[0:04] Further, welcome to the Tuesday September 1st City Council meeting. I'm here by called the meeting to order members of the public

[0:12] mantent in the City Council meeting in person or may watch or listen remotely by viewing the meeting on channel 8wctv.

[0:19] At the city's website at wizeta.org-wctv, public comment during the public forum and or public hearing portions of the meetings may be provided in person at the meeting in advance,

[0:29] or by logging into the teams calling raising your hand

[0:32] during the public hearing.

[0:33] When your name is called in the meeting,

[0:35] you will be seen and heard in our council chambers

[0:36] and the cable channel.

[0:38] You'll be asked unmute and turn your camera on

[0:41] and begin your comment.

[0:42] All public comments should include your first name

[0:44] and the group that you're representing.

[0:46] Next on our agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance.

[0:48] I would ask you to stand if you are able and follow along.

[0:52] Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

[0:56] And to the Republic for which it stands,

[0:58] One nation, under God, indivisible with liberty to justice.

[1:03] Thank you.

[1:06] Next is agenda as roll call.

[1:10] Let the record reflect that all council members are present this evening.

[1:14] I have a couple of notices to read about a previous close meeting on August 18th,

[1:21] which was our last council meeting at approximately 7.45 p.m.

[1:24] Following the regular scheduled city council meeting,

[1:26] A closed meeting of the WISA Council was held pursuant to Minnesota Statute Section 13D

[1:33] 05 subdivision 3B, the attorney-client privilege exemption to the open meeting law.

[1:38] This meeting was close to permit the council to meet with its attorneys to review and candidly and openly discuss

[1:44] absolutely confidential and privileged matters relating to the following litigation.

[1:48] Lake West Development LLC,

[1:50] 190 Gleason Lake Road, and 121 Glee Haven Road,

[1:54] Plaintiff versus City of Ways Out of Defendant,

[1:57] and DLC 2020, Revocable Trust, 547,

[2:01] Harrington Road, Plaintiff versus City of Ways

[2:03] Out of Kyle Hunt and Partners,

[2:05] Artesian Homes, Lori S. Hedrick, Karen S. Webster,

[2:08] and Craig B. Swanson Defendants.

[2:11] Next is Alden C. Adams, 225, Manitoba Avenue LLC,

[2:15] Olivia A. Adams, Ways Out of Cottage LLC,

[2:17] and Robert C. Fisher, trustee of Robert C. Fisher, trust. July 8th, 2016 Plane Fs.

[2:24] Petitioners versus the city-wise at a defendant. And lastly, melt two more.

[2:29] Jeff Freely, Homer's. This is the second joint litigant to that previous matter.

[2:33] Jeff Freely, Homer's 306, Barriab, New North, LLC, Scott Trips. 1020 Lake Street, East,

[2:40] LLC, Anna Assen, Assen, Skambaya, and Yigdenni, Organovitch, Plane Fs. Petitioners versus the

[2:46] to defend it. And lastly, the last matter, Lake West Development LLC, 200 Lake Street, East

[2:52] LLC, and Curt Fratham, Plainiff versus City of Ways at a Defendant. That was a lot.

[2:57] So that happened on August 18th. Earlier this evening, we had a workshop amongst the Council

[3:03] discussed the following topics. Discussion of Ways at a Development process, discussion

[3:07] of future tip opportunities and discussions of the 2027th Preliminary General Fund Budget

[3:14] and property tax levy, and then affirmed our future workshop topics.

[3:20] So with that, next I would need a motion to approve tonight's agenda.

[3:26] Would anyone like to make that motion to approve as presented or make any changes?

[3:32] Mr. Mayall, make a motion to approve the agenda as published.

[3:35] Thank you.

[3:35] May I have a second please?

[3:37] Second.

[3:38] Any further discussion?

[3:40] Hearing none.

[3:41] All in favor say aye.

[3:43] Passes.

[3:44] Next is our public forum, and so we do have one item, I believe, in person that's going to be, is there anyone on teams for the public forum?

[3:53] Mr. Mayor, there's not.

[3:54] So, if anyone else wants to fill out a forum, we only have one here. Welcome, Mr. Sergeant, if you'd opposed the Dias and state your name and who you represent and then the public forum items you'd like to bring to our attention.

