This transcript features **Vice Mayor Paul Essler** presiding in the absence of Mayor Jeff Weisensel. The councilmembers present are **Heidi Freske**, **Tami Klimpel**, and **Paul Theisen**. [0:01] [Music] [1:22] **Paul Essler**: Okay, all right. Good evening. Um, welcome to the um regular city council meeting. Today is February 20th, 2024. Um, I guess let's go ahead and stand and join me in 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, thank you. So, Jeff Weisensel—Mayor Weisensel—is out of town this week, so with me being the Vice Mayor for the year, I am taking over for Jeff tonight. [2:08] **Paul Essler**: Um, before we begin the meeting, I’d like to honor the three brave first responders who tragically lost their lives on Sunday while serving their community and our neighbors in Burnsville. Um, so police officer Paul Elmstrand, firefighter and paramedic Adam Finseth, and police officer Matthew Ruge. I’d like to—please join me in a moment of silence to honor their bravery and sacrifice. [2:51] **Paul Essler**: Thank you. Um, also before we get started, I'd also like to acknowledge all the brave men and women who were on the scene during and after the tragic event. Officers from all over Dakota County, Bloomington, were also there that day providing tactical support and backup. They ran towards a tragedy at great personal risk to try to save a family in trouble. This group included four of Rosemount's finest; four of our police officers were also on the scene. We want to acknowledge their bravery and their willingness to serve. We want to thank them for the work that they do to protect, honor, and serve Rosemount and the surrounding area. We want them to know that they have our support today and every day. [3:37] **Paul Essler**: On behalf of the Council, I ask that you continue to provide support, prayers, and encouragement to our officers, firefighters, paramedics, and dispatchers, and everybody else involved in public safety, not just today, not just tomorrow, but in the weeks and months ahead. This pain does not disappear overnight. They need us now more than ever. Thank you. With that, we're going to move into the regular agenda. Um, first of all, are there any edits or adjustments to the agenda? [4:18] **Teah Malecha**: No, sir. [4:21] **Paul Essler**: Nope? All right. With that, can someone make a motion to approve the agenda? [4:26] **Heidi Freske**: So moved. [4:27] **Paul Theisen**: Second. [4:28] **Paul Essler**: All right. Motion by Freske, second by Theisen. All in favor say aye. [4:34] **Council Members**: Aye. [4:35] **Paul Essler**: Opposed? All right, motion carries 3 to 0. We have an agenda. Item number three: presentations, proclamations, acknowledgments. We do not have any other items in this evening, so that completes item number three. Moving on to item number four: any responses to public comment? Is there any prior public comments that we need to respond to this evening? I don't believe so. [5:08] **Teah Malecha**: No, sir, not on file. [5:10] **Paul Essler**: Okay. All right. So then we're going to move on to—that completes item number four. Item number five is public comments. So if there's anybody in the audience who wishes to address the Council on subjects that are not part of the agenda this evening, we will welcome you to the podium. Please state your name, your address, and try to keep your comments to three minutes. Okay, thank you. [5:37] **Jackie Young**: Good evening. Um, my name is Jackie Young. I'm a resident of Rosemount and I appreciate the council listening to residents. I'm here to kind of give an update on last year's street improvement project. I was here last year too. And last year it all began about in January with information given to homeowners, and I feel like from the very beginning, homeowners could have used more information. [6:05] **Jackie Young**: In general, as always, you would want to know what is the cost of this project going to be, and finally, in May, the Council did respond and homeowners were given information on kind of associated costs and fees. Secondly, homeowners really wanted to know, "Well, how is this going to affect me? What is the work going to be done? Where?" Kind of a general timeline. And I know that the city provided like weekly updates, but even with the weekly updates, sometimes we really weren't made aware of which street would be closed when, when we would have to move cars. Sometimes we didn't know until we had a knock on our door in the morning. [6:44] **Jackie Young**: The scope of the project I think was bigger than they anticipated. Putting in utilities involved digging up the streets for the sewers, filling it back in overnight, digging it back up, putting in water, filling it back up, laying a base for the road, constructing the road, paving the road. So for homeowners, it wasn't just a week or so that our home was disrupted; it was four and a half months, from mid-June until the day before Thanksgiving was when they