[0:31] **Matt Montgomery (Mayor):** Good evening everyone. I'd like to call the July 5th city council meeting for the city of Cannon Falls to order. Could we have roll call please? [0:31] **Sara Peer (City Clerk):** Bringgold? **Council Member Bringgold:** Here. **Sara Peer:** Duncan? **Council Member Duncan:** Here. **Sara Peer:** Gesme? **Council Member Gesme:** Here. **Sara Peer:** Kronenberger? **Council Member Kronenberger:** Here. **Sara Peer:** Lundell? **Council Member Lundell:** Here. **Sara Peer:** Montgomery? **Matt Montgomery:** Here. Would you rise for the Pledge of Allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [1:16] **Matt Montgomery:** Okay, agenda. Any additions or corrections to the agenda? Hearing none, is there a motion to accept the agenda? **Council Member Lundell:** So moved. **Council Member Bringgold:** Second. **Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Lundell and a second by Bringgold to accept the agenda. Any other discussion? All in favor? **Council Members:** Aye. **Matt Montgomery:** Opposed? Carried. I think it's going to be roll call—does it have to be roll call, Sara, with remote? **Sara Peer:** Yes, all motions have to be roll call with Laura on Zoom. **Matt Montgomery:** Okay, well where is it—oh, hi from above. Voice from afar. Okay, roll call. [2:05] **Sara Peer:** Bringgold? **Council Member Bringgold:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Duncan? **Council Member Duncan:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Gesme? **Council Member Gesme:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Kronenberger? **Council Member Kronenberger:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Lundell? **Council Member Lundell:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Montgomery? **Matt Montgomery:** Aye. Okay. Okay, we'll get into public input. Public input is intended to afford the public an opportunity to address concerns of city council. The public input will be no longer than 30 minutes in total length and each speaker will have no more than three minutes to speak. Speakers may address topics relevant to the governance of the city. Speakers must sign up in advance and must provide their name, address, and topic they intend to address. Comments must be on topic, [2:51] respectful, pertinent to the city business, and adhere to the applicable data privacy rules. Any speaker that violates these rules will be asked to sit down and if the speaker refuses to comply they will be removed from the meeting. Speakers shall not address topics that are the subject of a public hearing as all such comments will be made at the public hearing. The city council will generally not act on the issues raised by the public but may choose to schedule consideration of the item on a future agenda. Okay, Laurel Stinson. [3:38] **Laurel Stinson:** Hi everybody, I'm Laurel Stinson. I'm here to introduce myself to you today as a candidate running for Minnesota House District 20A which, as I'm sure you're aware, includes the city of Cannon Falls. I'm also a member of the city council in Red Wing and I'm going to other city council meetings, school board meetings, and township board meetings to learn about the issues that are facing other towns in the district and what support they might need to face those challenges from the state and from their state representative, so that I can be informed about those issues during the campaign season and hopefully beyond. So you might have seen me last at your last meeting two weeks ago. I was here for your discussion about [4:23] wood waste, and after listening to that discussion I did a little bit more digging into that issue because I found it to be interesting and potentially important in the upcoming years. And so I did speak to the waste campus personnel in Red Wing where I have connections and asked about the issue there, and I learned that Red Wing is also potentially facing wood waste issues in the future. We're not in quite the same situation as you are right now, but it is definitely something that is an upcoming issue that they're going to be facing. And a recent grant from the MPCA is going to allow them to do a composting study that will hopefully be able to do something for the region for that issue. [5:10] And I also spoke to someone I know at the DNR about this issue and he said that this is an issue that most communities in this district are facing now, especially because of the Emerald Ash Borer is killing more trees and spreading further. There is more and more wood waste for municipalities to deal with and most local communities are not prepared for the influx of that wood waste and it is not an easy thing to change gears into and to face that problem. Burning is not as easy a solution as a lot of communities think it will be because of the permits and the labor required to do that burning, and then the ash disposal permits that come after the burning is done. [5:55] Those are things that the DNR can help communities with but they can't really help at this point with funding for those things. And so he said to me that he believes that this is an issue that the state needs to do more to help communities with. And so I wanted to let you know that that's something that I am actively looking into and it is an issue that I am keeping at the top of my list as one that is a