[0:01] [Music] [1:08] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Right, good. To the right, good. [1:18] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Good. I'd like to call the regular city council meeting for Monday, November 6th to order. If you would please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you everyone, appreciate those all in the audience today and those online. So welcome. Are there any additions or corrections to the agenda? No sir. Seeing none, I'll move the agenda. Is there a second? [2:03] Councilmember Paul Theisen: Second. [2:05] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: A motion was made on this agenda. All in favor signify by saying Aye. (Council: Aye). Opposed? The agenda is approved tonight. The first item up is an update from Beyond the Yellow Ribbon under presentations, proclamations, and acknowledgements. I'll turn this over to Mr. Martin. [2:10] Logan Martin (City Administrator): Thanks Mayor, members of the council. Really excited to have the crew or a portion of the crew from Beyond the Yellow Ribbon here tonight. It was a perfect time to do both a fall update on what they've been up to, to remind residents and service members and their families of what support is available from our wonderful Beyond the Yellow Ribbon committee, and then also it's certainly a wonderful alliance with Veterans Day this weekend. And so we'd love to invite the crew up to the podium and give just a brief update of what they've been up to and their fundraising efforts, and then a reminder of the services that are available to residents. And just to call out one item in particular, their annual golf tournament in the fall is a big money raiser for them and they gave a wonderful donation this year to the city of a K9 ballistic vest for a future K9 dog that the city will have, and it was just a wonderful moment. So with that gentlemen, be happy to invite you up to the podium. [3:24] Tom Newman (Beyond the Yellow Ribbon): Welcome. Okay, with me tonight: Marvin, Stephen, Andrew, Wayne—our mascot basketball star, anything else? No, okay. And I'm Tom Newman. Yes, we did have a successful golf tournament. We've had four successful ones and that allows us to spend a little more money than we would have otherwise. We've taken care of housing repairs, we've paid for rent, auto repairs. This last year we ended up coming into possession of a vehicle and we found a single parent veteran that had lost her car and we gassed it up, paid for the title transfer, and she was a happy camper. We were in the used car business for maybe a week and I'm glad—and it's still going, isn't it? It is, okay. And you know, we have a couple fundraisers a year. We end up making most of our money through the golf tournament, but we have a fundraiser at Fireside, but where's the other one? Culver's, yes. And those—Fireside is twice a year; it used to be every month, and with the business kind of slowing down we just do it, but we get a little money here, a little money there. We let people know, we try to let people know—Marvin and myself go out in the community and ask people if they know what the Yellow Ribbon is about, then we try to end up relieving them with some of their cash, and some of them are very, very generous. But anyway, the money goes to a good cause. It's never easy to end up telling a veteran you don't end up having the resources to help them. So fortunately, we're not in that position. So with that, anybody else? [5:44] Yellow Ribbon Representative: Yeah, I'll just add a few things. So Beyond the Yellow Ribbon is a statewide organization. Rosemount was the second community to form within that. We have one singular mission: to provide support for active duty and veteran military members. And so obviously we serve those within Rosemount. What makes us unique is we're an immediate source of assistance. You can go through a County Veteran Service Officer, you can go through a grant process—there's many forms of support, but they're not going to be immediate. We regularly provide gas cards, food cards... there was a family whose home burned down who had lived in Rosemount for 16 years; they just moved to Farmington and adopted three kids. The house burned down, Red Cross showed up the first day and provided $500, but they literally had the clothes on their back. We were there providing additional funding and support throughout, we did a fundraiser for them. So what makes us unique is that immediate source of assistance. Now, within the city of Rosemount, police officers, first responders, firemen all carry a resource card and it begins with suicide prevention and it makes its way down; at the bottom of the list is Rosemount Beyond the Yellow Ribbon. So our job is here to support veterans and active service duty, and to be that immediate source of assistance. [7:14] Tom Newman: Yeah, and I think as Logan said before, this is only about a quarter of the people that regularly attend our meeting, and for our golf outing we had like 40 volunteers. And without them, it just wouldn't work. [7:16] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: And so if anyone was so inclined and wanted to contact you, either for assistance or for donations, how can they do that? [7:24] Yellow Ribbon Representative: Yeah, RosemountBeyondTheYellowRibbon.org. And there's information about our organization, they can click to volunteer, they'll see every activity that we have. Next week we're shopping for a Thanksgiving meal for 20 National Guard members; a few weeks later we're doing the same for Christmas. We're providing 10 to 15 volunteers for Heroes and