finished. [7:30] **Jackie Young**: Because of the rural nature of our area, I think the access was difficult. There wasn't always a street right behind you to get out. Dump trucks had to come in one way the whole time and, unfortunately, that was close to my home, so they would back up a long distance and dump their load. It was a lot more of a disruption than I think most people anticipated. And then again, because of the one-way street that I live on, we actually had two and a half weeks where our road was almost impassible. There was a time where it rained and really not until we kind of spoke up, until residents spoke up to the city that we needed a rock brought in, then that happened. [8:40] **Jackie Young**: Road signs I think weren't put up to notify other drivers. Countless times, Amazon trucks were trying to turn around. Pizza or food delivery was pretty much impossible for a few weeks. And before that, when it was really dry, the roads were dusty and they didn't come and water it down again until residents started to speak up. So I think some of the things could have been anticipated. We were told our garbage would be moved, but again, we always had to tell them almost every Tuesday. [9:17] **Jackie Young**: All of these seem like minor inconveniences, but they also pointed out some of the negligence of the Northern Lines construction crew. Residents had to point out gas lines, power lines, internet lines, and basically keep an eye out on what was going on. Beginning with the very first week, power went out, and it happened about three times during the process. Two of them happened during dinner hour, making it difficult to make any meals. The internet went out several times, making working from home unreliable for many residents. [10:07] **Jackie Young**: On at least two occasions, workers started to place fire hydrants in areas that obstructed homeowner access, and homeowners needed to intervene and adjust the placement. Also, on at least two occasions, the proper clearance to the road from the utility connection was not done, resulting in them having to come back and dig it up again and redo it. So, as a resident, I want the city to be aware that the quality of the work done was subpar and that Northern Line Contracting—maybe they were the cheapest bidder, the lowest bidder for a reason. I also want the city to kind of learn about the process and be more proactive with residents in other construction projects. Thank you for your time, I appreciate it. [10:52] **Paul Essler**: Thank you. Thank you for coming forward and sharing your experience. Um, I don't know if this evening, Mr. Egger, you want to address some of the items. I think just to speak for the Council in general, I think we're aware of some of the challenges. You know, we got a lot of communication from residents, so it wasn't hiding from us. It certainly was communicated quite a bit. You know, some of the things that I think are lessons learned probably. So, I don't know if Mr. Egger you want to address some of them or do you want to wait and respond in the next council meeting? [11:51] **Nick Egger**: Yeah, I'll just say a few things, councilmembers. I understand that reconstructions are always going to present a litany of inconveniences for residents that are in the affected neighborhood. And we did listen quite a bit and make adjustments along the way. I'm not going to say that our responses were perfect every time. A lot of things are unpredictable and do change quickly just to be able to address construction items in the field. [12:09] **Nick Egger**: Um, we also don't always know what we're going to find when we're doing excavations and have to call audibles and make game-changing decisions with the design sometimes in the field. A few things like that happened with this project. I do understand what you're saying; we're kind of dissatisfied with the progress and the responsiveness of the contractor as well. But exactly what you were doing by calling, emailing, or even saying words at our public hearings in here, we do take to heart and we do try to address those as best we can. It's by no means a perfect process, but we learn something from every experience and we do take that forward into future projects. So, thank you. [12:56] **Paul Essler**: Yeah, and I'll echo what Mr. Egger is saying too. Again, we've had the conversations with staff. Certainly, what I've seen from the staff in this and other projects is that when things don't go well, they really do buckle down and learn from it and have conversations internally. In this case, with the contractor: "How are we going to do things going forward so these kind of situations don't occur?" I've seen that in my six years on Council very frequently from this staff. If it doesn't go well this time, let's figure out how we make it better next time. Any other comments from Council? [13:41] **Heidi Freske**: I was just going to say we appreciate your feedback because the feedback is how we do learn. I