[0:00] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** ...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 welcome and let the role reflect that all of the council members are present in a quorum has been established tonight we have a presentation by Dakota County and commissioner Mike Slavic will welcome him there we go welcome commissioner [0:45] **Commissioner Mike Slavic:** thank you mayor council members and City staff it is uh great to be here today I'm here before you actually to introduce a county staff or one of our County Assessors uh some of you may recall in December when I gave my County update there was some questions regarding assessed values and kind of what the process looks like and particularly what uh what the city of Hastings the community of Hastings looks like with those numbers so today I did bring with me a county staff Joel Miller who who is the Deputy uh director of the assessing office with Dakota County residential Division and he's going to go through a presentation here and then certainly open for questions after great thank you Mike thank you commissioner [1:21] **Joel Miller:** thank you mayor council members for having me here tonight as you mentioned my name is Joel Miller I'm the deputy director of assessing services and I also manage the residential section of the department I appreciate the opportunity to make this presentation tonight to provide a little information on the 2023 assessment that will be used for the basis of property taxes in 2024. uh a couple of quick background items here we are required to assess all property as of January 2nd every year so January 2nd 2023 was the data value for the 2023 Market values used for taxes payable in 2024. state law does require that we assess at market value for all property types and market value is the price that would Prevail Prevail in competitive market conditions essentially arms link transactions are what we're looking at when we evaluate the sales starting on March 10th we mailed out about 160 000 uh text statements and included with that was the 2023 notice of market value a boat 8 200 of those were took properties in Hastings the Minnesota Department of Revenue is the agency that oversees all assessors offices in the state both to make sure we're in compliance with all relevant statutes and also to monitor the quality of our assessments uh the biggest sale the biggest tool to use for that is their sales ratio study they look at sales between October 1st of 2021 and September 30th of 2022 is the relevant period of sales that they look at for the 2023 market value basically we in our office also look at those same sales we review those sales we verify them if need be we call owners if we have to find out more about the transaction and then we analyze them all using mass appraisal methods we're required to maintain a level of assessment between 90 and 105 percent on all property types and for 2023 we did meet that requirement on all property levels and preliminarily we've heard from the Department of Revenue that the State Board they're ordering node changes to our assessment which is I believe the 29th year now that we can say that a little bit about valid valuation methodology as mentioned we assess as of January 2nd using our computer-assisted Mass appraisal system we have all properties throughout the county and throughout the individual cities assigned to individual neighborhoods uh basically these neighborhoods are made up of similar property types and also within like the residential single-family properties of similar property characteristics so that we can analyze these sales down to a neighborhood level um for 2023 we had just over 6 600 valid sales county-wide about 400 of those were in Hastings changes in market value county-wide the estimated market value this year is up to 73.71 billion in the taxable market value is 72.40 billion the biggest difference in those numbers being the uh Homestead market value exclusion some other programs like Green Acres also play into that we had about 1.169 billion of new construction and that resulted that new construction resulted in about 14.28 million of additional tax capacity here's a comparison from 23 to 24. this kind of illustrates the shift that occurred from the large increases in residential values last year you can see that for tax base for 2023 Residential Properties made up 67 percent of the total tax base and this year for taxes payable in 2024 that number has dropped to 65 percent of the total tax base so the big increase last year is going back at least partially for next year in the city of Hastings it's a similar Trend although your residential tax base is a little bit bigger percentage of the total pie than the county-wide numbers but similarly you're seeing the portion of the residential tax capacity uh decrease from 76.34 to a projected number of 74.77 for the 2023 assessment for taxes payable next year uh this chart just kind of illustrates the same thing but you can see the various property types and how the they fluctuated last year residential actually saw about a 3.58 increase in their total piece of the pie last year compared to the other property types this year they're actually seeing a two percent decrease compared to the other property types you probably all are well aware of what happened with values last year we saw all of our big cities were in that 17 18 range you guys actually led the way for single value property in the cities at 21 percent for a median increase last year this year fortunately I'll get to in a minute that's going to be a little bit better um so I skipped hit something here and skipped ahead a little bit this year the big winner was industrial and apartment it's a value increases quite a bit bigger than what the residential Market saw so a little bit of information on value changes Cody wide the median change on single family properties this year is 3.2 percent last year that was just over 17 percent uh Hastings is 2.63 and as I just mentioned last year that was 21 percent uh the range for within the cities was just over one percent to just under eight percent uh with a few townships again in uh up in the into the low teens uh just breaking that down a residential single family is definitely the largest part of that sector uh so that's going to be ultimately what the county-wide totals were but breaking that down a little further townhouse had a county-wide median change of 2.77 percent Hastings was about five percent a condo was a 3.28 percent County Wyatt and Hastings had about eight percent increase in condos uh here's a graph that just kind of illustrates the the amount of properties that changed how much the dark blue indicates the estimated market value the light blue is the taxable market value you can see that Peak rate around three four percent there um Hastings would be on the lower side of that Peak and again the taxable market value increasing and a little bit greater rate than the estimated market value because the rolling off of the market value Homestead exclusion uh which as values go up that exclusion gets lower this is just a little chart I prepared um based on I had the question of how did that play out over the course of the year so what I did is essentially a racial study per month just to see how much the value has changed on a monthly basis and we saw through the spring last year the market was still pretty hot all the way up through May where it kind of peaked and then actually started to trickle down a little bit but still resulting in the net net effect of being up overall a kind of corresponding read along with the interest rate changes too and so if we saw the interest rate starting to change the market really started to slow down a little bit of information on some of the other property types commercial coney-wide meeting was 9.55 percent uh Hastings median was seven point or eight point seven nine percent industrial was the big winner this year that's kind of last year's residential property uh title they saw a median increase of over 20 percent this year Hastings has a pretty small industrial base but their median change was still over 18 percent in apartments County Wide saw median change of 6.44 Hastings saw actually over 16 percent but in speaking with the commercial manager about this he kind of cautioned me to kind of take that with the grain of salt because county-wide values change similarly but the smaller properties saw bigger increases than the larger properties this year in Hastings just has a bigger mix of smaller apartment properties so it kind of makes it look like that number was bigger than other areas but it's only because of the mix of properties that is that high agriculture not a lot of agricultural and Hastings but this year what we did see was some of the highest increases I recall ever getting from the Department of Revenue for Green Acres values they initially gave us an increase of about 26 percent in our Green Acres values we did appeal at and it ended up dropping it down to 21 so that affects certainly that the townships a lot more than the city here we use a little bit different valuation method on on our AG land within the cities because of a different highest and best use on it so ultimately your your AG lend has got to estimated value much higher than a lot of the townships to start with and here's just a little table that just shows we're not alone in that the these are the uh the rates from the Department of Revenue for some of the other um counties around us and they were all up in that upper teens to low 20s for the Green Acres rates this year um some appeal stance for 2023 so far we have had this is as of last week when I pulled these numbers we had 674 people contact our our office about their assessed values uh 34 of those were from Hastings those numbers would be a little bit higher if we Rebrand them today but compared to that same time period for the past two years last year at this time we were we were already over a thousand appeals 54 of which were from Hastings and county-wide the year before that we were at 429 appeals 17 from Hastings so we are definitely down from last year but still up from two years ago and just a little kind of information for you last year of close to 1700 appeals for the 2022 market value 459 ended up getting a value reduction after we reviewed the property which amounted to about 28 percent of some appeal methods first of all we always encourage people to go out to our website we've got a lot of property information on there they can find information on sales that have occurred they can review their own property just to verify all of their property characteristics are accurate um it may be that they go out there and see that we have 800 square feet of their basement finished and they say well I only have 600 well we'll go out there and take a look at that get that corrected whatever happens to the value we'll send them a new notice get that taken care of for them if they want to uh appeal further you can go to our website and request an online appeal we have a new appeal form that we developed last year that has gotten pretty good reception that they have the ability to just fill out a few Fields they can attach any documents if they have an appraisal or a market analysis or something they want to submit pick their preferred method of contact send that in that all gets uploaded right into our system so it's a it's a good way for us to to track those appeals and also get some information from them on the front end so that it's not end up being multiple calls you know to discuss the property with them so I think it's worked out well for both us and the taxpayers and of course they can always just call our office or stop in at our front desk and ask to talk to someone about that here's just a little screenshot of the appeal form they made some good enhancements to it it's pretty user friendly and easy to fill out and like I said it allows them to provide an explanation and any supporting documents they might have and then here is a a screenshot of the the value notice that we send out um got information about all the appeal options on there it has information if the appeal is not resolved satisfactorily they have the option to appeal before the special County Board of appeal and Equalization and we asked them to call us by May 1st but that's not necessarily a hard deadline if they call us after May 1st and you know it's someone we've been dealing with we're still going to allow them to sign up for that meeting this just helps us if we do know how many people are going to attend that we can set the agenda and notify the board members you know how long we think the meeting is going to go and stuff like that so um and then as a last resort they always have the option to appeal beyond that by filing a property tax petition by April 30th of the payable year I mean they'd have until next year to file that on this year's assessed value and so that's with that that's the end of my presentation but I'd be happy to answer any questions I know I went through all that fairly quick but I didn't want to take up too much of your time