This transcript features **Mayor Jeff Weisensel** presiding over the meeting, with reports from City Administrator **Logan Martin**, Administrative Services Director **Teah Malecha**, and Municipal Advisor **Doug Green**. *Note: While your context list identifies Carson Thomas as the Police Chief, the transcript from May 2023 explicitly identifies the speaker as **Chief Dahlstrom** (Mikael Dahlstrom), who was the chief at that time.* *** [0:00] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Thursday good evening Rosemount and welcome to the city council's regular meeting for Tuesday May 2nd 2023 if you'll all rise and join me in 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 [0:36] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: are there any additions or corrections to the agenda [0:38] **Logan Martin**: no sir [0:39] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: seeing none I'll move the agenda is there a second [0:42] **Councilmember Paul Essler**: second [0:43] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: all in favor signify by saying aye [0:45] **City Council**: aye aye aye [0:47] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: opposed the agenda's approved first items up for presentations proclamations and acknowledgments first one is our Public Service week recognition Mr. Martin [1:00] **Logan Martin**: thank you member the council um would be pleased to import to be in front of you tonight to ask you to read a proclamation naming next week May uh 7th through the 13th as public service week it's a nationwide um event whereby we can recognize the great work that public servants do a month the month of May ends up being sort of a summative event for all of this uh you're going to have police chief Dahlstrom referencing the week following next week in an upcoming Proclamation and that the next Council packet um in council meeting Public Works director Edgar will do a public works week but we have a public service week which is a broad recognition for public servants kind of Nationwide and we just wanted to take this time and we do every year to um to have you read this Proclamation but more importantly just to acknowledge um you know from from my position on the uh in the organization and then your your folks as policy makers and our leaders we're so proud of the public servants that we have here at the city of Rosemount um it's it's a top shelf team keeps getting better I think by by the higher and by the day and we're just so proud of the work that we do with the team that we have and it's just a small token of course to make a proclamation and then just a couple of activities that we'll do next week so one of which is we're bringing in a professionally trained speaker to a couple hour session on just leadership and and skill building um by lunch for the team you know just as a way to say thanks and so we'll do a little bit of an event there but would encourage the residents if you end up seeing a public works truck or car or logo rolling around town or I should say a Rosemount truck or logo or somebody wearing the the badge uh if you wouldn't mind you know maybe tell them that you appreciate their service and these are folks that you know clean the streets and cut the grass open the open the warming houses you know all the way up to folks to process your utility bills doing your building inspections coming out to look at your ash tree to see if it has emerald ash borer right all these kind of things the folks that I think we often forget what a city employee does and I think we remember police and fire in public works but there's a lot of other folks as well so I would appreciate any uh any any chance to do that and have our team receive the the do the do thank you that they receive uh that they deserve I should say so with that mayor would I appreciate if you'd read the proclamation [3:15] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: thank you before I read the proclamation any other comments from Council I was done with the reading of the proclamation whereas Americans are served every single day by public servants at the federal state county and City levels these unsung heroes do the work that keeps our nation working whereas public employees take not only jobs but alts whereas many public servants including military personnel police officers firefighters Health Care Professionals and others risk their lives each day in service of the people in the United States and around the world whereas day in and day out they provide the diverse Services demanded by the American people of their government with efficiency and integrity and whereas without these public servants at every level continuity would be the impossible in a democracy that regularly changes its leaders and elected officials now therefore I Jeffrey D weisensel mayor of Rosemont Minnesota do hereby Proclaim May 7 through 13 2023 as public service recognition week in the city of Rosemount all citizens are encouraged to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of government employees at all levels federal state county and City dated the second day of May 2023. and with that we'll consider that proclamation in place thank you thank you that completes item 3A we'll move on to 3B and I'll ask Chief Dahlstrom to come forward [5:00] **Chief Mikael Dahlstrom**: I apologize I made some notes right before this but it's an important night and I want to say thank you mayor members of the council for the proclamation but before the