Based on the context provided and the dialogue within the transcript, here is the formatted version with speaker names identified. **Note on Council Members:** The roll call in this specific meeting includes names (Bringle, Duncan, Giesme, Althoff, Lindell) that differ slightly from the provided list. I have used the names as they were called during the roll call and identified by the Mayor during the meeting. *** **[10:43] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Good evening everyone. I’d like to call the November 16th City Council meeting for the City of Cannon Falls to order. Can we have roll call, please? **[10:55] City Clerk Sara Peer:** Bringle? (Here). Duncan? (Here). Giesme? (Here). Kronenberger? (Here). Lindell? (Here). Montgomery? (Here). Althoff? (Here). **[11:15] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Would you rise for the Pledge of Allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. **[11:28] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, you've seen the agenda. Is there any corrections or additions that you'd like to make? Otherwise, I’d take a motion to approve the agenda. **[11:38] Council Member Duncan:** So moved. **[11:39] Council Member Bringle:** Second. **[11:40] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Duncan, a second by Bringle to approve the agenda. All in favor? (Aye). Opposed? Carried. Okay, we'll get into public input. Public input is intended to afford the public an opportunity to address concerns to the City Council. The public input will be no longer than 30 minutes in total length and each speaker will have no more than three minutes to speak. **[12:14] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Speakers may address topics relevant to the governance of the city. Speakers must sign up in advance and must provide their name, address, and topic they intend to address. Comments must be on topic, respectful, pertinent to city business and adhere to the applicable data privacy rules. Any speaker that violates these rules will be asked to sit down and if the speaker refuses to comply they may be removed from the meeting. Speakers shall not address topics that are the subject of a public hearing. All such comments should be made at the public hearing. The City Council will not generally act on issues raised by the public input but may choose to schedule consideration of the item at a future agenda. Okay, first of all, Sue, if you come forward. Her topic is Farmer's Market. **[13:14] Sue Petron:** Hello, my name is Sue Petron. I live at 107 Riverside Terrace in Cannon Falls. I come on behalf as a business owner here in Cannon Falls and as well as an advocate for the elderly and the handicapped and those who don't have a car to get around town, as well as the 224 people that have voiced their opinion on wanting to have the farmers market back downtown. We would like to have it—it's not saying that we need one or the other, but to have it downtown just reaches more of the people in town who can't drive south. We would like it open as a community market selling not only food but flowers and plants and soaps or anything else that people make out of their own goods. Right now it stands as you can only sell food and plants. When I worked with Freeborn Manor for the last 15 months, I recognized how many people in town here have to walk in order to get groceries in order to be a part of the town, and a lot of them don't have cars, as well as people at Park Street, as many as Twin Rivers. There's just a lot of people in town that not only use it for food but to use it as a social gathering. They look forward to that—to getting out, visiting people, going to the post office at the same time, the grocery store whatsoever. It has impacted my business being on the parking lot side, the city parking lot side. Having it down to two vendors makes it not very appealing. And again, I'm not saying one or the other, but why can't we have both as an asset to Cannon Falls? People coming into my business from out of town see it as an asset to them visiting Cannon Falls on a Saturday. To have the farmers market people have to pay a hundred dollars to sell their goods at the community parking lot is ridiculous, I feel. And especially when you're talking about little Lola Windshield, who sells lemonade to raise money for Toys for Tots and she has to pay a fee in order to do that—that's ridiculous. The other thing that I have heard from the vendors is that there is no contact person. There's no contact person who whoever made up those rules this last spring. There's nobody to talk to, who do you make suggestions to, who do you complain to, who do you ask? There is no contact person for the farmer's market. That's not right. So again, I'm requesting that the zone be open to all as a community market for all ages to sell their produce, flowers, and homemade goods free of charge. Also, I need a contact person to check in with and share concerns with. Please consider this request for the spring 2022 farmers market