[0:00] [Music] [0:46] Jeff Weisensel: All right. Didn't think about it like that. Good evening. I'd like to call the regular city council meeting for Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 to order. Please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. [1:03] Jeff Weisensel: 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. [1:19] Jeff Weisensel: Any additions or corrections to the agenda? [1:22] Logan Martin: No, sir. [1:23] Jeff Weisensel: Seeing none, I'll move the agenda. Is there a second? [1:27] Tami Klimpel: Second. [1:28] Jeff Weisensel: All in favor signify by saying I. [1:30] Council Members: I. [1:31] Jeff Weisensel: We have an agenda. First items up are presentations proclamations and acknowledgements. 3A is the public service week proclamation. Looking to Mr. Martin. [1:41] Logan Martin: Thank you, mayor, members of council. Uh May gives us the opportunity to recognize a number of uh public servants in the organization and kind of the overarching week is public service week which we're in the midst of right now. I had an opportunity today um as the leadership team to host an ice cream social for staff went very well. [1:59] Logan Martin: Um but more importantly um it just a chance to reflect on the really skilled public servants that we have working here at the city of Rosemount. There's a proclamation in front of you, mayor and council to to work through and read. But um just I would say on behalf of the leadership team, this is a city staff and and a segment of public servants that we're just so proud of. um across the organization, across the departments, really skilled folks. Um for example, you know, we we've got folks winning individual career service awards. Um you know, our economic development manager um you know, city clerks getting recognitions and certifications, let alone city winning city of the year again, which may come up later on in the council meeting um if if the council chooses to talk about it. [2:40] Logan Martin: So, um that that doesn't happen um without a segment of public servants that are really operating at the peak of their game and and uh we as we go through job interviews, which we have a lot of right now with how much we're growing, you know, we often get the conversation from applicants, what's it like to work here and what's the culture like and and we're able to say that this is a place that folks really enjoy working um and are proud to be on this team and serve this community. So public service week is a chance to recognize that and uh and we're so proud of them and proud to be part of this team and and would love it if you uh all could read the proclamation. [3:19] Jeff Weisensel: Okay. Uh so the recommended action will be to read that proclamation and put it into effect. So uh from city council, go ahead and start. [3:26] Tami Klimpel: I will start. Whereas Americans are served every single day by public servants at the federal, state, county, and city levels, these unsung heroes do the work that keep our nation working. [3:42] Heidi Freske: And whereas public employees serve to keep our city working by ensuring clean water, reliable power, public infrastructure, health and recreation, public safety, and proper management of public funds and resources and more. [3:56] Paul Theisen: Whereas the efficiency of government relies on public employees who provide services in the quality and quantity required and expected by the public. [4:10] Jeff Weisensel: And whereas the public employees of the city of Rosemount are committed to exhibiting the highest standards of professional excellence creativity skill and customer service. Now and therefore, I Jeffrey D. Weisensel, mayor of Rosemount, Minnesota, do hereby proclaim May 4th through the 10th, 2025 as public service recognition week in the city of Rosemount. All citizens are encouraged to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of government employees at all levels, federal, state, county, and in particular city. Dated the sixth day of May, 2025. Mayor, so will it be said. [4:51] Council Members: So it be proclaimed. [4:53] Jeff Weisensel: And that completes that proclamation. We'll move on to 3B presentation of the Rosemount Area Arts Council rack. Mr. Martin. [5:03] Logan Martin: Thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council members. Uh this evening we've invited the Rosemount Area Arts Council in to take an opportunity to provide uh an update on the past year's activities and then also talk about what's coming up uh for the future of the arts council. Uh we've worked hand-in-hand with the arts council now for several years through a service agreement which is on the agenda later uh to uh in essence have them provide our community with arts and cultural uh