All right, good evening. We will call the Monday, July 13th, 2026 City Council meeting to order. If you could please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. And then, do we have any additions to the agenda tonight? >> Uh no additions tonight, Mayor. >> Hearing none, I'll look for a motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> Motion. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor, say aye. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> Opposed, same sign. Motion carries 4-0. With that, we will move to public comments. If there's anyone who would like to discuss anything that is not on the agenda, please come forward. Seeing none, we'll close public comments and move to consent. So, is there anything on the consent agenda that anyone would like to pull for further discussion? Hearing none, I'll look for a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Motion. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor, say aye. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> Opposed, same sign. Motion carries 4-0. And with no further ado, we'll move right into the public hearing for the franchise agreement. Um next, I just open it up, or do you want to say anything for or say it once it's open? >> I can talk once it's open. >> With that then, at 6:31, we will open the public hearing uh for comments on the franchise application uh from Comcast. >> Thank you. Once again, we'll uh welcome back Robert Freeman, a representative from Comcast. So, thanks for joining us once again. We don't have anybody in the audience, uh looks like for the public hearing. So, I'll just go a little bit over the ordinance and the process we went through. So, uh granting a franchise requirement, we have legal obligations under state law that we have to have an level playing field requirement when you have cable franchise agreements. We do have an existing one with Jaguar, which is now Metronet, and so a lot of what was formulated for the Comcast cable franchise agreement was based off the Jaguar one. A lot of the language is very similar. Although since the Jaguar one was done in 2018, there has been some legal updates dates of things, and the city attorney has reviewed it, Comcast has reviewed it, city staff has reviewed it. And there was some back and forth between Comcast and the city. It was all very coordinated and collaborative. Uh and some proposed changes, some updates to the language to make it more efficient and make it updated with federal law that has come out since 2018. And we had a couple deletions, which was really some antiquated language that really applied to years gone by. Otherwise, it went through a very good process on the back and forth. It was done pretty efficiently and pretty easily. Um the application process that we used mirrored Waconia's process very closely since they just went through that with Waconia. So, that went by pretty smooth. We met all of our posting deadlines and requirements. So, at this time we are entertaining looking to entertain the introduction of ordinance 253 after the closing of the public hearing. That would put the ordinance as proposed. We'll post that for our required 10 days on our website, and then at the next meeting we would look to have that adoption. I've only one minor change to look for in the ordinance. In the ordinance I had accidentally grabbed an earlier version of it for the the introduction, and in there it had a 15-year term for the cable franchise agreement. That should be 10 years, and that was an ask by Comcast to reduce that to 10. And on our side we saw no issue with that whatsoever. So in the one that you've got in your packet it says 15 year term, but we would reduce that to 10. >> Perfect. Thank you. And uh as you said there's no one in the audience and as always I'll ask you have you had any emails, phone, mail that we need to put in for the record? >> Nope, none of that and the only application application we received was from Comcast. >> Perfect. All right. With that then we will close the public hearing at 6:34 and move to the next item which is consider introduction of ordinance 253 granting a cable franchise to Comcast with the one edit from 15 years to 10 years. And with that if no one has any other questions I'll look for a motion. >> Motion. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor say aye. >> Aye. >> Opposed same sign. Motion carries 4-0. Thank you. Thank you for everything. Appreciate all your time and effort and and uh working collaboratively with staff. It's very helpful to get this smoothed out. >> Thank you. I just just briefly [clears throat] you'll stop being right with with we really appreciate what's the thing in >> Perfect. Yep, we look forward to it also. Thank you. >> One quick post note on that uh city staff will be meeting with your construction management here on Wednesday. We've scheduled a meeting for 10:00 a.m. to go over what that uh schedule is going to look like. >> Perfect. Perfect. And as we said in the past our you know one of the biggest concerns restoration so we'll work through all that and make sure we're we're aligned there. There's some lessons learned from previous um things So, I appreciate it. Uh with that then we'll move to the next business item, consider approval of quote for bathymetric study of storm ponds. >> Thank you, Mayor. Uh the Public Works Committee met after uh this item was sent back down from the City Council level to the Public Works Committee. It was reviewed and um after discussion, uh Phil had worked on shoring up the scope of the work as well as past quote uh to make sure that was in order and then um with that a memo was included in the package. We are looking to do four ponds as part of this out of the 45 we have. Not all 45 would get done, but uh looking at doing the four that we have highlighted here. Uh these were based off of uh Phil can go into greater detail, but uh pulled up the ages of ponds, different uh areas for those, and felt that these four these three in particular uh represented a true age of some of the older ponds to get a get a good idea of how fast they have been pulling in. Uh we have done 23 and 24. That was done in 2023 previously, so we do have data on these, so we'll be adding these. And then the one down here at the corner of 30 and 25. This one we're adding in as as a request from well, as a demand from the Carver County Water Management Organization. When we originally originally looking at doing all this with Team Lab when Dollar General had gone in, uh the WMO wanted to see that pond reviewed to make sure it was sufficient for storm water needs existing and going into the future. We told them we would do that as we were coordinating with Team Lab. So, this one gets included in because the WMO wanted to see it done, and I think it also coordinates well when we get it done with the County Road 30 improvements that are coming next year as well. Uh Phil, if you'd like to take over from there. >> Yeah, just uh as he said with those four, we can just one whole day, one trip, knock those four out. Uh those other three, 31, 14, and 15 are some of the older ones with the developments. That's how we worked with staff to figure out how those which ones we would pick. Uh circa 2000, 2005 those are were constructed. So, we're looking to [clears throat] get some good information there. Uh we'll come out, I think, later in the month. Uh where schedules open up, we'll get it done. Two guys out there, one doing the work that you see the depth, and then for safety, second guy needs to be out there. Uh so, he'll walk around, look for anything else storm sewer related, outlets, inlets, all that kind of stuff to make sure everything else is uh looking good there. So, yeah, if there's any questions, we'd be happy to answer any. >> So, [clears throat] for the three ponds, the quote was not to exceed $7,000 to do the work. Uh we'll get that data back. Uh potential optional on that, depending on how the results come back, would be if recommended based on task one results, coordinate sediment sampling and testing with an independent laboratory. We discussed that, and if if that were needed, that would be approximately $2,500 per pond to have that tested and analyzed. >> So, you said you did testing on two of them before. >> Correct. >> What was the findings with those? >> Uh the findings on those >> And was there anything done or needed done? >> I recall, they may have been a little over about a quarter of the way full, and you don't or starting to fill up with sediment. Um usually don't uh do anything to the ponds uh until they're half full. >> Okay. >> So, when they lose half of their capacity. so I think Nick's got it here, but >> Yep, got it here. So, this is 23 and 24 is another one, but it follows the same format. Date of testing, acreage, all data, and then percentage of sludge capacity loss in there. And then what we got is topographical depth here, so this gives you an idea of where it's going in the depths of where the sludge was found. And then a side rendering of approximate sludge depth, water, and constructed pond depth depth on that. So, we got that for 23 and 24. >> Do they Do they have an idea how quickly sediment piles up? >> So >> have a better term. >> Generally, and I think Phil, you'll you'll mirror this, you tend to have if you're going to have infill, it tends to happen at the beginning when it's first constructed because you don't have vegetation established to stop the sediment from going in. You do have sediment control devices that go out there, but when a development happens or when a pond is put in, that's when you generally see the most go in. Once grass and reeds and things establish, that slows the infill. >> Okay. >> But typically 20, 25, 30 years depending on how fast that inflow is about the life before you start hitting your limits. So, testing these older ones is a good thing to do. >> Okay. >> Any further comments on that, Phil? >> No, I No, I think you hit most of the there. I mean, these are