Based on the context provided and the dialogue within the transcript, here is the formatted version with speaker identifications. **Note on Council Membership:** The transcript refers to a "Councilmember Dah" (John) during roll call and throughout the meeting. While the provided list mentioned Orin Kipp, the dialogue explicitly identifies this member as John Dah. I have used **John Dah** for accuracy to the recording. [0:28] **[Silence/Background Noise]** [0:58] **[Silence/Background Noise]** [1:28] **[Silence/Background Noise]** [2:12] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** I call to order the January 6, 2025, city council meeting for the city of Bayport. Let's all stand and—oh wait, yeah, first it's like first we have to swear everybody in. Is that how it works, or do we do the pledge? I even got this ahead of time and I still messed it up. Yeah. Oh, it is first. It is first. Okay, swearing-in first before I can even be the mayor and call the meeting to order. Truth. Okay guys, out—remember the gals up here a long time. Try to be organized. Guys, don't remember the gals. It's those workshops we have. [3:06] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All right. I, state your name—I, Michele Hanson, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and of the state of Minnesota, and faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Mayor for the city of Bayport, in the county of Washington and state of Minnesota, to the best of my judgment and ability, so help me God. Good job. All right, thanks, Matt. Right, thank you. Um, so now that I'm the mayor, I'm going to do the oath for our new council member Carl Bliss and returning member Ethan Gilmore. So, um, similar—do you guys want to stand at your seats? Even though we both want at the same time, yeah, we're gonna do both at the same time. So you're gonna say "I" and then state your name at the same time. [4:15] **Carl Bliss & Ethan Gilmore:** I, Carl Bliss / Ethan Gilmore, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the state of Minnesota, and faithfully discharge the duties of the office of city council for the city of Bayport and the county of Washington in the state of Minnesota to the best of my judgment and ability, so help me God. [4:55] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All right, you’re in. Okay, here we go. Welcome, Carl. Stay standing, stay standing because we're going to do the Pledge of Allegiance. [5:15] **All:** 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. [5:40] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All right, now Matt's going to call the roll. [5:44] **Matt Kline:** Councilmember Dah? **John Dah:** Here. **Matt Kline:** Councilmember Gilmore? **Ethan Gilmore:** Here. **Matt Kline:** Councilmember Bliss? **Carl Bliss:** Here. **Matt Kline:** Councilmember Hill? **Katie Hill:** Here. **Matt Kline:** Mayor Hanson? **Michele Hanson:** Here. [6:03] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All right, great. Um, do we have a motion to approve the agenda for tonight? **Katie Hill:** I move to approve the agenda tonight as presented. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thanks, Katie. Do you have a second? **Ethan Gilmore:** I’ll second. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All right, thanks Ethan. All in favor say aye. **Council:** Aye. [6:13] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Proclamations, accommodations, petitions, and announcements. The December recycling award recipient is Jeffrey Lee at 1123 Inspiration Parkway North, who will be awarded for recycling efforts with a grant from Washington County. And I'm going to switch the order of these a little bit, but um, there's a farewell gathering that's planned to recognize outgoing council member Connie Carlson. It's going to be held on January 16th from 4:00 to 5:30 at the Bayport Library. Everybody's welcome and encouraged to attend and say thanks to Connie for her time. Um, we all had a chance at the end of the last meeting to kind of wish her well. It's kind of weird—I've never been sitting up here without Connie, other than times when she's been sick or whatever, but all the 14 years I've been up here she's been with me. And then I have a proclamation that I'm going to read and then we have a guest that will speak a little bit about it at the open forum. [7:15] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All right, so this is a proclamation of the World Snow Sculpting Championship Malta Day as January 15th, 2025. Whereas the city of Bayport, Minnesota is proud to celebrate cultural diversity and foster international relationships through events that bring together individuals and communities from across the globe; and whereas the World Snow Sculpting Championship, a prestigious event that showcases the artistry, creativity, and skill of snow sculptors from around the world will be held on January 15th through the 18th in 2025. The team, Team Malia, representing their nation of Malta and contributing to the global exchange of artistic expression; and whereas that team is a dedicated and talented group of snow sculptors, they will be participating in this esteemed competition and their involvement highlights the