[1:48] [clears throat]

[1:54] I'm going to call the fully city council meeting of August 4th to order. Let's

[1:59] please rise for the pledge of allegiance. [clears throat]

[2:02] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

[2:07] republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

[2:13] justice for all.

[2:18] » All right. I'd be looking for a motion to approve the agenda.

[2:23] » Second.

[2:26] » Um motion is made and seconded. Further discussion in favor? I I post same sign.

[2:32] Motion carries. Next, we be looking to uh for a motion to approve the consent

[2:38] agenda. >> I'll make a motion to approve the

[2:40] consent agenda. >> I will second that motion. Motion is

[2:45] made and seconded. Any further discussion?

[2:47] » In favor, I I oppose. Same sign. >> Motion carries. Moving on to item number

[2:52] five, mayor's comments and open forum. Zero. I do believe Deb wanted to take a

[2:57] minute. I just think as long as we have at least one of our candidates here, it

[3:02] might be nice to just give our names, you can make teenytiny ex explanation or

[3:10] however you feel. It's better way to start that they at least know who is

[3:15] who. >> Great. You want to start?

[3:19] » Yep. I'm Deb Mitz and I will be pending at the end of the year

[3:24] » after a four-year term. >> After four year term. Uh, Mayor Brandon

[3:28] Voit, uh, coming up on the end of my two-year term. Served on two years of

[3:32] council, uh, prior to that. >> I'm Gary Swanson. My term is up. I am

[3:38] rer runninging for the position of county council in this.

[3:42] » How long have you been running or been on council?

[3:46] How long have you been on council? >> Total?

[3:51] » Probably 8, 10, 12 years I've served. Yes.

[3:55] » Great. Stephanie Lloyd, city council member for two years now, halfway

[4:00] through. >> Jeff Gond, I've been on here 10 years.

[4:06] » Excellent. Thank you for that, Deb. Uh, with nothing else, we'll move on to item

[4:10] number six. We have a guest here, Darren Lee from the Coalition of Greater

[4:13] Minnesota Cities to share uh some things from legislation and beyond.

[4:20] » Thank you very much for having me. Uh Darren Lee with Flarity and Hood. We

[4:25] represent the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities down at the state

[4:28] capital. And so we like to stop by to all of our member cities. Well, maybe

[4:34] not all most, as many as we can make it to uh during the interim between

[4:38] legislative sessions and give you an update on what we've been doing down at

[4:42] the capital on your behalf. Um sort of a recap and a little preview of what we've

[4:47] got going on. uh what we see coming up with election and then uh next year. So,

[4:54] starting with kind of a reminder of who we are, we represent 100 cities across

[5:00] the state. Uh there's our updated map with all of our members on there and

[5:05] we're outside the metropolitan area, seven county area. And so that

[5:10] distinguishes us from say the League of Minnesota Cities who represents

[5:15] metropolitan area and greater Minnesota. So it allows us to focus on some of the

[5:20] issues uh give more attention directly on issues that affect cities outside the

[5:26] metro. Those are some of the issues that we work on. We added a couple uh the

[5:31] last couple of years because we've been spending a lot of time on them uh

[5:35] housing and EMS services u because we've spending a lot of time on those and I'll

[5:41] talk a little bit about housing as we uh get a little further on here. we can go

[5:47] to the next slide. Um, so starting with a recap,

[5:53] uh, a pause here because I've got some handouts,

[5:57] some more information I want to pass out folks.

[6:02] Thank you.

[6:10] » So, got some info in your folder here. Uh you'll have our session recap, our

[6:17] session report, um which will go into a little more detail than I can get into

[6:22] today. uh frequently asked questions, kind of who we are, um what we do, our

[6:30] staff contacts, I work on transportation,

[6:34] uh and then we have all of our other staff that's available to you for any

[6:39] questions you have uh related to those issues uh or any concerns. And then we

[6:46] have our environmental program uh sheet talking about uh water wastewater

[6:53] quality. I was talking to Sarah uh who I know is not here tonight, but um she was

[6:58] telling me that you're dealing with some water quality issues. Um we're going to