think the staff does a tremendous job of taking that feedback and then making adjustments and trying to show up better the next day and still leading with positive intent. I thought they did a good job of adjusting through this process and your feedback is welcome. Thank you. [14:15] **Paul Essler**: Yep, absolutely. All right. So that—any other individual in the audience that's interested in coming forward and sharing any public comment for the council for items that are not on the agenda? One more time, I'll ask one more time. All right. All right, so with that, we're going to close the public comment. With that, we will move on to the consent agenda tonight. We have items A through R. I do want to pull item 6D. I also want to pull item H. So I'd like to pull D and H. Are there any other items on the agenda that councilmembers would like to pull? [15:06] **Council Members**: No. [15:08] **Paul Essler**: Okay. All right. So with that, we will move—I'll ask for a motion. I'll list out the items on the consent agenda: items A through R with those excluded. The bill listings (all the payments that were made); minutes of the February 6th regular meeting; meeting minutes of the February 6th, 2024, work session proceedings. I will call out—we are excluding D. I do want to call out some of the donations that are on the agenda specifically. [15:37] **Paul Essler**: So, item 6A: donation acceptance from the Rosemount Lions Club in the amount of $2,400. That'll be used for purposes of the spring egg hunt this spring. Also, item 6F: donation acceptance from Merchants Bank in the amount of $1,000 to be put towards events at Leprechaun Days. And also—oh, I'll get to L when I get there. [16:21] **Paul Essler**: Let's see. Item G is a request by Maplewood Development for Amber Fields 15th Edition preliminary and final plat approval to create 167 single-family lots. Item 6H: Comprehensive Sanitary Sewer Plan Amendment Project Bigfoot, which I did pull. Item I: Renewal of the Danner Inc. small-scale mineral extraction permit for 2024. Item J: Land donation agreement with CNC Development LLC. K: Medical leave of absence in the Fire Department. Item L: I do want to call out—it's a donation acceptance from Captain Brad Miller. Captain Brad Miller, who has been a longtime firefighter on our volunteer department, has donated an elliptical machine to be used for the Fire Department for training and workouts. Approximate value is about $6,000. So we thank Captain Brad Miller for donating that to the department. That's outstanding and very much appreciated. [17:35] **Paul Essler**: Um, let's see. Item M: Appointment of additional election judges for the 2024 elections. Item N is renewal of Consumption and Display setup permit for The Meeting Place. O: Request by Maplewood Development for rezoning a Major Amendment to the Amber Fields Planned Unit Development agreement, preliminary and final plat approval for Amber Fields 14th Edition. Item P: Encroachment Agreement with University of Minnesota, Audrey Avenue private water main. Item Q: Request by Builder Lot Group LLC for approval of a time extension for the Bray Hill final plat. And finally, item R: Request by Simobree Properties LLC for a minor amendment to the Custom Apparel Planned Unit Development. So again, with items D and H held for further discussion, would someone like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda with those items removed? [18:41] **Tami Klimpel**: I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda with those items removed. [18:46] **Heidi Freske**: I'll second. [18:47] **Paul Essler**: All right. Motion by Klimpel, second by Freske. Roll call please. [18:54] **Sarah Saunders**: Freske? **Heidi Freske**: Aye. **Sarah Saunders**: Essler? **Paul Essler**: Aye. **Sarah Saunders**: Theisen? **Paul Theisen**: Aye. [19:02] **Paul Essler**: Motion carries 3 to 0. With that, we will move on to item 6D, and I am going to turn that over—I wanted to pull this for recognition. We've got a substantial donation from Flint Hills Resources, and with that, I will turn it over to Fire Chief Rick Schroeder. [19:27] **Rick Schroeder**: Good evening. Thank you, councilmembers. You know, over the years as Fire Chief, I've really come to appreciate the partnerships and collaborations of the businesses in our area. Oftentimes I don't really have to do anything; they just ask, "What do you need at the Fire Department?" right? So it makes my job really easy, and we always seem to need something. This time was nothing different. We use a little unit called the four-gas monitor, and it's probably one of the most important tools we carry on our truck. This little thing might not weigh very much, but the work that it does is substantial. [19:53] **Rick Schroeder**: We use this a lot for our CO alarm calls that we get, usually in the middle of the night. These things can make things go good or bad. Either we go there and we clear the house and it's a faulty detector, or we have to