One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We have some changes to the agenda. Yes, the council seeed requested that she item under consent agenda with the license for fire department to talk about a discussion or to discuss an adjustment in the hours of the license. Also, um we've added an agreement assessment waling property on St. Mary Street solution. So, we wanted to get on tonight to be able to keep that. There's no presentation tonight either. No, I should note correct that is a carry over from the draft agenda. Um, we are expecting those presentations in September or October. Um, but they should have the final agenda. Okay. Motion to approve the amenda agenda as amended. Motion by Josh. Second. Second by Amanda. All in favor? I I agenda is adopted. No presentations, proclamations, or acknowledgements. So, we'll open up to public comment. Anyone care to speak any for anything not on the agenda. I knew you would be. How's it going? So, what I wanted to do is only own six acres through the gross farm today. I almost had a kid onies. Didn't see him. Came flying down and living on it. so dangerous. And I just my father-in-law was giving me the history of everything because he's lived here forever because I want to help with the building, filled out my job application for a volunteer committee. Nice. And um saw the start of the old railroad and thought we should address that sooner than later and become a walking. Is getting faster. I was happy pull over somebody which It's a speedway. It It's hard to live where I live. The curve is there. Kids are out. Everybody's out now. So, I'd like to try to figure out how to get that proceeding faster than the other contact. I guess I was supposed to talk to you, talk to you, but about our well when the pump test was going on, the discoloration, the smell, and the water pressure. father-in-law, he had the same thing went up the hill. Those of us around there so I'm just putting on record that they are supposed to contact. Okay. At the DNR if they have any kind of discrepancy and I put it on Facebook and then the other thing I wanted to talk about is the post that went on the city of the market how it got volatile. The OGs of not Niagara would never attack a person or their no appearance or anything with the good intention of saving our resource. We've attracted some trolls who instigate a lot of stuff and I just wanted to well I apologize for that behavior because I would never do that and I don't want it to become a continual thing. I think it's very disrespectful, very disgraceful and it defeats what we're trying to accomplish. So I just wanted to say that. Thank you. Fner, I don't know you, but that was uncalled for and I don't tolerate that. So, I sent her a private message because we that started this would never attack. Somebody were just trying ourselves. Understood and all good. And thank you for all that you've given back to the community in the past year. You've been at every single meeting that I can think of. You've rallied the troops and not the same without you. No, there's a lot of people that will do stuff. They just want to be asked. But my my I guess where I'm going with this is like you and I don't agree on several things. Yeah. But I appreciate people that don't agree coming up and speaking and taking action and that's how we grow as a community. But you're still a person, right? I mean Josh and I spoke for an hour and a half and part of it was heated, part of it wasn't right. But you're still a person. But good government and good good government is ran by people that are good people and you're a good person. I appreciate your involvement. So I try more people will come. There's a lot of great things that are going to happen. I just want to be more engaged, more involved so that we can as a unit, a community that seems to be torn apart right now can come together because it's really vicious out there. You should see my Facebook Messenger. I would never be mayor. I'll never hear it, but I don't want it inappropriately either. For sure. It's great to sit down with somebody because I would love to know somebody's side other than Right. Right. We'll never agree on that. Why not? So, thank you. I appreciate you guys. I love your idea about the trail on the train track if it's possible. Like that's so cool. I don't even know Tom if it's possible. It's just That road has become so so dangerous. I was grateful that it didn't snow and ice because usually when we have bad weather, we get car parts in our front yard coming around the corner from Denny's house. It usually hits Alice and Clements and ends up in our driveway or culvert. So our intent has always been to try and require that as part of the park dedication requirements as the property develops in the future. Yeah. Um we have suggested to them multiple times over the years that we would be willing to take it in advance of that and then have an agreement with them that absolution. We've done everything that we can short of instead of buying it outright multiple multiple times. Well, they I mean the cool part of the history of it and dealing with my father-in-law who's lived here forever is you could actually have a gathering place with some kind of here was the depot and as you go along the trail you can have explaining how Milwaukee was. I mean, it's just like I think about the buildings lately when I obsess over something right away where it used to be. Correct. It's just what's currently on the gross property that section through there. We don't own it. Again, we've um we have presented all kinds of