mayor reads the proclamation a few things I wanted to recognize it's recognizing National Police Week May 14th to May 20th with May 15th as always the day that's the national and Peace Officers Memorial Day recognizing those Law Enforcement Officers or peace officers that were killed in the line of duty so we are going to be up on May 15th at the Minnesota law enforcement memorial up by the capitol to recognize officer John McDermott who was shot and killed on May 23rd of 1923 that was our only Rosemont officer and we wanted to stay that way but we'll be up there to recognize officer McDermott and Leia wreath at that Memorial most importantly I want to thank the men and women that work for this police department and those that serve the city of Rosemount I continue to get compliments day in and day out um from residents and that's overwhelming just because of how they serve it's how they treat people like they treat their own family their their patient they're compassionate uh yet they uh and they care they follow things through all the way to the very end I was on April 8th while um well I think it was April 8th it's April 14th actually April 14th April 14th I got a text from a gentleman who just said hey chief it's so and so I want to thank you um to you and yours he was watching the the tribute to the deputy from Pope County who was shot and killed and uh Josh Owen and he just said I want to say thank you he goes officer Alex luck um I'll never he probably won't remember me but I've been sober since August 26 of 2021 and it's because of him so it even goes well Alex I looked up the call while he had arrested an individual he did it with so much respect and professionalism that um you know the the gentleman texted me over two years later so I thought that was pretty cool so I wanted to comment a little bit about um we were reflecting on on this some issues lately with with a mentor of mine who was in The Profession for over 40 years and he gave me some examples of how he thought that the last several years were the most trying of trying of his career and I think the point here is I want to go through some of these things to show you that these proclamations are important and and I want to thank you guys at the very end for the support that you've shown our officers and staff um so we dove into it and I I remember I think I brought this up but back in 2006 when I applied there was 200 people applying for one position so you looked at there was a very competitive pool um you had to bring your A-game and a lot of times you were applying and applying and you still weren't getting you still weren't getting a position more recently in our last process I was attempting to offer three positions and I had seven applicants so you can see from 2006 until 2023 we've gone from 200 applicants down to seven so why did that happen I think you can look over the last several years statistics will show that it was the most violent in U.S history um and that's not only Minnesota that's across the board we obviously dealt with riots civil unrest long hours some quick legislative decisions that were made by state leaders that didn't counsel with law enforcement before they made those decisions some were them some of that some that were then deemed to be unconstitutional um we watch criminal activity not be held accountable in in different parts of the Criminal Justice System I'll give an example I was at a recent training and I was told that fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle an assault in the fourth degree which is assaulting a police officer before the point of injury as long as it as long as there's no broken bones or substantial bodily harm but you're still assaulting a police officer we got to the point where you would have to flee and be convicted from a police officer in a motor vehicle 11 times before you wouldn't still receive probation you could assault a police officer 11 times barring all of their circumstances are even um and be convicted and still only receive probation so I'm saying some of this stuff um you know during the month of April we just saw the Cameron should check and I met I mentioned Pope County deputies we had three three people within a couple hours of Twin Cities shot and killed uh three others that were shot um it I mean it can be pretty taxing to retention recruitment that kind of stuff so my point here is is thank you very much for the proclamation um and I I'm pleased to stand in front of a council that I know I can tell my staff this every day but you guys are supportive you supported our building needs it's going to be a huge boost we've got a facility that's going to start here shortly we've been talking about it you have supported my Staffing requests um and I I want to ask you to continue that support because it's I don't think I would work where I didn't have a supportive Council so thank you for doing that and when you have the opportunity I would I would love to chat but we got to bring this to the state level and we have to make this a broader um broader support to the overall profession or I think we're going to continue going in the wrong direction so thank you so much [9:45] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: thank you Chief uh any comments from Council before I read the proclamation seeing none the proclamation whereas in 1962 President Kennedy proclaimed May 15th as National peace officers day and the calendar week in which May 15th Falls is National Police Week established by