activities and events for the community to enjoy and they've done a wonderful job. And so with that I am—Tony you're gonna? Yep. Come on up Tony. Tony Sasso is going to give you guys an update and stand for questions. [5:49] Tony Sasso: Thanks Mr. Mayor. Uh, city council members, thank you very much. If you don't know me, my name is Tony Sasso. I'm the 2025 chair of the Rosemount Area Arts Council. I hope that you maybe have seen me on stage or in a couple videos that have been on Facebook. Uh, I just wanted to take this opportunity once again to thank all of you. We cannot do anything in the arts council without the tremendous support that we received from the city of Rosemount and the city council. And it's amazing to think of what we have accomplished just in the last uh 12 months. Uh, as you will know on our website, which is rosemountarts.com, uh, our mission statement is building and strengthening our community through the arts. And it's the Rosemount Area Arts Council. So, of course, it's not just Rosemount, it does include the surrounding communities. And we've found that we have lots of people from the surrounding communities joining us, becoming members of RACK and also participating in our many plays and concerts and events and volunteer works and everything like that. I know that Ann Lock has diligently prepared a nice attachment with all the things that we've done, but I just want to highlight a couple of the important big things that we have coming up and and some of the numbers uh that would I think would give you an idea of exactly how much that we do as part of the arts council. [6:58] Tony Sasso: Um it's amazing that we also offer so many free events, lots of free events. Most of them are during our Art Blast celebration which is the last week of June, but these are things that people don't have to pay for. Uh, and it's not just in the arts council, I mean the uh the the steeple center, the central park area, but also in the library. We have Meet the Author series. We have uh workshops. We have a country fair, all free. We have a book fair that's all free. Uh, and a lot of the stuff, like I was saying during our Art Blast celebration at the end of June, is all free. So, it's amazing how many people have showed up to this. And as I was looking through these statistics over the last five years, if you compare where we were at COVID levels in 2020 and where we are now in 2025, uh we have literally tripled the amount of events and the people and uh the number of things that we put on for the community. Uh for example, in uh 2024, we had 105 events that were free to the public attended by over 4,400 people. All right? And these are things that they didn't have to pay for. Uh, we also put on a ton of concerts and comedy shows. [8:02] Tony Sasso: Uh, we have this thing called, uh, sports uh, comedy, improv, and I think Logan would know what we're talking about here, right? But we've gotten really, really popular with our concerts. They really attracting. And of course, we have our normal uh, routine of bluegrass, country, and western, but we've also brought in some tribute bands and cover bands, which have been extremely popular. And we've had cover bands for Billy Joel, John Denver, Johnny Cash, Queen, Elton John, and I'm very happy to report that we're bringing back Absolutely Fabulous. We're bringing back the ABBA tribute band, which was probably our biggest attended event. There was a I would say standing room only, but it really was dancing room only in the back. Uh and so we're getting them back to the Steeple Center for another concert. Uh we have two play groups or two theater groups in the arts council. One is the Front Porch Players which is for people of all ages. The other one is the Second Act Players for people that are 50 years of age and older. Uh we put on some tremendous shows. We did Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn. We did a fantastic show called Blithe Spirit and I I heard that the lead actor in that show was really talented and very handsome. I think his name was Tony. But uh other than that, we we've had some really good shows. And again, when I say the Rosemount area, we've been attracting people and actors from way up in Shoreview, City of Minneapolis, Hastings, Lakeville. Uh we're starting to delve into that group in Lakeville, what I used to be in, and we're we're drawing them into Rosemount. And we we nailed two more people in our last play, Jack Benny's Not 39 Anymore, who both said, "Boy, I didn't realize that this theater was here. I like this place." You know, so we have a really good attraction for some of the um the actors coming in as well. Uh in 2024, the last 12 months, we had 21 different nights where we had a play going on attended by