As an expert transcriptionist, I have analyzed the transcript and the provided context. **Note on Context:** The list of officials provided in your prompt appears to be for a more recent term (where Matt Montgomery is Mayor). However, the transcript itself is dated **March 17, 2020**, during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time, **John Altough** was the Mayor, and several individuals on the Council (Bringle, Duncan, Giesme, Lundell) differ from your provided list. I have labeled the speakers according to the individuals present in the 2020 meeting while using your provided staff list (Wes Anway, Jon Radermacher, etc.) where they appear. [3:44] [Music] [3:52] **Mayor John Altough:** Thank you. [4:15] **Mayor John Altough:** I don't have my timer but I think it's close enough to 6:30. We're gonna start what I call a March 17th City Council meeting for the city of Cannon Falls to order. Can we have a roll call please? [4:15] **City Clerk Sara Peer:** Bringle? Here. Duncan? Here. Giesme? Here. Lundell? Yeah. Moore's? Matson? Absent. [5:09] **Mayor John Altough:** For the Pledge of Allegiance... Okay, I hope you've all seen the amended agenda because I have a motion to approve the amended agenda. [5:09] **Council Member Duncan:** So moved. [5:09] **Council Member Lundell:** I'll second. [5:09] **Mayor John Altough:** Motion by Duncan and the second by Lundell to approve the amended agenda. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried. Okay, that leaves us the public hearings. In the first one, Resolution 2469, certified unpaid utility charges to be collected with taxes. Dave, you wanna give us a little update on that? [5:56] **Dave Maroney (Consultant/Interim Administrator):** Each year we go through this—unfortunately go through the same process—to consider special assessments of delinquent sewer and water utility bills. You have before you a list of the current delinquencies, pretty similar to what we've seen in the past. I mean, it's kind of in the same neighborhood of amount that we've certified in the past. But again, in order to get these invoices paid or these bills paid, we do hold the public hearing, accept public input from anyone who may be affiliated with the delinquency, accept their comments, and subject to approval of the council of the resolution, we would certify these for special assessments and they would be paid then through the special assessment process. [6:43] **Mayor John Altough:** Very good. I'll open the public hearing on Resolution 2469, certifying unpaid utility charges. Is there anybody who would like to address Resolution 2469? [6:43] **Adam Peters (Public):** I just like to address that maybe instead of having to collect taxes, let's start charging a shutoff fee. Maybe that way we're not letting people get by with $1,200 a year. If they're not paying for 12 months, why are we giving them that advantage? Not only that, it's—I've lived in towns where if they're over two, three months late, they shut your water off. Just an option. [7:32] **Mayor John Altough:** Anybody else? Public hearing, second call. Public hearing, third and final call. Public hearing on Resolution 2469. Hearing nothing further, I will close the public hearing. Is there a motion on Resolution 2469? [7:32] **Council Member Bringle:** I'll move we accept it. [7:32] **Council Member Duncan:** I'll second. [8:17] **Mayor John Altough:** Motion by Bringle and a second by Duncan to approve 2469. Is there any discussion? [8:17] **Council Member Lundell:** I have one thing. This one doesn't really apply, but I do think going forward if there are people that—because maybe they're losing their job because of all this or for whatever reason—if they can't pay their water bills, I would hope they could call us and maybe we can work something out or do something so we don't have to do this to them in three months. Like I said, this one really doesn't apply to that, but going forward it's something we should maybe look into. [8:17] **Mayor John Altough:** We've talked about this in the past and you know, shut somebody's water off and hook it back up—it's a lot easier to put it on their taxes. I guess that's the reason that we're doing it. Well anyway, there's a motion on the floor and a second to approve Resolution 2469. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried. [9:08] **Mayor John Altough:** Okay, next public hearing. Resolution 2470 is approving a tax increment financing plan for the TIF district number 2-8. Dave, you want to give us an update on that? [9:08] **Dave Maroney:** Yes, thank you. Matt Carstensen and Jen Kelly are here tonight. They are the applicants, the developers of the proposed project in the industrial park. We have talked about their project before and the council previously authorized us to go ahead and have the preparation of this tax increment financing plan. In order to move it forward officially, we need to hold a public hearing and go through the plan tonight. But you just asked the audience and I'll tailor my comments appropriately. I know Matt and Jen are here for this. Anybody else? Okay. I think what I'll do then is rather than go through the minute details of the plan is maybe just to cover a couple of highlights for you. Mike's told me we don't have the benefit of the overhead screen tonight so you'll just have to bear with me. I know you all have a copy of the plan, but just let me go through some of the maybe the highlights or the most important parts of the plan—at least as far as I am concerned representing the city or as in fact Matt and Jen are concerned as the benefactors of the tax increment plan. Again, this is for a 15,000 square foot commercial industrial building to be built in the industrial park. That hasn't changed from the beginning. So what's really happening here is the current value of that property before the building is built—the market value—is about $61,000. That's the current value. What generates the tax increment is the proposed building that Matt's building on that piece of property, which will raise the value from a low $60,000 figure up in excess of $700,000 of market value because of the construction of the building. So the difference between that new building value and the current value is what creates the tax increment. [10:41] This is proposed as a nine-year economic development district which means that for nine years, if this plan is approved, that some of the taxes that are paid by Mr. Carstensen will come back in the form of a tax increment. I'll explain that cash flow in a minute. Some of the taxes are not captured by the tax increment district, the single biggest one being the one that's paid to the state of Minnesota. We have a commercial industrial property tax that's payable by the owner to the state of Minnesota. That's not part of the tax increment plan—they pay it, we just don't capture it. So again, this is for a nine-year tax increment district for a 15,000 square foot building. We would expect that the first tax increment would be collected in the year 2022. Remember again how taxes work: if this project goes ahead, the building's built this year, it's valued at January 2nd of 2021 for taxes payable in 2022. So there's a waiting period from the time that the building's built to the time it actually generates tax increment, and that would be the first year in 2022. [12:14] The budget for this project—that is, what costs will be incurred by Matt to build this building on that piece of ground—that can be reimbursed with tax increments. Not everything can. So in this case, in the budget we've got the cost of land acquisition, site improvements, the preparation of the land itself, sewer, water extensions, grading, soil correction, etc. Kind of the things below the building, if you will, are typically eligible for payment with tax increment financing, and that's what's proposed here. So we've got $113,000 or $114,000 of associated costs that could be reimbursed with tax increment in the budget. In addition to that, there's the time value of money, the cost of interest over time. Again, from 2022 to the year 2030, what we typically do in a case like this is we would issue a note payable to Carstensen. We put an interest rate factor to it, and interest can be also paid with tax increments. So in this case, the budget projects $41,000 or so of interest over the life of the district. And finally, administrative expenses. We, the city, end up paying for the cost of establishing the district. We, as a city, end up paying for the cost of annual reports that go to the state auditor. So the tax increment district law allows the city to retain some portion of the tax increments paid over time, not exceeding 10% of the increment. So we've got about $17,000 of money that would come back to the city to pay administrative costs over the life of this district. [13:48] So that's the cost side of it. On the revenue side, it's only tax increments that are available for capture to pay these costs. There's no tax levy, unlike the tax abatement that we did for the GrandStay Hotel. That's a different program. In a case like this, it's only the real estate taxes paid by Matt Carstensen under the law that can be used to pay off these costs that I just mentioned: land acquisition, site improvements, interest, etc. So there's a budget established in the plan. I won't show the map but you all know this—we've looked at the site before. Matt's purchased nine acres in the industrial park. The south acreage only is within this tax increment district. So part of the land that was purchased is not part of the tax increment district. It could be in the future if a district was created or this one was modified, but it's only the south portion of the lot now where the building's being built that's part of the district. [14:34] What I'll say on the cash flow—and this is Exhibit 4, Jen and Matt—what the cash flow projection does in a