[0:00] [Music] [0:45] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: I'd like to call the regular City council meeting for Tuesday March 19th 2024 to order. Uh, this evening we will have our a local gentleman here, Emmett Boer, from uh—tell me what troop, I forgot already? 458—and he will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, so please rise and join us. [1:26] **Emmett Boer**: 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. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Thank you Emmett. Emmett is a first class Scout, he is working on his Eagle Badges and uh, had an opportunity to uh, be interviewed with him last week, so thank you again for coming and he's performing some more work on his badges uh, this evening joining us, so thank you. Uh, first item up, uh, the approval of the agenda. Is there any additions or corrections to the agenda? **Logan Martin**: No sir. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Hearing none, I uh move the agenda. All in favor signify by saying I. **Councilmembers**: I. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Opposed? We have an agenda. Move on to presentations, proclamations and acknowledgements. We have none this evening. We'll move on to item four, uh, three—uh, I'm sorry, four—response to public comment, which I understand we do not have any uh, outstanding public comments to respond to. Move on to item five, public comment. Anyone wishing to come before council at this time may do so. Uh, please state your name and address at the podium and then state your question or comment for us. Again, seeing no one making a Mad Dash to the uh, podium, I will consider the public comment period closed and we'll move on to the consent agenda, item six. We have items sixA through P. These include Bill listings, minutes from the March 4th regular and work sessions, a $500 donation acceptance from Dakota Electric for our park and wreck safety Camp, as well as an uh, an additional $500 from XL Energy again for the safety camp. We have our 2023 inter fund transfers. Uh, we have a request from Spectral Alloys for approval of their third edition final plat, acceptance of the public Street and utilities Greystone 8th Edition, the election ordinance Amendment, donation from Dakota Electric Arbor Day for $500—again, this is for our annual trees—the lifetime facility, we have a change order four before us this evening, request by Maplewood development for Amberfield 16th additional plat, the approval of contract amendments for professional service for additional work by WSB, awarding contracts for approximately $600,000 of work at the fire station facade repairs, awarding County State Highway 42 trunk water main PRV installation, and then the Municipal State Aid Street designations for Driver Avenue and—what's the other one there? **Councilmember Paul Essler**: Boulder Trail. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Boulder Trail. All right. So Council, anyone wish to pull any item for further discussion, comment or information? Seeing none, then would someone like to move the consent agendas items A through P? **Councilmember Paul Essler**: So moved. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Is there a second? **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: Second. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: We have a motion by Essler, second by Klimpel. Roll please. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Essler? **Councilmember Paul Essler**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Klimpel? **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Weisensel? **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Theisen? **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: I. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: That completes 6A through P. Move on to our public hearing this evening. We have a liquor license Amendment for Las Tortillas Mexican restaurant. And let's see, is that coming with you Miss Fasbender? **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Yes it is. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: All righty, City Clerk please. [5:31] **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: All right, thank you Mayor, members of the council. So before you tonight we have a request from Las Tortillas Mexican restaurant, which is located at 1551 Creststone Avenue. They have submitted an application to amend their current on-sale liquor license and special license for Sunday liquor. Under city code, an establishment must apply for an amendment when expanding the license premise and a public hearing is also required per City code. The request is specifically to expand the permitted license area to allow for an outdoor patio which will seat approximately 40 people. City council had approved a conditional use permit allowing the outdoor seating and the patio had since then been completed since this past December. Since then, our city building officials have also approved the patio and it is ready for use. As required for a public hearing, a notice of this hearing was published in advance in the official newspaper and as of today no comments have been received from the public to date. So before you tonight, we have uh, first, we are required to open the public hearing and then second, pending any comments from public or City councils, to take action on adopting the resolution approving this amendment for the on-sale liquor license and special Sunday license. Following this approval here tonight, then the state would be notified of this amendment and then the amendment would be effective immediately. [7:00] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: All righty, any questions for the clerk from Council? Seeing none, we will open up the public hearing. Anyone wishing to speak on this matter may do so. Come forward, state your name and address at the podium. The floor is open. Going once, twice... **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: All right, I'll move to close the public hearing. **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: Second. