Based on the context provided and the dialogue within the transcript, here is the formatted transcript with speaker names assigned. **Note on Identifications:** * **Mayor St. Norris:** Identified in the transcript as the presiding officer (Michele Hanson in your list). * **Councilmember Connie Carlson:** Identified via the roll call and "Connie." * **Councilmember Michelle Hanson:** Identified via the roll call and "Michelle." * **Councilmember Ethan Gilmore:** Identified via the roll call and "Ethan." * **Adam [City Staff]:** Though Matt Kline is listed as City Administrator in your context, the Mayor repeatedly addresses the staff member performing the Administrator/Clerk duties as "Adam." * **Matt Kline:** Identified himself as the Public Works Director during his report. * **Sara Taylor:** Identified via her report on the Comprehensive Plan and Election results. * **Chief Eastman:** The speaker identifies as Chief Eastman (Police), though your list mentions Jay Jackson. *** [6:21] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** ...of November 14 2022 please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance 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 right Adam please call the roll. [6:21] **Adam [City Staff]:** thank you madam mayor mayor stenors here councilmember Carlson here councilmember Gilmore here councilmember Hanson here and councilmember doll is absent this evening. [6:21] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** thank you that takes us to the approval of tonight's agenda does anyone have any questions comments or changes. [7:07] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** if not would someone like to make a motion to approve? [7:07] **Councilmember Connie Carlson:** I'll make a motion approving tonight's agenda. [7:07] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** thank you Connie is our second? [7:07] **Councilmember Michelle Hanson:** I'll second. [7:07] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** thank you Michelle all in favor aye aye opposed takes us to our proclamations accommodations petitions and announcements and our October recycling award recipient is Chris Scheel at 104 5th Street North who will be awarded for recycling efforts with a grant made possible from Washington County so thank you very much uh Chris for your recycling efforts uh it takes us to our opened Forum where we set aside 15 minutes to talk about topics that are not on tonight's agenda we do not have anyone here in Chambers is there no no one else okay we'll move. [7:53] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** swiftly along to our consent agenda where we'll consider resolution adopting items one through twelve the October 3rd 2022 a city council Workshop minutes the October 3rd 2022 city council regular meeting minutes the October payables and receipts the October building Plumbing mechanical and Zoning permits report reappointment of Colleen Siegfried and Aaron Oaks to the Planning Commission the reappointment of Colleen Shute and Marie hadukovic to this Library board the training burn agreement with Anderson Corporation for 707 3rd Street North scada system upgrades at the Public Works facility the purchase of a replacement tender truck for the fire department a purchase of a replacement utility truck for the public works department special event application for inspiration huffing for stuffing 5K Fun Run on November 24 2022 and certification of the November 8 2022 general election results any questions comments or changes from the council if not would someone like to make a motion? [8:38] **Councilmember Ethan Gilmore:** I'll make motion I moved to a doctor resolution improving the consent agenda as presented. [8:38] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** thank you Ethan is there a second? [8:38] **Councilmember Connie Carlson:** I'll second it. [8:38] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** thank you Connie um with purchases we need a roll call. [8:38] **Adam [City Staff]:** yes Madam mayor councilor Gilmore hi councilmer Carlson aye councilmember Hanson aye mayor St Norris aye that's all. [9:24] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** congratulations to our newly elected officials so Michelle and John and Katie so congratulations thank you all right that takes us to a public hearing and um this evening we do have the certification of past due Solid Waste and Recycling charges and vacant building registration fees which will be assigned to property taxes so Adam would you please present. [9:24] **Adam [City Staff]:** thank you madam mayor members of the council every year the city's afforded the opportunity to certify assessments special assessments for delinquent service charges and delinquent waste hauling bills um the list of the properties that were delinquent was provided to the Council on the packet I mean we do one of the service charges that we do have uh delinquent is also the vacant there's one vacant building registration being certified again this year um with that there we have the city has not received any appeals from these certifications so by the end of November we'll certify these to the county and they'll be assessed to next year's property taxes can I stand for any questions? [10:55] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** any questions regarding this item? [10:55] **Councilmember Michelle Hanson:** are we recouping the staff time necessary with the fees? [10:55] **Adam [City Staff]:** we are um we are Madam mayor one thing with the I just want to make a note that information was provided to me we are about 30 percent