over 1,600 people. Uh that was of course at the Steeple Center. Uh we also offer classes uh occasionally uh mostly during our Writers Fest where we have a Writers Fest, a book fair, and we actually have classes on book writing and stories and and creating things and it's get a lot of uh information for people that are getting into writing books and a lot of resources for them to to make it in the future for that. [10:11] Tony Sasso: Uh I wanted to tell you just briefly about some of the big events we got coming up. And one of them is uh a concert which isn't going to be at the Steeple Center. It's actually at the Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Apple Valley because it's a concert by Don Irwin who is a nationally known Steinway piano performer and he's coming here to do a concert at Shepherd of the Valley because they have a nice theater, nice acoustics and of course they have the Steinway there. So we're bringing him in. It's a free concert that RACK is sponsoring, but we're having it in an Apple Valley location. So, we're going to get a chance to spread the word even further to get that word out that hey, there's a really nice theater in a nice area and a great council that's here in Rosemount. Um, another thing that we're doing of course is the Art Blast and that's June 22nd through the 28th. It's the last week of June. uh tons of activities, plays, music, concerts, things for kids, activities, uh all open to the general public and that is one probably one of our busiest uh weeks that we have through the year. And of course, I would be remiss in not mentioning Christmas at the Steeple Center. It's our annual variety show. And we've also started to delve into other areas there. We bring in dancers, a brass band, we have some musical skits. We have some very talented singers in the arts council. We all happen to be church cantors for our choirs and we've been really striking it really well with the public by doing some very cool harmony songs uh during the Christmas season. Uh and you know of course as mayor would know he's uh the MC of our lighting the Christmas tree when we light up the Christmas tree. So that's another thing again free event that attracts a lot of people. [11:42] Tony Sasso: So I'm going to close off with just some of the big numbers like I mentioned as far as the volunteer hours. It's very interesting that just in the last week we had that volunteer appreciation over at the Steeple Center where the mayor talked about all the different organizations. Of course, we had a large showing of RACK people there. Uh but as far as the um the volunteer hours, uh I think it's very interesting in 2020 for COVID right and we track all these hours for all the people. We had a total of 4,066 hours by 50 people. That was 2020. Now you fast forward it 5 years later in 2025, 11,568 hours. That's three times as many by 152 individuals, three times as many people. And we always like to put a monetary figure to this. So the 11,568 hours, even if you say that's $25 an hour, you know, which is a pretty low wage, that amounts to over $289,000. And if you want to be more realistic, about $40 an hour, that's $462,000. All done by volunteers. Do we want anything for this? No. No. We do this because we love it. We love Rosemount. We love the arts council. And that's why we have so many volunteers that are coming up very enthusiastically. Even though we don't get paid for it, we get paid by the enrichment of bringing arts to the community, which is really what our mission statement is. So again, I want to just again echo from the on behalf of the arts council. The tremendous support we get from the city of Rosemount is just amazing that we able to use that steeple center to bring in more and more stuff. And it's allowed us to bring in a wide variety of acts uh a wide wide view of concerts, groups, entertainments, uh and stuff for the city of Rosemount. And I can't wait to go to Shepherd of the Valley and just promote us even further there. I appreciate uh your time. Let me have this couple minutes. Is there any questions? [13:51] Jeff Weisensel: Up to council. Any questions or comments? [13:54] Tami Klimpel: Accolades, thank you so much for all you do for the community. You guys have really been a very visible uh presence in town the last few years and you do amazing work. [14:04] Tony Sasso: Thank you. I appreciate that. [14:05] Heidi Freske: I guess my only comment was I went right away to the volunteer hours. So not only the volunteer hours, but your numbers for individuals contributing are way over before pre-COVID. So you seem to keep growing and that's because you're really reaching out to Rosemount and the area around. [14:19] Tony Sasso: Yeah. Year over year over year it's been increasing