This transcript appears to be from a **Farmington City Council** meeting dated October 6, 2025. **Note on Speaker Identification:** While your provided list for 2026 shows Nick Lien as Mayor, this October 2025 transcript identifies him as a Councilmember and **Joshua Hoyt** as the Mayor. It appears the transition to Mayor Lien occurred later (likely during the 2026 vacancy/appointment process mentioned in your notes). I have also identified **Amy Gragg** (City Attorney) and **Laura "Lynn" Gorski** (City Administrator) based on standard municipal roles and the context of the dialogue. *** **[00:00] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** We'll call the regular City Council meeting to order from Monday, October 6, 2025. Would everyone please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. **[00:10] All:** I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, with liberty and justice for all. **[00:25] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Call the roll please. **[00:26] City Clerk Shirley Buecksler:** Councilmember Wilson. **[00:27] Councilmember Steve Wilson:** Here. **[00:28] City Clerk Shirley Buecksler:** Councilmember Cordes. **[00:29] Councilmember Jake Cordes:** Here. **[00:30] City Clerk Shirley Buecksler:** Councilmember Bernatz. **[00:31] Councilmember Holly Bernatz:** Here. **[00:32] City Clerk Shirley Buecksler:** Councilmember Lien. **[00:33] Councilmember Nick Lien:** Here. **[00:34] City Clerk Shirley Buecksler:** Mayor Hoyt. **[00:35] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Here. All right, any changes to the agenda? Amy, Nick, Holly? **[00:38] City Attorney Amy Gragg:** I don't have any. **[00:39] Councilmember Nick Lien:** I don't have any. **[00:40] Councilmember Jake Cordes:** None. **[00:41] Councilmember Holly Bernatz:** No? **[00:42] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Okay, I am going to pull item 7.19 from the consent agenda and move it to item 12.1 under new business. So I would seek a motion to approve the agenda. **[00:50] Councilmember Steve Wilson:** Motion. Oh, excuse me, I'll make a motion to approve the agenda moving 7.19 to 12.1 under new business. **[00:55] Councilmember Holly Bernatz:** Second. **[00:56] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Motion by Steve, second by Holly. All in favor say aye. **[00:58] City Council (All):** Aye. **[01:00] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** All right, we will move down to item six which is our citizen comments. Anyone in attendance wishing to speak please come up and do so at this time. It says reminder: citizen comments is the time for anyone to address the City Council on matters not on the agenda. Those speaking shall state their name and address and limit their comment to five minutes. The Council will not engage in discussion on your topic, but those requiring a response will be responded to by the next City Council meeting. Go ahead. **[01:25] Jeff Schottler:** Council, Mayor, Jeff Schottler. I live at 22420 Calico Court, Farmington. Appreciate the time as always. It is nice that you guys let us continue to speak. Whether it's acted on, at least we get to say our parts. Here to talk about three things: Light, sound, and the lawsuit. We asked a couple times the city about what is the statute? What's going to happen with light around our homes? This is a response from Campbell and Knutson: "From my legal review, there are currently no statutes or administrative rules that apply to exterior lighting on construction sites. As you know, the city of Farmington has adopted an exterior lighting ordinance, but it does not apply specifically to construction activity." That's scary. It is, it's scary. I've asked, I believe you've all seen Meta, I see what you, you know what that does at night. That's scary to homes. This is three times the size with construction period that might last three times as long. Several of you have stated that there's still things to talk about and work out. Those things would put a lot of the concern of residents to ease had they been discussed ahead of time. There's no guarantee this is a bargaining table that I believe you guys will be at with the developer. You have to give them something to get them to turn lights off on homes and to turn them off at night. If anybody has special needs kids or kids with anxiety or stress, light 24/7 for years on end might be an issue to those children. Something to think about. I know you guys can adopt an ordinance and do something about it. I would love to hear about it. I'd love to see something about it. These are serious concerns that we have. These are the biggest two issues that I've talked about the whole time in proximity to the homes is the light and the sound. It's gonna be a long time—three to five years at minimum if they line up purchasers. So that's the first one. That's my big concern is the light. It's going to be a distraction and more than that, it's going to be more than uncomfortable. It's going to cause stress, anxiety and other health issues being pushed to that