This transcript has been formatted with speaker identifications based on the provided city official list and the context of the dialogue. Note: Some names mentioned in the audio (e.g., "John," "Connie," and "Buckley") do not appear on your provided list but are clearly identified as Councilmembers based on their role in making motions. [0:00] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** If not, would someone like to make a motion to approve tonight's agenda? Thank you, John. Thank you, Connie. All in favor, aye. Opposed? That takes us to our proclamations, accommodations, petitions, and announcements. And the August recycling award recipient is Steven McNair at 500 58th Street North. He will be awarded for his recycling efforts with funding made possible with a grant from Washington County. So, thank you very much, Mr. McNair, for your recycling efforts. That takes us to our open forum portion of the meeting, and that's where we set aside 15 minutes... [0:47] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** ...for anyone to come forward and to talk about a topic that's not on today's agenda. I do not see anyone in the audience tonight. [Moving] to tonight's consent agenda, and that's to consider adopting a resolution of items 1 through 12, including the August 5th, 2019 City Council workshop meeting minutes, the August 5th, 2019 City Council regular meeting minutes, the August payables and receipts including checks numbers 011407 through 011503, the August building, plumbing, and mechanical permits report, donations for safety camp, and a special event application from... [1:33] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** ...Anderson's parent group for Diggy's Dash walkathon on October 11, 2019, at Barker's Alps Park; a donation of a park bench from Stephen Schneckenburg in memory of Lucy Schneckenburg; to award a quote to complete a fire hydrant replacement project; a temporary liquor license from the Afton Bayport Lakeland Lions Club for Derby Days on September 20th through 21st, 2019; a special event application from the Boy and Cub Scout Troop number 113 for the pumpkin and wreath sales on September 28th and November 23rd, 2019, at the Village Green Park; a special event application from Rich Dibble for... [2:19] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** ...St. Croix Preparatory Academy, an invitational cross-country meet at Barker's Alps Park on October 10th, 2019; and to award a quote to replace a culvert on 5th Avenue South. Does anyone on the council have any questions or changes to the consent agenda? If not, would someone like to make a motion to adopt? September 2019? Thank you, Connie. Is there a second? Second, thank you, John. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? I'll do it, Mayor, we’ll go ahead. [3:04] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Mayor Hanson? Yes. Councilmember Carlson? Yes. Councilmember Buckley? Yes. Councilmember Hanson? [Yes]. [3:28] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Madam Mayor, members of Council. That's so we can view it. So, the vacation—we're here to consider the vacation of a portion of 7th Avenue North adjacent to Croixdale. In October 2018, the property owner at 798 3rd Street North came to City Hall and proposed adding a deck onto their north side of their house. It butts up against 7th Avenue North, and as many of you, I'm sure, are aware, property lines in the city of Bayport don't always line up very well. And so it was discovered that they're essentially right out of their—or the north side of their building is... [4:41] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...essentially right where their property line is. And so they wouldn't be able to actually [build]. That makes it worse, okay, sorry, new technology, right. Okay, so right here is this property and currently the property line is listed as right here. And so you can't see it on here very well, but the property line essentially also goes down the middle of the road. And so we believe it was a surveying error at some point in time. What was surveyed was... [5:45] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...not what was put on the ground. And we think that everything for some reason got shifted to the south. The survey lines got shifted to the south for some reason—not sure why, don't even care at this point. So what we're proposing to do is move the property line that's in the middle of the road to the Croixdale sidewalk. The north side would capture the sidewalk, which is what we normally do on a city street, and then move this property line 30 feet to the north right here where this red line is. And so in order to do that, we went to Croixdale, we worked with the surveyors, we worked with property owners, and Croixdale... [6:34] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...would allow us to acquire this piece of land in order to run a new property line on the north side. And then we would vacate 30 feet of what is currently plaited as 7th Avenue North, which really isn't 7th Avenue North, back to these two property owners right here. And so they would acquire like 30 more feet. Now the hope would be that—it's hard to tell very well—but you do have the map in front of you. Along this property, this house right here, the property line goes like right through the middle of their house. So the hope would be that this property owner would move their south property line to the north, this property owner... [7:21] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...would move theirs up, and so on down the line to make sure that the lines match up. Now, the city wouldn't be involved in any of that, but we know we need to just get the process started in order to fix this first, and then everybody else would hopefully follow. Most likely what they would do is the same thing that the city was going to do with Croixdale; it would just be a quitclaim deed to acquire this property. So these next property owners down, hopefully, a quitclaim deed would give this area right here to the next property owner. On the west side, it isn't as... [8:16] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...let's call it "messed up." Their properties aren't too bad, mostly because they're double lots, and so it was never an issue on this side across Fifth. Yep, that really isn't an issue either. And really, we weren't going to do anything at this time. Now, of course, this could happen anywhere. Yeah, we've been contacted a couple of times by a couple... [9:01] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...of these owners even in the past saying there were discrepancies, but the city has never really gone forward or it's never come to fruition where they came to the city and said, "Hey, can you fix this?" So this was the first time that the city was pressed by one of the property owners, mostly because there is a cost to the property owner to make this work, too. So essentially, they have to get their area resurveyed after that. In relation to that, what would be a quitclaim deed for the property that they would be not only giving up but also acquiring, so there... [9:48] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...will be a cost to each of these property owners that they'll have to pay in order to move those property lines. There are some court procedures because the lines don't line up that would allow them to essentially acquire the line through a court process, but that's on them. We're not going to take any part in it; we just want to fix the area where we had some control over. So essentially what will happen, the whole process is going to be: the city will acquire the 30 feet from Croixdale, the city will vacate the 30 feet on the south side to the two property owners, and then the city will also acquire a 10-foot easement because once we vacate the area on the... [10:58] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...south side of 7th Avenue, there's a water main that's really close to the new proposed property line, and so we'll have to put an easement in place just because of that. Per Minnesota statute, street vacations must be in the interest of the public to be granted. Given that this realignment essentially fixes a surveying error and it correlates better with what's actually in place, city staff feels that it is serving the interest of the public. As I