stand also. Roll call, please. Council member Nordby here. Council member Woods here. Council member McKenzie here. Council member Schwar's absent. Mayor Mongi here. Thank you very much. Motion to adopt the agenda, please. So move. So move. Council member Woods. Second. Second. Council member McKenzie. All those in favor say I. I. I. Thank you very much. Consent agenda. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, item A, June 17th, 2025 workshop and city council minutes. Item B, general claims of 912,732.97. [Music] Item C, H claims of $10,72566. And item D, ISD 622, school resource officer for the contract of 2025 to 2027. Hold on. Sorry. Looking for a motion. Yep. Anybody want to pull anything at this time? If not, can I get a motion, please? So moved. So moved. Council member Norby. Second. Second. Council member Woods. All those in favor say I. I. I. Thank you. Open to the public. You have one. Rachel. Catch you mid drink. Welcome. Say your name and address, please. My name and address. Yeah. Rachel Lucas, 222217. Perfect. Welcome. Hi. Um, if you guys have any questions about the parks and wreck CIP proposals, I'm a park and rec commission board member, so I might be speaking later, but I figured while I'm here, I might as well say some things. Um, I know the website got updated recently, but I think it would be beneficial if we could add meeting like bullet point summaries for both city council, parks and recck, arts and culture, the other ones. Um, in addition to kind of a one-stop shop of what has the board accomplished, what are they currently working on? Because I feel like me personally when I was trying to get up to date on parks and wreck, it wasn't very easy to go to the meetings or the the minutes and then the meetings are like an hour, two hours. So I don't think that's very attainable for the average citizen to put in all this time and effort to review everything to know what's happening. So an easier, more streamlined way to communicate what we're talking about. Um similarly, I know I think it was on the last website. I don't know if it was on the updated website where a list of all the city projects. So, um updating the website or the roadwork construction by Casey Lake, um what the boards are doing, events, um if there could be like a a list of what all the current projects that are being worked on, and then you can click like update me on this, update me on this. There can be a little like bullet point under each where it says this is the current step we're on, here's the next step, here's what we're working on. So, just making it easier for everyday folk to kind of keep tabs on what's happening. Um, and then I think lastly, I'm very excited that you guys are looking into updating the community center. I think third spaces are very valuable for communities to engage with with each other and build a sense of community. So, I'm very excited to see you guys interested in making sure it's valuable, how people will use it and stuff like that. So, I'm excited to see what you guys do with it. All right, that's it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Right. Thank you. All right. All right. City business action items. Um, first item A and B. Okay, I'm going to turn over to our finance director Dan Winnick. First one up is the approval of addition 2025 park and recck capital improvement project and item B approving agreement with Paycom for human resource payroll systems and payroll services. Mayor, council members, um I haven't spoke enough today, so I thought I'd do a little bit more. Um but uh yes, this this first um item that's before you is to approve additional 2025 park and recreation capital improvement projects. Um truthfully um there were no 2025 um capital improvement projects for the park and recreation um that were submitted. I think part of it was due to HGA was doing their study and and they were waiting for the the final on to that. um staff was approached by um the park and wreck commission um if there was a opportunity that they could um bring in some projects for 2025. Um, so I I spoke with uh the the city manager and we kind of laid out kind of a process for them to follow and the process was that put in requests just like everybody else does. Um, and also make sure you have requests that are in the 26 to 35 um that will be approved later on by city council as through the discussion. And so they I I had met with them um and kind of walked through the the process part to it. Um I have to say they did an absolutely amazing job. Um they put together very good uh requests. Um we had a subcommittee that was made up of community development staff, our city manager, park and wreck, uh or I mean our public works department. We reviewed each one of those requests. Uh we made recommendations last Wednesday night. um uh Ron uh Richie, our public works director and myself attended the uh park and wreck commission um over at the beautiful Housy Park um and that's an amazing um uh park um city block and we met with the park and um park and wreck commission and went through um and had a very nice dialogue of why we recommended some things, why we decided to push them out to other years and so forth. Um, absolutely great dialogue. Um, very good communication. Um, a little disappointed uh that council member Schwar is not here tonight because she does chair that and she was very supportive of of these items and I would like to have had the opportunity for her to to say a few pieces. At the end of the day, what what we had agreed on um bringing forth um was for city council's consideration was there's uh Casey Lake open air shelter um for $10,000 of funding this year. um and is really um to um I think remove um there's two older um shelters that are there that are in in in bad shape. Um and then there's there is funding in the 2026 to rebuild one. Further discussion needs to take place with the park commission on location and so forth and if they desire to do that. Um there was one on the Casey Lake reutilization update for $100,000. It's basically um that uh you know we demolish the ball fields on three and four um open have some more open space um in 26 add some soccer nets and so forth to make the make it a little bit more usable. Um originally it was the housy park um 2025 improvement for $2,000 to add a gaga um ball pit. Um there would need to be some ADA um compliance components to it added um to HZY Park. Um but there was also a request for the Gaga Pit and two other um parks. So we've um changed it to be we'll go with the Northwood Park um with a with a Gaga pit um is the recommendation. And then Polar Park Playground um to put in some additional um a lot of the old equipment, a lot of the equipment is old is to put in some new equipment. That's at about $63,000. And then to look at the urban ecology center uh nature plane and seating um for about 2,000. And there's still some more discussion um on that one that'll take place to make sure that we're not in DNR space um and that um you know it really does have an enhancement for that area. But again, the conversation with uh the parking w commission was absolutely fantastic. Um very good communication all the way around. And so at the end of the day, um staff is is um a park and wreck last Wednesday uh unanim unanimously supported moving forward with this. Um and so we're taking it forward to city council to see if we can get approval. What it means is that um these five projects um totaling just on under $177,000 would be funded from the park fund. Um and it would require uh there's resolution to that effect um for city council to consider um moving forward with that so we could start to do that and get them most of them all completed this year in 2025 still stand for any questions. We've got Ron that can answer some questions and then uh we also have a representative from the park and rec commission. I have a tour. Would Ron be able to take me around so I can see what we're doing, what the projects are. It's the first I've heard of anything, Ron. Sure. I'll ride in the back if you want. In the back. It is. Okay. Any other um uh my question is for Jack. Um, have have you had time to review this and do you believe that this expenditure is in line and um correct with uh the ADA requirements for the city for updates to parks? Um, uh, I don't know that I've looked at this one specifically. uh for ADA requirements. Um that is enough of a a technical area that I I usually defer to um you know the the the more technical design staff on that one. Um this doesn't raise my eyebrow in terms of um the amount that we're putting into it. Okay. Doesn't have to be a certain amount of work done before that kicks in for ADA stuff. Is that this more falls under Morgan along that if they excuse me, but if they have to if they're looking to remove a couple ball fields, will they need new 88 pathways back to the uh soccer fields or anything? Go ahead. What was the question, Council Member McKenzie? um with the proposal of maybe moving a couple ball fields away from Mcnite Fields or um Casey Lake Fields, um would they need