Based on the context provided and the dialogue in the transcript, here is the formatted version with speaker names identified. **Note on Names:** The transcript includes Council Members **Derek Guessme** and **Steve Groth**, as well as a staff member referred to as **Neil** (performing the duties of City Administrator Jon Radermacher). I have used the names from the context list where they align with the roles. *** [3:05] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Guessme? **Council Member Derek Guessme:** Here. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Groth? **Council Member Steve Groth:** Here. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Jeppesen? **Council Member Ryan Jeppesen:** Here. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Johnson? **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Diane, your microphone is off. She's here. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Kronenberger? **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** Here. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** There she is, here. Lundell? Here. Montgomery? Here. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. 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. [3:53] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** I would entertain a motion and a second to approve the agenda. **Council Member Derek Guessme:** So moved. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Guessme. **Council Member Steve Groth:** Second. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Second by Groth. Any further discussion? Those in favor? All right. Roll call vote. Roll call vote: Laura? **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Council Member Ryan Jeppesen:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Council Member Derek Guessme:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Steve? **Council Member Steve Groth:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** It carries. Public input. Public input is intended to afford the public an opportunity to address concerns to the City Council. The public input will be no longer than 30 minutes in total length and each speaker will have no more than three minutes to speak. Speakers may address topics relevant to the governance of the city. Speakers must sign up in advance and must provide their name, address, and the [4:39] topic they intend to address. Comments must be on topic, respectful, pertinent City business, and adhere to the applicable data privacy rules. Any speaker that violates these rules will be asked to sit down; if the speaker refuses to comply they may be removed from the meeting. Speakers shall not address topics that are the subject of a public hearing; all such comments shall be made at the public hearing. The City Council will not generally act on issues raised by the public input but may choose to schedule consideration of the item on a future agenda. First person tonight, I believe, is it Annie? Yeah. [5:20] **Annie:** Thank you all. First, I've kind of never been here for something like this, so I apologize. Really just wanted to bring up—we had a notice to comply to an ordinance at our house. We moved here five, going on five years ago, with four dogs. I thought I did enough research thinking that that was the—I looked up to see how many dogs there was, I didn't see any problem. We've been here going on five years this May. We've never had any problems with our dogs, but somebody had honestly tipped up we had four dogs, where it came to my attention that the law is for three dogs within a house. I am honestly just asking for leeway. Our oldest dog is 13. [6:01] We don't know how many more years we're going to have it, but obviously once that happens, we're going to definitely comply. But we're hoping to look to try and either pay for a fine or get some sort of lenience before we have one dog taken away. So that's it. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** During public input it's usually just you bring up the issue. I'll take that into consideration in the future. Thank you. **Annie:** Thank you, thank you. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Thank you. Next up is it Nick? **Nick Coverman:** Actually, I'm later on. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Are you going to speak later on in the agenda? So you're good to go. Perfect. Awesome. So that moves us out of the presentation. We've got our friends from John Birch Park. Well, the supporters will be giving a presentation on the project there. [6:48] **Bucky Lindo:** Hi everyone, I'm Bucky Lindo. This is Keith Myers. [Music] Thank you. I did not get this to Sarah within the deadline, so I think she sent it to you for the traffic today, so thank you. The purpose of this presentation—oh, I'm miked up, nice—purpose of this presentation is to update new and returning members of the Cannon Falls City Council about the improvement projects at John Birch Park, as well as get a resolution from the Council to apply for bonding bill funds from the Minnesota Legislature again; that's what we did last year. [7:43] Quick history: back in 2021, we presented a slideshow which Sarah sent to y'all today, a PDF copy of it. I'm not going to go through the whole thing, but basically, it looks like this and it's just kind of the impetus of some things that need to be fixed down there. As we looked at everything, we thought let's just get a solid plan together and make sure all these