all right it's 6 30 we'll call this meeting to order and we'll start with the pledge of allegiance of america to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right are there any changes or additions to the agenda i do not have any okay seeing none uh i just need a motion to approve the agenda i'll make that motion second all right we have a motion and a second all in favor aye motion passes 3-0 all right that opens us up to public comment seeing that there's nobody here we'll close public comment consent agenda anybody would like to make a motion for the consent agenda i'll move that second all right we have a motion and a second all in favor aye motion passes 3-0 um i would just like to thank justin firefighter justin heskell for his service on the department so thank you uh we do uh have we thought we were gonna have jim nash here he's not here at the moment so we'll just uh move on and if he does uh show up we will come back to that all right so let's move to 7 a1 the bond sale of the 2021 street project all right mayor and console in front of you is um as in a separate attachment it's a bond sale report for the 2021 street project we did receive the updated version of that this morning as we did our bond sale this morning at 10 o'clock um todd hagan with ellers is on the on the line as well to go through that that bond sale report and then after that report staff is proposing resolution 4-26-21-8 awarding the sale of general obligation improvement bonds series 2021 b and levying for the payment thereof so todd i will let you go through go through that report great thank you maggie council members todd hagen from ellers i'll go through the report so as maggie said we did receive bids up to 10 o'clock this morning on the 2021 street uh reconstruction project if you remember there's cash from the water sewer and street funds that are going into this too so uh 930 000 is um is is less than um is less obviously less a lot less than what the project um calls for but um your financial management plan and um steve mcdonald from abdo and maggie um had uh showed some cash that that you could use to put towards this bond issue so it's a smaller bond issue i went out 15 years or so so we did attract a couple bids um so northland securities out of minneapolis and d.a davidson i suppose you could call that two uh went in uh and they had the lowest bid at 1.44 percent and that was about eighteen basis points or point eight one eight percent uh less than our our pre-sale uh report showed and then the second bid was uh collier's securities out of minneapolis at 1.66 that would have worked fine too i think that's sort of what we had it modeled at anyway so um so came in less and with very little premium i know you're used to premium on the fire hall and so we didn't really get any of that extra money this time the rate pretty much matched the re-offering uh yield to the customers and so kind of a non-event there so it was more of a traditional competitive uh bid on on as far as that's concerned so we kept amount at 930 000 uh this time cost of issuance and other other costs kind of came in a little less but we'll just put that into the project fund and you should be off to the races here so this did also qualify for that state guarantee credit enhancement we call it at the aaa level the standard force aaa and um you did maintain your double a stable outlook so i had maggie on the phone a couple weeks ago with steve and the team here and just basically updated standard and poor's with the new audit you had and um and you just really talked to them in january anyway so it was just an update of what we talked about for the fire hall financing and then they did note that um although your transfers out were as expected you did have slightly better surplus than the last time we talked so keep up the good work on on that as well so i do have the latest standard poor's credit rating report attached as well as the final bond numbers and the bid tabulation and the graph of the 30-year bond buyer index showing we're at a historic low interest low rates like we were for the fire hall so that's wonderful um this bond will close on may 13th get all the money wired to you at that time and um and i think that's it meg had talked about the resolution that you'd consider tonight if you want to go forward with this and that's all i've got and appreciate the business again and that's not too much not too many bonds being sold today so it was a little quieter day and um attracted a couple bids and then that one went d.a davidson went in with a winning bid so they sharpened their pencils for you today so appreciate that again any questions from the council or staff i just have this is nikki i have a question so it says the bond amount's 9 30 but then on the bid tabulation why does the price say 9 18 yeah between 9 18 and 9 30 is the uh is the fee that the underwriter took a little north of 12 000 to remarket the bonds oh okay yep good question that's all the questions i have anybody have any questions all right well then i'm going to make a motion that we accept the low bidder northland securities d.a davidson at 930k 1.44 interest for resolution 4-26-2 a second i need a first first oh i thought you made the motion you said oh why someone make the motion because i don't think i can make the motion sorry that's okay yeah i'm not sure can i take the motion yeah okay well then i'll make the motion sure okay any further discussion i guess i have a question on page 46 it said see attached schedule in exhibit b yeah so it is actually in this report it was not available um at the time the packet went out because sale was this morning so um that's as well as exhibit a2 is in here somewhere oh actually yeah so exhibit a is the bid tabulation