level for what will seem like forever. Right now it's nice out. It's fall. My daughter's already in bed because she's sick. Her windows open, curtains are open to get some fresh air in there. How long are we not going to be allowed to do that because of a project that wasn't supposed to be put there? It's supposed to be residential. Second thing, sound. We asked similar questions. What's the rules and regulations on sound for this? Under the NAC system established in the administrative rules, properties under construction are included in the NAC-4. NAC-4 includes the following land uses: undeveloped, unused land area, non-commercial forest development, water areas, vacant floor area, and under construction. There are no noise level standards established for NAC-4. There's no standards for that during construction. Things need to be discussed a little bit more. You don't take a job without asking what you're asked to do. You don't purchase a home without looking at it. There's rules that should be set that need to be put and to bargain with those afterwards, what are they going to ask for you? You know, if you say, "Hey, we don't want the light and the sound to wreck the lives of these poor people," what are they going to ask from you? Tax breaks? What are they going to ask? What guarantees can you give us as residents? That's what we're asking. We bought in residential, next to residentially zoned land. There was even a park in that area, a park in open space. That's gone now. I mean, that affected one of your own planning members. He lives directly across it. He was strategic when he bought that land. Park behind him, park in front of him. Gonna be an awesome life. Now he sits up here with you guys. It's important to put some kind of guardrails up for us. And until we see something, it's gonna be just as loud and ugly and dumb sounding as I do when I'm on Facebook or up here every time. It's not gonna end. Something has to change. We have to know it's safe. I'm not gonna be forced out of my home. I'm not gonna leave my home wondering if this is gonna happen. I'll wait till it happens. Lawsuit: you guaranteed that you will prevail. How does one guarantee that on a lawsuit? Is there a way that you guys have to influence the courts? How can you guarantee you'll prevail when it's not up to you anymore? It's not up to me anymore. I wish I could guarantee my wife and my daughter that we're going to win. And a win could just be that there's safety measures put for us. This lawsuit didn't have to happen. You say it's too late to work on it or to make it better now. We waited. There were six, eight, nine months and four different times I stood up here and said, this is going to end up in a lawsuit if we can't get some safety measures. And you're in two lawsuits. You only talked about one of them getting waiting on it being dismissed when you guys talked about it up here. You didn't talk about the one where you have a court date in January. You didn't talk about that you guys are in discovery already. I believe you talk about that you have a court date set for January, but you still haven't done anything. A text: "Hey, we're working on it." I've talked to every person good, bad, indifferent in town. I see the good in people. I see the good in all you. Josh, I spoke with a lady, and I think with the story without me putting her name out there that you'll know. You saved her son's life. She came to you because you're a veteran and you're active in the suicide awareness. She came to you because her son was a veteran and having issues. She's like, regardless of what he ever does, he's my hero. He saved my son's life. That's huge. That's a huge thing to be able for one person to say you saved their life. That's something that gets written down. It gets remembered by it. This is something that'll get remembered too though. Doesn't matter how good you guys are and all the great things you do when you start impacting residents to the point that they sue, to the point that they're afraid. We're afraid. I've never been sued in my life. I've had over 50 men work for me. I ran my own business for 15 years. I've done about $25 million in business. I've never been sued by a worker, by a contractor, by a homeowner. I've never sued a single person. But here I'm involved in one lawsuit with you guys already. And if things aren't changed before ground breaks and we don't have security measures, I'll be involved in my second lawsuit with you guys. I can guarantee that one. I've already talked to the companies that will do this for free. They want to set up instruments at my house right now to measure sound, light, humidity, vibration, and a couple other things. They want to set boxes up at my house to measure what we got this year in case you guys do get to break ground next year. It don't need to be that way. Sit down and have a talk with the residents, the people you're affecting. Maybe you don't feel like you need to work with Casa Rock. You got eight to ten people on the firing line minimum front row in Farmington that are your residents. Some