had mentioned before, an easement will be needed after all this has been passed. The city will be going to Croixdale... [11:46] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...which we've already been in talks with and they've already agreed to. At that time, we will acquire the 30 feet from them on the north side. So until that happens, we will hold the—hold a public hearing here, pass everything that we need to pass, but not record anything at the county until Croixdale has signed over their 30 feet of land. Because essentially, we don't want to be left with Croixdale not signing that over because then we'd have like a 30-foot road gap. So after the public hearing, staff recommends Council adopt the resolution vacating a portion of 7th Avenue North right-of-way as described. I'm open to questions if you have any more. [12:40] **Councilmember:** [Unintelligible question about land gap]. **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Yes, absolutely. And they don't want that, and we don't want that. That's why they've agreed to essentially [the transfer]. Yep. So for the public hearing, they were given notice that this was over [their land], and one had already requested it and the other one... [unintelligible]. [13:30] **Councilmember:** [Unintelligible question about a house on the hill]. **City Administrator Matt Kline:** I don't believe it does come close to that house that's up on the hill up there, essentially up on Sixth Avenue. Potentially it could, but at this point in time, I don't think we are going to do anything with that. There's a water main that goes up that road, so I don't know how much we would vacate up through there. I think at this time, if something comes up, we deal with that at this time. [14:11] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Well then, I think we're good with that. So we open the public hearing and ask anyone who would like to address the Council to come forward to the podium and state your name and address. Then, if we don't have anyone that would like to approach the Council, then I would like to call for a motion to close the public hearing. [14:46] **Councilmember John:** Motion. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thank you, John. **Councilmember Connie:** Second. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thank you, Connie. **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Councilmember Buckley? [Yes]. Councilmember Carlson? [Yes]. Councilmember Hanson? [Yes]. Mayor Hanson? [Yes]. [15:34] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Madam Mayor, members of Council. So, pursuant to the vacated portion of 7th Avenue North, as I mentioned previously, there is a water main that runs on the... [16:20] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...south side of 7th Avenue. Essentially, it will be about 3 feet from the new property line that you just approved with the vacated portion of 7th. So what we normally try and do is get an area that we can work on to be able to essentially dig up a water main. And so a 10-foot easement onto essentially what is now the property owner's property is what we're recommending. So attached to your packet are two easement agreements that will need to be signed by the property owners. This allows us to essentially have a public utility easement on their... [17:06] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...property, to be able to go on the property for specified items in the agreement—to repair the water main mainly is what this one would be for. Unless you have any questions, staff recommends that the City Council adopt a motion approving the agreements with the payment of a dollar each to the property owners for easements. The properties are located at 787 5th Street North and 798 3rd Street North. I'm open to questions. **Councilmember:** 10 feet? **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Ten feet, yep. Yeah, and that's—the blue [on the map] is very general. [18:22] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Councilmember Hanson? [Yes]. Councilmember Carlson? [Yes]. Councilmember Buckley? [Yes]. [Motion carries]. [18:50] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** [Item regarding] a land and water legacy project and execution of conservation easement consistent with the approved agreement. Just so everybody knows... [19:32] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** We are on YouTube as well, streaming live tonight. Search for "City of Bayport." The City Council authorized—just to give a little bit of background—the City Council authorized and approved purchase agreements for the acquisition of 11 acres on the St. Croix River using some state and local county grant funding through the Land and Water Legacy Program. And this is going to be a conservation project for a new park area, with a potential public boat launch being relocated there away from 4th Avenue. And some of the requirements that were needed to acquire this property [included]... [20:18] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...an environmental assessment as well as an Archaeological Survey. The work on the Phase 1 archaeological survey and the environmental assessment have been completed. The environmental assessment didn't find any issues, and the archaeological Phase 1 didn't find anything that would prohibit the city from acquiring the property. There is a portion of an old ice company down on the river—ice company remains—that [the report] suggested for historical significance purposes to get a Phase 2 on that portion, but there are no planned improvements in that area. So we... [21:03] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...will be doing the Phase 2 on that in the future. But the next step of the acquisition for those properties is to approve a conservation easement, as this is a conservation project. City staff has been working with June Mathiowetz from the county and the county staff over the past several weeks to come up with an agreement—a conservation easement that the city will grant to Washington County as a part of the conditions of their funding, and it's also required from the DNR. And so we've gone through it with a fine-tooth comb, many revisions, and we've come up with a good agreement the city... [21:50] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...is comfortable with, and that is included in your packet. There's also a summary page, the two pages that have the proposed rights and restrictions of the conservation easement that have been included in your packet. This does, in perpetuity, put this land into conservation. And so it's a unique opportunity, as I already said. But if the Council has any questions, I'm happy to answer those. The allowed uses are what's included in the concept design that staff had come up with in order to apply for the grant funding, which include a parking lot, the... [22:35] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...relocation of the boat launch, some major trails, and a scenic overlook on the St. Croix River. As soon as we approve this—and the county, at least, is in two weeks, the county is planning their special [meeting] to approve it or consider it for approval—then we can move to set a closing date on the properties. [23:13] **Assistant City Administrator Sara Taylor:** Mayor and City Council, I don't really have too much more to add. I did have a chance, shortly before the packets were finalized here, to go over this with Adam, and so it—I think it follows. I had not had a chance to work on a conservation project in Washington County before, so this is my first glance at this document. And so it's very comprehensive for the things that are going to be in perpetual—perpetuity on this land. And so then the summary here does a really good job of showing you, as the Council, what is going to be prohibited, which is a lot of things because it says, as you know, going into... [23:59] **Assistant City Administrator Sara Taylor:** ...this is a [conservation] property. Some of this should be sort of obvious that certain things aren't going to be allowed on the land. And the key point is that if the city moves to maybe do some sort of higher use of the land, that has to be in open dialogue with the county, whether it's in Year 2 or Year 25, in order to keep this conservation easement in place and not have any sort of blowback on