Based on the context provided and the dialogue within the transcript, here is the formatted transcript with speaker names added. **Note on Speaker Identification:** While the provided list mentions specific staff, the transcript includes a staff member named "**Adam**" (identifiable as Adam Bell, who served as City Administrator/Clerk) and a "**Chief Eastman**." Where the transcript and the provided official list differed, I have used the names explicitly spoken in the meeting for accuracy. *** **[0:00] Mayor Michele Hanson:** the bayport city council meeting please join me in the pledge of 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 adam will you please call the roll **[0:15] Adam Bell:** thank you madam mayor mayor hanson here councilmember carlson is absent this evening councilmember dahl president councilmember hanson here councilmember gilmore here thank you that takes us to the approval of tonight's agenda does anyone have any changes or questions if not would someone like to make a motion to approve stephen **[0:46] Adam Bell:** um thank you i staff does have one request on the agenda regarding the order under new business uh we would like to request that items one and two be switched please **[0:53] Councilmember John Dahl:** certainly i'll make a motion to approve the uh agenda with the switch of the first and second item on the agenda thank you **[1:05] Mayor Michele Hanson:** thank you john is there a second **[1:07] Councilmember Ethan Gilmore:** oh second **[1:09] Mayor Michele Hanson:** thank you ethan all in favor aye opposed that takes us to our proclamations accommodations petitions and announcements and the first is the march recycling award recipient is john roland at 414 4th street north and he'll be awarded for his recycling efforts with a grant made possible by washington county **[1:32] Mayor Michele Hanson:** so thank you very much john for your recycling efforts that leads us also to our recognizing police officer aaron slinger and i'd like to call upon chief eastman to present **[1:50] Chief Eastman:** good evening madam mayor and council thank you for this time um i'd like to call officer slinger up here he's somewhat shy so we want to make sure he's up here in front center the whole time just to get him a little bit more comfortable so you might remember just going to quickly give you a hit some history officer slanger was back a part-time with us years ago 12 to 15. is that correct and at that time he worked part-time for us um and then he also worked for mel in public work so he did a little bit of both then he went off to do some security at the federal government building and on to uh dispatch for state patrol and he we grabbed him back snatched him back so we're happy to have him and you know we haven't seen a lot of these **[2:36] Chief Eastman:** accommodations for a while i don't give them out lightly and i think he you know very much deserves us so i want to tell you that sergeant jackson uh requested this he put him in for this letter um and develop most of this letter himself and i concur with all this i tweaked it a little bit so i'm just going to read it it's kind of a story about why he's getting the accommodation tonight so i wish to formally recognize officer slinger for his outstanding job he did while responding to a call august 28th of 2021 mind you we had kovitz so i wanted to make sure he could be here and you all could see him so it was just after midnight when officer slinger was dispatched to the park in inspiration development for people shining flashlights officer slimger arrived to find chaos **[3:21] Chief Eastman:** and located an overturned utility terrain vehicle utv with a driver who was heavily toxicated but not injured multiple people started calling their loved ones 911 were on the utv were involved in an accident and they were injured there were a total of four passengers injured in the crash all calling from different addresses some of the passengers were unconscious for a period of time following the crash and one of them sustained a neck injury officer slinger successfully directed bayport rescue lakeview ambulance oak park heights stillwater police department and personnel all while managing the crime scene and taking a heavily intoxicated driver into custody officer slinger's organizational skills and tenacity proved to be an invaluable **[4:07] Chief Eastman:** in this case after securing the scene gathering information from multiple law enforcement partners and rescue personnel officer slinger drafted a search warrant to seize the defendant's blood resulting in an alcohol concentrate of 0.25 which is three times over the legal limit to operate a motor vehicle officer slinger then began the process of securing medical records from various hospitals to aid in the prosecution of the defendant he also completed follow-up interviews with several different victims their loved ones and took photos of the injuries officer slinger's dedicated work ethic and passion towards helping the community led to successful charging of the defendant for two felony counts of criminal vehicular homicide or excuse me operation and one count of gross misdemeanor criminal vehicular operation **[4:55] Chief Eastman:** i commend you for your actions and service to the community thank you [Applause] **[5:06] Chief Eastman:** [Applause] this is the real one here um and i like to step out for a little bit if i can if there's nothing else and just take photos um again i just want to say that sergeant jackson and i and sergeant jackson you might remember as 20 some years and i have 18 flawless report writing flawless you know initiative to follow up with all of the different victims to include medical releases to all the hospitals just extensive this was an extensive time consuming case and it didn't have to be managed by sergeant jackson or i he did it all on his own there was nothing i would change or would have done differently in both sergeant jackson i feel that way so i really commend you wow thank you **[5:55] Mayor Michele Hanson:** thank you so much thanks for your service and thanks for that dedication thanks all for all of the officers for joining us this evening stay safe we appreciate all that you're doing we're gonna go celebrate with some photos so well done it's very nice to have our own police dedicated police department and such great ones at that so nice to celebrate that takes us to our open forum this evening where we set aside 15 minutes to address topics that are not on tonight's agenda and right now we do not have any visitors in our chambers and there's no one online so we will promptly move along to our consent agenda **[6:40] Mayor Michele Hanson:** which includes items one through six the march 7 2022 