almost exponentially and I like to tell a little anecdote—at the Rosemount Expo that we have, when I first joined the council six years ago and we were at the expo, I can't tell you how many people would come by and say, "Oh, there's a theater in the Steeple Center? I didn't know that," you know? "I had no idea that was there." And I mean amazing, "I've lived in Rosemount for 25 years I never knew that was there." And now in the last couple years it's like every, "Oh yeah I've been there, I did this," "Oh yeah I recognize you," "Oh yeah we were there." It's just we're getting the word out and people are finding out about us and and we're joining more and more uh getting more and more membership which is exactly what we want. [15:15] Heidi Freske: Congrats. [15:16] Tony Sasso: Thank you very much. Appreciate it. [15:17] Jeff Weisensel: And how can residents find you again? [15:19] Tony Sasso: It's very simple. rosemountarts.com. [15:21] Jeff Weisensel: Okay. [15:22] Tony Sasso: Yeah. And then at before every event we do at the Steeple Center, someone usually gets up, it's usually me, and introduces the band or whatever is coming on and we emphasize, hey, go to rosemountarts.com. It's really easy to sign up. Uh and at that website you can become part of our mailing list. I always joke we're not going to sell your email address to anybody, you know, but you get first notice of everything that's coming up because we send out all the events and including the volunteer opportunities, too. [15:47] Jeff Weisensel: Awesome. Thank you. [15:49] Tony Sasso: Thank you very much. Appreciate it. [15:50] Paul Theisen: Do you take donations? [15:52] Tony Sasso: Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, put the website, right? Uh yes, you can contribute to the website. Uh for every show that we do, everything that goes on at the Steeple Center, we always have a little collection box. Um, we sell concessions. All the money that we sell concessions goes into our budget. And I always say that our concession workers love those three magical words, "Keep the change." So, they purchase something, they can take the change and deposit in our donation box. But yes, and we get a lot of help from a lot of the local businesses in Rosemount, too. They sponsor a lot of our events, which is really nice. [16:03] Paul Theisen: Thanks. [16:04] Jeff Weisensel: Thank you, Tony. And, uh, those RACK members that are here. Certainly, I've attended uh, multiple events. enjoyed all of them. Uh, including the dancing only ABBA. Um, not that I'm an ABBA fan, but my wife was. So, uh, went there and it was good music. Anyhow, so I was really surprised. I I learned that they were actually one of the first bands um that had come when RACK started, I guess, back in the day, if I remember right. Uh, John, I'd have to defer to John and Anne Lock. Yeah, John Lock had mentioned that that was one of the first ones that they had brought and uh then they had brought him back. So, uh, really good. And I do, uh, it's okay if you go over in the greater Rosemount area of and where Shepherd of the Valley is. Uh, that's okay over there. So, okay, we're good. Building and strengthening our community through the arts. Thank you. [16:52] Tony Sasso: Yes, sir. Thank you very much. Thanks. [16:55] Jeff Weisensel: Thank you. And that completes item 3B. We'll accept that presentation and we'll move on to 2025 National Police Week proclamation. Chief, please come forward for 3C. [17:12] Carson Thomas: Thank you, mayor, members of the council. Um, "Take a Chance on Me" is now stuck in my head. Thank you. I might listen to "The Winner Takes It All" on the way home. So, all right. See, you've heard that before. They're good songs. So relevant. All right. So, I'm up here today to talk about National Police Week, and I appreciate council in our city recognizing it uh tonight as you have in the last couple years. Um, in 1962, President Kennedy recognized May 15th as National Peace Officer Memorial Day, recognizing the week that May 15th falls as National Police Week. So, this year it is May 11th to 17th and uh it is recognizing all the officers that have been killed in the line of duty uh for the past year and historically. [17:59] Carson Thomas: So, um, just to throw out some numbers, I looked it up, in 2025, there's going to be 345 officers that are going to be added to the memorial wall in DC, and that includes 148 officers that were killed in action last year in 2024, and then there's 197 from prior years that have been identified. So, um, it's going to be actually my first opportunity to attend the conference down there this year. It's a week-long conference put on by, uh, what's called COPS, which is Concerns of Police Survivors. So, it's a chance for surviving