All right, good evening. Uh, this is the August 20th, 2025 Cottage Grove City Council meeting, which I'm calling to order. Um, I did want to mention that this meeting is being recorded by True Lens Community Media, and you can uh view city meetings live and then replay them on cable channel 799 and meetings are also streamed live and archived at the City of Cottage Grove's YouTube channel. Uh so after calling the meeting to order here and me mentioning that I'll I'll have everybody stand for the pledge. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. Will the clerk please do the role? >> Council member Clawson. Council member Olsen >> here. >> Council member Theiti >> here. >> Council member Garza here. Mayor Bailey >> here. Next on our agenda this evening is open forum. This is the opportunity for anybody who wants to speak on something that's not on tonight's agenda is welcome to do so. Uh we did have a signup sheet out in the entryway. No one did sign up, but just in case somebody made it in and wants to speak at open form. Is there anybody in the audience that wants to speak during open form? All right. Seeing none, I'll go ahead and close open form and I'll move to number five, which is adoption of the agenda. >> I'll move to adopt the agenda. >> All right. So, I have a motion by council member Garza. Do I have a second by council member Olsen? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> I. Opposed. >> Motion carries. Uh number six is presentations. We have none this evening. Uh seven is our consent agenda. Uh council, is there anything you want to pull off consent for separate discussion or consideration? I will pull C. >> You want to pull C? >> I do. >> Okay. Anybody else? Anything? All right. So, then we'll just go to uh uh the letter C, which is the massage therapist license. >> Oh, wait. No, that's not the you know, is that >> Yeah, it's C. The paraphernalia definition. >> Oh, no. That's actually a separate on our agenda. We'll be discussing that later. So, you had nothing you want to pull that consent on? >> Okay, >> I'll move consent. >> All right. So, motion by council member Olsen, second by council member Thei uh for um moving forward on consent. Any other discussion? >> No. >> Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed. >> So, if you are a motion carries, so if you are here for anything that was on tonight's consent agenda, all of those items have been approved. Uh we're moving uh right along here. Uh number eight is approve dispersement. 8A is to pay the bills. >> Move the bills. >> All right. We have a motion by council member Olsen. Do I have a second? >> A second. >> Second by council member Garza. Any other discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. Opposed. Motion carries. Uh number nine is public hearings, which we do have one this evening. We do uh A is the public hearing for issuance of conduit multif family housing revenue bonds real estate equities LLC and Brenda Melanowski our finance director will kick this off and she has a guest that's joining us this evening. I I do, mayor, members of the council, uh just very quickly, um tonight you'll be doing the public hearing for the issuance of the conduit uh debt, uh the first piece of that. And uh our bond attorney uh law firm is Taff Law Firm. And here tonight to uh step you through the process is uh Rhonda Scobby uh with Taff Law Firm. So I'll turn it over to her. >> All right. Thank you. Welcome. >> Thank you, >> mayor, council members. Uh, my name is Rhonda Scobby and I am a a bond attorney and partner at Taft Law Firm. We represent the city in this proposed bond financing. The public hearing and motion before you tonight for consideration uh relates to the proposed conduit bond issuance for a workforce housing project to be located at the intersection of Hadley Avenue and 100th Street in the city. Uh the project will be known as Hadley Ridge Apartments. As this council is aware, conduit bonds are authorized by state and federal law and the federal tax code in order to help developers of multifamily housing and certain other projects uh borrow money at taxexempt rates. If the council approves the bonds, the bonds will be the obligation only of the borrower. The borrower in this instance is Cottage Grove AH1 LLP which is an affiliate of Real Estate Equities LLC. This city will have no financial obligation for the bonds and all costs of the city will be paid by the borrower. The borrower will also pay an administrative fee to the city for the issuance of the bonds. The council originally considered and approved a preliminary resolution for this project in June of 2024. The action authorized an application to the state for volume cap authority which was awarded in July of this year in the amount of 30,250,000. The city subsequently considered a resolution earlier this month on August 6 calling for tonight's public hearing and authorizing the submission of a housing program for the project to be submitted to Met Council. The and it it this August resolution also preliminarily authorized the use of an increased amount of bonds up to a maximum of 50 million. and it preliminarily authorized the use of recycling volume cap allocation from the Washington County CDA to finance the project through the use of an interim loan in the amount of $8,220,000 to be applied to refund certain outstanding Washington County CDA bonds and to apply the existing volume cap to the permanent bonds to potentially be issued by the city for the Hadley Ridge Apartments. Like the permanent bonds, this interim loan is a conduit obligation, meaning the city again has no responsibility for its repayment and that obligation is passed on to the conduit borrower. This interim interim loan would also be fully cash collateralized by the borrower and would be repaid upon the issuance of the bonds. Tonight's proposed resolution would provide the final authorization for the application of the recycled bond proceeds and would authorize the interim loan as well as approving the housing program and the execution of certain documents. A separate resolution for the issuance of the permanent bonds would be presented to the city for consideration later this year after the terms of the permanent bonds are established and the documents are prepared. I'm happy to take any questions that the council may have and I believe a representative of the borrower um may be in attendance uh if you have specific project questions. >> All right. Thank you. Uh council, is there any questions for her or our staff at this point? >> It's kind of other than the extension of it from earlier, we did already do this preliminarily uh at the um a year ago. >> Yes. So, okay. All right. I guess nothing at the moment. Thank you. Um, so at this point, yes, thank you. At this point, I'm going to go ahead and open this is a public hearing. Uh, so if there is anybody in the audience that wants to speak or ask questions on this item is welcome to do so at this time. Is there anybody at all? All right. Seeing none, we'll uh close the public hearing. And uh council uh uh number two under this public hearing information is what is being asked for a motion resolution >> to adopt resolution 2025-118 adopting the housing program approving a public hearing authorizing an interim loan and the issuance of a taxable interim note of a multif family housing development and approving an authorized execution of documents. >> Second. All right. Okay. So, I have a motion by council member Garza, seconded by council member Theiti. Any other discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. Opposed. Motion carries. Thank you for coming. >> All right. Uh moving. That was the only item we had under uh public hearings. Uh 10 is bid awards. We have none this evening. Uh number 11 is our regular agenda. We do have three items on our regular agenda. So, we'll start with A, which is the 61 marine and sports conditional use permit and site plan review. And Samantha, our um senior planner, is going to walk us through this one. So, welcome. >> Yes. Thank you. Good evening, M. Uh, mayor, members of the council. Um, tonight I am bringing forward to a conditional use permit and site plan review request from 61 Marine