You were brave. >> Hereby call to order hereby call to order the Roseville City Council meeting for Monday, March 2nd, 2026. Mr. City Manager, would you call the role, please? >> Council member Grath, >> here. House member Strong >> here. >> Council member Schroeder >> here. >> Member Bower >> here. >> Mayor Row >> here. Uh and by way of introductions, we have our city attorney Rachel Tierney who's on my right at the end of the day and city manager Pat Trean who's on my left at the other end of the day. Other uh staff will be participating in the meeting and we'll make those introductions as uh those agenda items come up. uh would uh let folks in the public know that we do have a complete set of the meeting materials in a binder in the back of the room on the table under the big clock which is available for members of the public to share if you need access to the various materials that we'll be uh considering as we take our actions this evening. Uh we do also have extra copies uh uh of the meeting agenda that are back there as well if you need to follow along with the meeting and those are yours to keep. Um, if you do have a cell phone, we ask that you uh silence it or otherwise assure that it doesn't disrupt the meeting this evening. Uh, and I think that will should be good for housekeeping for now and we'll go ahead and ask folks to stand if you're able 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. Right. The first item on our agenda after these uh preliminary items is approving tonight's agenda. And as always, we'll check with city manager Trean to begin with. Are there any staff uh recommended changes to the agenda this evening? >> Mr. Mayor, staff has no changes. >> All right. Uh are there any council uh changes to the agenda this evening or items that council members would like removed from the consent agenda for separate consideration? does not appear to be the case. Uh we'll just double check with members of the public. We do have a few items uh four items on our consent agenda, section 10 of our agenda this evening. Uh these items are normally taken up at the end of the meeting as a single motion with limited opportunity for input. If anybody is here this evening to either make a comment or ask a question about one of those items in section 10, otherwise known as our consent agenda, uh this would be the opportunity to let us know and we'll move that item earlier in the meeting so that you don't have to wait till the end to make your comment or ask your question. Is there anyone here for an item in section 10 of tonight's agenda? All right. Does not appear to be the case. Uh in that case, is there a motion to approve the agenda as presented? >> Second. >> All right. We've got a motion from council member Schroer, seconded by council member Bowerer to approve tonight's agenda as it's been presented. Uh discussion on that motion hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I opposed. That passes unanimously. We have our agenda for this evening. >> Uh next on the agenda is our first opportunity for public comment. Uh we will provide an opportunity for public comment on agenda items as they come up. Uh but we do always also at the beginning of each council meeting want to provide an opportunity for general public comment. Uh this should be an opportunity for members of the public to speak to items that are not on this evening's agenda but m may excuse me but may relate to city business uh or be of interest to people in the community. Uh so we'll check and see if anybody is here to speak under general public comment this evening. Does not appear to be the case. Uh we'll then proceed uh and our first uh item then is to proceed right into our business items. And our first business item this evening is to conduct a public hearing and certifi certify unpaid utility charges to the property tax role. We have our new uh finance director Sam Magaranu here to uh give us the introduction to this hearing uh and then we'll hold the hearing uh and take action on the certification. Welcome Mr. Marano. >> Thank you. Good evening Mr. Mayor, member of the council. Uh as in previous quarters uh the city is authorized by the city code to conduct a public hearing. Um the reason for this is to allow um residents or businesses to dispute any of these charges. Uh these charges are set to be certified on property taxes to be collected in 2027. Uh typically these charges get assessed um and they're tracked by the county. Uh so when a home um um changes owners or a property changes owners um realtors or um people of interest can call the county and um learn if there are any unpaid utilities or um fees that the city have assessed. Um, for this quarter, we are looking at about $92,000 of uh certifications uh with an additional $8,000 of an administrative fee, which is about $25 per each property. Uh, with that, we will have to open this public hearing. And if any residents are here, they they have any questions, I'm here to help answer any of those questions. So, all right. Thank you. Um, and so we'll go ahead and open the public hearing. Uh this would be an opportunity for members of the public uh to speak to either uh if they have questions or uh want to dispute their own properties assessment or general questions I guess on the subject matter that's that would be okay too. Uh we'll take any comments that people want to make during a public hearing but we'll open the hearing. Uh and does anyone from the public wish to speak to uh this proposal to assess these overdue utility amounts to property taxes for the related properties? All right, seeing no one uh come forward to speak, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing then. Uh council, we have the requested action which is to certify those unpaid utility charges to the property tax role as outlined in the materials. >> So move Oh, >> I had a question. >> Oh, question. Um, I'd like to know, um, there was some indication on some of the higher, um, uh, outstanding amounts and there are several that are