Based on the context provided and the internal dialogue of the transcript (which identifies a few individuals not present on your current list), here is the attributed transcript. *Note: While your list names Matt Montgomery as Mayor, the transcript from April 2021 clearly identifies **John Althoff** as the Mayor at that time, with Matt Montgomery serving as a Council Member. I have used the names as they functioned during this specific meeting.* **[8:19] Mayor John Althoff:** good evening everyone like to call the april 20th 2021 city council meeting for the city of canton falls to order korea roll call please **[8:30] City Clerk Sara Peer:** bringgold here duncan here gives me here cronenberger here lindell here montgomery altoff here **[8:45] Mayor John Althoff:** would you rise for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay before i do approval agenda we're going to do a little switching **[9:06] Mayor John Althoff:** the mpca is going to go first tonight and then then we'll do the school referendum and then the small cities development grant so with that i'd like approval of agenda **[9:15] Council Member Duncan:** so moved **[9:17] Council Member Gesme:** back **[9:18] Mayor John Althoff:** motioned by duncan and the second by gizme to prove the agenda is there any discussion all in favor aye opposed carried we'll get right into our presentations and the first is uh i'm going to talk about the molasses spill from mpca progressive rail yeah **[9:53] Fire Chief Brice Miller:** good evening council oops at the base yeah there you go there we go good evening council and mayor um so tonight i've got mike rose with me he's from the mpca so he was um he was my contact right away when this kind of started i got in contact with him pretty early that morning and he kind of helped help me take the lead on it i guess as far as what was going on in an environmental standpoint... [Chief continues detailed report of the incident response] ...so i think do you want to talk about a little bit of your step in then and where you went with it **[16:46] Mike Rose (MPCA):** your honor and distinguished council members i appreciate the opportunity and then the invite to be here tonight i would say you've got a pretty darn good fire chief here... [Mike Rose explains the MPCA's role and the cleanup status] ...and i i can answer any questions that you may have tonight and if you think of something that you'd like me to respond to later you could funnel those through the chief and i'd be more than happy again to respond back to the chief and or come back again at your request any questions **[24:55] Mayor John Althoff:** no well i think we did a good job all right well thank you uh thanks for the other presenters for letting us jump at it's my fault i got to get to a training obligation so thank you thank you okay thank you guys thank you okay next up we got our superintendent of schools jeff sampson who's going to give us a rundown on the school referendum **[25:25] Superintendent Jeff Sampson:** thank you mayor and thank you city council for having me come tonight and give a presentation on our upcoming levy referendum on may 11th... [Jeff Sampson presents the four questions of the referendum] **[35:01] Council Member Montgomery:** will pass the regardless years before the cost of technology after that **[35:10] Superintendent Jeff Sampson:** this basically gives us a line item budget and so whatever the technology is... i guess i can't guarantee that so yep any other questions... [Jeff continues presenting Question 2] **[40:32] Council Member Duncan:** just uh some people have indicated to me you talk about some of the indoor air quality on the old part the the original part of the high school and people wonder why hadn't that been done when they did the last big project people assumed that's what happens that they fixed everything right and i've heard that **[41:09] Superintendent Jeff Sampson:** yep and the simple answer is they ran out of money... [Jeff continues through Question 3] **[47:26] Council Member Duncan:** a citizen talk to me thinking that the field house floor was included in this **[47:35] Superintendent Jeff Sampson:** to my unders that is not a part of this it is the gymnasium and gymnasium only... [Jeff continues through Question 4] **[51:56] Council Member Duncan:** jeff i would just say that i personally i think it's a good idea and i personally think football should be up at the school especially as we as a city contemplate what we're going to do to john birch to make it a better stadium... **[53:40] Council Member Bringgold:** just one question and everybody's been asking me question number one is kind of a standalone question isn't it but question two has to pass for three and four to be approved right **[53:53] Superintendent Jeff Sampson:** yep that's how it works... [Jeff concludes presentation] **[1:01:00] Mayor John Althoff:** question regarding the turf what's what's the average lifespan of uh of turf **[1:01:06] Superintendent Jeff Sampson:** i believe they said it was 10 to 12 years... **[1:03:20] Mayor John Althoff:** you've done a great job presenting the referendum uh not to be a loaded question but that first thing you said uh when you had somebody come in and do estimates it was 20 million dollars and this is asking for about 12.7 when somebody sees that are they thinking there's still seven million in improvements hanging somewhere... **[1:03:48] Superintendent Jeff Sampson:** it was a pretty comprehensive list and we prioritized what the highest needs were... any other questions well well i appreciate you coming **[1:04:12] Mayor John