[0:00] and I thought this was a great fit for that program to just expand it a little bit it was a match so the community

[0:07] would have some skin in the game and then the state would also help out but it was meant just for kind of the the

[0:14] the poorest taxbased um parts of our state and Senator aside

[0:19] from being eyes is eyes and unsafe what kind of economic impact do blighted

[0:24] buildings have on their communities well you you think about it do you want to invest in a building next to a a half

[0:32] tore down building or a building with broken windows or maybe a fire hazard

[0:39] and you know a lot of these communities have all volunteer fire departments which is a whole another issue uh that

[0:45] we have trying to recruit our first responders and and our volunteer fire departments um so it's it's a safety

[0:52] issue also you know with with the fire threat yeah senator uh during a

[0:58] committee hearing it was mentioned that your bill 227 can help cities reach their redevelopment goals what other

[1:04] major redevelopment trends or needs are you hearing about you know the number one we hear um not just on the

[1:11] commercial side but on the housing side is the cost to infrastructure so I've

[1:17] had uh many bills over the years with uh help with the infrastructure so if

[1:23] you have a small community especially like this bill was geared towards uh the lower tax base communities to put in a

[1:33] street infrastructure for just like one row of new housing uh most cities can't

[1:38] afford to do that and when I started working on that bill the cost for

[1:44] infrastructure for a a block of houses was about 30 33,000 per lot the cost to

[1:54] put in the water sewer etc the road gutter sidewalk lights whatever and now

[2:00] that's approaching 100,000 per lot and

[2:05] so if we want to maintain our small communities we have to make sure that

[2:12] they have daycare and housing and you know a lot of the topics we hear about all over the state but it's even harder

[2:18] in these smaller communities without a tax base senator proposing new initiatives that

[2:24] cost money is kind of a tough cell right now considering where the state is economically and with our budget

[2:30] forecast were you concerned that that forecast would impact the progress of this bill or other initiatives like it

[2:37] of course you know timing is everything and um there are a lot of bills that

[2:42] I've worked on i write I'll probably have 100 bills this year and I write a lot of bills every year and sometimes

[2:48] I'm just planning the idea for the appropriate time um you know right now

[2:55] it's back to basics we should be focusing on the basic function of state

[3:00] government um I'm very concerned when I go back to

[3:06] my 7ount area and I hear from my county officials that they're looking at a 10

[3:12] to 15% increase in property taxes across the board so that that is

[3:19] really hard especially for that segment of the population on fixed incomes and in our rural areas we have most of our

[3:26] communities have a lot of seniors in them and a lot of them are on fixed income senator you know talking about

[3:32] the budget one idea that has been floated to help balance it is rooting out uh fraud and waste and you have a

[3:39] bill Senate File 240 which relates to nonprofits that helps to aim with that so talk me through that bill so we've

[3:46] seen an increase in use of state grants uh you know just

[3:52] cutting a check to mainly nonprofits almost exclusively

[3:58] nonprofits and you know hit me one day when we had a a nonprofit come in and ask for half a

[4:06] million dollars and when looking on the 990 tax form that most nonprofits fill

[4:12] out there's also another form that some other ones can fill out but

[4:18] um the executive was paid 500,000 a year and it's hard for me to go back to my

[4:26] counties and most of them are below average income counties uh and say "Hey

[4:32] we want to give you your tax dollars so we can give it to a nonprofit that pays their

[4:38] executive a lot of money uh at least for our area." And by the way the nonprofit

[4:44] will only serve Minneapolis or St paul and and not the whole state uh so that

[4:51] that is kind of part of why I did it uh I remember when I was on the health and human service committee we had uh a

[4:58] nonprofit healthc care uh provider that paid their top 16 executives $32

[5:07] million and that was probably six years ago um so you know the whole definition

[5:15] of nonprofit I think needs to be looked at um and it's hard to give state tax

[5:22] dollars to a nonprofit that can afford to pay their executives that much money

[5:28] now during the hearing for this bill there was some push back um from certain nonprofits that said that it would hurt

[5:34] their ability to retain and recruit talent to run these organizations that help vulnerable populations you know

[5:42] what is your response to that well when you look at the total compensation for the governor and it's more than just his

[5:49] payroll so he makes around 150,000 a little under that a year but when you

[5:55] add in all the other benefits or compensation as defined it'll be a little over

[6:00] $200,000 so you take 125% of that I I think that's quite a bit and if it's

[6:08] truly a nonprofit meant to help serve um the community I I don't think we need to

[6:14] be paying those exe executives that much and when you look at the list of nonprofits and executive

[6:20] pay you will be astonished on some of them making millions of dollars for either financial institutions or medical

[6:29] institutions and uh if they want to pay them that that's fine but just don't come and ask for state dollars because I

[6:35] have a lot of nonprofits that pay their executives nothing and that's totally volunteer and I would rather fund

[6:41] something like that than an organization that can pay let's say 721,000 to a food

[6:48] shelf that their executive uh and that nonprofit did great work nothing against

[6:55] that um but it is hard to swallow and when you mentioned the governor's

[7:00] compensation you meant that it seems odd that they'd be making so much more than the governor correct we used to have a

[7:07] state law that you had to get a special exemption to make more than the governor

[7:12] uh and and now you know you look at the U of M i think they had a few years ago

[7:20] 2100 employees that make more than the governor so you know at at some point um you know

[7:29] we have to evaluate what our priorities are and then I go back into my district and we're cutting my nursing homes by

[7:35] $15 million and you know our long-term care we're we're shifting a whole bunch

[7:41] of expense onto our counties etc uh all the taxes will go up for our

[7:48] cities our schools are laying off teachers and paras etc

[7:54] so at some point we have to go back what I call the basics and rep prioritize and

[7:59] to me we should have that pathway uh for education and that should lead to a

[8:04] pathway for a career job and then we should have a pathway to home ownership pretty pretty basic yeah um a report

[8:13] from the Office of the Legislative Auditor found that Minnesota's Department of Employment and Economic Development or DED uh wasn't properly

[8:20] analyzing the impact of state funded grants to nonprofits for their workforce programs do you think Minnesota needs

[8:27] greater reform in how it interacts with its nonprofits i've been a broken record on that for nine years

[8:34] um you know I think there's a couple different camps on that there's the

[8:40] grant like we currently do a lot of uh there's one that's kind of pay for

[8:45] performance or fee for service uh and then there's just general contracts if

[8:50] we as a society decide we really need to offer these services that the nonprofits do and there are a lot of good

[8:56] nonprofits out there so I'm not attacking um the nonprofit community uh

[9:03] but there are also some bad ones and you know we see people that come in that just set up an LLC to come in um to set

[9:13] up a nonprofit to ask for money and they have zero experience doing whatever they say they're going to do and there's

[9:19] really hard to track what they're doing and the other push I've had on that is

[9:24] that if we are going to spend money on these nonprofits that help train um our

[9:30] next generation of workers we should be doing at the highest demand jobs and the highest paying jobs so not to flip a

[9:39] burger probably not to drive a forklift because companies tell me all over the state that they will they will train

[9:46] their employees on how to do the basic stuff but if we can get them into a career um that they can provide for

[9:53] their family why aren't we spending our time and resources on that and that's what our goal should be yeah senator you

[10:00] mentioned there are a lot of good nonprofits out there and there's one that you are known for supporting which is the Rural Cancer Institute uh you

[10:06] have a bill out Senate File 3085 which aims to appropriate money for the nonprofit so talk me through the need

[10:13] for that organization why it has your support and what your bill aims to do well we have a a real nasty trend in in

[10:22] outstate Minnesota we have uh a couple years ago we were the worst state for

[10:31] pharmacy closings meaning we had the mostarmacies closing of any state in the

[10:36] country in our rural areas and we've had this consolidation trend

[10:42] in our healthc care uh clinics and hospitals across the state and what

[10:48] happens these bigger companies come in and swallow up a clinic or a hospital and then they slowly limit the

[10:55] services and and you know one service to me that makes the most sense to try to

[11:02] maintain is is the oncologists or the cancer doctors if you will

[11:08] and you know it's hard when you already have to drive 45 minutes to an hour to

[11:15] find a doctor but then if you're closing half of them and now you're going to go

[11:21] into 60 to 90 minutes to find a hospital that has an oncologist to get that care

[11:28] and a lot of these treatments are multiple times a week uh so that that's one issue and then the

[11:35] other issue is the hospitals that are left are having a hard time attracting

[11:40] uh doctors to work in the rural areas so this is kind of twofold hopefully get

[11:47] the doctors into that environment so they can get exposed to it hopefully they fall in love with the idea of

[11:53] working in a rural setting versus a metro setting and hopefully they could establish some some roots in the

[12:00] community and be a productive member of the society and in the local area senator you mentioned greater Minnesota

[12:07] um and one of the testifiers in support of your bill said you know uh Senate File 3085 would ensure rural motans

[12:14] aren't left behind based on where they live which is something I've heard across many different committees on a

[12:19] variety of topics this session you know is that something you're hearing from your constituents and if so how do you

[12:26] respond to that definitely i mean you look at um the way of life in in the rural areas

[12:33] you know we're having a real hard time finding employees and and that housing and and daycare were obviously two

[12:41] pieces to the puzzle and when you look at

[12:47] housing you you need the right type of housing and you know when you have an

[12:52] older population they generally prefer like one level living housing we hardly have enough of that in

[12:59] in real Minnesota and but the the staffing the people to work the nursing

[13:05] homes which are closing left and right across the state especially in rural

[13:11] Minnesota there's just so many segments are are volunteer first responders you

[13:17] know they have a very aging population of people willing to volunteer on on

[13:22] there we need bodies in rural Minnesota and you know everything we do it takes

