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Good evening, everyone. It is now 5:30
and I will call this

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regular work session of the Burnsville
City Council to order.

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Um
all council members are present and the

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members of the public are always welcome
to attend in person

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or
the public can also watch us uh on

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More information is available
on our meetings webpage and in the

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council agenda packet.
So, this is a work session and we go

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directly to the items on the agenda and
the first item on the agenda this

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evening is the city-owned property study
and our deputy community development

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director
uh is presenting, Travis Bersetdo.

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Travis, the floor is yours.
>> Thanks, Mark.

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Uh
thank you, Madam Mayor, council members.

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Um the item before you is another in the
a series of capital improvement uh plans

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and studies that the city has been
engaged in uh over the past couple of

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years. Uh specifically, this study is a
comprehensive review and assessment of

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all of the city-owned uh properties
located uh

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or owned by the city uh or the economic
development uh authority. Thanks, Mark.

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It's worth mentioning before I get into
it, um this study was led by community

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development, but it wasn't completed in
a vacuum. Um staff from uh the clerk's

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office, IT, parks, and uh public works,
and the city attorney helped us with uh

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this analysis.
Um so, the initial purpose of the study

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was to evaluate all of the city and EDA
owned parcels uh in terms of where are

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they all located, how big are they, how
are they being maintained, what's the

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zoning status of all of those parcels,
and uh of particular interest to our

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department, are there any opportunities
for us to market and sell some of those

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properties to support housing or
economic development goals of uh the

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city and the council.

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So, breaking it down uh by the numbers,
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uh city services, which are lands that
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» [clears throat]
>> contain parks, trails,

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um city facilities, or other open space
was our largest category. Uh 51% of all

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of the city-owned parcels uh have that
type of city service on them. Uh the

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next biggest portion were the uh parcels
that contain utilities. Uh 23% of the

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424
uh parcels that the city owns uh have

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significant utilities running through
them.

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Uh 56 of the parcels, which is 13% of
the total, are vacant and don't clearly

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have uh uh
a city use uh occurring currently on

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them. And then another 13% are uh
right-of-way uh properties used to

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support city right-of-ways, particularly
for transportation needs.

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Couple of interesting notes as we were
looking through these parcels, five of

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the properties are currently owned by
the EDA. Um we believe those uh

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properties were uh
acquired by the EDA for assembly

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purposes in creating the heart of the
city uh neighborhood, but they're still

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currently owned by the EDA.
And then we also have much to our

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surprise, we found two properties owned
by the city that are not located within

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uh the city of Burnsville. They're
actually located within the city of

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Eagan and I did add a slide here
that shows we have about 10 acres total

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of properties that are located in Eagan,
which are primarily wetlands, um

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stormwater ponds.
Um these are not creating any sort of

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problems. We don't have any complaints.
We're not doing any maintenance on them,

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but much to our surprise, we do own
these two uh small parcels that are

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located within uh Eagan.

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We did conduct a um maintenance analysis
of all of the parcels.

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Uh 57 58% of them are currently
receiving regular maintenance by public

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works, regular monthly or bi-weekly
mowing. Um and these are sites that are

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um
integral to city a city function like a

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park or
a major city facility. There's another

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subset, another 10% receive minor
maintenance. These are parcels that are

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uh vacant or might be trails where just
a buffer strip is mowed regularly um

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uh along that particular parcel.
There's There's another subset, just

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another 1 and 1/2% that receive annual
mowing. These are parcels that have

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significant utilities running through
them, primarily down in the river valley

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and those um
the vegetation is cut back to prevent

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any interruptions to um
or any damage to those um

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uh utilities that are running
underground. And then the other big

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portion is 30% are not receiving any
maintenance at all

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except for when we receive a complaint.
If there's a tree that falls down and

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it's impeding on a uh adjacent sidewalk
or something like that,

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uh public works will go out and uh
address any complaints.