in that 20 years old and they're about a quarter, so you should get you know hard to say. Like Nick was saying, they sort of kind of the big sludge comes first and then it sort of kind of tapers off, so we should expect to see these last for for a good long years. >> What was the test date on that? 2023? >> Mhm. That's 2017. >> Okay. >> I said this was a 2022. >> 2022 on this side. >> constructed and that's where I was going in 2000. >> Yeah. >> No. >> I was just looking at the depth. We're near 50% back in 2022. >> Right. That's why I was asking like >> Okay. >> How long did it take then? So that was 3 years ago, 4 years ago. >> And like Phil said, we we try to get a full day's worth to get them out here versus a half day >> you know, gets gets some of that. Um So what's going to Are they going to pull a sample and then determine if it gets sent in or how how does that how does that work? >> Um yeah, you'll just we'll see how much is in there. >> Yeah. >> And if you start getting to that time where you Okay, yeah, we need to clean these. What usually happens is you you hire someone to come in uh Braun Intertek or one of these laboratories. They come in during the winter and they drill a hole in it and then they just walk on there and scoop the stuff up in two spots. They pull it out and then they just go test it at their uh laboratory. Is usually is is part B of this or part two or task two, excuse me. >> Oh, okay. >> you know how uh what method of disposal you need to do to get rid of it. Does it need to go to a landfill? Can it just be dried in a farm field or whatever, but generally yeah, that's >> That was my misunderstanding. I thought you guys would pull the sample and then send it to lab if it was determined >> So then the next phase is >> Okay, so we don't need to worry about sampling yet till we get your results and that can come into a different council meeting at that time. From that after we see where they're at. >> And you'll know that day just by going and looking at it. >> Yeah, we should know fairly quickly. You know, we got a take the Well, we have all the record drawings for Well, I won't say all of them. Most of the ponds so we can know where the depth is and then bring that data back and start looking at it. >> Okay. Right. >> Sounds fun. >> Perfect. Sounds good. Any other questions for city engineer or the administrator? >> Nope, I think all the points got hit. >> So, with that then I'll look for a motion to approve the not to exceed fee of $7,000 to do the four ponds that were highlighted. >> Motion. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor say aye. >> Aye. >> Opposed, same sign. Motion carries 4-0. With that, we will move to city council reports. Council Council member Fausch, do you have anything to report on? >> Nope, I got nothing. I was at Mayor Rising, it seemed like uh good turnout. >> Yeah. >> of fun. >> It was for everyone. Council member Help? >> Haven't had any meetings, but same thing Sam said about uh Mayor Rising, looked like a good turnout. >> And Council member Jackson? >> Park board tomorrow. >> Perfect. And I had one with personnel or a public works committee meeting to talk about the ponds, which we just went over. And then um yeah, the uh I agree the festival was a great turnout. Um a lot of people attended. It was hot, but everyone kind of thought the heat's better than rain, so with that um certainly want to thank the Mayor Rising Community Festival Committee who put a lot of time and effort into organizing this. It's a very small committee. Uh I think they did a fantastic job and thank you to Mayor Public Works. Thank you to staff um for their help. Uh thank you to the members of the mayor's fire department who put on uh, they sold burgers all day and then put on the bands after. So, um, very thankful for that. Um, certainly a long day for most of them. I'm sure they probably didn't get home till 1:00, 1:30 after clean up and then unfortunately right after that at 2:15 they had a call for >> that they had to go out probably right when they hit the pillow. So, um, can't thank them enough for everything they do. Um, a thank you to a deputy Buckenteen from the Carver County Sheriff's Department for doing the bike rodeo, uh, which is a was another big hit this year and thank you to Bob's Repair, Helt's Bar, and Knucklehead's Bar and Grill for donating the four bikes for the bike rodeo, um, which were given away and uh, two two boys and two girls were ecstatic to win them. And um, again, thank you to everyone else who volunteered last minute for the bouncy house set up, tear downs, and uh, parking cars, and everything else. We appreciate it. It would not be a success without everyone joining in. So, we do appreciate it. So, with that, I will look for a motion to adjourn. >> Motion. Second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. >> Aye. >> Opposed, same sign. We are adjourned. Thank you. >> Was there a disc golf tournament? >> No, that never materialized. >> I was disc golf tournament. >> Oh.