This transcript is from a **Lakeville City Council** meeting. Based on the context of the dialogue and the roles mentioned, I have identified the speakers as follows: * **Mayor Luke Hellier:** The presiding officer. * **Ann Olowski:** City Clerk (referenced as "Miss Olowski"). * **Justin Miller:** City Administrator (referenced as "Mr. Miller"). * **Chief Tim Olson:** Lakeville Police Chief (phonetically transcribed as "Chief Pollson"). * **Cathy Goodroad:** Community Development Director (referenced as "Miss Good Road"). * **Council Members:** Michelle Volk (transcribed as "Vult"), John Bermel (transcribed as "Burmel"), and Dan Walter. *** **[0:06] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Good evening. Welcome to the August 4th city council meeting. Please join me for a moment of silence in the pledge of allegiance **[0:28] Mayor Luke Hellier:** to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. **[0:41] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay, Miss Olowski, roll call, please. **[0:41] Ann Olowski:** Michelle Volk here. Luke Hellier here. John Bermel here. Dan Walter here. And Joshua Lee is absent. **[0:41] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Uh, moving on to item number three, citizens comments. There's an opportunity for anybody to address the council for up to three minutes about an issue not on the agenda. Seeing none. **[1:05] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Um, additional agenda information, Mr. Miller? **[1:05] Justin Miller:** Nothing tonight, Mayor. **[1:05] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. And we will then get right into our presentation with our police department quarterly report. We'll turn it over to Chief Olson for the rundown. **[1:28] Chief Tim Olson:** Hopefully, you don't have it memorized. I don't, but I have a backup, but we're on board now. So, uh, so this is our quarter 2 report, uh, covering the months of April through June of this year. And all of the work that we do is framed under our mission statement, which says, "A Lakeville Police Department exists to ensure an excellent quality of life in Lakeville by serving and protecting in a professional and innovative way." So, kind of the theme of quarter two for us was uh some transition uh and using a sports analogy was more like uh a couple of line changes than substitutions, but we had a lot of movement um but some some positive movement. So, as you can see here, four retirements uh over the course of a few weeks in late June and **[2:14] Chief Tim Olson:** the first couple days of July, about 120 years of dedicated service to Lakefield PD with those four gentlemen there. So losing a lot of uh really good people, a lot of experience uh but really happy to see them enjoying uh moving into the next phase, the retirement phase of their lives. So Commander Jim Punchikar who was our uh administrative commander, uh Bill Gur who was our operations commander, Jason Pollinsky, who was most recently in professional standards but had touched a lot of different units in the in the PD. and then Doyle Cochril who was our senior sergeant uh who had been a supervisor for about seven years prior to his retirement. So uh proud of the work that all four of those gentlemen uh provided to the city. **[3:00] Chief Tim Olson:** With that obviously comes some uh some back filling. So uh three new lieutenants. We did a little bit of a of a restructure. So we've added three lieutenants to the two current existing lieutenants. that these are are u new faces to the to the lieutenant role. On the left there, Jeff Hansen, who will be our support lieutenant. In the middle is Thor How, who will be uh our professional standards lieutenant. And then Jeremy Lurfeld on the right, uh moving into operations, where he'll join Jason Haidider to oversee primarily our patrol division as well as our CSOS. **[3:35] Chief Tim Olson:** Moving further along the line here with some new sergeants. So, um, back at our quarter one report, we highlighted Tom Danielson, so he's not pictured here, but, uh, the four newest additions to the sergeant ranks on the left, Allison Shank, and then Nick Jacobson, Sarah Man, and Casey King. Uh, all with a number of years of experience with Lakeville PD. Uh, and these are frontline supervisors and, uh, all very good police officers. They they know the job very well. They're good at administering the job. Uh but even more with our frontline supervisors, we look for a mentorship role there that people that have uh you know shown the ability to to coach, to guide, to teach. And all four of these folks have done that through various roles as field trainers, instructors, and we know they'll step **[4:21] Chief Tim Olson:** into that role and have stepped into that role already and are are doing very well. Uh, I should pass along a little extra recognition here to our human resources director, Lissa Fry, and her staff for helping uh, facilitate all of this movement over the course of the past few months. So, they've done an outstanding job helping us out there. **[4:41] Chief Tim Olson:** Uh, moving along to uh, the K9 world. K9 Nora uh, was new to the PD earlier this year, but has now completed uh, the vast majority of her initial training. She's paired up with Jolene Warden. Jolene's been an officer for coming up on four years, but uh they've been out on the road now. She's got Nora has her patrol certification, participated in their first Panaprog K9 demo here a few weeks ago. So, good uh good to have them out there working. **[5:11] Chief Tim Olson:** And then, uh some new patrol officers as well. Uh Justin Angel who joins us from