[0:01] I'm going to call to order the Committee of the Whole Meeting for August 10, 2026. Uri will be joining us for the regular meeting, apparently. So, under appearances, we have none. So we'll move right on to Patty's report.

[0:20] First, Councillor, Vice-President Glazer, I'd like to request the addition of

[0:25] Triste Munson of DeVolk companies regarding an update of the work plan for the

[0:30] Aget Bay Waterfront Project as an appearance if we could add that, please.

[0:33] To the 530 meeting?

[0:36] No, to this meeting.

[0:36] Oh, to this meeting?

[0:37] Sure.

[0:37] We have to do that.

[0:38] Do you mind back up?

[0:40] Or do you want to go on with your report?

[0:41] We'll let her start.

[0:43] And then I'll go on after her.

[0:44] That works.

[0:44] Kirstie, can you hear us?

[0:48] Yes, I can.

[0:49] Well, we're going to let you go.

[0:53] Oh, wonderful.

[0:55] I'm joining you from the airport completely on the flight.

[0:58] My daughter's flight was two and a half hours away.

[1:01] But here I am.

[1:02] Who?

[1:03] Well, I'm glad to be with you.

[1:05] So I am not sure any order of things, but in my first meeting,

[1:11] then yes, yes you are.

[1:14] OK, OK.

[1:15] So, yeah, I mean, I think the item before you is the number one, the beginning is that we are moving forward with the LCC and our grant that has cleared all the hurdles to hearing what running out.

[1:30] And so, there is going to be a hard, a hard way out there. Do you want to make the announcement?

[1:39] 1.479 million is the word?

[1:41] So

[1:44] that is just outstanding to not be more excited about money, you know, assuming it flies through the legislature.

[1:53] And if there's still a couple steps to pound it, it would be unheard of, you know, for the recommendation of not going forward as it is.

[2:02] So that is moving forward and that means that we've had a couple of steps coming up.

[2:07] the first thing which is to submit the work phone for the expenditure of the grant and the work plan is a very very simple transition from the proposal that was approved by this body just flowed right into it to be some of ourselves.

[2:27] And so I'm sure you all recall the proposal itself

[2:31] to improve the kind of hard-earned

[2:33] activities in our hospitals.

[2:34] And so now that it comes a work plan,

[2:37] a work plan, eventually also improve the legislative language,

[2:42] if there are any particular directives,

[2:48] Wednesday corrections, regarding how

[2:50] would it spend the funds, some funds

[2:52] that we, you know, can only be spent on drugs.

[2:55] might be adults who don't have a best friend.

[2:57] There will be a legislative language,

[3:00] and then the work plan is approved,

[3:03] and then we move on to,

[3:05] I think it comes from the best.

[3:07] The website will be,

[3:08] which is not going to bill,

[3:09] but the bill for next year.

[3:11] And then I think it comes to real.

[3:17] I think that's the longest short event

[3:20] we do have a draft of the work plan.

[3:24] And I think certainly be distributed.

[3:26] the work plan will be updated this while we're with us, we see a lot of staff, but it's really there once

[3:38] the

[3:39] grant money is flowing, there will be a high annual work planning requirement, so that that's what they

[3:45] need to check against our work plan.

[3:48] It's the OE delivery and run time.

[3:58] Again, it can be a lot of time and change the requirements, you know, if we accomplish something, and it is 100%

[4:05] is available

[4:15] to the council that certainly will be made.

[4:21] Excuse me, we did not include it with the packet.

[4:24] I don't believe, but we can certainly provide a copy

[4:27] to them if that's it.

[4:29] Maybe you could just give a brief overview

[4:31] of what generally is in there.

[4:37] This grant is for

[4:41] those pre-construction

[4:43] or professional service process design and engineering.

[4:47] So

[4:53] those would be back in RFP for those services we built out, you know, probably next summer.

[5:01] And team would be selected.

[5:04] Either in parts or a crime in seven or 12 months.

[5:08] And then that work would get underway.

[5:10] And what happens, this is a revolving fund basically.

[5:15] So, as we send money, we provide the reverse money, so, you know, you spend a certain amount of money to get reverse because they do work with a lot of small preventations, so we'll provide the reverse money.

[5:37] Even with a free focus every two weeks,

[5:40] one organization, the five months a month,

[5:43] you have self-payment organizations

[5:44] like only a five-quarter.

[5:47] But so you don't, in other words,

[5:50] you don't have to have all of your actual dollars

[5:54] or at once.

[5:55] You need to have a month to get your first-time vertical.

[6:02] With this state of regret, the one-twent,

[6:05] it puts us in a really good position

[6:09] to have staying in power overpowering

[6:11] and then continually re-emerge those funds.

[6:14] But

[6:16] I think, is there more that you want to

[6:20] go into with that, honey?

[6:22] I think in terms of what specifically covered

[6:25] is exactly what the proposal outlined.

[6:30] So, and I'm forgetting the date on base number

[6:33] and not all, and designing in general,

[6:36] through 100% subtraction.

[6:38] Okay, forgive me, but I'm forgetting if this can cover costs for your services.

[6:47] Well, if I am not the grant manager, or there's actually a couple of ways for that to happen, I can either be part of the response to a company that is good,

[7:10] and maybe I selected my color gauge, really through this project,

[7:26] does not cover a

[7:31] red work that I'm doing.

[7:33] I am not covered in the state graph, I'm the graph manager, so I'm part of what they were talking about.

[7:40] So I'm not really going to talk too, I'm going to really select someone.

[7:46] So we're talking through that and I think that's an ongoing discussion, I think, no matter what, I would be in the background.

