Lakeville City Council Meeting 3-3-25
00:00 Start
01:37 Citizen Comments
06:42 5a. Park and Recreation Quarterly Report
18:03 Consent Agenda
27:30 7a. Consider a Preliminary Plat for Airlake DEA 2nd Addition
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[0:50] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Good evening and welcome to the March 3rd city council meeting. If you'd join me for a moment of silence and Pledge of Allegiance.
[1:12] **City Council Members:** I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America...
[1:25] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Ms. Orlofsky, roll call please.
[1:28] **City Clerk Ann Orlofsky:** Luke Hellier. John Bermel.
**Councilmember John Bermel:** Here.
**Ann Orlofsky:** Dan Wolter.
**Councilmember Dan Wolter:** Here.
**Ann Orlofsky:** Joshua Lee.
**Councilmember Joshua Lee:** Here.
[1:33] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay, very good. We'll move on to item number three. This is citizens' comments. It's an opportunity for anybody to address the council about issues. If you want to come up and state your name—typically though, is there an issue later on the agenda you want to talk about or is this separate? No, this is from... okay, come on up. Yep. Okay, sorry, thank you. If you'd state your name and address please.
[1:58] **Jeff Caral:** Sure, no problem. Uh, Jeff Caral, 17616 Fairfax Avenue in Farmington. I was here with the... oh, do you want the zip and stuff too or...? Okay, I'm sorry. Um, I was here at the last meeting when we were going through the um North Creek development and I just wanted to make you aware that um I had gotten a... a... uh... oh, I'm sorry, God... happens to me all the time. Oh, sorry. I had gotten a survey from the uh um Midwest Natural Resources of... of the wetland that was... uh, developed that we're developing a wetland, and it was considered to be all wetland before. And now since they've been working on it, there's only a small section that's considered wetland. And I just wanted to... I know I gave you copies of this last meeting and I wanted to make it available to the other members and so here are copies of it.
[3:09] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Want to give it to our clerk?
[3:11] **Jeff Caral:** Sure. I'm sorry, thank you.
[3:16] **Jeff Caral:** Very... I believe had sent me an email saying that it was considered the part that is wetland is man-made so they can develop on it, but I wanted... I forwarded that on to the EPA to find out if that's true or not and also to the company that did the... or the firm that did the uh study, just to make sure that that's what it actually is supposed to be. Because I don't believe you can develop on wetland. I just don't want anybody to get in trouble over it and I wanted to make you aware of it. Which, if it is, then that's the bigger issue was that he forwarded on... the person that did it forwarded me on to the United States Forest and Wildlife Service which said that when we did the original thing month ago, uh, there was eagles on that development and they can't unless they have a... an eagle nest permit or they have a... um, specific or a general uh permit, they can't take down within 600 ft of an eagle's nest, which I think is pretty normal. Um, but I have neighbors who have pictures of eagles and I just don't want the city of Lakeville or anybody to get in trouble for it without actually being aware of it. So here's that email from um... and so if you want, take a look at that also. I just want you to be aware of it so that... uh, she... I am going to tell them that they're developing that land back there and she emailed me back saying well, they're... if they do do that it's going to be fines and they're going to have to stop and they're going to... there's going to be fines. And I don't want to end up having fines for the city of Lakeville because I'm assuming that's what's... what she's talking about is fining the developing firm, the uh engineers and probably the city of Lakeville. So I just want you to be aware um that I'm going to be contacting them again. So um, and uh we were also wondering... I believe Mr. Miller had emailed my wife and I um what about the 11, 10 or 11 stipulations? Who's supposed to be making sure that that gets done uh before that development starts taking place?
[5:56] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Could your email—I'm sorry, the first time. Okay, well we... I'll follow up with you on the Fish and Wildlife stuff and then we'll get you a clarification on the um the other question you had too. Because you had—or someone on the board had brought up—uh, them fixing the sign and getting rid of some trees and stuff like that. I just want to make sure it gets done before. So thank you very much, appreciate it.
