This transcript is from the Bloomington City Council meeting on **December 19, 2022**. Please note that while your provided list mentions Zach Walker as City Manager, the transcript and historical records for this date identify **Jamie Verbrugge** as the City Manager (referred to phonetically in the text as "Mr. Verbal," "Ferrucci," and "Fubotv"). Additionally, **Nathan Coulter** is the Councilmember departing for the State Legislature. [00:00:00] **Mayor Tim Busse**: GOOD EVENING EVERYONE AND WELCOME. I'D LIKE TO CALL THIS MEETING OF THE BLOOMINGTON CITY COUNCIL TO ORDER MONDAY DECEMBER 19TH, 2022. THANKS FOR JOINING US BOTH ONLINE AND HERE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS. WE WILL START OUR MEETING AS WE ALWAYS DO IF YOU PLEASE STAND JOIN ME IN 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. ONCE AGAIN, GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME COUNSEL. THANKS FOR BEING HERE THIS EVENING. I'M SORRY MORE OF YOU DIDN'T GET THE MEMO REGARDING THE FESTIVITIES THIS EVENING BUT WE'LL HAVE TO WORK ON THAT FOR NEXT YEAR I GUESS THE FIRST ITEM OF OUR AGENDA IS TO APPROVE TONIGHT'S I WANT TO GO THROUGH THE AGENDA AND THEN I WANT TO TALK ABOUT A COUPLE OF THINGS IF I COULD COUNSEL FIRST ON THE AGENDA IS UNDER OUR INDUCTOR YOUR INTRODUCTION ITEMS IS A REVIEW AND A PUBLIC COMMENT OPPORTUNITY OUR COUNCIL LISTENING SESSIONS SO THATILL BE ITEM 2.1 ON OUR AGENDA OUR CONSENT BUSINESS IS LENGTHY. WE'VE GOT 20 THINGS ON OUR CONSENT AGENDA. COUNCILMEMBER COULTER HAS OUR CONSENT AGENDA THIS EVENING UNDER ITEM FOUR ARE HEARINGS, RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES. WE HAVE A WE HAVE THREE PUBLIC HEARINGS ONE ON THE RENEWAL OF ON SEALING OFF SERIAL SALE 3.2 MALT LIQUOR LICENSES PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING THE VACATION OF PUBLIC DRAINAGE UTILITY AND SIDEWALK SO ON AROUND BLOOMINGTON CENTRAL STATION SECOND EDITION AND THEN OUR ANNUAL PUBLIC HEARING ON OUR ANNUAL MISCELLANEOUS ISSUE ISSUES ORDINANCES WHERE WE CLEAN UP OUR OUR ORDINANCES UNDER ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS ITEM 5.1 IS OUR 2023 PAYMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM REGARDING BLOOMINGTON FERRY ROAD 5.2 THE ARTISTRY GRANT AGREEMENT FINAL ITEM 5.3 IS A DISCUSSION OF OUR BLOOMINGTON SALES TAX PRIORITIES AND POSSIBLE PROJECTS AND 5.4 IS THE CITY MANAGER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION SUMMARY AND EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT AND THEN OF COURSE 5.5 WILL WRAP UP WITH CITY COUNCIL POLICY AND ISSUE UPDATE. SO THAT'S WHAT IS LAID OUT IN OUR AGENDA THIS EVENING. COUNCIL OBVIOUSLY WE ARE DOWN TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS THIS EVENING COUNCILMEMBER COULTER OR EXCUSE ME COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN AND COUNCILMEMBER NELSON ARE UNDER THE WHETHER OR NOT ABLE TO JOIN US THIS EVENING GIVEN THE IMPORTANCE OF SOME OF THE THINGS WE HAVE UNDER ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL I MIGHT REQUEST OR SUGGEST THAT WE MOVE 5.2 TO THE ARTISTRY GRANT REQUEST AND ITEM 5.3 THE BLOOMINGTON SALES TAX PROJECT PRIORITIZATION DISCUSSION MOVE THOSE TO OUR NEXT COUNCIL MEETING WHICH WILL BE AFTER THE FIRST OF THE YEAR ON JANUARY 9TH. I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE AS BIT CLOSER TO A FULL COUNCIL UNDERSTANDING THAT COUNCILMEMBER COULTER WON'T BE HERE TO BE PART OF THAT DISCUSSION BUT THEN TO HAVE OUR TWO ONGOING COUNCIL MEMBERS WITH US FOR THOSE DISCUSSIONS AND RATHER THAN THE FIVE OF US TALKING ABOUT THOSE TWO ITEMS TO MOVE THEM TO JANUARY 9TH, I DON'T BELIEVE EITHER TIME SENSITIVE I THINK WE CAN MOVE THOSE AND WE'VE GOT LITTLE BIT OF FLEXIBILITY. MR. VERBRUGGE YOU MIGHT REMARK CORRECT CHARACTERIZING THE FLEXIBILITY THAT WE HAVE. [00:04:15] **City Manager Jamie Verbrugge**: MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS I THINK YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE FLEXIBILITY WILL THERE'S A LITTLE LESS FLEXIBILITY LET ME PUT IT THAT WAY. SO WITH THE SALES TAX PROJECT REMINDER THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE A TO THE TAX CHAIR'S THE RESPECTIVE TEXTURES IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE IF WE'RE GOING PROCEED WITH THAT WE WILL HAVE THAT ACTION ON THE AGENDA FOR THE 23RD. SO WE STILL HAVE TIME TO HAVE ONE MORE DISCUSSION BEFORE WE BRING THAT ACTION FORWARD TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COUNCIL'S WHERE THEY NEED TO BE AND THEN FOR THE ARTISTRY RELATED ITEM ,YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT THERE THERE'S A SENSITIVITY THERE ON THEY ARE THEY ARE GOOD WITH MOVING TO JANUARY 9TH FROM THIS EVENING I THI IFT GOES LATER THAN THAT AND IT MIGHT GET A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT FOR THEM. [00:05:00] **Mayor Tim Busse**: UNDERSTOOD COUNCIL ANY ANY THOUGHTS ON THAT IN THE DISCUSSION YOU'RE GOOD WITH THAT IF EVERYONE IS FINE WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO THEN IS TO MOVE OUR AGENDA FOR THIS EVENING NOTING THAT WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ITEM 5.2 AND 5.3 TO OUR MEETING ON JANUARY 9TH 20/20 RE SECOND WE HAVE A MOTION IN A SECOND TO ACCEPT TONIGHT'S AGENDA A AMENDED AND AS STATED NO FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF BLUE BY SAYING I OPPOSE THE MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO WE HAVE AN AGENDA FOR TONIGHT'S MEETING THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR YOUR FLEXIBILITY ON THAT AND I DO THINK IT WILL BE A BETTER DISCUSSION WITH WITH OUR WITH COUNCILMEMBER NELSON AND COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN ABLE TO TAKE PART IN IT ITEM 22.1 IS THE COUNCIL LISTENING SESSION YEAR END REPORT AND PUBLIC COMMENT. SO BACK IN APRIL OF 2022 WHEN WE MOVE TO A LISTENING SESSION FORMAT PART OF THE RULES OF PROCEDURES AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN TERMS OF HOW WE WANTED DO IT WAS WE WANTED TO BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR TO COME BACK AND EVALUATE HOW THE LISTENING SESSIONS GOING AND WHETHER OR NOT WE WANTED TO MAKE ANY CHANGES, WHETHER WE WERE COMFORTABLE THE WAY THEY WERE TAKING PLACE, WHETHER THEY WERE MEETING THE GOALS AND THAT WE HAD LAID OUT OR IF IF WE WANTED TO PERHAPS MODIFY THE LISTENING SESSIONS IN SOME WAY, SHAPE OR FORM I DO WANT TO JUST DO THE OFFICIAL REPORT DATE. WE'VE HAD 20 LISTENING SESSIONS I THINK TONIGHT WAS OUR 21ST LISTENING SESSION OVER THOSE 21 SESSIONS WE'VE HEARD UPDATING THE IN MY HEAD VERY QUICKLY WE'VE HEARD FROM 61 INDIVIDUAL SPEAKERS OR GROUPS AND AGAIN QUICKLY IN MY HEAD DOING THESE I'M GOING TO SAY 34 OR 35 OF THOSE FOLKS BEING UNIQUE BEING NON REPEAT SPEAKERS FOLKS WHO WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM IN THE PAST. NOW WHEN WE MOVE TO LISTENING SESSION FORMAT ANDALKED ABT IT WE TALKED A A LOT OF THE GOALS WAYS THAT WE CAN IMPROVE OUR PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD AND TWO OF THE MAIN THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT WERE TO MAKE IT TO HAVE ENGAGEMENT. WE WANTED TO MAKE IT MORE OF A CONVERSATION WE TALKED ABOUT HERE ON PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD WHERE ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RULES OF BUSINESS WE WERE NOT ABLE TO COMMENT OR TO GO BACK AND FORTH OR TO RESPOND TO FOLKS WHO WERE SPEAKING DURING COMMENT. WE WANTED TO MAKE IT MORE OF A CONVERSATION A BACK AND FORTH, AN OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS, GET CLARIFICATIONS, MAYBE ENGAGE IN A LITTLE BANTER BACK AND FORTH WITH FOLKS. AND THE SECOND GOAL WAS GREATER INVOLVEMENT NOT JUST TOTAL NUMBERS BUT MORE INDIVIDUALS OR MORE MORE NEW PEOPLE TO COME AND TALK TO US ABOUT MORE NEW TOPICS. I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT THE DESIRE TO MAKE IT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR T BE MORE COMFORTABLE TO COME FORWARD TO TALK ABOUT TOPICS WE TYPICALLY WOULDN'T TALK ABOUT. AND IF YOU RECALL OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST EIGHT MONTHS SINCE APRIL WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THINGS AS DIVERSE AS A HOLIDAY TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY, SOLAR PANELS, THE HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC AND THEIR FACILITY NEEDS THE BLOOMINGTON NOTABLES PROJECTS BLUE LINE LRT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT THE BLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AS WELL AS THINGS I WOULD HAVE EXPECTED WE WERE GOING TO HEAR FROM ABOUT INCLUDING OUR BUDGET AND OUR LEVY INCREASE AND A VARIETY OTHIN THAT WE WOULD EXPECT TO HEAR ABOUT SO BOTTOM LINE COUNCIL MY MY TAKE ON THIS IS THAT WE'RE OUR LISTENING SESSIONS TO DATE ARE MEETING THE GOALS THAT HAD LAID OUT AND FRANKLY I'M I'VE BEEN HAPPY WITH THE WAY OUR LISTENING SESSIONS HAVE GONE I THINK THEY'VE BEEN THEY'VE BEEN POSITIVE THEY'VE BEEN PRODUCTIVE AND I THINK THEY'VE BEEN A GOOD WAY OF DOING THINGS WITHOUT TAKING AWAY IN ANY WAY THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE COUNCIL TO ENGAGE WITH THEIR CITY COUNCIL IN A FACE TO FACE MANNER. THAT'S MY TAKE BE INTERESTING IN YOUR TAKE ON THAT AND THEN WE WILL OPEN IT UP TO A A PUBLIC COMMENT OPPORTUNITY HERE FOR FOLKS THE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS ANYONE ANY ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS OR, IDEAS OR OR FEEDBACK REGARDING OUR LISTENING SESSION? COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN. [00:09:45] **Councilmember Dwayne Lowman**: WELL NOBODY ELSE AS I ALWAYS HAVE COMMENTARY SO NO I THINK MAYOR I DO AGREE WE'VE SEEN A LOT MORE UNIQUE FOLKS IN THOSE FOLKS WHO WILL MAYBE NOT WANT TO COME BEFORE THIS PODIUM IN A VERY PUBLIC FORUM OR WANT TO HE TT CONRSATION. THE ONE THING THOUGH I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US DO AS KIND OF A STRETCH PIECE IS I DO THINK THAT THAT 545 TIME IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT. THOSE FOLKS WHO ARE WORKING FOLKS TRYING TO GET TO THAT. AND SO I WONDER IF THERE IS A WAY WHERE OUR OFFICE ONCE A QUARTER WHERE WE'RE ABLE TO MOVE THAT DOWN OR HAVE, YOU KNOW, JUST A MEETING TIME SLOT AND I KNOW I UNDERSTAND THIS IS TAKING AWAY ADDITIONAL TIME FROM WHERE WE COULD WE COULD DO IT A LITTLE LATER, YOU KNOW, MAYBE DO A 7:00 PERIOD OF TIME OR A 6:00 PERIOD OF TIME AND THERE WOULD BE NO OTHER MEETING THAT NIGHT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHERE WE COULD KIND OF TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT. I WONDER YOU KNOW, FROM A DIVERSITY STANDPOINT OF THE FOLKS WHO YOU KNOW, LIVE HERE IN , THE COMMUNITY IF WE'RE NOT SEEING ALL OF THAT. AND THEN WITH THAT BEING SAID KNOW MONDAY NIGHT MAY NOT BE A GREAT NIGHT. SO YOU KNOW, IS THERE ANOTHER NIGHT WE COULD DO THE TT IT OUT. WE DID DO THAT WITH THE NOT THAT I'M A PART OF WE SWITCHED FROM HAVING STUFF DURING THE DAY AND THEN WE HAD ONCE A QUARTER ONCE ONE AT NIGHT THAT WAS LATER IN MIDDLE OF THE WEEK WE DID SEE A VAST MAJORITY YOU KNOW, WE SAW JUST A VERY DIFFERENT OF PEOPLE THAT SHOWED UP. SO I WONDER IF THE COUNCIL MAYOR YOU'D BE INTERESTED IN TRYING THAT OUT. [00:11:15] **Mayor Tim Busse**: COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN I THINK THAT'S A GOOD SUGGESTION AND WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THAT IN THE PAST JUST OUR MEETINGS IN GENERAL MONDAY NIGHTS AT 630 MIGHT NOT BE THE BEST TIME FOR A LOT OF FOLKS AND I UNDERSTAND THAT WE DO HAVE TO CALL AN OPTIONAL GIVES PEOPLE WHICH GIVES PEOPLE AN OPTION BUT I DO LIKE THE IDEA OF PERHAPS I DON'T KNOW MONTHLY I DON'T KNOW BI MONTHLY MAYBE IT'S QUARTERLY HOWEVER IT WORKS BUT TO MAYBE CHANGE IT UP TO CHANGE THE TIME TO CHANGE FRANKLY THE LOCATION MAYBE IT'S AN OPPORTUNE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A SHOW THE SHOW ON THE ROAD MAYBE IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO TO DO SOMETHING ELSE TO TO TRY AND GIVE PEOPLE MORE OF AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO THE COUNCIL. WHAT I WOULD PERHAPS DO IS TURN TO MR. VERBRUGGE AND SAY MAYBE COULD ASK OUR COED TEAM TO PUT TOGETHER SOME OPTIONS HOW WE MIGHT THIS AND MIGHT DO THE BEST TO REACH THE DIVERSITY OF FOLKS THAT WE WERE HOPING TO WHEN WE WE MADE SOME OF THESE CHANGES. [00:12:10] **City Manager Jamie Verbrugge**: MR. MAYOR COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCIL MEMBER LOWMAN THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT IDEA. WE HAD THE TOWN HALLS FOR EACH OF OUR DISTRICT COUNCIL MEMBERS OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS SO AS WE LOOK TO NEXT YEAR AND START PLANNING OUT HOW COUNCIL WANTS TO DO ENGAGEMENT, I THINK IT'S A GOOD TIME. THINK ABOUT HOW YOU DO IT AS A GROUP NOT JUST AS INDIVIDUALS AS WELL. [00:12:35] **Mayor Tim Busse**: AH NO GOOD SUGGESTION COUNCIL MEMBER COULTER. [00:12:38] **Councilmember Nathan Coulter**: I THINK THE ONLY THING I WOULD ADD TO I YOU KNOW I LIKEWISE LARGELY AGREE WITH WITH THE REPORT THE LISTENING SESSIONS THE ONLY THING I WOULD ADD IS I THINK ONE OF THE MORE EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS OF IT HAS BEEN THAT HAS BEEN THAT IT TO SORT OF SHOW THE LIMITS OF WHAT A A LISTENING SESSION OR A PUBLIC COMMENT OPPORTUNITY WITH THE CITY COUNCIL CAN REALLY PROVIDE I THINK YOU KNOW HAVE SHOWN UP WITH SOMETIMES WITH THE DESIRE TO ASK REALLY SORT OF IN-DEPTH REALLY SORT OF YOU KNOW SIGNIFICANT ANSWER QUESTIONS AND FOUND THAT MAYBE THAT'S THE BEST NOT THE BEST WAY TO APPROACH IT. AND SO I THINK I THINK THAT'S just SOMETHING THAT I WASN'T EXPECTING TO LEARN FROM THIS WHOLE EXPERIENCE. BUT I THINK IT'S BEEN A REALLY WORTHWHILE PIECE TO IT IS LEARNING WHAT CAN WE TALK ABOUT IN YOU KNOW, FIVE, SIX, 7 MINUTES AND REALLY WHAT WE CAN'T AND SO YEAH I JUST I THINK THAT WAS A REALLY POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT GENERALLY NOW [00:13:30] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: YEAH I MEAN I DON'T HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE IN THE OLD WAY BUT I WAS A PROPONENT OF THIS LARGELY BECAUSE I GOT TO KNOW PEOPLE YOU KNOW SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S GOOD ABOUT IT I THINK IS THAT IN THE YOU KNOW, PERIOD OF TIME AFTER THE SESSION COMPLETED AND BEFORE WE COME DOWN HERE IF WE HAVE FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS OR IF WE NEED TO GIVE INFORMATION TO THE INDIVIDUAL AND GET SOME SPECIFIC DATA TO THEM, WE HAVE THAT WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY TO ALSO DO THAT WHICH WE DON'T HAVE IN COUNCIL BAUSE YOU KNOW IT WOULDN'T WE UNLESS THEY WANT TO STICK AROUND 11:00 WHICH MOST PEOPLE DON'T DO. SO I DO APPRECIATE PIECE TO IT MORE THAN ONCE WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO HAND OUT OUR CARDS OR YOU KNOW GET A FOLLOW UP KIND OF SCHEDULED OR WHATEVER AND I THINK THAT THAT'S POSITIVE AS WELL. I WOULD AGREE WITH HER AND HE DID YOU GOOD GOOD. [00:14:20] **Mayor Tim Busse**: VERY GOOD. WELL THANK YOU FOR THE FEEDBACK COUNCIL. I DO APPRECIATE IT THAT WE DID SET THIS UP AS A PUBLIC COMMENT OPPORTUNITY A PUBLIC COMMENT ABOUT OUR PLIC LISTENG SSION SO AN OPPORTUNITY TO LISTEN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR LISTENING SESSIONS. SO THIS IS A IT'S NOT OFFICIALLY A PUBLIC HEARING. IT'S JUST AN OPPORTUNITY FOR FOLKS TO COME FORWARD. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS WHO WISHES SPEAK TONIGHT ABOUT OUR OUR COUNCIL LISTENING SESSIONS PROVIDE FEEDBACK TO US ANYONE? VERY GOOD. I WILL CLOSE THE THE PUBLIC COMMENT OPPORTUNITY PARDON ME. OH SORRY WE HAVE ANYBODY ON THE PHONE? NO ONE ON THE PHONE. THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME OF THAT COUNCILMEMBER. NOBODY THE PHONE NOBODY IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS COMING FORWARD. SO I WILL CLOSE OUR PUBLIC COMMENT COUNCIL SHORT OF OF ANY BURNING DESIRE TO MAKE CHANGES I WOULD BE IT WOULD BE MY THOUGHT WE WOULD CONTINUE WITH THE LISTENING I'M LISTENING SESSIONS JUST AS A AS A WAY TO GET THE PUBLIC FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE SOUGHT. I DON'T THINK WE HAVE AN OFFICIAL MOTION OR AGENDA ON THIS. I THINK WE'LL JUST CONTINUE IT UNTIL WE WE HAVE A REASON PERHAPS TO HAVE THIS DISCUSSION AGAIN AND WE WILL HAVE THIS DISCUSSION AGAIN IN ABOUT MONTHS. EVERY EVERY TIME EVERY YEAR BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR WE WILL HAVE THIS DISCUSSION THE THE USE OF AND THE SUCCESS OF THE LISTENING SESSIONS WELL THANK YOU. MOVING ON TO ITEM THREE ON OUR AGENDA IS OUR CONSENT. AS I SAID WE'VE GOT A LENGTHY CONSENT CALENDAR THIS COUNCILMEMBER COULTER HAS OUR AGENDA. [00:15:55] **Councilmember Nathan Coulter**: THANK YOU MAYOR. I MAY HAVE HEARD OF HOLD ON ITEMS 3.1 3.9 3.17 3.20 ARE THERE ANY OER [00:16:05] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: YEAH I'D LIKE TO HOLD THREE 3.11 [00:16:10] **Councilmember Nathan Coulter**: 3.11 RIGHT SO SEEING NO OTHER HOLDS I WILL MOVE ITEMS I MAY HAVE TO WRITE THIS OUT TO MAKE SURE I GET IT RIGHT. 