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Staff recommends conducting a public hearing, receiving comments, and if there are no reasons to deny the uh license. Staff recommends council approve a 3.2% offsale liquor license for River Country Cooperative DBA Circle K Convenience Store again located at 1341 187th Lane Northeast East Bethl.

one thing I'm going to say is what we allow will continue. That's a saying everyone knows, right? And I know that the chief is asking for that echo um agreement system and I I don't believe that that should that we as a city should provide that um I mean it's obviously a cost thing and looking at cutting cost shaving some of the fat that is where we start it might be only But that 11,000 and 11,000 here and 16,000 there, it adds up.

Mr. Mayor, I would ask that um that for future people that speak at the podium that they address the council. That's their opportunity. And if they want to send in some sort of communication later or whatever the case is, that'll be fine.

The most anybody required was 1100 square feet and that was in um they did require 3200 square ft for up to three horses. East Beth you can see acquiring we as 43,000 square feet so we are in excess above and beyond anybody within the surrounding areas

But I do want to say the number one thing that the horse committee came up with that we really wanted to see is that one permit is never given out for chooses to keep one.

I kind of agree on the two horse thing because I grew up with horses and I know they are her animals and we always have two. But what would you consider if you have two horses, one dies, do you think that person needs to go get another horse or that horse is good by himself for the rest of their time?

are all the monies that we pay actually 100% coming out of the funds that the arena takes in? Correct. 100%. Okay.

this is this is uh the uniform that we purchased called the class A uniform. It's our dress uniform. It allows us to have that professional appearance while attending [clears throat] multiple different functions um such as this graduations, funerals, um and the like.

It was a complete brake job that included rotors and those brakes actually lasted 115,000 miles.

It said all in favor. Anderson asked if there were any opposed and there was no he did not say opposed because I was going to say I for opposed because I didn't say anything. I was waiting for the opposed and it never came. So that needs to be corrected.

I mean at the end of the day that it still passes. I mean, so I don't think to modify the minutes. I think it's just fine.

I am not for this. I think that right now we need to we don't have a um analysis of what this is how this is going to affect the budget in the future.

But in the um interim here, he's been gracious enough to say that he would help in that department, which is absolutely critical. Um I've been I've been doing the work as you know in addition to the work of uh of community development director in addition to city administrator and um and not being down in that wing um is making it quite difficult to respond to the immediate needs that are coming up.

rather it's about coordinating their policies, coordinating how they're addressing, you know, problems, making sure um myself um the permit tech, the two building officials um work collectively to solve problems. In addition to that, it's also trying to work with all the record retention work with how we communicate with people and so it's not so much about you know a daily ma monitoring of people but rather it's is the department moving forward cohesively.

My question is, does FA have a college degree? Because I looked on the new um qualification required, and it didn't say college degree, but I know they used to require a college degree.

I can tell you that uh our um current HR person, Mike, does not have a college degree in HR. So, we're I mean, we can certainly go out for a college degree HR. um the cost would be far in excess of what we're offering.

I just attended a league of Minnesota cities um conference if you were a training session and they dealt uh with HR related issues was present as well and um and if you want something to make your head spin that is that is HR and we need someone dedicated to that

This guy here, this Mark Wasink, he lives uh five minutes from Oster West. So, if we have any issues, I can go pick them up and bring them there. So, I'm just trying to compare, get the best price for our city and our residents to be paying for because originally I figured we were led, well, I was led to believe anyways that the 26,000 approved. I thought that was a whole works. Then all of a sudden this comes back to the fence on top of that. Plus then now we got to have a sealant on the pavement also. So that's going to be another expense. So it's going to be probably around 75 $80,000 by the time we're done.

I look at just something else you got to replace down the road. I've never heard of anybody just having the screening just for the ball. But like I said, I don't play, so I don't know.

So I so I was just wondering if it was going to be less in the future years because they're doing so much the first year, if it was going to stay this price.

This is a program that will allow us to automate and give firefighters control over being able to see their participation as well as helping automate some of this stuff.

if I can just run the numbers here based on their two salaries, looking at an hourly amount times 16 hours. This is these are rough numbers around 1,536 a month times 12 months would be $18,432 not counting benefits. Okay. Um, essentially if all these numbers are accurate, even the quick on the fly numbers here, we'd be saving uh $7,000 in cost.

Personally, I don't buy it. So, you can song and dance all around it. I don't buy it. So my thinking is there's used to be only one full-time person down there a few years ago for but because there was complaints that there was all this administrative stuff that needed to be done. We needed another full-time person. So do we need two if we do this or can we go back to one?

City has worked with the developer Capstone Homes on the Viking Meadows development through several phases. September 14th of 2026, the council approved the final plat uh for the Viking Meadows third edition. Remember 52 lots in various outlots.

a letter of credit is uh a contractor will go to a bank and get a letter of credit. The bank essentially acts as the um guarantor of a project. So um there are certain elements within a project that's final lifts or curbs or gutters or whatever the issue may be uh that the that's defined in the contract uh that the that the developer is responsible for.

All the public improvements as to utilities, streets, all have been done except for the final lift in the second phase. That will happen next summer. So that always happens. The letters of credit sit out there for about two years.

they're proposing a a a phase development um with the first building being the fourth building now um which be constructed in 2026. Um and then in 20 years 27 and and 28 thereafter or potentially all the way out to 2031 or sorry 2032 to build out the rest of these uh buildings.

So, I have a question for the city. For six years, they were in non-compliance. Six years. That's a long time with their landscaping. And I know um Eric said that the city's going to make them comply, but how can we trust that? How can I don't trust that they are going to comply and do the landscaping. I think they should do the landscaping and then come for approval of this the whole new addition that they want.

I mean in the first place it's B2. This shouldn't even be there. The four the three buildings shouldn't even be there. Why it is I have no idea.

on that back east side there from the Pros building to the north corner there, them jogs in there. I I would like to see that curb just go one straight curb because you try and start moving apparatus around this stuff. It's going to be a pain in the butt. And also I was talking with the fire chief and the deputy chief today. We need an access in that northwest corner at the end of the project there for biraas. There's only one entrance into this project.

Essentially uh ISD15 school district came to the city and inquired as to how we could uh hook them up with city sewer and water.

we would simply spend the 3 million that we get. We would put uh the piping in the ground. We would actually be able to provide hookup to the uh schools with the current water treatment facility that we have. Um and and we would spend those dollars. Is that the complete project? No, it's not the complete project.

The primary p purpose of the project as indicated is to hook the schools up and uh and it was in this kind of determining the size of this project or the magnitude of this project uh that collateral benefits could be achieved by running those lines down and feeding uh either current commercial or potential future commercial developments along the 65 corridor

Well, to me, that's the only thing that I care about is getting the school hooked up. I don't care if it gets hooked up, if we get a tower, anything else. Get the school hooked up and get those kids some good water because those kids are drinking brown water if they they're not drinking it at all because the things are shut off.

I want to bring up the house on Sims to the council. See what they think. I think we should see if we can try to sell that house for a cabin or something and see if we can get it moved out there and put some money in the city's pocket instead of just destroying it.

Well, it's got asus and lead and stuff in it. If anytime I'm I'm sorry I'm not familiar with with it, but if you're going to sell a property to a buyer, you'd enter into a purchase agreement that would indicate that the buyer is buying it as is.

My first thing is somebody asked me um where are the city jobs being posted at because they said they can't find them.

People want to use it to use these buildings to do um craft vendor sales, that kind of thing. And they've been denied at both places. and I'm going to help them get at least one for over here, but they want to do it on a regular basis. And I don't understand why they would be denied because um it would they pay to rent those these buildings.