I Well, I'm waiting for her to hit thatlive button. >> All right. Good evening and w andwelcome to the Chaza City Council uh city council meeting for Monday, April20th. Uh the time is 7 o'clock. I call this meeting to order. Would everyoneplease rise for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of theUnited States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nationunder God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.>> All right. All right. Elise, will you uh pleasecall a role? Council member Hatfield here.>> Council member Bennish here. >> Council member Chevlin here.>> Council member McGrath >> here.>> Mayor Hubard >> here. All right. Next, we have adoptionof the agenda. Does anybody have any additions or corrections on the agenda?Otherwise, I would entertain a motion to adopt.>> Motion to adopt agenda. >> All right. Motion from council memberHatfield. >> Second.>> And second from council member Benes. Uh all those in favor say I.>> I. >> Opposed.>> All right. Agenda is adopted. And then next we have visitor presentations. So5A. We have we have a lot of gentlemen standing in the back of our room. Wehave our state champions here, the Chesa Hawks basketball team. Welcome to themeeting. Uh, I'm casual tonight in support of youguys. You guys had an exciting game. Would you guys like to come up? Doesanybody coach Hayes, you want to come up or anybody that was wanting to chitchatabout it? >> Yeah, thank you. Um, and thank youeveryone for having us here celebrate our state championship team. So, we haveeight of our 18 players here. Um, a lot of them are baseball players. baseballseason's in full swing. A few are golfers. Um, a couple are already attheir AU practices, but it was nice to gather up a few of these guys and, um,celebrate tonight. We just came from schoolboard meeting, too. But, um, I'llquickly introduce the guys that we have here, run over our season, and then, um,again, thank you for having us. So, that's Evan Atinson, Maris Connell, EliHerszog, Jordan Dick, Chase Meets, Colton Ty, Deontay Tate, Jed Keenan, andthen assistant coaches Payton Sanders, and Nick Sabin.So, um it was really special season. Uh you know, we finished with a record of28-4, um winning our last 25 games in a row to ultimately win the statechampionship. Um throughout conference, we had an undefeated record inconference. We had seven players get recognized with conference honors withum all conference, defensive team, honorable mentions. Um and then, youknow, outside of the 72, it was a complete team effort. We had a ton ofdifferent leading scores throughout the year. Um we had 10 guys on varsity andthey all had big moments uh throughout the season whether that be in practicegames both. It was just it's it's a really good group and you know umwinning the state championship I think shows that we have a lot of fantasticbasketball players but more importantly I believe they're really really greatyoung men. Um I've had a lot in class. Other coaches have had these guys inclass too. We believe they care themselves the right way. Um everysingle day at school in the hallways run the community too. You know a lot ofthem run or help run our summer youth camps. Um, and you know, I think they doa really good job interacting with, you know, the next generation of ChazahHawks and, um, off strong GPA. I mean, again, us coaches are spoiled to be ableto coach these guys and we're really proud of them. So, thank you again forhaving us. It's it's an honor and I'm really happy these guys are able to havethis moment, too. Thank you. >> Wonderful. Well, it was very exciting. Imean, it was very exciting to watch you guys play and and knock out some reallyheavy teams um along the journey to to winning the championship. And I thinkthat championship game was really exciting to watch because it kind ofcame down to the wire. I'm sure you guys were really nervous. Um, but you pulledit off and then I was actually able to come and join you guys when you guyscame back to the gym uh and had your impromptu uh pep rally afterwards. Butwhat was really really enjoyable to see and I know one of our council memberssons were there as well, his family was just yeah you guys embracing the youth.you guys, you know, took pictures together and all the kids were aroundyou and you could just see that mentor menty relationship there and that'scommunity. So, thank you guys for being so upstanding and um really really greatrole models in our community. Does anybody else want to say anything?>> You know, I'm going to say something but others if others want to go first.>> Okay. Just great job. It was a lot of fun. Ithink even I don't like to go on Facebook because there's a lot of peopleon there saying things that aren't great, but that day was like electric tosee the community come together and give updates on how you guys were doing andwe were all watching and um online and it was just you could like feel theenergy. We're all at our own homes, but it was like we're all up late watchingtogether and um it was just really cool. So that is something always reallyexciting when a sports team goes and does such an amazing job is just howmuch it brings the community together. So you guys should really be proud ofyourselves, not for just being amazing athletes, but um community builders withum winning. That's a big deal. Um, every every month I go sit in a room with somecity councilors from Eden Prairie and from Chanhassen and we all like to toutabout our our cities and and what amazing things we have going on and anduh we get, you know, now talk about how amazing you guys are and that's alwaysfun to do with Eden Prairie especially. So, great job.>> Uh, I'll echo a lot of that. Say congratulations. Great season. Great wayto finish the season. Just make sure you guys finish the year strong. Keep goingwith baseball, golf, all that stuff. Keep being strong role models foreverybody that's out there watching you guys. And uh here's the here's the nextyear, too. So, good luck. All right. >> Awesome job, guys. It was really fun towatch and you know, Chan, Chesa, that's always a you know, heated game anyway.So, fun to see you guys actually pull that out. Um like Michaela said, Iactually went to Eden Prairie 20 years ago, so before you guys were even born.But um it was like the reigning e you know both athletics and academics thereand it was so much fun to be part of a school like that but still fun to sayyou were a legacy of that and so what you've done for all these kids in thiscommunity and the community members that get to stand behind you is amazingbecause they'll talk about this forever and you know the the reign of the Hawks.So very exciting to watch and congratulations.>> Yeah. Um yes I have two kids in the program. I've coached travel basketball.got to know Coach Hayes. They've been at summer camps, all those fun things. Ithink the thing I always stress to my kids, and I think you guys reallydemonstrate that is winning's fun. You guarantee that was fun. But being goodhumans will get you further in life as well, right? Like you're going toremember this moment. Um, you know, things that I observe, right? Like, youknow, as the mayor said, you know, at that welcome home meeting, everyone wasexcited for you there, but every one of you in your way took time to go see theyounger generation and D. And trust me, I'm as a dad and a coach going, "Hey,work harder. You can be here, too." Whispering that in their ear. Uh, myyoungest, um, he got a new phone, like his his first phone, he's a fifthgrader. Uh, his background now is a picture of him and Tyler at that event,right? Like that is like that is his picture. He is so pumped. likes lovesTyler, but every one of you dabbed up those kids and and that is huge, right?Because that was more you talk about great people, great building programs,building people. Um, like I said, I always say winning's fun, but how you goabout and the things you learn is more important in the long run. And you guysdemonstrated that, which is great because it makes me sound really good asa seventh grade coach when I say those things. And you guys do that. Um,especially when it's, you know, your son you're trying to talk to sometimes. So,congratulations. It was awesome, you know, going down there and seeing thecrowd. It builds community. We talked a little bit about that at the retreat,you know, how do we build community and people rally around. Um, it was fun forme. We've got, we went to a lot of the games, but I would say you saw more andmore people start kind of following as that happened. And it's great. Like Idon't care if that was if you were the first game you ever attended was thestate championship game. Awesome, right? Glad you showed up and supported. So,appreciate that. I like I'm excited for future years. I know you got a coupleseniors there in the crowd, too. Thank