Helpers to wrap gifts. There's a lot to volunteer for, and for those who need the assistance, they'll see a means of contacting us as well. [7:56] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Do you have the dates for the Fireside? I know the golf tournament was well attended, you had great attendance, but some of the other things that you're doing, is there a way that we can get that message out? [8:05] Yellow Ribbon Representative: Yeah, we'll publish that. We've paused to focus on volunteer activities for the remainder of the year. When we start the new calendar year, we'll resume some of the fundraising activities as well. [8:15] Tom Newman: Fireside is like March and October. It'll be in the spring—we do one in spring and fall. It used to be an all-you-can-eat we had done in the past, COVID hit and then we had to scale it a different direction, and we're back to the pizza and pasta twice a year like we did before. [8:48] Tom Newman: Just one addition is, as a thank you to our veterans this weekend, we are having a veterans dinner at RCC. It's from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. You have to be pre-registered and I think today was the last day for that, but we provide them and a guest with a meal, a gift box for the veteran—it includes a number of items including the cards that were mentioned here, resource cards—we have entertainment, and we're going to have a wonderful meatloaf dinner for our veterans. It's a very classy event. So that'll be coming up on Sunday. [9:24] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Great, thanks. We just wanted to have your group come forward. You do a lot of things kind of behind the scenes, it seems like, and we wanted to have you kind of step forward and have people recognize you for all the efforts that you're doing, particularly for our veterans that need that extra assistance as you say; when they need it, they need it right now, that immediate assistance. So with that, well appreciated, all those efforts, and I'll actually lead the applause. [Applause] [10:15] Tom Newman: I'll add one more item. Over the last couple years we have provided veterans and servicemen in our community lawn care and snow removal. And we're in the process of re-evaluating, going back through that and getting what we've got to do for this next year. So we do that—we don't have an awful lot, but we try to provide them with the contract service to do the lawn care and also the snow removal. [10:39] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Thank you very much. Thank you for coming. [10:43] Tom Newman: Thank you. [Applause] [10:52] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Well appreciated, that type of volunteer service in our community. That completes item 3A. We'll move to 3B, a proclamation regarding lung cancer. Mr. Martin. [11:06] Logan Martin: Thanks Mayor, members of the council. November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month and so Mayor Weisensel got contacted by a representative from that group that had asked us to make a proclamation bringing some light to that important initiative. And so we've got a proclamation if the Mayor would like to go ahead and read that. [11:18] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Right, I'll move the motion to proclaim November 2023 as Lung Cancer Awareness Month in the city of Rosemount. The proclamation reads: "Whereas lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among men and women in the United States and the 5-year survival rate for it is approximately 60% yet only about 24% of lung cancers are diagnosed at this stage; and whereas screening for high-risk individuals can lead to its early detection and save lives, and funding for lung cancer research trails far behind funding for research of many other cancers; and whereas lung cancer incidence is decreasing twice as fast in men as in women and by 2035 more women will die from lung cancer than men; and whereas disparities in lung cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and mortality are well characterized among African-Americans and other racial minorities; and whereas lung cancer in individuals who never smoked is the seventh leading cause of cancer-related death, and 60 to 70% of individuals diagnosed who never smoked are women, and the proportion of lung cancers diagnosed in people who never smoked is increasing in the United States; and whereas organizations such as the American Lung Cancer Screening Initiative and Women's Lung Cancer Forum are committed to educating and working to increase screening rates; now therefore, I, Jeffrey D. Weisensel, Mayor of Rosemount, Minnesota, do hereby proclaim November 2023 is Lung Cancer Awareness Month in the city of Rosemount and recognizes the need for research in lung cancer affecting women as well as healthful disparities and encourage all citizens to learn about lung cancer and early detection throughout screening." Dated the 6th day of November 2023. Is there a second to the motion? [13:20] Councilmember Paul Theisen: Second. [13:22] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: I have a motion by Weisensel, second by Theisen. Roll please. Clerk? [13:29] Council/Staff: Weisensel, Aye. Theisen, Aye. Freske, Aye. [13:38] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: And with that, the proclamation is approved. That completes our presentations, proclamations, and acknowledgements. We'll move on to response to public comments. Look to staff if there are any additional comments or things needing to be heard? [14:05] Staff: Nothing from this week, no. [14:07] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: All right, seeing none, we'll move to item five: public comment. Anyone wishing to come before Council at this time may do so as an item not part of the meeting agenda. Please state your name, address, and your comments. If you can keep the comments under 3 minutes, that's well appreciated. Seeing no one moving to the podium... we will close the public—excuse me, we have one. [14:28] Kimmy Kefir: Hi Mr. Mayor. My name is Kimmy Kefir, 3245 145th Street West, Rosemount. I just was kind of wondering about—it was brought to my attention that the city of Rosemount drafted an order on October 24th for the Rich Valley East Industrial Development, an Alternative Urban Areawide Review (AUAR). The proposal is a 2.3 million square foot data center. This is a second proposed data center for Rosemount thus far, and the public is invited to comment about this and bring their comments and concerns to, is it pronounced Mr. Nemcek? [15:35] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Mr. Nemcek, yes. [15:37] Kimmy Kefir: Yes, before the 27th. And so that's kind of just what I'm here about, is trying to figure out the hazards that may be present with that with our water sources, whether or not those hazards outweigh the benefits, and whether or not all these concerns could be presented to us and the ones that people present to Mr. Nemcek before the 27th. [16:20] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: And could you repeat the specific AUAR that that was for? Was it Rich Valley? [16:30] Kimmy Kefir: I think yeah, or the Rosemount Industrial. It was drafted October 24th for the Rich Valley East Industrial Development. Yep, thank you. [16:47] Linda O.: Linda O., 15039 Derby Circle, Rosemount. My question is, with these two different developments, there was a 54-page master plan or some kind of plan that I was looking at. One of them said it's going to be a mixed-use facility and the second scenario was another data center. So does that mean—this one you can't talk about, the Rich Valley one? Did you sign a non-disclosure on that one too, or can you talk about it? Because they're saying that that's a data center and Meta is talking about it, and Project Bigfoot's going to be a data center. So are we talking about two data centers in Rosemount potentially? [17:34] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Could I turn to staff and maybe be able to provide some clarity regarding Rich Valley? [17:38] Logan Martin: Sure, I can take a start at that and then Adam can chime in too. Yes, there is a process that got started to research the environmental impacts of what a development could look like. And so what these Alternative Urban Areawide Reviews do is they look at a development—a slate of development proposals—on a certain parcel to begin the process to research what that could look like. So they list out a couple of development opportunities that could happen. This is before they've got users, before they've got plans submitted, to then run basically analyses to say, "Hey, if it was this, here's what would happen. If it's this, here's what would happen," in terms of traffic, utilities, things of that nature. The one you're referencing is a process that got kicked off to study that section of town, which is that parcel east of FedEx, to see what certain development scenarios could look like. That's pretty much it, right? And so that work will happen, the research will go on, and then a report will be given to the city council for review and approval that then establishes some parameters to the development scenarios that occur or could occur on a parcel. [19:04] Linda O.: Are you going to have a Town Hall or anything to talk to us about what is going to happen with these developments? [19:08] Logan Martin: We're working with the Project Bigfoot team, now that they have formally submitted an application to the city, to do an open house before it goes to the Planning Commission meeting. So stay tuned I would say later this week to find out when that may happen. We are finalizing the details for that, but certainly on Project Bigfoot, yes. These other projects, there isn't a firm proposal or anything to respond to, so no Town Hall per se on that, but a Project Bigfoot open house is being planned. [19:48] Linda O.: Thank you. [19:49] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Thank you very much. Anyone else wishing to come before Council? With that we will close the public comment. That completes item five. Move forward to item six, the consent agendas items A through N. Does Council have any items they wish to pull? [20:07] Councilmember Tami Klimpel: I'd like to pull items M and I. [20:11] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Anything else? [20:13] Councilmember Paul Theisen: I also—no, that's it. [20:14] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: All right, so with that, would someone like to move the consent agendas items A through N with I and M pulled? [20:18] Councilmember Paul Theisen: Yeah, I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda with those two items pulled. [20:25] Councilmember Heidi Freske: I'll second. [20:38] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: I have a motion and second. Motion by Theisen, second by Freske. The consent agenda roll please. [20:45] Council/Staff: Weisensel, Aye. Theisen, Aye. Freske, Aye. Klimpel, Aye. [20:53] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Consent agendas items A through N with M and I pulled for further discussion is approved 4-0. First, let's go ahead and we'll pull up M first. [20:58] Councilmember Tami Klimpel: Just as a point of consistency, I've been recusing myself from the votes on our election judges for the special election tomorrow. So just wanted to pull that so that I could recuse. [21:18] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: All righty. Anyone wish to move the motion for the... [21:23] Councilmember Heidi Freske: I'll make a motion to approve the attached resolution appointing election judges for the November 7th, 2023 election. [21:28] Councilmember Paul Theisen: Second. [21:30] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Motion by Freske, second by Theisen. Roll please. [21:31] Council/Staff: Theisen, Aye. Freske, Aye. Klimpel, Present. Weisensel, Aye. [21:40] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Motion passes 3-0. We'll move to 6I. All right. [21:49] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: This is a motion to adopt a resolution adopting the AUAR for the Rosemount Industrial Study Area. Look to staff. [22:12] Adam Kienberger (Community Development Director): Thank you Mr. Mayor, members of the council. This is actually probably well-timed as it can be, also serving as a response to some of the comments we heard from a few residents this evening as well as the comments provided by Administrator Martin. A little bit of context on an AUAR: so the item that's on the agenda tonight is for a recommended adoption of an AUAR for the Rosemount Industrial Scannell property. This property is generally located at the northwest corner of 145th and Blaine Avenue. I just decided to put a map up there just so we're all referencing the correct spot. Some of the things that we continue to hear, even with the commentary this evening—we have a lot of development happening around town, so it's important to note specifically which project we're talking about in which context and at which stage of development it may or may not be in. So again, what we'll be discussing tonight is the summary of the request, and again the request is the adoption of the final Alternative Urban Areawide Review for potential development of the Rosemount Industrial Study Area. This was ordered on June 6th of 2023 in compliance and conformance with the city's comprehensive plan following Minnesota rules governing AUARs. The developer proposer is Scannell Properties; they have hired consultant Kimley-Horn to prepare, and then the city's consultant WSB has reviewed and processed in accordance with that process along with Minnesota rules 4410. That was submitted for a 30-day comment period on July 18th, 2023 via the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (EQB) for comments by jurisdictions that monitor this type of thing that have environmental impact. Again, this is an environmental review to look at a large possible development that could occur in this area of the community. The final AUAR was submitted and prepared for adoption following that 10-day objection period which ended on October 17th of 2023. I have a couple of exhibits here that are pulled directly from the document that is included in the council packet. This is Figure 3 from the AUAR showing what that proposed development scenario could look like. Again, a little bit of background on what an AUAR is—and this is going to deviate a little bit from the specific nature of their requests but is certainly a theme that we're hearing and discussing a lot—AUARs are initial environmental studies and reviews that are done when proposed developers are looking to make very large types of developments occur within the city. Instead of doing individual environmental reviews for individual projects, they have the opportunity to do what's called an AUAR which studies in mass a larger area that could be considered for any number of proposed development scenarios. The development scenario that was proposed as a part of this study area, you can see up on the screen here and it's also included in the packet, would be for potential up to 1.4 million square foot industrial building along with additional stages of 260,000 square feet of industrial development as noted there. It is important to note—and if you don't look at maps all day this may be a little hard to find—but what I'd like to illustrate on here is that if you take a look at where this light brown area is, this is the edge of the Talamore residential development. This is a map showing the city's 2040 land use plan showing that the area is generally east... and then again over here, this is the FedEx facility that is under construction just east of Highway 52. Here's DCTC; this is areas south of County Road 42. These are all guided in the city's land use plan as Business Park or BP within that document. So again, this AUAR is in alignment with the city's comp plan. This is development that has been long considered and at this stage what the council is being asked to discuss or consider for adoption is that environmental review document studying that type of development scenario. Because we have a lot of different developments in different stages, here is a simple map showing what we're talking about. So the item that we're discussing for consideration this evening is the Scannell development right here. For reference, this is where Project Bigfoot has made a proposal, and then the light green over here, this is called Flintlock 52—some people refer to it as the Opus property; Opus controls the land over there that is also within the AUAR area. The recommended action for this evening is that staff is recommending approval of the resolution adopting the AUAR, which is then considered the official environmental review document for any