families, surviving co-workers to come down and go to a variety of different breakout sessions um and connect with people in a network that um will bring them benefits for years to come. So, uh there's also several events. We've got a candlelight vigil on May 13th. We've got a National Peace Officer Memorial Service on May 15th. Those are all day long events where there are literally thousands of people um there to pay tribute to those that have been killed in line of duty. [18:51] Carson Thomas: So, uh, we are heading down, a couple of us, with the Burnsville Police Department to help them, uh, make their journey to put officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge on the wall. I've learned that they are going to be in section 17-WT, as in William Tom-1. So, section 17, West Row One, that's where their names will be found. Um, and I'm also going down there to find the name of Officer McDerman, who is Rosemount's only officer that's uh, been killed in the line of duty. So I will be sure to share my experience when I come back. But thank you for the proclamation today. [19:20] Jeff Weisensel: All right. So with that we will as the council uh proclaim National Peace Officers Day. [19:26] Paul Theisen: Whereas in 1962, President Kennedy proclaimed May 15 as National Peace Officers Day and the calendar week in which May 15 falls as National Police Week. Established by a joint resolution of Congress in 1962, National Police Week pays special recognition to those law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty for the safety and protection of others. [20:06] Heidi Freske: And whereas the members of the Rosemount Police Department play an essential role in safeguarding the rights and freedoms of the citizens of the city of Rosemount. [20:19] Tami Klimpel: And whereas it is important that all citizens know and understand the duties, responsibilities, hazards and sacrifices of their law enforcement agency and that members of our law enforcement agency recognize their duty to serve the people by safeguarding life and property and by protecting all citizens against violence and disorder. [20:35] Paul Essler: And whereas the men and women of the Rosemount Police Department unceasingly provide a vital public service. [20:43] Jeff Weisensel: Now therefore, I, Jeffrey D. Weisensel, mayor of Rosemount, Minnesota, do hereby proclaim May 11th through 17, 2025 is National Police Week within the city of Rosemount and hereby publicly salute the services of law enforcement officers in our community and in communities across the nation. Throughout the city of Rosemount, we urge and encourage all citizens to take time to appreciate our public safety officers and honor all peace officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. Dated this sixth day of May, 2025. Signed the mayor. With that, that completes the proclamation for the National Peace Officers Day and National Police Week. Thank you. [21:28] Carson Thomas: Thank you. [21:30] Jeff Weisensel: We'll move on to uh response to public comment item four. Uh I don't believe we have any this evening. We'll move on to public comment. Anyone wishing to come before council may do so at this time. Please state your name, your address, limiting your comments to three minutes or less. Anyone? Anyone? And seeing no one making the mad dash to the podium, we will close the public comment and move on to our consent agenda this evening. [22:20] Jeff Weisensel: The consent agenda includes bill listings, minutes of the April 15, 2025 regular meeting minutes, renewal of a consumption and display setup permit for Genesis Ranch, a donation acceptance from Donna and Dale... excuse me if I mispronounced that... for Greg Zurich who passed away in March of '25. A service agreement between the Rosemount Area Arts Council and the city. You heard their presentation previously. Limited use permit from MnDOT... Mindot... for Greenway. It's along Highway Three for our um to uh have our greenway there. And the approval of a subdivision agreement for Amber Fields uh number 22. So with that, is there any items council—any council member wishes to pull for further comment or discussion? Seeing none, I'll move the consent agenda items A through G for approval. Is there a second? [23:14] Tami Klimpel: Second. [23:15] Jeff Weisensel: We got a motion by Weisensel, second by Klimpel. Roll please. [23:18] Erin Fasbender: Weisensel. [23:19] Jeff Weisensel: I. [23:20] Erin Fasbender: Essler. [23:20] Paul Essler: I. [23:21] Erin Fasbender: Freske. [23:21] Heidi Freske: I. [23:22] Erin Fasbender: Theisen. [23:23] Paul Theisen: I. [23:24] Erin Fasbender: Klimpel. [23:24] Tami Klimpel: I. [23:25] Jeff Weisensel: And the consent agenda is approved. We have no public hearings this evening or unfinished