll get the contractor on board we'll have a pre-construction conference they can start submitting a lot of paperwork in we're not expecting to see any work out of them at all until next spring but they do have the bridges in a closed state right now due to the last fracture critical inspection that came back with a red flag on it so they may want to get out there and do some some preliminary type work this winter the contractor is called it's a redstone construction out of mora minnesota i've [9:55] Greg Isakson: never dealt with them but i've talked to a an engineer that works for a consulting firm that's other than srf and who says they've done a lot of work with us this firm before and that they will be a very good contractor for this project so with that i'll stand for any questions [10:06] Council Member Bill: oh great uh what's the history of rehabbing these bridges and and have you seen a lot of cost overruns on these situations you know what like we're going to possibly be viable for if there's you don't you just don't know i mean that's and that's that's this it's the difference between um if you're building a brand new bridge there are very few unknowns because you've everything is in the plans for what it's going to happen [10:40] Greg Isakson: only it's only changing site conditions would be a change order but in this one we just we we don't know and that's that's the real crux i can't tell you that it's an average of five percent ten percent these types of projects are relatively rare in the state of minnesota um just to step back one step one main reason that the state is really interested in getting this project done is they made it mndot made a deal with the historical society that if we if we work together to save four bridges in the state of minnesota that historic society i think are unique are very important then i don't have to and all the other county engineers and all the cities do not have to go through a procedure before we start [11:26] Greg Isakson: replacing any of the other bridges that are on the system before we had to go through an analysis to make a determination if it was historic so so this this bridge like i said this bridge is important to the state of minnesota to mndot specifically to state aid specifically because they're the ones that deal with the counties in the cities who have most of these historic bridges so they will said they will do the best they can to to try to cover those additional costs [11:53] Council Member Bill: is the timeline still maybe march for the start of construction [12:00] Greg Isakson: yeah that's that's just a guess um when we have the pre-count we'll see what they what they want to do [12:05] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): the clock will start in march yeah when the bridge got red flagged now the council voted to close the bridge so yeah it'd be nice to get things going [12:14] Greg Isakson: yeah spring yep [12:15] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): any other questions for greg no well thanks for coming tonight greg [12:21] Greg Isakson: all right thank you [12:22] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): okay you've kind of any other discussion or want to make a motion to accept the agreements with goodyear county and the srf can you make them together they make them separately or together let's do them separately [12:47] Council Member Giesme: motion to approve the uh third street bridge agreement with srf [12:53] Council Member Bill: so well second [12:54] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): motion by Giesme a second by Duncan to approve the uh third street bridge agreement with srf any discussion all in favor posed carried and now a motion for an agreement with goodyear county [13:31] Council Member Bill: no moved [13:33] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): second motion by Duncan second by Montgomery to pre approve a third street bridge agreement with goodyear county any discussion all in favor aye opposed carried okay [13:45] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): item c on console business is body worn camera audit results bill you brought that down you want to take that [13:52] Council Member Bill: yeah um it's hard to it's hard to know where to start on all this all of us on the council we have received various emails over the last couple weeks regarding body cameras audits and everything i don't know if this audit is good enough i i i i think it has not been done by an independent auditor uh because [14:31] Council Member Bill: on-site did it and of course we as a city we deal with on-site for all our technical and computer related stuff this has me extremely worried we know at a i think it was our last meeting or was it the meeting before we uh we put on hold the request for new body cameras in a separate server because we even at that time we had all gotten emails in great detail laying out things and something really does not pass the smell test here all of a sudden [15:19] Council Member Bill: now when we've already put the police chief's request on hold now all of a sudden we're getting the body uh camera audit um before we had none and and and i know the chief is on zoom here he at a finance committee meeting he definitely threw a previous city administrator under the bus by saying well he said not to do it um and now all of a sudden it shows up because the chief wishes to have new body cameras and and whatever and everybody probably has read [16:05] Council Member Bill: the multiple emails we've seen i think what we have to do is deny vote against this audit results and then at a next meeting or the