a joint resolution of Congress in 1962 National Police Week pays special recognition to those law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty for the safety and protection of others and whereas the members of the Rosemont Police Department play an essential role in safeguarding the rights and freedoms of the citizens of the city of Rosemont and whereas it is important that all citizens know and understand the duties responsibilities hazards and sacrifices of their law enforcement agency and that the members of our law enforcement agency recognize their duty to Serve the People by safeguarding life and property and by protecting all citizens against violence and disorder and whereas the men and women of the Rosemont Police Department unceasingly provide a vital public service now and therefore I Jeffrey D weisensel mayor of Rosemont Minnesota do hereby Proclaim May 14th through 20th 2023 as National Police Week within the city of Rosemount and hereby publicly salute the services of law enforcement officers in our community and in communities Across the Nation throughout the city of Rosemont we urge and encourage all citizens to take time to appreciate our Public Safety officers and honor all peace officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty dated the second day of May 2023. with that the proclamation is completed completes proclamations presentations and acknowledgments with that we'll move on to item four for public comment anyone wishing to come before council at this time may do so by coming up to the podium state your name and address and any concern or comment that you would like to express [12:17] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: and seeing no one at this time that'll complete our public comment portion of the agenda we'll move on to number five response to public comments I believe we don't have any responses to present this evening so that completes item five and we move on to item six consent agenda oh so we have items a through I I'll run through those really quick before accepting a motion we have bills listing minutes of the April 18th regular enclosed meeting proceedings donation acceptance from Hosanna church donation acceptance from Minnesota Energy Resource our 2023 service agreement with the Rosemont Area Arts Council approval of a subdivision agreement for Rosemont Commons Rosewood Commons the jjt business park second edition accepting of improvements and the approval contract amendments for public works and the police department campus so with that anyone wish to pull any items seeing none a motion to approve the consent agenda [13:41] **Councilmember Paul Essler**: so moved [13:42] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: is there a second [13:43] **Councilmember Heidi Freske**: second [13:44] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: I'll say motioned by essler second by freske role please [13:49] **City Clerk**: [Roll Call Vote] [13:55] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: motion passes on the consent agenda 5-0 that completes item six we'll move on to now item seven public hearings the 2023-27 capital Improvement plan with that that goes to let's call that up here quick Teah Malecha our finance director [14:14] **Teah Malecha**: good evening I'm just pulling this up quick um good evening mayor members of City Council the city continues to move forward with the public works police campus and with that project we are required to issue bonds to finance it our Municipal advisor Doug Green from Baker Tilly has been here at two work sessions now this evening and February 7th to discuss the bond process and to cover some of the bond structuring with the council at the March 21st meeting the council received bids and awarded contracts for the first bid package the second one will be received this week on May 4th which is exciting as part of that process outlined in State Statute Council must adopt a capital Improvement plan and hold the public hearing public notice was provided setting this evening as the opportunity to provide feedback and about the CIP and the proposed Bond financing and Mr Green is here this evening to provide more information regarding issuance and the proposed CIP good evening Mr Green [15:22] **Doug Green**: good evening Mr Mayor members of the council again Doug green Baker Tilly pleasure to be here so as a way of background a little bit State statutes authorized cities and all municipalities to incur debt to issue bonds and what I have here is just few there there's dozens of those specific authorities what I have here in front of you is uh just five of the commonly used uh authorities that this that the city uses for the police department Public Works facility it's under uh it's called Capital Improvement plan so this is different than what do you consider each year during your budget deliberations and your in your comprehensive Capital Improvement plan this just includes the project that we are financing under this Authority more specifically looking at the language within the statutes uh then that first box B capital Improvement means acquisition better in lands buildings for purpose of City Hall Town Hall Library Public Safety facility and Public Works facility uh so this is the authority that cities use to finance these types of projects in that next part in subdivision three it says that that cities must Adopt A Five-Year Plan of projects that you do intend to finance using what we call General obligation Capital