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: We have a motion and second to close the public hearing. All in favor signify by saying I. **Councilmembers**: I. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Opposed? The public hearing is closed. Uh, we'll turn back to council. Any questions for staff? **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: Nope. No, only um, just want to say very excited to see the new patio and um, another small business adding and expanding in this town so it's exciting. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Yeah, I happened to eat there uh, Sunday evening and I was disappointed it wasn't open yet. **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: Right. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: So uh, I spoke with the owner, Ryan, and uh, yes they are looking forward to that and should have—between now and Cinco de Mayo—should actually have some good weather maybe out there already. So yeah. **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: Well, addition of—I mean, you go there a lot of times and it's it's packed, so the addition of 40, you know, more seats—that's that's substantial. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: And I just for um, uh, residents that may be watching, uh, this patio is basically an extension out in front of the restaurant. Uh, it takes up some parking but that parking is not uh, uh, affected by um, our number counts or anything, there's plenty of parking there and so I'm sure they'll look forward to lots of business. **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: Mhm. Would someone like to... **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: I'll make a motion. All right, I'll make a motion to adopt a resolution approving a conditional use permit for Las Tortillas restaurant allowing operation of an outdoor seating or dining area for 11 or more seats subject to conditions. **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: Second. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: A motion by Theisen, second by Klimpel. Roll please. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Klimpel? **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Weisensel? **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Theisen? **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Essler? **Councilmember Paul Essler**: I. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: That passes uh, 4-0 and completes our 7A public hearing this evening. We have no unfinished business. We'll move on to item nine, new business. First item up is Telmore Park General Improvement bids. [9:38] **City Administrator Logan Martin**: All right, Mr. Mayor, council members. Um, tonight as the Mayor mentioned, we are looking at bids for the general improvements at Telmore Park. Telmore uh, development is—I guess it's easy to describe it as being north of uh, County Road 42 from DCTC and about as far east as you can get with residential development in Rosemount right now. And so we are looking at developing a 1.5 acre Park. It's a smaller mini Park um, to serve kind of that local area. Um, the the the plan includes a playground, a basketball court, a putting green, some general Landscaping, a pollinator garden and some sidewalks. The engineers estimate for the project was $346,900. Um, that uh, is coming from the park Improvement fund to pay for that. The the bids that we're asking you to look at and approve tonight do not include the playground or the sun shelter portion of the park. That is being done separately like we always do where we involve our youth commission, our Parks Commission, the neighborhood, and then we bring that back to the council to approve at the very end before we order that equipment. So tonight, uh, looking at the bids, uh, we put this out uh, to bid following State guidelines. We received 10 bids for the project. The low bid was from Shoreline Landscaping and Contracting out of the West Metro. Uh, their bid price was $286,500 and 0 cents, and we are recommending uh, on behalf of the Parks and Recreation Commission and staff that you would uh, consider accepting these bids and awarding the contract to the low bidder. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: And do you have a picture of where it's located? **City Administrator Logan Martin**: The location, yes I do. If I can get a Little Help from the the folks over at the uh table and then let's see, we zoom zoom in on that, there we go. So you can see outlined in yellow is the area where the the park is located. Um, on the North side and on the uh, west side is single family residential and then on the south side is more high density Town Homes. Uh, this road right here uh, is County Road 42, this road here is Akron Avenue, and this is Connemara. So that's the actual location of the of the neighborhood where this park is going to go. And then this is the actual uh, plan, the the concept plan, um, and the park is being built just as how you see it. Um, as I mentioned, the playground equipment and the actual Sun shelter structure is not part of this bid package but we'll come back to the council at a later date. One of the things that we did—we did get a recommendation uh, at the youth commission was to actually look at putting like a—the request was more for a a putt-putt golf course and we settled on starting with just one putting green at a park where if Mom or Dad or Grandpa or Grandma come and bring, you know, kids to the park and they want to bring a golf club and a golf ball, they can sit and kind of work on their putting game as the kids are playing. And so uh, that's why we put that close to the playground. Um, and that like I say came out of the youth commission. That was a year ago, I think, that came out of the youth commission. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Yeah, I think she's on her second year, the the young lady that brought that forward is um... something. And so this was certainly—appreciate being able to uh, respond to that uh, request. Uh, if we find this to work really nice maybe we'll continue providing... **City Administrator Logan Martin**: Yeah we've talked about a par three putt-putt course somewhere maybe and starting to work on something a little bit different, but this is to get us started. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: I think uh, I appreciate that uh, again from our youth Commissioners to be able to come up with ideas and they've done this before. They uh, uh, were actively engaged in our skate park uh, was another example where uh, our youth commission are uh, bringing ideas. The hammocking I think is another one uh, deal in the... **City Administrator Logan Martin**: Yeah and this park does have uh, you—a hammock area right here where we'll be putting in hammock posts into the into the park plant for teenagers and other people to use. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Youth are having their opportunities realized, so I appreciate that. Councilmember? [14:16] **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: One quick question is um, you know on the Flint Hills um, shelter they have a really nice kind of bike station. Would would—is this planning on having or are they talking about doing any kind of—because that Greenway Trail will be coming past this won't it? **City Administrator Logan Martin**: This area does not get uh, recognized as close by the Greenway Trail. The Dunmore Park, which is actually out to bid right now, will have a Greenway trail that runs adjacent to it and that'll have another Bike Fix It station. **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: Perfect, okay. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Other questions from Council? All right, seeing none uh, anyone like to move the uh, recommended action? **Councilmember Paul Essler**: I'll make a motion to accept the bids for Telmore Park and award the project to the lowest bidder, Shoreline Landscaping and Contracting, for a bid price of $286,500. **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: Second. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Motion by Essler, second by Theisen. Roll please. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Weisensel? **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Theisen? **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Essler? **Councilmember Paul Essler**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Klimpel? **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: I. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: That passes 4-0. Completes item 9A. Move on to 9B, request for Independent School District 196 for approval of rezoning of the site from Ag to R1 low density. And we have up our planner. Let's see if I can dig this thing up there—so Miss Hogan, please. [15:47] **Julia Hogan (Planner)**: Right, thank you Mayor and Council. Um, so a little bit of a summary of the request: so the applicant is requesting the following approvals to construct a new elementary school on a 34.51 acre site west of Akron Avenue and south of Bonner Path. Uh, they are asking for rezoning of the site from AG agricultural to R1 low density residential, a minor subdivision, and as well as a conditional use permit. So, um, little aerial view of the site location. So you can see the site is located uh, south of Bonner Path and west of Akron Avenue. The land currently is vacant and is surrounded by residential development. There is also the railroad tracks that follow along the southern boundary as well. So a little overview of the rezoning: so the applicant is requesting that rezoning to R1 low density residential. The zoning is in line with the future land use designation of the site which is ldr, low density residential. Um, the need to change that zoning is due to because um, elementary schools are not an allowed use within the agricultural zoning District but they are a conditional use within the R1 low density residential um, zoning District. Uh, so little overview of the minor subdivision request: so a minor subdivision um, process is a platting alternative that uh, combines the approval of the preliminary and final plat into a single process. Currently the site is unplatted but city did recommend um, the applicant plat the area to clean up the boundaries and easements located on the site as well. So a little overview of the site plan: so like I had stated, the um, property is 34.51 Acres. Uh, the site will contain a main Elementary School on the Northern portion of the site and as well as two parking lot areas. So you can see on this site plan that Eastern parking lot area will be the main entrance and also the main lot with that um, and then the parking lot to the Southwest will be the bus lot and also the secondary lot area. Um, proposed for the site is a playground area which you