uh lower in waste hauling delinquent fees this year over last year so that was a positive positive note. [11:15] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** okay it seemed like a long list so that's good that's good then um oh we close the public hearing. [11:15] **Councilmember Michelle Hanson:** I moved to close the public hearing. [11:15] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** thank you Michelle's there second? [11:15] **Councilmember Ethan Gilmore:** thank you Ethan. [11:15] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** all in favor aye opposed all right so then we have a um any other discussion or the approval of the certification. [11:15] **Councilmember Michelle Hanson:** I'll make a motion to approve the certification of past due Solid Waste uh Slash recycling charges and vacant building registration fees to property taxes as presented. [11:15] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** thank you Michelle is there second? [11:15] **Councilmember Connie Carlson:** I'll second it. [11:15] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** thank you Connie and all in favor I opposed okay takes us to our unfinished business. [12:01] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** which is to consider final adoption of the city's 2040 comprehensive Plan update and Dan Licht is with us tonight. [12:01] **Dan Licht:** evening mayor St Norris and members of the council member uh Dan Licht with the planning company it's been a while since I've been here pre-covet but we are working to finalize the comprehensive plan now that we've gotten the final uh comments back from Metropolitan Council the city council recalled that this is a 10-year effort undertaken to update and review the city's comprehensive plan with regards to the Metropolitan council's Regional plan which this time around they called Thrive MSP 2040. that process was started in December of 2017 completed in preliminary fashion in December 2018 and then submitted to Metropolitan Council for their review Metropolitan council did not accept the draft comprehensive plan from the city the main issue of discussion with them was pertaining to their Regional population and household forecasts for Bayport they had initially forecast that Bayport was to add 300 more homes to the community in our initial discussions with them we question how the city was supposed to achieve this when inspiration was almost completely built out and there was essentially no developable land left in the community for new housing units the workaround that was conceived as part of the initial draft of the comprehensive plan was to draw a boundary around downtown Bayport and say that the city would encourage developers to look to this area for redevelopment opportunities that could result in that number of homes Metropolitan Council didn't accept that approach because it didn't provide enough certainty that the number of housing units would be achieved over time so we were back to the drawing board and they finally essentially agreed that the housing projections needed to be lowered substantially so City staff and Metropolitan Council staff worked together to identify the one site that was available potentially for high density housing within the community that's not currently developed it's in the southern Southeastern corner of the city and then two potential Redevelopment sites located along Highway 95 that could potentially redevelop over time based on those sites Metropolitan Council agreed to lower the housing projections down to 40 units of new housing by 2040 that would include the build out of inspiration and potential Redevelopment of these sites and then that resulted in corresponding revisions to the housing projections as well as sewer usage projections as well so with those changes uh the comprehensive plan was resubmitted to Metropolitan Council and passed through their review committees and finally approved by the Metropolitan Council in full in final form with authorization for the city council to approve the document in final form and put it into effect so City staff has drafted a resolution to that purpose included as part of your packet for Action this evening you can stand for Grant questions from the council. [15:05] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** thank you for the great summary because that I mean it was a lot of work to get to that point but he summarized it really nicely so thank you um curious where where you guys settled on these sites because I couldn't figure it out from the pages and Pages can you kind of help us understand where the so there's 40 supposed units that are going to be potentially developed before 2040 is that the idea and how many I guess to start how many are left in Inspiration that would be part of that 40 because that would there was only about like a couple right. [15:51] **Dan Licht:** ten out of that number because okay the number goes back to 2020 as to when so we could count someone we can count some of the ones that have been approved that's why I was like how are we going to get there okay and then the other 30 where are those sites that you guys figured out? [15:51] **Dan Licht:** so there was one vacant piece of property that was approximately a third of an acre that would accommodate a number of those units and then two Redevelopment sites one immediately west of Anderson Elementary essentially a block of single-family homes from the church south facing towards the elementary school seriously it was looked at as a transition location and the way it's basically structured is that the homeowners aren't required to