This transcript has been processed to identify speakers based on the provided list of officials and the context of the meeting proceedings. **Note on Names:** Several names mentioned in the dialogue (such as Derek Guesmi and Steve Londell) were not in the provided list but are clearly identifying as Council Members during the roll call and voting. [0:28] **[Ambient Noise]** [0:58] **[Ambient Noise]** [1:28] **[Ambient Noise]** [1:58] **[Ambient Noise]** [2:28] **[Ambient Noise]** [2:58] **[Ambient Noise]** [3:40] **Matt Montgomery (Mayor):** Crap. All right, call to order. Uh, City of Cannon Falls City Council meeting for Tuesday, June 4th, 2024. If I could get a roll call, please. [3:50] **Sara Peer (City Clerk):** Guesmi? **Derek Guesmi (Council Member):** Here. **Sara Peer:** Gro? **Council Member:** Here. **Sara Peer:** Jeppesen? **Ryan Jeppesen (Council Member):** Here. **Sara Peer:** Johnson is absent. Kronenberger? **Laura Kronenberger (Council Member):** Here. **Sara Peer:** Londell? **Steve Londell (Council Member):** Here. **Sara Peer:** Montgomery? **Matt Montgomery:** Here. [4:10] **Matt Montgomery:** Please 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. If I could get a motion to approve tonight's agenda. [4:26] **Steve Londell:** Motion. **Derek Guesmi:** Second. **Matt Montgomery:** Motion from Londell, second from Guesmi. All those in favor? I. Opposed? It carries. Oh, do we have to do the—oh, because we do have somebody on Zoom, do we have to do roll call? Yes, we'll do roll call vote for the approval of the agenda. It was motioned by Londell, seconded by Guesmi. Laura? **Laura Kronenberger:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Lisa Zimmerman (Council Member):** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Ryan Jeppesen:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Derek Guesmi:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Diane Johnson (Council Member):** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Steve? **Steve Londell:** Hi. [5:00] **Matt Montgomery:** All right, passes. Gets us to Public Input. Public input is intended to afford the public an opportunity to address concerns to the City Council. The public input will be no longer than 30 minutes in total length and each speaker will have no more than 3 minutes to speak. Speakers may address topics relevant to the governance of the city. Speakers must sign up in advance and must provide their name, address, and the topic they intend to address. Comments must be on topic, respectful, pertinent to City business, and adhere to the applicable data privacy rules. Any speaker that violates these rules will be asked to sit down. If the speaker refuses to comply, they may be removed from the meeting. Speakers shall not address topics that are the subject of a public hearing; all such comments shall be made at the public hearing. The City Council will not generally act on issues raised by the public input but may choose to schedule consideration of the item on a future agenda. My apologies, how do I say your name? Yep, Antoine, floor is yours. There's a—got it, you got it. There you go. [5:55] **Antoine Beak Sr.:** Yep, test, test. All right, good evening everybody. How you doing? Welcome. Well, doing good, ready for the storm. My name is Antoine Beak Senior and I just wanted to come out tonight and say that I'm a new resident, you know, out here in Cannon Falls. And I've, you know, been out here maybe last 90 days or so and I've had the opportunity to attend, you know, some community events and things of that nature, have met some very fine people out here and have some extremely positive conversations and things of that nature. But I just wanted to kind of state for the record that I will be seeking candidacy for City Council member at large for this upcoming election. Thank you. [6:41] **Matt Montgomery:** Wonderful, thank you. Thank you. All right, moving on. Presentation: Three Rivers Community Action. David, you've got a presentation for us. [6:55] **David (Three Rivers Community Action):** Thanks for having me tonight. Hope everyone's windows are all rolled up. My name is David, I'm the volunteer coordinator with Three Rivers Community Action. If you're not familiar with who we are, what we do, we're a community action nonprofit that's been in Goodhue County, Olmsted County, Wabasha County, and Rice County since the 1960s. We're an extension of the federal government's war on poverty. We do things like energy assistance, housing assistance, renters' assistance, and we do Older Adult Services, which is what I'm here to speak about tonight. [7:28] **David:** Currently, we help administer and fund and coordinate the Meals on Wheels program here in Cannon Falls, which meals are picked up from the Mayo Clinic and delivered throughout your communities. We are expanding these services just beyond that, as well as our caregiver assistance and access assistance programs, to include chore and homemaker services. So one thing that we've heard from a lot of communities, especially rural communities like Cannon Falls, is that many older adults are struggling to stay in their homes because they don't feel that they can keep them as clean and safe. They can't do their yard work, they can't do the kinds of things that they needed to do to keep their homes up and keep them safe to live in. And so we wanted to go into the communities and see if there were volunteers interested in assisting with things like laundry, dishes, mowing the lawn, other things like that. [8:13] **David:** Many older adults, I'm