[4:05] And thank you for being here.

[4:11] Oh, we just need to turn on my call. I won't get it for you one second. It's turned it on to make it go green.

[4:22] Thanks for your patience.

[4:23] I got it. There you go.

[4:24] My name is Jenny Sargent. I only represent myself.

[4:27] So my first question is, I'm just trying to understand more about

[4:31] Thought camera usage in my Zeta.

[4:35] Just I've become more aware of it recently.

[4:37] And so I'm just wondering what you can provide regarding

[4:41] How the city uses the cameras.

[4:43] I did see this as in the website that we do, I think, have nine in Wi-Zeta.

[4:47] So I'm just wondering off the top of that.

[4:50] If you guys know if you do either, I guess there's three levels.

[4:54] You can do local.

[4:55] You can do state or you can do nationwide and so I'm wondering which type of system we've signed

[5:01] up for and agreed to be a part of.

[5:03] I'm wondering what kind of oversight the police department has to make sure that people are

[5:08] not using it irresponsibly because it does sound like there's not really

[5:13] very stringent to oversight built into their system and that flock, I know there's other companies, but they're the largest one.

[5:20] Kind of puts the owners on the users to make sure that they're using it appropriately, and there have been cases documented where it hasn't been.

[5:28] I'll see that's happening on my side, I'm just trying to understand where I was at a stand on the matter, how long the contract is, and kind of what was the due diligence that was done before deciding to install them in my side.

[5:41] Yeah, no, thank you for that.

[5:44] Do you want to just bring up both your issues and we'll try to address you both of them for you and give you a second one.

[5:49] I've lived in my set of for eight years and usually every year when they have the

[5:55] United Neighborhood Night, I bring it up and I email someone and then I kind of am told it needs to wait or they'll deal with it

[6:00] and then I realize the next year comes around nothing.

[6:02] So I was hoping by putting it into a public forum here that it might help make it more

[6:09] movement forward on it. So I live a bunch of cargo Avenue north. So if you're

[6:14] heading west, I might as it a boulevard. I thought late, that's that way.

[6:17] Is it a boulevard and Broadway? A lot of people take a right and cut the

[6:21] light when they want to get around that red light. There are construction or lots

[6:26] of reasons people do it. And I've been told that the first step would be

[6:31] monitoring how many cars come around that neighborhood. And if it falls above

[6:35] below a certain one with an indicate if speed bumps could be put in or something there.

[6:40] I think that the neighborhood has to have a certain amount of people buying into that desire,

[6:45] which from my neighbors that I talked to, there's majority of them seem to at least be on board

[6:50] with researching it to see if it's something that the city would do. So I know last time when I asked

[6:56] they told me that someone else was using whatever that, whatever machines are used to monitor the

[7:03] Patrick Pattern was being used somewhere else, and that they would have to wait till

[7:06] after that was done for us to use it, but then I never hear back from somebody, and so

[7:10] I'm just hoping by presenting here that I'll actually get some movement forward on my request.

[7:15] Yeah, thank you for both those topics. Let's tackle the second one first, because then it's a

[7:19] little bit simpler way. I mean, so we certainly can get in touch with Miss Sargent and provide

[7:24] her more concrete guidance on a process around speed bumps, right, because we have a very

[7:28] Thanks for watching.

[7:30] We have to initiate that request, so we can certainly give you that as anything you'd like to add.

[7:36] No, we'll be on the other follow-up that I'll have as I just want to make sure I get your contact in case I can follow up with you directly.

[7:43] So, is the peer-stiller connected back to you?

[7:45] No, if you're more comfortable sitting down to hear the response, that's fine.

[7:48] Whatever makes you come from the message.

[7:52] Okay, so, flock cameras, maybe city manager, you could, in addition to what Miss Sergeant's already noted about,

[7:58] the disclosure on our city website, if you could maybe offer a little bit more general

[8:03] comments on flock and then it's going to be on our workshop agenda in our next public meeting

[8:09] to review it.