and Sports located at 11730 Point Douglas Drive on approximately 11.97 acres of B3 zoned property. Um, a little background for everybody. the use here which is the um boats and recreational vehicle sales and service uh was a legal nonconformity and has has been since 1984. Um there were several permit approvals, conditional use permit approvals um between 1984 and 2015. In 2015, all of those previous approvals were rescended and a new cup, site plan, and minor subdivision were approved for expansion of the business. Uh, between 2018 and 2021, additional site plans and CUPs were approved as the business continued to expand onto neighboring properties. In 2022, the zoning classification was changed to B3 where the use of for recreational vehicle boat sales and service conducted inside a bu building is now a conditional use. So now is the time with uh the applicant proposing to expand their building uh with a 50 foot by 80 foot addition on the east side of an existing building. now is the time for them to also apply for that conditional use permit to become um to comply with our ordinances instead of doing another uh conditional use permit to expand a non-conforming use. So, we're just getting in line with the ordinances here and everything like that. Um the addition must be made of uh matching materials to the existing building that is out there now. Um which was a condition as for some of the other previous additions as well. Um there is no imperous surface being added here as the addition is going to be constructed over existing gravel. Um there are three storm water basins on site that currently are capable of handling the existing imperous surface. Um in 2019 a cup condition was that some vegetation be planted within a 10-ft setback along that east property line there. Um there is a condition for your consideration tonight that 11 coniferous trees be planted in the southeast corner of the property there just as some additional screening from Highway 61 as you drive by there um for your consideration tonight. There are two um resolutions on the table. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Uh any questions council at this point? And I don't see I don't think I see an applicant in the audience at this point. So um council >> I'll move to adopt resolution 2025-110 approving a conditional use permit for the display, hire service, rental, leasing, and or sales of boats and recreational vehicles conducted outside a building with servicing conducted within a building at 61 Marine and Sports 11730 Point Douglas Drive South. >> All right. So, I have a motion by council member Olsson. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Second by council member Garza. Any other discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. Opposed. >> Motion carries. And who would like to take number two? >> I'll uh I'll move that we adopt resolution 202511 approving a site plan review to construct a 4,000 square foot building addition for boat servicing at 61 Marine and Sports, 11730 Point Douglas Drive South. >> All right. So again have a motion by by council memberi. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Second by council member Olsen. Final shot. Any comments, questions? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> I. Opposed. Motion carries. All right. Now we'll move to B, which is uh Cedarhurst historic conditional use permits, zoning amendments, site plan review, and business subsidy agreement. and our community development director, Emily Schmidz, is going to take us through this. Welcome, Em. >> I am. Good evening, mayor, council. Uh, Cedarhurst or Bella Gagala is the applicant. Um, uh, they have submitted several applications, which I'll go through just a little bit in more detail throughout the the, uh, presentation. However, for those who may not know, as they're driving by at the corner of 70th and Keats, there is a historic mansion tucked behind uh, the vegetation there. So, uh, just to orient orientate you on where we are looking at for this beautiful mansion in our community. So, a little bit of background, originally built in the 1860s. I'm not going to go into a lot of the historic details, but there are a lot out there. Some great stories. Um, so we're looking forward to seeing this site and this building uh repurposed and and utilized in the community. Um, in the 70s it was approved uh as a catering business and then later in the 2000s uh to host events as well. So this is not a unique uh proposal uh as a use for this particular site. Uh the current property owner purchased the property in 2021. Uh if you recall, there was a proposal for that redevelopment of the site with some additional residential uh uh uh development as well as uh improving of the mansion. However, that project did fall through. Um therefore, Bella Gal, as I indicated, is before you this evening um looking for uh an opportunity to operate their wedding uh venue operation uh out of the mansion. Uh Bellagala is a a company founded in Minnesota. They uh own and operate quite a few wedding venues throughout the Twin Cities metro area. Um they are here this evening and can certainly offer you some additional details into uh their business ventures as well. Um, but they are proposing that year-round wedding and event center at the mansion as well as the adjacent uh parcel, we call it the the gardener's cottage um as well. So, to be clear, there's two buildings, two parcels involved in their request. Uh, both coming together to support those operations. So, how do we get there? um the land use and the zoning do have to come together to support us getting to a point where we can uh support and allow for that wedding event uh operation. So both of the parcels are currently zoned agricultural. Um however our land use plan or our comp plan does guide uh the parcel with the mansion as mixed use and it guides the cottage parcel the gardener's cottage um as R3 low density. Now, when we have unique parcels, especially um when the mansion is on the on the um National Historic Register um and then you have the gardener's cottage, which we would hope someday will be on our local register. Uh we find uh that using a historic conditional use permit allows us to um be creative in a use to continue to maintain that historic integrity. So, uh, it is a historic conditional use permit that will, uh, comply with both of those zoning districts all in the R3 district as well as the mixed use district. We use the HCU as a tool to allow for those unique operations to support those historic buildings um, and the integrity of those. So, the aite is a historic conditional use permit on both separate parcels. So, I'll go into just a high level of the restoration that is proposed uh for the mansion and for the site. Uh most notably, they are proposing a 4,000 foot addition to the mansion, which they are calling the atrium um where they will host the majority of their uh events. Uh ceremonies will take place outside, which I'll get to a little bit later. Um however, that will be the most notable improvement on the site. I've also included some images for the public to be sure that they're aware of the current status uh of the interior of the mansion. Um and the fact that it has sat sat vacant for quite some time. The improvements um I'm going to use the word intense will be intense. Um but the applicant is committed uh to meeting those standards. they are working towards uh historic tax credits with Shipo, the state historic uh uh preservation office um which requires them to align with uh certain standards at the state level and maintain that historic integrity. So even as you see the deteriorated nature, this applicant is committed to making those improvements. It's also important to note that they are uh removing a couple of outuildings on the site in an effort to preserve as much as they possibly can. Of course, we want to be certain that they're preserving uh the safety of the folks who are going to be using the site. So, several of the buildings will be removed as a part of their improvements um to the site as a whole. The barn, this is an outdated photo as that barn um actually now has fallen over. Um and then a couple of these other buildings that