The Tuesday, May 5th, 2026 meeting of the Eden Prairie City Council is now called to order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> It's nice to uh see um a full house out there. So welcome all of you. Um, even though you're here for maybe only um part of the meeting because of a presentation, the rules are you have to stay the whole time. I'm sorry. No. When truly um it's nice that you're here for as long as you want to be here. Uh during this time, it's typical that I read an open podium invitation to our residents. Open podium is an opportunity for Eden Prairie residents to address the city council on issues related to Eden Prairie city government. prior to each council meeting. And the council meetings typically occur the first and the third Tuesday of each month. These open podiums occur from 6:30 to 6:55 here in the council chamber. If you wish to speak at open podium, please do contact the city manager's office at 952-9498412 by noon of the meeting date with your name, your phone number, and subject matter so we can be better prepared for you. Open podium is not recorded or televised. If you have questions about open podium, please do contact the city manager's office. We have um couple uh really um nice presentations this evening. Turn it over to you, I think. >> Yes, mayor. Thank you, mayor and council. We do. I will invite our two chiefs up, our fire chief and our police chief. I believe we're starting with our fire chief for a citizen life-saving award this evening. >> Mayor and council, good evening. It's always a great opportunity to be in front of you to be able to recognize great work in our community. And tonight, we want to be able to recognize and welcome Susan Bayer and her family who are here with us tonight as a citizen who made a significant difference in someone's life. Um, we also have another resident or another individual that was part of that that's not able to be with us tonight and Chief Sacket will talk a little bit more about that. We also want to recognize um Tim Tai and his family. Tim is the survivor of a cardiac arrest that happened at Lifetime Fitness. We also have some Lifetime Fitness staff that are here as well. So, we want to recognize and welcome all of them. Also, in the room, you can see behind us, we have a number of firefighters and police officers, part of our public safety team that really um do gel really well together to be able to make a difference. And we'll talk a little bit more and recognize that in a minute. So before we go to the specific recognition, I want to talk a little bit about our public safety team in Eden Prairie. Um, Chief Sackett and I are extremely proud of our team of individuals who respond day in and night to be able to help take care of individuals when things happen. But our system is a team effort. That team effort starts with our dispatchers by taking information in to be able to to gather critical information to get that out to our responders. And then we may have a police officer that arrives quickly in our on our scenes. And our police officers provide um s excellent patient care when incidents happen. Um their their level of patient care has been outstanding from the time that we've had a police department. The effort around medical response has been top-notch and really important to our police department. That also works really collaboratively with our fire department because police may be the first to arrive with where officers are, but our fire department then arrives and helps continue that care with our police officers and provides additional service like advanced airway procedures or a Lucas device to be able to perform CPR on somebody that may not have a heartbeat or may not be breathing. And then that all goes to our EMS system and our staff from Henipin Healthcare to work collaboratively to be able to then provide additional advanced care and then bring them to a a critical hospital for um ongoing care. And we couldn't be more appreciative and proud of our team including that system um that started with a lay responder back on October 25th, 2025 at a lifetime fitness here in our city that make a difference. And so with that, we'll call up Susan. and I'll turn it over to Chief Sacket to specifically read our recognition. >> So, we have uh Sue Barry with us today. Um also not able to be with us today uh is Olivia Chase, another person that happened to be in Eden Prairie visiting uh visiting family in the area and jumped into action as well. So, we want to read a letter of recognition for Sue Bayer and Olivia Chase. On October 25th, 2025, Eden Prairie dispatchers received a call of an unresponsive man who had collapsed on a pickle ball court inside Lifetime Fitness. When the first officer arrived, he found fellow pickle ball players Susan Bear and Olivia Chase providing medical aid to the man who did not have a pulse and was not breathing. Sue and Olivia grabbed a nearby AED and placed the pads on the man's chest. Sue was performing mouth-to-mouth CPR while Olivia provided chest compressions. They both assisted the officer with medical aid after he arrived. In total, the man received five shocks from the AED before being transported to the hospital by paramedics. After a significant hospital stay, the man transitioned to a rehabilitation facility to continue his recovery and moved back home in late February. Both women used their backgrounds in the medical field to save the life of a man they did not know. Their quick thinking and actions along with their ability to stay calm and rely on their medical training were instrumental in the man's recovery. On behalf of a grateful community, we would like to present this letter uh City of Eden Prairie letter of recognition and challenge coins to Souer and Olivia Chase. Awesome. >> Thank you very much. >> Wow. >> Thank you. >> And we would