[13:28] longer to drive i remember we funded a uh grocery store in Minneapolis because

[13:33] it was too far for them to go to a grocery store and I said "Wait a minute you don't know what too far is you know

[13:40] I have communities that have to drive a half hour to get basic food." So I think there is a big disconnect

[13:48] between the lifestyle in outstate versus the metro area and there's good people

[13:55] in both places um I I think we just have to be mindful if we're going to spend

[14:01] resources on different projects different training i would rather spend

[14:06] a little money and it isn't a very expensive bill on the oncologist on someone that could save someone's life

[14:12] versus than training someone to flip a burger i would call saving someone's life one of those basic things we're

[14:18] looking for um yeah and you mentioned the volunteer first responders i know you have a bill out um to give them a

[14:25] tax credit to get more volunteers and it's it got a lot of support in committee so congratulations with that

[14:31] um Senator any final thoughts no I appreciate the opportunity to come in and and discuss some of my bills and uh

[14:38] you know hopefully we can get done on time and and have a a a bill that helps

[14:43] cut away at that $6 billion deficit that's looming all right thank you so much for your time Senator thank you the

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[22:05] armmesus Day 1940 the day started out beautiful uh it's just like any other

[22:11] ordinary fall day uh Minnesota was primarily agricultural and uh things seemed fairly

[22:18] normal a day to remember but in those days 1940 there was no advanced national

[22:25] weather service like we have today where they can predict the weather days in advance there weren't cell phones in

[22:31] fact many homes didn't even have telephones at all the day started out mild sunny people dressed accordingly

[22:39] with just light clothing on but by midafternoon it had turned horribly cold

[22:46] the wind would picked up from the north it was very very cold it started to snow

[22:52] and people were not dressed properly many many many duck hunters were out in

[22:59] their blinds and weren't dressed properly and died froze to death farmers

[23:04] had a very difficult time getting to their animals out in the barn some of

[23:10] them got lost blinded by the snow and froze to death in their in the groves

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[23:22] it's a story that uh my mother told many times over the years of what happened with her uh during the Armistice Day

[23:30] blizzard November 11th 1940 as I look back to my years at the Lakeville High

[23:36] School there is one occasion I will never forget on November 11th 1940 my

[23:43] brother Julian and I rode the school bus to Lakeville as usual it was a mild day

[23:49] in November and uh warm it was kind of overcast a little bit misty and they her

[23:56] and her brother Julian rode the school bus to school each day so they just

[24:01] dressed in light clothes they wore light jackets no hats or scarves no gloves

[24:07] mittens and the girls all wore skirts to school so she wore a skirt that day

[24:13] before noon it had started to snow heavily we were served our lunch and then dismissed they called for the

[24:20] school bus and the uh owner and operator of the school bus was Arnold Sber my dad

[24:26] had a transportation company before he and my mother got married in 41 and part

[24:33] of that transportation was starting the bus service he also delivered cream to

[24:39] Lakeville and milk to Farmington so the bus service was part of him

[24:46] driving and working with vehicles and so he came to pick up the kids at school uh

[24:53] after they had fed them lunch and they started out for Credit River Township is where my mom grew up on a farm and so

[25:01] they only got maybe 2 miles out of Lakeville traveling west a terrible

[25:06] blizzard hit the area it was impossible to see the road and finally the bus

[25:13] became stuck in a huge drift arnold tried in vain to get the bus out of the

[25:19] snow drift get the bus unstuck and it just wasn't working and eventually the

[25:25] transmission went out on the bus and so they were stranded there arnold made some attempts to locate some shelter for

[25:31] them but the visibility was really very bad they couldn't see so

[25:36] they just kind of tried to wait it out and when it got to be about 7:00 at night Arnold felt that if they stayed in

[25:44] the bus they would freeze to death it was very cold out very windy and the bus

[25:50] was running out of gasoline arnold made a decision based on a farm that he had

[25:55] passed uh about a half a mile or quarter mile back that they should all hold

[26:01] hands form a chain don't let go and we're going to make it to this farm arnold and um some boys led the way cuz

[26:09] they had long pants on and then the girls were next and they tried to walk in the tracks of the boys the oldest

[26:16] boys brought up the rear to make sure no kids were left behind and they walked about a quarter of a mile to a farm and

[26:24] they got to the farm and they got inside and they were in shelter there was frostbite on their ears etc and my mom

[26:32] described having to peel literally peel ice off the back of her calves the farm

[26:37] family was a young couple that had one baby we thought the farmer's wife must

[26:42] have gone into shock with 26 kids coming into her home we were never offered any

[26:49] food that evening or breakfast the next morning after closing the kitchen door

[26:54] she made breakfast for her own family and then asked us if we would like a cup

[26:59] of coffee they didn't have a telephone so there was no calling for help arnold decided that that wasn't a good place to

[27:05] just camp out for the remainder of the storm so he and two of the oldest boys

[27:12] uh one of them being my mother's brother decided to walk for help and Arnold's family farm was about 2 miles away so

[27:20] they uh walked through the snow drifts two miles to the Saubber farm they got a

[27:27] team of workh horses and a box sled he brought the sled to the other farm they

[27:34] loaded all the kids into the back of the sled and covered them all over with horse blankets and they made their way

[27:41] into the town of Lakeville and the first place they stopped was the local cafe

[27:48] and Arnold told all the kids "Go in order whatever you want to eat don't

[27:54] worry about paying for it it'll be fine and in the meantime he got a hold of the superintendent of Lakeville schools and

[28:02] they started calling families in Lakeville and asking if they could take a child or two in until the till they

[28:08] could get back home my mother and another girl stayed with one family and her brother and another guy stayed with

[28:14] a different family and her brother and his friend decided they could shovel snow and make some money and the local

[28:21] movie theater operator opened up the movie theater for the kids one of the evenings they could go and they could

[28:27] have popcorn and they could watch the movies after a terrible experience in

[28:32] the blizzard it was so great to be safe and sound and to be treated with such

[28:38] kindness and the people in town had telephones my grandparents my mother's parents didn't know where they were and

[28:46] for over 24 hours once they got into town they could call all the families and say "Your children are safe." It was

[28:53] 3 days before my grandfather could get into town to bring them back home arnold

[28:59] he was only 25 years old when he had the responsibility for all these kids and making sure that they um didn't perish

[29:08] that they got brought to safety we never really heard about the blizzard story this was all news to me and wonderfully

[29:15] so when I talked with Judy and she filled me in on her mother's um writeup

[29:22] and he had the bus company until he was drafted for the war so it does not

[29:28] surprise me at all that my dad would have done the very best he could for the

[29:33] kids he not only brought him to safety once he brought them to saf safety two times by walking to his parents' farm

[29:39] and getting the horses in the sled and and uh making sure they were all covered up and warm and so he took a lot of

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[30:16] the city of Lakeville held a groundbreaking for the first responder skills training center a regional public

[30:22] safety training facility that will help ensure our safety personnel have the highest degree of training possible to

[30:28] serve the public with construction to be completed by the summer of 2026 first

[30:33] want to extend uh my gratitude to Representative Whitty and Representative Cosnik who are not here uh and Senator

[30:40] Duckworth who really helped make a lot of it happen on the state side to secure nearly $8 million uh two years ago to uh

[30:47] really kickstart this program this is something that the fire department and police department has thought about for

[30:52] a long time to think about what a new uh training facility would look like and so the council has been thinking about how do we make that happen from a financial

[30:59] side of things but um their help and then including with Congresswoman Craig securing money for the engineering um

[31:06] really made this happen and I think from my perspective on behalf of the council when this building opens um after

[31:14] construction I think it really reinforces our commitment as a council and to the city about how public safety

[31:20] is our number one priority i think a lot of people say that um and not just from a Lakeville standpoint but this is a

[31:26] regional facility as everybody knows and um the future for public safety is going

[31:32] to require cities and counties working together when we think about making sure we have staffing levels that are correct

[31:38] and we've got all the training levels that are needed of course it's been an honor to be able to fight for federal funding both for the first center which

[31:45] I'm honored that we were able to get that's the kind of community that we have it's just embedded in what we do

[31:51] and uh putting together the funds for a phenomenal training facility in

[31:57] combination with the city in combination with Representative Craig and her help at the federal level is the absolute

[32:02] least we can do so from the bottom of my heart thank all of you and your families and your loved ones for the service you

[32:08] provide us here in Lakeville and the surrounding communities we want you safe we want you well trained we want you

[32:14] going home to your families at night so thank you so much

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[32:32] rabbit Hole is a play about grief it is following this family including Becca

[32:38] and her husband Howie as they grieve the loss of their four-year-old son so Danny

[32:44] is the young son who accidentally was hit by a car eight months previous they

[32:50] navigate the relation their relationship and the relationship with their family members and the aftermath of picking the

[32:57] picking up the pieces of their life trying to find a way forward through

[33:04] this absolutely horrible staggering loss in their lives and trying to figure out

[33:10] where this family stands as they encounter new joys and new struggles and

[33:17] challenges becca is a very loving caring mother supportive wife and loved being a

[33:24] mom loved her husband loved her life until the tragic event we're not going to wake up one day and just be back

[33:30] where we used to be i know that so we have to head in that direction becca's emotional journey through this play is

[33:37] really challenging because for a lot of it she is feeling completely overwhelmed

[33:44] as though she will never escape this pit of grief she now is just a shell of

[33:50] herself how do I navigate a relationship with this husband of mine and this

[33:56] family members that all seem to be doing okay for the most part and I'm stuck

[34:02] izzy is the sister of Becca she's very carefree kind of does her own leads her

[34:09] own path she definitely is the wild one the one who loves to party loves to have