of them are your friends, seriously. We deserve more. You guys deserve more than the way you're getting treated too. I understand that we're getting treated a way and so we're giving that treatment back. You've been advised not to talk. We've been advised not to talk, but I'm here every week talking. Every time I can. I don't know. We need more. It's not too late to work with your residents and give them some sense of that we belong here too, that we're part of Team Farmington because we are. I've been here longer than a lot of you guys have. I am part of Team Farmington. My daughter is and my wife is and my neighbors are and a few of the people out here are too. We're all part of this town. So hopefully something can change. I don't know. Those are big concerns. I'm going to leave these here. I know you guys have them, take a look at them. It's important. It's light and sound, the 2 biggest things that are going to impact us for how long? 3 to 5 years. You know, it's important to us. Thank you. **[07:25] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Thank you. **[07:30] Nate Ryan:** Good evening. Nate Ryan, live here in Farmington. Mayor and Council, thank you for being here tonight. Thank you for listening. I'd just like to talk about just two things. One of the things is, last time I was here, the attorney corrected me and said that we're just in state court right now. We're not in federal court. I don't know if you guys are tracking this, but what Jeff just talked about, the use and enjoyment of your home, is a federal issue. That's where you're headed next. None of the state court stuff. You're going to head to federal court. And if you settle or if we win as people who would likely sue you in federal court, especially for the use and enjoyment of our homes—and they're talking about setting up sensors and all this other stuff—just wait till that federal lawsuit hits. And then if they prevail, if we win, our attorney's fees are covered because we're talking about constitutional issues. So your liability and your insurance is going to be not only eaten up by these lawsuits that are taking place, but will for surely be gone after that, after you get sued in federal court, which is going to happen. I mean, that's foreseeably the next step. What I'd like to talk to you about is... why not, the second thing I'd like to talk to you about is why not think about a moratorium? I've been talking to some of the Dakota County Commissioners. Why don't you think about a moratorium on data centers? Define them, right? So TRAC came in and talked about a hyperscale data center. That is not approved language in our city code. All it says is "data center." Is there a difference? And there is a difference. And I think that you should bring TRAC back up here, by the way, and have them explain to you what the difference is between a hyperscale data center and a regular data center. What goes on in a 750-megawatt data center versus a 5-megawatt data center? Or what's the difference between what they're proposing and a hyperscale data center or a non-hyperscale data center? So that's the industrial side of it there. And I really think that by having a moratorium, that would also give you an opportunity to identify land that would be more suitable for this industrial project. It would also give you an opportunity to look and use Rosemount as a case study and use Meta as a case study. How much water are they actually using? What are the benefits and what are not the benefits? What are the actual tax implications to the city? What do they see as revenues come in? You can take a "pregnant pause." Technology—these things are built to basically run our lives, right? They're machine learning. I'm not going to use the term AI. They're machine learning. They learn our habits, they track you all online. When you get that ad on your favorite social media because you, you know, sat next to someone with a pair of cowboy boots and now you immediately have to talk about them but they recently bought them and you probably noticed them and you see an ad. That's what these things do. That's what these data centers do. They don't just simply house data. They build stuff that impacts our lives. So why not have just a tiny bit of a pregnant pause? Just go for that. Just say, "Hey, we want data centers, but we just want to learn a little bit more about them" instead of just going straight forward. What are the other implementations? Just like item... number 7.20, the staff recommendations and approval, or excuse me, I'm sorry, it was the 7.17. I know we're not supposed to talk about things on the agenda, but that should be pulled and that should be talked about. You're going to spend a million dollars a year hiring firefighters, not only to protect us, but also so that when you have a data center that comes in, you can say, yes, we need these things, right? We need fire to make sure. And why not build up to those things? Why not build up to a full-time fire department rather than just doing it for a year? You don't even know if you have that