outstanding from 2022. Um, there's nothing further that we've done. Is there a recommendation that we have a further charge or when it's residential? Um, I guess just that's a long time to go without paying. And then I noted at 257 Walnut Street, it looks like there may be more than one business there, but one of the businesses at that location um is not authorized to operate. And so if they're generating a significant water, we maybe should investigate because doesn't sound like they should be getting a bill. >> Yeah, I mean um those unpaid balances um should be certified on a quarterly basis. Um, at the time of certification, those balances technically are marked in our system as collected because they will be collected with uh the property tax statements. Now, if they're delinquent on their taxes, that's something that the county will be handling, okay, to ensure that we collect. So, every year when we receive settlements from the county, we there's a portion of delinquencies that are um remitted with those um payments. Um, so if we have any uh outstanding that are from 2022, uh, I think that's a much larger discussion. Um, I would have to look into see why we haven't certified them by now. But if they're on this list, they will be going to the county to be certified on property taxes and then any unpaid utilities after this date will continue to acrew kind of begin a new balance. So any old balances should be certified. >> Okay. >> Council Strong, I think there's some notation on there. Some folks haven't paid since 2023. Doesn't mean we haven't certified. We've certified them every quarter, right? >> Just just to kind of have a note that they've never paid it in 2023. There are some businesses and some um people that just don't pay uh it in time for whatever reason. Um and so we do have a penalty which is somewhat newer. Um I suppose um there's maybe a distinction from somebody that's got a $80 uh overdue bill versus a 2,000 or $3,000 um delinquent bill regarding penalties, but right now we charge everybody that same amount. We could potentially look at some sliding scale, some different uh type of fine for for businesses, not homesteaded properties for instance, uh to help push them to make the decision on time. The thing is with water, we pay St. Paul water. So, it's a cost we incur. It's not just a future cost that well we collect today. It's money that's going out the door for us and the longer it takes for us to get that back uh the less money we have to pay for those things. So, so it is important that people do pay um and maybe uh through harsher penalty let's say after your fine for some of those larger ones maybe that will get some better compliance. But I just want to assure you that that that we do certify every quarter for that purposes. So the notation I think was just that they haven't paid on time since 2023. >> But have they paid anything since 2020? >> The the the two notations on page three out of six. Those are the ones you've heard. And I think uh uh um city manager um Turjan is correct. Uh talking to our utility billing clerk. these two. She's just noting that this type these properties are in the habit of not paying on a regular basis since 2022, not that we haven't certified since. >> And so when they pay taxes, then that that is paid in full. Yep. So they >> this is their current balance. >> This is their current balance. It's not since 2020. So I guess the note is a little deceiving. Maybe you should say this is someone who we've we've kind of had to deal with on a regular basis uh as being u not paying on time. uh but this is the balance as of this time when this report was put together. So we're going to be certifying this. So once we certify the balances shows zero at that point because we're marking in the system as those will be collected through the property taxes. Um so then any unpaid from this point forward you know will be beginning from zero and then we're going to accumulate in the future as well. So um yeah. >> All right. And it may be worthwhile to have a discussion about you know, the the frequently delinquent commercial properties and things like that and just seeing if there is some way we want to address the non-payment beyond our current system. I think that would be appropriate to to bring back for some further discussion. >> We'll explore that. >> Yeah. >> All right. So, I just have one more question now that you brought that up. Um, so if they don't pay their property taxes, this doesn't get paid. So, it could acrue for quite a while until there's a tax foreclosure. Yeah, I think yeah, I think it gets to that point where the the county is in charge of kind of going for foreclosure. Um, so but typically it's good practice for us to certify it in case the property sells or goes in foreclosure. Then we are >> kind of >> protected and we, you know, like a realtor has to call and kind of inquire on a property. They they can they know a lot of times they don't call the city. They should be calling the city as well and the county. Um, but a lot of times they don't call the city or or the county and then if the property sells and then we don't certify, there's no way for us to to get those monies back. So, >> okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I would make the motion, Mr. Mayor. >> Second. >> All right. It's been moved by Council Member Grath, seconded by Council Member Strong, to adopt the resolution. That's the attachment in the packet which certifies those listed properties uh to the uh property taxes for this quarter for those unpaid utility charges. Uh discussion in the motion as the maker council member Grath. >> Oh, thanks for bringing this forward. It's important. Thank you. >> All right. As the second council member, >> nothing approved. >> All right. Other discussion on the motion. All right. Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. Opposed. That passes unanimously. That resolution is adopted and those charges are certified. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next on our agenda, item 7B, uh, is to consider adopting an updated snow and ice control policy. And for this item, we have our public works director, Jesse Fryhammer, with us this evening, uh, to bring this before the council for our consideration. Welcome, Mr. Fryham. >> Uh, thank you, mayor and councel. Um, so I have a short presentation on our current and proposed snow and ice control policies. So, I know it's March. We're kind of through the snow season, we hope. Um, but we just thought it'd be timely just to bring this back. Um, it's, as you see, it's kind of more of a general update, nothing real specific on how we do operations. Um, so this policy was last formally updated in 2014. Um, it applies to city streets and parking lots. It does not apply to pathways. Uh, the parks and recck department has a separate policy that deals with uh pathways. So, just want to make that clarification that if uh we want to get into the pathway thing that uh parks will probably uh have an update that they'll bring at some future date. But, um this is just how we plow streets and then a little bit on the pu uh parking lots >> and it's city streets and not >> city streets and not we we do reference uh one update we did do you'll see is we actually our maps previously didn't reference which streets were county. We further clarified that to make it uh explicit. So um but basically we haven't looked at this in detail uh in about 12 years. Um overall the current policy works well. We don't have a lot of um complaints on on when we go out stuff like that. Um but overall staff did look at this to really simplify the policy. It was seven pages. A lot of it was just kind of rambling that the general public didn't care about. It just caused confusion for staff. So we just really wanted to simplify it. Um, one thing I do want to add, um, um, assistant, uh, city manager, um, Rebecca Olsen had kind of mentioned this, but, uh, this kind of predated me a little bit, um, with the GER program. Um, the the snow ice policy was reviewed a little bit basically and how it, uh, tied into parking and and should we change the policy on how we do parking and whatnot. So, this was just kind of the we we overall had mixed feedback on if we should change the parking restrictions or not. So, just wanted to acknowledge that it did get brought up a little bit um as part of that process, but there was no overall changes, which is why we didn't have it in our uh staff report. So, just some key uh points. Just wanted to emphasize what's staying, what we're not proposing to change. Um uh basically overall to have the streets and critical parking lots plowed to a full width within 10 hours after um the snow has quit falling on snow events that are 2 in or greater. So, that's kind of our baseline policy. So, if it's 2 in, we're always going to go out there and our goal is to have that done in in 10 hours. Usually, we're done in 6 to 7 hours. Um, the city will begin plowing when we have 6 in of snow. So, if we have a big large 12, say we get 12 inches of snow, when we hit 6 in, we will start plowing at that point. Um, a lot of times then we're only going to be plowing collector streets. So, once again, we're not proposing to change that. Um, ice control policy. We, um, unlike Ramsey County and Mindot who have bare pavement policy, we do not have a bare pavement policy. So, we're not saying we guarantee black pavement with, you know, uh, black pavement when, uh, you know, 24 hours after event or something similar to that. So, just want to emphasize we do do treatment, but you're still going to see some ice and accumulated snow a lot of times on our plow routes. Um, yeah, baron pavement should not be expected throughout the winter months. Um, and then roadside considerations. These are things within the rightway um, such as trash recepticles, mailboxes, landscaping, irrigation. Um, this the policy speaks to when we will replace that at city expense versus when it's not the prop uh when it's a property owner issue. Uh, for example, if we hit a mailbox directly with our our our um snow plow or the wing, we will replace it. If the the snow the weight of the snow knocks it over, that is a property owner responsibility. So, a lot of times they their wooden post that was in for 20 years has rotted away and it just tips over, not because we hit it. That's private property owner. If turf gets damaged, we usually take care of that because we bumped over the curb. But if you have irrigation, that is a uh private property owner responsibility. Same thing with other items. So, none of that's changing. That's all remaining the same. We just condensed it and made it a little simpler to read. Um and then overall the parking regulations, as I mentioned, we're not proposing to change parking regulations. Um still in effect. Um the one thing we did note is we technically do have the pilot project. Um we kind of acknowledge that in the policy. The old policy was before we started doing those. We are still considering them pilot areas because we haven't um they work a little bit but there's still some tweaks we want to change. So we still are consider those pilot areas. Um so the proposed changes to the policy the big changes are overall update of the format. Um as I mentioned we kind of reduced from seven to four pages. So much easier to read and understand. Um one key term we changed was we referenced um collector routes. We're changing that to priority main routes. Uh kind of just simplifying it to the general public. Most people don't know what a collector route is. Uh, priority main routes, people understand it's the main routes the city has. Um, we did add a limit to the maximum time plow drivers can work in a 24-hour day. Um, we just added 14 hours, which is kind of industry standard. Uh, some cities also did 12. Um, we technically can overwrite that as well because we're a public agency, but just wanted to put something in there because sometimes we have the public go, why why aren't you guys plowing 24 hours? Well, we're not