have my microphone on. Moment of silence and pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to theublic One nation under God, indivisible and justice for all. >> Okay, roll call, please. >> Michelle Vulk >> here. Luke Kelly >> here. >> John Burmal >> here. >> Dan Walter >> here. >> Joshua Lee >> here. >> Okay. Item number three, citizens comments is an opportunity for someone to address the council for up to three minutes if you have something of concern that's not on the agenda. Okay, seeing none, moving on to additional agenda information. Mr. Miller, >> mayor and council, item 7 C uh has been asked by the uh applicant to be tabled and so when we get to that item, we'll just need a motion to table that to our next meeting. >> Okie do. We Item 7 C. Okay, moving on to presentations, introductions. We'll turn over to Chief Meer, our fire chief, to give us our fire department quarterly report. Evening, chief. >> Good evening, mayor, councel. Like to present the second quarter report for the Lakeville Fire Department. And I'll start with our mission statement. The Lakeville Fire Department is dedicated to serving the community through the protection of lives and property by providing public safety, education, and professional emergency response. Looking uh three-year call comparison. So on the left just looking by year. So this is just second quarter numbers. So you can see 2025 in the second quarter we had 1,083 runs slightly up compared to the two previous years. Uh and then on the right side is just by month in that quarter. You can see uh April is pretty similar to the previous two years. Uh May we spiked with 437 calls which is our highest volume in a month for the department history. uh June was kind of back to normal if you will but 362 calls compared to the previous uh two years behind that. And then uh second quarter was 1,083 total calls. On the left is just kind of how those are breaking out. Uh obviously medical calls, rescue calls are about 66% of our call volume that we do. Uh followed by good intent, false alarms, hazardous conditions, uh fires. We did see an uptick in fires in the second quarter. Uh but we're still within our normal that we see in a year roughly. Uh and then on the right side is just overlapping calls. So how many times that occurs in that period is just multiple calls coming in. So we had 222 calls. Uh two incidents or more occurring at one time is 187. Three plus incidents or three incidents is 17 times and then four plus incidents is 18 times. Uh, obviously that's just something that we pay attention to with two staffed engines. Having two incidents at the same time is not a big issue anymore. Uh, and I'll say the crews are very good at clearing up a call and getting to the next one. It's when we start getting into that three and four that we're paging out stations and getting a response from them. Uh, station incident totals. So just looking at if a station is page and as as we knew it was going to happen as far as staffing those engines uh you can see on that graph that they're handling the bulk of the incidents but the station numbers are dropping uh which we knew was going to happen. It was kind of the uh roughly dropping it by about a third as you see it go down from 24 to 25. And then starting on April 28th is when we started staffing the second engine which is engine one. And you can just see the breakout of numbers between the the two engines, engine four, engine one, of what they're handling uh by call volume in the second quarter. And just to highlight a couple of the significant calls that occurred in the second quarter, I'll start from the right side is the Ivory Lane fire. So this was Memorial Day. Uh obviously this was uh lot in the public or uh information out there, but it was a significant fire from what you see there. Uh extended started in the garage and extended into the attic space. our crews or both our engines were on scene in less than five minutes, but still they faced a lot of fire as you can see. Uh it was well extended into the attic space. So that's why you see the damage that's there to the house. Uh the middle picture is just a unique call. So uh some workers were working on a rail car that happened to have uh recycled paper bales inside of it. Uh started those on fire. Uh it just took a little bit of logistics work to get uh Progressive Rails, some of their staff out to move the rail car to where we could access it. And then they had to bring in equipment and actually what you can see pouring out is the bales as we're soaking them down, but had to push bales out onto the ground so we can get the get those that were burning out of the way to get back to where it was spreading to. >> Uh and then the left one, Kenosha fire, uh significant call as far as started a vehicle fire that you can see there. Started into the garage, into the attic space of the garage. Again, crews did a great job. They were on scene in a less than six minutes, stopped the fire in the garage. Uh the unique thing about this is this is a group home with three patients that were bedridden or mobile patients. Uh so between PD and our second engine, uh they worked on evacuating the patients, getting them out of the house. Uh but the house really uh had minimal smoke damage, a little bit of water damage in one of their offices in the basement, but uh it was a great stop by the crews that were there. And this was roughly, I think, 11 p.m. at night. So, a good response. and response time. So, I kind of I broke this out into top left is just EMS emergency or emergent uh lights and sirens calls. Uh the right side is structure fired. So, it's a pretty small number to look at, but just to show uh those time savings that you see. Uh on the EMS ones, it's the two staffed engines and then a station response. And that ar alarm to arrival