3.2 THROUGH 3.8. 3.10 3.12 THROUGH 3.16 AND 3.18 AND 3.19 SECOND [00:16:30] **Mayor Tim Busse**: MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER COULTER SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO TO ACCEPT TONIGHT'S CONSENT AGENDA AS STATED NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I OPPOSE THE MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO SO COUNCILMEMBER WE'LL HOLD OFF ON 3.1 THE DONATIONS WHY DON'T WE MOVE TO ITEM 3.9 IF WE COULD AND THAT WAS HELD BY A COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO [00:16:55] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: THANK YOU. I MOSTLY WANTED TO PULL IT OUT HERE F AWARENESS FOROLKS AND ALSO TO THANK THE THE FOLKS WHO ARE WORKING ON THIS. I DID HAVE A COUPLE OF OF KIND OF MAYBE A QUESTION FOR YOU, MR. CITY MANAGER REGARDING. THE THE RESOLUTION ACTION ITEMS WHAT WE MIGHT BE DOING WITH THAT AS IT RELATES TO 2023 WORK PLAN OR FOR THAT KIND OF THING. BUT IT'S A IT'S EXCITING DEVELOPMENT. WE KNOW HERE IN THE THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON THAT OUR BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE AND OUR TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE ARE TWO LARGEST CULPRITS WHEN IT COMES TO US MISSING OUR TGETSS IT RELATES TO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AND IN CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION. AND SO TO HAVE REAL ACTIONABLE ITEMS HERE ABOUT TRANSPORTATION IS IS EXCITING. THERE A LOT OF I BELIEVE IF I CAN BE SO BOLD AS TO SUGGEST IT A LOT OF MONEY OUT THERE IN THE IRA AND OTHER FEDERAL RELATED TO THIS ESPECIALLY AS IT RELATES TO TRANSPORTATION. WELL AND I'M HOPING THAT WE SEE THE STATE LEGISLATURE HERE IN 2023 REFLECT A REAL INVESTMENT CLEAN FUELS POLICIES AS WELL. YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE THING TO HAVE A GAS TAX BUT IF YOU'RE TRYING TO GET RID OF THINGS THAT TAKE GAS IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU CAN'T PLAY WITH YOU CAN'T PAY FOR ROADS WITH A GAS TASK IF LESS PEOPLE ARE USING GAS. AND SO THERE'S A THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO KIND OF RIGHT SIDE THIS STUFF AND MAKE IT REASONABLE. THIS SEEMS TO BE A GOOD STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. SO YES, MR. CITY MANAGER, IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC INFORMATION YOU CAN SHARE ABOUT WHAT WE MIGHT DO WITH THESE RECOMMENDATIONS, THAT WOULD BE GREAT. [00:18:25] **City Manager Jamie Verbrugge**: THANK YOU MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCIL MEMBER D'ALESANDRO WE DO HAVE AN ADDRESS ONLINE SO EMMA CAN CHIME IFROM THE VIRTUAL WORLD THERE SHE IS JUST TO PROVIDE YOU A QUICK OVERVIEW OF HOW WE'LL FOLLOW UP ON THIS ONCE IT'S APPROVED BY COUNCIL. [00:18:40] **Emma Struss (Sustainability Liaison)**: GOOD EVENING MR. CHAIR. COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCIL MEMBER D'ALESSANDRO SO RECOMMENDATIONS ARE SPECIFICALLY GOING TOWARDS MNDOT AND HOW THEY CAN CHANGE MAKE CHANGES WITHIN THE AGENCY AS FAR AS COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITIES THERE ARE TWO WORK GROUPS AND THE WORK GROUP FOCUS IN ON VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED REDUCTION AND EXPANDING OPTIONS HAS ONE OF THOSE STRATEGIES THAT'S FOCUSED ON INTER-AGENCY COLLABORATION AND SPECIFICALLY WORKING WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AROUND SETTING AND THEN ALSO DOING PUTTING TOGETHER TOOLKITS FOR ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATION SO SEE THOSE REALLY NICELY TYING INTO SOME OF THE WORK THAT'S PLANNED NEXT YEAR AROUND SETTING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION GOALS FOR THE TRANSPORTATI SECTO WORKING THE TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND STARTING TO BRING SOME OF THESE PIECES TOGETHER AND THEN BEING ABLE TO WORK WITH MNDOT AND IF THESE RECOMMENDED GO FORWARD AND THEY'RE IMPLEMENTED AS WRITTEN IT LOOKS LIKE OUT STAFF WILL BE REACHING OUT TO US OTHER CITIES TO WORK ON SOME JOINT GOALS FOR VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED REDUCTION AND THEN ALSO LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO DO OUTREACH WITH THE COMMUNITY THAT WE C HELP WITH. SO THOSE ARE A FEW OF THE MAIN THINGS THAT I SEE AS BEING ABLE TO WORK SPECIFICALLY ON WITH MNDOT. BUT THAT BEING SAID THERE'S ALSO ALL THE ELECTRIFICATION WORK AND MANY OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON AS THE CITY RIGHT NOW BUT WITH THESE RECOMMENDATIONS IS I WOULD SAY REALLY THOSE EDUCATION AND GOAL SETTING ONES ARE BUT WHAT'S ON THE DOCKET FOR NEXT YEAR BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE COMFORTABLE WITH IT [00:20:10] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: I AM YES I'M VERY THERE'S TWO OTHER THINGS IN THAT PARTICULAR LIST I WAS VERY INTERESTED IN THE FIRST ONE BEING THE INVESTMENTS IN CHARGING STATIONS. I KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF I KNOW WE'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS EARLIER THIS YEAR ABOUT WHAT WE MIGHT BE DOING IN SOME OF THE WORK THAT XCEL ENERGY IS DOING IN TERMS OF GIVING US SUBSIDIES ON THOSE THINGS. SO IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE THAT AND THEN OF COURSE THE VEHICLE THING THE IMPLICATION OF THAT OF COURSE BEING THAT I'M ASSUMING THAT THE LIST OF STATE FLEET VEHICLES FOR WHICH WE ARE WHICH WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF TO GET THIS CANCELED THINGS LIKE THAT WILL ADD A LOT MORE EVS TO THEM IF WE GET THIS WORKING THE WAY IT IS. SO WITH THAT I'D BE HAPPY TO MOVE 3.9 SO A MOVE TO APPROVE THE 2022 SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY COUNCIL RECOMMENDATIONS SECOND [00:20:55] **Mayor Tim Busse**: MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER TO ACCEPT ITEM 3.9 IN TONIGHT'S CONSENT AGENDA NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I OPPOSE MOTION CARRIES ZERO LET'S GO TO ITEM 3.11. I BELIEVE THAT WAS COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN [00:21:15] **Councilmember Dwayne Lowman**: YES MAYOR I THIS ONE THIS ONE IS THE THIRD AMENDMENT TO AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWIN CITIES BLOOMINGTON ASSOCIATION FOR NON SMOKERS OR AND S.R. AND I SEE THAT WE'VE GOT ROUGHLY ABOUT $10,000 MAYBE $11,000 PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE MULTI HOUSING COMPLEXES INTERESTED IN GOING SMOKE AND SUPPORTING EQUITABLE ENFORCEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE PROJECTS. AND I'M JUST CURIOUS ABOUT YOU KNOW, ARE THERE ANY MORE DETAILS THEY MADE ANY PROGRESS? WHAT ARE WHAT ARE WE GETTING FOR YOU KNOW FOR FOR THE MONEY THAT WE ARE IT APPEARS WE HAVE A THIRD AGREEMENT I DIDN'T REALIZE WAS A THIRD AGREEMENT WITH THEM. SO IF YOU COULD GIVE ME MORE INSIGHT OR DETAILS ABOUT THAT THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL SINCE I KNOW THIS IS AN ISSUE I'M PARTICULARLY PASSIONATE ABOUT. [00:22:00] **City Manager Jamie Verbrugge**: THANK YOU MR. MAYOR. COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCIL MEMBER LOWMAN I DON'T HAVE EITHER. DR. KELLY COMMUNITY SERVIS DIRECTORNLIN TONIGHT BUT AS YOU POINTED OUT COUNCIL MEMBER THIS IS THE THIRD AGREEMENT. THIS IS ONGOING WORK THAT OUR PUBLIC HEALTH FOLKS ARE DOING WITH THE MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES WHO ARE INTERESTED IN HAVING THIS CONVERSATION. TO YOUR POINT, THE COUNCIL HAD PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED WHETHER WANT IT. WE WANTED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH A DISCUSSION ALL PROPERTIES AND IN A MANDATE WE ARE NOT MOVING FORWARD WITH THAT BUT AS LONG AS WE HAVE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE INTERESTED IN DOING IT WE WANT TO CONTINUE THAT. ACTUALLY I JUST GOT A NOTE THIS ONE IS FOR PRIMARILY WORKING WITH EDINA SO IT'S IT'S WORK THAT OUR PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION DOES WITH OUR TWO PARTNERS. AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TRI-CITY HERE AND SO IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE EXTENDING THE TO EDINA AS WELL. WHAT I WILL DO IS FOLLOW UP WITH OUR STAFF, ASK THEM TO PROVIDE JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE UPDATE ON THE WORK PLAN AND CONTEXT THAT WE'VE HAD SO COUNCIL KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON ,WHAT MAY HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE AND APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU. [00:23:10] **Mayor Tim Busse**: COUNCIL MEMBER IF COMFORTABLE WITH THAT WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO MAKE A MOTION TO BE WILLING TO DO THAT? [00:23:15] **Councilmember Dwayne Lowman**: I WANT TO MAKE SURE THERE WASN'T ANYBODY ELSE THAT WANTED TO SAY ANYTHING BEFORE I JUMPED IN AND DID THAT. LET ME GRAB THE MOTION HERE. I'LL MOVE TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION TO APPROVE THE THIRD AMENDMENT TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON IN ASSOCIATION FOR NON SMOKERS MINNESOTA AS OUR SECOND [00:23:35] **Mayor Tim Busse**: MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN BY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER TO ACCEPT IT IN 3.11 ON TONIGHT'S CONSENT AGENDA NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I OPPOSE THE MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO BOUNCING AROUND A LITTLE BIT. LET'S GO CLEAN UP BY ITEM 3.20 OF THE APPROVAL OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES. [00:24:00] **Councilmember Nathan Coulter**: THANK YOU MAYOR. I HELD THIS ONE JUST TO WHILE I HELD IT ORIGINALLY FOR ONE REASON THAT IN THE LESSON OF THAT THERE'S ALWAYS TIME TO LEARN SOMETHING I LEARNED TODAY THE LAST MY THE DAY OF MY LAST CITY COUNCIL MEETING THAT YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY APPROVE MINUTES FOR MEETINGS THAT YOU WERE NOT PRESENT FOR. I WAS PREVIOUSLY TOLD OTHERWISE. SO YOU KNOW, IT'S I GUESS THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE YOU MIGHT SAY. BUT I DID ALSO WANT TO NOTE SINCE I HELD IT ANYWAY THAT THE MEETING HAVE BEEN CORRECTED TO NOTE THAT COUNCILMEMBER DALE SANDRA WAS PRESENT AT THE DECEMBER 5TH LISTENING SESSION. SO WITH THAT I WILL MOVE ITEM 3.20. [00:24:45] **Mayor Tim Busse**: MOST OF MY COUNCILMEMBER COULTER SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO TO ACCEPT THE APPROVAL OF THE COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES AND AT 3.20 ON TONIGHT'S CONSENT AGENDA NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO. IT'S GOING TO HAVE 3.17 IF WE COULD COUNCILMEMBER. [00:25:05] **Councilmember Nathan Coulter**: THANK YOU, MAYOR. THIS IS ME AGAIN. I GUESS IS KIND OF MY SHOW TONIGHT. I JUST WANTED TO HOLD THIS ONE AND I'M REALLY, REALLY GLAD THAT I WAS ABLE TO DO THIS. WE SORT OF HAVE A TRADITION HERE ON THE ON THE CITY COUNCIL OF GRANTING STAFF AN ADDITIONAL SOME ADDITIONAL TIME OFF AROUND THE HOLIDAYS AND. WE ARE CONTINUING THAT TRADITION THIS YEAR AND I'M I'M PROUD TO DO SO. I'M GRATEFUL TRULY GRATEFUL FOR OUR CITY STAFF AND I KNOW I WELL I'LL GO INTO IT MORE LATER BUT THIS IS THIS IS TIME OFF THAT IS WELL EARNED BY OUR STAFF AND I'M PRO THA ABLE TO DO THIS AND THAT WE'VE DONE THIS FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS TO TO CELEBRATE OUR STAFF AND THE WORK THAT THEY'VE DONE OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR. SO UNLESS ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANY OTHER COMMENTS I WILL MOVE ITEM 3.17 SECOND [00:25:55] **Mayor Tim Busse**: BUSH-MCCAIN SUMMER OF COULTER SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER TO ACCEPT THAT IN 3.17 THE COUNCIL GRANTED HOLIDAY TIME OFF FOR STAFF NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I OPPOSED THE MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO AND WILL DOUBLE ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE START ITEM 3.1 COUNCILMEMBER COULTER [00:26:20] **Councilmember Nathan Coulter**: THANK YOU MAYOR AND THIS THE LAST ONE I PROMISE JUST THIS IS OUR REGULAR APPROVAL OF DONATIONS THAT THE CITY HAS RECEIVED AND AS IS ALWAYS THE CASE ARE OUR COMMUNITY IS IS VERY GENEROUS IN SUPPORTING THE FOLKS WHO WORK HERE IN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON RECEIVE DONATIONS FROM DONATIONS TO A NUMBER OF DEPARTMENTS INCLUDING CREEKSIDE TO COED FOR THE VETERANS EVENT TO PUBLIC HEALTH TO POLICE DEPARTMENT AND MANY, MANY OTHERS ASSUMING WIL SEND OUT THANK YOU NOTES PER PER USUAL AND I JUST WANTED TO NOTE THAT AND THANK THE MANY FOLKS OUT THERE ARE SO GENEROUS. SO WITH THAT I WILL MOVE ITEM 3.1 SECOND [00:27:00] **Mayor Tim Busse**: MOST OF MY COUNCILMEMBER COULTER SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO TO ACCEPT ITEM 3.1 THE RESOLUTION TO ACCEPT DONATIONS NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING HEY I OPPOSED THE MOTION CARRIES IT'S FIVE ZERO WE WILL MEN ON O AGENDA TO ITEM FOR OUR HEARINGS RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES. I DID WANT TO GIVE A QUICK UPDATE FOR ANYBODY JUST TUNING IN OR WHO MIGHT HAVE JUST ARRIVED HERE IN THE CHAMBERS UNDER ORGANIZATION OF BUSINESS. WE VOTED EARLIER TO ADJUST OUR AGENDA THIS EVENING AND WE ARE MOVING AND THEN 5.2 AND ITEM 5.3 5.2 MEETING THE ARTISTRY GRANT REQUEST 5.3 BEAM THE BLOOMINGTON SALES TAX PROJECT PRIORITY ZATION DISCUSSION WE MOVE THOSE TO JANUARY 9TH SO IF YOU'VE TUNED IN A LITTLE BIT LATE ANDISSE THAT PART OF IT WE WON'T BE DISCUSSING ITEM TWO AND 5.2 AND 5.3 THIS EVENING BUT WE WILL GET BACK TO THEM JANUARY 9TH AND I'LL PROBABLY SAY THAT AT LEAST ONE MORE TIME AS PEOPLE TUNE IN THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE NIGHT AND MAKE SURE THEY'RE NOT WAITING AROUND FOR SOMETHING THAT ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN TONIGHT. SO ITEM FOR IS OUR HEARINGS, RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES AND ITEM 4.1 IS OUR FIRST PUBLIC HEARING OF THE EVENING. THIS REGARDING OUR PUBLIC OUR RENEWAL OF ON SALE AND OFF SALE 3.2 LICENSES. MR. DOUG JUNKER IS HERE WITH US. GOOD EVENING, MR. JUNKER. [00:28:25] **Doug Junker (Licensing)**: GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND WE'RE STILL TALKING THREE TO BEAR SO THAT'S ANOTHER YEAR OF THREE TO BEAR LICENSES EVERYTHING'S CHECKED OUT BIG LONG LIST YOU TY'RE JUST LOOKING FOR YOUR APPROVAL AND YOU GOT A BIG STACK TO SEND TO THE STATE TOMORROW [00:28:40] **Mayor Tim Busse**: COUNCIL ON THE QUESTIONS OF MR. JUNKER OTHER THAN THE ANNUAL QUESTION OF HOW LONG IS THREE TO BEER GOING TO LAST IN MINNESOTA? [00:28:48] **Doug Junker**: YEAH WE'VE GOT ONE COMING BACK. I HOPE TO HAVE IT I THINK ON THE NINTH THAT JUST GOT THEIR BEER THIS SUMMER AND THEY DON'T THEY C'T GET PRODUCT SO THEY'RE COMING BACK FOR THE WINE LICENSE BECAUSE AGAIN THAT MAGICALLY GIVES THEM STRONG BEER SO THE PRODUCT IS STARTING TO DIMINISH. SO I IMAGINE THERE'LL BE SOME ACTION GOT TO AMERICAN COUNCIL ON THE QUESTIONS COUNCIL MEMBER D'ALESANDRO [00:29:10] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: I JUST HAD ONE QUESTION AND THAT'S THAT I DO UNDERSTAND THAT THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON HAS ONE OF THESE LICENSES CORRECT FOR GOING GOLF COURSE IS THAT CORRECT? [00:29:20] **Doug Junker**: CORRECT. [00:29:22] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: IS THERE ANY REASON WE'RE STILL HOLDING TO THE 3.2 BEER LICENSE? I DIDN'T KNOW IF THERE WAS REQUIREMENT. [00:29:28] **City Manager Jamie Verbrugge**: YEAH. MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCIL MEMBER D'ALESANDRO IT ISO THATEAN OFFER A FULL SPECTRUM OF BEVERAGES BEVERAGE OPTIONS AT THE GOLF COURSE. FRANKLY I THINK THAT WE WOULD DO MUCH BETTER IF WE WERE NOT LIMITED TO HAVING THREE TO BEER WHICH WE ARE BUT A STATE STATUTE. SO THAT'S ANOTHER ISSUE THAT WE'LL TRY TO CONTINUE WORKING AT THE LEGISLATURE THAT WE CAN BE ALLOWED TO HAVE STRONG BEER so. [00:29:55] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: I'M SORRY JUST TO MAKE SURE I'M CLEAR YOU'RE SAYING THAT STATES STATUTE PREVENTS CITY FACILITIES FROM HAVING A LICENSE FOR BEER THAT'S HIGHER THAN 3.2% ABV BY VOLUME. OKAY GREAT. THANK YOU. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT. [00:30:10] **Mayor Tim Busse**: THANK YOU. EXPLAINS A LOT THAT THERE ARE NOT TO CONTINUE TO BELABOR THIS BUT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF LIQUOR STATUTORY ISSUES THAT COME UP FROM TIME TO TIME AND THEY JUST HAVE A HARD TIME MOVING THROUGH FOR VARIOUS REASONS. SO THAT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS WE'RE GOING TO KEEP AN EYE ON COUNSEL ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS IF NOT THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING AND I'M OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING THE RENEWAL OF ON SALE AND OFF SALE THREE TWO LIQUOR LICENSES IN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON ANYONE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS WISHES TO SPEAK TO ITEM 4.1 THIS EVENING NO ONE COMING FORWARD. MR. BARTLETT, DO WE HAVE ANYONE ON PHONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK TO ITEM 4.1? [00:30:50] **Priyanka Rai (Council Secretary/Staff)**: MR. MAYOR NO ONE ON THE PHONE. [00:30:52] **Mayor Tim Busse**: LAST CALL FOR ANYBODY IN TO SEE TO WHAT HE DID THERE LAST CALL FOR ANYBODY IN THE CHAMBERS SEEING. NO ONE COMING FORWARD. COUNSEL I WOULD LOOK FOR A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING SO MOVED WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER LOWMAN SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR ITEM 4.1. NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY SAYING I OPPOSE MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO COUNCIL UNLESS THERE ARE QUESTIONS I WILL LOOK FOR ACTION ON ITEM 4.1 WHERE I'M HAPPY TO HELP MEMBER MAKE THAT MOTION TO APPROVE APPROVAL OF THE 2023 ON SALE AND OFF SALE 3.2% MALT LIQUOR LICENSE RENEWAL SECOND [00:31:35] **Mayor Tim Busse**: MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER COULTER FOR THE OF THE 2023 ON SALE AND OFF SALE THREE 2% MALT LIQUOR LICENSE RENEWALS GO FOR THE COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I OPPOSE THE MOTION CARRIES A50 AND 4.2 IS OUR SECOND PUBLIC HEARING OF THE EVENING THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING THE VACATION OF PUBLIC DRAINAGE UTILITY SIDEWALK BIKEWAY STREET EASEMENTS AT LOT ONE BLOOMINGTON'S CENTRAL STATION AND OUTLETS K U AND V IN BLOOMINGTON CENTRAL STATION SECOND EDITION MR. JOHNSON GOOD EVENING. WELCOME. [00:32:15] **Nick Johnson (Planning Manager)**: GOOD EVENING. THIS ITEM IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO AN ITEM THAT YOU APPROVED MEETING WHICH WAS THE PRELIMINARY AND FINAL PLAT AT THE SAME LOCATION AND THESE ARE JUST PART OF THAT PROCESS OF FINALIZING THAT. SO THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH THE PLAT TWO APPROVED AND WE ARE RECOMMENDING APPROVAL SO QUESTIONS [00:32:35] **Mayor Tim Busse**: NO QUESTIONS. VERY GOOD. I WILL OPEN OUR PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM 4.2. AS I STATED THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING THE VACATION OF PUBLIC DRAINAGE UTILITY, SIDEWALK BIKEWAY AND STREET USE OF ADULT LOT ONE BLOOMINGTON CENTRAL STATION AND LOTS K YOU AND THE CENTRAL STATION SECOND EDITION ANYONE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS WISHING TO SPEAK TO ITEM 4.2 THIS EVENING? ANYONE? MR. BARTLETT IS THERE ANYONE ON THE PHONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK DOWN IN 4.2. [00:33:05] **Priyanka Rai (Council Secretary/Staff)**: MR. MAYOR, NO ONE ON THE PHONE [00:33:08] **Mayor Tim Busse**: LAST CHANCE FOR ANYONE IN THE CHAMBERS, NO ONE COMING FORWARD AND NO ONE ON THE PHONE COUNCIL. I WOULD LOOK FOR A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM 4.2 SO A MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM 4.2 NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I OPPOSED THE MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO COUNCIL UNLESS THERE ARE QUESTIONS I WILL LOOK FOR A MOTION AND ACTION ITEM 4.2 [00:33:38] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: HAPPY TO MAKE THE MOTION MR. MAYOR. I'M VERY PROUD OF MYSELF THAT I CONNECTED THOSE TWO WITHOUT HAVING TO BE TOLD TONIGHT. TELL US OKAY I'M MOVING THAT WE ADOPT THE ORDINANCE APPROVING THE VACATION OF A PUBLIC DRAINAGE UTILITY, SIDEWALK BIKEWAY AND STREET EASEMENTS WITHIN OUTLET ONE OR IS THAT I OUTLINE I BLOOMINGTON'S CENTRAL STATION AND OUTLAWS Q AND V BLOOMINGTON CENTRAL STATION SECOND EDITION [00:34:05] **Mayor Tim Busse**: MOST OF MY COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO A SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER TO APPROVE THE VACATION OF PUBLIC TRANSIT UTILITY SIDEWALK AND SO ON AS STATED ITEM 4.2 NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I OPPOSE THE MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO AND OUR FINAL PUBLIC HEARING OF THE EVENING IS ITEM 3 AND THIS BEI OUR ANNUAL DISCUSSION OF THE MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES ORDINANCES AND WE HAVE MALLORY WYCILL THANK YOU. I WASN'T SURE AND I ASKED MR. VERBRUGGE AND HE GAVE ME THE HINT SO I APPRECIATE THAT WHICH I BELIEVE MALLORY IS THIS YOUR FIRST TIME IN FRONT OF THE COUNCIL WITH AS A PRESENTATION I'M TRYING TO RECALL I BELIEVE THIS IS WELL WELCOME WELCOME ABOARD THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR WEARING THE SWEATER OF THE SEASON APPRECIATE THAT SINCERE GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU PLEASE SHARE MY PRESENTATION HERE AND IF I COULD ASK IF YOU COULD MOVE THE MICROPHONE UP SO YOU CAN SPEAK RIGHT IN . OH YES. THANK YOU. MUCH BETTER. THANK YOU. PERFECT POSTAGE DETAILS. [00:35:10] **Mallory Wycill (Planning Staff)**: OKEY DOKE. SO TIS THE SEASON FOR OUR MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES FOR CASE IPL 2020 2222 SO THERE'S A LOT OF TWOS IN THERE. OKAY SO I BELIEVE YOU ALL ARE FAMILIAR BUT IF THERE'S ANYONE AT HOME OUR MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES ORDINANCES THAT WE AS A STAFF HAVE COLLECTIVELY PREPARED CONSIDERED MULTIPLE SMALL AMENDMENTS THAT RELATE TO LAND USE ZONING DEVELOPMENT THESE TYPICALLY DO NOT ON THEIR OWN MERIT THE OVERHEAD THAT IS INVOLVED WITH WRITING AND THEN DOING THE THE PUBLIC HEARINGS AND PUBLISHG A HEARIN OF AN INDIVIDUAL ORDINANCE THERE ARE 19 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES THIS YEAR BUT GETTING US HERE WE STARTED IN OCTOBER 2022 WHERE WE WENT TO A PLANNING COMMISSION WITH A STUDY ITEM AND THEN IN NOVEMBER WE DID A LEGAL REVIEW AND THEN WENT BACK TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER WE DID A RACIAL EQUITY IMPACT ANALYSIS AND WE'LL TALK LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THOSE. AND THEN DECEMBER 2022 HERE WE ARE WITH OUR PUBLIC HEARING. SO THERE ARE 19 ORDINANCES THIS YEAR, NINE OF WHICH ARE SEEN AS HOUSEKEEPING AND THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED WITH THE RED BOX AND THEN THERE ARE TEN THAT GO SLIGHTLY BEYOND HOUSEKEEPING AND CLEANUP ITEMS FOR THE PURPOSES OF TONIGHT'S MEETING WE'LL BE FOCUSING ON THE TEN ITEMS THAT ARE GO BEYOND CLEAN UP. THOSE ARE ITEMS A THROUGH J AND WE'LL BE GOING THROUGH THOSE INDIVIDUALLY BUT WE CAN GO TOUGH ITEMS K THROUGH S UPON ALL RIGHT [00:36:50] **Liz Day (Planning Staff)**: I AM LIZ DAY AND I THINK I PRESENTED IN FRONT OF YOU GUYS ARE YOU ALL ONCE BEFORE THIS YEAR AND I'M HERE TONIGHT TO HELP OUT MALLORY IN KIND OF A SUPPORTIVE IN THIS MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES TO START OUT A HAS TO DO WITH CATERING BUSINESSES CURRENTLY OUR CITY CODE IDENTIFIES CATERING BUSINESSES AS PERMITTED USES IN THE I1 I2 AND THREE ZONING DISTRICTS BUT NOT IN B2 ZONING DISTRICT CATERING BUSINESSES AREIMILAR RESTAURANTS OR FOOD MANUFACTURING USES WHICH ARE PERMITTED USES IN THE B2. SO THIS AMENDMENT WOULD MERELY ADD CATERING BUSINESS MAJOR AS A PERMITTED USE IN THE B2 ZONING DISTRICT ITEM B EXTERIOR STORAGE THE CITY HAS EXTERIOR STORAGE STANDARDS FOR RESIDENTIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ZONING DISTRICTS BUT THOSE STANDARDS ARE RATHER LIMITED IN OUR COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS ZONING DISTRIC. THE CIT HAS RECENTLY SEEN ISSUES WITH BUSINESSES STORING OUTDOOR MERCHANDISE SO THIS WOULD CREATE STANDARDS TO HELP OUR ENFORCEMENT DIVISION AND ALLEVIATING SOME OF THOSE ISSUES. SO THIS WOULD TAKE SIMILAR STANDARDS TO OUR RESIDENTIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ZONING DISTRICTS AND THEM TO OUR COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS. C IS OUR TENT CODE SO PREVIOUS R TEN CODE DOES NOT REFERENCE THE PARTS OF A TENT WHICH HAS LED TO SOME ISSUES IN COMMUNICATING COMPLIANCE ISSUES WITH RESIDENTS. AND SO OUR PROPOSED AMENDMENT UPDATES THE DEFINITION OF TENT TO INCLUDE THE COMPOSITE PARTS WHICH INCLUDE FRAME COVER CANVAS STEAKS, BEAMS, ROPES AND CABLES OUR SENIOR PARKING STANDARD FOR PARTY ROOM REQUIREMENTS WITH OUR MULTIFAMILY PARKING UPDATES THE CITY DID REMOVE PARTY FROM THE CALCULATION FOR MULTIFAMILY. HOWEVER THE PARTY ROOM REQUIREMENT FOR SENIOR AND ACCESSIBLE HOUSING WAS UPDATED AT THAT TIME SO WE ARE SUGGESTING THAT WE REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT FOR SENIOR TO MATCH WORK VEHICLE PARKING STORAGE. THIS IS A CURRENT PLANNING PRACTICE WHERE WE COUNT WORK VEHICLE NEEDS ABOVE AND BEYOND THE OFF STREET PARKING REQUIRENTSOR FOR COMMERCIAL USES THAT HAS NEVER BEEN REFLECTED IN CITY CODE AND RELATEDLY THE OFF STREET PARKING ORDINANCE DOES NOT HAVE A PROVISION SPECIFYING THAT CART STORAGE AND SNOW STORAGE AREAS WITHIN PARKING LOTS DO NOT COUNT TOWARDS ANYWAY THE REQUIREMENT AS PART OF THE PARKING STANDARD WE WOULD JUST LIKE TO INCLUDE THE CONSIDERATION ONSITE WORK VEHICLES AS PART OF THAT REQUIREMENT AND ASK THAT PLANS SHOW WHERE VEHICLES ARE. THE CITY CODE DOES NOT HAVE AN EXEMPTION FOR FENCE HEIGHT AND OPACITY IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS FOR CONSTRUCTION PURPOSES FOR TEMPORARY FENCES . THIS ISSUE CAN ARISE WHEN PARK FACILITIES OR FIRE STATIONS BUILT AND A TEMPORARY FENCE IS NEEDED SO WOULD ALLOW FOR TEMPORARY FUNDS FOR CONSTRUCTION PURPOSES IN RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICTS. HOME BUSINESS PROHIBITION OF ONSITE VEHICLE SALES THAT ARE NOT REGISTERED TO THE PROPERTY OWNER THIS IS NOT EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED IN OUR HOME BUSINESS POLICIES BUT AND THIS HAS LED TO SOME ENFORCEMENT ISSUES AND PROPOSED AMENDMENT WOULD SPECIFY THAT THE ONSITE SALES OF VEHICLES TO THE OF A PROPERTY IF PROPERTY OWNER DOES NOT OWN THE VEHICLE AS PART OF A PROHIBITED HOME BUSINESS FOR BODY ART THE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND FREEWAY COMMERCIAL ZONING DISTRICTS THE USE FOR BODY ART WAS NOT A RELIC OR WAS INEQUITABLE INEQUITABLE PROHIBITED COMPARED TO OTHER RETAIL SALES AND SERVICES. AND SO OUR PROPOSED AMENDMENT LOOKS TO UPDATE THE AREAS WHERE BODY ART PIERCING PARLORS TATTOOS, PERMANENT MAKEUP THAT IT CAN EXIST IN COMMERCIAL ZONING DISTRICTS TABLES TO OTHER RETAIL SALES AND SERVICES IM I IS OUR ACCESSORY UNIT METERING REQUIREMENTS ADAS ARE PROHIBITED FROM HAVING SEPARATE METERING CONTRACTS OR CONTRADICTS THE GUIDANCE FROM OUR UTILITIES AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AND SO OUR PROPOSED CHANGES THE PROVISION TO REQUIRE SEPARATE UTILITY AND METERING FOR DETACHED ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS EXCEPT WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE UTILITY DIVISION AND CITY ENGINEER AND THEN FINALLY THERE IS NO PLANNING EXCEPTION FOR LARGER GOVERNMENT OWNED PARK FACILITIES WHEN THE BUILDING EXCEEDS A THOUSAND SQUARE FEET. SO FOR ITEM G WE ARE PROPOSING AND ADDING A PLANNING EXCEPTION FOR BUILDING PERMIT ISSUANCE FOR GOVERNMENT PARK FACILITIES FOR WHEN THOSE PROJECTS 1000 SQUARE FEET IN FLOOR AREA AND THIS BRINGS US TO YOU WOULD LIKE TO COVER ANY OF THE OTHER CLEANUP ITEMS [00:41:20] **Mayor Tim Busse**: WHY DON'T WE JUST PAUSE HERE IF WE COULD AND WE'LL MOVE INTO THE RACIAL EQUITY IMPACT ANALYSIS IN JUST A MOMENT HERE. TWO THINGS HERE, COUNSEL. FIRST OF ALL, THE FIRST PART ITEMS K THROUGH S THAT WAS THE TEN ITEMS THAT WERE DEEMED TO BE NON ARE NOT THAT BIG A DEAL. IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS ANYTHING IN THOSE WE DON'T NEED TO MAKE A YES OR NO RIGHT NOW BUT UNLESS SOMEBODY IS COMING OUT WITH SOMETHING THEY'RE IF THERE'S NOTHING THEIR ITEMS A THROUGH J THAT WE JUST WENT THROUGH HERE IF ANYBODY HAS SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ON ANY THE ITEMS FOR A THROUGH A THROUGH J AND LET'S REMEMBER LOWMAN AND COUNCILMEMBER CARTER AND THEN COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN I THINK YOU [00:42:05] **Councilmember Dwayne Lowman**: SO I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE ITEM HE JUST JUST SO I CAN BE SURE I UNDERSTAND IT'S WORK VEHICLES PARKING STORAGE AND SO SO IS THIS JUST APPLYING TO COMMERCIAL ZONING OR IS THIS RESIDENTIAL ZONING? I MEAN? WHERE IS THIS WHERE'S THE SUPPLY? BECAUSE IN MY MIND I'M THINKING OKAY, YOU KNOW SOMEBODY IS WORKING ON A HOUSE COMMERCIAL VEHICLE COMES BY IS THAT THE WRONG WAY TO THINK ABOUT THIS OR IS THIS JUST AROUND COMMERCIAL VEHICLES? I JUST BECAUSE THIS IS CUT OUT OF CONTEXT YES. PART OF MY ISSUE HERE AND DON'T GET A CHANCE TO LOOK YEAH THIS IS FOR COMMERCIAL USES SO BASICALLY WHAT WE'RE SAYING IS IF YOU ARE DOING WORK AND YOU'VE GOT A COMMERCIAL THAT'S THEY' INGART OF THE CONSTRUCTION IT COUNT AGAINST YOU OR DOES I WASN'T CLEAR ON MY UNDERSTANDING OF THIS ORDINANCE IS IF YOU HAVE BUSINESS THAT HAS A FLEET OF VEHICLES SAY DELIVERY VEHICLES, A PIZZA RESTAURANT THAT IF YOU ARE DEVELOPING A SITE AND YOU WISH TO A COMP LIKE WE WOULD WANT TO ACCOMMODATE THE PARKING THOSE VEHICLES APART FROM THE PARKING REQUIREMENT WEOULD EXPECT AND HAVE THOSE SHOWN ON THE PLAN. OKAY. SO IT'S TEMPORARY IT'S FOR A SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AND STAFF HAS OVERSIGHT IN TERMS OF WHAT MAKES SENSE OR WHAT WOULD BE WHAT WOULD BE COUNTED IF WE DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT STAFF LIKE CITY STAFF [00:43:20] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: I CAN I MAY I COULD YOU CLARIFY THE QUESTION I'M? SORRY COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO MY INTERPRETATION IS THAT IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO PERMANENTLY STORE COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ON THEIR PROPERTY THEY, TELL US HOW MANY SPACES THEY HAVE AND THOSE SPACES DON'T GO AGAINST THEIR TOTAL. THAT'S WHAT I UNDERSTOOD THIS TO BE. DOES AM I CORRECT IN THAT UNDERSTANDING GO AGAINST I GUESS I'M A LITTLE CAUGHT UP AND GO AGAINST SO IN A IN A WHEN WE BUILD IT ON THE PROPERTY RIGHT THERE'S A OF A MINIMUM NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES THAT THAT BUILDING HAS TO ACCOMMODATE. LET'S SAY LET'S SAY IT'S 100 AND AND I SAY WELL I'M GOING TO STORE TEN DELIVERY VEHICLES ON THEREND SO IEED 100 BUT I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO HAVE 110 BECAUSE THOSE TEN ARE GOING TO BE USED FOR MY VEHICLES. THEN I STILL MEET MY 100 THRESHOLD. THAT'S THE WAY I INTERPRETED IT. SORRY IF THAT DIDN'T HELP YOU SIR. NO I THINK THAT IS IS THAT YES THAT IS THAT IT'S CORRECT. [00:44:10] **Mayor Tim Busse**: I'M SAYING EVERYBODY SEEING EVERYBODY NODDING THEIR HEAD SO I THINK IT'S OKAY NOW I UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS AND I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT WHEN WE GET LATER A VERY GOOD COUNCILMEMBER CARTER HERE. [00:44:20] **Councilmember Jenna Carter**: I WL HOLD MY QUESTION UNTIL AFTER THE NEXT SECTION OF THE PRESENTATION. [00:44:25] **Mayor Tim Busse**: VERY GOOD. VERY GOOD. ALL RIGHT SO PLEASE GO AHEAD WITH THE RACIAL EQUITY ANALYST [00:44:30] **Mallory Wycill**: OKEY DOKE. SO AS YOU MAY KNOW THE RACIAL IMPACT ANALYSIS IS A PROCESS THAT HELPS THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON TO CONSIDER RACIAL EQUITY OUTCOMES WHEN SHAPING POLICIES SYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENTS. IT IS A DEDICATED PROCESS TO WEAVE RACIAL EQUITY INTO OUR EVERYDAY DECISION. THIS WAS THE FIRST YEAR THAT WE'VE DONE AND OUR EIA AS PART OF OUR MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES ORDINANCE AND AT FIRST WE AS STAFF WERE KIND OF CHALLENGED BY THE PARADIGM OF WE HAVE MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES WHOLE INTENT IS TO COLLECTIVELY CONSIDER DRAFT AT MANY SMALL SEEMINGLY SMING AN AIR QUOTES ISSUES AN ORDINANCE IS WITH THE IDEA OF THE RACIAL EQUITY IMPACT ANALYSIS WHICH IS A PROCESS THAT REQUIRES US TO THINK LONG TERM IF ANY OF THESE DECISIONS WOULD HAVE ANY SIGNIFICANT RACIAL IMPACT. AND SO WE WORKED WITH MISS FAITH JACKSON AND THE OFFICE OF RACIAL EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND MS.. JACKSON WAS ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR US IN ORDER TO DETERMINE UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS WE SHOULD BE CONSIDERING RACIAL EQUITY AS PART OF THE MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES AND AND SO THE FOCUSED ON ISSUES THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO LOCATIONS AND CENSUS BLOCK GROUPS THAT HAVE AN ELEVATED PERCENTAGES OF PEOPLE IN COMMUNITIES OF THAT'S SHOWN ON THE MAP AND THE PRESENTATION AND YOU WILL SEE THOSE AREAS HIGHLIGHTED INLUE THE DARKER BLUE AND THEN EVEN THE AQUAMARINE COLOR THOSE ARE CENSUS TRACTS SHOWN AND IN THIS MAP THE OTHER IDELE WHERE POLICIES INFLUENCE AN INDIVIDUAL'S MOBILITY PROSPECTS ESPECIALLY IN TANGIBLE WAYS LIKE ACCESS TO SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES. AND THROUGH THIS PROCESS WE FOUND THAT BY REMOVING BARRIERS OUR CATERING AND THE B2 AND BODY ART ORDINANCES HAD POTENTIAL TO ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY AND SUPPORT BIPOC OWNED AND OPERATED BUSINESSES. WE ALSO DID AN ANALYSIS OF CLUSTERS SINGLE FAMILY LOTS THAT HAVE ELEVATED PERCENTAGES OF SURFACE AND THAT IS THE MAP THAT'S SHOWN UNDERNEATH AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SLIDE. THESE FINDINGS REVEALED THAT THERE ARE INDEED EQUITY IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICIES WHICH DICTATE WHEN YOU CAN ADD ACCESSORY STRUCTURES TO YOUR PROPERTY AND THIS IS TANGENTIALLY RELATED TO OUR CODE AND BUT IT ALSO HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR OTHER ORDINCES SPECIFICALLY SINGLE AND TWO FAMILY STANDARDS WHICH WILL BE COMING IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. SO THEEPORTS ARE IN THE AND I'M CERTAINLY HAPPY TO DISCUSS MORE IF YOU WOULD LIKE [00:47:15] **Mayor Tim Busse**: COUNCIL QUESTIONS COUNCILMEMBER CARTER [00:47:18] **Councilmember Jenna Carter**: THANK YOU MAYOR SO I APPRECIATE THAT YOU DID THE RACIAL EQUITY IMPACT ANALYSIS . YOU WERE KIND OF DOING THESE MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCE CHANGES IN WHAT I REALLY APPRECIATE ABOUT THE CATERING AND THE BODY ART AS EXAMPLES IS THAT WHEN WE CHANGE OR WHEN WE DESIGN POLICIES TO REMOVE THE BARRIERS OF THOSE WHO HAVE THE GREATEST BARRIERS IT CAN IT CAN PROVIDE BENEFIT TO EVERYONE RIGHT? SO NOW ANYBODY WITH A CATERING BUSINESS OR ANYBODY WITH A BODY BUSINESS CAN GO IN B2 TO DISTRICT BUT I JUST THINK IT'S A GREAT EXAMPLE RIGHT OF PROVIDING OUR APPROACHING THESE ISSUES OR THESE CONVERSATIONS THROUGH A RACIAL EQUITY LENS DOESN'T MEAN THAT OTHERS ARE GOING TO HAVE LESS . THAT'S NOT WHAT IT MEANS. IT JUST MEANS THAT WE'RE REALLY FOCUSED ON REMOVING BARRIERS FOR THOSE COMMUNITIES WHO HAVE HAD THE GREATEST AND AND MOST PEOPLE WILL BENEFIT GREATLY IN GENERAL. JUST REALLY EXCITING TO SEE THAT I DO HAVE A QUESTION AROUND ITEM I SO THE ADUS SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS IT'S ALREADY PROHIBITED AND WE WERE ACTUALLY MODIFYING THE LANGUAGE THE ACCEPT BY SPECIAL OF THE OF THE UTILITY DIVISION AND THE CITY ENGINEER SO IS THAT BECAUSE IT'S GOING FROM DWELLING UNIT IS PROHIBITED TO REQUIRED EXCEPT BY SPECIAL PERMISSION OF THE UTILITY DIVISION AND CITY ENGINEER SO ARE WE ACTUALLY ADDING A LITTLE BIT MORE FLEXIBILITY THIS LANGUAGE CHANGE MARIPOSA [00:48:45] **Mallory Wycill**: COUNCILMEMBER CARTER YES WE ARE ADDING MORE FLEXIBILITY AND THE WAY THAT WHEN THIS POLICY WAS WRITTEN DETACHED ADUS WERE NOT AN OPTION AND SO THIS ALLOWS US TO ENTER A BETTER FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPORTING ADUS OC [00:49:05] **Councilmember Jenna Carter**: AND SO THEN IN THE EQUITY ANALYSIS FOR THIS ONE I THINK IT MENTIONED THAT THERE COULD BE ADDITIONAL COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH REQUIRING TWO SEPARATE HOOKUPS AND MAYBE I'M I WAS A LITTLE CONFUSED BY THE ANALYSIS IT MADE IT SOUND LIKE THIS WAS LIKE I, I WASN'T SURE IF THIS WAS A GOOD CHANGE OR IF IT COULD PERPETUATE INEQUITIES BUT THE WAY I READ IT RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW IT SEEMS LIKE A GOOD CHANGE BECAUSE IT'S PROVIDING MORE FLEXIBILITY. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? [00:49:35] **Mallory Wycill**: AH. YEAH. BUSY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER. YES, THAT THAT DOES THAT DOES MAKE PERFECT SENSE. SO I THINK IN LOOKING AT THIS POLICY THIS THIS POLICY IS VERY IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S COMPLETELY UNRELATED AND IT'S JUST OF THOSE THINGS WITH ANY EQUITY ISSUE IS ONCE YOU BEGIN LOOKING VERY INTENSELY AT ONE THREAD YOU NOTICE THAT THEY'RE ALL INTERRELATED AND SO THIS IS ONE REQUIREMENT THAT DOES PROVIDE DOES SOME FLEXIBILITY AND WE ARE ALSO WORKING WITH UTILITIES ON WHAT OTHER POLICIES MIGHT WE BE ABLE TO WORK ON IN ORDER TO HELP SUPPORT ADUS AND OTHER TYPES AND A VARIETY OF HOUSING STYLES. [00:50:15] **Councilmember Jenna Carter**: OKAY. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE THAT, COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO. [00:50:20] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: THANK YOU THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE TONIGHT. YEAH. JUST A QUICK FOLLOW UP QUESTION ON THAT SAME ITEM I AM THEN I HAVE ONE MORHE TH GIST SO I UNDERSTAND IS THIS SEPARATE UTILITY METERING THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE SEPARATE ELECTRICAL FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENTS. IT JUST MEANS THAT YOU HAVE TO ABLE TO TELL WHICH OF THE DWELLINGS IS USING HOW MUCH ELECTRICITY. CORRECT. SO IT COULD BE A SPLIT METER, IT COULD BE SOME KIND OF THERE'S LOTS OF CHOICES THERE ON THIS ONE. I WOULD LIKE TO DEFER TO PLANNING MANAGER NICK JOHNSON . I DON'T UNDERSTAND METERING AS MUCH AS I PERHAPS SHOULD. [00:51:00] **Julie Long (Public Works Director)**: THAT'S OKAY. OH I DON'T MIND. WE'RE GOING WE'RE DEBATING ON WHO'S GOING TO TAKE THIS AND I'M JULIE LONG I'M THE CITY ENGINEER IT IS FOR OUR WATER UTILITIES SO. YES IT WOULD BE FOR EACH DWELLING UNIT WOULD HAVE THEIR OWN WATER METER SO. WE WOULD KNOW WHICH UNIT WAS USING THE WATER BUT WE WOULDN'T. SO COUNCILMEMBER CARTER'S POINT EARLIER WE USED TO REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE INDIVIDUAL SERVICES FROM THE MAIN AND NOW WE'RE SAYING WELL A LITTLE FLEXIBILITY ALL ON HOW THE SITES LAY OUT. SO NOT EVERY SITE IS GOING TO BE APPLICABLE TO BUT IT GIVES US A LITTLE MORE FLEXIBILITY THAT THAT WAS MY QUESTION OR SO THAT WAS JUST THE IT WAS REALLY ABOUT MAKING YOU CAN INDEPENDENTLY MONITOR THE METERING BUT IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY REQUIRE YOU HAVE FULL SETS OPPOSING SEPARATED OKAY GREAT IN ALL CASES MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER DELAYS ON OR PAST THE METER YOU WOULD NEED FOUR SETS OF INDEPENDENT PLUMBING FORHE MER. SO WE WANT TO KNOW THAT YOUR FLUSHING YOUR TOILET IN ADU VERSUS A DIFFERENT PERSON FLUSHING THE TOILET THE MAIN DWELLING UNIT. UNDERSTOOD. THANK YOU. OKAY SO THEN ON ITEM C THIS IS MAYBE MORE OF LEADING INTO A KIND OF A LONGER TERM QUESTION MAYBE BUT I NOTICED IN I NOTICED THAT THERE PART OF THE TANK CODE THERE WAS AN IMPLICATION IN THE ANALYSIS HERE THAT SMALLER UNITS ARE IN IMPACTED DISPROPORTIONATELY BECAUSE OF THE PERCENTAGE OF SURFACE THAT WE REQUIRE OR SAID ANOTHER WAY THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF IMPERVIOUS SURFACE THAT WE REQUIRE. HOW SO? WELL I UNDERSTAND THAT I WANT TO I WANT TO I WONDER IF WE'VE LOOKED AT THAT IN IN WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS SURE BY ITSELF THAT PROBABLY MAKES SENSE FROM AN EQUITY ISSUE PERSPECTIVE AND I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THAT. BUT WHEN WE ALSO TALK ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT, THE OPPOSITE WOULD BE TRUE. AND SO I'M CURIOUS AS TO WHETHER OR NOTE'RE WE'RE LOOKING TO TAKE THESE EQUITY AND ANALYZED THESE AND KIND OF MESHING THEM SOME OF THE SUSTAINABILITY REQUIREMENTS AND OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT. WE WANT TO YOU KNOW IN GENDER INTO THE CONSTRUCT HERE AS WELL REALIZING MIGHT NOT BE USEFUL IN THIS CASE BECAUSE THIS IS JUST A DEFINITION OF A TENT THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE BUT I NOTED IN THE RACIAL EQUITY ANALYSIS THAT THIS WAS THIS WAS PART OF IT. AND SO I'M CURIOUS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT ANY CONVERSATION WAS HAD ABOUT THE THE HOW THAT KIND OF SORT OF BUMPS UP AGAINST, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE MIGHT WANT FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE AS IT RELATES TO IMPERVIOUS SURFACES ESPECIALLY ON THE EAST SIDE WHERE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TREES ALREADY, YOU KNOW . [00:53:30] **Nick Johnson (Planning Manager)**: SURE MAYOR OBVIOUSLY. COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO AS YOU POINT OUT THERE ARE OFTEN COMPETING OBJECTIVES AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED IS SHOULD WE HAVE AN IMPACT ASSESSMENT ANALYSIS ON OTHER ISSUES LIKE SUSTAINABILITY OR HEALTH IN OUR POLICIES THAT ARE SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO THE RACIAL AND EQUITY IMPACT ANALYSIS AND THAT COULD BE SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE BUT WE DON'T HAVE THAT YET TODAY BECAUSE THIS ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS [00:54:00] **Mayor Tim Busse**: NO ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. SO HERE IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS. THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING. SO WHAT I'M GOING DO IS BREAK THESE DOWN INTO TWO PIECES THAT WE HAVE BROKEN DOWN HERE . SO FIRST OFF, I'M GOING TO OPEN THE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEMS K THROUGH S OPENING THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM K THROUGH S AS PART OF OUR ANNUAL MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES ORDINANCES. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS WHO WISHES TO SPEAK TO ANY OF THE ORDINANCE CHANGES IN ITEMS K THROUGH S NO ONE COMING FORWARD? MR. BARTLETT IS THERE ANYONE ON THE PHONE? [00:54:35] **Priyanka Rai (Council Secretary/Staff)**: MAYOR NO ONE ON THE PHONE FOR THIS ITEM [00:54:38] **Mayor Tim Busse**: LAST CHANCE ANYONE TO SPEAK TO K THROUGH S COUNSEL NO ONE ON THE PHONE, NO ONE COMING FORWARD. I WOULD LOOK FOR MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING THAT WE'VE BROKEN DOWN FOR ITEMS K THROUGH S AND ITEM 4.3 ARE ANNUAL MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES ORDINANCES. SO IT'S LIKE MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING SPECIFICALLY FOR ITEMS K THROUGH S AN ITEM 4.3 NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE FAVORLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I OPPOSED THE MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO COUNCIL THOSE ARE THEY CAN CHARACTERIZE THAT AS HOUSEKEEPING OR OTHERWISE SIMPLE CLARIFICATIONS I WOULD LOOK FOR ACTION ON ITEMS K THROUGH S ON ITEM 4.3. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER [00:55:25] **Councilmember Jenna Carter**: THANK YOU MAYOR SO I'M RIGHT HERE. RE OKAY I WOULD MOVE TO ADOPT ORDINANCES K THROUGH S THEREBY AMENDING CHAPTERS 2 19 AND 21 OF THE CITY CODE SECTION [00:55:40] **Mayor Tim Busse**: MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER SECOND B COUNCILMEMBER COULTER TO ADOPT ORDINANCES K THROUGH S HAS IDENTIFIED THEREBY AMENDING CHAPTERS 2 19 AND 21 OF THE CITY CODE OR FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO NOW COUNCIL I WILL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEMS A THROUGH J ON ITEM 4.3 OPEN A PUBLIC HEARING OUT OF A THROUGH J OUR PUBLIC REGARDING OUR ANNUAL MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES ORDINANCES IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK TO ANY OF THE ITEMS A THROUGH J THAT WE DISCUSSED THIS EVENING NO ONE COMING FORWARD. MR. BARTLETT IS THERE ANYONE ON THE PHONE? [00:56:18] **Priyanka Rai (Council Secretary/Staff)**: MR. MAYOR NO ONE ON THE PHONE. [00:56:20] **Mayor Tim Busse**: LAST CHANCE HERE IN THE CHAMBERS C NO ONE COMING FORWARD. COUNSEL I WOULD LOOK FOR A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING THAT WE HAVE OPEN RIGHT NOW FOR ITEMS A THROUGH J ON PUBLIC HEARING ON IT AND 4.3 SOME OF MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER AND SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER TO CLOSE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEMS A THROUGH J AND ITEM 4.3 NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO SO WE HAVE CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR BOTH ITEMS THROUGH S AND NOW A THROUGH J AND ITEM 4.3 THIS EVENING COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON WE'VE SOME QUESTIONS ON ITEMS A THROUGH J LOOKING FOR ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION AND HERE'S WHAT WE WOULD DO IF WE IF WE'RE IN AGREEMENT REGARDING A THROUGH J WE'LL MOVE AS A GROUP KIND OF LIKE WE MOVED THE GROUP OF K THROUGH AS A GROUP BUT IF WE HAVE TO BREAK THESE DOWN INDIVIDUALLY WE CAN DO THAT AS WELL IF THERE ARE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS REGARDING THOSE COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN [00:57:15] **Councilmember Dwayne Lowman**: MAYOR I'M GENERALLY SUPPORTIVE OF A THROUGH D THEN F THROUGH J. I JUST I KNOW WE WE AS A PRACTICE ALLOW THIS I WASN'T AWARE OF IT BUT I JUST I DON'T LIKE THE IDEA OF STORAGE HAPPENING AT COMMERCIAL LOCATIONS AND WHAT THAT MEANS FROM A SNOW TYPE STANDPOINT. AND SO I JUST NOT READY TO SUPPORT THIS TONIGHT. I THINK EVERYTHING ELSE I CAN GE SUPPORT BUT I'M NOT GOING TO SUPPORT THIS EPS IF I CAN PULL THIS UP. COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO AND SPECIFIC TO YOU HERE OR IS THERE THERE'S NO I HAD A HAD A QUESTION ABOUT G IF I COULD PLEASE. THANK YOU. I TO DO IT MORE QUESTION I KNOW THIS IS ONSITE SALES OF MOTORIZED VEHICLES THAT ARE NOT REGISTERED TO THE PROPERTY OWNER OR RESIDENT. DO WE ALREADY HAVE A PROHIBITION ON REPAIR? I THOUGHT THAT I READ THAT AND MAYBE I MAYBE I READ IT IN THE IN THE COMMENTARY THAT IT ABOUT PREPARE REPAIR AND SALE BUT THIS ONE ONLY REFERS TO SALE SO I JUST WANTED TO QUICKLY ASK THE QUESTION OKAY EITHER WAY BUT MAYOR BUSSE YOU KNOW COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO GUESS IT IS SOME APPOINT A AS PART OF UNDER A PROHIBITED HOME MOTOR VEHICLE OR BOAT REPAIR SUCH AS SERVICE PAINTING IS SUB POINT A OKAY SO OKAY SO WE'RE JUST ADDING THE SALE OF OF CAR THAT DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU TO THE HOME BUSINESS DEFINITION AND PROHIBITING IT IN THAT DEFINITION CORRECT OKAY YOU THAT'S ALL MY QUESTION SIR THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS COUNCILMEMBER CARTER, DON'T I WANT TO GO BACK TO COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN'S QUESTION ON ON ITEM E IF I COULD PLEASE. OKAY, MR. VERBRUGGE, ANYTHING. ARE YOU READY? CLARIFY THAT FOR US. [00:59:15] **City Manager Jamie Verbrugge**: SO YES, THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR AND THERE WAS COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN JUST TO CLARIFY AN ITEM E THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE INTERPRET THE CODE THIS WAY TODAY IT'S JUST NOT CRYSTAL CLEAR. SO WE WANTED TO MAKE THE CODE LANGUAGE KIND OF EXACTLY FOLLOW HOW WE INTERPRET IT AND IT REALLY HAS TO DO WITH FLEET VEHICLES WHICH ARE RELATIVELY RARE BUT WE DO HAVE SOM INSTCES WHERE COMPANIES ARE STORING WONDERFULLY VEHICLES ON SITE SO SO EXAMPLE I KNOW THAT'S WHY I DON'T WANT TO DO IT FOR EXAMPLE. SO FOR IF I HAD A BUNCH OF BUSSES FOR MY CHURCH I COULD STORE SEVEN OR EIGHT BUSSES ON MY ON MY PROPERTY AND THERE WAS A COUNCILMEMBER AND WHETHER OR NOT YOU COULD STORE THEM ON THE PROPERTY AS A SEPARATE ISSUE IT WOULD BE REFLECTED IN OTHER CODES IN SOME DISTRICTS THAT'S ALLOWED AND OTHERS IT'S NOT. THIS WOULD JUST SAY THAT IF YOU DO HAVE FLEET VEHICLES THOSE BE ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CODE REQUIREMENT FOR THAT PROPERTY SO THEY WOULDN'T COUNT ESSENTIALLY FOR PARKING . YEAH THERE WAS A COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN GOING TO IT AS A MEMBER IT'S AN EXEMPTION SO SO NO NO NO NO IT'S CLARIFYING YOU DO HAVE TO HAVE PARKING FOR THOSE ABOVE AND BEYOND TO STORE THEM. YOU NEED FOR OTHER TO STORE THEM OR A PARKING THERE BUT YOU CAN STORE THERE UNLESS THERE'S SOME OTHER ORDINANCE PREVENTING YOU FROM DOING NEARBY CITY COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN THIS CHANGE WOULD NOT IMPACT WHETHER OR NOT YOU COULD STORE