crewed for that. Um, we do have to provide some rest for staff. So, that's kind of an overall goal that we would have. We've only in the in the 10 years I've been here, we've only had to do kind of a backtoback plow twice. This doesn't come up very often. Um, as I mentioned, we did add the snowplow pilot area to the um policy and then we did update the exhibit list. So, real quick, um, just to give a real, uh, quick overview of how we do plow routes. Uh, this does get questioned time to time, but on a typical plow event, we we do break out, um, in routes throughout the city. So, this is kind of like I think that's our 14 uh, route crew, but just the different color areas or we send different crews to go out. So, we don't plow the city from west to east or or south to north. We send the crew all over and then they each clar their route and then if someone's ahead they go help the whoever's behind. So just kind of wanted to show that and we have variations of this. If it's a really light snow we might only go with like an eight eight person route. Um and then same thing with ice control. Sometimes if we just had you know uh cold weather overnight a little bit of uh a dusting we just might go out and treat. We same thing we break that out into six or two depending upon the ice event. Uh anti-icing. This is when we go out ahead of a snowstorm. Um, we don't get to do this on every snowstorm. The conditions have to be right, but we will kind of put those lines in the uh on the pavement. The county and the state do this as well, but that helps uh do some pre-treatment. >> It's like the brine. >> Yep. The brine that we put out. So, um, and then, uh, we also just wanted to put in the policy the the parking lot. So, this is kind of a joint effort between parks and public works. Uh, most of them are done by public works, but, uh, parks does some as well. So, this just kind of shows that. Um, and then we just have our mailbox standard cuz mailboxes are the number one complaint we get usually. And then we did reference the pilot location. Um, we currently have four of those. Um, we did have a fifth that we did remove because it was more or less it caused more issues than it did. So, like I said, this is still ever ever changing. Um otherwise we did present this to the public works environment and transportation commission uh at their January 27th meeting and they recommended adoption. So with that I'll open up to questions. Otherwise staff would recommend uh council adopt the revised snow and ice control policy uh in the packet. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Fryheimer. Other questions from the council? I did have one suggestion which I'm not going to make a contingency of approving the policy update but my suggestion is on the map that shows all the routes and the jurisdictions it might make sense to put a heading above the state and county designations down in the key that says not plowed by the city or something to that effect. >> Uh that is we will we can do that. That's a good that's a good suggestion. clarify that because otherwise you one might look at the map and say, "Oh, those are the county roads that the city plows or something like that and it helps to be extra clear in those things." >> Yep. >> So, that's great by way of a suggestion. >> Uh any other questions from or comments from council members? >> Right. We will open it up if there's anyone from the public who wishes to speak to this uh I guess I would say updated uh uh policy or rearranged policy, improved policy. All right. Seeing no one, uh, we have the request before us to approve, uh, the updated policy as, uh, presented. >> So moved. Second. >> All right. It's been moved by Council Member Strong. Second by Council Member Schroeder. Uh, discussion on the motion. Council member Stron is the maker. >> I appreciate the intentional um, review and always when it's uh, shorter and easier to read and there's some various policies we've seen that have a lot of extra words in them. So, I appreciate the attention to that and I appreciate the mayor's comments to make. Um, there's a long discussion on Facebook, some community group about how terrible the intersection of, you know, some two county roads is, and I think it's always good for people to realize how many county roads we have within our city limits. >> As the second, Council Member Schroeder. >> All right. Other discussion on the motion? >> Um, council member Grath, >> just a comment. I I think it's really important. I'm glad you're doing this. I didn't realize it was 12 years because because um well for one one simplifying is always important but there's no reason to have all that extra verbiage in there but also it reviews for us and the public what the policies are because people will ask you on the street when you don't have it in your in your uh right right at the tip of your tongue about what it is and this helps us to explain that more carefully. Thanks. Other discussion hearing? None. We've got the motion before us to approve the updated uh uh snow and ice control policy uh for streets and parking lots. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> I. Opposed. That passes unanimously. That policy update is approved. Uh that rolls us then into our second sort of public works item this evening or maybe third in a sense related to the um uh public utilities in our first hearing. Uh this is uh to consider adopting an ordinance that amends some of the requirements of our noise uh control ordinance otherwise known as chapter 404 or a portion of chapter 404 in the city code. Uh and once again uh Mr. Fryhammer is here to bring this item before the council. >> Uh thank you mayor and councel. Um so um we did see where my so the last time we um brought the noise ordinance was back in 2018. Um we did at that time add some exemptions to the policy for some city-led projects. Um basically give us some flexibility so we didn't have to do an overall um uh public hearing and variance process. So one of the pro so throughout the years we