Based on the context provided and the dialogue within the transcript, here is the formatted version with speaker identifications. *Note: The transcript mentions "Council member Troutman" several times. Although he was not in your initial context list, he is explicitly identified by the Mayor in the recording.* *** [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** I I think it's mapol it's just don't know about those Katie I don't have um the email on my phone so I'll check when I get home tonight I was told by one of the staff members not to do that to myself don't don't put work email on my phone because then I'd have to check it all the time you know work life balance all right so looks like we're on the air good evening everyone I'm going to call to order the this March 26th 2024 meeting of the Richfield city council it is 7 p.m. welcome um if you're able please rise and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance. [Timestamp] **All:** 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. [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** thank you next on the agenda we have the open Forum if you are joining us remotely and would like to call in for that the number is 1415 655 00001 and you would use the meeting ID or webinar access code of 2632 284 5658 and password 1234 also if you are here in person you can fill out a little slip and at this point I don't see anybody online did anyone fill out any slips that wishes to speak [Timestamp] **Michelle Friedrich (City Clerk):** mayor and Council nobody filled out any slips for the open Forum [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all right is there anyone here that wishes to speak all right then at this point we will move on in the agenda um next we're going to go to the approval of the minutes of the city council work session of March 12th 2024 and the city council meeting of March 12th 2024 [Timestamp] **Sean Hayford Oleary (Council Member):** so moved [Timestamp] **Sharon Christensen (Council Member):** second [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all right it's been moved in seconded is there any discussion all right all in favor of approv approving both sets of minutes please say I [Timestamp] **Council Members:** I [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all opposed all right we've approved those minutes next we'll move on to approval of the agenda [Timestamp] **Sean Hayford Oleary (Council Member):** I move approval of the agenda [Timestamp] **Sharon Christensen (Council Member):** second [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** okay it's been moved and seconded to approve approve the agenda is there any comment or changes all right all in favor of approving the agenda please say I [Timestamp] **Council Members:** I [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all opposed all right we have approved tonight's agenda our first presentation is uh question and answer and presentation from the henpen County District Court and so I'm very pleased to welcome our hennipen County Court chief judge Carrie Meyer thank you so much for joining us um I'm going to start with a video it's four minutes it saves you a lot of PowerPoint okay so I think this is g to come up with practice [Timestamp] **(Video Presentation):** The Fourth Judicial District of Minnesota is the largest of the 10 districts in the Minnesota judicial branch... [Video Narrative] ...Together we work toward a better future and equal justice for all. [Timestamp] **Carrie Meyer (Chief Judge):** so that's a brief overview of our court system I want to thank the mayor and city manager for joining us in January for our open house and then inviting me today to update the rest of your Council and whoever else is interested in your city um to give you an update in 2023 our district court distributed a total of just under $250,000 to the city of Richfield that comes from the fines and search charges and your percentage of those so I know that you pay a City attorney to come and be in court and this is part of and your officers to be on standby and things like that but it does we we do uh disperse a what we collect back to you and that's your total for 2023 um I want to tell you that we are having a warrant resolution Day on May 3rd that is not a warrant forgiveness day it's a warrant resolution day where people who have open warrants on lowlevel criminal matters will be able to come in be able to get that warrant taken care of and also hopefully resolve the entire case we'll have uh we're working with community members or organizations and our Justice Partners to put that together to have um prosecutors and defense attorneys and probation officers and we'll also have child support and uh DVS or uh Department of Motor Vehicle there as well so that we can help people not sort of live in fear of being arrested on our more low-level uh type of warrants so I'm open to any questions that you have about um the courts or what's happening with the courts and our relationship do you have any [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all right are there any questions that anyone has all right council member Troutman [Timestamp] **Council Member Troutman:** thank you thank you mayor and thank you judge um I just wanted one one thing I I want to notice that in addition to the uh presentation um something that henpen county has done in the last number of years is to make uh court documents available at no charge um for folks in the uncertified version and for clients I'm also in my in my other life I'm an attorney and I know it's really an issue for clients um when they might have um sometimes 50 or 60 individual documents and those fees can get up to be hundreds of dollars just to get access