what I'm here for is ask the city for a disposal site I've got 22 dead ash trees you don't have to come out and mark them I've already contacted a person to take him down but it's this disposal I mean there's over a thousand trees in the city of Lakeville and if the city could come up with a disposal site to take these trees to is what I'm asking I'm not asking for funds I'm not asking for help just a disposal site it would be more I mean that's that's a huge part of the cost of taking these ash trees down is the where to put them

couple things we do have a program with a a vendor to help on some removal and also treatment so if you were wanting to treat some we can talk to you a little bit about that too late yeah um and you know you remarked about some of the trees we do have a plan and especially in our parks to kind of tackle a lot of that but I don't know if we've had discussions about disposal but we'll talk about that and get back to you because I think that's a good idea

one of the things that uh stuck out to me was uh some of the chemicals that they add to the water and one of them being fluoride and um there's kind of a big movement across the United States now about removing fluoride from water because it's linked to all sorts of you know diseases couple of them being skeletal fos fosis and dental fosis which is like a like an osteoporosis of your skeleton um dementia cancer and uh these are studies done by uh uh National Center for biotechnology information.gov

my goal is just to um you know put it out there that you should just remove it you know it's what it amounts to is a kind of a medical treatment that you know 70,000 people haven't consented to

I have to admit that this is not an issue that I'm totally familiar with so again if you would just leave contact information I would love to look into it and maybe connect with you after have more conversation

there are state requirements mayor council and we can provide those to you

the new name of the park is called Grand Prairie Park which we used to be having Lee which was tied to the development so we wanted to change that name and again Grand Prairie Park is the is the new name of the community park off of 185th in Cedar

as of last week we already had 287 reservations um for the three outdoor shelters in the Pavilion so it's going to be busy out there

Joe Massi archin was promoted to the Lakeville Parks uh and Recreation director position so he's in transition working with the current um director at this time and he'll take over duties on May 1 or uh next Monday excuse me

this is John's final meeting as he's retiring this year after 35 years of service to the city and I just can't thank you enough on behalf of the community for the really the Legacy that you built in our Park system... when people say why they pick Lakeville it's either schools or the parks and your your legacy certainly helps cement that for us so thank you

we are a joint Powers agreement between the city and the school district

25% of our ice is now being utilized by the public ... we started a lot of new public programs over the last two years that provides ice for them

we plan to open around Thanksgiving and host a grand opening on hockey day Lakefield and our overall budget since we started is estimated right now we're about half a million below what we started with

my goal is to be the lowest in this area versus the most expenses that we we have been the most expensive for several years years

items six CDE E and F are all related to pan prog these are either liquor licenses or street closures and we're getting excited for that time of year

Mr Mayor I'd like to pull item H renewal of liquor licenses 2024 as I'll need to abstain

just want the record to note that I'm abstaining um as I'm employed by one of the license holders

the well protection plan in general is just to help protect on the groundwater AER um that supplies the city of Lakeville water on drinking water uh to try keep that those contaminates out of the water as best as we can

as part of this plan we're educating the um the property owners on how to best protect um the ground ground water from um contaminants getting into it and then we also have a component with the plan for uh water conservation

this is our annual uh Street um collector Road uh Improvement project that we consider every year uh uh for improvements um this year we have identified three Street segments

this is a coste effective way to basically replace the uh payment section um on these collector roads so that that area is on ipava Avenue that's going to be all that pavement is going to be replaced

lowest bidder was OMG Midwest at a little over 1.2 million or $ 1.1 million um if you add in all the indirect costs um engineering the soils indust investigation and inspections all those type of things the total project cost comes to $2.6 million

the timing works out well for post fireworks activities um but does pan prug know about the second half of their activities I don't know if busing from North will take have any concern here

so we're we we're going to talk to the contractor about that we'll we'll end up probably starting like Indiana and um and iava like on July 15th after pan prag so we we're well aware that we don't want to conflict with any any activities that pan prag will may have going on that