means for us to acquire it ahead of time, but the property owner has to be willing to Right. And I mean I would I think it would be great to get people that live on bikers, walkers, joggers, whatever to go because really we don't have a whole lot of historical anything. Yeah. History piece would be cool, you know, and when the speedway goes away, it becomes houses. I'm looking for something to create a destination. You know, you can take this historical, you know, I mean that's just me trying to preserve something lot of lineage here but it appreciate it. Are we having some audio issues? Cool. It was intentional. Don't worry. You're recorded. Do you all need a quick minute to work on it or Okay, perfect. Anyone else here for public comment? So, I ask the chambers to unmute. All right. Consent agenda. Anyone have items for consent? They'd like pulled or whatever. Motion to approve the consent agenda as amended. Second. Motion by Josh. Second by Kate. All in favor? I consent is adopted. So we do have We do have a public hearing. Totally missed that. I thought it was just a presentation. Is there just open up the public hearing then or Yeah, I'll just give a brief introduction. There is a lot overhead. Okay. Well, we'll open the public hearing at 7:14. Anyone here to comment? We will close the public hearing at 7:14. Anyone want to make a motion? Motion to adopt resolution 24-31. Second. Motion by Josh. Second by Kate. All in favor? I. I. All right, general business. We have the ward of bond sales. Welcome. We all know you. Well, thank you, Mr. Mayor, council members. Bruce and here tonight to present some really good bond sale results. for the city. So, I believe you all have this sale day report um on your computers and I'll just hit a few highlights. Uh so, as you may recall from the pre-sale discussion last month, the city went to the markets to finance three individual projects, two relating to new market and one pavement construction plan. We have improvements for this year. We did receive seven bids on the city's behalf at 10 this morning and the low bid came from RW's desk out of Milwaukee. If you look at the bid tabulation on either the second or third page depending on how you count you can see that brought a lot of other firms along with them. This is very common for them. They like to build a syndicate as it's called of other underwriting firms so that they can really offer the lowest possible and a lot of sales as a result of that. Their true interest rate with their bid was about 3.6%. And if you look at the other six bids that were received on the next page, you can see that they're all pretty close to each other. Um the cover bid, second place bid, Northland was at 366. You can see all the way down to 379. So we were really pleased with the amount of interest in the city's bond sale and with the the end result. One other thing I'll note about fair bid, you go back to that first page of the bid tabulation. You've encountered this before with city bond issues, but I just wanted to remind you what's going on with this coupon versus the maturity. You see the coupon rates on the bonds are four and 5%, but the reoffering yields really the true cost to the city is at all in the 3% range. So what's going on there? The underwriting firm scale to offer bonds high bonds, but they know the market actually for bonds is more in that 3% range. So what they did is they offered you about $250,000 I think 256 256 to be precise of extra proceeds um in exchange for those higher coupon or face interest rates. Um it turns out that the city is looking at some possible cost increases for some of these projects. And so after consultation with Tom and Kelly, uh we decided they decided and and we made this happen to keep the premium that was received from bear so you have more in your project fund. So if you look at the sources and uses of funds after the bid tabulation, if you look under the uses of funds, you can see that now there's just under million that's going into the various project construction funds and that's up from about $3.2 million a little bit less than that um in the preale numbers. So, I know it's kind of a weird uh dynamic, but essentially by taking this premium that was offered from there and adding it to the construction fun, it gets moved from the project fund to the debt service fund and you already have seed money. So, you can use it nor have the money so it's only basically it's basically contingency without having and I would actually all the bond proceeds invested and short-term interest rates are really good so you can actually earn interest on those proceeds until rich so it's pretty efficient market right now in that even though interest rates on bonds are a little bit higher than we've had in the past. It's really nice that you're not having what's called negative arbitrage sitting on those proceeds waiting to use them. Um I didn't want to go into too much detail on the bond runs. I just included a few pages. You'll recall that you're using a combination of tax levy, special assessments, and revenues from your utility funds to repay the bonds um in different combinations for the three purposes. Um please know that there are about 30 pages of bond projections following today's sale. Kelly has them all. I didn't feel like you needed to see all 30 pages, but um just know that you do have debt schedules not only for the overall bond issue but for each of those individual purposes so that your team can budget and then finally Mr. Mr. Mayor and Council, I did want to note the credit rating from S&P global ratings. As