This transcript has been formatted with the appropriate speaker names based on the context provided and the dialogue within the meeting. [00:00] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Here we go. I'd like to call to order the April 1st, 2024, Bayport City Council meeting. Let's all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right, can you do the roll call, Matt? [00:15] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Councilmember Gilmore? [00:16] **Ethan Gilmore (Deputy Mayor):** Uh, here. [00:17] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Councilmember Hill? [00:18] **Katie Hill (Councilmember):** Here. [00:19] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Mayor Hanson? [00:20] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Here. Um, councilmember Carlson and Dolan are absent. All right, someone want to make a motion to approve the agenda or have any changes to it before we do that? [00:25] **Katie Hill (Councilmember):** I move to approve the agenda as presented. [00:28] **Ethan Gilmore (Deputy Mayor):** Thanks Katie, I guess I'll second. [00:30] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** All right, we're going to have a lot of—you guys great, right? All those in favor say I. [00:35] **Councilmembers:** I. [00:36] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Anyone opposed? Nope. Okay. Uh, I do need glasses now. Proclamations, accommodations, petitions, and announcements: The March recycling award recipient is Anthony Schultz at 501 Minnesota Street South. He'll be awarded for his recycling efforts with a grant from Washington County, and that's it. And then the Open Forum. Anyone want to—do I have to read the whole thing? Open Forum is a portion of the meeting to address City Council on subjects that are not part of the agenda. The city council may take action or reply at the time of the statement, may give direction to staff regarding investigation of comments expressed. A total of 15 minutes is allotted for public comment during the Open Forum. So, we have someone that wants to speak? If you state your name and address, please. [01:15] **Chris Kringle (Resident):** I'm Chris Kringle. I'm the one that was referred to in the meeting before this, otherwise known as David Kringle. Hardly anyone knows David Kringle, but it's been adopted here. Before the next city council meeting, where people that know very little and what they know is one side of that situation out there, I would request that there be a meeting at the city's convenience where I can fill in my side of everything that's happened on that property so that people that know a little or nothing about it aren't voting on its fate. I've owned a property for 20 years. I've had things stored there longer than that. I've lived on the point for 30 years next year, and before anything was stored on there in the first place on Lot number two, I stored things there when it was owned by the former owner. So it's been over the time that I've been there when I did put the first item there and when I bought it, I talked to the city administrator at the time, Ken Haron, who before he was indicted for child porn, said he saw no reason that I couldn't store what's out there now and really nothing has been added to that mix for quite some time. [02:10] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** So Chris, I don't want to have you tell your whole story now and then have to tell it again sometime—I can't hear you—I don't want to have you tell your whole story now when there's just three of us here. So you may want to come back at the next meeting. You just heard us say during the workshop that we're going to have it on the— [02:25] **Chris Kringle (Resident):** What I have to say, and what I'd like to reflect, is something that probably takes more time than you'll allow me at the next meeting. [02:35] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Well, we will take that into consideration and when we have the meeting, we'll decide if we're going to have a public forum about it or how we're going to approach that. But I believe that Councilmember Gilmore thought it would be a good idea to hear from both sides on this and I think the others probably agree. [02:50] **Chris Kringle (Resident):** There's considerably more going on with this than we are aware. [02:55] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** We understand. We've only seen that one side and we can give you your opportunity later. I just don't want you to do it now and then you have to come back next month and do it all again because there's only three out of the five of us here. [03:05] **Chris Kringle (Resident):** I’d like a meeting before them with as many people as I could. [03:10] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Well, I don't think we're going to call a whole separate council meeting just for that. [03:15] **Chris Kringle (Resident):** I'm not looking for a council meeting, I'm just looking for an update on the information. I have things coming at me that are unprovable in claims. I'd like to at least defend myself against things that simply aren't fact and aren't true. If I'm unable to do that and there's a vote based on that bulk of information, a lot of it isn't true. [03:30] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Well, that's what the court will see then, right? I mean you'll have a chance in