sure you know, have help already from members of the community, but there are still those out there that don't. They don't have somebody that they know, they don't have those connections, and we're hoping through our services—through folks coming to us to volunteer and older adults coming to us if they don't have that kind of help—to be able to connect them with members of the community, be able to connect them with folks that are interested in helping. We want to be a place that older adults can feel safe and secure asking for help with. [9:00] **David:** Currently, we have launched a new volunteer website. It's ThreeRiversCap.GalaxyDigital.com, where members of the community can go and see the needs in their community. We hear a lot from folks that are interested in helping, "I just don't know what's going on, I don't know who needs the help, it's hard to see." This is a place where we post those needs for community members to go and see. If you sign up, you'll be able to pick the kind of interests that you're looking for to help with, whether it's yard work, organizing, helping somebody move boxes, or the like. And when opportunities like that pop up in your community, you'll get an automatic notification telling you they're there. You'll be able to sign up through there and you'll be able to see what you can do to make your community a better place to have that direct positive impact. [9:45] **David:** So like I was saying, we're seeking volunteers. The needs are already there. We already have some folks that have been helping with our Meals on Wheels program, help with some of these needs that have popped up—things like helping walk somebody's seeing-eye dog, or somebody helping somebody do their laundry, help somebody clean their kitchen. This is a great opportunity for students as well to get volunteer hours, whether it's for applications for schools or for college. We have those opportunities available in the community and it's just a great way to help, a great way to give back. If you're an older adult that is seeking help, we do want you to reach out to us. We do want to hear from you. We will have one of our older adult advocates come to your home to speak with you to hear from your needs in person. You can reach our Older Adult Services mainline at 507-316-0610 or you can reach us by email at OAS@3rvscap.org. I'm available to take any questions if anyone has any about these programs. [11:00] **Matt Montgomery:** How's the enrollment in Meals on Wheels been doing in the last few years for the area, and then how many helpers do you have? [11:10] **David:** Yeah, so in Cannon Falls we have actually a really, really solid group of volunteers to help out with Meals on Wheels. We're always getting new folks coming in; some folks leave the community, some folks end up going to assisted living, but we've been able to have a really consistent base of folks to be able to deliver meals to. The Mayo Clinic has been a huge help as meals come out of there. It being a hospital kitchen, it can also help accommodate some folks. You know, we like to think that the food's good, but it is hospital food sometimes. Generally speaking, the older adults enjoy seeing a person more than it's about the meal. We hear from a lot of them that the delivery driver will be the only person they see all day, and breaking through that social isolation is really important; it's a cornerstone of the program. But you know, it's been going really good. We've been constantly getting new volunteers coming in as well as new older adults. [12:04] **Matt Montgomery:** Great. Are there any questions from the Council or any department heads? Anyone want to commit to signing up on the record? There we go, there you go. Awesome. All right, thank you. I appreciate your time. [12:20] **David:** We appreciate it. [12:25] **Matt Montgomery:** All right, moving on to the Consent Agenda. Consent agenda items may be adopted under one motion as presented or may be removed for discussion and resolution as Council business. Item A: Just and correct claims the accounting period ending May 30th, 2024. Item B: Meeting minutes for May 21, 2024 council meeting. Item C: Approved July meeting date change. Item D: Approved probation extension for Public Works. Item E: Resolution 2759 accepting a monetary donation of $1,500 from Invenergy to the Police Department. Item F: Resolution 2760 accepting a monetary donation of $1,000 from Invenergy to the Ambulance Department. Is there anything the council would like to discuss? [13:10] **Laura Kronenberger:** So for C, Lisa and I have a Cannon Valley Trail meeting that night. [13:20] **Matt Montgomery:** Oh, so Trail meeting for the rescheduling? The July meeting? [13:25] **Laura Kronenberger:** Item C. [13:30] **Matt Montgomery:** Item C. Oh, at the same time. I was going to say could we—well, there's something they're working on a bond so I don't... [13:40] **Laura Kronenberger:** Yeah, we both know that we could both miss it, otherwise they wouldn't have a quorum. Or we could split it I guess. [13:50] **Lisa Zimmerman:** Yeah, why did we need to change it? [14:00] **Matt Montgomery:** July 4th? Fourth of July? [14:10] **Lisa Zimmerman:** No, no, I think it's somebody's going to be out of town. [14:15] **Matt Montgomery:** Well, which one do you want to go to? You can go to the trail meeting [Laughter]. Okay, just leave it so when we have a regular date—pull it down and then... yep, pull it down. Yep. [14:21] **Matt Montgomery:** Okay, we'll pull it down and discuss it then. So Item C will be removed. July