just cannot be saved. The applicant is proposing a couple of different outdoor ceremony spaces, which I think is important to recognize. Um, I've got some additional details on the rose garden, but as you'll notice, five and one um are also uh proposed outdoor ceremony spaces. Again, just the ceremony um but the uh the dance and the reception will all take place indoors um in the atrium. So as I mentioned the rose garden um which was a focus to ensure was maintained on the site the applicant um I if you can see color uh from this site plan I'm assuming it is just going to be gorgeous as we look at the uh especially uh the vegetation that they're proposing to make sure that this particular outdoor ceremony site um is the integral part of the uh the the wedding venue as a whole. Um, it's important to note uh the way that they're orientating the addition to the mansion. Uh, the rose garden actually sits real central into the site. Um, I would say protecting it quite well, but also protecting uh the adjacent properties as well. They've really put a lot of thought into how that orientation matters and makes sense to uh limit the impact to those adjacent properties. They will be aligning with our standard hours of operation. Um ensuring that any of those amplified uh music, sound, etc. ends no later than 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. Um and and 12:00 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, which aligns with other event centers that we do have within the community. And as I had just mentioned, um we do have a really good buffer as well between those additional or adjacent property owners. um a mature tree buffer that the applicant is planning to maintain. As I had mentioned, the gardener's cottage um it is on our wish list, I'm going to call it, to be on our local register. Therefore, uh the applicant is committed um to applying for that property to be on our local register as they use it in conjunction with the activity happening at the mansion. Likely an office space, maybe a refuge for employees to get a drink of water, a snack, whatever that might be. Um but no events will take place within the gardener's cottage, but it will support the activity that's happening on the mansion site. So the general site plan, as I mentioned, uh a 4,000t addition, uh they are addressing uh the um access and the driveway within the site. If you've been there recently, you know that that access is quite skinny, for lack of a better way to put it. So when we think about a public safety perspective, we want to make sure that that equipment can get in there. So, they're making sure to widen that driveway throughout the site so there's no uh issues there. Uh some new parking areas and then of course the utility connection, but I've got some additional details as we continue on. So, access is from currently from 70th Street and Keats Avenue. The applicant is proposing, and I'll try the pen here. um their current access off of 70th um is actually shifted a bit uh to the east. They are proposing to shift it a bit to the west. When the county worked through their roundabout project, um this median, as you can see here in 70th Street, was installed. The current driveway location uh kind of is right in the middle of that median. When we think about a free flow of traffic in and out um as a full access, that median uh makes it a little tricky, right? And so by shifting that driveway to the west, that opens up that free flow of traffic both in and out of the site and having a definitely a safer I'm going to call it intersection or access in and out. So, the applicant has committed uh to uh shifting to the west and also recognizes if we run into uh traffic challenges at that driveway access, they do have the opportunity uh to connect at military um on the north end in the northeast corner of their site um using that as a full access. Uh the 20-oot driveway aisles, they are committed to uh expanding those. Um and then of course um the final note that I wanted to make was the gardener's cottage uh also has its own driveway access to 70th. Uh they are removing that additional access um off of 70th and there will be a shared um access of course eliminating that additional in and out onto 70th um street there as well. 79 parking spaces are required to support the proposed use on the site. The applicant is providing 80 parking spaces. Now, what you'll notice that's quite unique about what the applicant is proposing, and this will lead me back, uh to the HCU as well, um they truly were committed to finding uh uh opportunities and ways to preserve um the real aesthetic feel of the site, the mansion, and the history. Um so, the applicant came to us and said, "Hey, we're really interested in using this unique material. Um it's called True Grid. Don't ask me specifics about the about the engineering, but what I understand it to do is it allows for these folks to maintain that grassy area for parking uh spaces as opposed to um adding in a more pvious surface um or imperous surface rather and but it holds the soil in place. So we eliminate the potential for muddy surface or uh washing uh with rain events and things like that. So they are proposing that unique material to be utilized for their parking surface which again aligns with that historic conditional use permit request. >> Um they are proposing to connect the mansion uh to utilities which are currently stubbed in 69th Street uh in that court there. Um so they will extend that connection all the way to the mansion to ensure uh that they're not operating on the existing septic and well that are out there. They are proposing and again uh their focus was to limit the impervious that they were adding to the site. However, for the impervious that they are adding, um they do need to find a way to treat and manage that storm water on site, which they are doing uh with a small basin um and and flow through and off the site appropriately. Uh minor tree removal on the site. Uh so no need for us to worry about tree mitigation. um and certainly meeting that minimum landscape requirement with the improvements uh specifically to the rose garden, but also throughout the site as a whole. The ACP reviewed this uh application way back in June actually um and there was a five to zero vote uh in support of uh the proposed use and improvements to the mansion. And finally, there is a final recommendation before you this evening. uh to support a business subsidy in the amount of uh $37,725 as a as a sack credit. Um we certainly appreciate the proposal for the economic driver um on this site uh within the community and continuing uh to support uh uh that economic growth as well. Several recommendations before you this evening. Uh the applicant is here if you have specific questions as well. >> All right. Thank you. Uh, first of all, council, do you have any questions for Emily? Uh, we'll start here and then I'll work my way. Uh, council member Olsen please. >> Thanks, Emily. This presentation gets better every time I see it. So, um, I appreciate you uh, bringing this forward and uh, thank you to the applicant for being here this evening and uh, for your interest in this site. One question that stems from the change over to public utilities versus well and septic. Um will this well be sealed then at that point? >> Yes, mayor. Council member Olson, it will be. Y >> Okay, perfect. Thank you. >> Was that it? >> That's it. >> Okay. Council member Theiti, >> I was just curious on uh you know uh the alternate uh entrance and exit from Keats and Military over there. Would that replace the existing Keats drive-in? >> Mayor, council member Theiti. Yes, it would. If they so chose to adjust that driveway location to have that full access because that median on Keats doesn't extend all the way to that old military connection. Okay. Okay. Any questions? Um, one kind of on the the sewer and water thing. The only other question I had was is the gardener house already city so water. >> Mayor, it's not. Okay. Um, and so the gardener's cottage will remain on private well and septic until such time either of those systems fails, then they will be required to >> Okay. That's why I was curious because I noticed you mentioned the