typically bring one or two of these to council a year um for larger projects. I think the most recent one was a Ramsey County project for some night work that they wanted to do for paving. Um so overall staff has looked at other city ordinances from neighboring cities. Most of them have uh more of a staff level exemption or administrative process to do some shorter term ones uh where you don't have to do a public hearing to give more flexibility. Uh one of the issues like when Ramsey County wants to do it is they come at us at the last minute even though we told them at the pre-construction meeting there's this long process and it really can cause some some delay issues. Um certainly we don't want to impact the public negatively and we want to provide some of that comment but sometimes um you know there is an overall public benefit to do that and then sometimes when these uh noise variances are requested sometimes the council's kind of handcuffed because it's the only way to build the project is to do it at night or it's a 24-hour process. So it does put council also in a tough position. So staff was proposing to add some additional exemptions just for public agency projects. Uh we don't want to make this open up for private construction, but if Ramsey County, for example, or uh the Metropolitan Council, if they had a really short-term project, um so staff's proposal was to limit it to a maximum of 3 days and there was an overall public benefit um to some degree that staff would be able to make that exemption similar to how we do city projects currently. Um so that's kind of the the the the overall proposed changes. We also did cl there's one clarification on the um currently we had 350 ft. Most of our other um for notification requirements most of the other notifications are 500 ft through the city. So we did update that that further. I think we've traditionally been doing 500 ft but we did update that in the ordinance as well. Um the other um uh lost my train of thought there. Um, oh, and then related to that, um, as I mentioned, we did we did include in the packet some examples of kind of a, uh, what the council, you know, how the staff would kind of look at this just to give some clarification. So, if the ordinance was passed, um, staff would allow nightwork for the revised ordinance. Um, we do, we would still require the 7-day notification. So residents still do get notified uh like on city policy on the city exemption the one currently there's still a 7-day notification that hey there there's going to be night work happening 14 days from now um if we can get it out earlier but it just prevents having to have a public hearing where we send out 500 notices and then we might get two or three people to show up to that. So for example Ramsey County wants to perform night work to pave an intersection near Fairview and county would be to minimize traffic impacts if it's just for one night that would be something staff would allow based on the new ordinance. Um, same thing. Uh, Metropolitan Council wants to perform night work for one night to rehab a manhole at the North M on North McCarron since the work will take uh 24 hours to complete. This is kind of an example where if we did this through the variance process, it's a 24-hour thing. You guys are kind of obligated to to some degree to allow it. Otherwise, you're going to put undue costs to Met Council. So, if residents say, "I don't want to do it." It does put you guys in a little bit of a bind. So, this gives a little bit um little easier to provide an exemption to the council. Um and we the staff can certainly explain it's going to be a one-day impact. Um but there are going to be requests we get that we certainly uh would still want to do a public hearing and a variance process. So, for example, Ramsey County wants to do night work on County Road C potentially for next year's project um between Lexington Avenue and Rice, but that would be over two weeks since it's over to the 3-day thing. We would want to bring that to council through the current process that we have. Um, and then the the second example was Acme Construction wants to extend work over the weekend from 6:00 to 10 uh to expedite their building process. But since that's a a a non-public agency, we'd say, "Hey, you have to apply through the variance process to get that exemption." So, just kind of wanted to um um give you guys some examples of how staff would look at that. Certainly, if the uh we had a proposal from a public agency, but there was minimal benefit to the public, we' we'd still bring that to you guys. So with that, um we did present this to the public works commission in um uh in at their January meeting, they recommended adoption of the revised ordinance. So with that, um staff would recommend adoption of the ordinance and then we did include a resolution for a summary ordinance as well. >> All right. Thank you and thanks for pointing out that summary. We don't want to miss that action. Um, are there questions from the council on the proposed changes to the uh, noise ordinance to provide for some ability of staff to grant exemptions in certain circumstances? >> I did want to just clarify, does staff um, would there be cases where staff might still uh, perhaps put some sort of conditions or requirements uh, as part of the granting of the exemption as it relates specifically to a project? Uh, maybe try to limit it to a certain portion of the overnight hours or things like that. Yeah. Yeah, certainly. Um, you know, a lot of cases like when we've been working with Ramsey County, we've, you know, they're just a lot of times extending the paving to be, you know, they just know it's going to go a little bit later, but we could either have them specifically start if it's only like four hours. We're not going to have them doing that in the middle of the night. It might be extend the work hours past 9:00 to get done by midnight, or they want to start two hours early. But yeah, we're not going to say go pave between 2 am and 6 a.m. when they