VEHICLE ANY GIVEN SITE. IT WOULD JUST AFFECT HOW YOU WOULD COUNT IT YOU WOULD COUNT IT TOWARDS THE TOTAL I UNDER COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESSANDRO EXAMPLE IF THE CODE 100 SPACES ON A GIVENITE AND YOU HAD TEN FLEET VEHICLES YOU WOULD NEED TO ACCOMMODATE 100 SPACES PLUS THOSE TEN VEHICLES. SO BASICALLY WHAT THIS IS SAYING IS IF YOU HAVE TEN MORE VEHICLES YOU NEED TO ADD THAT TO YOUR YOUR STANDARD. YES. TO IMPROVEMENT EXAMPLES. SO ALL RIGHT THAT MAKES SENSE TO ME. DOES HELP EXPLAIN THINGS A BIT. YEAH. YEAH IT MAKES IT MH MUCH CLEARER. I MEAN NOW I HAVE A DIFFERENT REASON FOR OPPOSING IT BUT THAT'S THAT'S FINE. I CAN SUPPORT TONIGHT I'LL GET A DIFFERENT WAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION THINK THAT THAT HELPS COUNCIL ON ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS SO STICKING WITH HOW ABOUT A SPECIFIC FOR EXAMPLE AND BASICALLY WE'RE TALKING WE'RE TALKING A PROOF OF PARKING HERE WE'REALKING WHETHER OR NOT THEY ACTUALLY HAVE THE ROOM TO DO WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING TO DO. IS THAT CORRECT? THEY ARE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN PROOF OF PARKING. THIS IS THEY WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE TO HAVE SPACE FOR THE FLEET VEHICLES ABOVE AND BEYOND THE SPACES THEY HAVE FOR YOU know, OTHER PURPOSES CODE REQUIRED SPACES AND CAN GIVE BEYOND FLEET GIVE ME A INSTANCE IF FOR EXAMPLE ARE WE TALKING YOU'VE MENTIONED FLEET HOW ABOUT LIKE SNOW REMOVAL EQUIPMENT WOULD THAT WOULD THEY BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO FOR EXAMPLE AT SOME OF THESE GET LARGE PARKING LOT THAT THEY KEEP THE SNOW REMOVAL EQUIPMENT ONSITE OR CATERING TRUCK SOME OF OUR OUR RESTAURANTS THAT ALSO HAVE A FOOD TRUCK THAT KIND OF THING AND THEY'RE BUSY IF THEY'RE ALLOWED TO HAVE THOSE STORAGE OF THOSE VEHICLES TODAY THEY WOULD IN THE FUTURE NOTHING WOULD CHANGE IN THAT REGARD AND CHANGE IT'S JUST A MATTER OF THE NUMBER. RIGHT. GOT IT. ALL RIGHT . I DON'T KNOW IF THAT HELPS CLARIFY THINGS COUNCILMEMBER OR AND WHAT I WANT TO BE CLEAR HERE I DON'T WANT TRY AND WING THIS OR TRY AND REWRITE THIS TO TO FIT WE'RE TRYING TO DO OH YEAH I WOULD SIMPLY PULL THAT OFF REFER BACK STAFF AND HAVE THEM TRY AND CLEAN THINGS UP TO THE POINT WHERE WE'RE WE'RE COMFORTABLE ENOUGH TO PASS THIS. WELL I MEAN IF EVERYONE ELSE IS COMFORTABLE WITH IT I MEAN I DON'T WANT TO HOLD THIS UP AND I THINK THE REASONS WHY I WANT TO HOLD THIS UP IS FOR COMPLETELY DIFFERENT REASONS FROM A DIFFERENT POLICY PERSPECTIVE. SO SO I DON'T LET'S NOT GET STUCK ON THIS. I MEAN I DON'T WANT TO SPEND YOU KNOW, MINUTES TRYING TO GET ONE COUNCILMEMBERS WHERE TO GO WITH THIS. I THINK THIS THIS TOUCHES ON AN ISSUE THAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT AND I'M NOT SURE IT'S NECESSARILY RIGHT HERE. I THINK IT'S STUFF THAT'S AROUND THIS THING THAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT. SO YOU KNOW, LET'S MOVE THIS FORWARD CAN VOTE AGAINST THIS EVEN THOUGH UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOU KNOW THIS ISN'T EXACTLY WHAT I WANT BUT THIS CONTRIBUTES TO MY PROBLEM SO COUNCILMEMBER CARTER, I'M READY TO MAKE MOTION IF I CAN COUNCILMEMBER CARTER I MOVE TO ADOPT A AUTHORIZING SUMMARY PUBLICATION. [01:03:40] **Mayor Tim Busse**: NO, WE TO PASS IT FIRST UP TOP THERE YOU GO. OH, SO WE'VE CLOSED IT. SORRY. SORRY SIR. YES. SO MUCH RIDING ON THIS ONE. I'M LIKE SEPARATE OUT MY READERS NOW I WOULD MOVE TO ADOPT ORDINANCES A THROUGH J THEREBY AMENDING CHAPTERS 19 21 AND 22 OF THE CITY CODE [01:03:55] **Councilmember Dwayne Lowman**: I'D LIKE TO HOLD OUR E IF I CAN I DON'T WANT TO VOTE AGAINST ALL OF THESE IF I JUST WANT TO VOTE AGAINST ONE SO THEN COULD WE POSSIBLY IF WE COULD REACH REDREW WITHDRAW THE MOTION AND MAYBE RESTATE THE MOTION AS ITEMS A THROUGH D AND THEN F THROUGH J AND THEN WE'LL VOTE ON ITEM SEPARATELY WOULD THAT BE THEY HAVE NO OKAY I WILL RESCIND THE MOTION AND I WOULD MOVE TO ADOPT ORDINANCES THROUGH D AND F THROUGH [01:04:15] **Mayor Tim Busse**: MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO TO ADOPT ORDINANCES A THROUGH D AND F THROUGH J THEREBY AMENDING APPROPRIATE CHAPTERS OF THE CITY CODE . NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO NOW COUNCILMEMBER IF YOU COULD MAKE AN INDIVIDUAL MOTION FOR ITEM E [01:04:38] **Councilmember Jenna Carter**: OKAY I WOULD MOVE TO AN ADOPTION ORDINANCE ADDING A PROVISION FOR WORK VEHICLE STORAGE TO THE CITY'S STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS THEREBY AMENDING CHAPTER 21 OF THE CITY CODE TOOK A [01:04:50] **Mayor Tim Busse**: MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO TO ADOPT ITEM E ADOPTING AN ORDINANCE PROVISION FOR WORK VEHICLE STORAGE TO THE CITY'S OFF STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS AMENDING CHAPTER 21 OF THE CITY CODE GO FOR THE COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I OPPOSED MY MOTION CARRIES FOR ONE WITH COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN IN OPPOSITION NOW COUNCILMEMBER [01:05:15] **Councilmember Jenna Carter**: OKAY I WOULD MOVE TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING SUMMARY PUBLICATION THE ORDINANCES ITEMS A THROUGH S AMENDING CHAPTERS TWO 19 21 AND 22 OF THE CITY CODE AS ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON DECEMBER 19, 2022. SECOND [01:05:35] **Mayor Tim Busse**: MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN FOR SUMMARY PUBLICATION ON ITEM 4.3 THIS EVENING NO FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I OPPOSE MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO THANK YOU THANK YOU VERY MUCH WELL DONE MISS WHAT? I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO WELCOME YOU THANK YOU FOR THAT FOR THE PRESENTATION GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN THIS EVENING AS WELL SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL. WE WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM FIVE ON OUR AGENDA OUR ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS AND I WANT TO STATE ONE MORE TIME FOR FOLKS WHO MAY BE JUST TUNING IN ARE ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS TWO BIG ITEMS THAT WE HAD WHERE ITEM 5.2 WHICH THE WHICH WAS THE ARTISTRY GRANT REQUEST AND ITEM 5.3 OF THE BLOOMINGTON SALES TAX PROJECT THIS PRIORITIZATION DISCUSSION AND WE HAVE CONSIDERING WERE O MEMRS DOWN TONIG WE' DECIDED TO BACK BOTH OF THOSE ITEMS OFF UNTIL OUR MEETING ON JANUARY 9TH. SO IF YOU TUNING IN TO LOOK FOR HOPING TO HEAR THE DISCUSSION THOSE TWO ITEMS WE HAVE BACK THOSE OFF TO JANUARY 9TH. THANKS TUNING IN YOU CAN CERTAINLY STICK AROUND BUT IF IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR WE WON'T BE TALKING ABOUT IT THIS EVENING . WHAT WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT IS ITEM 5.1 ON ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS. THIS IS OUR 2023 PAYMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM TRUCK PAYMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM STREET MAINTENANCE PROJECT WHICH IS THE BLOOMINGTON FERRY ROAD BY DARIN RUZEK FROM OUR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT IS HERE GOOD EVENING. WELCOME. [01:07:05] **Darin Ruzek (Public Works Engineer)**: SO EVENING MR. MAYOR MEMBERS OF COUNCIL DARIN RUZEK I'M ONE OF THE CIVIL ENGINEERS IN OUR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT SO RIGHT SO AS THE AGENDA SAYS I WE ARE HERE TO DISCUSS THE 23 PMP OVERLAY PROJECT THE SPECIFIC SEGMENT THAT WE WILL BE DISCUSSING IS BLOOMINGTON FERRY ROAD WHICH YOU CAN SEE IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF TOWN THERE AND MORE THE SEGMENT OF BLOOMINGTON FERRY ROAD WILL BE FROM WEST 106TH STREET TO PIONEER TRAIL TRAIL AND THAT IS THE SEGMENT THAT IS OUTLINED IN RED THE IN BLUE BY THE PIONEER TRAIL PORTION AS WELL AS THE BLOOMINGTON FERRY ROAD BETWEEN OLD SHAKOPEE AND WEST 106TH STREET. WE HAD PLANNED ON INCLUDING THAT PART OF THIS YEAR'S PMP PROJECT. WE ARE SEEING SOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT PAVEMENT DISTRESSES WITHIN BOTH OR SEGMENTSND BLUE THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO TAKE CARE OF WITH NEXT YEAR'S PROJECT. SO FOR THE FOCUS OF THE CONCEPTS THAT I WILL BE PRESENTING ON IT IS SPECIFIC WEST 106TH STREET TO PIONEER TRAIL SO THIS SEGMENT OF BLOOMINGTON FERRY ROAD WAS ORIGINALLY CONSTRUCTED IN 1979 . THE EXISTING CROSS SECTION IS A FOUR LANE DIVIDED ROADWAY WITH A CENTER MEDIAN. THIS SEGMENT HAS VERY ADEQUATE MULTIMODAL FACILITIES WE HAVE A FIVE FOOT CONCRETE SIDEWALK ON EAST SIDE AS WELL AS A TEN FOOT MULTI-USE PATH ON THE WEST SIDE. FROM A SAFETY STANDPOINT THE SEGMENT DOES NOT HAVE ANY MAJOR SAFETY CONCERNS REGARDING THE MOVEMENT OF PEDESTRIANS, BICYCLISTS OR MOTORISTS. THE SEGMENT HAS ALSO BEEN ON OUR PMP OVERLAY RADAR FOR PAST FEW YEARS AND I KNOW MY COLLEAGUE WAS HERE A FEW WEEKS AGO TO GO OVER THE PMP STREET IMPROVEMENT PROJECT SO I KNOW EVERYBODY FAMILIAR WITH OUR PCI INDEX AND THIS CORRIDOR IN QUESTION HAS A PCI OF ABOUT 50 WHICH PUTS US RIGHT IN THAT 40 TO 60 OVERLAY RANGE. A LITTLE BACKGROUND ON THE HISTORICAL TRAFFIC VOLUMES IN THE AREA. SO PRIOR TO THE OF THE MINNESOTA RIVER BRIDGE ON TRUNK HIGHWAY 169 BLOOMINGTON FERRY ROAD SOUTH OF OLD SHAKOPEE SERVED AS A MAJOR RIVER CROSSING. WE SAW PEAK OUR PEAK VOLUMES IN THE LATE EIGHTIES GOT TO ABOUT 14,000 VEHICLES PER DAY AND THEN AS YOU CAN SEE WITH THAT BOTTOM GRAPH ONCE THAT RIVER BRIDGE THE NEW RIVER BRIDGE OPENED AND THE OLD ONE CLOSED, WE SAW A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT DROP IN VOLUMES ON BLOOMINGTON FERRY. THE GRAPH ON THE TOP IS THE SEGMENT THAT WE WILL BE DISCUSSING TONIGHT AND SINCE THE CLOSURE OF THAT OLD MINNESOTA RIVER BRIDGE WE'VE STAYED CONSISTENT WITH ABOUT 5000 VEHICLES PER DAY IN COMPARISON THAT 5000 VEHICLES PER DAY THE THE OLD SHAKOPEE THE ROAD BISECTING SEES ABOUT 24,000 VEHICLES PER DAY AND 5000 CARS PER DAY IS NOWHERE NEAR THE CAPACITY A FOUR LANE ROADWAY IN REFERENCING THE HIGHWAY CAPACITY MANUAL WHICH IS KIND OF THE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING INDUSTRY STANDARD GOING WITH A FOUR LANE ROADWAY WHERE WE HAVE A MAXIMUM CAPACITY OF ABOUT 36,000 VEHICLES PER DAY. SO THERE ARE OTHER FACTORS THAT DO GO INTO THA MAXIMUM CAPACITY BUT THE KEY TAKEAWAY FROM THAT IS 5000 VEHICLES PER DAY IS A ORDER OF MAGNITUDE LOWER THAN WHAT A FOUR LANE ROADWAY IS CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING TRAFFIC GROWTH IN THE AREA IS EXPECTED BE MINIMAL AND THERE ARE NO FORESEEABLE CHANGES IN . THE AREA WHERE WE WOULD EXPECT A MAJOR INCREASE THAT WOULD NEED A FOUR LANE ROADWAY IN THE FUTURE. SO WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE SEGMENT WEST 106 THEN PIONEER TRAIL IS UNDERUTILIZED PRESENTLY AND INTO THE FUTURE. THE NEXT QUESTION IS IS WHAT WILL BLOOMINGTON FERRY ROAD LOOK LIKE AND HOW WILL IT FUNCTION IN THE FUTURE? SO ENGINEERING STAFF AS WELL AS SUPPORT SOME OTHER DIVISIONS WITHIN PUBLIC WORKS HAVE PUT TOGETHER THREE CONCEPTS FOR COUNCIL'S REVIEW AND ULTIMATE TONIGHT THAT FIRST CONCEPT I THINK IT'S LOADING IT'S CHANGING OH IS IT JUST FROZEN BACK INTO IT ALL RIGHT. SO THE FIRST CONCEPT ONE OF THREE THAT WE HAVE PUT TOGETHER SO THIS CONCEPT WOULD MOST CLOSELY FOLLOW OUR CURRENT PMP PROGRAM. SO WHAT WE WOULD LOOK AT DOING IS WE WOULD LOOK AT OVERLAYING THE EXISTING MILLING AND OVERLAYING THE EXISTING PAVEMENT SURFACE MAINTAINING THAT EXISTING FOOTPRINT OF BLOOMINGTON FERRY ROAD IT IS RIGHT NOW WE'D ALSO LOOK AT REINSTALLING THE STRIPING IN ITS CURRENT CONFIGURATION OF TWO LANES IN THE NORTHBOUND AND TWO LANES IN THE SOUTHBOUND AS PART OF THIS PROJECT AS PART OF THIS CONCEPT WE'D LOOK AT MAKING IMPROVEMENTS TO THE ROADWAY SIMILAR TO OTHER SEGMENTS SO WE'D LOOK AT REMOVING AND REPLACING CURB AND UPGRADING ANY OF THE CONCRETE PEDESTRIAN RAMPS TO CURRENT ADA STANDARDS AS WELL AS MAKING ANY UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS THAT OUR UTILITIES DIVISION HAS IDENTIFIED. WE ALSO HAVE A TRAFFIC SIGNAL ON THE SEGMENT AT BLOOMINGTON FERRY AND WEST 102ND STREET. WE ARE FAIRLY CONFIDENT THAT THAT NO LONGER MEETS WARRANTS. SO IF COUNCIL WERE TO MOVE FORWARD THIS CONCEPT FORWARD WE WOULD BE REVWING THAT SIGNAL AND IF THE RECOMMENDATION WAS TO REMOVE IT WE WOULD REMOVE IT WITH NEXT YEAR'S PMP PROJECT THE SAME THING CAN BE SAID WE HAVE A FOUR WAY STOP AT BLOOMINGTON FERRY ROAD AND YUKON. IF THIS CONCEPT WOULD BE MOVE FORWARD WE WOULD BE REVIEWING THAT DURING FINAL DESIGN AND ANY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE INCLUDED WITH NEXT YEAR'S PROJECT. SO THIS CONCEPT COULD BE BUILT WITH NEXT YEAR'S PMP OVERLAY PROJECT AND WE HAVE A CURRENT COST CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATE OF ABOUT $863,000. SO OUR NEXT CONCEPT IS CONCEPT B SO SIMILAR TO CONCEPT A WE WOULD BE DOING A MILLING OVERLAY ON THE EXISTING SURFACE. WE WOULD BE MAINTAINING THE EXISTING FOOTPRINT OF BLOOMINGTON FERRY ROAD WITH THE MAJOR DIFFERENCE BEING THE INCLUSION OF DIRECTIONAL BIKE LANES. SO WE REMOVE ONE LANE OF TRAFFIC IN EITHER DIRECTION AND WE WOULD INCLUDE ONE NORTHBOUND DIRECTION OF A BIKE LANE AND THEN ONE SOUTHBOUND DIRECTION OF A BIKE LANE SIMILAR TO CONCEPT WE LOOK AT MAKING THE NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SEGMENT AND WE'D ALSO LOOKING WE'D ALSO LOOK AT THE INTERSECTION CONTROL AT ALL THE INTERSECTIONS WITHIN THE CORRIDOR THIS CONCEPT HAS A CONSTRUCTION COST ESTIMATE OF $913,000 WITH THE PRIMARY DIFFERENT OR WITH THE INCREASE BEING THE INCREASE IN STRIPING AND THEN SHOULD THE SIGNAL STAY IN WOULD BE ANY SIGNAL MODIFITIONS THAT W WOU NEED TO DO TO MOVE SOME OF THE TRAFFIC HEADS AROUND TO ACCOMMODATE THE THE NEW CONFIGURATION AND OUR FINAL CONCEPT IS CONCEPT C AND WHAT CONCEPT C IS WE ARE ESSENTIALLY REMOVING THE ENTIRE NORTHBOUND DIRECTION TRAVELED WAY AND WE WOULD BE LOOKING TO WIDEN THE SOUTHBOUND TO 32 FOOT 32 FEET WIDE WHICH IS OUR STANDARD WITH FOUR PUMP RECONSTRUCT STREETS FROM A SUSTAINABILITY STANDPOINT WE'D BE REMOVING APPROXIMATELY 13,000 SQUARE YARDS OF IMPERVIOUS SURFACE. THIS SEGMENT IS LOCATED IN THE RILEY PURGATORY BLUFF CREEK WATERSHED DISTRICT. IF WE REMOVED THAT AMOUNT OF A PERVIOUS WHAT WE COULD DO IS WE COULD ESSENTIALLY BANK THOSE CREDITS AND THEN WE COULD USE THEM ON A FUTURE CITY WIDE PROJECT. AND ANOTHER THING THAT WE'D LOOK AT ON THIS ONE IS THE INTERSECTION CONTROL CHANGE OR INTERSECTION CONTROL WEST 106TH A PIONEER TRAIL ONE I GUESS BEING THAT STAFF HAS BEEN KICKING AROUND WOULD BE THE INCLUSION OF ROUNDABOUTS AT BOTH OF THOSE INTERSECTIONS . IF COUNCIL DECIDED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS CONCEPT STAFF WOULD CONTINUE INVESTIGATING THE INTERSECTION CONTROL AND WOULD ULTIMATELY BRING THAT FORWARD IN TO COUNCIL WITH WITH A FUTURE PROJECT THE EARLIEST BUILD YEAR FOR THIS CONCEPT WOULD BE 2024. HOWER IF DURING FINAL DESIGN WE IDENTIFIED RIGHT AWAY NEEDS IN ORDER TO WORK THROUGH THAT ENTIRE RIGHT AWAY PROCESS A MORE REALISTIC BUILD YEAR WOULD BE 2025 THIS CONCEPT HAS A CONSTRUCTION COST ESTIMATE PRELIMINARY OF COURSE OF $3.3 MILLION. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THIS SEGMENT HAS QUITE A BIT OF CITY PARK PROPERTY AS WELL AS REAR FACING RESIDENTIAL HOMES AND TOWNHOMES THAT MAY ALSO BE SUBJECT TO SPECIAL ASSESSMENT FOR OUR SPECIAL ASSESSMENT POLICY. SO IN CONCLUSION IN CONCEPT A, B AND C WITH THEIR ASSOCIATED PROJECT COSTS AS WELL AS BUILD YEARS FOR OUR CONCEPT A AND B BEING IN 2023 AND THEN 2020 AND THEN CONCEPT C THE 2024 TO 2040 SHOULD CONCERN SHOULD COUNCIL DESIRE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH EITHER CONCEPT OR B THERE'S NOTHING PRECLUDING US FROM INCLUDING A CONCEPT C VELROJECTHEN THIS SEGMENT BE UP FOR A PMP RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN THE FUTURE UM ANOTHER THING THAT WE LOOKED AT WAS THE FOOTPRINT SO WE USED TOOL THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED BY MNDOT SPECIFICALLY FOR TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS IT'S CALLED THE THE MICE TOOL AND I'M FORTUNATELY I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT THE ACRONYM MEANT BUT WHAT WE WOULD BE DOING IS WITH CONCEPT C WE BE COMPARING A RECONSTRUCTED ROADWAY WITH AT 32 FEET VERSUS RECONSTRUCTING THAT ROADWAY AT ITS CURRENT SEGMENT OF 48 FEET WIDE AND THAT NUMBER THAT YOU SEE THERE IS 615 METRIC TONS OF CO2 EMITTED AND 615 METRIC TONS OF CO2 EMITTED IS EQUAL TO THE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS OF THE NATURAL GAS USED IN 142 HOMES LAST YEAR OR 133 GASOLINE POWERED PASSENGER VEHICLES DRIVEN FOR ONE YEAR AND THE FINAL ROLL THERE IS OUR IMPERVIOUS REDUCTION CONCEPT A CONCEPT B WE WOULD BE MAINTAINING THAT EXISTING AND THE CONCEPT C WOULD BE A REDUCTION 13,000 SQUARE YARDS FOR THOSE OF US THAT ARE FANS AND EXPERIENCE THE EMOTIONAL HIGHS AND LOWS OF SATURDAY'S GAME 13,000 SQUARE YARDS IS ABOUT TO SIZE FOOTBALL FIELDS SO NEXT STEPS AS PART OF OUR OVERALL PMP PROJECT WE BRING A STREET LISTING TO COUNCIL TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND STAFF WOULD WORK TO CONTINUE DESIGN ON THAT. WE WOULD LOOK AT BRINGING THAT STREET LIST TO THE JANUARY 9TH 2023 MEETING AND INCLUDED WITH THAT LIST WOULD BE OUR COUNCIL'S DIRECTION ON THIS SEGMENT OF BLOOMINGTON FERRY ROAD STAFF WOULD CONTINUE TO EVALUATE CONTROL FOR ALL THE INTERSECTIONS REGARDLESS WHAT THE SEGMENT IS SELECTEDND PUIC SHOULD COUNCIL MOVE FORWARD WITH CONCEPT C WE WOULD LOOK AT DOING A PUBLIC OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS IN THAT AREA TO GAUGE THEIR FEEDBACK ON A FUTURE VISION OF BLOOMINGTON FERRY ROAD WOULD LOOK LIKE SO BEFORE I OPEN IT UP FOR QUESTIONS JUST TO CLARIFY HERE SO THE TOP MOTION THERE WOULD TO MOVE FORWARD WITH EITHER CONCEPT A OR A CONCEPTHOSE WOULD BE INCLUDED ON A 2023 PMP OVERLAY PROJECT AND THEN THE BOTTOM PORTION WOULD BE TO DIRECT STAFF TO FURTHER INVESTIGATE THE THE CONCEPT C WITH ULTIMATELY BRINGING THAT FORWARD TO COUNCIL AT A FUTURE DATE. UM, I WILL OPEN NOW OPEN IT UP TO QUESTIONS I HAVE CITY ENGINEER LONG AS WELL AS TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER KIRK ROBERTS HERE WHO MAY BE ASSISTING ME ON ANY QUESTIONS. [01:17:50] **Mayor Tim Busse**: THANK YOU, MR. RUZEK COUNCILMEMBER CARTER AND COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN [01:17:55] **Councilmember Jenna Carter**: I JUST HAVE A CLARIFYING QUESTION SO PCI SCORE WAS 50. SO DOES THAT MEAN THEN THAT TYPICALLY FOR IF IT WAS JUST ANOTHER ROAD IT WOULD BE AN OVERLAY PROJECT FOR NOW? [01:18:05] **Darin Ruzek**: MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER COUNCILMEMBER CARTER THAT IS CORRECT. [01:18:10] **Councilmember Jenna Carter**: OKAY. SO THEN IF WE DID THE OVERLAY IF WE WENT DOWN THAT PATH, WHAT WOULD BE THE TIME FRAME THAT WOULD PROJECT FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION? I'M GOING TO GIVE THAT ROAD ANOTHER TEN YEA OR 20 YEARS YEAH. [01:18:25] **Darin Ruzek**: MR. MAYOR, COUNCILMEMBER COUNCILMEMBER CARTER, YOU KNOW ABOUT 20 YEARS. YOU KNOW, WE WE HAVE OUR OUR PMP PROGRAM WE PROGRAM THAT ALL ABOUT EVERY FIVE YEARS AND UPDATE THAT. SO THE SEGMENTS GET SCORED A THIRD OF THE CITY GETS SCORED EVERY SINGLE YEAR. SO WE ARE KIND OF AWARE OF WHERE THOSE SEGMENTS ARE AND IF A SEGMENT WOULD BE UP FOR A RECONSTRUCTION WE'D BE MADE AWARE OF IT BUT. YEAH, 20 YEARS APPROXIMATELY. [01:18:50] **Councilmember Jenna Carter**: OKAY. AND THEN ANOTHER CLARIFYING QUESTION. SO WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE CARBON FOOTPRINT SO THAT WOULD BE THE CARBON EMISSIONS OF RECONSTRUCTING THE ROAD. DID I UNDERSTAND YOU CORRECTLY? [01:19:05] **Darin Ruzek**: THAT IS CORRECT. OKAY. THANK YOU. THOSE ARE MY CLARIFYING QUESTIONS FOR NOW. [01:19:10] **Councilmember Dwayne Lowman**: THANK YOU. SO I WAS LOOKING AT THE CONCEPT A AND IT SEEMED LIKE IT HAD YOU KNOW, THREE TREES IN IT AND AS I KIND OF WENT THROUGH OKAY I SAID TO MYSELF WELL WHY HAVEN'T THE TREES BEEN CARRIED THROUGH ON THE OTHER ONES? YOU KNOW IS IT JUST THE DECIDED THAT DISPLAY THOSE OR IS IT NOT POSSIBLE TO HAVE OSE TSE AND FIGURE OUT OPTION B BUT OPTION C I'M ASSUMING THAT YOU KNOW YOU COULD PUT AS MANY AS YOU WANT ON THAT BUT IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THERE WAS ANYTHING ON THE ON THE OPPOSING SIDE LIKE THERE IS ON ON THE EAST SIDE. SO [01:19:40] **Darin Ruzek**: MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN WHEN I DID LOOK AT WHEN I DID PUT TOGETHER THE PRELIMINARY DESIGN FOR THIS IF, WE WERE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH CONCEPT C I'M BELIEVING OUR PARK MAINTENANCE HAS RECENTLY INSTALLED SOME BOULEVARD TREES IN THAT CENTER MEDIAN. WE WOULD BE REMOVING THOSE AS PART OF CONCEPT C SO OUR WIDENING WOULD GET INTO THE IMPACT OF THAT AS FAR AS WHAT MAY BE INCLUDED IN THE 47 FOOT WIDE PLANTING STRIP WE COULD ESSENTIALLY include WHATEVER WE'D LIKE TO DO IN THERE. THAT IS WHAT THAT WOULD ALSO MEAN THOUGH ON ON THE FAR LEFT AND THE C THERE WOULDN'T B ANY TREES THERE OR THERE WOULDN'T BE THE ABILITY TO PUT THE TREES THERE OR IS THAT JUST BY DESIGN IT WASN'T PLAN TO PUT THAT IN THERE THAT KICK THE PRICE UP IF WE HAD TREES ON THAT SIDE OR. . [01:20:45] **Darin Ruzek**: MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN I THINK THAT'S MORE OF JUST A AN OVERSIGHT ON WHO PUT TOGETHER THIS GRAPHIC. OKAY. ESSENTIALLY THE CONCEPT C IS WE WOULD HOLD AND THIS IS AGAIN VERY PRELIMINARY BUT AS I LAID IT OUT IT WAS WE'D BE HOLDING THAT WEST CURB LINE OF THE CELL PHONE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL AND WE WOULD BE OFFSETTING THAT 32 FEET. SO EVERYTHING WEST OF WHERE THAT MULTI-USE THE EXISTING MULTI-USE TRAIL IS RIGHT NOW THAT THAT BE SAFE. OKAY. YEAH, I JUST GOT A LITTLE YOUR IDEA HAD CHOPPED THE MIDDLE ONES DOWN BUT LIKE WHILE DROPPING OTHER ONES DOWN TO OKAY. SO THEN MY NEXT QUESTION AROUND THE SPECIAL ASSESSMENT WHICH WOULD NOT BE CONCEPT A OR B THAT BE ASSESSED TO THOSE FOLKS THAT ARE IN THERE BECAUSE THEY'D GET A BENEFIT OF FROM A PROPERTY VALUE STANDPOINT THERE'D BE AN INCREASE BY BY DOING THIS CONCEPT. C IS THAT WHAT WE'RE SAYING HERE WITH THIS? [01:21:40] **Darin Ruzek**: SO MR. MAYOR, COUNCILMEMBER RECALLS MEMORABLE LOWMAN OF IF A STREET SEGMENT IS PART OF A RECONSTRUCT PROJECT WE DO SPECIALLY ASSESS THOSE. SO THE OUR POLICY AS IT'S CURRENTLY WRITTEN IS SOME OF THOSE HOUSES ON THE BLOOMINGTON FERRY ROAD SEGMENT WOULD BE SUBJECT A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT AND SO BECAUSE WE'RE GOING BECAUSE IF WE WERE GOING TO DO THIS MUCH OF CHANGE AND THE PCI WOULD WARRANT IT OR WOULDN'T WANT IT TO HELP ME UNDERSTAND THAT. SO I'M JUST TRYING TO YOU KNOW YOU GIVE ME TWO CONCEPTS HERE AND B OVERLAY AND THEN WE GET ANOTHER ONE HERE IF WE GO DOWN THIS MORE SUSTAINABLE ROUTE THEN YOU KNOW I AS A HOMEOWNER THAT LIVING ON THIS THING NOW I GET A BENEFIT FROM IT, I GET THAT BUT NOW I GOT TO PAY FOR IT. SO HELP ME UNDERSTAND FROM A POLICY PERSPECTIVE HOW THAT MAKES SENSE. SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A PUNISHMENT GOING ON WITH. SO MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER OF COURSE REMEMBER THE MOMENT IF WE WERE TO THE DIRECTION WAS TO BE TO MOVE AHEAD FORWARD WITH CONCEPT C AND THE PIECES WOULDN'T BE AT THE SPOT OF A NORMAL RECONSTRUCT THEN THAT WOULD BE I GUESS WE'RE CONCEPT C IS JUST DIFFERING FROM WHAT OUR POLICY IS RIGHT NOW. SO THERE WOULD BE A POTENTIAL FOR FOLKS THAT WOULD BE ASSESSED THAT THAT THEY LIVE ON THAT THEY ABORT A ROADWAY THAT DOES NOT MEET THE WARRANTS FOR OKAY AND THAT'S I GETHE DIATION THERE MAYOR THAT'S I KNOW THIS IS NOT OUR DISCUSSION PERIOD OF TIME BUT THAT'S SORT OF WHERE I'Got A QUESTION ABOUT THAT A POLICY PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE IT SEEMS THAT YOU FROM YOU KNOW IN TERMS OF WHAT WE HAVE LAID OUT IN TERMS OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES, I HAVE A LITTLE TROUBLE THIS IT'S KIND OF GOT THE OLD MESSING WITH THE NEW BUT I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT SO NO THIS IS JUST FOR QUESTIONS SO THANK YOU FOR HELP ME UNDERSTAND [01:23:25] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: COULD A QUESTION I THINK YOU SAID THIS I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IF I'M LOOKING AT THE LIKE A SATELTE MAP OF OF THE AREA THE IN CONCEPT C THE ROAD YOU'RE KEEPING IS THE NORTH ONE THE ONE THAT'S ON LAKE AS IT GOES AROUND IS ON THE TOP THE ROAD. RIGHT. SO THAT THAT WOULD BE LIKE THE WESTBOUND LANE, NOT THE EASTBOUND LANE. [01:23:45] **Darin Ruzek**: MR. MAYOR COUNCIL MEMBER COUNCIL MEMBER D'ALESANDRO IT WOULD BE THE SOUTHBOUND DIRECTION SO IT'D BE THE SO THE EAST AND SOUTH SO SO AS FAR AS BLOOMINGTON FERRY TURNS INTO TURNS INTO EAST WEST PIONEER TRAIL IT WOULD THE SOUTH SIDE AND THEN AS IT TURNS NORTH SOUTH IT WOULD BE THE WEST SIDE. [01:24:05] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THAT. [01:24:10] **Mayor Tim Busse**: SO AS I LOOK AT THIS JUST A COUPLE OF RANDOM THOUGHTS WITHOUT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER I MEAN CONCEPT A WHICH WOULD BE THE OVERLAY. I MEAN THAT'S OBVIOUSLY THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE KIND OF MAINTAIN WE'RE DOING NOW CONCEPT B I MEAN IT IT PUZZLES ME BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE WELL WE OBVIOUSLY THEN HAVE REDUNDANT FACILITIES WITH THE TEN FOOT OFF ROAD BIKE PATH AND THEN THE FEET ON THE STREET WITH IT WITH THE BIKE PATHS AND THEN JUST LOOKING AT CONCEPT C THE BIGGEST THING THAT STANDS OUT TO ME IS THE TEN FOOT SIDEWALK ON ONE SIDE AND A SIX FOOT SIDEWALK ON THE OTHER DESPITE ALL THE POSSIBILITY WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE TO PUT IN A FULL BIKE TRAIL SIZED, YOU KNOW, TRAIL AND THAT'S SIDE AS WELL. SO I GUESS I'M AS WE LOOK TO SEE WHICH DIRECTION WE WANT TO GO WITH THIS I MEAN, I SEE POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES TO EACH OF THESE AND NOT REALLY SURE THAT I'VE GOT A STRONG FEELING ONE WAY OR ANOTHER AS TO HOW WE MANAGE THROUGH. COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO [01:25:20] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: THANK YOU MAYOR. I FIRST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE ENGINEERING TEAM WE HAD CHANCE TO SIT DOWN AND TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT LOOKING AT YOU KNOW I MENTIONED EARLY ON I WAS GOING TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET ROAD DIETS IN THIS PLACE RAIN AND SO THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THAT, RIGHT. IF WE'RE LOOKING AT A ROAD THAT THAT IT'S UTILIZATION HAS GONE DOWN, WE HAVE A NEW CONCEPT FOR HOW BIG WE MAKE THESE ROADS IN THE FUTURE ANYWAY AND WE CAN IMPACT BOTH THE BEAUTIFICATION OF THE CITY ,THE CARBON IMPACT OF THE CITY, THE MAINTENANCE OVER TIME OF THE CITY, ETC. I THINK THESE THINGS ARE WORTH LOOKING AT AND SO I THINK YOU DID A REALLY NICE JOB. I KNOW IT'S A TOOL THAT YOU'RE VERY MUCH IN THE EARLY STAGES OF USING ALL BUT THANK YOUOR MAKING THE EFFORT. I REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT. I'D LIKE, YOU KNOW A LONGER TERM CONVERSATION ABOUT SEEING IF WE COULD GET THIS OF STUFF INTO LOTS OF OUR STUFF AND USING IT AS AN ECONOMIC DRIVER FOR SOME OF OUR DECISIONS. BUT I THINK I WITH YOU I THINK IF WE MADE A TEN FOOT SIDEWALK ON BOTH SIDES AND COULD USE IT AS MULTI-USE I THINK THAT WOULD BE GREAT BUT I'M GENERALLY I'M GENERALLY OF THE OPINION ESPECIALLY IN THIS THIS PART OF TOWN IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PART OF TOWN. IT HAS THREE OR FOUR PARKS NEAR IT. IT'S GOT THE BLUFFS, IT'S GOT ACCESS THE TO THE RIVER TO THE SOUTH AND THINGS LIKE THAT AND YOU KNOW, I THINK WE WOULD BENEFIT A LOT FROM IT AND. I THINK THE I MEAN OBVIOUSLY IT NEEDS A LOT OF WORK WITH THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE AROUND THERE TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT IT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY'RE COMFORTABLE WITH. I COUNTED AT LEAST ON MY END PROBABLY ABOUT A DOZEN HOMES ABUT FAIRLY CLOSELY THAT WOULD BE PRETTY WELL YOU KNOW THEY'D WANT TO BE WEIGHED IN ON HERE BUT I'M I I MEAN YOU PAY NOW OR YOU PAY LATER I GUESS IS THE POINT I'M MAKING HERE BUT IHINK IF YOU BELVE THE CARBON OFFSET OF NOT HAVING NEARLY AS MUCH IMPERVIOUS WE BELIEVE THE ROAD MAINTENANCE BENEFIT YOU BELIEVE THE YOU CAN JUST LOOK AT HOW MUCH LESS PAVING THERE IS OR PLOWING THERE IS TO DO THERE'S LOTS OF LOTS OF BENEFITS HERE OVER A 30 YEAR PERIOD I'M NOT SURE IT DOESN'T JUST COME RIGHT OUT IN THE WASH AND MAYBE WE SHOULD DO THE RIGHT THING WOULD BE MY MY POINT OF VIEW SO I'M I'M A CONCEPT C KIND OF GAL THANK YOU [01:27:35] **Mayor Tim Busse**: LET'S REMEMBER COULTER [01:27:38] **Councilmember Nathan Coulter**: THANK YOU MAYOR WELL ANOTHER LESSON IN HOW WE SOMETIMES CHANGE OUR MINDS HERE BECAUSE TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, I CAME INTO THIS MEETING LEANING MORE OPTION B WITH OPTION C COMING IN THE FUTURE BUT AS I'VE SAT HERE SORT OF LISTENING AND THINKING ABOUT IT MAYOR RAISE A GOOD POINT ABOUT SORT OF THE REDUNDANT FACILITIES THAT WOULD APPEAR TO TO BE THE CASE WITH OPTION B AND TO BE TO BE FRANK I MORE OR LESS RULED OUT OPTION A BECAUSE IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THE STATUS QUO AND YOU KNOW, I EVEN BEFORE YOU GOT INTO THE STATISTICS I THOUGHT THAT'S JUST WAY TOO LITTLE TRAFFIC FOR FOUR LANES OF ROAD AND I KNOW OBVIOUSLY I KNOW THAT AREA OF TOWN REALLY WELL AND SO I TO BE FRANK I I'M NOT THRILLED WITH THIS AND YOU KNOW EXACTLY AS IT'S WRITTEN I THINK YOU KNOW, LIKEWISE IT SEEMS A LITTLE ODD TO HAVE A TEN FOOT SIDEWALK ON ONE SIDE OF THE STREET AND A SIX FOOT SIDEWALK ON THE OTHER SIDE. BUT I WOULD SAY SOMETHING CLOSER TO CONCEPT C THINK IS PROBABLY WHAT I WOULD PREFER AND I THINK YOU KNOW IN ADDITION TO THE POINTS THAT COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO MADE THAT ARE WELL TAKEN, YOU KNOW, I THINK ALLOWING FOR THAT GREATER USE OF OF MULTIMODAL OPTIONS THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WHEN I HAVE BEEN OUT DOOR KNOCKING IN THAT PART OF TOWN HEARD FROM ALMOST EVERYBODY THAT THERE ARE JUST NOT THERE ARE NOT ADEQUATE FACILITIES TO GET FOLKS TO ACROSS TOWN OR BY BIKE OR REALLY ANY OTHER MODE BEYOND DRIVING. SO YOU I THINK OVERALL IN TERMS OF THE COST AND I'M A LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT WHAT THE SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS MIGHT LOOK FOR LOOK LIKE IN IN THAT REGARD AS WELL. BUT I THINK GIVEN WHAT GIVEN THE OPTIONS THAT WE HAVE BEFORE US, YOU KNOW THERE'S ALWAYS THE OLD PHRASE DON'T COMPARE ME THE ALMIGHTY, JUST COMPARE ME TO THE ALTERNATIVE. AND WHEN COMPARING THE ALTERNATIVES HERE I THINK OPTION C IS PROBABLY THE THE ONE THAT I WOULD PREFER. [01:29:40] **Mayor Tim Busse**: COUNCILMEMBER CARTER COUPLE OF QUESTIONS SORRY. SO BLOOMINGTON FERRY NORTH OF THE SECTION IS ALSO THE FOUR LANES WITH THE EVENTUAL IDEA B TO KIND OF TO CONSTRUCT OF BLOOMINGTON FERRY IN A SIMILAR WAY OR DOES THAT SEE ENOUGH TRAFFIC THAT MAYBE IT WOULD GO FROM FOUR TO 2 TO 4? [01:30:00] **Darin Ruzek**: MR. MAYOR COUNCIL MEMBER COUNCILMEMBER CARTER I WOULD I WOULD ASSUME TRAFFIC VOLUMES WOULD WOULD NOT WARRANT A FOUR LANE ROAD BUT I WILL DEFER TO MR. ROBERTS. [01:30:10] **Kirk Roberts (Traffic Engineer)**: MR.. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER, JUST CLARIFY ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT THE SECTION OF BLOOMINGTON VERY OF OLD CHAKOPEE ROAD? [01:30:20] **Councilmember Jenna Carter**: NO, I'M THINKING ABOUT RTH IT RUNS NORTH SOUTH AND THEN KIND OF RIGHT IT'S BLOOMINGTON AND THEN JOGS AROUND [01:30:30] **Kirk Roberts**: MR. MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS THE ENTIRE THAT ENTIRE PORTION IS THE VOLUMES ARE WITHIN THE RANGE WHERE YOU COULD CONVERT MOST OF THE ROADS TO SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THIS OVER TIME. YEAH EVENTUALLY IF THE SECTION YOU CHOSE HERE WOULD PROBABLY ITSELF BE USED AGAIN AS YOU MOVE TO THE NORTH AND ALL THE ROADS AS THEY CAME UP FOR RECONSTRUCT OR OTHER PROJECT WORK. [01:30:50] **Councilmember Jenna Carter**: OKAY SO THAT SECTION OF BLOOMINGTON FERRY WOULDN' BE LIKE A FORGIVE ME I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT ALL THE ROADS ARE CALLED ARTERIAL OR WHATEVER TO 169 [01:31:00] **Kirk Roberts**: YOU'RE ASKING DOES THIS SECTION OF BLOOMINGTON SERVICE SORT OF A PARALLEL ROUTE OR SOMETHING? YES, THERE'S THE SECTION THAT RUNS PARALLEL TO 169 AND THEN IT KIND OF HITS THIS SECTION AND CURVES AROUND WHICH WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CURVE. I'M JUST I'M THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE AND KIND OF THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC AND AND EVEN AS A COUNCIL DO WE NEED TO START THINKING OR AS COUNCILS MOVE THEUTUR STA THINKING ABOUT LIKE WHAT BLOOMINGTON FERRY HOLISTIC LOOKS LIKE AS WE MOVENTO THE FUTURE. AND SO I WAS JUST CURIOUS ABOUT TRAFFIC VOLUMES CONSIDERING IT DOES RUN PARALLEL TO 169 BUT I KNOW IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A WEIRD YOU KNOW IT'S NOT LIKE A TYPICAL LIKE FRONTAGE ROAD ON 494. SO I GUESS I JUST WAS CURIOUS THAT AS WE THINK ABOUT THIS SECTION TOO [01:31:40] **Kirk Roberts**: MR. MAYOR. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER IT IT'S A GOOD QUESTION. I THINK YOU CONSISTENTLY APPLY A CRO SECTION LIKEHISLL THROUGHOUT THAT AREA AS THE ROADS CAME UP FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND THEN THE QUESTION IS WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE INTERSECTIONS, THINGS LIKE THAT AND THAT'S A QUESTION THAT HAS TO BE SOLVED, YOU KNOW, PROJECT BY PROJECT. BUT YES YOUR POINT THERE ARE NO THERE ARE NO SECTIONS OF BLOOMINGTON FERRY THROUGH HERE FROM CHICOPEE ROAD ALL THE WAY UP TO THE NORTH THAT NEED A FOUR LANE SECTION. [01:32:05] **Councilmember Jenna Carter**: OKAY. THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT AND THEN IN THE SIDEWALKS WOULD BE REDONE TO CORRECT IF THEY STAYED LIKE THE TEN FOOT IF WHATEVER OPTION [01:32:15] **Darin Ruzek**: MR. MAYOR COUNL MEMBER OR COUNCILMEMBER CARTER SO WHAT YOU SEE FOR CONCEPT C THE SCREEN WAS THAT SIX FOOT SIDEWALK ON THE EAST SIDE THAT WAS JUST INCLUDED IN THE PROJECT AS A PEDESTRIAN FACILITY THAT IS SIMPLY A LINE ITEM THAT I INCLUDED IN THE BUDGET SHOULD THE DIRECTION BE TEN FOOT MULTI-USE PATH ON THE EAST SIDE THAT WOULD BECOME A LINE ITEM IN THE PROJECT BUDGET. SO I JUST PUTTING IT TOGETHER TRYING TO KIND OF MATCH WHAT WAS WHAT WAS OUT THERE MULTI-USE PATH ON ONE SIDE AND SIDEWALK ON THE OTHER THE THE THE THE PROJECT COST AS WE HAVE IT RIGHT NOW THE TEN FOOT MULTI-USE PATH ON THE WEST SIDE WAS NOT SCHEDULED TO BE WAS IS NOT INCLUDED TO BE REPLACED BUT THE THE ON THE EAST SIDE IS OBVIOUSLY NEW. OKAY GREAT. YOU. YOU KNOW, I I AM COMFORTABLE PUTTING FORWARD CONCEPTS FEE TO THE COMMUNITY. I ALL OF THE POINTS THAT YOU MADE AND I DO THINK WE YOU KNOW, THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE AND WHAT WE SAID WE WANT AND WHAT WE WANT TO DO AND IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE. I DO I LOVE TO JUST EMPHASIZE THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND AND AND AND MAYBE PUTTING OUT NOT JUST A CONCEPT C BUT ALSO A B, YOU KNOW, SO THAT THE NEIGHBOR NEIGHBORS IN THAT CAN WEIGH IN . BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT ALSO TO THE THINGS THAT WE THAT WERE TALKED ABOUT IN TERMS SUSTAINABILITY AND MAKINGT ME PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE. I THINK SOMETIMES WHEN CHANGES LIKE THIS COME ABOUT AND NEIGHBORS GET WIND, YOU KNOW, THE IMMEDIATE REACTION CAN BE LIKE THIS IS A BIG CHANGE AND PEOPLE YOU KNOW EVEN IF EVEN PEOPLE WHO ARE OKAY WITH CHANGE GET A LITTLE FREAKED OUT RIGHT AT FIRST. AND SO JUST MAKING SURE WE'RE REALLY CLEAR ABOUT THE BENEFITS AS WELL AS THE RISKS OR THE OTHER RISKS THE COSTS WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD. BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT AT THE END OF THE DAY LIKE IN LOTS OF CONVERSATIONS WITH RESIDENTS PEOPLE REALLY DO PRIORITIZE SUSTAINILITYND AND SO I THINK I WOULD GUESS THAT RESIDENTS WILL LEAN TOWARD CONCEPT C BUT I WOULD LOVE TO ENGAGE THAT AREA THE COMMUNITY THANK YOU [01:34:50] **Councilmember Dwayne Lowman**: COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN I DON'T NEED TO REPEAT ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S ALREADY BEEN SAID I THINK IT'S BEEN SAID VERY ELOQUENTLY THE ONLY POINT THOUGH THAT I WOULD LIKE TO BRING FORWARD IS AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE BUT I THINK THAT AS WE TRY TO TAKE A ROAD DIET SO CAMEP WITH IT BUT AND I'M CERTAINLY FOR THAT I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT OUR ASSESSMENT POLICY IN TERMS OF HOW WE IMPLEMENT THAT SO IF WE'RE LOOKING TO MAKE THINGS MORE WE KNOW THAT THAT THERE IS IN A SENSE THERE'S A ADDITIONAL COST AND I THINK THAT THAT IN SOME DEGREE MAKES SOME SENSE T BEAR BY ALL AND . SO I DON'T THINK IT'S THE FULL AMOUNT BUT MAYBE THERE'S SOME PART THAT WE COULD TAKE ON IN ADDITION TO MITIGATE SOME OF THE SOME THIS COST THAT T RESIDENT WLD WOULD INCUR NOW THAT WOULD THAT WHERE I'M ASKING THOUGH IS TO CHANGE HOW WE DO OUR PMP POLICY SO THAT WE WOULD YOU KNOW, WHICH I THINK IS A GREAT START STARTED OFF BY SAYING HEY THIS MAY BE A MORE SUSTAINABLE PROCESS BY WHICH AND I THINK THAT IF WE LOOKED ALSO AT THE UTILIZATION LONG TERM WE WOULD SEE A GREAT BENEFIT THERE NOT ONLY FROM THAT UTILIZATION OF THE REDUCTION OF THE IMPERVIOUS SURFACE THAT'S THERE BUT ALSO WITH THE ADDITION OF THE GREENERY THAT COULD BE ADDED ON THOSE BOULEVARDS. AND SO I THINK THAT THAT'S A HUGE WIN FOR THE CITY AND I THINK THAT THOSE P ARE DIVIDENDS LONG TERM AND I DON'T I MEAN I DON'T WANT I CERTAINLY IF WE MOVE IT OVER AND YOU KNOW THE, REST OF THE CITY PAYS FOR IT, WE'RE ALL PAYING FOR IT. BUT I DO THINK THAT we SHOULD BEAR AS A CITY. SO THAT WOULD BE MY MY ONLY RECOMMENDATION ALONG WITH WAS C AND THEN I ALSO HEARD YOU GUYS SAY SOMETHING ABOUT ROUNDABOUTS WHICH IS ANOTHER GREAT SUSTAINABLE PROCESS WHERE CARS ARE NOT STOPPING AND PUMPING OUT THAT THAT IN THAT ORDER. SO I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY REASON TO LOOK AT THE OTHER TWO OPTIONS I WOULD JUST SCRATCH THOSE OFF AND SEE HER IS REALLY MY ONLY YOU KNOW YOU MIGHT WANT TO MODIFY IT BUT I THINK I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I DON'T HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT MAYOR ABOUT MAYBE LOOKING AT HER PMP AND TRYING TO EMPHASIZE AND TRYING TO ADD SOME SPECIAL BENEFIT FROM A SUSTAINABLE PERSPECTIVE. BUT I WANT TO THROW THAT OUT THERE AND I KNOW IT'S TOUGH TO CHANGE SOMETHING THAT WE WE'VE KIND OF BEEN DOING FOR YEAR AFTER YEAR AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT WHAT'S FAIR. SO THAT'S THE OTHER YOU KNOW, THE DEVIL'S IN THE DETAIL AND I THINK I AGREE [01:37:35] **Mayor Tim Busse**: COUNCILMEMBER AND I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY A A TERM CONVERSATION THAN THIS ALTHOUGH IF WE GO WITH OPTION C WE ARE PUTTING IT OFF FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS SO PERHAPS WE COULD HAVE THAT CONVERSATION AS OF THIS. LET ME OFFER A COUPLE OF THINGS MY THOUGHTS ON THIS BUILDING OFF ON WHAT COUNCILMEMBER CARTER SAID. I THINK IF WE GO WITH COUNCIL WITH CONCEPT C, I WANT AT LEAST A CONCEPT PLAN IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE THAT NORTH AND SOUTH OF THIS SECTION THAT WE HAVE AN IDEA IN PLACE WHERE WE'RE HEADED. I WANT I DON'T WANT SIDEWALKS AND BIKE PATHS TO NOWHERE. I MEAN TO GET TO A CERTAIN SPOT AND HAVE THEM AND THAT WE HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO TO ADD TO OUR BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE AND TO YOUR POINT TO GO FROM FOUR TO 2 TO 4 IT I WOULD AT LEAST LIKE TO SEE A PLAN THAT MAKES THAT THAT PLOTTED OUT YOU KNOW IF NOT CERTAINLY NOT TOMORROW OR THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS BUT OVER OVER THE COURSE TIME WHAT OUR ULTIMATE GOAL IS HERE FOR THIS AND FOR THIS SECTION OF OF OF THE ROAD THE SECOND THOUGHT AND JUST TO THROW IT OUT TO THIS GROUP AND COUNT NOSES OBVIOUSLY I THINK WE'RE KIND OF COALESCING AROUND SEE DO WE TO WITH CONTINUE OUR DISCUSSION DO WE WANT TO HOLD THIS DISCUSSION OVER UNTIL WE HAVE COUNCILMEMBER NELSON COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN BACK SO THEY CAN WEIGH IN AS WELL? LIKE I SAID, I MEAN WE WE WE'VE I THINK COALESCED AROUND I DON'T KNOW THAT WOULD BE AN ENORMOUS DIFFERENCE BUT IT WOULD BE THEY MIGHT PROVIDE A PERSPECTIVE SO I'D BE OPEN TO THAT COUNCILMEMBER COULTER. [01:39:20] **Councilmember Nathan Coulter**: THANK YOU MAYOR TO THAT POINT IN RECOGNIZING THAT BY ADVOCATING THIS I'M ESSENTIALLY TAKING AWAY MY OWN VOTE ON THE ISSUE. I BELIEVE THIS IS IN COUNCILMEMBER NELSON'S DISTRICT SO I PERSONALLY I THINK IT WOULD BE ONLY FAIR TO ALLOW HIM TO COMMENT THIS SPECIFICALLY. [01:39:40] **Mayor Tim Busse**: SO WHY DON'T WE WHY DON'T WE DO THIS WHY DON'T WE WE HAVE A RECOMMENDATION BASED ON THE FIVE HERE WHAT WE HAVE I THINK TO MAYBE CONTINUE THIS UNTIL THE JANUARY 9TH MEETING AND MAKE SURE THAT WE AT LEAST SPEND A COUPLE OF MINUTES AND THEIR FEEDBACK AND THEIR IDEAS ON THIS AS WELL AND THEN AGAIN WE'VE GOT WE'GOT AN IDEA WHERE WE'RE HEADED BUT TO HEAR WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY ON THIS I THINK MIGHT BE THE THING TO DO. LL SOND YOUR MOTION SO WE'VE GOT A MOTION A SECOND TO WE'VE NEVER DECIDED ON THE VERB HERE TO TABLE TO LAY OVER TO HOLD OVER TO CONTINUE TO POSTPONE TO PASS OVER I MEAN POSTPONE TO POSTPONE A FINAL VOTE ON THIS UNTIL OUR JANUARY 9TH MEETING THAT MAKES SENSE THE MOTION AND THE SECOND ANY COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS IF NOT ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO. I THINK IT WAS A GOOD DISCUSSION AND A LOT OF GOOD IDEAS GOOD PRESENTATION. I APPRECIATE DETAIL ON THE SPECIFICS THAT WERE BROUGHT FORWARD BUT I DO THINK IT MAKES SENSE MAKE SURE THAT THAT COUNCILMEMBER NELSON AND COUNCILMEMBER MARTIN HAVE AT LEAST BIT OF A SAY IN TERMS OF WHERE WE'RE HEADED WITH THIS. I THINK VICE MAYOR COUNCIL IS IF YOU'RE JUST TUNING IN , WE HAVE NEWS SPEAKING OF CONTINUING THINGS THAT THE MEETING ON JANUARY 9TH IS GETTING FULL. WE'V CONNUED ITEM 5.2 THE ART HISTORY GRANT REQUEST AND ITEM 5.3 OF THE BLOOMINGTON SALES TAX PRIORITIZATION DISCUSSION UNTIL JANUARY 9TH. SO IF YOU'RE TUNING IN NOW LOOKING FOR THAT WE WILL NOT BE TALKING ABOUT THAT THIS EVENING. WE'LL BE TALKING IT ON JANUARY 9TH JUST TO LET YOU KNOW WHICH MOVES US ON ITEM 5.4 AND OUR ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS WHICH IS THE CITY MANAGER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION SUMMARY AND EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT AND ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 12TH THE CITY COUNCIL HELD A CLOSED MEETING FOR THE PURPOSE OF DOING THE ANNUAL END OF YEAR PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FOR THE CITY MANAGER. MR. JAMIE VERBRUGGE AS YOU ALL KNOW AND AS SURE A LOT OF FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY KNOW THE CITY COUNCIL WE'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR EXACTLY ONE EMPLOYEE IN THIS CITY AND IT IS OUR CITY MANAGER AND OBVIOUSLY IS THAT RESPONSIBILITY ONE OF OUR RESPONSIBILITIES IS DO AN ANNUAL EMPLOYMENT EVALUATION AND FOR EVERYONE'S INFORMATION THERE IS AN OFFICIAL EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE CITY MANAGER IT DEFINES THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT PER MINNESOTA LAW BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ABOUT THIS AS WELL PER MINNESOTA LAWHE CITY COUNCIL MEETING CAN BE CLOSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF AN EMPLOYEE'S PERFORMANCE AND AND AS I SAID, WE WE MET ON DECEMBER 12TH FOR THE BETTER PART OF ABOUT TWO AND A HALF HOURS. WE EVALUATED MR. VERBRUGGE'S PERFORMANCE USING THE GENERAL CATEGORIES OF LEADING, MANAGING AND DEVELOPING STAFF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT THROUGH EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT SERVICE DELIVERY FOCUSED ON STRATEGIC PRIORITIES, MEANINGFUL INCLUSIVE RESIDENT INVOLVEMENT, INNOVATION AND APPROPRIATE RISK TAKING AND THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COUNCIL. AND AFTER REVIEWING MR. VERBRUGGE'S PERFORMANCE OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS AFTER PROVIDING BOTH SOME POSITIVE AND SOME CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK AND AFTER ENGAGING IN A ACTUALLY A VERY GOOD DISCUSSION, THE COUNCIL WAS UNANIMOUS IN GIVING MR. VERBRUGGE A POSITIVE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION. AS A RESULT, THE COUNCIL IN MR. VERBRUGGE AGRD TO AMEND TERMS OF THE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT WHICH CAN BE SUMMARIZED AS SECTION TWO WILL BE AMENDED TO THE TERM OF 2023 THE SECTION FOUR THE SALARY WILL BE AMENDED 2002 220 $672 AND WOULD ADD A $2,500 PER CALENDAR YEAR EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION IN IN THE EMPLOYEES DEFERRED COMPENSATION ACCOUNT. SO THAT IS WHAT WE DID ON DECEMBER 12TH. THAT IS WHAT THE OUTCOME OF THE MEETING WAS AND THAT IS THE THE THE AMENDED TERMS OF THE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT COUNCIL ANY ANY CLARIFICATIONS OR QUESTIONS REGARDING THAT HEARING NON COUNCIL I AM GOING TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY MANAGER AND THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON AS STATED SECOND OF A MOTION AND THE SECOND TO APPROVE THE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY MANAGER JAMIE VERBRUGGE AND THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON. AS STATED NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO. MR. VERBRUGGE CONGRATULATIONS [01:44:55] **City Manager Jamie Verbrugge**: MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS THANK YOU AND AS I SAY HOPEFULLY OFTEN ENOUGH THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF ALLOWING ME TO SERVE NOT ONLY THE SEVEN OF YOU BUT YOU KNOW THE MORE THAN 600 PEOPLE WHO CALL THIS THEIR THEIR PLACE OF WORK AND THE 90,000 PEOPLE WHO CALL THIS PLACE HOME. IT'S IT'S AN HONOR AND, A PRIVILEGE TO GET TO DO THIS AND I TAKE NONE OF IT FOR GRANTED. THANK YOU. [01:45:20] **Mayor Tim Busse**: THANK YOU, MR. VERBRUGGE. APPRECIATE IT. MOVING ON THE COUNCIL TO ITEM 5.5 OR CITY COUNCIL POLICY AND ISSUE UPDATES. I WILL START A QUICK RECAP OF OUR LISTENING THIS EVENING. WE ACTUALLY HAD FIVE SPEAKERS I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE HAD FIVE SPEAKERS IN OUR LISTENING SESSION. MRS. KRISTIN STICHTER SPOKE OF SOME ISSUES SHE AND HER HER PARTNER MATTHEW METHENY WERE HAVING WITH THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON AND THE BLOOMINGTON POLICE DEPARTMENT. REGARDING NUISANCE CALLS FROM NEIGHBORS THERE WERE THERE ARE A NUMBER OF ISSUES FLOATING AROUND AND SHE WAS LOOKING FOR SOME DIRECTION AS TO WHO SPECIFICALLY TO TALK TO TO GET SOME SPECIFIC ANSWERS AND TO PUT DETAILS. AND WE WERE ABLE TO DIRECT HER TO A COUPLE OF FOLKS ON CITY STAFF THAT ARE ABLE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AND GET HER NAMES AND PHONE NUMBE PEOE TO FOLLOW UP WITH AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN RESOLVE SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT SHE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT AND DID BRING FORWARD OF IN GENERAL TERMS. MS. ALANIS HAD SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT AN ISSUE REGARDING EMPLOYEE A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT AND AND WEBSITES SUFFERING FROM YEARS AGO OVER AT 8201 PARK AVENUE AND MS. TIFFANY TROUT WHO TALKED ABOUT SPOKE ON BEHALF OF THE AFSCME EMPLOYEES IN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON. SHE ALSO ASKED ABOUT THE TIMING OF EVENTS AS THEY'RE LISTED IN THE BLOOMINGTON BRIEFING AND IF WE COULD DO A BETTER JOB IN OF TIMING THOSE EVENTS OUT BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE BRIEFING COMES OUT THE EVENT HAS ALREADY OCCURRED AND I JUST NOTICED THAT ACTUALLY THIS WEEK WHEN IT CAME OUT THAT WE WERE PAST SOME THOSE DATES JOSH SPOKE OUT VERY, VERY ELOQUENTLY AGAINST ISLAMOPHOBIA ANTI-SEMITISM AND HOMOPHOBIA AND ASKED THE COUNCIL TO TO CONTINUE TO SPEAK OUT AND DO THE SAME. AND MR. ANDY THALL SPOKE OUT AGAINST ONE OF OUR FIREFIGHTERS WHO FELT THREATENED AND WAS NCERNED A FEWEARS BACK AND BROUGHT FORWARD A CONCERN TO SUPERVISOR AND MR. THALL QUESTIONED WHETHER OR NOT WAS A LEGITIMATE CONCERN ON BEHALF OF THE FIREFIGHTER THE EMPLOYEE OF THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON, THE PERSON WHO WE ARE TASKED WITH SUPPORTING . RIGHT RIGHT. HE HE QUESTIONED WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS LEGITIMATE AND WHETHER IT WAS AUTHENTIC OR THERE WERE OTHER ISSUES INVOLVED AND THAT IS ARKANSAS LISTENING SESSION FOR THIS EVENING. >> MR. VERBRUGGE DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD? [01:48:15] **City Manager Jamie Verbrugge**: MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS I KNOW IT WAS TAKEN CARE OF EARLIER IN THE AGENDA BUT JUST A NOTE OF GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION FOR THE COUNCIL'S EXTENSION OF THE THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON HOLIDAY TIME OFF NONE OF THE STAFF TAKE IT FOR GRANTED AND I KNOW THAT MANY OF THEM TOLD ME HOW MUCH THEY APPRECIATE IT IF ARE NOT REACHING OUT DIRECTLY TO YOUR OWN TO MAKE SURE YOU KNOW THAT AS WELL. SO THANK THANK YOU [01:48:40] **Mayor Tim Busse**: MR. VERBRUGGE COUNSELOR. ANYTHING TO BRING FORWARD THIS EVENING MR. COUNCILMEMBER. LOWMAN [01:48:45] **Councilmember Dwayne Lowman**: THANK YOU. IT'S JUST A THREE QUICK THINGS HERE. COME CERTAINLY WITH THE HOLIDAYS IS THOSE THOSE FOLKS WHO ARE HAVING TOUGH AND WANT TO JUST BE SURE THAT WE ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AS WELL AND I'M SO GLAD THAT WE WERE ABLE TO GIVE SOME FOLKS SOME TIME OFF AS WELL SO THEY CAN BE WITH THEIR FAMILIES OR WITH THOSE FOLKS. I ALWAYS LIKE TO DO THIS. I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO DO IT BEFORE BUT I DID WANTED TO YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE LAST TIME WILL BE WITH NATHAN. I REALLY APPRECIATE HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH YOU HERE ON THE COUNCIL. YOUR THOUGHTS AND THE WAY THAT U Y KNOW YOU LK THE WORLD VERY SIMILAR TO MINE SO IT WOULD BE HARD TO NOT HAVE YOU AROUND TO SPEAK UP A LITTLE BIT MORE BUT just WANTED TO JUST SAY HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE YOUR YOUR YOUR SKILL FOR US HERE AND IT'D BE GREAT TO HAVE YOU AT THE LEGISLATURE STUMPING FOR US AND I CERTAINLY HAVE APPRECIATE YOUR VALUES AND HOW YOU LOOK AT THE COMMUNITY AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN THAT ROLE. SO CONGRATULATIONS ON THAT AND YOU KNOW IF YOU EVER GET BORED YOU WANT TO COM BAC CAN COME JOIN US AND THEN THE LAST PIECE HERE AND I WANT TO I WANT TO BE I WANT TO BE CAREFUL BECAUSE I JUST I DON'T WE HAVE THE ASPEN FOLKS THAT CAME BEFORE US AND I'VE HAD A CHANCE TO KIND OF DO A LITTLE MORE DIGGING INTO THIS PIECE HERE. AND I THINK THE MAIN CONCERN THAT I'M HEARING IS IS IS EQUITY OF AND HOW THEY'RE BEING HOW THEY'RE FEELING SOME THEM ARE FEELING QUITE SCARED INACT, WHICH KIN OF OCKED . SO I DON'T I DON'T THINK THIS IS THE APPROPRIATE TIME TO TALK ABOUT IT AND I DON'T KNOW WHEN THAT IS BUT I THINK THAT THIS BODY NEEDS TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT ABOUT THIS SUMMER. LOOK TO YOU I MEAN I'M NOT SURE IF YOU'VE HAD THE CHANCE TO TO LOOK THROUGH SOME THESE THINGS IN DETAIL. I KNOW WE GOT AT THE THE THE 11TH HOUR AND SO I WAS ABLE TO LOOK THROUGH IT CAREFULLY. I HEARD SOME OF THESE THINGS OVER THE YEARS AND IN FACT BACK IN JUNE. SO I KNOW I LOOK TO IN TERMS OF YOUR LEADERSHIP I JUST ALWAYS GET CONCERNED ABOUT THE INTEGRITY OF OUR CITY AND WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW, IF THERE IS SOMETHING THERE THAT WE LOOK INTO IT AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE WE'RE TREATING ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES EQUALLY IF THAT THAT'S THE DEAL AND MAYBE THERE'S JUST A MISUNDERSTANDING THERE AND I WANT TO BE SURE THAT WE'RE UNDERSTAND SO I LOOK YOU IN TERMS OF YOUR WISDOM BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO HAVE THIS AS A PUBLIC CONVERSATION. I FEELERY AND I THOUGHT I DON'T WANT TO DO THAT BECAUSE I JUST THINK THAT THAT ISN'T A GOOD PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATION [01:51:25] **Mayor Tim Busse**: AND I WOULD AGREE IT COUNTS EVERY AND TONIGHT AND RIGHT NOW IS A GOOD TIME FOR THAT CONVERSATION BECAUSE ABSOLUTELY SINCE WE RECEIVED THAT SINCE WE TALKED AT THE LISTENING SESSION I'VE BEEN A TOUCH BUSY, NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW ANYTHING IN TERMS OF BUSY WITH OUR HOW WE'RE GOING FORWARD WITH THIS I WILL AGREE I THINK THIS WARRANTS A CONVERSATION AND I WOULD TO OUR STAFF TO DETERMINE IF THIS FALLS UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF NEGOTIATIONS CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS SO PERHAPS IT NEEDS TO BE A CLOSED SESSION PERHAPS A IT'S IN AN OPEN CONVERSATION AND I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW AND I'M GOING TO TURN TO STAFF AND NOT PUT THEM ON THE SPOT RIGHT NOW. BUT WE WILL COME BACK WITH A RECOMMENDATION AS TO HOW MOVE FORWARD AND ADDRESS THIS AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS ALL OF THE DETAILS AND SPECIFICS AND THE MINUTIA I'M. SURE. THAT IS PART OF ALL OF THIS BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS THE MINUTIA. THE DEVIL IS ALWAYS IN THE DETAIL SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS AND SO WE WILL WILL DO THAT AND WE ARE A PART TIME COUNCIL AND I GET THAT BUT I WANT TO JUST BE SURE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO DO THIS AND YOU KNOW AND I'LL DO DO DO HASTE I DON'T WANT TO HAVE IT WHERE WE'RE NOT ABLE TO WEIGH IN IF IS SOME TYPE OF CONCERN THERE. SO WITH THAT BEING SAID CERTAINLY, I'M NOT LOOKING FOR A RESPONSE TONIGHT BUT I'D LIKE TO ASK SOMETHING BEFORE WE GET TOGETHER AGAIN. VERY GOOD. COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO [01:53:10] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: THANK YOU, MAYOR YEAH, A COUPLE OF THINGS HERE REALLY QUICKLY. FIRST OFF, I I THINK BY ACCIDENT FOUND MYSELF INVITED TO ANNUAL MEETING BY ACCIDENT AS IN THAT I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS BUT EVERYBODY ELSE PROBABLY DID. THE RICHFIELD BLOOMINGTON WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION IN ONE MEETING THE FIRST I HEARD OF IT AND SO I WAS CURIOUS IF IF IF IF WE COULD JUST CHAT REALLY VERY BRIEFLY FOR EVERYBODY SINCE IT'S SOMETHING I THINK THAT WE'RE ALL KIND OF APPOINTED BY VIRTUE OF OUR STATION. IS THAT CORRECT? [01:53:45] **Mayor Tim Busse**: YOU ARE CORRECT. COUNCIL MEMBER SO THE RICHFIELD BLOOMINGTON WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION IT'S IT'S A WATERSHED AS THE NAME IMPLIES IT'S A WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OR ORGANIZATION THE BOARD FOR THAT ORGANIZATION ARE THE TWO CITY COUNCILS OF RICHFIELD AND BLOOMINGTON AND THE STAFFING WORK BASICALLY TRADES BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN TWO CITIES ON A YEARLY BASIS AND THE WE'RE PART OF THAT WATERSHED. WE HAVE ISSUES WE MEET ONCE A YEAR. IT'S USUALLY IN MARCH PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT AND YOU CAN BE PRESIDENT OF THE ORGANIZATION NEXT YEAR AND YOU THINK I'M KIDDING YOU PLAY YOUR CARDS WRONG AND YOU COULD BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE ORGANIZATION FOR TWO YEARS. IT IST'ST'S LIKE OTHER WATERSHED ORGANIZATION IS IT'S I WON'T SAY IT'S A PERFUNCTORY ORGANIZATION BUT IT'S AN ORGANIZATION THAT KIND OF LOOKS OVER AND MAKES SURE THAT THE WATERSHED IS PROTECTED WITHIN THE OR WITHIN THE AREA STAFF OFFERS A LOT OF INFORMATION WE WE ONCE A YEAR WE GET TOGETHER AND LEARN SOME THINGS AND APPROVE A BUDGET AND MOVE FORWARD WITH IT. [01:54:55] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: SUPER I THINK IT JUST SLIPPED THROUGH THE CRACKS OF OF MY EDUCATION AS A NEW MEMBER UNTIL I WAS TOLD BY THE CITY OR THE COUNTY THAT I NEEDEDO FIL OUT PAPERWORK RELATED TO MY FIDUCIARY FIDUCIARY AND I WAS LIKE I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS FOR. I THOUGHT I DID THIS ALREADY. SO ANYWAY GOOD TO KNOW. APPRECIATE THAT AND IT DOES SOUND EXCITING. LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE AND EDUCATION FOR ME AND EVERYBODY ELSE ON 3.11 THAT WE PASSED TONIGHT THE A.R. IT GOT ME THINKING ABOUT AS YOU THAT THAT THAT GRANT WAS FOR THE FOR EDINA DO WE HAVE DOES THAT ASSOCIATION AFFECT BLOOMINGTON WELL AND DO WE HAVE A SIMILAR SET OF WORK GOING ON TO FACILITATE THAT HERE IN BLOOMINGTON, [01:55:40] **City Manager Jamie Verbrugge**: MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCILMEMBER D'ALESANDRO WE HAVE BEEN DOING WORK WITH THEM AND THE CONTRACT WAS EXTENDING THAT WORK INTO EDINA. SO LIKE I SAID WE'LL HAVE MORE FOR THE COUNCIL. OKAY SO IT WAS EXTENDING THE WORK INTO EDINA BUT. THE CONTRACT ALREADY DOES WORK HERE IN BLOOMINGTON FOR STANDING. YES. [01:55:58] **Councilmember Lona Dallessandro**: OKAY. VERY GOOD. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND THEN LASTLY, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A WAS I WAS KIND OF EXCITED ABOUT THIS. THERE'S A ANOTHER ANOTHER RESIDENT WITHIN OUR AREA WHO IS LOOKING AT A SPECIFIC PART OF THEIR RESIDENTIAL STREET AND ARE HOPING THAT MAYBE SOMETHING LIKE WE DID IN LOUISIANA AVENUE COULD SOLVE THEIR PROBLEM TOO. AND SO JUST WANT TO RE-UP MY REQUEST I THINK I ASKED IF WE COULD GET SOME KIND OF A LIKE A ONE PAGER THAT SAYS HEY IF YOU'RE A RESIDENTIAL AREA OR A YOU KNOW PERSON OR A GROUP OF PEOPLE AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAYBE BRING AN IDEA AND TO THE COUNCIL OR TO THE THE PLANNING COMMISSION ABOUT HOW TO DO SOME STREET MITIGATION. THERE'S A WAY TO DO THAT NOW WE HAVE A PLAN AND SO I THOUGHT THAT WE ASKED FOR THAT AFTER THE LISIANA AVENUE WAS DONE AND I'M JUST HOPING THAT WE CAN GET SOON BECAUSE IT JUST SEEMS TO BECOMING MORE AND MORE POPULAR WHICH IS GREAT, YOU KNOW, ALWAYS GOOD TO HAVE RESIDENTS TELLING US WHERE WE SHOULD OUR OUR OUR EFFORTS. AND THANK YOU TO KIRK ACTUALLY RESPONDED RIGHT AWAY TO THE RESIDENT AND IS WORKING ON IT RIGHT NOW SO NO ISSUES IN THAT REGARD BUT WE'D LOVE TO GET SOMETHING OUT AND I THINK WE WOULD ASK FOR A MODIFICATION OR A SIMPLIFICATION OF THE PROCESS AS WELL TO MAKE IT JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE ACCESSIBLE FOR FOLKS. [01:57:15] **Mayor Tim Busse**: AND PART OF THE ACCESSIBILITY, YES IS A ONE PAGER, A SIMPLE EXPLAINER THAT YOU CAN HAND TO SOMEONE AND THEY CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT THE STEPS ARE . THEY WANT TO DO ANY NUMBER OF DIFFERENT POSSIBILITIES IN TERMS OF TRAFFIC MITIGATION IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. SO YEAH YEAH IT COULD BE ON THE WEBSITE YOU I APPRECIATE IT THANK YOU THAT'S A FOR ME GREAT CREDIT OR ANYTHING BEFORE I TURN IT OVER TO YOU, COUNCILMEMBER COULTER, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE ON THE BLOOMINGTON CITY COUNCIL. YOU'VE GOT BIG SHOES TO FILL. WE'VE GOT A LONG HISTORY IN BLOOMINGTON CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS MOVING OUT OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE AND DOING BIG THINGS REALLY. G THINGS. I MEAN I THINK OF REPRESENTATIVE ELKINS I THINK OF REPRESENTATIVE LYNN CHESKY. I THINK OF WAS IT SENATOR REPRESENTATIVE PETERSON BRING NEIL PETERSON YEAH BUT BOTH YOU'RE RIGHT. IT WAS BOTH YEP. YEP. SO A lot OF BIG SHOES TO FILL AND GOT CONFIDENCE IN YOU THAT YOU'RE GOING TO REPRESENT THE CITY FABULOUSLY AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO FORGET ABOUT US AND IT'S IT'S NOT LIKEE'RE SAYING GOODBYE BECAUSE I'M SURE WE'RE GOING TO SEE YOU JUST AS FREQUENTLY AS WE WE TYPICALLY WOULD BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO NEED YOU ON A LOT DIFFERENT AND A LOT OF DIFFERENT ISSUES AND BLOOMINGTON IS GOING TO NEED YOUR YOUR STRONG VOICE AND YOUR YOUR RATIONAL THINKING AND YOUR YOUR CLEAR WAY OF SEEING THINGS AND LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THE NEXT STEP IN THE NEXT CHAPTER IN YOUR CAREER AND IN YOUR LIFE. SO CONGRATULATIONS. I OFFICIALLY HAVE A PLAQUE TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO PUT IN YOUR NEW OFFICE. YUP. RECOGNITION FOR NATHAN COULTER FOR SERVING ON THE BLOOMINGTON CITY COUNCIL 2018 TO 2023. CONGRATULATIONS MY FRIEND. BEST OF LUCK TO YOU. CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [01:59:20] **Councilmember Nathan Coulter**: WELL, THANK YOU, MAN. I'M GOING TO DO MY BEST TRULY NOT TO GET TOO EMOTIONAL AT MOMENT I'M ALREADY FEELING GOOD. THIS OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A BITTERSWEET MOMENT FOR ME AND I WANT TO STATE TO HERE I HAD TO WRITE THIS OUT WORD FOR WORD BECAUSE I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I SAID EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED TO SAY AT THIS TIME I AM REALLY, REALLY EXCITED TO SERVE OUR NEIGHBORS HERE IN BLOOMINGTON IN DIFFERENT WAY. BUT I WILL MISS SERVING ON THE CITY COUNCIL. THE WORK THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS DO IS SO UNIQUELY PERSONAL AND WE'VE ALL GOTTEN THE PHONE CALLS LITERALLY ABOUT POTHOLES IN PEOPLE'S STREETS BUT IT'S UNIQUELY IMPORTANT. MAYOR AS YOU'VE NOTED BEFORE, VERY OFTEN WHEN STATE AND FEDERAL OFFICIALS ARE SLOW TO RESPOND, CITIES GET THINGS DONE. AND I'M IMMENSELY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS OUR OPPORTUNITY HOUSING ORDINANCE, HER WORK ON EQUITY, OUR PARK SYSTEM MASTER PLAN EARNED SICK AND SAFE LEAVE OUR COMMUNITY BASED STRATEGIC PLAN AND FINALLY BEGINNING THE SERIOUS WORK NEEDED TO MODERNIZE OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT ON TOP OF NAVIGATE NAVIGATING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC AND THE AFTERMATH OF GEORGE FLOYD'S MURDER. NOW OBVIOUSLY HAVE BEEN MISSTEPS AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES ALONG THE WAY AS THERE WILL BE WITH ANY HUMAN INSTITUTION. BUT THAT IS QUITE THE RECORD OF ACCOMPLISHMENT AND IT REALLY IS SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF MORE ATHING THOUGH AT THIS MOMENT THE FEELING I FEEL IS GRATITUDE. I AM SO SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE HAD THE SUPPORT OF MY FAMILY TO DO THIS WORK AND OF THE PEOPLE OF BLOOMINGTON TO SERVE THEM THE CITY COUNCIL AND NOW IN THE MINNESOTA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. THIS IS THE COMMUNITY THAT RAISED ME THAT TAUGHT ME MY VALUES AND THAT I CONTINUE TO BELIEVE HAS MUCH GOOD AND SO MUCH POTENTIAL. AND I'M GRATEFUL THAT MY OWN CHILDREN ARE GROWING UP HERE AS WELL. I'M GRATEFUL TO SERVED WITH SOME INCREDIBLE ELECTED OFFICIALS. ALL OF YOU ON THIS DAIS AND I'M SORRY THAT THAT COUNCILMEMBERS MARTIN AND NELSON COULDN'T BE TONIGHT BUT I ALSO DO INCLUDE IN THAT LIST FORMER MAYOR WINSTEAD THE FORMER COUNCILMEMBER BALOGA ALL OF WHOM AND I TRULY NEED EVERY ONE OF YOU I HAVE LEARNED FROM NOW SOMETIMES THOSE LESSONS HAVE COME ABOUT THE HARD WAY AND ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION THE LESSON HAS BEEN THAT IF YOU DON'T HAVE FOUR VOTES YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING BUT EVERY ONE OF YOU HAS MADE ME A BETTER COUNCIL MEMBER AND A BETTER TO BE LEGISLATOR. THE MOST PROMINENT LESSON IN MY MIND TONIGHT THOUGH IS INSTITUTIONS DON'T LOVE YOU BACK. NONE OF US IS IRREPLACEABLE AND WHILE THAT CAN SEEM REALLY HARSH. I THINK IT'S A GOOD THING THE WORK THAT THE BLOOMINGTON CITY COUNCIL DOES IS TOO IMPORTANT FOR IT TO BE OTHERWISE AND I HAVE EVERY CONFIDENCE THAT THAT YOU ALL WILL APPOINT SOMEONE TO THIS SEAT WHO WILL CONTINUE THE PROGRESS THAT WE'VE MADE. AND FINALLY I'M GRATEFUL TO HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH OUR CITY STAFF. I'VE HEARD IT AT STATE AND NATIONAL CONFERENCES. I'VE HEARD IT THE CAPITOL. I'VE HEARD IT TALKING TO RESIDENTS AND WORKERS AND BUSINESS OWNERS. WE HAVE AN INCREDIBLE STAFF OF DEDICATED PROFESSIONALS WHO CARE VERY DEEPLY ABOUT OUR CITY AND AND AGAIN HAVE GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY TO MAKE OUR COMMUNITY . FROM OUR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM TO THE COPS ON PATROL THE WATER MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS TO THE FOLKS STAFFING THE FRONT DESK WE ARE TRULY LUCKY TO HAVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU AND FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO SEND YOU NASTY EMAILS FOR SIMPLY DOING YOUR JOB FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THEY CAN BELITTLE AND BERATE YOU BECAUSE WE PAY YOUR SALARY, I HOPE YOU KNOW THAT THE WORK THAT YOU DO IS IMPORTANT AND. IT IS VALUED. YOU KNOW, I SPENT SOME TIME TRYING TO FIND A BEAUTIFUL OR INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE TO END THIS WITH. BUT REALLY I THINK THIS MIGHT JUST BE A CASE WHERE SIMPLICITY IS BEST. SO THANK YOU. IT'S TRULY BEEN A JOY AND AN HONOR AND AND WITH THAT MAYOR UNLESS WE HAVE ANY OTHER BUSINESS AND I DON'T BELIEVE WE DO I'LL LET YOU DO THAT ONE MORE TIME FIRST. [02:04:40] **Mayor Tim Busse**: THANK YOU. CONGRATULATIONS THANK YOU FOLKS MEMBER BEFORE WE OFFICIALLY ADJOURN WANT TO WISH EVERYBODY IN OUR COMMUNITY TO THOSE CELEBRATE A HAPPY HANUKKAH TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYBODY A HAPPY NEW YEAR A BLESSED NEW YEAR PLEASE BE SAFE BE HAPPY LOOKING FORWARD TO HEADING INTO THE NEW YEAR WITH WITH ALL OF YOU AND WITH ALL OF YOU AND EVERYBODY ELSE AND ALL OF YOU AS WELL IT'S GOING TO BE AN EXCITING AND EVTFUL YEAR I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IT SO PLEASE BE SAFE. WEEK IS GOING TO TURN NASTY BE SAFE OVER THE NEW YEAR AND WE'LL SEE EVERYBODY BACK HERE JANUARY 9TH AND NOW COUNCILMEMBER [02:05:25] **Councilmember Nathan Coulter**: THANK YOU MAYOR I MOVE THAT WE ADJOURN [02:05:30] **Mayor Tim Busse**: THE MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER COULTER SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER CARTER TO ADJOURN FOR OUR LAST MEETING IN 2022 NO FURTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION THIS ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I PROPOSED MOTION CARRIES WE ARE ADJOURNED. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE THIS EVENING THANKS MUCH