you for your legacy that you helpedbuild. Um, but yeah, I think you I don't want you to underestimate the impact youhave on kids because they do look up to you. Like they see that program like seeTarget Center, see, you know, the the courts, they want to be that, right? Um,and so I just think that's that's awesome, right? And if you can, youknow, help me encourage my kids to work harder, that was helpful as well. So Iappreciate that. You know, I'll just mention I had achance to talk to coach Williams at a test match a couple weeks ago and one ofthe things I mentioned to him is I grew up in Lassour and in Lassour in 1986they won the state championship for basketball and how many years ago wasthat 40 you know 40 years ago and the town still talks about it and so don'tunderestimate how much people are going to remember you guys in the communitygoing into the future what type of had the community. Uh we had the was it 2004state championship uh and Spencer Collison on the team. Everybodyremembers that. Uh they're going to remember what you did and you really didmake an impact on the community. And um just on a personal note, uh I'm lookingat Evan here and the last time I saw Evan in this room, he was standing atthis podium. He was probably about seven years old uh in Cub Scout. So to see youto see you guys grow up and become young men is pretty cool.>> Yeah. How many of you are seniors by show of hands? Just two of you guys.Okay. Well, you know, I hope that whatever your future endeavors, youknow, after this year, you guys have big things planned. And then for the rest ofyou, it'll be really exciting to see you guys continue to move forward and dogreat things in the basketball program. So, thank you guys so much for beinghere. Are you guys okay with coming up and taking a picture with us?>> All right, come on up. You guys can just gather gather on in. I You might not bethe tallest one in this picture. >> I know Leah's>> Wait, I thought I would be doing okay because>> you guys might have to be a little strategic here.>> All right. >> Oh goodness. I can't see Leah. Okay, we>> might lose. >> There we go.>> I think I can see everyone. Smile. One more. Oops. All right, I got it.>> Awesome. Thank you guys so much. It was really a pleasure. Thank you guys fortaking the time to come here. >> I know. Well, and they rightly deserve,too. >> So, I know could have had a littlebasketball we could pass around. >> Yeah, that was good.All right. Well, that was a fun way to kick off this meeting here. Okay, sowe're going to move on to our visitor presentation to uh 5B, the annual stateof the library report. We got Jody uh Enstrom and Kevin Spencer. Come on up.>> Jody said this would be excited. >> Okay. Tee it up.>> Yeah. Let's see. Sore hawks. Here we go. Well, yeah, that's a big deal to follow.So, but we'll we'll do our best. So, >> I forgot my tap shoes.>> Uh we're really glad to be here tonight. Um I'm Jody Edstrom. I'm the librarydirector for the entire county system. And>> I'm Kevin Spencer. I'm the branch manager of the Chesca Library. So, I'mgoing to try to keep my portion pretty short so we can highlight more of what'shappening here locally in Chaza, but there are a few updates from the systemlevel that I thought you would appreciate hearing um as we moveforward. And we can go to the next slide. Yep. I did want to highlight ourum library's vision. I think it's a really opportune time to think aboutthat and think about how libraries are more than just books and all the thingsthat we do and we try to provide and do our best with our communities. So, we'regoing to highlight some of that vision in action tonight. So, you can go to thenext slide. And I know Kevin's going to talk moreabout the adult programs and youth literacy, some of those foundationalpieces we offer. Um, I do want to provide a brief update on extendedaccess. Some of you are probably knowledgeable of what that is. Some ofyou may not be. So, I'm going to just give a brief overview. We launched thisnew service, and Ely, actually, you can go to the next slide. Thank you. Um, welaunched this new service in Victoria last fall and it is an enhanced service.It doesn't take away from our traditional staffed hours, but as anadult card holder, you can come in and sign up for the service. It's kind oflike a SNAP fitness model. Once you have access and have gone through thetraining, your library card number and PIN gains you access to the libraryessentially 365 days a year from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. So really um targeting thoseearly morning hours, the evenings, holidays, even um weekends. We had oneuser who um noted to us he has been able to complete some master's classesbecause he can come on Sundays and leave his busy home and come into that quietspace. So, there's some really impactful stories coming out of it. Um, if youwant to know more, I'm happy to have a conversation sometime about it, but justwanted to bring it up because we're working on extending our next accesslevel to Norwood Young America by early June and then start to follow in otherbranches. And we have the potential obviously when we think about a newChaza of building some model of that service right into the design, which isreally exciting and a really great opportunity.So, you can go on. Um, so here's just a lot of numbers thattell the story, right? I'm not going to read all these off. I'm going to leaveyou with a fantastic new annual report. Um, so it just really tells that ourcommunities are using our libraries both in our spaces, outside, all the greatthings that our staff are doing, and that our communities really look to usum as a space that they need. Go ahead. Um, and obviously getting out into thecommunity as part of that, making those connections. We have a lot of fantasticpartners, including Friends of the Library. We have some wonderfulrepresentatives here tonight, which is wonderful. Um, and we have some amazingindividual volunteers that we make those community connections with as well. Last year, we had over 1.5 millioncheckouts total between digital and physical materials, which is a prettystaggering number. We haven't seen numbers even close to that since priorto the pandemic. So, that's a huge kudos on our community for using us and ourstaff um for making those connections. So, we plugged all of this data amongmany other factors into something that's called the American Library Associationvalue calculator and valued Carver County Library System as over 32million. So, pretty incredible. Um so, again, if you want more details on whatall those factors were, I can provide those. So, always happy to have aconversation. Go ahead. Um, so looking ahead, um, obviously there's a lot ofgrowth we're preparing preparing for in our county and I'm most excited rightnow obviously about Chaska and thinking about moving ahead with a new librarythat's much needed in this community and all the amazing things we can do here.So, I'm going to turn it to Kevin. >> Thank you.So I I just wanted to start off with a little looking at um things inperspective. So um Chesca, this is where we are right now. So theChesca Library space we have 8,480 ft and that is um showing that withChanhassins which is 32,640 square ft.Chaza's service population. Now this is figured out by cha uh Carver Countyresidents whose nearest county library is Chazau that our service population is over 40,000 as and if we look at Chanhassinsit's just over it's almost 26,000 Chaza has 2.7 librarians that's uh uhFTEES and if we were to uh do the math that isone librarian for every 15,126.6 people.>> Wow. >> Next slide.So, taking that how condensed we are right now as CHASSA. Um, all these nextslides show the amazing things that we are able to do with what resources wehave. So, this is I I look at this slide as kind of the boring stuff becauseeverybody knows that libraries have books. Um, Chesca all by itself uhchecked out 192,193 books or materials. The most the largestpercentage of that was in kids books. That was uh uh like 67% of our checkoutswere children's books. Next slide, please.our patrons. Chesca added 24,494patrons this past year and the chart on the right has shows youshows you how our um visits have been increasing year after year. So we had a13% increase of traffic through our front door from the previous year. And Iput this in perspective because 2021 was ourlowest because that was COVID. >> So that was the big dip. Before that,there was uh a year that we had over 100,000 people through and then ebookscame along and we started to just decrease a little bit. But as you cansee, it has been rising ever since then. And it's just because libraries are morethan books. We are so focused on making those uh connections within ourcommunity and offering services that people just don't normally have accessto, especially if uh especially for free. So, looking at comm uh connections, thisis my staff is very small, but they are very passionate about getting out andmaking connections to our community members. Um, so we actually had anincrease of almost 15% of the number of community members that we were able tomake those connections with at local events. And those pictures, there's oneat uh Chad Chanassen High School and the other one was Latinfest. So, anytimeanything like that pops up, we we just do our best to get there even though wehave such a small crew on board. Story times. This is the bread andbutter of of a library. Um the picture on the right, as you can see, there area ton of kids all jam-packed into that. It's not unusual for us to have 50 ormore people in that tiny little space. We have to move shelves and stuff out ofthe way to make room. And at story time, you want to have room so that people canmove and dance around and stuff. But um we have been so incredibly happy and solucky to have the staff that we have. Um it's increased almost 74 or 64% over thelast year of attendance and it's going up. This is this is a phenomenal number. Ourattendance at programs in our library has increased almost 106%.