plan like this, it takes the annual tax increment revenue as projected over the life of the district. We've used a little inflationary factor; we've assumed that the valuation will increase 2% per year. But over the life of the district, we take that tax increment revenue that's coming in. The state of Minnesota—not the property tax, the state auditor—takes a little bit of a cut out of this because they monitor these districts on behalf of the state. So there's a little bit of a deduction for the state auditor. There's the 10% share coming back to the city, and then what's left is what's available as tax increment. In this budget, it's about $154,000 that's left after paying those other expenses. [15:20] Last thing I'll mention is maybe the most important thing for Matt and Jen, and that's how does this benefit them? Well, if the city approves this, how does tax increment get from them paying taxes to Goodhue County to us getting that tax payment from Goodhue County to us paying it back to them? How does that really work? It's quite simple. The way it works is if this plan is approved, we would issue a tax increment revenue note payable to the owner. So we would set a present value number in that note and then over time repay that principal amount plus interest solely with tax increments that we receive. So we issue a note to them. If the tax revenues came in exactly as projected here—which they won't, they absolutely will not, we can guarantee that because it's gonna fluctuate from year to year—but every year as they pay their taxes and we receive their taxes from Goodhue County, we write semi-annually a check back to Matt. And we only pay back a portion of what we receive. It's not like a bond where we say we owe this much principal and this much interest every year and you levy to pay that. It's not like that. [16:54] The only revenue that they will get back is based on what they pay, and then that note will set a cap that says if in nine years you get all your money back, great. If in nine years you pay any less taxes and you don't get it all back, that's fine too. We don't make up the difference. So in the note—and this is Exhibit 7 I'm referring to, Jon—in the note we establish a principal amount of $113,600. So we have a note payable to the owner, in this case Matt Carstensen, of $113,600. We pay in this example a 5% rate of interest on that money, so we've got about $41,000 of interest (I talked about that earlier in the expenditure budget). So we pay the note plus interest at 5%. So we've got $154,000 of revenue. Remember I said earlier in the cash flow that was what was left after the state took their share and we took our share? That's what was left: $154,000. That's what we use to pay back the $113,600 note plus interest of about $41,000. Again, in the plan, this is what's authorized. The only way it can be different than this—that is, the only way it can be higher than this—is to go through an amended tax increment plan. So we would hold another public hearing and you would come in. I'm not expecting that we would do that, but that's one way that it can be changed after the fact. [18:28] If this plan is adopted and if this plan is approved, we write a tax increment note development agreement that will come back to you for approval at a future date and that would include the note payable to them. The district's ready to go. The building's built starting in 2022. On a semi-annual basis, they pay their taxes, they get some money back up to the maximums established by this plan. We can't exceed this number at the public hearing or in the draft plan. So it's a little bit different than the tax abatement project that we did for the GrandStay Hotel in a number of ways, but it's still using property taxes not yet received. We're using the future value of those tax increments to pay expenditures that they're incurring this year to build their project. So in a nutshell, very quickly, that's kind of going through the highlights. As you would imagine, as you looked at the plan, there's a whole lot more in here than just the things that I mentioned—thank you, state legislature—but at the end of the day, it's really about the money. [19:13] And it's really about the understanding that Matt and Jen had one month, two months, three months, four months ago when we started this working with them and they decided to purchase that property based on the anticipation that we would work with them on the tax increment plan. We're here tonight to do that officially with the public hearing. If you wish to go ahead with this, there's a resolution that would adopt this, and if that's done, we'll send that information to Goodhue County, the district will be certified, we'll have a development contract prepared and be back with that at a future meeting. So with that, I'll stop if there are any questions that you may have or if Matt or Jen have anything that isn't clear to them. Anything, Scott? You got all this? Okay. Anybody