[6:25] **Jeff Caral:** Thank you for coming.
[6:30] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Any other citizen comments? Okay, seeing none, we'll move on to item number four. Any additional agenda information, Mr. Miller?
[6:38] **City Administrator Justin Miller:** Nothing tonight, mayor.
[6:40] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay, we'll move on to item five and that is our uh Park and Recreation quarterly report and I'll turn it over to our Parks and Recreation Director, Mr. Masiarchin.
[6:51] **Parks & Recreation Director Joe Masiarchin:** Good evening, um, Mayor, Council. Uh, good evening. Uh, I'll be doing our quarterly report. This covers December through February. It's a little bit of end of last year, beginning of this year um updates. So uh, to start with, to talk a little bit about what we've been working on administratively for the department, several initiatives that I do want to touch base on tonight. Um, the first of which is of course Grand Prairie Park. Uh, so construction continues at the uh the park. Uh, this winter we've completed uh now framing for the field support building. That's the building closest to the pickleball courts. Uh, the structural steel has been installed on the the main building and they'll actually be working on framing that in later this week, we'll start weather pending. Uh, that is the building that's closest to the splash pad um and the playground. And then we've uh completed backfill at the grandstand um but have been meeting with our contractors continually throughout the season. Uh, so work is progressing but kind of slowly at this point which we anticipated. Um, things are moving along though nicely. Uh, Spyglass uh Park Phase 2. Uh, this is actually one of the uh neighborhood parks that is going to be receiving an update this year. Uh, it's Phase 2. The original portion of the park is the uh lower portion. This was redesigned or redeveloped as the um existing stormwater pond was added to the park, so we acquired additional land with that development to the north. And in that portion, we'll be installing a new uh multi-purpose athletic deck and as part of that project um we distributed 230 emails to the residents, uh received 53 comments back um regarding that survey and have since made uh some good, I think, updates to the initial uh master plan and also based off of what we received from the Park, Recreation and Natural Resource Committee. Uh, so this plan has shifted some minor adjustments here there, but this is scheduled for construction here in 2025. Uh, strategic planning—I touched on this the last time that I presented—but we've completed now two days of strategic planning for the Recreation Department and Heritage Center and that included our uh Park, Recreation and Heritage Center staff as well as representatives from the active adults and Parks, Recreation and Natural Resource Committee members. It was a two-day strategic planning process. Uh, we'll next be meeting with the consultant again to develop an implementation plan for Recreation and an implementation plan for Heritage. And once that's complete, I would imagine down the road we'll be bringing those new initiatives to uh the Council at a future work session. Uh, the other project that we've been working on in conjunction with the Communications Department is an update to the Parks and Recreation website. This is actually tied to a larger refresh to the city's website and when that rolls out later this year, we will now have a new landing page for Parks and Recreation, a new URL or a direct URL to Parks and Recreation similar to what we have for the Art Center and the Heritage Center. And that's going to provide new opportunities for us to market our programs, facilities and events but also will provide new opportunities for us to be able to provide new information to the public, uh which we're excited about. And park maintenance—park maintenance, our staff has been incredibly busy. Uh, so the uh this winter um we um flooded the ice rinks. Uh, so that's uh a 24-hour a day process for seven staff uh to get those opened up in the in time for the season. We had 52 seasonal um summer or seasonal staff that uh manage the warming houses. That's 10 10 sites across the city in 20 different rinks. Uh, this year the warming houses were open for 49 days and during that time uh staff counted over 14,000 users of those rinks. That's counted every hour so there is some duplication in there to keep in mind, but still a really impressive use this year. And Proxys—I touched on this also the last time—Proxys is the new locking system that we're using for the park system. Uh, today, in fact, we finished the completion of the installation for the Steve Mad building, we finished the installation at the performing arts building and the Fine Arts building at the Art Center. Uh, and at this point that phase of the project is more or less complete. Later this year, we're going to be looking at um some additions for the Heritage Center, so kind of a phase two to that project. But results so far have been great with the new system. And we've got a notable retirement from our parks maintenance crew; it's actually 19 years of service uh from Mark Desan, he retired today. Um, we actually had three retirements from park