pieces fit together and do a nice job with it. So that's what the slideshow is and so thanks Sarah for forwarding that on, appreciate it. A couple poster boards: the main topic tonight is the wall, the Limestone wall. We've got a couple poster boards that we used last year with the state legislature of why we need to fix the seating and why we need to fix the wall. [8:30] If anybody wants to ask questions about that, we can tackle those right now, but I think it's pretty clear what needs to happen and most of you have seen the situation down there. So, that was back in 2021. Item number two there under the history: the Park Board saw the renderings of the proposed improvements which you can take a peek at here. We also talked—well basically we want to remove the Limestone wall, put in a new wall, put in new concrete seating. We would also have a grass terrace up here, redo this dugout so it actually gets set into the wall as part of the wall, and then that would fit nicely with the existing concession stand. And so that's the plan on that side and that's what we presented to the City Council back in 2021. [9:19] There's another part of the project on the third base side which isn't really the focus tonight but it factors into the dollar amounts that we're going to talk about. Fortunately for us last year, and or late in 2021, Barb Haley authored a request and submitted it into the bonding bill for the Minnesota Legislature. You can see on item number three here the funding breakdown: we asked the state legislature for $469,000, and the city said they would kick in $328,000, and we, the John Birch Park supporters, said we can find $141,000 because we thought the total project cost would be about $938,000. We all know [10:06] inflation has hit and building materials have skyrocketed and all that kind of stuff, so we know those numbers aren't accurate or up to date, but at least it's what we had in the bonding bill last year. So in November of 2021, we presented all of this to what they call the bus tour, and it's a group of legislators that traveled around southeast Minnesota and sought proposals from many cities in many situations asking for money. In 2022, item number one, the bonding bill was not voted on. So even though all these people had asked for money, the state legislature just never voted on it, so nobody got any money. So we're back to square one. We needed new authors, we needed to redo our application and get it in play [10:52] for the 2023 legislative session which just started in the beginning of January. As we knew we were waiting for money to do what we call the first base side—the wall and so on—we started working on the third base side. So that has been rolling on. In 2022 we continue our fundraising efforts and in 2023, on January 5th, we presented to the Park Board. Park Board said, "Yeah, come on to the City Council meeting on the 17th of January and ask for a resolution so that we can pursue some money from the state." Also at that meeting, the Park Board meeting, Pam Altendorf was here and Steve Drazkowski were here, which was awesome because they made a trip from [11:38] Saint Paul after the session that day, stopped here, showed their support, and offered us a little bit of advice like, "Try to get some Democrats to sign on." They thought that would be helpful. Try to get many signatures, up the dollar amounts because we know that costs have gone up. I think those were kind of the main points, and just to get her more information so she could speak to it on the floor. **Keith Myers:** Yeah, so she already agreed to author it, she already agreed to talk to the bonding people—in fact, she already has. She said, "I can use the Barb Haley proposal, but you're probably going to want to update it a little bit with different numbers and so on." [12:25] **Bucky Lindo:** The financial update: our funding goal was 1.5 million when this started. Right now, and part of that would have been the $469,000 from the state of Minnesota and the $328,000 from the City of Cannon Falls. This says currently in the bank $200,000, but that was on January 5th—now we're more like $220,000. And pledges over the next four to five years: this says 464, right now we're at $485,000 pledged over the next four years. So it's been awesome. **Keith Myers:** And keep in mind the bonding bill is specifically for the first base side, so that number is different than the overall number that we're fundraising. **Bucky Lindo:** Yeah, so we still need a big chunk of money from the state, the chunk of money from the city in order to [13:10] make that side happen, and then in order to do all the factors of the project we'll need about 1.5 million altogether. So yeah, so that's what we're hoping for. As far as the project goes, the plan is to demolish the third base dugout June 1st because we have the money to get rolling on that. Begin building the new dugout storage deck, bathrooms, concession, or press box. So that third base side, what is now a dugout, we hope it serves many, many purposes: a dugout, bathroom, so on and so forth. Not really part of this topic tonight, but at least to update people that that's part of the plan here. Part of the project, we do have a few pictures of that [13:57] on some of our fundraising materials, so if you're curious you want to see those we can leave some of these here just so you can see what's happening on the third base side. So what we're asking for tonight is: any questions? Do you need more information, especially if you're a new City Council member and you haven't been on this process for the last couple years? And then hopefully a resolution, I think is the right word, to go ask the state for some money. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Any questions from the Council? Donations, obviously money—that's wonderful. When it comes to the project and it starts [14:42] this summer, will you be on social media asking if people have a Saturday or Sunday to go out there with some tools and help? **Bucky Lindo:** Yeah, I think this part of the project—and we're working closely with Jed on this—as long as we don't change the grade of the project or anything like that, I think we can get some things done without the engineering specs. So we're hoping that we can get some in-kind donations for part of this, for part of the third base dugout project. I think that'll be a different conversation for the wall project because that engineering and heavy equipment, all those things are a lot bigger part of that. **Keith Myers:** We're not going to move stone by stone. No, we're not going to get the conveyor system going. **Bucky Lindo:** [15:27] But yeah, so I think it's, you know, our hope is that we get our structural engineer to get some things done on the third base side before we show it to everybody and then start doing some bidding. Hopefully some community members will step up and help with the in-kind donations, whether it be labor, knowledge, and expertise—obviously we need people that know what they're doing—and then guys like me who don't know squat about it can do some grunt work maybe. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** I just want to—I mean John Birch Park is kind of a gem for this area and you guys put countless hours in there already. This project, I think it's amazing. I hope this lasts for decades. That wall has been iconic and we're seeing it crumble right in front of our eyes and you guys have really picked up the ball and run with it to say "Let's fix this, let's get this right for [16:12] generations to come." So it's a wonderful project. I think it has complete support from the community and the Council. **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Well, it's also a safety issue on that one side. **Keith Myers:** Well, if you look at the wall, it was built in 1937 out of stacked limestone. We're hoping we can have a little bit more advanced construction materials on this so it—and it lasted 80 years the way it is, right? So hopefully we can push that out a century or more with some of the things we can do. We know it's going to cost some money, but if we don't do it now it's going to cost more money in five years, it's going to cost more money in 10 years, and we're going to be sitting on something literally crumbling under our feet. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Yeah, just a—if you had to spitball, how much do you think it's kind of splayed out on that first base side in, say, the [16:58] last 15 to 20 years? Did it used to seem very stable and then it's just kind of like the bottom is falling out? **Keith Myers:** That's what's really made us accelerate. There's always been a gap between the first base dugout and the wall and I've, you know, obviously I've got a little bigger as I've aged, but it was a lot easier to get through that gap 10-15 years ago. Now it's getting down to maybe a foot or less, where it used to be 18 inches to two feet. I just think if you look at that wall, the bottom is coming out. **Bucky Lindo:** Yeah, we actually probably have a picture—I think we do have a picture of that. Oh yeah, you can kind of see here, it used to be vertical, and the bottom's coming out, so that's why it's slanting. [17:44] And where that dugout was, like Keith said, it used to be vertical so you could walk through there easily, but as the bottom keeps coming towards the dugout, the gap keeps getting smaller and smaller. And if you ever sit on the concrete bleachers now, you can feel yourself tipping towards the field. I don't know if anybody sat down there for a football game in the last couple years, but you can feel yourself kind of tipping towards the field. So whether it be—obviously we have to put a level on it—but just sitting on it you can feel it. So anybody that's down there, I'm sure, has been aware. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Thank you for the presentation. Seeing as how it's on the agenda, can we make the resolution tonight or does it have to be added to a future council meeting? **City Clerk Sara Peer:** We can do it tonight. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** [18:33] Okay, wonderful. **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Can I ask one quick question? Yep. I noticed in the presentation somewhere it said something about moving the football field to somewhere else. **Bucky Lindo:** No, that's not—yeah, that's not part of it. I understand if we ultimately wanted the football field not to be there at all or just a temporary thing—nothing that we presented tonight. Maybe if you're thinking of a presentation from a couple years ago, that might have been part of the discussion. I think it was part of the referendum discussion a couple years ago from the school district when they were talking about putting turf behind the school, but [19:18] since that referendum didn't go through, I don't think it's really been a topic of