either so [15:04] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** hey Joel Council any questions councilmember Lund [15:08] **Councilmember Lund:** thank you I just have a quick question you may have had it on there but do you know what the um percent the the county average percent is for residential um overall so Hastings is 74 what's the county average for the tax capacity um [15:28] **Joel Miller:** I believe is about 10 percent lower I can get you that exact number but I I believe it was 65 percent okay um for Residential Properties and county-wide and about 74 in Hastings [15:43] **Councilmember Lund:** thank you [15:44] **Joel Miller:** so the good news for the residential owners is a little bit of that tax shift last year because they had the big increases and everything else didn't go up as much this year they're not going up as much as everything else so some of that's gonna some of that burden's gonna ship back to some of the other property types for next year [16:03] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** Joel I have a question so all the developments that we're seeing built right now I've had many people ask me and I I guess I have the same question when when do we start to see those tax dollars that are being built now at what point is it during this is it after the sale is it [16:19] **Joel Miller:** it it's it's as of January 2nd so if that house had not started before January 2nd this year it would not be until the 24 market value for taxes payable in 25. if that house was in process what we have is a little checklist we go out and say yeah this is a 50 complete so we'll add half the value this year in half belly next year [16:35] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** okay great thank you council member Fox [16:47] **Councilmember Fox:** thank you your honor thank you Mr Miller for being here I think this is super helpful I I believe our our residents and our our constituents are really interested in this information as we've seen in the past um meetings that we've we've talked about tax assessments um I think it's important to recognize that the appeals process is not through the city and I just want to highlight that information a little louder right so um if people are interested in this process this is the assessments are not done through the city and and I think your presentation gave a really great highlight to that whole system right that we are not we are here to to help understand the process but but the the appeals process actually happens through the county [17:35] **Joel Miller:** that's correct you know if they want if they have even they even just have questions not even just to appeal their value but if they have questions they should absolutely contact our office at at the Dakota County assessing services and we'll explain it we may want to set up an appointment to go and look at their property sometimes just doing that we might realize the condition is below what we'd expect for this type of property you know it may be as simple as just do an inspection sometimes if that doesn't satisfy them you have the option to provide us with some sales information or an appraisal or whatever they might have if ultimately they're still unhappy then they can appeal to the County Board of Equalization [18:12] **Councilmember Fox:** wonderful thank you so much for being here today thank you commissioner Slavic for being part of this conversation as well this is very helpful and I know our constituents will really appreciate this information thank you [18:22] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** any other discussion Council all right again thank you Joel and thank you commissioner Slavic great information and further questions should be directed toward the county thank you thank you mayor thank you councilman awesome council members are there any questions to the workshop or the council meeting for April 3rd okay at this point we will have comments from the audience and for live comments maybe either through Zoom link or in person we asked that attendee either raise their hand on Zoom or stepped up step up to the podium and present your name and address and with your concerns or your questions welcome [19:10] **Pete Likes:** good evening your honor and the council members my name is Pete likes I live at 3000 East 4th Street in Hastings as we all know the water has arrived along the river and down in these Hastings last week the governor was down here last weekend whatever he looked at he looked at the levy down here he went still he looked at the levy over there and he provided he provided Comfort to the people or words of wisdom that he would do everything within his power basically to protect Still Water protect the riverfront Hastings and I think it was yesterday he said he's going to add another three million or three billion dollars to the flood prep to protect properties within the state of Minnesota around the horn for for the flood thing yep it's a good thing that he said that okay because now I think that provides an opportunity for the city to step up and say the question that there's there's two questions who controls the gate on the pathway out there at the Bauer farm when the water goes up the city shuts the gate off so that Earth Bower shut up so that people don't transcend or transverse that that path in high water when the Vermilion Rivers up down where we live down there the state has in in in the easement that I hold that's been researched I Believe by some of the city staff and some of the city council members the question becomes whose power supersedes who if you can control the gate out there on the bower which on that Bauer pathway along the Vermilion River if you can say we're close enough because the water is going over it we're closing because of tree fell down whatever doing why can't does this does the city's Powers within the city jurisdiction does that supersede the state powers I know the state owns that land the DNR the Corps of Engineers whoever owns it doesn't matter the the question becomes if you can control the gate out there how come you can't how come we can't go back to the state and say we want to control that pathway that goes through the woods down there that we're transversing hey we're not opposed to we understand we're never going to build that lower Road up in the same respect for emergency purposes I just sat here and tonight and I think I counted 21 people that reside down there when when we signed that easement back in 1982 with the state of Minnesota the whoever was there was only probably six or eight people living on there we multiplied you know almost four-fold there's 24 people 21 to 24 people can be down there at any given time we're talking about less than a quarter mile of this path that they allowed us to use we're allowed to put wood chips in there I'd like to thank the city for providing us all you bring them down we'll put them through that pathway we'll make it happen the question came up today can the ambulance get through that pathway if we cut some trees down they'll come through then the next question can we get a tanker in there no you can't get a tanker in there right now back in 1982 when Ron and Nancy Shanley built their house owner the water went over the Lower Road and the Maher welcome when he lost the well drilling rig because they couldn't get a fire truck through that pasture Myers lost them half a million dollars in a fir in a Rigdon that burnt from the top right down to the ground so the question becomes we live down there we accept we accept the responsibility that we lived on that we choose we chose to live down there more people have come down there but if the governor can say well we're going to throw 8 million into the but fun why can't the why can't the why can't the city go back to the government say let's look at let's look at this easement that's come in the back door if we have to open up that easement says Pete Lake's Diane Lakes Bob and Judy went and boom Nancy Mystic that's what it says on that easement but in that easement that was signed up the Dakota County Courthouse of 1982. now we got 21 people six houses down there who's liable the state the city the county number one the city is collecting taxes they're providing service the county is collecting taxes and the states collecting taxes and the property Zone there but yet they have this they have this fine line we don't know if we can put gravel on that a quarter of a mile and nobody goes over then you can control you control like like the like the walkway out there at bauerville you could control that down there put a gate on each enemy it was only open during high water thank you for your time thank you Pete [24:02] **Ray Kane:** good evening mayor my name is Ray Kane City Council Members most of you guys know me as Ray the beyond the yellow ribbon president for uh Mississippi River Valley we cover Cottage Grove Hastings and St Paul Park in Newport so I know a lot of you guys have been speaking up here once or twice but I'm here for a different reason I'm here because we want to talk about chapter 34.3 the the code in the amendment that you guys have I'm also the gambling manager for Saint Paul Park Newport Lions Club and I'm a member of the Hastings Legion and here in the near Hasting City here and it's a great Legion we're talking about gambling currently right now I don't know if you guys know but we're fighting with the Senate and that with the house about deductions and taxes right now and them eliminating some of our gambling stuff so currently right now they want to take etabs away or they're going to take some of the features away that is going to dramatically decrease actually devastate some of our Revenue coming in to our charitable organization especially the American Legion we're having a a press conference tomorrow at the Senate and then we're trying to push for the tax deductions and keep more Revenue we're losing Revenue in our in our state across the state of Minnesota um and now with this code right here and I don't know if you guys are aware of the state of Minnesota is one of our largest donations that we give for charitable organizations we donate 36 percent of our organization's taxes or 36 Cents 36 percent of our organizations money that we get in go to taxes the state of Minnesota we're fighting to get all that money back right now in the Senate we have a press conference we have a financial meeting tomorrow and then this code right here that we see is additional 10 percent will come off our our funds so that's 46 of our charitable organizations Revenue that we get is going to be taken away from us but not taken away from us taken away from our ability to give to organizations within the cities and in part of that there's an increase from 50 percent to 75 percent of our donations that will stay in the city of Hastings and for the American Legion that's devastating um once again we take care of our veterans there's several veterans programs out there that might not be a part of the city when we when we talk about writing a donation to so one is the Hastings Veterans Home when writing a donation to the veterans Hastings home you have to write the donation to Minnesota Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs which does not qualify that as a donation to the residents here in Hastings but that money in the memo can write down Hastings veterans home so then those donations go to the veterans Hastings home and I think if I'm correct and Chris can and Tom can correct me on this but I think last year they gave around ten thousand dollars to the Minnesota veterans Hastings home and the Minnesota veterans assistance fund which I'm in charge of for the state of Minnesota I'm also the department service officer for the American Legion Department of Minnesota we have a veterans assistance fund and a veteran that's in need and want to lift them up and give them money to sustain we pay house payments car payments and that stuff and I looked it up and currently right now we've given fifteen thousand dollars to Hastings residents So based on confidentiality with veterans and stuff like that we don't announce that we give a lot of money to the city of Hastings but just in a different way because that check is written out to the American Legion foundation and the memo line fund 85 which we will not get credit for in the city of Hastings so once again there's that donation that's coming back to the Hastings we're not receiving that the part of yellow ribbon is a lot of the donations get put to Cottage Grove beyond the yellow ribbon but even though we're Mississippi River Valley that donations won't count and I can tell you right now we just gave I just wrote a check out for a thousand dollars to a veteran here in Hastings that is currently deployed and we're mowing their lawn and stuff like that if you Mary the mayor mayor you know that we've been here quite a bit we've mowed lawns we've fixed a gentleman's fence a car um I can go on and on about what we've done in Hastings but once again those donations from the American Legion and other organizations won't get credit for that because