can see is going to be located west of the school and then a hard court area and a ball field which will be south of the school that you can see located um, on the site plan on the western portion of the site. There is one access point to the site which is located off of Ardo Avenue and Kilmore Trail which comes South off of Bonner Path. Uh, there is also a network of sidewalks and trails that are shown throughout the site which will provide access to the playground area, hardcourt area, ball field and also the main building as well. Also a little overview of the traffic study: so um, the applicant did submit um, that information which was an attachment with this um, staff report. So um, some staff comments um, from that report is there is adequate space internal to the site to contain drop off and pickup. Additional traffic and peak hours do not substantially impact the level of service provided by the intersections at Bonner and Ardo or um, Bonner and Akron, and no changes to the intersections are needed at this time. And then the city and school district will need to continue to collaborate on examining and developing plans for pedestrian safety along Bonner Path and then we'll also need to continue to work with Dakota County to address the same with Akron Avenue as well. A little overview of the landscape plan as well as Park dedication: landscape plan um, does show 311 trees uh, throughout the proposed site which does meet that minimum requirement for replacement and then also does show 160 Foundation plantings which also meet the requirement as well. Um, and then the city's Park and Recreation Department did review the submitted development plans and is uh, recommending that Park dedication not be collected due to all the public Recreation spaces that are located on the site. Then here are a few of the architectural drawings. So the principal building will be a mixture of brick, pre-cast wall panels and ornamental uh, metal panels. Um, the applicant did state that this proposed school will have a similar look to the newly built East Lake Elementary um, in um, Lakeville which is south of County Road 46. Then a little overview of the floor plan: so there is 38 um, rooms proposed throughout the building and um, there will be about 638 students proposed um, to be housed throughout the school as well. So there are three motions before the council today. First one will be a motion to adopt a resolution approving a minor subdivision for Rosemount School District Third Edition subject to conditions. A motion to adopt an ordinance amending ordinance B city of Rosemount zoning ordinance to change the zoning of the site from AG agricultural to R1 low density residential. And then the last motion will be to adopt a resolution approving a conditional use permit for an elementary school to be located on the Rosemount School District Third Edition. I do know Representatives with the school district as well as their architect and also a representative uh, with Stantec who was a third party that did um, the traffic study is here as well. So if you have questions for them they are here, or if um, you have any questions for me I am able to answer um, as I can. [20:45] **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Okay, we'll open up the floor to council. Any questions? **Councilmember Paul Essler**: Yeah, I I do have a question and maybe this is for the the the representatives here, but about the traffic study. Yeah um, specifically I'm just looking at it say it does not need any further adjustment to the road working with the county from the traffic study. Do—can we have a little bit more information on that? **Julia Hogan**: Or yeah, I know um, I'm sure our Public Works director can speak on that and also the um, the um, representative with Stantec. I know that they wrote the study so they have a little more context than um, we do at least. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Okay, yeah that'd be great. Yep. Who wants to start? **Public Works Director Nick Egger**: I'll fill in gaps. **Ed Terhaar**: Good evening, my name is Ed Terhaar. I'm a traffic engineer with Stantec. We're located at one Carlson Parkway in Plymouth, Minnesota. Uh, what was your question? **Councilmember Paul Essler**: So my my question is, you know obviously with the school and coming to a busy intersection with all the different, you know, building and construction that's going on in that area—just the concern about traffic flow. Um, so the study was done, there was no need for a roundabout or anything at this time? **Ed Terhaar**: No, not at this time. All of the movements operated acceptable levels of service during both the AM and the PM and we also accounted for other development in the area in the short term um, that was uh, recommended by the city to include uh, in that area. So okay, that is true there are no improvements needed at those intersections. **Councilmember Paul Essler**: Okay. Was there—so even at the peak time like a drop off and in beginning of the morning and everything like that, there's there's no request for it? **Ed Terhaar**: Okay. Okay. Um, can you explain to what extent does that traffic study also account for um, forecasted pedestrian traffic? I know we've talked at length about where the pedestrians may actually be coming from, so can you speak a little bit about that in pedestrian safety too? **Ed Terhaar**: Sure. So as far as the actual number of pedestrians, that's not something that we that we tried to estimate. It's going to really depend on how the school operates, how many kids are bussed, how many get dropped off, how many are going to be walking close by. Those things are a