City Council - 12/17
The City Council regularly meets on 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall. Agendas and minutes are available on the city website at cannonfallsmn.gov
This transcript features the Cannon Falls City Council meeting from late 2019. Please note that while a context list was provided, the 2019 City Council included members not on that specific list (such as Mary Jo Altaf, Bill, and Morris). Names have been assigned based on the provided list of staff and the verbal record of the meeting.
[0:47] **Council Member:** err man right on
[0:56] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** welcome everybody happy holidays call a meeting number 17 2019 meeting of the City Council the city of Cannon Falls we have roll call please [City Clerk calls roll] Duncan here, Lundell here, Madson yeah, Montgomery here, Altaf here... would you stand for 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... get a motion to approve the agenda?
[1:41] **Council Member Morris:** second
[1:41] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** motion by Morris and a second by Bill to approve agenda. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried. Okay, brings us the presentations tonight. We have David Anderson, Goodhue County Wellness Coordinator, who's gonna give us a little talk on tobacco.
[2:29] **David Anderson:** Good evening Mayor, City Council members, city staff. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to come in and share a little information about a project that we're working on that is a major concern for everybody in the state of Minnesota and in the United States. I'm gonna pass these out, let you take a look... you know, counting them at the end of my presentation. Tobacco use is still Minnesota's leading cause of preventable death and disease. A lot of great work has happened over the last 20 years. The percentage of adults and teenagers who use tobacco products has declined big-time, but yet we still have over 6,000 Minnesotans who die from smoking and the medical cost is at 3.2 billion annually.
[3:19] **David Anderson:** Like I said, the tobacco rate for our teenagers was at an all-time low and then over the last couple of years we've seen this major increase due to the devices that I shared with you here this evening—mainly that JUUL, that one that looks like a flash drive. That is the product that has just boomed. The majority of our teenagers are using that. I have seen videos of teenagers using it in classrooms because it is so small and can be hidden. Over the last three years, the latest data from the Minnesota Student Survey is on the top graph and you can see over there the green is the increase in the number of 8th, 9th, and 10th grade males and females who are reporting using an e-cigarette in the last 30 days.
[4:08] **David Anderson:** So with 8th graders, the percent is almost doubled. With the 9th graders, you're seeing a pretty large increase and then with the 11th graders, you're seeing a large increase with the females using e-cigarettes. Most of the students who have reported using e-cigarettes have reported, you know, getting them from friends. So the 8th and 9th graders know an 18-year-old who is legal and can buy an e-cigarette, and so they're buying them from those friends. One of the major concerns that we have is the level of nicotine in those JUULs—that little pod there that you're holding, there's the same amount of nicotine in that little pod as there is in a pack of cigarettes.
[4:54] **David Anderson:** What we're finding is because they're battery operated, our kids are taking a hit off that and then 10-15 minutes later they're taking another hit. They're going through three or four pods a day. So that's similar to smoking three or four packs of cigarettes—the amount of nicotine that they're putting into their body. Also, the nicotine that is in those pods is nicotine salt, which is more concentrated and has a heavier dosage of nicotine. So the concerns that we have are that the brains of our teenagers are still developing and nicotine is going to affect them; it's going to change the brain chemistry. They're more apt to become addicted to other chemicals and it's going to affect their learning, their memory, and their attention span.
[6:27] **David Anderson:** The other concern that we have is with the lung injuries that have been reported in the media nationally. Over 2,000 cases of e-cigarette or vaping products have been associated with lung injuries. There's been 52 deaths. In the state of Minnesota, we have a hundred and thirty-five confirmed or probable cases with three deaths. We have one reported case in Goodhue County. So what do we need to do? We need to continue to educate our parents, grandparents, or community members so they're aware of this issue, and so that's what I'll be working on early next year. We need to partner with our schools and provide them with support because they're Ground Zero for this challenge with our teenagers.