your court process to do that if that's the case. If you don't believe that there's—like when I called you the last time to meet with me, you said you were advised not to talk to me because there's legal proceedings around it. [03:45] **Chris Kringle (Resident):** Yeah, so there's a wall between me communicating my side or informing people of anything, but I can argue it by going to court. I think I've said more than I probably should have said already on this subject. [03:55] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Mayor, Council? You're fine. I would probably, Mr. Kringle—you have this open forum where the Mayor is the one that presides over it. You might want to let Mr. Kringle know that you have a bit of a time limit here because you do need to go to some action items, and you've also indicated that you'll respect the fact that he wants an opportunity to present his side to the city council. I do think a fair question is how much time does he think he needs? Because we have to make sure that we're both respectful to the other business that the city council has to do, also trying to respect Mr. Kringle, but also respect the fact that there may be other residents who also want to present their side. So trying to allocate time for the next meeting is going to be one that really should be the focus of this inquiry right now. [04:40] **Chris Kringle (Resident):** That's a good point. I don't need time to prepare. I can meet any time starting tonight for the next month. [04:45] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** I think the question is how much time will you need at the next meeting to present your facts? [04:50] **Chris Kringle (Resident):** I can do it anytime starting now—no, I mean during the meeting, how much time should we allot? Oh, I don't know, there may be questions to what some of the issues are. [05:00] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Okay, maybe we'll stick to no more than 15 minutes. [05:05] **Chris Kringle (Resident):** Is that outside of the—city council would make sense because it's not "oh, time's up, time's up." You know, this has been going on for a long time. I've owned this property for a long time. A lot of things just aren't accurate that are on the list that makes it look like it's much worse than it is when I ask questions and am unable to get answers because there's a caveat in your ordinances that says "and any other thing that might be illegal." Well, that's not—it's like getting a speeding ticket for going too fast. Well, how fast was I going? "Well, you're just going too fast." [05:35] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Well, what I do know is, and we did meet at one point, you and I met, remember when we— [05:40] **Chris Kringle (Resident):** Yes, I do. [05:41] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** And I know you've been given a lot of time to clean up the space. So if there's confusion around that, I don't know how there could be, but you can explain that to us at the next— [05:50] **Chris Kringle (Resident):** There isn't confusion. It's just that the charge has things added to it all the time. If you look at the original criminal citation, what is on that criminal citation has grown to be pages and pages of stuff. [06:00] **Katie Hill (Councilmember):** You know, what I would recommend is if you want to make sure that all of the council members hear your side, maybe document it in writing and send it to us. Does that make sense? Then we have a chance to read through it and compare to what the police reports say, the building inspector reports, all of that. [06:15] **Chris Kringle (Resident):** I have requested pictures line item by line item of what is on there and the city has refused to grant that to me. Instead, I get a copy of the ordinance. [06:25] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Could you please put that in writing for us so we can see what it is that you're having issues with? [06:30] **Chris Kringle (Resident):** Who will I send that to? [06:32] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** All of the council members, each of you. [06:33] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Or you can send it to Matt and have him disperse it to the council members if that's easier. [06:36] **Chris Kringle (Resident):** Okay. Just as a tease, if you want to look at it: the original charge, both the current one and the one from about 8 years ago, had two PID addresses, which is Lot number two. Somehow it has grown to where all four of my properties down there are included. And when there's an inspection from who you folks hired to inspect, he's wandered around the back side of the property that's not even part of the charge. Some of the cars that are listed on the inventory aren't on Lot number two, they're in my driveway. That's just an example of "let's make this look as bad as we possibly could." I said, well, I got a rental property well up in Forest Lake, you want to add that to it as well? Because the original charge is all that should be dealt with here and so much more is—whether it's items or even the address—and it's hard to keep up with something that continually changes. [07:25] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Okay, well thanks. [07:26] **Chris Kringle (Resident):** I invite you to have a meeting. I'll send you a request for