[8:11] So, yeah, yeah, so that's what I was going to tell you, we're actually the City Council

[8:14] at the September 15th workshop is going to be discussing this more in depth, but to, if I

[8:21] can remember some of the questions that you asked off the top of my head and chief, if you

[8:25] have anything else that you want to chime in and add. I invite you to do that you're more of an

[8:29] expert on Flock cameras than I am. I believe that we signed our initial contract with Flock,

[8:35] kind of on a pilot basis back in 2022. And that was funded by the ways that a crime prevention

[8:42] coalition. So they provided some of the startup money to test that camera program. So we've been using

[8:49] it. Since then, I believe we're awaiting an updated contract from flock now, so we have not

[8:56] resigned a new contract period. We're awaiting them to send us something else. At this point,

[9:04] the, like, you're absolutely correct that the, why is that a police department does monitor

[9:09] who has access, the only people who can access our cameras are agencies that we have specifically

[9:14] permitted to. So no one else can access our site and access our cameras. The retention

[9:21] period is governed by flock and once that retention period has passed, the data is gone.

[9:29] So I believe it's historically been at 30 days and is maybe in the process of changing to

[9:34] seven days. So we've used that to deal with issues we've had with vehicle noise. I know it's been

[9:43] like used in some pretty serious

[9:46] other crimes used to solve and document where people have been found it's been used to track down

[9:51] stolen vehicles

[9:53] things like that in the community

[9:55] any other questions that she brought up that I haven't answered yet

[9:58] What would the cost per camera per

[10:00] or what we budget for a flock each year?

[10:04] Yes, I believe that cost Jamie is around 3 to 5000 per camera

[10:08] Yep, yep

[10:10] and we have nine currently

[10:18] who we share data with. Very, very good question. I'll let the chief respond.

[11:04] Yeah, I guess I don't really understand what your question is regarding pop-ups.

[11:31] So we had

[11:32] to go through an independent auditing system and then the independent auditor has to audit every

[11:37] other by annually and we just finished that audit at the end of 2025 and so we passed the audit

[11:43] with flying colors and that's been submitted to the Minnesota data practices office and we have

[11:50] receive the letterback saying that we're in compliance?

[11:53] I just want to reiterate a couple things that were said because it was off mic and so we are only sharing

[11:58] information with specified state agencies, nobody else, right?

[12:02] Right.

[12:03] And I think I would encourage you if you can, or certainly get the meeting notes from our next workshop.

[12:08] We're going to go over this in detail and go through the contract, go through the cost, go through all of our

[12:14] and procedures. And as you noted earlier, if anyone is interested in a solid overview of how we use

[12:22] flocks, it's all disclosed on our website as well. So I guess the headline is at our next city council

[12:27] meeting in workshop, we're going to discuss it in detail and I encourage you to to come and also

[12:32] read the materials, or if you can't come, you know, we have meeting notes and whatnot.

[12:39] So,

[12:39] Yes, and obviously, you know, all the materials would be publicly available

[12:45] So there'll be a lot of good information there, and I appreciate you bringing it up

[12:49] Mayor can I I feel like Miss Sargent's gonna get home and ask this question herself because it's the one that popped in my mind

[12:57] Chief when you said that we passed our audits with flying colors. Does that mean?

[13:02] We were auditing our lookups or who was looking up our data or lookup as an help

[13:09] we were handling it.

[13:12] So we don't ever, we haven't audited

[13:13] who's looking up our data.

[13:16] Other agencies that have access to

[13:17] flot that way have to have their own audit.

[13:21] Okay. So if we're in this correct, yes.

[13:24] So, for example, if a neighboring agency,

[13:27] the two neighboring agencies,

[13:28] Plymouth and Minotaka, they

[13:30] have to have their own independent audit

[13:32] and somebody independently has to

[13:34] evaluate whether they're using the

[13:36] system correctly.

[13:42] So thank you for bringing it up and we'll have a lot more detailed in that workshop for the public and for ourselves.

[13:49] So that's the governing body, so thank you for that.

[13:52] Thank you for coming and thank you for bringing those two issues to our attention.

[13:57] Okay, so next is nobody on teams.

[14:02] Any new agenda items that anyone on council would like to discuss or bring up this evening?

[14:07] You know, gender items, guys?

[14:09] No, hearing none.

[14:11] Next, we'll review the consensus agenda.