redevelop their properties they can continue them as single-family dwellings as long as they choose if anyone were interested in coming to Bayport to develop townhouses or higher density they could look to that site and then there's another site across 95 about a block up north of the church between the church and Anderson with driveways fronting on to 95 an alley behind it again basically a block. [16:37] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** so on the west side of the highway you said? [16:37] **Dan Licht:** on the east side of the highway. [16:37] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** oh okay kind of across from almost before I get to cry now before Andersons before Anderson's the that stretch on the east side where the people exit their houses onto another temperature in that yeah do you have the console packet in front of you? [16:37] **Councilmember:** I do. [17:25] **Dan Licht:** page 55. well I don't have page numbers of the packet so page numbers of his part page three the showing these so this little teeny one that says redevelop greater than yep they're highlighted in kind of light blue around the two orange squares either side of Highway 95 . [17:25] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** so let's let's say that one or two of those homes want to sell and they're a developer comes in what happens to the other homes I mean and the people that are behind them I mean essentially through the rezoning process and the site review process there would be the ability to review compatibility the alleyway was chosen as a specific transition point so that it's separating the homes from with those other homes facing basically opposite of the townhouse development the other thing is a development Redevelopment of this scale would require multiple of those properties to be acquired it wouldn't simply be one or two of them it would likely necessitate all of them. [18:11] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** so what you're saying is the feasibility of this ever happening is pretty slim? [18:11] **Dan Licht:** yes. [18:11] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** okay but even so so I mean stranger things have happened and if I were a homeowner and I want to be living in a single family area I wouldn't be really happy with the city doing this right you know the ones that are on 95 I I um more towards Anderson you know if there that's more isolated but the ones right by the school I mean I can't even imagine that the school or the parents would want more people in that stretch than a single family homes so I'm not real keen on this proposal. [18:58] **Dan Licht:** the one way to address it perhaps would be through the ordinance amendment that has to follow the comprehensive plan or make it a conditional use permit request so that the Planning Commission and Council would have additional ability to review any development plan and ensure compatibility with the surrounding neighborhood through that process. [19:40] **Councilmember Connie Carlson:** hmm just curious were the homes along Fifth Avenue on the um south side looked at at all for that potential kind of across from the prison property maybe or you know thinking of. [19:40] **Dan Licht:** we didn't pick those properties essentially because they're facing east to west down the local streets so from a site design standpoint you know you have single-family homes facing single-family homes versus and a number of those properties are actually already developed with attached housing because there just isn't enough probably of the ones that actually have driveways onto Fifth Avenue okay also okay no. [20:29] **Dan Licht:** Metropolitan council's assumption on the population projections is that only likely one of those would ever redevelop honestly staff's perspective is like unlikely either would ever tell but that does. [20:29] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** yeah yeah so then what happens and when we have to redo this plan because we do this every 10 years correct and then we just keep pretending this is going to happen. [20:29] **Dan Licht:** essentially when the new system statement comes out and they revise the population projections it'll be the same issue to review what Metropolitan Council says they expect Bayport to grow by and the city can challenge it at that point again basically the same process we followed through this update. [20:29] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** so by voting for this we're not binding ourselves in anything? [21:15] **Dan Licht:** no okay we we can structure the ordinance change that has to follow to make it controlling so that the city does have flexibility in how it's implemented. [21:15] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** so it's a lot of work for Hmm this just sounds like nonsense yeah and it's too bad okay well I'm glad you were able to get them to be reasonable about it though I mean expecting us to have 300 some new units was crazy so I'm sure it took quite a while to get there but we got there at least so and that was the largest part of the discussion right. [21:15] **Dan Licht:** what they wanted essentially was to draw a much larger area for redevelopment to achieve that number so versus doing that and the resulting land use plan with lower population projections is seen by staff as the preferred alternative. [22:00] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** I mean just I mean what other areas did you look at because I'm just thinking about like along Main Street for example seems kind of like a is it because there's already multi-family