[7:58] And ultimately, because the right manager, the end of the day, the right manager does need to be really close to the work that the right manager needs to work closely with.

[8:10] city finance on reimbursement, I think no matter what, no matter who the great

[8:19] kind of chair ultimately is, I'm going to be in law for the board and whatever

[8:28] thing on me.

[8:32] Any other questions for Kristi from the council?

[8:37] It's pretty exciting news

[8:37] thank you so much. I'm very excited. I knew that this

[8:43] the phone call of this project will be

[8:46] approved by the branch for how to

[8:48] come out and now it is

[8:50] approved by the mayor for the

[8:52] process.

[8:54] Absolutely.

[8:56] The rest came

[8:57] guys over

[9:00] literally years.

[9:02] I'm a leadership.

[9:06] First through the.

[9:10] Thank you very much.

[9:12] Can't panic go ahead.

[9:13] I just want to reiterate how much

[9:15] we appreciate the work that you've

[9:16] done, trustee, and you know,

[9:18] the knowledge and stuff that you have

[9:19] and experience that you have in this

[9:20] is no doubt a big part of why we were able to be successful with this grant.

[9:26] So thank you. Absolutely.

[9:32] Okay I guess we'll move on too. If you do have

[9:36] anything else?

[9:39] Do you have anything else Kirstie?

[9:52] Okay good luck with your

[9:53] daughter's flight. Thank you I'm gonna be at work for hours.

[10:05] Okay Patty go ahead

[10:06] with your report.

[10:09] Thank you.

[10:10] I'd like to request the addition of a couple items to the regular meeting agenda.

[10:17] First is the communication, so this would be, I think, number three.

[10:25] A letter from the Minnesota Department of Health, providing notification of a drought warning response phase

[10:32] for the Western Lake Superior Watershed as described in the Minnesota State White Drought Plan.

[10:37] And I've included a copy of what that means for you.

[10:42] If anyone has any questions, basically we'll have to do some certain notices and things

[10:49] like that.

[10:49] Just requesting that people conserve water in this is just that phase.

[10:56] So hopefully we get a sizable amount of water that will get us out, but I think we're way

[11:01] behind.

[11:02] So just, please let me know if you have any additional information for questions.

[11:10] Thank you.

[11:12] Also, let's see.

[11:14] I also wanted to add, under new business, authorizing a letter of support for UMD's

[11:21] neutrinos project.

[11:23] So as a part of their project, that they're doing over their renting space from us

[11:29] over by the water treatment facility and as a part of the grant funding that they are

[11:34] receiving or they're applying for they need support letters of support and so this is

[11:42] just we would need council approval to do that. So I think that would be a good idea.

[11:49] Okay. Other than that I don't have anything to add unless anyone has any questions regarding

[11:54] regarding any of the items on the agenda.

[11:58] So, all right, Finance Director, good evening.

[12:05] Finance is currently working on the 2027 budget.

[12:10] We have our finance meeting tomorrow to go over,

[12:14] you know, like we're right now putting together

[12:16] all the capital requests and drafting that CIP plan

[12:20] as well for 27 to 31.

[12:23] and that will be key takeaway from that priority's meeting that will

[12:29] set soon hopefully you know because that's part of we'll be implementing that

[12:34] in our CIP as well so but that is it thank you. Thank you. City planner. Hello

[12:41] Sarah.

[12:52] We can.

[13:16] Thank you very much and then Andy are you giving to give us an

[13:49] update

[14:11] on fun and entertainment.

[14:34] And do you have any idea how long that road closure is going to be for 15th Street?

[14:53] Oh.

[15:00] Okay.

[15:11] That's wonderful. I just know that people were very excited to get 15th Street opened up again. And I know with school starting on September 8th, that that's going to be one of those routes that people are going to want to take. So I was just curious if there was going to be another closure. Thank you so much.

[15:30] Any other questions for Andy?

[15:34] All right, is there anything else anybody wants to bring up or discuss during tonight's

[15:39] agenda meeting?

[15:43] Go ahead, Mayor.

[15:44] This is just a point of information.

[15:45] It's some information.

[15:46] When we talked a little bit about the new tronics, one of the things that I recently had a chance

[15:51] to be on the blue hair and research vessel and the members of the blue hair and indicated

[15:55] that when they're putting the new tronic system in, it's got to be very precise.

[16:01] So they're actually bringing in the research vessel, Neal Armstrong, which is a three times

[16:07] the size of the blue hair, and it's a US naval research vessel, so it'll be out there

[16:13] for a while, and unfortunately it's going to be in November.

[16:18] But it should be pretty cool when it does get out there.

[16:21] When we know more details, there might be something we want to let people know in case you want

[16:25] to come up to take a look at it.

[16:26] Yeah, that would be wonderful.

[16:28] Anything else in the video?

[16:29] Yeah, I have one quick item item number 13 on our consent agenda is referring the recreation board requests to have late county transfer tax for fitted property, personal number, blah, blah, blah, blah, to the city for a new dog park and transfer ownership of the existing soccer field and parking lot to the facility to the city.

[16:50] I'm wondering if this we're we went through this parks inventory.

[16:54] I'm sorry, this would be, would this be expanding that into the, into the parks zone?

[17:00] Would this be a sit part of the city park?

[17:02] Okay, just wanted to make sure because it'll be a new parcel coming into the park system.

[17:12] I'm pretty sure they'll take care of that at planning and zoning for the rezone.

[17:16] Yeah, yeah.

[17:17] Okay.

[17:18] Okay.

[17:19] All right, any other questions are coming.

[17:23] If not, I'll look for a motion to adjourn.

[17:26] So moved.

[17:27] Sorry.

[17:28] We're adjourned.

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