to their own records and so I just wanted to recognize that in other counties that's not the case and so I really appreciate that thank you [Timestamp] **Carrie Meyer (Chief Judge):** thank you for pointing out right it's the little things I have a really big impact eight a page is a lot of money [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** thank you um we have a member here from the Human Rights Commission and one of the things that you talked about in your documents that you sent us is something that they help facilitate is we have um a computer terminal here at the municipal center so that you can log in and access remotely to do legal filings and I think we had to have a bunch of stuff happen on your end at hetam County in order for it to be um a option that we have here and so I was glad that we were able to work with you to get that option in place to have that legal kiosk [Timestamp] **Carrie Meyer (Chief Judge):** yes thank you um the Minnesota Public Access MPA MGA whatever you call it it's we call it msus but that's not what it's called for other folks but the public Courthouse view it's really nice to have those terminals somewhere other than downtown where you have to come pay to park um and then the other thing is I was really glad to hear about the warrant resolution day because I know our the other thing that our um Human Rights Commission has done is they've had like these free legal clinics where people will come pro bono and help with things and so it's nice to know that the county is offering a place to deal with some of the lowlevel stuff so that we can clear things up get them resolved appreciate that we do have a heline always don't have to wait until May 3rd right you can call the heline and we get people added on to the calendar within a week and then uh their warrant gets recalled as soon as they appear in court but we are going to have the special event and have those other partners there as well for things like driver's license I know that's been a a big issue for um a lot of our Justice Partners [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all right any other questions I had one but I didn't want to monopolize the conversation um when we came to the open house you mentioned that one of the legislative objectives was to try and get more um treatment options for people um is that still an ongoing process to try and a need that we still have for treatment facilities [Timestamp] **Carrie Meyer (Chief Judge):** yes always um but especially for our juveniles uh the placement options have really reduced since the pandemic we've had a lot of places closed a lot of residential places closed since the pandemic that were servicing juveniles and our County home school closed right before that and Ramsey's Totem Town closed right before our our uh County home school did and so we are definitely always looking for placements um for the for the children who are not able to stay at home while they do their treatment the residential is especially an issue but just in general different types of treatment because one size does not fit all of course we want to be really individualized with our treatment and and so we're always looking for additional programs or um providers to be able to give treatment to our Justice involved people [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all right thank you so much you all right any other last comments well thank you so much for joining us and um I hope people Avail themselves of the information you provided and I appreciate that you came out to us to share it thank you so much for your time tonight [Timestamp] **Carrie Meyer (Chief Judge):** thank you [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** thank you judge all right the next present presentation um I'm going to be joined by Maddie vsen who's a member of the Human Rights Commission and we have a proclamation celebrating women's History Month all right thank you so much so this is a proclamation of the city of Richfield whereas women's history month is celebrating the achievements of all women... [Reads Proclamation] ...proclaimed this 26th day of March 2024 so congratulations thank you and did you want to speak B commissioner okay [Timestamp] **Maddie Vsen (Human Rights Commission):** hello um I would just like to say thank you mayor Supple and the city council for having me here tonight I am honored to accept the women's History Month Proclamation on behalf of the Richfield Human Rights Commission and as a community member as a teacher I've seen firsthand the positive impact of recognizing the contributions of all women not only on our youth but also on our whole Community Richfield has a long history of diversity and empowerment and I am grateful to be part of this Proclamation and proud to be part of Richfield thank you [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** thank you so much did anyone else want to add anything council member Troutman [Timestamp] **Council Member Troutman:** hey thank you mayor and I just want to thank uh my my colleague for coming and accepting this on a on a very questionable what an evening with questionable weather um and so I mean it goes without saying that it's it's it's worth acknowledging um the successes and accomplishments and the unique leadership that our city has been lucky to have um and we could be here all night identifying the W not not in a bad way the incredible women that lead our city um but I just want to recognize my colleague on the commission thanks for coming out tonight [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** thank you um I also realized as I'm looking at my notes that I did miss one thing in the previous um presentation with the henip County district court