Althoff:** all right thank you thank you thank you i'm going to unplug here real quick okay thank you yep i gotta get out of rosie's way here don't again thank you guys for having me yep thank you okay our next presentation tonight is a small city's development grant we got kieran ducharme from semcra **[1:04:55] Karen Ducharme (SEMCRA):** yes thank you for having me i'm karen ducharme i'm the administrative development director at sumtra um my purpose of my visit tonight is to get approval from the city council of a resolution to conduct a survey... [Karen explains the grant process] **[1:07:53] Mayor John Althoff:** did i say that you you uh you have to have 51 response to them **[1:07:58] Karen Ducharme (SEMCRA):** so we don't have to have that that's we put that in there kind of to shoot for a goal... **[1:12:06] Council Member Montgomery:** based on this letter it looks like it has to be the survey has to be completed via paper and mailed back is there any way to do it online **[1:12:15] Karen Ducharme (SEMCRA):** online um we have the capabilities to do that... **[1:13:29] Mayor John Althoff:** okay well we thank you for your presentation and uh take it up with the console if they want to uh go forward or somebody make a motion to partner with semcra put it for five thousand dollars **[1:13:43] Council Member Duncan:** well i think it's a it's a good idea so i i know we have a uh a resolution doesn't have a number here but uh i'd like to make a motion to approve the revolut uh resolution in our package **[1:14:03] Council Member Montgomery:** i'll second **[1:14:05] Mayor John Althoff:** motion by dunk on a second by montgomery to uh pass a resolution to partner with semcra on the small cities development grant for five thousand dollars before we uh vote it's okay that we do this in the presentation that this wasn't something separate and we have to put it in consent **[1:14:31] City Administrator Neil Jensen:** we can do this we can put it on the consent agenda for the next meeting have it put in our resolution form because it's in the presentation part of the meeting so i didn't know if we could take action on it immediately but if we can let's do it **[1:14:43] Mayor John Althoff:** okay then we'll do that move it to the next star next to the next meeting then okay you'll see it on the consent agenda then okay thank you thank you okay the next item is consent agenda... [Mayor reads items A through J] ...is there anything the council like to pull down hearing none is there a motion to approve the consent agenda **[1:17:15] Council Member Bringgold:** so moved **[1:17:16] Council Member Gesme:** second **[1:17:17] Mayor John Althoff:** second motion by bringle is second by gesme to approve the consent agenda any discussion all in favor aye opposed carried okay we'll get into console business item a the american rescue act stimulus allocation and water tower project neil you want to share **[1:17:39] City Administrator Neil Jensen:** you know there was a one point uh 1.9 trillion million dollar um american rescue act that was uh approved recently... [Neil explains using the funds for the water tower] ...if you approve it today i can contact the county and say we're going to move forward any questions someone want to make a motion to move forward **[1:21:13] Council Member Montgomery:** i'll make a motion **[1:21:20] Council Member Gesme:** okay **[1:21:23] Mayor John Althoff:** a motion by montgomery in a second by gizmi to approve that motion is there any other discussion all in favor aye aye opposed carried okay second item in the console business downtown farmer's market ordinance amendment... neil you want to take that **[1:21:50] City Administrator Neil Jensen:** sure last year when we talked about the farmers market we had some unfinished business that we needed to attend to... [Neil explains the ordinance and site map changes] ...mayor altoff took the lead on that and went and talked to the business owners... the finance committee did review and approve um and now we're looking for discussion and a recommendation from the whole council **[1:25:26] Council Member Montgomery:** in this document did we change the uh the fee for the sellers... asking that extra 50 bucks for the season for our local vendors to occupy extra space when that space might be available great use it if not it might be available anyway... **[1:27:43] Council Member Bringgold:** the problem the problem with that matt is that the nice people don't say anything and they don't get a spot then... i'd rather say everyone just gets one spot period... [Council debates stall fees and locations] **[1:34:31] Council Member Montgomery:** i'd make a motion to approve it with that wording to eliminate the double stall and the 150 charge **[1:34:37] Council Member Bringgold:** i'll second it **[1:34:38] Mayor John Althoff:** okay motion my montgomery second wave bringle to approve the uh how should i put it the ordinance amendment policy procedures application site map with the hundred hundred dollar fee moving into the upper parking lot... any other discussion on that all in favor carried okay let's get into reports kyle **[1:36:03] Kyle Paulson (Chamber Director):** good evening council and community we do have five events in the next month and so i just want to give you the details of those... [Kyle lists events including First Choice Clinic, Garage Sale, Woodhaven, Open Air Fair, and Golf Tournament] ...are there any questions wow thank you very much **[1:40:31] Mayor John Althoff:** okay let's go a couple committee meetings here finance committee bill **[1:40:37] Council Member Bringgold:** uh