[7:02] require some new water treatment. So, um they'll that'll be, you know, relevant

[7:08] to the bonding bill, but this is also a good one to look at um on those sort of

[7:14] issues. And then, uh our labor and employment program, our housing report,

[7:20] it's a pretty lengthy report. So, on this sheet here, you've got on one side

[7:24] a link that you can go to read our housing report. And then this just

[7:28] recently came out, our candidate packet for candidates that are running for the

[7:34] legislature and that has quite a bit of information on all the things that we

[7:39] work on at the capital. And so, uh, that's also included. And then I think

[7:45] the last one, we got a lot of stuff in here. Uh, our upcoming events. So, we

[7:50] just recently had our summer conference, which was, uh, really a good one. One,

[7:54] one of the best, I think the best conference that I've been at. we've

[7:57] done. Uh, and Sarah often comes to our stuff. Um, but if you didn't make it to

[8:03] our summer conference, we got our fall conference coming up in November. Then

[8:06] we have our legislative action day. So, you can come down and lobby with us at

[8:10] the capitol. And then, uh, we've already got our summer conference on here. I

[8:15] think we don't have a date set for that, but that's going to be in Owatana next

[8:20] summer. So, getting to the recap, we can go to the next slide here.

[8:27] um divided government brings low expectations. So uh here

[8:33] um we had same as last year we had 6767 in the house, one seat majority for the

[8:41] Democrats in the Senate. Uh I would say they exceeded my expectations actually

[8:45] because they did pass quite a bit of legislation the final weekend of the

[8:51] session. >> Uh those are were some of the major

[8:54] issues. It's an election year. So, you know, uh with the shooting that happened

[9:01] at enunciation and then assassinations, gun was a uh gun was a big issue and

[9:07] school safety. Fraud of course is something that's been in the news for

[9:11] quite a while now. Uh that was discussed a lot. They did pass some things, some

[9:16] anti-fraud measures. Um HCMC, uh that hospital's had financial

[9:22] problems for a while. They did pass a rescue package for uh that and then a

[9:28] bonding bill. They did end up passing a bonding bill. Um it wasn't a budget

[9:32] year, so typically they do budget year, bonding year, although it hasn't

[9:37] necessarily always gone that way the last decade or so. So we can go to the

[9:42] next one. Uh tasks for the session. So this was kind of our our priorities.

[9:49] protect LGA, local government aid, which uh our members depend on, and to pass a

[9:55] bonding bill, which includes all those local projects, including water and

[9:59] wastewater projects uh that I understand you're probably going to be requesting

[10:04] bonding money uh in the future for that. And then lead line funding, so lead uh

[10:09] water service lines that go from the water the main up to the house. So those

[10:15] are that's the that area. So, um, you know, that's been tricky, uh, to

[10:21] replace. The EPA has said we've got to replace all those. Um, so that's one

[10:26] thing that we're working on. And then resist zoning and, uh, uh, redemption

[10:32] authority. Uh, sort of, um, there's always there's this effort to preempt

[10:39] uh, local authority on zoning and land use. And so that was another thing that

[10:42] we had to resist against. What were our tasks? The last one you uh forecast. So

[10:50] you might remember last year February of 2025 there was a $6 billion deficit and

[10:58] now in that second bianium that fiscal year 2829 and that's been reduced quite

[11:04] a bit. We still have that imbalance. Um but the situation has improved

[11:10] uh somewhat. Uh however, you know, if that structural

[11:15] imbalance, which sometimes people say, what's the difference between that and a

[11:19] deficit? Well, the the imbalance is just, you know, the difference between

[11:23] the revenues coming in and the money going out. So, expenses going out. So,

[11:29] you would have a deficit if that continues. And so, that was the budget

[11:33] situation. We go to the next slide. Uh so, because because of that, you know,

[11:38] there's still a challenge there. There wasn't a lot of talk of new spending

[11:43] programs. Um, luckily there in 2025 there was a proposal to cut local

[11:50] government aid. In 2026 we didn't see that. Um, so that was helpful. Um, and

[11:56] then there was, you know, focus on bonding and policy kind of uh were the