maintenance all within similar timeframes of service um and three new staff that have uh already been uh brought on. Our first of which started mid-February, that was uh Matt Stonestrom. Um, and then we have a new staff member that's starting today and another in two weeks. Um, but some big changes for park maintenance, but we're excited for those that have retired, appreciate their service, and then also welcome our new staff. And uh, we've also been working on some upgrades to our signage throughout the park system. Um, couple of those notable improvements would include some new signage for the West Lake Marion off-road uh bike course, disc golf course wayfinding signage, educational signs for Ritter Farm—that's both environmental signage and, as displayed here, new signage for the Edo Environmental Learning Center. And then of course with the new park, Grand Prairie, we'll be doing quite a bit of additional signage there. And uh, Recreation—so Recreation facilities uh started reservations January 1st. Uh, we're currently sitting at 59 reservations for the John Hennon Pavilion again this year. We switched that to a two-per-day uh reservation uh time slot in May, from May through August, so allowing more um reservations at that facility um during that time period of the year. And then our shelters are sitting at 95 reservations so far. There are some very busy days as you would expect—um, you know, some of the most popular days are already booked—but there is a lot of availability throughout the system. So we just encourage people to reserve sooner than later. And for special events, uh Recreation had the Santa Secret Store with around 500 participants, Illumination Walk with just about 200, the Winter Wonderland Pint-Size Prom with 43, and the youth ice fishing contest with approximately 100. And uh, for some of their other programs uh we had the dog sled rides 262, candle making, uh spring pickleball and the uh jigsaw jamboree which is a new program that we're doing. It's one of the puzzle making contests—that did sell out with 12 teams or 12 groups. Uh, we've added quite a few of those now for spring and summer and those are reserving—are registering well. And for other upcoming events for Recreation, uh quite a few coming up here in April: uh the Easter Egg Scramble, Golden Egg Hunt, Earth Day Celebration and then of course coming up here uh the summer, starting June 16th, we'll have the Puppet Wagon which will be returning uh back to the community. And moving on to the Art Center, uh this December uh they held the Holiday Art Sale and Empty Bowls fundraiser. Uh, that was tied this year to the same week as Holiday on Main. Sold over 300 pieces of art made by local artists and uh $5,800 in sales. The majority of that goes back to the artists; the Art Center does retain a percentage to help support the facility. Uh, winter-spring programs—it's been a a busy um uh season so far. So pottery program sitting at almost 300 participants, uh specialty workshops—which are like the classic oil painting and the fused glass—almost 100, and then the Youth Art Break, those are programs that we offer specifically over spring break, sitting currently at 60 registrations. And for performing arts, also a solid winter: um Christmas Carol radio play, um an Enchanted Christmas—that's the Lakeville Area Community Band—sitting at almost 300 tickets sold. Um, Chad Johnson music—a tribute to the Bee Gees—and A Murder Is Announced, uh which is Expressions Community Theater, that's our local group with over 700 tickets. And just looking ahead for the Art Center, uh the downtown Lakeville Art Crawl is coming uh May 10th. Uh, more information will be coming out on that including the list of artists and the interactive map here in another month or so. Uh, the Live at the Lake summer concert series—we've already sent out um invites for that series, that's an application process, and uh staff will be announcing that as um as we continue to get contracts signed. So I would assume over the next six weeks or so. Uh, we are excited to announce though that Safety Signs will again be sponsoring that series for a 2-year timeframe, '25 and '26, and appreciate their support. And active adults: holiday social. Uh, so this is the annual holiday social that's held in December. Uh, they had 160 participants at that. The special events: um their holiday bake sale, almost 800 in sales; um the holiday cocoa day, 10 participants; and the monthly Lakeville luncheons, over 100. And they held their third annual Mardi Gras party—so over 80 participants this year, that was on February 11th. And then memberships again continue to uh break records—I think I tell you this every time I present—but now sitting at uh over 1,607 um members at the Heritage Center. But also really strong showings for their other events: the card and board games, um the book club, craft—the crafts, and fitness, just to name a few. And then as a reminder, the summer-fall brochure—this is our new brochure that's covering six months of the year—has been mailed out to all Lakeville residents. It is available online and our registrations are already going fast. Some of the most popular classes and events are already starting to fill so don't wait to check that out. And with that, I'll stand for any questions.