spirit of unity and international friendship; and whereas it's fitting and proper for the city of Bayport to honor and recognize the remarkable efforts of that team as they represent their country of Malta on the global stage... Now therefore, I, Michele Hanson, Mayor of the city of Bayport, do hereby proclaim January 15th, 2025, as Malta Day in Bayport... I don't think I've ever read anything so official sounding. Thank you, Jason! [9:30] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All right, so um, so that's kind of a fun, exciting thing. And um, I'm going to open the or we're going to now have the open forum and we're going to quick have Jason come up I think before we have Tori. Welcome, introduce yourself please. [10:05] **Jason Howard:** Well thank you. As Michele said, I'm Jason Howard, I'm President/CEO at First State Bank and Trust just down the way. Thank you, Mayor, for the proclamation. Just to give a little bit of backstory: World Snow Sculpting Championship is their fourth year downtown Stillwater this year. The Greater Stillwater Chamber of Commerce hosts this event every year and as part of that event, um, they asked for team hosts. And so the bank, for the second year in a row, will be hosting a team. And this year we're hosting the team Malia... just to help them feel welcome and comfortable here in the St. Croix Valley. They will be coming in late Monday night and the bank will be helping them just get settled in... so we got some fun activities planned at the bank and talked to the Mayor here and see if the city of Bayport wanted to have a little fun with it. [11:15] **Jason Howard:** The proclamation is just a way to show them that we want to welcome them to this community. I'm going to present this to the team next week when they arrive. I believe we're working with Matt and Simon on possibly displaying some Maltese flags around town. Woodies is a restaurant sponsor for another team, so it's great that this community is supporting the event... the event draws a significant crowd for the weekend, so if you haven't been down there, I encourage you to go down there and check out the sculptures. [11:42] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thank you, Jason. Thank you, appreciate it. Yeah, and just one other note—Mabel is going to be possibly doing a special malt for Malta? [11:51] **Jason Howard:** Yeah, thank you. So I've been in touch with a few businesses, schools, the library to see if they want to partake in the fun. The library is going to be participating and Olelo is going to be doing a menu item and Wally's going to be doing something at Mabel's... there'll be a lot of Maltese themes going on over here. [12:15] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thank you, and thank you guys for supporting this. I think it's great that it's highlighting our city as well and I appreciate your efforts in doing that. And Woodies, thanks to them too for being one of the Taste of the Nations restaurants—they chose the United States team from Wisconsin. So we will be alternating, I believe, the flags—once you get them, the Malta flags, we're going to have U.S. and Malta flags hung through the cities. [12:38] **Ethan Gilmore:** Madam Mayor, I suggested Wisconsin flags but... [Laughter] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** No! Are you just trying to be funny? Because Woodies wanted Wisconsin food and they were told that they need to do American or something. Yeah, maybe it was the other way around. Anyways, we should ask Mary. I think it was actually the other way around because she said yeah, this will be easier... you could just do cheese curds and stuff, right? But anyways, American flags it is because we have those. [13:10] **Jason Howard:** Well, thank you, I appreciate it. I will follow up then and I don't know if there's an official seal or signature that I can get for me to make this look all fancy? **Sara Taylor:** Yes. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Yes, says Sara. We will work with her. All right, great, thanks Jason. Okay, um, we have listed that Tori Christensen from Landbridge Ecological is here as well. You want to come on up? He is going to talk about the Barker’s Alps Park Woodland restoration. [13:57] **Tori Christensen:** Yeah, thanks for having me. I’ve seen some of you out walking the trails as we've been working. My name is Tori Christensen, I own Landbridge Ecological and I happen to be a Bayport resident. So, the project that we've been working on is walking distance from my house. I've been out there quite a bit with my crews and I have a pretty intimate knowledge about what's going on out there day-to-day. So, I thought I'd give a little update on where things are at and kind of what the future looks like for the next couple years. It is an ongoing project that'll be going into 2027. But yeah, the majority of the work that we've been carrying out—the big heavy machinery—is leaving the site now. [14:44] **Tori Christensen:** We had a couple good days to burn some of the material that we were taking out... we burned the majority of the invasive species that we removed. Those piles are burned down and now what's left out there if you walk through the park are sporadic