mansion but not the gardener's house. Okay. >> All right. Um, did the applicant did you want to speak at this point or >> do you want me to speak? >> One, two, three. Who goes? >> Thanks, Emily. >> You're welcome. JJ, I bet you >> and just your name and address for the record please. >> Uh, JJ Malitzky with Bella Gala. So, mayor, council members, thank you very much. Uh, I have a presentation, but she like nailed it, and you were right. Uh, she gets better every single time. So, I guess, do you have any, you know, questions for me? You guys have seen this a handful of times and >> we got to see some really nice renderings at the uh economic development authority meeting that we had. Um >> we missed you. We were hoping you know come and have some coffee with us, hang out, but it's fine. >> That would have been incredible. I was at Disney World unfortunately. So that's fine. >> Maybe not unfortunate, but >> a lot of times people compare Cottage Grove to Disney World. >> Yeah, same thing. >> That's a conversation for another here. Um, but the renderings looked absolutely amazing. >> Well, I think we uh still got Do we got a couple in here? All right, let's do it. I got a few things. We'll skip uh we tried to cliffnote this thing cuz it was about a 30-minut speech early and um so you already saw these things. Obviously, she talked about the 4,000T addition in the back. And you know, you did talk about um that section in the center where the rose garden is. It's really going to be helpful to uh sound, light, any types of those organic pollutions that we're going to be creating that it's not going to really go into uh any of the adjacent neighborhoods, which is awesome. So, uh just a different view of it. Uh obviously, you'll see the glass structure. Uh our goal is to make that rose garden as uh beautiful as possible. Um our uh designer, Ed, uh the owner of the company, not me unfortunately, but uh Tim has been working with Ed for decades. uh he's helped create uh some of our uh best of our six locations uh statewide and uh it's his design uh it's his willingness to kind of lean into the history to lean into the um you know the true aesthetic of what this thing was 100 plus years ago. So um you'll notice here this is just like a bridal suite. It's going to be that luxurious uh breakaway from the big day and everything else for the uh uh bride or whoever's getting ready in that suite. uh the groom suite uh or another getting ready space that we have, you know, pool tables, things of a little more luxury for us gentlemen, but uh foosball table, uh maybe an arcade game or two, but those are going to be the only things that are really going to have the uh modern touch, I suppose. And we're still going to lean in uh heavy into that. And actually, uh President Roosevelt had had this kind of a goofy thing, but we're doing it anyway. Uh had taken a bath apparently in there. There's no photos to prove it, but um we're going to take that bathtub out of the restroom and actually put it into the groom suite as kind of like a photo op. Uh just a neat piece of history that uh we want to hang on to. So there's a lot of things throughout the buildings that we're not going to be able to, you know, use per se. Uh but we want to use them. We want to use them uh for art. Maybe not function, but uh art, a story, just to kind of keep that history alive as best as we can. So, um, you know, this is, she talked about obviously the 4,000 square foot, uh, addition is really the biggest thing that we're doing. We're not doing a lot to the inside of the house other than repairing, try, you know, replacing when we have to, but trying to, uh, bring as much back to life, whether it's flooring, whether it's, you know, original lighting, original wallpaper, even, uh, the original chandeliers in the, uh, original ballroom are still there. So, we're going to keep all that alive. Uh this is probably the biggest adjustment in there is uh making a bar. Just the bar uh isn't necessarily functional enough. Uh it wouldn't allow for uh proper ADA movement and everything else in there. So we're going to move that and actually remove a piece of the wall that used to be gone uh 100 plus years ago. So we're actually bringing it back to its original self and then uh placing this right beside uh the original fireplace that'll also sit there too. Uh so they can come in here, grab a cocktail, and uh head out to the atrium and the rose garden to enjoy the rest of their evening. So uh and then our ballroom too. You know, obviously the historic um you know, departments in the state are they they they don't want you to make something that looks too much like the mansion. They want it to uh be different. They want it to be more or less detached so if anything were to ever happen in the future. Um so the exterior of that is certainly going to have some modern feel to it. Uh but the interior is where we want to bring in some of those, you know, um more period pieces. We're talking about an old historic 100 plus year old fountain that's actually going to be inside. Uh you'll see some of the lattice uh attributes in there. Uh lattice was apparently pretty awesome back in the late 1800s, early 1900s. And um again, just trying to lean as far as we can into uh the history of the place. So just another approach. You'll even see some of the lattice uh on the ceilings to create some dimension and actually a little bit of a sound barrier, too, which is cool. So, and uh yeah, there we go. Is that too uh bold? >> No. >> Forward. Let's go. >> I don't Yes. Uh Council Member Garza, >> those are awesome. They're amazing. Thank you. >> Looks really awesome. So, when do we expect to have our first event there? >> Uh if you approve, I don't know. We could go there after this. >> It'd be free. Complimentary. No. Uh we are shooting for next August. So we're still um you know obviously this is a major milestone for us to get this thing done and uh other final approvals approvals we're hoping for early early September from you know financing to all that other stuff uh SBA and all those things are still jumping through a couple of hoops but um it's about an 11-month project and so our goal is to begin as soon as possible. We're really kind of ready to start swinging hammers as soon as we get that final approval, which is great. So, >> thank you. >> You're welcome. Thank you. Thank Mosen. One more item. >> Thank you. Um, recently our uh former public safety director and and his wife uh attending their son's wedding at your facility in Chaza. >> Wonderful. Very nice. and they had the opportunity to chat with some of the personnel in Chaza about the fact that um you were looking at this site and trying to come to Cottage Grove and I think there was a lot of mutual excitement there because they really were impressed with the offering in in Chaza and uh I have no question that um I if you can move forward in the manner that you have planned uh this really is going to become another jewel in the crown here of Cottage Grove uh as it was for many many years um way back when. We uh I I I have something I want to share with you and I have not shared this with any other members of the council, nor have I shared it with the staff. So, um don't worry, it's nothing crazy. >> Uh we we take Christmas pretty seriously here in Cottage Grove. And in fact, um Mayor Bailey is affectionately known as Merry Christmas. Uh if you ever go by his home uh during the holiday season, um it's like you're going by MSP airport uh with the amount of lights and doodads and different things. I I don't know how he does it, but he does it. Um and um as I think about a neat event at uh the mansion, I think about maybe a Christmas ball. Um, so as you're putting your plans together and you're thinking about uh next year in August and what have you, um, if that's something that you might consider doing, I'd be happy to, you know, pitch in and and help organize. I happen to be the president of the Lions Club here in town and I've shared it with a couple of my Lions colleagues and they think it's an amazing idea. Um, this kind of a facility would really up the game. Uh, it's a little different than having a dance at the VFW, if you know what I mean. So, um, just