[7:13] **David Anderson:** We need to support and help out our teens. Nicotine is the most addictive drug that there is and the tobacco companies, the vaping companies, have targeted our teenagers with their marketing just like the tobacco companies did with cigarettes 20, 30, 40 years ago. So we need to support them. We can't just tell them "no, you've got to stop doing this," we can't penalize them for that. So we have to figure out how we can provide them with cessation support. We need to get some peer counseling, those kind of things. Then we need to look at our policies—what can we do to update them? At the county level, we're looking at updating our policy for tobacco retailers. I've made presentations at all our other communities on this topic. Goodhue and Zumbrota are the two communities that have updated their policies most recently, Red Wing a few years before that.
[8:00] **David Anderson:** Again, everybody is going to be taking a look at those—the list on the screen there. How many tobacco licenses do we want in Cannon Falls? The distance from where kids gather? What are the fees? Are they enough to make sure that we're covering the costs for compliance checks? Training to make sure that our local businesses have what they need to train their retailers, their clerks. We could take a look at flavor policies—that's one of the issues with the e-cigarettes and the pods. The kids, you know, it's very smooth and easy for them to start with that. So by restricting the selling of flavors, we're eliminating one of those issues right there. And then we could take a look at raising the age to purchase tobacco products to age 21.
[8:49] **David Anderson:** Why would we want to do that? Because research has shown that 95% of addicted adult smokers have started before they were age 21. Also, a recent study has shown that if we raise the age to 21 in Minnesota, 30,000 young people would not become smokers over the next 15 years. This is an almost current map of the number of cities and counties that have already raised the age to 21. I say "almost current" because last night I was down in Rushford, Minnesota, and they just passed a new policy that raises the age to 21 and also restricts the sale of fruity flavor products in their community. So we'll be updating this map.
[9:37] **David Anderson:** I'll leave you with a quote from 1981 from Philip Morris that said, "Today's teenager is tomorrow's potential regular customer and the overwhelming majority of smokers begin while they're still in their teens... The smoking patterns of teenagers are particularly important to Philip Morris." So that is almost 40 years old and they're still using that strategy by targeting our teenagers. So I'm open to questions if there are any; if not, again I thank you for your time.
[10:24] **Council Member Bill:** I see tonight on the news that as part of the budget plan in Washington now, they're trying to get that 21 age nationwide as part of that deal they're doing in Washington.
[10:55] **David Anderson:** Yeah, I saw that also today, and I also know that there's a lot of conversations going on at the Capitol. This is an issue and there's potential that it could be a state policy. In that case, that would cover the entire state. We would still need to update all our local policies here because a lot of them, it's time to update them. We don't have to wait for the federal or the state government; we could make that decision here locally. I had a dream about a month and a half ago with the idea that wouldn't it be great if we get all our communities in Goodhue County and the county to raise that age to 21 at the same time? That way, teenagers that live in other communities couldn't drive to those other communities and still purchase products. So that's still a dream, a goal of mine. I don't know if it's gonna be reality, but it is something to work for.
[11:51] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Are the fruity ones... I thought they're pulling these off the market, but is that just certain areas or what?
[11:56] **David Anderson:** JUUL, the company that makes those flash drive ones, have pulled a lot of their fruity flavors off the market. Walmart, I believe, said, "you know, we're not going to continue to sell these. We'll sell what we have and then we're not going to continue." So there are some actions to that. Ideally, with the e-cigarettes, to pull the mint and the menthol flavor ones at the same time would be good. JUUL hasn't done that, and they've also said, "this is our new policy that we're not going to continue to sell these; if a retailer does that, they're going against our wishes."
[12:35] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Thank you, David. It may be something we want to look at. Yeah, they're all still there. Growth, you can't imagine.
[12:51] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, that brings us to the consent agenda. Items may be adopted under one motion as presented or may be removed for discussion. For you at home and in the audience, I'll go through the consent agenda: Item A, just and correct claims; Item B, meeting minutes for November 13th City Council work session; Item C, meeting minutes for the December 3rd City Council meeting; Item D, Resolution 2452 approving the amended conditional use permit for Casey's General Store; and Item E, Resolution 2453 approving a state water service connection fee. Is there anything the council would like to pull down?
[14:15] **Council Member Bill:** I'd like to pull down Item D.
[14:21] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, we can put that on our council business as 7C, Resolution 2452. Anything else?
[14:29] **Council Member Bill:** I'm gonna pull down A, just and correct claims. We'll make that Item D under council business.