and then exhibit b oh i can and i can provide you with a copy of it too i the the updated resolution was provided to me this afternoon um but essentially the exhibits are what's presented in this bond sale report and i can get you a copy of that and we still don't know what the assessments will be for the 23 properties or we do not so we only so the final so what we do know is um the final numbers that the project is coming in at um we will not know the final assessments until we have the public hearing and educational sessions in the fall so we're going to see what the final project cost is at that time and then council and we'll hold a public hearing with the residents and we'll determine um what those assessments will be then as of right now it would be based on the 930 000 correct no no it's actually based here let me go to my report um we're off to one point it'll be the one point two two six so uh if you go into my report it kind of breaks down um that the construction portion came in at 959 7730 and the entire project is expected to be about 1 million 250. that was that's down from the projected 1486 so we do know that it did go down significantly and then it shows that the city's portion was lowered to per policy assessment policy 786 000 and the assessed portion went down to 463 000 about and that's down from the feasibility report that we um passed in december of uh so that's down from the 594. got it yep but yep again we don't know what the breakdown is yet because we haven't decided the council hasn't decided um the assessments yet we don't know the the exact final cost of the project um so we will be going through that process later okie dokie all right i will take a vote all in favor aye aye aye all opposed motion passes 3-0 all right thank you yeah appreciate it thank you thanks todd bye-bye okay we're gonna move on to 7a2 the smartwater controller program agreement all right so council uh in front of you tonight is a motion to approve resolution 4-26-21-19 that references and approves the agreement between the city of mayor and carver county water management for the smart irrigation program so in your packets is a resolution that approves the contract that is also in your packet that outlines the responsibilities of both carver county water management and the city of mayor as it relates to the smart irrigation program that we've talked about in a previous council workshops and meetings as you know it's it's a program that aims to conserve groundwater resources and it allows [Music] residents to participate in this program and get reduced cost smart irrigation meter or controllers for their irrigation systems so just to remind just a reminder that carver county water management has their own contract with ratcheo it's a a company that supplies the smart irrigation program so everybody will have their res their separate responsibilities our contract is just with carver conor convert county water management so the last time we talked about this we did have the contract in the packet for review there was no comment in at that time from council we just needed to come up with anything that the city council would like to put towards that program as far as reducing the cost of the controllers a little bit further at that meeting it was decided that the city would put a thousand dollars towards the program so it'd be twenty dollars for the first 50 controllers purchased and then we did make a motion to to contribute 500 towards the startup of the program but carver county has no has let us know that they will not be passing any of those costs on to us um and so that is not included in the contract the only thing that's included is the thousand dollar allocation um so that um so that's reflected again in the contract uh and then but that doesn't bind us if we do go through the through the that thousand dollars relatively quickly we can always pass another amount if we feel that we want to keep pushing this this uh program to residents and make it an incentive so with that staff is recommending approving the agreement by passing resolution 4-26-21-19 but before that i will take any questions on the contract or any other questions on the um on whose responsibilities are what and yeah go from there so our total investment is going to be the 1500 the 500 and 1000. ours is actually the a thousand so um we had originally budgeted 1500. did i did i accidentally keep that in there um but carver county came back and said that they would not charge us the 500 that they would cover that setup fee that's good news yeah it is i think it's a good idea and if the program takes off even if it saves water on five houses we're making headway and then how are we gonna get this information to residents um yeah so the city will be responsible for the marketing and so ratcheo will provide and the county will provide marketing materials we were thinking newsletter social media and then the website so we would essentially have more information on the website and try and summarize in the newsletter and on social media and link to the website um what's called an eddm mailing which would be relatively inexpensive and we could cover strictly the housing developments with water irrigation systems we could probably cover those two particular areas for two hundred dollars what is it called called an eddm mailing it would be through bruce johnson in the harold journal okay it's just something to think about a lot of people use them the restaurants did during kova to put out their menu and coupons and stuff it's relatively inexpensive you can do double-sided and up to an eight and a half by eleven sheet for pennies just a thought if we wanted to put it out there especially you know field stone you know cold water hidden those