This transcript has been updated to include speaker names based on the context provided and the internal dialogue cues within the meeting. **Note:** There are discrepancies between your provided list and the transcript (e.g., the transcript refers to **Neil Jensen** as City Administrator, whereas the list mentions **Jon Radermacher**). In these cases, I have prioritized the names used by the speakers during the actual meeting. *** [7:13] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Good evening everyone. Welcome to the June 15th City Council meeting for the City of Cannon Falls. Roll call please. [7:38] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Here. 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. Okay, approval of the agenda. **Council Member Duncan:** So moved. **Council Member Bringgold:** All second. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Bringgold and a second by Duncan to approve the agenda. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried. Okay, consent agenda. Consent agenda items [8:23] may be adopted under one motion as presented or may be removed for discussion and resolution is Council business. For you at home and in the audience, I'll go through the consent agenda. Item A: Just incorrect claims for the accounting period ending June 10th, 2021. Item B: The minute meetings for the June 1, 2021 City Council meeting. Item C: Approve the summer/fall event street closures. Item D: Approve repairing of curb and gutter at 325 Limestone Road. Item E: Approve the Reznor heater replacement on building 40 at the wastewater treatment plant. [9:10] Item F: Approve the hire of Brendan Klitsky to the Fire Department. Item G: Approve the hire of Joe Stocker to the Fire Department. Is there anything the Council would like to pull down? **Council Member Derek:** I'll pull down E. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** E, yep. Okay, we'll put that under Council business item C. **Council Member Matt:** Could I also pull down item D? **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, we'll put the curb and gutter at Limestone Road as item D under Council business. Okay, anything else? Okay, have a motion to approve [9:57] items A, B, C, F, and G. **Council Member Lundell:** So moved. **Council Member Bringgold:** Second. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Lundell, second by Bringgold to approve items A, B, C, F, and G. Any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Carried. Okay, Council business item A: Approve the alley paving. I'll turn it over to Dan. [10:43] **Dan (Public Works):** So this is on Council business because at the last Commission meeting—Public Works Commission meeting—we had two alleys on there that are in the packet, but I later got a bid for this little chunk of alley between the winery and the antiques on Fourth that will tie into the the new sidewalk and curb. So I just wanted to make make you aware that it's an addendum to the to the other two alleys. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, wait. Can I take a motion to approve the addition of the alley between the winery and the antique store? **Council Member Duncan:** So moved. **Council Member Bringgold:** Second. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Duncan, a second by Bringgold to approve the [11:29] additional paving piece between the antique store and the winery. Is there any discussion on that? Okay, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried. Okay, item B is a Tax Increment Financing District number 2-10. I'll turn it over to you, Laura, but it's to approve an engagement letter with David Drown Associates and approve a resolution calling for a public hearing on the establishment of a Tax Increment Financing District 2-10 and adoption of a Tax Increment Financing plan relating thereto. [12:16] **Laura Qualey (Community Development):** Good job. All right, good evening Council. The this particular item is in reference to the Cannonball lot. We've been working with the party Keller Baartman out of Red Wing, and they're proceeding with some plans to develop a multi-family housing complex on that property and it'll be market rate housing. Um, just there's been some questions about that so I thought that I would just address that right off the top: that it is market rate, it's not a subsidized housing unit. And anyway, with um, we're still in kind of figuring out some of the terms of it, but in order to start this process of creating a TIF district, we obviously need your approval and support behind that so we can proceed because there's [13:03] like I said, there's a public hearing that we need to set and then there's—we have to contact the county, we have to contact the school district. So there's just a timeline in order for us to keep on track and on pace. Um, that's why we're here tonight. So in your packet you can see that there is the the engagement letter for us to work with David Drown and Associates. So they would be the ones that would be facilitating and doing, you know, contacting the county and setting the meetings and doing really a majority of the work and then figuring out the TIF plan. So that's what the first couple documents are. They do charge a flat rate. Um, there will be some legal fees obviously associated with that with, you know, drafting documents and whatnot in the future. But [13:49] anyway, so you've got their rate in there, the schedule of events, and then there is a site plan. And we only have this particular site plan right now just because that is um—we had to try to figure out there that there was going to be enough parking for the number of units. It'll be about 78 units is what they're anticipating. So just included that, and because we don't