[0:28] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Better rip. Mayor Spooner. You guys ready? All right, everybody. We will call the Tuesday, March 10th, 2026 City of Faribault City Council to order. Our first item is roll call. [0:45] Heather Slechta: Council member Barnes. [0:47] Mandy Barnes: Here. [0:48] Heather Slechta: Doumbouya, Ross, Rowan. [0:50] John Rowan: Here. [0:52] Heather Slechta: Thiele. [0:54] Chuck Thiele: Here. [0:56] Heather Slechta: Mayor Spooner. [0:57] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Here. Our second item is 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. [1:18] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Our item number two is approval of the agenda. Does anybody have any changes? [1:22] John Rowan: So moved. [1:24] Chuck Thiele: Second. [1:26] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: I have a motion by Rowan, second by Thiele. All those in favor of the agenda signify by saying I. [1:34] City Council: I. [1:34] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All opposed. Agenda is passed. Presentation and introductions. Chief John Sherwin, Police Department, please. [1:55] Police Chief John Sherwin: Okay, good. We're we're live. Uh mayor, members of the council, um it's my pleasure tonight to introduce uh two most recent promoted officers. Um we've through the creation of a deputy chief position that resulted in uh two promotions that have already occurred. [2:14] Police Chief John Sherwin: Uh they actually occurred on February 15th. We had a selection process for each of those uh promotions um of which uh the mayor was able to participate and the deputy chief and um uh so tonight we're here to introduce you to two individuals who I will rely on and leading the department. Um and first I'd like to call up Captain Brandon Gliem. [2:43] Police Chief John Sherwin: Uh many of you know Brandon as he's if there's a community event in Faribault, he's likely there along with his family. Um and he's been a long-term member of this department for the last uh 20 going to be 25 years coming up this summer. Um he's most recently served the department as administrative captain where I relied on him to implement a number of projects uh administrative wise. So the boring uh things that uh most people that become police officers don't want to do but are absolutely necessary for the function of the department. Um Brandon served in as a sergeant for over a decade. He spent time in investigations as well as administrative administration and in patrol. Um so I'm happy to promote him. [3:28] Police Chief John Sherwin: He is now uh captain overseeing our investigations division. Um, and at this point I would like to invite his family or whoever he chooses to come forward and ceremonial ceremonially uh pin on his badge. [4:07] Police Chief John Sherwin: Congratulations Brandon. [4:08] Captain Brandon Gliem: Thank you. [4:09] Police Chief John Sherwin: Next, I'll invite Deputy Chief Matt Long to come forward. [4:22] Police Chief John Sherwin: And this is going to be a little different because we're not going to do a badge pinning because um we don't have a badge yet because of deputy chief being a new position. We've ordered it, but it takes some time for them to be printed. But but uh Matt uh most recently was promoted to captain. [4:37] Police Chief John Sherwin: If you remember, not too long ago, we had a promotion, a recognition this summer in June, July, July, uh where Matt was promoted from sergeant to captain. Uh and then with the creation of the deputy chief position, Matt put in for it and and was elected. Um I rely on Matt for a lot of things. He basically ran our investigations division the past few years. Uh and he is um someone who I put a lot of faith and trust in. Very smart guy. Uh he has a master's degree working on a second master's degree. Um he's a graduate of the FBI National Academy. He's served the department for 20 years in a variety of roles. Supervisor patrol investigations captain where he oversaw investigations. So anyway, let's congratulate Matt. Matt, congratulations to you. [5:36] Police Chief John Sherwin: And Matt will have the distinct duty of filling in for me when I'm unable to attend functions. So he will be the one in charge. [5:56] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Thank you. Currently holds more mouse. All right. And next agenda item is approval of minutes of February 2026. [6:36] Mandy Barnes: So moved. [6:38] Chuck Thiele: Second. [6:40] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Motion by Barnes. Second by Thiele. All those in favor signify by I. [6:45] City Council: I. [6:45] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All opposed. Minutes are passed. Request to be heard. We have none on the docket. So all consent agenda items 6A through 6N. Would anybody like to have anything removed? [7:02] Peter van Sluis: Mayor Spooner. [7:03] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Yes. [7:04] Peter