Mystic Lake. uh he was a security supervisor out there um and then moved into a a role coordinating uh some of the entertainment they get out there kind of being the liaison for Mystic Lake that works with uh entertainment groups that come in and then uh going a little bit further back he's got a connection here to Lakeville as a reserve officer with us was a liquor store associate and then a community service officer for three years. So, always good to get some of these folks uh cycling back through in a patrol officer role. **[5:47] Chief Tim Olson:** And then one of his partners out at Mystic Lake joined him. So, uh Alex Conl also security supervisor out at the casino. He has his bachelor's degree in law enforcement from Mano. Uh both of these guys as a direct result of our internal um recruitment efforts. Josh Wickner, an officer we hired late last year, came from Mystic Lake and has enjoyed his experience and spread the word and uh allowed us to hire a couple of other really good quality candidates here. So, welcome to Justin and Alex. **[6:17] Chief Tim Olson:** And then uh these two folks are part of our grant program um which is kind of winding down here, but Josh Enavald and Megan Karp uh started their schooling at Henipin County or Henipin Technical College, I should say, uh back in February. They wrapped up in July uh with school and now they've moved into our traditional field training program. **[6:37] Chief Tim Olson:** They started about two weeks ago. Uh but again, we we're paying these folks as full-time employees while they're going through school. Uh providing the cost for their tuition and then that's um reimbursed to us through a grant uh for up to 50,000 per candidate through the uh Department of Public Safety. So uh we ended up having three move through that program now. So Nick Navau was the first and he's just winding up winding down his field training program. And then Josh and Megan as well. **[7:06] Chief Tim Olson:** Some of our community engagement efforts in quarter two on the left there. Those two pictures are from our open house which was on Memorial Day weekend back in May. We were fortunate to have another good weather year for that. Uh but that's a really good way for uh a lot of community members, families to come out and have a lot of interactive uh fun with some of our staff. Some booths set up with uh a lot of good hands-on activities and equipment that they can uh climb on and look at and and interact with our folks. Uh the upper right there is a torch run which was in July. We start the South Metro leg of the torch run. This is a partnership with Special Olympics, which has a long-standing tradition of of pairing with law enforcement. We bring the torch up to Crystal Lake Beach and pass it off **[7:52] Chief Tim Olson:** to Burnsville PD, who takes it from there. I think we had about 14 or 15 uh runners and bikers this year. And K9 Nora led the pack as you can see there. She had a little more energy than some of us did, but but we all made it, so that was a good day. And then on the right, Movie on the Turf. This was early June on the turf up at Lakeville North High School. Um, a lot of uh toys and handouts that are provided from community sponsors, food, games, activities, and then a movie as the uh sun starts to go down there. So, looks like our staff there is probably having more fun than just as much fun as the kids. But, uh, they enjoy being out there, too. Just a brief update on the first center. If you haven't been by lately, the uh the warehouse on the far east side of the property is has some **[8:41] Chief Tim Olson:** walls up. So, uh and a lot of dirt moved, which is fun for our staff to see and our partners to see. Uh some visible signs of progress here and helps to get excited for that project moving forward. Uh we did tour another uh local facility to talk uh staffing, just look at their staffing arrangements and how that could uh work with ours. uh human resources staff joined us on that meet just to get a better understanding of what that could look like. Uh we're also working with our our legal folks on uh finalizing some membership agreements with our partners and we have four agencies that have uh uh submitted letters of interest to uh to sign on to those membership agreements as capital members which is our highest tier of membership. So good to see the progress there. **[9:26] Chief Tim Olson:** Uh, one note on a public safety foundation grant from back in May. They helped to um sponsor two of our officers, Carrie Work and Brian Smith uh out at National Police Week in Washington DC. They were part of the uh law enforcement uh bike ride uh from I believe it's Atlantic City, New Jersey into Washington DC about 250 miles over four days. So, uh, probably a little bit of soreness there, but they got there and were part of the Candela vigil and, uh, great to have them represent RPD out there. A little bit more meaning this year with Burnsville officers being recognized on the wall, um, back in May. **[10:06] Chief Tim Olson:** And then, uh, a snapshot of some of our training and development in April, May, and June. There's a lot of bullet points, a lot of uh, acronyms there. Um the point here is just the the variety of skill sets that our staff um stays on top of. So quarter one is a lot of our mandatory training to uh keep our licenses um uh active with firearms training, defensive tactics. About 80% of our staff is sworn staff, which means we uh have to fulfill all of the post uh training requirements. But as we move through the year, we can move into some of these more specialized uh trainings and assignments. Um, and