money coming. You just proposed last meeting a 12.9% increase in city portion property taxes. You just approved that last meeting. You're all going to spend the money and it's not even been completely approved yet. It was just a proposal. And you're approving—it says "job descriptions, wages, and authorization to hire." So you can roll your eyes at me all you want, but it says "authorization to hire." You're already going to spend that money. Why not pause? Why not slow down? Why not define these things? Why not define what is an industrial use? Why not do that? Just take a step back. And in the meantime, it really looks like to your residents, "Hey, we actually are watching out for you." Not just the small few, right? According to some of you, not just the small few who choose to show up here and seemingly waste our time every Monday night, but everyone. Everyone's gonna feel the impacts of this industrial project coming to town. Just because it doesn't look like the Koch Refinery that we go by at 52 North doesn't mean that it's not gonna have similar or could have similar environmental impacts or similar impacts, especially for 10 years of construction. Just because they start on day one, they may not build out all 10 buildings. So, I know I kind of rambled tonight but I'm frustrated and I just want to say just one more thing. I see online—I'm not a member of all the Farmington groups but the ones I am—I see online and I see, you know, people suggesting to bring a noise machine to your house or to, you know, put lights on your house. It's because they want you to understand what it's going to be like. And I see some of you reply like that's a threat. If it's a threat to you, why is it not a threat to these people who are impacted and who will be impacted? We can only afford to light up your house for a couple nights because we have to rent a lot of lights and they cost money. We can only afford to do that for a couple nights. Imagine 10 years of 24/7 constantly lights, noise, dust, glare, construction, and you're all like, "Oh, you're going to light up my house for a couple nights and that's a threat to me." You can't take it for a couple nights? You're gonna take it as a threat? You're telling these people you're gonna do it to them. You're gonna do it to me. I live a block away. You're gonna do it to us. You're gonna light up our backyard. Towering buildings. Trees that we look at at the golf course right now are 32 feet tall. You're gonna have another 18 feet on top of that for a 50-foot building, and you're gonna have an 80-foot building, whatever the math is there, another 28 feet, 38 feet, whatever that is. That's... that's the threat. Here's you threatening us over revenue that you've already spent—that million dollars, that 1.5 million that you're going to get from this in steady revenue. You've already spent it on a fire department. You've already also spent it on a water tower. You've also spent it on infrastructure going in. There's the revenue benefits just not there. Yes, if you get the Bango project and this one, that'd be great. But it's been eerily quiet about the Bango project. Something that you could update everyone with is where's that at? Why are we—where's that? Thank you for your time. **[11:55] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Thank you. Anyone else wishing to speak come up at this time. **[12:00] Lenny Hall:** Good evening mayor council. Thank you. I just want to take a minute of your time, I won't be long at all. All I have is... I'm sorry, Lenny Hall, 714 8th Street. I just have a request that I would like you people to think about when you get a chance. I was approached earlier today by one of our officers and I did not realize it, but the UTV, golf cart, ATV topic—they are not legal in city limits. I would like you people, if you could, if you could just take some time to think about that, what would be wrong with legalizing them? Within the city limits there are uses for these things such as my UTV. I do snow plowing with that in the winter according to the way that the conversation went with the officers. I wouldn't even be able to move it out of my yard to remove snow in the winter. And these vehicles are... I do not believe they cause any hazard of any type to anyone in the community. Permits could be required if needed. I know there's communities around us are allowing this. Prior Lake, for example, they offer this. It's a free to the community. Empire, for example, they have a golf cart—it's a $20 fee for a permit. It could be a way for the city to raise a few bucks. It's not going to be substantial. But I think this could keep a lot of the riffraff that we're running across on the roads that are causing traffic problems, that are causing hazardous problems to people in walking paths... or anyway, even on the roadways. Just with a permit, I don't see any problem with this. I would just like you folks to think about that a little bit. If it's at all possible. If you would like any assistance or any information from me, I'm sure somehow somebody knows how to