[12:02] were sort of the priorities. Go to the next one. So, bonding. Um, I

[12:08] want to talk a little bit about some background on this. So, they did have a

[12:14] bill in 2025 and we were worried for a while, you know, they there may not be

[12:19] as much appetit appetite to do one again in 2026 since they did one in 2025. But,

[12:24] um, luckily we did end up getting one done. Uh, there's what the governor had

[12:30] proposed. So heavy on stateowned assets like uh state parks, the Minsk system,

[12:36] the U of M system, uh state buildings, uh some some money

[12:43] in there for capital security. Uh again with the uh assassination and

[12:49] assassination attempts that took place. Uh there was they now have uh metal

[12:56] detectors in the capital screen uh which is this the first time

[13:02] they've ever had that and there's some funding in there for those sort of

[13:06] things and then kind of help security and then public facilities authority. So

[13:10] public facilities authority is of course the agency that funds all those water

[13:16] and wastewater projects and the governor was proposing 99 million de

[13:21] two and a half million for business development, public infrastructure. And

[13:25] since I work in transportation, this was disappointing to me. I think this is the

[13:30] second year in a row now that the governor's proposed nothing for local

[13:33] roads and bridges and very little set aside for local projects. Last year they

[13:39] did no local projects, local requests in the bonding bill. This year there were

[13:45] quite a few. We go to the next slide. Here's some of our uh testimony in front

[13:53] of committees on uh different bonding bills. Um we can go to the next one

[14:00] there. Uh and so we did end up getting a pretty substantial bonding bill. Public

[14:07] facilities authority ended up getting over 400 million. So four times more

[14:12] than what the governor had proposed. That's good news because that takes, you

[14:16] know, they'll be able to get that money out the door and reduce that backlog of

[14:21] uh cities that are on that list for funding. Um so that's positive. And then

[14:28] uh we ended up getting some money for local roads and local bridges, 25

[14:34] million and then 47 million for local roads, 25 million for so uh pretty big

[14:40] bonding bill. 1.24 24 billion. That was about as high as they could go and stay

[14:44] within the borrowing guidelines. And I think I hit my next one here. Uh yes. So

[14:51] lead lines. I wanted to talk about this separately

[14:55] just a little bit because we spent a lot of time on this and we're going to have

[14:59] to spend more time on it. Um like I said, the Environmental Protection

[15:04] Agency is mandating that everything needs to be removed by 2037.

[15:09] Uh 240 million is what we originally got in 2023. Um but it's going to cost a a

[15:16] lot more to identify and remove all those lines in the state. So I think 1.5

[15:22] billion approximately. So you can do the math over the next 10 years or so. You

[15:25] know, we're going to need quite a bit. Um so we were asking for 250 million

[15:31] this year. Um there's a link on there to an inventory map you can go on. Um

[15:38] says U ofM, but it's like I think it's maybe a partnership with the U of M and

[15:42] then the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency or um

[15:49] the Department of Health, but you can look on there and you can see kind of

[15:53] everything that they've inventoried around the state and what is left to be

[15:57] inventoried. Um

[16:01] so we ended up um with we don't get an an infusion of more money than like the

[16:07] 2027 construction season is going to be threatened uh because there won't be

[16:13] enough um funding to have a full you know fill up those work working months

[16:20] in the summer when we can do that work. So we ended up with just 15 million this

[16:26] year. Scroll down to the next one there. Thank you.

[16:31] Uh so we've decided that rather than just ask for money in the bonding bill,

[16:37] um we need to come up with an ongoing source of funding for this rather than

[16:41] just rely on what the legislature chooses to revive and whether or not a

[16:45] bonding bill passes. Um so that's something we're going to be

[16:50] coming back again and working on again next year.