we've also worked with our communication staff here in Lakefield to uh, put out some videos on social media to um, talk through some pieces of equipment that maybe the **[10:52] Chief Tim Olson:** community has more questions on and what the uh, equipment does and sometimes more importantly what it does not do. So, you can look for some of those videos out on social media. Moving into uh, a few statistical slides here are quarter two uh, case files. **[11:08] Chief Tim Olson:** These are police reports uh, actually generated. we were uh up a little bit from 2024, up about 100 uh police reports. And then uh this is a slide we've been showing here for a little over a year, but these are calls that go into dispatch um where the caller is um involved or around some type of mental health crisis. They don't necessarily want a police response. They want some mental health help. So these are steered from dispatch directly to to our crisis response um social services. this number uh 17 calls in quarter two for Lakeville was down significantly from quarter 1 um which you know hopefully could be a good trend. That's a good thing. The real key number that we look at on this is the number of times the police actually end up getting involved. And we've seen uh **[11:55] Chief Tim Olson:** as you can see here 24% of the time uh that number is hovered right around um you know 20 to 30% where police are involved. So it is doing its job of um you know streamlining that service right to social social services and getting those folks the help that uh that they need on their call for service. **[12:17] Chief Tim Olson:** And then uh it's it's buried a little bit up top there, but our total calls for service as you can see are down almost 2,000 in quarter 2 from 2024. And a real driving force of that is our medical response. It doesn't mean that we have less medical calls in the city, but with our fire department moving to full-time fire. There's a lot more of of those calls that we are not going to based on their um uh response times and capabilities. So, that's uh I think really positive development citywide. It frees our staff up to do some other things. And then moving down to our mental health related calls are the welfare checks stayed pretty uh consistent and our crisis mental health calls were up a little bit. Some of that's driven by our um liaison that goes out with mental health uh folks after the fact and does some follow-up **[13:03] Chief Tim Olson:** calls. Those are factored into that 136 number for for 2025. And then more on the traffic side of things, our traffic stops uh were relatively um stable year-over-year. Property property damage crashes were uh about the same. And then our injury crashes were up by about 13. Again, these are crashs where uh one or more occupants reports any type of injury. **[13:28] Chief Tim Olson:** So, all all levels of injury are included in that number. Then, looking at our comparisons to some of our neighboring agencies and communities there, again, our number 12 uh just over 12,000 pretty comparable to uh Burnsville to the north and a little bit below Egan, a little bit above Apple Valley. **[13:51] Chief Tim Olson:** And some of the offenses that we look at um at these quarterly reports are driving under the influence uh arrests were up by 20 in in quarter two. Um that's a direct result of uh having some staff that had some time to get out there and be more proactive in uh in enforcing those um offenses. We have uh undergone a lot of training and um and education on the side of uh impairment outside of uh what I would call more traditional alcohol impairment uh with the legalization of of cannabis and prevalence of uh opioids and prescription drugs. Our staff are are doing a lot more in recognizing some of the impairments related to that type of uh impairment as well. **[14:35] Chief Tim Olson:** uh assaults both aggravated and other were up uh 2025 or over 2024, but property crime property uh related crimes, motor vehicle theft, damage, vandalism uh were down um this year over last. **[14:53] Chief Tim Olson:** And then finally, just uh a few um snapshots from our social media. On the left there, our recruiting pitch for uh our community service officer position. We found throwing uh puppies in always helps uh with the engagement. In the middle there are some uh photo photographs of our reserves, some different events that they were at. And the far right uh we jumped in, I guess, on the action figure meme trend with the uh stereotypical police officer with a donut and the energy drink. So with that, uh happy to answer any questions that you may have. **[15:24] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay, council questions, comments. **[15:27] Council Member Michelle Volk:** Have a quick one. Yeah. um when you were giving the um information on the training and you mentioned what the first quarter is usually entails is um is that the schedule that every police department goes through or I guess I'm thinking about the four that have signed up and and if you're all on the same schedule or do different departments rotate those trainings. **[15:55] Chief Tim Olson:** Yeah, I can't say everybody does it the exact same way. That's probably more common than not just because you have to get those in no matter what. So, a lot of people like us just want to make sure that as the year goes by, you don't run out of time or run out of space. One of the advantages with our partnerships is the uh early booking period where you can book that lock up that space in the fall before the preceding year. Uh because that's one of the challenges for us. If we wait