it's not here in the city of Hastings so the the money that we get is throughout the other organizations and if we go from 50 to 75 percent then other parts of our our veterans community are going to suffer from that the American Legion in Hastings gives money to the VA hospital and they do great things with that money we're just working on a polytrauma unit one of the best polytrauma units in the United States it's going to be just a huge thing that this VA Hospital in Minneapolis is going to take care of but once again it's a veterans organization giving to Veterans but we're not going to get credit here in the state city of Hastings that's going to affect our donation and what we do for veterans even though it's not a donation to The Hastings you have a large veterans community here and that money that's going to go to the Hastings home is gone through the state and also the VA Hospital you have a lot of residents that use that hospital and that's going to be a part of those donations we do we use transportation for individuals and Hastings to the DAV that come down here and pick up veterans to go to the Hastings or go to the Minneapolis veterans uh Hospital we can't do that anymore so that's something that we want to really look at is when you're looking at increasing 50 percent of the donation to 25 percent there's a lot of organizations that you have in the town that's it's not going to affect because they use the donations like the athletic associations that money stays in Hastings but with American Legion we have four pillars and those four pillars is community one of them is community and involvement and our last thing as our Preamble that we say at every meeting is mutual Mutual helpfulness that's going to affect our mutual helpfulness here in the city of Minnesota the city of Hastings but not only that across the state of Minnesota the currently that Minnesota veterans fund that they Hastings Legion gives we take care of a lot of veterans in our community across the state homelessness giving them a place to stay for the night some of those ponds once again were used to make sure a veteran Hastings had a place to stay when it was a cold Splinter and we got them Services through Dakota County Veterans Services so it was a temporary fix but once again that money was not coming from the Hastings Community it was coming from the American Legion Department of Minnesota and other Legion members this fund that I I generate is gambling money throughout the whole state of Minnesota and once again that's used for residents and Hastings but not generated and won't qualify right now with this reading of I'm reading it correctly with this amendment that you're going to pass through the state of Minnesota now once again we are taxed Beyond tax on on gambling then add another 10 to taxes on our 40 That's 46 percent of our donations currently going to go to taxes right now if we ran the numbers after taxes after buying games funding e-tabs and all that only three percent of our money goes to charitable organizations now if we do additional 10 percent that's going to go down to two to one percent and that's not what we want we want to make sure that our money stays in the veterans hands and in the community and we understand we support a lot in our community right now we do a lot here but to increase that to 75 percent that's going to devastate programs and right now if this current bill passes in the Senate it's going to be devastating for programs here in the in your your city you're going to lose programs you're going to lose food shells and places like that um School donations are going to go down when people say hey Ray you know Tom new gambling manager here they say we need helmets for the football team because there's a new safety feature they come to the Hastings veterans here in the legion we won't be able to write those big checks when they need safety programs or another scoreboard or safety equipment for the baseball team or the football team we won't be able to provide that not only because we're taxed at 36 percent but we had to have an additional tax being added on so I appreciate it thank you thank you Mr Kane [33:00] **Afton Benson:** everybody I'm Afton Benson I'm with climb theater we're in Inver Grove Heights Minnesota I'm going to Echo a bunch of the things you just heard about charitable gambling so none of you know me I'm sure anywho I'm the CEO and managing director of climb theater and Klein theater is mission is to inspire and Propel people towards acts that benefit themselves to each other and their community and one of the communities that we do charitable gambling in is Hastings we're at Pub 55 and at the bar Hastings and currently we are doing a Residency program at Hastings middle school it's a first one it's a pilot program with them so we're completely customizing the program to that school to make sure we meet the needs of those kids a 75 trade area is crippling to say the least I will Echo the exact same thing we are one of the highest taxed operations in the state of Minnesota Klein theater we calculated when all of the gambling stopped one percent of the state's revenue from taxes came from our organization alone that's a lot and so taking extra funds away from kids in your community and kids in the state of Minnesota is really heartbreaking for us and for the schools just to give you a little bit of information about what we've been doing we've been doing charitable gaming in Hastings for over 10 years I didn't have a time to go polar lease agreements to get the exact date but it's been over 10 years which is a long time and in the last year we have contributed 30 000 to Hastings schools if this passes we're going to have to reconsider doing any gambling in the city of Hastings which would mean that seven of our employees will potentially lose their jobs or the amount of hours that they have and around 1300 Hastings students a year will not get programming to help them continue to propel themselves and the community of Hastings towards really great Acts um I did send a video link but I called and they weren't sure if they could play it or what so you have it in your email but there's a kindergarten teacher from Kennedy Elementary who we've worked here with for a couple of years actually and she stated in this really amazing video that Kennedy Elementary made about climb theater and the program that we're doing there that they're so fortunate to have climb theater join their school in her classroom they do a wonderful job of keeping kids engaged and giving them practical solutions for solving big problems we've been working with her for over five years in her position which is a pretty long time for a kindergarten teacher um especially given a certain climate so I'm I'm strongly urging all of you to not change what you have going here um and again echoing all of all of the sentiments that they have expressed as well climbed throughout Minnesota additionally supports a variety of organizations we do summer safety camps we teach kids about cyber security we teach them financial literacy we do aquatic invasive species programming you name it we do it and we've been everywhere and we've been everywhere for 47 years we'd like to continue to be a staple in Hastings and continue working with the schools and in order to do that we need to still be able to pay our staff which is what the rest of everything else goes for so anyway thanks to the bundle [36:52] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** thank you Miss Benson anyone else wish to speak to the council at this time thank you okay okay Council items are there any items to be considered council members Council I would accept a motion to approve the consent agenda councilmember Campbell councilmember Lund all those in favor of the most discussion I'd like to poll number six please number six of the consent agenda which is the first reading of the city code Amendment chapter 110 17 and 34 Dash point zero three waffle gaming and fees moving forward we'll put that under Administration accept the consent agenda removing number six council member Fox second a discussion on the consent agenda Council okay all those in favor of the Motion state by saying I I opposed to that Motion state by saying nay okay tonight we have a public hearing for a new parklet application for Quarry tap room or Tap House I'm sorry for this item we will have an introduction by community development director John Hinzman followed by a public hearing and potential action by city council welcome John [38:27] **John Hinzman:** thank you mayor City Council Members as the mayor pointed out two actions for you tonight one to hold a public hearing the second to consider application and approval of the Parkwood so we're looking at the parklet that is located here at 106 2nd Street East for the Quarry you may recall that in previous years there was a similar parklet from a different operator at this location and in fact the Parkwood itself is identical to what was there previously because there is a new ownership group involved within this proposal there is a new application necessary for it with the public hearing itself we have notified those within 350 feet of the property have not heard any comment back in this time during the review of the Parkland and this operations we reviewed it through various City departments and we are recommending approval of its issuance here so if you'd like it this time you may open the public hearing or I can stand for any questions you may have thank you [39:18] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** thank you John this time I will open the public hearing anyone here to wish to speak to the Corey Tap House parklet know it on Zoom at this time I will close the public hearing open discussion for Council council members any discussion councilmember Folch [40:11] **Councilmember Folch:** [Motion to approve] [40:12] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** okay thank you councilmember Folch and a second by council member Haus discussion Council all those in favor of the Motion state by saying aye aye opposed to that Motion state by saying name thank you and thank you thank you John tonight under city code amendments escrows and fees public hearing we will have a public hearing and a second reading adoption for city code Amendment chapter 34.03 be a public hearing second reading adoption for city code Amendment chapter 154 and C a second reading and adoption city code Amendment chapter 155. [40:42] **John Hinzman:** thank you mayor City Council Members so a couple of different actions relating to similar portions of the city code tonight they're pertaining to escrows and fees and so as the mayor pointed out public hearing on a couple sections of it one of the public hearings and review of both these items we had before the Planning Commission so what are we trying to do tonight what we're doing is we're doing a couple of things one is within the zoning and subdivision codes there is specific fees that are cited within there that are also cited within the fee ordinance in chapter 34. we don't need them in both places so we're deleting those sections from chapters 154 and 155 they remain in section 34. with the ultimate goal of this ordinance with the escrows and with the uh the fee changes we're trying to strengthen the language that we have within escrows escrows are taken for larger projects in which the ultimate time for review and expenditures for outside consultants for review of those projects is difficult to to determine and so what we do is we establish an escrow account this is funds that's paid by the developer and then our cost consultant costs in reviewing the application is deducted from this amount and then any remaining funds is returned back to the developer after the end of it so developments can change as far as the amount of time that goes into them and so it's difficult to have just a simple application fee the ultimate goal of this is that the development and the developer should pay their own way in the review of the application and so what we're doing with the Esco language is we're putting in certain certain requirements of that you have to maintain a balance within there if it goes below a certain amount you have to replenishment that it's not a one-time fee that it is established for the reimbursement of expenditures that we'd have over time so we have that type of language going in there the other thing that we're doing here is we're establishing a uniform escrow amount for all our applications that being five thousand dollars and so right now there's varying sliding scales which have been uh confusing and difficult for us to manage so we would be establishing a single escrow amount of five thousand dollars again this is an initial payment that would be paid if the project becomes more costly additional funds would be necessary if all the funds are necessary the funds would be remitted back to the developer so that's what we have before us tonight we did have the Planning Commission review these uh items at their March meeting they did recommend a political of it the public hearing that