on behalf of these people and myself and those who have shared their concerns but have not signed my petition. Thank you for hearing me. **[17:25] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Thank you. Thanks, Sue. Bob? **[17:30] Bob Banks:** I'm not sure just what to say here but my property along Highway 52, 11 acres—I guess it was zoned kind of open for anything and... [inaudible]. **[17:58] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Yeah, something else. Okay, Rosie. **[18:03] Rosie Schluter:** Yeah, Rosie Schluter here. I'm here because 40 years ago Norm and Gail Prinzing—some of you will remember names—and my husband Paul and I, we wanted to get a country market going. Norm thought, "Okay, we'll go up towards 20, up here by the railroad tracks," and it didn't draw people. You need the market where the people are. The people who don't know about the market aren't going to go up there and walk up there. So that's why I did go to the City Council. I'm new to town, I've been here a couple of years. We had a farm and I walked in and I said, "Could we do this in the city parking lot?" and they decided it would be a good idea and they did it. And I said, "Well, you know, I'm not a farmer, I just got a zillion green beans, I never want to pick another bushel of green beans," okay? But anyway, so we could share that. The thing is that was so funny is that I'm walking out—and I walk fast—and I heard them say, "She's not a farmer but she walks like a farmer." These are good guys, okay? So it was fun. The point was that we wanted it homemade and homegrown because we didn't want outside marketers coming in and taking over our community. But that was 30 years ago. I still think we want the same thing. So if you could please consider it. Thank you guys. **[19:54] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Thanks, Rosie. Thanks, Rosie. Okay, that's all I got on public input, so I'm going to close the public input portion of the meeting. Next is a presentation: it's the Cannon Falls Library Strategic Plan 2022-2024 presentation. **[20:18] Elizabeth Zimmerman:** So, I'm here but Nicole is here too. I'm Elizabeth Zimmerman, I'm the vice president of the board of the library and I came just in case it didn't work out. But we wanted to talk about the strategic plan which you do have in your packet. I came in particular to support the—just so that you know that this was conducted in a realistic way but also a very strategic way with the help of SELCO and their professional strategic planning folks. So Nicole, if you want to talk about this. **[21:06] Nicole (Library Staff):** Okay, so what you have in your packet is the library's 2022 through 2024 Strategic Plan. We—I kind of want to go over how we did it this summer. With the help of SELCO, we started it by distributing a community survey to over 5,000 homes through a mail campaign and just distributing the survey at community events and in the library. We were able to get 210 responses. That came out to about four percent of our population, and a good turnout is two percent, so I really am grateful to all of the people who responded because you gave us really good information. After that, then SELCO and I selected and invited stakeholders to a workshop in September where we took that information and we narrowed it down—needs in the community and how the library can meet those needs. Also in September, we had a staff workshop. In that workshop, we gathered staff input about assessing and meeting community needs. After all of that, then I met with our consultants at SELCO and we drafted an initial strategic plan and an initial new mission statement. With that draft, I brought it to the library board and over the past two months in our October and our November meetings, then we discussed our goals and objectives and our mission statement and we finalized them. Our final strategic plan was approved in the library board meeting on November 8th. It's going to go into effect January 1st and in the meantime, the library's staff and I are going to be meeting later this month so that we can determine what action items we need to take to meet the goals and objectives over the next three years. Then the library board and I are going to be meeting quarterly to evaluate our progress. There are going to be a lot of changes in the next three years. I want to share our new mission statement: "The Cannon Falls Library welcomes and strengthens the community, supports literacy, provides access to information and fosters lifelong learning and enrichment." Based on all of the information we gathered, we broke down all of the information into a few main themes and we based the goals and objectives on those themes. Goal one: to provide a welcoming and accessible space. The objective is to improve the patron experience by removing barriers and increasing access. Goal number two: support the communication of ideas through collections and services. Objective one: assess and expand physical collections. Objective two: expand