new type of access for our ADA accessibility for wheelchairs andor kids with walkers, things like that? Yeah, the the answer is potentially and and I would say probably it's something that should be planned for um again from a a planning standpoint when you're planning parks improvements. Um my experience and the advice that I've always gotten from uh registered landscape architects that uh with expertise in you know park planning and parks improvements is that um if you improve a portion of a park a public park um you should strive to make that improvement accessible u to all populations right so not just u uh non-disabled populations but also including disabled populations and that goes back to the Americans with Disabilities Act, which is federal law since 1994 or something like that, right? So, it applies to everybody. Um, and sometimes the requirements are more stringent. Um, as we saw with the pickle ball project, uh, pickle ball court improvement project recently that was funded by, uh, DN DNR outdoor recreation grants. And so there was an expectation if those funds were going to be used by the city that there would be more accessibility improvements made. So, you know, we tied in um the playground equipment in addition to the pickle ball courts and also the um the pavilion or the shelter there as well too. So, um, again, backing up to kind of just high level guidance if you're going to provide some improvements, you know, which could be moving a field or could be building a shelter or it could be building a gaga ball court or pit or whatever. Again, the the uh what should be planned for and strived for by the by the city, by the local community is to be able to improve it such that all populations can use it. Um there is some nuance to that meaning if there were like five Gaga ball courts throughout the city um you know some of them as long as like at least one of them is made accessible uh to disabled folks there may be some acceptance of that as opposed to having every single one but each park and each amenity needs to be looked at individually because they tie into one another and so uh like in housing you don't want to isolate uh handicap population from you know you can get to the pickle ball court but not the shelter right that's maybe not necessarily what the city would want to plan for I mean but there are real budget constraints as you are all kind of talking about right now so anyway that's what I can offer at a high level is it should be planned for and you should expect some level of ADA improvements um certainly before 1994 we were not contemplating these things but it is pretty much the standard these days So, Morgan, I I I'm going to put you on the spot here a little bit. Okay. If you were in my seat, would you vote to approve this or would you vote to table it and ask for review by someone such as yourself to to make sure that these improvements are in compliance? Well, that is a highly hypothetical question, Council Member Norvy, and I certainly can't uh presuppose to be an elected official and making those decisions, right? So, but from a staff standpoint, um I did at a high level review at least the gaga ball concept, not the plan necessarily, but with Ron and public works. So, we did talk about that and I know that he I don't know the numbers in front of you, but my understanding is that he understood a need to make some connections there so that it would be accessible and and looking at least at the housy park location, it seems relatively straightforward and simple. you know, it's as simple as u some hard surface connection, whether that's asphalt or concrete. So, not extremely expensive, but um something that should be relatively easy to do even by public works, you know, no need to necessarily hire a contractor. Public works could certainly do these things. So, um I can't make the recommendation to you to approve like to answer your question, should I vote for this? But um with the information that I have and the conversation that the public works director and myself had, it seems like it's a reasonable thing to include certainly knowing that the standard is we need to plan for improvements that are available to all populations, you know, not just some. So I think that as long as those expenditures fit within the budget and you know again finance has looked at those things um I wouldn't have a a reason for you to you know hit pause unless that's something that staff is recommending. I think staff is bringing this to you in a fashion that you know um should be certainly um ready for consideration from your guys' standpoint. We weighing all of the options in terms of expenditures and what are the amenities that the city should choose to install that sort of thing. Thank you. You're welcome. I got one more if I could. Now with our Casey Lake and we're going to do some work down there. Is the Casey Lake playground, has that been brought up to ADA codes for all the kids to be able to get in and out of that playground in along the parking lot there? Is that all under ADA compliance? If if they're going to do the work down there, maybe they want to readress us a little bit and make it more of a ADA program because I've got a disabled daughter in a chair. She couldn't go into that sand pit out there. She gets stuck. Didn't they put down something in that when they redid it for the after that girl that would that died? Casey. Yeah, I thought I thought they did, but I Yeah, I thought they brought that up to Okay. Now, there's a diff there's a difference between uh making a playground area accessible to get to and then having playground equipment specifically designed for uh correct for kids with that have mobility needs or that sort of thing. There is specialized um playground equipment for example, which I don't think that's in Janie's playground necessarily. Um, but to answer your question, I think, you know, again, separate item from what you're considering here, but for the future, the council certainly could consider different levels of ADA standalone upgrades, uh, in addition with other park improvements, you know, to be able to see if there's a way to combine what the park and recck commission would like to see in terms of additional amenities and additional programming, but then also some additional um, accessibility improvements as well, too. But that would be a separate item, separate initiative, separate priority than what you're considering here tonight. Thank you. You good with your question? Any more on anybody? You're good. I'm good. Okay. All right. We have to vote on this if um uh approval of the additional or we can I I'd like to interject something to make sure we're not confusing something. So this idea was discussed again um because initially the Gaga ball court was going to be at Howy when it um interjected with now installing a sidewalk and making sure we had the right inclines and doing it right. The idea of these were to see if they would take off. I mean we looked around um at neighboring cities to see if any parks had these. We couldn't find them. It's not to say that they're not out there, but we did not. they are more at schools for kids. Um, so instead of spending all this money and maybe putting this out there and finding out that maybe this isn't going to be used that much and now you have a sidewalk to nowhere if nobody's using this court the idea and I don't know if they're bringing this back. Do you would you really like to speak before I step on myself here? That's why you're moving it the other part then. Right. All right. Um, so what Mor Morgan answered the questions that I hope that you had. Um, what happened with the Gaga ball pit at What is a Gaga ball pit? I have no 100 years old. I don't know. I I had when I first heard about it from the parks commission, I had to look it up and find out what it is. It's bas basically an octagon. They come in different sizes. They're about let's call it three feet tall. Um, and they're anywhere from 15 feet to 30 feet round octagon. And it's like a dodgeball that they play with, but they apparently they use their hands, they knock the ball around, and they get hit from the knee down. And it's kind of like a dodgeball. And once you get hit, you're out of of that. So that's about what I know about it. Um, so I had to do some checking to see what they were, what sizes they were um before I went to the parks commission meeting. So what what they're talking about um when I I talked to we decided on putting one a permanent one at housy um I talked to uh Morgan if we would have to make it ADA accessible and he said yeah just kind of pretty much how he explained it if you're going to do any improvements to the parks kind of just plan on making that happen. So, the last conversation I had we had about it when I was talking to Sarah um who is kind of the liaison from the city for the parks commission is that we were going to put on hold the one at Housy so we didn't have to go through a process of putting a permanent one in putting a a sidewalk to it. And I believe we were talking about looking at purchasing