[14:40] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Anyone else? Take a motion to approve items B, C, and E.
[14:50] **Council Member Mary Jo Altaf:** So moved.
[14:55] **Council Member Morris:** Second.
[14:55] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Mary Jo and a second by Morris to approve items B, C, and E. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried. That brings us to council business. First item, Item A: approve the appointment of Utility Billing Clerk position. Wes?
[15:16] **Wes Anway (Utilities Supervisor):** So we conducted interviews last week, I believe last Wednesday. We interviewed six candidates: myself, Mayor Altaf, and three other city employees that are going to be working closely with this person. One candidate really stood out to all of us; we had her appointed the highest out of everybody. She is really willing to come work for the city, so we're recommending the hire of Ellen Hartman.
[15:55] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** See Ellen's in the audience. Do I have a motion to approve Ellen as our Utility Billing Clerk?
[16:03] **Council Member Mary Jo Altaf:** So moved.
[16:03] **Council Member Morris:** Second.
[16:03] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Mary Jo and second by Morris to approve that position. Any other discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? You're appointed. Congratulations, Ellen. Welcome.
[16:30] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, Resolution 2454: approving a change in rates charged for ambulance services. Tim?
[16:49] **Tim (Ambulance Chief):** I think the last time we addressed this was about 2016. Initially, when we started the budget workshops and we met in the small groups, we started talking about different ways and the ambulance working more as a business, even though we are a service entity to the community. We talked about some growing pains and changes that we were experiencing as a service. One of the big ones you obviously see, we are adjusting all the rates essentially, but one of the big ones we wanted to talk to the council about essentially is the lift assist.
[17:35] **Tim (Ambulance Chief):** Last year, we had about 98 lift assists and only a third of those people got transported. So we would go out and get the person up off the ground, make sure they were okay—once we do that, there's a bunch of paperwork we do have to generate—and then we'd go back in service. We have people that utilize that quite a bit because their family and their loved ones don't want to have them transition into a different type of care setting. They're using us essentially to be that extra set of hands, and it's getting... it could be a little burdensome and essentially every time we do that, we lose money.
[18:21] **Tim (Ambulance Chief):** Now, that's the service you guys want to offer, I understand, but there is a cost to it. It's hard to figure out what the true cost is. You can look at personnel time... roughly about $650 a call. So if we want to cover our personnel costs and the cost for us to generate the paperwork, we don't want it to be so severe that loved ones are hesitant to call the ambulance. I spoke with the Fire Chief and the Police Chief, and if we do decide to go forward charging for a lift assist, my recommendation to the council is that it's no matter what department it is. We don't want people calling 911 and saying "send the police and fire but do not send the units" because they don't want a bill.
[19:07] **Tim (Ambulance Chief):** So my plan is, if that charge is adopted tonight, obviously we go pick up a person and we would send them a letter saying, "you know, you got two lift assists in a year for free, and then the third we'll charge." It's just becoming a huge problem, not only in Cannon Falls but throughout the whole nation.
[19:50] **Council Member Bill:** Are these rates state mandated or is it a range that people charge?
[19:54] **Tim (Ambulance Chief):** There is a range. I did compare Lake City and a few other ones in southeast Minnesota and I didn't go to the highest or the lowest; I just chose middle-of-the-road, which was above what we were charging. And just because we charge these rates doesn't mean that's what we're gonna collect. Between insurance obligations and Medicare/Medicaid, they really are the ones that drive what they will reimburse. They might say that an ambulance call is only worth $1,200 even though we charge $2,000.
[20:42] **Council Member Bill:** I like what you came up with with the lift assist being no matter whether it's police, fire, or ambulance. Because everyone thinks of these things, and pretty soon they'll call three times for the police and three times for the fire. It has to happen. It just does. I can tell you're overtaxed. You said you got 98 calls this year; if we were to change it and send out the letter saying "first two free," how many do you think that would cut down? Like, how many repeat customers out of that 98?
[21:18] **Tim (Ambulance Chief):** That's a very good question; I have no data to put that against. I know there was one family member they were calling quite a bit and then we finally had a good heart-to-heart with them that we really need to do something, and finally they made the decision to start looking for assisted living.
