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And will the clerk call the roll please? Commissioner heinrich. You're mr.. You're commissioner reiner. You're mr. Salty. You're mr. Marsh. You're commissioner jepsen. Commissioner meissner. You're >> a president and accounted for.

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we'll move on to considering accepting the regular claims paid over $500 and purchase card claims paid for the period ending july 25th of 2026. Is there a motion to approve some moves of a motion by commissioner bratton that is there a second second, second by commissioner meissner? I any discussion seeing none. This is a roll call vote. Commissioner >> bassett I miss schreiner commissioner salty commissioner marsh commissioner jepson >> your meissner commissioner heinrich. All right.

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>> and that passes unanimously. Next we'll look to approve the minutes from july 28th of 2026 which was the county board meeting. Is there a motion to approve the minutes so moved. I have a motion by commissioner meissner, a second by commissioner jepsen. Further discussion on the minutes seeing none.

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all those in favor please signify by saying I those opposed say no. And that passes unanimously. I have no church remarks for you today. So we'll go ahead and move right into the committee recommendations and we will start with the management committee and we'll turn to commissioner major. Thank you, mr. Chair. The management committee we met on tuesday, july 28th at 8:15 a.m.

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in >> this room. There were no public comments in person. I >> did not receive any via email but anyone we do so at mandy meissner at anoka county and.gov. So we have one thing on our agenda today which is to approve the contract as ceo and 26 dash >> 0001215.

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and this is for a purchase of service agreement between >> anoka county and the wylie bailey reber law for labor relations council. And this would be beginning upon contract execution >> through september 1st of 2000 >> 31.

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so the reason for this I believe scott leeper was our role for this for how many >> years? 30 many very long time >> and so far our union contracts. This is very important work. He is retiring. And so thus we have had to look for a new attorney to handle this. I will say I really appreciated the conversation around it as it's been >> 30 years a significant amount of time.

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the method >> to get the people around the table was very inclusive which I really appreciate because >> union contracts are delicate and I think that they should be handled with both compassion and thoroughness. So the fact that various staff was invited to the table I think is a is a good thing. So >> I appreciate that.

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and that is our only action >> item and with that I will move that >> there is a motion on the floor by commissioner miser is there a second second second by commissioner amash further discussion. See no further discussion. This is a roll call vote. Commissioner reiner high commissioner salty high commissioner amash. Commissioner jepsen. Commissioner meissner I mr. Heinrich.

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commissioner bassett I >> and that item passes for information. That's right >> because I always like to >> share that with the public as well. So for informational we considered a employee agreement and this is for jerry koval appointing him as the director of facilities management and construction.

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so >> that actually already went to the board and it was ratified. And then the other information was we were given a presentation reviewing quarter to 2026 of the human resources review. So just looking at some of our stats in particular with some of the new laws with the family leave act and those kinds of things. And with that that concludes my report.

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thank you, commissioner meissner. Let's move then to the transportation and parks committee reports or we have an action item for highway and I believe we have information from highway and park. So we'll start with commissioner heinrich. Thank you, mr. Chair.

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the transportation and parks committee meeting was held on tuesday august 4th at 1:00 at the transportation division facility and today we just have two items on the consent agenda. The first one is contract s c o and 20 6-0000 1 to 1 eight in the amount of $448,581.61 to park construction company for some pavement rehabilitation in the city of lino lakes.

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and the second item as contract as ceo and 20 6-00001216 which is a license agreement with city of lino lakes for some streetscape plantings in the center median along main street. And that's all I have mr. Chair, I have >> two items before us. Is there a motion to approve? I'd like to move those items for approval of a motion.

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so commissioner reinhardt and a second by commissioner heinrich any further discussion on either of these two items? Seeing none this is a roll call vote commissioner sheltie >> by commissioner marsh by commissioner jepsen, commissioner meissner I commissioner heinrich all right mr. Basta. Commissioner reiner. All right. >> and that passes we'll move into the highway informational items and mr. Heinrich not much today, mr.

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chair. The committee did review some transportation division agreements that were executed since the last meeting and we reviewed some on corridor updates and this during this meeting here we don't really get into the details of those two contracts that we approved but wanted to let the public know that in open meeting at transportation we did dig into

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these and had some great presentations by our county staff. Thank you commissioner heinrich we will then move to the parks informational items and commissioner rainer >> we did not have any action items but there are some information we are putting some more dollars into the band for the lake house.