we did hold at that time for the zoning code we did not have anyone speak for against that item so before you tonight here are the public hearings for these you can hold that at this time or I can stand for any questions [43:40] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** thank you since the public hearings are on related subject let's hold them concurrently we ask that the attendee either raised their hand on Zoom or and in person and they will be invited to speak one at a time this time I will open the public hearing anyone wish to speak no one answer okay at this time I will close the public hearing open discussion for City Council councilmember Lund [44:06] **Councilmember Lund:** make a motion to approve a b and c [44:09] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** okay thank you council member Lund and council member Leifeld new discussion or any discussion Council all those in favor of the Motion state by saying aye they opposed to that Motion state by saying nay and that motion prevails tonight we have a resolution receiving bids and awarding contracts for project 2023 and the neighborhood infrastructure improvements for this item we have an introduction by Public Works director Ryan Stempski welcome Ryan [44:37] **Ryan Stempski:** thank you mayor members of the council we did receive eight bids for our 2023 neighborhood infrastructure improvements which is a great bidding environment for us and a volatile volatile year but I am pleased to say we we did get a low bid in the total amount of our contracted budget for 2023 so we were able to award or recommend Award of the total base bid plus our bid alternate and that is our lowest bidder was BCM construction they passed all reviews we actually I actually worked with them in 2018 here and they did a wonderful job for us meeting quality budget and schedule for the city of Hastings so we recommend BCM construction for a total Award of 3 million 368 thousand seven hundred twenty one dollars and 25 cents and with that I'll take any questions or let the council act upon the resolution in your packets [45:48] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** great thank you Ryan council member Leifeld [45:51] **Councilmember Leifeld:** thank you honor Ryan this is all way over my head so could you explain me why when you look at the bids I see BCM obviously being the lowest bid but when you go to their bid alternate number one pretty much everybody else's alternate bid was higher was there any sort of miscommunication or something here that when I read what bid alternate number one includes the modifications I just want to confirm that that bit is accurate to what we were expecting [46:25] **Ryan Stempski:** right council member Leifeld I that's a great question um bid all tournament number one is a complicated part of the project it's a it's a bridge widening uh for a pedestrian walkway on the west side of the bridge along Pleasant Drive this was discussed with our Bridge engineer and it was discussed with some of the bidders of why the difference in the numbers I think it was a misunderstanding of some of the other bidders there was certain Subs that um subcontracted to do the concrete work of the the it basically to us it's a trail concrete Trail widening um some of the the subcontractors thought there would be abutment and Foundation adjustments to support all that analysis was done in the bid package and really all this is is Dowling into concrete and expanding the concrete of uh of the sidewalk out to 10 feet which matches the trail the the multi-use trail that we're bringing down the West Side [47:23] **Councilmember Leifeld:** excellent thank you so not only were they the lowest bid but they understood the assignment so absolutely you nailed it thank you [47:29] **Ryan Stempski:** thanks Ryan thank you councilmember Leifeld [47:33] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** any other discussion councilmember Fox [47:37] **Councilmember Fox:** um I moved to adapt the resolution [47:39] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** okay with the second by councilmember Pemble additional new discussion Council all those in favor of the Motion state by saying aye aye opposed to that Motion state by saying nay and that motion prevails thanks Ryan we have a resolution to receive bids and awarding contract for the 2023 melon overlay project we may continue Ryan [48:11] **Ryan Stempski:** uh thank you mayor yes so to continue with our our good news in the biddy environment in 2023 we also on March 23rd opened up bids for our Mill and overlay program and we had five bidders for that particular project again a good amount of bidders a lot of familiar faces in that bidding group but um we also are able to recommend Award of the base bid plus the alternate the alternate here is just a we always try to take the city's budget and push it as far as we can go get as many streets as we can but with volatile bituminous pricing we had a couple segments we put in the alternate bid package so we could award if we had higher pricing is kind of how we structured it which makes our attorney happy when we do things very clear and and uh and straightforward anyway we were able to we are able to recommend Park construction company as our lowest responsible bidder and for the total amount of 723 626.75 and I do want to note this this consumes all of the state aid budget um the street budget four million overlay program plus we include in here some of our ADA compliance work so we have 25 concrete sidewalk improvements in seven pedestrian ramp upgrades to comply with our Ada program um and and so there's there's some small amount of dollars contributed to this project we we lump that together and bid it out in this environment to get the best prices to do as much work as possible so with that the resolution is your packet and recommended for approval by staff thanks for any questions [49:50] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** any questions Council no questions [49:54] **Councilmember Fox:** I moved to approve the resolution your honor [49:57] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** thank you councilmember Fox in a second by councilmember Leifeld additional discussion Council all those in favor of the Motion state by saying aye I opposed that Motion state by saying they and that motion prevails thank you Ryan thank you under Community Development we have a second reading and adapt ordinance by city code Amendment chapter 1 55 solar energy system and for this interjection we are bringing back John Hinzman [50:35] **John Hinzman:** and thank you mayor City Council Members tonight we're looking to establish a solar energy systems organs and you may be asking what exactly is that I'll go through a little bit of an explanation as we go forward here so we are looking to to have action as a second reading tonight we had the first reading at your last city council meeting solar energy systems are what we look at here they could be roof mounted wall mounted they can be panel systems they can consist of something as small as as something that could be a few feet in area all up to a solar farm which could be ground mounted in a large area the reason we have putting this together tonight is because we've had a requests in the past for someone to open up a solar farm within the city and we did not have any regulations pertaining to it so we went together and looked at a few other ordinances and put one together what this ordinance does is really establishes regulations for these type of facilities the ground-mounted solar Farms we have a lot of solar panels that come into the city as residential permits right now how those are regulated will not change much at all they would come in they would be administratively controlled through our building department So within the code itself we have a chart here which goes through how things are regulated in a nutshell if you've got something very small less than six feet no permit needed you just put it on and do what you can with the wall mounted systems and the roof mounted systems and residential districts just need a building permit we've added some regulations there on some performance standards which are pretty typical to what we have today for roof mounted solar Gardens we require those to be on roof on flat roofs with this again just a building permit no Planning Commission or Council approval for that other performance standards related to glare and view from the public right away also a decommissioning plan for when the uh the the solar panels are done with their lifespan we have ground mounted as an accessory so if we have a system like this and it's not located within a building or a structure but as a structure on its own we do allow that if a property is over five acres we're encouraging solar panels to be part of buildings but if they're not part of buildings they would need to be on a property of at least five acres that would only require a building permit as well well we're getting well get into the nitty-gritty here is on these ground-mounted solar farms and cards these are our primary uses of land that could take up many acres themselves 5 10 20 acres or more these are generally going to be agriculturally zoned and in fact within our code they'd be required to be within the agricultural District as you know within the city of Hastings proper there's not a lot of land zoned agriculture so I don't know how much this would come into play but we did do onto a developed standards for those so these would be allowed only within agricultural zones and they would be by an interim use permit and site plan an interim use permit is a permit with a specified time frame and length it's similar to a a special use permit in which the Planning Commission city council would review and set conditions but in an interim use permit a specific period of time would be established for its duration and you could add condition specifics to its operation items that we'd have in here would include some setbacks screening buffering underground electrical connections storm water management plan and then a decommissioning plan when it's all done here so that is what we're proposing within the ordinance amendments for solar energy systems we did hold a public hearing and have Planning Commission review of this item at the March 27th meeting Planning Commission did recommend approval of it we didn't have anyone come forward to speak for against it during the public hearing some of the items that the Planning Commission suggested as changes we brought forward and as part of the amendment tonight so I can stand for any questions on this thank you [54:35] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** thank you John Council any questions councilmember Folch [54:38] **Councilmember Folch:** uh thank your honor John I have two questions um the first about the five acre requirement you know it's my understanding that Excel Energy isn't allowing new um solar Gardens to come into their grid and they have to have like a maximum maximum amount of like one um what is it megawatt of energy and so um so so the days of the ginormous you know solar arrays that you see in a few areas around here like up on Cottage Grove and County Road 95 and such um and so I'm just curious I mean I I should have tried to look it up earlier but you know as five acres too much of a requirement for you know if if it's only one megawatt that they're allowed to build a solar array at this point just curious if you put those two togethers as to you know what's practical moving forward and so forth and so sure [56:06] **John Hinzman:** yeah we we do have that five acre minimum requirement in there we looked at other city codes that had similar provisions and we we got that from there I don't know if there's a Rhyme or Reason for a primary use on five acres when we have a five acre minimum for an accessory use this would be you have a building on a property uh the the panels would not go on the building but go on a separate structure that one we we set at five acres because we wanted to be able to encourage its development within the building and not have separate sites for it but with the solar mounted Garden I I don't have a real good good rationale for that council member as to why five acres was chosen other than we saw that within other other codes okay you take a look at the agricultural District I should say as well the agricultural minimum size is 10 acres so we have a couple of properties out there that that may be less than 10 acres that are non-conforming at present but we do have a 10 acre minimum within our AG District okay it is a small area [57:04] **Councilmember Folch:** um I guess my second question then was in regards to historic buildings um I was looking at what is this section 4 paragraph e historic structures says solar energy systems on buildings within the designated historic districts or on locally designated historic buildings must be received we must receive approval by the Hastings Heritage preservation commission and shall be consistent with the standards for solar energy systems on historically