homes over in that area too that it wasn't a good spot. [22:00] **Dan Licht:** we were essentially lucky especially the area east of 95 was more obvious because of the transition to Anderson and then the driveways directly onto 95. looking at the area west of Highway 95 we were trying to keep the Housing close to downtown close to the library the school and using basically this opportunity for town homes or multiple family attached as a transition from the school and some of the institutional uses in that location so it was building off of the plan that was originally drawn with the boundary around downtown Bayport to encourage higher density housing in that area but basically scaling it back significantly and putting it specifically at a location on the map okay. [23:26] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** any other questions you want them in to make a motion. [23:42] **Councilmember Michelle Hanson:** excuse me move to adapter resolution approving the final 2040 Bayport comprehensive plan and placing the goals policies and plans into effect. [23:42] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** okay Michelle is there a second? [24:00] **Councilmember Ethan Gilmore:** I'll second. [24:00] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** is it that last part you didn't like? thank you Ethan um do you do a roll call or. [24:00] **Adam [City Staff]:** yes councilmember Hansen hi councilmember Gilmore aye councilmember Carlson aye mayor Steven orders nay. [24:00] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** one motion passes thank you thank you very much we do not have any new business this evening um that takes us promptly to our city council liaison reports so kind of well. [24:00] **Councilmember Connie Carlson:** um Library board met I don't remember seems like it was so long ago but um we do meet tomorrow night but I talked to Jill today and she's excited because she said the Project's on time and on budget and they're doing the finalizing of the purchasing of the shelving and the furniture and she said somewhere in here there was swatches of. [24:46] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** yeah I saw the carpet over there in the corner. [24:46] **Councilmember Connie Carlson:** oh okay that if anybody wanted to look at it it was here um and they're hoping that they will be getting into the library in January sometime mid-January and that the public um we'll be able to get in um early February so in our next meeting is tomorrow night at six o'clock right here. [25:34] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** amazing yeah so exciting so I actually had a chance to go in because I had to bring some Derby Day supplies back to the library for storage and it's going to be beautiful it's so open and it's I only saw the first floor but yeah really excited for it because she's very excited today too Ethan. [25:34] **Councilmember Ethan Gilmore:** cable commission has not met I believe we meet next week so I have nothing to report. [26:20] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** okay Michelle. [26:20] **Councilmember Michelle Hanson:** I am the Planning Commission liaison and we have not um I don't know if you want to know anything about b-cal but we just had the groundbreaking on Saturday um the city and the legion and it we did it in 15 minutes in the cold this is great um thank you public works for setting things up and the galettes for helping set that up too in the legion it was I thought it was a great day actually it was really fun we had um our new uh state senator um Josiah Hill was there and we got a letter of recognition from our um U.S senator Amy Klobuchar so it was really kind of kind of fun and a big deal I guess I mean maybe 40 50 people that were out in the cold with us and then a bunch of people came back to the legion and we had cake and refreshments and there was a fantastic history display which is still set up there for another event that's coming up I think for the legion so I don't know if we're able to take advantage of that if you can think of other groups that might want to go see that let me know and we can arrange that so yeah and lots of dignitaries from the legion. [27:06] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** yes yeah so thank you for everyone who helped make that happen great all right well um I attended the fire Advisory Group meeting with West Lakeland Baytown Township and Oak Park Heights uh going over our stats and status of equipment and just uh General housekeeping and keeping everyone informed and what what our firefighters have been um addressing in their individual communities their numbers are right back up where they were pre-covered so they're very very busy group taking care of all of us so thank you to the fire fighters and the other communities for their participation I attended the Pavilion groundbreaking very nice event I also participated in the Chamber of Commerce leadership in the valley government day as one of the Civic leaders on a panel presentation which was fun and I believe I still have a Lake Elmo airport advisory meeting coming up yet in the December time frame and and that will conclude my assignments so over to you Adam. [28:40] **Adam [City Staff]:** thank you member I believe that meeting is 28th of November okay two weeks from now um Chief eisinger is not able to be with us tonight uh his family had a loss so I haven't had a chance to update the Council on that but um that's the reason he's not here tonight um so with that I will call in Chief Eastman. [29:27] **Chief Eastman:** good evening Madam mayor and Council