city council workshop meeting minutes the march 7 2022 city council regular meeting minutes the march payables building plumbing mechanical and zoning permits report a special event application from bayport american legion for the memorial day parade on may 30th 2022 and the hiring of ryan jones as our full-time police officer um so happy to see the memorial day parade back and and to welcome ryan does anyone have anything else to add change or would someone like to make a motion to approve **[7:18] Councilmember John Dahl:** i'll move to uh approve the consent agenda um as presented to us **[7:26] Mayor Michele Hanson:** thank you john is there a second **[7:28] Councilmember Michele Hanson:** whole second **[7:30] Mayor Michele Hanson:** thank you michelle all in favor aye hi oh uh adam do we need a roll call because of the officer uh because of the uh yes okay please do so **[7:40] Adam Bell:** uh councilmember dahl aye councilmember hanson aye councilmember gilmore aye mayor hanson aye **[7:50] Mayor Michele Hanson:** as all we do not have a public hearing this evening nor do we have unfinished business so we're going to move to our new business and as mentioned before we're going to switch the order of the items and we'll move forward with consider a proposal from sch to prepare a stormwater drainage plan to facilitate future infrastructure projects and matt would you please come forward **[8:15] Matt Kline:** madam mayor members of the council as the mayor mentioned this is to consider a proposal from sch for a storm water drainage plan as we've discussed many times in the past about the stormwater system in bayport that it definitely needs improvements the the question is where do we start and how do we tie it all together and that would be by coming up with a plan to make sure that we're what we're doing with a project say on the bluff of the hill that impacts anything downstream and so what we really need to do is essentially create a model that shows the current system as a whole and any um then we can add to that model **[9:04] Matt Kline:** any necessary requirements from the wmo and the states to that model and then decipher how does that impact the rest of the system and so what we're asking for tonight is um you to accept the proposal for the plan as described in the seh proposal john is here tonight too to answer any questions that you may have on it otherwise i'll stand for questions **[9:36] Mayor Michele Hanson:** any questions for matt **[9:40] Councilmember John Dahl:** well it sounds like a really smart thing to do and it sounds like it's pretty high tech too like really going to be helpful so i i do want to talk a little bit about the funding part of it though too okay **[9:55] Matt Kline:** good point um hold that thought for just a second um john did you have anything no um i just you know very necessary and the the technology angle is pretty neat to be able to see what goes on great **[10:14] Adam Bell:** and adam did you um i was going to refer to the the funding aspect that customer hanson mentioned so please do so um the one note that i was going to it was in the memo this project would qualify as a arpa eligible project infrastructure project during the stormwater um if that if the council recalls the booster station upgrades was the other item that the council had authorized to use the our funds if the council so chooses uh it can also add tonight to dedicate the remaining funds um to this project uh we have approximately about forty thousand dollars left um in our funds uh from our overall allotment um that uh this is just just a little bit over that uh so we would use all of them um but if the council wants to do that tonight um he can add that to the to the motion or have a separate motion um that's the only the only input that i had um if i'm happy to answer questions if there are specific questions **[11:24] Councilmember Michele Hanson:** so are you saying that we would with the arpa funds we would have enough to cover both projects **[11:35] Adam Bell:** yes yeah the the balance that's remaining uh after the booster station upgrades uh is approximately forty thousand um from our three hundred thousand uh or sorry four hundred thousand dollar allotment um this project as matt for this study um is just what was it 44 approximately 44 thousand five forty five hundred uh so it would be a few thousand dollars that wouldn't be paid by the harbor funds i mean that would come from the the water or actually no the streets and storm water fund um let's say yes **[12:11] Councilmember Michele Hanson:** so remind me is the booster station are those hard costs or were they just estimates of the **[12:18] Adam Bell:** well the project's still ongoing it should be completed due to delays this fall uh but those funds are um there's no chance the costs unless there's some type of change order as we get in further into the project which we don't expect um at this point but that's that still is a possibility um with the with the arpa funds even if you know if the council uses the remainder of the balance of the arpa funds now and for some reason there was a change order to the booster station upgrade um the money it's fungible so we'd we'd have to come from somewhere um but we the staff's recommendation would be to use the balance of the funds uh for this project since it does qualify okay **[12:57] Councilmember Michele Hanson:** and there aren't any other things that we've talked about using those funds for **[13:08] Adam Bell:** so not specifically um if you recall the concert calls the the booster station uh project did cost more than we initially estimated um so that that did unfortunately eat up a lot of our allotment um the the one thing that they did change to the the under the treasury guidelines for the arpa funds is the loss of revenue you can count basically the whole thing towards lost ripping so because the funds are the the dollars are fungible you know it's we're either counting it in our this hand or that hand at the end of the day um there will be some that's not covered in the city would have to pay for uh either project if once those funds are uh depleted or used but it doesn't look like i mean it looks like it's about five thousand or less **[13:38] Adam Bell:** correct yes great did that address your questions yes okay thank you **[13:44] Mayor Michele Hanson:** would anyone like to ask any more questions any more other discussion if not would someone like to make a motion **[14:14] Councilmember Michele Hanson:** i'll make a motion of proving a proposal from sch in the amount of forty four thousand four hundred fifty dollars to complete a stormwater drainage plan thank you michelle **[14:24] Councilmember Ethan Gilmore:** thank you