too long, that space isn't there. we won't have to worry about that with facility now. So, that will certainly help in that regard. **[16:29] Council Member:** Thank you. I just uh I want to say I know this is not a Q2 thing, but close enough. But I just want to extend my gratitude to the PD csos and reserves for the job during paniprog. It seemed everything went pretty well it seemed like from a public safety standpoint. So, kudos to your team and working with their team. So, thank you. **[16:48] Chief Tim Olson:** Yes, we appreciate it. We'll have some photos in quarter three. So, yes, I'm glad I could pre preview it for you. Yes, there's more to come. Thank you. **[17:00] Mayor Luke Hellier:** All right, moving on to item number six, our consent agenda. These are routine items typically for the council. And Mr. Miller, anything you wanted to highlight? **[17:06] Justin Miller:** Thank you, mayor. A couple tonight. Uh item 6 I, 6K, 6L, and 6M are all internal policies that um are updates to our personnel policy. The personnel committee did review these and these are basically updates to conform with state statutes that have changed uh changed recently. And then item 6J is a professional services agreement with RJM Construction. They will serve as our construction manager at the new fire station that is currently in design. **[17:31] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Council, anything you'd like to pull for further discussion? Now, I'll take a motion to approve the Yep. **[17:31] Council Member Dan Walter:** I move approval of the consent agenda. **[17:31] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Is there a second? **[17:31] Council Member:** Second. **[17:31] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. **[17:49] Council Members:** I. **[17:49] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Opposed? It passes. We move on to 7A, public hearing on application for Joyy's Thai Cuisine for an on sale wine and on sale 32 malt liquor license. And I believe our clerk has just a quick update for us. Yeah. **[18:04] Ann Olowski:** Real quick, um Joyy's Thai Cuisine has been operating under their previous legal entity name as Joyy's Thai Cuisine. They've recently um made a change in their restructuring and now they're going to operate under their new entity name which is Joy Thai Cuisine LLC. They ownership and management of the restaurant will remain the same and they don't see any other changes. **[18:29] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Beauty of the law. Um this is a public hearing. I'll open that now if there's any comment about the license. And seeing none, I'll take a motion to close the public hearing. **[18:44] Council Member:** Make a motion to close the public hearing. **[18:44] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Is there a second? **[18:44] Council Member:** Second. **[18:44] Mayor Luke Hellier:** All those in favor say I. **[18:44] Council Members:** I. **[18:44] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Opposed. Okay. Public hearing is closed. I will now take a motion or discussion on the change of the name on the light liquor license. Council member Bermel. **[19:00] Council Member John Bermel:** Uh I move to grant an on sale wine and on sale 3.2% 2% malt liquor license for Joyy's Thai Cuisine LLC located at 770460th Street West. **[19:17] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Is there a second? **[19:17] Council Member:** Second. **[19:17] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Any further discussion? Okay. Roll call, please. **[19:17] Ann Olowski:** Volk—I. Hellier—I. Bermel—I. Walter—I. **[19:17] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Congratulations to those guys. Thanks for your continued investment in our community. Uh, moving on to item B. **[19:33] Mayor Luke Hellier:** ordinance amending title 10 and 11 of the city code and summary ordinance for publication. And I'll have our community development director, Miss Goodroad, tee this up. And just as a a background, this was maybe she'll talk about it, but some of these things came out of a conversation that I had had with our development community about a year ago, I would guess, where we had a round table with um some builders thinking about how we can better serve to do some things uh related to actually some of the things we're already doing in areas just in PUB and and others. So, I'll turn over to you for the update. **[20:06] Cathy Goodroad:** Thank you. Um, good evening, mayor, members of the, um, council. Um, and as the mayor said, um, this is work um, in this ordinance that came out of, um, a lot of those past discussions. So, before you this evening are amendments to title 10, the subdivision section, and title 11, the zoning ordinance. **[20:24] Cathy Goodroad:** Again, just a little bit of history. A lot of these initiatives come from our comprehensive plan. Um and things that we're seeing um change with that future plan. Um part of it's just part of our annual development regulation review and amendment. We usually come before you a couple of times a year with some amendments. And then last summer we did have a pretty deep dive discussion with about 10 of our local builders um both local as well as national builders that are very active in Lakeville. and we just kind of had a heart-to-heart conversation about what are things that we could do to our code to make it a little bit easier to build housing. Um, we also brought these ideas to the planning commission in a work session in December and then a follow-up work session in January which basically was the content for what this