something I wanted to put out there in the ether and see if, uh, we can bring that to life at some point. Um, but to see Mayor Bailey in in the in the suit and the tails and all that at a Christmas ball, I think would be pretty neat. Um, and definitely would be uh something that the community would enjoy. Otherwise, um, you have my full support. Uh, I'm really looking forward to seeing what you guys can do with this. The drawings are amazing. the planning has been uh done impeccably well. You've been very careful about maintaining the um uh the the true character of the facility and the grounds and uh I really look forward to when we can, you know, pop the champagne cork and get going. >> Fantastic. Yeah. The only other one thing I it wasn't mentioned in this meeting, but it's been mentioned in all the other ones. uh and you kind of alluded to the Chesca uh events place that you guys have experience uh in doing these kind of things with historic buildings. So, some of the pictures and the the renderings that we've seen of these other buildings that you guys have done um actually gets us to where I think we've always wanted, I can say, as a council. >> Um even the last people before you that were coming with some ideas really wasn't the greatest on what we thought, you know, the property could be doing. So, >> I very much happy with what you guys are proposing on this site. So, >> thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> So, council, we have like six So maybe I'll if you'll >> Can we get those back up on the screen? >> Yeah, I I uh I did something. So >> No, that's okay. That's all right. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> That's what it kind of sounds like. >> Yeah, that's exactly right, too. >> Till I find it here. >> Well, she won't get it. I can hand my sheet. >> We'll get it one way or the other. There we go. All right, mayor. I'll move I'll move that we adopt ordinance number 1103 to approve a zoning amendment to reszone the property at 6940 Keats Avenue South from AG2 Agricultural to mixeduse MU. >> All right, so we have a motion by council member Olson. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Second by council member Theiti. All those in favor signify by saying I. I opposed. >> Motion carries. Council member Thei, you want to do number two? I move that we adopt resolution 2025112 to approve a historical conditional use permit to operate an event center wedding venue on the Cedarhurst Mansion property located at 6940 Keats Avenue South which is on the National Register of Historic Places in the city's register of historical sites and landmarks. >> All right, so we have a motion by council member Thei. Do I have a second? >> A second. >> Second by council member Garza. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed. Motion carries. Council member Gars, you want to take three? >> I move to adopt resolution 2025-113 to approve a site plan review for improvements to the site and the mansion and addition to the mansion located at 6940 Keats Avenue South for use as a wedding and event center. >> All right. So, we have a motion by council member Garzo. Second. >> Second. >> Second by council member Olsen. All those in favor of this motion signify by saying I. >> I opposed. Motion carries. Council member Bros. number four. Mayor, >> I'll move to adopt ordinance number 104 to approve a zoning amendment to reszone the property at 991 to 70th Street South from AG2 Agricultural to R3 Single Family Residential. >> All right. So, a motion by Council Member Rollson. Do I have a second by Council Member Theiti? Again, any other discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> I. Opposed. Motion carries. Number five. >> I'd move that we adopt resolution 2025114 to approve a historical conditional use permit to use the gardener's cottage property located at 9912 70th Street South in conjunction with the commercial event wedding venue on the adjacent parcel at 6940 Keats Avenue South. >> Again, we have a motion by council member Thei. >> Second. >> Second by council member Garza. >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed. >> Motion carries. And finally, >> I move to approve the business subsidy agreement with Bella Gala to provide a business subsidy for 37,275 for up to 15 SACE units. >> So 15 sack units. All right. So we have a motion by council member Garza, second by motion by council Garza, second by council member Bolson. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. >> Motion carries. You're on your way. Looking forward to it. Thank you so much. Thank you both for being here tonight. Appreciate it. >> It's a great idea. It It'll be fun. >> 2026. >> There you go. >> Good. >> Yeah. >> All right. Our final item on under regular agenda this evening is an ordinance amendment with the city code 5-1-3, which is paraphernalia definitions. And our city Oh, she went over there. I was just talking there. She gets up and moves over to this side of the room >> is going to take us through this one. Welcome. >> Your honor, members of the council, you haven't heard enough about cannabis from me in a while, so I know you missed the topic. I miss talking about it. >> Uh so this um we've talked about cannabis businesses. We've talked about cannabis uses. We've zoned them. We've put a registration uh ordinance in place. You've approved uh at least one cannabis use with Leafline Labs. Um but now we're going to talk about paraphernalia, which is a product that they sell. Uh it's a little bit of a gray area in the law. Currently we have an ordinance all most cities do that is very common sense and it's state law too that that you can't have drug paraphernalia. You can't use it. You can't possess it possess it. And drug paraphernalia is defined as any device that is used to inject, ingest, inhale or otherwise introduce a controlled substance into the body. So that seems like a very common sense definition. So we don't allow drug paraphernalia. We do allow tobacco devices in tobacco stores. Tobacco devices are known as a device that is intentionally used, designed, or intended for the chewing, sniffing, smoking, or other consumption, whether by inhalation, aerosol or vapor or ingestion of tobacco or tobacco products. Again, seems like it makes sense. Common sense definition. The way that the city currently interprets these two definitions is that you can sell obviously tobacco devices at tobacco stores. We don't allow drug paraphernalia, but the gray area is cannabis paraphernalia because sometimes they look a lot alike. So, we had an application from two tobacco shops that have requested the ability to sell cannabis paraphernalia. You may say, "Well, don't we allow that today?" And the answer is no, we don't because it is often indistinguishable from drug paraphernalia. So, we have taken an approach with with the consent or uh we've um discussed it with the city prosecutor who supports this interpretation that cannabis paraphernalia unless it is truly in an environment such as a cannabis retail store. It is adjacent to cannabis products. It can be indistinguishable from drug paraphernalia. So, we have said tobacco stores, you can't sell cannabis paraphernalia. So, these two tobacco shops, it was uh Cottage Grow or CG to smoke shop, which is on East Point Douglas Road, and Moonsoon Tobacco, which I believe is the one uh next to Duncan on uh 80th Street. They have requested that we make the definition clear that tobacco shops can sell cannabis paraphernalia. So, cannabis paraphernalia, similar kind of definition, includes equipment knowingly or intentionally used primarily in ingesting, inhaling, or introducing cannabis into the body. So, we have all these different kinds of devices. What are we talking about? So, this is some pictures I picked off the internet of drug paraphernalia. I am not a connoisseur. I'm not an expert in any of these devices, any of them. But these are what I've I've asked other uh experts from um the drug task force, help me out here, understand what these products look like. So, this is drug paraphernalia. This is tobacco paraphernalia uh that tobacco shops can currently sell and this is cannabis paraphernalia. So you can see some of them are very