a portable one because the budget number that we had for the Gaga ball pit was $2,000. Obviously, public works was going to build this. It was going to be out of green treated wood. It was going to be and we talked about building a permanent one because we didn't the portable there's portable ones and it looks like they could be folded up and taken. Um, so I believe the conversation was was that we were going to put the idea for Howy Park on hold and put one at Northwood in the hockey rink, a portable one. So then it was accessible for everybody. Um the difference in a handicapped one versus a normal one is there's a swinging door on on the gaga ball pit in order for people to be able to get in there. So that is what that is where the conversation was kind of what we talked about to stay within that that budget and not go through and put in a whole sidewalk to something that may not be used. So it's all new. So that's what going inside the inside the rink with the boards. That's That's what we had talked about. Yes. I have to drive up there and see what's going on up there, but I do want to get down by Casey and see what we can do to do some of these fields and that. I'd be interested. Yeah. In in the fields, from my under from from my understanding is what we were going to do is we're going to take out the egg lime in the fields and just make it make the two fields back there that are not used. Just black dirt and and grass in there. and then we were gonna add a couple soccer nets out there. So that that's kind of was was the plan. So they're really not ch we're not really I mean you know if you want to call it an improvement or I I mean I don't know what that is considered but that that was kind of the plan that we had talked about. Would we uh generate revenue by bringing in soccer teams to play there where they rent our fields? Yeah. Yeah. I I I mean I'm sure that I I Yeah. I I I don't know a whole lot about soccer and what you know what they're looking for, but I know a lot of the bigger cities have, you know, Beenburg, I know they have multiple like lots of fields and other places have lots of soccer fields, so I have no idea what the appetite is for that, but Thank you. All right. Oh, you got another one? No, you're good. Um, so I guess reading what you know, listening into what Ron said and what we have in front of us, what we have in front of us is wrong. Is that correct? I apologize. I didn't see that. No. So, I mean, here we have uh Howy Park 2025 improvement of $2,000 to put in a a permanent gaga ball pit. And the plan is not to do that. Am I missing something? The the There's been an update. Am I looking at the wrong one? Uh, the the second one that come out. Oh. Oh, I'm probably looking at Okay, never mind. You have to close it out and then open it back up again. The same thing over the weekend. I grabbed it. Then there was a revision on Monday. So, they crossed off housing input Northwood. Okay. Good catch though. Yeah. Anything else you want to add to that, Brian? No. All right. Everybody feel comfortable with what we discuss? All right. approve the additional 2025 park and recreation capital improvement project. Can I get a motion for that, please? I'll make a motion. Motion. Council member Mackenzie. Second. Second. Council member Norby. All those in favor say I. I. I. Thank you. Appreciate it. You going to come back again, Dan? You going to close us and open this? You know, I I still have one more item here. Oh, I knew you would. And then and then I'm calling it a night. Uh th this one's uh very exciting. Um I'm going to have to contain Jenny who's sitting to my left here. Um but yes, it's uh asking for the approval of agreement with Paycom for a human resources payroll system and payroll services. Um and when I came came here four years ago, I was kind of a little shocked that there wasn't an HR system. Everything's done manually, paper driven, paper driven. Um, and uh, you know, so PAFS are all handwritten. Nothing's entered on a system until it gets to payroll. There's another humanistic piece to it. We've been fortunate. We've got a very good person who does our payroll who's very accurate, but there's always a chance for errors. Um you saw in our in our audit report for the financial uh statement this this past year that we were cited on on that because some documentation um doesn't you know couldn't find it um that were number of years back well when you have a HR system that has everything electronically it becomes your data repository um and things are electronic you'll be able to find it um and so this ends up being that piece. So what we did through a process part to it is um uh we uh issued an RFP um and um we ended up getting five proposals and then we had a little um committee that re independently reviewed uh those five proposals and uh we rated them and we ended up coming down and choosing to uh request demonstrations from two of the companies. um Paycom um being one of the the two companies, the other one being UKG, both of them did an an amazing job. Um at the end of the day um the uh selection committee um made a unanimous recommendation to go with Paycom. Probably one of the biggest components with it is is that there's local representation. Um there's going to be somebody actually onsite um to help out with the implementation um training um and not just you know uh you know HR and the payroll staff but also our employees um on what they can do. This uh system has an an app um where uh basically I think they call is it Betty? they call it Betty that uh after an employee has put in their time sheet and it's ready to go through, they actually have the opportunity to approve their time sheet. Obviously, we can make adjustments to it and that stuff, but they'll know exactly at that point in time how much they're taking home, what their deductions were, everything. Um they'll be able to make um you know, changes to um you know, their direct deposit. they'll be able to make changes to their um withholdings and so forth. Um we'll have it integrated with our benefit, make an open enrollment much easier. Right now um Jenny has the headache of having to gather all that stuff from open enrollment, putting it into spreadsheets, and they're all manually updated on every single employee. Um and it's very time consuming and creates the opportunity for for many errors. Um, and the whole application process will end up being an online process and a lot of the information that the uh applicant puts in will be stuff that'll go right into our system. So, we're not duplicating that. Um, and on uh the finance side um to it, uh we have an aging uh finance department. Um and uh the person who uh we've been fortunate enough to have do our payroll um isn't that much younger than myself. Um and so what this gives us an opportunity is to actually have um you know we still have to do all the checks and balances and that stuff but uh they take over a lot of the state and federal reporting. We're still responsible for it. We still need to check it over. Um and they also do a lot of the AC's and so forth and um components to it. Um I think the annual um piece. So we we did we we got a 4-year term uh negotiated with them. We anticipate that the annual cost will be about $32,000 for the four years. There's a 0% in year 1, 1% in year two, 2% in year three, and then 4% um in the fourth year. Um there's a a little over a $3,000 implementation on one-time cost. Um which was significantly less than what our other vendor was and actually both their annual and um their implementation costs. We we successfully negotiated them downward. Um and so looking for your uh approval on to that. But before I answer any questions and that stuff, I really want to give the opportunity for Jenny to tell us how excited she is with this. And she I she's probably going to kick me here, but that's beat up tomorrow. Well, thank you. Uh Dan covered most everything, but uh it's very exciting both as a staff and as an employee. So um with everything going uh smoothly for implementation, we are actually looking that we could have this all fully implemented by uh open enrollment the end of October. So timing good. Yeah, she's going to Yep. give me my gonna be able to stay home later in the morning then. She just accepted that one. That was easy. So, if there's any questions um that you have um kind of a reminder, we we tried this a couple of years ago um to move over to I won't um say the vendor's name. City council had approved it. Uh um they really let us down on their implementation schedule. They didn't meet a thing. Um and so we ended up cutting um you know, cutting that one off. So, it took us a little about a year and a half to kind of lick our wounds and and build staff morale up to give it another shot. But, um I think we we uh you know um with Jenny and and then we have uh Jackie and uh and Melissa on the finance side that are all eager um to get into this and and uh to see it be successful. And you know what the big thing is as they were walking through on the demonstration, you know what my comment was? I