[0:00] Heather Slechta: Jessica, you ready? 6:00. Ready, staff? Here we go. [0:00] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Ladies and gentlemen, let's call the January 13th, 2026 Faribault City Council meeting to order. First item on tonight's agenda is roll call. [0:18] Heather Slechta: Council member Barnes? [0:18] Mandy Barnes: Here. [0:18] Heather Slechta: Doumbouya? Ross? [0:18] Royal Ross: Here. [0:18] Heather Slechta: Rowan? [0:18] John Rowan: Here. [0:18] Heather Slechta: van Sluis? [0:18] Peter van Sluis: Here. [0:18] Heather Slechta: Thiele? [0:18] Chuck Thiele: Here. [0:18] Heather Slechta: Mayor Spooner? [0:18] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Here. And second is pledge of allegiance. [0:18] Group: 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. [0:47] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: And our second item is approval of the agenda. [0:47] John Rowan: So moved. [0:47] Peter van Sluis: Second. [0:47] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Motion by Rowan, second by van Sluis. All those in favor signify by saying aye. [0:47] Group: Aye. [0:47] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All opposed. Motion is approved. Third item, presentations and introductions. Values and action award winners for quarter one. Jessica Kinser. [1:08] Jessica Kinser: Yes. So, I'm really excited to um reveal our our first uh five honorees for our values in action, which we have invited them to come forward kind of individually to a future city council meeting where we'll tell more of their story. Um for those of you that uh didn't get to participate in the judging, um but I did want to just at least announce who they were now. Um for our value of honesty, the utilities division of the public works department, which includes Mike Glende as superintendent, forepersons Tom Judd and Travis Craig, and water sewer operators Trenton Fritz, Kelly Struck, Brian Glenn, Spencer McDermott, and Nick Nagel. Uh for the value of respect, we will be recognizing Keith Walker, parks superintendent. Under the value of dedicated, we will be recognizing Mike O'Brien, a heavy equipment operator in the street division of public works. Under visionary, Dana Howard, wastewater operator in the under the water reclamation treatment facility um division of public works. And for accountability, Fawn Fuller, an accounting technician in finance. So, um it was this was really fun to do. I hope those of you that uh helped us get to these names found it fun as well, and uh we'll we'll be recognizing these these individuals and departments moving forward into this quarter. [2:29] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Yep. Congratulations and congratulations to all the nominees out there. Uh I thought it was interesting. Very good. So thank you staff. Next item, item number four, approval of the minutes of December 22nd and the special meeting on January 6, 2026. [2:53] Royal Ross: So moved. [2:53] Mandy Barnes: Second. [2:53] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Motion by Ross, second by Barnes. All those in favor say aye. [2:53] Group: Aye. [2:53] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All opposed. The minutes are passed. Request to be heard. We have none. On to consent agenda items. We have consent agenda 6A through 6P tonight. Anything like— [3:11] Chuck Thiele: Yes. Make a motion to approve consent agenda items 6A through 6P. [3:11] Peter van Sluis: Second. [3:26] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Motion by Thiele, second by van Sluis. All those in favor of 6A through 6P signify by saying aye. [3:26] Group: Aye. [3:26] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All opposed. Those items are passed. Public hearings. We have none tonight. Items for discussion. Jailhouse Junction on Highway 60. We have several different things here. Leslie McGiver Rivas will give us tonight's— [4:12] Leslie McGiver Rivas: Thank you, Mayor Spooner, and thank you, honorable council members. Yes, tonight we're bringing to you Jailhouse Junction LLC at 20119 Highway 60. We are looking for a comprehensive plan and zoning map amendment. Oops. Move forward a little bit. So the owner, you'll be familiar with the property for it was currently Rice County. That property is transitioning um through to the applicant in process of Jailhouse Junction LLC. Location you're familiar with is adjacent highway 60. There's quite a bit of visibility of this location on a major thoroughfare along in in Faribault. Um nearby sites that you're familiar with: the high school is to the north and east, the Faribault West Mall is to the south and west, and it's very near the highway 35 interchange. The request before you is to amend the the land use map of the comprehensive plan to change the subject property from institutional to commercial. And the second request is the zoning map amendment to amend the zoning map to change the zoning of the property from the P1 public institutional zoning district to the C3 community commercial zoning district. This map illustrates to you the current land use map. The area which is you can kind of see it outlined in the middle of this map and outlined in yellow. Um you can see it's predominantly surrounded by commercially designated property, a little bit of um industrial to the south and a smattering of um established residential neighborhoods surrounding. The zoning map as well is shown for you here. The predominant uh zoning district of around this property is the C3 zoning district. A little bit of uh again industrial to the south and then some established um residential part um on the outer fringe. So the comp plan is we uh feel it is appropriate to create this designation uh for commercial as it is along a major corridor and served by the nearby interstate. The zoning map itself, the community commercial district is consistent with other properties in the area along Highway 60 and the commercial and uh very simply in summary, we feel that this meets the comprehensive plan and zoning requirements. The recommendations are before you are these: the recommended planning commission recommendation to approve to city council which approves the request um from the property based on criteria and findings in the resolution for the modest amendment here; recommend approval of uh ordinance 2026-01 with approval for the requested changes of the zoning map from P1 to C3 based on the criteria and findings of the ordinance. Apologies for that little glitch, the result is the same. Well, I'm available for questions should you have any. [7:11] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Any questions for staff? [7:11] Royal Ross: Straight forward, Spooner. [7:11] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Yes. [7:27] Royal Ross: Uh I'll make a motion to approve resolution 2026-008. [7:27] Mandy Barnes: Second. [7:27] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: I have a motion by Ross and I believe Barnes was actually just by a little bit ahead of you. So I'm going to give it to her tonight. We have a motion by Ross, seconded by Barnes, approval of resolution 2026-008. All those in favor say aye. [7:47] Group: Aye. [7:47] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All opposed. The resolution passes. On to the ordinance. [7:47] Peter van Sluis: Yes. I make a motion to approve ordinance 2026-01. [7:47] Royal Ross: Second. [7:47] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Motion by van Sluis, second by Ross to approve the zoning amendments. This is a roll call. Heather. [8:11] Heather Slechta: Council Member Barnes? [8:11] Mandy Barnes: Aye. [8:11] Heather Slechta: Ross? [8:11] Royal Ross: Aye. [8:11] Heather Slechta: Rowan? [8:11] John Rowan: Aye. [8:11] Heather Slechta: van Sluis? [8:11] Peter van Sluis: Aye. [8:11] Heather Slechta: Thiele? [8:11] Chuck Thiele: Aye. [8:11] Heather Slechta: Mayor Spooner? [8:11] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Aye. It passes. On to bids. We have none. Boards commission reports, announcements, project updates. Does anybody have anything? The administrator? [8:27] Jessica Kinser: Uh just a reminder, council chat tomorrow night, 6:00 pm, Viaduct Park. Um we're again trying something new with the community partner of Community Action Center and trying to get some additional feedback on some different themes related to housing environment and employment in the community that they've kind of already gotten some some feedback on and they're just looking for more. So it'll be a little bit of a different format than we've had before. Um, and we'll we'll be partnering with Becky Ford from Community Action Center tomorrow. [8:53] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Yep. Sounds good. [8:53] Mandy Barnes: Motion to adjourn. [8:53] Chuck Thiele: Second. [8:53] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Motion by Barnes, seconded by Thiele to adjourn. All those in favor signify by saying aye. [9:12] Group: Aye. [9:12] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All opposed. Motion passes. We are adjourned.