are the places with the irrigation old mayor has none and we can directly target them um so would someone like to make a motion for resolution 4-26-21-19 i'll move that on a second all right we have a motion in a second all in favor aye aye all opposed motion passes 3-0 yeah let's just make sure we highlight the we're doing twenty dollars off per yep we're so the uh program already comes with eighty dollars off we're doing an additional twenty so the residents will get a total of 100 deducted from the market price of the controller all right we're going to move on to 7 b 1. if fire department training area project all right one second all right so council in front of you this evening is related to the mayor fire department training area so staff is asking to you to review the concept plan and consider approving to move forward with the training area this was presented at a previous council meeting where the concept plan was presented by the fire chief chief metzel is here this evening to answer any questions the training site would include three dry freight containers so two of them we do not have on site yet we would be getting those from the minnesota department of natural resources the city would pay would have to pay one about 1 800 total and shipping fees to get them delivered to the site these uh new or refurbished boxes are usually between forty five hundred and six thousand dollars so to get two of them shipped to the site for eighteen hundred is um is pretty good um the department would use them uh to create a training space or facility i did include information in your packet on that kind of how other departments have been using these they're really durable weather resistant steel and so they're built to withstand harsh conditions including fire so they're a good opportunity to simulate real-life fire situations and help firefighters learn techniques so in your packet is the location that this is being proposed [Music] the city planner did review the location and the concept and stated that it would be allowed if it is fenced in so therefore the project would require fencing since the last meeting we did get a fencing estimate for the training area the training area would also include millings we do not have to pay for the millings because the public works department has leftover millings from different city projects so that would be free so the fencing portion of the project would be 192 feet of six foot chain link fencing staff is proposing a 20-foot gate that would open um [Music] we did quote it two ten foot swing gates as well but we think that the 20-foot gate would work better swing gate sorry oh i'm sorry rolling gate i'm sorry that's a long span to beat that would be uh installation would be completed by a defense company century fence so what we're looking at financially is uh 1800 for the storage container delivery we would not pay anything for the ground surface covering with rock millings the fence with 120 foot rolling gate would be 14 755 for a total project cost of 16 5555. and staff is proposing that that come out of the fire capital fund i do have a balance there of the capital fund right now that is currently on the total and then the unreserved amount is at 430 about 430 000. so with that the city administrator and fire chief are recommending approving the fencing with the 120 foot gate for 14 755 and the storage container delivery fee for 1800 for a total project cost of 16 555 to be paid for out of the fire capital fund and again i'm available for questions and so is chief metzel i think it's a great idea maggie i'm stuck on the fencing again the the foot run okay the difference between what's the difference the the the width between the city fence on the public works that fence is not on the property line so the public works fence is probably five feet off the property line so public works would have to move their fence to the property line and then um in order to tie in and that is why this is a separate fence entirely what's the difference between it between oh between between how much how much distances between the two the alleyway would be what width um i'm making the uh i would have to look at that i'm thinking it's would probably be eight to ten feet gap it would depend on if we put ours on the property line or we kept it off right now the city's like five feet off i think the property line so we'll probably hold it back a little bit so that there is decent enough room in between them to mow and stuff like that even though both properties are owned by one entity you can't go up to that you you can you need to be on the property line to be able to tie in because they're separate properties if we ever sold that property just hypothetically then we would run into issues so we have to do our city code the same as any other property and in order to tie in they both need to be on the property line if they want to share a common fence so if we were to do that we would have to move the public works fence to the property line in order for the fire department to tie into that fence would that be beneficial um my recommendation is that if we i i guess it depends on what the council wants to do it would cost extra money to do that my recommendation is that if you move that section of the fence you have to do you should do the entire section of the fence on that property line just because it would essentially it would just jet out and then go back to the five foot in um in the long term i mean the best usage and the greatest good amount of land you could use rather than have a five-foot alley that nobody could use public workers would either get more space or the fire department would get more space if we could work that out rather than just sit there yeah it's something we