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it's a kind of a prized historical building for anoka county it actually signifies the end of the ox trail back in the 1850s when people would come down from canada or wherever and it was kind of the only north-south transportation in minnesota back then and then they would end up the band feel like house and I don't know what have a

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beer probably but we're putting some money into that and restoring it. Other than that the campgrounds are full. Bunker beach is at capacity every weekend. In fact it's the first summer that we're seeing it actually go to capacity during the week.

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I think it's because of the hot weather we've had and how many golf courses are doing well in great shape. Go make a tee time. Thanks. Thank you, commissioner reiner. And that concludes our committee reports and we will now revert to our agenda item eight or I'll turn the floor to our county attorney stand in for in france.

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thank you, chair schultz >> we're considering an amendment to a park ordinance which as the board of commissioners knows requires a public hearing. So at this time I will open this meeting for the public portion hearing a public hearing portion of the meeting the time is 938 and I would ask that the minutes reflect that the notice of this public hearing was published in the anoka county union on july

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10th 17th and 24th of 2026 to inform the public that a hearing would occur during the august 11th, 2026 anoka county board of commissioners meeting to allow public comment on an amendment to anoka county park ordinance number 218 dash zero one as set forth in the notice before we receive any public comments.

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jeff perry, the parks director, will address the board with an overview of the ordinance amendment. Thank you >> attorney france good morning mr. Chair. Members of the board my name is jeff perry, park director for anoka county. I can >> provide you with a little bit of background >> on the proposed amendment to the park ordinance.

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it kind of relates back to 2025 the legislature took some action to eliminate the state's shotgun only deers on which was a very old law that was established in 1942. So it was very old. The reason that it was put into place was for a deer management strategy to lower the number of deer harvest throughout the state of minnesota.

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so primarily the west and southern part of the state was shotgun only zone to grow the deer population back in the 40s the deer population was about 70 plus thousand and today it's over 170,000.

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therein lies the state's reason to to get rid of the shotgun only zone counties in the shotgun zone have the option of passing an ordinance to remain shotgun only except in counties that pass a shotgun ordinance beginning this year in 2026 deer season which starts november 7th of this year, hunters will be able to use all legal shotguns and rifles throughout the state where deer hunting is allowed.

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anoka county has decided not to pass a shotgun only ordinance to govern the entire county. So I want to make that very clear. However, the county does own and operate two conservation areas in anoka county we have the cedar creek conservation area that falls within oak grove and andover and the columbus lake conservation area which falls within the jurisdiction of the city of

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columbus based on increased housing densities around these two conservation areas the proximity to major roadways including I-35 out in the city of columbus and other public conflicts it is recommended for the board to amend the park ordinance regarding the types of firearms that are allowed within those two conservation areas.

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and regarding the actual proposed amendment all for for the public I'll just read what those are chapter one section four under definitions of conservation an area is proposed to be amended as follows conservation area means an individually designated unit and the anoka county parks system established by the anoka county board of commissioners for the purposes of natural resources management and public

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harvesting of fish and game because consistent with the laws of the state of minnesota and the provisions of this ordinance the other proposed amendment is in chapter three section six and it reads as follows follows and the title of that section is possession and use of firearms dangerous weapons fireworks hunting is amended to add subsection as

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follows hunters are restricted to shotguns, muzzle loaders and legal handguns at the cedar creek conservation area and columbus lake conservation area rifles and firearms 22 caliber and above are prohibited in the two conservation areas identified here in >> with that I can set the context of how this proposed amendment came into play with a few events

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here that have transpired over the past year. As I had indicated, the 2025 legislation eliminated the shotguns on in november of 2020 >> five public safety committee met to discuss this item. No action was taken at the public safety committee other than the direction to gather input from the local cities.

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so that's what occurred in january 28th of this year I had a local government officials meeting. The item was brought up with our city partners and the feedback received at that meeting from the cities was that local firearm discharge can be controlled, that at the city level that would essentially preclude discharge of firearms within certain areas within

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their cities. The item was brought back to public safety on february 10th and there no action was taken other than it was discussed to >> consider future action through park ordinance amendment at the two conservation areas. So in working with the county attorney's office we we had some conversations about it.