probably even could run payroll. See, did you hear that? She said, "I don't know." Doubting you. So, if you have any questions with with this, but um you know, be happy to answer anything on to it. My only question is is um coming from a private to a um public side, are there any certifications or rules that they have to follow um to be in compliance with um the public side of things that they're guaranteeing that they will do? Yes. The reporting. Yes. Um very it um it was a very very extensive RFP. There was questionnaires like you couldn't believe, but it was including the 941, state, federal reporting, everything. Yeah. And um they had to respond to every single one of the questions that were that was in there in their proposal and then many of them were asked again and to to confirm in and demonstration. So yes, so uh Paycom does a lot u with a lot of county government um in the state of of Minnesota. Um so they are familiar with the the rules and the nice part about it is when changes occur they make the changes you know because this is in the cloud they make the changes we don't have to pay for another upgrade um and and go through another whole implementation of an upgrade so it's pretty pretty seamless pretty slick and yes um that was a big huge piece that we we had asked all the way through it and again all the security components um yeah were all the questions were asked not only in the RFP, you made sure that they put it in the contract as well. Yes. By the contract does reference. Yes. Um to and thank you for reading my mind. I should have worded that better. Um you believe the public sector is a big enough piece of their pie where they will continue to do that. Um well, and nothing's guaranteed in this world, but I certainly believe um that they will be around. You know, Paycom's pretty big and um and yeah, I I believe that they'll they'll still be around the we just have one piece left with it and and the resolution is written that way to be contingent upon our city attorney doing a a and I'm not putting any pressure on when our city attorney is done. We're asking for approval, but it I don't want anybody signing it and until I hear from our city attorney that they're comfortable with everything and that's part of make sure that the language is clear enough that it's incorporating both because I'm customary and this is what that I want the RFP to be included in the agreement and I want their response to be because that's customary of how I've always done things. So that's done with any contract actually. Yeah. I so the uh $3,000 implementation, you know, professional services or whatever you want to call it, uh is that based on a number of hours that we get from them for, you know, implementation, training, things like that, or is it just a set, you know, $3,000 for getting it stood up, however long it takes? I I I Well, it's $3,000 set for however how long it takes for them to do it. um to give you kind of a point of reference. Um one of the vendors, I'm not going to give, you know, the the name publicly unless somebody were to ask in a data request, but they wanted $17,000 for that implementation because there is a lot of time that's going to be considered to set up. See, part of the system that all of our our policies and procedures, our rules have to be written in to this. So, that system automatically knows whether this is an overtime, it's not an overtime. We've got some particular components with our police where it goes into suspense time and then suspense taken. Um so there's rules that have to be written to accommodate different different things. So they will um be spending a considerable amount of time just in the implementation and then in training. Um so um I think $3,000 um you know I I mean the truth to it is if we were paying $100 an hour that's only 30 hours. I think they're going to be spending well more than 30 hours on this. One one last question and this is just um for my own curiosity for you. Um are are you guaranteed a dedicated customer care representative or is it uh you call and you get who you get? Um we have somebody who will follow us through the whole way through implementation and after that we transition into somebody else and they're local. Okay. Awesome. Minnesota. Yep. Very good questions. You you've you're you're very familiar with this. Yes. Y All right. Thank you. Motion for approve the agreement of the paycom human resources payroll system and payroll services. So moved, your honor. So move. Council member Norby. Second. Second. Council member Woods. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. None. All right, city council. Thank you very much. Um, thank you very much. Yeah. Good job. She was excited. Yes. Oh, good. Well, thanks. Appreciate it. All right. Next up, we have the Ramsey County Hazard Mitigation Plan. We have uh Fire Chief Jason Malinger to discuss. Still got a few minutes for a swim, Dan. So, you'll do all right when you get home. Welcome. All right. Hello. Thank you, mayor, council members for having me. So, I'm here tonight to discuss the 2025 Ramsey County Hazard Mitigation Plan. And uh I guess to straightforward put it, the HMP, as we'll call it, uh identifies mitigation goals and actions to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and property from the impacts of future hazards. And as you'll hear, we're going to encompass all types of hazards here. into this plan. Um really this began well over a year ago and I should say the last time that uh we went through this was 2019. Uh this is my first time going through the hazard mitigation plan with Ramsey County. Uh so it was uh it was a good process. Uh but with Ramsey County, they basically had consultants. Tidal Basin was the name of the um consultant that uh conducted um these multiple meetings. And again, this is with every city within Ramsey County. Um and each city has input um on the planning process. And from the beginning, it builds off of the previous plans. and identifications of risks and hazards that are specific to each community. So, we're building off of that each year or each plan, I should say. Um so again uh some of those risks and hazard identifications that were uh talked about floods, hazardous materials tornadoes windstorms um years back the tornado that went through Hugo and how it impacted them and how they were able to deal with it. winter hazards as well, the whether it's snow or ice. Um, human-caused hazards, active shooters, civil unrest, cyber attacks terrorism. Um, also infrastructure failure. So, something as enormous as the 35W bridge collapse years ago, something like that. but what would happen locally if we had a problem uh with one of our bridges or something on Highway 36. So the goal of of this is really to identify ways to mitigate um some of these issues and to have conversations with uh departments. So, uh, last year again meeting with public works and identifying, you know, what they were doing to reduce flood uh, reduction measures and kind of their plan and how they were dealing with things. um working with the electric department to um do they have plans to clear trees and brush from power lines so that during a windstorm we're not having power outages that affect pe affect uh large people or a large group of people and do they have plans in place to put power underground. So all these things are already in action and that we're doing. We're just putting them together in a plan and incorporating them into the overall Ramsey County plan. Um, and the mitigation strategy is about the community's uh capabilities and assessing what resources they may need in the future, whether it's locally at the state or federally. And once this plan is approved by all of the communities within uh Ramsey County, the plan has already been approved at the uh federal level, but we're needing every community within Ramsey County to be a part of it. And then at that point is when we are approved for local mitigation plan um which allows us to apply for and or receiving FEMA mitigation grants from the following programs. Hazard mitigation grant program. Um building resilient infrastructure and communities. Flood mitigation assistance. Safeguarding tomorrow revolving loan fund. So going through this plan again, a lot of things we're already doing. It's updating to keep us moving forward. Um but it keeps us involved uh with the county and the emergency management system as well. Uh another area uh talking about continuity of operations. So if we had an event that happened in North St. hall. What happens if our public works building or our uh city hall, fire department, police department is um you know has some damage. How do we continue to operate? So we have what's called a coupe plan that's separate from this but is part of it. Uh so we have those things in in place and how we could potentially work in other areas within the city or within Ramsey County as needed. So it looks at the disruption of governmental services and basically gives us a baseline um within the community to kind of work off of. Um, I think I went through that pretty