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The Hawkins HRA Meeting Tuesday, September 1st, 2026, 630 p.m. Do I have any items to add to the agenda or clarifications? Shaking of heads, do I have a motion to adopt the agenda? I'm moved. I have a second. Second. Second. I have a motion to adopt the consent agenda. Item number 1 is approved in minutes of the August 3, 2026 meeting. Item number 2 is approved disbursements through August 7, 2026.

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Item number three is approve the subordination agreement for environmental covenant in favor of the Minnesota Pushing Control Agency.

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Do I have a motion to adopt the consent agenda?

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I'm open.

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I have a second.

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Second.

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You want me to say aye?

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Aye.

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No.

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The consent agenda is adopted.

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There's no new business on the HRA.

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Do I have a motion to adjourn the HRA?

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Moved.

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Second.

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I come on to your say aye.

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Aye.

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The HRA is adjourned.

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No, it's a bad.

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Everyone is here for half-considered Council meeting.

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Tuesday, September 1st, 2026, a little after 6.30 p.m., we got that done in under a couple

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minutes.

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Do we have anything to add to the agenda this evening?

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Seeing shaking of heads, seeing nothing.

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We have a motion to adopt this agenda.

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It's almost like a second.

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Second.

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So they say aye.

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Aye.

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And the agenda is adopted.

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First up this evening we've had a couple very difficult weeks here in Hopkins and I will probably

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I've asked the family of Kenneth Green to give us something that we could read out and they're putting something together.

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But we had a tragic accident where a young man lost his life as a family here in Hopkins

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from a tragic accident and so I'm not going to go into a whole lot of narration on it only

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that I asked that we offer a small moment of silence for his life and to think about

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him and his family and so I will start that right now.

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Thank you very much, the, you know, I was saying this when we had tragedy accident at the

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daycare a couple of weeks ago, that we don't have strangers here in Hopkins as everyone

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knows each other and I work with Kenneth sister-in-law in Minneapolis, I know he was known

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to people here in the community, so we are grieving his loss and the loss for his family.

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and like I said we'll do a little bit further reading when the family puts together a little

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obituary for him. Thank you all. First up this evening we have the consent agenda.

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We have item number one is minutes of the August 18th, 2026 meeting closed meeting proceedings.

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Item number two is minutes of the August 18th, 2026 regular meeting proceedings. Item number three is

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approval of the Green Line Extension Light Rail Transit Project ownership operations and maintenance

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for the first amendment to the temporary easement agreement between Hopkins, Public Schools, and City of Hopkins.

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Item number five is the approval of the first amendment to the Summit Condominium Association Development Agreement.

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Item number six is approval of the on sale liquor license on public premise for Nachos Mexican Grill, doing business as Nachos Mexican Grill.

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Item number seven is approving on sale liquor license for Nachos Mexican Grill, doing business as Nachos Mexican Grill.

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Item number eight is ratified checks issued in August of 2026.

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Do I have a motion to adopt the consent agenda?

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I'm moved.

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I have a second.

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Okay.

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Do they say aye?

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Aye.

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The consent agenda is adopted.

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Congratulations.

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Nachos.

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Looking forward.

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And we are going to maybe at a few.

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Mr. Date, have you come back and you or someone else give us some updates on what's going on with your business, but congratulations, sir.

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New business this evening, we have a resolution approving the conditional use permit application for short term rental at 125 Oakwood road subject to conditions.

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Mayor, do you want me to jump in on this one? I can jump ahead and say I'm just for a second. We've had some discussions with staff, mayor and council, about how to proceed with this matter. There have been some issues that have been brought

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to your attention. Obviously, I received information. We discussed that at a staff meeting today,

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what might be the best options for the council to move forward. My recommendation, and this

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has been to staff, and it's now to you, is to postpone this matter to a future meeting.

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Let staff review it further. Allow staff to also work on potentially a more

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authoritarian ordinance to study this matter further relative to what your ordinance has now,

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and what it could possibly say later, but the recommendation would be a motion to postpone.

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I also direct staff to come forward and issue an extension to the application out for two more months, so 60 days further,

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which would allow you time to look at the ordinance and also establish a more important should you choose.

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Staff would bring that back at a later date.

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So that's my recommendation to you tonight.

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All right, do you need a motion on that staff recommendation as well?

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Do you need a motion on that?

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Yeah, okay. Can you put together a motion for us?

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Yes, the motion to be this would be a motion to postpone the matter before you and to direct staff to issue an extension to the application for additional 60 days and also

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ask staff to bring back either ordnance changes or a moratorium for you to study this further.

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I move to postpone the resolution approving the conditional use permit application for short-term rental at 125 old wood road, I guess subject conditions and direct the staff to move with the extension of the conditional use permit for 60 days.

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and to review and recommend bringing back a

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more torrentory more events or revisions to your existing order.

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And what is that yeah.

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All right, so every second.

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Do we need any discussion on this?

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All right.

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Do you want to do a roll call for me?

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Orido?

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Yes.

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Seven.

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Before I vote, can you ask a clarifying question?

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So if we vote to postpone this,

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this does not allow the short

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to rental to proceed.

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Everything is just frozen.

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Right.

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Okay.

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Then yes, I am.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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I'm key.

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Hi.

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Who's new?

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Hi.

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All right.

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I think that's the direction we need

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and we can move forward with.

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Thank you.

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Thank you to everyone that submitted

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comments on this issue.

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And there's folks that want to

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have public comment at the end of

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the meeting here.

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So it'll be postponed for staff to

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review.

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and review with the attorney's office as well, or with our attorney as well.

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I know you just said it, was it 60 days?

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The extension of 60 days and will determine if there's something else that needs to occur.

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Thank you.

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And for those of you that all the folks that submitted emails

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those are all in public record, anyone that received the council offices,

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myself that received comment, those have been all forwarded on,

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so those are all part of public record.

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And so we hear the concerns that people have and that's part of the decision this evening to postpone this.

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That's the only item that we have this evening.

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I can wear it right now. We have public comment period if anyone wants to come up for public comment.

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Starting with.

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Terry.

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Glenn.

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Mary.

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Before you get a clarification from the city attorney, do we want to take public comment on this issue?

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Since they just table this because most people that wanted to talk wanted to talk about this issue.

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I don't think the public comment would help you at this point.

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I think staff would be better off to put together for the review and recommendation before

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you take any public comment specific to what the application was.

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No, I would say that's not that's not in order at this point.

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Okay.

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help

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you, it probably wouldn't help their costs.

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That's part of it. Yes, that is correct. All right. So anyone that wishes to speak, this is all on short-term rental. So sorry for those of you who haven't a long trip. But the item will be postponed and we'll come back and revisit the issue. Announcements for this evening. We have a council of regular meeting Tuesday, September 15th at 6.30 p.m. Do we have any other announcements?

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That's.

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Oh, yes. Uh, yes. Team Tucker September 12.

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There's a lot going on in September. So I'm just running off my calendar right now. September 12. Team Tucker at Metzolt Field.

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There's Hopkins Educational Foundation, Rock and Royal September 26th. There's also the Latino Cultural Festival in downtown park on September 20th.

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And I'll do the October.

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forgot about that. Sometimes I just assume October,

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Okay, with that as a nothing of a meeting, do we have a motion to adjourn?

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Don't move for the second.

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I'll in favor say aye.

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All right.

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This meeting is adjourned.

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Thank you.