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We also looked at the property tax
status of all 425 parcels and the good

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news is 99.7
I think percent of those parcels are tax

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exempt. We do have two parcels that are
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and in those cases the private
lessees are paying those property tax

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any property tax payments. The two
properties are there's one little

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splinter parcel that has
a telecommunications building on it um

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and that company pays for any uh taxes
due on that parcel and then there's a a

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more significant parcel that is located
just south of Ali Magnet um

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that the city owns that has a small uh
group home on it and in that case the

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company that leases that parcel pays
those property tax payments

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and any special assessments.

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We did also look at uh zoning
classifications of all of the city and

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EDA A-owned parcels and unfortunately we
learned that 46% of them um are um

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uh the zoning is misaligned with the
current use.

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So for example, we have stormwater ponds
that are zoned uh residential. We have

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some city facilities that are are zoned
multi-family. We have other city

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facilities that are zoned uh parks
properties and it's a best practice for

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and I don't need to tell you this, but
it's a best practice for uh the zoning

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to reflect the actual use uh of those of
those properties. However, fortunately

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we're stepping into the 2050 comp plan
update season and this would be an ideal

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time for us to address those um
challenges.

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We did also look at um
all of these parcels to identify if any

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of them were available or readily
available for uh potential development.

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And in terms of how we decided this list
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this analysis is somewhat subjective,
but we we looked at each one of these

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parcels and and identified are they
currently being used to support any city

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service.
How big are they? What are the lot

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dimensions? Are they developable based
on their shape? Um what is the access?

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Is it Is there easy access to um get on
to one of these sites and develop it?

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Are the slopes um
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manageable in terms of uh getting
construction equipment out there and

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developing it? Are there any major
utilities? Are there any wetlands? And

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then we also in a very subjective manner
looked at each parcel and said,

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"What would be the neighborhood friction
if we were to develop any of these

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parcels?" So again, that's a very
subjective analysis and from that we

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identified 22 that we thought uh have
the potential of of being developed. I

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also want to point out that we did not
consider any parcels that are identified

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as natural areas within the parks plan.
So, we immediately carved those out when

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we looked at our or we conducted our
initial analysis. But the good news is

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there's 22 that have potential in our
opinion.

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And then we also identified 19 splinter
parcels that are currently vacant and

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also undevelopable.
Um the challenge there is our current

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policy doesn't allow us to readily
transfer ownership of those parcels to

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an adjacent property owner. Um and the
fact of the matter is the the cost the

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administrative cost and workload
associated with transferring ownership

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probably outweighs the value of the
parcel itself. So, we might be looking

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for some future direction from council
on how we might want to treat those.

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So, from that we have six um
kind of recommendations and next steps.

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Uh the first is um we need to share this
information with uh public works,

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especially with regards to the
uh maintenance occurring on vacant

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parcels. There's very little of that,
but we [snorts] want to make sure that

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uh
uh public works is aware of those

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parcels. But then the second, and
perhaps the most interesting piece for

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for our department, is uh how do we want
to deal with those 22 potentially

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developable properties? And our
recommendation is that we come back to

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you in 2027 with a prioritized list of
properties that we would recommend uh

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» [clears throat]
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to do some uh due diligence on the title
side of things and ensure that there's

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no encumbrances in place that would
prevent us from developing those, but we

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would recommend coming back in 2020 uh
2027 with that uh updated list.

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We also noticed a number of
encroachments as we were conducting this

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um exercise, where folks are building
sheds or fireplaces or patios

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um on city property, and um we need to
take a closer look at our current

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ordinances and policies, and and if
they're not um

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satisfactory, perhaps recommend um
a policy change to address any

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encroachments. Should we get a complaint
around any one of these um situations?

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Fortunately, that's not something that
neighborhood services deals with a lot,

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but if it were to happen, it'd be great
to have an updated policy to address

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situations like that.

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Our fourth recommendation is to address
the um

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um
zoning situation on city-owned

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properties. And like I mentioned
earlier, now is a perfect time for us to

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do [snorts] that as we kind of step into
updating our zoning code as part of the

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comprehensive plan. So, we're
anticipating that would happen in 2029,

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2030 in alignment with our comp plan
update.