problem that needs solving. So I will be here for the rest of the meeting to learn about more things and I'll stick around for a few minutes afterwards if anybody wants to chat about that or anything else. And it's nice to meet all of you. Thank you for giving me this time. **Matt Montgomery:** Thank you. Thank you. [6:42] **Matt Montgomery:** Okay, that was the only one on public input so we'll close the public input portion of the meeting and we'll get into public hearings. Public hearing item A is the Bluff Drive wear course paving public hearing. We've got two resolutions: one adopting the assessment and one receiving bids and awarding the contract. I'm going to turn it over to Bill and he'll kind of give us a rundown on that. [7:28] **Bill Angerman (City Engineer):** Thank you. I have a presentation here, we'll see if we get that up. All right, perfect. So as the mayor mentioned, how this will work tonight is I will give an overview. There are certain things from a statutory perspective that we have to review, so we'll review that here through this presentation. And then when I'm done, I will sit down and then members of the public—this is the assessment hearing where someone can contest their assessment—so then they would have the opportunity to come forward to the microphone and present their evidence, or they can also ask questions or make comments as well. But more importantly, they can present their evidence of why they believe their assessment has exceeded the value of their property, meaning how much after the project is done their property will increase in value. I'll go over that in a little more detail. And then Mayor, as you mentioned, I'll sit down and you'll have two resolutions to consider: one would be to adopt the assessments [8:14] with the terms that we'll talk about here that are in your packet, and secondly, to receive and award the contract for the actual construction to Rochester Sand and Gravel, who is our low bidder. We did review those bids here about a month ago or so when we set this hearing for tonight. So with that introduction, we'll get going here. The items we have to cover by statute: project area, improvements, costs, an update in the schedule, and then again tonight is the portion of the assessment process where someone can appeal, so we'll go over that and then as I mentioned, the public comments. Just a recap: project area, Bluff Drive as shown in the map there outlined in the blue. It's 15 parcels [8:59] that are part of this assessment area. Okay, what are we proposing to do? Just a reminder, this subdivision was never completed when this was built, so the final wear lift of asphalt has not been installed. Along with that, then, we will replace any settled curb areas, we will adjust the sanitary sewer manhole castings, and then we will place the sidewalk on the north side of the street. So that is what is included in this assessment project. Okay, the cost: per city policy, 100% of total project costs. So the total project costs come to $108,555. So just for clarification, [9:46] the bid was $103,000 and the city is allowed to charge administrative fees. We are charged by the county and we do incur expenses, so there are the city's administrative costs in there as well. So when you take that divided by the 15 lots, then the assessment per lot is $7,237. If you recall, the preliminary amount—again, that was a projection—was $7,000. We talked here a month ago or so that with the escalation of prices, even though we're $200 more—and I never want to discount that—we are pretty happy with the prices we did receive because a lot of the prices have really been higher on the [10:31] projects that have been bid. A couple things: per your ordinance, you do allow senior citizen, permanently disabled, and active military deferrals. So if someone fits into one of those three categories, they should contact City Hall and they can have their assessment deferred. Okay, the actual terms then of the assessments: after tonight, you have 30 days. A person who's assessed can prepay without interest; that would be through August 5th. And then they can prepay with interest basically through the end of the calendar year when we have to get this certified to the auditor, which would be November 15th. After that, then it would appear on your taxes. [11:17] City code says that it would be ten years at five percent. How we came up with that five percent is, again, your code says that it's the bond buyers' index rating at the date that we set this plus two percent. So that bond buyers' index at the date when we set this was three percent. So again, per your code, you add two percent to that for five percent. So five percent over ten years would be the terms. Okay, schedule: tonight is the hearing. Again, after you hear testimony tonight, you will be having those two resolutions to award the contract. We don't have a firm start date [12:03] from the contractor but tentatively, August is what we're talking about with Rochester Sand and Gravel, anticipating a fall of this year completion date. Okay, and some of those details will be filled in as we go. All right, so the main item tonight is this is the opportunity for people to file objections. Again, the appeal process—you are required or we're required to spell this out so make sure everybody understands that. So again, per Minnesota