[16:54] So, housing and zoning. Uh, this is one that just keeps coming back. Uh, they

[17:01] keep sort of repackaging the proposal and giving it a new name. Uh, first it

[17:07] was the missing middle then yes homes, now it's starter home act. Um, and so

[17:14] this year I think they tried to provide a little bit more flexibility to local

[17:19] governments to make it a little bit more palatable to us, but it's still way too

[17:26] prescriptive and still uh is taking away too much of your ability to have

[17:32] autonomy over kind of how you want to develop in your city. So that first

[17:37] bullet there where it says preeemption of aesthetic and material standards, HOA

[17:41] preeemption, uh, and require AV news or alternative dwelling units, that would

[17:47] have applied to all cities um, even under 5,000.

[17:54] That next set of bullets there would be cities over 5,000. You'd have to do you

[18:00] could choose a third of an area that's zoned as single family and then you'd

[18:06] have to allow up to four units, but you'd still have to upzone single

[18:10] family, a third of what's currently single family up to four units. And then

[18:16] minimum lot sizes no greater than an eighth. Uh and then multifamily

[18:22] also in a third of area that's currently zoned as commercial. So you'd have to

[18:28] allow that. use there. And then on the next slide, cities over 10,000 would

[18:33] have to do even more. So what's included in that? Everything that's included on

[18:38] that first slide, plus some additional items like parking minimums, additional

[18:44] upzoning, a single family, you could choose a couple, you know, two or three

[18:48] of those uh options. So still even more requirements there.

[18:54] 20 that um and then We can scroll down to

[18:59] the next one. Uh, so the League of Minnesota Cities, you know, they would

[19:06] I'd say they they stopped lobbying against it actively, but they would say

[19:10] they still opposed it. Uh, however, we continued to oppose it along with metro

[19:15] cities and the municipal legislative commission, which I think is like 20 a

[19:20] coalition of 20 cities, uh, suburban cities in the metro area. So luckily uh

[19:27] it was defeated in a House committee vote. No hearing in the Senate. Uh

[19:32] that's our executive director Bradley Peterson testifying against against the

[19:38] uh legislation. And once again, we'll expect that this will come up again uh

[19:44] because you'll have advocates uh proposing it. But we know that, you

[19:48] know, zoning preeemption and the state coming in

[19:52] telling you how to use land is not the, you know, silver bullet to fix housing

[19:59] problems or economic problems. So, so there's a lot of other factors and so

[20:04] that's not not the right solution. So, we'll be back again next year fighting

[20:09] against it. So, looking ahead, uh, of course, election year, we got

[20:16] primary coming up a week from today. Uh, all legislative seats on the ballot,

[20:22] open governor's race. Uh, Amy Clolobashar, of course, is running on

[20:26] the, uh, Democrat side. There's still there's a few Republicans running, so

[20:31] we'll see who ends up getting nominated on the Republican side. All of Congress

[20:36] is up. Um, there's a Senate seat up that's competitive primary on the

[20:42] Democrat side. So, we'll see who gets the nomination there. Uh our candidate

[20:48] packet, which I uh referred to earlier, is going to be available to all

[20:52] candidates that are running for the legislature. We're going to be getting

[20:55] that out to everybody. And then uh we're going to engage with

[20:59] all those candidates, talk about our issues, and uh the session starts

[21:04] January 14th next year. And so then I think I just have

[21:11] Okay, I need to update that one. Yeah. So, that's that next one. Just a final

[21:14] plug for our events. We can go to the last one and then uh of course that last

[21:20] one we just missed, but we'll have our summer conference again next year so you

[21:24] can make it next year. Thanks again for having me. Appreciate it. Um happy to

[21:30] answer questions that you have. When are we going to start seeing a

[21:35] little more force in I see a lot of comments about housing

[21:41] » and that's a great thing but I don't see it in small towns enough. I don't see it

[21:47] for senior living and I don't see it for low incomes enough.

[21:53] our town here, we have seniors that have no place to go

[22:00] » and this is becoming critical. This is not normal. This is we have people that

[22:07] are lucky to have family to move in with.

[22:12] » Yeah, it it's a it's a challenge. >> I mean, what can we do then? What can we

[22:16] do? So, I mean, I think there's so there's

[22:20] some there's housing infrastructure bonds that are available. Um, I think

[22:24] some cities have have like uh housing redevelopment authorities that they that

[22:30] they work with uh that are part of uh you know work with the city and then uh

[22:37] also I think it's a you know it's a workforce issue too because you know

[22:42] there isn't workforce uh there isn't jobs there isn't housing, you know, it's

[22:48] tough to get developers to come in and build. And so, uh, it is a challenge.