can look into we can get pricing on the reason why we did it this way is to move forward with the project and the lease cost just to keep costs down but and not again it's not something that the public works depart we would have to figure out who would pay for it essentially as well because it does cost money to to shift a fence i did talk with public works they are fine with maintaining it either way but if you want to move forward with the direction of getting pricing on shifting the entire fence over we can we can do that as well and come back with this well i don't want to hold up getting the storage buildings though i mean i want to get those in um i mean this this project is is not something that's going to be completed anytime soon um because obviously we have the fire station being built right now um i guess what we just make a motion and just see where we where we end up and i mean my thought was i kind of like the idea of keeping them separate not to say i mean we wouldn't sell the fire station lot because that building is fire station and built for a fire station but the public works building if we decided that it was better to the public works area because it used to be up here and then we purchased this lot uh just because we needed more space what if we're growing and we decide we need to be out by the waste water treatment plant then we're not messing with fence lines and stuff later to try to sell it right and just kind of and we're following our own ordinances that's where i'm kind of at that it could save you like five thousand dollars because you have the cost of adding additional fence and then moving it right but we could also put fire stations on the property line and if we decide later because we can make this motion now make this happen and then we can move the public work fence later also in a separate you know if we see fit right that is that's true you can extend the fence to the property line essentially because you own the other property and then at a later date then we could just redo that one section of public works right we could bring it back to see if that gets shifted if we deemed it necessary yeah we can either table it for later or we can if someone wants to make a motion to move forward with i'll make a motion to move forward with the project of the fire department training area all right i'll second that here we have a motion in a second all in favor aye all opposed nay i just wanted to get more information on the on the fencing i just just doesn't seem logical to have two properties owned by the same entity with the five foot alley between them but that's just my thing all right motion passes to what so i just want to get clarification so you're we're passing it as is okay all right b2 pager purchase all right so um again myself or chief metzeled can answer any questions with this and that's council action is to approve the purchase of pagers for the fire department in your packet is some information about why we need to purchase new pagers we work with harvard county sheriff's department communications service division for emergency dispatch um just the the quick summary is that in uh carver county is um going to drop one of its systems as of december 31st 2022 that's the current system that our pages pagers uh connect to and so they are going to a simulcast system um after that time and so we need to upgrade our to new pagers that will connect into that system um so that system will be an 800 megahertz system and then there will be a backup system as well so we are looking to purchase dual pagers that have the capacity to uh receive signal from the from that new system the 800 megahertz system and then the county's backup vhf system so again currently our current pagers do not um would not be able to uh receive that signal after december 31st 2022 so that's why we need new pagers um so the fire department has received 10 pagers from camden township um in april of this year so the fire department is looking to purchase 22 more pagers from ancom communications to have a total of 32 pagers to cover the current roster of 30 members and two extra for backup um so therefore the purchase for financial the purchase would be 22 for 22 unication 5g pagers for 675 dollars each for a total of 14 850 the other equipment included for an extra fee is programming the new pagers uh chargers for the new pagers and then the the pager clips um so all together including shipping our total financial contribution would be seventeen thousand one hundred and two dollars out of the fire capital fund uh this was planned for in the mayor long-term capital improvement plan so uh with that uh staff is recommending approval of the purchase of the 22 5g pagers in the amount not to exceed 17 102 and with it i can take any comments or or questions or chief method does anyone make a motion for the purchase of 22 pagers got a question quick maggie you know the league was advertising in the city bulletin that they was a grant funding for this type of item okay if i'm not aware of that okay um so i'm not sure how it it operates but there is a grant specifically for pagers and things like that i just wondered if we could apply for that um do you do is it do you know who like the do you have any information on who like is no i just saw it on the league of minnesota cities it's um yeah if if that is something that's available staff can look into that and and um and wait on this purchase i mean i'm all in favor getting the pagers but if yeah and and we usually try and keep track like we try and look for those grants we were up looking to apply for one earlier this year but there's been some setbacks on that grant but we're always open because we're again we look but we don't see everything so if anything