unique to their product and some of them when you put them side by side can look similar and also can be used for all three kinds of products. So this is sort of the interpretation question that we're in right now. We have taken the strict, as I said, interpretation that we don't allow anyone to sell cannabis paraphernalia. When we do, if we do, when we do probably get a cannabis retail or a low potency cannabis retail store, they are allowed by state law to sell cannabis paraphernalia. Not a problem. We don't have one of those yet. So, where who can sell cannabis paraphernalia? I asked this question of the Office of Cannabis Management and they said, "Well, clearly a cannabis store can. clearly, well, not quite as clearly, but we think you can kind of get there by connecting dots that a low potency retail store also could. And and I I agree. I think you can that is a natural um segue into the product, you know, if if it's a low potency store, whether it's adult use or low potency cannabis products, cannabis devices. So, who else can sell it? They didn't have an answer to that question. And so they felt like it was an interpretation question that each local government could decide for themselves because it is a vague area in the law. It doesn't say that anyone can sell cannabis paraphernalia. So that's why we're posing the question to you. There has been an application to make an ordinance amendment to allow cannabis paraphernalia to be sold at tobacco shops. That is the specific request that we've made. But I pose to you that you actually have three options. You can say we're going to leave it as is. The ordinance says no drug paraphernalia anywhere. Our interpretation is cannabis paraphernalia looks a little bit too much like drug paraphernalia. So nobody gets to sell it other than when we get to the point of a cannabis retail store. So we'll leave the ordinance as is. Or you could allow what their application is, which is to do an ordinance amendment that would specifically say we're accepting out from the definition of drug paraphernalia cannabis paraphernalia. So that is not included, that is not overarching in the definition of drug paraphernalia and it is a legal product to be sold and we would allow it only at tobacco stores which is what the ask is. So, the ordinance that I've drafted in just for review, not for adoption tonight, just as a taking a stab at what it could look like to amend the ordinance. All we've done so far is accept out cannabis paraphernalia from the definition of drug paraphernalia. So, this that ordinance doesn't go far enough because there's a separate ordinance we would have to amend to say and tobacco stores get to sell cannabis paraphernalia. So, that's option two. Or option three is you could say let's just amend the drug paraphernalia ordinance to say cannabis paraphernalia is not included and then anyone can sell it if that's your policy direction and when anyone I mean gas stations, drugstore, grocery stores, anyone. It's a legal product and anyone can sell it. So those are your three options. And I normally wouldn't pose this at a council meeting. we would have a back, you know, a work session on it. But this is an application that simple sim similar to a planning application for an ordinance amendment except it's on the city code side, not the planning commission side. So I'm posing it to you. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. Uh first of all, Council Member The I I've never seen any paraphernalia that automatically would come with free product in it or anything. That really is the issue, right? So what would be the problems with just saying everywhere? What what kind of issues would we run into? >> Your honor, members of the council, I you would have to decide if these are issues. This this means that products that look like this could be sold at any any retail store or any store that wants to sell the kind of product. And if you think that's not a problem, then that's not a problem. So when I look at this, I don't know that I would say it's necessarily a problem because you could do whichever in kind of what in any one of those things. In some of the other documentation we had, you know, it said, "For the purpose of this section, drug paraphernalia shall mean all equipment, products, and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating cultivating growing harvesting manufacturing compounding converting producing processing preparing testing analyzing packaging etc. etc. So there's just a a whole list of things which I see there which I say is is is different than what I'm seeing here in a sense. >> I wouldn't expect a tobacco store to be selling some kind of cultivation equipment. So I mean they're I think therein lies the difference. They they truly are looking at selling something like the things on the screen. So, but again the ask is just to be sold at tobacco stores and I'm asking do you want to open it up? Do you want to close it up? Do you want to go in between? >> Okay. Did you have a question? >> I do. >> Okay. I'll then I'll come to you. So, council member Olson. >> Thank you. We recently had um an application come before us for uh low potency hemp which um is somewhat different than what we're talking about with pure cannabis, but um you know, from a chemical perspective, THC and all that is still part of that. So, uh what I think I heard you say earlier, is you know, at this point, we don't have anybody selling that, but we will soon. Um at that point, they would be eligible currently to sell this >> if you chose. Yeah. Under state law. >> Mhm. It's the gray area. It doesn't There's a section of that 342 new statute that says cannabis paraphernalia can be sold at cannabis retail stores. Period. >> It doesn't say that in the low potency section, >> right? >> So again, by sort of extrapolation, you could say it's a similar product. It makes sense. So that being said, um if if we look at the options that you presented, uh B would put us more in line with >> um what the state is sort of guiding. I'm not going to say that they're doing a good job of guiding it, but they're sort of guiding it. Is that accurate? >> Um with the exception of allowing it specifically at tobacco stores. So calling it out that they would say state law is very clear cannabis can sell it adult use cannabis grayer but probably at low potency >> anywhere else would be up to the city. >> Mhm. And the tobacco stores are the applicants that are currently asking for that >> uh opportunity. >> Yes. Okay. And and your honor members of the council if I may add we did a little informal survey or found one uh of what other communities >> tobacco stores. Yeah. And it really it really varies. Um, and some, you know, it's I couldn't even say it's 5050 tobacco stores whether they're selling it or not. It it really just varies by community. It varies by store uh by store owner. Uh, some owners store owners don't want to get into it. But >> so I think it really comes down to what you're comfortable with. Well, the the the piece that I wrestle with whenever we look at something like this is the enforcement piece because that's always going to fall on our public safety team to be able to uh enforce whatever it is that we choose to do. Um I'm assuming that our public safety director and our public safety team have been engaged in these conversations. Um, have you been able to identify a preference uh or or thought on anything they may be uncomfortable with or comfortable with here? >> You're on. Members of the council, I think the problem is this picture. >> Um, unless it is next to a spoon with residue in it, >> they can't say for sure that it's drug >> paraphernalia. Mhm. >> Uh I actually had an email from the u the drug task force uh from sheriff's department today and he the one who's sort of been guiding me through this discussion with you um when I said I don't understand you know you got to help me out with the difference. How is the council going to be able to understand the difference between drug paraphernalia truly drug paraphernalia and cannabis paraphernalia? And he said I can't even tell the difference. >> Mhm. >> So is there a recommendation or a clear line? No. >> Mhm. >> There's not