ordinance **[21:09] Cathy Goodroad:** began. Um, we did pause as we were waiting to see what might happen through the last legislative session. Nothing did come out of that, but we felt we were ready to move forward with our ordinances. So, I'll go through and highlight and then if you have questions um on the specifics, um the work was prepared by our planning consultant, Dan L. He provided a very detailed memo that was both in the planning commission packet as well as in your packet. Um that kind of digs a little deeper than I'm kind of covering tonight. Um but one of the first things that the ordinance does is it eliminates that extra size garage for dwellings without basements. **[21:45] Cathy Goodroad:** That was probably one of the top things the builders brought up. The requirement is unique to Lakeville. Builders usually have to work through some kind of Lakeville specific design to provide for that. And so the recommendation from both planning commission council was to move that back down to 440 um for those types of structures. Um so that change um has been made. In addition to that, in some of our larger lot residential districts, we do require right now a site plan that allows for the third car garage stall. just to prove that out. We don't believe that ordinance is necessary. These lots are all of the sufficient size to accommodate for that. **[22:26] Cathy Goodroad:** The next thing we looked at is our lot sizes and what can we do to make it a little bit easier um little less hoops to jump through to have the smaller lots. So right now in our RS4 by conditional use or I'm sorry by our RS2 district which is on the left hand side the RS2 allows by conditional use permit um the ability to do 7500 square foot lots. We wanted to change that, make it a little bit more flexible. And so the proposal is on the right, making RST2 7500 square feet or 55 foot wide lots by right without having that cup. And then we added it to the RS4. That one we did keep as um a cup. This just makes um it **[23:12] Cathy Goodroad:** a little bit easier in some of our districts to do the smaller lots. Again, we really work hard with developers as we're going through the sketch plan review, as we're going through the plumary plat review to have a mixture of lots, but it does allow that. Um, by eliminating that cup in the one district, it allows it's one less hurdle to jump through. Within that cup language was a lot of other criteria. We still have um language in here in the amendment that requires, you know, quality design, particularly curve linear streets. One of the concerns staff has with, you know, a development that might come in with a whole row of all 75s, you're going to look down, it's going to look like a tunnel. And so, we want to have that language in there. We work hard to get that, but when it's an **[23:58] Cathy Goodroad:** ordinance, it makes it even easier. Um, the next one, um, deals with exterior materials. Um, we took out the requirement that you have to use brick or stone on the front and added in here that you can allow um or utilize engineer wood or cement fiber sighting, also known as Hardy board, as one of those requirements. You can also vary the type and texture material. So, you could have um um two different styles of the Hardy board to count for that major material. So, think farmhouse style design. You can't do a full farmhouse style design, which is usually a white home with a black outline for the windows or the black frame I should call it for the windows. You can't do that **[24:44] Cathy Goodroad:** under the code um at the top because the requirement for the brick. Oftentimes those will have a couple of different styles, shake and cedar um style um types of elevation versus the brick. So this ordinance would allow that. **[25:00] Cathy Goodroad:** other amendments. Um we modified the base lot provisions. Um there's a lot of contradictory requirements and it also um results in less effective use of the property. So we simplify the base lot provisions. So it allows a better utilization of land and it's just simply simply simple to read on the developer side. I should be able to talk tonight on the developer side as well as when we're interpreting um all of these different plots. Um, next one is to utilize the RM3 standards in the RH districts when it comes to town homes. **[25:36] Cathy Goodroad:** That's just something that's simply missing. Um, so having that reference and making it clear because in the RH you can still do town homes. And then eliminating the RH district transition requirements um using single family or two family. The ordinance really just requires a tier or a row of town homes to serve as that transition. And then eliminating um the minimum area for PUDS. This is something that's been in the ordinance for a long time. And what we're finding is as we are developing, we're dealing with smaller lots or smaller infill developments. And then also on the west side of 35, we're going to have some tricky sites, topography, trees, wetlands, and so forth. So we want to make the use of PUDS more flexible. Again, not a mandate. I **[26:21] Cathy Goodroad:** understand there was a lot of conversation in the legislation regarding PUDS. This just simply allows a developer to request that. We still have to review it. Still has to meet the PUD criteria, but it does loosen up the ability to utilize those. So, that is the gist of the changes that really affect kind of what we've coined that missing middle or ability to broaden the housing market um across um different price ranges. The other code update is just our regular stuff that we run into on a daily