>> Wow. And we don't have a meeting room. >> Imagine.>> So yeah. So this is us pushing furniture out of the way and being very inventive.You see the picture of the llama up there. That was a rainy day that wassupposed that we were going to put out into the into the area on the other sideof the road here, but it was too muddy. So we moved it out into the plaza. Wehad over 200 people >> that one day.So that tells you just the amazing uh increase that we've been having and theinterest um that we continue to grow. >> Obama,>> those books were all checked out unfortunately.>> Yeah. Um >> those were great books. The other twoevents that I have pictured here, there's a puzzle competition, a jigsawpuzzle competition that we started recently, and there's an entrepreneurclass that we're repeating next month um for our Spanish speaking uh members.>> Just a fair question, did anybody show up at the puzzle competition wearingmatching t-shirts? >> I didn't see any.>> Okay. >> I don't think that they were that rabidto do. >> Okay.That was the Yeah, his big precursor before.>> I'll just say that we showed up at a puzzle competition, Council MemberHatville and I, and there was a team with matching t-shirts and we knew wewere done immediately. >> There were no prizes. It was justbragging rights for this one. Yeah. All right. Next, please.So, now looking into the future. Um, I recently went to the public libraryassociation conference in Minneapolis this year. It's a It's a nationalconference every two years that actually draws people from all over the world.>> That's awesome. >> And I down in the lower left, I went toa session about the Missoula, Montana Library, which won the 2022 World's BestLibrary >> and was very inspired about uh how theyengaged their public, their community members inum the design of their library. uh they were very thoughtful aboutengaging those partners and they were able to include some things that I'vebeen talking about like um they have a little science museum in there that isbasically run by the university >> and it's a partner there and theycoordinate programming and other resources and it's just an amazingmodel. So I was very inspired by that. Um, in the lower right hand corner,Howard Lake, Minnesota was Minnesota's first net zero library, which I foundincredibly inspirational. Um, tiny little Howard Lake, population of 2,326people. Um, being that forward thinking and uh being inspire inspiring to thecommunity on how you can do little things to make the the world better. Andthen at the top, I just have my dreams. I've talked to many of you about myhopes and dreams at the library and I've mentioned all of these things likethere's a maker space, there's a teaching kitchen, there's a library ofthings, all of those things that I uh that would be of huge benefit to ourcommunity and unique in this region and um as we move forward um thanks to yoursupport with a new library and and the planning of that um all of these thingscan be brought to fruition. I'm hoping um we can't do this without oursupporters. And thankfully I have a whole bunch of my supportcrew right behind me, the friends of the Chasa Library. Um two of the things thatthey do that they help pay for um are on the sides of that picture. On the rightside is our lucky day collection. Those are the the highinterest books that ifyou put a hold on it, it would probably be weeks and weeks and weeks, but theseare only for our patrons here at Chaska that they they pay for each year. And onthe left is one of the programs that they helped pay for that was a teengroup doing chuterie. Mhm.>> So that's one of the things that they uh um are always very generous with um withhelping us with and they do that mainly by selling books and we've been verythankful to the city uh the city crew here in in this building coming on andhelping us set up with that. Um Mary, would you like to say a word or two?Mary is the uh president of the Chesa Friends of the Library.>> Thanks. Um, and I would like to add our thanks from the friends that um, we'reso excited about this new library and we have a little bit of money set aside tobuy extra things once once we have the building. So, um, you know, Kev, I justwanted to give you a little background about the friends. We have um, we are501c3 nonprofit and we have about 50 members including Mayor Mayor Hubard. Umand we um do an annual membership drive. Um let's see. The missionis people serving people by expanding and strengthening the services of theChasal Library. As Kevin said, we we do the book sales and that's our majoractivity. I have um I have bookmarks that I will leave for you that'll tellyou when all the book sales are. Um we do them in the fireplace room at thelibrary. no longer out in the plaza. Uh Friday afternoon and all day Saturday.And if you ever want to see happy people, stop in to our book sale becausepeople, especially the kids, are so excited to buy books.>> It's really it's just a fun bl a fun thing to do for working. Umand we also um do an annual library staff appreciation. As as Jod and Kevinhave both mentioned, the library staff is marvelous, as is the city staff forhelping us, too. We've got a whole bunch of people who haul books up from thebasement to the um to the fireplace room for every one of those sales. And wecouldn't do it without the support of the staff, the city staff, and thelibrary staff. So, thank you. >> It's a little bit of a maze, too,because if you guys don't know, there is an elevator in the library, but it doesnot go down to the basement. So they have to wheel the carts down and out thehall and down to this elevator out in front and then go down and then wheel itall the way down the hall. So it is definitely a labor of love>> and not get locked on the landing dock. >> Yeah. Or get trapped in the elevator.>> Trapped in the landing dock. So thank you very much.>> Thank you. >> Yes. And I have also happen to have somemembership applications if you'd like to join.>> I will just leave these here. So, as always, I am super happy to talkto any and all of you about library dreams and hopes and wishes and all ofthat. So, feel free to reach out to me or to Jody and I'm more than happy tohave that talk. >> Wonderful. Thank you guys so much forbeing here. Does anybody have any questions at all or>> No questions. Just thank you. I always say it's one of my favorite nights whenyou guys come. As much fun as I really do think the basketball team is, I thinkyou guys are just as fun. Um, >> that says a lot.