ever comes up just let us know but yeah if that's something we want to do we can look into it and bring this back at a later date andy is that i mean if we brought it back later if we could try to run for a grant or is there like a do we know the lead time on these pagers um and stuff like that they just want to make sure we have enough time to get them before that due date a lot of times on grants you know you can apply for something that takes usually months and stuff before you find out anything on it camden township in donating for us yeah i would say um if we tabled it just to the next meeting yeah so you can do a little bit more research on the grant and then we can make the decision if that's an even viable option i mean can you purchase it and then go for a grant or do you have to like pay for it with the grant money like usually you have to wait until you have a contract signed so um but yeah i i think that that would make sense to table it until may 10th until we can get more information on the lmc grant um no we'll just the direction to have us just keep looking into it is tables uh seven b2 uh until the next meeting just to get a little bit further information if there's a grant we can apply for if not we'll bring it back to can that apply to 7b3 as well then um i would have to look and see what what that grant covers as far as it's the dnr volunteer fire assistant grant well the dnr grant um typically we've applied for that you know in years past every really every other every third year will get something and like i said it usually amounts to the amount of one one to two thousand dollars i'm getting redirected now i'm looking it up yeah one to five thousand fifty fifty so is that with that information would he i guess i would when's the truck come in mayor joe and andy right so should we could we get the pagers now and apply for the grant for the truck maybe that would work yeah um i would say yeah maybe just um yeah if you want to continue discussing the pager purchase we can do that well we're going to take that back up off the table back to the table i'm not quite sure how to untable it untabled i'm untabling the page of purchase so we want to make a motion for the purchase of 22 pagers i'll make that motion second okay we got a first uh motion and a second uh any further discussion nope we need them okay so i'm all in favor aye aye all opposed motion passes 3-0 okay so do we want to discuss b3 or would you want to just table it i might as well just table it until the next okay so we'll table b three the radial purchase for the tanker well staff gets further information how long does that take to get how long does the radio take to get for the tanker i also don't want a truck go in service without a radio okay okay so we're going to table that till the next meeting uh further information of possibly applying for a grant okay we're going to move on to 7b4 fire station project change request all right so console in front of you is a change request from bci construction for the mayor fire station the amount being requested is three thousand six hundred seventy nine dollars this is just for some changes in the storm sewer and plumbing within the project so the changes were being were requested as a result of requirements that the state of minnesota made during their plan review so staff is recommending approval to meet those state state requirements it would be paid out of the contingency fund we do have the city council approved about 3 percent of the project or 80 000 that would would go for for a situation such as this for unexpected project changes or needs so at this time we do have a balance of 67 350. if we approve the plumbing for 3679 we would have about 63 000 in that contingency left um so i do continue to keep track of project costs and i will bring back any change orders i did include total spending amounts at this time or total amounts that have been approved and spent at this time so with that i'm recommending that the city of council approve the change request to meet the changes requested by the state of minnesota uh in the amount of 3679 out of the project contingency fund does anyone like to make a motion i got a question maggie was this was this our fault or was this the engineer's fault the architect's fault i think sometimes it just happened so they we did have um i think part of it was we did have our city engineer put together some of the stormwater plans uh and then some of the internal plumbing as well that was constructed by our architect it was just some minor um i think some minor the stormwater was a a size issue and then there were just some interior plumbing requirements that the state required as well so it's it's i'm not i i again i i don't want to put fault on anyone i think sometimes these these projects there are there's a lot that goes into them and i think sometimes there can be oversight um so that's i mean luckily um we're able to correct it before before the project like this part of the project moves forward but i don't i don't really i think it's just kind of one of those things that i don't know if it was an oversight or what but um [Music] it's just one of those things that it's good the state caught it so we can get it right the first time and we can just keep moving forward i guess so as the state looked at everything i mean now everything we shouldn't see anything like this again uh i mean they everything that the state is required to review they've reviewed and provided us feedback um they can again that doesn't mean that change orders or rate change requests won't happen along the way um that's essentially i mean you hope again that the project was designed the way it should be but um things happen and that's why they come back in front