[17:10] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Council questions, comments? So, my just only question I had for you was um did you have the timeline on Grand Prairie Park or what are... what are the key milestones over the next couple of months for construction?
[17:21] **Joe Masiarchin:** Yeah, and I can send you the actual... our full construction schedule if you'd like to see it um or a highlight of it. But uh we're anticipating at this point to complete construction on the facility of the field support building and the main building uh by mid-May. Um, our goal is still to be able to open uh the pickleball courts, playground, splash pad and challenge course yet this summer. Our goal would really be July, I think, is what we're looking at, but it's all going to be weather dependent. And uh, we'll be uh installing turf uh or planting seed here this spring. We won't be using any of the athletic decks this year. Uh, and the grandstand we're anticipating will be complete by mid-September, so that is also scheduled for a 2026 opening.
[17:51] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Fantastic. Good report. Thank you.
[17:55] **Joe Masiarchin:** Yep, thank you.
[17:57] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** All right, um, moving on to item six, this is our consent agenda. These are more routine items for the council. Anything you'd like to highlight, Mr. Miller?
[18:03] **Justin Miller:** Thank you, Mayor. A couple items tonight: item 6E is a resolution awarding construction uh contracts for the 185th Street Expansion Project. So that'll be 185th between I-35 and County Road 50, uh the roundabout there. So we're looking forward to that. Items F and G are both donations to the Fire Department and we appreciate those donations as well as, um, Mr. Masiarchin mentioned, the donation of Safety Signs for the community uh as sponsor for the summer concert series, that's item 6O. And then item 6P is a list of other donations to the Park and Rec Department. And then lastly, 6U is a resolution accepting bids and authorizing contracts for the first center—that's our First Responder Skills training center—and we're looking forward to that construction.
[18:55] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay, very good. Um, Council, any items that you would like to pull for further discussion?
[18:59] **Councilmember Joshua Lee:** Council Mayor, I'd like to uh pull item 6R from the agenda for further discussion.
[19:04] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Um, any other items? If not, I'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda except for item R.
[19:15] **Councilmember John Bermel:** Moved.
[19:16] **Councilmember Dan Wolter:** Second.
[19:17] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. All any further discussion? All those in favor say I.
[19:24] **City Council Members:** I. I. I.
[19:26] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Opposed? Okay, consent agenda passes except for R. We'll deal with that now. Uh, let me just pull it up here, hang on. Okay, so item R was related to an encroachment agreement on Orchard Trail. Anything that you wanted to discuss, Councilmember Lee?
[19:42] **Councilmember Joshua Lee:** Sure. Uh, I'll just provide a little bit of context about why I think it deserves a little bit more discussion. Um, the item is an encroachment agreement with the Lesnau property uh for a private improvement on public property. Um, it's my understanding that uh encroachment agreements are fairly limited on Lake Marion right now. Um, this one stood out to me because of how significant this dock is from the property owner all the way across the public property, which is still considered Basset Park—granted, it is wetland at the moment—but it it goes from one side of the parcel to the other. Um, we have heard from uh lake owners and residents that this... our Lake Marion is a busy uh lake as it is, and to me adding another dock uh on there where another set of boats could access to it um is a concern. Um, and then just continuing precedent for adjacent landowners to extend docks onto the... onto the lake, uh, again for congestion of of the uh lake with boats, but also I mean, again, this is uh scaling the the whole width of the public property. So um, I think it creates a barrier of access to the rest of the the parcel if we needed or anyone wanted to use it. So that's what stood out to me and I just thought uh it might be worth more discussion before approving.