Improvement plan bonds but this slide shows the sources and uses of Heineken these are estimates until we get the bids the construction bids in so the source will be of funds will be will be these bonds and we'll the bottom part is we'll Define what we need to deposit into the project construction fund there's some capitalized interest which is a project essentially a project cost and the financing costs estimated financing costs and that large financing cost of the discount that will be included in the bid that we've that we received so there there's a incentive for them to keep that as low as possible within each one of these authorities has different rules different processes uh and there's two that are applicable here there's the broader one that is the statutory debt limit which says that municipality cities cannot incur have uh outstanding bonds to exceed three percent of the estimated market value so for pay 2023 that's when Mark values about 4.2 billion three percent of that is 127 million uh we just have a few one bond issue small outstanding and if we say that issue 65 million here we're still you know well above that legal debt margin there so we satisfied that said there's a second one specific to this statutory Authority that says that all the bonds sold under this uh specific Authority the annual Debt Service cannot exceed 0.16 six percent of the estimated market value so at 4.2 billion the 0.16 is an annual Debt Service payment of 6.8 million and on a high conservative end uh The Debt Service on this on these bonds will be around 4 million so again underneath that that debt limit so we satisfied both statutes there looking ahead for planning purposes uh holding public hearing this evening received the bids coincidentally in in two days have her fingers crossed there we'll finalize uh the repayment plan for the bonds put together the offering document known as official statement we will post out there on to the public to potential bondholders go through a credit rating process in the month of June and we have planned to sell the bonds on July 11th and then close on those at the end of July if something changes we can easily you know a Justice timeline but I don't see any reason why we wouldn't be able to stick to this so with that be happy to answer any questions [19:54] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Council was in a previous work session here before a council meeting are there any additional questions or comments certainly those those watching online or gonna watch us on YouTube can you summarize so this is showing the estimated cost of 61 million and we don't know exactly what it's going to be because we're waiting for the bids to come in correct but just how that's being paid for from the different funds to understand we're not taking out Bonds on the full project could you get a little bit a little bit of an overview there [20:39] **Doug Green**: yeah absolutely so we're going out to whatever that ends up being that that's what we'll offer to the public and that's you know the capital that we'll raise but internally we're going to uh this is supporting different functions of the city and specifically the street department public works department the water department sewer and the storm so uh those certain functions of the city you know repay pay for their portion of of the cost and I've did some analysis based off square footage of the facility of the budgets and you you can allocate it different ways um but it came up with 55 is going to be paid for with the levy uh 25 from water 25 from sewer and then five percent from Storm so certainly not all of this is going to be repaid with property tax levy [21:28] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: you bet thanks for pointing that out any other questions or comments all right thank you with that then we will open up the floor for the public hearing anyone wishing to speak on this matter may do so by coming forward stating your name and address and your comments please limit your comments to three minutes or less going once going twice seeing no one at this time I'll move to close the public hearing is there a second [22:08] **Councilmember Heidi Freske**: second [22:09] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: all in favor signify by saying aye [22:11] **City Council**: aye [22:12] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: opposed the public hearing is closed look to counsel any further questions comments no seeing none [22:24] **Logan Martin**: mayor excuse me I might just suggest either Tia or maybe Doug um just talking us through next steps of next time council is going to get exposure to the steps in the process next time public gets a chance to hear hear data and honing in on actual tax impacts um a little overview on that Doug would be appreciated okay that are our recommended action is a preliminary approval so maybe explaining that and then what a final approval will look like [22:56] **Doug Green**: great yeah thank you Logan mayor members of the council so looking down at that last part that Bond authorization Council authorizes the bond sale we also we call that the setting the sale so we will come to the Council on that uh June 20th date with a pre-sale summary with everything wrapped up saying that this is this is the project cost this is how we're planning to repay it and this is the plan to go out uh to the market to sell bonds uh that will be like I said we'll have a pre-sale summary to present to you uh