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it was brought back to parks and transportation committee on june 16th of this year to discuss a potential amendment to the park ordinance that limit the types of firearms at the two conservation areas and I would like to note that kind of the impetus of this proposed amendment was specifically focusing on firearms >> for deer.

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but after we did the analysis put gas maps together, looked at ballistic reports >> the that the proposed amendment essentially restricts all firearms 22 caliber and above at the two conservation areas.

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so I wanted to be clear on that whether you're hunting deer or if you're hunting other small game animals based on the trajectory of 22 caliber weapons, they can travel between 1 to 1 and a half miles and still have potential to cause harm. So again, with the densities of residential area the populations, the roadways that surround these two areas that are owned and operated by the county that is what's being proposed here today and just some metrics at the cedar creek conservation area there's 2000

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structures within a two mile radius and a population of about 7300 people >> across >> the river from the conservation area is a very popular regional park called brown river central which is literally within feet of the conservation area that is heavily used by the public during the hunting season at the columbus lake conservation

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area that's a smaller conservation area about 260 acres in the city of columbus there are approximately 2200 structures within a two mile radius as well as a population of about 1890 people within that two mile radius there's a casino just to the east and as I had indicated, I-35 is definitely within a mile of of

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that particular conservation area. So with that attorney france mr. Chair, I stand ready for any questions. Thank >> you. Mr. Perry in the notice there was an email address for people to send public comments. Did you receive any public comments via email? >> no comments have been received as of this morning. Okay.

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thank you. >> are there any members of the public who are here to speak on the firearms ordinance? Just to clarify we also have public comment at the end of the board meeting but this is specific to the firearm notice >> I'm here to talk about the firearm ordinance amendment one last time.

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anyone here to offer public comment on the firearm ordinance amendment? All right. Hearing none I will close the public hearing portion of the meeting and turn it back over to the board chair mr. Sheltie >> thank you.

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attorney france so now we have before us the consideration of ordinance 2020 6-2 the amendment to the park ordinance 2018 dash one regarding conservation areas sir a motion to approve the ordinance as presented so moved a motion by commissioner ashe is there a second second second by commissioner miser further discussion we'll go to commissioner reinhard first.

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so originally >> when this came before us I was not going to support this for safety reasons shooting rifles is much more safe than shooting shotguns. But after looking further into the recommendations from our director of parks I am going to be supporting this. His recommendations are reasonable. >> thank you commissioner reinhard further comments? Commissioner roger yeah. Thank you mr. Chair. No, just I just appreciate how we came to this conclusion.

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I believe this commissioner brass said that originally recommended that we bring it to the cities so being able to just have these conversations and figure out what is best for the county and yes I will be supporting this as well. I think this is a very reasonable solution for our county owned parks and for >> public safety. Thank you.

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>> thank you. I will comment that we talk regularly, hear what the state legislature does to us. This is one of the things they did to us. They decided not to handle it at a state level and just pass it on to counties to make the decision and in this case I won't call it an unfunded mandate because

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it wasn't really a mandate other than >> we're going to allow everybody shop shoot with rifles unless you don't want them to and it cost us some time probably with staff putting things together but it wasn't overly burdensome.

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so in this case the legislature did it without contacting us but it doesn't hurt us terribly >> any further comments seeing none all those in favor please signify by saying I I anyone opposed that passes >> you'll note that that ordinance number is 2020 6-2 that means we've only done two ordinances in 2026 and we're halfway through august. This is nothing like the city level that means it's good.

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>> it means next we're going to move on to item nine. We're will consider resolution 2020 6-55 approving laws of minnesota 2026 chapter 128 article six section six relating to the allardice tax increment financing district in the city of columbia heights >> and I assume we'll turn it right to our present.

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we do have a representative from columbia heights here that will provide a brief presentation I told him brief and then will be very to ask the board to act ready? Thank you. >> name and position please mr. Chair and members of the commission. My name is mitchell fournier. I'm the community development director for the city of columbia heights. I was given about a minute. I believe so.