call out the gas company because we've got CO levels in the house. So these get used a tremendous amount and they're on all of our command vehicles and two of our engines. I have Fire Chief Dan Mo with me tonight from Flint Hills, and again, timely request: "What do you need?" Well, our four-gas monitors were just about to the point of replacement, and you can see the cost; they're not cheap. [20:39] **Rick Schroeder**: Through some work with Assistant Chief Barr and some others on the department doing some research, we decided to stay with the same style we have; they've been very reliable. These do get calibrated every month at our monthly trainings to make sure that they're reading correctly. So we also had to purchase two calibration stations that allow us to do that each month. That's a very important part of this tool because if you're not calibrating on a monthly basis, they can be off a little bit, and that can be a matter of life or death. So we take that very seriously. Chief Mo is here to say a few words. We appreciate the partnership; they've come to us many times and purchased some very amazing things for us. I'll turn it over to Chief Mo. [21:24] **Dan Mo**: Thanks. Yeah, thank you, Chief Schroeder. I just want to appreciate Rosemount Fire. It's always a pleasure working with those guys, trying to help them out where we can. In this case, the four-gas monitors—not only working with the Fire Department but helping to keep the community members safe. It's good to know that we've got this caliber of personnel trained to use this equipment. If we were ever to have a bad deal at the refinery, we call on those guys to help us support with monitoring around the plant itself as well. Again, I just want to say thank you and it's always been a pleasure working with that group. [22:12] **Paul Essler**: Awesome. And just to point out for those of you listening, the donation from Flint Hills Resources is in the amount of $13,800. For those of you guys who don't look online, very substantial. Thank you, yep, very substantial donation. So thank you for that. And by the way, I called you "Rich Schroeder"—I don't know why I called you Rich Schroeder. I know it's Rick Schroeder. I always remember that because it's the kid on *Silver Spoons*, Rick Schroder. That's how I remember your name is really Rick, so I apologize. [22:50] **Rick Schroeder**: I've been called worse! All good. Thank you. [22:58] **Paul Essler**: I'll make a motion to approve a resolution accepting a donation from Flint Hills Resources for $13,799.94. [23:09] **Heidi Freske**: Second. [23:10] **Paul Essler**: All right. Motion by Essler, second by Freske. Roll call please. [23:14] **Sarah Saunders**: Essler? **Paul Essler**: Aye. **Sarah Saunders**: Theisen? **Paul Theisen**: Aye. **Sarah Saunders**: Freske? **Heidi Freske**: Aye. [23:22] **Paul Essler**: Thank you, motion carries 3 to 0. Thank you again for the donation and thanks for your partnership with the Rosemount Fire Department. Um, let's see. We're going to move on to item H. This is the motion—the recommended action is to adopt a resolution amending the Comprehensive Sanitary Sewer Plan for the Rosemount Technology Edition. With that, I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Egger, Public Works Director. [23:55] **Nick Egger**: Thanks, Acting Mayor Essler, councilmembers. This item is essentially an administrative documentation step that we have to take resulting from the manner in which the site layout and the infrastructure is going to be connected with our wastewater system for serving the property that Project Bigfoot is being constructed on. When the city does its Comprehensive Plan for all of its utility systems, we have a vision of how things could play out, but it's not necessarily a prescription on exactly how they do end up playing out. [24:30] **Nick Egger**: In this case, the sewer connection for this complex is more easily able to be served directly to an interceptor sewer that Met Council has running right alongside the property. So rather than bring a large trunk line to this site from elsewhere in the city that would cost millions of dollars and take a whole another project, this was the engineering solution that presented itself as a more efficient way of doing things. But all that said, whenever we do something that's different than predicted, we're required to file a Comprehensive Plan Amendment with the Met Council. So the first step was to have a couple of exhibits modified. By approving the resolution tonight, we would forward that information to Met Council for their overall approval. [25:35] **Paul Essler**: Okay, thank you. And I just want to confirm here—basically, because the reason this is being able to be redone is because the amount of wastewater we're expecting because of what's being developed on this site versus what was likely expected with multiple users is less wastewater? Is that the reason why? [26:02] **Nick Egger**: That is a fact. The amount of