that. [07:28] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Send us the information that you'd like us to see ahead of the meeting. Thank you. Anybody else like to speak to the Council? [07:35] **Ethan Bell (Resident):** I'll introduce myself for those of you who don't know me yet. My name is Ethan Bell, this is my wife Ashley here. We're the new owners of Not Justa. We figured we'd stop in since our permit for our customer appreciation party is on the docket tonight. And I guess I'll just encourage everybody to stop out June 29th. We'll have live music, free food, and cheap drinks. [08:00] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Yay! How could we resist? Yeah, sounds fun. Thanks for coming and thanks for doing that. That'll be great. I love the decorations for the holidays this year, by the way. Very cute. [08:10] **Ethan Bell (Resident):** Thank you. [08:12] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Anyone else? Any of you students want to just come on up and say hi? No? Okay. All right, the Consent Agenda. We’re going to consider a resolution adopting items 1 through 13: the March 4th, 2024 Workshop minutes; the March 4th, 2024 City Council regular meeting minutes; March payables and receipts; March building, plumbing, mechanical, and zoning permits report; special event application from Anderson Parent Group for the Razzle Dazzle Carnival on May 3rd; hiring of Lucas Schilling for the position of Accounting Specialist—and he's here with us tonight; hiring of Brandon Beam for the position of Public Works Maintenance Worker; lawful gambling application from Bayport American Legion for Derby Days on September 20th; special event application from Not Justa Cafe for a one-year anniversary outdoor event on June 29th; special event application from the Bayport American Legion for the Memorial Day Parade on May 27th—that'll be at 8:30, just a side note; pay application number three from Miller Excavating for the 2021 Street Improvement project; renewal of the boat trailer parking agreement with Anderson Corporation; and the special event application from St. Croix Prep softball league for a fundraiser at Barker’s Alps Park on April 19th, April 24th, and May 1st. And that's it. Do we have a motion to approve the Consent Agenda? You want to pull something out? I'm just kidding, too late now. [09:40] **Ethan Gilmore (Deputy Mayor):** I move to adopt a resolution approving the Consent Agenda as presented. [09:44] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Thanks Ethan. [09:45] **Katie Hill (Councilmember):** Second. [09:46] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Thank you Katie. A roll call vote, please? [09:48] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Councilmember Gilmore? [09:49] **Ethan Gilmore (Deputy Mayor):** I. [09:50] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Councilmember Hill? [09:51] **Katie Hill (Councilmember):** I. [09:52] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Mayor Hanson? [09:53] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** I. All right, wow. There are no public hearings, there's no unfinished business, there's no new business. This is why you're really glad you're here tonight, students. Okay, City Council Liaison Reports—and there's only three of us to do that, so Katie, you want to go first? [10:10] **Katie Hill (Councilmember):** Yeah, I had BEAL last month, March 14th. They were talking about the Easter egg hunt, which was just done—which, thanks BEAL, my kids loved it. It was great just to get out again and not have to do the drive-up. We wore boots, so we all knew it was going to be outside of the park, and it was a beautiful sunny day; it worked out great. Bar Crawl—they're going to do something a little different this year, like moving around so we're not ending at the same spot every year now. So look for information on that that's coming out. Ice cream social—we're going to be doing a diaper drive there. And that’s the Lions putting it on, right? Yeah, so that'll be pretty cool. You'll bring your diapers and all of the diapers go to the Washington County Child Service Department, correct? We're going to be doing the garage sale again, that's June 7th and 8th. Flyers and maps will be coming out. Farmers Market starting up in June as well, Mondays starting June 17th going through October 14th. Derby Days, as you just saw, we are doing again. Yeah, September 20th is the street dance, and then the 21st is that Saturday where we have the fireworks and everything. And yeah—oh, and they're cleaning up the library area. Have you guys started that yet? I went down and looked at it, so we're getting a new space for all the Bayport Community Action League items in the basement that used to be City space and now it's BEAL space. So we have to move everything over, but yeah, it shouldn't be too bad. I think we might need to bring some trash bags, just clean some stuff out. [11:45] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** All right, thank you. Got a lot of fun stuff going on with BEAL as usual. How about Cable Commission? [11:55] **Ethan Gilmore (Deputy Mayor):** Lots of fun stuff going on? No, Cable Commission did not meet. One thing to note, the sports director Anders Angstrom passed away about a month ago. I didn't personally know him, but it sounds like he was a fantastic person, so I would have some thoughts for his family, that sort of thing. But