Based on the context provided, here is the transcribed text with speaker names and estimated timestamps. [07:02 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm going to call to order this Richfield City Council meeting. It's July 22nd, 2025, and it's 7:02 p.m. If you're able, please rise and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance. (Council and audience recite the Pledge of Allegiance) [07:03 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: So we are now switching over to our new agenda system. So, our first order of business is approval of the agenda. [07:03 PM] **Council Member Walter Burk**: I move approval of the agenda. [07:03 PM] **Council Member Sharon Christensen**: Second. [07:03 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: It's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? [07:03 PM] **Council Member Sean Hayford Oleary**: Um, if I may just say I'm really excited. This is a five-year dream of mine to have approval of the agenda at the top of the agenda. So, this is a big day for me. So, thank you. [07:04 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: No changes, though. [07:04 PM] **Council Member Sean Hayford Oleary**: Oh, okay. [07:04 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: All in favor, please say I. [07:04 PM] **Council Members (Collective)**: I. [07:04 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: All opposed. All right. We have approved the agenda. Next, we'll move on to approval of the minutes of the city council work session from June 24th, 2025, the city council regular meeting from June 24th, 2025, and the city council special meeting close session from July 8th, 2025. [07:04 PM] **Council Member Rori A. Coleman-Woods**: I move. [07:04 PM] **Council Member Walter Burk**: Second. [07:05 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: It's been moved and seconded to approve those three sets of minutes. Are there any um changes or corrections? All in favor, please say I. [07:05 PM] **Council Members (Collective)**: I. [07:05 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: All opposed. And we've approved all three sets of minutes. Next, we'll move on to the open forum. Participants can share their comments in person, by voicemail, or email, and may also request to participate virtually. For more information on submitted comments, refer to the council agenda and minutes page on richfieldmn.gov/citycouncil. Is there anyone here who wishes to address the body in open forum? I'm not seeing anyone present. Um, City Clerk Friedrich, is there anybody that has emailed us? [07:06 PM] **City Clerk Michelle Friedrich**: No emails were received. [07:06 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: All right. So, I'll ask again. Is there anyone who wishes to address the council? Hearing none, we'll move on to our proclamations and presentations. So, I would like to invite our um Human Rights Commissioner Garvey to join us at the front. Thank you. Thank you for joining us tonight. This is a proclamation of the city of Richfield. (Mayor Supple reads the proclamation regarding Americans with Disabilities Act and Disability Pride Month) [07:08 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: Now therefore, I, Mary Supple, mayor of Richfield, on behalf of the Richfield City Council, do hereby proclaim the month of July 2025 as Disability Pride Month in the city of Richfield... Proclaimed this 22nd day of July, 2025. Thank you, Commissioner Garvey. Would you like to say a few words? [07:09 PM] **Commissioner Garvey**: Just like to say to the city council that we, the commission, appreciate your continued support and your continued work on behalf of all people of Richfield with disabilities, particularly Richfield's children. Thank you. [07:09 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: Thank you so much. You want to be in the picture too? [Applause] Thank you. Thank you so much. Next, we're going to have the Minnesota Recreation and Parks Association Award presentation, and I would like to invite Chelsea Swanhogen to the podium to present. Thank you so much. [07:10 PM] **Chelsea Swanhogen**: Okay. Good evening, Mayor and City Council members. It is an honor to be here tonight to present a Minnesota Recreation and Park Association award of excellence to Richfield for the "Our Legacy, Our Future" local option sales tax referendum. (Chelsea Swanhogen explains the MRPA awards and recognizes Karl Huemiller and staff) [07:12 PM] **Chelsea Swanhogen**: Congratulations and thank you all for great work you do for the city and for the community of Richfield. Thank you. If you two would like to come up, I have a wonderful plaque here to acknowledge their achievements. [07:13 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: Do you want us to come down to you? [07:13 PM] **Chelsea Swanhogen**: Okay. Are you sure? [07:13 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: Congratulations again. Thank you so much to everyone that was involved. It was a great project and I'm glad to see all the people getting recognition. City Manager Rodriguez. [07:14 PM] **City Manager Katie Rodriguez**: Yes. Thank you, Mayor. I also wanted to recognize our communications manager, Kate Aitchison, because she was the one that led the communications campaign and everyone contributed. We had weekly meetings. It was an all-in effort and really appreciate her, too. [07:14 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: Great. Thank you so much. Next, we'll move on to the consent calendar. City Manager Rodriguez. [07:14 PM] **City Manager Katie Rodriguez**: Thank you, Mayor. The consent calendar contains several separate items which are acted upon by the city council in one motion. (City Manager Rodriguez reads items A through D) [07:16 PM] **City Manager Katie Rodriguez**: And I submit these items for your consideration as part of the consent calendar. [07:16 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: Thank you. Is there a motion? [07:16 PM] **Council Member Sharon Christensen**: Motion to approve the consent calendar. [07:16 PM] **Council Member Walter Burk**: Second. [07:16 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: It's been moved and seconded to approve the consent calendar. Are there any questions or comments? Hearing none. All in favor, please say I. [07:16 PM] **Council Members (Collective)**: I. [07:16 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: All opposed. And we have approved the consent calendar. Thank you. Next, we'll move on to item number nine, which is a public hearing. And I'm going to turn it over to Council Member Coleman Woods. [07:17 PM] **Council Member Rori A. Coleman-Woods**: Thank you, Mayor. On May 29th, the city received the application materials for new on-sale wine and 3.2% malt liquor licenses for SK Food LLC, DBA, K-Chi Mack, located at 6420 Nicollet Avenue South. (Council Member Coleman-Woods reads the details of the background investigation and requirements) [07:19 PM] **City Manager Katie Rodriguez**: You could uh make a motion to open the public hearing. [07:19 PM] **Council Member Rori A. Coleman-Woods**: I move to open the public hearing. Any resident wishing to participate in the public hearing, please proceed to the podium... (Reading public hearing rules)... and the public hearing for the wine or 3.2% malt liquor license for SK food LLC DBA K-Chi Mack is now open. [07:20 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: Is there anyone who wishes to speak at the public hearing? If there's anyone who wishes to speak, they can go to the podium. Is there anyone who wishes to speak? It does not appear that anyone is here to speak for the public hearing. So, it would be in order to have a motion to close the public hearing. [07:20 PM] **Council Member Rori A. Coleman-Woods**: I move to close the public hearing. [07:20 PM] **Council Member Sharon Christensen**: Second. [07:21 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: It's been moved and seconded to close the public hearing. All in favor, please say I. [07:21 PM] **Council Members (Collective)**: I. [07:21 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: All right, we've closed the public hearing. [07:21 PM] **Council Member Rori A. Coleman-Woods**: And I move to approve the on-sale wine and 3.2% malt liquor license for SK food LLC DBA K-Chi Mack located at 6420 Nicollet Avenue South. [07:21 PM] **Council Member Walter Burk**: Second. [07:21 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? I would say welcome to the community and we're glad to have you doing business here. Is there anything you wish to say? Okay. Any other comments? All right. All in favor of approving the issuance... please say I. [07:22 PM] **Council Members (Collective)**: I. [07:22 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: All opposed. And we have approved that license. Thank you. And once again, welcome to the community and thank you. Congratulations. All right, so next we will move on to item number 12 and I'll turn that over to Council Member Christensen. [07:23 PM] **Council Member Sharon Christensen**: Thank you, Mayor. This is an item for consideration to approve the alternate appointment to fill the vacancy on the Human Rights Commission. (Council Member Christensen reads the recruitment and interview process details) [07:24 PM] **Council Member Sharon Christensen**: My recommendation is for the motion to approve the appointment of Tyler Beersbach as Human Rights Commissioner commencing on July 22nd, 2025 and expiring January 31st, 2026. [07:24 PM] **Council Member Sean Hayford Oleary**: Second the motion. [07:24 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: It's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? [07:24 PM] **Council Member Walter Burk**: Just one quick comment. Uh, want