that. So I think that's just an obvious point, but wanted to point out through my review of the document that... [24:50] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...for the folks that are at home, proposed rights and restrictions for the conservation easement for the City of Bayport covers such things as: no industrial use, no agricultural use, no residential use or development division of property. It cannot be transferred to others—the development rights cannot be transferred to another property. Utilities are restricted except as stated by the conservation easement. New rights-of-way would need to be discussed with the county with prior approval. No new structures are allowed except as described in the reserved rights section providing for structures and stream bank stabilization, water quality, etc. Trails... [25:39] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...there'll be an allowance for new permeable connecting paths. There are no billboards or large signs, just those related to informational purposes. No new roads are allowed without approval. Existing roads may be maintained, and exceptions are allowed for the development of the public boat launch and parking area. Mining is prohibited. Commercial use is limited to minimal recreational purposes. The surface—basically the topography or surface of the land—to be altered is prohibited. Stewardship of natural vegetation is to be maintained and improved. Water alteration of the shorelines and water... [26:24] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...bodies and wetlands or actions detrimental to water quality is prohibited. There'll be no dumping of materials, and motorized vehicles may be operated with the consent of the city on trails, the road, and the parking lot. [27:57] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** So you can go into that detail. I quickly did a summary of the key points just so people would understand. It's meant to be a relatively passive natural state park—not a state park, but a natural something that's maintained in its natural environment. [Call for motion]. [28:57] **Councilmember John:** Motion. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Is there a second? **Councilmember Connie:** Second. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thank you, Connie. Do we need to have a roll call? **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Councilmember Carlson? [Yes]. Councilmember Buckley? [Yes]. Councilmember Hanson? [Yes]. Mayor Hanson? [Yes]. [29:27] **Assistant City Administrator Sara Taylor:** Thank you, Madam Mayor. The city is part of the Washington County Municipal Water Coalition, which recently completed a study on the long-term sustainability of water resources within the county. To assist the coalition and other metro area cities to implement goals and approaches that were sustainable and efficient as recommended by this study, the Met Council has created a water efficiency grant program. The program is geared to support efforts to improve water efficiency in the form of a rebate to residential property owners who choose to replace a water usage device with one that uses substantially less water in their home. Eligible activities include replacement of toilets, washing machines, and irrigation controllers or sprinkler bodies. Staff believes this grant program would not only be a good... [30:13] **Assistant City Administrator Sara Taylor:** ...opportunity to implement some of the goals and approaches specified in that study, but also educate residents on the importance of water conservation and efficiency. Based on the grant criteria, staff also believes Bayport would be a good candidate because we have both an aging housing stock that could benefit from efficiency upgrades for appliances, as well as newer construction with irrigation systems that may not have adequate controllers. Now, the grant application submittal deadline is September 30th, which is quickly approaching, and if we do decide to apply, we should be notified of the grant award by December 2nd. Because of the unknown success rate in our city, staff believes a grant program total of about $6,000—funded 75% by the Met Council and 25% by the city—would be fitting on a... [30:59] **Assistant City Administrator Sara Taylor:** ...trial basis for this program. However, communities are eligible to apply for grants up to $50,000. Disbursement of the city's 25%, or $1,500 contribution as recommended by staff, would only be required if rebates are requested from property owners. And if grant funds are awarded to the city but not expended, any other surplus funds would be then returned to Met Council for use by other communities. So with that, staff is recommending a motion to apply for the water efficiency grant through the Met Council with a city contribution of up to $1,500 or as otherwise directed by the Council. I'd be happy to take any questions. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Questions from the Council? [31:48] **Councilmember Hanson:** The amount... that $500 a year? **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Yeah, the amount of $500 a year is because we don't have any information on what the interest of the community would be. That is a somewhat arbitrary number; I'm the one who came up with that suggestion. I thought 500—we don't have it budgeted in tonight's proposed preliminary budget because it's over three years. If there was interest in the next year, we could start a function for it, but because we really don't have any information as far as interest to gauge... [32:36] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...it on, it's really varied from the different communities that we've looked at. There's some years that they really take advantage of it, but in most cases, they are much larger cities. We don't have a good possible projection for it, but we started with a small number just to have a low impact on any budget. If there is no interest, it doesn't cost the city anything. The most it would cost over the three years is the $1,500 with the proposed amount. The Council can increase that or reduce it as they see fit, but I thought $500 a year over the next three years, and then if the state does decide to increase it or renew the... [33:22] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...program after the three years, you know, we can reevaluate. [33:31] **Councilmember Hanson:** They have to apply? **Assistant City Administrator Sara Taylor:** Councilmember Hanson, on the very last page of the staff report, there is a reporting example. I've got a breakdown of what the Met Council would reimburse versus the city. Well, that breakdown right there shows the average cost of the fixture—what the average fixture would cost—and then this is an example of the average... [34:19] **Assistant City Administrator Sara Taylor:** ...amount that cities are reimbursing per fixture. So I would assume it would look something like this and it is pretty basic. We are required to submit a work plan along with a grant application that delineates some of these specifics, but it's basically just: the resident would bring in a receipt that showed they made the purchase for that device, and then we would reimburse like a rebate. **Councilmember Hanson:** Okay, so from my example of the toilet, just for people out there, it says that if it costs $160, they would get $50? **Assistant City Administrator Sara Taylor:** That’s... what’s my question? I guess, is that set or is this kind of just a table example? [35:05] **Assistant City Administrator Sara Taylor:** Councilmember Carlson, this is an example that's provided by the Met Council. So I'm assuming that this is about the average of what most communities are doing. There have been a lot of other communities that have applied and received funding for the first round of this program. I haven't done—to be honest, I haven't done a lot of research on this yet because if we weren't interested in applying for the grant, then we wouldn't need to do that. But this is what the Met Council is recommending that we base our rebate program on—somewhere in the neighborhood of these dollar amounts is what we'd be looking at. **Councilmember Carlson:** Okay, so then if you—once 30 residents came in and the money was used up, then it's gone? It's kind of a... [35:56] **Assistant City Administrator Sara Taylor:** ...first-come, first-served. Right. And I'm going to divvy it across three years, so it's $500 the first year, the next year, or if we use up the $1,500 in the first year... **Councilmember Hanson:** I think if the program is successful, I think we should go ahead and reimburse people, not limit it per year, because there is an opportunity for other communities that do get funding and they have surplus funds that we can reapply to receive those funds if we would like to do more. **Councilmember Carlson:** Okay, and this is only for residential applications? [36:43] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Is there any restriction to the number of items per household that they could apply for? **Assistant City Administrator Sara Taylor:** Madam Mayor, most of the other communities that have applied for and received funding are limiting it to two fixtures per household. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** And have we estimated how much time this will take of staff? **Assistant City Administrator Sara Taylor:** Madam Mayor, I'll be the one probably doing the bulk of the work. And, excuse me, I think the grant application is pretty straightforward. I have received a couple of examples of a work plan that's also submitted with a grant application; one is very extensive and one is very simple. So I think somewhere in between. I would say a couple of hours for the... [37:31] **Assistant City Administrator Sara Taylor:** ...grant, and then the administration—I think it can be as simple as someone bringing in a receipt to City Hall and then reimbursing in that amount. We'll have to talk to Finance about how to best work that, but I don't see it—you know, there's not a lot of reporting requirements or additional workload from what I've heard. I did attend an informational session last week or the week before and it was very well received by communities. There weren't a lot of restrictions or, as I mentioned, reporting requirements that were taking a lot of staff time. Everybody thought it was a very good program. [38:11] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Any other questions from the Council? If not, would someone make a motion? **Councilmember Carlson:** I move to apply for a water efficiency grant through the Metropolitan Council. [38:34] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thank you. Is there a second? **Councilmember John:** Second. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thank you, John. **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Councilmember Hanson? Aye. Councilmember Buckley? Aye. Councilmember Carlson? Aye. Mayor Hanson? Aye. [39:21] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** It takes us to the presentation of the 2020 budget. Can the Council hear me okay? Hopefully, the viewers at home can also hear me. So tonight we have our 2020 preliminary budget that I will be presenting. Staff had been working on this for the past several months. We've held a couple of workshops; there was one general fund workshop... we just lost our video. Not sure if the audio [is still working]. [40:14] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** We did test this and there were no issues with the testing. Are they able to... it was on and then it just went off. [41:03] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Please bear with us for a few seconds. If we need to just use the overhead. [41:21] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** [Technical discussion about the video feed]. [42:15] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Apologize to the public for the delay. We'll get right to it. I know it is exciting. Staff's been working on this. We've had two workshops: one with the general fund, and then this evening we also had a capital improvement plan workshop. As the Council's asked several questions, staff has done more research and answered those. A couple of things that are really high level: Bayport continues to grow. We're just about at—now that we've got Inspiration almost completely built out, with Phase 2 coming on next year or later this year—that'll be the final new construction for residential. This last year we had a 12.5% growth in the estimated market value. Bayport continues to improve the... [43:02] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...existing properties, and with the new construction, the market value of the city does go up. As you can see the total market value in the presentation, it was 310 million 655 thousand last year; this next year in 2020, it's projected to go up to 349 million 370 thousand 700 dollars. The city's fund balances—they continue to stay healthy. We are very responsible with our cash funds with our money. We've had relatively conservative budgeting over the last decade, and I commend the Council on that. We've still been able to get things done, make improvements, make investments. Our debt... [43:47] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...is very minimal for a city our size and a city that does as much as we do. We are a full-service city. Our debt—it's at 1.8 million. That's for the majority—it's really the only things from the fire station that was built in 2015. That's the only debt we have for long-term debt. And as I said, we've made significant improvements and investments in the last couple of years and we're still maintaining that healthy financial status. In 2020, we're expecting 13 million 915 thousand 200 in new construction, and that is based on what the county is estimating. In 2020, we will receive a slight increase in our local... [44:34] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...government aid, up from 551 thousand to about 605 thousand. As you may have seen this last Minnesota session, the legislature did increase it. They are trying to increase it back to some previous numbers where it was much higher prior to the recession and the broader financial woes that the country had, including Minnesota. One thing that we've done is we have tried to [be] not so dependent on the LGA just because we don't want to depend on that. We are trying to tie that to our capital improvements, so we will make adjustments in the capital improvements if our aid is decreased in any significance. [45:24] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Moving on, the fire service contract revenue was increased as well this next year, and part of that includes phasing out the fire relief funds. At one of our earlier workshops, we were looking at completely moving all of the fire relief funds that are currently in our department budget into the unallocated or undesignated funds. But unfortunately, the impact that it would have on our service partners, the other communities—after re-looking at it, it was a little too steep. So we're kind of paring them back. We are having continuing conversations with some of the other communities as to how best make that adjustment in the future. As the Council knows, we are in a 15-year... [46:11] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...contract for fire service with the other communities: West Lakeland, Baytown Township, and Oak Park Heights. 