of council and that's why the contingency fund is there to to kind of create a buffer for situations such as this um so i hope that there won't be anything else but i can't i can't guarantee that there won't be anything else all right so let's uh anybody like to make a motion for the fire station project change request so moved second all right we have a motion a second all in favor all right all opposed motion passes three zero all right we're going to move on to 7c1 sheriff's department summer hours all right so council in front of you is [Music] to consider approval of summer hours for the deputy assigned to city of mayor so uh this came to myself from the sheriff's department um they inquired into summer hours for for the deputy assigned to us um so as you know the current patrol hours are monday through friday two to ten we share uh 40 hours per week uh of one full-time deputy with the city of new germany so we have .88 or 88 of that contract in new germany has 12 percent um so with the the schedule change would be um between the dates of memorial day may 31st 21 and labor day which is september 6 21. um and that would include four 10-hour shifts to rotate between tuesday and friday one week and wednesday through saturday the following week and the shifts would be 12 p.m to 12. yeah 12 p.m to 10 p.m so there is some data that's included in your packet again we we we are on a contract for 40 hours so we i know in the past the city council has been trying to kind of figure out the best hours for the deputy and so in the past we've had daytime coverage for a town cop from eight to four since 2020 the hours have been changed to our current hours but summertime tends to be to have more outdoor activities and community events especially on the weekends so the schedule could afford more direct engagement with establishments and residents who are out and about and hosting events on the weekends or in the evenings there would be no financial change unless we want to um we do have the ability to purchase extra hours that's something we have talked about in the past and then with this with the recommendation of approving summer hours it would allow me the opportunity to gather more data within the coverage of these hours again based on past city council discussion [Music] so with that i'm open for any questions i do have sheriff deputy here this evening as well brad hendricks to answer any questions on the non-coverage days we'd have somebody coming all the way from wherever they're trolling yeah so we and and i think uh yeah you could yeah if you do you mind stepping up and um we do still have patrol cars that come through on the off days it's just i'll actually let you kind of go through that so typically the how it works is when your dedicated deputy in this case would be me is not where my day is off where i'm at sick or on vacation whichever else we do have our general patrol cars that cover a bigger district they're more bb more our direct my direct backup they're the ones that would be taking all the calls for service that come in between mayor and new germany they do in their normal pattern however they drive around their district however they want to they do come through the cities you know so there is that presence that's some people will spend a lot of time in the city some some people they they come through make a quick pass multiple times during their shift you know so they're still that president it's not that it's going to be non-existent they will be here it's just they will probably won't be in the neighborhoods as much as your dedicated deputy is i drive through all the neighborhoods multiple times during my shift um these hours that were that were presented by our commander i found out this is the first time i found out about it um so megan i had the opportunity to sit down and talk and discuss and go over some of the charts if those were included in the packets i believe to talking to you know talking about all those and to us from what i see is that towards the later part of the week that's usually when you're a little bit busier so i might afford especially now if the summer hours are coming up people more people are going to be on vacations uh now that restrictions have been lifted a little bit better there's going to be more opportunity for people to go out and do things whether it's going to be home requests or vacation requests for driving past people houses which we get those quite often during the summer time more of an opportunity for us to be seen it's a couple hours extra a day uh sundays not really much really goes on monday is usually pretty quiet the first part of the week people are trying to get back into the swing of things after having a weekend off tuesday can start to pick up a little bit but since i've been here mondays and tuesdays have typically been pretty slow wednesdays they can kind of vary thursdays and fridays things will start to pick up a little bit so that will give me a couple hours extra per day on the busier ends of the week plus it'll give the city that dedicated saturday coverage two saturdays a month so every other saturday i'll be dedicated here for any big events that's going on whether there's something going on at the community center baseball games other events going on around it would be every other weekend it'll dedicate it i'll be i'll be in town when we've had past conversations i'm the only one that was part of those past conversations here yeah and i can support i can support that i mean our thing was making sure because um we weren't super thrilled with like one day not like mondays not having for like paperwork or things that have happened over the weekend you are the way i understood it was i felt like that was one complaint was that you