ethan **[14:30] Adam Bell:** adam uh councillor hanson aye councilmember gilmore aye councilmember dahl aye mayor hanson aye as all **[14:40] Councilmember Michele Hanson:** can i make a motion that we use the sure okay i'd like to make a motion that we use the american rescue plan act funds to pay for the stormwater drainage plan that we just passed **[14:48] Mayor Michele Hanson:** thank you michelle is there a second **[14:50] Councilmember John Dahl:** second thank you john again **[14:55] Adam Bell:** all right councilmember hanson aye councilmember dahl aye councilmember gilmore aye mayor hanson aye **[15:05] Mayor Michele Hanson:** as all great that will be a nice addition to all of the other information that we've laid over um in the last few years so thank you matt and john thank you yeah so okay all right the second item under new business is to consider a repeal of chapter 2 administration article 8 the personnel policy of the bayport city code of ordinances and the adoption by resolution of an administrative policy and with that i'll hand the mic over to adam i know that he and sarah have been doing a lot of work on this topic **[15:31] Adam Bell:** thank you madam mayor members of the council yes as the mayor mentioned or noted this project or this task this update to the personal policy has been ongoing for quite some time with the delays just with all personnel issues and matters during kovid it was rapidly changing so we are happy to be having turned that corner and finally we have something to present to the council last month at march the workshop did consist of the council going over with our labor attorney the new proposed personnel policy to give a very high level overview our current policy is it lives in the city's code of ordinances uh the city code and what that does is it makes it very difficult to update it as needed as a consequence it's not updated it has not been updated as frequently as it should be and as we need it to be the labor attorney's recommendation was to take it out of the city code and have it as a standalone uh policy that the council can then amend or change however it would like as as a resolution uh there's it's much easier to do it that way than have to amend the actual ordinance um it's actually actually cheaper as well so it saves the cost saves the taxpayers some dollars uh the actual changes that were made there were not a lot of substantive changes uh most of it consisted with reorganizing the existing policies and then making some updates that were compliant with state law federal law and rules and regulations and so it was reorganized into the document that you have now and there's also a resolution uh and so the two things that the council or that the staff is asking the council for tonight is to repeal in an entirety the existing ordinance that is the personal policy and replace it with the standalone personnel policy um the the remainder in the code will then refer to this other policy um at the workshop there were as i said there were not many changes uh one item of note that it would be a result in an increase in employee benefits was a matching deferred compensation up to 25 for any employee that participates in any in the deferred compensation program that the city sponsors that was the only cost increase or benefit increase all the other benefits did remain the same some of the leave policies were updated just to be in compliance with state law and as i said the rest of it really was just a reorganization **[18:21] Adam Bell:** we did add an acknowledgement page and so when a new employee and all the current existing employees will receive this document and they will be required to read it review it and then sign that acknowledge that they did receive it so they're on a formal notice of these policies with that i am happy to answer any other specific questions we did have a very good discussion at the workshop um some of the other feedback that we received from the council were incorporated into these again some of it was uh just minor revisions um there since the packet did go out uh we did catch a couple uh it was brought to our attention just a couple typos um a period here there um extra word uh so those were removed um but they were again non-substantive so otherwise it does remain uh the same document so with that um are there any other questions **[19:15] Mayor Michele Hanson:** does the council have any other questions **[19:20] Councilmember John Dahl:** oh thanks for all your hard work on it yeah it was a lot of work **[19:25] Adam Bell:** i do want to commend uh miss taylor on the it what we had before um had not been updated in over a decade and just the format we we modeled the new policy after the league of minnesota cities model policy um so a lot of that again was boilerplate um but the the order the organization um it it wasn't as simple as just a cut and paste um so it sarah worked very hard with the both the attorney and the labor attorneys um to come up with this document so i do want to commend her for that **[20:10] Councilmember John Dahl:** that was my only question this employee acknowledgement is pretty sound legally and i mean it makes sense to me but i don't look at things from a legal standpoint because i don't have any expertise in that area but i mean that's a pretty important piece of this right the final that would be page 28 right **[20:30] Adam Bell:** it does i mean at to a certain extent it's i don't say it's implied but it is presumed that the that the i don't say it's required but it's a best practice um it helps the city and the and the employee um you know if there are any issues or conflicts that's that's a document that both sides have as a record of the receipt and acknowledgement so um previously the the city did not have any type of formal acknowledgement um so it there's it's something that that was actually provided by the labor attorney um that page um so it also it allows the city um the presumption that every employee is agreeing to these terms so that if there is an issue down the road they've acknowledged and read this we all know these acknowledgements people sometimes sign them but this does say you've signed you understand what you're what you're signing up for so that if there's an issue that arises they've been agreed to it we have that there um and so seemingly if an employer were to refuse to sign it then we would likely reconsider it **[21:28] Councilmember John Dahl:** thank you yeah that's important to me that that piece of this whole **[21:35] Adam Bell:** the one uh one aspect that i i guess i'll go back and mention is the the city does have three labor uh collective bargaining agreements with the three labor unions uh those do supersede any terms