because this is unfolding. Uh I think you know the safest approach would be to say all cannabis uses get to to sell it and that's it. Then we know what it's for. >> But if you want to open it up to tobacco stores at their request, >> other communities are doing it. I see. >> I wouldn't say intentionally though. there. I could not find a single ordinance and I looked that where a community has said we are allowing the sales of cannabis paraphernalia at tobacco stores. >> So it's being done and it's not being enforced as drug paraphernalia. >> Right. So I think that's the position that most communities are taking is >> well we do we do have a neighboring community where um this does get sold at tobacco shops which is I think what prompted >> it is >> our local community tobacco shops to ask the question and from where I stand I think uh option B seems like a reasonable and fair option um based on what I know to be true of what is occurring in some other communities. But, you know, that's as far as I'd be willing to move the needle. I'm not uh definitely not in favor of um kind of opening Pandora's box and letting it happen everywhere. But again, I always go back to that enforcement element. Um there's an educational piece along with this too that we'll need to engage in, but at least for me, mayor, I would favor uh option B. >> Okay. Council member Garza. >> Thank you. So my question, Corey, um we with our tobacco store and our cannabis store that we already have in town, are they already selling um products that are nicotine but are similar or look something like the products you had on the screen? >> I council member Garza, I I honestly don't know what the tobacco store is, what kind of products that they're selling. They can sell tobacco devices. We they are all of them. We have I think three tobacco stores that are exclusive tobacco stores. And regardless, they are all uh complying with our you can't sell cannabis devices. No. >> And so so they they're they're selling something that looks like tobacco devices but not cannabis devices. And and Leafline, which is the only uh manufacturing, doesn't have a retail component. They're not a store. So my question is, we haven't gone to the tobacco store to see what type of devices they're currently selling. So, what what I'm really alluding to is they're probably already selling these devices, but they're >> nicotine. No, they are they are not selling devices that could be used for cannabis. They're very they have been told this looks like a cannabis device. You can't sell it. >> So, they don't sell any like uh tobacco pipes or anything. >> I mean, I'm sure the oldfashioned kind of pipe. Yes. But >> the reason why I'm asking this is because >> if they're already selling these type of products and now they're just looking to rename their section a cannabis use section. Were they already selling this stuff in their store? >> Your honor, your honor and council member Garza, I don't think so. And that's why they're making the ask. Otherwise, I don't think they would have applied for this. If they were already selling a product that looked close enough, I don't think they would be making the the request of us to change our ordinance to make it more clear. >> They may want to expand their operation. So that's probably instead of just calling it strictly tobacco use, they may be able to expand to the other products. So that's the reason why I'm asking this, >> but the low potency store is not selling paraphernalia, >> right? >> How about a liquor store that sells tobacco? >> No, this would be this would be for exclusive tobacco stores only, not anybody with a tobacco license. Not just anybody with tobacco license. >> So how do they get around that? So if you're only a brickandmortar tobacco store, but if you hold a tobacco license, you're not allowed to do that. Only a tobacco store >> strictly. >> Your honor, members of the council, that would be my suggestion. Otherwise, you're going to find them at every, you know, gas station and yeah, bar and anybody that has a a tobacco license as part of their uh the rest of their business. >> The the one question I have, I'm trying to remember back when we had these discussions. I am is it accurate that um liquor stores are not able to sell any of that? Is that accurate right now? >> Um in Cottage Grove. >> Well, I whether it's Cottage Grove or anywhere. I just was curious. >> Yeah. Liquor stores can sell the low potency beverages and that's >> Yes. The beverages. >> The beverages. >> But not the in Cottage Grove. We have not allowed uh low potency uh other products to be sold at liquor stores. It would just be the beverage. >> Okay. All right. But but liquor stores can sell pipes. >> Yes or no? >> Uh tobacco. >> They only if they're tobacco store can they sell tobacco products. >> Yeah. They got tobacco license. They >> Yes. >> Yeah. But that's what that's kind of where I was heading with it is if they're if they're selling tobacco, then would this be another option in there? >> Somebody could smoke just about anything in a pipe, right? A Mir Sherm pipe or >> or a Sherlock pipe or >> That was my question. >> Yeah. Uh, Council Member Morson, >> thank you. Um, again, I I like option B because it does limit the tobacco store versus having a tobacco license. I think that that's a important distinction. And the other thing I think um goes handinhand with this is when you think about um you know a tobacco store or or even a cannabis retail store, they're set up to do the training. they're set up to, you know, handle compliance. We already do the compliance checks, those kinds of things. So, our people are going to be in those buildings anyway. Um, and they're they're already aware of the way that our city operates with respect to holding folks accountable to, you know, follow the ordinance correctly and that sort of thing. Um, and I believe we have pretty good relationships with the tobacco stores in town at this point. I know we had a little bumpy road for a minute there, but uh we took care of that. Um so to me it feels fair, it feels reasonable to allow the tobacco stores to to move forward with this request as opposed to, as you stated earlier, kind of having it at every gas station and every uh other place that that has a tobacco license. Um that that's important for me anyway. That's important to draw that line um of delineation there and and I think if we do that effectively, this makes sense. >> So, I I'll just say from my standpoint um I'm going to go at the moment and I'm not saying you come back later and I change my mind like before you actually get this going, but um I'll go with B for now. Um would be my my idea. I do have a little bit of angst or heartburn as it relates to, you know, at some point in time we could get, you know, a gas station owner or somebody that says, "Hey, but I want to do it." I guess what I want to really do and myself personally and then maybe with our staff is just to find out what other I know you already know because matter of fact, the city to the north of us doesn't even have an ordinance and all their people are selling it in the in the tobacco stores. and the fact right now that we've had two tobacco stores that actually reached out to us asking for this. >> Uh and the fact that a city to the north of us doesn't even have anything about it, but they're still selling it. >> Um I think it's better to do it legally. Um uh from an ordinance standpoint and and go from there. But I'm also not against somewhere in the future looking at you know what as this evolves because this has been evolving even yet this year um with what's going on at the state level. um that that might be something we want to entertain and and of course as a council we can always do that right at some point. >> I hope the state would take that on at some point and give a better direction. >> That that would be wonderful if that could occur. >> Yeah. And your honor, members of the council, as you know, um OCM is a new organization. They're still trying to figure it out. The legislature is is enacting a lot of things that are not super specific. And so they're trying to do their best in interpreting things. And so we're filling in the blanks for them