know there's a lot of paperwork or things that have happened over the weekend you are you doing as as as for me typically what i do is whether i do it in my squad car if i come in in the office uh i think for the most part i usually pop in and i talk with maggie and uh janelle every single day um sometimes maggie might have to run out and do something or janelle might have to run out do something but i will check with them just make sure there's nothing that has been brought to their attention that i need to be concerned about um i can't really think of a monday or a tuesday really that anything big has come up um i think the biggest thing that i was brought to my attention was that there was a car that was parked over by the trailhead um that uh i believe the mayor said it would have been out there for what he thought might have been for a couple weeks i don't remember seeing it out there but the vehicle was gone by time i got there so uh but when i get in i usually check to see what happened between mayor and new germany you know from the time that i leave on a friday night until the time i get back in on a on a monday or in this case it'd be a tuesday if there's anything i need to be concerned about then i start diving into what that was if there's anything that i feel that needs to bring brought to meg's attention i bring it to her attention so that like say that one day you know if it's on a monday or a tuesday i mean if the schedule is adopted today it would be so this is our first week for pay a period so it would be at work tuesday through friday and then next week could be wednesday through saturday i believe that's what the proposed schedule was going to be so one day i would get two days off the next i would have four days off in a row but either way i always check in with maggie just to make sure you know that there's nothing brought up to her attention then i go back and i do you know check through our records and if there's anything that needs to get brought up to maggie then i bring it up to her and we address any issues that come up then you mentioned you were gonna use this because we've talked about because we always talked about weekend coverage here was a little bit less um but we knew that in the summer so was is the goal for this is kind of like the first summer to see if this is a good yeah i think since we i think it would be an opportunity um to gather a little bit more data on these shifts as well because i know we've had the day like the day coverage i know we've had the evening coverage we've never tried this type of coverage i think um [Music] it's just uh i yeah i know in the past we've kind of had concerns about any any coverage we are limited we only have 40 hours that we can dedicate um and so yeah i think when i was approached by the sheriff's department i did try and i wanted to understand kind of the the hours a little bit more and i know we have talked about them and it would be i guess an opportunity to try them out and and see if these work in the summer and um especially with with the hours that we have with you know the 40 hours that we're limited to um i know and i know we do have more events on the weekends in the summer we do have more community events that i think i would like to see the sheriff's department more present at especially mayor rising community festival or any other i know it's limited right now with kovid but um but again it's just it's one of those ongoing discussions that the council has had over the years kind of what are the best hours that fit for us so um so if we approve this is there something we could do say in two months if we feel like this isn't a fit yes uh yeah so we do have well i mean yes we do have a contract for 40 hours we are able to be flexible with ours i think we have to be um a little conscientious conscientious yeah i can't say that word of um you know of deputy hendrick's schedule um because i i don't think changing hours is no you do you're here more you're here longer the days right here so instead of two to ten i mean you're here 12 to 10. right yep and like i said meg and i we discussed the hours i know um commander woleen he was thinking like a two to midnight uh i was a 13-year resident of the city you know i moved in here in 2005 moved out just over two years ago but the commander was thinking like a lot of our city is having issues with uh juvenile curfew violations and i'm sitting here thinking all the way back from 2005 until 2018 when i left to go out to the country and i'm like there's not mayor or new gym mayor and new germany do not have the juvenile curfew violations and issues like watertown does and i know watertown does i was a town cup up there for three years during the day and then a year working at night i know watertown's got curfew issues what colony's got curfew issues victoria chanhassen um carver sometimes norwood young america and cologne absolutely but for whatever reason mayor and new germany that is that it's i can't say it's a non-issue but it's a very minor issue um i'm guilty of this too you know we'd be out of neighbor's house when my kids were younger having a bonfire in the driveway and my kids and their kids were out running around but they were always with an eyesight and earshot of the parents so that's not a violation of the curfew ordinance because the parents are keeping tabs on when the parents go in the kids went in so i mean that's just kind of the way it works so meg and i we sat back and looking at some of the data that was there there's not really a whole lot that goes past 10 o'clock i know when i first moved here my my wife joined me she was upset because at nine o'clock she goes let's order a pizza i looked at the clock and i said yeah everything's closed you know you'd