just a little recap here November 17th we had a qualification for cold weather per the post-mandated and we will do that shortly this Thursday um December 7th um of course is the lighting of the green the reserves and officers will be in attendance with along with the I know that two or three were there last year so I look forward to that and the singing was amazing December 9th is Toys for Tots the bank is participating as well as croydale um and we have a deposit here so if you think about it please uh the community or whoever's coming down to see the library or you all go ahead and drop off some toys we'll be happy to run them over to Golden Valley like we always do um Department of Corrections has joined us like five years ago and they always have a a really good turnout for the toys too past events we had a safety team meeting with Anderson Elementary we have several assigned I know council member doll wanted us to update on that and of course there's some conversations we can talk about and just know that we're doing that and meeting with them and Anna the principal frequently once a month if not more there was some BCA training at Stillwater which involved critical incidents and that was well received by all the staff that attended of course our Halloween meet and greets we had several reserves and officers all over the city passing out candy and glow sticks I put inspiration and all over mainly here to the West is where everybody groups up and then indoor simulation training Anderson Windows allowed us to use a vacant building the old Herbergers or where the mall used to be and it's vacant so Oak Park and and Bayport teamed up together and we have like four trainers that do that and was empty and it was a bunch of clearing of buildings and different CIT critical incident stress debriefing kind of talking people down and was very well received great training so I was proud of that our incidents and calls self-initiated reports two data 7275 and I stand for questions. [31:21] **Councilmember:** any questions for chief is that a the number of calls and incidents is that typical like are you kind of ahead of what? [31:21] **Chief Eastman:** I did not you know honest I didn't look at November uh I I believe it's a little bit above yeah yeah and like today we had six car accidents in the morning so you know depending on what's going on that includes that or if we see some violation under be that or someone calls in so all I see are so it's self-initiated called in accidents those kind of things it's all kind of Blended together and then you know for new council members there's several Pages three pages of reports it says the date The Ref address of where it's located what it is um and then as we go through because this was submitted ahead of time so it could reach you it would be the icrs are behind right now if I were to go in they'd probably be up by about 50 I would guess okay busy grouped thank you. [32:39] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** I forgot about the lighting of the green I know I forgot to mention that too yeah here we go do we want to announcements. [32:39] **Sara Taylor:** the Wednesday night starts at 6 30. The Village Green Park Village Green goes till 8. Santa usually makes an appearance I think we're still working on coordinating that with Santa and there will be the Vagabonds singing a bonfire and I believe there's going to be a crap last year we did a little craft and the kids really liked it so working on that again and uh cookies and hot chocolate. [33:08] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** I hope it's not too cold be there all right fires that was nice now over to you. [33:08] **Adam [City Staff]:** with that uh Public Works director Klein. [33:08] **Matt Kline:** Madam mayor members of the council um I do have some information on the trees the Blackwood Street farm that we normally get our trees from has closed the owners have retired but they have agreed to allow us to cut trees for the lighting and the greens still there at least for this year um so that will get done either later this week or excuse me early next week with decorations we also finished up uh fall street sweeping thank goodness um and then also Parks mulching obviously that wouldn't happen too much anymore some of the bigger projects we've done um we Miller Excavating finished up the Peril Creek Bank restoration work um if you get a chance it's on 2nd Street and 1st Avenue North um it it turned out really well so I encourage you to go look at it we actually put um planted like a six foot buffer strip along the um Creek that is planted with a bumblebee grass mix so it's got different mixes now like Clover and different types like that specifically for bumblebees so um we are also planning on um partnering with uh the wmo again on Piro Creek Native planting kind of like what we did with the Girl Scout project but this will be along Third Avenue to finish that section we are specifically planting that section with shorter grasses and stuff that we can mow at a somewhat of a lower elevation just for one for the duck race and for two for you know just keep somewhat visibility of the creek so um and then Sarah and I today met with the Washington County planners um in regards to the regional bike trail um they're to the point where they're discussing potential um locations through the city um I think there's about four proposed um essentially Trails through the city if you're interested I can send out an email about them but they're kind of where we discussed in the past Second Street north and south on that side one of them is obviously Minnesota 