This transcript appears to be a City Council meeting for the City of Hastings, MN. Based on the context provided, I have corrected the phonetic errors in the names (e.g., "Fox" or "Bulge" for **Beck**, "London" for **Lawrence**, and "Vaughn" for **Vihrachoff**) and assigned the speakers accordingly. [0:00] **Unknown Speaker**: ...republic which stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty [0:13] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: Welcome everyone and we are—first time being in this room. Councilmember Beck, Ward 2, so we welcome you here tonight. [0:38] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: And any minutes to the workshop on June 21st and workshop on the 29th? Seeing none, they are approved. Public comments tonight—for public comments we have options for the comments to be mailed prior to the meeting as well as the interaction feature during the meeting. For the email comments, they have been forwarded to the City Council and their receipt is now acknowledged. Please recognize that items not only consent on the agenda will not be discussed this evening. For live comments they may be either through Zoom link or in person. We ask that the attendees either raise their hand in person or use the raised hand feature in Zoom and they will be invited to speak one at a time. I also want to remind everyone that the public comment period is not intended for an extended dialogue. I'll first go to the chambers—is there anyone at this point that would like to speak to the Council at this time? Anyone that would like to speak to the Council at this time? Okay, seeing none at this time. Sure. [2:29] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: Good evening everyone. Good evening, Corey. [2:46] **Corey Colvin**: Hi, can you hear me now? There you go, yes, perfect. So my name is Corey Colvin. I am back once again to speak in favor of amending our current ordinance regarding the keeping of backyard chickens. I want to thank the City Council members for taking the time to have city staff address and research the topic of backyard chickens. The Planning Commission has done a wonderful job and has been able to find information from reliable sources such as the CDC, Minnesota Department of Health, and city officials in other communities that already allow the keeping of chickens. And through their research, staff has found that the keeping of chickens will pose little to no risk to our community. On behalf of myself and the dozens of others in our community who want to see this ordinance passed, we look forward to having this topic placed on the City Council meeting agenda for a public hearing and final vote for the next meeting. Thank you, that's all I have to say tonight. [3:32] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: Thank you, Corey. Anyone else wish to speak via [Zoom]? Council members, are there any Council items to be considered? Okay Council, I would accept a motion to approve the consent agenda. [4:27] **Councilmember Mya Beck**: Inside House Theater community event is a special event. Okay, I'll move that to under Administration. [4:40] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: And we’re taking a vote at this time. [5:36] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: Seven and Aye. Opposed to accepting the consent agenda? Okay, that motion prevails. Oh, that was a relaxing time. Sorry. Tonight under Community Development, we have an authorized signature: Confluence Development, the Fourth Amendment to Purchase and Develop Agreement. And we have with us tonight John Hinzman. Welcome, John. [5:58] **John Hinzman (Community Development Director)**: Thank you, Mayor, City Council members. Well, back before you tonight to discuss the Confluence project that most of you are aware of—the project going on down by the river. We have been involved in that project now for about 10, 11 years. We had a purchase and development agreement with that project for the conversion of the old Hudson manufacturing building; we signed that in 2016. We've had some subsequent amendments behind that. The purpose of that agreement was to set the parameters for transfer of the building and expectations for performance for both the developer and for the city and HEDRA. In doing so, and over the last few years, a lot of great things have happened down there. The environmental contamination cleanup has been nearly complete; exterior renovation of the building is just about complete as well. Confluence was at a point in early 2020 where they were about to start with a tax credit investor on some further interior work. The COVID did delay that, and so the dates that we had within the original agreement have transpired, but the project has continued to move forward. In order to make the development agreement relevant pertaining to performance dates, we are offering an amendment tonight that we have discussed with the developers of Confluence that does a couple of things. It's a rather short amendment from the amendments we've had on this agreement in the past. Some of the key items are: the commencement and completion items have been updated since we last completed this amendment. We've done most of the environmental work; we have gone through the building, done the environmental encapsulation. There's still some items of performance that we discussed at the workshop relating to the integrity of some of that encapsulation work, which we're actively working on, but a lot of that work, grant funded, was completed last year. The vapor intrusion mitigation system has also been installed—all the pipe work, the equipment for it. This is a system that actively vents