that are in conflict with the general city policy those would control but if there's anything else that's outside of those agreements the city policy would govern so **[22:05] Mayor Michele Hanson:** and then in addition there will be job descriptions for each role as well as we're um looking into some handbooks that help onboard employees as well **[22:12] Adam Bell:** correct yes we do have job descriptions for all the positions but they'll all be kind of contained in that the council has approved those in the past **[22:20] Mayor Michele Hanson:** great perfect thank you and the the public can find this document in our meeting um minutes tonight and then it will be housed on will be housed on our website **[22:30] Adam Bell:** yes okay yes **[22:40] Mayor Michele Hanson:** all right great any other questions or comments from the council **[22:50] Councilmember Michele Hanson:** do we adam do we have to be specific about any changes to the wording based on the feedback that i provided on the employee acknowledgement **[22:56] Adam Bell:** no those were just scribner's errors um they weren't substantive okay i mean yeah i mean it's a little it's just clunky kind of there's two times where they have to say that they read and understood it and received it so it's kind of i haven't had a chance to speak okay fraternity about that um i don't think that it because it's if we were to strike one of those or modify the acknowledgement page i don't think that because it's not part of the actual policy um the council **[23:35] Councilmember Michele Hanson:** okay that's what i was worried about we approve it and then there's changes does that kind of mess with the whole we approved it but then there was changes made after that **[23:42] Adam Bell:** not to the to the acknowledgment page that was okay that was added um after and that's that aspect of it uh it's not i don't say it's not important we just discussed how it is important um but any changes to the acknowledgement page um or not the council can approve the policy now and we can make future changes to the acknowledgement page without okay requiring council to come back okay **[24:12] Mayor Michele Hanson:** all right any other questions or comments if not would someone like to make a motion **[24:20] Councilmember John Dahl:** i'll move to repeal chapter 2 administration article 8 personnel policy with the bayport city code of ordinances as drafted and presented to us thank you john is there a second **[24:25] Councilmember Ethan Gilmore:** second thank you ethan **[24:28] Adam Bell:** councilmember dahl aye councilmember gilmore aye councilmember hanson aye mayor hanson aye **[24:40] Councilmember John Dahl:** all right and the second motion look at that one too i moved to approve a resolution adopting an employee personnel policy for the city of bayport as drafted and presented to us **[24:48] Mayor Michele Hanson:** thank you john is there a second **[24:50] Councilmember Ethan Gilmore:** oh second **[24:52] Adam Bell:** thank you ethan councilmember dahl aye councilmember gilmore aye mouser hanson aye mayor hanson aye **[25:05] Mayor Michele Hanson:** asall thank you very much thank you council madam thanks good work so that takes us to our city council liaison reports and john i'll start with you **[25:10] Councilmember John Dahl:** um i did not bring my sheet so um i can email you guys an update nothing really bayport specific we had a really quick meeting last month sort of just business type thing okay great **[25:20] Mayor Michele Hanson:** thank you ethan **[25:22] Councilmember Ethan Gilmore:** uh yeah we did meet um and they changed their calendar fiscal year was weird it ended on january 31st so they switched that um financials are in good shape **[25:40] Mayor Michele Hanson:** remind us what your liaison is for the people out there don't **[25:45] Councilmember Ethan Gilmore:** yes the cable commission okay sorry um finances are in good shape some reserves on hand we did approve a four percent wage increase to help keep up with inflation even though that's less than inflation as we all know um they're looking at potentially subleasing the studio out because they virtually have no users anymore there's like two guys that used it last year um and most of them they had kind of talked to them they could help the guy get the one out of his basement so it's just kind of a pointless space i mean they were approached by the dance studio that they might be interested in that so that might be something to save and then and then down the line when the lease is i think in two years they're going to decide to keep it get rid of it get a different space so completely decided on that um elected a new treasure because somebody from oak park heights is not on that one anymore i think they just did some switching up of the liaisons and then ted uh retired or did retire went to a new job and so we have a new sports director but he's been there i think he did a lot of freelance work for him so he kind of stepped in and he's done a good job you know so far that's what i have thank you ethan **[26:50] Councilmember Michele Hanson:** yeah great great report um planning commission did not meet but i did attend the king plant advisory panel reporting that was done at oak park heights city council workshop um on the 29th of march a lot of information that i'm not going to go over here but just one of the things that people in bayport might be curious about the um stack smokestack is for sure coming down and it's not going to be imploded it's going to be taken down like my brick um i know that's been a question that people have had and the falcons will be relocated so you don't have to worry about them at the top of the stack um so the plant will be retired in 2028 and they're going to be slowly they've already i think got it so it's only running on like every like six months out of the year like the peak times is when it runs it can always be there for backup if needed but so they're they're starting to like decommission it slowly it sounds like the um substation which i think is that part that's kind of not actually on that site but it's over looks like it's more up the hill i don't know how to describe it what's that road that goes by there it used to be the shortcut you'd go by it all the time remember i think they're going to keep that there um anyways they're trying to figure out how best to use the land and they've got they had that advisory panel put together of people in the community and they did a lot of brainstorming and looking at ideas and they have also a company that they've hired that has this really awesome tool that can help them with looking at like well you're going to lose this much in your tax revenue you know what