is kind of where we watch things go as far as and that's from the time that our dispatch center receives a call until the first unit is on scene. Uh you can see the in the first two staffed engines are just over 10 minutes. Uh if it's a station response, they're closer pushing that 15 minute mark. Uh and then the other one I look at is the alarm time as far as processing, how long it takes the dispatch from the time that the phone rings for them to alert us of the call. Uh on these emergent calls on EMS and structure fires, uh the EMS calls are about a minute 30. The structure fires are about just over a minute. It's just how they the questions that they answer uh expect uh makes things go a lot faster as far as that they dispatch us. And then the bottom one is just all response. So it doesn't matter if we're going lights or sirens and what the call type is. This should show the difference in uh that we may take our time a little bit more. And then the alarm time increases because dispatch is asking some more questions to make sure that we get the right resources to go if that makes sense. Uh that one as far as alarm time is just over two minutes for them to process. >> And ask a question about the EMS. >> Yes. >> Um so you you make the note because we've been talking about this for a while about the percentage they arrive prior to the ambulance. >> Yes. Do do you also track then how much longer after before they they show up? And then do you also track if an EMT was actually needed versus just or a paramedic was actually needed versus just medical >> BLS versus ALS? We don't track that that a piece of it as far as a BLS versus ALS. >> Uh unfortunately we don't have a good method other than just marking time on our reports as far as when they arrive. Uh normally we're a good 5 to 10 minutes in front of them. >> Okay. >> Uh so and kind of to lead into that, some of the training, some of the variances that we've added because of what we see and allows us to get some patient care going so our goal from a fire department standpoints is to have that patient ready to go. So when the ambulance arrives, we can get them into the ambulance and transported faster. >> Okay. >> And then you can see the percentage that we're arriving 62% of the time in front of the ambulance. uh some fire prevention community events that we uh have been involved in. So on the left side events, vehicle fair, uh uh the police department's open house, we did have a crew at Movie on the Turf, uh Hope for Kids out at Branch and Farms, uh a few more that were out there, and then the middle, we did fire safety talk, station tours, so the very top picture in that column uh is our fire prevention team out teaching extinguishers to all of our sixth graders in the Lakeville school systems. Uh still doing some daycare school tours. Uh obviously food truck inspections have been a big piece. Along with that, we had the food truck fest in May. Uh Fleet Farm continually has uh events going on in their parking lot. So we're we're monitoring that. Our food trucks are coming in for inspections. Uh and then businesses, school events, and park events. Uh and then we had a number of school year-end events as far as their uh family fun night, family festivals at the schools that we participated in or had a truck there for them. And then just from an inspection standpoint, so how we break those down, annual inspection is a general inspection. So if we're going to uh any business, we start with a general inspection before we start narrowing it down if there's something specific we need to look at. Uh we did 117 of those, 109 mobile food truck uh inspections, and then you can see the breakdown from there. What is a routine key box is just verifying that the key boxes on the outside of that business still work for the doors because there's a lot of times that they start changing lockes locks in a building. Uh and then further ones as we go down through there. Uh again, kind of our goal always as the inspection team is to educate before we work on any violation. So we note whatever that issue is, fire code, and then we try to get them to correct that in a short time frame. Uh training. So, some of the training that was completed in the second quarter, uh, EV vehicle response. So, that picture right next to it is actually a Tesla that a company brings in. Shows us some of the safety features, how we gain access if that vehicle is in an accident or loses power. Uh, I don't have any good pictures, but in the background, you can see a big red semi-trail that they bring in as part of the training. And they have a number of different batteries, not only electric vehicle batteries, but uh, like your power tool batteries, a lawnmower battery, stuff like that, and how they're they're made up. and then what are the failure issues that they see and kind of giving us education on that. Uh in May we completed live burn. Uh June was water rescue and drone training and then along with that we had a number of firefighters attend fire inspector class, fire officer class and then our shifts have been doing a lot of training just to get them up to speed as far as where we want to be as a department. And then we spent time uh in May also as mental health awarenesses doing some training and making sure everybody was aware of the the the uh avenues that we have if they have issues or they want to talk to somebody. Uh also in the second quarter, our first uh six firefighters that we hired full-time uh we held a badging ceremony, so they came off probation. The far right picture is four of them that are pictured. One was not able to attend. Uh so they just had a baby. So, that was a better excuse than coming to council for a badging ceremony. Uh, but firefighter Steve Moses, Captain Colin Hagen, Captain Tom Ness, and firefighter Dan Pa are the