smaller piles of material that we can't really do anything with until we get snow. So we're kind of in a holding pattern to finish the project until we get a little bit more snow. But yeah, it's gone very well. I'd say the days that I've been out there I've gotten a lot of—I've met a lot of people and most almost everybody that I've talked to has been very positive about the project. [15:29] **Tori Christensen:** If anything, I've been getting a little bit of, you know, just misconceptions about cutting trees. I told Simon when we started the project that the pines on the corner of the trail as you come down—I knew that that would be kind of a touchy subject for some people. But those pines were planted pines; they are native, but they're not really a part of the plant community that we're trying to restore. The goal for us is to get a more herbaceous understory that's more diverse, that has a little bit more prairie grass component to it so we can manage the site with fire over time. That's my personal goal. Just as Inspiration does their controlled burns, there'll be areas of that park that will be more conducive to having controlled burns... the upper knobs, it's much more open than it was. You can see the river. It's very open. [17:02] **Tori Christensen:** There were a lot of surprises when we started to open it up. I didn't realize how much topography there was in the park. The upper knobs that we've restored... those are more representative of an Oak Savannah plant community. That's kind of the goal of the project—to restore Oak Savannah. So those will be much easier to manage with controlled burns over time. The project has gone very well. When we started burning the material we were worried about smoke... but we were able to get the majority of that done in about a three-day time period. So that, I'm happy to say, is mostly over with. [18:21] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** I just wanted to follow up on the "why you need snow" thing. **Tori Christensen:** Well, if we start burn piles and we don't have snow, we can't put them out easily. It's more or less—I do have a permit to burn piles, but it happened this weekend. We burned up on top of the hill on Saturday and the smoke was going right into Inspiration so we shut it down. And it was hard to put the fires out at that point. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Okay, makes sense. And I just thought of another thing: the little frog pond thing at the entrance, is that all—the rocks still there? **Tori Christensen:** Yep, that's still there. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Okay, yeah, good. All right, Carl, did you want to? [19:07] **Carl Bliss:** It's—thank you for your work there. I'll admit it's stark. This is where I have to trust the process and trust you. You mentioned the Oak Savannah, so would a good comparison be kind of the Oak Savannah area near the SNA as what this—what you hope this looks like? **Tori Christensen:** Yep, yep very much so. **Carl Bliss:** It's helpful to see the future that way. **Tori Christensen:** Yeah, and that's mainly the comments I've got. When people walk by they're like "oh are you going to plant?" And I explain that this is part of a three-year project. This is the initial "shocker" part of the project where everything is gone. It doesn't help that there's not snow on the ground; usually we have a snow cover it helps a little bit, but now you can see the bare dirt and it does look stark. [20:08] **Tori Christensen:** But what the future looks like is two years of further management... we'll be managing mostly buckthorn. I'm anticipating there to be a lot of garlic mustard that comes up now that it's open to sunlight. So we'll be out there intermittently over the next couple years managing what comes up. And then we have a seeding phase that will happen... probably 2026 before we start that process. **Carl Bliss:** Are those new plantings going to be shorter, kind of the prairie level sort of plantings where the pines were at? **Tori Christensen:** We'll see... we can't really bring tractors in to till the ground because of all the stumps. But you know, where those pines were, I'm kind of anticipating that there'll be enough sunlight there to have more of a flower pollinator garden on the corner there. [21:42] **John Dah:** Well, Carl touched on one of mine—the Oak Savannah and that we're going to kind of be bookended now. That whole ridge is going to be bookended with Oak Savannah. So I appreciate that and just to the starkness of it... if you're somebody—I’m sort of into this stuff—it's a rude awakening having walked in there the last 10 years and seeing all the buckthorn. I mean, I can see that stuff from 30 yards away. It's really great to see that stuff eradicated. And there's where I date myself—as a kid growing up on Fourth Street and 3rd Avenue South, we used to go up into the hills... and we used to be able to see down from top. I could see down to my house on Fourth Street and literally my mom would say "time to come home for lunch." It was really cool and it's cool to see that stuff open and be able to see the river now. So I applaud the work and I'm super excited. [23:22] **Tori Christensen:** Yeah, it's a special place as far as the connectivity to all those acres... if you can get us another grant, I know we'll put you on that. **John Dah:** Well, have you walked our land and water legacy property? We were going to put Simon on that to talk to you about that. **Tori Christensen:** I'd be more than happy to look. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Okay, great! So thanks for the time and presentation. **Tori Christensen:** Yeah, appreciate you. It's a really cool project... it's good for people and it's good for plants and animals too. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Well, thank you. Thanks for taking the time to come and explain a little bit more and for all your efforts. And welcome to Bayport! [25:40] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All right, we'll move on to the consent agenda. We're going to consider a resolution adopting items 1 through 9... Does anyone want to so move that? **Katie Hill:** I move to adopt a resolution approving the consent agenda as presented. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Right, thanks Katie. Do you have a second? **John Dah:** Second. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All right, thanks Carl and John. A roll call vote. **Matt Kline:** Councilmember Dah? **John Dah:** Aye. **Matt Kline:** Councilmember Gilmore? **Ethan Gilmore:** Aye. **Matt Kline:** Councilmember Bliss? **Carl Bliss:** Aye. **Matt Kline:** Councilmember Hill? **Katie Hill:** Aye. **Matt Kline:** Mayor Hanson? **Michele Hanson:** Aye. [27:08] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All right. No public hearing, so on to unfinished business. We're going to consider a labor agreement with the Minnesota Teamsters Local 320 for police officers. Matt's going to present it. [27:10] **Matt Kline:** Thank you, Madam Mayor, members of the council. As the mayor mentioned, this particular union agreement is with the police officers. We've probably been working about six to eight months on this. Obviously, the big one this year was officer wages; we've seen a huge increase to police officers' wages throughout the Metro and we exclusively used East Metro comparables. Some of the bigger things besides wage increases: we increased the tuition reimbursement program from 3,000 per year to 5,250 per year. We updated the fitness incentive program... and compensation for the canine officer under the Fair Labor Standards Act. There's now a whole section on how that gets paid out for the care of the dog. Finally, the officers wanted a health care savings plan installed... where leftover sick time upon retirement gets put into a health care savings plan. The wages in there are budgeted for 2025. [31:40] **Matt Kline:** One addition there, Mayor—this gets us to the wages that we proposed... we're at about the 50% level of everybody else in the area. We were the median. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** The average and the median happen to be roughly the same? **Matt Kline:** Correct. It was definitely an increase; we're not even at the top end, which I don't think we have to be to be competitive because there's definitely advantages of being in a smaller city, smaller department. [32:15] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Does anyone want to make a motion? **Katie Hill:** I'll move to approve the labor agreement with the Minnesota Teamsters Local 320 for January 1st, 2025, through December 31st, 2027, for police officers. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Do we have a second? **Ethan Gilmore:** I’ll second. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All those in favor? **Council:** Aye. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Anyone opposed? Okay, so that passes. And then, Matt, tell us a little bit about the Public Works contract? [33:04] **Matt Kline:** Madam Mayor, members of the council. This is the second contract of the night, with the public works maintenance workers. Kind of the same thing—we've spent six to eight months working through this. Again, public works wages have increased as have the police officers. We used East Metro comparables and made it to about the 50% average. Major items: a revised job skills incentive program on a tiered system... public works also asked for revised vacation accrual. There is an increase in overtime acquired during a holiday specific to four days: Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. City staff is recommending a motion. [35:36] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Any questions? No? Anyone want to make a motion? **John Dah:** I'll move to approve a labor agreement with the Minnesota Teamsters Local 320 for January 1st, 2025, through December 31st, 2027, for Public Works. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thanks, John. Second anybody? **Katie Hill:** I'll second. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thanks, Katie. All those in favor say aye. **Council:** Aye. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Anyone opposed? Okay. Again, thanks for your work on that, Matt. Let's move on to new business. [36:34] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** We're going to consider a resolution supporting an application for MnDOT Safe Routes to School infrastructure grant program for pedestrian improvements leading to the new elementary school. Matt, you're on again. [36:45] **Matt Kline:** Thank you, Madam Mayor. I like being able to talk to the whole meeting. This was slightly discussed at the workshop today about a sidewalk improvement project along Fifth Avenue. Essentially, it will connect where the sidewalk ends at 8th Street to where the sidewalk is out by the softball field at Barker’s. City staff is pursuing a Safe Routes to School grant to cover some of that cost. The grant is specific to construction costs only; no engineering costs are covered. The application requires a formal resolution showing the council supports the project and pledges to maintain it for a minimum of 10 years. [39:15] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Can you talk a little bit about the city maintaining it for 10 years piece? **Matt Kline:** My guess would be that say one of the panels cracked or something like that—minor maintenance. As far as plowing... I don't think that's the requirement they are speaking to. Maintenance would be from an ADA standpoint. I did happen to meet with five of the neighbors there who border that and that was actually one of their main questions: who will be plowing it? And I told them it would be their responsibility. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Yeah, just for anybody watching—you’re responsible for the sidewalks in front of your house. [40:24] **Katie Hill:** I had a question for Matt that we resolved through email just about saying we will cover all the costs... I was just wondering if there was any chance the County would be paying for any of that since it's along their road? **Matt Kline:** Madam Mayor, because there's not a County project going on at the same time, they won't participate. **Ethan Gilmore:** I did bring up in the workshop and I just want to make sure that we are committed as a city, no matter what happens, grant or no grant, to pushing this through and completing it so we don't have a brand new shiny school that kids are having to walk through people's yards to get to—or on the road. [42:15] **John Dah:** I'll move to adopt a resolution supporting an application for MnDOT Safe Routes to School infrastructure grant program as presented. **Ethan Gilmore:** Second. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thanks, John and Ethan. We need a roll call vote. **Matt Kline:** Councilmember Dah (Aye), Gilmore (Aye), Bliss (Aye), Hill (Aye), Mayor Hanson (Aye). [43:10] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All right. Now we are going to consider appointments, designations, and city council liaison assignments for 2025. Matt, what do we have here? Mostly Connie's empty spots, right? **Matt Kline:** Thank you, Madam Mayor. Which will make more empty spots when we switch people around. This is just a discussion between council members... if somebody just wants to fill Connie's vacant spots or if anybody on the council wants to currently switch what they're doing. [44:11] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Yeah, I've had conversations a little bit with Carl too. First, I think we need to get the acting Deputy Mayor slotted because Connie used to do that. That person would be leading meetings if I can't make it. Does anybody really, really want that job? Otherwise, I would give it to the person with the most seniority, which would be John, right? **John Dah:** That's what I was going to say—give it to the most seniority person. That's okay. I have not missed a meeting in 14 years so so far so good. [44:50] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Carl had mentioned to me that he's potentially interested in the Lake Elmo Airport advisory liaison. That is one of my roles right now, and I have been interested in the Library Board liaison for years, but Connie's always had it. **John Dah:** I don't mind Middle St. Croix WMO... the problem I have with it is it's no longer in Bayport. **Katie Hill:** I'm fine where I'm at with mine. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** I'll take Library Board. Carl’s going to do Lake Elmo airport and he’s also going to do John’s alternate for cable. [50:32] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Okay, so: Watershed is John (primary) and Michele (alternate). Planning Commission is Katie (primary) and Ethan (alternate). Library is Michele (primary) and Katie (alternate). Fire is Michele (primary) and Ethan (alternate). Cable is Ethan (primary) and Carl (alternate). Lake Elmo is Carl (primary) and John (alternate). Excel didn't change. V-CAL is changing from Katie to John as the alternate. Make sense? **Council:** Yep. **Ethan Gilmore:** I move to approve the 2025 appointments of the city council liaison assignments as discussed. **Katie Hill:** Second. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All in favor? Aye. [51:40] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All right, and now the regular meeting dates for 2025. Does anyone have any objections? **Carl Bliss:** I know I can't make it to the February meeting... otherwise February and April. **John Dah:** I would say we move the July 7th to July 14th instead because of the 4th of July. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Reading the packet over the Fourth of July weekend does not sound like fun. **John Dah:** I'm not gonna not be here for the Lions meeting... but okay, I'm fine with the 14th. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Okay, so we're on board with changing just July 7 to July 14. [56:45] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** We need a motion to approve the dates. **Ethan Gilmore:** So moved. **John Dah:** Second. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All those in favor? Aye. [57:24] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Council liaison reports. Katie, do you want to start? **Katie Hill:** Yes, so I have B-CAL. First one will be the Easter egg hunt at Barker's Alps, April 19th. The bar crawl is tentative May 10th. Ice cream social will be June 4th. Garage sales, June 6th through 7th. Farmers Market starts June 16th. Derby Days starts September 19th... the fireworks will be September 20th. Halloween at the Fire Hall will be October 31st, and lighting of the green will be Wednesday, December 3rd. [59:15] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thank you, Katie. Did the Cable Commission meet, Ethan? **Ethan Gilmore:** No, it’s going to be quick. We usually have one every three months. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Okay. I attended a couple of meetings for the "Burr Crawl" in February... Minnesota Ice is doing an Ice Bar series and we're slotted for the weekend of February 20th. I met with Matt and representatives about a Valley Community Center. I attended a King Plant stakeholder meeting—not much for updates there. I also went to a cannabis community education meeting down at Green Canopy in Lakeland Shores... it was super interesting. I attended the Regional Council of Mayors meeting; Marv Johnson was there, he'd been Mayor for 45 years. Leadership in the Valley was Government Day in December. I also attended the emergency and disaster training session... basically, I learned we call the guy at the County. Lastly, a shout out to Ethan for planning that Border Battle. [1:07:25] **Ethan Gilmore:** We had three times the people that Wisconsin did! The community came down—there had to be 400-500 people hanging out in Stillwater. I think that's going to help for next year. [1:08:24] **John Dah:** Just a couple Bayport-related things for Middle St. Croix WMO. It has to do with the school... they approved it with conditions regarding storm sewer connection and infiltration basins. And starting the process with the Bay Haven project on top of the hill. [1:10:41] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Staff reports. Fire Chief Kinney? **Chief Gabe Kinney:** Good evening, Madam Mayor, council members. For the month of December, our call volume was 107. Final 2024 call volume is 1,270. Monthly drills were ice rescue and tender one operation. This next month we have the Washington County fire chiefs. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thank you, Chief. [1:11:54] **Chief Jay Jackson:** Madam Mayor, council. Officer Lowski had her day at the Minnesota Wild game; they recognized her for community service. Toys for Tots was another great event; Bernie Low from Inspiration filled our lobby with toys this year. Just a reminder, odd-even parking is in place right now. We are also working with a Cub Scout who wants a tour of the police department to learn about being a detective. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Can you remind the parameters of the odd-even parking? **Chief Jay Jackson:** Even address is even on even days. The time of day is 1:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. [1:15:01] **Joe Hansen:** Madam Mayor, members of the council. Mr. Bliss, welcome. Favorite department, thanks! Those orange pylons along 95 are marking pylons for fiber optic cable; we negotiated to have half of them removed in the spring. Hockey rinks are open. There was a patch repair on Point Road that will be permanently fixed in the spring. And Tori Christensen is doing fantastic work out at Barker's Alps. [1:17:48] **Sara Taylor:** Madam Mayor, members of the council. The city's newsletter, Bayport News, went to print this week. Staff continues to be extremely busy with zoning. The Planning Commission meets January 14th to consider the annexation and preliminary plat for Bay Haven and a conditional use permit for Lenny’s Garage. Also, if any council members want to attend the Elected Leaders Institute, let me know. [1:20:25] **Matt Kline:** Madam Mayor, members of council. Most of my things were covered. Regarding the storm water utility, we are moving forward with ordinance language and planning a public session for the March agenda. [1:21:13] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All right. Does anyone want to go home? **John Dah:** Yes, I'm going to go to work instead. **Katie Hill:** I move to adjourn the meeting. **John Dah:** Second. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** All those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? All right, thank you, we are done. [1:21:53] **[Meeting Adjourned]**