can you put into like like what do you need to do to make it work and then different scenarios like if you had this much housing and this much retail what can you actually expect to to generate for tax income and then also what it what economic impact it has on the area the county as a whole you know because all those people that work at the plant right now they have a certain impact you know they're stopping at the gas stations they're going out to lunch whatever so what how's that going to change if you do industrial versus residential and it was seemed like a very sophisticated tool and they're really like thinking hard about the best use for that so it was nice to see so i i'd assume at some point reports and things would be available to the public if they wanted to see them but i'm not sure how all that's working but it was really interesting and people are working really hard on it so and then just a quick bca also bayport community action league is in charge of um the events that happen in town and we are bringing back the bar crawl it'll be on may 14th i thought maybe the chief might want to know what's happening um so we're gonna go to each of the six uh bars restaurants in town throughout the day and everyone has specials and we're gonna have prizes at the end and there's gonna be live music down at the barbecue at the end so hopefully people can join us and we are uh counting on having derby days and some centennial celebration related to that thank you very much oh and easter egg hunt two forgot easter egg hunt day before easter 10 o'clock i think workers barkers yeah that's great well thank you to you and to all the members of bcal i do not have any liaison reports from this month so over to you adam and team **[30:37] Adam Bell:** thank you mayor uh just one note uh chief risinger fire chief hanzine was not able to attend tonight um he had some surgery on his knee um but you had do you have his report uh calls are still uh up from last year uh so those just continue to trend up um next call on police chief eastman **[31:07] Chief Eastman:** good evening again not a whole lot to report um past training we had our one of our first trainings with oak park and bay port together scenario training so we have more staff to do scenarios with which is really nice because it was taser and pepper ball training we had an old fire hall and so that was very well received it could have been a little bit more organized but it was a really first attempt at scenarios which is hugely important it's real hard to do scenarios with six people or eight people so that was well received on the 15th we had our first safety camp and national night out or night two night meeting we're planning on having that this year so if you have anybody going into grades or you know anyone going into grades three four and five for safety camp we're starting to take applications and that'll be out on our facebook page we also as you know accepted the applications and i assume while i was gone or before i left you approved him on consent as a promotional hire and he'll do a great job biggest heart that i've ever seen in my 15 years he will be an absolute asset to the community so thank you you you made a good decision um and we will take him under our wing and he'll be ready you know to go solo in a few months and i'm comfortable with that so we have uh we completed our evidence audit so we do that annually and we just randomly pick icr's report numbers see that the money's there the drugs are there something that we do we submit an icr so we completed that that was all good upcoming we have our body worn camera audit by state statute we have to do that bi-annually we passed last year or two years ago with flying colors so we have a new one coming up with a new audit person that office or chief hanson used at oak park and she's very reasonable the state is four five six thousand dollars and she's under a thousand so we did i researched that and she did a great job and she's aware that some of our agencies use different and uh cameras and we use watch guard just like oak park so we'll be using her uh may 19th we have an outdoor scenario with simulations training critical incident training so de-escalation you know all those kind of techniques that we learned during our cit that we do annually so we're doing that actual mock car traffic stops with it utilizing that and just different levels of force you know from our presence to our our mouth being our best tool and then moving up through the chain so that'll be really good and we plan to do more of that with oak park so i'm happy to present that um we're confirming the donations this and as well as i think mr bell is going to talk about a little bit about the parade and the lift bridge race i'm just with at one time i had 10 part-timers and four and now i love that i have full timers it's just navigating the full-timers um is is great but we don't have any reserves we didn't have a lot of applications and neither surrounding agencies for officers and with that we're seeing a decline with reserves and they've really been our backbone they stand and help us with all our you know toys for tots safety camp national night out halloween we just don't have enough bodies because somebody has to sleep while the other one's here so we're missing the reserves and navigating the schedule with controlling intersections and stuff is going to be interesting but we'll get through it so our total calls to date are 1829. **[34:52] Chief Eastman:** i do want to mention and i think mr bell will too uh officer cornell is getting a life saving award april 12th at city hall or park heights city hall he was involved with a gentleman that was threatening to jump off the bridge back a couple months ago they prolonged or pushed it out because of covid and but they're now in person and so we waited a few months to get that done but he was there standing right next to the other oak park officer and did a very good job talking to this young man so so wanted to recognize him [Music] and lastly you may have heard on um social the social media network what have you that our county attorney pete orput passed away last night um that's so sad that's he was very close partner to many of us very well respected he was a huge advocate for the department of corrections which means we obviously they're in our jurisdiction so calls that occur there we help with those calls assaults criminal sexual conduct that we've investigated all those kind of things and he really was a partner to them and that was good because that was all of our work but he was a partner to us with our successful death investigations criminal sexual conduct and he was just um you know was a true he was a teacher in his