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Uh the fifth recommendation is to um
explore

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uh updating our land sale policy to
address splinter parcels and see work

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with our city attorney's office to see
if there's a

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economical way and easy way for us to
transfer ownership of those parcels

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perhaps to adjacent property owners that
would be interested

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in owning them.
And then the last recommendation is to

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consider transferring ownership of those
five EDA owned properties to

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the city in in future years.
And with that I can take any

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questions or comments.
>> Okay. Questions for um

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Travis. Okay, Dan. G.
>> What would be the purpose of

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transferring EDA property to the city
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if at sometime the EDA property were to
sell the money would go back to the EDA

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who originally bought it as opposed to
go back into just the general fund for

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the city.
>> Madam Mayor, Council member, the initial

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discussion that we had was just to
simplify especially for property

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insurance purposes that if we just
consolidate these under the city owned

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category versus EDA that would be one
piece of it is that we could just

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streamline
our ownership portfolio. But in terms of

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transferring back and forth that's not
something that we've explored.

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» Yeah. And the properties that he's
talking about are all in the heart of

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the city.
>> I know what they are but there's in the

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future someday some of those properties
might not be some property we're going

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to have anymore and if we sell it
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in center
>> it is.

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» Yeah. So and the and the parking deck.
So those are the those are the

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properties
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» Yeah. But you know, the EDA and the city
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what Travis is saying what staff is
saying is that it is

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uh insurance purposes and making sure
that everything is within one bucket.

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Any other questions for Travis? Yes,
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» Thank you. Um are any of these
properties

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potential for us to do something with
like potential new park or something

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where we could get creative in house
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selling?
>> Madam Mayor, Council Member Yes.

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» I don't see why not. They're city owned
at this point. That would be a decision

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that
um the council would need to make, but

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yes, I think they could be used for
a city service that's not currently

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contemplated on those properties.
>> They're not like tucked into I mean, we

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don't have to review every single one of
them, but there's some that would be in

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viable locations that we could get
creative with. They're not

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» Yes.
>> all tucked into industrial zones or

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things like that.
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Yes.
Madam Mayor, Council Member

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A lot of them are Frankly, I don't know
why there's not something a little bit

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more useful on those on those parcels.
Many of them are tucked away. There's

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you know, sandwiched in between a couple
of privately owned parcels, but there's

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a few out there that um
potentially could be you could do

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something interesting with them or if
a park or something that the council

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wanted to explore, that's possible.
>> We don't get to do a lot of new stuff

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like that um just given that we're built
out. Um so it might be worth at least

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considering if it's
>> Well, one of the things that I've looked

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at because I've walked all those
properties.

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And we have the opportunity here in some
of those properties ex-

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especially the 9 acres down in southwest
Burnsville.

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Where we need single family development
and it'll help to grow our tax base.

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And so there are other properties that I
would say that staff coming back to us

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um next year after you evaluate and
really identify what

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uh
the best use. And I would say

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grow the tax base. One of the things we
are in need of here in the city of

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Burnsville
is single-family housing. We have no

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single-family housing
uh land left.

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None.
And so we have the opportunity here to

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grow the tax base and to have some
single-family housing.

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And uh those 22 potentially developed
developable parcels, I would like to see

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some
evaluation and investigation of all of

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those
and to see if it is something that we

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can
do

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um
because it is

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something we need.
>> Madam Mayor, just a

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clarifying question. We did carve out
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natural space within the parks plan.
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» The parcel that you're speaking of is
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parks plan, so
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» It'd be good to have direction on that.
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natural space. I have walked that. It's
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it can be
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9 acres
is huge that we can add more

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single-family housing. Now we have to
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neighbors around that because
usually when somebody something sits

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there for a long time, then it's taken
for granted that it's going to be that

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way, but
but we have a need for single-family

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housing.
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» Yeah, Travis, I'd still think it'd be
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do something like a park. We had talked
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you know the bike [snorts] parks
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way to
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going to have to stay natural areas it'd
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information.
>> Sure.