van Sluis: I'd like to abstain from voting on item 6D. [7:09] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: But you will be voting on the others? [7:10] Peter van Sluis: Yes, I will. [7:11] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All right. Thank you. [7:13] Chuck Thiele: So moved. [7:15] Peter van Sluis: Second. [7:19] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Motion by Thiele, second by Van Sluis on 6A through 6N. All those in favor say I. [7:26] City Council: I. [7:28] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All opposed. Passed. On to public hearings. [7:43] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Uh, we have resolution 2026-077, approval of the specifications for miscellaneous concrete projects. Director of Engineering, Mr. Mark DuChene. [7:53] Mark DuChene: Thank you, Mayor Spooner, members of the council and the public. Uh, must have been an erroneous part of mine to put this under uh public hearings, but we'll have a public hearing on it anyways. Uh, tonight is uh just asking for approval of plans and specifications and setting a bid date for our annual miscellaneous concrete project. As you recall, we annually bid out miscellaneous concrete work, curb and gutter replacement, pavement replacement, sidewalks, driveways, things like that. Um, this is for stuff that comes up throughout the year. Uh, how we repair water main breaks over the winter when we have concrete work associated with them. [8:26] Mark DuChene: Sidewalk tripping hazards on public facilities as well as if somebody gets a notice that their sidewalk in front of their residence or business needs to be repaired and they don't want to go hire a contractor to come in and replace a couple panels, we can do that type of work underneath this contract as well. And then we use our special assessment consent assessment form for that kind of work. It also goes to parks department will sometimes come to us and they want to repair some sidewalk or add a concrete pad at a playground or something. So this is just kind of a catchall for miscellaneous concrete work. It allows us to get the work done within 10 days of notifying the winning contractor rather than having to always go out and get separate quotes for every little bit of work. [9:02] Mark DuChene: So um the contract is estimated to be $109,000 in change. We traditionally reach about a third of that. We we put out there what we think might be our worst case scenario for all these bid items. Um but I think the 2025 contract I don't even think we accumulated $40,000 worth of work. So um we just got to have some way to evaluate the bids and so that's how we've determined to do it. So, um we can certainly have a public hearing and then ask you to approve uh resolution 2026-077. [9:34] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: This time I'll take a motion to go into public hearing. [9:37] Mandy Barnes: I make a motion to approve resolution 2026... [9:42] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: We got to go into public first. [9:43] Mandy Barnes: Yes, we do. Motion to open to public hearing. [9:45] Royal Ross: Second. [9:51] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All those in favor signify. [9:57] City Council: I. [9:57] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All opposed. We are in public hearing. Seeing no one in the audience coming forward. [10:04] Peter van Sluis: So moved to close. [10:06] Chuck Thiele: Second. [10:13] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Motion by Van Sluis. Second by Thiele to close public hearing. All in favor say I. All opposed, we are out of public hearing. [10:20] Mandy Barnes: Make a motion to approve resolution 2026-077. [10:30] Peter van Sluis: Second. [10:32] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: I have a motion by Barnes, second by Van Sluis to approve resolution 2026-077. All those in favor signify. [10:41] City Council: I. [10:44] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All opposed. Resolution passes. On to items for discussion. Ordinance 2026-02 amending chapter 17. City Administrator Jessica Kinser. [11:00] Jessica Kinser: Yes. This is the second reading of an a uh an amendment to chapter 17 where there's actually two sections that are being amended to remove any specific statement related to an actual um late fee or penalty and instead is being replaced with language related to um seeing that the the council would set the late fee or penalty by resolution. Um and so that is tied in with item C on uh items for discussion um where that actually takes place. So the recommended uh it's recommended to approve the second reading. There's been no changes since the first reading. [11:35] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: This time I'll entertain a motion. [11:38] Chuck Thiele: So moved. [11:40] Peter van Sluis: Second. [11:41] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: I have a motion by Thiele, second