95 which I encourage them not to use but if that's what they have to designate is what it is a couple of one was obviously Stagecoach and then the last one was through the kind of the Natural Area and then through the Prairie potentially but there's a lot of coordination with that so actually there's a lot of coordination with all of them one also included the uh um at some point the railroad tracks so um then finally the um drainage study that are Consulting from SCH is working on they did a draft of the initial portion of the study which includes essentially the um existing conditions and what a five and ten year rainfall event looks like over those in existing conditions staff reviewed it had input on it and now they'll be working on the end of the study which incorporates some Capital Improvement planning into it and their recommendations for areas to start essentially and what their concerns are you know if we start in spot a versus spark spot B and how that affects Downstream and Upstream stuff so um that I'll take questions. [37:00] **Councilmember:** any questions for Matt uh curious about the you said you're heard property apparel Creek to create a similar buffer kind of that you're doing or that we're doing I should say um are there like grants or programs or things that we could share with those? [37:44] **Matt Kline:** yeah the homeowners should be through their watershed management yes absolutely yeah they may not know about that yep you can contact the Minnesota or the middle Saint gray water management organization or contact us and we can put you in with the right people they definitely encourage it and really um worst case scenario is just let your grass grow to six inches I mean you don't even have to let it grow to two feet one feet mowing it all the way to the edge is what we don't want essentially but just keeping your grass longing at eight to ten inches kind of is the same thing for about six to eight feet buffer. [38:31] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** so be nice if we could reach out Property Owners along the creek and just let them know kind of because not everybody watches these yes the wmo has like flyers or something so you know John is liaison if we could just have him maybe bring some back from his next meeting so yeah it is a great program I mean that's I have rain Gardens in my yard from 20 years ago yet that I'm still maintaining and it works beautifully good thanks man all right thank you Matt assistant administrator Taylor. [38:31] **Sara Taylor:** Mary members of the council earlier on tonight's agenda the city council adopted the final 2040 comprehensive land use plan by resolution uh the final plan will be submitted to the Met Council to satisfy the city's requirements it will also be posted on the city's website in the coming weeks and again I'd like to thank Dan travel's helping that project it was a long long project so I'm happy for the help um I should also recognize Matt too he worked closely with me on a lot of the water and sewer portions of the plan as well as our city engineer John parodi so thanks everybody uh the general election was held on November 8th which included election of the Bayport mayor and two city council seats for this election we had 1045 residents vote in person at the polling place which was a very good turnout on tonight's consent agenda the city council approved the overall results of the election as they relate to our municipal offices here in Bayport I'd like to say congratulations to those elected and also a big thank you to the residents that volunteered to work in the polling place this year uh the fall edition of the city's print newsletter Bayport news was recently released and the winter edition of the city's e-newsletter Bayport brief is anticipated for December January um a city council Workshop was held prior to tonight's regular meeting to discuss temporary sign regulations for commercial businesses based on input and consensus at the workshop staff will work on drafting texts for the desired ordinance revisions and those will be brought then to the Planning Commission and city council for consideration at a future meeting I'm happy to take any questions. [40:48] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** any questions for Sarah thank you thank you and thank you for the all the work on that comprehensive plan just came down to that Fourth Street but the rest of it is fabulous work so thank you Paul and for the election sure everything seem to go really smoothly. [40:48] **Sara Taylor:** so it did I really have a great group of people that help me out so I couldn't do it without them but thanks for the recognition. [41:14] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** very organized and uh fabulous facility to host it too it's nice to show it off yes the city we did Steph did uh sure started me we did receive several compliments from the public on how well it was and and also how welcoming the election staff was no that's not always the case everywhere but as well okay. [41:14] **Adam [City Staff]:** with uh that brings me brings us to me um the uh staff Sarah and I met with uh the excels energy King plant stakeholder group um State stakeholder meeting uh last week and originally we weren't we didn't think that that was going to take place this year we were told initially that it was going to take place the first quarter of 2023 but then the meeting was scheduled we did attend it um the other stakeholders there was the DNR Excel had about half the attendees uh the city of Oak Park Heights was there Washington County both staff and commissioner appraisal