you know, you have maintained a very positive A+ rating with S&P for a number of years now. And that rating was affirmed with colors as part of the issuance process. One of the fastest rating calls I've been on recently because um Tom and Kelly did such a great job of preparing and also there's really on the city's finances due to the decisions you've made as a governing body and the uh the work of your staff that so everything looks very strong with your local economy, your available reserves, your financial management practices. I will note that they use specific adjectives that are defined within their rating methodologies. Individual analysts don't have the ability to use the word weak debt burden that's really just part of a matrix and since you're a growing community that has a relatively high amount of debt that's really normal for a city like market but it falls within the we category however everything else being so strong definitely outs the concern they just use that adjective and everything that you can really control is is looking very good so congratulations on that and on today's bond sale results. I'll be happy to answer any questions and then ask you to take up the resolution awarding the bonds. Thank you. Anyone have questions? Anyone have motions? Motion to approve 24. No, not that one. 24. Yeah. 24.32. Motion by Kate. Second. Second by Josh. All in favor? I it passes. Thank you for the opportunity to work with the city and congratulations again. Thank you. Thank you for all your help. Okay. The one day temporary on-site liquor license. The only thing I wanted to tweak is just the hours from rather than 12 to 6 to make it 11 to 6. Anyone object to that? A revised resolution has been provide or showing the change has been provided. Motion to approve resolution 2428. Second. As amended. As amended. Thank you. Motion by Amanda, second by Gina. All in favor? I passes. And one more item, the assessment waiver appeal. Yep. So, I've updated the council on the discussions we've been having with Miss Con um related to uh a number of issues all centered around the existing retaining wall on the property and different um options that we've arrived at. Um in speaking with Miss Con who's here this evening, um she's indicated that she opted for just removing removing the wall. And so, uh, we've provided for the council, um, basically resolution 2433 that would approve and adopt the special assessments and the assessment agreement associated with it. This is limited to the work that would be done associated with removal of the wall and restabilization of the bank and that type of work. Um, the other assessments more largely associated with the project that would be handled through the normal assessment process for the larger project. I'd also like to note that in order to keep costs under control and such, we're going to be utilizing internal resources for a portion of that work as well. Okay. So, we'd be asking the council to approve 2433 uh subject to execution of the agreement by Miss Conl. So, moved. Motion by Amanda. Second. Second by Kate. Before we vote, are you okay with everything that's being proposed? Come on up. Yeah, we've talked about it. Um, so this was something that was for me with assessment. The only concern I have is my house is like so I just want to make sure that when we are doing this that I know I kind of skip everything but um I just want to make sure that there's a structural issue or anything like that it falls out that none of your responsibility and I understand like any of that but what happens if like my structure falls like damaged I don't know. Yeah. So, just to summarize, when we start pulling out the wall, if the house tips over, who's responsible for it? Is that kind of Yeah. Like I'm just concerned, you know, like I don't insurance, you know, what happens if something situation, but also the fact of my house being for me, right? Where do I go from that? Good question. So, in these types of agreement, it is normal for when we're doing this type of work to indemnify ourselves. And the reason that we do it is so that we don't receive frivolous claims that, oh, something I have a new crack in my basement foundation wall. It must have been because of the work that you did. So, to short circuit that, now in reality, the work that we're doing is a distance out from the house. The wall that's there was not there with the original construction of the house. It was a slope. So, we believe that the likelihood that there would be any direct impact to the house is really low. Now, Miss Con does have the option to not have us do anything. We've, as I've explained to the council in past conversations, we have a solution for that, too. Um, the whole intent of this was to try and provide a way to help Miss Conle address the situation with the deteriorating wall, address our issue with how we're servicing uh, replacing the service line, and find a win-win um, situation. I would defer any questions about recommendations related to assumption of liability to the person to my right, the city attorney. But that type of language and that type of agreement is fairly is is typical if we were truly worried that there would be issues. Now, I can understand Miss Conkl's concern about, you know, waving any potential recourse, but um I'll be honest, I would be hesitant to move forward with doing the work if we didn't have that language. I'm not suggesting we don't have that language. I'm just What is the pro how does she make sure her property is covered, her structures covered? That would be homeless insurance. Okay. So