by Van Sluis to approve ordinance 2026-02. Roll call. [11:49] Heather Slechta: Council member Barnes. [11:50] Mandy Barnes: Aye. [11:51] Heather Slechta: Rowan. [11:51] John Rowan: Aye. [11:52] Heather Slechta: Van Sluis. [11:53] Peter van Sluis: Aye. [11:54] Heather Slechta: Thiele. [11:54] Chuck Thiele: Aye. [11:55] Heather Slechta: Mayor. [11:56] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Aye. That motion passes. Uh publication summary of the ordinance. [12:00] Peter van Sluis: So moved. [12:02] John Rowan: Second. [12:03] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Motion by Van Sluis, second by Rowan. All those in favor say I. [12:07] City Council: I. [12:08] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All oppose. That publication passes. Ordinance 2026-03 amending chapter 14. Once again, City Administrator Jessica Kinser. [12:15] Jessica Kinser: Yes. This ordinance is establishing a new article in chapter 14 for the licensing and regulation of short-term rentals. The focus of this licensing and regulation is really around collecting lodging tax and um making sure that um life safety measures are met in the rental properties. And so um this is up for you uh for your second reading tonight. No comments have been received um since the first reading and so no changes have been made either. [12:50] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All right. Any questions? [12:51] John Rowan: I do. So the comments you received on the first go round, is there anything noteworthy or were there no comments at all? [13:00] Jessica Kinser: I've not received any comments. [13:02] John Rowan: Okay. All right. Make a motion to uh approve ordinance 2026-03. [13:13] Mandy Barnes: Second. [13:14] Heather Slechta: Council Member Barnes. [13:16] Mandy Barnes: Aye. [13:17] Heather Slechta: Rowan. [13:18] John Rowan: Aye. [13:19] Heather Slechta: Van Sluis. [13:20] Peter van Sluis: Aye. [13:21] Heather Slechta: Thiele. [13:22] Chuck Thiele: Aye. [13:23] Heather Slechta: Mayor Spooner. [13:24] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Aye. That passes. And we have ordinance 2026 summary publication. I'll entertain a motion. [13:41] Chuck Thiele: So moved. [13:43] Mandy Barnes: Second. [13:45] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Motion by Thiele, second by Barnes to approve the summary. All in favor say I. [13:49] City Council: I. [13:51] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All oppose. Resolution passes. Under resolution 2026-070 amending the fee schedule. Jessica. [14:01] Jessica Kinser: Yes. The amendment to the fee schedule that is before you tonight includes basically the three items that really come from uh the last uh two ordinance readings which is establishing the short-term rental fee and then establishing um in the the two different areas related to our uh chapter 17 um articles four and five um establishing the late fee as the 10% which is applied to our our utility bills and all standard accounts receivable. [14:36] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Any questions for staff? Seeing none, at this time I'll entertain a motion. [14:41] Mandy Barnes: So moved. [14:43] Chuck Thiele: Second. [14:44] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Motion by Barnes, second by Thiele to approve resolution 2026-070. All in favor, I. [14:48] City Council: I. [14:50] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All opposed. Resolution passes. Onto resolution 2026-072. [14:56] Rochelle Anderholm-Parsch: Good evening. Yes, I keep cutting you guys off every time you try to get through my name. I'm sorry. I'll wait next time. Um, good evening. Um, tonight before you is resolution 2026-072 authorizing staff to advertise and solicit competitive sealed bids for the design, purchase, and installation of a pre-engineered metal building um for the refrigerated ice sheet at Viaduct Park phase 2. [15:22] Rochelle Anderholm-Parsch: And just as a reminder, on February 17th, we brought this before a work session and we presented um the research we had done through a um pre-engineered metal building and the thumbs up was to um pursue the cooperative procurement. In the meantime, staff had done some additional research. We discovered that there was some additional um monetary savings we could realize if we had combined and done a sealed bid process that included the design, the purchase and the installation and the construction of the footings and the foundation for the structure. So today um we're asking for approval. The engineers estimate for that approximately all those things that I just said about $715,000. [16:03] Rochelle Anderholm-Parsch: If approved tonight, we would advertise the project beginning March 11th, so tomorrow. And we would do open bids April 8th. And with that, staff recommends that there's the approval of resolution 2026-072. [16:18] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: For staff, thank you. At this time, I'll entertain