meeting after call a public hearing so that um and i keep forgetting neil what you how i want to word that but then we can discuss do we even want body cameras in a small town like cannon falls and and spend the money when we know the police budget while they certainly cut some for 2021 and a good amount [16:52] Council Member Bill: it's still way too high so it's my opinion that we do not approve this audit and then if the council goes that route then we can set a public hearing to discuss this whole issue so that the public has some input because there appears to be back in 16 some discrepancies on whether there was even a a body cam policy approved at that time and uh and i know derek at a police commission meeting you had asked about that too in the record so that's why i brought it down because i think we should deny this audit results and i know we [17:39] Council Member Bill: both got jeff and and mr kendall on zoom here if they wish to uh add anything in addition to what other council members have to say [17:51] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): any other kind of discussion council on that derek when jeff or joe wanna comment maybe excuse me [18:07] Council Member Derek: uh no basically what what this audits all about and your opinion on it and while i wait um not to sound like a jerk but just because someone sends an email doesn't necessarily make it gospel you know [18:24] Council Member Bill: no it it doesn't but at least neil has informed me that other than maybe some slight embellishments everything there is correct [18:31] Council Member Morris Johnson: okay say bill was there i don't know if i got it straight but there was never a public hearing in the first place [18:41] Council Member Bill: well the record seems to indicate um and i i gotta be careful here how i say this i don't want to call it a bait and switch but something was approved in december of 16 and most of us sitting here including myself i believe morris you were the only one here at that point um [19:11] Council Member Bill: it didn't seem to have i mean this this stuff is also uh long i mean the reading alone probably took me about 45 minutes to go through just the one email it they tried to have public input at that particular meeting but they did not give the public time to mull it over and what they should have done is brought it notification future meetings and uh you know [19:48] Council Member Morris Johnson: so what you're saying is basically to go through the steps correctly let's let's go through that let's deny this and have a public hearing on the whole body cam issue and then as a council we can decide do we want to have body cameras or not for a small town like ours and do we want to spend what jeff is asking for with a separate server and new new body cams when we've already had 17. [20:13] Council Member Derek: those are fair concerns but that's not the issue that we're dealing with tonight tonight we're talking about the audit i know that it's going to be brought up at a later date right i don't want us to to lose our focus here going back to the audit you're saying that it's not independent because we've done business with them in the past do you think that that legally yeah i know that was brought up in the email but you think that that is not independent i mean the police themselves didn't do the audit the city [20:44] Council Member Derek: didn't do the audit this was an outside company and yes we've done business with them i get that right but i'm saying i mean that's somebody's opinion legally is that an independent audit and if it wasn't we probably should have flagged that at the beginning and gone with a different company right then that might be something we should do is go with a with a different firm to do that perhaps it's independent legality [21:13] Joe Kendall (City Attorney): yeah i hope that the council can hear me so i don't think that the simple fact that this was done by the uh consultant makes it not an independent audit now apparently these folks attached some emails or data to their email that they they claim is evidence that is not an independent audit so i guess the council needs to look at that and make a determination on whether you feel that makes it not independent but the the simple fact that it was done by the city's normal i.t consultant does not make it not be an independent audit [21:55] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): i agree with matt on that um you know i think the statute states that the police department itself cannot perform the audit that would not be independent or if the city had an in-house i.t department that was you know somehow beholden to the police department that would not be an [22:16] Joe Kendall (Attorney): independent audit i think having your outside information technology consultant perform the audit is acceptable unless you have some evidence that that audit was not independent [22:37] Council Member Bill: well maybe it was independent but it's still the fact that it was done by on-site it was our i.t and they're selling us the software for the body cameras and it just doesn't it doesn't strike [22:56] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): so mr mayor yeah [23:01] Jeff McCormick (Police Chief): your mayor this is jeff you so a couple of things first this policy was uh approved in december of 2016 by the city council after requesting public input at a city council meeting no public input was offered the public did have access to that policy prior to that it was posted on our department page with notice of the policy the intent to adopt it the date [23:25] Jeff McCormick: i know that there