[22:12] **Council Member Mary Jo Altaf:** Can you tell me about the new one you added, the Motor Vehicle Crash patient assessment and refusal?
[22:17] **Tim (Ambulance Chief):** Yes. We go to a lot of motor vehicle collisions now. Everybody wants to be assessed, which is fine, but once again it's the same as lift assist. Most insurance companies have a clause per accident—they will pay about $400 for not transported for services related to that. So I figured if we're going to do this with lift assist, it should be about the same fee.
[23:00] **Council Member Mary Jo Altaf:** Okay, so it's only if someone's assessed? Right.
[23:03] **Tim (Ambulance Chief):** Correct. We go through the whole process because usually what happens, especially if there's another party involved, we get requests for records from attorneys looking for who's at fault.
[23:25] **Council Member Mary Jo Altaf:** And when you say "waiting time" at a hundred dollars per 30 minutes and "EMS personnel standby," are those together or do you pay for both?
[23:38] **Tim (Ambulance Chief):** Good question. Waiting time is new for us. Currently, sometimes we are asked to take a patient to Red Wing and then wait—well, we don't get paid any money just to sit there. We're not getting paid if we're not moving a patient. Sometimes they want us to sit there for 40 minutes, an hour and a half, and we're just sitting there. EMS personnel standby is different—a lot of times they have an event for profit and they just want an EMT to be on site. I just wanted to be able to have something back.
[24:50] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** That's reasonable. Any other questions for Tim? Do I have a motion to approve Resolution 2454?
[25:10] **Council Member Mary Jo Altaf:** So moved.
[25:12] **Council Member Derek:** Second.
[25:12] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Mary Jo and a second by Derek to approve Resolution 2454. Any other discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried.
[25:35] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, Item 7C is Resolution 2452: approving amended conditional use permit for Casey's General Store. Bill, you pulled that one?
[25:48] **Council Member Bill:** Yeah. First, I'd like... understand we have a representative from Casey's if you would come forward and explain this. And then we have a gentleman in the audience too that I believe lives right near you and would like to talk.
[26:07] **Jordan Lolamoon (Design Tree Engineering):** My name is Jordan Lolamoon. I work for Design Tree Engineering, consultants for Casey's. This is the site plan for the new parking lot. Basically, there used to be a building right here; they're gonna demo that building, remove the existing retaining wall, and extend the retaining wall to the east. So there'll be about a 10-foot retaining wall right here.
[26:53] **Council Member Bill:** And that's all you're doing on that new parcel is parking?
[26:56] **Jordan Lolamoon:** Yep, and then extending the canopy. Adding six new pumps.
[27:08] **Council Member Bill:** Awful lot of fill there, huh? That's quite a drop. Okay, and that was approved at the Planning Commission a week ago?
[27:23] **Jordan Lolamoon:** Yeah.
[27:26] **Jim Hoffman (Resident):** Jim Hoffman, 917 Park Street West. Appreciate the opportunity to speak. I also want to apologize, I did miss a public hearing, but if you don't pay constant attention to the Beacon, which I do not, you miss those things. I did not realize the plan, but one of the things I want to bring up is how big is too big up there? The traffic is a lot more than it ever was before. I've lived down in that area for 35 years and I've seen a lot of increased traffic. I understand what a great location it is, but the other things are, you know, with the pizza smell—it's nice for the first couple days, but after day after day, that gets a little bit old.
[28:45] **Jim Hoffman:** And the light pollution. Also, the strong odors of gasoline—I can tell every time they're up there unloading and the diesel trucks are idling up there, because everything settles right down in our area. I just want to know what this is going to do to our property values. I think a lot of these things get missed; I think more people would be here if they even knew what was going on. Mostly, what's the storage capacity gonna increase to? That's a significant increase of gasoline stored in a residential area, and that really concerns me.
[30:30] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Joe—did you get any notification by mail?
[30:30] **Jim Hoffman:** Not to my knowledge. We may have, but I just saw it in the Beacon. Anyway, thanks again.
[31:17] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Dave, is it a normal process to notify neighbors?
[31:21] **Jon Radermacher (City Administrator):** We would have normally mailed notice within a block of the perimeter of Casey's. I could double-check if you were on that list or not.