[22:54] Um, we've got some success stories. Uh, there's, uh, I know down in, uh, Canon

[23:01] Falls, they've got a, they came and testified last year. Uh, they, uh, were

[23:06] working, they're working with a developer and, uh, doing a development

[23:10] right now. and I can get you in touch with uh one of my colleagues who works

[23:16] on housing specifically and she's worked with the city of Canon Falls and she can

[23:21] point you to some resources to work on uh trying to solve some of those

[23:26] challenges. So happy to follow up with you on that too.

[23:30] » Well, I'll be off console at the end of this year and I want to know who to push

[23:34] buttons with when I'm gone. >> Okay.

[23:38] » Because I have more power inside this council.

[23:44] » Okay? >> Because I have people

[23:48] when you look at seniors, I can tell you there's a lot of them

[23:54] sitting around having coffee with me. And I you don't realize it till you

[23:59] listen to them. We have people living on $7,000 a year.

[24:06] I don't know a person in this room that can live on that.

[24:14] That simple. And I don't hear anybody screaming about

[24:18] it. I'm going to give you my card and um I

[24:23] will follow up with you if you have email and I'll point I'm going to point

[24:26] you to some some folks that you can talk to further and so then when you're off

[24:30] the council you'll be able to you can come back and uh do some work from

[24:35] outside of here too but definitely before the end of the year too of

[24:39] course. >> Okay, thank you for the answer.

[24:44] » Any other questions for me? Hearing

[24:49] none. >> Great. Thank you, Darren.

[24:50] » Thank you. Have a good meeting. >> Good presentation

[24:54] for quickie.

[25:01] » All right, moving into item number seven, department reports. We'll start

[25:04] with uh Chief Katie McMillan of the police department.

[25:07] » Um Mr. Mayor, members of the council, um not much tonight, just a stat report for

[25:12] the month of July. We had 443 calls for service. Um, traffic enforcement was up.

[25:20] A lot more increased traffic, people heading north with that. More traffic,

[25:24] more accidents. So, you can see accidents are up. Um, the disturbing of

[25:28] the piece was your fireworks calls and then assisting agency. The

[25:33] county has been very busy and they have requested us on several occasions to

[25:38] come out of the city to help them on their serious calls which they help they

[25:43] come and cover help us on ours. So we pat their back, they pat ours. So um not

[25:48] concerned with anything there. Um but that is all I have. Back to school is

[25:56] uh September 8th, so we'll be busy at school. Other than that, that is all I

[26:02] have. Unless you have something for me. >> Your traffic stops at a lot of speed.

[26:08] » Yep. It's a mixture. Speed, um, stop signs. We've been a lot of stop signs

[26:12] lately. So, >> see, it's up quite a bit, which is good.

[26:16] You're doing job. I do have some a question about there's

[26:22] a difference between an ebike electric bike speedwise

[26:27] driving where you drive, how fast you drive, wear a helmet. We have some young

[26:34] people

[26:38] really moving. >> Yep. Oh, ebike and electric bike are the

[26:41] same thing. Um so with that they cannot be on electric bike if it they have to

[26:47] be or a scooter I believe it's 15 and under they cannot um there was a thing

[26:53] on our Facebook post that I posted a few months ago um that divides it out very

[26:58] easily and there is a speed limit on it. We have stops several of them for going

[27:03] through the stop signs because they have to abide by the traffic laws just like

[27:07] you do on a bicycle. stop at stop signs and stay on the right side of the road.

[27:12] They have to do all that. Um, so we have been stopping people for that, too. So,

[27:17] » thank you. >> Yep.

[27:22] » Anything else? >> Great. Moving on to city engineer Jared

[27:27] Griffith. >> Good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of

[27:29] council. Um, tonight I have two action items for your consideration. Um, and

[27:34] then an update on routes and construction projects. So I'll start

[27:37] with the action items. Uh first being pay application number 11 for the 2025

[27:42] uh north side improvements project. Uh essentially this pay app uh represents

[27:47] 101.67% of the of the project work certified to

[27:52] date is 5,114,27586.