that that would be I guess the direction to talk to insurance agents see if they can make sure you're covered during the process. Well, and maybe question or followup like is there a timeline that we need to do this for the work to get done? Could we would delay it to the next meeting to give time or it needs to get done so that we can move forward with work or Well, we could probably pass it but until she signs it. Yeah. True. True. Okay. So, as long as you don't sign it, you can I I tried to push it through tonight because they could very well be removing that wall next week. Okay. yesterday. The water man is in and the next thing or they're working on services or on storm sewer in that intersection and then they'll be putting water services in. So they can do years last to get a little more time but they will need to do that one way or the other. So that's why we'd recommend the contingent approval to allow because Paige just got this to give her an opportunity to review it and make decisions. Um, normally we would get the signatures, you know, before we come to you, but that would be not fair to her. So So if we vote to approve this, are you okay holding off on signing until you have all your questions answered? I think I am okay with the part of it. I just want to make sure that it is something that is thought of. We had talked about the vegetation and stuff and I wanted to make sure that you know and stuff that but yeah I just want to make sure that a lot of it is like stabiliz we do too we don't want to do it twice but I have a thought we can talk after the meeting I have an idea that maybe we can have an expert look at that because we have them on the for action and stuff. See if I can navigate that with the contractor. Maybe get you just an opinion on stability. Yeah. I mean, I'm not like my concern is I'm not home during the day. Sure. And like sometimes I'm not there until I have two jobs. So like if something happens and I'm not there, what am I supposed to do? Like I don't want to come home, right? Everything down, you know? So I understand but it's like as you can tell absolutely yeah definitely did you have any other questions I think that's it like I feel like I have no idea allow the um and see what happens but it is just a concern. So I do approve of the constru but I just wanted you to know that I have those concerns. I don't want to lose my house in a situation or also not able to pay for the redo the wall. So Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We have a motion. We have a second. one item. So the percentage is interest rate is blank. I'm sorry. I think we heard now it'll be 5.1%. Yes. So if you would amend the resolution to include the interest rate of 5.1%. Motion Sure. Do we need to cancel the previous motion and remotion it or you could just have a motion to amen? So move. It'll be the same. So moved. Second. All in favor? I just for the amendment. Okay. So now it's amended. So now we got to vote on the All right. We we passed the amendment um to the resolution. Now I guess we need to vote on the resolution. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Hi. We did that all legally. Um reports. Anything for administration? Um nope. Police. No. Well, public works. There's probably no report. So, police. very short. Might be thick, but for your enjoyment, in case you have a hard time sleeping tonight, here's our annual report. Thank you. It's been on our department's website for a little bit. Um, basically just to do a kind of state of the department type annual report for 2023. Um, no fancy PowerPoint or anything, just you got the nitty-gritty in front of you there. So, for 2023 in the annual report, in my letter chief's message, I dubbed it the year of change. Uh, this year, 2023, uh, in my five years as tenure here has been the greatest amount of change that I've seen. Um as you know at the end of 2022 um we had the resignation of uh officer hoteling who left the Rosemount and then in the beginning of 2023 we had the resignation of officer Caruff who left to pursue uh un police position in another department. Um so losing onethird of our department at the end of 2022 and 2023. Uh, but that led to some awesome hires. So, when something's kind of wrecked, uh, you got to break a few eggs, but, uh, you make an omelette, make it better. Um, led to the hiring of three police officers within the year. Officer Steven Senden, who came from Carver County, Officer Zach Batul, who came from loss prevention department at Kohl's, and Officer Jeff Adabo came from Apple Valley PD. Um this was largely facilitated by the public safety funding legislation that was passed in 2022. Uh both um uh officer Adabo and then recently hired officer Barry both came with the assistance of the legislative money. Um the intent of those funds was to help Minnesota police departments with retention and recruitment. And we found uh as we interviewed those officers, their biggest issue was uh officer safety working by themselves. So we felt the best use of this fund and it was backed by the council and the mayor was to hire uh future officers earlier to bolster our ranks to increase the amount of double coverage together. Um and uh it helped with the retention of the officers, gave new life um to the officers. Uh the extra staff helps in many ways to the community. Officer safety as there's more overlap and dual coverage. um the community safer is the gaps in coverage is greatly reduced and um the ease of granting time away from work so our staff can um take time off to be with their families and really develop