[34:16] random jobs she gets fired often just because she has such a bad mouth and she kind of is a free spirit you hit her

[34:23] yeah right in the face boom she went down she finds out that she's pregnant

[34:28] and is having to face her own bit of crisis of well how do I reconcile the way that I've been living with being a

[34:35] mother it's definitely hard for her to tell Becca because of Danny and what

[34:41] happened to him becca wants to be happy for her sister she also feels very

[34:46] conflicted because she feels that Izzy didn't earn it there actually is quite

[34:53] quite a few moments of of humor and you see like even between Becca and Howie

[34:59] some of their jokey nature to each other um their tender moments with each other they're not constantly fighting they do

[35:06] love each other and you see that even with Izzy izzy's kind of the levity of the whole show she's got some of the

[35:12] most funny lines i think a lot of it has to do with how Izzy copes with

[35:17] uncomfortable situations if she senses tension in the room she has to immediately relieve it by saying

[35:22] something stupid i think I really hope that audiences come to see a very beautifully written show with amazing

[35:30] actors the people I've cast are bringing these characters to life i hope that they get a chance to examine grief in a

[35:36] real in a real way without having to necessarily have it pressed on them within their family even in the darkest

[35:44] times when you feel like the grief or the pressure or the weight of the world

[35:49] is just too much to bear there is hope please come out and see Expression

[35:55] Theat's production of Rabbit Hole we open April 4th through the 13th we would love to see you there and you know what

[36:02] they don't tell you it hurts to punch someone it freaking hurts well yeah they

[36:08] don't tell you that on TV

[36:19] the Lakeville PD Reserve Unit is a group comprised of 18 individuals who uh

[36:25] volunteer their time to provide volunteer assistance to our department community members uh can identify

[36:32] reserve officers out in our community by the fact that they're they're wearing a light blue uniform shirt compared to the

[36:38] navy blue uniform shirts that our uh full-time officers wear the reserve unit

[36:44] was uh established in October of 1973 in 1972 we had uh hired a new police chief

[36:51] and uh with that the new chief brought uh with him some uh innovative new ideas one of them was to establish the reserve

[36:58] unit earlier in the year we had a tornado that had struck uh Lakeville and severely uh impacted and damaged the

[37:05] Connley mobile home uh community and so uh Lakeville reserves were used to

[37:10] provide uh security to the mobile home park as repairs uh were made to the area

[37:16] the department as a whole was much smaller uh there was only eight patrol officers at the time so the reserve

[37:23] officers were there to assist our uh full-time officers um just providing

[37:28] them another uh set of eyes and ears much like today the reserve unit uh

[37:34] assists our department and our officers as needed uh when we simply don't have the the staff to uh cover events our

[37:40] reserve officers uh come from a variety of backgrounds reserve officers receive

[37:46] approximately 60 hours of initial training uh over the course of say 10 to 12 weeks and they receive training in in

[37:53] many of the same um areas that our full-time officers receive training we do go through extensive training if

[38:00] we're there to help our officers on an emergency case we have to know what

[38:06] we're doing we do hands-on training during the reserve academy itself we do

[38:12] have to also keep current and do recurrent training as far as defensive tactics handcuffing procedures

[38:20] uh transport procedures if we're transporting a prisoner to jail uh any

[38:25] type of internal process we're constantly always making sure that we're

[38:30] recurrent on training uh we teach them how to operate the squad car we teach them uh radio communication with both

[38:37] dispatch and other officers uh they receive training in uh traffic direction

[38:43] crowd control uh and deescalation techniques they may encounter uh individuals who are in crisis or uh who

[38:50] who were deescalation would would be very uh beneficial to know and they also

[38:56] are willing to come out at a moment's notice if we have a significant incident say a a severe traffic accident where we

[39:02] need uh more assistance in shutting down roadways or directing traffic we can call them in uh short notice and they

[39:09] can assist us in that capacity by helping our licensed officers with

[39:14] different events of traffic control um community events sporting events we were

[39:20] able to free the officers up for more dire emergencies there are so many

[39:27] different positions and different duties that we can do to help the full-time officers here at Lakeville PD if there's

[39:34] anyone at the parks late at night um after curfew we can ask them to leave

[39:40] it's just extra patrol so they can focus mainly on the streets we also do a lot

[39:45] of community events we are very present at Lakeville's Panaprog every year uh

[39:51] we'd love to help with the fireworks any type of community events that we can participate and help out in you'll

[39:57] definitely see reserve officers there they allow us to accomplish our mission sometimes and we simply run out of

[40:04] bodies um again Panaprog it's a large-scale community event we need our

[40:10] reserve unit to help us make sure that that event runs safely and smoothly they

[40:15] make us feel like part of the team they're very appreciative of what we do

[40:20] we are one big family we are not treated any differently or any less than in any

[40:27] way the full-time officers are always showing their gratitude and expressing

[40:34] their thanks for us being able to help assist them in whatever situation that

[40:40] it may be as a Lakeville Police Reserve I understand the importance of helping

[40:47] out the community and I am also part of the face of the Lakeville Police

[40:53] Department we are very fortunate to be in a community that respects and

[41:00] appreciates their local police department the reserve department helps connect the community and citizens of

[41:07] Lakeville with the internal police department they get to uh see the inside

[41:12] workings of the police department interact with all the officers but then they can also share their experiences

[41:18] here within our department with their family and friends you know and and and just share what our department uh is

[41:25] about with a with a broader set of people that maybe wouldn't get to experience uh what it's like working

[41:31] inside the police department it's a great fit on both sides because we can

[41:37] explain to the citizens as well as to the full-time officers what's actually

[41:43] being asked and what they actually want to know out there the Lakeville Police Department and the citizens of our

[41:50] community are very fortunate to have uh the Lakeville reserves at the ready and these are uh volunteers for our

[41:57] community that are donating uh giving up their time from their lives and their families uh to provide a service to the

[42:04] citizens of Lakeville and we simply couldn't provide the level of service that we do to our community without our

[42:09] reserve unit

[42:19] [Music]

[42:24] hi I'm Grace Benson i'm the new forestry technician for the city of Lakeville i've been working in the cities and the

[42:30] metro area for about two years now working in municipal forestry helping out with forestry departments and their

[42:38] tree disease and insect issues most recently I was working at Minnotonka where I worked as a tree inspector

[42:45] scouting the city for tree diseases as forestry technician here at Lakeville I will work with residents to manage trees

[42:52] in the city i am available to consult about private trees specifically

[42:58] concerning diseases and insects such as emerald ashbor Dutch elm disease and

[43:03] oakil management these are diseases that affect our urban forest and all of our

[43:08] trees individually what we're dealing with the most right now is emerald ashbor i've been scouting the city for

[43:15] ash trees that are affected and working to manage it in the city so that we can keep the effects of the insect under

[43:22] control i also work to manage park trees and keep them healthy and safe in our

[43:28] parks and work to replace a lot of the ash trees that we currently have planted as we move in more diverse species with

[43:36] a bunch of different kinds of trees that will be more resistant to insect and pest problems in the future i'm

[43:44] available to answer any questions about forestry concerns in the city especially

[43:49] concerning Dutch elm disease oakwilt and emerald

[43:56] [Music] ashbor attention all Lakeville pet

[44:02] owners please remember to pick up after your pet not only is it good for the environment it's a city ordinance please

[44:10] do your part and pick it up [Music]

[44:19] did you know the city of Lakeville has a food waste drop off point it is located on the west side of the water treatment

[44:26] site at 18400 IPA Avenue residents need to register on the Dakota County website

[44:33] search the keyword organics for more information

[44:38] [Music]

[44:50] we have three social workers that work out of our building this actually puts a better solution in place if we're

[44:57] dealing with someone in crisis we usually reach out to our Dakota County crisis social worker in Dakota County we

[45:04] follow the crisis continuum model so a couple of years ago there was a public

[45:10] safety law that was passed that changed the way dispatch managed mental health

[45:17] calls instead of routing those calls to

[45:23] police they were required to screen those that didn't involve a crime or a

[45:29] violence or something immediately dangerous would be routed to the local crisis unit that's when our continuum

[45:38] started developing and changing and within that model I work for crisis

[45:43] response unit or CRU she deals with in progress situations so she may actually

[45:49] respond to the scene or be available to deal with victims over the phone and she

[45:55] provides a calming effect to try to help people that are in crisis crisis an

[46:00] immediate response something that is going on right now with a family or an individual so if they get a call from

[46:08] dispatch that something's going on and they need somebody to respond or dispatch calls crisis with a mental

[46:15] health call that's going on I would respond either by myself or with an

[46:21] officer depending on how the call came in and what it was she might also arrange for where the person may be

[46:28] transported to if they need to be transported to the hospital she'll help to assist with that it's really valuable

[46:34] for us to work with the county uh and a social worker and to have her in the building is very beneficial to have a

[46:42] social worker following up on calls allows our officers to stay available for emergency situations in

[46:49] 2023 dispatch had 992 calls that they routed to the crisis

[46:57] unit instead of police that were mental health calls and 80% of those we were

[47:03] able to manage without having to involve law enforcement i think these social

[47:09] workers bring a lot of value to our community they provide more of a long-term solution to help uh people

[47:16] that are in crisis people that are dealing with difficult situations we are very fortunate to have them working at

[47:22] the Lakeville Police Department what the embedded social worker Jess and I have been able to add to the Lakeville Police

[47:30] Department as well as the city of Lakeville is more availability for

[47:37] mental health services letting people know what's out there and quicker access

[47:43] to them people don't know what they don't know

[47:59] here at the Lakeville Police Department we have an embedded social worker our social worker Jess Happy Hoppy is

[48:06] actually a Dakota County social worker what that means is that I am specially