have a 3D rendering of the project, I just included a couple of the buildings that they have down in Red Wing. Two of them are operating at their full capacity and then the one that they're working on down in Zumbrota broke ground probably about a month ago maybe, and ours will be similar to that. But I just wanted to show you that what the project kind of looks like. [14:34] So and then there's the resolution in there. So I'm—I think I'm prepared to ask or answer any questions that you may have, but this is kind of the first step in us moving forward with this project. **Council Member:** It's nice to see the timetable here, you know how you're projecting things to happen here. Any questions for Laura? **Council Member:** Why does David Drown sound familiar to me? Did we work with him before or them? **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** That guy over there, really? Okay, that's what I thought. Okay. Who came up with the name "Mick Cannonball Subdivision"? **Laura Qualey (Community Development):** That is actually what it is called. It is the Mick Cannonball Subdivision. That's not a little piece of trivia that I threw in there. That's... **Council Member:** Wow, really? Isn't that interesting? Well, things get named for stuff. There you go. Okay. Okay, every apartment you rent you get a free order of fries on Tuesdays between 2:00 and 2:05. [15:48] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** That's funny. You know, I like David Drown Associates. We worked with them when we did those interviews and they were very, very fair. Very fair with us, I'll tell you that, you know, we did interviews with them. Well, any more discussion? I’ll take a motion first of all to approve an engagement letter with David Drown Associates. **Council Member Gassen:** I'll make that a motion. **Council Member Duncan:** I'll second that. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Gassen, second by Duncan to approve an engagement letter with David Drown Associates. Any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Carried. And item two is: take a motion to approve a Resolution 2549 [16:35] calling for a public hearing on the establishment of a Tax Increment Financing District number 2-10, the adoption of a Tax Increment Financing plan relating thereto. I think that hearing would be on the first meeting in August, August 3rd. Okay, would somebody like to make that motion? **Council Member Duncan:** I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 2549. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Second. Motion by Duncan and the second by Montgomery to approve Resolution 2549. Is there any more discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Carried. Thank you. [17:44] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, item C was brought down. That's the improvement of a Reznor heater replacement at building 40 at the wastewater treatment plant. Derrick? **Council Member Derrick:** Yeah, um where do I start? I guess... so it's my understanding that the heater is approximately thirty thousand dollars just in the unit. And if that's the case, our low bid is basically thirty thousand dollars. So they're either putting it in for free or I have bad information or maybe they're—I don't know, they just kind of raise a red flag with me. And then googling them, they don't have—they have some bad reviews online. Um, does that mean everything? No, but it's just kind of another red flag for the Harris company that I had. And then looking at the four quotes we have, I noticed there's one that's a local company. And as a city, you know, around Christmas time we're always telling everyone, "Hey, you know, shop local, shop local. Let's support our local business." It might cost a hair more, but you get good service and you keep the money local. [18:31] So then my thought was, well maybe we should be following our own advice. You know, Cannon Valley Mechanical? Those guys have done a lot for the city. I believe just a week ago they fixed a long-occurring problem down at the library. And you know, if something goes wrong with this thing year two, three years down the road and you call them up, I mean they'll be there—I mean that day, probably within the hour. Where some of these ones up in the metro, I mean maybe they can squeeze you in next week. So I don't know, my thoughts were just, you know, yeah, something that their number's a little higher, but sometimes, you know, to get a good quality company and keep it local costs a few more dollars. So that's all. [19:17] **Council Member Steve:** If I can add to that, I did some discussions with our local contractor and I heard that he did respond within an hour or so of a problem on one of our buildings. They took care of it. It's kind of handy to have them around. Um, he cut his quote down to $35,000, so we're within—oh now I got to do math in my head—$5,000 of the whole bid. Correct? **Council Member Derrick:** Yeah, yep. **Council Member Steve:** So and to restate what Derrick said about everybody telling everybody to shop local and support local businesses, and maybe we better put our money where our mouth is too and keep everything local and you know the response time is going to be better on on other things too if they know they're in good rapport with the city. So that's all I have. [20:51] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Just to piggyback on what they're saying, I think there's also a value cost of, like Derrick said, knowing who you're dealing with and the standing up for their work and being able to be familiar with the product. Um, going cheap is not always the best. We've worked with Harris before—yep—and they might be a fine company, but when mistakes are made, we've had local