[21:19] **Councilmember Michelle Volk:** I have a question.
[21:21] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Member Volk? Yep.
[21:23] **Councilmember Michelle Volk:** So it was my understanding from the um um agreement that—maybe I'm wrong—but I thought if the city was going to do something with that park or whatever then they'd have to remove their dock. Okay, so I guess I... I agree with you, I looked at that for a long time trying to figure out wow, okay, but then when I read the agreement I thought, okay, so if we decide to do something with that park, we don't want everybody using the dock, right? I mean the private dock. So then it could be removed. Yeah, I I just... you know, every neighbor next to him has a dock, you know, even the one that is exact next to our neighbor kind of angles. You know, I was like, oh, it's too bad they couldn't figure out a way to hook them up, right? You know. But um, so that was the only... my thought process was, is if we wanted to do something, they knew that they were taking a risk that if we did something, that dock would be removed.
[22:55] **Councilmember Joshua Lee:** I agree on that. I think though there there currently is a stream at one point and the only historical uh satellite view I could tell was in 1997 and there was actually water there. Um, I'm... there may have been other years where there was water there as well. Um, but in terms of using that stream um it would be blocked by a uh a dock. I I don't know what the other uh you all think about this, but I'm sure staff looked at all sorts of options for this... this dock. My preference would be for it not to be going across the whole parcel and if there is any way to squeeze it in to the east side of that stream so it doesn't look like it's going across the whole thing. But um, I don't know how you get away from the... how they work it out with the neighbor then? Because then you're talking about having to use the neighbor's property.
[23:55] **Justin Miller:** Correct. No, no, not necessarily. But it does... but the lake access would be very close to the other dock next door. Um, but yeah, the the lot line goes... um, the sometimes the aerial photo is a little bit misleading, but the lot line goes all the way—the residential lot lines go all the way up to the park. There is no space between the park and the lot lines... park um the the city property. So if you... if you're on... if you're able to access the Dakota County GIS page and... and you click that you'd see that the our property butts up against the um the homes. There is no open lake or open water there.
[24:34] **Councilmember Joshua Lee:** Right. Right and I I think that part I'm I'm understand, but um again, I could be the only one, but it just seemed like a significant uh impedance to the the area.
[24:42] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Yeah, and I understand your perspective. I mean, I I don't... I'm not a legal expert. I do know that the state DNR has some rules related about how if your property touches water, even though if it's not navigable, there are certain allowances for docks. I actually... I don't have that in front of me, I don't know if you know off the top of your head?
[25:12] **Justin Miller:** Um, I do not, but I do know that uh they have the right to access the water, but the dock issue is really up to the city to decide whether they want to allow the dock. The DNR really doesn't control that aspect.
[25:21] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Can I... Council Lee? Yep.
[25:25] **Councilmember Joshua Lee:** Um, could you clarify a little bit more about the right to the water? Because I guess that's... that's maybe the key point for me is it didn't look like this property technically is a lakefront property.
[25:31] **Justin Miller:** Exactly. I agree, that was my initial reaction as well when I first looked at this. And then the property owner had provided some information that showed that the city in the past and the DNR has determined there is... uh, it does just barely touch Shoreland in one—I think it's the northwest corner. Um, so it's technically riparian; they would have riparian rights.
[25:54] **Councilmember Joshua Lee:** Gotcha. Okay, well that is... that is helpful, even if the water hasn't touched that property for a long time. Um, got it. Appreciate that.