service outside normal library hours—I'm looking into getting some library lockers so that maybe people can grab things if they can't make it to the library when we're open. Objective three is improve our online presence. Goal three: foster lifelong learning through programs and community conversations. Objective one is host more community conversations. Objective two: host and sponsor programs that engage the community. Objective three: strengthen and increase partnerships. Gold four: increase professional development opportunities for library staff. Objective one is develop professional development policies and objective two is provide targeted development opportunities. For us to do a better job, we need to be better at our job. Sometimes we need to revamp our skills. So that's the end of my presentation aspect. Do you have any questions? **[26:46] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Any questions or comments or anything? **[26:49] Elizabeth Zimmerman:** I just did want to add one thing. One nice thing about the survey was we got back more than one person who does not use the library responding to the survey and that really helped inform some of our objectives because it wasn't just the "choir." We really appreciate that. **[27:14] Nicole (Library Staff):** Yeah, I really wanted to make sure that people who don't use the library gave us input too because we can't reach out to people that aren't using the library if we don't know why. I am very grateful to all of the people who don't use the library for sharing that "why." **[27:42] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Very good, very good. Thank you, Nicole. You're welcome. Okay, we'll get into the consent agenda. Consent agenda items may be adopted under one motion as presented or may be removed for discussion. Item A is claims ending November 10th. Item B, minutes for the November 2nd meeting. Item C, Cannon Valley Trail building furnace. Item D, Resolution 2588 regarding snow removal with MnDOT. Item E, County 24 Hickory Drive reversion. Item F, Resolution 2589 regarding CSAH 17. Item G, Resolution 2590 regarding CSAH 20. Item H, Resolution 2591 regarding CSAH 22. Item I, Resolution 2592 regarding CSAH 24. Item J, Resolution 2593 regarding CSAH 25. Item K, Resolution 2594 regarding CSAH 29. Item L, Public Works Maintenance One position. Item M, disposal of the 1991 Ford pumper truck. Is there anything the council like to pull down? Otherwise, I’d take a motion to approve. **[30:10] Council Member Lindell:** So moved. **[30:11] Council Member Duncan:** Second. **[30:12] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Lindell, second by Duncan to approve the consent agenda. Any other discussion? All in favor? (Aye). Opposed? Carried. Okay, council business. Item A is the introduction and first reading of Ordinance 381, amending City Code Chapter 152 relating to conditional uses in the B2 Highway Business District. Diane, you want to take that? **[30:52] Council Member Diane Johnson:** I'm going to give you guys a little bit of background. This came about because of two eda projects proposed to us. One was an automobile dealership and the second one was a truck terminal. We brought this to Planning Commission last week and they voted to support bringing it to council. I do have Bob Banks here tonight. **[31:22] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Bob, you want to say anything? **[32:05] Bob Banks:** Not necessarily, I guess, but thanks. My property—I don't know if you're familiar with it—it's along Highway 52 between the roundabouts and Avalon. It's been for sale for about eight years; I've owned it for the last three. Anyway, I have a buyer. They tell me they met with Diane and want to know whether it fits in that area under the city's ordinances. That led us to here. They're talking a truck terminal/maintenance shop. I believe they also have a car dealership. **[32:54] Council Member Duncan:** When you purchased the property, are you selling for more than you paid for it? **[33:02] Bob Banks:** The property has city water and city sewer to it. I was told by different people that it is the number one or two best piece of commercial property on Highway 52. It’s 11 acres we're selling. There's actually a little over 30 acres there. **[33:48] Council Member Giesme:** How much land is between your property and Avalon? **[33:57] Bob Banks:** I don't think there's any. It's just our piece that goes behind them. We wrap around two sides of the bus. I don't know if you have a map up? **[34:19] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Yeah, I've got a map up. **[34:21] Bob Banks:** I don't know enough about the buyers; I've never met the people. It's down to the realtor. So I can't really answer a lot of questions about them; I'm just selling the property. **[34:55] Council Member Duncan:** So the EDA came forward to rezone? **[35:01] Council Member Diane Johnson:** They were EDA propositions basically. It’s a chance to expand our tax base and add more