little hard to anticipate at this point, but I do agree with you there will need to be further look at those intersections especially um, Bonner and Ardo you know on the West Side um, where there's a logical crossing point right now. There's sidewalk on both sides and there isn't a a striped crosswalk so there should be further look at that as as this continues to develop. I agree with that. There are devices and um, you know facilities that can be put in for crosswalks—you know, your typical striping, your signing—but then as as you have further to the... there is a rectangular rapid flashing Beacon that's activated by a pedestrian, and those are things that can be looked at. I'm not saying that that's the solution here, but I think those are kind of in the toolbox right for this area. The Akron intersection is a little more complicated that involves the county, and I know the school district met with the county last—earlier this week or earlier uh, last week and they can talk about that—but the county does have a process to look at, you know, that intersection or other locations that make sense along that Corridor and they have their own ideas for that. **Councilmember Paul Essler**: Well if we agree with that... well they have... **Ed Terhaar**: Yeah, they have a process and you need to follow you know, I guess you need to follow it. **Councilmember Paul Essler**: And part of the reason I have you come up and speak to this is just um, you know we think this is great, we we love the addition of the elementary school, but safety is obviously a number one um, priority here. And one of the things when you're looking at that intersection because it is, you know, going to be a busy intersection—just if is there, you know, possibility of look ahead to do this now instead of after the fact? You know what I mean, just trying to be proactive before construction or anything, you know? **Ed Terhaar**: I think that process has been started with the county already and I think that's going to continue. Once again, I think the difficulty is trying to estimate the pedestrians that are going to be there. You know, are there going to be pedestrians? And I I I understand trying to be proactive um, but you're just kind of shooting in the dark at this point to try and determine where people are going to be. **Councilmember Paul Essler**: Okay. Um, I I I certainly think that there should be a continued process though. **Ed Terhaar**: Okay. **Councilmember Paul Essler**: And and maybe just a follow up to that and maybe the other Representatives can speak to this, but um, with with East Lake was there any kind of—I mean was there a need for a roundabout there or have you seen any changes there? **Ed Terhaar**: Stantec wasn't involved with that. Okay, no issue. [25:36] **Mark Steege (District 196)**: Mark Steege, I'm with District 196. Um, so in response I I guess going back to, you know, we're looking at the the walking routes as they pertain to to uh, kids and parents getting to the school. We do know that there's three really busy roads there and chances are probably pretty good that we're going to declare Bonner Path a hazardous route. Akron Avenue will be a hazardous route and then to the South with the railroad tracks, that would be a hazardous route. So that being said, probably 75 to 80% of the students that attend school at that building are going to be bussed. Um, that is many times our solution when we have hazardous routes there even though they live under the one mile limit um, we would still offer busing to all those students. So um, we're hoping that helps. Obviously student safety is like top priority for us as well as the city and uh, we'll be studying all these issues um, as we move forward and as was mentioned, we met with the county last week and so they're aware of the situation. We haven't developed any definitive plans at this point but uh, uh, hopefully we can work on that prior to the school opening. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: So I think one of the things that um, I think we as Council have have run acrossed, uh, particularly with the county but uh, recognizing that there's a different time frame, and so we've struggled to try to make things happen in a more timely manner so that we're not doing a go-back for some reason that uh, is even more disruptive um, after the fact. **Mark Steege**: Yeah, you know what I mean? We're trying to be proactive to the point where, you know, leading with positive intent safety being a priority, if there's something we could do now I guess that's right. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Um, the other thing too is um, all good intentions. I I understand, you know, trying to bus the kids there but there will be those that live in and around there and they'll want to walk right? Uh, or ride their bikes or whatever. Um, and so I think strongly to uh, certainly in our case with on Bonner working with the city, but also the county on Akron, is to come up with—I think there's some funding mechanisms through Safe Routes to Schools that I suspect you could take the lead on and trying to obtain some of those funds particularly for these type of Roads as well. **Mark Steege**: We are exploring all the options available to us prior to the school opening. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Appreciate that. And then uh, what what's the anticipated time frame for this being opened? **Mark Steege**: Um, fall of 2025. So um, pending approval tonight, uh, we're looking at breaking ground this spring and then it would be ready fall of 2025. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Great. Got a name yet? **Mark Steege**: Pardon? **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Do you have a name yet? **Mark Steege**: Elementary number 20! **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: That's a great answer, rolls off the top. Councilmember? [28:45] **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: Yeah, so I I think we all appreciate your sentiment. I think use the language "they have their own ideas," um, the county at the county level and again, you know, what's already been expressed here is we we we we meet with the County on a regular basis. As you might imagine traffic and and traffic control is a pretty regular topic for us um, and and we do find at times that they're not out in front of it enough, you know, looking ahead to what the uh, upcoming—even when projects are approved, you know, so they're approved, it's it's imminent that these developments are going to happen. **Mark Steege**: Sure. **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: Uh, so if you guys are, you know, if there's anything we can do to help your—to get out in front of it, uh, because we just met with them two weeks ago and we expressed our concerns, uh, we expressed our concerns very, very vocally um, about that we feel like we're we're we're going to be playing catchup here as opposed to, you know, "their ideas." Their different ideas are usually waiting for actual traffic counts as opposed to projecting what traffic counts will be. So anything we can do to help in that in that manner would—I mean we're happy to help. **Mark Steege**: And you know we really appreciate that. We're not shy about asking for assistance from your staff either, so um, we've had many meetings with your folks and uh, they've been extremely helpful through this entire process and we just hopefully can keep the ball rolling and like you said be on—you know be proactive when it comes to safety measures instead of waiting till the school is open and decide to do something. That's our that's our goal. **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: Yep, yep. **Mark Steege**: Okay, thank you. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Nick Egger, did you have any comments? I know you're just sitting at the edge of your seat jumping. [30:00] **Public Works Director Nick Egger**: Yeah, well these gentlemen covered it quite well and I think the supplemental questions that you asked spurred um, some of the things I was going to say. I I don't want folks to get concerned that because we don't have the exact detailed solution of what we're going to do tonight, that that means we're dismissive of this whole thing. We're we're forging ahead with digging into what is needed to come up with those Solutions. So some of the stuff that Mark mentioned—the busing routes and the populations and where they're coming from—those are all inputs to determining what the the right solution given the context will be. And I I feel very strongly that uh, at least on the city's Street side, the Bonner side, we have ample time to get through that and get to what the solution will be and implement it in sequence with the uh, School opening. That's that doesn't worry me. Obviously we don't have control of County timelines but we're we're in their ear quite often on these things. We've already had a couple primer conversations about this, we have another meeting scheduled with them in about a week, so we're going to stay on top of it and uh, uh, rest assured we'll be pressing pretty hard. **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: Yeah, well and we we we're, you know, I think we're well aware too that you—it's great that you guys are working with staff so well—but but you guys are also very, very swamped with a lot of the other things that are going on. So it's great that the Bonner Path piece is... it's it's the Akron piece that I'm that I'm concerned about because I just think the traffic with all the building that's going on, you know, east of town, that that if we can be proactive with the county... so it's good that you have that meeting coming up. Appreciate it. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Any other questions, comments? All right, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. With that um, yeah there's nothing else uh, I don't know if you want to take a motion and uh... **Councilmember Paul Essler**: Yep, I'll make a motion to adopt a resolution approving a minor subdivision for Rosemount School District Third Edition subject to conditions. **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: Second. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Okay, got a motion Essler, second by Klimpel. Roll please. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Theisen? **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Essler? **Councilmember Paul Essler**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Klimpel? **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Weisensel? **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: I. **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: I'll make a motion to adopt an ordinance amending ordinance B city of Rosemount zoning ordinance to change the zoning of the site from AG agricultural to R1 low density residential. **Councilmember Paul Essler**: Second. I'll second. Oh, that's fine you beat me. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Motion by Klimpel, second by Essler. Roll please. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Essler? **Councilmember Paul Essler**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Klimpel? **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Weisensel? **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Theisen? **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: I. **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: And I'll make a motion to adopt a resolution approving a conditional use permit for an elementary school to be located on the Rosemount School District Third Edition. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Second. Motion by Theisen, second by Weisensel. Roll please. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Klimpel? **Councilmember Tami Klimpel**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Weisensel? **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Theisen? **Councilmember Paul Theisen**: I. **City Clerk Erin Fasbender**: Essler? **Councilmember Paul Essler**: I. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: And that completes each of the Motions passing 4-0. One, two and three completes business—new business item 9B. With that we'll move on to announcements. City staff updates? Mr. Martin. [34:05] **City Administrator Logan Martin**: Members of the council, uh, I'm going to throw the mic to Chief Thomas tonight for a report on his recently acquired second uh, career maybe. **Police Chief Carson Thomas**: Thank you Mayor, members of council. I think before I give an update on an event last night for Culver's—Emmett, you want to come back up here? I got something for you. You did such a good job I want to give you one of our challenge coins. So stood up here all by yourself and did that announcement—I've seen full troops have to do that—so nice work on that. There you go. All right, so we got a couple events coming up here in April that I want to talk about. One is the police and fire hockey game, so that's going to be on April 6th at um, the Rosemount Ice Arena. And last night we did a fundraising event for that. So Amanda and Tony at Culver's in town, excuse me, were nice enough to allow our police and fire to serve food. So we uh, we put it out on social media and we were the runners of the Culver's out to individual people in the dining room as well as in the the lineup outside. And we all found it to be a very good time. So it was some—some of the looks on people's faces when they turned and saw a uniform handing them a bag um, was was pretty awesome but it was it was very enjoyable and thanks to the staff and and um, some of our friends and family who showed up to support that. So I believe we—they donated about $500 because of that event and everything is going to the Minnesota 100 Club. Uh, the Minnesota 100 Club is an organization that serves uh, Minnesota First Responders and their families who are either injured or killed in the line of duty. So all that money that is raised on April 6th, along with that money last night from Culver's—there's been a bunch of community organizations stepping up and businesses that are being recognized online—will go to the Minnesota 100 Club. So thank you to that. Um, the last thing I want to say is April 4th, an announcement came out with the Minnesota Twins today—they are going to be doing a big tribute to Burnsville that a lot of Dakota County agencies are are involved with to honor um, officers Elmstrand, Ruge and firefighter Beeth. And uh, we're in the um, Fast and Furious planning stages of that but it's going to be a pretty special event. I encourage everybody to watch on opening day. Uh, they they've got a pretty special tribute plan with a lot of um, our local First Responders um, on the field during opening day ceremonies—uh, flyover, bagpipes, raising of the flag, um, a lot of cool stuff. So um, I encourage you to watch that and I think that's all I have. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Go... well, uh, will staff—our—a lot of our staff be there? **Police Chief Carson Thomas**: Yeah, so we're still um, the the twins have donated um, right off the bat over 500 tickets. And what we're doing right now is we're organizing first and foremost the Burnsville police and fire staff um, and their attendees, and then from there we'll see what's left and we will start um, distributing it out. But um, it yeah it'll be primarily Burnsville and then Dakota County agencies that'll be there on the field that day, including our staff. Yep. Uh, we're going to try to get those that responded that day there and in a spot. Um, I think we're going to have about 100 of us holding the flag out in Centerfield and should be a pretty special event. So awesome, cool. Thanks. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: That completes City staff updates. We'll move on to upcoming community calendar. The—let's see we are on the 19th. So we're up to tomorrow even—tomorrow afternoon, the youth commission will meet from 3:45 to 4:45 at the Steeple Center. The city Council will have commission interviews on Thursday, March 21st from 5:30 to—this is 8:30, I think it's 9:00 isn't it? About as many as we're interviewing? **City Administrator Logan Martin**: It's not not quite that late. Yep, pretty close. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: That's helpful. On Monday, March 25th from 5:30 to 6:30 is the Utility Commission meeting here at City Hall. And then our next uh, city council work session will be on April 2nd from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. followed by city council meeting at 7:00 to 8:00. And with that, there's no other business to come before Council. Uh, I'll move to adjourn. Is there a second? **Councilmembers**: Second. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: All in favor? **Councilmembers**: I. **Mayor Jeff Weisensel**: Opposed? We are adjourned. Thank you very much for watching. [Music]