statute 429, tonight somebody could submit a written objection. Mayor, we talked a little bit before the meeting and my understanding is no one has submitted a written objection. People can also come up and do an oral objection. Again, that's where they present their [12:48] testimony to the council. Second item there is: if you have an objection tonight, a person could appeal your decision. They have 30 days to do that and they would have to appeal that to district court. They would have to serve notice upon the mayor or the clerk. Okay, so again we're just following that quite prescriptive process. And then if that would happen, the third bullet there: the clerk would furnish the appellant a certified copy of the objections file, assessment proceedings, and the other items that go along with that. Okay, so that is the process. Okay, so if someone did appeal that to the court, the court would either affirm the assessment or set it aside or order a reassessment. [13:34] It's not an item where they would throw it out. So what they would do is they would ask you to re-evaluate that. But once tonight passes, if say one or two or zero people appeal, the rest of the assessments for everybody else would be set—those are not able to be modified. So if you pass those two resolutions tonight, the assessments for anybody who's not appealing would be set at that $7,200 number. Okay, this is an important item I just like to remind everybody: if someone does appeal beyond the city council and they do not prevail upon the appeal, the costs incurred shall be taxed by the court. So the cost of that appeal would then go against that property if they did not win that appeal. And then our last item there is all objections to the assessment are waived [14:21] unless presented on such appeal. Okay, so basically tonight's the opportunity. So if someone does not appeal tonight or present their testimony to you, then this is their final chance. And then all those instructions were mailed to them. I guess those items are in your packet, they're included in those resolutions—all these instructions. Okay Mayor, so that is the end of the presentation. So what I will do is I'm going to grab my laptop here, I'm going to sit down, and then this is the time for people to come forward and then we'll take on those two resolutions. Okay, and if there's any questions for me, typically they would be after the public has a chance. Thank [15:08] you. [15:08] **Matt Montgomery:** Okay, with that we'll open the public hearing on Bluff Drive wear course paving. If you've got an appeal or you want to say something, now is the time to come forward. [15:37] **Matt Montgomery:** Second call. [15:47] **Doug (Resident):** There haven't got any written statement. I'm just thinking this whole thing is about a year ahead of a cart—the cart's ahead of the horse here. You got builders building on both sides of the road up there trying to get work done up there, and now you're thinking you're going to put the final lift of blacktop on there. See what that's going to look like in about six months after they paved that in August and it gets hot out and everybody's up there with all their trucks. I don't know if somebody has petitioned to have this done or why there's this speed on trying to [16:34] get this finally done. It's only been up there for 20 years and now that there's finally activity up there, you got to go and put this down our throat. So we got to try to work and still maintain that street to make it look good at the end. So I'm just saying don't expect that street to look brand new when we're done. Thanks. [17:05] **Matt Montgomery:** Anyone else? [17:13] **Matt Montgomery:** Third and final call. [17:22] **Matt Montgomery:** Hearing no further comments, we'll close the public hearing. Do I have any questions for Bill, Council? [17:44] **Council Member Gesme:** Well, I don't know how much of a question it is, but to Doug's point that he just made: is there some kind of rush happening here or, I guess, why now? Is there something to what he just said? I mean really, what is—maybe this is a question for us. Is there some kind of rush being put on this because of something, or do things have to be done in this order? [18:30] Because just kind of generally from my own logic, it doesn't seem right to finish everything before things are finished. Now, it could take another 20 years to get all the houses built too, but I guess maybe what is the reasoning behind all this? About what percentage of lots finished do we wait for? [18:58] **Matt Montgomery:** I don't know that. When we discussed this last time, I don't think that was ever an issue as far as when we talked about putting—wondering if we should put the sidewalks in or anything like that. That was the only objection: whether to put the sidewalk in or not. I recalled that, and then they said, okay yeah, well [19:15] that was part of the project. But the time frame wasn't seemed to be discussed at all. So at that time didn't seem like anybody was very interested and now—and I don't know, if you wait another year or two your costs are going to go up significantly. **Council Member Gesme:** True, true. **Bill Angerman:** Okay, well, it is standard practice. Now, this is not a standard practice subdivision, but it is standard practice once you put the base course of pavement on, you