business. We'll move to the new business, our Youth Commission appointments. And who am I looking to for that? [23:41] Logan Martin: Mayor, members, council, just a a really nice opportunity tonight to appoint the Youth Commission. And so with having a light agenda, we thought we'd place this on new business just to give council a quick moment and the mayor specifically as the council liaison to the Youth Commission. But, uh, Council Member Klimpel, Mayor Weisensel had a chance to interview, um, and get to know a number of folks interested in serving on the Youth Commission uh, last week prior to our volunteer recognition event. And, um, it—I'll let you guys speak to it. It was a really nice opportunity to meet the young people in Rosemount that are looking to serve on the Youth Commission. And so, they all fit the bill and all expressed interest in staying on and uh, the list is in front of you there, mayor. But Mayor and Councilmember Klimpel, if you'd like to comment more on last week's uh interview and what you gleaned from them, happy to let you do so. [24:18] Jeff Weisensel: Anything? [24:19] Tami Klimpel: Um you know, I I have a teenage child myself, a senior in high school. So, it's just so gratifying to see these um youth in our committee come and express a desire to serve. Um each and every one of them has really good ideas for everything from ways to engage the public to ways to improve the the fabric of Rosemount. So, it's really cool to see that kind of engagement among these kids. Um, just super impressed with them. Uh, one of them had is returning for a third year. Uh, so that's exciting to see a third-year returning commissioner. And, uh, I remember her advice was "check your email." So, uh, we'll keep that one out there. But um and also the advice though that she gave was that above and beyond even the required meetings um the real value comes from the activities and the things that they do together as a commission in town. It comes from um meeting with kids at the splash pad and it comes from handing out trees and and things like that. So um those kids seem like they're getting a lot of value from it. Really great to see that involvement and I just think the future is bright. We've got such great kids in Rosemount. [25:30] Jeff Weisensel: Mayor. Yeah, we had a fair number of returnees. Uh and uh it's always good to see that. Uh uh shortly here, we're going to be seeing the graduation of our seniors. There will be a joint uh legacy tree planting that'll occur later this month where the new commission and the old commission will get together and share wisdom between them and then that'll start off our our next year with the new group of uh of our youth. So, what I'm going to do here is I'm going to name off the uh the youth that have uh applied for our commission and then we'll move to the recommended action accepting them. Starting out we have Eden Carter, Hannah Decker, Haley Geller, Genesis Gier, Cindy Harvey, Olivia Howey, Anushka Jacob, Autumn Jacobson, Rebecca John, Aiden Johnson, Karah Mason, Lily Nowlin, Rachel Romano, Adele-Jade Siepel—I'm sorry if I butchered that up—Alexis Sell, Jacob Skaria and Ava Ulstad. Would any of the council members wish to move the recommended action? [26:45] Tami Klimpel: I'll move the city council appoint the individuals named or listed below to the Youth Commission for the 2025-2026 term. [26:54] Heidi Freske: I'll second. [26:55] Jeff Weisensel: Motion by Klimpel, second by Freske. Roll please. [27:00] Erin Fasbender: Essler. [27:00] Paul Essler: I. [27:01] Erin Fasbender: Freske. [27:01] Heidi Freske: I. [27:02] Erin Fasbender: Theisen. [27:03] Paul Theisen: I. [27:04] Erin Fasbender: Klimpel. [27:04] Tami Klimpel: I. [27:05] Erin Fasbender: Weisensel. [27:05] Jeff Weisensel: I. And that uh completes the Youth Commission appointments. We're looking forward to a fantastic year with these kids. Completing nine, we move on to 10 announcements. City staff updates. Mr. Martin. [27:26] Logan Martin: Mayor, not much more to add tonight. I'd give the council a minute to reflect on the the Real Estate Journal awards if they wanted to. And the other only other thing that I would um also throw out there, Chief Springer went off to weekly training, but wanted me to share we do have two uh firms that submitted their qualifications for consideration to move on to the proposal level for our fire staffing and response model uh analysis study. So, he and I are starting to piece through those and those folks will get invited, assuming they meet the qualifications, to submit a proposal so they get some facts and figures about what they could do. So, that process is ongoing. Um, and looking forward to more to come out of that. So, with that, I I could hand it back to