which would really just be a summary of everything we've talked about over the last few months and a resolution even at that point that that's just it's not a statutory required step it's just a good step in the process to say hey we're all on board this is this is what we're doing uh moving forward over the next three weeks closely watch the market um and then take bids on the morning of the July 11th uh and then bring them to for your consideration that evening to to approve or deny uh so if something for instance over the next few uh meetings that we have between now and then if there's something that we need to bring to your attention we certainly will certainly After we receive the bids this Thursday well you know we'll give them a few days to analyze and whatever and get those final project costs and then we will then we'll finalize um our repayment plan and probably provide that in some sort of communication in the next few meetings I don't think we have any plans to present that but but we certainly could [24:45] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: okay thank you thank you anything from our finance director to wrap it up with the boa no Miss Meyer all right with that um looking for anyone moving the recommended action [25:10] **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: I'll move to adopt a resolution approving a capital Improvement plan and giving preliminary approval for the issuance of capital Improvement bonds [25:21] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: a second [25:22] **Councilmember Heidi Freske**: second [25:23] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: motion by Klimpel second by Freske role please [25:27] **City Clerk**: [Roll Call Vote] Councilmember Theisen? [25:29] **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: aye [25:30] **City Clerk**: Councilmember Freske? [25:31] **Councilmember Heidi Freske**: aye [25:32] **City Clerk**: Councilmember Essler? [25:33] **Councilmember Paul Essler**: aye [25:35] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: motion passes five zero that completes item 7A looks like we're going out for bonds we have no unfinished business no new business items nine eight and nine and we have announcements Mr. Martin [25:42] **Logan Martin**: thank you very much the council a couple items tonight um first of all uh it is a sure sign of spring so we're underway with street sweeping out there in the streets and so uh Please be aware as folks are driving around and parking on the streets uh that our street sweepers are out doing their great work which we all appreciate and get those streets cleaned up from a very long winter um it was mentioned a number of times but just call a secondary attention to we opened bids on Thursday for the police and Public Works campus this is the second round of bids that first round came in about 10 percent under under budget we're very hopeful that we'll see the same result on Thursday and then we'll work with Doug and team to True up the numbers um so exciting day on Thursday and look forward to good news to share on that front similarly we opened the bids last Thursday on the lifetime project and so I'm pleased to share there that those bids were about 10 under what we had expected so about five million dollars or so under our ceiling for that that project so pleased to work on that and see that come in dog and Steve and team are helping us on that Bond issuance as well and so you'll see some actions on that here in the next couple of months different process than the CIP bonds but Port Authority is taking the lead on that one in some regard but good news from Lifetime so a full steam ahead there and uh on track to close in the end of June and um and get that project underway so we're opening a lot of bids uh and and so far we've been very um successful in the bidding Marketplace so um with that I think that's all I had tonight mayor [27:13] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: great great news to hear I'll open up to Council on any of their activities uh collateral duties that need to report on anything or share looking into my right to my left nothing none all right [27:32] **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: I was going to add council council member Theisen and I attended the coffee with the chamber event here at the hosted here at Rosemount city council chambers last week so it was really nice to connect with local business owners and other individuals in the community appreciate that [27:54] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: is that completes item 10A and with 10B the upcoming calendar dates uh we have on May 3rd tomorrow 20 uh from 5 30 to 7 o'clock at City Hall the environmental sustainability commission work session and then on May 9th the environmental sustainability commission will meet for their regular meeting on from 5 30 to 6 30 again here at City Hall council chambers the Port Authority meets on May 16th from 6 to 7 here at City Hall and our next city council regular meeting will be on May 16th from 7 to 8 also here at city council and with that if there's any other business to come before Council seeing none I move to adjourn is there a second [28:44] **Councilmember Paul Essler**: second [28:45] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: all in favor signify by saying aye [28:47] **City Council**: aye aye aye [28:48] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: opposed we are adjourned thank you [28:51] [Music]