then put it the next year. Now obviously, as the speaker said, we're 20 years later. But almost all subdivisions, you don't wait for the houses to be built. And we have not seen—I mean you will have some issues [20:02] on the pavement, but very rarely do we see issues. And if someone does something where heavy equipment damages something, we would ask them to fix it. But this would be your standard practice to pave it right away. **Council Member Gesme:** Okay. [20:27] **Matt Montgomery:** All right, any other questions? Hearing none, we've got two resolutions. First one is Resolution 2637, which is adopting the assessments. Anybody want to make a motion to that? **Council Member Duncan:** Yeah, I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 2637. **Council Member Gesme:** Second. **Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Duncan and a second by Gesme to approve Resolution 2637 adopting the assessments. Any other discussion? Hearing none, all in favor—we gotta go roll call, that's right, because Laura's out there. Sara? [21:13] **Sara Peer:** Bringgold? **Council Member Bringgold:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Duncan? **Council Member Duncan:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Gesme? **Council Member Gesme:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Kronenberger? **Council Member Kronenberger:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Lundell? **Council Member Lundell:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Montgomery? **Matt Montgomery:** Aye. Passed. Okay, the resolution passes six to zero. [21:58] **Matt Montgomery:** Second, Resolution 2638 is receiving the bids and awarding the contract to Rochester Sand and Gravel for the Bluff Drive paving improvements. **Council Member Gesme:** I make a motion to pass 2638 on the award for Rochester Sand and Gravel. **Council Member Bringgold:** I'll second it. **Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Gesme and second by Bringgold to approve Resolution 2638 awarding the contact to Rochester Sand and Gravel for the paving improvements. Any discussion? All in favor—oh no, I'm sorry, again Sara. [21:58] **Sara Peer:** Bringgold? **Council Member Bringgold:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Duncan? **Council Member Duncan:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Gesme? **Council Member Gesme:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Kronenberger? **Council Member Kronenberger:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Lundell? **Council Member Lundell:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Montgomery? **Matt Montgomery:** Aye. Motion passes six to zero. At the end of the meeting you'll get it. Okay, we'll move on, thank you Bill. [22:45] **Matt Montgomery:** Consent agenda. Consent agenda items may be adopted under one motion as presented or may be removed for discussion and resolution as council business. For you at home and in the audience, I'll go through the consent agenda. Item A: Just incorrect claims for the accounting period ending June 28, 2022. Item B: Minute meetings for the June 21, 2022 city council meeting. Item C: Second reading and adoption of ordinance 384 amending the city code chapter 111 referring to brewer licensing. Item D: Approve the disposal of vehicles. Item E: Introduction and first reading of [23:32] ordinance 385 amending the city code chapter 151 relating to public utilities. Is there anything the council would like to pull down? [23:49] **Matt Montgomery:** Hearing none, is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? **Council Member Bringgold:** So moved. **Council Member Lundell:** Second. **Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Bringgold, second by Lundell to approve the consent agenda. Any other discussion? All in favor—oh, I'm sorry, I'll get it by the end of the night. **Sara Peer:** Bringgold? **Council Member Bringgold:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Duncan? **Council Member Duncan:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Gesme? **Council Member Gesme:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Kronenberger? **Council Member Kronenberger:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Lundell? **Council Member Lundell:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Montgomery? **Matt Montgomery:** Aye. Okay, the consent agenda has passed six to zero. [24:35] **Matt Montgomery:** Okay, onto council business item A: the 2023 Street and Utility project. Bill, you want to take that? **Bill Angerman:** Yep, thank you Mayor. I'll let Jed and Neil chime in as well. So, I did meet with city staff as we're preparing for the 2023 project. The main focus of the 2023 project is the sewer bridge. Our term—I'm not sure that's a technical term—that is just east of the Third Street bridge. The sewer actually—I don't know if you guys have been out there—the sewer actually crosses above the water on literally its own little bridge. That has been a concern of the city for some time, so in staff discussions, we feel now is the time to address that. The solution to that is a little unclear, meaning: do we pump across by building a lift station on the north side to transport the sewage to the south side, or do we install a siphon [25:21] under the river? It's not as straightforward as the water