[48:11] located in the Lakeville Police Department dakota County actually has an

[48:16] embedded social worker in pretty much every city now the first contact is

[48:23] going to be through our crisis response unit also known as CRU and when CRU

[48:29] works with the police department I will be forwarded the information either through a police report or through a CRU

[48:36] referral the nice thing about having a social worker like Jess at our police department is she's able to dig in

[48:42] deeper to the problem and look at what what is going on at that house what is going on with that person rather than us

[48:48] responding and putting a band-aid on that situation Jess is able to provide resources she's able to help them as

[48:55] they navigate these tough issues i have been fortunate enough to be paired with

[49:01] a very competent mental health team that mental health team is made up with quite

[49:06] a few police officers who have dedicated their time to specialized training in

[49:13] mental health all of that communication and connection can help me really

[49:18] understand what I'm looking at and provide a really effective and efficient

[49:24] response to the person the benefit to our community to have a social worker following up on calls allows our

[49:31] officers to stay available for emergency situations one reason that we have this

[49:37] partnership is to ensure safety and support as well as bridging the gap and

[49:45] stigma of police departments and police officers we are providing a right

[49:51] service right now and we're also able to connect people with services and give people referrals to services maybe

[49:57] working with one as a Dakota County employee I'm able to actually call a couple agencies that we partner with and

[50:05] get people into a crisis therapy session within about a week or so i'm able to

[50:11] provide uh services for not only mental health but for substance use and

[50:17] addiction and overdosing so this actually puts a better solution in place

[50:23] rather than dealing with the same person over and over again this person is given the resources and the uh the tools to

[50:30] help themselves being a single parent I mean that's I also am a Dakota County

[50:37] stabilization worker what that means is I receive referrals i might work with a client for a few weeks maybe up to about

[50:45] 10 or 12 weeks in that time that we work together we're doing therapeutic

[50:51] interventions we can do check-ins referrals for a variety of Dakota County

[50:57] services as well as other community services one challenge that people may

[51:04] face they may not have health insurance or really no funds which can also be a

[51:11] deterrent for somebody to seek out help we can actually offer support in obtaining psychiatric medication a

[51:19] really key point of the stabilization work is to set people up with more long-term services i think these social

[51:26] workers bring a lot of value to our community and our our citizens i think

[51:32] that they help uh people that are in crisis people that are dealing with difficult situations and uh we are very

[51:40] fortunate to have them working at the Wakeville Police Department

[52:02] my name is Melinda Martinez i'm community advocate for Farmington Lakeville i currently have offices out

[52:09] of Farmington Police Department and Lakeville Police Department i've worked for 360 communities nonprofit for just

[52:17] over a year they trained me in domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy we've had a partnership with 360

[52:23] communities for a number of years melinda is an advocate for victims and we rely on her to help us as we uh deal

[52:32] with people that are in domestic situations our services are free and confidential it's not income based there

[52:39] are no requirements law enforcement refers information to us refers clients

[52:45] we touch base with them we follow up if the officer that goes out on the call labels it as domestic violence or crisis

[52:53] or mental health that's how we get the reports in the back you know it's it's

[52:58] also dependent on the victim asking and saying it's okay to be reached and

[53:03] contacted we respect that um if they ask for our services or want to get to know

[53:10] more about what we can help them with we reach out we like to give them breathing space after an incident has happened so

[53:17] anywhere from 3 to 5 days after an incident we touch base see if they're needing any support anything from food

[53:24] clothes hygiene products um we can provide court advocacy court advocacy

[53:31] looks like either getting an order of protection or harassment restraining

[53:36] order it can also look like connecting them to victim witness with the county services we can write the order of

[53:45] protection petition for them we can go with them to court hearings and let them know what to expect if their abuser gets

[53:53] charged we go with them we follow the case we connect a lot of services that don't talk to each other housing food

[54:01] support all of the county services then you have the criminal services and so we

[54:06] walk alongside the victim survivor officers tend to go to the same houses and deal with the same situations over

[54:13] and over we've actually seen a reduction in the number of times that we have to go out to the same place because we've

[54:19] given them the the tools that they need to cope with whatever's going on in their life we don't pass judgment we

[54:25] don't put our input it's not about what we want or what we would do it's about what the victim survivor wants what they

[54:31] want to do with their family it's their situation and we empower them to to stand up for themselves something that a

[54:39] lot of them need at a very dark

[54:54] [Music] time rd1 is known for their amberana

[55:00] finish it is a Brazilian wood that kind of gives you a little bit of a cinnamon

[55:06] almost a cereal cinnamon toast crunch sort of flavor jess has a lot of passion especially for bourbon um she's taken

[55:14] trips down to Kentucky she's picked out private barrels for our stores um she's

[55:19] very well known for her pallet uh she's very knowledgeable in our stores as far

[55:24] as anything spirits have a certification through the wine and spirits education trust which is shorthand WCT um they are

[55:33] kind of the premier global authorities in spirits education and wine education

[55:40] um I have a level three certification which is the highest certification in spirits um where level one and two are

[55:47] more kind of the fundamentals of what goes on um what spir how spirits differ

[55:52] from each other um the one I did is more kind of what makes a spirit what it

[55:57] really is so the the production the materials everything that goes into a good spirit to make it a great spirit

[56:03] with the competitive market the way it is just offering quality products isn't enough um our customer service is the

[56:11] parts that sets us apart um if you're looking for something a little bit less I think the filthy cherries would be

[56:17] um they're a little bit more traditional a little bit like standard cherry option but we focused our training program more

[56:24] on individualized and certification programs for all of our staff which gives them the knowledge and the

[56:32] um confidence to help a customer find a product that they're looking for um in

[56:37] the past year we have certified 18 of our staff members in WCT level one wine

[56:44] i think it really sets us apart i think that um to my knowledge we're the only people that really put this sort of

[56:50] emphasis and this level of emphasis on education um I think that our staff is highly knowledgeable i think that people

[56:57] are going to find what they are looking for and probably be more satisfied with what they bring home

[57:05] [Music] burglary is on the rise and thieves are

[57:11] always on the lookout for easy targets an open garage door can be an invitation for trouble lock your car

[57:17] doors and keep your valuables out of sight it sounds simple but it's your first line of defense against theft

[57:25] don't let thieves ruin your day it's time to lock it up and keep what's yours yours

[57:33] [Music]

[57:44] hi my name is Nick Layman and I am the new construction representative at the city of Lakeville i came over from Brun

[57:52] Intertech over in Bloomington i was a field technician for them so I was on a

[57:58] lot of our construction sites doing a lot of material testing concrete and soil testing i was on our downtown team

[58:05] so I was up in Minneapolis St paul every day and I felt the transition over would

[58:11] be pretty smooth my new position here as a construction representative for the

[58:16] city of Lakeville i am our on-site presence for our contractors if they

[58:22] have any questions or concerns about the project I am on site to kind of answer

[58:27] those as well as helping any residents if we're working in a residential neighborhood with any questions and

[58:33] concerns and also just making sure that the project is running smoothly and that

[58:39] the contractor is doing everything according to the plans and if you have any questions or concerns feel free to

[58:46] reach out to me myself or the public works team in general and we'd be happy to

[58:53] [Music]

[58:58] help lakeville PD Reserve Unit is a group who uh volunteer their time to

[59:06] provide volunteer assistance to our department the reserve unit assists our

[59:11] department and our officers as needed uh when we simply don't have the the staff to uh cover events helping our licensed

[59:18] officers with different events of traffic control community events

[59:23] sporting events we were able to free the officers up for more dire emergencies we

[59:30] simply couldn't provide the level of service that we do to our community without our reserve unit the reserve

[59:36] department helps connect the community and citizens of Lakeville with the internal police department if you are

[59:44] excited about learning about law enforcement background please volunteer

[59:50] to be a reserve for the community and help our citizens we would love to have you

[1:00:02] hi I'm Bridget Samson recreation coordinator for the Lakeville Area Active Adults and here's what's going on

[1:00:07] at the Heritage Center with our fitness classes on Mondays and Thursdays from 8:15 a.m to 9:00 a.m we have chair yoga

[1:00:16] chair yoga is for everyone and is as beneficial as other forms of yoga to

[1:00:21] gain flexibility and strengthen muscles learn relaxation movements and breathing

[1:00:26] techniques improve posture and variations of moves which are taught to accommodate different restrictions or

[1:00:34] pain points no mats are required sign up at the Heritage Center or by calling

[1:00:42] 9529854620 we hope to see you soon at the Heritage

[1:00:52] Center so my name is Aaron i'm the forestry technician for the city of Lakeville and I'm here today to talk

[1:00:58] about emerald ashbor on your ash trees one of the first signs to look for with emerald ashbor is dieback in the tree

[1:01:04] canopy you'll start seeing dead branches on the outer part of the canopy and the tree will start to die and grow new

[1:01:11] sprouts on the inside of the canopy so it'll look like a little bush in between a bunch of dead branches then you'll

[1:01:16] also look for woodpecker damage which is blonde um and this is when woodpeckers

[1:01:22] come in and attack the larae of the emerald ashbor that are feeding under the bark and the woodpeckers fleck the

[1:01:28] bark off creating a blond-like texture you this is easiest spotted in the winter but you can also see it if a tree

[1:01:34] gets bad enough in the spring summer and fall once a tree gets to the point where there are very little leaves that are

[1:01:39] alive and the tree is mostly dead and woodpecker damage has reached the main stem or trunk that's when the tree

[1:01:45] becomes to the point that it's unlikely to be saved through injection um at this point we would often recommend removal

[1:01:51] of the tree and remove the brush from the site to keep EAB from spreading to