like to invite uh Tim and any members of his family that would like to come up uh be a part of the picture with us as well. It's very exciting to have Tim with us today. So >> come on up, Tim. Squeeze it. We got to wipe this. Thank you. Thank you. that um really deserves deserves a wow. Um we have amazing residents here in our city. Um we have phenomenal public safety, fire and police. So when they partner together like that, it's um really truly incredible. Uh saving a life that's um incredibly heart uh touching wrenching. All right. U Mr. Get um no action on that, but we do have the senior awareness month proclamation. Go ahead. >> Uh we do, mayor. I will turn this over to Director Markle. >> Thank you, Mayor and Council. Uh tonight we'll be reading a proclamation that celebrates our senior awareness month. Um and we have several members of our senior advisory committee here as well to um just get people excited about all the senior offerings we have and invite them out to our senior center. >> Do you want me to read the >> Should I read now? You'd like me to read now? Okay, >> I'll read the proclamation and they'll come up. Proclamation senior awareness month May 2026. Whereas the increasing number of seniors um four of whom are up on this council in Eden Prairie bring many opportunities and challenges for all components of our city, families, businesses, and government. And whereas every segment of our society is influenced by the needs, the resources and the expertise of of our seniors and awareness improves participation and action. And whereas our Eden Prairie seniors play a pivotal role in formal and informal education, sharing years of accumulated experience and wisdom which will impact our future. And whereas the community wishes to celebrate and acknowledge the contributions and accomplishments of the seniors in our community and recognize the organizations that serve older adults and whereas senior awareness month recognizes that seniors are an integral part of our community. Now therefore I Ron Casease mayor of Eden Prairie Minnesota do hereby proclaim May 2026 as senior awareness month. Ronald E. case mayor. On behalf of council members Kathy Nelson, Mark Fyberg, Pug Gene Ryan, and Lisa Tumi, I'll go down and present this. And >> yep, that sounds great. And we have with us Jane Davis and Ursula Dickinson who both serve on our senior advisory uh committee at our senior center. >> Yeah. Come forward and um do you have some words to share or >> Oh, I'm just uh >> go to the mic if you do. >> Okay. Thank you. Hi, I'm Jane and this is Ursula and um we are both on the advisory council at the senior center and just want to thank you for the proclamation and to invite people to our wonderful senior center. It is just a fantastic place um lots of learning, lots of fun activities, um lots of trips and lots of things that you can meet. We've met so many wonderful friends and so um thank you very much for acknowledging that. We appreciate it. >> Thank you. Thanks for all you do. >> Thank you very much. >> Do you want to say something too or >> No. Our senior center is quite an asset for our community. So we appreciate um all the um activities are there and the people that participate and the volunteers um that attend there as well as again our staff are amazing that work there. And so Dr. Markle, thank you for all the work that your staff does. All right. Um let's see. Did we need No, I think we're done with the presentations. We are moving on to um the agenda. Council, uh any items you wish to add? Any council member reports? Are we good? >> If not, make a motion then somebody. >> I'll move to approve the agenda. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. I. >> I oppose. All right. Minutes. We have two minutes from uh April 21st, the regular meeting and the workshop. Any edits or corrections, comments you wish to make about the minutes? If not, is there a motion to approve both of them? >> Move to approve the following city council minutes. City Council workshop held Tuesday, April 21st, 2026. City Council meeting held Tuesday, April 21st, 2026. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppos. Consent calendar. Uh any of the items A through I on the consent calendar you wish to learn more about or question, you can even even pull it to vote on it separately. Anything? If not, is there a motion to approve the consent calendar? >> I'll move to approve items A through to I on the consent calendar. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. Opposed. All right. Moving on. We have no public hearings this evening. Uh to payment of claims, the list of all the expenses the city has uh incurred or the checks in essence we've written in the last couple weeks. since the last meeting. Uh, anything you wish to question any expenses? >> If not, is there a motion to approve the payment of claims? >> I'll move to approve payment of claims as submitted. >> Second. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Council member Fyberg. >> I. >> Council member Nion. >> I. >> Council member Nelson. >> No, she's not here. >> Council member Tumi. >> I may >> I. All right. You were stuck on that one. Yeah. I saw it in Lisa's eyes like what? >> All right. Uh Mr. Gro, I think we're um now down to report of the city manager. >> Uh yes, Mayor. Uh this is the time of the year where the council receives the report of the audit and the annual comprehensive financial report. In your workshop this evening, you received a a detailed uh report and analysis from our auditor. uh you are also going to receive you and the public and everyone who's part of the council meeting will also receive that report as well as part of the regular meeting. The only action for you is to accept the report. Our auditor is here to uh provide another overview of that report as well and um I will turn things