main that we just recently did where we directional drilled underneath it, because we have to maintain a certain amount of grade to basically get it to flow by gravity. Part of this, then, there's engineering work to be done to figure that out. So we'll be doing some survey work, some different evaluations, and different costs. As well with that, there's also in that same area some stormwater ponds on the north side of the river. There's some drainage—basically there's a fairly large area that drains into this area. So what we are also proposing to combine into this project is we need to really look at all the sewer and storm that flows to the same point on the river; that's what this proposal encompasses. Specifically, that's portions of Cannon Street, Ohio Street, [26:08] Third Street and Fourth Street. As we've talked with Neil and Jed, we have kind of a target dollar amount we're going to target and then we're going to kind of fit the scope to that budget amount. But really, we have to get through this preliminary part, again some of that background. And then also this will be an assessment project because we'll be reconstructing roads as well. What we did tonight, we'll be starting anew with a preliminary assessment hearing like we did over the winter; we'll be doing that again this coming fall. So this is the first step in that process. So what we're asking for tonight is to approve the professional service agreement with WHKS to begin this process. Questions? [26:57] **Matt Montgomery:** Do I have a motion to accept the Street and Utility project with WHKS? **Council Member Lundell:** So moved. **Council Member Bringgold:** Second. **Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Lundell and a second by Bringgold. Any other discussion? Oh, this isn't the project, this is just the service agreement? **Bill Angerman:** Service agreement, that's correct. Yes. **Matt Montgomery:** Okay, service agreement. Any other discussion? Okay, roll call. [27:42] **Sara Peer:** Bringgold? **Council Member Bringgold:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Duncan? **Council Member Duncan:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Gesme? **Council Member Gesme:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Kronenberger? **Council Member Kronenberger:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Lundell? **Council Member Lundell:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Montgomery? **Matt Montgomery:** Aye. Service agreement passes six to zero. [27:42] **Matt Montgomery:** Okay, second, the Sandstone Ridge letter of intent. Laura? [27:42] **Laura Qualey (Community Development Specialist):** Good evening. We had a developer come forward maybe about a month and a half ago. We did have some local developers that came forward to us a few months ago that were interested in potentially developing the Sandstone Circle area and the area kind of in that northwestern area of Decorah and Sandstone Road. And just due to the infrastructure cost of the road and whatnot, they chose to [28:28] kind of back out of that project. So about six weeks ago or so, we had someone come forward who was interested in pursuing the potential possibility of doing a multi-family apartment complex up in that area. And then we didn't really hear from them until we received a letter of intent on June 27th from this company, Stencil Group out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. They've done multiple multi-family complexes; they've done some down in Rochester, they've done some around South Dakota, they've done others in Minnesota, [29:15] I believe in Iowa and whatnot. But their letter of intent is that they are interested in just doing that northwestern area of the Sandstone Ridge property to do a 110-unit multi-family market-rate structure. Again, they'll be doing the soil testings or the soil borings and whatnot. And the intent is to acquire the land for a dollar—just again for that particular part of the property—and they would invest in replatting the property, rebuilding the roads to city specs, and also dedicating green space for a park. [30:02] So with that, we did bring it to the Sandstone Ridge committee and had them review the letter and they are supportive of that. So we're bringing it to you this evening to see if the council had any questions about it and if you would be willing to accept the letter of intent from Stencil Group 2 LLC to pursue the development of a 110-unit apartment complex on Sandstone Ridge. [30:35] **Council Member Bringgold:** Comments: I'm glad to see Stencil come forward. I'm on the Sandstone committee and it'll be nice—it'll be right on, for those that are familiar up there, that's right along the edge of [Highway] 25 is where it'll be. So I'd say let's accept the letter and move forward and see how it goes. [31:09] **Matt Montgomery:** Okay. The first question from the community will be: market rate, right? **Laura Qualey:** Market rate apartments, yep. Market rate apartments. And again, they most likely—they haven't asked for TIF yet, but they most likely will be doing that. Again, this is city-owned property, that's not EDA property, but the TIF would have to come through the EDA. So again, they haven't asked for that yet, but if they do it would come through the EDA. Market rate, if they were to do that—if they asked for a TIF—that