soil vapor out of the building. The only thing remaining on that one is testing, and we need to wait until the building is more substantially complete so we can test the full integrity of the system. So we have made note within the agreement of items that have been completed. We've also set a couple of dates: for our wood ceiling and encapsulation work, August 31st, we should be done with that. That's in the agreement. And Confluence should substantially complete the construction work within their building by October 31st of next year. As you know, we've had dates like this in the past. One thing that is very significant about the date that we have tonight is that in addition to this, the developers have agreed to a minimum assessment agreement. You may ask what exactly is that? That states that if this project is not completed by that October 31, 2022 date, that Confluence would agree to be taxed on that project at the value within our TIF agreement, which is about five million dollars. They'd pay the taxes upon that work, which means that if there's a delay, they would still need to pay those taxes based on that value to us. Those funds again are used by us to retire our debt on the acquisition of the building. So this is a very substantial step. This really says to me that the Confluence is confident within the ability of this project to be completed in a timely fashion because if they did not, entering into this agreement may put them into some jeopardy. So I think that's a great step there. So that is really the amendments that we're looking at tonight. So the action we have is to authorize signature of this purchase and development agreement, the amendment to it. We have representatives here from the Confluence development team: Pat Regan, Mike Mattingly, Rob Barce, and Greg Stocko. I think Mike Mattingly may want to share a couple of words and provide some information about some of the activities that are going on at Confluence. So we can ask Mike to speak if you're ready to do so, or I can stand for any questions related to the agreement. [10:55] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: Thank John. One thing I’ve learned in the last year of this pandemic is it's probably going to be in every contract we do going forward—should the words "pandemic" or the unknown be written in here? That due to a pandemic this could get extended, or is it a hard date? [11:20] **John Hinzman**: Councilmember, I think the way that the agreement's written now is that the performance dates of August 31st this year for us is a hard date, and that October 31st next year would be a hard date. If something was to happen unexpectedly there's the possibility of future amendment, but I don't think that's really contemplated in this agreement. [11:48] **Mike Mattingly (Developer)**: Thank you. Thank you, Mayor and Council members. It's good to be back here today. I didn't realize this was the first in-person meeting, but that feels fitting and pretty exciting that we're here today. So I'm grateful to have the opportunity to be here. I'm Mike Mattingly, one of the owners of the Confluence development project along with Pat Regan and some of our family. Also here is Rob Barce with Met Development Company, who's been integral in assisting us with the project, and Greg Stocko with Stocko Construction, our general contractor. I think the overall message here today is that throughout the last 15 months, really since March of 2020 when the world turned upside down, we've been working. We've stayed committed to this project. We found a way to persevere through something that, frankly, we didn't foresee. And we couldn't be more excited now to be here where we are today and frankly grateful, too, to have the opportunity to not have had something that was really unforeseen by us derail us. So what happened? Just a little history... it was five days after we signed our term sheet with our federal and state tax credit investor, I think it was March 17th of 2020, that the world shut down. I was sitting in my home office that day and I got a call the next day from the gentleman we were working with at that tax credit investor, and he said, "You know, it's probably not good news here. We've got a global pause on anything related to hospitality and we're not going to be able to move forward with an investment in your project at this time." At that time, we were sitting there not knowing where we were at either. I think everybody was a little bit hopeful at first that it would be shorter-lived than it turned out to be, but by probably June or July, it was obvious that it wasn't going to be a blip; it was going to be a 12-month long event. And so we adapted and we came up with this phasing plan where we were able to close an interim financing package, keep really significant work going on the site and on the shell of the building. That closed in September of 2020, and that work was mostly completed in the fall of 2020 and has continued in the spring and into the summer of 2021. While that work was going on, we were also obviously working behind the scenes on keeping the overall project on schedule. In that process, we were able to locate a new tax credit investor for the federal tax credits and a new tax credit investor for the state tax credit. We signed term sheets with those parties in May of this year and we're working in the late stages of definitive agreements for those investments. So that's a huge step for us and was always one of the things that was going to be a necessary prerequisite to being in position to get going full bore again. The other big thing that's changed is that we made the decision late winter/early