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» [snorts]
>> Council member remembers the council

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both the council member Gattis's
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Workman's question or comment.

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Six items as Travis went through in
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study really our intention with all of
our capital studies is to understand

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what we have what condition it is in and
what we ought to do about it.

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In this particular case
we plan six conversations that will both

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address
how we we might consider use of some of

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the those more usable parcels as the
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and then also
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a discussion of
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city-owned
parcels and at those particular times

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we're going to plan out these
conversations of what is the council's

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desired use or plans for for the
property and then also questions get get

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more into the details of questions on
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» Yeah and and I like all of the six
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because that will give us more
information as we look into it

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because if we're going to look at parks
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three categories of how we fund those.
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the other is that
you know how much money do we have if

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we're going to
build new parks and how much is in that

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fund but you guys are going to do that
but that's going to come back

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when you're going to evaluate all of
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we have so much money
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uh enhancement What do you call it,
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parks?
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» Oh, the parks investment fund.
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» [clears throat]
>> Yeah. Okay.

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So, members of the council
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recommendations
that staff is um

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presenting to us this evening and
they're going to come back to us

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with more information on each of these
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in 27.

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» Yes, Mr. President.
>> All right. Thank you so much and you

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know that was very good work.
Excellent. Thank you.

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Really appreciate it.
>> Thank you, Mayor.

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» Okay, now we're moving on to sidewalk
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and our public works director, Mark
Brey, is going to be presenting.

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» Good evening. Excuse me, Mayor and
council members.

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Uh as with all of our studies, uh this
one looked at kind of a comprehensive

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analysis of the conditions, operations,
maintenance, and system connectivity.

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Again, what we have, what's the
condition it's in, and what do we need

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to do to maintain it going forward.
Taking a large kind of step back,

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looking at the city, we have 78 miles of
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just over 70 million dollars.
12 miles of trails, generally those are

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asphalt trails, just over 7 million. And
then just for the community's reference,

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little over 21 miles of sidewalk in
Dakota County right away, little over 18

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miles of trails
in Dakota right right away or just

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Dakota County trails. I do want to note
that we do plow both the county sidewalk

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and trails.
Looking at funding for existing sidewalk

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and trail system, preventive
maintenance, kind of those day in day

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out routine things, is a planned
expense. It's is through the operating

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budgets.
Snow removal is funded through a bill on

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the utility bills.
And then we do work with our partners,

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um,
generally Dakota County, and then use

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state aid to fund, um, some trails that
we have in the city. Uh, otherwise,

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grants are another big option, too. So,
Greenwood sidewalk, for example, was a

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grant. We got a regional solicitation.
We got another grant for the trail on

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Williams Drive, for that corridor, for
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The condition rating that you see is the
same as what we use for our pavement

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manager plan. That was very intentional.
This will be a consistent methodology

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that you all are familiar with.
Uh, as we look at the system as a whole,

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the vast majority of our system is in a
good to fair condition.

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Uh, we do have
a little bit of poor and critical needs

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in the system, but as a portion of the
large system, it is a a pretty small

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percentage there.

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This, for example, is a a shot of one of
the sidewalk panels. One of the

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challenging, not challenging, one of the
deals with sidewalks is you can replace

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one or two panels and address the worst
part of it, and the rest of it might be

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fine. So,
while we scored sections of sidewalk

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based on the worst panels, it's not like
you need to replace the whole thing to

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address the critical need. And so,
that's why you see the value or

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the condition of the sidewalks is in
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but it's pretty easy to address the the
panels through normal operations and

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maintenance.
This is a shot of, um,

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the paver section in the heart of the
city, right behind right off Pillsbury,

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behind the Ames Center. As you can see,
pavers are sliding off. There's a lot of

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undulation there. And so, this actually
is a scheduled replacement to be

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replaced with concrete.
Overall, our sidewalk conditions have a

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score of 61. Again, that is lower than
the trail condition score of 81,

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but
through fairly routine things, we can

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address the problems with our sidewalk
and and that life will extend much

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longer than the normal kind of
deterioration that you see with asphalt