>> Yeah. Um, and truly, if you haven't got to spend time with Kevin, you can getlost in time dreaming about the library. I think I think I looked down I mean,it's been a few years since we had our chat, but I want to say I looked down onmy phone and I was like, I have to go back to work. It was like we scheduledprobably like a half hour, 45 minutes. It's probably been like an hour and ahalf, but it was you can just get lost talking about it. It's truly so muchfun. So, and very excited about the new library. Um, I also just want to thankthe friends really. I I didn't know about the friends before coming to thecouncil and they're one of the groups that I think if you um you think about acommunity and if something was missing um you'd realize it. So, if the friendsdidn't exist, I think we would really notice. Um, so I'm just grateful for allyou guys do and um and just how much you care about the library and um I thinkabout how many women started the library. It was five, eight women. Fivewomen that got together. I can't remember. It was five or eight,something like that that got together and started the library so long ago andjust um how it's really the community that's kept it going and and um you guysand just how much it means in our community. So, thank you and exciting tosee those number. These numbers are insane. Every year you guys come andblow us out of the water again with new numbers that are just phenomenal. Um wethink we're such a data driven society these days and you guys have it. Youhave the data to show that this is this is an important valuable thing. Um wetalk about you know our new public safety building being just such anecessary thing and um and I think of the library as something just asnecessary. So, thank you a lot. >> Yeah, I'll add on it is really exciting.Um, I have young children still, very young children, and they love to go tothe library. Unfortunately, I don't get to go with them much because I'm workingduring that time, but their Opair loves to bring them to the story time, and Ihear all about what goes on. And then one of my best friends does service dogreadings at the Carver County Library System. So, she brings her little dogand they have their blanket with their books and the kids come and you know andI've done that on Saturdays. Um, but it's really fun to see all the ways thatpeople interact with the library and really exciting to think about what wecan do with this new library. So, >> I would love to actually schedule sometime and hear what your thoughts are as we, you know, start to plan that. And>> then I will say friends are uh they're a big group. when we first moved into ourhouse. Judith right there lives next door to me and um she and Connieintroduced themselves and then that was one of the first things I heard was thatthey're part of Friends of the Library and there was a book sale coming and youknow um I'm pretty sure that their little grandson PJ tells me all the timethat there are book sales coming. So, it's really fun to see like the wholefamily get involved in kind of you know like the neighborhood ambassador kind ofidea if you will about people sharing what's going on at the library becauseit isn't I mean it is a books but it's not just books. So, um, very glad forthe friends and very excited for the future. >> I I mean, I I might be a little biasedbecause I'm a friend of the library, but I love libraries. They are more thanjust books. They are community connection. They're resources. They'rethey're they're the lifeblood of our community. Um, I was just down at thelibrary on Saturday to pick up a book I had put on hold just earlier thatmorning, might I add you. So, you got very good staff because it came up and Iwent down there and I was telling because I was telling the other councilduring the work session prior to this. I said it was really I mean it was justhopping inside of there. I mean it was busy. There were kids and peopleeverywhere. You know, every computer was being used um for various sorts ofreasons. And then outside the boy scouts were doing their thing in the wind withtheir their blow. It almost blew away their little archery set thing and theirinflatable thing. And you know, it just there is just so much that happens atthe library. And I I always say that my dream job would be a librarian. I wouldlove to be a librarian, but um sadly I'm not there at this point in life. But Iam excited to help build a library. If that's what I can do to contribute tothat, I'm excited for it. And um I'm excited to see what happens as we kindof walk through that process. We were able to tour some libraries in the areaand really set forth the dream and get that task force going so the communitycan give their input and just start that ball ball rolling. And it just it isvery very exciting to have you guys come here every year to give this report. Butit's especially exciting this year because we are on the the precipice ofthis um moment here where we're going to set forward uh you know the new libraryand I know it's something that's been in the works for a long time. Um, but thepayoff of it is going to be here and it's going to be here at a time when ourcommunity um is kind of rounding towards its max population and and you haveother neighboring communities that are within our service area that are growingas well. So, it's it's here. It's time and I'm excited to be here for it. So,thank you for being here. >> Thank you very much.>> Yeah, I appreciate it. I've I've had an interesting journey with libraries. I'llfull fully disclose that. I know how to put books away on shelves. I did thatfor a work study at Castavis. Um which is great because you put books away.>> Decimal system. >> Yeah. And then you put books away andthen you disappear and go find and do homework and then you go put more booksaway. Right. So um my supervisor from work study is listening. I apologizeahead of time. Uh and then I will say I moved here uh pre-kids and kind of had aconversation like I don't understand libraries and we were talking librariesby then. I'll self. I was like everything's digital. Who goes to thelibrary? Boy was I wrong. And I can will admit that, right? Part of growing up islearning when you're wrong. Uh then I had kids and went to story times and theyellow, you know, sit on your dots and all those spaces, everything like that.Uh but again, it is a gathering space of people and I I I do think I'm excitedabout designing and helping see the plans for the new library. I think achallenge, right? And you talk about maker spaces and kitchen. Schools havemoved their libraries to be more than just book spaces. I hear all the funthings my kids come home and maker spaces and 3D printing and all thisstuff they do and so that following that trend we had to be able to provide thathere right because now they're going to eventually go like I want to go to thelibrary and where's the 3D printer I want you know right that type of thingso just fun like I said I've I've matured and understand the importance oflibraries over time because I like I said I'm I was a recovering denier ofwhat I didn't understand why we needed new libraries but um and again I thinklike says you know spaces are Great. Uh, you know, occasionally I've used formeeting spaces for work the Eden Prairie Library, which is huge. I don't know howmany square foot that is. >> Um, but yeah, just the people thatgather there, meetings there, um, gathering spaces, you know, some of thefirst friends kids make as kids that they may remember, they may not rememberhappened in that space, which is super cool. So, thank you for all that you do.>> Yeah. And librarians are um evolvers because they are constantly looking atwhat they can do to help their public and that's not always Dewey decimal>> believe it or not. >> Yeah.>> Um so they're constantly learning and uh you know we're all kind of educators atheart and >> that's what we do. We constantly arelearning new things and finding ways that we can meet the needs of ourcommunity. >> Yeah. I know one of your librarians goesup to the lodge and helps with technology. That's huge,>> you know, to be able to >> kind of lower those barriers and kindof, you know, have, you know, someone to be a resource and a help to to to beable to have that access is amazing, >> right?>> So, for sure. >> Just one of many.>> Couple things I want to add. First of all, uh, tomorrow the county board istaking action to appoint a representative to our design task force.So our first meeting together is on Wednesday uh to sort of kick off theprocess for getting an architect uh on board. So we are going to be moving veryquickly. >> Yeah.>> Uh to to move uh through this. So uh that's exciting. I think uh I thinkeverybody here is really excited to you know have those discussions and see whatwe come up with uh over there. Um, and then just to the importance of oflibraries, I I look at my uh me and my wife both grew up in Lassour and uhthere was a librarian there named Diane Penny uh who was there forever and shejust retired like a year ago and like it was like a huge deal to my wife that youknow here she is 50 years old and she wants to go back and make sure that sheyou know gets to see her librarian you know I can't read very well. So,>> yeah, you do. You have a lot of childhood memories. My mom did theBookNook program at my school and so I spent a lot of time in libraries as akid like going through the books, helping her find the books for theBookNook program. So, >> I remember my library.>> Yeah. >> We're just unlocking core memories uphere. >> I know. I'm picturing my like childhoodlike school librarian in our tiny little like room and she just the way she wouldturn the pages on the picture book and the crinkle of>> like it was just >> So anyway,>> yes, nice trip down memory lane for all of us. No, thank you guys so much forbeing here this evening and thank you for friends of the library for showingup and supporting this. We're excited to to like I said make make this newlibrary happen. So >> cool.