could do it, right? Just going a couple hours past. Okay. So, I think that's an important ability the staff has to to tweak to the specific situations. And then the other thing was I was thinking about how when we had uh we instituted our um special event permission policy. Uh one of the things that has been nice is when there are those special events that are permitted by the city, we do get a notification from staff like that that's coming up. And so if uh I suppose as part of your notice to the public in the surrounding area, you'd include the the council as part of that. >> Correct. That that's actually in the ordinance that got the council at the the residents are notified as well as the council and the city manager. >> Perfect. >> Seven days ahead of the work. >> I'm I'm embarrassed to say I missed that in the All right. Other questions from the council? All right. Uh, is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak to this particular proposed ordinance amendment allowing for some specific uh short-term exemptions for public agencies and our noise ordinance? Does not appear to be the case. Uh, we'll go ahead and close the opportunity for public comment. Is there a motion from the council related to the ordinance? >> So moved. >> Second. >> It's been moved by council member Schroer, second by council member Grath to adopt the ordinance amending uh chapter 404 uh specific to our noise uh control requirements. uh discussion on the motion as the maker of the motion. Uh council member Sharter, >> it's pretty straightforward. >> All right, Council Member Graph is the secondary. >> Uh most of the time people want the work done as quickly as it can be done and have them out of there. So I think if you need to extend it a little bit, it's a good policy to have. Thanks. >> Right. Other discussion on the motion hearing none. All those in favor of adopting the ordinance uh signify by saying I >> opposed. That passes unanimously. We also then uh have the request to approve publishing a summary of the ordinance. >> So moved. >> Second. >> It's been moved by council member Stron, seconded by council member Bower uh to approve the resolution authorizing a publication of a summary of the ordinance. Uh discussion on that motion hearing none. I would note that does require a supermaajority uh which in the case of five member council is a four-fifths vote. Uh all those in favor of uh authorizing publication of the uh summary signify by saying I. I opposed. >> That passes unanimously meeting the supermajority requirement. Uh that concludes that item. Thank you uh Mr. Fryhammer and thanks once again to the public works environment transportation commission for their input on both of those items. That then brings us to item 7D uh which is to consider appointments to uh the equity inclusion commission, the finance commission, uh the planning commission and the public works environment and transportation commission. Uh we have uh one vacancy for a partial term on the EIC. We have three vacancies for full terms on the finance commission, two vacancies for full terms on planning, uh and one vacancy for a full term on public works, environment, and transportation. Um, I don't necessarily have a particular order in which to consider these. We do have them listed alphabetically on the tally sheet. Uh, council thoughts or motions. >> I'd make a motion to talk about the easy ones. the ones I'd like u make a motion to um nominate Naran Dal to equity and inclusion to nominate Martin Jeffers Matthew Kaney and Kyle Randolph to finance and Luke Sandstrom to Pew. >> All right. And that's not only to nominate but also to appoint. Correct. >> Correct. >> Yes. Okay. Sorry. Sorry to picnit. Picnic. >> I'll second that motion. >> So, it's been moved by Council Member Strong, seconded by Council Member Grath, uh, to make those appointments to the Equity Inclusion Commission, the Finance Commission, uh, and the Public Works, Environment, and Transportation Commission. uh discussion on that motion as the maker. Council member Strong, >> we were fortunate to have a lot of really solid candidates and um I think they will all be great contributions to their respective committees commissions. >> All right. As the second uh council member Grath, >> yeah, this was not this was quite involved. It took a lot of thinking because there were so many great applications and so many different skill sets to sort through. So, um, as the mayor always says, don't let this stop you from applying again. And, uh, of course, volunteer for other things if you don't get selected this time, but I think it's a good good slate. All right. Other discussion on the motion? And I was just uh tallying here. Um, in each case, one, two, three. Yeah. And all three of these commissions, uh, you know, council members sort of designated or or included in their choices four of the applicants, uh, not just the one or the two that we're appointing here. And so I think that's that helps, uh, indicate the the quality of the candidates as well. Um, and you know, in the case of some of these commissions, I mean, we only had one vacancy and we had, you know, over a dozen applicants, and sometimes that really makes it hard to narrow things down as as council member Gra said. Uh, so, um, you know, we appreciate that the public makes it hard for us to make these decisions by coming forward and be willing being willing to serve. And we certainly, uh, would encourage anybody who's not appointed in this round, as Council Member Grath also said, to um, reapply. We do do oftentimes a round of appointments in the fall and certainly each spring is our main uh opportunity for that. Uh with that uh is there any other discussion on the motion to make those appointments to those three commissions? Uh hearing no other discussion. All those in favor signify by saying I opposed. >> That passes unanimously. And that leaves us then the planning commission. And I'd like to re I'd like to nominate or u make a motion to appoint um >> Rose Lindsay and Ben