conversation since then. **Keith Myers:** There might have been a Park Board where we discussed how the construction of the project would affect next fall's football season. **Council Member Diane Johnson:** It's point number one under the Green Light page, slide number 12. **Bucky Lindo:** Yeah, oh in the slideshow. Sure. That slideshow is probably three years old. But yeah, Diane, that's a good question, that's not part of the plan at this point. [20:05] Our plan actually would be, when the wall project happens, to probably shorten the Bears' home season and start the project sometime hopefully in mid-to-late summer so that it would be complete by the high school season. You know, maybe the high school would have to push—maybe play on the road until mid-September, maybe late September. But our goal, if there was a perfect world, would be start the project July 5th right after the Fourth of July ball game and try to have it done within 60 days by mid-September. So they could still—you know, there wouldn't be any safety issues and kids being around the construction project while they're working on it. But yeah, to answer your question, Diane, at this point, I think until the school comes up with a way to move football, if that's one of their long-term objectives, I don't think we can pull the rug out from underneath them. And my brother's a head football coach, so that's kind of near and dear to my heart too. [20:52] **Keith Myers:** Yeah, and probably for everybody else to know too, that slideshow, like I said, was created when we looked around and said, "Okay, we've got a lot of little things here that need to be fixed," and so we've been working as that as sort of a guideline, but not necessarily we're going to try to do everything that's in that slideshow or in that format. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Great question, Diane. Thank you. Anything else from the Council? **Bucky Lindo:** And Pam Altendorf said she couldn't be here tonight, but as anybody that was at Park Board knows, she's full support. So she wanted me to pass that on to you. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Great, good. Great, thanks guys. **Bucky Lindo:** Thank you. **Keith Myers:** Thank you. [21:38] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Moving on to the consent agenda. Consent agenda items may be adopted under one motion as presented or may be removed for discussion and resolution as Council business. I'll read them off: Item A: Just and correct claims of the accounting period December 31st, 2022. Item B: Just and correct claims accounting up to January 12th, 2023. Item C: Meeting minutes for January 3rd, 2023 City Council meeting. Item D: The second reading and adoption of the ordinance 389 summary of publication amending the City Code Title III relating to fees, charges, and rates. Item E: Approve the upcoming work sessions. Item F: Resolution 2670 accepting a monetary donation of $5,600 from the Cannon Falls Fire Department Relief Association to [22:24] the Fire Department. Item G: Approve the 2023 Fire Department officers. Item H: Approve pool staff hiring process. Item I: Approve Emerald Ash Borer DNR Grant application. Item J: Approve winter parking change. Item K: Approve police officer move to part-time and start the process of filling a full-time position. Item L: Approve police officer hire. Item M: Approve the work steps agreement. Item N: Resolution 2671 rezone and administrative subdivision the lot boundary line adjustment for Stalined Holdings. Is there any item in the consent agenda [23:09] that the Council would like to pull down? [23:16] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** No items pulled down? Then I would take a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. **Council Member Derek Guessme:** So moved. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion is by Guessme. **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** Second. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Second by Lisa. First Diane—it does have to be a roll call vote. So motion by Guessme, second by Lisa. Laura? **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Council Member Ryan Jeppesen:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Council Member Derek Guessme:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Steve? **Council Member Steve Groth:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** It carries. Moving on to Council business. The Small Cities Development Program. I believe all of the items that you guys see in Council business tonight are related to SEMCRA. That's why we've got [24:01] Nick here to speak about this. Anything before Nick takes the floor? It's yours. **Nick Coverman:** Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'll introduce myself. My name is Nick Coverman. I'm the new Community Development Director for the Southeast Minnesota HRA (SEMCRA). Formerly you had been working with Karen Ducharme, so she decided to move up to the Duluth area and kind of enjoy her life that way, so we wished her well, but it's left a big hole for us. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Welcome. **Nick Coverman:** Thank you. So if you recall, the City of Cannon Falls began working with SEMCRA in '21-'22 to put together an application and was recently awarded just before Thanksgiving $591,675 to rehab 21 homes [24:50] in Cannon Falls. For those of you who may not be aware of the program, the Small Cities Development Program basically will help reinvest in the community for low-to-moderate income folks for homes that we're looking to try and make sure that we keep on our tax rolls and available to folks in that economic range. The grant program basically allows for a $25,000 forgivable 10-year loan. Actually, it was kind of an easy sell when I ended up moving to SEMCRA because I'm a product of the program—I bought a home through SEMCRA and I did not make my 10 years, but I repaid the program and reinvested [25:36] into that program and then they could reuse those dollars. So what essentially happens is those who are income-eligible and qualify, they can go up to $25,000 of a forgivable 10-year loan and if they live there six years—or so within six years they pay back that grant 100%, and those funds come back to Cannon Falls and we can reinvest those dollars into other projects. If anytime from year 6 to 10, it reduces 20% that they would have to repay. So those funds always stay here; it's a great program. Tonight we're kind of on the last step of the finish line to get to the finish line with the state and the [26:22] federal program because the dollars did come from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Tonight, or in the package, you will have seen the big thick packet that is pretty much all of HUD's required plans and resolutions for consideration. So we will approve those, and I have with Sarah's help, we posted the environmental review. Then we will start the clock ticking tomorrow, and that will take about 28 days to go through a review and comment period with about 36 different organizations and agencies that I sent that to. Once that's done on the 21st of February, I will request the funds be released and [27:09] we will get the ball rolling. So we've already started to receive applications, and so we're already creating a waiting list—so we're really excited about that. I will refer to this document a little bit: as listed in the Council packet, you will have the Administrative Contract resolution with SEMCRA, the Civil Rights Policy resolution, the Residential Anti-Displacement resolution, and the Authorization and Release of Funds resolution. In addition, we would look to see a motion to approve the various items such as the administrative contract with SEMCRA, the Drug-Free Workplace Plan, the Fair Housing Plan, the Program Income Plan, the Section 3 Plan, [27:56] as well as the Rehabilitation Standards, the Policies and Procedures for the owner-occupied rehab, the Walk Away Policy, and the Post-Grant Administrative Contract. As you look at these, if Council looked to approve or make a motion to approve the items discussed or presented as items 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 16—that kind of covers it all. So are there any questions about the documents that were in there? I can certainly hope to answer those questions at this time. [28:51] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** I was going to say to the Council: so all of these different line items are all related to the same—so we can't just pass them; we have to pass them individually, but you can take questions on any of them. Light reading is—but it's you know—this is the same thing we talked about, when was it, six months ago or longer? Yeah, when we submitted the questionnaire to citizens which led to this information. So this is actually what we're doing is just getting it rolling finally. **Nick Coverman:** Correct. If Karen came probably in the fall of '21 and made a presentation, and then there were questionnaires that were mailed out to the citizens in Cannon Falls sometime in '22, and then the application was applied for and then the grant funds—the city was awarded the funds in November. [29:38] Typically those grant funds are awarded in September, and because HUD had not finalized its budget, they waited September, October, and then the end of November. So the partnership with SEMCRA is basically we make it a turnkey process for the city. The only thing that will happen or take place is, once those funds are released, we begin rehabbing residents in town. We will make a request to the state, the funds will be sent to the city, then we send a request to the city to disperse those funds to us; we pay all our contractors and vendors, and then we take care of the reporting after the grant is [30:23] closed as well for the next 10 years. So that's all on us. Some of the interesting pieces, if anybody's in the contractors' services: when I started in September with the organization, the delay on windows and siding was 18 weeks—now we're at 40. Hmm. We just had a contractor come back and say that, when we were hoping to start in January, it'll be October. Well, so we'll see what that timeline does, but we're early on in the process for Cannon Falls, so we will definitely be able to get some of those grant funds spent. Some of my other communities I'm going to have to ask for a construction extension, I'm sure. [31:10] **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** I'm just curious, how did the number of houses get derived? **Nick Coverman:** So in my short tenure here, it's a competitive scoring process. They look based on need and interest and so they've kind of have it down to a science—they've been doing this since 1983, I believe. Zumbrota was the first community that received a grant, and so that 19 to 21 seems like that's a good