Based on the context provided and the names mentioned within the transcript, here is the formatted dialogue. *Note: While your list includes the current Mayor and Council, the 2015 transcript identifies the council members present at that time (Gallops, Holst, Johnson, Madsen, and Showbloom) and notes that then-Mayor Robinson was absent. City staff members like Jon Radermacher, Bill Angerman, and Jeff McCormick match your provided list.* [2:03] **Council Member Gallops (Mayor Pro Tem):** Would help to have a mic. Call the meeting to order. This is the city council meeting on Tuesday, September 15, 2015. Roll call. Councilmember Gallops, here. Holst, here. Johnson, here. Madsen, yep. Showbloom, here. And Mayor Robinson is absent. Pledge of Allegiance. [2:50] **Council Member Gallops:** Approval of the agenda. **Council Member Madsen:** So moved. **Council Member Holst:** Second. **Council Member Gallops:** All in favor? Aye. Public input: citizens may speak to issues not on the agenda. Before speaking, please give your name and address for the minutes and please limit your comments to three minutes. Do we have anybody that wants to speak tonight? Joe. [3:29] **Joe Lopez:** My name is Joe Lopez, 102 Northwest Court. You said not on the agenda? Yesterday I heard about some blacktop plant coming into town. Where you are putting it is kind of silly at this point. You said you have to put a spur to get there. All right, you got the old APCO station out there, there's a track right there anyway. Couldn't it be out away from town? Because that blacktop's going to smell after a while. [4:16] **Dave Maroney (Community Development Director):** Joe, the Planning Commission continued the public hearing last night and reached our recommendations that will come to the City Council on October 6th for a conditional use permit for Bituminous Roadways and a conditional use permit for Progressive Rail, and a rezoning of the property for both of those sites to an I-2 industrial classification. So the decision will come before the council on October 6th. [5:02] **Joe Lopez:** But still, is it a better choice to have it outside of town than in town with residential right there? **Dave Maroney:** The reason for the public hearing and the project—the rezoning request and the conditional use permit requests were made by developers requesting permission to do that. It's not a city-initiated project; it's brought to us by landowner developers. They've asked us to look at this. [5:02] **Joe Lopez:** Well, I think the city should put their foot down and put it out of town. I believe blacktop does leave an odor, and we'll be right there with those townhomes and everything—Riverside Terrace and those homes over there. I think they should really think about moving it out of town. Thank you. [5:31] **Council Member Gallops:** Yep, thank you, Joe. Okay, next is the consent agenda. Items on this area of the agenda may be adopted or they may be removed and placed in the business area of the agenda for discussion purposes before approving. A is just and correct claims accounting period ending September 11th, 2015. B is the minutes of the September 1st, 2015 city council meeting. C is meeting minutes of the September 1st, 2015 city council work session. D is Resolution 2148 adopting the preliminary tax levy and budget collectible in 2016 and setting a public meeting date. E is Resolution 2149 declaring a vacancy on the City Council. F is part-time police officer hire. G is police supervisor hire. H is application for payment number 9 final for 2013 street improvements. And I is wastewater generator repairs. Do I hear any people that want to take anything down? [7:00] **Council Member Gallops:** If not, do I hear a motion to approve? **Council Member Madsen:** So moved. **Council Member Johnson:** Second. **Council Member Gallops:** All in favor? Aye. Passed. Okay, council business. Resolution 2150 receiving feasibility report for the West Side 2 public improvement project and calling for a hearing on improvements. [7:39] **Bill Angerman (City Engineer):** Good evening, Mayor, members of the council. Before you is the feasibility report for the 2016 streets or "West Side 2" as we've called it. The council reviewed a similar report about a year ago and with the stuff going on out on the interchange, the decision was made to wait a year and see what happened. So we're back again and we'd be looking at doing street work next year in West Side 2 which is, Figure 1, generally Hoffman and Mill streets from Dow Street down to 6th or 7th by John Burch Park and some of the associated state streets. The one addition to the report from last year is the one block of State Street from 6th down to the pedestrian bridge there on the Little Cannon. That would be the last block in that whole part of town north of 19 that would be left untouched. So that was at the last council meeting; your direction was to add it to this report. In addition to the West Side project, also included is the River Road improvements, which is water, sewer, street, and drainage improvements from the government center north up to St. Clair Street to potentially serve the three lots up there that currently have on-site systems. That makes up the gist of the feasibility report tonight. What we'd be looking for in the resolution would be just accepting it and calling for the hearing. At the hearing next month, we'll walk through the entire report. Notices would be sent out and at that point, the council would make a decision on whether to move ahead with the improvement. The next step then would be to prepare the construction plans and bring them back this winter, go out for bid, get a bid, and then proceed with construction next year on some or all or a certain portion of the improvements. I gave a real quick summary there since we've already discussed the report. Any quick questions? [9:59] **Council Member Diane Johnson:** I was just wondering, do we have the funds all ready for this? I'm sure we do. **Bill Angerman:** No, this would be a bonded project. We'd have to go out for bonds—general obligation bonds. **Council Member Diane Johnson:** Okay, any other questions? [10:44] **Council Member Gallops:** Do I hear... oh, that would be... this would include everything? Not necessarily going to be everything, but that would include all the River Road in addition to the West Side? And that would be $3,612,809.85? **Bill Angerman:** Yes, that's all three options on River Road plus all of the West Side project. And those decisions will be made at the hearing. **Council Member Gallops:** Do I hear a motion? **Council Member Madsen:** So moved. **Council Member Holst:** I’ll second. **Council Member Gallops:** All in favor, or any extra discussion? If not, those in favor, aye. Opposed? Passed. All right. Reports. Dave? [11:30] **Dave Maroney (Community Development Director):** This mention at the last council meeting, we talked