would be most likely a 40/60 split. **Matt Montgomery:** Different layout? **Laura Qualey:** Yep, so then they would—it would be that [31:54] 40% of the units would be reserved for 60% of the median income. With the 2022 rates, that's now increased to over $50,000 for a single person. So that's "low income," but you don't think of $50,000 as low income, but that's what that rate is. But they again have the granite countertops; it'll be studios, one-bedrooms, and two-bedrooms in this particular complex. It'll have the community room, it'll have a fitness center in the facility. These have detached garages; they don't have them on the first level or underground like the Keller-Baartman project does. [32:41] But again, the concept plan that was in your packet is just—they put that together very quickly. So they may modify that; this isn't the one that you may see or that the planning commission may see coming to them. [33:03] **Laura Qualey:** Any other questions? But the one thing that I will note is that when you look at the way that this is laid out on Sandstone Ridge, a majority of the property is parking lot. They really kind of have a long, narrow v-shaped building as opposed to the whole area being spread across that whole particular parcel. I thought it was a unique concept as to how they had that laid out. [33:38] **Matt Montgomery:** Any questions? Hearing none, is there a motion to accept the letter of intent from Stencil Group to pursue a development? **Council Member Bringgold:** So moved. **Council Member Gesme:** Second. **Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Bringgold, second by Gesme to accept the letter of intent from Stencil and pursue development of the 110-unit apartment complex. Any other discussion? All in favor? [33:44] **Sara Peer:** Bringgold? **Council Member Bringgold:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Duncan? **Council Member Duncan:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Gesme? **Council Member Gesme:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Kronenberger? **Council Member Kronenberger:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Lundell? **Council Member Lundell:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Montgomery? **Matt Montgomery:** Aye. Motion passes six to zero. Reports. Kyle. [34:29] **Kyle (Chamber of Commerce):** Good evening council members, staff, and community. I would first like to start out with congratulating the fair board—the Cannon Valley Fair board—for a fantastic event. They had just gobs of people around. I'm hearing food vendors sold out, and so they really had everything covered. That was a very nice thing to have happen. They put a lot of time into planning that, and so way to go. The Cannon Falls Open Air Fair is Thursday, July 14th. The Open Air Fair is when the vendors are on the sidewalks of downtown Cannon Falls. With the construction being done at the intersection of Main and Fourth, we will be using Fourth Street and Mill Street. If we get more vendors—of which we need many more—then we can use Main Street if necessary. Right now, vendors are selling American flags, cleaning supplies, [36:17] engraved items, dance lessons and demonstrations, health and wellness services, hand-printed signs, homemade jewelry, ladies' clothing and jewelry, lotions, soaps and candles, the introduction of the new church in Cannon Falls called Bethel Rock, sportswear, gifts and clothing, and wood crafts and signs. We are at 22 booths right now. We would love to get over 30 and we are still accepting applications or registration forms. So please contact the Chamber and I will send out the registration form. [37:01] There will be free hot dogs from Lawrence Meats and they will be serving them out of the Chamber office, and we will be doing door prizes. So I'm hoping for a great event, lots of things for youth as well as parents. We just need more vendors, so please call the Chamber. Of course, that's 507-263-2289. Any other questions? **Matt Montgomery:** Good hot dogs? **Kyle:** They will be excellent hot dogs, yeah that's for sure. And the Chamber office will smell very good for a couple of days. Okay, thank you. **Matt Montgomery:** Thanks Kyle. [37:32] **Matt Montgomery:** Okay, it was one meeting since the last council meeting—that was the Joint Powers Trail Board. Anything there? **Council Member:** Very exciting stuff. I don't know what you remember, Laura, but we had quite a discussion actually about power-assisted bikes. It's kind of a gray area, and we decided to go with what [38:20] the DNR recommends. If you want to know what that is, call Scott at the trail office because it's beyond what I can understand. There's also talk of putting—is it a new sidewalk in Red Wing? It doesn't really affect us that much now, but a new sidewalk near the trailhead in Red Wing. Again, doesn't really affect Cannon Falls that much. Do you remember anything else, Laura? **Laura Kronenberger:** Yeah, just that Red Wing is putting in a sidewalk, that's what it is. And then there's talk of maybe putting in [39:08] a trail that would link that sidewalk to the trail. So all in Red Wing, right? **Council Member:** Yeah, by the McDonald's there in Red Wing, right. **Laura Kronenberger:** And then regarding the electric bikes, there was quite a discussion regarding people using them to assist