development that occurs in the study area and meets the requirements of Minnesota Rule 4410. A recommended action would be to adopt that motion as bolded on the screen there and I can certainly stand for any questions from the council. [27:33] Councilmember Heidi Freske: Thank you for that. And so, you know, this was a question that I had for staff as well and so this is very helpful. That map was very helpful, I think it helps give people a good idea and it's too bad that a couple of the people who asked questions today had left, so hopefully they watch this. But when people talk about the environmental concerns that they have about development, they talk about the EAW (Environmental Assessment Worksheet). What I understand when approving this is this is kind of more of a comprehensive, even a deeper dive. By adopting this resolution, we would be doing a deeper dive of investigation of this land to make sure that not only is it safe, but it's safe for this positive development that we're trying to bring to the community. Is that correct? [28:18] Adam Kienberger: Yep, that's a good way to put it Councilmember. You know, the other thing to think about on that is that this is a document that is reviewed by the Minnesota PCA, the Metropolitan Council, Dakota County—any number of agencies that have purview over environmental impacts and concerns. So it's not just something that's submitted, studied for two days, and then here it is in front of the council. It's gone through that lengthy process which I ran through some of those key dates on the previous slide there. [28:50] Councilmember Heidi Freske: And so once again, there's many eyes looking at this to make sure that not only is it safe, but it's good for the community and it's ready to take the impact that any of these numerous opportunities would bring? [29:05] Adam Kienberger: Correct. [29:07] Councilmember Heidi Freske: Okay, thank you. [29:08] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Other questions or comments? All righty. Hopefully that sheds some light on this. Would anyone like to move the resolution? [29:14] Councilmember Paul Theisen: I'll move the motion to adopt a resolution adopting this AUAR for the Rosemount Industrial Study Area. [29:21] Councilmember Tami Klimpel: Second. [29:22] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: I have a motion by Theisen, second by Klimpel. Roll please. [29:27] Council/Staff: Freske, Aye. Klimpel, Aye. Weisensel, Aye. Theisen, Aye. [29:43] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: And that passes 4-0 and completes all consent agenda items. Completing item six. Next item up, there are no public hearings this evening. We have some unfinished business from our previous meeting: Lifetime facility change order number one. Mr. Schultz. [30:00] Brian Schultz (Parks and Recreation Director): All right, Mr. Mayor and council members. This evening we are going to be talking about the Lifetime change order number one. There are a handful of changes that have been required as part of this project. As you would recall, back in May of 2023 we awarded a construction project to a variety of subcontractors and we are working with Lifetime to oversee the construction of the improvements that are being made out on the site east of town. The first item I wanted to cover on this would be the Aquatics, and this is all in your packet. For the Aquatics, the change there was requested by the Department of Health; it was relating to the design of the pool and the operations of the pool, so that was an increase of a little over $3,000. The next one that is on there is structural; the structural actually is a deduct, so we're actually saving a little over $88,000 on that. And that's from a switch that the architects made in looking at how we were going to connect the walls and the footings together—switching from a grout setting to an embedded wall connection saved us a little over $88,000. [32:00] Councilmember Paul Theisen: Can I just stop you there for a second? Does that happen a lot? [32:03] Brian Schultz: You know, Councilmember Theisen, in projects that we've had over the years there will be some times where we will have deducts when we see things that we can maybe retool or redesign, or we just find a better way to do it that maybe is a little more efficient and cheaper, we will bring that forward. So you'll see that throughout the project I'm sure—it's not going to be maybe as many as the add-ons that you'll see, but we definitely will see some of those. It's nice to see those too, I guess. [32:41] Councilmember Paul Theisen: It is, definitely. [32:42] Brian Schultz: The next one on my list was concrete, and the concrete is for frost footings. The detail in the plan just wasn't as detailed maybe as we should have had it, and so it didn't go into the details of the actual frost footings at the stoops, and so we've incorporated those back into the plans and that will be an additional cost that will come out of the contingency fund which we have for the project. For the civil, the civil has a variety... there are nine different things that we're looking at for civil. One of those is a deduct, but we're looking at, at the time of when the plans and specs went out, we had not yet chosen a location or a design yet for staging the temporary trailer and the temporary parking for the project. So that was added on to the project. Then we had a structure slide gate and some pond grading we had to redo—actually that was a deduct, we didn't have to do it once we looked at it, we felt that we could get by without some of those improvements. The Met Council had some