where there are blanks. And as you said, maybe eventually either the statute or OCM will get more definition for us, but until then, I think it's helpful to put this in writing so everybody knows our rules >> and it seems like a reasonable first step. >> And I do like the fact that they're they're asking us for permission because the reality is is they're saying multiple cities are out there that with nothing and they they want to be good partners. And so I'm I'm totally okay with with B uh at this point personally. Um but I'm also not against looking at it in the future. >> Yeah. >> So I'm probably all right to start with B2. I'd rather be a little more restrictive than be able to open it up because you go the other way and and if you find some problems, it's tough. But I also have, you know, uh heartburn for for like public safety and that and trying to >> figure some of these things out sometime because it is is kind of uh tough to uh it, you know, say what's what. But so, >> yep, >> I'm right on board. I I believe B is are probably our best option to start with to figure it out where we're going, how we're going, all the things. So, yeah. Do you need official vote? >> I do not need a vote. I appreciate the direction and the next step would be for me to prepare the two ordinances to come before you and it it may be on consent as long as it's not controversial. Okay. >> Um and it could be as soon as the next meeting. So I appreciate that. Thank you. >> Thank you. Sounds good. Thank you, Corey. >> All right. >> Sorry. Now I will flip my page over. So next item on our agenda, we're actually done with the main business, if you will, so to speak. Uh the next item is council comments request, which is number 12. And I'll start with Council Member Rollson. >> Thank you, Mayor. There's an awful lot uh of things coming around the bend here as we transition into Labor Day. And uh I'm sure that you're going to hear all about them from my colleagues. Uh, one thing I wanted to mention is if you are a fairgoing person, and I know that there are an awful lot of those in our community, Cottage Grove is once again selected as a site for the um, uh, the bus rapid transit to the fair. So, if you're looking to get out to the fair and get back home here to Cottage Grove, you'll have that opportunity if you go to the Cottage Grove Park and ride, which is right along Highway 61 on West Point Douglas Road between 80th Street in Jamaica. Uh, it's right near the Youth Service Bureau building. Um, it's a great way to do it. I think it's six bucks round trip. The first bus in the morning leaves I believe at 8 am and uh the last bus at night comes home from the fair at midnight except for Labor Day which is the last day of the fair. That uh morning bus is at 8, but that evening bus uh is 11:00 p.m. Um that'll bring you back home from the fair. But when my family and I go, that's the only way we go. Um and I'm telling you, it's it's really great. But, uh, be prepared because a lot of people like to use that. So, um, they do have buses that circulate pretty regularly. Um, but again, if you're interested in getting out to the state fair and it sounds like this weekend the weather's going to be beautiful. Um, make sure that you uh, consider the park and ride here in Cottage Grove, uh, well worth the $6 roundtrip price. By the way, kids that are five and under are free. And we also um have disabled veterans who get to travel for free on the bus. So, if you have young ones, um you don't have to pay that price. Finally, if you're an electronics person and you're into the um Metro Transit app, which I didn't even know they had an app, but I guess they do, that $6 roundtrip price is only $5 if you buy your ticket through the app. So, it's a great way to save a little money. And with that, mayor, I'll turn it back to you. >> All right. Thank you. Yeah, it is. I think it's going to be busy this week at the fair. >> Yep. >> Council member Mathei. >> Yep. And I we always typically take that bus, too. In fact, we're going to take it tomorrow. There you go. Try for day one. >> First day. Yeah. There you go. Never gone on the first day before, but uh >> so uh that should be fun. And also, I guess the other thing I have is is uh Mo wanted me to see if Yo wanted to go to see Moana, too. >> Try to try to fit that. >> I got it. >> But at any rate, it's it's the movies with Mo tomorrow and uh it's it's at uh um >> Highlands Park. >> Highland Park. Yeah. Okay. You didn't have that down there. >> Sorry. at Highlands Park uh at 7:00 p.m. and that's tomorrow. You're going to have popcorn again. >> Free popcorn, free lemonade, and free glow sticks. >> Holy cow. >> Movie starts at dusk. >> So, >> yeah. So, uh so I think you want to go. >> Last one of the season. So, >> you going to be back from the fair in time to get to the movie? >> No, I'm not. I I've seen Moana, too. >> Was that it for you? Yeah. Council member Garza. >> Thank you, Council Member Ty. Um, thank you, mayor. So, I will round it off with a few other activities that we have going on in the city. Um, of course, on Thursdays, we have food truck Thursdays at right here at city hall. So, tomorrow we'll have a food truck up here. It's going to be the California Dip and Eat. So, that should be really, really good. They're usually down at Cub Foods, so they're heading their way up here. So, pretty good. Um, also our food truck festival that's coming around the corner. That's on September 13th from 11:00 to 6:00 at Kingston Park. I believe we have 40 plus food trucks or so. >> 35. >> 35. Okay. Close. Close. >> But there is a waiting list too of other food trucks who want to get in. >> Okay. And I see it right there. Sorry. So, there's a marketplace, there's a kids activity, there's a beer tent. I'll be volunteering there for a few hours. And then we'll have live music. Again, basic and boring will be there from 11:00 to 2:00 and Revved Up will be there from 3:00 to 6:00. So, they're always a fun event. If you're not doing anything, come on out and enjoy the day with us. >> And that's it. >> All right. Well, then I'm going to piggyback on that because before you go to the food truck festival, you got to do your Beyond the Yellow Ribbon walk run. Uh which is the same day, September 13th. It starts at 8:00 at uh Kingston Park. Um so you can get all that stuff and then you're going to be so hungry you're going to go eat all that bad stuff at the food trucks probably. But if you're interested in joining in, this is a um this is a fundraising event for uh the Beyond the Yellow Ribbon Group uh for uh the uh well, you call it the the River Valley now, right? >> Yeah, we're Mississippi River Valley Beyond the Yellow Ribbon and we serve uh military families, veterans uh in the area and this is a great fundraiser to help support us in that mission. >> Absolutely. So, if you're interested and want to uh learn how to sign up and all the pieces of that, just go to www www.runsignup.com and uh you can sign up there. And again, you can walk. I've heard that comment from my colleague over here. It doesn't necessarily have to run. So, if you want to get involved or frankly, let's say you want to sign up and just donate the money. Y >> uh that's an option, too. You don't have to run. So uh again all the money goes to uh military families uh and uh military members uh in our >> 5k 10k and a 15k. So you can do any of those and when you sign up you'll get a t-shirt, you'll get your timer. Uh you get a little gift bag, some uh refreshments, and then you get to stay for the food truck festival. >> There you go. >> How much better could it be? >> Sounds good. All right, so uh that's it for me. The next item on our agenda, which is open to the public, I believe we'll be going into the training room and that is just kind of our final look uh at the uh 2026 uh budget uh for the city of Cottage Grove and and then also be talking about communication to make sure that we get the information out to the public on what's going on there. Uh 14 is a workshop which we don't have this evening that's close to the public. Uh and we won't be adjourning in here. We'll adjourn in the uh in the training room. So everybody have a great evening and we'll talk to you soon.