>> Wonderful. Thank you. >> Thank you much.>> Believe all our goodies with your >> Oh, yes. Please do.>> I always enjoy Kevin's newsletters. So, I might have to finally fill out thisapplication. I think I've been given it two, three times. >> Not to be.>> You're wearing me down. >> Join us.>> Join us. All right. Well, that moves us along onthe agenda to um the approval of the previous meeting minutes. Uh thesemeeting minutes were from uh March 30th of 2026. Does anybody have any additionsor corrections to the minutes? >> No corrections. So, I'll make a motionto um approve previous meeting minutes. >> Okay. So, we have a motion from councilmember Hatfield. >> Second.>> A second from council member uh Chevlin. Uh any other discussion? Otherwise, allthose in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. Motion carries. Approve minutes.Okay. Next, we're going to go into a close session.>> And do I need to read something very specific? just >> we should have>> okay >> we should have a motion to go into aclose session then we have >> okay>> okay so first I need a motion to close the sessionAll right. I motion. >> Okay. We have a motion from councilmember Gra. >> Second.>> And a second from council member Bennishes. All those in favor say I.>> I. Opposed. All right. We are now in close session. Okay.All right. So, we are back up and running again from our close session.So, we're going to move down on the agenda here to consentitems. Um, these items receive typical little to sorry typically receive littleto no uh discussion although certainly anything can be pulled off of theconsent agenda. Um, or if anybody has any questions on the consent agenda.>> I just one quick question. I don't know if we want to wait for Matt to back.>> I think I was trying to go slow. >> Yeah, we'll just>> because there is a question. >> We'll I'll watch him come back in. Um, Ican ask it while you're walking. Really, the only question I have is just on thetransient accommodations license for Town Square Place. Um, then we're movingfor a three to a one, which is great to see, but I think there may be someprotections that a level three offered going down to a one. Do we have aconcern that things will just spin back up again and we'll be back where westarted? >> Yeah. I mean,>> I think the answer is yes. >> Great. Uhum I think we would have that with any facility going out of it. You know, onechallenge we have with our ordinances that>> it's the ordinance. >> Yeah, it's the ordinance and we have togive people the opportunity to be able to correct. Um but you know, just likeanything, we this is a continual monitoring thing and we look at thiseach year uh when we go through that process. So, and it's not just in townsquare, it's with every uh facility that we have. And so, uh, we'll continue todo that. Um, but yeah, I think we share similar concerns.>> Okay. >> I think because when you look at theconsent agenda items with the transate accommodations, you see the levels, butyou see it's based on like call volume. Can you speak to just what level onegets versus level two versus level three as far as things that like likeparameters that they have to have in place?>> Yeah. So level three, I don't want to mix up the order of it, but level threeis the top level as far as >> um you know where we see enough calls uh>> uh for service down to a location that aren't>> these aren't calls that are related to medical and things like that. They'rethey're related to other items. And so in that case they are uh responsible foruh uh having security on duty um you know during all hours having people atthe front desk uh those types of things. Um level two um I want to>> what's that? >> 10 to 19 calls in one felony.>> Yep. And that one as far as the the consequences on that, I think that hasto do more less with the the security and more with uh that you have a staffeduh presence at the front desk uh during all hours. And then level one is it'snot a concern to us. They operate the way that they they've been operating.So, it's really sort of taking it from the top level of saying you need to havesecurity all the time down to um down to u you can operate the business the wayyou have been operating because it hasn't been a problem.>> Okay. >> I think as long as we keep a close eyeon that and act quickly if needed. >> Yep. So,>> speaking of transient accommodations, one of them is not missing or not hereand we spoke to that. So, can we talk a little bit about Oakidge?>> Yeah, so Oakidge, there's actually a couple things going on at Oakidge is wehad uh sort of a temporary occupancy permit and we had uh a I don't know ifit's considered like a temporary license, hotel license. uh there therewas a couple of different actions on their part and there was uh milestonesuh that they needed to meet in that process and it was very specific to uhto a group that is led u by Whitney Kaine is that his last name? WhitneyKaine uh who had been looking at doing a hotel there. um we have not seen uh themtake the actions that they said they were going to uh as far as milestonesthat they're going to meet and really communication has really fallen off alot. Uh so actually we are going to be bringing that back to the next meetinguh to recommend to you guys to actually uh uh pull their temporary permit andpull their hotel license. until such time they can come back or some othergroup might come back that can demonstrate that they can meet thosecriteria that are in place. So that's not on here, but that is one that Nate'sgoing to be bringing back at the next meeting. Yeah, I think that's good forus to have that discussion or at least to us to talk about it tonight becausethey are missing from this list and so just to make sure that we're in the knowand and on the same pageant population at Hazeline>> that's in those >> that's in those villas that are outthere. >> Yeah.Hey, not to completely go off track here. Um, but on bridge,I'm look I look forward to that conversation next week and maybe we canjust have the conversation this next week too. What are repercussions foractivity of not securing their facility because I you know there was just thedrone usage and >> that piece of it that seems you knowthey were in here yearish ago. I don't know if that's in Alabama.>> Yes. and talked about it like >> if that doesn't improve, what does thiswhat options does the city have there? Because it's a nuisance to our I meanit's not these calls, but it's clearly a nuisance to our police force.>> Well, and our >> having to continue>> and our fire crews >> and fire crews and continue to have to>> do what they need to do themselves. >> Yeah. The um that is absolutely correct.That uh is has become a real issue uh out there. um you know we you know wewell we're not going to have a hotel license in place so we don't and quitefrankly there's no levers in that because they don't really care. Um butuh um I think the question that that we're going to start looking at is do wehave the ability to actually charge back for those services, those calls and andthe high amount of presence that we have to have out there because it's become avery regular thing uh for us to to have calls uh out at that facility. Umbut you know the we can look to see if there's other levers uh that we have inthat. I it's a uh it's a tough one because uh you know if you have like adilapitated building you can start going into discussions about you knowcondemning it you know and and those types of things. That is not the casewith that facility. you know, it's not in great shape, but it's not adilapitated, structurally unsound type of building. So,>> it's I mean, there's a safety risk. There's certainly dangers in thatbuilding. Environmentalis environmental risk and>> Okay. I mean, I I appreciate that because again, it's hard because that issuch an awesome area up there. >> It is>> uh Costco those the apartment, town home, housing complex space. Um, and I'msure those residents see what's happening to that building and are nothappy. I mean, I wouldn't be happy with it.>> I'm not happy with it. Clearly, that's why I brought it up, right? I thinkwe're I can speak for myself frustrated with that. And um the show of Yeah, wewe are aware of it and taking care of it that happened was exactly that. It was ashow. >> Yeah.