quick, but I know I know it's 214 pages of a lot of information, but uh, for me, like I said, it's been, uh, a year and a half in in planning and and working with, uh, Ramsey County and Title Basin. And most recently, myself and the city manager, Brian Frandle, attended a a meeting that uh was held a few weeks ago for um um all staff and those related, you know, with the emergency management Ramsey County. I can take questions if you have any. Hopefully, I can ask them, answer them. Questions? Are you in favor of everything that we're looking at here? Yes, definitely. This would uh benefit our city a lot, wouldn't it? Yes, it's it's it's it's needed if if anything were to ever happen happen in our city. Um like I say, this will allow us um to have future mitigation uh reimbursements if there's anything out there for us and and other resources needed if it again something large were to uh come through our city. Yes. So, um, for a city of our size, what do you, I mean, based on what you're seeing from other cities, what I mean, what do you feel like we're missing or are we in good alignment with what you feel like we need? Yeah, it's, you know, it's it it really was interesting to be, you know, the city of North St. Paul again working along with the city of St. who have dedicated emergency management team like a legit team of many people but you think of the size and what they have. I mean they have to many areas that regard with regards to the river and the dams and those types of things. So they have um definitely a lot more risks than than we do. Um, but looking at what we have in our community and what is here and what our staff is currently doing, I think we're doing an adequate job of addressing um what we have and what we need and continue to to move forward. And this even goes to the extent of our plan, you know, working with the school district and what do they have and what do our um you know uh some of these uh facilities as that house is our um our our older folks, you know, do they have um a plan there as well? And do they have a generator for backup power in case of those things? And is there ways that we can assist them with those types of things? So yeah, there's a lot. I think we're doing a good job for what we have here. And I assume this is all cooperative. So if you know, one city were to have an emergency and another not, you know, we would send resources or they would send resources back and forth to Yeah. You know, and and that's kind of where it all ties back to. I think not too long ago I had sent the capital city mutual aid agreement plan to you, you know, for the fire department that is a piece of it and the police department has that and I'm sure public works departments and our electric department have that. So they all tie together. Um but definitely the communities do uh come together in in a time of need and this mitigation plan will once approved and and solidify within the the county if something extends into an extremely long cleanup expensive project. you know, Dan's going to have his um some hours there tracking all this and making sure, but there there would be a potential way to recoup costs. Yeah. It's going to be a everchanging updated thing you need to do, I imagine. And from what I've seen, it seems like every five years or so, they they update the Well, good. Thank you for all your hard work on this. Appreciate it. Yeah. So, looking for your approval on that. Yeah. Thank you. County Hazard plan, migration plan. And I have a motion please. So, move. Council member McKenzie. Second. Second. Council member Norby. All those in favor say I. I. I. Thank you. All right. Thanks. Appreciate it. Yeah, thank you. City engineer Morgan Dolly here to discuss the Ramsey Washington Metro watershed district memorandum of understanding and flood risk reduction project at the PCU pond uh and 13th Avenue. Thank you, city manager Frandle, Mr. Mayor, members of the council. So, this item before you uh on the agenda next is to consider authorizing the execution of a memorandum of understanding between the city of North St. Paul and Ramsey Washington Metro Wershed District for the construction and ongoing ownership and maintenance of uh some flood risk reduction improvements that the watershed district has designed and is planning on uh constructing uh sometime this summer. So, a little bit of background, uh, backing up to earlier this year, uh, representatives from the watershed district contacted myself and Ron and Randy from public works asking, um, if they could share some ideas and, uh, some preliminary construction plans for um, basically reconfiguring some of the storm sewer uh, on the south side of 13th Avenue and in the northwest corner of PCO, PCU or sometimes times called Target Pond which is between 13th Avenue and 11th Avenue west of Mcnite. Um there is an area and uh uh previous councils have heard presentations from myself and I think um the public has had presentations from city staff and also wershed district staff with respect to floodprone areas throughout the city. The area just north of 13th Avenue is one of those areas. There's some lowlying um areas there south of Shaun's Way, north of 13th Avenue in that general vicinity that are susceptible to flooding in during extreme rain events where the pond may come up to a high level uh and water may be searchcharging and backing up through some of the storm sewers back there and filling in some of those low areas. And so a lot of that flood risk has previously been identified by the watershed district. And very nicely they are putting their own dollars that are collected from the taxpayers into improvements within the city of North St. Paul. So now this project that they're contemplating kind of has two locations. One of them is in Maplewood, but one of them is in North St. Paul, as we said, on the north side of the pond. Um, in addition to reconfiguring some of the storm sewer pipes there, they're also proposing to build a relatively short, you know, two to three, maybe four feet high burm and kind of a soft burm, you know, 4 to one slope, so easily mowable. Uh, public works does mow that area south of the road curb line, um, but north of kind of where the slope into the pond starts. So, that's currently maintained. But what the burm does uh basically holds back some of the flow flood waters from tipping over from the pond into the roadway and then from the roadway then into the storm sewer. And then with some of this storm sewer pipe reconfiguration, they're basically isolating some of those residential areas to the north. Um kind of protecting them from, you know, water during a flood situation backing up and going into those low yards there um between 13th and Shaun's Way. So um they have uh I asked them to quantify the the improvement in flood risk and they were not able to do that yet. So I hope to come back like when the project is completed if you move forward with approving this memorandum of understanding with some hard well not hard data but uh calculated data from the watershed district in terms of how much they think that the you know flood levels may be reduced because I believe what they will be doing is recalculating their 100year flood elevations in that area which will be of benefit to the people that live around that that uh location there. Um there may be future opportunity in other locations throughout the city, but they felt like this was uh the first place to move to and and first place that they approached city staff with. Uh I reviewed the plans, public works reviewed the plans. We made several comments and suggested several revisions. They took all of our comments and incorporated all of our um requests to change things. Mostly from my stand point was to protect the new investment in roadway pavement on 13th Avenue. You may remember that we overlaid that in like 2022, I think was the year. And so their original plan was actually to rip up a lot of that to do some of the storm sewer. And I said, "But there's got to be a way." And they we did find a way. So the road's going to be protected. They'll still use uh 13th Avenue to access the area from a construction standpoint. They said that they would um they would take responsibility for, you know, letting all the residents that live in the area know what's going on. They're going to run the project, not the city. will certainly be a resource and hopefully we'll get some information to post on our website to let people know what this project is. Uh if they live in the area and if they have questions they can contact the watershed folks uh for help. Um but uh I'm very satisfied with uh their reaction to our comments, their incorporation of our design preferences. They're using all of our city standards. you know, since we are as a part of this memorandum of understanding going to own and maintain the pipe. I mean, they don't have a public works department. So, that's where we come in. Like, we can maintain and inspect this pipe in perpetuity. We can mow the grass like we've always been mowing it. Um, and on that note, I think I put in the