over to her. >> Great. Welcome. Give your name and the company you work for. Well, too, council mayor or excuse me, mayor, councel, um Caroline Stzman with Bergen KDV. Um I am the partner involved in your audits. I'd like to take a few minutes of your time tonight to go through the results of that audit. The main reason you ask us to work with you is to provide an opinion on your financial statements. The opinion we're providing is what's called an unmodified opinion. That's the highest level that you can receive, meaning we do believe those financial statements are fairly stated in all material respects as of December 31st, 2025. We also conducted our audit in accordance with government auditing standards, which requires us to consider internal control and compliance. Um, we did not have any findings related to any of that test work. And then one final component of the audit before we look at financial analysis is in regards to Minnesota legal compliance. The office of the state auditor compiles a number of Minnesota state statutes um within checklists for us to ask a number of questions about. We did not have any findings related to any of that either. So with that, we'll dig into the financial analysis here briefly and we have the general fund revenues for you to begin. Um so in total general fund revenues increased about 6.4%. um some of the fluctuations happening in taxes and assessments, intergovernmental revenue and charges for services increases happening there um as a result of an increase in the levy um an increase in police and fire pension aids as well as an increase in revenue from supplemental employment and community center rentals. On the expenditure side of things for the general fund, an increase there of about 3.8% 8% and um changes or increases happening more in the police and fire and park and recreation areas um for wages and benefits as well as increases in facility user charges and wages. Here we have a budget to actual snapshot for you for the general fund um with the final budget being in the first column um showing that fund balance was anticipated to decrease. The actual results are in the middle column there showing that fund balance did increase by 873,000. And then the variance column is in the far right there. Um if we look at some of the variance explanations, total revenues all the way over to that far right side, we see our over budget. Um if we apply a percentage to that, it's 8%. And if we look at the the where the variations or variances are, you're looking at licenses and permit line, intergovernmental revenue, charges for services, and miscellaneous revenue. Most of those items are items that can fluctuate um on any given year based on development activity, um project activity, and investment market values and where they land as of December 31st um in any given year. So very common to have a conservative approach for those items because they can fluctuate um in any given year. Following the chart down total expenditures again over to that far right column you see under budget and if we apply a percentage to that it's 1.8%. So on the size of budget that you're working with to be a 1.8% variance. Um great job in that regard. Following it um the chart down you do see transfers out for the year of this fund. Um so the fund does transfer out to capital improvement fund um in a year like this an example for where the revenue um did go over where the budget was. So general fund operations here we're pulling this all together. We touched on revenues and expenditures already and then we also have cash and investment balance as well as unassigned fund balance. Um that unassigned fund balance is also what you compare your fund balance policy to or um how you are laying out your plan for where you would like that fund balance to be. So that's the number that you compare to for that. You do have a a number of calculations that go into the policy that you've established for yourself. So I'm not going to go through all of that in detail, but you are in compliance with the policy you've established for yourself. Then we switch gears a bit and look at your enterprise funds next. So we have your water fund um to begin and your operating revenue in the water fund did increase for the year um as a result of an increase in rates and consumption and then expenses increased as well. So at the end of the day um the fund did experience an operating loss with depreciation but an operating income without depreciation. So seeing kind of the variation there um if depreciation is factored in or not. And then at the end of the day change in net position for the fund um was a positive positive amount of 582,000. Here we see cash investments as well as unrestricted net position for the fund. So seeing kind of steady um increases there or excuse me steady activity um excuse me increases there in the first couple of years and then steady in the last three and seeing a nice um balance that is included there for you. Wastewater operations are next. Operating revenue increased here as well as a result of um increases in the rates and consumptions as we talked about. And then wastewater expenses increased but based on the value that you have there essentially um a small increase there. and um so showing operating income both with and without depreciation expense in this regard and then a small decrease in net position. Here's cash and investments and unrestricted net position. So, here's where I was mentioning earlier um the slight or steady increase, excuse me, over the five years that we're seeing um for this fund. Storm water operations operating revenues did increase again with an increase in the rates and then expenses were down mostly driven based on project activity for the year and then um including operating income with and without depreciation expense. So fully covering