designated buildings published by the U.S Department of interior thank you I put labor there it's been a long day so I was just curious is Rael name of the standard that just seems kind of general you know if I lived in one of those historic districts I would want to know specifically you know what it is that you are referencing there and I just get nervous because when I've done door knocking and the historic districts they tell me of the very difficult circumstances that they've had to go through through the Heritage preservation commission and uh and how some things have been interpreted uh by those who are on that committee and that difficulties it has been for them and so I I don't want to see um a bar set so high that it makes it very difficult for folks who live in the historic districts which are in Ward one and Ward 2. to be able to put solar arrays on their homes and so this just seems kind of General to me you know like you're referencing a standard that um in general terms and it's not specific as to so that people can actually know what it is that that the you know that the guidelines are being held to do you understand what I'm making am I making sense like it should be a little bit more specific to so that the reference is clear okay okay [59:02] **John Hinzman:** yeah and council member when when we're looking at historic structures here and the role of the Heritage preservation commission with the way the ordinance States it right now it shall be consistent it doesn't mean that it has to be to the letter it means that when you take a look at these regulations that the department of interior puts forward these should be reviewed and these should be considered by the Heritage preservation commission it's not mandating a certain adherence to specific standards but more that they should be reviewed and they should be consistent which provides them some level of leeway in their review of the structure [59:43] **Councilmember Folch:** oh okay that still doesn't make me feel better okay I'm sorry you know I I I'm trying to use my words cautiously but you know I've been told that you know from homeowners residents that sometimes the standards that as they're being interpreted by folks who govern that group it's been very stringent and so I would want it to be clear you know so that there's not I'm afraid of of um the governing um bodies that are on that group to be too stringent you know that oh goodness that's a historic building we can't possibly have a solar array on the top of it because they didn't have solar arrays 100 years ago right you know I mean that's honestly what I'm afraid of wool that's not a historic you know uh you know material that was used on you know buildings and and and then it would be it would be stopped sure so this gives me a lot of pause just because I feel that people who live in the historic districts are already put through so much such they have to adhere to so much higher of a standard than other residential homeowners do within our community as to what it is that they use to renovate you know their homes the materials the windows the roofing the siding everything about it and um and then and then for them not to be adopt to be able to adopt new uh technology you know as a part of their home this really gives me a lot of pause and I'm not sure how to make this better because you're saying that you you wrote it so Ambiguously as to allow more latitude but I'm afraid of just of past performance and the many conversations that I've had with people in those areas that that may not be what happens [1:01:46] **John Hinzman:** and councilman one aspect of the Heritage preservation and their design review is that they they do have the the final Authority with an asterisk next to it if uh an individual chooses to appeal the ruling of the Heritage preservation commission then they come back to the city council so if a if a situation occurred in which a historic property felt that the decision of the HPC was an heir they could appeal it to the city council and the city council could take action on it at that point so there's another safety valve as far as that's concerned [1:02:26] **Councilmember Folch:** hmm okay um I guess that is one way to look at it I guess I'm I'm voicing my concerns to you I know that you have direct oversight over the staff for the Heritage preservation commission and so I like to voice my opinion then to you as the person who supervises that function that I can understand that you know and maybe in the downtown you know to hide um solar arrays that might be on the tops of structures but for other residential homes there aren't those flat opportunities you know for for rooftops to be able to hide solar arrays and such and so um I would greatly appreciate it if staff interpreted that with latitude to allow for people to be able to take advantage of new technology in these historic areas him come to my brother will note that and pass that along all right thank you [1:03:19] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** councilmember councilmember Lund [1:03:21] **Councilmember Lund:** thank you honor I think well there's value in leaving it open so that it can be reviewed on a case-by-case basis referencing a governing body or uh or um another body but not specifically any ordinance or or whatever that may or may not change over time especially something like this where it's ever evolving um you know we'd have to be going back and forth and on all these all the time but also we have to be careful not to dilute what historical means because then pretty much then it's not historic Hastings we can just wipe that wipe that off the signs too but um I understand what you're saying but I think it's important to maintain that question on the glare you had mentioned that I saw that that's called out on on the tops of buildings but also on the uh the ground mounted version there's not a lot of opportunities like you said in town but those that are surrounded by homes and streets and all that kind of stuff um what what does that actually look like what are what are what is acceptable glare and how do we Define that because the angle at which those are pointing up I could see the homes on the hill above just staring at glare constantly and it would render it moved [1:04:47] **John Hinzman:** sure council member is part of the application process a building permit we would have a glare information required so there'd be manufacturer specifications as far as how much glare would be received depending on on where it's located at the angle of pitch and so forth so we would review that against where it would be put on the site and make some determinations based on that with newer products that have come out there seems to be much less glare than there has been in the past you know like there's a set of solar panels in town here that I noticed a lot when I go buy them it's a larger array but it's of a different vintage that would be something we would not be allowing under this code because of the amount of glare okay thank you [1:05:44] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** councilmember Lund any other discussion Council then I would accept emotion to approve an ordinance of the city of Hastings Minnesota amending Hastings City code chapter 155 zoning ordinance regarding solar energy systems [1:06:05] **Councilmember Fox:** so moved [1:06:07] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** I was like to remember Fox second by council member Folch new discussion Council all those in favor of the Motion state by saying aye aye opposed to that Motion state by saying nay and that motion prevails thanks John thank you tonight under Administration we have Community investment fund and this introduction will be our city administrator Dan Wietecha [1:06:45] **Dan Wietecha:** thank you mayor um the other day or last week when we were going over what was on the council agenda I said this could be a fun meeting it was because of this item um uh last year the city budgeted for and created this new community investment fund which is intended to hear from Community organizations about what are some potential projects that they might think are important that might not have been on our radar or might have been on our radar a couple years down the road and and our residents our organizations feel should be sooner so it's really a chance to have partnership between the city and organizations and we had some great projects awarded last year some of those were finished some of them are wrapping up yet they've got about an 18-month timeline to do their work um anyways uh continued it again this year 2023. budgeted a hundred thousand dollars we are recommending seven projects for approval which is about 72 000 of that seventy three thousand dollars of that so there's about twenty seven thousand dollars unspoken for if if this is uh approved tonight um organizations can still submit applications between now and the end of the year um the the initial deadline of March 31st is just so that we don't fund the first project that comes in the door and then we miss the next one so uh really this just tries to even though the playing field it's it's open for the rest of the year and the intent is if monies aren't used we would carry those forward in the community investment Fund in future years so there's no obligation to spend it anyways that that's way for background uh noted we had eight applications uh one was not recommended for approval it uh was not on city property which is one of the preconditions it also um besides not being on city property the organization is leasing that property and is already in year two of a three-year lease so there was concerns about what are the long-term prospects of this it may be something that they can revisit and look at other ways to to work that project in the future but um seven of the eight applications were recommended for approval one the downtown Business Association for Holiday Lighting in the downtown area second is br4r building remembrance for reconciliation to do additional planning and design work for a future commemorative art project installation the third one is a combined Dakota County Historic Society and the the Leduc Mansion I think it's Laduke historic estate uh any anyways as they came to us about a month ago and gave a presentation that really cool we as a community are getting back boxes of original Furnishings from the the Leduc home that have been in storage up in St Paul and they're trying to make room in their storage and said you want this cool stuff back so happy to take that but it creates some storage needs for the Leduc so their request is for some shelving and archival supplies for that materials coming back obviously some of the will be displayed permanently some of it may be more rotating basis but happy to have those materials able to come back their their application also is for repairing the roof on the chicken coop the the chickens are a popular portion of the uh the the tours that go through especially with the kiddos Hastings football soccer club is interested in doing core 8 core aeration and top dressing projects for the the soccer fields out at the Vets Athletic Complex this is something that knew this year the city budgeted to purchase the the the equipment for doing this beyond that it also takes materials but the the community investment fund piece lets us do additional so instead of saying the city's going to begin um aerating and top dressing and maybe we can do three Fields during this year uh Hastings football club coming forward with this application would let us do additional fields beyond the three that we might might have done this year so it lets us go further uh get caught caught up with our field sooner until we get into more of a maintenance basis in the future uh the last project uh Hastings environmental protectors Hep submitted three applications that were found interesting one is a really neat trial project it is to install a pair of floating bio Islands at the detention pond at Kerry Park these essentially are a sort of a floating plastic platform that gets planted with aquatic vegetation so you don't see the plastic you see the vegetation but the more important part is if you look underwater there's two or three feet worth of roots that go down below this floating island and into the water and help filter out phosphorus and other pollutants in the water and make for a better aquatic habitat it's new to us it reached out to our Engineers hey have you heard of this do these work oh no but what a cool thing to try and if it works out great we'll probably expand it to some other ponds that we have in town that that have some stagnant water there are other application or their second one was um to rent some sculptures to place in Vermilion linear park near the the trail helped draw attention to the the park and the the habitat maintenance in the park bring some visual interest and art appreciation to the trail system we did ask the arts and culture commission to weigh in on this they certainly were supportive they had some comments about um as it comes forward they would like