questions? [20:00] **Mayor John Altough:** Okay. Well then I'm going to open the public hearing for Resolution 2470. Anybody who would like to speak to approving the tax increment financing plan for TIF district 2-8? Anybody would like to address the council? Second call? Third and final call? Hearing none, I'm going to close the public hearing and entertain a motion for Resolution 2470, approving the tax increment financing plan for TIF district 2-8. [20:48] **Council Member Giesme:** I'll move. [20:48] **Council Member Duncan:** Second. [20:48] **Mayor John Altough:** Motion by Giesme and a second by Duncan to approve Resolution 2470. Is there any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried. [21:34] **Dave Maroney:** I'll step out and cover something with them quickly while you continue. [21:34] **Mayor John Altough:** Okay. Okay, that brings us to the consent agenda. Consent agenda items may be adopted under one motion as presented or may be removed for discussion. Their resolution is council business for you at home and in the audience. I'll go through the consent agenda items. Item A: Incorrect claims for the accounting period ending March 11, 2020. Item B: Meeting minutes for the February 18, 2020 city council work session. Item C: Meeting minutes for the February 18, 2020 city council meeting. Item D: The Mill Street bike rack proposal. Item E: Disposal of excess property. Item F: Resolution 2471 accepting a grant for $1,000 from Mayo Clinic for the Artisan Plaza Farmers Market. Item G: Private utility systems ordinance consideration. Item H: Resolution 2472 authorizing a swimming pool committee. Item I: Approving a 2020 economic development program. And Item J: Hiring of a 2020 pool manager. Is there anything on the agenda the council would like to pull down? [23:08] **Council Member Bringle:** I want to pull down D. [23:08] **Mayor John Altough:** We'll make that our council business Item 7C, the Mill Street bike rack proposal. [23:08] **Council Member Lundell:** I do letter J, please. [23:08] **Mayor John Altough:** Letter J, yeah. We'll make that Item 7D, hiring of a 2020 pool manager. Anything else? I'll take a motion to accept the consent agenda with the exceptions of Item D and J. [23:57] **Council Member Bringle:** So moved. [23:57] **Council Member Duncan:** Second. [23:57] **Mayor John Altough:** Motion by Bringle and a second by Duncan to accept the consent agenda with those two exceptions. Is there any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried. [23:57] **Mayor John Altough:** Okay, moving on to council business. At this time I'm gonna read a proclamation. City of Cannon Falls Proclamation Declaring a Local Emergency: Whereas I, John Altough, the mayor of Cannon Falls, find it under the authority provided by Chapter 12 and related laws for the city over the state of Minnesota, the following situation exists: We're at peacetime emergency due to the COVID-19 health pandemic. Whereas the governor has issued an executive order 2001 declaring a peacetime emergency and coordinating Minnesota's strategy to protect Minnesotans from COVID-19. And whereas, the mayor—the situation presents an unforeseen combination of circumstances for the sudden and unforeseen and could not have been anticipated. And whereas the mayor finds that conditions in the city of Cannon Falls, Minnesota have worsened considerably as a result of the evolving situation. And whereas the mayor finds that this situation threatens the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the community and threatens the continuation and effective delivery of city services. And whereas the mayor finds that the situation poses a threat and may cause extensive personal injury, damage or disaster to the city if not immediately addressed. And whereas the mayor finds that the traditional sources of relief are not able to repair or prevent the injury or loss. I, therefore, the mayor, declare the situation to be a local emergency effective at 7:56 on March 17, 2020. [26:18] This declaration of a local emergency will involve the city's disaster plan and authorize appropriate communication, community containment, and mitigation strategies. The portions that are necessary for response to and recovery from the emergency are hereby authorized to the extent that normal state laws and city policies and procedures impede an efficient response or compliance with federal and state directives or recommendations. The City Administrator, Emergency Manager, Director and designees are hereby authorized to suspend compliance with those laws, policies, and procedures authorized with the Governor's declaration and MS 12-32 and take those actions deemed necessary to protect the public health and safety. [27:06] [Music] [27:06] **Mayor John Altough:** With that being said, we'll go to Item 7B, which is Resolution 2473 to extend the period of a mayor-declared local emergency. And I would take a motion to approve. [27:54] **Council