at the end of our um uh meeting we usually do something called hats off to Hometown hits and I wanted to to thank um District Court Judge Juan Hoyos who came over to um the Richfield do or excuse me to partnership Academy and was part of a leadership panel and so thank you to him for also for joining us for that I appreciate it and I think everyone at partnership Academy was really excited about the whole thing even showed them their GA the Gabel that he brings to to the meetings so thank you for that and also thank you to the Human Rights Commission you you all do a lot of really great work anything else that we want to add all right then we'll move on to the consent calendar and I'll turn it over to city manager Rodriguez [Timestamp] **Katie Rodriguez (City Manager):** thank you mayor the consent calendar contains several separate items which are acted upon by the city council in one motion... [Reads Items A-D] ...and I submit these items for your consideration as part of the consent calendar [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all right thank you is there a motion with regard to the consent calendar [Timestamp] **Sean Hayford Oleary (Council Member):** so moved [Timestamp] **Walter Burk (Council Member):** second [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** okay it's been moved and seconded are there any discussion is there any discussion all right all in favor of approving the four consent calendar items please say I [Timestamp] **Council Members:** I [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all opposed all right we've approved those thank you next we'll move on to item number 6 which is a public hearing to approve host designation for the city of landfall Village to issue senior housing and Healthcare revenue bonds to finance acquisition of the pine Senior Housing Development um council member Heyford delri [Hayford Oleary] [Timestamp] **Sean Hayford Oleary (Council Member):** thank you um and if I could ask our vide Tech to put the call on information on the screen since we will have a public hearing on this shortly cassia is seeking tax exempt financing to purchase the pine senior and assisted living facility located at 400 West 67th Street... [Explains Project] ...this is a public hearing if anybody would like to comment on this item they can come forward at this time or they can call in [Timestamp] **Brent (CFO, Cassia):** a citizen of Richfield of 37 years and uh the Chief Financial Officer for cassia and um just honored to be here and we're uh honored to continue our commitment to Richfield by owning this property instead of just managing it and uh we serve a lot of seniors and would love to continue serving here if if you have any questions I'd uh try and answer those for you as well as well as I can [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all right um thank you I think in our discussion after if we have questions for the applicant we could have call you back up again but thank you sounds good thank you for coming in tonight all right would anybody else like to speak on this item all right I will move that we close the public hearing [Timestamp] **Council Member Troutman:** I'll second that [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** so it's been moved and seconded to close the public hearing is there any discussion all in favor of closing the public hearing please say I [Timestamp] **Council Members:** I [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all opposed all right the public hearing is closed all right I move that we approve a resolution providing host approval and consenting to the issuance sale and delivery by the city of landfall [Village] of his revenue bonds and approving and authorizing the execution of a joint Powers agreement [Timestamp] **Walter Burk (Council Member):** second [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all right and to clarify it's landfall Village the city of landfall Village okay yes okay all right is there any discussion um maybe the the city of attorney it's always helpful uh I think for residents to hear maybe a little bit more about uh the process and and how it works and what what the city's being asked to we're not financing these I know we're not but maybe just for the record could you share uh what we're doing tonight [Timestamp] **Mary Tietjen (City Attorney):** I would be happy to speak to some of the legal issues surrounding there's no liability for the city here I'm I'm not your bond counsel so um but I know that um assistant director Urban can probably tell you a little bit more about the process and then if there are questions that I can answer I'd be happy to try to do that [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** thank you that is a really important clarification and thank you assistant director Urban thank you for being here on a snowy night just for questions like this so our community can know what we're doing and not doing tonight [Timestamp] **Assistant Director Urban:** not a problem council member Troutman mayor members of the the council yes so in this case you're right the city has no financial obligation we are purely um we aren't even a conduit for the bonds in this instance that's going to be the city of landfall Village because we didn't have the capacity ourselves... [Explains capacity and joint powers] ...we are just saying it's okay to do that in Richfield [Timestamp] **Council Member Troutman:** exactly exactly and I'm just saying that several times because I don't know about other Council it's it's it's a little confusing and people come up and they say we're on the hook for for for this Bond or another Bond so I appreciate you um explaining that [Timestamp] **Assistant Director Urban:** right it is