a motion. Spooner. [16:24] Peter van Sluis: Yes. I make a motion to approve resolution 2026-072. [16:34] Mandy Barnes: Second. [16:36] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Motion by Van Sluis, second by Barnes to approve resolution 2026-072. All in favor, I. [16:45] City Council: I. [16:47] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All oppose. Motion passes. Thank you. Resolution 2026-074. Approval of plans and specifications reconstruction once again. [17:17] Mark DuChene: Helps if you plug it in first before she hits the button. Uh thank you, mayor, members of the council, and the public. Before you tonight is a resolution to approve the plans and specifications for our 2026 street reconstruction improvements contract 2026-03. This includes the reconstruction of Second Street Northwest from 1st Avenue Northwest to 4th Avenue Northwest. As a reminder, this is a full street reconstruction. So, a new 40 foot wide street with new bituminous pavement, curb and gutter, driveway approaches, sidewalk, and new public utilities. Um, this street will be designed for two-way traffic with parking lanes on both sides as depicted in the graphic on the screen. [17:58] Mark DuChene: Also included in this project is a secondary access for the Faribault Fire Station. This is to both facilitate access during construction in front of their main driveway, as well as to provide a long-term secondary access to try to reduce or eliminate the need for trucks to back into the garage, the fire garage off of Second Street. Uh we envision that most of the trucks will now be able to pull in off of Second Avenue into the driveway, nose out just into the sidewalk area, and then back into the garage rather than having to stop traffic and make a dangerous backing maneuver off of Second Street into the driveway. [18:28] Mark DuChene: The other street included in this project is First Avenue Northwest from Third Street Northwest to Fourth Street Northwest. Um this will be a 60 foot wide street. Uh we'll have angled parking, two-way traffic with angled parking on both sides. uh new pavement, curb and gutter, sidewalk, and public utilities. Uh there's currently parallel parking on one side of the road and some angled parking on the other side of the road. By switching the road to all angled parking, we do anticipate we can pick up about 10 or so stalls on the street. [19:04] Mark DuChene: Uh also included in this project is improvements to the intersection of First Avenue and Third Street. uh creating some pedestrian bumpouts similar to what's on Central Avenue uh to improve some ADA access as well as some traffic calming around a pretty busy intersection down there with the Mural and the Elks and some other businesses. So much needed improvements at this intersection. [19:18] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Better hurry up. I actually do have one question, Director. Uh the one thing about the new created entry for fire trucks—sometimes we get buses that park along that area. Have they been notified or? [19:34] Mark DuChene: Yep. We we will be south of the bus stop. [19:36] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: So they have plenty of room? [19:38] Mark DuChene: I have happened to see sometimes as many as three buses stacked up there. We probably won't, you know, we'll probably be impacted if they get three, but the one or two that are typically there, yeah, there should still be room. [19:48] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: We could just if we have to put up some no parking signs temporarily to the street. [19:54] Mark DuChene: I believe there's plenty of room there where their bus shelter is. So, okay. [19:56] Mark DuChene: Uh, total project funding 2.176 million. You can see the funding breakdown there between the street improvement fund and the respective utility funds. Pending approval tonight. We are looking to set a bid opening date of April 8th to be back on April 14th for construction to start um late May, early June and completion at the end of September. [20:18] Mark DuChene: With that, we'd ask you to consider resolution 2026-074. [20:25] Chuck Thiele: Question. So, with the instability in the Middle East and petroleum, you know, you know where I'm going. Is bituminous going to be a problem like it was back in 2014, TBD? [20:36] Mark DuChene: Okay. Um I you are thinking about it that if something... it's it's the one thing that's kept me up the last couple nights is what are the impacts you know on materials specifically our road materials which is our greatest cost in most of these projects. I haven't heard anybody sending out the red flag yet saying hold on folks we this might go volatile at some point. We're anticipating that there'll be some risk built into these bids, but um from what I understand, a lot of the oil and materials for this year's project have already been purchased. [21:08] Chuck Thiele: Okay. Excellent. Thank you. [21:10] Mark DuChene: Not not