2020 will be the sixth year of that agreement. In Year 7, the contract is supposed to be reevaluated, so we are working towards that. The 2020 proposed total budget is three million three hundred twenty-nine thousand eight hundred seventy-three dollars. This is a $135,000 increase, which is 4.23% over 2019. Part of that—a couple of significant numbers—is as I said, we are making adjustments to the Fire Relief Association... [46:58] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...funding where we are receiving more in revenue from the state, but we have to match that on the expenditure side as well. So there's about a $40,000—it's a 39,900 number—that is part of this increase. Some of the other increases that you'll see as we go through this more is we are making an additional capital improvement capital outlay investment where we're saving money for our capital improvement plan. We're also reapportioning some of the money from water and sewer into the other general fund departments based on where staff is spending its time. We want to make sure that we continually update the apportionment of... [47:44] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...staff time and where those wage dollars are coming from. Historically, we've been spending some more time in water and sewer, and we're spending a lot more in parks now, so we want to make sure that the budget accurately reflects that. What that does is it takes money out of the Enterprise Fund and puts it in the general fund. One thing I just want to point out: since 2013, we've only had about a 7.26% increase in the total budget. So that's actually very low in the seven years that we've had since 2013. So it's been consistently, as you'll see here... [48:36] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...the operating versus capital expenditures. I'm sorry, this is a little small to see, but this next graph breaks down—maybe you just look at the colors. The orange and the blue are the capital expenses and light blue is the operating cost. Over time, the operating costs do increase based on wage increases, insurance, other contract services that we pay for. But the capital improvements—we want to make sure that those are steady and that we're saving for the future, making those investments for future spending so we don't have a large budget hit in any one year in the future. So we're putting away a little bit each year, and when I say a little... [49:23] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...bit, you know, it is still a significant amount. Here's a quick organizational chart overview just for the public and the Council to give them a refresher. Obviously, the public is all of our bosses. Going down through the chart, you have the City Council and then the staff below that in the various departments, and these are broken up kind of into the "buckets," if you will, of the budget funding. So we'll go through some of these very quickly. When it comes to staffing, we currently have 14.5 full-time staff equivalents. That "FTE" is full-time equivalent. On this sheet, you'll also see—so I've broken it down by budget department as well as the allocation... [50:09] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...and so when you take all of the staff wages and then you allocate it to each of those departments, that's what those little numbers with the allocation [show]. So elections—we don't allocate any personnel wages to elections; it's at zero percent full-time equivalents and zero percent allocation. Obviously, there's staff time that's spent on it. City clerk and administrator spend a lot of time in elections during election years, and we have election judge training or election judge costs, but those are not part of the personnel costs that are part of the budget, and we don't allocate wages if it doesn't reach a... [50:56] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...certain threshold. So what we do every year—we try to reallocate to make sure that we're on track with where staff time is being spent. So we have to track that, but we do make adjustments, and if adjustments aren't made, then they can result in larger changes later on, which is kind of what we're doing right now. As you'll see, Administration has 4.5 full-time equivalents but only 1.53 of the wage allocation. This last year, the Council did approve adding the half full-time in the Office Support Specialist position. That's gone, actually, from last year up to this year; we were at... [51:41] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...less than four full-time equivalents—I want to say it was 3.8—but 2020 does have the four full-time in the department. Police Department—we have six full-time equivalents and 6.1 allocation. There is some non-police staff administrative allocation from the Administration department that's allocated in the Police Department. There's obviously one Chief, five full-time officers which includes the Sergeant, and two to three part-time officers. Again, these are not benefited; it's about the equivalent of a half FTE, but we don't count it [that way] and that comes out of a different budget line item which is part-time staff as... [52:29] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...there are no benefits involved. Fire—they are up to 26 paid-on-call volunteer firefighters. Our planning, billing, and zoning department—the admin staff is what helps that out. Sara's obviously the City Planner, so she handles a lot of that work; that's why there's 1.4 allocation in that department, but there's really no full-time staff that handles just that department. Public Works—we're at four full-time equivalents with a 5.44 allocation. This is another large department as far as costs for personnel, and that includes the Director and... [53:15] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...three maintenance workers. And I'm not going to go through the breakdown of the sub-departments for Public Works, but as you can see, it's split between Water, Sewer, Parks, and Streets. The parks last year was at—believe it was at like 0.43 or just under 0.5. We have increased that to 1.13, which is a significant amount, but this is a much more accurate reflection of where the staff time is being spent. So that's where those wages are being spent. No, this is just basically the full-time personnel cost. All the seasonal and the just part-time... now, this does include the administrative Office Support Specialist; that's a half-time non-benefited [position]. Those... [54:02] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...come out of the same—the Administration department doesn't have a separate line item for that. It could be added, but those are included in here, whereas in Public Works, they're not. In the general fund, if you break it down by percentage, this gives a chart of where, again, the money is being spent. As you can see, I'm not going to go through each percentage, but Public Safety—that includes Police and Fire, and hopefully you can see that; I'll have to put it in white font for the viewers at home in December—but they're at 28.2%. A significant portion of the budget is Public Safety. It's also one of the... [54:48] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...most important things that we do as a city, as a municipality, is to provide police and fire. And Public Works—it's another. You know, people want to be safe and they want drinking water, toilets that flush, their streets plowed. These are significant items. The capital outlay and municipal buildings—municipal buildings is not a very large portion of that. The majority of that 20% is the capital outlay. And so, again, that's saving for future improvements and projects and equipment and also investing in that equipment. Just a couple of things: the contingency fund is at 1.5%, and the miscellaneous of the debt is at 2.7%. [55:34] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Again, those are very small. The miscellaneous and debt—that also includes the fire relief unallocated funds and then the debt—it's about 30,000 a year for the city. This shows you where the median-valued home [is], where each dollar goes. Again, same percentages, but if you split it out to dollars, for the average median-valued home, the city taxes with this proposed budget are 742 dollars and four cents. Of that, again, I'm not going to go through each amount, but 300 of that 742 is Public Safety, 122 is Public Works, and so on. We're saving approximately 150 dollars of every median-valued home for equipment, future projects, those investments. [56:19] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Going through the departments themselves: the Police Department—as I said, we're a full-service city, we have a 24/7 police department. They do quite a few events during the year. They had a great safety camp this year. We also do vacant property monitoring. They're very active. We have a very active police department. We're small—we only have one officer on at a time, but we [get] backup from our neighboring communities and we have a very good Police Department. Fire Department—we are the oldest all-volunteer fire department in the state. We will be having our 130th [anniversary] coming up in a couple of weeks. [57:51] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** As I said earlier, we serve Oak Park Heights, Baytown Township, and West Lakeland Township. The calls were down last year a little bit and they are reducing. We've made some tweaks on our calls as to what we respond to, to try to reduce the number of calls because that obviously has an added expense to it. We're working with some of the senior housing to reduce those numbers and still make sure that the residents of all our served communities are getting the service that they need. This year, we're—I want to say we're down a little bit year-to-date, but they are very busy. We just had a house fire, and another commercial business up in Oak Park burned this last week. We've had quite a few actual structure fires in the last month. So again, for an all-volunteer force, they they're very busy. [58:39] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** As I said, we were under a three-year maximum budget increase for the fire department. 