to the mayor. [28:10] Jeff Weisensel: I'll open it up to council and whoever wants to share the news. Uh, we had five nominations at the Real Estate Journal uh event uh where we were honored and we'd like to share the the results of that. Anyone? [28:23] Tami Klimpel: Well, he's not in here. Where'd Eric go? Eric Van Oss, our very own economic development manager, won uh developer of the year. So, we were really um super excited for Eric and and um to see Adam accept that award on his behalf. So, that was really amazing to see that win. I'll let one of you take over from here. Land acquisition... [29:00] Heidi Freske: Well, I'm I'm pulling up the wonderful social media post. I apologize. I didn't—No, that's okay. Because I don't want to miss anything. So, um 6 hours ago there was a nice post on the city of Rosemount Instagram and Facebook page, but we were nominated for five um nominations. City of the Year, which we earned—we won for the second year in a row. I think we all were a little bit surprised and very happy. Um Eric Van Oss, our superstar, was named Economic Developer of the Year. Um, we were also nominated for... or no, the third win for Rosemount was actually... it was the U of M was the most significant investment sale and that was the U of M Meta land deal. So they um accepted that um on behalf of the U of M and for the whole state. [29:43] Jeff Weisensel: Yes, correct. [29:44] Heidi Freske: And then we were a finalist for the government community facility, our new public and police works building. We did not win that one. And we were also a finalist for the restaurant entertainment award which was Lifetime. So it was a great event and we were all of us got to comments. [29:46] Paul Theisen: Yeah. The only thing I would add to that is, you know, it's great to receive those awards, but I think it goes back to some of the things that we try to speak about a lot about a council here is that the work that the staff does behind the scenes, the administration and and the directors, um the culture that they've led with positive intent in this community is just—it's nice to be recognized, but it's nice for other people to see the work that's being done. So, that's, you know, five nominations and three wins. And once again, that back-to-back win as City of the Year was something we weren't expecting, but I think speaks volumes to the work that this staff and uh the directors and the leadership with Logan um have done to really set Rosemount as one of these communities to be in and uh looking forward to a lot more to come. [30:29] Jeff Weisensel: Yeah. And just uh to piggyback on that, echo those comments. Uh certainly our Community Development team uh along with uh all the other departments that add to that—that includes Public Works. I'm going to miss some here, but our financial group as well as our administration. Um certainly big kudos to uh the City of the Year. I think that's um says a an awful lot particularly the back-to-back and uh recognizing that it wasn't just the county here or this you know uh the city region, it included the whole state. So two years in a row we're pretty proud of that and uh look forward to another year of uh great community development that we'll see come forward. So, uh, any other comments from council? [31:22] Jeff Weisensel: Then we will move to the upcoming community calendar. Um, I just share that we had that Arbor Day celebration. 150 trees went out of the uh out the door about uh about 17 minutes. We were gone through all that. It was amazing. Um, with that, we have coming up uh the citywide garage sale starting on May 8th through the 10th through various locations. You can find that on our website uh where they all are. There's a community tennis night May 9th at Erickson Park from 5 to 7 p.m. We have our spring cleanup on May 17th. So, all the things you didn't sell, you may want to take to the cleanup at Dakota County Technical College. It'll be uh placed on their east lot. [32:07] Jeff Weisensel: The Parks and Natural Resources Commission meeting has been moved to May 19th from 7 to 8:00 p.m. here at city hall. The next port authority meeting is May 20th from 6:00 to 7:00 followed by city council May 20th from 7 to 8. And I would just uh jump ahead a little bit. City Hall will be closed on Memorial Day, but we will be having a Memorial Day event at uh Central Park starting at 11:00 uh featuring the Rosemount Legion, Rosemount VFW, honoring the fallen soldiers uh through a special ceremony. And with that, is there any other business to come before council? Seeing none, we will adjourn the meeting and uh return to our work session. All in favor signify by saying I. [32:55] Council Members: I. [32:56] Jeff Weisensel: Opposed. We are adjourned. Thank you. [Music]