[26:01] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** And I would just say for me, I mean I... we have gotten many requests over the years about people who live across the street from the lake but there's no one across from them—there's city property—and we have not been willing to do that. I think at least in the past for me it's because it hasn't touched directly, albeit very slight. Um, I believe that this would qualify, but I I'm I'm comfortable with the agreement knowing that if we do end up needing to use the property then, you know, we would... we would go through that. So, I don't know if anybody else had any comments or questions related to...? Is an applicant here by chance? And it's... it's not required, I just if they wanted to say something... but doesn't look like it. Okay. Um, otherwise I'll take a motion unless there isn't any further discussion.
[27:07] **Councilmember Dan Wolter:** Uh, I move to approve an encroachment agreement with Michael Lesnau for private improvements on public property.
[27:16] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Is there a second?
[27:16] **Councilmember Michelle Volk:** Second.
[27:18] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Any further discussion? Not... uh, roll call please.
[27:23] **City Clerk Ann Orlofsky:** Dan Wolter.
**Dan Wolter:** I.
**Ann Orlofsky:** Joshua Lee.
**Joshua Lee:** Aye.
**Ann Orlofsky:** Michelle Volk.
**Michelle Volk:** Aye.
**Ann Orlofsky:** Luke Hellier.
**Luke Hellier:** Aye.
**Ann Orlofsky:** John Bermel.
**John Bermel:** Aye.
[27:31] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay, very good. Thank you everybody. Um, moving on to item 7A: consider a preliminary plat for Air Lake DEA Second Edition. I don't know if we're going to turn over to Mr. McCoy from Dakota Electric or...? Yep. All right.
[27:43] **Conor McCoy:** And council members, thank you for having us here today. My name is Conor McCoy and I'm with Kimley-Horn, speaking for Dakota Electric today. We are reviewing the preliminary plat for Air Lake Second Edition. This property is located north of 225th Street and west of Flagstaff Avenue. Uh, the applicant proposes to split out Lot 2 of Air Lake DEA First Edition into two lots: Lot 1 and Outlot A. Both myself and Jeff with Dakota Electric are here today uh to field any questions that you may have um during the presentation or after. Thank you.
[28:22] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay, very good. I have a staff report. Ms. Goodroad.
[28:26] **Community Development Director Tina Goodroad:** Well, welcome. Good evening, Mayor, members of the Council. Um, yes so DEA is here. Um, they have submitted their preliminary plat for Air Lake DEA Second Edition. Um, as um the gentleman mentioned, the property is just north of 222nd Street, um east of Cedar. The property outlined in red is the portion that's included in this plat. So if you recall the last meeting, we had the preliminary plat to create the two outlots, so this is now the next step for DEA to create their lot and an additional outlot. The property is zoned I-2 General Industrial and is also guided Industrial on the Comprehensive Plan. So again, here is the preliminary plat. Um, the initial lot is basically this boundary that's Lot 1 and then they're platting an outlot for future development. And then that original plat or the first edition had the dedication of right-of-way for 222nd Street, and 225th Street is towards the south. Here's a blowup of the site plan. Um, it's a pretty straightforward project. There's no conditional use permits, it's just a preliminary plat. The property will be accessed from 225th Street as well as 222nd Street to the north. That's where all the um service vehicles, operational vehicles, trucks and so forth will enter. The property will have um guest parking, employee parking in these two locations, and then this section is mainly the office building. About 70,000 square feet of the um 176,500 square foot building will be office, and that's a two-story portion and that'll blend into really the operational side. So the goal with moving um this facility to Lakeville is so that they can enclose all of their vehicles as well as um materials and so forth and fleet vehicles. There is definitely some yard space for them to have some equipment outside. Um, there's a couple of different kinds of of asphalt depending on what they're storing in those locations. Um, but for the most part um um most all of the vehicles will be closed um inside. The landscaping plan includes perimeter landscaping around all of the parking areas, building perimeter around the office building. Um, again because this is only abutting one major public street, um all of landscaping is kind of concentrated here since it really is an industrial operational type of facility. Um, all of the setbacks, um all of those kind of minimum requirements including parking requirements are being satisfied. Um, on the screen is the elevation plans. Um, this too meets all of our exterior building material requirements; it's a combination of stone, architectural metal and glass. Um, and the elevation that will be facing 225th Street is um the second one. And then um you've got the east, the north elevation and the west elevation. Um, the Planning Commission did hold a public hearing at their February 20th meeting and unanimously recommended the project—or the approval—and there was no public comment at that meeting. And I would stand for any questions.