get a hold of me. I'm more than happy to help in any way to make this possible for the residents of Farmington. So thank you for your time. I appreciate it. **[13:55] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Thank you. Anyone else wishing to speak? All right, seeing none, we'll move on to item seven, which is our consent agenda. I would seek a motion to approve the consent agenda as amended. **[14:05] Councilmember Steve Wilson:** Motion to approve. **[14:06] Councilmember Nick Lien:** Second. **[14:07] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Motion by Steve, second by Nick. All in favor say aye. **[14:09] City Council (All):** Aye. **[14:10] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** All right, we'll move on to item 12.1 under new business, which was the previous 7.19 from our consent agenda. And this item is a donation from the Highview Christiania Lutheran Church to the Farmington Police Department K-9 unit. Chief. **[14:25] Police Chief Nate Siem:** Mayor and Council, thank you. A donation in the amount of one thousand dollars is being made by Highview Christiania Lutheran Church to the Farmington Police K-9 unit. The money was from proceeds from Highview Christiania Lutheran Church's annual community corn feed. The donation will be deposited in the city's general fund to support the K-9 program. Those expenses are varied: in food for our K-9s, boarding when our handlers are away, veterinary services—the costs can be pretty high. Staff would like to express their appreciation to Highview Christiania Lutheran Church and Farmington Police Chief Dan Siebenhaller, retired, for the work to raise money for our K-9 program. And we have some members of the church, including Pastor Amy and Chief Siebenhaller here as well, if you'd like to say some words. **[15:15] Dan Siebenhaller:** Sure. Mr. Mayor, members of the council, community at large, it is a pleasure to be back here in Farmington. I am now a resident of your neighbor to the west and a proud member of Highview Christiania Lutheran Church, which is in rural Farmington. The pastor is going to talk about our community outreach program, but you need to know there are a lot of people out there who care about community. Farmington—even if we're not residents—we care about what's happening here. We approve of what you're doing, especially the police department—a little biased—but especially the police department. I'm proud of that unit. And having said that, I'd like to introduce to you Pastor Amy Johnson, resident pastor of Highview Christiania Lutheran Church. **[15:55] Pastor Amy Johnson:** Thank you, Dan. And good evening, Mr. Mayor, city council members and members of the Farmington community. As Dan introduced, my name is Pastor Amy Johnson and I came with a few members from Highview Christiania Lutheran Church here in Farmington. And tonight we are incredibly honored to present a thousand dollar check to the Farmington Police Department's K-9 program in support of the important work that they do in this community. Thank you. This gift, as you had heard, comes from our annual community corn feed that we hold in August. We have a dunk tank where there is a lot of laughter and maybe a little friendly competition that goes on as well too to raise these funds for local organizations such as the K-9 program. I also want to give thanks to Officer Miller and Moose that came and spent the evening with us within the community that evening. It was just wonderful to have everyone collaborate together. One of Highview's missions, many of our missions, is to share our blessings, serve others, and strengthen relationships. In this donation, it reflects our mission and our deep gratitude for the service and dedication to the officers and the K-9 program here in Farmington. **[16:55] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Thank you, ma'am. Any questions for me or the pastor? **[17:00] Councilmember Nick Lien:** No questions. **[17:01] Councilmember Jake Cordes:** No questions. Just a great big thank you. I don't know, Dan. You have the most infectious, like, positive attitude of any person I've ever met. It's, like, hard not to, like, start smiling after you start. Thank you very much to you and your church. I'm sure it's greatly appreciated. **[17:15] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** And I'll echo the same. Longtime servant of the community. Love watching every opportunity that we get where people are giving back in whatever way, shape, or form it looks like. As I did ask chief, I said, we need to pull this because anyone that shows up to do this deserves the time to be heard and be recognized more than just in the consent agenda. So thank you very much for everything you guys have done and we're extremely grateful. Thank you. With that, I would seek a motion to approve the acceptance of 2025 tax 069 accepting the thousand dollar donation from Highview Christiania Lutheran Church. **[17:45] Councilmember Jake Cordes:** Motion. **[17:46] Councilmember Holly Bernatz:** Second. **[17:47] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Motion