wastewater flow from this property is less than would have been projected based on just the land use alone. But that is not really the driving reason for it. The driving reason for it is the physical proximity to a different trunk sewer line that Met Council owns and operates that's adjacent to the property, and the topography works out such that it can drain to that pipe rather than a different route. It was more about the technical Connecting Point A and Point B than it was the amount of flow. [26:38] **Paul Essler**: So just kind of curious, why wasn't that the original plan? [26:41] **Nick Egger**: We didn't know how this land would be transformed in terms of topography and number of buildings, or at what point in time it would develop. It's theoretically possible properties to the east could have developed ahead of it, and for that, we would have brought trunk lines to those sites. But this one's going now, and so this is a different alternative than originally contemplated. [27:14] **Paul Essler**: All right, makes sense. All right, any other questions from the council? With that, I'll make a motion to adopt a resolution amending the Comprehensive Sanitary Sewer Plan for the Rosemount Technology Edition. [27:31] **Heidi Freske**: I'll second. [27:32] **Paul Essler**: Motion by myself, second by Freske. Roll call please. [27:34] **Sarah Saunders**: Theisen? **Paul Theisen**: Aye. **Sarah Saunders**: Freske? **Heidi Freske**: Aye. **Sarah Saunders**: Essler? **Paul Essler**: Aye. [27:42] **Paul Essler**: Motion carries 3 to 0. With that, that completes the consent agenda items. At this point, we will move on to item 7A: Public hearings to propose approving final project scope, order improvements, and authorize advertisement for bids for Aspen Avenue Extension City Project 2024-05. Mr. Egger. [28:26] **Nick Egger**: Thank you again. I’ll go through the details a little bit here on the screen. Aspen Avenue is a new street from the ground up that would connect County Road 42 with Conneaut Trail, just to the immediate east of the Lifetime project site. That is shown on the screen here with the yellow highlight. Here are just a few of the features: it’s pretty basic street pavement, but also some utilities (sewer, water, and storm water drainage) to serve the needs of the street and allow the development of adjacent property and connectivity with the ongoing Lifetime site. [29:32] **Nick Egger**: In addition to those things, there would also be a right turn lane coming off of County Road 42 to northbound Aspen Avenue. We'd also include pedestrian trail connectivity that would run the length of Aspen Avenue and provide interconnection with the forthcoming Vermillion Highlands Trail, the regional trail that Dakota County is working on. That one includes an underpass in the not too distant future. [30:25] **Nick Egger**: Our estimates are telling us we'd expect to have a project cost of about $962,000. Although it would be funded upfront with a variety of city resources, we do have special assessments that will recapture the cost for that, and those would be charged to the adjacent properties. I will note one of the properties is owned by the Port Authority, so although it's city property, it can be categorized as a special assessment to that land. The assessment hearing is something that we will do at a later date after we get bids back. [31:32] **Nick Egger**: Here's the schedule: assuming Council adopts a resolution, we would complete the plans, get it out on the market, receive bids in early April, award a contract in May, and begin construction in the summertime and wrap that up in the fall. I will note that this project's going to have to be heavily coordinated with the remaining projects scheduled for Lifetime and the trunk water main project along the County Road 42 corridor. That's all I have for details. [32:48] **Tami Klimpel**: Do you mind going back to the first slide where it had a map with the yellow line? Perfect. So I'm curious, when I'm looking at this, is it just the landowners on the right and left side of the yellow line that would be assessed? [33:03] **Nick Egger**: It is, yep. That's correct. Every abutting property would receive a special assessment. [33:10] **Tami Klimpel**: Okay, thank you. And my question just goes to—I know we had talked about this, but right next to it, alongside, is going to be a trail as well? [33:19] **Nick Egger**: Yes. [33:20] **Tami Klimpel**: And is that the trail that's going to go underneath 42, or is that something that's separate? [33:24] **Nick Egger**: That one will be more in the middle center of the Lifetime development, several hundred feet to the west. That's a separate project. [33:38] **Tami Klimpel**: Okay, thanks. So that has nothing to do with this? [33:41] **Nick Egger**: Correct, a separate project and contract altogether. [33:45] **Paul Essler**: Who are the landowners that are affected by this from an assessment standpoint? I'm assuming Lifetime to the