Member Duncan:** I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 2473. [27:54] **Council Member Montgomery:** Second. [27:54] **Mayor John Altough:** Motion by Duncan and a second by Montgomery to approve Resolution 2473 to extend the period of a mayor-declared local emergency. Is there any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried. Just to go a little further, we're gonna have a work session after this council meeting. A lot of actions have already been taken in the city. Well, you see what's happening in the city and then the country. But the library is closed, and we'll go through their procedure. We've got a plan from the fire department, and we'll discuss that at our work session because we will also be discussing whether we're going to close City Hall too. So we'll do that at the work session immediately after this council meeting. [28:43] **Mayor John Altough:** Okay, that leads us to Item 7C, which is the Mill Street bike rack proposal. Steve, you brought that down. [28:43] **Council Member Bringle:** I brought that down after we discussed it with Wes and us at the Public Works meeting and with Bike Cannon Falls and Goodhue County Public Health. And I'm rethinking the placement. I really don't want to give up that parking spot. And I'm okay with everything else we talked about—getting the sculpture and everything—but I think we should take a look, maybe put it in a different spot. I don't know what everybody else's opinion is, but right there on the corner... [29:31] **Council Member Lundell:** I just don't know. I was at that Public Works meeting and I don't think there was anybody that opposed the bike rack. It's kind of unique and all that, but I know there was questions on where to put it. They proposed it right in front of Cheese Cafe, there, CannonBelles Cheese. And what we could do is approve the bike rack and then, you know, look at the placement or a layout at a later date too. I know it's gonna be a while before it's done, but I know the Bike Cannon Falls people want to push it through. [30:17] **Mayor John Altough:** Were there any other locations talked about? [30:17] **Council Member Bringle:** They talked about right across the street on the south side there. Yeah, that was discussed. Possibly in the north side of the city parking lot, close to where the building that just got demolished in that area for Tilian, the winery in that area. So it'd still be visible, but I think their selling point was they wanted the visibility. That's why that spot was there. [31:07] **Council Member Duncan:** Yeah. Also, whether they liked it or not, but they did maybe agree that it could be in a different spot. I just am no longer comfortable with it in the corner. Wes, help me out here. What do you think? [31:07] **Wes Anway (Utilities Supervisor):** I would hate to give up parking. Yeah, that's that's a hard spot. Well, parking is a premium on that... [31:07] **Council Member Duncan:** Go ahead with more of the discussion, but what are we gonna lose if we put it on the north side or the south side? [32:09] **Wes Anway:** Well, right. Yeah, it'd be better on the south side I would think. But I guess what you were talking about, Wes, at that meeting was if that's where they want to try it and have it, you can always take it out and move it. I guess. Yeah, they could move it, but the tie-in with the cow, I'm sure... [32:09] **Mayor John Altough:** Well and to be honest, part of the discussion was obviously we get a lot of bike traffic and yes, the trailhead in the city parking lot, that's good. They said for the businesses right there on Mill Street because that's where when they talked about how full the bike racks were last year. So having another bike rack there, it's not just the visibility, it's honestly that they need a place to put bikes so that they're not just putting them up on the sidewalks and, you know, pedestrians. [32:44] **Council Member Bringle:** Well, so I'm gonna make a motion to accept the way it is and try it I guess, or as long as we discussed it and it's kind of a thing where it's not going to be permanent. So I guess I'll make a motion to give it a try and if we get too much feedback opposing it, we'll have to discuss moving it. [32:44] **Council Member Duncan:** Okay, second that. [32:44] **Mayor John Altough:** Okay. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried. Okay, I have 7D, hiring a 2020 pool manager. Derek, you pulled that up. [33:32] **Council Member Lundell:** Just wondering if for some reason the pool doesn't open this summer, does she still get paid or what's—what would happen with her in that scenario if it were to happen? Does anyone know? [33:32] **Mayor John Altough:** Laid off? Is it you... What's she... Yeah, she'd just be out. Only eight hours of service... long July before going again. Yep. It's not a guarantee, right? [34:17] **Council Member Bringle:** Right, yeah. [34:17] **Council Member Lundell:** Right, yeah. I just wonder... Right, we're not gonna have to make a decision until May on whether we open it or not, depending how this whole thing shakes out. Oh, right. Oh, that's all for now. So I'll make a motion to hire Miss Yusa. [34:44] **Mayor John Altough:** Second. Motion by Derek Lundell and second by Matt to hire Haley Yusa as our 2020 pool manager. Any other discussion? All in favor? Aye. Post carried. Okay, reports. Kyle, anything with the chamber? [35:30] **Kyle Paulson (Chamber Director):** Thank you board members and greetings to all community people. The Chamber's direction has really changed this week, and so I want everyone to know that on the Chamber's web page, and that is www.cannonfalls.org, we do have an emergency community link that has a listing of up to 12 local, state and national links to keep you up to date on the latest. And so I am also sending out daily updates that I hear from the Chamber members and that is going out to all of the chamber members. [36:17] And so just a couple that affect the community: True North Church—you can call Pastor Scott Wildenberg—they will have volunteers to help with childcare for working parents and making deliveries to homebound people. Yes, the Cannon Falls library is closed but they actually are operating. They will do street-side delivery, those kinds of things, and that is only through March 31st. Goodhue County Historical Museum is closed until April 15th; all of their programs have been cancelled. Artisan Plaza will be doing home deliveries as well as pickup deliveries. Weber Family Dentistry postponing all appointments until April 1st; if there is a true emergency you can call the office and they will get you in. [37:06] Here's a piece of good news: Don's Crumble Beef Sandwich truck will be here on Friday starting at 10:00 a.m. He is not included in the restaurant/entertainment group of people that have to be closed as of today because he's inside. There's a good distance between him and the customer; they're allowing him to be available. So on Friday 10:00 a.m. till whenever, he will be there for a change in menu. Cannon Falls Lions also has volunteers; you can call Diana Albrecht. Cannon Golf Club is closed for the fish fry on March 20th and 27th and they will be announcing—they'll be having their stockholders meeting rescheduled for May 2nd. [38:38] Brewster's will be doing pickup orders from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week. Ferndale Market is also doing pickup availability; go to their Facebook page to find out what products they have available for pickup. Yes, Mayor Altough mentioned the Cannon Falls Fire Department; they're canceling their last two bingo nights at Brewster's. They'll be doing their TV raffle that is at the end of the bingo; they'll be doing that on March 26th and the winner of course will be contacted. Summit Golf Club is closed until March 28th. [39:25] And last but not least at all is Mayo Clinic sent out an announcement today that Mayo Clinic Red Wing is set up for testing for COVID-19. You do have to call in to be approved for the test, then you go over to Red Wing. If your name is on the approval list you will get the test; if it's not you will not. So please call Mayo Clinic for approval. Just this afternoon, the Chamber sent out a survey to our chamber members asking questions in regards to the economic impact this is going to have on their business and their employees. When I get those answers, I will definitely share them so that we can have a real grassroots information level of what's going on. If anyone has any other suggestions of what the Chamber can be doing, I am right at the Chamber office. We're open from 8:30 to 4:30 and our phone number is 263-2289 and we are here to service you. So thank you very much. [40:58] **Mayor John Altough:** Thanks Kyle. Brad? County report here tonight? [41:38] **Brad Anderson (County Commissioner):** [Music] Just some increase... probably won't see this. I'll see you shortly. And I'm gonna focus a little bit on one meeting a month and I know you guys are probably discussing some of that tonight, your actions are you gonna move forward. Goodhue County's probably in a little better position than some because we've always had all of our drills with the nuclear plant and we already have a lot of preparedness in place—not for this, it's different. [42:23] So we've had a group in Public Health and Human Services for two months been working on this as soon as it started, just trying to put all the pieces in place. So our position is I think most people need to realize that the Department of Health is kind of the place where this happens. If there's a test that became positive in Goodhue County, it would be notified through MDH, not through a local provider most likely. It would go through MDH. Most tests are retested at CDC once they've gone through and been tested here. So understand that there's a process for it to go through there and then come back to