[1:01:57] other trees in the area um if a tree has early signs of emerald ashbor you were

[1:02:03] liking to save the tree you could call our city contractor which can be found on our website um to come out and treat

[1:02:10] the tree with an insecticide this kills the insects in the tree and hopefully stops any damage that will be occurring

[1:02:16] in the growing season for more information on Emerald Ashvore go to our website or call the public works

[1:02:21] department at

[1:02:28] [Music] 952-9852711 attention Lakeville

[1:02:34] residents and businesses save money while conserving water with the city of Lakeville's water efficiency rebate

[1:02:41] program replace your outdated water devices with Water Sense labeled toilets

[1:02:47] irrigation controllers and sprinkler bodies you could receive a significant amount of savings with this program

[1:02:54] applying is easy just fill out our online or paper rebate request form

[1:02:59] rebates will be credited on your water bill act fast as funds are limited go to

[1:03:05] lakevillemn.gov for more details and help us conserve water together we can

[1:03:11] make a [Music]

[1:03:19] difference i'm Tana from Lakeville Liquor i would just like to take this opportunity to thank all of our

[1:03:25] customers for their generous donations through the month of July your donations will benefit the children's

[1:03:31] environmental programming at Ritter Farm Park we'd like to thank the Lakeville Licker customers for their generous

[1:03:37] donation of $26,133 to help support the programming at Edo Environmental Learning Center to

[1:03:43] help expand the programming for the youth in the Lakeville community

[1:03:51] [Music]

[1:04:12] having full-timers on duty sleeping at the station within 50 yards from their

[1:04:19] truck is massive it's pretty nice to be able to be on site when we get calls

[1:04:24] instead of responding from our house to the fire station now makes it a lot quicker a lot smoother from the time

[1:04:30] that we get paid until the station or the truck goes in route is what we call a turnout time so previously that would

[1:04:37] be somewhere in the range of 5 to 6 minutes for people to get up from their you know leave their house or their work

[1:04:43] to get to the station staff a truck and go on the call uh with a staff truck that turnout time is less than 2 minutes

[1:04:49] and that is one of our goals that we had when we started down this uh this uh

[1:04:54] staffing was to be 2 minutes or less that's the average that we want to get them out the door on any call obviously

[1:05:01] our travel time driving from the station to that incident is the travel time there's not much we can change about

[1:05:07] that just due to the roads and the distance that we're traveling but our our overall response time as example

[1:05:13] used to be with uh the pay on call staffing and it is what it is is would

[1:05:19] be 12 to 14 minutes before we get a truck on scene right now with just one truck because they're covering the

[1:05:25] entire city they're at the they're at 9 minutes 13 seconds to get on scene so that's a pretty dramatic shift

[1:05:32] full-timers if they're already at the station boom they're in the truck right away they're already down the road

[1:05:38] they're getting information they already have dedicated tasks like one guy I know is going to force the door and then the

[1:05:45] other guy's going to be pulling a line into the front door and so a lot of the times we can save a lot of property just

[1:05:50] because we're taking out the fires so fast before they actually spread to the rest of the house so that's like a big

[1:05:57] I'd say that's like the major advantage of having full-timers i I do I think it's gotten a lot smoother um both sides

[1:06:04] have kind of come together the full-time and the paint on call side um we have

[1:06:10] figured out how to make it a smooth transition from my standpoint the the

[1:06:16] comfort is knowing we have a truck that is staffed all the time versus when we

[1:06:21] were doing a pay on you know paid on 100% pay on call we're paging out a station and we'd never know are we

[1:06:28] getting enough people to respond to that emergency next year when we add a second

[1:06:33] truck that's staffed we're going to watch that that come down to our goal is to be at about 7 minutes 30 seconds to

[1:06:39] have a truck on scene for any incident in the city of Lakeville [Music]

[1:06:59] hi I'm Fire Chief Mike Meyer and I just want to announce the exciting news that we were awarded a safer grant through uh

[1:07:06] Department of Homeland Security or FEMA uh which is going to fund 15 full-time firefighters over the next three years

[1:07:12] uh total value of the grant is roughly $5.5 million uh and that grant only pays

[1:07:18] for their salary and benefits and that's all the grant that it can be used for uh so we're very excited for this this is

[1:07:24] going to expand our capabilities uh as a department responding to emergencies uh

[1:07:29] doing inspections providing service to our community uh with the award of the safer grant obviously we're going to be

[1:07:34] hiring those firefighters so that application process will be opening in the very near future uh for more

[1:07:40] information on the job description and qualifications uh go to

[1:07:52] lakevillemn.gov did you know that when leaves and debris go down our storm drains they can pollute our rivers and

[1:07:58] lakes this can harm wildlife and disrupt our ecosystems instead of letting leaves

[1:08:03] wash away please bag them up or compost them by keeping our storm drains clear

[1:08:09] you help protect our water quality and keep our environment healthy let's work

[1:08:15] together for a cleaner greener

[1:08:21] [Music]

[1:08:31] future my name is Britt Nelson with the Lakeville Fire Department here to talk to you today about recreational fires in

[1:08:38] the city of Lakeville we have ordinances and codes that cover the ability to burn on your property in the city um you're

[1:08:45] allowed to have a recreational fire as long as it's contained to a 3-FFT by 3-FFT area and it is surrounded by

[1:08:52] non-combustible material so that means having a brick surround a fire pit made of metal or stone surround those are all

[1:09:00] fine uh some restrictions on what you're allowed to burn in the city it has to be non smoke producing wood you cannot burn

[1:09:08] construction materials you cannot burn leaves and you cannot burn grass or trash uh other than that the fire does

[1:09:16] have to be attended by an adult at all times and you do have to have means for extinguishment readily available uh all

[1:09:22] fires within the city have to be extinguished by midnight and if you do get any complaints from neighbors about

[1:09:28] smoke in the area we will ask you to extinguish it uh violations of no burn orders and the codes that surround

[1:09:35] burning in the city can result in fines from both the local and state level uh

[1:09:41] if you have any questions about when you can burn and what you can burn you can give us a call here at the Lakeville Fire Department and if you want to know

[1:09:47] about real time updates on burn bands and fire weather conditions you can check out the Minnesota DNR's website on

[1:09:53] fire safety

[1:10:01] i'm Paulie public works director with the city of Lakeville i want to let you know about the new public electric

[1:10:07] vehicle charging station that have recently been installed at some of the city parking lots the city has partnered

[1:10:12] with Carbon Solutions Group for the electric vehicle charging stations as part of the partnership Carbon Solutions

[1:10:19] Group funds the capital and operational costs at no cost to the city users pay a

[1:10:24] fee to utilize the charging stations the charging stations are located at City Hall Heritage Center Arts Center Market

[1:10:32] Street Parking Lot next to Ace Hardware and the Ames Arena the charging stations

[1:10:38] are either a level two 24 kW charger or a fast charging 180 kW station users

[1:10:46] will need to download the Dirt Road app and create an account before using the chargers more information on how to use

[1:10:52] the chargers are posted at the charging stations

[1:11:02] hi Susan Johnson recreation manager with the city of Lakeville i'm here today to talk to you about building and shelter

[1:11:08] rentals in Lakeville City parks reservations for 2025 for Lakeville residents are now being taken for the

[1:11:14] park buildings and shelters in all city parks non-residents are able to book facilities beginning March 1st indoor

[1:11:22] options include the John Hennon Pavilion Ritter Farm Park Prairie Lake Park Park

[1:11:27] View Park and Steve Mashad Park there are open air shelters in Antlers Park

[1:11:32] Caspersonson Park East Community Park Orchard Lake Park Ritter Farm Park and

[1:11:37] Valley Lake Park the new John Hennon Pavilion and shelters at Antlers Park have been extremely popular i would

[1:11:44] encourage you to check out other great options if the date you are looking for is already booked at Antlers casperson

[1:11:50] Park has great views of Lake Marian and has three shelters and may be a great setting for your event details regarding

[1:11:56] time blocks fees park rules and more can be found on the city's website at

[1:12:02] lakevillemn.gov staff will also be happy to answer your questions by phone 8:00 a.m to 4:30 p.m monday through Friday at

[1:12:12] 952-985460 our most popular facilities book quickly don't wait to make your reservation if you have a date in mind

[1:12:22] [Music]

[1:12:32] hello my name is Taylor Snyder and I'm the new assistant to the city administrator here at Lakeville so I

[1:12:38] come from Port Washington Wisconsin it's about 25 minutes north of Milwaukee right along Lake Michigan and that is

[1:12:44] subsequently where I got my first two jobs in public administration as an intern I worked for Ozaki County um as

[1:12:51] their administrative intern and then I received a full-time position with the city of Port Washington as a management

[1:12:58] analyst i went and got my master's degree in public administration from UW Milwaukee and then upon graduation I

[1:13:05] started looking for jobs and I ended up here in Lakeville and I couldn't be more excited about it in my position as the

[1:13:10] assistant to the city administrator I help the admin team which consists of the administrator the assistant

[1:13:16] administrator and the clerk with different projects that they have so some of these projects would include um

[1:13:22] research into AI usage and how we can utilize AI at the local government level some of the other things we're looking

[1:13:28] into is our city fleets and some of the ways that maybe we can extend the periods of these vehicles to maximize

[1:13:34] their usage and then we're always looking for creative ways that we're able to better serve and provide better

[1:13:40] services for our community members here with the city of Lakeville during the election I was helping with the

[1:13:47] elections with the city clerk and that's kind of when I started here with the city so I jumped right into that which was an experience that definitely was a

[1:13:55] challenge but it was a good challenge in this position I also oversee the youth advisory commission which has been a

[1:14:00] really great opportunity this position oversees the group of high school age students that come together and they