[14:14] So the following items on our consent agenda this evening,

[14:18] approval of the City Council workshop

[14:19] and regular meeting minutes of July 21st, August 5th,

[14:22] and August 18th, 2026, approval of our check register,

[14:26] approval of the settlement agreement

[14:27] and municipal release with HCM architects,

[14:31] adoption of resolution 42, 2026,

[14:33] approving the Hennepin County Grant for Ballistic Shield.

[14:37] Approval of the first reading of ordnance 863,

[14:40] amending ordnance 703, and ordnance implementing

[14:43] electric service franchise fees, then the approval of

[14:49] professional service agreement with Mojagan Hansen,

[14:51] for the WIZEDUP, Barr, and Grill Refresh Project.

[14:54] So I would need a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented,

[14:58] or if anyone would like to amend.

[15:00] I'm calling the items for discussion. I would accept that as well.

[15:03] I'll make that motion for your Mr. Mayor.

[15:05] To approve this is?

[15:06] Oh, to approve this.

[15:07] Thank you for that motion. May I have a second please?

[15:10] So I got any further discussion. Hearing none, all in favor say aye.

[15:15] Aye. Aye. Aye. That passes.

[15:17] Next is our public hearing. We have no items on our public hearing tonight.

[15:20] And then we move on to new business. We have no new business items tonight.

[15:25] So we'll move on to our city manager's report and following tonight's meeting, we are going

[15:32] to meet up with some of our fire personnel and do a push-in ceremony for our new letter

[15:38] truck.

[15:39] So that will be a nice little ceremony for all of us this evening.

[15:42] But I know you have a couple other items that you'd like to bring to our attention this

[15:46] year.

[15:46] Yes.

[15:47] Thank you, Mayor and Council.

[15:48] So the first thing I want to bring up is that we are celebrating the 25th anniversary

[15:52] celebrating recognizing the 25th anniversary of 9-11 next Friday. So I just want to highlight

[15:59] that there's a beautiful 9-11 memorial right on Lake Street, right at Lake Street and Broadway.

[16:05] So if you're thinking about that anniversary, that's a great place to go and recognize that day.

[16:13] Also, that same weekend, September 11th through 13th is James J. Hildays in town throughout the event

[16:19] run by our chamber of commerce. So just be aware if it wasn't on your radar already.

[16:24] This annual event, there's going to be a carnival, food trucks, beer festival, street air

[16:28] market, a lot of activity in town. And that's next weekend, the September 11th through the 13th.

[16:35] Also coming up is the fire relief association. The ways that a fire relief association is hosting

[16:40] the annual fire department, Pancake Breakfast. That will be September 20th from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

[16:45] at the fire station.

[16:47] So if you need breakfast, stop buying, get some pancakes,

[16:49] and help support the fire department.

[16:52] And then the last thing I wanted to promote

[16:53] is that we are going to be having

[16:55] a local election in November for two city council seats.

[16:59] And I just want to promote that the League of Women

[17:01] Voters is hosting a candidate for them.

[17:04] September 24th at 7 p.m. in this room.

[17:06] So if you're interested in hearing about local issues,

[17:09] that I want to make sure that the community knows

[17:11] that they can either come into the chambers

[17:13] and hear that live, or they will share the recording as well.

[17:17] That's what I have for you.

[17:18] You had one question about.

[17:20] Yeah.

[17:23] Or what time is the ceremony at the 9-11 memorial?

[17:27] I want to say it's at 730.

[17:30] Yeah.

[17:31] Yeah, so it'll be one in and around sunrise and sunset.

[17:34] And it's not really a formal ceremony other than raising and lowering of the flag.

[17:39] The flags.

[17:41] I mean, thank you.

[17:41] on sunset? Great, thank you. Okay, any other questions of city manager for her report this evening?

[17:48] Any other items that any council members would like to bring out?

[17:52] Hey, hearing none, I would accept a motion to adjourn and then we move on to our

[17:56] push-ins ceremony for the latter truck. So I'd accept a motion to adjourn, please.

[18:00] So moved. May I have a second, please? Okay. Any further discussion?

[18:05] Hearing none, all in favor say aye. Aye. We're adjourned. Thank you very much.

Wayzata City Council 9/1/2026

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