[32:00] **Council Member Bill:** Did Casey's consider having the additional gas storage right behind the building versus where you're putting it?
[32:04] **Jordan Lolamoon:** I don't think there's any room behind the building. Those tanks need to be like 30 feet away from structures.
[32:15] **Council Member Bill:** Nobody at the Planning Commission mentioned gas; it was more or less cleanup, green space, and lighting. Is there any way... I see where the garbage is on the southeast corner. Was there ever any consideration to have the garbage be on the west side?
[32:41] **Jordan Lolamoon:** I think they looked into that, but then the trucks would have to drive over the fill tanks.
[32:50] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay. Does anybody have a motion to approve Resolution 2452?
[33:02] **Council Member Steve Nordin:** So moved.
[33:04] **Council Member Morris:** Second.
[33:04] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Steve and a second by Morris to approve Resolution 2452. Any other discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried.
[33:23] **Jon Radermacher (City Administrator):** If I could just mention to Jim that there's a number of conditions in this permit that match up with the ordinance for this kind of land use. We'll be getting revised plans and more detail. Just remember that where Casey's sits today, as well as where the former accounting office was, that property is zoned B-2 business commercial. It's residential around it, but that site's been zoned B-2.
[34:27] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** 7D: just claims. Bill?
[34:34] **Council Member Bill:** I brought that down. I just got a few questions here. We just went through some tough budget talks and I was looking at the expenditures. I got a question for you, Joe. There seems to be a big bill in tires—it's like $4,000 for tires. Is that just general maintenance or what?
[34:52] **Lieutenant Joe [Berg]:** So yeah, as the Chief stated in some of the budget sessions, we push forward some 2020 purchases if we have excess in our current budget.
[35:14] **Council Member Bill:** Well, as tough as these budget talks were and we had to squeeze about $37,000... I'm just a little upset that we're spending all this money just to use up your budget. Was this used to replace tires on all our police?
[35:50] **Lieutenant Joe:** It'll be tires for next year. We had two good sets of winter tires from last winter, so what we purchased was a set of summer tires and a set of winter tires for each squad. That's three marked squads.
[36:12] **Council Member Bill:** Well, it was like well over $4,000 for tires and it just struck me that it was just using up the money.
[36:30] **Lieutenant Joe:** These are state contract prices. We get them way cheaper than what you and I can get them for. We plan on having them for at least the next two years. We just hold onto the tires until we need to replace them. It's a lot easier for Lindell's because he actually told us he loses money doing our tires because of all the paperwork, so we just do it at once.
[37:34] **Council Member Bill:** Makes sense. I see uniform allowances in here... and what's a Crisis Response class?
[37:47] **Lieutenant Joe:** The requirements of the POST licenses require us to have 12 hours of crisis diversity and one other area of training within those three years.
[38:13] **Council Member Bill:** What's the League of Minnesota State Patrol subscription?
[38:15] **Lieutenant Joe:** That's a one-year subscription to online training courses that the officers use for OSHA stuff and monthly update classes.
[38:25] **Council Member Bill:** Okay. I'll make a motion to approve just and correct claims.
[38:40] **Council Member Mary Jo Altaf:** I'll second it.
[38:43] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Bill and a second by Mary Jo. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried. Okay, brings us to reports. Jon?
[39:03] **Jon Radermacher (City Administrator):** I have nothing.
[39:05] **Tim (Ambulance Chief):** The only thing I'd like to mention is if people are feeling stressed out over the holidays, there's plenty of support groups around. There's no shame in asking for help.
[39:35] **Lieutenant Joe:** Thank you, Mayor. One of the things the EMS Chief just mentioned, we posted it on Facebook recently. They're also working on 988 instead of 911 for somebody that's in crisis. I'd like to thank Community Resource Bank tonight; they're serving our first responders a meal right now at the Public Safety Building.
[40:15] **Council Member Bill:** Nothing.