them and being able to get out and be active, but it's really frowned upon to, what—coast? Is that what they said? **Council Member:** Yeah, they were basically leaning back and letting the bike do the work. Using the electric bike to assist in someone getting exercise is great, but they really don't want people riding [39:55] them like motorcycles. **Matt Montgomery:** I might add that they put in a grant for a new trailhead sign down in the city parking lot—the kiosk down there. That was to Tim Penny's organization, Southern Minnesota Initiative. **Council Member:** Oh good, good. **Matt Montgomery:** Well, that grant application is in so we'll see what happens. That'd be nice to have a nice big sign down there. [40:41] **Matt Montgomery:** Let's go around the horn. Dan. **Council Member Duncan:** I just got one thing. There's been some question or discussion about the lawn restoration along the Highway 19 project. What looks like hydroseed that they sprayed does not have a seed in it; it's just basically a stabilizer. They're in a window right now where they're not putting seed down or they're not reseeding. After July 21st, then they can come back and reseed, and they may be touching up or redoing the side of the street where they put this blanket material down that didn't work out so well. What I understand is they handed out some flyers today along the route—I can't verify that, but that's what I'd heard—with some of that information on there. **Matt Montgomery:** That's about it. What's the time frame for the road from the stoplights going south to the roundabouts? **Council Member Duncan:** From the stoplight going south with the county—first of all, they're going to do the sidewalk before they do the mill and overlay. As far as the timeline, they haven't let us know exact dates yet. I think they're still struggling with that corner by the Park Street Apartments. **Matt Montgomery:** Yeah, I think so. [41:26] **Matt Montgomery:** Bill? **Bill Angerman:** One item Neil had just asked me to give an update on: the Hannah's Bend Park property transfer with the Fair board. We are still waiting for a title opinion to come back. [42:17] It's been delayed partly because it was part of the original plat in the town and it was a handwritten title, so the title company is struggling a little bit with that. When we get that back, we will finish the survey documents. [42:45] **Matt Montgomery:** Laura? **Laura Qualey:** If you've been on the south end of town, they did start moving dirt down at the Keller-Baartman lot. They started that on Thursday afternoon, so they're just getting the bituminous up and moving some of that out of there. It's moving, good to see some dirt moving out there. It's been a long time. [43:03] **Matt Montgomery:** Jeff? **Jeff McCormick (Police Chief):** So the parade went very well, as did the fair. We were a little worried about the weather on the fourth but it cleared up just in time. Crowds were good, everybody seemed in good spirits and no bad incidents, so we're very happy. [43:52] **Matt Montgomery:** Diane? **Diane Johnson:** Next Monday, July 11th, we will have Planning Commission. There'll be four public hearings at that meeting; all four of them will be CUPs (Conditional Use Permits). The first one will involve a new cold storage unit, the second one will be a new warehouse storage facility, and the last two will both be regarding conducting work in the bluff protection district. [43:52] **Matt Montgomery:** Sara, anything? **Sara Peer:** Nothing. **Matt Montgomery:** Laura, you got anything up there? **Laura Kronenberger:** Nope, I'm good thank you. [44:37] **Matt Montgomery:** Derek? **Council Member Bringgold:** I'm glad Laurel came to tell us a little bit about other cities having issues with their compost. On Thursday, public works—me, Mary Jill, and Cliff—are going to attempt to tackle that issue. It's nice to know we're not the only ones dealing with it; maybe some of her suggestions can help us out. Other than that, Fourth of July parade and fair seemed really good. Brings a lot of people to town. That's it. **Matt Montgomery:** Mary Jill? **Council Member Lundell:** I'm good. **Matt Montgomery:** Steve? Awesome man. Phil? No, nothing? [45:22] **Matt Montgomery:** Yeah, just—it was a nice parade, good crowds at the fair. I'm just going to go through the meetings that will come up before our next council meeting. This Thursday we've got EDA, public works, and park board. Next Monday we've got finance, planning, and library board. So keep that in mind, a lot of meetings coming up. Anything else anybody? If not, I'll take a motion to adjourn. **Council Member Duncan:** So moved. **Matt Montgomery:** Second. **Council Member Bringgold:** Second. **Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Duncan, second by Bringgold to adjourn. Roll call just to make sure. [45:56] **Sara Peer:** Bringgold? **Council Member Bringgold:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Duncan? **Council Member Duncan:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Gesme? **Council Member Gesme:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Kronenberger? **Council Member Kronenberger:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Lundell? **Council Member Lundell:** Aye. **Sara Peer:** Montgomery? **Matt Montgomery:** Aye. Motion passes, adjourned.