to thank Mr. Beersbach for joining the Human Rights Commission. Uh, it's always great to have as many people there involved in the public as possible. And I want to thank, uh, the person who resigned. Mara, want to thank you for the time that you spent at the Human Rights Commission. [07:25 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: Any other discussion? All right. So, all in favor, please say I. [07:25 PM] **Council Members (Collective)**: I. [07:25 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: All opposed. And we now have a new member to the Human Rights Commission. Moving on, we will go to the city manager report. City manager Rodriguez. [07:26 PM] **City Manager Katie Rodriguez**: Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Um, at our last meeting, which was June 24th, um, we had several speakers for open forum. (Discussing social media policy, flavor tobacco ban updates, and new agenda software). I do want to thank City Clerk Michelle Friedrich, Administrative Assistant Mark McKinley, and then our analyst Courtney Miller because they've been leading this project and I appreciate all their work that they're doing on it. Thank you. That's all I have tonight. [07:28 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: Um thank you. Are there any questions from council members? Council Member Hayford Oleary. [07:28 PM] **Council Member Sean Hayford Oleary**: Um, I am just wondering with the since there has been public interest in the tobacco items, are you able to share the result of the resolution from the hearing officer or if that is not decided, could you share it at a future city manager report regarding the one that was on our agenda previously? [07:29 PM] **City Manager Katie Rodriguez**: Um, Mayor, Council Member, I can answer that. We unfortunately had to delay that hearing because the witness from the Office of Cannabis Management... there was some process that we had to go through to serve a subpoena and make them available for the hearing which was really important. So um, it's been postponed. It is scheduled for August 6th. [07:29 PM] **Council Member Sean Hayford Oleary**: Thank you. [07:30 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: Are there any other questions? All right. Next on the agenda, we're going to move on to council discussion. And I think we used to call this "Hats off to Hometown Hits." So, if there's anybody that has anything they'd like to um share, we'll give you a chance to raise your hand right now. [07:30 PM] **Council Member Rori A. Coleman-Woods**: Sure, I'll go. Hats off to our city staff and our council members for their participation in the Richfield 4th of July. I think we came up, showed out, showed up um for our city celebration and I thought we had a great turnout... Way to go, team. [07:31 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: Thank you. Any other items to add? And I would echo those sentiments. It was a great opportunity for the community to come together. (Recognizing the 4th of July committee volunteers). So, at this point, we're going to move on to the next item in our agenda, which is a closed executive session regarding the city manager's evaluation. [07:32 PM] **Council Member Sharon Christensen**: Mayor, I move that we recess the meeting to enter and hold a close session for the purposes of conducting a performance evaluation of City Manager Katie Rodriguez pursuant to Minnesota statutes section 13D.05 subdivision 3A. [07:32 PM] **Council Member Walter Burk**: Second. [07:32 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: Okay, it's been moved and seconded to move into close session. All in favor, please say I. [07:32 PM] **Council Members (Collective)**: I. [07:33 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: All opposed. And so for the people that are watching, we're going to go back to the Babcock room for the close session and then we will come back out here to close the meeting. Thank you all for joining us and we will see you in a little while. (Meeting recesses for closed session and reconvenes at 8:43 PM) [08:43 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: Good evening. The council just conducted a close session for the performance evaluation of the city manager. It is 8:43 p.m. As required by law, the council will be providing a summary of the performance evaluation at its next regular meeting on August 12th, 2025. So, is there anything else that we have on our regular agenda? Then I would entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting. [08:43 PM] **Council Member Sean Hayford Oleary**: So moved. [08:43 PM] **Council Member Walter Burk**: Second. [08:43 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: It's been moved and seconded multiple times. All in favor, please say I. [08:44 PM] **Council Members (Collective)**: I. [08:44 PM] **Mayor Mary Supple**: All opposed. We stand adjourned. Thank you everyone.