[27:58] Um payout request is $211,8483.

[28:05] This is basically um all all of all of $7,000 of it is is

[28:12] just reducing the retainage on the north side project from five down to 1%.

[28:17] Still holding a $51,000 on the north side. So any questions on

[28:24] the north side in particular or they haven't

[28:29] » punch list items have been taken care of.

[28:31] » Uh the reason why we're holding some u retain because items aren't taken

[28:37] issues and then um some other minor I don't say minor but other items that are

[28:42] smaller >> and those will be

[28:48] » um there's some pavers that uh that need to be installed on Third Avenue. Um

[28:56] I believe there are bunch more

[29:07] projection on when it'll be all done >> when the when the punches will be done

[29:11] or when we'll be closing the project out.

[29:13] » Closing the project and the punch list. >> Punch list should be I would that would

[29:18] be in the next couple months here as far as punch

[29:21] conservative I would think. Um but then close out we'll probably bring the final

[29:25] pay in

[29:29] October, November. It takes takes a while. That's all just behind the scenes

[29:33] paperwork that works.

[29:48] Okay. Looking for motion on pay number 11 for the 2025

[29:56] North to approve pay number 11.

[30:05] Second. >> All right. Motion made and seconded. Any

[30:10] further discussion? In favor? I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries.

[30:17] » Thank you. Uh the second action item is is a pay number six for the 1.5 lead

[30:21] service project. Um the payout that was submitted to the packet last week. We

[30:26] had a reision that was that came in today. essentially this is no change in

[30:31] the construction work itself but just updating um the 1% retage up to a 5% um

[30:37] based up the main purchase items that came to light here in last. So um we

[30:43] work for P number six. Uh this represents roughly 77.19%

[30:51] of the project. Um certified to date is $278,886.

[31:01] Your pay request amount for this number 6 is 23,399.

[31:10] As I mentioned before, there's a 5% on this which represents

[31:16] $13,944.

[31:20] » Yeah. Thank you. I I appreciate the uh retainage uh revision uh making sure

[31:27] that we're holding them accountable to the project as as uh needed to be

[31:32] completed. Um that being said, I will um make a motion to approve pay application

[31:39] number six, 2025 lead service as the revised amount with 5% retainage.

[31:46] » I'll second. >> Motion made and seconded. Any further

[31:50] discussion? Uh, one thing, Jared, um, line of communication with the people

[31:54] doing it is, uh, awesome. I've had communication with the people there, and

[31:59] they get back to you in a timely manner on the lead line services.

[32:04] » The 2026 project, correct? The one that your property's on, I assume.

[32:09] » Uh, other people's, too. >> Oh, okay.

[32:12] » That we're doing. Yeah. Um, good line of communication. I like it.

[32:16] » We'll pass that on to them. It's always good to hear working with

[32:20] these services, you know, 100% on pretty close 100% on private property. So, it's

[32:26] always nice if the residents that are being involved in this.

[32:32] » Good. Any other discussion? In favor, I

[32:37] » post same sign. Motion carries. >> Uh, and then just quick update on where

[32:42] we're at with the active construction projects. We kind of touched a little

[32:44] bit on 1.5 projects. Um so if there's any there's any more question 26 uh 226

[32:50] lead service project started this week. Um they are starting a little slower

[32:55] than anticipated. Um they're working out their kinks as far as their system but

[32:59] they're going to rear up here shortly. Um they've done two in the last they

[33:04] started Monday. They did one on Monday, one on yesterday. Um but things

[33:10] they're all pointing the right direction things looked out and moving forward. I

[33:16] anticipate those I don't know if we will be

[33:22] I don't know if we will be complet substantially completed by our special

[33:26] completion date but I will be final completed by our completion as far as

[33:31] the services which is I think substantial is September 4th and then

[33:37] final is October first week whatever that Friday

[33:43] um They are they are in town starting this

[33:47] week and they're going to be moving

[33:51] direction. Um any questions on the 2026 west?