the county. Our county people are—I can't tell you how many phone calls a day they're on with staff at MDH, staff at CDC meetings that they're on to get all the information they need. [43:10] And Kyle, you were right about the testing, but I temper that with there still is a major shortage in tests. We need to know that. The one thing I want the public to know—and you don't know—if there's a department at the state that I have the most confidence in, it is absolutely MDH. They have been building relationships with all of the partners in this for the last 30 to 35 years. They started those regional programs, regional groups, plus a state group. And we have commissioners that sit on that, past commissioners have sat on that, and it's a very well put together and well thought process how they do that. [43:57] For the public, we can't stress enough. It sounds simple: wash your hands, cover your cough, stay home if you're sick. It is critical that you do that. That is the only way we are going to mitigate this spread. In the back of the packet I handed out, there's the most current map that shows the counties. They didn't increase today even though we went up from 54 to 60 positive tests—they're still in the same 13 counties. Yesterday when it went to 54, I think they added three counties. But know that we have a pulse on this. We have an excellent team at the county working on how we'll respond if we get a positive, and we're responding now. We're responding to schools, we're responding to churches, we're responding to you. [45:34] Anything you need, please contact the county offices. One thing that you can do is you can go on the county website and sign up for the "Notify Me." Just go on the site, "How To" is the tagline. You go to it, it'll take you down and you just can sign up for the Notify Me which will notify you every time we put something new on the website. It will get you all the different notifications. You can also sign up for CodeRED there which will notify you in case there was a tornado. The other thing you can do is you can go on Facebook and sign up for Goodhue County Health and Human Services. Their Facebook page is getting updated multiple times a day. There's always something new that we're putting out there for the public to know. We're trying to get information to you as fast as we can get it, but tempering it with it's going to be accurate. We don't want anything out there that isn't accurate. With that, if anybody had any questions? [46:22] Just one more thing I want to say. Kyle, I got from the Chamber of Commerce in Red Wing, I got an email today that talked about—find it here—scams. And it said Kasson, Stewartville, Rochester and the Twin Cities have reported some issues with people showing up at homes claiming to be CDC and doing inspections for COVID-19. That will never be the case. So people know, if somebody comes to your door talking about it, it is not legit. Don't fall for it. [47:43] **Kyle Paulson:** And supposedly it's going to track the coronavirus by delivering up-to-date figures. Do not respond to that because there is a software out there... [48:04] **Brad Anderson:** The other thing I will say—and I realize a lot of us including myself sometimes get caught up in the angst of this and the fear of this—as I said, we have the best people working on this. I have all my confidence in them. I have all my confidence in the medical system in Minnesota; we are far and above the rest. But it is a little bit scary. Reach out to that neighbor down the street who might need your assistance for something—an elderly person, a single parent. Reach out and just give them a contact number so they can get a hold of you, you can get a hold of them. Check in with your neighbors. It is a time of compassion and empathy. We need to be concerned about those around us. It doesn't do me any good to wash my hands if the neighbor can't wash theirs because they can't get soap. We just need to think globally about this in our community. We need to be concerned about everybody, not just ourselves. So I encourage you to do that, especially the elderly that are around you. It may be better if you went and got their groceries instead of them going to the grocery store. You know, some of those things. And if you're healthy, maybe just sit down, have a cup of coffee with them. We can't totally isolate ourselves; we can still converse and we can still meet our neighbors on the sidewalk and talk. Get out and enjoy when we have nice weather. It's not all doom and gloom. We will get through this. It's gonna be hard on businesses, we all know that. It's going to be hard on a lot of things, but we'll get through it. Just have some compassion and empathy as we do that. Thank you. [50:25] **Mayor John Altough:** Thanks Brad. Okay, Public Works Commission met on March 2nd. Wes? [50:25] **Wes Anway:** Yeah, taking up that location there... a little bit of all over lately. Unfortunately, Tony and I have... I