meeting will be Council Business Item B. All right, hearing nothing else, I would accept a motion to approve tonight's Consent Agenda. [14:35] **Derek Guesmi:** Motion. **Lisa Zimmerman:** Second. **Matt Montgomery:** Motion from Guesmi, second from Lisa. All those in favor—oh, oh yeah, roll call. Roll call vote. Laura? **Laura Kronenberger:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Lisa Zimmerman:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Ryan Jeppesen:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Derek Guesmi:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Diane Johnson:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Steve? **Steve Londell:** Hi. [15:00] **Matt Montgomery:** And it passes. Gets us to Council Business. Item A: John Burch Park improvements, the project to change the order. You are not Bill, but you are WHKS if I— [15:08] **Darren (WHKS Engineer):** I'm Darren, there you go. [15:10] **Matt Montgomery:** Thanks, Darren. Yep. [15:15] **Darren:** No problem. Uh, yes thank you Mayor. So, we've kind of began the process for the John Burch Park improvements and so we had a preconstruction meeting with the contractor here at City Hall. And while we were meeting with him, he had given some suggestions of thoughts that he could do differently to kind of maybe improve or give ideas to improve the project. So there were a number of items that he suggested, and so they sent them to us and we met with City staff and the John Burch Park supporter group and kind of discussed those different options. [15:56] **Darren:** So what came out of that meeting was there were three things that they thought were viable or things that they'd like to see approved. The first one would be using—and this is actually a price deduction—instead of making the concrete seating area all out of concrete, it would be a combination of the retaining wall blocks, which are the very large block stones, and then a concrete cap over the top. So it would kind of blend in well with the wall itself, so it'll kind of add some aesthetic appearance to the seating area. They thought that that was important and it would be a price reduction because it's easier for them to do it versus the poured seating area. So that's item number one. [16:42] **Darren:** The second item was to extend the seating area to a kind of a curved area to kind of add to the amount of seating, and so the supporter group and City staff thought that was a good idea. So they've recommended adding that one as well. And then the third item was—there's a small landscape block area kind of near the concession stand, kind of as you come in from the West there, that was just not included in the project mainly for cost savings. But they gave a price that was reasonable and so the group and the city staff thought that was—so that wall will be removed and would be replaced with, again, the same large block stones to match the rest of the retaining wall block. So for those three items, the grand total of the change order would be $39,451. So we were recommending to the Council to accept that change order. And then this would be within budget of our current project since the original bids came in under budget. [18:13] **Matt Montgomery:** Wonderful. Any questions for Darren? Is this the only one there's going to be—the only addition or change? [Laughter]. [18:20] **Darren:** I know you can safely say no. Well, I have no idea. Could be, could be not. [18:25] **Matt Montgomery:** Any legitimate questions for Darren? Hearing none, I would entertain a motion to approve John Burch Park improvements project and the change to the order. [18:35] **Diane Johnson:** So moved. **Laura Kronenberger:** Second. **Matt Montgomery:** Motion from Diane, second from Laura. We'll do the roll call vote. Laura? **Laura Kronenberger:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Lisa Zimmerman:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Ryan Jeppesen:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Derek Guesmi:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Diane Johnson:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Steve? **Steve Londell:** Hi. [18:55] **Matt Montgomery:** Passes unanimously. Brings us to Item B, which was C in the Consent Agenda: Approve the July meeting date. I assume we don't have to take any action or—we actually vote it down? We can just leave it the same. [19:03] **Jon Radermacher (City Administrator):** Just—I just say you—this is the one that had July 23rd is when we have the conflict, right? Correct. So, um, what do we have? One more—well, we have two more meetings before that. Let's wait. [19:20] **Matt Montgomery:** So we'll talk to Scott? Got time to change if we can move ours to Wednesday maybe or something? How many days' notice do we have to have for changing? [19:30] **Jon Radermacher:** Let's just leave it at the original date. Um, we do need a quorum at that meeting, but I can ask everybody else what they—he just said we do need a quorum at that meeting for the grant. But see how flexible—we have to have like 30 days' notice for changing meetings or no? [19:40] **Sara Peer:** It's like three days. [19:42] **Jon Radermacher:** Right, three calendar days. [19:45] **Matt Montgomery:** So for the time being, no action. We're just going to leave it for the 2nd and the—oh no, that's the day you can't go. I say go ahead and move it, worst case one of us won't be here. Yep. Is you okay with that? And then you and I can fight about who has to drive to Welch. [20:05] **Laura Kronenberger:** See what the