about the upcoming application for Transportation and Economic Development funding through MnDOT—the TED program—and the council authorized us to go ahead and investigate as to whether or not we could find sufficient economic development related to the construction of the overpass should it be funded with TED dollars. Since the last meeting, I've spent some time with Greg and his grants people in St. Paul talking about the TED program. I've had a long conversation with Jeremy Lacroix at the Department of Employment and Economic Development about the needs that we would have and propose to fund with grant dollars should we apply. I've also had a chance to talk to four property owners on the west side of 52 and decided after looking at all that information that from a competitive standpoint, and the inability to use the DEED funds for the kind of projects that we would need to finance with them in order to facilitate economic development, it just doesn't make sense to me from a competitive perspective that we make an application at this time for TED funding. It's extremely competitive and unless we've got some pretty definite proposals for economic development, we're just not going to get the points, in my opinion, that we need to be funded. That said, I will say that I'm pretty excited about some of the potential projects being at least discussed on the west side that don't necessarily require the construction of the bridge to be successful, but nonetheless, they're pretty exciting. We'll continue to work with those prospects and see if we can work with them between now and next year or perhaps, if it is next year, maybe take another look at TED at that point in time. So my recommendation has been that we not apply. I just don't think we're going to be competitive and it wouldn't make sense, I think, to just put an application in just to put it in. Thank you. [13:18] **Jeff McCormick (Police Chief):** Well, not nearly as exciting as TED, it's Homecoming week. So I just want to remind people that during Homecoming week, occasionally some shenanigans happen and if they see something occurring after dark that looks a little suspicious or odd, please call and report it. Most of the time it's just kids trying to have some good-natured fun; unfortunately, with kids, sometimes they get a little beyond good-natured fun and it seemed like a really good idea at the time, but it actually can be kind of destructive. The officers do a great job of sorting that out. If it was excessive toilet papering, we've had people coming back the next day to clean it up. If it's egging, that's something that we kind of take a look at to see what sort of damage there is. Same thing if you're shopping and you happen to notice kids carrying arms full of toilet paper out or eggs, please let us know. Every year we seem to find all sorts of toilet paper that nobody wants to claim in the back seat of their cars and we end up donating it to the food shelf, who greatly appreciate getting those goods. So enjoy Homecoming week. **Council Member Gallops:** So are you encouraging the confiscation of large amounts of toilet paper for the food shelf? [14:48] **Jon Radermacher (City Administrator):** Just one item. In my absence, Dave has met with—actually yesterday—with Senator Schmit. You recall we had a discussion on Southeast Minnesota healthcare costs. Mark October 8th in the afternoon down for a community forum, a healthcare community forum. Senator Schmit is working on setting up the panelists for that particular meeting, but obviously, there's not going to be any answers at that meeting, but at least some of the issues will be brought up—things that they have to deal with that we have to deal with. So, October 8th in the afternoon. I don't know for the southeast council that you belong to, Dave can maybe fill you in on the context. [15:35] **Dave Maroney:** Yeah, that's the Southeastern Minnesota League of Municipalities; they will be one group that will be noticed, but also we need to get the counties involved too. We're assisting Senator Schmit with reaching out beyond just his Senate District to that group. There are several other economic development-related groups we will be reaching out to—county governments, Chambers of Commerce, that type of thing. And then Senator Schmit will send out an invitation from his office to his normal media contacts and his other business and political associations that he works with. So I think we'll get quite a number of invitations out and I expect we'll have a fair number of people coming to Cannon Falls that day. It looks like a pretty sound forum, pretty good representation from several important state agencies that deal with healthcare. What I think Senator Schmit wants to do—and I know our Economic Development Authority supports this too for our local employers—is, as Jon said, there's not likely to be a solution coming out of this forum, but I think the important thing is there's going to be a lot of factual information and a lot of good background information as to how we arrived where we are in Southeast Minnesota relative to the additional cost of healthcare premiums here versus all other districts in the state of Minnesota. Thank you. [17:09] **Jon Radermacher:** And that's all I had. Thank you. **Council Member Holst:** Nothing here. **Council Member Johnson:** I have nothing. **Council Member Gallops:** Thank you. Again, Homecoming... by the way, I have seen some trees out in the country toilet-papered already. **Jeff McCormick:** Country's a good place. **Council Member Gallops:** Yeah, we still like to get the toilet paper before it leaves the city though, for the food shelf, right? So in other words, we were supposed to be inspecting vehicles in a roundabout way. Okay, otherwise, what are we doing with Mediacom? [17:57] **Jon Radermacher:** Mediacom, yes. I haven't heard in the last... I have been gone in the last two weeks, so I have not heard. I haven't seen any emails exchanged from our attorney, but I'll follow up with him tomorrow to see where he's at because we didn't give them much... **Council Member Gallops:** Make sure, yeah, we gave until November, I think. [18:12] **Sam Singh (Cable Director):** Yeah, I guess I actually had the same story as Jon. We haven't heard anything back in the last couple of weeks at least. So the sticking point is still the funding for our PEG equipment; they're still going back and forth on that. At this point, the franchise has expired, so they're not operating under a franchise. So that's kind of... the onus is still on them to come to an agreement with us. So that's where we are. [18:44] **Council Member Gallops:** Thank you. Sorry I didn't bring it up earlier. No more business? It's got taken care of. With that, I guess we will... do I hear somebody to adjourn the meeting? **Council Member Madsen:** Move. **Council Member Holst:** I’ll second it. **Council Member Gallops:** Stop.