four that are pictured there. And then with that, uh, obviously we got the safer grant. We hired 16 full-time firefighters. Uh, 15 of those were for the safer grant. And these are just pictures of them going through, uh, whether it's fitness, whether it's the training academy, them doing training on shift. Uh it's just a mix of everything that we've done with them uh to get them up to speed and get them to where we want to see uh them go as a depart as a department and as shifts and firefighters. Uh we also did a pay call uh recruitment. So kind of the timeline that you see there to the left uh they started their first day of orientation last Tuesday evening. We hired eight uh pay on call firefighters and you can see the breakout. four for station two, two for station two, and two for station three. Along with recruitment, we had three retirements in June. Uh all three of these firefighters were 20 years. Uh they were hired back in 2005 for staffing of station 4 when that was opened. Uh John Clansancy, lieutenant out of station 4. And then Dan Harlicka and Steve Meyer from station 4. Uh both firefighters. kind of the unique thing as we go back and look at pictures, but you can see all three of them on the bottom of the picture of like when they started their career, their family, uh, and now I can say most, you know, I'll say all of them, their kids are off to college. So, just kind of watching that progress as the timeline happens. >> Uh, department updates. So, our fire station design team continues to meet every Monday morning and we go over kind of the design, the layout of the new station, uh, and some of that that you're fully aware of. Uh we're also exploring a mentorship program within partnership with the chamber and the school district of how do we find or how do we uh look at maybe a junior or a senior that's in high school that's interested in the fire service provide some ride along some mentorship and then potentially bring them in uh for training and hopefully they become part of our department as a payon call and then we can keep stepping them forward as far as if it's full-time with Lakeville or somewhere else but give them uh that opportunity to learn about the fire service and maybe train with that too. Uh, one of the unique things is this past year we had a German exchange student. Uh, she's on part of a fire brigade in Germany. They started a very I think she was 16. Uh, and she needed hours for to continue her fire service. So, we she did ride alongs with us and worked some events with us and it was an opportunity that kind of I'll say sparked an idea of this mentorship program uh more than what we're able to do. Uh then the bottom one is just uh the first responder skills training center is progressing and I just added a couple pictures of of basically the building going up there. And that concludes my second quarter report. Thank you for your support to the fire department. I'll stand for any questions. >> Okay. Thank you, Chief. Yeah, John. >> Just a quick question. when you were showing the training in the electric vehicle. I know like in the last couple years these lithium battery fires were boy this is the fastest growing fire risk. Do we see issues with that in town or >> uh we have seen a few uh most of those are it's a battery malfunction or inappropriate charger with that battery. So, you know, and all like buying a knockoff charger if you have a DeWalt or Milwaukee or whatever that brand name is and then the charger goes bad and you buy a knockoff at a cheaper price, it doesn't match the battery and then typically that's where we see issues. >> Okay? >> Or if there's damage to the battery, something you drop at something and that interrupts or that breaks uh part of the connections in the batteries, that's the other parts of the failure. >> Uh from the EV training, something that we've added is a car fire blanket. So, both we have two two of them on, one on each engine. Uh cuz once an EV battery starts that uh fire, so to speak, once it it um and I'm drawing a blank on the the verbiage, but once it starts fire, there's no matter how much water you apply, you're not going to put it out until it burns through the cells that are that are faulty, so to speak. Uh so, on a vehicle fire, the best practice that's coming out right now is to cover it with a fire blanket. You're still using applying water to keep it cool. Uh, but then we're just waiting for that chemical reaction to stop. >> Okay, thanks. >> Yep. >> Yeah, Joshua, >> are there similar concerns or issues with solar panels on people's roofs for structure fires? >> Uh, we haven't had any issues with solar panels because there's not uh most of your solar panels on your homes are providing power back into the grid system. They're not being >> stored in a battery. That that is we're seeing a few of those. that's still developing. Uh we're not I'll say what we've seen in Lakeville and Minnesota is not as big as what you can see elsewhere in the country kind of down in uh Arizona, that area, New Mexico, where they're they're much more prominent. Uh those are similar to a car fire or an EV battery in a vehicle or your your power tools on a much bigger scale. Uh so there's there is a lot of research happening and issues that have other parts of the country have seen. >> So thank you. Thank you, Chief. >> Certainly >> have a good rest of your evening. All right, moving on to item six, our consent agenda. This is some more routine items in front of the council. Uh Mr. Miller, anything you want to highlight? >> Thank you, Mayor. Two items tonight. Item 6 C is a resolution accepting donations from customers of Lakeville Liquors. Uh this past month, uh they donated close to $29,000 and those will go to our K9 program with the police department. So, we're thankful for those donations. And then item 6E is a resolution approving an application to the Legislative Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources and this is for a grant application for the Lake Marian Greenway. We have prelim preliminarily been awarded $1.8 million for that. Um and this will just finalize that application and then hopefully that makes to the final decision that the legislature will make this upcoming session. >> Excellent. Thank you. Council, any items you want to further discuss? If not, I'll take a motion to approve. Approval consent agenda. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. All those in for any further discussion. All those in favor of the consent agenda say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Okay. Consent agenda passes. Now moving on to action items uh a ordinance amending title 10 and 11 of the city code and summary ordinance. And I will turn over community development director Miss Goodro to give us a recap on tree preservation. Thank you, mayor and members of the council. Um yes, this evening, um staff is recommending approval of an ordinance. Um couple of sections here. Title 10, which is the subdivision section, and title 11, um the zoning ordinance, um which expands our tree preservation ordinance. We've had multiple meetings um with planning commission, our park and recreation commission, as well as the city council. And so this ordinance puts all that into play um based on the direction that we've received from council. So again, the ordinance really moves the tree preservation section into the zoning ordinance from the subdivision code. There's still a reference in the subdivision code for it and it really solidifies the requirements um identifies the types of development that will require a tree preservation plan and then establishes removal thresholds and then what happens if you exceed those thresholds and the type of trees that need to be planted in replacement of that. So again, the scope of the ordinance is very similar to what you have seen. Um any new development um requiring subdivision approval or just simple site plan approval, application for permits on infill lots, so a lot that's been previously created but not yet developed, and then application for building permit for reconstruction or expansion of a home. That has changed just a little bit after our first planning commission meeting, and I'll get into that. Um so for existing properties um we shared this ordinance with the planning commission. They opened and held the public hearing and closed it and then asked to table it on the July 17th meeting. They wanted a little bit more work done on the section that relates to existing properties. And so what we ended up doing um working with the forestry team is we revised this section to have existing lots of record um that the ordinance would only apply to those properties that are 1 acre or greater. We chose one acre because any then tree replacement that would be required would be able to fit it. Um and the concern really came up um when we were speaking about downtown lots, smaller lakeshore lots that having a threshold of an acre would be more appropriate. We also revised the replacement requirements um to only two replacement trees for each heritage tree. And please understand too that this only applies in these situations if someone is removing a heritage tree for the expansion of the actual house. doesn't apply for a deck um or something like that. It's for the principal house. So once we made those changes, we brought this back to planning commission at their August 7th meeting and they liked the change and they supported the ordinance and recommended unanimously for approval. So that's the only real change. Um other than that, the thresholds are based on the direction that we received from council. the residential districts at 40%, the other non-residential districts at 70. And then the ordinance goes on, I can go into more detail if you'd like, but it goes into the requirements for um how to calculate the removal, how to calculate the replacement. Um there are incentives built into the ordinance that are a little bit more generous from our neighboring communities. And overall, this ordinance is more flexible and less restrictive than our neighboring communities. So, in the end, um, like I said, the planning commission reviewed this two times. At their second meeting on August 7th, they did recommend, um, approval and I would stand for any questions or if you want more detail. >> Council, any questions? >> Council, >> not really a question as much as a clarification. But with the 40%, we're not talking the number of trees, we're talking the number of inches. Correct. >> Yep. >> Council member Lee. Um, not a question comment. Um, thank you Director Good Road for the the development of where we're at today. At the end of the day, I think this is a good compromise for where we started, but really the initial intent of this came up because we're getting into parcels of land that are very wooded and have uh very large trees that we want to protect in some way or have a replacement plan for. Uh and so in in exploring these large parcels of land that are are going to be developed in the near future, how does that apply to the rest of the properties that are in Lakeville uh as well? Um so I I really appreciate the work that's been done in here and I am looking forward to how this is really not meant to be something that penalizes developers but actually influences how the design is put into place. so that those trees are preserved as part of the planning process and not something that's penalizing those developers. So, um again, thank you. I appreciate all the work that's been done. >> You're welcome. >> Um this is not a public hearing, but anybody have a comment. Okay. Uh with that, I will take a motion to approve the changes. >> Burmal. Uh, I move to approve an ordinance amending title 10 and title 11 of the city code and a summary ordinance for publication. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Any further discussion? >> The only thing I would just say is I'm want to extend my gratitude to the planning commission who did a lot of work on this. I mean, we had long work session, had a lot of conversations. I think we talked about it two or three times, >> but appreciate the plan commission digging into it, catching a couple of those items, and then bringing us the copy we have tonight. So with that roll call please. >> Burmill >> I. >> Walter >> I. >> Lee >> I. >> Bulk. >> I. >> Helier >> I. >> Okay. Very good. Passes 5-0. Uh moving on to item B. Dakota Waste Solutions LLC and Olm Holdings One LLC comp plan and zoning map amendments. I don't know if Tina, are you going to tee us up or Mike? Mr. Branton if you want to give us a little background first. Welcome. >> Good evening Mayor and council. Mike Brant with Kimley Horn representing Dakota Waste Solutions LLC and I think it's roughly about a year ago that we were at a work session for the council with Dakota Waste Solutions kind of discussing what could be done on that site. So this is the first step of that process to move that project along. They've made application to the MPCA for the organic waste composting facility uh that would be located south of 215th and relocating the wood chip processing facility south of there as well. So with that, I just we're looking forward to this process and working with staff through through the whole thing and want to see this come to fruition of the whole project. >> Okay, very good. Thank you. Thank you, mayor, members of the council. Um, so this proposal um or this request for a comprehensive plan and reszoning um and Amusa plan expansion is requested by Dakota Way Solutions and then we included the Olm Holdings um one LLC property. So you can the properties outlined in the red line. Um the Olm Holdings property is these longer larger pieces. The property for the Dakota Waste Solutions is located in this 40 acres. And then we worked with the property owner of these two parcels to be included in this request because we're dealing with a split zoning kind of situation. And so we asked um Olm Holdings to join this application. Um as u Mr. Brandt said um Dakota Way Solutions has submitted their application for preliminary plat. Um we're processing this as a PUD because of the unique uses. um we're working with um through our first and probably second round of comments. Um so this application from them will be before um you very soon um early fall. But let me go through um the proposed changes this evening. So the area that is highlighted in yellow um at the top of the screen. These parcels or portions of these parcels are currently guided on the land use plan is OP or office park as well as warehouse light industrial on the land use plan. So their parcels are split. They have two different land use designations. So this request allows those parcels to be all under one warehouse light industrial versus a split land use designation. And then the second portion is to bring the parcels that aren't currently in the current MUSA, but are guided expansion area B to bring those into the current MUSA. We will be working through infrastructure improvements on 215th Street as part of this project all the way to the interstate. Um with that will be sewer um water, storm and roadway improvements to serve this property to serve the properties to the north and as well as to the west. Um these properties will be part of a future assessment and need to be brought into the current MUSA for that expansion. And then finally, zoning always comes along with a comp plan amendment. The zoning is also under that split designation. So on this upper screen you can see the OP and the I1 again office park and light industrial and this proposal just simply reszones them to all be consistent zoning. So it's a very straightforward application. Um again um Holdings is going through their different reviews. We've in um reviewed an internal sketch plan. Um we've got the application with Dakota Resources. So things are definitely happening on these properties and this first step will help um move that along the process. Again um because it's a comp plan amendment it requires four fifths vote of the city council and then it would be submitted to the metropolitan council for their review and then ultimately um approved and I would stand for any questions. >> Okay council any questions or comments? Okay, seeing none, I'll take a motion to approve the changes. Council member Walter, >> I move to approve one, a resolution amending the 2040 comprehensive land use map and staging map and adoption of the findings of fact and two, an ordinance amending the zoning map and adoption of findings of fact. >> Okay. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? >> Okay, seeing none, roll call, please. Walter >> I >> Lee >> Hi >> Fulk >> I >> Helier >> I >> Burmal >> I >> Okay, very good. Looking forward to the progress on the on this project. Um moving on to item C. I'll take a motion to table this item to September 2nd. >> Mayor, I I move to uh table item 7 C until the September 2nd meeting. >> There a second. Second. Okay. Uh all those in favor say I. >> I >> opposed. We table that item till the second. With that, any unfinished or new business? >> Okay. Seeing none, our announcements. Uh next work session is next Monday here at city hall at 6 pm in the Lake Mary conference room. And the next city council meeting is Tuesday, September 2nd. Uh because Monday is Labor Day. With that, I'll take a motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. I >> I opposed. We are adjourned. [Music] [Music]