depreciation expense in that regard. Storm water is a fund that um typically is cyclical in nature that it is building up um for projects. So kind of that's what you're seeing when you're looking at the trend information here. Seeing cash investments and unrestricted kind of building towards that project activity. And then we have liquor operations. Next, both sales as well as cost of sales did experience a decrease this year. That is something we are experience or we are seeing kind of across the state. Um so you're not alone in that regard. At the end of the day, um gross profit percentage did increase for the city. And we do have a comparison here for you with some neighboring cities or some cities also around the metro showing that Eden Prairie um grow gross profit percentage is higher than two of the three stores that we have included here. Similar presentation then for your cash investments as well as unrestricted net position showing that steady increase there as well. And then the last slide that we have for you takes a look at tax capacity, the levy, as well as tax capacity rates. So the green um number at the top there, that's your tax capacity, which did decrease slightly, but if we apply a percentage to that number, it's8%. So pretty consistent when you look at it from that perspective. And then the levy is the the orange or the rust color bar at the bottom there. So seeing an increase in that regard. And then so just kind of the pure mechanics of calculations of all of that is that the tax capacity rate did increase slightly for 2025. >> Happy to take any questions you might have in regards to anything I went over or anything beyond that. >> Council, anything else that we did not discuss downstairs? Just a note to um people in the audience, but also um watching from home or streaming later on this week. Uh we had a workshop this evening on this auditor's report open to the public. Um we try to be well not just try we are totally transparent. Anyone as u Mr. Gro said can access all of this online and can make calls if you have any questions of each of us. But um we as a council did ask questions downstairs and had some good conversation around this. So we're not um taking this lightly or cutting this short. Um it's just that we saw this in the workshop earlier this evening. Mr. Gro. >> Uh yes, Mayor. And also if anyone wanted to go to either the packet for this meeting, which the I believe it's, you know, it's well over 200 pages. The entire um annual comprehensive financial report is in the packet. Eventually this report will be placed on the um financial page of the website where all the reports are and all the budget information is. So anybody can find that there as well with the audit letter itself because um as Caroline said auditor has they have to issue their independent auditor's letter on on how the audit itself went aside from the financial documents themselves. And um you know as Caroline noted you know these are numbers from 2025. So she's going over last year's numbers. So you're always you're working in multiple years because she's showing numbers from 25 and then during 2025 you were approving budgets for 26 and we're currently in 2026 and we're already preparing budgets for 27 and 28. So sometimes I think like you were asking downstairs, you were asking questions about how does our tax rate compare to other cities and the tax rate that she showed of 30% is one of the lowest in the metro area and that was a tax rate in 25 and we were already talking about what our tax rate in 26 is and we're thinking about what our 27 tax rate is. So um you know the numbers are all depending on when you look at them even when you were sharing that snapshot in time on December 31st where are the city financials on that on that date and time which they as you said they're in a very good position but it all depends on on when you look at them but in this case as I said in the beginning these documents are easily accessible and transparent >> and really people that are well-versed in this in the corporate business world know what auditors do and what the purpose is. But really the good news here is that we are operating according to our policies and procedures consistently and funding our um various funds appropriately um and that there were no issues that arose um or red flags of any sort um for I don't know how many years running now but a lot. Um we we have really I want to thank Tammy. We have really amazing uh staff here that work in our finances and budgeting. Um and uh we continue to um to do really well um in terms of our audits year after year. So thank you also Caroline for the work you did on this. >> Absolutely. >> Any mayor, we do need a motion. I >> you you do you need a motion and you did thank you mayor for Caroline did say we had we have a meet we have a meeting when they wrap up their work prior to council and and you did say I'm taking the words out of your mouth that um we get kudos for our city staff um of Tammy Stephanie Tiffany Shannon our accountants our entire finance staff for uh making your job easy for the work that they do to prepare the information for you. So, yes, kudos um to our finance staff for the work that they do. So, thank you to them. And yes, Mary, you do need a motion to accept this. >> Thank you, Caroline. Um council, um is there a motion to accept the 2025 annual comprehensive financial report? >> I'll move to accept the 2025 annual comprehensive financial report. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Is there any further discussion? >> All those in favor say I. I >> I opposed. >> All right. I believe that's all to come before the council this evening. Is there a motion to adjurnn? >> Move to adjourn the city council meeting tonight. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppos. This meeting is adjourned.