weather is. Yeah, not again. Okay, yeah, go ahead, go ahead. We'll figure it out. I'll make a motion to change the date from July 16th to July 23rd. [20:20] **Steve Londell:** I'll second. **Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Kronenberger, second by Gro. Roll call vote. Laura? **Laura Kronenberger:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Lisa Zimmerman:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Ryan Jeppesen:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Derek Guesmi:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Diane Johnson:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Steve? **Steve Londell:** Hi. [20:35] **Matt Montgomery:** Passes unanimously. All right, that gets us to Reports. Lisa, you said you are doing Maggie's report today. [20:45] **Lisa Zimmerman:** Yes, so the FunFest is next Thursday from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. The Chamber is still accepting team registrations for the golf tournament on June 24th, and as always, there's a list of events on the Chamber Facebook page. [21:05] **Matt Montgomery:** Wonderful, thank you. The Joint Power Trail Board? Do you anything you'd like to add? We talked about it a little bit already, that you have to be at the meeting. [21:10] **Laura Kronenberger:** Yeah, there's just the—they're working on a really large grant for the—I get a little confused but like something with the bridges and they have—they did something with the County DNR where they have everything plotted out with all of the extinct species. Oh yeah, so the endangered and rare. So yeah, it's a whole thing. It really is. [21:35] **Matt Montgomery:** All right. We'll go around the horn. Jed, anything you'd like to add? [21:40] **Jed Petersen (Public Works Director):** Um, we had a little bit of a high water scare yesterday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sure Chief McCormick will talk about this as well. Hannah's Bend is still awfully wet. Encourage, you know, the public to use common sense while there. Yesterday I witnessed people out fishing in it. I'm not sure what they're fishing for, but it was awfully fast-moving water. So but yeah, we actually came out fairly unscathed. Little bit of silt on the grass but not too bad and I'm sure this rain will probably clean it up for us hopefully, if it doesn't make it worse again. But other than that, I don't have anything else. [22:09] **Matt Montgomery:** All right, thanks Jed. Darren, anything else you'd like to add? [22:15] **Darren:** Just that the all the projects are ongoing. So the street project is progressing, the developments are ongoing, and then the overlay project will be starting here end of this month, beginning of next. So that's all, thank you. [22:20] **Matt Montgomery:** Chief? [22:25] **Jeff McCormick (Police Chief):** So, Jed talked about it a little bit. Yep, we had some water again. It's been a few years since we had to gear up for potential flooding. The plan just works as well today as it did the last time we had to use it. Primary thing that we want to do is keep our residents that are adjacent to the property, adjacent to the river, informed. We monitor it, keep Jed and Fire Chief apprised of where things are, keep the Administrator and Council updated. Fortunately, it peaked and started going back down before the evening ended last night. We're down probably closer to 2 feet, 2 and a half feet on the main Cannon River and then significantly more on the Little Cannon, which has put both of them back pretty much within their banks. [23:30] **Jeff McCormick:** There are still areas that are pretty wet. And Jed is right, we had a lot of people that were out taking pictures, but some of them were venturing into the water, which is not safe. The water may look calm on the surface, but it is not calm underneath. It's flowing through with a tremendous amount of force, not just in the middle of the river. So when we do get these events, we want to remind people to take their pictures but don't get in the water. [24:00] **Jeff McCormick:** And going forward, starting the summer events—Lisa, you read about on Thursday coming up on the 13th. Believe it or not, we're less than a month away from when the Fair event is going to be going on. So for the Police Department, this is getting to be a real busy time of the year as we gear up for those things. And then it'll slow down, but with those will come some interruptions for local residents on streets where these events are occurring. During the parade, it'll even be the side streets. Most of our residents are well aware of it, but we just ask for their patience. That's all I have. [24:40] **Matt Montgomery:** Thank you, Chief. Sarah? [24:45] **Sara Peer:** Just wanted to let you know the pool will be open on Monday the 10th. So wow, the lifeguards have started their training and they should be ready to go on the 10th. [24:55] **Matt Montgomery:** Awesome, wonderful. Well, if the weather's like today before the rain, when it was 83 and humid, there'd be a lot of kids there. Right, Neil? [25:00] **Jon Radermacher (Addressed as "Neil"):** Got a question today. We received an email from Goodhue County about cannabis registration delegation. I guess we're starting to gear up with that stuff. Just wondering if you guys would like to have a work session on it. I know we're going to do a work session on the budget here in the next meeting or so. What does your schedules look like? We'll probably do a five o'clock if that's okay. Would you like to do it the next meeting on the 18th, or