that work life balance. Um and uh really what that funding did is bring our 2026 service levels two years earlier, which is huge for our department. Um the attitude, the mood, the officers working and having somebody in the community with them. You can't put a price tag on that. There is a price tag and we appreciate the investment by the council and the mayor to make that happen along with the legislative money. Uh quick the department stats because these are uh welll liked by everybody. Want to know numbers? Want to know you know uh what's going on in the department. Calls for service over in 2023 over 22 were up 6.2%. These are the actual calls from the community needing our police department. Um these are not calls initiated by the officers. Um couple when I give you that number I like to try to give you my estimate or educated guess why that is. Um I think the increase in the amount of traffic in town to quick trip the construction of quick trip and the increase in houses and residents within the city are uh help contribute to that. there is an unknown flux that happens and you'll see some of that in uh in the other stats um that you can't really you don't know why that happened. Um the amount of juveniles who are in a certain portion their development in a community will increase the call load. It just it's hard to nail down the exact cause. Um but total calls handled by the police department and these are calls that are initiated by the officers. So, they're doing it. And the calls for service, everything we do from doing reports at the front desk, um processing reports for other agencies, data requests, everything we do, traffic stops, um extra patrols, that's down 2.6%. And these, it makes sense, are down, and they should be down a lot more with our staffing, but it shows you our officers that we did have are out there working their tails off. Um, but it's we were so down in staff for 2023. And not only just down in staff, when we're training officers, we were taken out of the road so much more because we're covering laws, covering policies, covering everything. So, it really should have been down more. Um, when you figure 30% of our department was gone for a good portion of the year and then in training, that number should have been way down, but it wasn't because our officers really stepped up and worked a ton. Burglary, uh, we had one in one in 2023 versus zero the prior year. Um, it's hard to say what causes a 100% increase, but it's when it's zero to one shouldn't be a concern. And I will point out too that in 2023, we were the fourth safest city in Minnesota on top of it. And I want to kind of balance that assault uh increase in 2023 from four versus three in 2022. So again, that's a large increase percentage-wise, but not really when total calls. Um, if I were to share with the 300 chiefs that were at the conference that Yeah. I had uh four assault calls in 2023, they'd fall over. I mean, they just couldn't believe it. Um, the fact that our community was awesome enough to have zero burglaries in 2022 and one in 2023, those are amazing numbers and that is why the community is so safe. Um, thefts dropped from 27 in 2022 to 16 in 2023. That's a 40% drop in thefts. Um, I'd like to take full credit for it, but again, I can't. It's the community. Um, we were down in staff, but we were out there a ton in force hitting our extra patrols. Really, from 2022 to 2023, um, you can see we we only had 2.6% 6% drop in our officer initiated um calls. So they were really working hard. Um I think that I think um just overall the crime trend in the metro area has been going down for these type of crimes as we're starting to catch up from COVID and put more people in jail and keep our bad people out. Uh Minneapolis in the last six months has extremely increased their juvenile enforcement and a lot of property crimes, these theft from cars, theft from um garages and things being total are juvenile driven not from our community but others coming into our community. So I think the overall trend in the Twin Cities, a lot of these property crimes have been decreasing. Assaults and other things have been going up, especially as we get closer into Minneapolis. But these property crimes are down and a 40% drop is fantastic and I think that contributed to our rating in 2023 as well. Um, traffic stops dropped 39% in 2023 compared to 2022. Up to November of 2022, we're a fully staffed, fully authorized strength. So, we had a ton of traffic stops, 2,200, a little over, and we're down to 1349. Again, that's due to having so much less staff, so many uh less officers out there hitting the road for the training. Um, citations dropped the exact equal amount. And uh I don't have the stat in here, but you can see from your um the graphs there that our percentage of citations has not changed. We're uh running about 20% of our traffic stops get a ticket or a citation, which is right where I want them to be, which is one in five. Um and uh that didn't change. So, it's good to see even though we are less staffed, we're staying consistent with our stops. Traffic crashes dropped 16% from 38 to 32. Injury crashes stayed the same at three total for the year. Um, I'm proud to say again, uh, even since before I got here, and I'm knocking on wood for those at home listening, um, we've had zero fatal crashes in the last six years, and I just don't have the stats before that to say how long it's been, but it's been quite a while. Uh, on top of that, our squad car fleet increased notably in 2023. Um it took 18 months to get a Ford Explorer due to um sourcing issues