Since the original transcript does not include timestamps, I have used `[00:00]` as a placeholder to maintain the requested format. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: All righty everybody, we're going to go ahead and call to order the regular meeting of the Oakdale City Council, August 14th, 2024. Sarah, will you take the role, please? [00:00] **Sarah (City Clerk)**: Council Member Heu? [00:00] **Council Member Noah Heu**: Here. [00:00] **Sarah (City Clerk)**: Council Member Ingebretson? [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: Here. [00:00] **Sarah (City Clerk)**: Council Member Morcomb? [00:00] **Council Member Andy Morcomb**: Here. [00:00] **Sarah (City Clerk)**: Council Member Willenbring? [00:00] **Council Member Susie Willenbring**: Here. [00:00] **Sarah (City Clerk)**: Mayor Zabel? [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Here. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. [00:00] **All**: 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. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: All righty, first up on our agenda is the adoption of the agenda or approval of the agenda. We have a slightly amended version in front of us. Council members, any changes or corrections? I'll look for a motion. [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: So moved. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: There's a motion. Is there a second? [00:00] **Council Member Andy Morcomb**: Second. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. [00:00] **Council Members**: Aye. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Opposed? And the agenda is adopted. Next up, we have approval of the minutes. Three sets in front of us tonight. Wow, we've been busy. Uh, first up, Workshop meeting minutes, July 23rd, 2024. Council members, any changes or corrections? I'll look for a motion. [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: So moved. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: There's a motion. Is there a second? [00:00] **Council Member Andy Morcomb**: Second. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Motion and a second. Any comments? All those in favor say aye. [00:00] **Council Members**: Aye. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Opposed? And the Workshop meeting minutes are approved. Next up, we have regular meeting minutes, also July 23rd, 2024. Council members, any changes or corrections? I'll look for a motion. [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: So moved. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: There's a motion. Is there a second? [00:00] **Council Member Andy Morcomb**: Second. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Motion and a second. Final comments? All those in favor say aye. [00:00] **Council Members**: Aye. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Opposed? And the regular meeting minutes, July 23rd, 2024, are approved. Next up, uh, special Workshop meeting minutes from July 30th, 2024. Council members, any changes or corrections? I'll look for a motion. [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: I moved. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: There's a motion. Is there a second? [00:00] **Council Member Andy Morcomb**: Second. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Motion and a second. Final comments? All those in favor say aye. [00:00] **Council Members**: Aye. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Opposed? And special Workshop minutes are approved as well. Uh, next up on our agenda is public hearings. We don't have any in front of us tonight, so we will move into Open Forum. Before we open up the floor, I have two items of recognition that I would like to tackle. Uh, first up, let's go with Item B real quick. Um, Dave Helper. Dave has retired from his time on the Economic Development Commission. He couldn’t—making sure—yeah, he’s not here. Um, he couldn’t be here with us tonight, but he asked that I read something under Open Forum tonight. From Dave Helper, outgoing Economic Development Commissioner: "I appreciate the opportunity that the City of Oakdale provides for residents to get involved with the community. I have enjoyed my time on the Economic Development Commission and with my fellow commissioners. The biggest benefit for me has been the increased visibility to the staff and seeing how the City of Oakdale is run. What I have seen and experienced of city staff, the city council, and the mayor have left me beyond impressed. Such a dedicated and talented group that is both personable and professional. It brings me great peace of mind knowing that our city is in very good hands. Thank you for your service." Dave Helper, we thank you for your service to that commission. You have been on there and been a very steady and consistent voice for many, many years now, um, as our city has gone through some pretty incredible periods of change, and we really appreciate your service and say thank you. One more item of recognition for Bonnie Wilson, who’s in the audience with us tonight, who is retiring from the Environmental Management Commission. Bonnie Wilson has served on the Environmental Management Commission for six years. During her time, she provided valuable insight that helped the city become a state leader in the GreenStep Cities program. Other projects Bonnie contributed to include the Adopt-a-Storm Drain program, the city’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan, and an EV Ready Community study. Last year, Bonnie attended the Resilient Cities and Communities statewide environmental commissions conference to gain greater knowledge and share best practices. If asked, Bonnie would say the best thing about being on the EMC was learning a great deal about our city government and getting to know her fellow commissioners. It is evident that Bonnie is passionate about bettering our community and the environment. On behalf of the City Council, the Environmental Management Commission, and the City, we thank Bonnie for six years of selfless service. As the liaison for the EMC for a number of years now, I’ve gotten to work with Bonnie and have seen up close her passion for this city, our environment, her willingness to bring ideas to the table to make us a better and more resilient city is inspiring, and there is a lot of change that has happened in this city that Bonnie has been in the middle of it all. So we say thank you for that. Uh, we have a certificate of appreciation for you—oh good, I don’t have to sign it. Bonnie, do you want to join us up front? We can all come down and grab a picture with you. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Thank you. (Photo taken) [00:00] **Bonnie Wilson**: Well, thank you for the kind words and the recognition. Um, I was really surprised when I joined the commission that it was as interesting as it was. Um, I think I was partly joining because I'm a beekeeper and then I learned so much beyond that. So I can't thank everyone enough for educating me in civic government. I loved it. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: And you found your replacement for the commission—we appreciate that. We got two new commissioners on there, they’re ready to roll. So thank you, Bonnie. Thank you so much. Uh, we are now under Open Forum. This is an opportunity for anybody in the audience if you would like to step up to the podium and share whatever’s on your mind. House rules say three minutes or so. Um, it’s typically not in a conversational format, you know, back and forth, but um, if there are any comments made that we would like our staff to follow up on, they will do so after the meeting. So if you’d like to step on up, please feel free. Okay, seeing none, we'll keep things going. Move into consensus motions, A through G in front of us tonight. Council members, are there any that you would like to pull for individual consideration? [00:00] **Christina Volkers (City Administrator)**: Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, I think you had a citizen—it says that they would like to address us, so... [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Okay, thank you. I just want to make sure they had the opportunity, which they did. So, yeah. Okay, thank you. Uh, A through G, council members, are there any you’d like to pull for individual consideration? I’m going to pull C. [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: Letter C? [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Letter C. So can I get a motion to approve A, B, and D through G as presented? [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: So moved. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: There’s a motion. Is there a second? [00:00] **Council Member Noah Heu**: Second. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Motion and a second. Any conversation? All those in favor say aye. [00:00] **Council Members**: Aye. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Opposed? And those consensus motions are approved. Item C is um, filling a long vacant position here at City Hall. Um, I gave Chris a heads up so if this guy’s watching, he wasn’t freaking out or anything, but I gave him... no, this is just to offer a very big welcome to Jake Foster. He is coming on as our Assistant City Administrator. Um, we haven’t had one of those since 2017. I’m looking at Lori... yeah, we were... I just started on the council. Um, you know, the truth is at that time when we had one, it was fine, you know, and then the position became vacant and we weren’t quite sure what we were doing as a city, we were just starting to grow. And we’ve had so much growth over the last few years, you know, in City Hall as well as around our community. This was a big identified need for our community to have some additional administrative help here. Jake is coming to us from—Watertown, I believe? Um, before that there was another city... [00:00] **Christina Volkers (City Administrator)**: Chanhassen and Lake Elmo. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Chanhassen and Lake Elmo before that. So he is returning to the East Metro. We are very excited to have him. He will officially be starting in a couple weeks, but he’ll be lurking around learning all about Oakdale over the next few weeks. So we are very excited to have him. Welcome, Jake. I will make a motion to approve consensus motion C as presented. [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: I second. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Any comments? All those in favor say aye. [00:00] **Council Members**: Aye. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Oppose? And C is approved. Uh, Advisory Boards and Commissions, our opportunity to check in with them. First up, Economic Development Commission. Council Member Heu is their liaison. They met on August 7th. [00:00] **Council Member Noah Heu**: No, yeah. At that commission, we talked about the park plan and just the need for getting more of the surveys completed, and then got an update on the Brio visits and then that—that was pretty much it. So, good meeting. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Fantastic, thank you, Noah. Planning met on August 1st. Council Member Ingebretson? [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: I’m going to defer to you, Mayor. You filled in for me. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: I did. God, what did they talk about? Andy, you were there too. Let me see... they talked about the rezoning, the PUD amendments in Oakdale Marketplace, the area over by Target and Xperience Fitness. Um, there was a lively conversation about... Tanner, right? Yeah, Tanner was the... MWF? Oh yeah, the property down near Fourth Street, the tornado parcel down at Helmo Station for the BRT. That was the other big topic. Um, we had a lot of residents come and share their comments, which is very important and very helpful for Council as we move forward on those issues. So I want to say thank you to those residents. Um, I don’t think either of them have been scheduled for Council action yet, they’re still working through the system. So um, as soon as we know when those are coming up for Council conversation, um, we will get that posted if the public wants to join us again. So um, it was a very lively meeting. Uh, no meeting for Parks and Rec or the Tree Board, so we will move into Award of Bids. One item tonight—oh, this is a big one. Yeah, awarding the Public Works facility bids. Um, who do we have presenting? Don? Welcome. [00:00] **Don Tyson (Owner's Representative)**: Thank you, Mayor. Glad to be here tonight once again. I’m Don Tyson, the owner’s representative for this exciting project, and it is an exciting night awarding the bids for the new Public Works facility that I know you’ve been working on for a long time. And it has really been a privilege to work on this project with you and the city. It's a great team, and it starts certainly with all of you there up there tonight, the Council and the Mayor that have made this possible, but also City staff: Chris, Kevin the fire chief filling in, the Public Works staff, the attorney staff, and also the team that we have here today. We’ve got representatives from Kraus-Anderson, Ken and Eric. Ken is going to help with the presentation tonight a little bit. And then Matt and Bailey, the project architects from HCM Architects, Braun Intertech helping us with environmental stuff, and then certainly 3M staff have been very helpful making this happen, and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency staff. As I’ve been working on this project, I asked the experts that have been working on this: "Have you ever worked on a project this complex?" And the answer 100% of the time is "no." But this is a great model of what can happen when people work together and come together in the private and the public sector from different agencies, and I think the finished project is going to certainly bear witness to that. So tonight the agenda will walk through—you see here—just an update on the project site. We’ll talk about the bid process, the bid results, update or talk about the Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) review, what the project budget looks like, and then the project schedule, and then certainly the recommended Council actions to make this all happen. The project site—you’ve seen this slide before, but it’s changed. You see we’ve got "currently owned by 3M" crossed out; the City of Oakdale as of last Friday now owns this 9.2-acre site up on Granada Avenue. All the environmental clearances have also been obtained, and those are those two documents—either the environmental covenant has been filed with Washington County and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s "No Association Determination" letter has been submitted to the city. And that’s a fancy way of saying that if there’s any problems in the future in that site, 3M is still responsible for it. So the bid process and results that we go through—let's move into those. Process-wise, so the project started out by soliciting bids certainly in your legal newspaper but also in all the building exchanges that contractors monitor. And we had an excellent turnout for bids. We had 142 bids that we opened on June 20th. And all those bids were reviewed then by Kraus-Anderson for compliance with the specs and plans to make sure everything was covered on that. So with those great results—not only on low bids, but we also used a "best value" process on three divisions of work: the earthwork, mechanical, and electrical. And the reason for those three divisions is those are the most complex components of this project and we wanted to look at more just than low bid. Best value scoring was used based on price—51 points out of 100 were based on price, so price wasn't a small part of it either, it was the majority of the points assigned—but also similar project experience. Have you built a Public Works building? Have you built something of this size? Or for the earthwork, have you worked on a site this complex? We checked references that they submitted on past projects and then we also did interviews. We offered interviews to the three low bidders based on price and did those interviews. And based on those scores, that’s how we selected those best value firms in those three areas that Ken will talk about in a little bit. All right, so moving to the bid results. Um, the good high-level picture is that the base bid and the alternates that the Council found as critical in our past workshops fit into the budget. And we’ll go through those numbers, but that was great. The alternates that we’re recommending are the 22-foot addition to the fleet storage area—the 10-foot addition would not be needed with that 22-foot accepted. Build a fuel island, which is not only critical for Public Works but also your Police and Fire—anybody in the city, any city employee that gets fuel. The mezzanine and the second salt shed—those prices came in high and we’re not recommending those. The pre-cast black aggregate gives the exterior building a little bit of a—a lot better look, and so that aggregate is being added. The exterior pre-cast paint is actually a deduct because of the black aggregate being added, so they don’t wash perfectly, but that’s a deduct. And then that EPDM .06, that’s basically an alternate to get a thicker roof. And at the time we thought a thicker roof would get you a longer warranty, but as it turns out, both those thicknesses have the same 30-year warranty. So we didn’t feel, just for a little bit extra thickness roof and no extra warranty, it was worth it. So those additions, those alternates of making the building bigger, building the fuel island, making the building look a little bit better—those fit into the budget. And this is the high level, this is the big picture budget figure: Revenue you see of $31,392,323 and