west. [33:49] **Nick Egger**: Lifetime to the west. The Port Authority is the club site. Then on the east side, we have two private entities: Monarch Properties on the southwest corner, and then DCTC is also a landowner directly adjacent in the northwest part of that site. We understand they're actively seeking a buyer to presumably come in and redevelop that site at some point in time. [34:36] **Paul Essler**: I'm just curious because the yellow line—that southwest corner looks like it's a perfect square which isn't abutted to where the road is going to be. Who owns that land? [35:05] **Nick Egger**: I'll see if I can walk it through with the cursor here. This curved shape and straight north-south section is actually right-of-way at this point that was platted with the Lifetime development. Anything that abuts that either side is the right-of-way. [35:28] **Paul Essler**: And so the next parcel owner over gets assessed? [35:34] **Nick Egger**: Yes, anything that would butt up and touch that right-of-way corridor is assessable. On the east side, there is the DCTC parcel and the Monarch Properties parcel. This section up here is a piece that is going to be donated to the city from the developer of the Emerald Isle development. That action was actually taken in the consent agenda earlier. They're not being assessed, but they're donating the land. [36:26] **Paul Essler**: Okay, all right. Any other questions? No? All right. With that, I do need to open the public hearing and provide any opportunity for anybody who wants to come forward and have any comment on the recommended action for this evening. If anybody's interested in the audience to come forward, please come forward. Anybody? All right, one more try. All right, with that, I'm going to make a motion to close the public hearing. [37:25] **Heidi Freske**: Second. [37:26] **Paul Essler**: Motion and a second. All in favor say aye. [37:33] **Council Members**: Aye. [37:34] **Paul Essler**: Opposed? All right, public hearing is closed. With that, I'll recommend that we adopt a resolution to approve project scope, order improvements, and authorize an advertisement for bids for the Aspen Avenue Extension. [38:15] **Paul Theisen**: Second. [38:16] **Paul Essler**: Motion by Essler, second by Theisen. Roll call please. [38:19] **Sarah Saunders**: Freske? **Heidi Freske**: Aye. **Sarah Saunders**: Essler? **Paul Essler**: Aye. **Sarah Saunders**: Theisen? **Paul Theisen**: Aye. [38:28] **Paul Essler**: Motion carries 3 to 0. That completes item number 7A. We do not have any unfinished business on the agenda this evening, so that takes us to new business which will be item number 9A: request to adopt a resolution approving the Spectro Alloys Third Edition preliminary plat subject to conditions. With that, I'll turn it over to our Community Development Director, Mr. Kienberger. [38:52] **Adam Kienberger**: Thank you, Acting Mayor and members of the Council. Anthony is on vacation, so I will be presenting this item this evening. This was a project that was brought to Planning Commission with a public hearing held at their last meeting on January 23rd. Spectro Alloys is redeveloping and developing an existing parcel off of Doyle Path. This is off Highway 55 on the north side of 55 as you head west out of town. [39:35] **Adam Kienberger**: The project includes the expansion of their existing building to house equipment to produce aluminum billet and improvements to their outdoor storage area. There were three components to the request, but only one is in front of city council tonight. The two previous actions were acted on by the Planning Commission: they approved a site plan as well as a variance that reduced the minimum setback from 75 feet to 55 feet. The action before you this evening is a request for a preliminary plat that proposes consolidating the site into a single parcel. [40:47] **Adam Kienberger**: You’ll note that there is a city street, Doyle Path, that runs into the site. Previously, these were under multiple owners and that was a public street. It's the city's recommendation, as this is now under a single ownership, that the public road and utility be vacated as part of a future action. We do have an application pending for that in March. [41:34] **Adam Kienberger**: Spectro Alloys was established in 1973. Recently, in 2021, they completed a warehouse expansion with office space and paving that really cleaned up the overall layout. This proposed expansion will add a 70,000 square foot building and a canopy that will cover the storage area. It will be screened with extensive landscaping meeting the requirements of city code. [44:36] **Adam Kienberger**: The applicant has submitted a request for their final plat approval. A condition of the preliminary plat approval is moving forward that final plat and the vacation of the Doyle Path right-of-way. With that, I can stand for any questions. [45:23] **Tami Klimpel**: Can you go back one slide? I watched the Planning Commission