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well, a little more. All right. We'll get a little longer that but thank you very much for giving me the time to come and speak in front of you this this afternoon or this morning? I'm a little behind here. Welcome.

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but that being said before you this evening is a resolution regarding special legislation that the city of columbia heights brought with the help of our representative to the state of minnesota extending the time periods for taxing and financing districts within our city >> specifically this special legislation that was passed by the state legislature expands the five year rule and the ten year rule with regards to revenues expenditures within

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this tiff district. So for those of you that are not familiar with the project or the latest project and the latest tiff district this is the 4300 central site within the city of columbia heights.

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it's approximately a 12 acre public site and a one acre private or one acre public pond with a 12 acre private owned site four up for redevelopment. This site used to be a rainbow food strip mall kind of mix of uses on the site.

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the city partnered with a lattice in 2020 >> one to bond and purchase this property as it was in disrepair and start the demolition in 22 which started the the certification of the tiff district and actually started the project due to the increase in interest rates and other items like that that has kind of pushed the project timeline back. But I'm happy to say that we are currently working with a lattice not only a lattice but the mississippi watershed management district.

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the dnr and fema have now become involved because nothing can be easy and columbia heights and working >> with them to move this project forward. Unfortunately the jackson pond that is on the site is considered a fema spillway which is usually reserved for running water in flood districts.

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so we're working with the federal government now and both the developer and the watershed district to fix this problem, fix the flooding issues that we have in the neighborhood but then also bring a redevelopment project to the site so unfortunately columbia heights is and blessed with the green fields that a lot of anoka county has so these tift districts really help us tackle these issues that you know, you

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start digging into properties and you understand why other developers haven't jumped in on this. So with that I can stand for any questions about the project or about the legislation. Questions >> for columbia heights. Mr. Mizer >> yeah. Thank you mr. Chair.

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no, just mostly comments because yeah that that section has been struggling for a long time in terms of redevelopment so I just I guess appreciate >> you guys continuing to just figure out a way forward >> and I did not know about the the pond so good luck with that.

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I mean that's again sounds very complicated and and I'm sorry you said the mitigation plan for that is then just to do the the runoff restructuring for that. >> mr.. Mr. Chair commissioner meissner yes. So I think one great thing about working with a lattice which we had actually worked with our city hall is that they've started the process out by engaging the watershed.

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a lot of developers trying to stay away from the watershed. So we're actually working with the watershed to fix jackson pond make it better. A lattice is going to allow them to extend the pond under the site, make it more of an amenity. Right now it's a hole in the ground with a giant fence around it.

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so something like a dry pond as you see in more modern developments where people can actually walk through you know, there's rocks and stuff for kids to climb on and then when it rains that starts to fill up.

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so looking to fix that issue and then also we have the reason jackson pond is there is that it is flooding and we have issues with I and I flooding neighborhood basements and everything like that. So expanding the system itself onto part of the development site to fix generational issues in the neighborhood. Yeah >> thank you mr. Gomes thank you mr. Chair.

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I commend you on that because that is a hilly area of columbia heights and you already have that hole from height from central that drops down about what, 12ft to the parking lot? Yeah, just and I'm sure that causes a lot of issues already sort it's a good development that's been empty for a number of years so I'm sure you guys are looking forward to bringing in some

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dollars from a good development there and kind of ties in along with what's going to be happening on central avenue with mindat I believe you guys are have a major reduction of lanes in certain areas and it's going to be interesting to see it when it's all finished.

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but I commend you for working with the group that you have that's working with the watershed because it's going to be an important development. It's also will be important to make sure it works or you don't have more flooding and I'm sure the neighbors are happy about not flooding their basements like seeing you know, further discussion will entertain original offer the resolution

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>> I would like to offer the resolution the resolution >> has been offered and is before you is there any further discussion seeing none all those in favor please signify by saying I I anyone opposed a resolution is adopted. Thank you mr.. Thank you for being here. Thank you.

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next we'll consider approving a contract for the completion of an entrance enterprise wide data assessment by deloitte consulting to advance the data strategic priority in an amount not to exceed $225,000 as recommended by the government operations committee of the whole that is before you. We looked at this one other time and tabled it.

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it wasn't quite ready for us but I believe it is now >> and we were working through >> the details of the contract that has been met sufficiently through the county attorney's office and also through administration. So with it we do offer this to be approved.