previous career and it showed through and through so he will be greatly missed because he was a great partner and advocate for us and i personally knew him since i was 25 and it's a big bull so anyways i wanted to recognize him and just tell you what a great guy he was and what he did for the community here so i stand for questions **[36:30] Councilmember John Dahl:** first of all sorry for the lawsuit so i just wanted to commend you and your team on um seems like there's been maybe some heightened patrols on some of the surface streets i saw the speed limit sign i think it's on first ave north here and seen a a definite presence in my neighborhood and that is appreciated and i just want to encourage you to keep that up and hopefully keep people's speed down and as these uh nice days come keep the car and pedestrian interactions to a minimum and safe so absolutely thank you **[37:20] Chief Eastman:** thank you i want to say that that's partially because you allowed us to get another full time or two because with covid one of them would be out and so we were backfilling but when we have two power shifts it helps because that extra power shift person can be doing those extra patrols proactive stuff so that's you know you should be patting yourselves on the back because i can't do it without staff because it's hard to prioritize the cases so that's you're doing as well i appreciate that councilmember doll **[37:56] Mayor Michele Hanson:** i think it's great that you're doing a lot of things with oak park heights in your trainings and stuff i think that's really smart to use those resources and kind of get together hats off to uh chief hanson for our you know collaboration as well so that was good he's doing a great job over there so thank you councilmember gilmore and hanson for allowing us to add that extra officer it's gonna as councilmember dahl said it's gonna make a difference um and you'll see that and the speed sign in the wintertime the batteries die on it um so it can be out in the spring and summer and fall but yeah so it'll be out more and people can ask where they want it and matt told us that the permanent one on the south end of town is he's been on **[38:50] Mayor Michele Hanson:** thank you i'd like to just follow up and um and send out our condolences to the entire orput family as well as the family that he had amongst the county and and all the other officers and and people that he interacted with he was he was a a pleasure to work with and i've just known him the 11 years and um such an advocate of of our department and of bayport and a fine man and he will be missed back to you adam **[39:15] Adam Bell:** thank you my mayor um the council has uh library director uh smith's report in your packets um just a couple things i wanted to highlight um they will be having an open house for their remodeling project that's tuesday uh may 3rd um at the library um the uh the the other thing is they are on track uh to begin construction in august um so that's ongoing um unfortunately councilmember carlson was not here to add anything else but if you have any questions on anything please let staff know next public berks director kline **[39:46] Matt Kline:** madam may remember the council um the public works apartment has been uh busy street sweeping and keeping drains clean um it's like the first time in unknown years that tim gardner hasn't been in the street sweeper but i think we're handling it just fine um andy's not around to critique it so he's on vacation he does live in town though he does live in town yes um staff has also been working on we had an ms4 audit there were some violations with our procedures and our program but nothing that rose to level of fines and we just had a list of about five items that were required to correct in a given certain time period steph has also been working with a local contractor on ash tree removals i believe all the ash trees that were planned for removal this spring have been completed and that will be planning replacing the 20 trees that were removed before sometime in the middle of may and then just touch base on cup one other one the seal coating and crack sealing it's just regular routine street maintenance um depending on the uh cost for each they may or may not come back to city council agenda oh and um uh the baseball field fence was delivered here a couple months ago and the baseball team just put it up on last friday so if you want to see it it is up right stand for questions **[41:54] Mayor Michele Hanson:** any questions for matt **[42:00] Councilmember Michele Hanson:** um i had a neighbor ask about the stump grinding i mean i said i'm sure it'll be in the next month or so **[42:05] Matt Kline:** yeah so stump grinding will be completed before that may 15th middle of may day okay **[42:15] Councilmember Michele Hanson:** and then um just i might have already done this but there's a couple pet projects of mine just in terms of the cemetery that that got done and i think it's exciting to have a uh paved roads in the cemetery and the uh the columns and the south entrance of hazelwood cemetery were redone a couple years ago and it's looking really sharp up there and so just hats off for getting that done and it's a place i spend some time and i appreciate that so thank you very much **[42:39] Sara Taylor:** assistant administrator taylor at american council um the employee personnel policy was adopted earlier on tonight's agenda so thank you very much for that um record management and organization efforts continue at city hall most recently our efforts have been focused on reviewing and reconciling original gravesite purchase receipts death certificates and deeds with the information on our electronic database for hazelwood cemetery a lot of these were early 1900s dated and in original handwriting so that's been somewhat of a challenge reading that cursive and the documents are almost deteriorating in your hands so we're looking forward to getting that information input electronically so then we can use that to assist families more in a better way to identify locating relatives identifying other open grave sites accommodating placement of caskets and creaminess burials there's spacing can sometimes be a challenge so we're looking forward to getting that project done and eventually we hope to map individual grave sites and burials in gis but that'll be a future project down the road a draft of the city's print newsletter should be mailed in the next week or so and then the next edition of the city's e-newsletter report brief is anticipated for may or june time frame i just wanted to mention for those who haven't already signed up on the city website please do so so you can receive that electronic newsletter and then over the