look through this. It looks like it's cleaning up a lot of the exterior. All of these plantings—are these new plantings after the building's up? [46:00] **Adam Kienberger**: Correct. One of the findings from the Planning Commission was that they were at a slight deficit of required plantings, and since then, they have revised their application to accommodate all of the required plantings. [46:09] **Tami Klimpel**: I saw it had a lot more trees, so it kind of buffers the road. Great, thanks. [46:18] **Heidi Freske**: I don't have any questions; I just want to echo what Councilmember Klimpel said. It's come a long way from what it was five-plus years ago, so it looks great. [46:33] **Paul Essler**: I just got one question. When they come forward and it's all one plat, does that put them in a better position to do anything that they're not allowed to do under the current circumstances? [46:55] **Adam Kienberger**: It's more a function of a requirement of our subdivision ordinance. It's also what will allow the vacation of Doyle Path. It’s cleaning up the property lines and cementing them as a part of the legal ownership of the entire property. [47:20] **Paul Essler**: To echo Councilmember Freske, I think they've come a long way. They're a great partner and a great business to have in Rosemount. They keep taking solid steps in terms of what they're doing for the environment and the visibility for residents driving down Highway 55. We wish them continued luck in their business. With that, someone wants to make a motion? [48:08] **Tami Klimpel**: I'll make a motion to adopt a resolution approving the Spectro Alloys Third Edition preliminary plat subject to these conditions. [48:19] **Heidi Freske**: I'll second. [48:21] **Paul Essler**: Motion by Klimpel, second by Freske. Roll call please. [48:23] **Sarah Saunders**: Theisen? **Paul Theisen**: Aye. **Sarah Saunders**: Freske? **Heidi Freske**: Aye. **Sarah Saunders**: Essler? **Paul Essler**: Aye. [48:28] **Paul Essler**: Motion carries 3 to 0. That completes item 9A. So with that, we'll move on to item 10A: City staff updates. Mr. Martin, our City Administrator, is out of town on vacation, so I'm going to turn it over to our Director of Administration, Teah Malecha. [49:09] **Teah Malecha**: I am deferring to Public Works Director Egger for our updates this evening on the new campus project. [49:18] **Nick Egger**: All right. I’m going to take a little departure from how you’ve received these in the past and show you some photos. Logan will appreciate it; I’m sure he’s watching this from afar. We continue to make substantial progress on the Police and Public Works campus project. The weather conditions have really allowed things to fly along. The roof is nearly complete on the entire complex. [50:44] **Nick Egger**: Inside, things are going at a blistering pace. Countless numbers of steel studs are going up. I was out there today with some of my staff and was getting turned around; I don't have it all memorized in my head yet! They're pulling miles and miles of conduit for electrical and IT purposes and starting to install some of the HVAC components. Here’s the front entry and the main garage on the Public Works side—it's very spacious but necessary to get all of those fleet items under one roof. [52:45] **Nick Egger**: We’re still very much on track to finish this this fall like we projected. [53:51] **Heidi Freske**: I was just going to say thanks for showing the pictures. I think it’s great for the public to see the natural light and the size of this; it's pretty impressive. [54:15] **Nick Egger**: I should mention the website is RosemountMN.gov/PDPW. That'll take you to a website that's updated on a monthly basis with more photos. [54:36] **Paul Essler**: It's absolutely exciting to see. It looks just like it did on paper and it's coming to fruition quickly. Job well done. All right, any other staff updates? [55:18] **Teah Malecha**: No updates. [55:24] **Paul Essler**: All right. Then I'll move on to the upcoming calendar. February 26th: Planning Commission meeting. February 26th: Parks and Recreation meeting. February 28th: Youth Commission meeting. And please come out to the Rosemount Expo on March 2nd at the RCC from 9:30 to 1:30. It's going to be very family-friendly. The next City Council meeting is scheduled for March 4th—it’s a Monday, as opposed to a Tuesday. Any other items from Council before I motion to adjourn? [56:45] **Tami Klimpel**: Do you want any mention of the Leprechaun Days Bingo? How was that? [56:54] **Heidi Freske**: Oh yeah, it was a huge success. We were packed—I think we were at capacity. Well over $10,000 was made to help run Leprechaun Days. People had a lot of fun. [57:15] **Paul Essler**: Awesome, thank you. With that, I'll make a motion to adjourn. [57:18] **Heidi Freske**: Second. [57:19] **Paul Essler**: All in favor say aye. [57:21] **Council Members**: Aye. [57:22] **Paul Essler**: Meeting is adjourned. Thank you. [57:23] [Music]