was a request for that i don't have that i don't manage our web page i think neil was looking for it i don't know if he was able to find it well we followed all this recommendations that were given to us by the league at the time in adopting that policy the second thing is i just heard you say that onsite is selling us the software body cameras that were requested that's absolutely untrue the body cameras that we're requesting are from watchguard on sites the only involvement they had in it was in determining helping us determine the amount of storage area that we would need because it was part of the planning of the cities server so on-site had no [24:12] Jeff McCormick: involvement whatsoever in the body camera the only component that they recommended out of their audit findings was that we should actually go to a system like that because right now our system is managed at server level computer file management type stuff and we can't do the independent reports from a department level that we had built into our policy i heard bill say that i threw one of the previous administrators under the bus uh again when we discovered that we couldn't do it i informed the administrator and that [24:57] Jeff McCormick: was the direction i received onsite is the it consultant that we use and they're the ones that have access to make sure that it's being operated correctly that's why they were utilized for the audit so i mean the state statute is very specific about what needs to be looked at for the audit it does not say what an independent audit is other than it shouldn't be conducted by the department and what they say we have to do is determine if the data was appropriately classified how it was used whether it was destroyed as required and compliance with two provisions of 18.825 and the audit looked at [25:43] Jeff McCormick: those components that were required by state statute and the finding of the audit was that we were in compliance now i believe that the course of action should be to just accept it and we move on to the next questions that i've heard council members ask which is should we have body cameras for a city our size i don't really want to get into that tonight because i really think that's a discussion uh best left for a discussion regarding whether we should purchase new systems to replace the current cameras or look at just getting a management software to manage the video of the current cameras but for what's in front of the console tonight is essentially whether or not this audit uh was [26:31] Jeff McCormick: found to the department to be in compliance or not and i believe that the audit was independent it's no different than say the finance audit that the city gets done the same company provides other services to the city that doesn't mean that they can't be independent in finding whether the city is following the guidelines they're supposed to or not and while i did certainly provide information to on-site to answer specific questions in no way did i interfere with their ability to provide an independent audit [27:17] Council Member Bill: well i didn't talk about body cam was i just talked i was talking about the software that on-site was providing i didn't ever mention cameras [27:26] Jeff McCormick: they're not providing any software it's done all at a server level it is just um management within the the standard windows platform if anybody's providing that that software it's going to be windows not on site [27:46] Council Member Morris Johnson: jeff i got a question um first you know you're talking 17 cameras presently and the current ones really aren't any good because of the batteries you said it yourself so why are we even saying 17 when the other ones are junk or no good you know i think that makes people think [28:06] Jeff McCormick: well what are you doing with 17 cameras you know i mean i think the simple answer the simple answer morris is that we're required to report the number of cameras that we have uh owned and maintained by the department we have not disposed of them that means that they're still owned and maintained by the department that for therefore we have to include them um but the reason we haven't gotten rid of them is is that if one of them gets broken even though the batteries are bad we may still have to be able to use it [28:44] Council Member Morris Johnson: okay okay but i'm talking about the other ones you know before that i mean it just doesn't make sense i mean i'm just saying it makes you look like we only have 17 of the model that we're using right now all right um [28:56] Jeff McCormick: which is those those of which 12 are fully functional at this point uh we don't know how many will remain fully functional as we go through the the cold of the winter we have not disposed of the other five i certainly could put a thing before console to dispose of those five cameras but until that's done i have to account for them as owned and maintained by the department [29:25] Council Member Morris Johnson: right and that's good i mean i'm not i think we're getting off track here yeah right [29:32] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): we're not talking about body cameras i know yeah we want to get we want to the console's got to review the audit and uh determine whether it's in compliance with this with uh that's what we're we're doing tonight [29:43] Jeff McCormick: well i think it comes down i would agree i would agree with the mirror on that the vendor for the audit provided you guys with their findings and recommendations and what they found was that we are in compliance with the directives of state statutes 13.825 in the subsets of 18.825 