and uh um all the different problems. We put in the request in 2022 and we just got the car up and running three weeks ago. So, um, what we did is to anticipate that we increased our squad car fleet from three fully marked and up and outfitted squads to four. We did that by not selling the current squad car, but just buying the equipment for the new squad car. So, there wasn't a huge expenditure. We didn't have to buy all the equipment. We were able to use some um, sourced used equipment to outfit that car. So, we didn't have to increase the budget to increase our squad car fleet. So, now we're at four. We have four inside um stalls in our garage. So, now with the increase in staff and being up fully loaded, we're going to have more um double and sometimes triple coverage. So, we need that four squad. Um so, that's why we increase that. Um, and we feel it's sustainable to we normally hold a car six years to push that to seven and then really evaluate the miles we're putting on the cars. If we have more cars, we can put less miles because we spread those miles out over vehicles. And I since I drive the oldest car, due to my admin duties, I'm not out patrolling as much. So that car will last longer. And then notables for the year in 2023, we updated our um firearms for the police department. Department issued, we went to red dot sights and new flashlights on a whole new pistol platform. That process took a year and a half initiated by um senior officer uh Josh Garis and super comprehensive and happy to say that um our officers are a little bit safer due to this new new equipment. Um it was super comprehensive and most of the cost I'd say 85% of the cost was paid for by criminals uh through the Minnesota for or our forefeiter fund meaning that these are funds we took um from drug dealers uh drunk drivers through vehicle forfeitures paid for by those criminal acts. Statute allows us to use those funds to uh make our officers safer and help with enforcement. Um, with that, I wanted to allow some time for questions if anybody had any about this uh last year, the the numbers that they saw. I'm proud of this report. Uh, I think it's great overall. It's been online. Uh, anybody who wants to see it can go on our page and uh and look at it. Thank you. Does anyone have questions? No. Thank you so much. Thank you, council. really appreciate all your support a ton and uh our officers feel that and they appreciate it along with the community. Um it's hard to fight the waistline growth with all the uh love we get through baked goods and gifts and everything. So it's a great problem to have though. Thank you. I actually just want to say one thing, not a question, but um it was probably a couple weeks ago, a few weeks ago now, maybe longer, but one of our officers, and I didn't get a good look or know who um stopped and talked to my 12-year-old son and one of his friends and just chatted for a little bit, gave him stickers. Um I think maybe even some tattoos and stuff. And I I just think that's so cool. So, thank you for that. I appreciate that. And um that being able to do that um is a direct reflection on the investment by you, the council, the mayor, the community, and their staff. I've always said this that once we get behind, we can't catch up. You're keeping our staffing. I know it's expensive, most expensive labor department in the city, but you're keeping that staff at a level that allows us to do that and that allows us to drive around. And that was um Officer Zack Bulf that day. Um I think you passed the kudos on to Tom. It got to me and it got to the officer. And then also before I got here, you've invested and I don't even know if you realize this, but we have a budget now for those community resources. Um even though the mayor doesn't like the swag for business and stuff, um our children and um our community members love those stickers and tattoos. I use that budget um at the school. Another thing I didn't put on here. Last year we did 35 lunches. I'm already at 45 lunches with the kids this year. Um they love the tattoos and stickers. It goes, it's hard to put a price on it, but it is better than uh pencils and the bottles. So, I agree with you, mayor, on that end. Thank you. Appreciate it. Sure. Stickers. Thank you, Chief. Engineering. I do not intend to spend that money if I can help it. But it is very that we were losing some sleep on some overruns with head ramps which require a lot the new standards are very different than what they used to do. So it just takes more removal to make all those grades work. Uh on the re rehab project on the reconstruction project um our nemesis is bad soil. We have some areas of that project that after they've dug, put the pipes in, backfilled. You're all probably familiar with water beds. Yeah. Okay. Where you going with this? Stand on that ground. It'd be like standing on a water. Okay. Oh, no. So, we we've come up with some some strategies to try and not just take all that soil out and buy soil to put back. It seems to be working. Um, and we'll continue to do that, try and and do things surgically, not just throw money at it to make it go away. But otherwise, the jobs are going pretty well. We've got good contractors. It's nice to see them very diligently. Any questions? I can answer those. Thank you, Rich. Thank you. Uh, community development. Uh, only thing I have is just to remind the council that there's a planning commission meeting on Tuesday night and we do have two public hearings on the agenda. One is related to a proposed development north of city hall uh 86 lots I think on 33 acres