[34:00] Uh 126 South Estates project. Uh that one started last week as far as open

[34:06] cutting that they started a trunk sanitary sewer. um soils were a little

[34:12] more challenging than anticipated as far as the stability of those soils. Uh so

[34:17] they kind of halted what they were doing last week, did a revision on what they

[34:21] were planning to do for the shoring system that's in place. We're trying to

[34:23] affect that force wind um that we're kind of running parallel with for the

[34:28] most part for that deep 32 inch or sorry 32 foot deep sanitary sewer. Um so they

[34:34] rented a different shoring system essentially. Um they have they brought

[34:37] that on site today. I believe they started installing that today. So

[34:41] hopefully as we progress through the week they'll get going again on on that

[34:44] that deeper sanitary screw gravity. Um and so we haven't there's not much to

[34:49] report from a progress standpoint but they are on site working through that.

[34:54] So any questions on the south side. >> So what's the completion look like for

[35:01] the end of the year? That should all be installed.

[35:04] » Correct. Yeah. Right now there isn't have any any issues that will lead to us

[35:09] adjusting our this year completion. Yeah this year I think

[35:19] » great thank you. [clears throat] >> Thank you

[35:21] » and uh appreciate your support at the Fol Area Chamber uh golf outing. Uh we

[35:27] raised a ton of money. So thank you.

[35:34] Public works and fire director Mark Pus.

[35:40] Good evening. Uh we had brought up last month the Fifth Avenue possible overlay

[35:45] down by the county. We met again last Wednesday. I think we're getting numbers

[35:50] together to get part of the pricing. So really we don't have a lot to tell you.

[35:56] till we get final numbers. We still plan on doing it this year, but we want final

[36:00] numbers to commit to commit. Make sure it's going to come in with what we

[36:05] expect. So, I think you turn them in today.

[36:09] » Are you going to or tomorrow? >> Yep.

[36:10] » Yeah. So, we'll get to the county. They'll get them back. Plan is this year

[36:15] school and county are having discussions about the parking lot to the west of the

[36:19] building. That's where this all kind of originated. They want to put park in

[36:21] there to the south. Um in Maine. They still plan on doing some

[36:27] parking as whether they can come to an agreement with the school. I don't know

[36:31] what happened last night. So, we'll have more maybe in two weeks, maybe in four

[36:36] weeks. >> Okay.

[36:39] » The hope is to do it this year yet. Obviously, we know they want to have the

[36:42] building done by right after the first year with the early next year occupancy.

[36:49] » So, that on that. Another thing that came out of that last couple meetings is

[36:54] asking about a deduct meter for sprinklers on public buildings.

[37:00] Um,

[37:04] we'll have to have a discussion on it. I don't know if we want to start. We

[37:07] haven't had much in-house discussion.

[37:12] What do we, you know, look at for public and buildings or we have it on the

[37:18] summer months on the residential

[37:23] um public? It's going to come up. I don't obviously we're not going to make

[37:27] a decision tonight, but just want to let you know they've been asking the

[37:30] question about doing that. So, did you take anything else out of it

[37:34] » other than that? Not really. Right. >> Um, not really. Is everyone aware of me?

[37:41] » You don't pay what we're doing right now.

[37:44] » So, similar to our water

[37:48] primarily to sprinkling, >> it would only be for yard sprinkling.

[37:53] Yeah. >> Or, you know, or non sewer stuff.

[37:57] » And it' be if we do it, it's going to be 100% their cost, neither included.

[38:03] So, more we're going to react to. Okay.

[38:14] » Okay. Any questions for public works or fire?

[38:21] Great. Thanks, Mark. Moving on to old business.

[38:28] Hearing none. New business.

[38:33] Hearing none. Entertain a motion to adjurnn.

[38:37] » I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Second. >> Motion is made and seconded. Any further

[38:41] discussion? In favor? I. I. Post. Same sign. Motion carries. Meeting adjourned.

[38:46] Thank you.

[38:53] » Don't like that idea.

Aug. 4, 2026 - City Council Meeting

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