yeah three of the items we had on our agenda tonight two other items we talked about public works capital equipment schedule... the other item we talked about was uh the sandstone development um and i'm not sure when that'll all come forward yet but we'll get to that **[1:41:17] Council Member Steve Gesme:** all right that's it planning commission okay uh the we had only had one item on there it was uh a preliminary plat for greg jablonski... towering bluffs which is up by the water tower... for those of you folks at home it's it's a 22 unit development up there is what they're planning **[1:42:02] Mayor John Althoff:** well neil and i have met with greg javonte a couple times here in the last week and i think he's getting on board here... just some uh more or less some housekeeping... library board i see nicole's yeah up there somewhere there she is yay **[1:43:35] Nicole (Library Board):** hi all right so there's not really a whole lot um except the big news is that we finally have a fax machine... and i am teaching fitness classes outside again at east side park... libraries in her library in motion... come and join us and i think that's about it **[1:44:50] Mayor John Althoff:** okay thank you nicole oh let's see here laura **[1:45:08] Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** so we have some exciting news with the cannonball lot we took our first step yesterday at eda we had a special meeting to approve entering into a purchase agreement with keller bartman properties to build a multi-family housing workforce apartment complex on that lot... big big victory i think in our world **[1:45:51] Mayor John Althoff:** so okay thank you dan **[1:45:54] Council Member Diane Johnson:** so in public works third street bridge repairs started monday... hydrant flushing continues... the pool patching is maybe a half a day away from being done... we're dealing with a little bit of graffiti at eastside park in the pavilion... that's it **[1:47:05] Mayor John Althoff:** seems like the potholes just kind of showed up here in the last week all of a sudden they're all over the place my daughter has a list [Laughter] okay neil **[1:47:25] City Administrator Neil Jensen:** just a few things first part of may we're going to be starting working on the audit... right after we get done with the audit we're going to jump right into department budgets for 2022... we did meet with uh bucky lindau and and luke and bill angerman and and jason zimmerman at john birch park and discussed the wall... so more to come on that one... that's all i got **[1:48:55] Mayor John Althoff:** thank you i should probably mention again remember that the john burks park project and the school referendum are entirely different projects so we don't get those confused if they're together entirely different so okay let's go around uh derek you got anything on out there **[1:49:15] Council Member Derek Lundell:** nope nothing for me tonight **[1:49:19] Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** oh i'm good nothing for me **[1:49:21] Council Member Montgomery:** okay matt uh on thursday april 22nd 4 30 starting at the cannon valley trailhead the gazebo in the city parking lot bike cannon falls will be hosting a bike ride... thursday april 22nd 4 30 city parking lot bike cannon falls **[1:50:04] Council Member Bringgold:** um i would just like to uh encourage everybody who has not done so yet to get the coveted vaccination the sooner we all do it the sooner we can get rid of these masks and become healthier and everything can fully open up that's it **[1:50:23] Council Member Steve Gesme:** uh i just had one question you know on that john birch park you had a water pipe issue was that ever resolved i thought you said you're going to do that in-house but it's fixed oh anything else oh yeah when did you say that bikini was april 22nd at 4 30 in the city parking lot thursday exactly thursday 4 30. **[1:50:45] Mayor John Althoff:** okay i was going to mention one thing you're talking about getting your code shot... there's openings for covert 19 vaccine this friday from 1 30 to 6 at the cannon falls community center but you got to register... public input citizens may speak to issues not on the agenda... public input rosie luke is gonna look there it is there yes okay and okay **[1:52:21] Rosie:** it's my annual visit okay the time of the year to look for the dwarf trout lily... [Rosie speaks about the rare lily and community spirit at the farmer's market] ...appreciate your help enjoy the dwarf trot lily come out and search around for it there's places you'll find it it's really tiny though and i do have a video on youtube showing how to look for it **[1:56:44] Mayor John Althoff:** okay thank you thanks rosie okay anybody else public input second call third and final call public input **[1:57:39] Tim Diemer:** i'm not really good at that really i was glad to hear what what rosie was saying about how rare we all are... my name tim diemer i live in cannon falls... my point i guess or what i'm my goal maybe is to see every you know... we've all seen the flags at half staff quite a bit more this year... i don't see that as just being you know united or or um just just in in sync with like working together i guess you've heard it called... yeah thanks for the time **[2:03:52] Mayor John Althoff:** anyone else public input hearing then i'll close the public input portion and i take emotional adjourn **[2:04:02] Council Member Duncan:** who moved **[2:04:03] Council Member Montgomery:** second **[2:04:04] Mayor John Althoff:** most by duncan second by montgomery to adjourn all in favor aye opposed carried