it was a very broad group of all the stakeholders there was a conservation uh do you remember the name organization St Croix conservation Conservancy had a representative there uh the there's a history of the Excel history for that uh the whole Saint Croix River area um and over the years all the land that they've donated that they originally owned which I being a history someone who's interested in history was fascinating to learn all about the history that Excel has had in the Synchro Valley um so the the history of the the plant and the history of the how the energy is being currently produced and what their projection is uh their their goal again is zero carbon emissions by 2050 uh they're expecting a 85 percent uh reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 and they're still trying to figure out how they're going to do that but they expect to utilize solar and wind one of the areas of our Western Wisconsin is where they're planning on bringing the solar energy Wisconsin already has one solar farm being under development and another one's been proposed so they're leaving the transmission lines in the substation at the pink plant currently to help distribute that that Alternative Energy um the the rest of the balance of the meeting uh was kind of every party every stakeholder group uh just sharing feedback or comments or interests what uh you know what was important what priorities uh were important to each stakeholder group um what are some of the things that I communicated to the group was regardless you know the traffic impact on whatever that becomes because of Highway 95 and the sacred Crossing that is something that the group acknowledged paper has an interest in obviously the larger tax-based impact it currently Oak Park Heights does not receive local government Aid airport does if they become eligible because of this reduction in their tax base that obviously that high at the state is going to be adjusted because we work with them we provide fire service to or Park Heights that as well will have an impact as part of our fair share formula is based on the tax capacity for each community so Bayport has some indirect you know several indirect very uh high priority or important considerations their interests and as well as I did mention the the railroad that's something that currently there's no plans to do anything with it but there is uh to both Anderson and daltech currently utilize the railroad as well but obviously at a much lower rate or frequency of the of the the railroad tracks I did share with them that the city is interested in possibly looking at Future Trail use of that and so that was discussed uh the it's finding the balance of whatever ends up being there uh the the site is large enough to have multiple uh options uh both Excel maintaining uh use of the space as well as providing additional access to the river I mean one of the recreational access is something that both the state and the local communities favor um but at the same time finding that balance and protecting the sacred Valley and the national National Scenic Riverway environmental aspects um so it was a very good meeting the next meeting is planned in February um so at the the January meeting uh staff is recommending that the council appoint the elected official representative um at that time and along with the other Liaisons for 2023 and uh we'll we'll see what what happens with that group um it's they said it's going to take a while they currently don't have any plans specific plans on what's going to happen with that site it will take multiple years for the through mediation of the coal pit and there's just a lot of different factors that go into shutting down a energy you know the power plant um so we'll staff will keep the council updated on that and as we move forward uh one of the other items that staff has been in discussions with that I had in my report was the potential baton sewer extension uh We've we initially had a workshop back during the summer to discuss that if there was any interest and the there's multiple neighborhoods in Baytown that we currently serve water to extend Water Service their Community septics are no longer client under the mpca rules and they've hired Engineers to look at what the cost would be for upgrading or repairing replacing their Community septics versus connecting to Municipal sewer um in their opinion it makes more sense to even though the cost is relatively similar to connecting Municipal sewer obviously that has a much longer um stability for those systems uh the city we shared with them Matt and I shared with the townships that there'd have to be some type of incentive for Bayport to do this um there it would be additional wear and tear on our system and we as much as we like our neighbors it's not even the government you know the township but uh the valley neighbors there needs to be something that makes it you know justify his paperwork extending that um and so we talked about a couple of those options possibly an additional sewer surcharge that we uh have for the water customers um the but they are very serious about possibly doing that um and so we are we talked about having them set up an escrow to where if staff can spend any additional time either legal engineering or staff time um that the city the Bayport residents don't pay for that that the HOAs do and so they were they totally understood that um their projected kind of time frame if this is even going to happen uh is like five years from now um so it's not something immediate but it is something that we'll need planning they need to get their financing in order and that's