what is it? July 2nd? [25:40] **Matt Montgomery:** Not July 2nd, not July 2nd. How about with next meeting if is anybody not being able to make the next meeting? I'll be here at five o'clock. [25:50] **Council Members:** I can do five. Fine with me. Good. [25:55] **Jon Radermacher:** So what Goodhue County is looking for is: do you want them to do the registration of the cannabis license, or are we going to do it? We're still going to do the zoning and all that. [26:10] **Matt Montgomery:** Is this something that the Police Commission has to be in? Yeah, how is this in combination with what we're doing? [26:15] **Jon Radermacher:** Well, I think we're going to need the whole Council. So we've been working at it from a local city standpoint; the county is looking at it from a countywide standpoint and I think there's some advantages to having a consistent application throughout the county. But yeah, then we don't have to do it. But I think it is something that should probably get the discussion from the body to provide direction so that we don't spend a lot of staff time at the Police Commission level, right, ultimately not to go that way. So I guess what we're looking for at that meeting is a general consensus of: do you want the county to do it, or should we continue to do it? That's what we'll be looking for. And send out information prior to that meeting if you guys wouldn't mind just reviewing it, because it's quite lengthy, and then also we'll have the budget in there that we can have the discussion on. [27:15] **Jeff McCormick:** Forgive me for not knowing, but what are the dates this summer when the state cannabis—isn't it August 1? Something's supposed to happen, but did that get delayed or am I...? [27:25] **Jon Radermacher:** So nobody really knows for sure; their dates aren't solid. But at the moment they are looking at a lottery system for pre-identification of class of license holders, and then they were also looking at pre-identification for cultivators, manufacturers. But everything's fluid; the rules that are going to propagate that, that are going to regulate everything, are still unknown at this point. The legislature made some changes trying to track it but, you know, it was hectic last few days at the legislature. [28:00] **Jeff McCormick:** Neil [Jon] and I spent some time this afternoon looking over the material the county set over. It was, you know, quite a number of pages. But if you guys do a work session on it, it'll give Neil [Jon] and myself time to digest that, try to find some of our information and get that information out to you guys. We'll try to hold the conversation to about 30 minutes, so any pre-review that you can do will be very helpful. [28:30] **Jon Radermacher:** All right. And they're asking all of the cities to give their input on where this is going to land with Goodhue County. So originally they gave us till what, next Wednesday or something like that? Or yeah, Thursday. I says well, we're not going to be able to meet that. So that'll be good if we could do it on the 18th at 5:00. [28:50] **Matt Montgomery:** If I could get a motion to set a work session for that to include cannabis registration and the budget. [28:55] **Derek Guesmi:** Motion. **Diane Johnson:** Second. **Matt Montgomery:** Motion from Guesmi, second from Diane. Roll call vote. Laura? **Laura Kronenberger:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Lisa Zimmerman:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Ryan Jeppesen:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Derek Guesmi:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Diane Johnson:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Steve? **Steve Londell:** Hi. [29:05] **Matt Montgomery:** And it passes. So the 18th, 5:00 PM. Thank you. All right, we'll go around the horn. Laura? **Laura Kronenberger:** I'm good. **Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Lisa Zimmerman:** I'm good. **Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Ryan Jeppesen:** I'm good. **Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Derek Guesmi:** Good. **Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Diane Johnson:** No. **Matt Montgomery:** Steve? **Steve Londell:** No. [29:20] **Matt Montgomery:** I'll be quick. I hope everybody had a wonderful Memorial Day. It was rainy that day too, but the VFW and all the operating people that spoke at the cemetery did an absolutely fabulous job. I'm proud of our town to see how well we pull that off and it was just a great event. And then also, congratulations to all the graduates last week; the cap and gown and they are done. Last day of school tomorrow! So to all the residents in town, summer is here. Expect to see more kids on bikes and running around, and it'll feel like the town is full because we're used to them being at school from 7:45 to 3:00. So be ready, be cautious with the pedestrians on Mill Street and Main Street and every which way. So, I would take a motion to adjourn. [30:05] **Lisa Zimmerman:** Motion. **Laura Kronenberger:** Second. **Matt Montgomery:** Motion from Lisa, I got a second from Laura. Roll call. Laura? **Laura Kronenberger:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Lisa? **Lisa Zimmerman:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Ryan? **Ryan Jeppesen:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Derek Guesmi:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Diane Johnson:** Hi. **Matt Montgomery:** Steve? **Steve Londell:** Hi. [30:15] **Matt Montgomery:** We are adjourned. Thank you, everybody.