Schaefer. >> Um and in selecting um the second candidate, there is a there was a tie between some candidates, but in making the choice between them, u Mr. Schaefer lives near the um the uh proposed maintenance facility in the neighborhood we've had a lot of interaction with um and didn't have as many potential restrictions on um family and involvement and so um all things being equal that's where I that's why I chose that um Miss Lindsay um had many had a lot of um widespread support so um that is why I I'm going in that direction. >> Is there a second for that motion? >> I'll second it. >> It's been moved by Council Member Strong, seconded by Council Member Grath to appoint uh Lindsay and Schaefer to the planning commission. Uh discussion on that motion. Uh as the maker, additional discussion? >> I don't think anything further. Again, we were blessed with a lot of really great candidates and in a usual cycle where we we don't have so many wonderful people to choose from. So again, anyone out there should should give it another try any other time. We just happen to have a lot of public engagement right now. >> All right. Other discussion? Oh, as the second, Council Member Grath. >> No. >> Okay. Other discussion on the motion. >> All right. Hearing none. Uh we have the motion before us to appoint uh Schaefer and Lindsay to the planning commission for two uh vacancies for full terms. Uh if there's no further discussion, all those in favor signify by saying I. I opposed. That passes unanimously. those appointments are made as well and congratulations to all the folks that are appointed. Uh and uh we look forward to those folks contributing uh to uh decision-m in the city for the next uh two to three years depending on the length of the term they've been appointed to. Uh and thanks again to everybody else who applied in the process. And once again, as we've said any number of times now, we we always encourage people to try again. I know I took two tries to get on the planning commission, took four tries to get on the council, but that's a whole other story. Um, so it it sometimes you have to be persistent. Uh, if there's nothing else under business items, then I think the next item would be to look at our consent agenda. Uh, Mr. Trean, looks like you're all ready to do that. >> Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Relatively short a uh consent agenda item items on the docket tonight. Item 10 A approves payments in the amount of $457,7146. Agenda item 10B approves the purchase of replacement printers for our police squads, carpet tiles for the hallway outside the banquet center, the Roseville skating center, playground equipment at Autumn Grove, Applewood, and Sand Castle Parks, and equipment to dispense EMS supplies at the fire department. Item 10 C approves entering into a cooperative agreement Ramsey County for the Fairview Avenue project that will resurface the road, made uh make sidewalk improvements in the corridor, and replace traffic signals at County Road B and Glick Lane. The city's $222,000 share for the project will be paid by using municipal state aid funds. And finally, item 10D approves a resolution entering into a licensing agreement with Ramsey County to place a wayf finding sign at the corner of Hamlin and County Road B the Ramsey County Library. And that is the consent agenda. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Tre. Is there a motion on the consent items? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Moved by Council Member Gra. Seconded by Council Excuse me. Is that right? Council member Graph. You moved it. Seconded by Council Member Strong. Okay. Just want to make sure I heard that right. Uh discussion on that motion. >> I'm just glad to see that we're getting item 10D with the wayfinding sign, wayfinding sign up finally because that's been a long process at the visit Roseville board and with the city. >> I think that is the one remaining sign if I'm not mistaken at least in this round. >> I think so. I I'd have to double check on that. >> At least we're making progress. >> All right. Um, I did also uh want to note um that let's see what was the Nope. I don't think there was anything I had on this one. Never mind. >> Never mind. >> Never mind. >> All right. With that, we have the motion before us. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I opposed. >> That passes unanimously and those items are approved. It'll come to me eventually. All right. That then brings us to future agenda review. Once again, Mr. Treasure. >> So, uh, no meeting next Monday. Typically, we have second, third, fourth, but because of, um, spring break in those school districts at least, um, >> I think Mountains View >> in >> Mountains View as well. Um, so meeting tonight. So, our next meeting is the 16th. Now, I would mention the EDA meeting um, is still iffy if we're going to have the agenda items ready. Um, we are working diligently to get that eviction and foreclosure prevention program back to you guys. uh we're working through um this the use of the LAA funds in particular with that program especially my understanding with administration administrative costs and how that's covered but also working with the agency we identified CE and trying to get that worked out and so it's taking a little bit longer than we want but we know the urgency so we're going to do everything we can if for some reason we can't do it on the 16th we're going to try to get it turned around as quickly as possible after that so stay tuned on that I think the uh agreement with the um Ramsey County for the grant funds for the high development the pic property uh should be ready to go. We're also working in the background a development agreement that may or may not be ready. So that that could be an issue. So we might have agenda items, we might not. But I'm just telling you right now um that that is still up in the air a little bit as we speak today, but we will have a regular council meeting, more of a work session. We'll have do I'm sorry right in front of