[1:14:07] meet monthly and they come up with projects and ways that they can impact their communities which has been a great

[1:14:12] experience to kind of help facilitate these creative ideas and get the ball rolling on these projects which has been

[1:14:18] awesome one thing that I've really enjoyed about the city of Lakeville is the sense of community i think community is very important and it's something

[1:14:25] that I was looking for when I was job searching and that is something I was able to find here um and it's not just

[1:14:31] the community but it's also a growing community and so that's something that really excited me and that's something

[1:14:36] that I'm excited to continue to be a part of here with Lakeville and um I'm happy to be

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[1:14:56] here my name is Britt Nelson with the Lakeville Fire Department here with another Lakeville Fire safety minute

[1:15:01] today we're talking about carbon monoxide carbon monoxide is a odorless tasteless smellless gas that can be

[1:15:09] poisonous as it replaces oxygen in the body it's created in the home by incomplete combustion of fuels so any of

[1:15:16] your gas fired appliances wood burning stoves or automobiles running in the

[1:15:21] garage any of which can produce carbon monoxide that can concentrate in the home uh early symptoms to look out for

[1:15:27] are headache dizziness lightadedness or nausea and then further exposure can

[1:15:33] lead to stuff like vomiting or eventually death um in the state of

[1:15:39] Minnesota annually about 300 people are sent to the ER with uh e signs of carbon

[1:15:44] monoxide poisoning and of those about 14 unfortunately pass away uh in the state

[1:15:50] of Minnesota it's required by law to have a carbon monoxide detector on any

[1:15:55] floor where sleeping rooms are and within 10 ft of any sleeping areas if you do have appliances in the room that

[1:16:02] burn fuel for heating or otherwise it's required to have one in the room with you when your carbon monoxide alarms do

[1:16:09] go off in the house it's important to get everybody out and accounted for and then call 911 uh the fire department

[1:16:15] will respond and work with you to help identify if there is presence of carbon monoxide in the house and then contact

[1:16:21] your utility company to hopefully get to the house and remedy the situation nobody should reenter the house until

[1:16:27] it's deemed safe and if you do have any signs and symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning you should go to the hospital

[1:16:32] to get checked out and a reminder carbon monoxide alarms should be replaced every 5 to seven years with a ULlisted carbon

[1:16:39] monoxide detector those can be hardwired battery or plugged in for more information you can visit the Minnesota

[1:16:46] Department of Health's carbon monoxide poisoning page or you can call us here at the fire department

[1:17:01] 952-985-4700 i'm Scarlett Larson program coordinator here at Lakeville Area Art Center this spring break let your

[1:17:08] child's creativity shine from March 31st to April 3rd we're offering fun hands-on

[1:17:13] kids camps in painting drawing and pottery during ISD 194 spring break with

[1:17:19] both full and half-day options your child can explore their artistic side in a way that fits your schedule whether

[1:17:25] they're eager to paint draw or try their hand at pottery there's something for every young artist our talented

[1:17:32] instructors will guide them through exciting projects helping them build new skills and create lasting memories spots

[1:17:39] are limited so don't wait sign up today at lakeville areacenter.com and give your child the

[1:17:45] gift of creativity this spring [Music] break calling all Lakeville thrifters

[1:17:53] the citywide garage sale is happening May 15th through 17th it's time to declutter find treasures and connect

[1:18:00] with your neighbors want to be part of the fun it's easy simply submit your address and list of items for sale

[1:18:06] through our online registration form your sale location will be included on

[1:18:12] our interactive GIS map but remember for your sale to appear on the printable map

[1:18:18] you must register by 10:00 a.m may 8th so gather your goods register your sale

[1:18:23] and get ready for a great weekend of garage sailing visit lakevillemn.gov for more information

[1:18:34] [Music] i'm Casey with the Lakeville Parks and

[1:18:40] Recreation Department this summer get active and meet new people through our adult athletic leagues whether you're

[1:18:47] looking for a little competition or some recreational fun we have something for

[1:18:57] everyone botchi is an easy tolearn backyard game form a team of four to

[1:19:02] register no experience necessary adult softball leagues usually have six to

[1:19:07] eight teams per league allowing teams to get to know one another and enjoy friendly competition without getting

[1:19:13] lost in the shuffle of larger leagues sand volleyball leagues at Antlers Park offer two levels of play for co-rec

[1:19:20] sixes teams also offered is a women's sixes league and a men's doubles sand

[1:19:25] volleyball league this year we have scheduled more pickle ball leagues than ever before including new individuals

[1:19:31] leagues additional doubles leagues the leagues for individuals are perfect for players without a partner or looking to

[1:19:38] meet new people with 35 pickle ball leagues to choose from there is sure to be something for everyone some leagues

[1:19:44] have already filled so register soon for more information on the city's adult athletic leagues visit the city of

[1:19:50] Lakeville's website or call our office at 952-98500 all

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[1:20:11] right well good afternoon good afternoon everybody and we're so glad that you could all make it this is a a very

[1:20:17] monumental day here in the city of Lakeville and we're glad to have so many of our partners here i'm Justin Miller i'm the city administrator here in

[1:20:23] Lakeville i'm just going to make a few introductions before I hand it over to to Mayor Helier i want to thank um

[1:20:28] specifically a couple people who are here the um the city council our entire city council is here council members

[1:20:34] Joshua Lee Dan Walter Michelle Vulk and John Burmel are here thank you very

[1:20:40] much as you can see we also have quite a few of our public safety contingents here and led by Chief Brad Pollson and

[1:20:47] the police department and Chief Mike Meyer and the fire department thank you all for being here

[1:20:53] and then I want to thank our um our design and construction teams from Leo A Daily and RJM Construction thank you

[1:21:01] all um this is going to be a wonderful facility and we're just very supportive or thankful for the support that we

[1:21:07] received from our our state legislators Representative John Cosnik and Jeff Whitty who couldn't be here today

[1:21:13] they're on the floor but Senator Zack Duckworth is here and he's going to say some words in a minute so uh now I'm going to turn it over to to Mayor Luke

[1:21:19] Helier great all right thanks Justin well I'll be

[1:21:24] really brief i just uh to reiterate a lot of what Justin said but I first want to extend uh my gratitude to

[1:21:31] Representative Whitty and Representative Cosnik who are not here uh and Senator Duckworth who really helped make a lot

[1:21:37] of it happen on the state side to secure nearly $8 million two years ago to really kickstart this program this is

[1:21:44] something that the fire department and police department has thought about for a long time to think about what a new uh

[1:21:49] training facility would look like like and so the council has been thinking about how do we make that happen from a financial side of things but um their

[1:21:56] help and then including with Congresswoman Craig securing money for the engineering um really made this

[1:22:02] happen and I think from my perspective on behalf of the council when this building opens um after construction I

[1:22:10] think it really reinforces our commitment as a council and to the city about how public safety is our number

[1:22:15] one priority i think a lot of people say that um and not just from a Lakeville

[1:22:20] standpoint but this is a regional facility as everybody knows and um the future for public safety is going to

[1:22:27] require cities and counties working together when we think about making sure we have staffing levels that are correct

[1:22:33] and we've got all the training levels that are needed um Brad corrected this but we I did hear a stat last week that

[1:22:39] in the next few years um 20% of all police will reach retirement age which

[1:22:45] is a serious serious concern for us so when we think about how do we meet that need for not only Lakeville but for the

[1:22:50] surrounding community this facility is extremely important at the same time there's several department fire

[1:22:56] departments in the area that are moving from paid on call to hybrid or full-time and that our partnerships with the Prior

[1:23:03] Lakes and others are going to really be important to have that uh working together as we move into that so this facility will help make that happen but

[1:23:08] I want to thank the rest of the city council for that as I mentioned our legislators and a congressional

[1:23:14] delegation so uh thanks again i'm looking forward to uh being here to actually do the demolition you guys don't know that but I'll be here with

[1:23:20] the the wrecking ball um this week right is that the deal and then we'll get this

[1:23:25] thing and then the more fun will be next year when we get to cut the ribbon with that I want to turn it over to Senator Zack Duckworth to offer a few words

[1:23:38] yeah oh did you just had to point out how short I am

[1:23:43] Luke uh I want to come back for the wrecking ball fun but really I'll be short and sweet because I do have to get

[1:23:49] to fire station one by six o'clock for training tonight and I don't want to get in trouble um you know it's been a long

[1:23:55] time uh coming to get this facility here in Lakeville i appreciate the hard work by everybody the God's honest truth

[1:24:02] Chief is I just got tired of training in this cold nasty building and we're finally going to do something better uh

[1:24:08] with it for both fire and for police uh something interesting about Lakeville is

[1:24:13] being a first responder and being of service to the community especially when it comes to public safety is just a part

[1:24:19] of our DNA here in Lakeville more so than any other community I can think of in the state of Minnesota uh when I go

[1:24:26] to National Guard training on the weekends I run into Lakeville police uh

[1:24:31] when we get mobilized for state active duty and we're doing stuff in the Twin Cities there's a couple of buddies from

[1:24:37] uh the Guard that are there St paul police officers or Lakeville police or a sheriff deputies uh when I go

[1:24:43] doornocking it's another state trooper here in Minnesota or keeping guard up at the cap uh I was just at my kids open

[1:24:51] house at their school and was running into firefighter after firefighter police officer after police officer the

[1:24:58] uh item that went for the highest amount for charity giveaway at East View Elementary was a tour of the Lakeville

[1:25:04] Police Department that's the kind of community that we have it's just embedded in what we do

[1:25:10] and uh putting together the funds for a phenomenal training facility in

[1:25:15] combination with the city in combination with Representative Craig and her help at the federal level is the absolute