>> Uh and that's frustrating because I don't waste my time if you're not goingto keep your building secure. just be drink>> or if you're just going to be blatantly disregarding with like a parking thingor whatever like that all >> it was all show it was all>> yeah they they've they've told us many things that have not come true>> um but you know the I I think our lever is to to charge back for our services ifit becomes a burden I I >> you know we can that is something somecities do to explore um you know charges for excessive calls for services forfire and police. Um I if the as you mentionedultimately if the problem becomes too great and the threat to the the safetyof the citizens becomes too great hazardous building actions could beavailable um in some situations if it's open to trespass. There's mechanismsunder the statute to secure the building at the building owner's cost. Um butultimately the collection mechanisms for that would likely be assessing againstthe building if the um yeah I mean the so the city could have levers if theyremains open to trespassers go and board it up or put a fence around it or put insecurity systems but collecting those costs against the>> party would be challenging. >> Yeah.>> Okay. But I I do I do think that I mean, you know, at the next council meeting ifyou guys cancel the temporary CO and the hotel, I mean, it may not meansomething, but it is certainly sending a message. Well,>> um >> I guess my question in with that is Imean obviously I look forward to also seeing that on the agenda as well, butis it the p the people that walked in this room and and had the whole umconcept? They're different from the building owner itself.>> Yes. >> Can I have a meeting with the buildingowner? >> Yeah, we can we can get a meeting setup. >> Awesome.>> Yeah. because I think that that message when we revoke it is not going to beheard all the way through. And we need to make sure that the message is clearthat we really care about that building. >> We care about the safety around thatbuilding >> and the conditions that it is currentlyin. >> So,>> no, we can arrange for that. >> Awesome. All right.Um, any other discussion about about thetransient piece or anything else on the consent agenda.The only thing I I uh saw on here and I I know that uh it was just exciting tosee the after you know everything with the depot that you know I know they havea new business that's going to be moving into where Dolce Veto was. Um and that'sexciting to see even even it being a tobacco license on here. So anywh whowell with that I would entertain a motion to approve uh consent.>> Motion to approve consent. >> All right. Motion from council memberHatfield. >> Second>> and a second from council member Chevlin. Um any other discussion? Allthose in favor say I. >> I.>> Opposed. All right.Motion carries. All right. That carries us over to action items 10A. Awarding ofcontracts for outlot C of the Chesa Municipal Service Building. Uh, mayorand council, I'll turn this one over to Elise. >> Uh, mayor and council, what you havebefore you this evening is an extension of what you approved last month with themunicipal services building. Um, as part of that approval that you did in March,you approved essentially the work that'll happen on the main site itselfas well as the parcel across the street where the fuel island will go. also bidas part of the that package was um the extension of the roadway south of CreekRoad. So, Chesca Creek Way, which is Creek Boulevard South, as well as theutilities. they were bid as separate line items as part of that so that wecould do a more thorough review um and then decide if we want to awardor um go out to rebid or reject um those bids. So the engineering department hasreviewed the bids, felt they were um very good and so the request before youtonight is to award those bids um or excuse me award the contracts to Vitefor the earthwork and paving of Outlaw C is what we're calling it. It'sessentially that roadway there and then um to Kusky for the utilities. So thatis the extension of trunk utilities that will eventually go south to where theBig Woods business park will be going. So with that, uh we're looking foraction on um awarding the contracts for those two items.>> All right. Uh council, does anybody have any questions? >> This is pretty simple.>> Yeah. Uh, and it's great that, you know, we kind of split them out so we couldmake sure we did a good evaluation and um,>> ultimately it does work out really well though to have them all coordinatedtogether. >> Yeah. Yeah. No, that's great. So, no, Imean, I feel like it's pretty pretty simple. So, all right. Well, if nobodyhas any questions, uh I entertain approval of the awarding of thecontracts um for the municipal um outlot C of themunicipal service building. >> So move.>> All right. Motion from council member Venish.>> Second. >> And a second from council memberHatfield. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I.>> I. opposed. All right, motion carries. And thatmoves us off of action items and on to bills. Uh, does anybody have a questionon a bill? Oh, we're just we're like a chatty groupright now. Um, all right. Well, if nobody has anyquestions at all, I would entertain or wait. Yeah, entertain a motion to paythe bills. I'm sorry. I >> So,>> brain fog for a second. All right. So, a motion from Council Member Gra. Second,>> and a second from Council Member Chevlin. Roll call.>> Council member Heatfield? >> Yes.>> Council member Bennish, >> yes.>> Council member Shavelin, >> yes.>> Council member Gra, >> I.>> Mayor Hubard, >> yes. All right, that moves us along toother business. Uh, Council Member Grath, take it away. I>> was trying to It's kind of been a blur. We have not met here since our strategicmeeting, right? Is that right? >> Yeah. Yeah, you'd be right.Um, so we met as a strategic uh meeting. I just like said I think I appreciatethe that time. You know, I know we uh were kind of rushed at the end ofclosing that session because we wanted to see the really cool fire truckscoming at home. Um, you know, I I I've been a part of that process. Every yearyou learn something new about someone you didn't know. You get to you makeconnections with city staff. I like the fact that the first day we bring in, youknow, the group and extend to get to know them and they get to know us.Um, you know, I think it's important for residents to know and hear that that isa process that we do that we are we do strategically plan. We do look longterm. We're not just winging it as we go. Um, you know, things that have comeout of that, our building project, Southwest Park, um, you know, thosethings will be continued to be uh those topics. So, I enjoy it. I enjoy I knowit's hard to make time. I found myself for the first time this year strugglingto balance time of work life and city council life, but I was able tocontribute. Um, so that I think, you know, just thanks and I know that a lotof work goes into the city staff to help prepare to send that message with our uhthe group that comes in and do and helps us kind of think through that. Thatdon't take that for granted either. And they all have to leave their jobs tooand come, you know, and stuff's happening. So, the people that are backmaking sure the city's still running is important as well, too. So, um, God,it's been a blur. Uh, I was cheating here and looking at Matt's, um,>> you know, >> his bi-weekly.>> Um, yes, bi-weekly. So, you know, just a few things. Um, I do will I because Ilove this event and I actually just confirmed I do not have a baseballtournament at Christmas is May is May 2nd. Saturday, May 2nd. how the footballteams put out ads to help get people to help them. And um I assume we've likeidentified how many like do we know the numbers yet of kind of>> Yeah, we have four houses that we're going to do the day of. So we're goingto have three uh single family homes that will have quite a bit of work doneon painting and landscaping and things like that. And then we have one mobilehome uh that we're doing. And then uh we have a couple other homes that we'resort of doing on the side with small projects and then the city uh employeesuh each year take one property and we take a day to to go and do that. Sowe'll have an mobile home down in uh Riverview Terrace uh with a a singlemother who has a a a child and a mother who are very ill uh to help them uhreally get their get their place back in order. They've been spending a lot oftime in the hospital. So, >> um, so yeah. So, we'll at the end Ithink we'll end up uh touching like seven seven properties.>> Good. >> Yeah, it's exciting. Encourage theweather will be great. >> Yeah.>> Yes, of course. >> The weather the weather will be great.>> Um, and so I encourage people to circle that day, come out. Um, even if it's fora couple hours, right? You see people spend the whole day there. crazy peoplepop in and, you know, have to run to something else, you know, uh, that'sfine, too. It all it all adds up, uh, and is helpful. Um, I guess the lastthing, just as I'm thinking about my own life and everything like that, encouragepeople to be, you know, it's going to get nice out eventually for more thanone day, >> Wednesday,>> Wednesday, >> Wednesday,>> and I say that so more of it's traffic, right? So, slow down. bikers, kids areout on bikes, kids are out walking, people are out walking. Um, you know,the thing that always resonates with me a little bit is um, you know, thecomplaints we get about speeders in neighborhoods and it's usually like,well, talk to your neighbors because those are usually the ones speeding. Andwe're all guilty of that, right, to some degree, not maybe speeding. But as youget closer to home, your your brain wanders because you're trying to figureout, oh, I got to get I got what do I how what time is it out? What did I get?Um, and so, you know, just stay focused, uh, as you enter in your neighborhoodsand enter your property because kids are going to be out and about. Um, andpeople will uh, you know, it'll be nice eventually here hopefully. That's good.So, >> I think I've said that twice now.