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we do thank the board for a little bit of leverage to get our contract the way we need it to be. So absolutely is there a motion to approve? I have a motion by commissioner jepsen. Is there a second, second, second by commissioner ganesh? Is there further discussion you can feel part of seeing none. This is a roll call vote. Commissioner >> marsh, commissioner jepsen, commissioner meissner I mr. Heinrich commissioner.

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president commissioner reiner all right. Commissioner sheltie all right. And that will pass unanimously next we will consider some appointments. We have two of them here one appointing lisa wagner to the personnel board of appeals for a term ending june 30th, 2029.

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and secondly, consider appointing without a schneider to the creek watershed district board of managers for a term ending may 27th of 2029. So a motion to approve both of those so moved I have a motion >> by commissioner marsh as their second second second by commissioner breasted. Further discussion I think just to say that lisa wagner is very capable and qualified to do this job.

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it's good to have somebody that can step into that important position. And nathaniel schneider is a new appointee filling a vacancy on our concrete watershed district board of managers and I would like to thank I believe was aaron lind who was the previous the incumbent in that seat.

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I'd like to thank her for her service and look forward to nathaniel stepping into that role. Commissioner major yeah. Thank you mr. Chair. I did just have one quick question >> who who was the former personnel board of appeals role and was >> margaret anderson a constituent from the rapids area, a former employee at alexander house. Okay.

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and she served in that capacity as my appointee probably 5 or 6 years in a row. >> okay. Thank you. Any further questions? Seeing none. All those in favor please signify by saying I I anyone opposed those two appointments will take place. Well, we have commissioner reports and we're going to do this mathematically and start with number one. Okay. Thank you, mr. Chair.

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>> first off, go vote if you haven't already. Today's the day so everybody's looking forward to seeing the outcome of the primary voting season here. Other than that, mr. Chair, if you missed game fair last weekend, go this weekend it's in ramsey.

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it's a very family friendly event kind of around hunting and there's competitions with dogs and some pretty pretty cool stuff some I think when I was there last there was a trick shotgun shooter guy it's doing trick shots and throwing the clay pigeons up in the air and it's a really fun event. So this friday, saturday and sunday is your last opportunity to go come visit game fair in the city. Ramsey thanks, mr. Chair.

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thank you, commissioner henrick let's move to district two and commissioner breasted >> thank you mr. Chair. First I'd like to mention that this weekend is bartholdi's >> in the big city of bethel. Their parade is saturday at noon and they have activities and events all day saturday and sunday.

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so and it draws a lot of people it's a very fun event. Their motto is this they are the small city with the big heart. So if you're looking for something to do I'd highly recommend that but then also want to call out last week commissioner meissner and I were in attendance for our anoka county farm bureau annual meeting where we recognized the anoka county

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farmer family of the year and the family whose farm has been around for over 100 years. So the farm family of the year that was poplars organics in blaine and lexington and if you haven't been there you need to go there.

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it is so amazing what they're doing over there and they put in a lot of things to deliver sustainable products and organic foods and just so proud of them. They're they're very, very neat family and the century farm they recognize the classic family in over their farm is 103 years old so we got to learn about their history how they started generations

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ago and what it looks like today. So it was pretty neat. Thank you, commissioner preston and commissioner renner, district three >> well I'll start with something that you can't go anymore because it ended on sunday and I wish I would have mentioned it last meeting and it's the wall that heals.

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it's three fourths replica of the vietnam war memorial in washington, d.c. And it travels around the country and it was in white bear lake from the sixth through the ninth and on the fourth it rolled into town there was over 100 veterans riding motorcycles escorting it in and it was quite a sight to see but I apologize for not

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mentioning it. I don't know when they're going to be back but it was a really neat event >> in my part of the county blue heron days is this weekend and that is in the city of line lakes or I should say the great city of line of lakes.

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it goes from the 13th through the 16th and on thursday food trucks and fun festival at centennial middle school on friday at the rookery and the rookery is our recreational facility in line of lakes we call it the rookery you know for blue heron family fun games bouncy house it's movie night and and then at the american legion that night

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they're going to have a pulled pork sandwich meal for I think it's 10 or 12 bucks pretty good deal I won't be there I'll be at the rookery by the bouncy houses campaigning saturday >> is kind of the big day.