changes to where we dispose of the backwash from the outdoor pool, so that was going to the storm, not sanitary, so that was a change. We had a little extra aggregate base to our lay down area for the staging and temporary trailer. The design of some frost footing work, drainage flow at the south end of the pond... we had to do some incorporation of adding work to get the flow to work, get some regrading. And then the last one was a temporary storage tank which is covered through our contingency funds. It's a long time to have portable toilets out there on the site—we're looking at about two years—so we're putting in a 3,500-gallon septic tank at the office trailer for those. And then the last changes that we have for the project were for the HVAC and plumbing. We had some changes again requested by the Department of Health in the design and the operations of the pool. And then we also had those HVAC and plumbing changes that were related to again the Met Council wanting the pool to drain to the sanitary sewer instead of to the storm sewer. So those are the changes that we have for option one. With us tonight is Brent Marlo, he's an executive project manager with Lifetime; he's one of the people that I work with on a regular basis on this project. And so one of the things that you'll see in the next change order that I'm going to talk about is we've got a different way we're going to manage the information that we share with you on these change orders to be a little more detailed and a little easier to follow through. I know there's a couple things on this change order that just talk about "Post bid addendum number three and number six"—well, that doesn't mean anything to the council members or staff unless we go through and actually look up what those addendums are. So we're going to call things out a little cleaner in the future and I'll show that to you when we get to change order number two. With that, I will stand for questions regarding change order one. [36:00] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Is there any questions or comments from any of the council? No? Good. [36:09] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: All right. Just the reason we kind of held this up a little bit was just to make sure that there was some backup that was associated with it, and clearly there wasn't before. This is much better. I would note that in regards to change order one, we've talked about this, just following up to make sure that there's some more detailed backup regarding quantities and unit prices that support this, which you're going to share on change order two coming up. So again, kind of directed to the contractor to make sure that we get all that kind of backup to support us. So yeah, with that, would someone like to move the recommended action? [36:51] Councilmember Paul Theisen: Yeah, I'll make a motion recommending the city council approve of the change order number one for the Lifetime facility as listed in the executive summary and detailed in attached documents. [37:02] Councilmember Heidi Freske: I'll second. [37:03] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: I have a motion by Theisen, second by Freske. Roll please. [37:08] Council/Staff: Klimpel, Aye. Weisensel, Aye. Theisen, Aye. Freske, Aye. [37:13] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: And that completes item 8A with 4-0 approval. We'll move on to new business with Lifetime facility change order number two then. [37:16] Brian Schultz: All right, Mr. Mayor and council members. This is the second change order that we have on this project. This is actually a change order that was requested by the city of Rosemount. We approached Lifetime and the contractors on site to actually extend a sewer line to the east towards Aspen Avenue, which will be a future north-south road on this property. In talking to our city engineer, we felt that it was proactive for us to get out in front of this and make this improvement before starting this road project next year just so that we weren't having to tear up any curb and gutter or any street work. We felt like getting this done was probably the right thing to do at the right time with having a contractor on site and not paying mobilization costs and things like that. So just to be very clear on this one, this one is not being funded by the Lifetime project; this one is being funded through the city's storm water fund. So this is a sewer project that we're just sliding into the Lifetime project to have it done in a timely fashion. If you look at the support data in here, this is the Aspen Avenue storm system extension. You can see here that I've been working closely with Chase Norton from Lifetime on putting together the cost estimate and what that does to the total budget, even though again, this is not coming out of the Lifetime budget. You'll see on CC2, which is on page 751 of your council packet, you can see the description, you can see what the contract was, you can see the additional pipe being requested, the size of pipe, why we're doing it, and then the next page is a signature page. The next page, which would be PCO 017 and this is page 753 of your packet, this is the kind of backup data that we'll be bringing forward on future changes. This is one where it actually shows the materials, the labor, it shows the prime markup which is normal on any kind of project like this, and then the following page just breaks it all down from the cost of the foreman, the cost of the equipment, the cost of the pipe, using a compactor, the labor, the loader, the lowboy, and using the class five they bring to site. This gives