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trails.
We do rate all of our asphalt trails

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consistent to our streets every 3 years.
Our concrete sidewalks do not

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deteriorate the same way as asphalt and
our snow removal operations clearly

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identify issues in the sidewalk. So, for
example, um trip hazards, so anything

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roughly half inch or more, as we're
clearing them, our drivers will come

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into adverse contact uh with those trip
edges and then we'll either, you know,

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replace the panel or grind the trip edge
down to address that need. So,

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the sidewalk system is made because
we're plowing it, we're very uh familiar

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with where the problems are and we get
them addressed. Fundamentally, the goal

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is to maintain an off-street trail and
sidewalk network that is accessible for

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all users.
Looking at the different management

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methods we use, we're on the right half
of the screen, so rehabilitation and

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maintenance. As you can see, sidewalk,
again, it's just panel replacements,

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trip edges, and then sweeping.
For asphalt trails, we might have a mill

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and overlay, sweeping, crack sealing,
and kind of similar things that you'd

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see with
uh street pavements.

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Overall, the recommendation coming out
of this is, pending what we see with the

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comprehensive plan for 2050 that you all
see, that would inform any plan on um

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future potential sidewalk or trail
things. I do want to note, we are

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working with the county on some gaps
along County 5 as well as County 42 uh

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where there's not off-street facilities
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Very clearly, we do not want pedestrians
in the road on county roads. And so, um

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we're working collaboratively with the
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through some grants to to close those
gaps in the system. So, that is within

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the next 5 years, those are planned.
But, beyond that, any new sidewalks or

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trails would be informed by the
comprehensive plan.

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With that,
I'll take any fun questions.

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» Any questions for Mark and
the plan and it'll be updated in 2025,

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but
any

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questions,
comments?

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» I just want to comment. Generally
speaking, these comprehensive plans are

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just as the city manager pointed out and
they're from I think from all of our

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perspective, they're one of the best
tools for us to really make a

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» decisions
>> thoroughly educated decision, not just a

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cursory review and some basic
information and we're we're making a

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decision. These are phenomenal tools for
us.

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» I love it because I have the information
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to
to evaluate and make good decisions

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from.
And especially when I'm looking

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» [clears throat]
>> on the strategy you have presented in

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page 17 and 18, Mark, of the plan. That
really gives us a lot of good

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information about how you're going about
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also, I didn't know

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but
we are uh

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snow removing and taking care of
sidewalks that are on county roads, 5

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and 11 and
42.

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» Cliff Road as well, yeah. That's
correct, right?

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» Cliff Road, yeah.
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good job because it
it's about our vibrancy. We say one of

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our the vision for the city is a vibrant
community, but if the county's not doing

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it,
then we're doing it. But we don't get

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reimbursed. We don't bill them, do we?
>> That is correct. We do not.

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We're good partners. We do things. We do
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» We're [snorts] going to have to be
better partners pretty soon, I have a

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feeling.
>> Yeah. Any

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Any other comments for
Mark?

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Thank you so much.
>> Thank you.

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» Well done.
Travis and Mark, great information and

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Greg
I know there are 13 of these studies.

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They're very good. So, thank you.
Okay. Um

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council members, uh we're at round
table.

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Vince.
>> Don't forget to vote tomorrow.

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» Okay. Yeah.
>> [laughter]

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» Yeah. Now, any reports from you?
>> Uh no. Uh we got a going away party, I

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think what next week for Amy?
>> For Amy? Yeah.

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» the Med Cruise at 4:00 next week or the
week before after.

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» I think it's the
>> May 1st.

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» Uh a week from this Friday.
I believe. Or is it this Friday?

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» No, it's next week.
>> Next week.

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» Next week. Yeah, that that's a going
away party at Med Cruise for her at

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4:00.
I think everybody should have gotten a

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message [clears throat] on all that.
>> Well, you Well, but

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» And it's on Facebook, so I think the
city got invited.