have to literally drive 20 30 minutes just to go you know get something so i mean this counted even today at nine o'clock there is a huge huge difference between here in waconia or up in watertown or victoria or chanhassen at nine o'clock lights start going out around here um it gets quiet you know which is fine i love the community i love the way that that aspect is you know and it's very rare that you get a big hot call after 10 o'clock you know so i mean it's we still have coverage after 10. right absolutely you still have coverage it's just going to be our general patrol cars or a district car that would be taking the calls you know and we just redistrict our our line so that the northern district um is a little bit bigger you know but typically they're going to be anywhere between waconia watertown and mayor you know that's typically where they're going to be most prevalent at for so response time isn't going to be much in the rare event they have to go a little bit further out we always have other cars that are going to be closer if it's a big call you know that they can jump in and take so the cities are not going to go without coverage ever it's just instead of having five eight hour days where i am dedicated to the city it would be for 10 hour days i think it's i think it's a good thing for us to try i think this is a good opportunity um i definitely think that the afternoon switch that we did was beneficial for the city i think because we are more of a bedroom community more people were active in the evenings than they were during the days so i i like i kind of like to give this a try for the summer and like i said if it comes over you know if uh if if there's an event that's going on for the full weekend and you want somebody here for the whole weekend just remember that all i have to do is have maggie or somebody tell me it's like hey we'd really like you to work sunday because of this event that's going on all that's going to do is i'll just adjust the schedule let my supervisors know it's okay supposed to work tuesday through saturday but they need me on sunday so we're going to work on wednesday through like wednesday through sunday instead just you know to help accommodate for the city so as long as it's within that week you know we can be flexible with the days especially if there's something going on you know if there's something going on on monday i'll work on monday and maybe not work that tuesday you know and we can also too if if there are any if there if the council i know we've talked about it in the past a desire to have another some additional coverage during different times we did budget for the ability to do that as well um so we do have we do have flexibility we do have options um yeah this would this would be throughout the summer and then i think before this ends you know when we get into the initial budget discussion too is kind of i know we bring it up each year the discussion on the best fit for hours so i think this will give us an opportunity to use this data and kind of compare the three different schedules we've had here and kind of take that as a good disk yeah so all right well so i'll look for a motion for uh summer hours for the sheriff's department i'll make that motion second all right we have a motion a second any further discussion all right uh all those in favor all right opposed motion passes 3-0 thank you yes thank you yeah you do all right and you see council reports chad oh let's see we had a park board meeting kind of settled on a general idea for signs to potentially present to the council the lowest cost lowest maintenance but still keeping with the the rising mirror it sounds like they'll be made out of a formed aluminum and a single pedestal that's what we're looking at to bring to council at some point we also discussed design plans for the splash pad for the old school house park up here and we had the mayor lions come in and uh offer up i believe it was was it two thousand a month a year two thousand a year dedicated to park funds but a request to rename old school house lions park yep so we're looking into what that entails and right um yep that's all i've got okay i don't have any larry there was a community ed meeting on april 15th and there was talk about the new playground being installed at the clc everybody's excited to see that happen insulation should take place the first part of may and it sounds like it should be a destination type of playground the enrollments are up in the uh 21 22 year for uh the three and fours there's still room three four and five-year-olds they're still looking to hire part-time and full-time people to cover all the offerings performing curriculum review classes have steadily increased throughout the year things are going very well youth enrichment sites we've reopened here in mayor the staff is looking to get something going on in pickleball here in mayor which i'm excited about because i like pickleball defensive driving classes are filling and um they covered like all the construction projects going on over at the high school and all throughout the buildings but and they also have sent out watertown mayor community brochure i'm sure everybody's received that in the mail take a look at that and see what they have to offer but their budget remains similar pretty strong even though through the cobit and what we had to go through but um that's about it actually it was a meeting through zoom as well attended i actually had to miss that because of a rescheduled baseball game for my youngest son which we froze to death i feel sorry for these kids out playing in this weather but that's all i have all right do you have a motion to motion second all right all in favor all right all opposed we're adjourned thanks t1