next few weeks staff will be working on immediate priorities identified at the city council workshop earlier this evening for discussion at the may and june meetings you stand for questions **[44:12] Mayor Michele Hanson:** any questions for sarah thank you again for the personnel policy you're welcome thanks for the recognition **[44:14] Adam Bell:** all right madam mayor members of the council um just a couple items that we haven't discussed yet tonight uh an update on the picket ave north street vacation request from the state administration or the department of administration the state and the department of corrections uh staff and staff did meet with the state and uh we went over a couple of items some of our concerns that we needed answers to we were continuing to do more research on it to make sure that it can be done the way that they proposed it and any other concerns or considerations that are have come up during the research so the the project itself is being proposed as a 2023 or 2024 project um so it's but when you're dealing with a state uh which this is it's a lot different than just dealing with a not state uh entity uh for a resident to vacate us unapproved right away or any street um there's a lot more moving parts and so the bureaucracy is it the 2023 is going to be here there's a lot of work that needs to be done before then so staff is continuing to work with tom and john perotti our engineer i mean looking into those into that proposal um but when when we get to the point where it's ready to be brought to the council we will do that um as has been mentioned a couple times the memorial day parade 2022 is back this year we are happy to work with the legion on that we did get a request it was late it did not make it into the packet for a 500 donation which had been done in previous years um it was not part of the request this year in time um that can be done uh at next month's meeting um it's not urgent that it's approved tonight or considered tonight i won't be presumptive but that was something that the city had done um in the past um in previous years it has been it's been two years that we didn't have it and so they may have forgot to do it with the with the application and then we didn't think of it um initially so um it was asked after um so next month just to give the council a heads up uh that will be it there'll be a request including that um the one of the other items a little more exciting uh not more exciting than the parade but we haven't had a lot of conversation here is we the city was contacted regarding electric vehicle charging stations there's a program through a company that installs provides the charging stations for electric vehicles several cities are going are doing going through this program and it's at no cost to the city what the city does is it designates a parking space or multiple parking spaces uh in one location or throughout the city uh it is a 10-year contract for that dedicated space but it's not strictly enforced that it can't be used for other things but obviously the intent is to have it as a charging station um that 10-year contract covers all the maintenance all the installation all the costs and the city does or is able to potentially get four to six percent revenue in the shared fees so it's something that the city is looking into uh the city staff is coming up with a list of potential locations that we will then submit to the company that's facilitating this and then they'll do a review and let us know which station or which locations that they believe would be appropriate and then that would come back to the council for formal approval um it is exciting obviously it's a trend that is not going anywhere at this time and so uh you know city plymouth new brighton uh prior lake marina saint croix is putting two stations in through this same program uh so when there is more information i'll be sharing with the council but that's that's something that's exciting to kind of get on in in with that that topic everything else i think we've already covered that staff has either addressed during the meeting or in the previous workshop thank you again council for the workshop immediately preceding this meeting staff got some good direction on the remainder of the year's priorities and we will work through those and bring them to the council so with that i do stand for any questions **[53:26] Councilmember John Dahl:** can you um talk a little bit about the picket avenue uh street vacation and what the impetus is for this and what what problem a cul-de-sac is going to solve **[53:40] Adam Bell:** the so what uh as for everybody's education the currently 6th street turns it curves and then turns into pickett avenue goes between the warden's house and the department of corrections parking and the main prison facility what the prison would like to do or the department of corrections is to vacate the portion from 56th all the way to to essentially the beginning of the cemeteries uh where six curves and turns into picket um that's where they want to place or locate the cul-de-sac and so it wouldn't be no longer a through uh road they don't have any plans to put a gate or any type of security to stop access from the north which is all where all the traffic would come in other than uh maintenance or utility or emergency vehicles would also be able to go through the prison yard the prison property back on to pickett but sixth street would then turn into a a dead end with the cul-de-sac there would be emergency access through the cemeteries which would qualify under our ordinance um the the impetus for it we were that was brought to us was to better secure or provide better security for um their their property uh there have been in past years there has been some public protests there's they don't have a good way of regulating or even monitoring the traffic that does go through there um and so for their their security interests um that's that was the main the main impetus for their request there are some benefits to the city to the public that would be one of the uh the requirements for the city to approve the uh approve the vacation as it would provide a public interest um it it would we'd no longer have to maintain the portion if we were to vacate it maintain that portion um it would also cut down on the the truth the truth that through traffic pardon my speech um on six they're because of the employees they do they do go both ways um so there would be potential benefit for the local residents um not having to have the uh the through traffic we'd cut down on that um the the and also it's not specifically just targeted to protest there's obviously a first amendment right for anybody to you know exercise um there that they'd rather