[1:25:21] least we can do so from the bottom of my heart thank all of you and your families and your loved ones for the service you

[1:25:27] provide us here in Lakeville and the surrounding communities we want you safe we want you well trained we want you

[1:25:33] going home to your families at night so thank you so much

[1:25:45] thanks Zach um you did a great job and uh now I would like to turn over to

[1:25:52] Congresswoman Craig for a few remarks

[1:25:57] okay i've just decided I always want to follow Duckworth just so we all know here thank you Zach i really appreciate

[1:26:04] that i'm Angie Craig and I couldn't be more honored here to be with all of you this afternoon what a beautiful day and

[1:26:10] happy St patrick's Day everybody i bought this suit just for one day a year

[1:26:16] so it's so good to see all of you here today um I just want to say thank you to Mayor Helier what a great partnership

[1:26:22] we've been able to develop here for the city of Lakeville at the federal level senator Duckworth thank you for all that

[1:26:28] you do uh both personally um your service to our community and our nation as well as of course your service to the

[1:26:34] city of Lakeville thank you to the city council um if we think that members of Congress get yelled at uh I know it's

[1:26:41] it's it's even tougher at the grocery store uh when you're a member of the city council or your uh local mayor so

[1:26:48] thank you and then of course Chief Pawson I want to thank you and your entire uh department for all that you do

[1:26:54] for our community to keep all of us safe uh and Mike Meyer thank you thank you for your advocacy for the fire

[1:27:01] department for emergency uh services and of course it's been an honor to be able to fight for federal funding both for

[1:27:07] the first center which I'm honored that we were able to get some um and also for

[1:27:13] uh 15 safer grants to move to full-time fire department and I just learned that

[1:27:19] we actually hired 16 so congratulations to you and thank you for keeping our

[1:27:24] community safe um we've had some stuff going on in Washington in the last week

[1:27:30] um what I want to say uh is that I am disappointed and I uh as many of you know uh I am one of the most bipartisan

[1:27:38] members of Congress uh in the US Congress i work with my Republican colleagues all the time in partnership

[1:27:44] but I was really disappointed to see that uh $7 million in federal funding was left out of the funding bill that um

[1:27:52] passed the Senate on Friday and so that $7 million that uh we'd hope to be able

[1:27:58] to bring home your taxpayer dollars home to help build this facility uh we'll have to go back to the mat and work to

[1:28:04] get that funding all over again in the next funding cycle so I just want to say thank you so much i voted against the

[1:28:11] bill because uh uh one of the reasons because we were not going to be able to get the funding for those community

[1:28:18] projects that all of you worked so hard uh to accomplish so I just want to again say

[1:28:24] thank you for inviting me uh it is great to be at a groundbreaking in Minnesota

[1:28:30] in March wearing short sleeves and no coats it's pretty amazing uh and mayor

[1:28:37] again thank you so much for the amazing partnership that we built here with the community of Lakeville thank you so much

[1:28:42] thank [Applause]

[1:28:50] you so now we get to the fun part so if we could have all the city council um

[1:28:56] Senator Duckworth Representative Craig um let's see who else let's fill up all

[1:29:02] the shovels all right so both both chiefs a couple representatives of the police and fire department um I believe

[1:29:07] we have some hard hats and and jackets over here to make it look even more efficient so thank you

[1:29:14] kitty lift kitty lift bad luck okay ready here we go three two

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[1:30:08] everybody Count of three okay

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[1:30:32] rabbit Hole is a play about hope it is following this family including Becca

[1:30:38] and her husband Howie as they grieve the loss of their four-year-old son you're

[1:30:43] going to follow Howie and Becca as they navigate the relation their relationship

[1:30:48] and the relationship with their family members i think I really hope that audiences come to see a very beautifully

[1:30:54] written show with amazing actors the people I've cast are bringing these characters to life our team our cast are

[1:31:03] you know everyone who's worked on it has put so much love and care into telling

[1:31:08] this story please come out and see Expression Theat's production of Rabbit Hole we open April 4th through the 13th

[1:31:16] we would love to see you there

[1:31:33] hello I'm Melissa Han with History Minute and I'm going to talk about Dodd Road the railroads and how they impacted

[1:31:39] the incorporation of Lakeville in the 1800s captain William B dodd built a road connecting military forts in St

[1:31:46] paul to ones in St peter and Mano in 1853 the road inspired settlers to live

[1:31:52] here jj Brackett Lakeville's first settler made a plan for the first town

[1:31:57] along Prairie Lake now Lake Marion in 1855 settlers came and Dodd Road ran

[1:32:03] through the center of town the Hastings and Dakota line came along in 1869 and

[1:32:08] took over creating a depot and a new village called Fairfield lakeville business moved to Fairfield and

[1:32:15] eventually became Lakeville i'm currently in downtown Lakeville and Pioneer Park which used to be part of

[1:32:20] the old Hastings and Dakota line because of the rise of automobiles paved roads and trucking the railroad industry in

[1:32:27] Lakeville faded dodd Road fared better with these innovations and remained the main road going south until Highway 65

[1:32:34] was built in 1949 [Music]

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[1:32:58] hi I'm Fire Chief Mike Meyer also the bingo caller extraordinaire for Firehouse Bingo this is the 6th annual

[1:33:05] Firehouse Bingo that we're hosting at Station 1 it'll be on Sunday May 18th from 2:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m there will be

[1:33:12] 10 exciting bingo games with cash prizes ranging from $150 to the final game which is a

[1:33:19] coverall for $1,000 kids are also welcome uh to play bingo and they'll

[1:33:24] have special cards and special prizes for them uh to purchase tickets or get more information about the event you can

[1:33:30] go to the Public Safety Foundation's website and that is

[1:33:36] lpsfn.org [Music]

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[1:40:34] armmesus Day 1940 the day started out beautiful uh it's just like any other

[1:40:40] ordinary fall day uh Minnesota was primarily agricultural and uh things seemed fairly

[1:40:48] normal a day to remember but in those days 1940 there was no advanced national

[1:40:54] weather service like we have today where they can predict the weather days in advance there weren't cell phones in

[1:41:01] fact many homes didn't even have telephones at all the day started out mild sunny people dressed accordingly

[1:41:09] with just light clothing on but by midafternoon it had turned horribly cold

[1:41:15] the wind would picked up from the north it was very very cold it started to snow

[1:41:22] and people were not dressed properly many many many duck hunters were out in

[1:41:28] their blinds and weren't dressed properly and died froze to death farmers

[1:41:34] had a very difficult time getting to their animals out in the barn some of

[1:41:39] them got lost blinded by the snow and froze to death in their in the groves

[1:41:46] close to their farms [Music]

[1:41:52] it's a story that uh my mother told many times over the years of what happened with her uh during the Armist to stay

[1:41:59] blizzard November 11th 1940 as I look back to my years at the Lakeville High

[1:42:05] School there was one occasion I will never forget on November 11th 1940 my

[1:42:13] brother Julian and I rode the school bus to Lakeville as usual it was a mild day

[1:42:18] in November and uh warm it was kind of overcast a little bit misty and they her

[1:42:25] and her brother Julian rode the school bus to school each day so they just

[1:42:30] dressed in light clothes they wore light jackets no hats or scarves no gloves

[1:42:37] mittens and the girls all wore skirts to school so she wore a skirt that day

[1:42:42] before noon it had started to snow heavily we were served our lunch and then dismissed they called for the

[1:42:49] school bus and the uh owner and operator of the school bus was Arnold Sber my dad

[1:42:56] had a transportation company before he and my mother got married in 41 and part

[1:43:02] of that transportation was starting the bus service he also delivered cream to

[1:43:08] Lakeville and milk to Farmington so the bus service was part of him driving and

[1:43:16] working with vehicles and so he came to pick up the kids at school uh after they

[1:43:23] had fed them lunch and they started out for Credit River Township is where my mom grew up on a farm and so they only

[1:43:31] got maybe 2 miles out of Lakeville traveling west a terrible blizzard hit

[1:43:37] the area it was impossible to see the road and finally the bus became stuck in

[1:43:44] a huge drift arnold tried in vain to get the bus out of the snow drift get the

[1:43:50] bus unstuck and it just wasn't working and eventually the transmission went out

[1:43:55] on the bus and so they were stranded there arnold made some attempts to locate some shelter for them but the

[1:44:01] visibility was really very bad they couldn't see so they just kind of tried to wait it out

[1:44:07] and when it got to be about 7:00 at night Arnold felt that if they stayed in

[1:44:13] the bus they would freeze to death it was very cold out very windy and the bus

[1:44:19] was running out of gasoline arnold made a decision based on a farm that he had

[1:44:24] passed uh about a half a mile or quarter mile back that they should all hold

[1:44:31] hands form a chain don't let go and we're going to make it to this farm arnold and um some boys led the way cuz

[1:44:38] they had long pants on and then the girls were next and they tried to walk in the tracks of the boys the oldest

[1:44:46] boys brought up the rear to make sure no kids were left behind and they walked about a quarter of a mile to a farm and

[1:44:53] they got to the farm and they got inside and they were in shelter there was frostbite on their ears etc and my mom

[1:45:01] described having to peel literally peel ice off the back of her calves the farm

[1:45:06] family was a young couple that had one baby we thought the farmer's wife must

[1:45:12] have gone into shock with 26 kids coming into her home we were never offered any

[1:45:18] food that evening or breakfast the next morning after closing the kitchen door

[1:45:24] she made breakfast for her own family and then asked us if we would like a cup

[1:45:29] of coffee they didn't have a telephone so there was no calling for help arnold decided that that wasn't a good place to

[1:45:35] just camp out for the remainder of the storm so he and two of the oldest boys