at the east end of James Parkway. And then the other the second public hearing is related to the comprehensive plan amendment and zoning amendment submitted by RNF properties on the Speedway property in that area. You'll recall those conversations about a month ago. So based on the direction received by the council at the meeting on March 14th, that is what we are carrying forward to a public hearing um regiding a portion of the site to high density residential and then a portion of of that commercial area to mixed use that would only allow residential above the main floor. Um it's not mandatory. they could just do commercial, but they would have the option to do uh housing above the main floor. Um, and then the remainder of the Speedway uh property south of Marketplace uh as directed by the council, the mixture of low and medium density residential. So, we haven't gotten a lot of phone calls, but we did send out um couple hundred notices on those public hearings. So, okay. Is there any other way that the public hearing is um or that the community is notified of public hearings? is our website or Yeah, we will um probably post on the website. We probably should have done it earlier this week, but have been crunching on the packet, but um we will post on the city's website tomorrow of those public hearings. Um they're advertised um just through the regular planning commission meetings, but um all property owners located within 350 ft of the property received of either of those properties received a direct mailing to their home. Okay. So, everyone, a lot of people I've talked to, they don't have any idea that the um racetrack is not going to be there forever. So, I think it will be a shock to a lot of people. All right. Uh anything for parks? Um no. Uh CC, there's a port in the packet. I know. Yes. Um I just want to note or I guess throw kudos out to the fire rescue days committee. There's been $9,400 in donations and that was as of when we met on the 16th. So Jody, you're welcome. You're doing great. Um there's a Facebook page. It's ENM fire rescue days, I think is what it is titled. That also is rocking the advertising for fire rescue days. But I just want to give kudos because it looks like it's going to be a good good weekend. All right, that's all I got. Um, other reports, scale exec is next week and then the scale general meeting is after that uh or the week after that. Anything for service delivery? uh two primary discussion topics was an update on the legislation that Elanu Markets currently is taking the spearhead on related to municipal dispensaries. Um the other and what the largest discussion is is Commissioner Beer wanted to have a discussion with representatives of the cities related to city township relationships. uh given the portion of the county that he represents and given the urban versus rural development issues related to industrial and commercial development over by Jordan and in Spring Lake Township or not Spring Lake Township, south of Prior Lake. Um there uh it was felt to be a big issue. Um, and uh, so there's a general discussion of of how do we all get along kind of a deal. And what I took out of the conversation is it depends on where you are and what's going on currently. Um, the point that was made by a lot of the people in the room is it's all great to talk about that, but you can't really go anywhere with it unless everybody's in the room and everybody's willing to put their best foot forward and everybody wasn't in the room. And there were lots of examples of people not putting their best foot forward. So, um I made the point that uh we've had es and flows with our relationship with our neighboring township. Um overall, it's been very good and it's good because we communicate with them and we've created opportunities to have communication and um that seemed to be one of the big takeaways from it. There was really no action item that came out of it. Um and I'm not sure that there was intended to be one. Um, I think it was more of a um let's talk about it and maybe it goes somewhere outside of the meeting type of discussion. Um, uh, coming upcoming meetings at our next meeting. One of the things that's come up is uh right now uh the fire burn permits. So, not your recreational fire, but I'm going to build a burn a big pile of brush. um have for the last close to 30 years been issued out of FreeS drywall because that's where the chief's at and him or members of his staff have been issuing fire permits forever. Um that is at a point and I've asked the chief about having it come down to city hall and he's like nope everybody already knows where to go. Well Todd's reached the point where he's like nope it needs to go down to city hall. So, we're starting to take a look at that and I've had our staff take a look at the process here in other places to if we're going to make the change, let's do it well. And our staff has found that a number of counties around the state do it online for the entire county and it's not done by individual fire departments. And so, I'm going to be bringing that up at service delivery of should we be looking at something like that um at a countywide level to save efficiencies for for everybody. So, um, just that's an example type of things we work on there. So, thank you. And just so you know, we issue about 400 of Todd issues about 400 of those a year. Really? Sure. Uh, I35. There wasn't one in April. There will be one in May, I guess. Discussion by council. Motions to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. Motion by Kate. Second. Second by Gina. All in favor?