basis that just needs to get fixed. um encroachments. That was actually a code change that we did a couple of meetings ago. Um in the subdivision ordinance, we identified um with the help of um Attorney Pal some variance process criteria that we needed **[27:08] Cathy Goodroad:** to update. Um making sure it's very clear in the ordinance that street extensions have to go to the plat boundary. And then just other things within the zoning ordinance regarding administration of cups and IUPs. um broadening the ability of commercial exterior finishes to also utilize that engineered wood um fixing some ant right away for antennas. Um you can see the list there and then um switching data centers as a cup in the OP district. So that's kind of a catchall for all of those other additional code changes um that are tied together um in one ordinance with the missing bill. So, it's all um the subdivision portion is at the front of the ordinance followed **[27:54] Cathy Goodroad:** by the zoning ordinance update and I would stand for any questions. **[28:03] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Council questions, comments. **[28:03] Council Member Dan Walter:** um can you explain the antenna thing a little bit to me? What kinds of antennas are those? **[28:11] Cathy Goodroad:** Of course you're going to ask me on them that one. And I'm not sure if that was something um that was actually something that um city attorney brought up um dealing with um placement of antennas within rights away um dealing with um the requirements for cups. So it's described on page nine of the memo. I'm going to look to what kind of Miss Taylor, she recalls why those amendments were they weren't consistent with uh state law. State law. Okay. So, we had to clean that up a little bit and it's small cell wireless as I recall kept were being amended just the small cells. **[28:56] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Thanks. Okay. Would you just um talk a little bit about the multifamily as permitted use in the RHCBD district? **[29:19] Cathy Goodroad:** Yeah, that was something that um wasn't clear as a permitted use. So, making sure that it's clear as a permitted use in the downtown district. Got it. Yep. **[29:21] Council Member Dan Walter:** Any other I'll just offer a comment on this. I want to applaud you, Mr. Mayor, on this issue. Um this housing in the middle middle housing issue has been a big issue in the legislature the last couple of years and um with some scrutiny of of communities like Lakeville and you said let's meet with the local developers and roll up our sleeves and figure out what we can do to address this rather than waiting for the um legislation at the state level that still has not come fortunately. So anyway, I just I I think this is a these are sensible uh updates and changes and it's it's a nice way to show that the city of Lakeville is working with our developers and focused on that housing issue. **[30:04] Council Member John Bermel:** Thank you, Councilman Burma. I want to make a a similar comment. Um kudos. Uh this involves builders, it involves uh city staff. Uh and it's the process. I want people to understand the process wasn't just like oh hey you know a week ago we thought let's look at this. This has been over a year of conversation and uh just give and take and reaching consensus and it's seem it's well considered and and there's nothing in here that's unreasonable. Um so I'm uh I share my colleagues uh uh kudos for uh for everybody that was involved in the process. **[30:45] Mayor Luke Hellier:** I'll just say that the one thing I think is really important um for us to be proactive because you know as council member Walter and Burma mentioned some of the stuff that's happening in the legislature. You know one of the things that the legislature thinks is a really good idea is taking away the ability for the public to weigh in on these types of projects. They want to eliminate public comment. And I think that us structuring, you know, some to be a little bit forward thinking and be an example to help protect some of those things like public comment and some of the other crazy things that the legislaturator's proposed, I think is important. So, I'm glad that we can kind of try to lead on this issue, certainly with, you know, being one of the faster growing cities in the last couple years. With that, I will take a motion to approve. Council member Bermel. **[31:30] Council Member John Bermel:** I move to approve an ordinance amending title 10 and title 11 of the city code and a summary ordinance for publication. **[31:30] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Is there a second? **[31:30] Council Member:** Second. **[31:30] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Okay. Any further discussion? Okay. Roll call, please. **[31:46] Ann Olowski:** Bermel—I. Walter—I. Volk—I. Hellier—I. **[31:46] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Thank you. And thanks to staff for all your work with the everybody on the, you know, planning commission and community to help make this happen. Um, moving on. Unfinish and new business. Seeing none, um, our next city council meeting is Monday, August 18th here at city hall. Our next work session is August 25th in the Marian conference room. And with that, I'll take a motion to adjurnn. **[32:02] Council Member:** I'll move to adjurnn. **[32:02] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Is there a second? **[32:02] Council Member:** Second. **[32:17] Mayor Luke Hellier:** All those in favor say I. **[32:17] Council Members:** I. **[32:17] Mayor Luke Hellier:** Opposed. We're adjourned.