by Jake, second by Holly. Call the roll please. **[17:50] City Clerk Shirley Buecksler:** Council Member Lien. **[17:51] Councilmember Nick Lien:** Yes. **[17:52] City Clerk Shirley Buecksler:** Council Member Bernatz. **[17:53] Councilmember Holly Bernatz:** Yes. **[17:54] City Clerk Shirley Buecksler:** Council Member Cordes. **[17:55] Councilmember Jake Cordes:** Yes. **[17:56] City Clerk Shirley Buecksler:** Council Member Wilson. **[17:57] Councilmember Steve Wilson:** Yes. **[17:58] City Clerk Shirley Buecksler:** Mayor Hoyt. **[17:59] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Yes. Thank you very much. Next item is our City Council roundtable. Amy? **[18:05] City Attorney Amy Gragg:** Good evening, Mayor, members of the Council. I'll start since I get to go first. Welcome back, Lynn. We're so happy, or I'm very happy that you're back. I'm sure everybody's already had their chance to welcome her back. So if it's okay with the Council, I'll just respond to a couple of the parts of the public comment that I can at this moment just to kind of make sure that it's clear. Mr. Schottler mentioned a memo that I had given to staff about light and sound. If you have more questions about those issues, he accurately recounted the information that I found in my legal research. So if you have more questions about any action you might want to take related to those two items, you can let me know and I can follow up with you. And then he mentioned the lawsuit. I don't know who has guaranteed that the city will prevail, but I can assure you that the attorney—either I as your day-to-day city attorney or your litigation attorney—have not said that because it's just not possible to give that guarantee. Then he also mentioned that there's a court date in January and that in some of my comments from last time I mentioned only one lawsuit. There are in fact two lawsuits. They've been consolidated by the court into one so they're proceeding together. So the court date that's set in January is still on the calendar but given what we talked about last time that the court still has motions under advisement that they haven't been decided yet by the judge. I expect—and I'm not sure what will happen—but I expect that that date that is set in January will be pushed because I think I did mention that we are in discovery in those... in both of the lawsuits running together. But it's been stayed by the court by stipulation of the parties. I know that staff was working on some responses to some written discovery called interrogatories and admissions—production of documents and admissions are the three different types of written discovery that the staff has provided information to the litigation team for. But again, that has been stayed by the court under the stipulation of the attorneys for all of the parties in both lawsuits that are consolidated. You know, he again, Mr. Schottler asked, you know, "sit down and talk with the neighbors." Obviously, you're free to talk to the neighbors as you see fit as their elected representatives. Talking about the lawsuit doesn't really accomplish anything because that's out of all of our control at this point. We're waiting for the judge. Mr. Ryan mentioned the possibility of a moratorium and using the Rosemount Meta site as a case study. A moratorium, also known in the law as an interim ordinance, would not apply to an application that's already been approved, even if it had only been given preliminary approval, much less the final approval that this council has already given to the project. It wouldn't stop the progress of that—even though progress while we're in a holding pattern is kind of an oxymoron, but that's where it stands. The council does have the authority to continue to look at other sites that are suitable for perhaps projects in the future, but a moratorium on the project that's already been approved just isn't legally possible. And I think that's everything, at least from the notes that I took. Whether we're in state court or federal court, use and enjoyment of a person's home is both a state and a federal issue. So, you know, I can't predict what will happen in the future if the city will end up in federal court. And if that happens, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. So unless you have questions for me, that'll be my report for the night. **[20:15] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Thank you for your factual and legal perspective. Thank you. Appreciate that. Maybe Dan was only half the reason that I'm very happy tonight. So I'll come back then. I think you're the other half. Holly? **[20:25] Councilmember Holly Bernatz:** I'm just happy to see that face on the other end. That's all I have. **[20:28] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Jake? **[20:30] Councilmember Jake Cordes:** I do have three quick items. First, I do want to extend thanks to Chief Siebenhaller and Pastor Amy for coming tonight for their donation, and please pass our thanks along to your entire congregation. Second item, the