to have some thoughts on where it might be located or questions about making sure that there were liability concerns addressed or Ada concerns so that people that maybe are less mobile are still able to see and enjoy these uh so appreciate their their comments anyways it's uh three sculptures one a year for three years so one would rotate in for a year and then a year later a different one would rotate in in its place so a nice ongoing commitment there uh their third application which is also recommended is uh to have some professionally done educational signage about pollinator habitat so uh they there's several areas in town that they have volunteered and invested in having milkweed and Echinacea and various plants that butterflies and songbirds might inhabit and and help pollinate let's bring an educational piece to it so people don't think it's just a weedy patch they know what it's for and maybe even some identification of specific plants and and butterflies that might be visiting there in total these recommendations are 72 600 and change the finance committee met on April 25th and arts and culture commission that's a typo I think maybe April 5th um and the arts and culture commission met April 12th uh supporting the the Hep project but with that I can take any questions uh really looking forward to some some great Partnerships and and projects moving forward thank you [1:15:47] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** thank you Dan let's remember Lund [1:15:53] **Councilmember Lund:** thank your honor um Dan thanks for all that I think it's great um one of the things that I don't want to be left unsaid or left un underlined is the matching it's really a Super Key component to this and the main one of the main reasons why I was really excited about it when we did this in last year um 72 675.75 is being requested of the fund today but 42 904.75 has been raised in in matching from private citizens so it's you know a hundred and fifteen thousand dollars um benefit net benefit last year we did better maybe it was because it was the first year we had all the good ideas then but um uh 96 977 is what we approved and the match was ninety four thousand four hundred and four dollars almost two hundred thousand dollars from a hundred thousand dollar investment um so I think that's huge because um it's a great way to get for for charitable organizations or or other organizations to be able to raise the awareness and the excitement about it and and and really encourage people to to give because it is a matched um because there's there can be a match to it um so I hope that we can get uh back up to that 96 94. Dan but um you know maybe send out an email or something I don't know but anyway I think that's a great great component I just want to make sure we highlight thank you [1:17:33] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** councilmember Lund additional film councilmember Folch [1:17:35] **Councilmember Folch:** thank you your honor I want a day and uh my comments to in addition to what councilmember Lund just said because I think we're all thrilled about uh the the match that has come in it's about for every dollar that we're spending the community and this go around is spending 60 cents in match that's one way to look at it and uh and last year we had wonderful projects that came forward and we're super excited to see those being implemented uh one of which was the scoreboard at the Hastings ice rink and I'm sure they're you're all tired of listening to me big for that project and so it's great to see that new scoreboard that's up there um one thing the one project that Dan had mentioned that didn't get funded it was actually a proposal that came from our Hastings YMCA and an initiative that they're trying to undertake is to create additional Fields adjacent to the why it's actually a Lina that owns the land next to the Y and they have um currently a three-year lease agreement with the YMCA to develop what had been Community Gardens there if you remember we've seen folks farming on it to convert that into field space and um so I uh so the three of us who were on the finance committee of the council were fully in agreement that that project as it was presented did not meet the minimum requirements for the community investment funds which were that it had to be on public land and so because it was on a line of land it didn't meet that uh that requirement and so I uh called uh the executive director of our our Hastings YMCA Josh scholff to have this conversation with him so that he understood why it is that we had to reject it um not that we were rejecting the why because they're a great Community partner but it just didn't meet the parameters of this um and and just so the whole Council you know is aware that um so that within the coming forward will be the Parks and Recreation Five-Year Plan and a part of that was a suggestion in there that we take the Featherstone park that's across the street from the YMCA and perhaps allow that to go back into being natural habitat you know of a ponding basin and so I had I discussed that also with Josh so that he was aware of it and um he also as I was I was concerned about this lease arrangement with Elina how long term that was going to be what would be the ramifications if the city no longer maintained the Featherstone ponding Basin um and so for us to you know to think you know how is it that we could move in a partnership with the YMCA to make sure that we're expanding you know the ability you know for our community to enjoy recreational activities be it you know on a private parcel that the Y is developing or you know across from the Wyatt the Featherstone ponding Basin and so he reached out and sent us all an email you know requesting that we be mindful of you know them wanting to continue this partnership and how is it that could we could possibly make this work into the future with being supportive of expanding sporting fields next to the Y there so I just wanted to mention that to everybody so we're all on the same page as we're thinking about this I'm moving forward so enough of that um and so uh thanks again to all the Community Partners who are out there and who have been helping to make this a positive program for all of us in the end thanks thank you [1:21:26] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** councilmember Folch okay Council I would accept a motion to approve the community investment fund projects as outlined in our staff member [1:21:35] **Councilmember Pemble:** [Motion to approve] [1:21:38] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** councilmember Pemble and council member Folch is second new discussion Council all those in favor of the Motion state by saying aye aye opposed to that Motion state by saying nay in that motion prevails uh number two under Administration would be the number six gambling um fees that were was pulled from the agenda by council member Lund would you like to start it out [1:22:15] **Councilmember Lund:** sure thanks I pulled it um I think during public comments we had some great we had some great um comments and and insight and I'd like to open up a conversation effectively um to understand what the members of the committee had in mind for the the the changes and maybe background on the initial reason for the changes to begin with um I'd also like to understand what uh you know where we stand compared to surrounding cities from a percentage of funds allocated within the city's trade boundaries I believe is the term and precedence for kind of the fee structure of that 10 percent um and uh also what are the reasons for needing to charge a 10 fee what what costs are the city is the City incurring by allowing these operations that were not currently recouping thank you [1:23:41] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** councilmerland councilmember Folch [1:23:43] **Councilmember Folch:** um I think you're your honor I um two had some concerns I mean obviously we don't want to be harming our current organizations that were are here in Hastings I was curious about a statement that Ray had made from the legion about how um that the Hastings Veterans Home wouldn't technically qualify as a um charitable as a as a organization that could receive a charitable donation because it's technically a part of the state of Minnesota rather than the without rather than being within the yeah the trade area thank you it's like how do all that work and so um I guess my my question would be um to our City attorney Korine Land um as to you know what her interpretation is of how the ordinance is uh currently presented as if you've feel with that the way that it's currently worded would that be a problem or could we modify the language to say something to the effect that um you know so that we can you know perhaps add a little language that says um you know that within you know the taxable area you know or um or you know or just blatantly say that he sings you know veterans home right you know to add that on so that that doesn't preclude the elite the legion from being able to you know raise money and don't donate that because it's still obviously within our own Community thanks [1:25:05] **City Attorney Korine Land:** then if I made your honor members of the council that I was actually thinking that same question as he was um articulating that he didn't think it would qualify under this definition and that we're not the IRS so we're not looking at where you wrote the check to I think the bottom line is we look at where the money is spent and so if you as long as the organization could show that maybe you wrote the check to the state of Minnesota vets home but that it actually was allocated for the one in Hastings or for a a member that's in Hastings that would be sufficient we're not going to dive any deeper than that we don't need to know names we would trust that if you have a specific fund that is designated for all of the Hastings allocations that would satisfy the need to to be used whether it be a Hastings or one of the contiguous communities as well they would qualify as well it doesn't have to be literally within the city of Hastings but we can take a broader um interpretation we're not going to again look at exactly where the check was written and take that as gospel as long as you can show good faith effort that we specifically gave this donation for the trade area in Hastings that would qualify [1:26:34] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** thank you [1:26:36] **Dan Wietecha:** certainly a number of questions but there were three or four questions raised at the start of the council's discussion that just gets skipped over um uh briefly sort of a question at why this proposed change um really I think it's a matter of wanting to make sure that we keep money raised in Hastings and adjacent in Hastings and or keep hate money raised in Hastings and Hastings and the adjacent trade area we have uh several licensed organizations not questioning them at all or the work that they do but located outside of Hastings we have uh not quite just the trade area question but sort of tightening up making sure that we're keeping Hastings money and Hastings we have an organization that has not submitted uh reports for five or six years until we asked around to see make sure we knew where pull tabs were didn't know this organization was still doing lawful gambling in Hastings or whether or not they're spending currently 50 percent in Hastings so the reason why the matter of if money's coming from Hastings we want it to stay here we don't want it going up to Maple Grove or other places out out of town at least most of it um I'm sure there's more nuances to that but I think that's the gist of it uh there was a question how do we compare to other cities we do have a listing it's it varies from zero percent to a hundred percent so Bloomington 30 percent Blaine 100 percent Brooklyn Park 75 Burnsville zero Rapids 60 Duluth 60 Eagan 60 Eden Prairie 30 Edina zero Maple Grove 75 Minneapolis 80 Plymouth 75 Richfield zero Rochester 95 percent St Louis Park 90 St Paul zero surprised by that one uh Woodbury 80 percent Cottage Grove 50 percent uh Elk River 75 Golden Valley looks like a 10 White Bear Lake 50 Shoreview uh 100 100 percent so it varies um some some don't charge it at all or don't have any designation to to a trade area and some say 100 and in between we're at 50 percent currently um the question about costs to the city for the 10 percent I think is a misinterpretation of what that charitable contribution fund is the cost of the city uh basically some staff time to file receive the paperwork verify it that's covered by the 150 renewal fee the 10 percent uh really would go to a designated fund managed by the city of figured in the budget process how how we might use it for purposes that are allowed under State statutes so for example we might use it to make contributions or to help fund and budget our community investment fund project last couple of years we've said hundred thousand dollars out of savings when we've not determined an ongoing Revenue source for it we've just taken one-time money