2020 will be in Year 6 of our 15-year agreement, and we're working on making sure that those capital costs of the equipment replacement and the staff costs are being shared fairly by our other partners. The fire hall bond payment, as I alluded to earlier, for the city's portion is about 30,000 a year. That's what that bond payment is. It's fairly minimal. [59:24] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Moving on to the streets—we have a lot of, 18 miles of roadway that the Public Works Department maintains, repairs, and plows. This also includes the sealcoating, sidewalk, and curb funding. All of our street improvements that we have to do, we do some of those through capital projects and then we do some just through regular maintenance and improvements. Moving to parks—we have four public parks, we have the Nature Center, we have public spaces. There’s quite a bit of city grounds that our Public Works partners in parks maintenance have to take care of. It's, you know, one of the things that I've noticed more than any other... [1:00:10] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...year that I've been here is we've had so many positive comments on our parks from people who are reserving them. The office administrative staff gives me quite a bit of feedback on all the positive comments that we get on our great parks. This is an area that we are making significant investments in over the next several years. This year, we finally—after we discussed the Lakeside playground equipment—we decided to make that improvement this year. We have another phase hopefully coming across next year as well as Land and Water Legacy. Last year we did the Barkers Alps, so the city has made quite a bit of investment in our parks and will continue to do so. One of the things that we... [1:00:57] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...have not done is really allocated any staff time, though, for all the work that we do in our parks over the last several years. So we've shifted, as I stated earlier, the water and sewer expenses—we've shifted some of those to the parks department, so it's a more accurate reflection of where the staff time is being spent. So the water/sewer budgets will be going down—a minimal reduction there—with an increase in the parks and then with the reinforcements from some of the other departments as well. The Administration department—I am the head of the Administration department. I'm in charge of preparing the annual budget and presenting it to you, Council. [1:01:48] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** This also includes the Capital Improvement Plan we went over tonight. There are quite a bit of projects on that list, both in 2020 and the 21 through 24 years. The planning, zoning, and building inspections department—this will be changing over the next couple of years. They handle all the zoning and building code. Sara will still be here, but after [Building Official] Buckley retired, the city hired MNSPECT to take over the building official duties. And now that the new construction will be phasing out over the next year, those... [1:02:34] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...expenditures will decrease along with the revenues. The city currently retains 25% of the building revenue; the other 75% is paid to the consultant firm, MNSPECT. So with that decrease in the projected future building—as that shrinks, as that goes away—the revenue will also decrease, but the expenditures will decrease as well. Moving on to non-general funds: the Library Fund, half of which is collected through the tax revenue. They've not made any requests for an increase. Last year, if you recall, they did have a... [1:03:20] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...$10,000 increase which is matched by private funds. The other half of their annual budget, which is 15,800, is paid by private funding. Again, we are a full-service city; we have our own library. Most cities our size do not have their own library, and we are very fortunate to have such philanthropy be able to assist us in that and a commitment to our community. The water and sewer funds—these are paid by the trunk water fees and the water and sewer bills. Staff has been talking about doing that utility rate study. We have not done one at this time. We're not proposing any adjustments to the utility... [1:04:07] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...rates. The Metropolitan Council sewer fee did go down this year. If you recall, last year was a 22% increase. This year it actually went down—it was a decrease of 2%. Any decrease like that doesn't hurt us, happy to take it. Again, just to hammer this home: we're shifting some of the water/sewer funds out of the Enterprise Fund into the general fund because that's where staff is spending its time. Moving on to specifics of the Capital Improvement Plan—again, I'm not going to belabor this, but this provides the city with a plan for the future projects and equipment purchases. [1:04:52] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** It also allows the city to save some of this money. For the City Hall IT, we annually replace several computers and servers and other electronics equipment, so that is included. No changes there. Parks Department—we do have some money allocated for potential Land and Water Legacy projects that were talked about earlier this evening. The next phase after we acquire the project is to work on providing access and removing structures. And as that goes, right now in the next year, we only have about 150,000 in the CIP planned... [1:05:37] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...but that number is really subject to change as we move forward. Also included was an amount in for the Phase 2 improvements of Lakeside Park. I am really excited about that. To give a brief update—I hope I don't steal Matt's thunder—but in October we are expecting it's scheduled for the removal of the old equipment and the installation. We’ll get that going then, after the park reservation season is over and before the snow falls. And then we'll have an open house public comment period to discuss Phase 2 and get some feedback on that. The fire department includes, next year... [1:06:23] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...in 2020, the replacement of command vehicle one—that's actually Chief Kinney's vehicle. And then as I mentioned earlier, it shifts an additional 10,000 out of the Fire Relief Association funds from the fire department budget to the unallocated expenditures. Water and sewer department—this one's going to be a good one with the MnDOT project taking place. City has been working with MnDOT, the state, for a couple of years now to plan this project. We're making infrastructure improvements at the same time that they are doing the mill and overlay of the roadway. [1:07:12] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Our improvement plan also includes regular fire hydrant maintenance and replacement program. I know there's been some public comment and requests. All the hydrants work. Even I think we got one from early '20s that's still functioning, but it's time to retire it. The ones that have the paint peels on them sometimes they don't always look the best—we're going to try to improve the look, but they function. They're all functioning, so don't worry. The Public Works Department—we're replacing several smaller items. The lawn mower will be replaced. We're looking at a couple of purchases that we think would possibly help, but no decisions have been made. We really... [1:07:58] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...haven't done a lot of research, just kind of preliminary