spring of this year that we were going to take over operations of the restaurant. It's going to now be run by our hotel operator, IDM Hospitality Management. They run restaurants in a range of other properties that they operate, including down in Springfield, Missouri, where Rob and Pat and I went in March of this year. We took a visit as we were making that decision; we wanted to vet it, make sure we were comfortable with it. We had a great trip down there, a really good experience with their food and beverage people. And we think that by running the restaurant we do two things: number one, we control our timeline and we don't make ourselves subject to finding somebody else who's willing to open a new restaurant in this environment; and number two, there will be a lot of opportunity for synergies with the restaurant and the hotel and the event space. We’re excited actually about that decision. It was one of those things that was forced upon us, but that now I think we're happy was forced upon us. Where are we going from here? I think the most immediate place that we're going is July 15th at 8:30 p.m. We're planning tomorrow to get the cupolas remounted on the roof of the building. Those cupolas will have lights on them, and we plan to have a little topping off and lighting ceremony on the Thursday before Rivertown Days. Here's a weather vane that'll go on top of the cupola. Those have been refurbished. Rob, you know the name of the gentleman who did that? Bruce Bauer. We're really proud of that. We've got nine of those that'll go on top of the cupolas. Those should be a real feature and those will be lit up by the lighting that we have on those cupolas. That's what we plan to show off on Thursday. Following that, I think we plan to show quick and constant activity on the site both from a construction standpoint and from a marketing standpoint. I'll let Rob speak in a little bit more detail of that schedule because he's managing those details. [17:58] **Rob Barce (Developer)**: Thanks Mike. Good evening. So as Mike mentioned, next week's going to be a fun one. Tomorrow is actually the day they're going to have the crane out and setting the cupolas. We're thankful for city staff—Nick Egger is going to be out there with his drone flying for us getting some footage, and then we're going to use that for the ceremony that we have on the 15th. In addition to that, now that we have IDM really integral into our process, in August we'll be releasing the name of the restaurant which we have established. We're working on some marketing collateral that we'll be able to distribute so that when people ask about the Confluence, there's something they get handed off—statistics on what the project is, when are apartments available, when are we going to be making guest rooms available in the hotel. A lot of that's going to be available. We'll also start pushing some of our social media outlets live in August. In parallel with that, as Mike mentioned with construction activities—it's great with as big as the building is to see it come to life from the exterior with the new roof. Within the next two weeks, we're going to have curb and gutter going down, blacktop going down for the parking lot. July will be great for exterior, and then once we close on the tax credit investor, we'll start working on the remaining shell activities: tuckpointing, painting, getting the branding band around the building, windows going in. We'll go from about August through the fall and winter, and then we'll also be entering the interior around August as well. I know we've talked a little bit about the date that John mentioned in the agreement of October 31st, but you'll be happy to know that just in the last five minutes we picked up 30 days because I had noted I like conservative schedules that we can hit, and Greg said, "Well, we've got a wedding that we're planning in here in August [of 2023]," so we're going to be done by July on the interior. Finally, sidewalks, the rest of the pavement, and landscaping will go in the spring of next year. It's a lot of exciting activity. [21:42] **Councilmember Mya Beck**: Thank you, your Honor. Hello Rob, Mike. It's nice to see you two fellas in person. I was wondering about the outside platform that is meant for events that's along the Riverwalk there. I took part in an interview process where we were being asked for feedback and I had asked if that platform was going to soon be made available for the public to be able to use—to be able to reserve it and use it. I was wondering if you could provide an update on that because it was my understanding that this summer the public can start to reserve it and use that space. [22:28] **Rob Barce**: I would say from a safety and construction standpoint, Greg's team does have it protected from the job site, so the public can freely come up the stairs and get onto the deck overlook. As far as reservations and logistics on that, do you want to comment? [23:14] **Mike Mattingly**: From a public availability standpoint, the deck portion is available now. From a reservation system standpoint, we haven't done that yet. There are kind of two reservation concepts built into the agreement because there's the reservation rights that we have as the owner of the adjacent property to reserve the deck for our use. We haven't exercised any of those obviously. There are probably some discussions to occur between us and the city about how exactly that process should work. We are happy to work with the city on maybe what that might look like. [24:01] **Councilmember Mya Beck**: Yeah, I would love to see that reservation system put in place because that was my understanding that