me, Liz Moak, the CEO and president of Visit Roseville. uh she's been in the position for about a year just to kind of give uh an update on all their work uh that they're doing and their plans uh moving forward here. We also want to discuss broad uh broadband f uh franchising. Uh that's something we talked a little bit about in the legislative parties, but we have Michael Bradley who's the attorney from 9 north who's been very involved in broadband uh franchising come and speak to us about it to learn a little bit more. And um uh from that discussion there might be an ask to support N North uh in their efforts in trying to work on a franchise with some some groups here. So but this will be the initial conversation. We want to talk about the 2027 budget calendar. Um and we do have some things that might be slightly different from in the past including one interaction with the council very early um this spring here about some budget drivers and talk about strategic plan. just kind of a weigh in and information sharing some back and forth on that before we get too deep into the budget process. Then we'll also u receive the report on the preliminary preliminarily preliminary cash reserve level uh that uh finance department will prepare. So not a lot of items but some good good topics for sure. Uh March 23rd is a regular meeting. Uh we do have u some land use items regarding the state patrol headquarters that are going through I think on this Wednesday. The planning commission is taking those up. Uh we also want to talk about the hotel licenses, the 2026 2027 hotel licenses. We'll have them all on the agenda. Uh we have been very uh pleased uh for the most part going out there. Uh hotels uh have been working with us and it's been much quicker this year and much more efficient. So we'll have a full report. We're doing the follow-up u inspections here this week here, but we think we should be in relatively good shape. So we'll bring those forward on the 23rd and you can see the meetings in April and May. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Trean. Questions on the future agenda? Council member strong. >> I have two questions. One, we uh there's probably going to be a commission orientation on subpoint and a ethics in there sometime. >> Yeah. In April, it's usually the second or third week in April. I don't have the date in front of me. April 12th, 13th, 14th. It's that Wednesday. Okay. >> And do we know if any hotels that didn't pass inspection last year might be a um able to be considered again? >> They can certainly be considered, but they did not apply. >> Okay. Thanks. >> So, >> and there is ongoing litigation as well. Ongoing litigation. >> Yes. >> All right. Council Ber, >> regarding the EDA meeting, are do you have an idea of when we' be picking up talking about the use of LAA funds? I know when we discussed it on the last one, we left that as a future discussion. >> Yeah. Um, not exactly, Council Member Bower. I we have some internal teams that want to work on us cross departmental teams um to bring in uh police in particular but other departments as far as how we can use that and bridge some some needs in our community. So I think that's a pretty high priority for us. So we're going to get that going here. So um probably the next couple months I would guess. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Other questions on the future agenda? >> I did want to just clarify that you had mentioned that there might or might not be a development agreement on the EDA on the 16th. Is that also for the hide? >> I'm sorry. Yeah, that's for the high development pick property. >> Got it. Okay. Um and then the 16th for the council meeting. Are you thinking about that being a sort of a work session format down at the table as opposed to >> I think and we can certainly do the EDA meeting items in that fashion as well, I would think. >> Okay. All right. Are there any council member initiated items for future meetings or announcements or communications? Council member Sharter. >> Yes. Just wanted to mention that um council member Bower and I will be going down to the um capitol on the 12th. Is it >> I believe so. >> So um where we're going to be talking to some of our representatives. So if there's anybody that has um other than what we have in our priority um our list that we already put together. Obviously that's what we'll be talking about, but if there's anything people would like to add or talk about with that, please let us know. >> All right. Very good. other uh communications uh or announcements or council member initiated future items. Council member Gra, >> the uh Northeast Youth and Family Services has uh determined their date for their annual leadership lunchon and it will be May 6th at 11:30 until 1 at the Vadness Heights Community Center and I will be sending that all out to you probably in the next week or so. Uh they are looking for table captains. So, if any of you would be willing to step up, I think you need to have six other attendees at the table with you. And of course, you know, there's no charge, but there is an ask. So, >> of course, >> that's how it's sponsored. >> Please let us uh send it out. Make sure we all get the the detail. >> All right. Uh and I would note also that the Rice and Larator Alliance is having their annual gathering uh at the Community School of Excellence on this uh Thursday the 5th at 5:30 p.m. Uh and so that should be a pretty exciting event to find out what's been going on in that area in the last year and what the plans are for the coming year as well. So look forward to seeing people there. Uh if there's nothing else on the agenda, the only other item we have is adjournment. >> Second. >> One of those pick which one. >> Council member Grath moved. Council member Stron seconded. How's that? To adjourn. Uh there's no discussion on a motion to adjurnn. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed. >> That motion passes and we are journed at 6:45 p.m. Thank you everyone. >> That was very Thank you all.