have it in a different area at the north end so that they can again just better regulate and have knowledge of who's who's there that would get it away everybody's opinion is that they would get it away from the more local residents in the area um not having to be um adjacent to that uh so that's that's one of the um that's probably the biggest rationale that's been provided uh one of the the items with the cul-de-sac is it does involve um this the state would part of the proposed uh cul-de-sac would is currently sitting on the state property and uh mr lunan and i see attorney luna and i have discussed uh the state initially proposed an easement on that for the cul-de-sac and this the city in my opinion in mr lynn's opinion is we'd really rather have a fee title um we don't want to deal with the easement we'd rather just get the land if it's if we're gonna have to maintain it would just be cleaner it wouldn't be simpler up front but down the road um it would be much more beneficial for the city um to just to own the whole cul-de-sac instead of just having a permanent easement on it um so that that's uh the current proposal one of the concerns that we shared with uh that chief uh eisner fire chief heisenger is maintaining uh fire truck traffic being able to get the ladder truck and any other emergency vehicles through there um so we think we've got that worked out but we didn't share our initial concerns with the dlc state so we're still very early in the process as far as the specific designs **[54:12] Councilmember John Dahl:** but picket avenue would still be public right i mean people could drive in there if they wanted to **[54:18] Adam Bell:** it would it would be public property in the sense that the state owns it the proposal was that it would not no longer be a public road correct it'd be but being a state property as long as they have to allow access in it would you know the state it would be safe property but it would no longer have public access uh coming and going it'd be essentially a private road that the state controls **[54:40] Councilmember John Dahl:** so if the prison ever didn't exist you know if they decided to close it at some later date would bayport um retain ownership of the all of that street or that would that be part of the state property **[54:50] Adam Bell:** it would it it would depend on the extent that we defined the vacation but as i understand the proposal right now no that would go i mean the the picket avenue was completely surrounded by state property and my understanding proposals they were looking to vacate the entire road it would revert to them as the abundant property owners and if they were to ever if anything were happening with that land it was no longer state land it would it would pass with whomever purchases it wouldn't be rededicated you know we could look into to something to that effect but ultimately if the vacation is all picket avenue it's vacated and it goes to the state and then they sell the proper ecosystem if there's a future development metamer um where the prison no longer exists and that any of that property gets redeveloped or would need to be redeveloped at that time during the redevelopment process future roads or future access to whatever is in there would have to be dedicated to the city for data back or any form for future format **[55:40] Councilmember John Dahl:** okay well it's something that i'd like you just keep in mind and think about if that's a true benefit for the city or not yeah yeah it sounds kind of like there's not a lot in it for us to do this and i'm also concerned about how many residents use that street to get i mean it's kind of like a shortcut right for some people to get down to 36 **[55:55] Adam Bell:** yeah so people use it you know bikers and pedestrians use it my husband uses it all the time so yeah more food for thought and more discussion needed [Music] and staff has not contacted or spoke with any of the neighboring residents um yet we're not at that point but that's that obviously is a consideration and assuming that the petition is properly presented to the city however it's taken up the the process does require significant public involvement we'll have to have a public uh hearing and get input from the public so where we're at as i know we're at the very early stages in this conversation um and and consideration of this potentially um so yes there's certainly a lot that would be happening um prior to the squad board as you know 23 24 even so yeah we're just really early in the conversation **[56:30] Councilmember Michele Hanson:** one other comment um i brought the electric vehicle i item forward to adam um i just i think it would be wonderful one its electric vehicles are the way of the future and two it might be a way to bring more people and have them spend a little bit more time in our city going to the library going to restaurants going to the gas station etc so i'm excited that we're exploring that and uh look forward to more updates i agree and i i spoke to adam that the library was considering wanting to have one with this whole it came up during the remodel process discussions someone said could we think about that so i think he's going to talk to jill about having something over near there and i don't know like is would anderson employees be interested in something in that lot you know how we let them use that lot down by lakeside i don't know if you thought about talking to them about this **[57:15] Adam Bell:** i know that they have their own facilities currently **[57:20] Councilmember Michele Hanson:** they do okay **[57:22] Adam Bell:** but that one of the locations down at lakeside is you know one of the potential considerations in that area so i think like six or eight charging spots but none in that scenario that is a pretty good opportunity for something like that down there the uh the fact that they understand um being you know as a larger largest employer in the county um right here that does make vapefur more unique than some of the other you know similarly sized city um just because we it's the company that does it obviously they're for profit they're looking at you know what potential usage is they're going to be um so when you have as many thousand employees as you know anderson has um that definitely works in our favor to say justify but you know promote a good location here in town so yeah glad you're looking into it great all right any other reports from anyone if not would someone like to make a motion to adjourn **[58:53] Councilmember Michele Hanson:** the move we adjourn thank you michelle **[58:56] Councilmember John Dahl:** is there a second second thank you john **[59:00] Mayor Michele Hanson:** all in favor aye aye opposed [Meeting adjourned]