and i haven't seen the other information that apparently was sent out but it's really comes down to the fact that the information that the auditor did was an independent audit of our system and we're in compliance [30:27] Jeff McCormick: all i'm asking is that the council accepts the findings we'll move to the next discussion of whether we keep the system or don't keep the system but we're going to be doing this again in a few months because of delays in getting this done after it had been ordered at the beginning of 2019 we're going to be at the beginning of 2021 soon and i plan to have another audit done uh so that even though this one covers a greater length of time we stay on our two-year uh request timeline [31:07] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): hey luke if you can hear us uh could you share the zoom the participants um because i believe one of the council members might have had a question for if mr kendall is still available but we can't see if he's still there [31:26] Joe Kendall (Attorney): i i'm still here thank you [31:28] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): uh i'm just wondering have you had a chance to review um these audits and are they within line of something that you think we should accept or or what's what's your uh what's your opinion [31:45] Joe Kendall (Attorney): well uh so let me outline the options that the council has here um so one is to just accept the audit uh as jeff has outlined there's another option under the statute with subdivision nine clause a where if the council determines that uh somehow we're not complying or may not be complying with the applicable law the the council may order additional independent audits i'm not saying that's necessarily required but i'm saying that's one of your options and then another option that bill mentioned earlier is once again you'd have to first make a finding that there is a pattern of substantial non-compliance with the statute and then if you make that finding then you could order suspension of the body camera program but that would have to be done after a subsequent public hearing because in order to order suspension of the body camera program you have to have [32:43] Joe Kendall (Attorney): additional public hearing where the public has uh and the council have the ability to review and comment on the proposed suspension of the body camera program so that could not be done tonight it would have to be done at a subsequent hearing after the public's been given notice an opportunity to comment on the proposed suspension of the program so i believe from a legal standpoint here your options tonight are to number one accept the audit number two order an additional audit or number three uh schedule a subsequent meeting for discussion of suspension of the body camera program [33:23] Council Member Steve: heard the options dave steve's question was after the findings if you got a chance to look at the audit what would your recommendation be [33:36] Joe Kendall (Attorney): well i looked at the audit and the audit on its face does not seem to me to be improper it seems to be an audit that complies with the statutory requirements i guess the only question is whether the council lends any credence to the allegations in the email stating that the audit is not independent because the police department has influence over the i.t consultant um so that's a that's kind of a factual determination for the council to make but if the question is whether the results of the audit comply with the statutory requirements i think the answer is yes [34:16] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): i'll make a motion to accept the audit results [34:21] Council Member Derek: second [34:23] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): motions means by Montgomery second by Duncan to accept the audit results [34:31] Council Member Bill: i uh i think that's wrong they were not in compliance at least for what two three years something just smells real fishy here i think we're being led down a merry path that we don't need to go but [34:49] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): well let me just comment on on that because i understand that the the audit is required by statute to occur every two years and i understand that did not happen um now that's a separate question in my mind from whether this audit meets all the requirements outlined in statute for what's supposed to be in an audit so i think this audit does meet that that doesn't mean that the city was always in compliance with the statutory requirements because one of the requirements is that the odd happened every two years and i understand that didn't necessarily happen so then it's just back to the question of whether the council feels that that brings the city to if that you know arises the level of a pattern of substantial non-compliance with the statute so that's a question the city has to [35:49] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): address but it i think it's understood and accepted that this audit did not necessarily happen uh according to the required time frames i think jeff has kind of commented on that and um that separate question from whether the uh the current audit before you right now meets the requirements of what an audit is supposed supposed to look like which it looks to me like it does okay there's a motion on the floor to accept the audit any other discussion let's have a roll call vote on that [36:31] Sara Peer (City Clerk): Bringgold? (Absent). Duncan? [36:36] Council Member Bill Duncan: No. [36:38] Sara Peer (City Clerk): Giesme? [36:40] Council Member Giesme: Aye. [36:41] Sara Peer (City Clerk): Lindell? [36:43] Council Member Steve Lindell: Aye. [36:45] Sara Peer (City Clerk): Madsen? [36:46] Council Member Madsen: No. [36:47] Sara Peer (City Clerk): Montgomery? [36:49] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): Aye. [36:51] Sara Peer (City Clerk): Althoff? (Not present). The motion passes. [36:59] Council Member Bill: sorry so we still want to hear your ass huh i don't want to hear what you done maybe later okay let's get into reports kyle chamber [37:24] Kyle (Chamber of Commerce): good evening council and community a couple of announcements from the chamber we now have 186 members which is up three from last year and so that's impressive with having the pandemic going on and so yes we did lose some but we've gained more that we than we lost and so very positive uh growth in membership we do have the halloween trick or treat trot coming up and that is friday october 30th from three to five o'clock it will be downtown cannon falls on 4th street main street and mill street all children must be accompanied by an adult all vendors will be wearing a mask and gloves to pass out the candy and then all of the trick-or-treaters will either have their mask on because it's a mask or they'll have a mask and so and that goes for the parents um we do need to follow the coven 19 requirements and we will have a preparedness plan that if anyone questions that we will have it lined out exactly what we had required [38:59] Kyle (Chamber of Commerce): for the event and we are looking for more volunteers so if anyone from the community would like to help keep the traffic going in one direction we are estimating 650 to 700 children but we do have a two hour time frame rather than the one hour time frame so we're hoping that that expands it out and so the volunteers i'll just let you know we do have a costume for you and so you don't have to worry about that but you'll all look the same so that's the best part uh then lastly uh deck the falls we are moving forward with the parade at five o'clock the tree lighting at six o'clock and we're working on the firework permit and permissions to be able to continue that and that contract has been signed but we need the permissions to be able to move forward [40:17] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): is that the same fireworks vendor that you used last year [40:22] Kyle (Chamber of Commerce): yes it is okay and it's the same vendor that the county fair or the canyon valley affair yes and so um chad stevers is a licensed polytechnician and i think you know the grounds john birch park looked very good afterwards i didn't hear any complaints there were no you know trash left afterwards and so that was all a good thing i know facebook and the web page lit up with photos people loved having the fireworks and so we want to continue doing that if possible but again we do need to follow pandemic protocol of masks and social distancing that is why we're not doing the ceremony at the gazebo this year we are not doing the door prizes this year and so we are hoping that everyone will stay in their vehicles parked on the street in the city parking lot at home wherever but we need to practice social distancing and i know i've had calls on that um i've even had calls as to why we're doing it and so you know there's a lot of people asking for it they need something to get out for and to celebrate and i think that's a good thing any questions [42:05] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): okay thank you very much and i'll see you in a couple weeks thanks kyle library board wasn't it cool on there never saw her hey there's nicole hi [42:19] Nicole (Library Representative): okay so i tried to log in last meeting and i had technical difficulties but now everything's working and so i wanted to thank you for last meeting approving the acceptance of the the grant money from the united way of goodhue county because i have now since then bought 10 mobile hotspots that are available for loan we already have them available so if anybody needs a hotspot please come to the library and check it out it's a two week one so this is because we recognize the needs of the pandemic um and also thank you for appointing karina to the library board she's very excited and just a little bit of an update about programs we started up a program called mill street walkers meeting up at the library right outside the library and then walking around mills street and walking around town wearing masks um but just getting some exercise that is a monday through thursday program weather permitting that runs through november 19th and i'm still doing my fit fridays at eastside park weather permitting on fridays at noon through the end of this month and then it'll be converting to virtual and this is also a really cool thing we installed a window display in our front windows on mill street of um of some really beautiful gowns that have been made for single-use single-use plastics and these were made by artist dina thessalon and we've done this in collaboration with her and with the canon art sport and so right now we're trying to get an article written up about that but please stop by the library look at those beautiful beautiful dresses and there's some information cards in the windows too so you can see them and if you want to make an appointment for browsing you can also come in and look closer and then moving forward late last month early this month we um conducted a survey to hone in on what kinds of programming people would be interested in doing virtually and um what platforms people prefer so we have listened to the responses and so look for some fun new