fit. [31:56] **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** And just curious, we're fortunate that Cannon Falls is also under the population of 5,000—where that's not good in other respects, it's good for us because we can go city-wide. Some of the other grants that I'm working with have specific target areas. For myself, I used to work in St. Charles when I started here; there was somebody who was just across the line of that target area, so we actually went back to DEED and said, "Hey, you know, we want to make sure that this program is accessible to everybody and we want to help as many people as we can." So Cannon Falls doesn't have to worry about that; so we're excited to get going. **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** How do you guys determine if there's more than 21 qualified applicants? How do you determine who gets it, and is it you guys that decide? **Nick Coverman:** Yeah, first come, first served basis. First. Okay, yep. So you know, there's usually a lot of interest expressed but there is some [32:42] legwork to do. The first ones that follow through and get us all the documentation, we qualify them. **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** Is there a waitlist then? If you don't get to be one of the 21 picked, there could be a waitlist? **Nick Coverman:** There could be a waitlist. **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** Does the program come back to Cannon Falls at some point? **Nick Coverman:** At some point, yeah. Okay. I mean, if there's certainly way more need and interest—there's more need than I that will determine the interest over the next couple months—but if there is, I don't think we'd have a problem coming back and reapplying. [33:28] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Any other questions from the Council for Nick? Jon [Radermacher], do we have to pass each line item individually? **City Administrator Jon Radermacher:** So I think Nick is requesting items—once you label them again? **Nick Coverman:** Yeah, these are 1 through 16, I believe. **City Administrator Jon Radermacher:** Thank you. You want a motion to approve that one group with the large numbers, and then the resolution number, and then adopt the resolutions individually. [34:13] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay. So for item A, that's basically the motion to approve the items that were discussed as 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 16. Perfect. And then we got to do roll calls on them too? **City Administrator Jon Radermacher:** On this group, and then the four resolutions. Got it. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** So I would take a motion and a second to approve the items that we discussed which will be listed as 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 16. **Council Member Derek Guessme:** So moved. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Guessme. Do I have a second? **Council Member Ryan Jeppesen:** I'll second it. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Second by Jeppesen. Roll call: Laura? **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Council Member Ryan Jeppesen:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Council Member Derek Guessme:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Steve? **Council Member Steve Groth:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** It carries 6 to 0. So that moves us on to Item B, Resolution 2672, entering into the administrative contract with SEMCRA and Redevelopment Authority. Roll call vote again. Laura? **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Council Member Ryan Jeppesen:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Council Member Derek Guessme:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** And Steve? **Council Member Steve Groth:** Aye. [35:03] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** That carries. I think you need a moment. Did we need a motion? I apologize, I went straight to it. Do I have—did I get a motion and a second for Item B? **Council Member Derek Guessme:** I'll make the motion to approve. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Guessme. Diane, got a second in there? We'll go through that again then. Roll call for Resolution 2672: Laura? **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Council Member Ryan Jeppesen:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Council Member Derek Guessme:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** And Steve? **Council Member Steve Groth:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** And Resolution 2672 carries. Resolution 2673, adopting a civil rights excessive force policy. I would take a motion and a second. **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Second. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Second by Diane Johnson. Any further discussion? Laura? **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Council Member Ryan Jeppesen:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Council Member Derek Guessme:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** And Steve? **Council Member Steve Groth:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** And Resolution 2673 carries. Resolution 2674, adopting a residential anti-displacement and relocation assistance plan. I would take a motion and a second for approval. **Council Member Derek Guessme:** So moved. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Guessme. **Council Member Ryan Jeppesen:** Second. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Second by Jeppesen. We'll take a roll call: Laura? **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Council Member Ryan Jeppesen:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Council Member Derek Guessme:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** And Steve? **Council Member Steve Groth:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Carries. [36:34] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** And lastly, Item E, Resolution 2675, authorizing the release of funds on behalf of the City of Cannon Falls. I take a motion and a second. **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** Moved. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Lisa. **Council Member Derek Guessme:** Second. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** We'll give the second to Guessme. Roll call vote: Laura? **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Council Member Ryan Jeppesen:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Council Member Derek Guessme:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** And Steve? **Council Member Steve Groth:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** And it carries. That concludes Council business, moves us on to reports. Nobody here from the Chamber tonight for a report. EDA? Laura? [37:20] **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** I wasn't here at the first meeting so I want to welcome all of the new Council members to your new seats. I did want to also let everyone know that we did close on the mobile property that's across from the school in Saint Ansgar's, so that was an exciting win I think for the EDA. So now we'll start the legwork on trying to get the planning and the grading plan and that kind of thing worked out and devise what our plan is going to be going forward. And I'm excited about this project, the SCDP. I've been working—I was working with Karen before on this and now with Nick, welcome to SEMCRA. So I'm excited for the opportunity for 21 residents. I know that I think I'd sent Nick six names [38:07] before Christmas even of people that had heard about the program or the funding that we were going to be getting. So it's good that we've already got people interested in the program. So I just encourage people to either reach out to me or Nick. I'm sure that the Beacon will be putting contact information in the paper and online, so just make sure that you reach out if you're interested. We'll have details of what the qualifying information is and SEMCRA will have those details on their website as well. And then other EDA business: in February we'll start our goal planning for what 2023 looks like, what kind of items we can cross off our list and move forward with for '23. [38:46] **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Can I ask Laura a really quick question? So—and I'm sure all the details will come out—but for the 21 people, is it City proper or is it County? **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** It's City proper and the property owner can apply. They don't have to be living in the—they don't have to be living in the home, but the property owner has to be the applicant, not the renter. **Nick Coverman:** I better back up on that one—to be a correction—it must be owner-occupied. **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** Oh, it is? I'm sorry, it's owner-occupied. I'm sorry, I did that too. Thank you for the [39:33] correction. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Park Board? Derek, would you be representative? Want to remember what we did? **Council Member Derek Guessme:** Didn't we do the—presented and then we did the Emerald Ash Borer and pool here. I should just have Dan do it. Yeah, um, yeah I think that was it. It was a good meeting. All right. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Public Works? Laura? Was it that one? **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** Well, I'm the chair, but the director is really in charge. Jed [Petersen], do you have anything? [40:18] **Public Works Director Jed Petersen:** We discussed the winter parking changes that were a big topic that was on the next consent agenda. So, yep. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Great. Finance Committee? Jon [Radermacher], would you like to talk about anything that we had happen that night? Or we had a lot of discussion items. **City Administrator Jon Radermacher:** We did. You know, we went through a lot of the things that we're going to discuss at the first work session that you guys approved tonight, so I'll hold back on all of that. But we did talk about the reconstruction project, we talked about Hannah's Bend, we talked everything—whatever else is going on in town just to get the catch up, and you guys will hear it at the next meeting. [41:03] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Do we have anybody to represent the Library Board? **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** Oh, I went to the Library Board. Okay. We voted on some new board members: the president, vice president, and the secretary. Kind of met everybody; a couple people are moving so they're no longer a part of it. And the library will be 10 years old in March, so they want to have a birthday party, so that's in the works for March 25th. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Cool. Yeah. Planning Commission? Who? **Council Member Steve Groth:** Yeah, we met on January 9th. We only had one item on the agenda and that was to rezone [41:49] an administrative subdivision and it was all based on Stalined Holdings south of town where Allied Valve is. It was pretty much so they could make a runway or a tunnel between one building and the other, but to do that we had to go from a B2 district to an industrial district. Please correct me if I'm not saying it right. And by doing that we actually created another lot that is usable, buildable, or sellable by doing this. And we also approved that tonight on the consent agenda, and that's all we had at that meeting. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Great, efficient use of space. Yep. [42:36] The Police Commission? **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** We just met and our items were also in the consent agenda. All right. We'll go around the horn here. Should we start with the departments or are we covered there? It's your call. Jed, anything else? **Public Works Director Jed Petersen:** Yeah, we could go—today we got a broken water main on Cannon right between Third and Fifth which happens to be our 2023 project area. So Doug Eisberg came in and dug a hole with precision and utility crew put the patch on and we had everything back in service by about 1:30. So it went real well. Yeah, awesome. And today that crew was busy hauling [43:22] snow, making room for more I guess that we're getting this week. And they had the grader out trying to scrape off the streets, get rid of the rough streets. So that's about it. **City Attorney Shelley Ryan:** I have nothing tonight, but we should have something—a couple interesting things come in the next two or three months, so just stay tuned. And welcome again to everybody that's new. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Like when she says "interesting"—Minnesota interesting, yes. Laura, do you have anything else you'd like to add? **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** I'm good, thank you. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Chief, anything you'd like to add? **Police Chief Jeff McCormick:** Just a reminder for residents to park on the streets—although the snow is loved by our snow skiers, snowshoers, and snowmobilers, [44:07] not so much by people who have to move their cars or get their cars ticketed or towed. So Wednesday into Thursday looks like we're probably having some significant snowfall again. Our Public Works Department will be cleaning the streets; they've been doing a great job. We just hope that the residents can help us do a great job by getting the cars off so that the plows can come out. Typically they're out sometime shortly after midnight to get started so they're done before people leave for work in the morning by six. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Very excited. Sarah, anything? **City Clerk Sara Peer:** Nothing. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Jon? **City Administrator Jon Radermacher:** [44:53] Just one item. Like I said, we have a work session coming at the next meeting. If over the next couple weeks or so you guys have any questions or you want to know about a certain situation or issue going on in town, just let me know and I'll get it on the list. Otherwise, I have a list that we'll go over of current events per se at the next meeting. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Right. Laura, anything? **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** Oh, I'm good. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** I'm good. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Council Member Ryan Jeppesen:** Nothing. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Diane, do you have anything? **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Nope, I'm good. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay. Derek? **Council Member Derek Guessme:** I'm good. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Steve? **Council Member Steve Groth:** No. [45:40] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** All right. I've got nothing either. The meeting schedule is obviously here on the agenda. So if—you know, there's been a little bit of criticism of us as a public entity to be transparent, and my response to that usually is: civic involvement is a two-way street. We do our meetings here out in public; it's recorded, people have access, we appreciate the citizens who come and participate. But everything is there if you want to be involved—come to the meetings, let us know what's going on and your concerns, because we work for you. So that's all I've got. So I take a motion and a second to adjourn. **Council Member Derek Guessme:** Motion. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** A motion from Guessme. **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** Second. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Second from Lisa. All those in favor—oh, that's right, roll call. Laura? **Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Council Member Lisa Zimmerman:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Council Member Ryan Jeppesen:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Council Member Derek Guessme:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Steve? **Council Member Steve Groth:** Aye. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** We are adjourned.