businesses. **[35:08] Council Member Duncan:** Didn't someone have to apply? It wasn't a project that came through the EDA? **[35:16] Council Member Diane Johnson:** It came through me through planning and zoning. It was a development application that was pulled because the current zoning doesn't fit. **[35:36] Council Member Althoff:** But it’s got to be someone's name on there, correct? **[35:41] Council Member Diane Johnson:** Mr. Banks came to us to get the land rezoned. The B2 did not allow for truck terminals and auto sales. We're going to add that in there because when you go to neighboring towns like Hastings or Red Wing, you see the truck terminals and auto sales along the highway corridors. It seemed logical. **[36:39] Council Member Althoff:** Would this apply to all B2 districts or just this specific one? **[36:44] Council Member Diane Johnson:** It would apply to the B2, but they would have to have sufficient space and it's a conditional use permit. They would have to come in, ask for it, and meet all the conditions. **[37:06] Council Member Althoff:** I just want to comment, Planning Commission unanimously approved—four to zero. **[37:16] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, very good. Thanks, Bob. **[37:25] Council Member Duncan:** I'll make a motion to approve the change in Ordinance number 381. **[37:34] Council Member Giesme:** I'll second. **[37:35] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Duncan, a second by Giesme. Any other discussion? All in favor? (Aye). Opposed? Carried. Okay, now I handed out from Jim Johnson down at Riverside Terrace a letter that he sent about his water usage. We're not going to take any action on that tonight, but it's something for you to read. Public Works will be dealing with it again in December. **[38:28] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** A little bit about the farmer's market. There's a petition here. Wasn't that it was open to downtown? **[38:40] Council Member Duncan:** Nobody just came downtown. What happened there? **[38:45] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** I don't know. The Mollys were the managers of that. The city wasn't involved in that anymore. **[38:52] Council Member Diane Johnson:** Sarah Schwartzoff had made up an ordinance for that earlier this year. Lola was not charged because she was 16 and under. **[39:15] Council Member Duncan:** And you can't make people come either. **[39:18] Council Member Diane Johnson:** The Mollys were down there, but usually there would be three to four vendors downtown and 12 to 15 out at Artisan Plaza. **[40:15] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Clearly they had options. She was saying it was like they were prohibited. **[40:23] Council Member Diane Johnson:** The only request that I heard that we don't allow already is the fee. That was a request they had—that there would be no fee. The rest is allowed in the eight spots. **[40:55] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Well, we're not involved, but Tim can be contacted. **[41:11] Council Member Lindell:** The point of clarification—the vendors' understanding was that it could only be home-grown products, no crafts. That kicked out a lot of people. **[41:35] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** I don't think that's accurate. I think the only thing we didn't want was manufactured stuff brought in secondhand. Otherwise, the nut guy couldn't be there either. We better look at that. **[42:15] Council Member Althoff:** Maybe just clear it up and get some ground rules before next spring. **[42:25] Council Member Diane Johnson:** It was either a hundred dollars for the season or ten dollars per Saturday. We have to charge because we have public works guys doing extra cleaning. **[43:05] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** It’s in the city parking lot, we have to make sure they adhere to regulations. It’s just a paper cost. **[44:14] Council Member Lindell:** Some vendors went to Farmington or Northfield because they needed more than one space or had crafts. We also had to take into account the safety factor with people on the trails. **[45:01] Council Member Diane Johnson:** I know we had vendors uptown who were allowed more than one space if they requested it. **[45:15] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Well, let's go over this before next spring. Okay, reports. Kyle? **[45:36] Kyle (Chamber of Commerce):** Anybody has a new hip I would take it! First, I’d like to give a thank you to Dan and his team at Public Works. They did the flower basket watering and they've got the snowflakes up. The big event coming up is "Deck the Falls" on Saturday, November 27th. There is a pancake feed at the fire department from 8:00 to noon. Santa will be doing a pop-in visit. We have sleigh rides from 1:00 to 4:00 at Hannah’s Bend Park. Santa and Mrs. Claus will be at Cannon Bells Coffee and Ice Cream from 2:30 to 4:30. The parade starts at five o'clock. We definitely need more parade units! Contact