programs at some fun new times using the platforms that people prefer and that's all i have for right now if there are any questions [45:08] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): oh okay thank you nicole is she at the beach [Laughter] that would be a really fun background considering we have the snow okay finance committee bill you want to take that one or morris [45:22] Council Member Bill: bill can um god i'm trying to remember what we uh what we talked about oh yes the farmer's market that was the main discussion point and uh i believe next meeting will be bringing forward uh mary jill had an excellent idea and i i'd like to think that everybody here was gonna be happy with it the three of us and and the mayor were seem to be very pleased with the potential of that idea so that's pretty much it on that [46:12] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): okay eda laura [46:13] Laura Qualey (Community Development): i don't think my button works on my live all the time oh um so just a few updates uh the goodyear county cares grant is in its last probably 10 days um so far we've received 224 applications and 179 have been awarded totaling 1.74 million dollars it's been able to stay in goodhue county 48 of those applicants have actually been for cannon falls so that's for nonprofits churches um ag related businesses um small business so so that's pretty exciting and so that totals 480 thousand dollars that we've been able to get to stay in order to put back into our community to our businesses there are seven more from cannon falls that are in the queue we're just waiting for some of their documentation so that we can have a full picture of their their file for a review so we're down to our last five hundred thousand dollars of the goodyear county cares grant so it's good it's been exhausting but exciting to be able to award those businesses and non-profits [47:28] Laura Qualey: so moving on to canon bells they did break ground and they were moving dirt and now probably snow starting tomorrow but but they are progressing and if anyone wants to check out the time lapse video of them from the time they broke ground to their ground breaking to whatever has been happening they do have a time lapse video on their facebook page goal is for them to also have it live streaming in their coffee shop as the as it goes and that would be a live feed that would happen during the daytime hours cannonball property i've had four inquiries regarding that property so i'll just keep my finger on the pulse of each of those inquiries [48:10] Council Member Bill: i don't think so it's not chipotle [48:14] Laura Qualey: it's not chipotle i'm sorry um so anyway so it's good that we've had once the signs went up we had some you know we had some immediate phone calls um moving on to canon roots our local food brand that was created with the blandin dollars a lot website went live a couple well probably the beginning of this month of october so it's canon roots.com if you haven't checked it out it's a great it's really beautiful website i didn't build it so i'm not taking credit for it but it does lead people to check out the local flavors and the um the local experiences that they can have in cannon falls and so the smith grant that we received a couple months ago the dollars those five thousand dollars went toward the website and then also we partnered it with or we match it with some blandin dollars to do some digital marketing and in the three weeks that it's been live uh we've had 32 000 um eyeballs sets of eyeballs see it so that's it's really exciting and a lot of people that are there's a facebook page as well so people that are seeing the ads are liking the page we have 177 followers so again in three weeks that's pretty impressive i think for the small budget that we have for it so we'll continue to you know find dollars so that we can help to promote that cannon roots brand and then finally we have about fifteen thousand dollars left remaining in the blandin budget uh so i did finally pinpoint all the different projects that we've done so we started with seventy five thousand dollars we're down to fifteen plan is to have that allocated before the end of 2020 so any questions [49:58] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): oh okay that's it okay thank you laura uh staff will go around joey got anything [50:03] Joey (Public Works): as we see it snowed out does that mean the police are going to be towing your vehicle no because the ordinance does not start until november 1st but public works is going to be out at midnight so if you want to be able to get your car off the street you should probably move it off the street because it's going to be well plowed in with that heavy snow so hopefully we wake up to a lot cleaner streets and uh slow down drive safe [50:41] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): okay thank you neil [50:44] Jon "Neil" Radermacher (City Administrator): a couple of items uh i thought maybe kyle would talk a little bit about the highway 19 project that was uh they had visitors at the chamber meeting this morning um the letting date for that project is actually uh december 18th in 2021 and uh it'll start in the spring of 22. so we've got another year another summer yet they did have a lot of talk about the turning radiuses on the on the semi trucks and and i know they're putting the squeeze on them on the semis by bringing in them handicap ramps they tried to explain how they're really not impacting them any more than they are now but i don't know it's it'll be interesting to see the process uh after it's all done one thing that caught my attention