other than that, that's all I have for that. [12:15] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Yeah, I agree. I didn't know Andy either, but if you guys heard the story, he was the one who fell into the river in Hudson when he was on a hike, and I guess he's a great fan of the outdoors. I did go to some of the funeral—I used to be on the commission so I know a lot of the staff there and I wanted to just share my thoughts with them and give them hugs. Yeah, was a huge funeral with a lot of people that got up and said nice things. And then his father is actually the city administrator in Lakeland, Lake St. Croix Beach—sorry, all those southern cities mixed up—so that's another connection to Andy. Yeah, so thank you for your update. [12:55] Let's see, on March 11th I met with the sustainability manager and the VP of communications and community at Anderson Corporation with a resident that lives in Inspiration that's very excited about sustainability. So he has a sustainable home and he wants to do—he'll give you a tour any time if you want it—but anyways, we talked a little bit about what their current plan is for sustainability initiatives and then how the city can work with them to do some of those things. So we talked a little bit about the shared parking lot space and maybe the GFF Center. I don't know if you know the parking lot that's just west of Lakeside Park—that's our parking lot, but they pay us to park there during work hours, and so maybe putting like a joint venture to put EV charging stations in there. We talked about—they came up with the idea of like a solar canopy over the parking lot to help pay for it. But anyways, just ideas and I loved it, just brainstorming with them. [14:00] I attended the Fire Relief Association meeting on that same date. Financials are in good shape compared to benchmarks. They're hoping for more calendar ad sales for their fundraiser coming up. They approved an updated check deposit policy because they were having some issues with people writing checks either to the city or to the department instead of the foundation. This was probably the longest Fire Relief meeting we had; it was a full hour. We even went over the audit from Schlenner Wenner and it was all clean and good. And then we talked a little bit about benefit increases for the members, but we're going to vote on that next month probably. We're talking about $700 annually, which is not huge, and they do a lot for us, so that all makes sense. [14:50] I went to the King Plant stakeholder meeting on the 19th—shortest meeting ever there too, there just wasn't much going on yet. And then the 21st and the 26th I went to some chamber events: ribbon cutting for Midstate Landscaping in Oak Park Heights. They were the ones that helped put all the snow into the forms for the snow sculpting championship, so they were a big help with that. Went to the Ambassador team meeting—I'm a Chamber Ambassador—and then I've met with Matt and Sarah to discuss some ways that maybe we could be more business-friendly with our ordinances and codes, and we're working on that. So that's my report. And then Matt? (A loud sound occurs). Someone died? Oh, was that what that was? Sounded like an emergency. Matt's going to do the Staff and City Administrator report. [15:45] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Thank you, Madam Mayor. First up, Fire Chief Kinney. [15:50] **Gabe Kinney (Fire Chief):** Good evening, Madam Mayor, Councilmembers, and students. For the call volume for March, we had 101 calls compared to 94 in 2023. Our year-to-date is 279 compared to 275 in 2023. Monthly drills were CPR refresher and SCBA quarterly review. Fire inspections are ongoing as well as plan reviews. I attended the Washington County Fire Chiefs meeting and both the Baytown and West Lakeland Township annual meetings. Our anniversaries for February, which I missed: Ray Valley with 14 years, Dave Pernick with 6 years, and Kyle Peltier for 5 years. In March we have James Doyle with 11 years and Carl Von Up with 11 years. We had four members attend the Minnesota Fire Officers School in Duluth. We've got rid of some old equipment; we sold our old Rescue 2 for about $18,000. Plus, we sold—when I got the form, I said I'm going to clean the station out and I sold three other lots on it. So we actually got paid money for stuff that I was going to have to get thrown in the dumpster. I know I got some laughs out of it, but— [17:15] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Where do you sell those things? [17:17] **Gabe Kinney (Fire Chief):** It's through MinBid. I don't know, maybe Matt, you know it better. All I know is about every five years I sell stuff. You just fill out a form, Matt signs it, they handle all the—it's an online auction. They handle all of it, they handle the paperwork. [17:35] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Have we ever gone there to buy things that we might need, or is that— [17:40] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Madam Mayor, usually it's for cities in the state who are selling stuff specific only to those. A lot of the equipment is what we were selling, right? Highly used. Some of it is stuff that has been drug forfeiture, different things like that, so you have to be very picky about what you're bidding on and know what you want. But it's hit and miss sometimes. We've had good sales. We also—for