[40:20] **Council Member Kyle:** Good evening council members and the community. Just a couple of Chamber updates. In January, the Chamber will be taking credit cards for payments. Also, our "I Love Cannon Falls" mugs have blown out; our next order of 72 should be here by the end of the week. I do have the 2020 calendar of events—our golf tournament is June 25th at the Summit Golf Club. Chamber Fun Fests are on the second Thursdays of June, July, August, and September. We are not having one in May. The Easter hunt is April 11th.
[43:40] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Planning Commission? Derek or Steve?
[43:42] **Council Member Steve Nordin:** The only thing we had was the Casey's thing.
[44:03] **Jon Radermacher (City Administrator):** Economic Development Authority: A couple of things. The EDA adopted something in conjunction with our Blandin Grant to provide loans and grant assistance to local Cannon Falls businesses for digital marketing. Also, the EDA move forward working with Economic Initiatives on an agreement for the redevelopment of the Cannonball site. We're both contributing up to $150,000 each. And final thing, we looked at staffing and the consensus was to continue to pursue contractual relationships with CEDA for economic development services.
[46:55] **Wes Anway (Utilities Supervisor):** Public Works met tonight. We're still working on that District 6 normal agreement. Downtown streetlights—we're running out of ballasts quick, so we're working on a plan for that.
[47:55] **Council Member Morris:** I want to apologize to you... we scrambled to get a Public Works meeting set up for today.
[48:15] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Welcome aboard, Ellen. Call me later, I'll tell you which characters to watch out for. I just want to say thank you to our Police, Fire, and EMS. Last night the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts got a tour. Lieutenant Berg gave a little talk. The boys were thrilled.
[49:10] **Council Member Bill:** First, I wish everybody a Merry Christmas. One other subject area: for those of you who do not know, just about all of our police officers have been moonlighting as private security at the winery. I have a problem with this. One, the winery pays us the money and we get a small stipend. This could lead to conflict of interest. What happens if there's a problem there? I think we could have a real liability. I'd like staff to look at putting something out where we eliminate our officers from doing private security jobs *in* the city.
[50:45] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** How is this different from school dances?
[50:52] **Council Member Bill:** They don't do that anymore.
[51:20] **Lieutenant Joe:** It's no different. They pay the full hourly wage, a flat rate plus a $20 service charge which covers the paperwork on our end. It runs through our payroll system.
[52:10] **Council Member Bill:** But the work comp and all that stuff... I'm just wondering if you're leaving your job here at the city and going to the winery and you get in a car accident, where do we have a liability?
[52:53] **Lieutenant Joe:** My knowledge is there's an on-duty time and off-duty time.
[53:40] **Council Member Mary Jo Altaf:** Christmas is coming, I hope everybody has a good holiday.
[54:05] **Council Member Morris:** Welcome Ellen. Music and movies is back.
[54:10] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** I was thinking maybe we could have a work session after our next meeting in January to go over goals for 2020.
[54:35] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, that brings public input. Citizens may speak for three minutes.
[55:15] **Chuck (Citizen):** Hi, I'm Chuck. I was recently given a certificate for 15 years of service. I wasn't able to attend, so I would like to express my thanks. I'm the second longest Public Works employee down there. Thank you so much.
[56:15] **Adam Peters (Citizen):** Good evening. Adam Peters, Cannon Falls. I'm doing some refinancing and I'm wondering why we don't, as a council, refinance our road construction assessments. I'm at 6%. Do we not think we could find something better?
[57:10] **Jon Radermacher (City Administrator):** The assessment rate has been a standard rate, not so much tied to the cost of money. But we have refinanced whole loans as a city.
[57:37] **Jim Deemer (Citizen):** Jim Deemer, Cannon Falls. I have an issue about reports that are made that are not factual—police reports. Actions of a police officer. I filed a complaint last Friday. I'd like to use my last minute as a moment of silence for people that have sacrificed life. [Silence] How long should I wait to get an answer back from a complaint I made?
[1:01:10] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Joe, can you answer that?
[1:01:15] **Lieutenant Joe:** The Chief handles those things. I will let him know you've asked and have him reach out to you.
[1:02:10] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Anyone else public input? Hearing none, I'm going to close public input. Happy holidays everybody. Motion to adjourn?
[1:02:30] **Council Member Morris:** So moved.
[1:02:32] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Second by Morris. All in favor? Aye. Carried.