saying they won't, but it's on your mind and that's that's all we can ask for. And at this point, we can all we can do is get bids and evaluate the bids as received and make determination from there. [21:23] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All right. Thank you. Sorry, Mark. I think I jumped on your presentation there. Apologize for that one. This time I'll entertain a motion. [21:33] John Rowan: So moved. [21:35] Mandy Barnes: Second. [21:37] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Motion by Rowan, second by Barnes. All those in favor signify by saying I. [21:40] City Council: I. [21:42] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: All oppose. Resolution passes. Item F, resolution 2026-075. Plans for parking lot 21. Again, Director Mark DuChene. [22:04] Mark DuChene: Thank you, Mayor Spooner, members of the council and the public. Uh before you tonight is contract 2026-03. This is for the construction improvements related to the new public parking lot, parking lot 21. Uh this parking lot will be located at the northeast quadrant of the block bounded by Fourth Street and 1st Avenue Northwest. Uh this parking lot is created in conjunction with the commercial development in the northwest corner of that block um that was recently replatted as Henry M. Rice Square. [22:38] Mark DuChene: Uh this parking lot is part of the development agreement. Um will be a public parking lot. However, the spaces within the lot will be reserved for the commercial business um during working hours Monday through Friday, I believe, but then available to the public outside of those hours. Uh the parking lot intends to create about 51 public stalls and then there's 11 stalls that are actually on the private commercial lot that will always be private stalls there. So about 51 public stalls, and 11 private stalls um outside of normal working hours. [23:04] Mark DuChene: The total project cost for the parking lot improvements is $425,000. Uh a note that a portion of that will be refunded by the developer for those 11 private parking stalls. It made more sense to do them all under one project and then just prorate the costs uh accordingly for their portion of the work that will be there. So um there will be a portion of that that will come back to us pending approval of plans and specifications and setting a bid date today. Uh same schedule as the previous project in April 8th bid opening and an April 14th award of contract for a May June start and a September completion. [23:40] Mark DuChene: Uh I failed to mention and we are going to bid the previous project and this project as one contract for one contractor to do being that this parking lot is right adjacent to the first avenue working right there. um it only makes sense to bundle those together to try to get some economy of scale savings in the project. So um it'll be a little bit unusual to have a contract with a contractor that'll actually have two project contract numbers tied to it. But like I said, we'll manage it. Um and think we'll see some savings rather than just bidding this parking lot as its own project. So with that, certainly willing to answer any questions, but we ask you to consider resolution 2026-075. [24:16] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Any questions for staff? Seeing none at this time, I'll entertain a motion. [24:20] Chuck Thiele: So moved. [24:22] Peter van Sluis: Second. [24:24] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Motion by Thiele, second by Van Sluis to approve resolution. All in favor, I. [24:32] City Council: I. [24:34] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Passes. We have none tonight. Boards, commission reports and announcements. [24:43] Jessica Kinser: Yes, this is just a reminder that tomorrow at 5:00 PM is the council chat at Viaduct Park and it will be a presentation from um the Maxfield Group regarding the most recently completed housing study by the HRA. Um next Tuesday is going to be just a little bit chaotic. We'll have a joint uh work session with the planning commission at 6 pm. We'll we'll probably do that in here and figure out how to set up the the room for that and then have a work session, the regular work session following that and then following that is a closed session. Um, so it will be a busy evening and so we'll we'll kind of work out where everything is and agendas will be going out later this week. [25:23] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Housing study, is there a presentation at four o'clock? [25:28] Jessica Kinser: There is a more technical group at 3:00 um where a number of uh individuals and organizations that work in the in the housing world have been invited for that. So, it'll probably be a little bit more technical than the public presentation. [26:05] Mandy Barnes: Motion to adjourn. [26:07] Peter van Sluis: Second. [26:10] Mayor Thomas J. Spooner: Motion by Barnes, second by Van Sluis to adjourn. All in favor, I. Meeting adjourned.