Simon and Public Works—we had one person do a bid but never show up to pick up the piece of equipment, so. [18:15] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** And so that money that you're making off of selling those goes back into the general fund? [18:20] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** General fund, yep. Thank you. [18:25] **Gabe Kinney (Fire Chief):** We have a station tour this Saturday for the Valley Friendship Club, both youth and adults, so they're all looking forward to it. With that, I stand for questions. [18:35] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** None? Thank you. How about the students? No? Nothing? Okay, thank you Chief. [18:45] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Police Chief Jackson. [18:47] **Jay Jackson (Police Chief):** Madam Mayor, Councilmembers. I got kind of a light month too. I mentioned last time we had Officer Lowski present to the Girl Scouts on March 6th; that was well received as always. The Police Department completed our OSHA inspection; we received no citations, a couple of recommendations. Going to work on discussing some of that at our safety meeting tomorrow. We continue to address the speed complaints and continued enforcement; we still have not received any further complaints about it, so hopefully we're getting the message out there to mostly our residents to watch their speeds. As far as some staff things, we have some pepper ball training coming up in April. We also have a tour later this week with some area youth members from one of the classes. And I met with the Mayor on Thursday; we discussed presenting my senior scam training presentation that I did to Croyle—potentially doing that to the community at large, likely at the library. Haven't talked to Jill about it yet, but I assume that won't be a problem, so we'll probably look sometime in, I'm guessing, maybe early May, but we'll get some more information out there when I get that developed. We also have our body-worn camera audit; we're required to do an audit every two years just as part of the state guidelines on that, so we're in the middle of that process now. And then we're also beginning our Safety Camp and Night to Unite planning; it's kind of underway now, so we're going to be knocking on some doors here and trying to get some donations and stuff. Some of our area businesses can expect to see us come by and hopefully we'll get that rolling here pretty quick. I'll stand for any questions. [20:30] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Rolling right along. All right, thank you. [20:35] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Public Works Director Worth. [20:37] **Simon Worth (Public Works):** Madam Mayor, members of the Council. Really all I have to report is that Public Works is investigating the potential for the grant program which is brought to us by the Minnesota Department of Commerce for solar on public buildings, which essentially will help to fund the ability for public buildings to have solar power. Exploring that this month and months past, and we'll continue to investigate how that could potentially align with the city's long-term goals on reducing our carbon footprint. Also met with the awarded contractor at the Barker’s Alps Park Woodland restoration project. It's going to be a major transformation; it will start in the winter and it's going to be fantastic. [21:25] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** So late this year? [21:26] **Simon Worth (Public Works):** Late this year. And the reason being is they'll be using pretty heavy equipment in certain areas and with the terrain, they're concerned about compaction of soil, creation of ruts, things like that. They want to minimize the disturbance. [21:40] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Will you take some before pictures? [21:42] **Simon Worth (Public Works):** Certainly. [21:43] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Awesome. Yeah, I'd love to see what the vision is, like what is it supposed to look like? But it's going to be a massive project. [21:50] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Madam Mayor, I think if you probably look at the Savanna that is managed by the DNR to the south, that's probably a pretty good idea. [21:58] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** To the south of the city? [22:00] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Oh, just up there by Inspiration. [22:02] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Oh, okay. So there's not going to be any trees at all? [22:05] **Simon Worth (Public Works):** There will be trees. [22:06] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Yeah, I feel like there's going to be trees. [22:08] **Simon Worth (Public Works):** Well, I'm sorry, the Oak Savanna—well, which part? Oh, okay. I don't know which part that is then. Okay, thank you. I'm excited about that. [22:20] **Simon Worth (Public Works):** That's all I have and I stand for questions. [22:23] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Do you think we're going to have a chance to do a—I mean just tell me if I'm crazy—a street sweep to get the salt off before it rains again? It's pretty salty out there after the last snow. [22:35] **Simon Worth (Public Works):** We have swept the streets already. We have not used a lot of salt this year, except just this last