Farmington Rotary Club is hosting the first Brews and Backroads event this Saturday, October 11th. I believe tickets are still available, so if you're interested, please visit the Farmington Rotary website. And finally, Lynn? Welcome back. It's good to see you. **[20:55] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Steve? **[21:00] Councilmember Steve Wilson:** I want to thank Missy, Kelly, and the whole team at the Rambling River Center for the amazing celebration. I was on a client meeting. I missed the bottle breaking, as it were. So I walked in, I'm like, "Oh my gosh, the party's over." But it was so much fun. So thank you for that. And yes, of course, Lynn, I'm very happy to have you back here next to me here. **[21:15] City Administrator Lynn Gorski:** Thank you. It's good to be home. **[21:18] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** So thank you, everybody. David? **[21:20] Assistant City Administrator David Chanski:** Nothing that hasn't already been said. **[21:22] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Chief? **[21:23] Police Chief Nate Siem:** It is entering the second week of our Pink Patch project here at the Police Department. So if you're in the mood, Beans and Boots downtown is selling a pink patch drink to benefit our program and cancer research. And I hear it's really good. **[21:35] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** It's very good. **[21:36] Police Chief Nate Siem:** Check it out. And we'll be down there at Beans and Boots Wednesday morning for a coffee with a cop event. And we'll be selling our items, having conversations. So if you're in the area, please stop down and welcome back. **[21:45] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** John? **[21:46] Public Works Director John Powell:** Thank you, Mayor and Council Members. Welcome back, Lynn. The Public Works Department flushes hydrants twice a year, spring and fall. We've started our fall flushing today. It will run for nine days and the schedule and the areas to be flushed are up on the website. So there's a little red light at the top. If you click on that, you'll be able to see a map of what areas we're flushing which days. It's not unusual during flushing to experience changes in water pressure or discoloration of the water. It happens because we're stirring up the mineral deposits that sit in the pipe by flushing them, and that's the purpose of flushing it out through the hydrants. It's a good idea this time of year when we're flushing to run the water before you do a load of laundry in case we do happen to be flushing your area so you don't get a rust coloration on the clothes and then have to rewash them or soak them. And if there are issues just give Public Works a call. We'll stop out occasionally; we shut a valve and it may have an unintended consequence. Recently we closed a valve near Duchesne and discovered that there was another valve that had been accidentally paved over as part of the work that we also had to operate and there was a temporary outage of water, but it was very short-lived. But please be patient. It's for the good of the system. We do it twice a year and as per our usual practice, we flush the area near the high school during MEA or when there's no classes. So we have no concern about them losing water while we're flushing. Thank you. **[22:55] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Thank you. Kelly? **[23:00] Parks & Rec Representative Kelly Armbruster:** Good evening, Mayor and Council. Saturday is the Rambling River Center's annual breakfast and silent auction. Breakfast will be served from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. and the silent auction ends at 11:00 a.m. So if you're in the area, please stop by for breakfast or to bid on a basket. And it's spooky season—Halloween Havoc Tour. We have 34 houses this year, up from 10 from last year. The tour list of houses will be posted next Monday on the city's website and social media channels and welcome home, Lynn. **[23:35] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** We'll start with Lynn. Welcome back. And to David: thank you for everything you've done the last few months. You've—I mean, not only is the role of the assistant administrator and HR director two roles, right?—you carried it unbelievably well. Everything seemed to run very smooth. The entire leadership team has all stepped up. And now with other positional changes, there's kind of a different load that you'll be taking, but no, sincerely thank you for everything you've done and to the entire senior leadership team for continuing to deliver core services and provide for our residents through this period of absence that has now ended. With that, I'll seek a motion to adjourn. **[24:10] Councilmember Jake Cordes:** Motion to adjourn. **[24:11] Councilmember Steve Wilson:** Second. **[24:12] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** Motion by Jake, second by Steve. All in favor say aye. **[24:14] City Council (All):** Aye. **[24:15] Mayor Joshua Hoyt:** We're adjourned at 7:35.