if this race is 35 to 50 000 a year maybe it's a funding source for the community investment fund or at least half of it uh potentially looking at what some of those other cities use their funds for they use it for Park improvements which we had on a much bigger scale a workshop just a week ago or two weeks ago about how difficult it is to find Revenue sources for our Park system and upgrading playgrounds and equipment and how do we find other funds and diversifier funds other cities use it for buying police cars and fire trucks and I think 35 to 50 000 probably doesn't get you a fire truck but it certainly Revenue to other uses those are a few examples but it's it's not going to be used to fill potholes it's not just going to be used to you know be a plug in our budget it would be used for specifically identified projects during the budget process but it's not it's not a offset City costs that really it's looking at eligible expenditures under state law that answered questions council member thanks [1:31:59] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** okay thank you Dan Kelly you had something to add [1:32:02] **Kelly Murtaugh:** thank you mayor just one quick comment about the 75 percent so the the increase from 50 to 75 percent is 75 in the trade area the 10 percent contribution to the charitable the charitable fund is not on top of the 75 percent so I want to make sure that that was clear we've had some calls from folks today who've been clarifying that so it would be essentially 65 percent in the trade area plus the 10 so that counts toward that total 75 percent [1:32:32] **Chris Anderson:** I'm confused at that the 10 percent is that on our what our Revenue would be and say if we took in 700 000 in one year you're going to tax us ten percent and get seventy thousand dollars it's a lot more than a thirty five thousand dollars at that he was speaking about I don't know I guess I'm where's that 10 going where's it coming from the net it seems like it's two separate things you're telling us this we can only spend the 75 percent of our money in Hastings and then we're going to take 10 percent more from you I'm sorry I'm Chris Anderson I'm the commander at the American Legion Post here in Hastings and if that 10 percent comes off of our Top Line we can't make improvements to our posts a lot of that money we some of that money that we have that the state doesn't take we use for improvements so you take that 10 extra additional 10 we don't have that money to do that it's it's ten percent off the net it's off your bottom line [1:33:28] **Dan Wietecha:** is still 10 percent [1:33:30] **Chris Anderson:** it's it's very different 700 000 last year in gambling Revenue here in Hastings yes we did our post [1:33:37] **Ray Kane:** my name is Ray Kane almost again I like to make a a comment too because the 10 percent you know I know you guys it's 10 to the community I understand that that it's amazing but right now we're debating house file 1938. um they're talking about a deduction it's not here for etabs and stop putting the all feature on there that's going to be a deduction in our Revenue at least 25 and that's that's a minimum number we're projecting most of us Ally Charities protect our Charities we're projecting at least 40 in Revenue deduction with that and then we were expecting we're fighting for every dollar that we get we're expecting to get if you're at the higher tax revenue of 36 percent to get at least 31 and that was just amended to 34 percent so if this goes through we're gonna it's gonna be devastating to our communities not only our communities but our Legions across the state but also in Hastings we talk about our community the Hastings veterans or the Hastings Legion need some improvements and every dollar that we're taking out of our fund is going to be a dollar hurting for veterans but not only that 36 percent I'm paying forty six thousand dollars minimum and I'm a small organization on taxes a month to the state of Minnesota then you're going to add 10 on to that and then on to that if this goes through the Senate we're going to get a deduction at least 25 34 of our Revenue that's going to hurt us that's going to hurt us really bad and that's why we're concerned about this adding another 10 percent that's 46 percent of our Revenue it's going to go out to other organizations and then we're taxing on 75 or 65 percent now to the city of Hastings that means the VA Veterans Hospital the legionville where legionville is where we have a safety program where we educate schools on crosswalks and safety at bus exiting emergency facilities and then you're talking about boy State girl State I can sit here and last for all talk about all the programs that just a legion invests in Minnesota veterans assistance fund that fund is given across the state and it's used by gambling money but that fund is not something that's in the trade area here it's through the state of Minnesota American Legion Department of Minnesota but I will tell you right now I looked it up as soon as we get this on Friday and if I was maybe got a little earlier I'd have a presentation but I looked it up fifteen thousand dollars that we use just this year four veterans in the Hastings area and part of that money that the the legion donates through their organization here in Hastings went to that fund we have to make sure that we're and I know we're fighting for everything we get the veterans in Minneapolis homes and the Hastings Homes and homes across the state need those that money to continue their their fight for veterans and the additional money going to Hastings here it's going to hurt it's going to devastate it's it's going to devastate what we're doing here in Hastings in the American Legion for programming another additional 10 percent like I said it sounds 10 doesn't seem like it's a lot but it is right now we're having a press conference and I can talk I know you guys it's all about the Senate stuff but this right here another 10 percent that's 10 percent of programs throughout the state that we're not going to be able to donate to because we have to put it towards the community here and some of the athletic associations across in this area they're awesome because they're donating to the kids here in the community and that's great because it stays in Hastings we give a lot of money to the Hastings organizations here but once again I don't think it's going to hit 65 percent and if we give an additional 10 and we just got etabs here at Hastings so we're doing everything we can do to try to increase our Revenue to make sure that Legion stays open our Legions are Under Fire through the state an additional 10 once again it's gonna hurt us very bad bad devastating for programs that we have homelessness veterans that are homeless I can tell you right now just off my hand five I provided for beyond the yellow ribbon that I get money from Legions St Paul Park Legion the Hastings Legion the Hastings or the uh Cottage Grove VFW all in this area that money is not coming from with all due respect not coming from Hastings the only part right now that I get a donation from is the Hastings Legion there's 3M all the money that I generate for beyond the yellow ribbon is being generated in St Paul Park Newport and Cottage Grove that's coming to Hastings we spent 158 we had 158 soldiers families that we took care of for Christmas 20 of those families were from Hastings that money came from the Hastings American Legion Post but it wasn't donated to the Hastings area and that check wasn't written it wasn't written to the Hastings our members do a fantastic job of keeping the money in in the city of Hastings if I get something from somewhere else it gets 86th because we want to stay keep our money here help our veterans here and slightly slightly across the river we we're also support the American Legion Baseball team we're trying to get a softball team started that's going to take money away from that we just gave four thousand dollars to the baseball team that we wouldn't be able to because to to pay two of their coaches they come every year and we we give them that four thousand dollars so they can pay those coaches for the baseball teams without the money that they wouldn't have those teams we're also supporting um just all in the area south of here the small little towns Hampton places like that so it's not it's in Dakota County roughly but our my mail I know our members when they hear something that's Northern Minnesota vote to decline because we want to keep our money here and the Hastings home is very near and dear to us it's very important that we can be able to give them as much as we can and everybody that's been into the American Legion and walked into the bathrooms there they're not ADA Compliant we're working on trying to find a Architects to to change that here in the next couple years to make some improvements if we don't have that money we can't make it so they're gonna have to stay the way they're at but we would prefer to do something to improve that because I go through different American Legions throughout the state and I'm jealous of their buildings they're wonderful they're huge they're great but I'm never jealous of the location never we have I think we have the best location of any Legion in the state of Minnesota we have people coming from Blaine I was talking to a guy he said yeah we just come down on a Saturday morning and have breakfast because we like to watch the votes so it is we do draw money from out and they're gamblers too but uh that 10 percent would just kill us so thank you [1:41:03] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** Mr Anderson council member Pemble [1:41:16] **Councilmember Pemble:** I'm looking at this and saying okay when I first heard about this and asked when was the ordinance last reviewed and it's been 2008 2008. now to do your due diligence as Council Folks up here we have to be considerate of where money comes from how the ordinances are written and review them appropriately and keep them up to speed and that's that's basically how this ordinance review started out and then looking at what our neighbors in the metro area are are doing and what we're not doing and that's how a lot of this information move forward into this change for the the ordinance on gambling and so I think that you know you're I I so certainly hear what's being said but we as the elected representatives of the the community of Hastings have an obligation to make sure that we keep ourselves financially on par basically so that we're not in trouble and we don't end up having big issues of raising taxes in order to pay for these things and so part of that comes from costs that are endured through different programs that are used throughout the city and so that's how this got started in you know ordinances just like anything else they need review probably not you know from 2008 we kind of dropped the ball they should be reviewed every couple years to make sure we're in par and that's what I'd like to say is that you know nobody up here went and said no we're going to change this because it it's it's an issue no it's not an issue we just want to bring ourselves to the point where we are compatible with the neighbors around us thank you your honor [1:43:28] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** thank you councilmember Pemble councilmember Lund [1:43:36] **Councilmember Lund:** thank you [Music] um hopefully hopefully this will be easy enough math but could you please break down what the overall recommendation would be if an organization had a hundred thousand dollars of funds so what would that 75 and 10 net out to be because I think there's a little bit of a confusion on the math as well at least from this guy right here [1:44:03] **Dan Wietecha:** can I ask for two weeks I I really I'd rather before putting math and numbers out there I'd rather make sure that they're right and and accurate can even give real numbers from organizations instead of a hypothetical but I I don't want to just yeah wing it I'd rather make sure the right [1:44:21] **Councilmember Lund:** can we bring it to the next council meeting yeah I mean I'm I'm one step away from recommending we table this for for a bit anyway um not that there's I mean I just think there's a lot of great conversation and sometimes you just can't get it done in a in one sitting okay um it sounds as though we are among the people that are doing the right stuff and there's other groups that are not maybe and we're the and it's the case where the good guys are suffering a little bit because of some of people that aren't maybe doing their due diligence um I think it is important to try to keep a a significant portion of the funds raised within the community for the same reason why I'm not really a big fan of the 10 percent here's why I think if I I'm not I'm not really a gambler but if I were to be one um and I saw that you know when I'm going and I'm spending my money at the pull tabs or or whatever it is that this goes towards XYZ I guess it would be a little bit confusing to me that it there's an asterisk by that what 10 percent doesn't and then you know depending on what city you're at it might not even go anywhere in your community so you know I think they both need to be weighed out a little bit right is there a magic percent no there's not a lot of times we have to it seems arbitrary but sometimes we have to pick what seems to be a reasonable percent of something whether it's this issue or others and you can pick it apart a million different ways as you can see by the laundry list of percentages that Dan read every city picked a different number out of the air um I think you know I I'm I'm fine with looking at the 75 or some sort of increase from 50 I think that maybe the the qualifications for that maybe need to be reviewed a little bit more and cleared up so that organizations that are trying to do the right thing aren't can you know put in a bad spot but I I would like more conversation but I would ask that we table this for at least two weeks I don't really care as long as we have enough time Dan to to gather the right information I don't want to put Undo You Know stress on it if the two weeks isn't enough but I would ask that and um you know look at you know the rationale for the the 10 as well thank you [1:47:31] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** councilmember Lund council member Leifeld [1:47:35] **Councilmember Leifeld:** hey Connor I have a few questions Dan first off you made a comment earlier when talking about the 75 percent is based on their overall what's the what do we call based on their their net based on that so I mean math is math um seven hundred thousand dollars if that's your net 75 percent of that is 525 000. 