>> Just just just spikes. So, uh, I believe that's all I have.>> Okay. Well, that's a great report. All right. Council member Shlin,>> I would echo what John said. the strategic planning meeting. It waslovely to see everybody from the city to um interact with people that I didn'tknow um and to really make some plans for some of the big things that we havecoming. Um it was also really fun to I sat with like most city workers at mytable, I guess. So, it was fun to get like some perspective from Beth on HRand Elise on like computer systems and just things that are going on in waysthat maybe as a council we don't necessarily see things not workingright, but they're not working as good as they maybe should. So, um you know,while it's not a building that we're talking about a new roof for, it's stillsomething that might make the overall operations run better. So, I'm excitedto try to um make sure that we we all follow up on thegroup that we had. But for me, that was my group and really make sure that wetry to make things a little better internally for you guys this year. Butother than that, I really don't have any.>> Okay. Well, looks good. All right. Council member Fish.>> Um I just reminded people that tomorrow, six years ago, uh was the day I foundout that my para partner had been a victim of suicide. And we don't meetagain until May. And May is mental health awareness month. So I encourageeverybody to remember that and keep that in the forefront of your mind to checkin on the people. So especially those of us who might not be vocal enough.>> Yeah, that's all I got. >> It's a great message.>> Thank you. >> Yes. Uh Council Member Hob.>> Yeah. Uh just a few things. The senior expo is tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. at thecommunity center theater area. That's always a really nice event.Oh my goodness. >> They have like an FBI director that'sgoing to be So, some really good >> um speakers and things going on. So, uhif you're wanting to attend, that's at 9:00 a.m. Um bright and early, at leastfor me. >> Umand then, uh yeah, our department head um city council retreat. Always a reallyamazing time. It's incredible to see how much we've got done. um in I think thatwas my eighth one, seventh one because we didn't do one co during co 2020.>> Um so seventh one and it's just always really incredible to see I mean so manyof the same department heads but some new faces too and of course the plus oneday is always my favorite um because we get to see uh those plus ones come andget to learn and interact and use their voices and>> I think they get they get a lot out of it as well. Yeah, I think so. I wouldagree. So, um though it's just always a good uh good time. I'm always exhaustedafterwards because we use our brains so much. We're thinking hard. Um and I knowthat our department heads and our staff are are thinking hard, too, and reallyjust shows how much they care about this community. So, that's always a lot offun. Um, and then we got to finish it off in a really cool way and watch um,the fire department as they moved in um, bring all their trucks over and push um,I think it was truck 11, letter 11 in um, truck 11>> engine >> engine 11. Thank you. I couldn't getwords. Um, I was like, wait, it doesn't sound right. Um, but it was cool to seethem do that and just get to to watch and just how much pride they take and umand the police department as they moved in and um and just it was incredible tosee and it's been such a long time coming and and to get to have both thosedepartments um be there and the full benefits of of what was a very smallpolice department and now each of them have their own desk and they get to besafe and they get to be healthy and they can just really do their job so muchbetter. They were doing an amazing job to begin with um and do it so muchbetter and same on our fire department side. The safety for them um isincredible and to be able to have a system where they are not keeping all ofthat gunk that causes cancer and things on them when they come back in. howimportant it is to get I think it's within an hour to get that off of theirskin and their clothes and to be able to do that now and have training space andreally um moving to the 24/7 duty crew and all of those things um just huge uhand our community is doubly better for it. So um was just really cool to seethat come and with that the fire department is looking for firefighters.So, with the new model, um, they need people. So, uh, you can apply online.Um, and that'll be really exciting. I think July is the date. Yep.>> That we'll go to 24/7 duty crew. Um, so big things. Uh,I think those are all the things I had to say.>> Wonderful. >> I'm also excited for Christmas May. Ialways love that day. Um, so I'll be a runner again.I let me make sure I'm really thinking of everything. Yes. Okay, I'm done.>> Wonderful. Good report. Please. >> Tasha, you got anything?>> Sure. >> You got to come up to the microphonethough cuz they can't hear you otherwise. um real quick about the neighborhood speeds. Uh speedtrailer season is uh upon us. So feel free to>> um reach out to us to uh rent that or borrow it for your neighborhood. Youdon't have to rent it. Just sign up for it or we can drop it off for you. Um andthen to speak to Council Member Hatfield's um words about the newbuilding. Um, I'm speechless about it. It's anincredible new building. Um, I was a little bit emotional. I've spent 19years in this building. Um, from when I was actually I when I was moving out, Ifound my DVD of my swearing in ceremony in this very room.>> Um, so we watched that. It was kind of fun. Um, but to watch us move all ourstuff out and what we've become since then to what we are now in the buildingthat we're in now. Um it's it's incredible. Um it just shows um how muchour city and you guys and everybody really cares about the um public safetyfolks and I could go on and on but I think you get the picture. So thank you.Um we love it. You guys are welcome anytime. Um but it's absolutelyincredible and um so thank you for all the support. So have a good night.>> Thank you. >> Thank you.I always appreciate when you come because you are willing to give a littlebit of community input and I think that's that's important and it's valued.So, thank you for being here and and for that testimonial is really movingbecause I know I mean I've had others reach out and express this theirgratitude not to to me but just to the to the council to the you knowdepartments and everyone involved in the community you know for for having thatnew facility. So, uh Kristoff do you have anything now? Matt.Um, nope. >> No. Okay. All right. Okay. Um, fewthings. Yeah, public safety facility has opened and, um, yeah, we had a greatretreat. Uh, the Frismans always do such a great job facilitating. So, um, a lotof really fun, really, really fun discussions and it's exciting to seeChaza continue to move forward and be an exceptional community. uh with thesafety facility opened and operational. I know I was watching so I my son playssoccer on the same team as one of our officers, Officer Personius, and he waslike feverishly typing on his computer. I said, "Whatare you doing?" And he goes, "I'm getting all the logistics ready for themove or whatever." This is prior to it. And it was like taking his own time tomake this happen. And I I saw in the Carver County local news article thatsounded like pretty much all of you guys volunteered to move out. And I mean thatis that's great cuz moving is never fun. I mean who likes to move, right? Um andjust that's really great and that's that's wonderful to see. Um and so itis. It's just really, really great to see both of you, both departments beable to move in and expand their operations and the kind of communitypolicing and the kind of community firefighting that, you know, we uh seethe need for and and want to have in our community. I talked about, you know, weget we get like a bi-weekly um newsletter from our our fire departmentand it always lists, you know, the current call volume and uh I looked andit said, you know, as of, you know, last week in April, um there were 530 callscompared to last year at this time it was 