asked for numbers from Greg at SCH, kind of some estimates. And we're looking at probably that bridge cross... never green here still. [Music] On-site systems—he talks a little bit about that... mmm it was Sleeping Cow, I'm sorry, apologized. I guess he left... the bike rack and then the disposal of your excess... yeah. [53:08] **Mayor John Altough:** You're referring to items on the consent agenda, the private utility system ordinance? [53:08] **Wes Anway:** They oh yeah, looking into that. Okay. [53:08] **Mayor John Altough:** Library board? [53:08] **Council Member Lundell:** Nothing. [53:08] **Mayor John Altough:** Nothing. EDA met on March 11th. Of course we talked about Cannon Ball. We talked about the 2020 economic development program which was on the agenda tonight and also the digital marketing program. Laura Qualey came and reported on behalf of Blandin that we've got five applications now from local businesses that are gonna take advantage of the Blandin grant that we received for broadband use and promotion of the community, matched by a partial deferred loan by the Economic Development Authority. So we've got five applications in the queue right now and I would expect we'll be seeing more as an EDA going forward. So Laura gave an excellent report to us on that. Okay, let's go around the horn here. Let's see who we got here. Wes, you got anything else? [54:50] **Wes Anway:** Also kind of laughs... did I ask you, you still got the pump down there? Is it... okay. [55:24] **Mayor John Altough:** Joey? Everything? [55:24] **Jon Radermacher (City Administrator):** Chief McCormick would be here tonight but unfortunately he couldn't make it. He did start two weeks ago updating the city's emergency plan as the Emergency Management Director. We've kind of relabeled what our operation plan is called right now—it's called the Highly Infectious Contagious Disease Operation Plan. So he started updating that, sent that out to department heads so that we can have a most current plan as we will try to be taking this into effect starting today and tomorrow. So the finalization of that will be a working plan to protect our citizens, protect us, our employees. And I'm guessing we're going to talk more about that after the meeting here. So that's really all I have. [56:11] **Mayor John Altough:** Steve, do you have anything? He doesn't have it. Okay. As everybody can see, we're kind of spread out here tonight and I know Michael was probably instrumental in getting us all hooked up here. So I want to thank him for getting us set up like this. That's all I got. [56:57] **Council Member Duncan:** Yeah, I want to say thanks to Wes and people of Public Works doing some patching, probably almost a month ago now or this week on 19. Right at the turn there were some people that complained about that. Very smooth, well done. And at the compost pile that's been cleared out, that controlled burn—everything looks really good. I know that ever since the tornado that area had been packed. You guys did a good job throughout and that controlled burn and clearing it out looks like we're—whatever this spring, summer, fall will bring when we can finally get out and do stuff—but you guys are ready. So thank you. [56:57] **Mayor John Altough:** Yeah. Tonight is Dave's last official meeting as an administrator as Neil will take over next Monday. I want to publicly thank Dave. Most times when city administrators leave they give your 30-day notice or whatever and then they're off into the wild blue yonder. Dave kindly consented to help us in our search and ending with having Neil come on board next week. Both administrators would not do that. I know Dave's even gonna stay a little longer to work on some other things, get Neil acclimated next week and then I believe some EDA type of activities. So I just wanted to acknowledge Dave and then thank him for basically going above and beyond. So thank you Dave. [58:28] **Council Member Lundell:** Yeah, I just wanted to thank Dave as well. Not only for your many years of service but also for staying longer than you would originally planned. You know, if it's going on a month or two now. So thanks for everything and I wish you the best. [58:28] **Council Member Bringle:** Also thank you Dave. And I want to publicly apologize, I've been touching my face throughout this meeting. I just realized that, I'm sorry. Where's the hand sanitizer? That's it. [59:17] **Mayor John Altough:** Okay. I'm in the audience and I point them out—our new administrator over there, Neil Jenson. You'll be coming on board here next Monday. But Dave, yeah, it might be your last meeting here. I thank you. We got pretty close up there... No, you're gonna come back just for fun. We appreciate your service and hope you have a good life ahead. Okay, with that I'm opening public input. Meaning 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 the 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 that item on a future...