companies have to step up and clean up that mess. And I feel like maybe we should make that move where instead of going on the cheap and crossing our fingers and hoping that everything works out okay—and we save $4,000 up front but the machinery starts to go bad quicker than it should have, then we have to pay a different company to come in and clean that up—maybe we go with the same company and we know that we've got the trust and the value and the responsiveness and a good rapport. And I think this [21:36] project—I mean obviously it's not such a little amount that we can just make this decision randomly—but the difference itself is pretty small. Any other discussion? **Council Member:** Steve, you said he cut his bid? No, it's not a bid. **Council Member Steve:** Oh, it wasn't... listen, these are quotes. **Council Member:** Oh, these are quotes. Okay, but did you tell everybody else that you were letting... that he was going to quote again? I mean usually you don't... this isn't a bid, so you... okay, I just it just seemed kind of odd that you said he cut his price to within five thousand. It sounds like he was given an opportunity [22:22] that others were not to revise what they were going to—I'm just saying, it just seems a little odd. I don't care one way or the other, I was more worried about the process. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Anything else? **Council Member Gassen:** Well, I'm going to make a motion to go with Cannon Valley Mechanical for $35,000. **Council Member Lundell:** I'll second that. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion is made by Gassen, second by Lundell to go with the bid from Cannon Valley Mechanical for—$34,850 on the quote? **Council Member Steve:** No, no, you're looking at the wrong one. That's Apex. **Council Member:** That was from... oh, okay. It's been revised. 35... 35. [23:13] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Thank you. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried. Okay, item D: the curb and gutter at 325 Limestone. **Council Member Matt:** Yeah, I brought this down just because in the bid proposal here it just says "soil correction is extra priced to be determined." I was hoping somebody would be here tonight that we could chat about what does "soil correction" mean and how much—like, is this going to be an extra 100 bucks or an extra thousand? **Dan (Public Works):** [23:58] If I can give my opinion, um I think once we remove the curb and we start to dig down, we'll be able to see what we're dealing with right away. I mean it could be just a few buckets of crushed rock and we have that available. So I don't think it's going to be substantial. I think we'll know right away. And you can see on the picture that this depression was caused when they dug the services across to the address. So whatever they put back in that trench wasn't some good stuff. So I think we'll find out right away once we pull the curb away, take that first layer of crushed rock off what we're dealing with. So yeah, if somebody had the ballpark, you know... is it a couple hundred bucks? I'm going to guess a couple hundred. **Council Member Matt:** Okay, so something we can absorb pretty easily. **Dan (Public Works):** Yeah. **Council Member Matt:** I was cautious to see a bid that said [24:46] "price to be determined" and that we'd agree to it, because I'm not saying that somebody would take us for a ride, but honestly what's the difference between a thousand and two thousand if all of a sudden they say, "Hey, it was an entire day of work, we had to bring extra machinery, we had to do all this," and we're like, "Oh, we're on the hook for it." **Dan (Public Works):** Well, when we first discussed this, um we didn't know if we were going to have to excavate, you know, six feet down. But it sounds like we're not going to disturb... you know, once we find what the issue is we can probably just pack in some crushed rock. **Council Member Matt:** Okay. **Dan (Public Works):** So, but I do know like when we do bigger projects you'll see a line in there for contingencies which would cover this type of thing. **Council Member Matt:** So that's what along with Matt I was a little concerned on that. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** That's a good point. It'll be interesting to see what's in there actually. Yeah, it will be. Time capsule? **Dan (Public Works):** Time capsule, probably. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, motion to approve then the repairing of curb and gutter at 325 Limestone. Just real quick before we vote, was there any other bids that were made or was it just the one? **Dan (Public Works):** Yeah, it was presented as a package. Okay, since O'Gorman is going to also pour the driveway. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** The driveway. Okay, he wants to tie it all together. Yeah, so okay, somebody make that motion. **Council Member Lundell:** I'll make that motion. **Council Member Bringgold:** Second. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Lundell and a second by Bringgold to approve the repairing of curb and gutter at 325 Limestone Road. Any other discussion? [26:19] All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried. Okay, let's get into reports. Kyle, Chamber? [26:19] **Kyle (Chamber of Commerce):** Thank you for having me and good evening community and Council. I first want to start off with giving a huge thanks to Neil Jensen, City Administrator; Dan (Public Works); the Mayor and the City Council members for your show of support to the Chamber. It was very—it was a wonderful surprise and very well worth it. I appreciate that and so thank you very, very much. We do have our golf tournament coming up. It is our 30th annual golf tournament um on the 24th—that's a Thursday, June 24th at the Summit Golf Club. And right now we have 14 teams. In the past we've had 20 to 24 teams, and so if anyone knows of a group of four that want to play, please let us know. [Music] I mean, we already know we have first through third prizes for the top three teams in both flights. So six teams are going to get really nice prizes, and besides that, we do have another whole group of prizes and awards that we give out to the players. [27:53] Um, and so please let the Chamber know if you're interested. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Kyle, what was the date on that again? **Kyle (Chamber of Commerce):** June 24th. Next Thursday—a week from this Thursday. And excuse me, 12:00 lunch, 12:30 shotgun start, 5:30 dinner. And we are having boxed lunch assorted sandwiches and a burrito buffet for dinner. And so the nice thing about doing it out at Summit is that it's not just the golf course. We have Cannon River Catering helping, we have Fireside Lounge and Supper Club supporting the event. We have um right now that's all of them, that's it. But we do have—we've gotten meal sponsors: Henkel and Lindell Heating and Air Conditioning. And so those are coming in very nicely. As you know, last week the Chamber did cancel—postpone, excuse me—postpone our Open Air Fair. The heat index was way over 100 degrees and so that was the reasoning for our cancellation. It is rescheduled for Thursday, July 8th and then again it'll be 2:30 to 6:30. Non-Chamber member vendor fee is $25. We had 28 vendors all signed up. We also have Ryan Carsten of Hot Hits Entertainment being the DJ and the announcer for the event, so that is continuing on. Then we also have an Open Air Fair scheduled for August 12th, and so let us know if you would like to be in one or both of those events. Some interesting events happening—and this is um the Library—but they are doing, excuse me, concerts in the park. And we haven't had that for quite a while. [30:19] So on Friday, June 25th—I don't know if you know the Jolly Pops—they'll be playing at 1:00. And um it goes on July 10th, July 24th, and August 27th. And so there's four events: 1:00 PM or 2:00 PM in the afternoon. They're all Saturdays. And so I hope you bring your families out and enjoy the music so we can keep doing these kinds of events. Any questions? All right, thank you very much. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Thanks, Kyle. That's it. Okay, EDA. Laura? [31:06] **Laura Qualey (EDA):** Um, in the EDA world right now I'm working on the SMIF—Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation—just opened up their Small Towns Grant. Last year we did receive $5,000 from it that we used toward a promotional like marketing package for the local foods Cannon Roots branding. And so I'm trying to figure out what can we possibly write for this year that would either help do another promotion toward—for tourism—that will drive tourists and also get people to look at us for possibly starting or expanding their business here. And so that's due in July—middle of July, I think. So anyway, so [31:53] cross your fingers for that. Then tomorrow I'm actually meeting with a company to update our "Grow Cannon Falls" video. So we did that marketing video about in 2017 and it was really more, you know, still shots that we had. A couple interviews in there—the former owners of the winery were, you know, are in it. So now obviously that's changed hands, but we want to possibly add a new business that has opened up since then too. So anyway, so we're going to kind of do some discovery work and now that everything's greened up and looking beautiful, we thought that now is the best time to do it as opposed to winter or even fall. And anyway, so that hopefully will be getting done in the next few months and then just continuing to work and massage the Keller Baartman project for the Cannonball. So just making sure that is moving along at a right—at the right pace. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, thank you. Public Works. Derrick, you want to take that? [32:40] **Council Member Derrick:** Yeah, um we had a few things on the agenda. One of them was regarding a water leak, a request for a refund on some water payments. Um, the alley paving we talked about. The Sandstone—Sandstone Road—we talked a little bit about a potential home going in there, maybe some issues with that. We talked about the the Limestone Road [33:25] curb thing that we just passed. Um, I feel like there was something else, do you remember? **Dan (Public Works):** Oh, continuing business... Grove Street. **Council Member Derrick:** Ah, oh um Grove Street, the water issue there. I believe we're going to have the company that's doing our boring under the river come up there and check it out and see if they have any ideas on what we can do up there. Um, yeah, I think that was about it. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Yeah. Okay, Park Board? **Neil Jensen (City Administrator):** No meeting. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** No meeting. Well okay. Finance Committee. Bill? [34:15] **Council Member Bill:** Yeah, we had uh quite a number of items. I'll just briefly touch on them. We had none on the agenda tonight here, but uh we have—we discussed a 30-year-old fire truck that we gotta replace and talking about how we can finance that a little bit earlier than we intended. We had a discussion with the Cannon Falls Township regarding annexation and how to make that a little more cooperative. A quick response vehicle for the ambulance. Uh, we talked about additional mill and overlay project financing that might come to hand. We also discussed uh the SEMCRA land there at Sandstone Ridge. [35:04] We also talked about broadband, and when we redo the—repaint the water tower, maybe water tower ring expansion so we put more things up there. And then a couple of budget discussions and uh we changed our meeting date in July to Thursday, July 8th at 5:00. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay. Planning Commission? **Council Member:** Ah yes, we had two administrative subdivisions: one for the Hayes property and one for Nate's Garage—that was a lot combination there. And then we had a discussion on the [35:51] variance for a house going up on Buff Drive, Sandstone Ridge area. Just personal note: it's going to come before the Council. I strongly disagreed with what the Planning Commission approved, but the final vote will be with us, of course, in July. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Correct. Okay, and that's—that's it there. Okay, Library Board? I don't—I don't see Nicole, so I don't think they met last night. Okay, let's go—let's go around. Dan, you got anything [36:36] tonight? **Dan (Public Works):** I do. So uh on the water side of life, the Department of Health Consumer Confidence Report will be available for viewing at the City Hall or at Public Works building. It's an annual report we have to advertise. So, the pool's open and running. Looks like good attendance last two days. Lessons are going good, so it's great. Um, the mill and overlay project pre-construction meeting was today and tentatively scheduled for next Thursday for the milling, and then they will do the paving on Friday the 25th. So they're going to start the the milling at 5:00 AM on Mill Street West [37:22] and they should be done with the milling by 8:00, and then they'll move to the residential areas. And then the next day they're going to start the paving at 5:00 as well, so they'll be done by 8:00. **Council Member:** Dan, are you going to let... not so much that the businesses would be open, but there is a residence or two there that could be affected if we can let them know? **Dan (Public Works):** Right, we wanted to... we don't want to set a date firmly right now because we could get rained out. So we're thinking by Monday we'll—we'll notify everybody along Mill Street. Okay. So yeah, and there'll be some closures. They'll probably want to start closing Wednesday night so they don't get any traffic on the street for a Thursday morning. Okay. **Council Member:** So [38:09] are we going to do Park Street too? **Dan (Public Works):** Did we... okay, that—that hasn't been okayed yet as well. That was in the Finance Committee. We—we started that discussion on how we can finance that because the uh blacktopping material, the costs are about as low as we—we're going to ever see them again. So let's get this done first then. And then you approved the alley paving, so we may start that Thursday—so the day after tomorrow. And they did some pothole patching today. They did their one load a week today, so. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, and that's it. Okay, Laura anything? You've kind of gone through that. Joe, anything from the Police Department? **Officer Joe:** [38:54] No. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay. Neil? **Neil Jensen (City Administrator):** Just a couple items. Uh, unfortunately we had an arson uh start a garbage can fire in our Amish Pavilion here uh last week and um did a considerable amount of damage. It doesn't look like it, but when it hits the rafters and the roof boards, um now you got to start tearing things apart pretty good. Called the League of Minnesota Cities, they got a reserve of about $10,000 on—on the damage. So they did also say that we're going to post a reward um that they will cover up to $2,000 leading to the arrest of the person that did this. So [39:42] hopefully we can somehow figure it out. Then it was a couple days later [Music] John Birch Park, the crow's nest—the door was busted in and—and was found to be busted in you know up there. I don't know how long it's been, but we're starting to see a little uptick in arson and uh damage vandalism. Uh, hopefully it'll—it'll settle down but uh you know um if if you've been in this business a long time this comes in waves and—and uh hopefully we can catch these—these people that are doing it and uh make an end to it. Otherwise uh it somehow just keeps continuing. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** So Neil, do we have any cameras that cover [40:28] the city parking lot? **Neil Jensen (City Administrator):** Um, no we don't. And I—I talked to the LMCIT and adjuster about cameras and—and what he told me was they're usually doing the stuff in the complete dark, and to have enough cameras to cover the areas that they find to vandalize is very, very difficult. And then when you do get a picture of them, it's not usually the best. So um he—he's... that was the first thing I asked him about was, "Do you think that would work?" I mean, he does this every day and uh yeah he suggested not to do that. But that's all I got. I just want to let you guys know there's uh some trouble brewing out there. [41:15] **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, let's go around the Council. Steve? **Council Member Steve:** Yeah, um Joel, can you take care of that trouble that we're having? Just yeah, handle it. Um, I just want to say, you know, we had a—a small event here that concerned a lot of the law enforcement around the area, and for the people out there that don't think cops need continuing education and some of these extra classes—well that's why. That's why right there. You don't think we need it? There's your—there's your example. That's—I just uh uh I got to just take my hat off to all those responders and teams that were all available and knew [42:02] exactly what to do and settled it without too much—too much issue. So thanks go out to the—to all the officers, responders. That's all I got. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Exactly what Steve said, thank you. It was handled well uh and yeah, it could have been much worse. That's one of those situations where you don't know what you're dealing with behind that closed door, but it got handled well and uh the safety of the public was a priority during that. A couple other quick things: thank you to everybody with the pool. The pool has been phenomenal these last couple days. It's just been packed, kids are everywhere, it looks good, it's fun again to be out there. So it's so nice to have the pool back. Um, Troll Haven Park—did anybody ever [42:47] reach out to you? I've got somebody that wants more trees. And then I got somebody... the baseball diamond there is a great little baseball diamond, kids go there and play, but the bases don't have an anchor, they're just sitting there. So we—they're kind of rotting. And we had that discussion, maybe using some—some of the used bases from Archie Swenson? **Dan (Public Works):** Perfect. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** And putting them in down there. **Dan (Public Works):** Perfect. Yeah, yeah, awesome. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Uh, and then I had a resident that talked to me uh about the construction that's going on at the apartments down there uh just south of Casey's. Those—everything's being redone, the facade, all that stuff. Well, the parking lot is being used by the construction company, so the people who live there are forced to park on the street. Well, they're parking in front of people's private mailboxes and sometimes [43:34] where their garbage and recycling is to go out. So some people have had to run the post office to get their mail or to have their—call their garbage company. And it was believed that we had an ordinance that you could not park within 10 feet of a mailbox, but upon further review, it seems like there might not be an official... that that's just kind of a common understanding if you don't block somebody's mailbox. But I guess when you're in a pinch and there's construction, people will park anywhere they can, which is frustrating some residents in that area. So I just want to put that on our radar that might be an issue that—I know it only comes up every once in a while, but that'd be frustrating. **Dan (Public Works):** I think they're just about ready to pour the sidewalks around there and it looks like the grading of the parking lots are coming along really well. [44:19] I don't know when... have you heard when the paving is? **Dan (Public Works):** What's going to be... paving's going to be next week. They're going to finish the sidewalks this week and they're scheduled to pave next week. So hopefully that will alleviate a lot of the issues down there. And yeah, they're kind of parked haphazardly down there but uh... **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Yeah, yeah, for the most part down—down by me there, everybody's pretty respectful of the—of the mailboxes anyway, but I still get my bills every day. But yeah, up—up uh farther west there I can see where it gets a little tight. **Dan (Public Works):** Yeah, they're maybe not paying attention as well. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Yeah, that's all I got. Is there a city ordinance how long you can park on the street? Is it 48 or 24 [45:08] without being moved? Joel? **Officer Joel:** Oh, I'll look it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not... **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Someone... I don't know. Bill? [45:16] **Council Member Bill:** I just want to do a comment uh both the downtown Farmers Market and uh the one at Artisan Plaza were both going. I think I saw when I passed four vendors downtown and about 11 out at Artisan. So it's good to have those going and I'm sure there'll be more as—as all the produce uh is rolling in. Crows... yeah, that's it. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay. Um, Derrick? **Council Member Derrick:** Hey Joe? No, nothing tonight. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Laura? **Laura Qualey (EDA):** I'm good. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Okay, I just want to comment too on the pool [46:01]—looks great. Um, Farmers Market, like I say, that's up and running. And the hats off again to the first responders for that mishap yesterday. So uh a couple of things: a couple of meetings before our next Council meeting. EDA meets on July 1st, Public Works on July 1st, and the Park Board on July 1st. Those are committee meetings that will be before our next Council meeting, so I thought I'd bring them out. Um, public input? I don't think there's anybody here, so I think we're just going to... oh, Kyle? [46:46] **Kyle (Chamber of Commerce):** Kyle, yes. It is part of the Chamber, but I do want to thank Public Works publicly because the flowers have just grown so much in the month that we've had them. I mean they're down and over the baskets now and that's due to the watering, and especially the extra watering that you guys are doing because of this heat. And so thank you for that. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** The city appreciates it and I hope everyone does out there. Yep, they look nice. Thanks. Okay, anything else? If not, I'll take a motion to adjourn. **Council Member Duncan:** So moved. **Council Member Bringgold:** Second. **Mayor Matt Montgomery:** Motion by Duncan, second by Montgomery to adjourn. Any other? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? [47:36] Carried.