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we've got our parade through town and then a lot of the gravity goes over to the american legion and that's where a lot of people hang out. Commander of the sons of the american legion pretty cool title commander but that just means I get to flip hamburgers and serve brats that day so come on over to lionel lakes if you aren't doing anything it's usually a fun event.

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thank you commissioner renner district for if you didn't make it to the concerts in the park at the rapids dam this year you missed a lot. They had a lot of great shows. They wrapped up their last one last thursday with a full house and put it on your calendar for next year.

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it's something worth going down to a lot of good community event there and what a decent people you get to connect with. With that I'll turn to district five and commissioner ganesh. Thank you mr. Chair. In district five especially up in andover where there are two road construction projects that are getting close to being finished.

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for those of you who have had to deal with that on the kind of the central part of andover it's county, it's cross town boulevard just a few blocks from city hall where blue bear bluebird street is being made into a roundabout.

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you can get through there with some cones and so slow down until the roundabout is finished and then you can bring up your speed about 30 but otherwise the other one is just a little bit north on counties 18 and 20 cross town boulevard and prairie road that's another roundabout that's going in and they're getting close to the same probably september timeframe.

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I'm finishing that as well but just watch out for that and be aware there are other other construction things have ended in andover and I haven't seen too many in rapids either so we're doing pretty good on major construction so far in the district so just be safe out there when you're driving and watch out for the workers. Thank you.

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>> thank you, commissioner marsh. Mr. Jepson thank you, mr. >> chair. Yes, I will continue that construction message. I think I'm going to be a broken record for the foreseeable future.

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so much so much is happening in my district right now and it is disrupting a lot of people's travel times and how they get place from a to b it's quite remarkable. So again, pack your patience, pack your plan and just plant and plan ahead. Plan plan ahead. I will say that last week for 98 was couldn't have been a more perfect evening.

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it was lovely hanging out with the blaine pd and seeing all the different parties going on and so I did also want to just mention some dates coming up regarding the intersection at 109th and radisson road because it's it's going to be it's going to be a while yet so until the week of september 8th radisson is going to be closed during the week of september eight.

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all the barriers, cones, things like that will be removed so that 109th then will be closed starting september 14th to october 4th which is >> kind of an >> issue because I just got in my mail my blain newsletter and octoberfest in blaine is october 3rd in at tom ryan part which is right by city hall

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which is right at the intersection of 109th and madison road. So we may have to finagle some timelines to see if we can get that intersection opened a little bit sooner but we'll see. So keep on there's plenty of information online.

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check out a number of our social media pages so that you can stay up to date. The transportation department just did a revamp of their site so there is a lot of information on the county website for information regarding those projects that I just mentioned as well as those throughout the rest of the county. Thank you, mr. Chair. >> thank you, commissioner. Deputy commissioner. Mr.

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lucky yes, we're all we're almost done. You know, I think I'm just going to do some piggybacking today. So commissioner branstad had talked about the farm bureau dinner and I go to that every year and sitting on minnesota extension it truly is just a joy for me to learn about some of our local farming communities.

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you don't think of anoka county as agriculture so much but I believe we have 25 certified farms and papa's organics too. They did a lot of research with the you of em with garlic so just kind of learning those things was was great and then my last piggy back is off of what we started so we'll bookend that.

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today is election day so polls are open until 8 p.m. Please go and vote. We have statewide elections and flip over the ballot. Some of us in local communities might have primaries there as well and I guess >> I will just end that with the urging that this can be a very intense time.

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so whatever the results of primary is, let's all remember we're on the same team which is the country of america. So thank you very much, mr. >> chair. Thank you commissioner major and with that voting topic I will remind everybody when you see your results come in this evening at 815, 830, 9:00, 10:00 those are unofficial results.

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those are have been modum them to the secretary of state and they're not official until they're rectified with the paper ballots that are actually counted. So remember those are unofficial but usually pretty accurate. You can usually count on them to be the right ones but but they are unofficial with that vote. It's important. It's what makes democracy work.

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it's how our republic withstands all these years. Anything else to come before the county board seeing none we are adjourned and we will have public comment in two minutes >>