going to be um it's staff spending that the city shouldn't bear any cost to doing this so they're going to be working on that um it's it's something that the Minnesota land trust the Outlets of those neighborhoods are also under the same conservation easements as inspiration Prairie uh lots are and the lantros is very supportive of that for the environmental benefit of uh eliminating the the sewer uh the sanitary sewer waste uh in from the septic versus the menstrual system where it can be treated um so they they have preliminary approved the concept of vapor art extending uh sewer to them so we will as I said we'll keep the council prized of that um as move forward if we if it gets any more serious we'll obviously have to have uh meetings um with the vapor Council uh one of the other things that we've as I've mentioned in some of my reports to the council uh recently is that the city's been contacted regarding uh there's a little cutouts in the northwest corner that's currently part of Baytown Township but it's east of Stagecoach we were contacted late Thursday evening that there is actually somebody with a signed purchase agreement on that parcel a developer and they are they've contacted the city as I said this last late Thursday and would like to talk about possible annexation I just reached out I responded today to the developer and you know I had several questions but we are going to meet with them to go over some of the details they wanted to know more about the water and sewer extension if that was part of the city some get some clarification on the ordinances but that like I said it's something I've been mentioning uh but it looks like it's getting more serious I did also mention to them that because of our relationship with Baytown Township we wanted to make sure that they weren't surprised by this and so it was imperative that they contacted Baytown and let them know that this is not Bayport are pursuing this but we'd be responding they did say that they spoken to the clerk and that they're they're keeping them prized they shared that the clerk said it sounds like it makes sense um but that was not the tomboard so again because we want we don't we aren't looking to start a any problems or issues or conflict with our partner neighbor Township we want to make sure we're you know that good relationship maintained um but that there is a chance that that actually may may come to the council. [50:30] **Councilmember:** is that the spot just how or just north of inspiration? [50:30] **Adam [City Staff]:** correct there's like Salva the fire department three four there's five Parcels there um one is owned by people's congregation uh there's a labyrinth and uh it's a natural area uh one is the house on the corner that was just recently built a couple years ago across from the fire station 26 Acres south of that actually there's an l-shape IT butts up to barkers um but there's a kind of a bluff or vein and then there's two there's multiple Parcels um I think there's four each uh there's two residents that are subdivided between inspiration the inspiration out a lot and uh the subject parcel so there's two more and they did say they were going to be contacting all the neighbors as well because there's a lot of a lot of moving Parts with this um and a lot of different necessary competing interests but different interests and any type of annexation or um that discussion so I I appreciate that but I did I'd let them know that they need to do some leg work on making sure everybody's on the same page um so that may be maybe coming uh in a more serious form to the city council and the future here um we already went over some of the one thing I just want a December 5th meeting we have our truth and Taxation uh hearing uh where the city council will be asked to approve the final budget for 2023 um that's at the next city council meeting uh we already mentioned the lighting of the Village Green again uh two nights later December 7th at 6 30 and then on December 13th at the Bayport fire station the city's hosting a retirement reception for mayor saying ours um to recognize her years of service and that's from 3 30 to 6 o'clock and then uh we also have uh the essay contest the Standale Centennial essay contest is live uh the deadline is November 22nd I believe um if you have a good story or an essay about what makes Bayport special or some memory to share please go to the city website and pay decals website um and submit those to the city and with that I stand for questions. [53:31] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** one for each agent one for each age group four age groups hundred dollars and we're gonna try to read at least one of the essays at the lighting of the green we'll decide we don't want to stand there forever in the cold reading essay so we'll see what makes sense but it might be nice to share one of those stories at least do the green so depends on how much cocoa you have yeah and we won't make the mayor rate it don't worry. [53:31] **Councilmember:** I signed up to be the one that we did or maybe we could get the contest winner to read it. [54:18] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** very good lots of things happening at City Hall always always any other questions comments announcements if not would someone like to make a motion to adjourn? [54:18] **Councilmember Michelle Hanson:** I'm over adjourn. [54:18] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** thank you Michelle is there a second? [54:18] **Councilmember Connie Carlson:** I'll second it. [54:18] **Mayor Michele St. Norris:** thank you Connie all in favor hi I opposed.