memo, you know, anticipated budget impact is pretty nil, I guess. I mean, there's some linear foot of additional pipe to maintain, but we currently mow it. Um, we're going to mow it in the future. it's just going to have a little burm on it. U so I don't see at least certainly within the first initial lifpan of you know these improvements which should be 30 to 50 years minimum I would say right that we shouldn't see much of an impact on the taxpayers or at least from a surface water utility uh fee or funding standpoint that would typically fund these types of act activities for public works. So um again high level uh Ramsey Washington is going to pay for the construction. They're going to manage the construction. There's no ask for city cost participation on the construction aspect of it. Uh they're going to manage the contract. Public works in the memorandum is agreeing to own and maintain the pipe, the new pipe and um and the burm I guess and mow the grass uh over the long run. Um but it is a great example of a partnership between two uh organizations that have kind of a joint interest in you know uh making improvements that protect the public from flood risk uh or minimize we can't always protect everybody from all risk but we can mitigate and minimize that risk and um there's a lot of work that went into this throughout the whole district and we're really pleased that they kind of zoomed in and picked one of our locations as one of the first places to go. So, um, staff's strong recommendation is that we're comfortable with the memorandum of understanding and the terms that are laid out within. Um, the memorandum was based off of the exact sameou that was has been approved by councils previously for other joint efforts like the improvements to Margaret Pond, the improvements to the pond by Cowan Elementary that I think came before this council earlier this year. So, um, pretty basic document. Um, with that I'll stand for any questions the council might have. Uh, and as a reminder, the action is to uh authorize signatures on a memorandum of understanding uh between the watershed district, city of North St. Paul related to these flood risk reduction uh improvements planned for this year. There might be a little bit of light restoration um for early next year before they completely call it done, but I think most of the work will be done. Oh, and there's a bench out there right kind of in this location in the northwest corner of the pond that looks out into the pond. And uh we've provided direction to them to salvage and protect that. Like we're not going to remove it and then not put it. They might temporarily take it out and put it back. But um yeah, the bench will stay and if we need to slide it a little bit for the burm, we'll do that. But that amenity will go back as it is today currently. So with that, I'll stand for any questions. Will they be going on homeowners properties to between Sea's Way and 13th Avenue to get into those sewer culverts in there or will this be in this is part of the drainage system that runs through the city and all the way down to Coleman Lake if I remember right correct. Um there is storm sewer in Sea's Way in the Culdeac that comes through uh kind of on joint residential lot lines. There's storm sewer under 13th Avenue. There's pipes that go in and out of the pond. The ultimate pathway for the water is uh via pipe into a ravine that actually goes west. Ultimately, it ends up in Coleman Creek and Coleman Lake. To answer your question directly though, no, I do not anticipate that they or their forces, their contractor will need to access private property. All of it will be expected to be within the city right of way and also on the PCU pond parcel property which the city does own uh in fee title. One more question please. City manager Frandle, will this affect the sidewalk going along Mcnite Road? And if they attach that sidewalk, that short sidewalk that our former councilman was looking to do, would that affect that process at all? No. And as of now, there's it was just a thought that was brought up uh from that council member. Um there's no definite plan to put a sidewalk through there or trail through there, which would probably be more likely asphalt than anything. But uh either way, it's birmed up a little bit there, I believe. No. Yeah. And if I could add on to that, I mean, there's nothing that with this project or with the improvements the wershed district has proposed that I believe would preclude um either in the near term using it as a a you know, a grass walkway like it's used today or long term if that winds up being upgraded to a hard surface. Um there's c certainly a way to get you know over a burm or around a burm. There should be plenty of flexibility there knowing especially on the north side there's no sidewalk on 13th Avenue to connect to at this time. Right. So there's plenty of opportunity to plan that out and people can continue to when the construction's done they can continue to use it as a cut through or walk through I guess on the west side of the pond to um 11th Avenue. So, this will eliminate any overflow that would cause people on the back side of Shaun's Way on the south side and on the north side of 13th Avenue of any high water. That's the general um approach for the improvements. I would not use the word eliminate. Um we cannot um there's no amounting that can eliminate it. Yeah. But we but uh the term and the terminology the wershed district uses I think is very carefully se selected in terms of this project being called a flood risk reduction. Right? So we can they can these types of improvements can reduce the flood risk but there always will be some risk for flooding or in an extreme 100redy year 500year event you know which can and will happen at some time. Um you know there will still be water in those low areas as there might be today. However, the risk of that and the calculated depth of those waters during a hundred-year event um based on the wersheds calculations does wind up being lower because of these types of improvements. All right. Thank you. So, um we're going to motion is Ranging Washington Metro Wershed District Memorandum for understanding of the flood risk reduction project at PCU Pond and 13th Avenue. Okay, I got a motion. So move. So move. Council member Woods. Second. Second. Council member McKenzie. All those in favor say I. I. I. Thank you. All right. Next up is the 2025 payment maintenance overlay. Um we read bids and award contract. We have uh Hannah here from WSB to discuss. Welcome. Thank you for having me. Um, so as Brian mentioned, the item before you tonight is to accept the bids and award the contract for the base bid and alternate two of the 2025 maintenance overlay um, via resolution for Batuminous Roadways. Um, little bit of background on this project. This was identified through the 2025 capital improvement plan through the annual maintenance overlay projects that public works does every year. This is a project that they work to identify every year different project areas and then they also oversee the construction and execution of the project following the contract approval. So WSB's role with this project was primarily just to support the development of the plans and specifications as well as the bidding process because it did exceed the minimum threshold for sealed bids. The proposed project locations are kind of all over the place in town here. So we've got a little bit on Hilltop Court with going east on Navajo and west on Shaunie for a little bit. Two segments on Margaret um Northwood Drive and then Co Place. The project improvements include Batuminous Melon Overlay, Batuminous Reclaim and Pave and then some other minor spot improvements. This project was set up with a base bid which includes like the majority of what I just listed as well as two alternates. The first alternate being co place and the second being a list of alternate items that allow public works to integrate those improvements throughout the project area without confining that to a specific location. So by by setting that up as an alternate, we created more flexibility for them and how they select those improvements during construction implementation. The bid results came through with six bids, which is great because we feel like that really brings a competitive bidding pool. The lowest bid was around $250,000 for that base bid quantity that does not include either alternate with the highest being around 384,000. Engineer's estimate was just beneath 300,000. So again, we feel like we got some pretty competitive bids. Um, Batuminous Roadways came in at the lowest with a base bid of 250,000. Um, alternate one of 51,000 and then alternate 2 of 153,000. The two funding sources identified for this project um are well the first being the capital improvement plan funding that is dedicated for this work. That's the $394,010. That's the large majority of this project budget with an additional $10,000 coming out of the contracted repair and maintenance fund. That brings us to a total of $44,010. Staff is recommending that city