storm, so it should be a minimal impact. But we will certainly do our best. I know Josh is raring to go for sweeping streets. [22:50] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Okay, I'm sure we'll get out there in the next week or two. Good, thank you. Anyone else have questions or comments? [23:00] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Assistant Administrator Taylor. [23:02] **Sara Taylor (Assistant City Administrator):** Madam Mayor, members of the Council. We are pleased to report that we have an accepted offer of conditional employment for both the Accounting Specialist position and the Bayport Public Works maintenance position. Both individuals are slated to begin employment in mid to late April. After being short-staffed for several months in both of these departments, we're really excited to have a full team. So, welcome Lucas. After interviewing and completing background investigations for the open police officer position, staff has decided not to bring a candidate forward to the city council for consideration at this time. The position is anticipated to be posted in the near future in hopes of attracting a larger candidate pool. The next edition of the city's print newsletter is complete and will be delivered this week. Article highlights include a community spotlight on Dane's Place, recognition of City volunteers, the restoration project at Barker's Alps Park which Simon just mentioned, and the benefits of prairie burns. Finally, Washington County's curbside collection of food scraps is anticipated to be offered to Bayport residents coming this fall. Participation is voluntary, but it requires that food scraps be collected in special bags and then placed in the regular trash cart for collection by Tennis Sanitation. Staff will provide updates on the rollout of the program when more information is available. [24:35] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Awesome. Did they give you some sense of timing on that? Did you say just this fall? [24:40] **Sara Taylor (Assistant City Administrator):** This fall. [24:41] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** So it must be going well. That's good. They did do a pilot project with several communities and it's been very successful as far as I've heard. Because I remember it's been a couple years now we talked about having our own composting here and then we knew this was coming. So hopefully it does work out. It sounds like it'll be a really super easy way to do it. Thank you. [25:00] **Matt Kline (City Administrator):** Just one report left, Madam Mayor. A couple of things: the Anderson Elementary School relocation work is starting to progress further. The school architect has issued an RFP for a traffic study to understand any congestion out there. City staff, in coordination with our planning consultant, provided essentially a planning guide for the school that includes process on annexation, CUP zoning standards, and plan changes—a lot of stuff under the sun that we will be requiring and reviewing. Currently, I believe the school and the church who currently owns the property are still negotiating a purchase agreement, and we haven't received an update as of this time. Then we heard the financial management plan—or the draft—at the workshop tonight. There are definitely some things we will be working through and some challenges, but we will get through them and be able to plan for the future. That's all I have and I stand for questions. [26:10] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** I love your positive attitude, thank you. Does anyone have any questions for Matt? I just wanted to mention, since we didn't have Connie here to give her Library update, and we skip over Jill's typically—they are looking for a Library Board member as a volunteer. If you want to apply, you can reach out to Jill Smith at the library or City Hall and they will get you an application. They're due by April 19th. What else did she say? Lots of fun stuff. And they're a great partner for the Bayport Community Action League as well. Like when we have the ice cream social, they're going to supply a band and crafts and I think face painting and just all kinds of fun stuff for us to do. And they do the same thing at the farmers markets. They're a wonderful partner, the library. So that's it. Any other city council items or announcements that you guys would like to make? [27:10] **Katie Hill (Councilmember):** I want to thank Jim Menard for doing the Memorial Day Parade too. He's been doing it for what, 20 years probably? It runs very smoothly. Is this your first time having to be in charge of all the stuff you have to do, Chief Jackson? [27:25] **Jay Jackson (Police Chief):** I’ve dipped my toe a little bit before. I think Slocum did most of the planning for the police side and the streets. So it's always a fun event. Hopefully everyone can come out for that too. [27:40] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** All right, if there's nothing else, I'll take a motion to adjourn. [27:45] **Katie Hill (Councilmember):** I move to adjourn the meeting. [27:47] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Thanks Katie. [27:48] **Ethan Gilmore (Deputy Mayor):** Second. [27:49] **Michele Hanson (Mayor):** Thanks, birthday boy! All those in favor? (Council: I). Anyone opposed? All right, there we go. Fastest meeting we've ever had. Almost.