10 of that 525 000 would be seventy thousand dollars it's not an additional seventy thousand on top of the five hundred and twenty twenty five so I'm looking at 700 just a number seven hundred thousand dollars raised in the city of Hastings as a net 75 percent of that is 525 thousand dollars next question what is trade area what is the definition of our trade area is it for me yes just checking um [1:48:42] **City Attorney Korine Land:** your honor members of the council the trade area is defined by state law as being all contiguous communities to the city of Hastings so we're in the city of Hastings it's us and all of their contiguous immediately contiguous communities okay within itself [1:48:58] **Councilmember Leifeld:** which right that's right contiguous in the State of the State [1:49:03] **City Attorney Korine Land:** yes [1:49:05] **Councilmember Leifeld:** then damn or Kelly I'm not sure who's got this report in front of them the city of Cottage Grove Newport and Saint Paul Park are they on your list [1:49:14] **Dan Wietecha:** [Search sounds] [1:49:22] **Kelly Murtaugh:** Cottage Grove is 50 um okay Newport do not have Newport or Saint Paul Park was the other one I don't have those but I can look them up and on that fifty percent of Cottage Grove is any of that to a charitable [1:49:38] **Dan Wietecha:** because we do have communities that have that when Dan was giving percentages to us earlier there is also many communities that have a percentage that goes to the city okay that have both okay okay thank you [1:50:04] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** councilmember Fox [1:50:10] **Councilmember Fox:** thank you your honor um I just as a point of clarification if we approve this fur or consider this first reading and approve it we can still receive further information and amend it in the next reading okay so we can wait for two weeks I appreciate that time frame and get more information about all of the the data that we've requested and come back and still clarify some of the residency regulations or some of those organizational regulations that we have asked for thank you council member Lund and still honor the work that the administrative committee has done to get us to this point because it I I personally believe it it is important to keep our ordinances up to date and to review them as we recommend doing um in this way perhaps we're not right on the money at this point no pun intended but um we at least have to talk about it so I think if we get more information we can approve the first reading and move forward and still amend what is to come correct okay okay [1:51:17] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** thank you councilmember fultz [1:51:21] **Councilmember Folch:** thank you your honor um I'd like to make a request of Ms Land for the next uh meeting you know something that makes me super nervous about those second readings is that we don't do so well as a counsel making amendments to ordinances on the Fly and we just stink at it because we haven't had the opportunity to think it through right you know and we and that's kind of your last at-bat is the second reading and so that just seems like a bad time to be you know making less second amendments and so I would I would like to ask if misLand could prepare an amendment as an option on the side to delete the 10 provision um and then we could have that wording available so that we could have further conversation and we could ask for the amendment at that time to be considered and voted upon if I think that that would be a a good contingency plan if we're going to move forward with the first reading today and then we'll act on it because I'm just you know like Robert's Rules of Order and how it is we're supposed to go about doing all of this stuff is that this is supposed to be a first reading and we're not supposed to be taking action on it or we can't take action on it right we just have to go through the first reading and then it's in the second reading where you take action on it just her clarification for y'all who have come tonight so that you understand how this all works procedurally because it takes a while to get used to it so right all right okay so that's my request for the amendment in the next meeting and then we can take action [1:53:14] **Councilmember Pemble:** yes there's a motion to table on the agenda and I second that so let's have that one is that stated in the his motion okay that's your motion seconded by council member Pemble additional discussion Council all those in favor based on what's just been said that was not stated thank you based on what was stated as conversation by councilmember Folch and attorney lands if we were to vote no to this amendment that brings back the initial first reading thank you honor okay there's a motion on the table additional discussion [1:54:12] **Councilmember Fox:** I just to clarify point of clarification again if we table it it becomes the first reading again it is not going to be the second reading correct okay thank you making sure okay additional discussion Council here's a motion on the table there is a motion to table all those in favor of that motion to table stay by saying aye I opposed to that Motion state by saying nay nay did you get that Clerk maybe we should do a call yeah we'll do a real call [1:54:58] **Clerk:** councilmember Pemble: yes. councilmember Lund: yes. council member Leifeld: nay. council member Haus: [Nay]. council member Folch: [Nay]. councilmember Fox: [Nay]. Mayor Fasbender: yes. [1:55:18] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** so we are at a I would like to make a motion reading first reading I would like to make a motion your honor [1:55:31] **Councilmember Fox:** I would like to make a motion to approve the first reading as stated [1:55:35] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** second there is a motion and a second on the table discussion Council all those in favor of the motion on the table state by saying aye aye aye opposed to that Motion state by saying nay and that motion prevails so we have first reading has been done second reading will be in two weeks with more information more discussion we do appreciate you coming and and like I told you at the beginning of the meeting this is a time to do that and we will be able to act and talk and have more discussion on the second reading so thank you and we do appreciate everything you do within our community okay Council any announcements councilmember Folch [1:56:25] **Councilmember Folch:** uh thank your honor I just wanted to give a quick update a little follow-up from our last council meeting where we talked about the no wake uh request and so I have I had the opportunity to speak with uh Sheriff Joe Leko last uh week and he has just been really wonderful uh to have conversations with about this and so um he did say that the Sheriff's Office the Dakota County Sheriff's Office did do some data Gathering about what they were monitoring the public access points and you know how much traffic that they were seeing and uh so they are going to forward that information to us and so they were still interested in working with the city on exploring the no wake zone request and so I had asked him if we could have a small group you know stakeholders meeting so that the Sheriff's Office could hear you know from those businesses and residents that are affected by the river and so he had agreed to that and he had checked with our chief will ski and so we're looking at next Wednesday April the 26th in having that conversation at 6 pm and I was going to request if we could have it here in the volunteer room or another room here within City Hall and so more to come on that and so thank you on to sheriff lucco for that um and then secondly the second piece was um they had offered as uh Chief wolski had said to look at doing a no wake zone during uh when there's flood waters at on hand and so I talked to him this afternoon about that and I told him how bad it was on the Saint Croix I just saw it just this morning they are downtown Hudson was beginning to flood in their in their rear parking and such and so he had said that the Saint Croix is currently at a no wake zone status and so he is tomorrow going to enact a 30-day temporary no wake zone on here in Hastings along the riverfront so that to protect our marinas and our residential area along the river and so he said that they'll be be doing a press release tomorrow and that they'll be putting up signs at the public access points and so I'm very thankful for his cooperation in and helping our our citizens and our businesses with this matter that was my update oh and they have one other thing I just wanted to bring up since we were talking about solar energy and I'm specific to you know electric vehicles um just uh to let folks know that Excel Energy is currently uh they are looking to do installations of EV charging stations uh they stopped there they had a grant program it was called the Make Ready program where they were helping to pay for infrastructure costs for EV charging stations and they have closed that Pro that program down and now they're looking at doing their own installations and so I just wanted to bring that up to City staff I know that one of the Excel Energy folks that has been had approached the city of Red Wing was uh Ross Lexfold he's the community relations and economic development manager there and I think that there's a there is an Excel Energy employee that's designated for Hastings that does Hastings Outreach which you're probably aware of and so you may want to touch base with them and to see if they would be interested you know and since the previous vendors that were looking to do installations and work with the city have it sounds like that they've backed out because of Excel Energy no longer having That Make Ready program available so maybe working with Excel Energy directly and finding an opportunity in our downtown area for a high-speed charger would be would be something that we should be exploring I think it would be a great opportunity so that's it thank you your honor [2:00:43] **Mayor Mary Fasbender:** thank you councilmember Folch okay I have a few announcements Hastings area Earth Day birding festival at Carpenter nature Saint Croix Valley Nature Center on Saturday April 22nd guiding birding guided birding trips birding banding demonstration and Raptor presentation please please register the third annual sound the siren food for kids and drive takes place April 17th through the 28th the food drives is a friendly competitive between the city of Hastings police department and the Dakota County Sheriff's Office the community is encouraged to donate kid-friendly single serving non-perishable food items when the cars are filled the sirens will sound volunteer with the Hastings Parks and Recreation Department and plant a tree in celebration of Arbor Day our city Forester will provide a demonstration prior to planting Friday April 28th at gretton Park pre-registration appreciated meetings Tuesday April 18th 7 PM Heritage preservation commission Wednesday April 19th 6 PM Parks and Rec commission Monday April 24th 7 PM Planning Commission 7 PM Monday April 24th Public Safety commission Friday 28th of April 8 a m city council strategic planning Retreat and Monday May 1st 7 PM city council regular meeting I would accept a motion to adjourn council member Leifeld and councilmember Fox all those in favor of the Motion state by saying aye aye and of course and we are adjourned