council accept these bids and award the resol by resolution, excuse me, the construction contract for the base bid and alternate 2 um in the amount of $43,520.85 85 cents for the 2025 maintenance overlay to Batuminous Roadways. That does not include alternate one. That portion of the bid did not fit within the allotted budget. So, if awarded, staff anticipates this could begin as early as July of this year. Um, at this time, I'll stand for any questions you may have. This total will be the total for all all roads being maintained and and by tumis cut and put back down. Yep. So that total goes for all the areas that I listed Hilltop Margaret Margaret and Northwood. Um and does not include Corn, but it does include all those alternate items that need to be integrated throughout all of those areas. So that in those alternate two lists, on a maintenance overlay project like this um who is responsible for quality control and how thick the maintenance overlay is and how is that done? So, it's kind of a joint effort between, you know, the contractor meeting those requirements that are in the specification and then also the inspector who's on site. I know like Randy is really going to be coordinating a lot of the construction efforts. So, he'll be working with the contractor to make sure they're meeting those requirements. And we do specify when we call out a mill and overlay what depth they need to be meeting. And for some of these, they are edge milling overlays. And so they'll be meeting that depth um with the milling on the edge and then a consistent section across the top. And that'll all be monitored by the inspection, whether that's Randy or someone else on his team. Awesome. Thank you. Nothing else. Can I get a motion for the pavement maintenance overlay going to Pumis Roadways? So moved, your honor. Move. Council member Norby. Second. Second. Council member McKenzie. All those in favor say I. I. I. Great job. Thank you. Appreciate it. Uh, next item up is 2026 pavement preservation project for uh, city project 26-01 authorized professional service proposal. Mr. Dolly. Thank you, Brian. Mr. Mayor, members of the council. Um, this next item for your consideration here tonight is um basically the start or the kickoff to next year's um project, which is not a um in-depth full reconstruction project like what's going on right now in Casey Lake Park. So this is and you heard the finance director talk about more of a focus on pavement preservation but at a little bit higher level than the maintenance overlays that public works um do on an annual basis that you just uh heard about and awarded a separate contract to just previous to this item. Um, I will say that uh the areas within this potential project um were not identified in the capital improvement plan like some of the other areas. they're uh left open-ended and based on uh review by public works on an annual basis using qualitative uh quantitative sorry data in terms of our pavement ratings. Um and also um the institutional knowledge that public works staff has in terms of maintaining these roads. um the areas within the potential project uh were identified, double-cheed against potential budget numbers to make sure that it would fit within the number that we had uh worst case scenario if we had to reclaim all the roads, which is a little bit more expensive than just a simple mill and overlay. Um and so uh those areas are listed within the memo. There's also a map there, but for the benefit of the council and the public, I'll just list them off. These are not written in stone. So, we have to do some investigation to make sure that they're all kind of well suited for these types of improvements and staff will report back to you about September with information from the findings of this uh potential investigation that you're considering kicking off here. Um, but those streets are Mohawk Road from 17th to Mcnite, 7th Street North from the Culde Culdeac north of 36 to 9th Avenue, Cow Place from 7th Avenue to 6th Street, uh, Sixth Street from Holloway to 7th Avenue, Cow again from Mcnite to First Street, Memory Lane from Cow Place to Northwood Drive, Memory Court, Polaris Place from Holloway to Northwood, and Polaris Court. All of these uh areas are exhibiting pavements that are in need of some uh attention. Uh and some of the scope of the investigation that is included in the professional services proposal uh that will be in front of you you for consideration here are data collection. Right? So roadway cing to figure out is the pavement thick enough to actually be able to support a mill and overlay. Is there enough aggregate base or gravel underneath the asphalt to be able to support something like a reclamation? And then based on that information, engineering staff, public works will sit down. We'll review that information, arrive at a recommendation again that we'll bring forward to you kind of around September uh to be able to consider kicking off actual preparation of uh design documents, final plans with the goal of maybe bidding this in January, February and having it under contract ready to go for next year in the construction season. Uh most recently we did in 2024 a very similar approach. Slightly smaller than what this project will be just based on budgetary constraints but um very similar. It went relatively smooth. Um some of the roads were kind of right around Cowin Elementary. Um first um yeah so I I expect that this will be very similar. Uh it's not highly invasive. We don't we're not doing you a significant amount of utility work and so disruption to the traveling public and the people that live on these roads is relatively minimal. um maybe some you know driveway access issues for a small portion of the project while we you know maybe potentially pour a concrete apron or something like that. But uh generally they're uh fairly straightforward and can be completed in a relatively short time frame compared to some of the more heavyduty reconstruction projects where we're doing water main replacement for example. Um so uh again just overview of some of the scope here uh doing some topographic survey um we're pretty highly vested uh in using technology to do things more quickly and efficiently. So we're using drones to pick up a lot of the survey information um and aerial photography to be able to pick up the where the catch basins are and where the trees are and that sort of thing. um geotechnical investigation. Again, getting at those soils and making sure that there aren't any issues or problems that uh we're going to be investing a lot of money on top of that are just going to create issues for us u in the short term. And also some uh underground manhole inspections, right? So, it's very important to public works that we have an aggressive program of not leaving something and paving around it and then it, you know, it's an old brick manhole, for example, that only has another five years left. now would be the time to try to get at that. Um, so that's generally it. Um, now I can't make a recommendation to you that you um, uh, authorize WSB to proceed. In the past, we've had the city manager kind of take that part. So, I'll leave that out. Um, but we would anticipate if approved tonight that we would start immediately. uh again come before council September time frame with some recommendations on what exactly might occur on uh what streets and a little bit of an update in terms of uh the costs uh preliminary engineering and a schedule and a proposal to move forward uh between September and January February uh with the plans and the bidding basically for the improvements. So with that, I'll stand for any questions and uh Brian can certainly relay the uh recommendation for the action item for you uh with this uh consideration for professional services for uh the 2026 pavement rehabilitation project. Questions first. I'm going to ask kind of a weird one. Um only because I'm a member. Uh so recently the adopted drain program asked us to take a picture of all of our drains. Um, is that data public knowledge and is that data included in a study like this? That is a it's a city effort, right? It's not the watershed district that's doing the adopted drain. Yeah I don't Yeah, that uh I have not been involved in that either specifically. Generally, it's a fairly common program whether it's uh run by the watershed district or the city. Um, certainly it helps to raise awareness and education. um to avoid things like not that this would ever happen in North St. Paul, but somebody changes the oil on their car and they just kind of pour the old oil down the drain and which you know all of our storm drains lead to wetlands, uh creeks, uh you know, lakes and rivers basically, right? And so um that adopt a drain gets a little bit uh more um support public support and some ownership I think between uh behind it with the people that live kind of immediately adjacent to that. It that doesn't necessarily dovetail in here directly. It's uh more educational and it more relates to our uh MS4 program in terms of obligating educational and support items to um