was going to be made available to the public. It's just sitting there empty at this point, and city taxpayers put a lot of money into that building—it should be nice if folks could start to utilize it. I'd love to see an update from city staff in the next month as to how it is that the public can access that platform. Thank you. [24:47] **Councilmember DawnMarie Vihrachoff**: First of all, I appreciate your persistence in pursuing this project because I think it is important and I'm grateful that it's moving forward. My question is a little bit more environmental in nature: Do you have any concerns about staffing and workforce? Because it seems like in general there is a lot of concern, especially in the hospitality industry, about having enough people to staff a venue of any of this size. What are you doing to address those concerns? [25:34] **Mike Mattingly**: Councilmember, that’s a fair question. I'd give a dishonest answer if I said we don't have concerns about that. I think anybody who works in any business right now has some concerns. I think the way that we have addressed our concerns is through engaging IDM Hospitality Management. They operate 10 or 12 other boutique hotels in similar towns throughout Wisconsin and Iowa and Missouri. They will bring in a quality GM who will run the operation. I frankly think we will benefit to some extent by opening in 10 or 12 months instead of today; I think that the environment for labor will be a little bit stronger then. [26:19] **Councilmember DawnMarie Vihrachoff**: Thank you for that. And just as a follow-up: Do you have a sense for how many positions there might be available in the community if people are interested in the future? [27:04] **Mike Mattingly**: I wish I had IDM here to answer that. Rob, I don't know if you know from any of our discussions... it's got to be 40 in each of the three different disciplines? Yeah, I think it would be over 100 when you take account of full-time and part-time looking at the restaurant, the hotel, the apartments, and the events. [27:42] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: Very exciting for the community. With that, Council, I would look for a motion to approve the Fourth Amendment to the Purchase and Development Agreement. [28:10] **Councilmember DawnMarie Vihrachoff**: I just want to thank all of you for all of your continued work on this project with your passion and investment in the community. I know there have been frustrating setbacks for everyone up here, for everyone in the community, and mostly for all of you. So I just wanted to thank you for your further faith in this project. I move the vote, if that's appropriate, Your Honor. [28:56] **Councilmember Angie Haus**: Thank you. Real quick, from the bridge—which I now work out of town so I'm coming back and forth—I had a blast watching the roof go up. That was so much fun to watch every single day. But this cupola thing is pretty intriguing. This is really going to change the look of that building. I'm very excited to see what that's going to look like. [29:42] **Mike Mattingly**: So the next opportunity to see the cupolas lit up will be next Thursday. Pat asked me to remind everybody that the location for that event is on the second level of the parking ramp across the street on the south side of Second Street. It'll be an opportunity to take advantage of another great amenity that we built through a partnership with the city, which is that parking ramp. [30:28] **Councilmember Dave Pemble**: Real quick, I want to add a thank you to Pat. This is clearly a labor of love. Being a resident of Hastings, as almost every one of us up here have been our whole lives, this is a huge, huge undertaking. Most of us have sat here through many, many extensions, many delays, many concerns and issues. But hey, at one point you got all your eggs in the basket, and for one I'm just so excited to see and hear these dates. I want to thank you, Pat, for your investment into the community of Hastings. [31:44] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: Again, thank you. We’ve all learned about patience here. I'm just going to say "Aye"—someone's got to make a major mistake on the first time back! Thank you, Thursday at 8:30. All right. [32:25] **Dan Wietecha (City Administrator)**: Thank you, Mayor and Council. This goes back to March of 2020 when the city put in place its local emergency with the COVID pandemic. As you recall, two weeks ago, June 21st, 2021, we were starting to discuss ending that emergency declaration. Obviously, the City Council was in mind that seeing vaccinations and reduced prevalence of COVID, we were ready to go back to as normal as we can. One concern the Council had was that early in the pandemic, we had put in place a hold on any late fees or penalties for municipal sewer and water bills and did not want to surprise people by suddenly ending that practice. We wanted to make sure they had notice. The state legislature changed that a little bit last week. They voted to end the state emergency declaration, which had a surprise effect of automatically ending ours the way we had written it. The state's ended and suddenly ours ended July 1st. The way that our fee and penalty waiver was written, it also said "during the emergency declaration." So what's before you tonight are two items. One being a resolution saying even though the emergency declaration has ended, we still want to make sure that people have a reasonable warning. We will extend that waiver to July 31st, 2021, which effectively means the bills that go out on or about August 1st (due August 20th) will be the first ones that might see that late fee. The other is