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» Yeah. Well, just let our res- residents
who are listening to us say

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What?
>> Oh, Amy is the the executive vice or the

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executive president of the
Experience Burnsville and she's leaving

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us
for a job in Green Bay because like

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Diane Keeley, she's a Green Bay fan. And
so, she's going home.

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» I knew there was something about
>> the championship rings. She's going home

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to represent the Pack, so.
>> I knew there was something dodgy about

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her.
>> [laughter]

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» But it's a it's really a good
opportunity. You know, she's been a one

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person show for a long time ever since
COVID and it's an opportunity for her to

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work with a big staff in a in an
organization that's so much larger than

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our organization is and so, it's it's
it's a great opportunity. And just so

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you know, we already started our
executive search for a new director, so

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that is out there and we'll update you
that. I'm I'm part of the search

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committee, so
>> Big shoes to fill.

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» It's some big shoes to fill and it's I
mean, she did a a from from payroll to

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marketing to emails. You name it, she
did it all. So,

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uh she will definitely be missed.

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And that's it.
>> Okay.

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» Madam Mayor, members of the council,
just so uh the date for Amy's farewell

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is Friday, August 21st for 21st at 4:00
p.m. at

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» Thank you.
>> uh at Mad Cruz.

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» Yeah.
>> And uh the board shared that information

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with staff, asked us to invite our team,
and to invite you. So, I think you

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probably saw it in my weekly email to
you. And anyone who is interested in

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wishing
uh Amy well and and farewell um is

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welcome to attend.
>> Okay. Very good. Cara, you have any

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anything to report?
>> I do not.

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» Okay.
Dan?

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» Just a few [clears throat] quick things.
The Chamber of Public Policy

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Committee was last Friday, and uh it
featured our new Chief of Police as the

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guest speaker.
He gave a

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uh
Chief Smith gave a really good

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presentation
uh showing the history of the department

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going way back. I do remember that some
of those photos

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uh when uh your predecessor took office,
but the way you did it, and there was

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seems like there was a so much more
information, and it really was

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extraordinarily informational for
everybody on the call

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uh in the virtual meeting. Um
it was great. Really great job.

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And uh I I think hopefully the
Historical Society has

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tabs on all those photos, cuz there's
some great photos of squads from way

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back.
>> Mhm.

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» [clears throat]
>> Uh the meeting it was recorded and his

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presentation, so I think you can get the
link on the Chamber website or their

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YouTube channel.
Uh Metro Cities Transportation and

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General Government meeting uh was held
in July, our first one, and next one's

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coming up in late August. So far, no
major contentious issues within the

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General Government section or
Transportation.

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Uh Transportation got a big shot in the
arm with the additional

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uh,
sales tax boost, so

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a lot of projects are getting funded
in Burnsville, ironically,

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lately.
Uh, NLC announced their leadership

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applications opens on Monday the 17th
and I'll run open till September 28th.

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That includes the board, federal
advocacy committee chairs and council

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chairs, second VP and many more.
They do note that you have to log in

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your myNLC myNLC
uh, to complete the application for

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those interested.
And then MVTA ridership report came out.

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I sent it to Greg to share as he did. It
just really showed strong growth across

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the system. We did, I want to point out
we did refine some routes.

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Um,
and it's it's really great to see when

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we change a particular route based on
some studies and feedback

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when it gets a big jump in ridership,
like instantaneous 20-30% jump in

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ridership
uh, after changing the route is is

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really good good to see.
Obviously, it affirms uh, the data set

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the data pointed to making a route
change.

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That's it.
>> Okay.

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Uh, I don't have anything to report, but
we had a great

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turnout, I thought, for um,
the distribution of soccer balls

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for the uh,
our youth. Our new emerging young soccer

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players. So, that's it. And our
Burnsville-Savage meeting was canceled

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because nobody had anything to report.
So, um,

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that's it.
And so, if there is nothing else, Greg?

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» Nothing from staff, Mayor.
>> Okay. We stand adjourned adjourned by

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acclamation and then reconvene uh, Uh,
at um,

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6:30. 6:30
>> 6:30

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» 6:34
uh, the budget meeting. Okay, very good.

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Thank you.