was the curbs going east out on 19 they're going to bring them in eight feet and have the the parking there 10 foot wide i don't know uh that discussion uh maybe we should have some more discussion on that it uh i know you swing the door open of your passenger car or your driver's car whatever you uh you're swinging it right out into the traffic and i don't know if that's a good thing maybe we could convince them to make it a 12-foot turn lane instead of a or a parking lane instead of a 10-foot so anyhow that's uh one of the things they're going to maintain access to the street and to the businesses as they take up sidewalks and and handicap ramps they're going to do the best they can second item is uh um you approved a pool rehab uh at the last meeting they got started right away and uh um they have really uh torn the uh the vessel of the pool apart and got it down to the existing concrete that's solid and they'll be well they were working we'll see how that so yeah that that's coming along really nice it's going to be looking really well by next june don't forget the next meeting is november 5th that's a thursday put that on your calendars election is on tuesday so we move that to a thursday and then uh the canvassing this uh special meeting the canvas the election is on the 12th at 5 30. that's all i got mayor thank you [53:29] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): okay um council derek [53:32] Council Member Derek: um i'm sure everyone is anxious for it to be over but the election's two weeks from today so if you haven't voted yet uh just encourage everyone to do that that's all [53:45] Council Member Morris Johnson: morris johnson matt i just want to say thank you and uh good luck to our new planning and zoning commission member john christensen and then library board karina faziri uh it's really it's good to see more people that want to be active in the community and and uh give back by by serving so congratulations to them uh that's pretty much all i got [54:19] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): okay bill [54:21] Council Member Bill: i have nothing [54:25] Council Member Steve: steve uh just what derek said finally election day is here and hopefully we can get back to more commercials about mail enhancement or something instead [Laughter] i don't have it [54:40] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): okay again welcome to john and uh it's karina yeah to the library board uh just a couple things i got a call from barb haley our representative state legislator did pass that 1.9 billion dollar bonding bill and the six million dollars earmark for the lake billsby project the dam the money will be there so they're waiting for that i think that's ready to go yeah the trucks are there they're just they're just waiting for that bonding bill to pass so there's six million earmark for that lake billsby that's gonna be a goal that like i was there mentioned last meeting before the elections please get out there and vote um they've got the corn out and the old schweich property now so maybe people up on grove street maybe we can get up there and do something this fall to help that flooding problem you've got there and again it might have in the spring so we'll get that rolling okay public input citizens may speak to issues not on the agenda before speaking please give your name and address for the record and kindly limit your comments to three minutes public comments must be respectful pertinent to city business and adhere to applicable data privacy rules the city council will not take action on any issue raised by the public but may choose to schedule consideration of the item and a future agenda [Applause] [56:10] Babe Gorman (Resident): Babe Gorman, 915 North Sixth Street, right across the road. these body cams a lot of data seems to be a little confusing probably have to have a lot of faith in your chief of police keep in mind that he violated state law [56:34] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): babe yes that was on the agenda tonight yeah so you can't speak to it [56:38] Babe Gorman: oh it's all right i'll speak to whatever i want to speak to one only has to follow the email chain between on-site and the chief to see how ridiculously dumb this is come on even a stupid cement man like myself can follow that it's a joke um there was an officer that resigned not in good standing is what i think the public record shows [57:15] Council Member Bill: yep what's not on the agenda [57:21] Babe Gorman: and i've been talking about it you know why am i being interrupted all the time oh about things we shouldn't talk about right oh how am i supposed to talk about your consent agenda clammed up now huh so anyway what i've been complaining to several of you about all along is that this little lapse in judgment that this officer committed has been going on for some time several years the lieutenant there and the chief of police knew of this yet didn't bring it forward [58:15] Council Member Bill: mayor is this pertinent business it seems like you're saying gossip [58:22] Babe Gorman: oh i'm sure it sounds like that to you all you got to do is ask a few questions because i have and i know exactly what's been going on maybe we'll all learn more about it as time goes on thank you for your time [58:45] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): public input second call republican but third and final call we'll close the public input take a motion to adjourn [59:10] Council Member Steve Lindell: so moved [59:12] Matt Montgomery (Mayor): second motion on Lindell on the second by Montgomery to adjourn all in favor opposed carried you