looking at them for the moment—would be a Bobcat skid steer and a leaf vacuum. For compliance, we do have some watershed drainage projects. And again, from the street side, we have the 2020 project coming up that will also include not just water/sewer, but streetlights and accessibility issues. So the proposed general fund levy—as I said, over the last decade, we've had fairly conservative budgeting and we do have some increased revenue this year as we have the last couple of years. But we're not—you know, obviously, we have to know that it's not going to last forever. [1:08:44] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** So the proposed general fund levy for this year has a minor increase of 67,881—that's a 5.91% increase. And a portion of that, as I said, is the—there's about 40,000 in Fire Relief Association funds and changes in the park budgeting. Those are the two major significant areas that account for a significant portion of this. There's about 17,000 in the fire department, and they need to buy a new turnout gear next year, so that is about $25,000 that we didn't have last... [1:09:31] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** ...year. What this does to the tax rate—just to give the public an idea—the city's tax rate is the percentage of the residents' overall tax payment that's allocated just to the city. Of all the taxing authorities that the resident gets on their tax bill, there's the county, the school district, the city, and maybe a couple of other small taxing authorities depending on where you live in Bayport. I believe we just have the three unless there's a special assessment. The 2020 levy based on our budget and our proposed levy increase will be 1,217,344. When you add the 175,000 from the library, it totals 1,392,848. [1:11:04] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** For a median-valued home in Bayport with the proposed levy, it will be 742 dollars, and that's roughly a 25 dollar—just under 25 dollar—increase from 2019. This information will be available on the website with the packets. This information is also available if you go to the county's website and you can do the tax impact and put in your [info]. There are instructions to determine where your value would be. I'd like to thank the Council for discussing this, like to thank staff—Wanda, Sara, Laura, and everybody who's here tonight and not here. We are making great improvements in the city, being very sound and responsible with public tax dollars as fiduciaries, and we're still making investments and improvements in the city. [1:11:51] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** With that, I'm happy to take any questions. One thing I do want to note tonight is that December 2nd will be our Truth in Taxation hearing where the public can come and comment on any of the proposed taxes and the proposed levy. The Council will then approve the final levy amount. If there are any changes, the levy amount can go down, but whatever the Council approves tonight and is certified to the county cannot be raised later. Not that I expect any [issues] based on the comments we've had so far from the Council. With that, thank you, and apologize again to the public for having to sit through this presentation with glitches. [1:13:33] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thank you very much to you and the department heads for the work. Any questions? If anyone out in the community has any questions, feel free to contact City Hall or check out the documents on the website. And with that, I think we're ready to move on to a number of resolutions regarding the budget and preliminary approvals for 2020. There are three different resolutions. Who would like to make a move to adopt a resolution establishing the preliminary levy for 2020? Thank you, Connie. Is there a second? Thank you, Michelle. **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Councilmember Carlson? [Aye]. Councilmember Hanson? [Aye]. Councilmember Buckley? [Aye]. Mayor Hanson? [Aye]. [1:14:21] **Councilmember Connie:** I'll move to adopt a resolution establishing the preliminary budget for 2020. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thank you, Connie. Is there a second? Thank you, Michelle. **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Councilmember Carlson? [Aye]. Councilmember Hanson? [Aye]. Councilmember Buckley? [Aye]. Mayor Hanson? [Aye]. **Councilmember John:** I move to adopt a resolution establishing the capital [budget]. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Is there a second? Thank you, John. [All in favor]. Aye. [1:15:12] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** That takes us for City Council liaison reports. Connie? **Councilmember Connie:** Just a second, we've lost our cameras again—just everywhere. But I'll proceed. The Library Board met August 22nd. It was kind of a short meeting, but they are looking for a new Library Board member or two. And so if you're interested, fill out an application, get it from City Hall and return it to Joe or—he'll be there, okay, Library or City Hall. [1:15:59] **Councilmember Connie:** Jill just wanted to announce that in September, they'll be starting a new program. There will be a meditation class on the 14th at 10:30. During Derby Days, Jill has got a lot of fun things planned for the kids. There's going to be a medallion hunt at the library where the kids will follow clues and the prize will be a Kindle Fire. And then there'll be other activities down at Lakeside Park. She said three to six, I'm not sure what they will be. And then the library wanted to make a special thank you to two young citizens, Archer and Greta. They held a second lemonade stand and raised money for the library. So Jill wanted to make sure you were thanked. And other than that, we will meet again on September 19th at 6:00. [1:16:45] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thank you, Connie. [Councilmember report on the Cable Commission]. **Councilmember:** The Cable Commission has not met since we last met; we will be doing that next Monday. But I can tell you a little bit about Derby Days. It is going to be even better than ever. We're going to have a street dance again on Friday night. They've ordered a dunk tank for that night. And we also have a band called "Boats and Bridges." Lots of fun activities. It'll be on Central Avenue by Woody's. I can't remember what time it starts, but look at Facebook or the BCAL website for more info on that. [1:17:36] **Councilmember:** And then Saturday, most of the usual activities will be planned. We'll have the Duck Derby, the adult medallion hunt—kids do that too, but I guess there are two Kindle Fires, actually. There's one for who wins and one that's just a random drawing from participants, which is pretty cool. I think it's a $500 prize for someone who wins. The Legion is helping us with that. We've planned more activities down at the park, and we will have vintage baseball again this year. We have a balloon artist for a while, and we think we're going to have like a glitter tattoo person. There will be a bouncy house, and we're going to have live music for part of the day, and then we're going to DJ later and, of course, the fireworks. So yeah, that's fun, and an ice cream social. [1:19:11] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Thank you. And thanks to the Cable Commission and team for our new cameras and audio and video, and staff for helping as well. You can tell that the color is much better and crisper visuals. So we'll get our little kinks ironed out, but so far so good. And to be on YouTube making it more accessible for everyone is a really big step forward for us into this century. [1:19:58] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Yeah, well, we were just notified this afternoon... the testing did go well. It will be archived and we will link from our website. Our YouTube page does have a YouTube channel for archived meetings. This also allows us to shoot any other promotional or informational videos to post there as well. In all seriousness, it does allow us to do more communication that way. So we can livestream the meetings, yes. [1:21:10] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** I do not have a report this month, so I turn it over to staff. **Police Chief Jay Jackson:** Good evening, Madam Mayor and Council. I also was