to set for a public hearing—I do want to change the date in the memo from August 2nd to July 19th—to rescind the emergency ordinance 2020-07. Just a matter of housekeeping, we want to clean up the code and rescind that formally. [36:35] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: Thank you, Dan. [37:19] **Councilmember DawnMarie Vihrachoff**: I'd like to make a motion for the resolution extending waiver of late fees and penalties to July 31st, 2021. [37:35] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: All those in favor? That motion prevails. Second resolution then would be extending the waiver of the late fees and penalties... at this point I'd accept a motion to approve the first reading and order of a public hearing rescinding emergency order 2020-07 regarding waiver of late fees. [38:01] **Councilmember DawnMarie Vihrachoff**: So moved. [38:10] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: All those in favor? That motion prevails. Okay, tonight with us we have a bond sale. [38:26] **Tammy Omdahl (Northland Securities)**: Thank you. Good evening, Mayor, City Council. I’m Tammy Omdahl from Northland Securities. You have a resolution on your agenda tonight related to setting the sale of the 2021A bonds. The purpose of the bonds is to finance the 2021 street improvement and utility improvement projects. The estimated principal amount of the bonds is $2.35 million. The security or the repayment will come from tax levy that the city has been planning on, as well as net revenues of the water and sewer fund. The bonds will be issued as general obligation bonds. Rates continue to be at historic lows; the estimated average coupon at this time is 1.28%. We are working with your staff so that the city seeks a rating on these bonds from Standard & Poor's. Your current rate is AA, which was just affirmed last year. The sale date is August 2nd. [41:07] **Councilmember DawnMarie Vihrachoff**: Thank you, Tammy. Looking at our portfolio and looking at our rating each year, it seems like we improve. Does it help us to increase our bond rating for the future when these rates start to increase if we should not bond so much? Would that help our ratings go up? I was looking for a strategy there. [41:31] **Tammy Omdahl**: The bond rating is really reflective—and really with respect to my recollection of Hastings' rating—of fund balance, cash balance, and liquidity. Those are much more important factors than the amount of outstanding debt. Standard & Poor's wants to hear your story: how have you performed financially historically, but also what are you forecasting? The city has done well; you have the highest rating in that category for management, "Very Strong" by S&P, because of those practices that you have in place. More issuance per se is not going to increase your rating, but the fact that investment is occurring in Hastings in difficult times is great news for the rating call. [44:33] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: And at this time I would accept a motion to approve the resolution providing for the competitive negotiated sale of general obligation bonds series 2021-A. [44:50] **Councilmember DawnMarie Vihrachoff**: So moved. [44:55] **Councilmember Mya Beck**: Second. [44:58] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: All those in favor? Opposed? That motion prevails. And then secondly a motion to approve the municipal advisory service agreement with Northland Securities. [45:19] **Councilmember DawnMarie Vihrachoff**: So moved. [45:22] **Councilmember Mya Beck**: Second. [45:25] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: Any discussion? All those in favor? Motion prevails. Tonight then we'll add number three under administration for council members who wish to pull that from the consent agenda—Designate Hastings Prescott Area Council and Saddleback House Theater community event as a special event. Councilmember Beck, would you like to speak to that? [46:12] **Councilmember Mya Beck**: Thank you, your Honor. I am supportive of this being designated as a special event. What I was looking for clarification on was the city's promotion of events that we have made the formal council decision to designate as a special event. This was brought up to me several weeks ago by a community partner about how when we do make this designation with outside entities, the city hasn't been promoting them on our calendar or any of our social media posts. We're not helping to promote them as a partner. I had asked for clarification from the City Administrator and he said it wasn't per se a written policy but more of an unwritten policy. I just wanted to have that conversation with the Council as a whole. How is it that we feel about going that one step further of also including items that we've designated as special events on our social media? We don't have a lot of venues to get out information about local events—it’s really hard getting the word out on things. I think whatever we can do to help promote these events so that our community members are aware of it would be a good thing. [48:59] **Councilmember Tim Lawrence**: Thank you. So, we had to really define what was a Tier 1, 2, 3, or 4 event. For a Tier 1, part of it was promotion throughout various media outlets on behalf of the organization through the city. But that's not identified in the Tier 2 definition of what our support level is. So for a Tier 1 (like Rivertown Days), we would do promotion. By definition, we haven't said anything that's Tier 2 or below gets that treatment. Now we can look to amend this language down the road. Maybe that's something we could do to help benefit that Tier 2, because