not it is not easy to understand you're exactly right [Timestamp] **Council Member Troutman:** no thank you very much [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** and I will say that our bond councel Julie Edington Mary's um cooworker is an expert and we rely on her judgment and her review of all the documents and so we are always very confident that she has our interests and if we were undertaking a bond obligation right now she would be here but we're so she's not [Timestamp] **Council Member Troutman:** exactly exactly no and mayor if I if I could just add I wanted to thank you um assistant director for confirming that um this is being memorialized in a joint Powers agreement which you know explicitly states that there's no financial obligation or liability for the city so just to remind the Council of that and also for the Public's benefit [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** thank you I did want to add that I thought it was really great that it's going to be 20% affordable because that's something we don't have a lot of affordable senior housing in Richfield so it's filling a need in the community and I appreciate that you're doing that I think that's going to be really important all right other comments or questions all right so we made the motion and seconded and we've had the discussion so all in favor please say I [Timestamp] **Council Members:** I [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all opposed all right we have approved this and thank you for coming out this evening all right um next we'll move on to the city manager's report [Timestamp] **Katie Rodriguez (City Manager):** yes thank you mayor we had four speakers at our open Fe at our open Forum at our last meeting... [Reports on compensation projects and short-term rentals] ...and then to further add to the celebration of women's History Month I just wanted to share kind of a nice story I was on a call today... there was Six Women on the call... I thought that was a nice story and that's all I have tonight [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** thank you I think to add to that it was pointed out that at the last h meeting that now our entire Community Development um department is female and so things like that didn't happen in the past... thank you to all involved with that um I had one like comment or question that I don't know if this is the appropriate place for it I noticed that the league of Minnesota City's conference is coming up June 26 through the 28th so can you get back to the council with whether or not we have anything budgeted if council members would like to attend that [Timestamp] **Katie Rodriguez (City Manager):** yes I will get something out to council thank you [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all right now we'll move on to claims and payroll [Timestamp] **Sean Hayford Oleary (Council Member):** I'll move claims and payroll [Timestamp] **Sharon Christensen (Council Member):** second [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** it's been moved and seconded to app to approve claims and payroll is there any discussion all right all in favor please say I [Timestamp] **Council Members:** I [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all opposed we've approved the claims and payroll next we'll move on to the hats off to Hometown hits and we'll start with um council member Christensen [Timestamp] **Sharon Christensen (Council Member):** yes thank you mayor uh I had the opportunity last um Tuesday night to attend the blue and gold dinner for pack 384 at Wood Lake um Lutheran Church... it was a good good good event thank you [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** council member Heyford delri [Hayford Oleary] [Timestamp] **Sean Hayford Oleary (Council Member):** um I just wanted to share I enjoyed participating in the richel high school job Olympics um along with mayor Supple last week... and I want to thank both his interest Theodor and also um I think two members of our community development department and our city transportation engineer for taking time out of there day to talk talk with him about his potential career path [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all right thank you council member Troutman [Timestamp] **Council Member Troutman:** thank you mayor um two two hats off tonight um one last week actually it's a two two weeks ago had the opportunity to attend the Richfield leadership Network's first fundraiser... and then last night was the annual banquet for the Fort Snelling Civil Air Patrol... to our former colleague uh Tom fit Fitz Henry hats off and thanks for for great work [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all right thank you um before I get to my two hats off I have to do two Shameless plugs here one is for the um Richfield Community Gardens... my second Shameless plug is for the Richfield Foundation... I want to do a hats off to our great Public Works staff for the great job of clearing the um snow now that winter has finally arrived at long last... and finally the um met Council had their um state of the region gathering this week... if you have ideas of to imagine of what it's going to be like in 2050 please reach out to your met council rep is there anything else we want to do a hats off to all right then I would entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting [Timestamp] **Walter Burk (Council Member):** so moved [Timestamp] **Sharon Christensen (Council Member):** second [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** it's been moved and seconded to adjourn the meeting all in favor please say I [Timestamp] **Council Members:** I [Timestamp] **Mary Supple (Mayor):** all opposed We Stand adjourned thank you