[31:54] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay, very good. Council questions, comments? Councilmember Lee.
[31:59] **Councilmember Joshua Lee:** Director Goodroad, at the Planning Commission meeting you mentioned how you had just had some conversations with the township about the access road, the dirt road. Could you expand on any developments since then?
[32:06] **Tina Goodroad:** We haven't had any um more developments. We shared the plan um when the initial application came in, we shared the plan and then we met with DEA staff to go through the plat. Basically to share with them the alignment for 222nd Street. Eventually, you can see right here, that road will dip—they're just cul-de-sacking it initially and this is township property. So we wanted the township to be aware of the alignment for 222nd Street as it would extend into their site and touch Flagstaff. And it needs to be 1/8 of a mile from where the intersection of County Road 70 and Flagstaff will be. So we explained that to them. We did share with them—and they're very aware—that 225th is going to have increased traffic. We have a joint powers agreement for maintenance; they are evaluating it. They're going to be talking about um this roadway at their next board meeting, but there isn't anything definite as to when this possibly might be paved. It's something that they're studying. Um, and then through that joint JPA would be we—the city—would be um providing our obligation based on that.
[33:12] **Councilmember Joshua Lee:** Thank you.
[33:14] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Yeah, so on the... I thought that there was an agreement with MAC to pave that road. Is that east of Hamburg or...? I don't know, you're catching me because I don't have the history. There is some agreement and I don't know the extent of how far their responsibility lies. Do you know?
[33:31] **Justin Miller:** I don't remember off the top of my head, mayor. Um, I do know that it's um it's coordinated with the expansion of the um the runway.
[33:38] **Tina Goodroad:** Yeah. Okay. We can get some more information on that for you. Okay. My understanding was going west from Cedar was going to coordinate with uh the runway project. Um, there is a request for maybe a small part, but right now it's it's contingent on the runway expansion.
[33:51] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Got it. Okay.
[33:53] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Right. Any other comments or questions? Otherwise I'll take a motion. Councilmember Bermel.
[34:03] **Councilmember John Bermel:** Uh, wait a second, sorry about that. Uh, I move to approve a resolution for the preliminary plat of Air Lake DEA Second Edition.
[34:16] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Is there second?
[34:16] **Councilmember Joshua Lee:** Second.
[34:18] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Any further discussion? I'll just say, I'm... as I said the last when you're here before, we're very excited to have Dakota Electric come to Lakeville. Sorry to our friends in Farmington, but uh we do appreciate you moving to Lakeville. So with that, I'll take a uh roll call please.
[34:44] **City Clerk Ann Orlofsky:** Joshua Lee.
**Joshua Lee:** Aye.
**Ann Orlofsky:** Luke Hellier.
**Luke Hellier:** Aye.
**Ann Orlofsky:** John Bermel.
**John Bermel:** Aye.
**Ann Orlofsky:** Dan Wolter.
**Dan Wolter:** Aye.
[34:52] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay, very good. Thank you. Moving on to items 8 and 9, unfinished and new business—seeing none. Announcements: our next city council meeting is uh Monday, March 17th, right here in the council chambers and our work session is March 24th. And with that, I'll take a motion to adjourn.
[35:14] **Councilmember John Bermel:** So moved.
[35:15] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Is there a second? All those in favor say I.
[35:19] **City Council Members:** I. I. I.
[35:21] **Mayor Luke Hellier:** Opposed? We're adjourned. Thank you.
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