the Chamber office for that registration. At 5:30, we have the lighting of the tree and the holiday prize drawing for Chamber Dollars. We also have a dance performance and then fireworks at John Birch Park. One final thing: we have a 50/50 raffle for the fireworks up to fifteen hundred dollars. Also, "Light Up Cannon Falls" decorating will be from December 3rd through the 17th. **[53:42] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Thank you very much, Kyle. EDA, Laura? **[53:50] Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** Good evening. Last week, a few of us went over to Red Wing for the fall bonding tour. Our John Birch Park wall reconstruction project made the tour. Keith Myers, the Mayor, myself, and Bucky Lindell went. We presented the safety need for restoring the limestone wall and incorporating a new first-base dugout. We asked for $469,000. We left the legislators with peanuts and Cracker Jacks to make an impact! Also, Magnolia Animal Hospital just opened yesterday at the south end of Artisan Plaza. We welcome Dr. Kurt Nelson. Finally, the EDA strategic planning meeting is December 2nd at 3:00 PM. And next Saturday is "Shop Small" Saturday—buy local gift cards! **[58:10] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** That meeting went really well. Public Works—Jed, did we have anything else? **[58:38] Jed Petersen (Public Works Director):** Not really, except maybe a ribbon cutting in our future when the bridge gets finished! **[58:55] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Park Board? **[58:57] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** (Acting as liaison): Nothing big, but we had a discussion about future development of Sandstone Ridge and maintaining a park up there. **[59:45] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Finance Committee? **[59:53] Council Member Althoff:** We went over the final budget and levy, which will have a public hearing in December. We looked at adult entertainment applications for the I2 zone and 2022 license fees. We are also working on a health care savings program for supervisors and a COVID policy. I’d like to have a work session after our December 7th meeting to discuss the specifics of that policy. **[1:01:21] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, Planning? We had the B2 district item tonight, so that’s all there. Danny, you got anything? **[1:01:27] Streets Supervisor Tony Haan (Dan):** Just a couple of things. Public Works is decorating downtown this week. Also, the 3rd street water main under the bridge is hooked up on the north. We’re hoping to start the south end Thursday morning. There might be some water service interruptions. Bridge construction is ongoing; they are starting rip-rapping tomorrow. **[1:02:14] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Sounds good. Nicole, anything else? **[1:02:18] Nicole (Library Staff):** Yes! In December, we have "Library in Motion" (dance walking) on Fridays. On December 4th, Holly Jorgensen will present on saving money and the planet. We have Story Times on Mondays. On the 6th, I’m teaching a crochet hat class. We’re partnering with the School of Dance for a Nutcracker Story Time on the 18th, and a Polar Express story time on the 23rd. We also have a hat decorating contest with prizes in Chamber Dollars! **[1:06:40] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Thank you. Dave? Neil, you got a couple things? **[1:06:51] City Administrator Jon Radermacher (Neil):** Just wanted to follow up on the last meeting's public input. There were some questions asked that weren't quite accurate. There was a request for an ordinance that was addressed within 24 minutes, despite claims it wasn't. Also, regarding a water bill, there was only one call, not a "bunch of calls." I don't appreciate inaccurate attacks on the staff. On a positive note, you passed several resolutions for construction projects on city-limit county roads this summer. Expect a lot of activity. We also had a Sandstone Ridge meeting and we'll be putting together an RFP for developers. **[1:09:50] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Thank you. Laura? **[1:09:55] Council Member Laura Kronenberger:** Nothing. **[1:09:57] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Matt? (Lindell). **[1:09:59] Council Member Lindell:** I just want to say congratulations to the fall sports—Bombers football and Volleyball took sixth in state! **[1:10:15] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Bill? Nothing. Derek? Mary Jill? **[1:10:25] Council Member Giesme:** I have a glue gun! If anyone needs help with their library hat, give me a call. **[1:10:35] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Steve? (I don't have anything). I don't have anything either, but I want to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving. Motion to adjourn? **[1:10:43] Council Member Giesme:** Motion. **[1:10:44] Council Member Duncan:** Second. **[1:10:45] Mayor Matt Montgomery:** All in favor? (Aye). Opposed? Carried.