watching the YouTube, so that was really neat to be able to do that from my phone. It'll just be nice to have that early access to communication. Past events: we had our Safety Camp, very well received. I want to compliment Mary Goulette for all her hard work with trying to organize a safety camp list of kids, as well as learning her new job. And Chantel as well—just a great team and hats off to them. It's not easy to get all the applications and the donor memos and everything. Staff did a great job. [1:22:15] **Police Chief Jay Jackson:** And it would not be possible without my reserve officers, so compliments to them. August 6th, we had our National Night Out—or Night to Unite—very well received. We started doing our raffles a little bit earlier and we noticed people kind of dropped off a little bit earlier because of that, so we might extend that a little bit later. The food was pretty much well consumed, and there were a few leftovers—maybe five pizzas—which we brought to the Department of Corrections, our neighbors who always join us at Safety Camp and National Night Out. They appreciated that. Sergeant Jackson and I attended ALICE training (Active Shooter response training). We were invited by Dustin Vincent; he's a firefighter and he also works up there. Very good information. [1:23:30] **Police Chief Jay Jackson:** Upcoming events: as you discussed, Derby Days. The 20th or 21st, we'll have reserves and officers at the street dance, at the duck races, down at the park for fireworks, and our volunteers will be there as well. September 26th, we have scenario range training—all officers will be there. And then I just want to announce that October 31st, Halloween: for all the years that I've been here, we've always had an open house. Last year we had an open house at the PD only; this year we're not going to do an open house. Jay, who has kids, is going to enjoy it with his kids and I'm going to enjoy it with my kid that just went back. We will still have reserves and officers out all over with glow necklaces and candy throughout the city, Inspiration, and everywhere. [1:24:16] **Police Chief Jay Jackson:** I want to just touch on our Facebook post. Go to our Facebook page; we always have good reminders: lost dogs, lost items. We talked about the new hands-free law; we're doing a lot of extra patrols on that. And, of course, Anderson Elementary school started. We walk the kids across the highway whenever we're not on a call. Just be aware that there are a lot of kids crossing—approximately 10 every year—so make sure you're always going well under the speed limit and watch for crosswalks, specifically by Anderson between 8:15 and then again in the afternoon. [1:25:02] **Police Chief Jay Jackson:** I want to talk about the call sheet you got. I did post the link for the public data release. Let's just talk about July. We ended in July 22nd with 159 ICRs. When I submitted on August 20th, our total was 4,168 incidents created as of August 20th. If you go to the public data—law enforcement public data—you can click on it and you won't see people's addresses, but it might say the "500 block of 5th Avenue" and tells you why we were there in case you're wondering. Or you can call me. With that, I stand for questions. **Councilmember:** [Unintelligible question about traffic stops]. **Police Chief Jay Jackson:** Some of our ICRs are self-initiated if they are traffic stops or enforcement issues as well. Every time we stop a car, we create an ICR. It's a combination of dispatched calls and our self-initiated work or community policing. [1:27:23] **Public Works Director Joe Hansen:** Madam Mayor, members of Council. The Public Works Department finally has seen somewhat of a drop-off in parks usage this weekend. Otherwise, it’s been pretty consistent with rentals and general use. I could tell this morning that we didn't have as much garbage in the back of the pickup truck going around the parks. I think Joanne Sandell, with her temporary part-time help this summer, played a big role in keeping the parks maintained, but we were sad to see her go back to her full-time job. Moving into the fall season, the department will be completing a significant number of tasks: street-sweeping, tree trimming, drainage, ditch cleanouts, and some asphalt work. [1:28:10] **Public Works Director Joe Hansen:** We started the 2nd Avenue North drainage project, a water quality project in conjunction with the WMO. Hydrant painting will be occurring next week. They'll be painting the individual hydrants mostly in downtown and Inspiration. The Wellhead Protection Plan is being updated by city staff to protect the areas around the well that are susceptible to runoff. And finally, the Emerald Ash Borer was verified within town. The Department of Ag will be here probably this fall once the leaves fall off to give us a rough idea of how big an area is being affected. [1:29:44] **Public Works Director Joe Hansen:** Eventually, obviously every ash tree in town will likely be infected. We're really interested in how many currently are, and then we'll set up a plan to moving forward with treating some of the trees. Without treatment, Emerald Ash Borer will take the tree in anywhere from three to five years. The one that we've found is on 5th Avenue North on the east side; the contractor found some. With that, I'll stand for questions. **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Madam Mayor, we do have money in the budget for trees. Both Streets and Parks department I think have like five thousand dollars each. Some of that includes tree removal contractor too. [1:31:47] **Assistant City Administrator Sara Taylor:** Madam Mayor, members of the Council. The Planning Commission is scheduled to meet on September 23rd to hold two public hearings. The first application is a variance to expand an existing legally non-conforming single-family home with a second-story addition at 466 Pyroll Creek Drive. The second application is a variance from pervious coverage requirements for a parking lot and stormwater improvement project at Andersen Corporation. Both are anticipated to be presented to the City Council at the October 7th meeting. As discussed earlier, staff has been busy working on the Land and Water Legacy project. [1:32:33] **Assistant City Administrator Sara Taylor:** The next steps include execution of the conservation easement with the County Board on September 17th and then proceeding with scheduling a closing date for the land acquisition. The next edition of the city newsletter will be distributed within the next week. I'll be working on the grant application for the water efficiency grants. I'll also be working on the last updates to the Comprehensive Plan—the Met Council has provided some feedback and I'm working to address those comments. And finally, I'm already starting to prepare for the 2020 elections. If anyone is interested in helping staff the polling place, please contact us at City Hall. I stand for questions. [1:34:05] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** Madam Mayor, members of Council. My report will be relatively short. City Hall Chambers upgrade—there are still a couple of items that are outstanding that we're going to be doing soon. Regarding the waste hauler proposals, the city received back three proposals: one from our current hauler, and then one from Waste Management and Highland Sanitation. We're expecting to discuss those in October. One of the other items I've been working on is the Union Pacific Railroad partial quiet zone status. I have the inventory forms submitted to the Federal Railroad Administration. We're still in the process of adding the pedestrian crosswalk at Lakeside Park. [1:35:40] **City Administrator Matt Kline:** I was supposed to have my [performance] review following this, but due to a Councilmember's absence this evening, we're going to postpone that. I will be in touch with you all tomorrow to check your availability. Without that, I stand for any questions as well. [1:37:01] **Mayor Michele Hanson:** Any other questions? Announcements? Comments? I'd like to thank the gentleman for the donation of the bench; that's very nice and generous and greatly appreciated. And if someone would like to make a motion to adjourn? Thank you, Michelle. Is there a second? I'll second it. Thank you, Connie. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Meeting adjourned.