the project expense of $31,351,421. So there’s a project balance of positive about $40,000. Where that’ll go to is just the contingencies if we need it as the project moves along. As we go through the bid results, um, it’s not like a past project you may have done where you’ve got one general contractor and you award one bid. We actually have 31 contracts that we are going to be talking about tonight. And to try to make it as little as confusing as possible, we’ve got these things in different categories. Let me explain these categories that we’ll go through. The first is Category 1: the low bids recommended for award, and it’s included in the Guaranteed Maximum Price, or the GMP. So the city tonight, you will award that contract and then you assign that contract to Kraus-Anderson, so they hold the contract. The second type, Category 2A: the best value bids recommended for award and also included in the GMP. So you award it, and then Kraus-Anderson will hold the contract. And then this 2B is "best value bid for award and not in the GMP." Why is one in and one’s not in? Kraus-Anderson can’t hold non-union contracts. So there’s, I believe, five contracts that the city will continue to hold that won’t be in the GMP—that we’ll see that price, but they’re in the budget—and Kraus-Anderson will still manage those contracts just like they were in the GMP, but technically the contract is going to be held by the city. Category 3, then—similar, it’s a low bid recommended for award and it’s not in the GMP. Once again, you’ll award the project and still hold the contract. Then we have Category 4A where there is a low bid—there’s two low bids actually we’re going to recommend for rejection and rebidding for various reasons. We’ll go through that in detail. Budgets are in the GMP for that. And then also a low bid recommended for rejection and rebidding, and the money is not in the GMP but it’s in the budget. So you can see how this gets confusing pretty quickly. And then there is one category where we didn’t receive any bids and we’ll rebid that work, and there’s an allowance in the project budget for that. We know what the number is going to come in at, or should come in at, so we’re comfortable with that allowance in the budget. Okay, with that, Ken from Kraus-Anderson, who’s been our project manager, will walk you through each of the contract bids. [00:00] **Ken Francis (Kraus-Anderson)**: Thank you, Don. Good evening, Mayor, members of Council. I’m Ken Francis with Kraus-Anderson, and I’m your construction manager along with Eric Kwam here in the audience as well. So as Don mentioned, typically you’d just get one bid that you’d be receiving and recommending for award. What we do is we take the project and break it down into the logical categories that each trade would typically bid on anyway. We bid those categories out and then award those prime—for example, like the electrical package, we’d break that out, electricians would bid on that package, and then that electrician would become a prime contractor. So as Don mentioned, we were very fortunate, we had a great bidder turnout, lots of quality bidders, which led to the great result that we have today. So we do have a formal letter in the packet of our recommendation for the lowest responsible bidders, but also wanted to walk through those here with you today. And again, if you have questions as we go through it, please stop me at any time. (Ken reads through specific bid divisions 1J through 32F). Any questions so far? Then it kind of leads us to the last slide, just doing a preview of the Guaranteed Maximum Price. So all the contractors that we noted that Kraus-Anderson would be holding would be included in that Guaranteed Maximum Price of the $24,383,980. So with that, um, I know there’s a little bit more here, I’ll turn it back over to Don. But um, again, thank you very much. [00:00] **Don Tyson (Owner's Representative)**: Thanks, Ken. Well, like I warned you, there was a lot of numbers coming your way tonight. When you pull them all together, let me paint the high-level picture for you starting with the project size. You can see the different phases from the very first concept that was done all the way tonight to the GMP award. And the good news is we actually are higher than the square footage that we started with—the concept design—and very close to the schematic design, and that's of course with the addition of the alternate of the 22-foot vehicle storage there. Moving on to project cost, as Ken just said, the Guaranteed Maximum Price award is that $24,383,980. And those projects that are not in that GMP, that $2.8 million and change there is what those add up to. We then have the city contingency of $487,000, and that’s before that other $40,000 of balance. Round numbers, a little bit more than a half a million dollars for project contingencies. Change orders that may happen. And then soft costs of a little bit over $3.6 million—and those are items like engineering, architecture, permits, furniture for the building, technology for the building. Moving to the revenue detail. Two changes to this slide from the last time we met are in the reimbursements and the watershed grants. The great news is the city got two grants from the Ramsey-Washington and the South Washington Watershed District for the brine tank system, which helps the Public Works crews use less salt on the roads. So that’s a great grant, and so that $148,000 in revenue was not on the last one. And also the reimbursements that we’ll be getting from 3M—that number’s gone up a little bit, mostly because now we’ve got bids and have some of the other numbers refined. So it’s a wash because as those revenues went up, also the cost number went up. Once again, you saw this slide earlier, the project is balanced with those revenues we’ve got and with your actions tonight to award along with those alternates according to the Kraus-Anderson letter. And jumping to schedule... tonight you award the project and we’ll be working then with City staff to have a groundbreaking, probably late September. We’re notifying contractors—October 7th is the start date. We’re looking at 12 months of construction and having a ribbon cutting, facility opening in November of 2025, which would be absolutely fantastic. So moving to recommended Council actions: there's a resolution before you that's going to award the bid division contracts through the Kraus-Anderson recommendation letter, reject the bids for specialty doors and the fabric structure, and approve the amendment to the Kraus-Anderson agreement and the Guaranteed Maximum Price amendment. With that, Council, certainly glad to take any questions. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Thank you, Don. City Administrator Volkers, is there anything you’d like to add to this before we open up for Council questions? [00:00] **Christina Volkers (City Administrator)**: Thank you, Mayor, Council. First of all, they started talking about this project before most of us were here. It is—it was interesting to watch the square foot change where it went up to 9,000 but we’re talking 18, 19, and then it came down more realistically and now we’re back up. Thank you—that is due to your commitment and your response to staff saying we really need that mezzanine, we really need that indoor storage, etc. The quality of the materials on the building there, the pre-cast, will make a difference from what we had with the lower grade. These are very long-term buildings—30, 40 years. 3M has been a very good partner for us; they have delivered what they said they would deliver, they have turned over the land, we close on Friday. Staff is very grateful for the changes. We do have what we’re calling the "Dream Team" here between the architect, HCM, and Kraus-Anderson. We’re going to have a great project and—it is a lot of money though. $31 million. So I don’t want to underscore that. It’s really important to note that. So thank you is what we have to say to you. [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: Well, Mayor, if I could real quick—142 bids seems like a huge response. And with the city looking at future projects for police, for City Hall, is there something you did to find that many people to bid on these projects? [00:00] **Don Tyson (Owner's Representative)**: Well, as Chris said, you have a Dream Team, and this is what Kraus-Anderson does. They have relationships with all the contractors in the Midwest and they make sure they know that there’s this great project out there. It's one of the advantages of using a construction manager like Kraus-Anderson. [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: Good. Well, it's great to see because you get the expertise and you get the competition, which is good for the residents. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Thank you. Council members, can I get a motion? [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: I’ll make a motion to waive reading and adopt Resolution 2024-65 awarding the bids for city project B224-01, construction of new Public Works facility, and authorizing the Mayor and City Administrator to sign and execute the Kraus-Anderson Construction Company Guaranteed Maximum Price amendment dated August 14th, 2024. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: There’s a motion. Is there a second? [00:00] **Council Member Andy Morcomb**: Second. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Motion and a second. Final comments? I’ll make one. Chris, you said it so well—this has been a very long road. I remember when I first came on the city council in 2017, taking a tour of the Public Works facility, and I was blown away that we had water sitting in the air ducts just because that was a design flaw back when that building was constructed. Seeing how we had outgrown the space, how it no longer suited our needs, and thinking of the journey we’ve all taken... from getting our residents and voters to approve the local option sales tax to fund this project, to all of the conversations about what this building needs to be to serve our community. It has been an incredibly long and eye-opening journey. And the end result is the largest capital project this city has ever had. So this is incredibly exciting. It’s a little ink on a piece of paper today, but seeing shovels go in the ground and walls go up is an incredibly exciting era for Oakdale. All those in favor say aye. [00:00] **Council Members**: Aye. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Opposed? Let’s get shovels in the ground. Let’s go. Thank you, Don. Staff reports, Public Works... oh crap, we got a change order already? Authority! Can't make that up. Who wants to present this one? [00:00] **Don Tyson (Owner's Representative)**: Mayor, I’ll take this one again. Yes, the next item is to give the City Administrator change order authority for this project. There’s going to be change orders—that’s just a necessary part of projects. For example, if you want to move a door, that could be a change to the door contractor, the carpenter, the flooring, the electrical, the painting. One decision could end up with five, six, seven change orders for those individual contracts. We also need to balance a few things: we need to have timely approval of change orders, otherwise the project gets delayed. But you also need to balance this with thorough review. The recommendation is that Chris be given administrator authority to approve any individual change order up to $100,000 provided it is within the project cost and the approved project budget of $31,392,000. Any change order greater than $100,000 would have to come back to the Council. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Council members, any questions for Don? Any council members want to volunteer so Chris doesn't have to do this? (Laughter) I’m not hearing anybody. Sorry, Chris, it’s all you. Can I get a motion? [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: I’ll make a motion to authorize the City Administrator to approve individual change orders up to $100,000 provided the increase in project cost is within the city council approved project budget of $31,392,323 related to the construction of the new Public Works facility. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: There’s a motion. Is there a second? [00:00] **Council Member Noah Heu**: Second. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Motion and a second. Final comments? All those in favor say aye. [00:00] **Council Members**: Aye. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Opposed? Authority is granted. Next is our opportunity to check in with our City Attorney. Rachel’s joining us tonight. Rachel, anything for us? [00:00] **Rachel (City Attorney)**: Nothing for you tonight. Good to see you all. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: All right, let’s turn to our right and check in with our City Administrator. Chris, you got one on the agenda? [00:00] **Christina Volkers (City Administrator)**: I do. This is another significant action. We’ve been working for years on the local option sales tax. There's been a lot of inflation since that time. We went back to the legislature in '23 and asked for further authority to extend the time from 25 years to 30 years for a payback. Further, we did ask for a little bit of inflationary increase of $3 million on the police facility and $6 million... if the voters do approve this, about 50% of that cost will be borne by other people shopping and buying things in Oakdale. So with that, we are looking for approval to put the ballot questions on for the general election in 2024. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Council members, any questions for Chris? All right, I’ll look for a motion. [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: I’ll make a motion to waive reading and adopt Resolution 2024-66 calling for an election relating to the extension of an existing sales tax and use tax and the issuance of bonds for purposes of the new Public Works facility and expansion and remodel of the police facility and calling a special election thereon. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: There’s a motion. Is there a second? [00:00] **Council Member Susie Willenbring**: Second. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Motion and a second. Final comments? All those in favor say aye. [00:00] **Council Members**: Aye. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Opposed? And that resolution is adopted. Council Presentations. Who wants to go first? [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: I’ll go first. I just want to wish my number one guys, my identical twin boys Logan and Lyndon, a very special happy birthday. And I want to say I’m sorry to them I couldn’t spend the night tonight with them, but we did go to Chuck E. Cheese today, racked up some pretty impressive ticket numbers in the process. Just looking forward to seeing what kind of young men they become. Happy birthday to the boys. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Anything else? [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: Nope. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Andy, I’m already looking this way. You got anything? [00:00] **Council Member Andy Morcomb**: No, not tonight. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: How about over here? [00:00] **Council Member Susie Willenbring**: Nothing for me. [00:00] **Council Member Noah Heu**: You know, I just want to thank all the residents who came out to do the National Night Out last week. Thank you for coming together as a community. Last week I had the pleasure of just jumping around different houses and just getting to meet more of the residents and it was just a great time. The only plug I will also say is just a big shout out to our city staff. Last week we had a chance to recognize our city staff and just want to give them a shout out again for the awesome work that they do for our city. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Noah stole my first one, thanking our residents who participated in Night to Unite. I too went to a number of parties. It’s always so cool seeing our residents come together. It was so nice seeing our residents interact with our police and firefighters. A reminder—Farmers Market is on Wednesdays. It'll be back next Wednesday in the City Hall parking lot through mid-October. At the next Farmers Market on August 21st, the city will have a little community booth set up out there and you can provide feedback on our Park System Plan update. We are accepting comments until August 31st. Finally, a plug—we are always looking for people who want to come join us here at City Hall. We have openings on our Economic Development Commission and the Environmental Management Commission right now. You can learn more and apply on our city website. Bills. We got to pay some bills. We have a claims roster in front of us, July 24th through August 14th, in the amount of $2.1 million and change. Council members, any questions on the claims roster? I’ll look for a motion. [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: Make a motion to approve claims as presented. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: There’s a motion. Is there a second? [00:00] **Council Member Noah Heu**: Second. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Motion and a second. Final comments? All those in favor say aye. [00:00] **Council Members**: Aye. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Oppose? Bills are paid. Can I get a motion to adjourn? [00:00] **Council Member Andy Morcomb**: So move. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: There’s a motion. Is there a second? [00:00] **Council Member Ingebretson**: Second. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. [00:00] **Council Members**: Aye. [00:00] **Mayor Kevin Zabel**: Oppose? We are adjourned. Thank you and good night.