you the details on how much is being generated there for this change order. And then the next two sheets here are just showing where on the site this work is being done, showing a little snippet of the site and then also again showing a photograph of the location through an aerial along with showing where the pipe will be placed in the ground. So as we come forward with future change orders, we will be looking for this type of detail to share with the city council so there aren't questions and it's hopefully clear to the council as to what the request is. We hopefully won't be seeing a whole lot more in the way of change orders, but obviously it's a $45 million project and there's a lot that goes into one of these buildings, and so we just want to make sure we get it right. When it's all said and done we want this to be a fantastic facility, and we think it will be, but I think with any kind of construction project you're going to have some changes along the way and we just want to make sure that we bring them to you in a clear and concise and very informative manner. So with that I will stand for questions on the Lifetime facility change order number two. [41:17] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Floor is open to council. [41:26] Councilmember Heidi Freske: I just want to thank you for the detail. It's easy to read and understand what you're doing, so I didn't have any questions. Thank you. [41:35] Councilmember Tami Klimpel: I'm good too. I'll echo what Heidi said, I really appreciated the clarity and transparency in this information, so thank you very much. [41:45] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Okay, with that, if there's no other questions or comments, looking for a recommended action. [41:48] Councilmember Tami Klimpel: I'll move to approve change order number two for the extension of the sewer adjacent to the Lifetime project as listed in the executive summary and detailed in attached documents. [41:59] Councilmember Heidi Freske: I'll second. [42:01] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: And a motion by Klimpel, second by Freske. Roll please. [42:05] Council/Staff: Weisensel, Aye. Theisen, Aye. Freske, Aye. Klimpel, Aye. [42:12] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: That completes 9A with a 4-0 approval. Move on to announcements. City staff updates. Mr. Martin. [42:18] Logan Martin: Thanks Mayor, members of the council. Maybe just one item tonight. Biggest thing on our mind obviously is voting tomorrow, so really looking forward to the day. We're going to get Aaron out of here as soon as we can, she's got a big day tomorrow. You approved the final slate of election judges tonight, and so we have 52 election judges that really deserve a shout out. That's a group of people that we could not pull off elections without, and so we really want to thank 52 people for stepping up. Another thing that people often forget—myself included—is absentee voting has been happening since September 22nd. 45 days of voting! We kind of lose track of it around the office sometimes and Aaron had to bang me over the head on Friday to remind me that we've been voting for that long. So this is a big, big lift for Aaron; I just want to publicly shout her out. It's going to be another well-run election, we can already tell because she's extremely prepped and ready. And I would encourage folks to be kind and patient when they show up to the booth tomorrow; it should be good and efficient, but you never know. And just realize those are folks that are just stepping up to serve the purposes of democracy. So thanks Aaron and team for pulling off a great election prematurely—so we know it'll be great. That's it for me, Mayor. [43:45] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: All right, thank you very much. Again, for everyone watching and still remaining here, please get out and take that opportunity to vote. It's important for both our city as well as the school board elections that are going on. With that, any announcements from any of the council members? Anything this year? [43:56] Councilmember Heidi Freske: I was just going to call out the pumpkin recycling bit that the staff did. I got there late last night and both of them were completely full, both dumpsters were completely full. So kudos to everybody who contributed to that, because that hopefully got a lot of pumpkins off front porches before the snow comes. So that was awesome, I couldn't believe how full those things were, they were packed. [44:26] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Anything else? Nothing here. All right, and then we'll move to upcoming community calendar. As mentioned previously, with Veterans Day coming up, the city offices will be closed Friday, November 10th all day. The Environmental Sustainability Commission will be meeting on November 14th, 5:30 to 6:30 here in council chambers. The Youth Commission will be meeting on November 15th from 3:45 to 4:45 and that is at the Steeple Center. The city council will hold a special meeting on November 17th at 8:00 a.m. that will be the canvassing action for the election that'll be occurring tomorrow. The Port Authority will be meeting on November 21st, and the City Council will meet on November 21st from 7 to 8:00 in the chambers. So with that, unless there's anything else to come before Council? Seeing none, I move to adjourn. Is there a second? [45:28] Councilmember Heidi Freske: Second. [45:29] Mayor Jeff Weisensel: Motion been made and seconded to adjourn. All in favor signify by saying Aye. (Council: Aye). Opposed? We are adjourned. Thank you. [45:33] [Music]