461. So I mean and then if you lookback it says in 2020 it was 292. So I mean we have um>> almost doubled and it's not going down. It's going to continue to go up and itbecause of the services because of you know the population size and so in thiskind of investment is important and it's important on multiple reasons andrecruitment is one. So having that 247 duty crew is so important because itgives those people that are willing to to take the time to go through all thetraining and the sacrifice to kind of have that commitment to our community,you know, the kind of regularity that be scheduled and and have that for theirfamilies and the and their um careers. So I just it's huge. And then alsoseeing our job posting for mental health specialists for the police department,that's huge. that that is a dream realized, you know, birthed out of againthose discussions that we have during the retreat and wanting to have, youknow, more enhanced services to better help our community. Those are the thingsthat we see are coming into fruition and sometimes they take a few years. Theynot right away as much as we'd love for them to be, but when when they're here,it's it's wonderful. So, just really thank thankful for that. Um, couplethings coming up that have already been mentioned. We talked about the seniorexpo. Talked about Christmas in May. But John, I don't know if you talked aboutthe day or the time and where. >> I did not.>> So it is 7:30 if you do want to volunteer. Kickoff is at 7:30 and it'sat St. John's Church. And so there's a breakfast and then you can kind of lookat all the different projects and kind of sign up for the one. And then asmentioned, you can kind of commit to however much time works for you. So, um,this weekend at Mcnite, right, at 8 a.m. there's a tree planting that's kind ofbetween the >> I was trying to think of>> the Rotary and the Lions Club, but anybody can come and volunteer. Just,uh, bring a shovel, bring a bring bring some gloves>> and bring a rake, >> maybe a drink, too.>> I feel like you end up using the rake more than the shovel, but I don't know.>> That's good because you got to put the >> Yeah, I feel like cuz they've alreadydug out the holes. You know, our public works crew does such a great job.>> Well, if you have a metal rake and a shovel, that'd be helpful.>> Yeah, metal. Yeah, like a metal rake, I think, is really.>> Yeah. Not a plastic race. >> Yeah, plastic racing to be the hard timerakes, >> which I never did find my left in thepark and said I was going to come backward and it was>> It's part of the Christmas stuff. >> It's probably a part of the Christmasstuff. Oh, well. Anyways, um so yeah, lots of uh tree planting to be happeningand then um uh road construction. We talked aboutbeing kind of going slow, but I also we don't have any giant road constructionprojects inside Chaza, but there is one that is>> Can you can you say that again? >> There is no giant road constructionprojects happening in this community. Thank you very much. Right. But yes, weare impacted by some of the surrounding communities as far as road constructionis concerned. And there is a small right outside of Chaza, but obviously impactsChaza is the intersection of Highway 5 and 41 is under construction. And rightnow, today until Wednesday, it the right turn lane is closed. So like if you'regoing eastbound on five, like if you're coming from the Arboritum, you can'ttake a right onto 41. >> Also, Bavaria Road's completely closed.So >> the intersection with that.>> Yeah, there's like a few spots in Victoria that are closed. So you know ifum you know support your local town over there in Victoria, but I know thatthey're undergoing a lot of road construction over there. So but justwant to kind of make people aware of that.>> I think otherwise I feel like everything else Oh, there's a few I don't know Maydates to recognize. Should I talk about them now as we roll into May? So, um,our city staff is wonderful and they love to present when there's significantdates here so that we can all be, um, in the know about it. So, some there's someimportant dates in May to recognize. The first is the International FirefightersDay is on May 4th. The second is National Police Week, May10th through the 16th. Uh, Peace Officers Memorial Day, May15th. Municipal Clerk's Week May 3rd through the 9th and then Armed ForcesDay May 16th and National Military Appreciation Month throughout the wholemonth of May. And then of course we have um Memorial Day at the end of the month.So uh but yeah, some great dates in May. Otherwise, I know we have a uh EDAmeeting following this, but uh the next meetingis in May, but May 4th. I don't don't have of course I don't have the date onthat but May 4th is the next meeting otherwise uh I I would unless anybodyhas anything else I would um entertain a motion to adjurnn.>> Motion to adjurnn. >> All right. So motion from council memberShlinin second. >> A second from council member Venish. Allthose in favor say I. >> I opposed. We arejourned.All right. And we are going to transition over toour meeting for the CHASA EconomicDevelopment Authority. And so, let's see here. Sorry, I'm justgetting the agenda up. And all right, so calling to order the Chesa EconomicDevelopment Authority. Uh, Elise, would you please call roll? CommissionerHatfield >> here.>> Commissioner Benes >> here.>> Commissioner Shufflin >> here.>> Commissioner Gra >> here.>> President Harvard >> here. All right. Next we have theadoption of the agenda. Does anybody have any additions or corrections on theagenda? >> Motion to adopt the agenda.>> All right. Motion from Council Member Benes.>> Second. >> Second from I'm sorry, CommissionerBenes and a second from Commissioner Hatfield. All those in favor say I.>> I. >> I. Uh opposed.Agenda is adopted. All right. Next is the approval of the meeting minutes.These meeting minutes were from March 30th of 2026. Does anybody have anyadditions or corrections on the minutes at all?>> Motion to approve previous meeting minutes.>> All right, we have a motion from Commissioner Gro.>> Second. >> And a second from Commissioner Bennish.Um any discussion? All right. All those in favor say I.>> I. >> Opposed.>> All right. Meeting minutes are approved as well. And then that moves us along toour one our one discussion item which is 5A adoption adopt EDA resolution 2026-30bond sale reimbursement. >> Uh Madame President and commissioners uhthe item in front of you tonight is uh actually not dealing with the publicsafety center. So I'm glad about that. Wait, now he's not even listening to me.I heard uh this is to do with our municipalservice building and uh with the construction of that as well as uh wesaw tonight in our work session uh city hall plaza which is really justexpediting a piece of the city hall uh remodeling which is at the very end ofthe program. Um, one of the things that we need to do uh when we start projectsbefore we actually go through the bonding process is we actually have todeclare our intent to reimburse ourselves with bond uh proceeds. If wedon't do that, uh we're not allowed to do that and uh then that's a realproblem because uh then you can't, you know, you can't bond for it and thenreimburse for those expenses. So, uh, we've done this a number of timesbefore, but it's, uh, uh, basically saying, uh, we're likely going to startand have expenses on MSB and the city hall plaza prior to us finishing thesale of bonds for that. Uh, this would just give us the ability to reimburseoursel with those bond proceeds. >> So, the uh, staff is recommending thatresolution 2026-30 uh, which uh, lays out the details ofit. All right. Uh, does anybody have anyquestions for for Matt or staff? No.All right. I mean, this is exciting. We're kind of the work is underway andthis is part of that process to kind of be able to to do that. And so, um, andit's great that we're able to tie in, uh, kind of expedite one of the parts ofour building program being the City Square Plaza as part of this. So, uh, ifanybody if nobody has any questions, then I, yeah, I entertain a motion toadopt resolution 2026-30. Uh, with establishing compliance withreimbursement bond regulations under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.>> So moved. All right, we have a motion from Commissioner Shinlin.>> Second. >> A second from Commissioner Bennish. Allright, any other discussion? All those in favor say I.>> I. >> Opposed.>> Motion carries. All right. And that brings us over to other business. Doesanybody have any EDA related business that they'd like to discuss? Hearing none, I would entertain a motionto adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn.>> All right. A motion from Commissioner Grathand a second from Commissioner Benes. You've been up to bat. All right. Uh allthose in favor say I. >> I opposed. We are adjourned. Thank youeveryone.