prevent illicit discharge of things like motor oil or whatever into our lakes, rivers, and streams. Um but it does impact um what we do with these projects because we are looking at uh at a very high level just making sure that none of our catch basins need to be reconstructed at the same time that we're doing the pavements. But we are mostly focused on the asphalt and the pavement rehabilitation, some curb and gutter. Um so uh but we are not planning just in case this was kind of where you were going. We're not planning any augmentation on that. Um but if folks are interested, I thought I remember seeing there is some information on our website or maybe it's the Ramsey Washington Metro Wershed District's website related to adopt a drain. And so there should be more information there or they can always reach out to city staff and we'll help anyone with those questions if they'd like more information. Awesome. Thank you. We had programs like that a while back uh when we had an environmental advisory commission. We put uh plaques. Yeah. Plaques by the drains and show that this goes to the lake and picture of a fish on there to try to do a little public outreach and education. That was a while ago. I don't think we after storms. If you go by it and you see that there's leaves and stuff plugged, just pull it out. So, no more questions. Um, I would like to make a recommendation to authorize the professional services as proposed. Please a motion. So moved. So moved. Council member Woods. Second. Second. Council member Norby. All those in favor say I. I. I. Thank you. Thanks, Morgan. Mayor, appreciate it. Council, thank you. All right, we got reports from city manager and departments. Um, so we'll be starting I think I informed most of you that uh starting a process now for looking at the solid waste contract which will be up next year. Um it's looking at a year to what 16 months or so to kind of do that whole thing. I would imagine there's going to be uh some public outreach but uh also looking for your input from maybe feedback you've heard from the public about bulk pickup. Um there's many different ways to do that. You know, do you offer it quarterly, you know, at a free cost or do you just do a blanket across the board, uh lower cost? Um but we'll look at different options, find out what maybe what more common options are out there. Um this is a company that is through Ramsey County and they do put together an RFP at no cost to the city. So nice feature. Um department's been busy with the storms lately. There's been some tree damage, but uh they do a really good job with their tree trimming and keep them back from the power lines. Um past couple weeks, we've only had probably six powerages. Uh and only one of them was more than one home. So, they're up and going. Um they have a actually tonight they have a scheduled power outage for Richardson Elementary School because they're putting a large solar system on top of the roof of that building there. So communications. Ava's been busy with uh her events. We've had uh kids music in the park. Had 44 attendees which was good at Howy Park. It was kind of rainy but it worked out good. They got them all inside and um had a good time. Uh they have next week is going to be their second event for uh fitness in the park. So that'll be on July 9th at uh Howy Park again. Uh community development's been busy reviewing uh the town home project. They have another we have another meeting scheduled uh with the potential forplex and 3plex there at South and Seventh Street that they're looking at. Um doing some zoning updates on home occupation and uh townhouse ordinances that are under review. Um and updating uh ballfield maintenance agreements and fencing with the high high school again looking at those. Um HR has been pretty happy with the paycom looking for that coming forward as you guys heard tonight. Um Michelle's been working with the paid family leave implementation come in 2026. Uh public works is got some signs out uh especially along where the DNR trail crosses some of the roads that we have having issues of some vehicles and trucks parking too close so that they can't see around them so nobody gets hit. Trying to keep the trucks back further from where it crosses. Um also uh down at Mcnite Field trying to get uh some of the parking taken care of down there as well as on over on Henry. We got uh give them tickets in one place, they move to another. Um we they have the temp water up there on Bule proper. Uh the properties up on Bule now. Um they have uh we're they're continuing on with their uh inspection of the water pipes to find out if they got the lead or what they have in there. It's uh just slowly picking away so we have a more full picture with the whole city. Um, and they're working on uh the plans for the next uh student build house over there that we're working on. So, that'll be exciting to get that going. Fire department, uh, they're working on their coverage for the Fourth of July. Things always pick up this time of year. Fireworks going off. Um, and actually the fire departments seems like year after year they keep getting their higher and higher callouts. uh they've already reached 1,000 calls for this year, which last year they didn't hit that until the end of July. So, um they have their uh picnic, fire department picnic coming up on July 9th. Um and they're hoping to have their uh new vehicle here by the end of the month. Uh and then they want to kind of open to the public type deal. We might set it up up up on 19th by the beach and just spray the water and let the kids run through it and have the public enjoy the new vehicle. Uh police department's got three new hires starting on July 7th, which makes them full capacity. Nice. Yes. Um a long time. It's been a while. Um and they do have their uh formal swearing in. Um and Ramsey County Honor Guard will be there and that will be on Monday, July 28th. Um, so they'll be talking to you about that for participating if you're available. Uh, and they're also working on their coverage for July 4th. Uh, um, you know, they've taken into account with Rams County for any kind of backup things and just try to keep an eye on everything out there. And that's all I got. Thank you. All right. Reports, council, commissions, committees. I have nothing from the EDA this week. Nope. Thank you. The Arts and Culture Commission will be meeting here in council chambers tomorrow at 6:30. The planning commission that was scheduled for uh July 3rd has been moved to Wednesday, July 9th. Um unfortunately, due to previous commitment, I will not be able to attend that one. Where are they going over that one again? What? What is the Isn't there something that they're looking at doing that? I'm trying to remember what the agenda is for that one. I thought it was something something there was a reasonzoning that they were looking at. Um was that is that for uh along 7th Avenue? Um those homes along in there they're uh Yeah. Okay. And if I remember right, it it was to basically make things that are what's the word? um not in compliance into compliance. So it it it clean up some cleaning updates. Yeah. Good. All right. Thank you. Any general business? Well, with fireworks coming up, are we have any kind of a trailer system going to be parked down there to kind of eliminate some of the riff raft that could potentially damage our park? Uh I talked to the police chief today. Um, last year he had borrowed one from, I believe, Ramsey County. They had a spare at the time. Uh, he reached out to them. They did not have it. Um, so I referenced him to how White Bear Lake does it. They have rentals that they use actually and put them out all summer long at some of their beaches and different areas. So, he was going to look into that to see if that was available. Uh, part of our issue was we didn't have camera coverage over the parking lot, which is where we had tended to have some of our problems. Um, we do have camera on the parking lot now, so that'll be helpful. But, uh, hopefully we can still get a trailer out there. Okay. Just want to make sure that's safe and that doesn't get damaged again. And if not, they will be doing drive-throughs there, he said, on a regular basis. Okay. Could we put a car down there with lights on for a couple hours just to deter everything? I'll I'll talk to him about it. At least scare the people away, you know? Otherwise, I'll sit down there. That'll scare him. It will too. I know. All right. Um, I would just like to remind everyone listening that with the new motorcycle laws going into effect today with filtering and splitting, please, please check your side view mirrors when you're driving. Yes. I don't like that law. I was at the car show last Friday. Was the banner turnout? Lots of people. beautiful evening for it. So, it was a great that was a another great success indeed. There's nothing else. Our next meeting will be July 15th. I ask for adjournment. So, move Council Member Mackenzie. Second. Second. Council member Woods. All those in favor say I. I. Thank you all and have a great night. Just before