there's really not a lot of Tier 1s. [51:20] **Councilmember Mya Beck**: As a point of clarification, what committee makes those decisions? [51:30] **Councilmember Tim Lawrence**: I think it was the Administrative Committee. [52:06] **Councilmember Mya Beck**: Thank you for clarifying. As it was brought forward to me, it was more of a missing opportunity here since we've already given these events that designated stamp of approval from us as a Council. I think a lot of people actually do follow the City of Hastings community events postings. Whatever we can do to help support our local organizations, especially when the majority of them are charitable events or non-profits. If there's agreement amongst the Council about wanting to do that, I would move to approve this special event designation as stated with a note that the Administrative Committee chair, Councilmember Lawrence, would look to updating the policy if it's necessary. [54:05] **Councilmember Angie Haus**: Thank you. I just, as a side note, I don't see where there would be an issue. If it's something that we have to approve at a council level, why would we just not put it on the calendar? That would be my opinion on it. If we have to sit here to approve the use of something to do it, we're already putting some sort of a stamp of approval on it. I'm always looking every Wednesday/Thursday through my Facebook posts and websites to see what's going on because there isn't one spot to find it all. It seems to me to make perfect sense. [55:38] **Councilmember Tim Lawrence**: So, noted. We will figure out something to meet at some point in time. It may not sound like a lot of work to just put it on the calendar, but someone else is doing it, and it's not just the calendar—it’s the additional effort of crafting the message and being in contact with the organizer. The idea was to categorize: Is it non-profit or for-profit? Do they need security or roads blocked off? Is this a big impact event or not so much? We wanted to make sure that we identified how much the city is going to cover. But we'll talk and we'll find a time to look at it. [57:53] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: Thank you for the discussion. All those in favor of the motion? Motion prevails. Council, do you have any announcements? Councilmember Vihrachoff. [58:15] **Councilmember DawnMarie Vihrachoff**: Thank you. I just want to let my colleagues know that we're part of the Great River Rail Commission and we were successful in getting the 10 million dollars in the state recently. That frees up some federal dollars. It’s almost 30-plus million that gets released to go to this project between the State of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Amtrak, and the federal government. We will increase a second opportunity to ride a train from Chicago to St. Paul. Most importantly, it does fix some crossings along the way. My goal as the chair was to make sure that train comes right through our town and that safety is prioritized. I'm excited that we finally got there. [59:24] **Councilmember Mya Beck**: Thank you, Mayor. I'm the city liaison for Beyond the Yellow Ribbon. We're looking for some board members. Right now, a lot of the members are from other surrounding communities like Cottage Grove, Newport, and St. Paul Park, and they are looking for some people from Hastings to be on the board. The commitment is basically to provide opportunities to partner between businesses and military families and veterans who need certain services. They're changing the name to Mississippi Valley Beyond the Yellow Ribbon so that all the communities they're serving will be represented. If you're interested, let me know. [1:01:08] **Councilmember Angie Haus**: Based on our just previous conversation about a Tier 1 event, Hastings Rivertown Days is happening between this meeting and our next meeting. If you haven't heard, it's a lot different: there are going to be 24 bands and four stages, the carnival, the craft fair, everything downtown. If you would like tickets, you can visit rivertowndaysmn.com. The weekend is the third weekend in July, the 16th, 17th, and 18th, following immediately the cupola lighting at the Confluence project. [1:02:14] **Councilmember Tim Lawrence**: Make sure you do "MN" at the end of that website because otherwise you're going to be buying tickets to somewhere in Louisiana. I made that mistake! [1:02:40] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: All right, well, a very happy birthday goes out to Councilmember Vihrachoff and Councilmember Beck this week! Councilmember Beck’s is actually today, so happy birthday. Summer programs at Levee Park: Thursday, July 8th, Music in the Park; Friday, July 9th, Movie in the Park is *The Mighty Ducks*. Please bring a non-perishable food donation for the Hastings Family Service. Tuesday, July 13th, Performance in the Park. Wednesday, July 14th is Party in the Park to celebrate National Parks and Recreational Month. Thank you to Vermillion State Bank and Hastings Golf Club for putting on the fireworks this past weekend; I heard it was wonderful. And we want to congratulate Morris Allen, who has been our community liaison for Congresswoman Craig, on his second retirement this week. Monday meeting meetings: July 12th is Planning Commission; Tuesday, July 13th is Parks and Rec; Thursday, July 15th is Public Safety Advisory; and Monday, July 19th is our next City Council meeting. They are all in person. With that Council, I'd have a motion to adjourn tonight. [1:04:34] **Councilmember Vihrachoff**: So moved. [1:04:40] **Mayor Mary Fasbender**: All those in favor? All right, thank you. Have a great night.