[1:45:41] uh one of them being my mother's brother decided to walk for help and Arnold's family farm was about 2 miles away so

[1:45:49] they uh walked through the snow drifts two miles to the Saber farm they got a

[1:45:56] team of workh horses and a box sled he brought the sled to the other farm they

[1:46:04] loaded all the kids into the back of the sled and covered them all over with horse blankets and they made their way

[1:46:11] into the town of Lakeville and the first place they stopped was the local

[1:46:17] cafe and Arnold told all the kids "Go in order whatever you want to eat don't

[1:46:24] worry about paying for it it'll be fine and in the meantime he got a hold of the superintendent of Lakeville schools and

[1:46:31] they started calling families in Lakeville and asking if they could take a child or two in until the till they

[1:46:37] could get back home my mother and another girl stayed with one family and her brother and another guy stayed with

[1:46:44] a different family and her brother and his friend decided they [Music]

[1:47:46] Good evening if you would please join me with a for a moment of silence and the pledge of

[1:48:05] allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic

[1:48:10] for it stands nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for

[1:48:17] all hey I forgot to say this before i'm calling to order April 21st meeting um

[1:48:24] and with that roll call please

[1:48:29] vulk here helier here burmal here walter

[1:48:35] all right very good moving on to item number three citizens comments it's opportunity for anybody to address the council for typically up to three

[1:48:44] minutes moving on any additional agenda information Mr miller okay uh and then

[1:48:51] we'll move into five our presentations and I think Ms anderson is here oh sorry

[1:48:57] this little computer screen is blocking your face come on up yeah to uh give us some background on National Day of

[1:49:03] Prayer i sure will and this year I'm excited that I can speak boldly last

[1:49:09] year you remember I'd lost my voice and I had to have somebody else talk so with great excitement I come to tell you

[1:49:14] about the task force in Lakeville that is presenting a time of prayer for National Day of Prayer outside of City

[1:49:21] Hall at noon and you all are invited to join us and a little history hasn't

[1:49:27] changed a whole lot from last year when I told you but the National Day of Prayer has actually began well it wasn't

[1:49:33] National Day of Prayer at that time but an observance actually began before we were a nation that July 20th of

[1:49:41] 1775 at that time it was a Continental Congress and they issued a proclamation recommending a day of

[1:49:49] prayer fasting and public humiliation to be observed and then our first president

[1:49:55] then a few years later in 1795 George Washington proclaimed a day of public

[1:50:01] thanksgiving and prayer and it wasn't until almost 200 years later in uh April 17th of

[1:50:09] 1952 Congress proclaimed a joint resolution for a national day of prayer

[1:50:15] in which the people of the United States may turn to God in prayer and meditation in their churches in groups and as

[1:50:23] individuals and that was to be observed on 4th of July

[1:50:29] every year since that time there's been some type of an observation of that day

[1:50:34] and then it was Ronald Reagan Thursday May 5th 1988 he signed into law that

[1:50:42] designated the first Thursday in May as the annual observance for National Day

[1:50:47] of Prayer and I found this quote that Reagan had said "Americans in every

[1:50:52] generation have turned to their maker in prayer in adoration and in thanksgiving

[1:50:57] in contrition and supplication we have acknowledged both our dependency on Almighty God and the help he offers as

[1:51:05] individuals and as a nation." And it has been proclaimed every year since then

[1:51:12] and then most recently our last president Biden in his 20 24 proclamation wrote "Scripture tells us

[1:51:19] to rejoice in hope be patient in tribulation and constant in prayer our

[1:51:25] prayer for our nation is that we keep faith that our best days are ahead of us and continue to believe in honesty

[1:51:32] decency dignity and respect may we see each other not as enemies but fellow

[1:51:38] human beings made in the image of God and precious in his sight our nation has

[1:51:44] been strengthened by the faith of its people and we are fortunate to live in a country that the constitution protects

[1:51:51] that so again I invite you again first Thursday in May now is May 1st so come

[1:51:58] and join us outside city hall and pray for sunny days thank you Mrs anderson

[1:52:04] and I'll have Councilwoman Vog will read our proclamation okay proclamation for National Day of Prayer

[1:52:10] 2025 whereas National Day of Prayer is an annual observance held on the first

[1:52:16] Thursday of May inviting people of all faiths to pray for the nation and

[1:52:21] whereas the National Day of Prayer Task Force a non sectarian group with no

[1:52:27] political affiliation encourages citizens to pray for our leadership in America especially

[1:52:34] in the areas of government military military media business education church

[1:52:41] and family therefore the city council of the city of Lakeville does hereby proclaim Thursday May 1st 2025 National

[1:52:50] Day of Prayer in Lakeville very good thank you thanks for being here look forward to it all right we'll

[1:52:57] move on to item B which is our fire department badging recognition i'll turn over to our fire chief Meyer for

[1:53:04] presentation good evening good evening mayor council members uh

[1:53:12] tonight we'll be recognizing the five full-time staff that were hired in March of 2024 and as I call them forward uh we'll

[1:53:19] be I'll uh introduce them but if they can come forward with their families that are going to be pinning their

[1:53:24] badges so for a shift we have COP uh Captain Colin Heagen uh Bshift is

[1:53:31] Captain Zach Weise who is not here they're expecting their second child either shortly tonight or tomorrow uh

[1:53:38] firefighter Steven Moses for sea shift we have Captain Tom Ness and firefighter

[1:53:43] Dan Parrot so as they come forward this

[1:53:48] group obviously successfully completed their first year probation uh which included four weeks of a joint fire

[1:53:54] academy with uh Burnsville Egan and South Metro Fire uh they played a very

[1:53:59] vital role in our transition to a hybrid department so these are obviously the first full-time firefighters and had a a

[1:54:05] long difficult road in front of them as far as making this transition for us uh they've been instrumental in uh

[1:54:11] preserving and promoting our department's culture and in addition to that when they're on shift they're providing additional training hours to

[1:54:18] our pay on call staff to kind of hone their skills to what they have and keep that going forward uh so and then how we

[1:54:25] serve our community better so all the skills that they bring or that they learned at the joint academy and then beyond that they're sharing with those

[1:54:31] that they're working with each and every day so you have who's going to we're going

[1:54:38] to do an oath

[1:54:43] around so if I can have you raise your right hand and repeat after me i state

[1:54:49] your name do solemnly swear

[1:54:54] that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States

[1:55:00] and the State of Minnesota and the State of Minnesota and faithfully discharge the duties of your position and

[1:55:06] faithfully discharge the duties of my position of the city of Lakeville the

[1:55:11] city of Lakeville in the county of Dakota and state of Minnesota in the county of Dakota and the state of

[1:55:16] Minnesota to the best of my judgment and ability so help me God to the best of my judgment and ability so help me God

[1:55:23] awesome if your family member wants to now pin your badge on you

[1:55:50] So just to note out of the the five that uh obviously there's four here but out of the five that we hired last year four

[1:55:55] of those are internal and one was an external candidate

[1:56:01] well first of all we want to congratulate all of you so we'll give you a round of applause

[1:56:12] and others can weigh in but I what I'll say is I you know this is a really historic moment for the city um for you

[1:56:17] guys to be the first part of helping the transition to moving from volunteer to hybrid so we're really excited to have

[1:56:22] everybody here full-time and look forward to your leadership in our city and we thank the rest of your family and your kids and your spouses willingness

[1:56:29] to serve our city so thank you very much for that council member Lee yeah I'll echo what uh Mayor Helier said but uh I

[1:56:36] love seeing your families here um to you all we are very proud of uh the

[1:56:42] firefighters that we're ushering in and uh I I know you all are too so thank you in advance for all the the nights that

[1:56:49] are interrupted and the service that your whole family is doing for the city of Lakeville so I appreciate it

[1:56:56] and I'll just say thanks for bearing with us as we find you a a home in Fire Station 5

[1:57:02] we'll give you guys a moment for you to exit with your family and then we'll get back to business so thank you again for

[1:57:07] being here

[1:57:20] all right we'll move on to item C which is the fire department quarterly report so I guess you could stay if you wanted but I don't know if the chief already

[1:57:27] gives it to you at the air meeting so treats and some pictures to take across the street

[1:57:41] so and of course they arrived at the last minute so two of them are on shift so we they were out on a call and had to

[1:57:46] change to get here so all right mayor Council Miller I'd like

[1:57:52] to present the first quarter report for the fire department for 2025

[1:57:59] and starting with our mission statement the Lakeville Fire Department is dedicated to serving serving the community through the protection of

[1:58:04] lives and property by providing public safety education and a professional emergency

[1:58:11] response looking at incidents for the first uh quarter and this is a three-year comparison as you look from left to right but the first one is just

[1:58:18] total incidents so we ended the first quarter with 886 calls so obviously increasing each year uh that we see uh

[1:58:26] and then if we look at the first quarter by month you can see uh how busy those months are they're fairly level uh

[1:58:32] obviously January and February are slightly busier busier this year than they were in previous years march is

[1:58:38] fairly level uh with comparative to the previous years breaking those incidents down so

[1:58:44] out of the 886 obviously 500 or 600 of roughly are medicals so that's about 65%

[1:58:50] of our call volume in that first quarter uh good intent calls false alarms uh fires were at 17 for the first quarter

[1:58:57] so it's slightly up compared to last year uh but some of that accounts for the dryness and lack of snow that we've

[1:59:03] had as far as that goes and then just looking at overlapping calls so out of that 866 incidents we had

[1:59:10] 236 incidents where we had multiple calls going on uh 228 were two incidents

[1:59:15] or more uh and then you can see three instance were seven times and we had uh one occurrence of five in five calls or

[1:59:23] five incidents back to back on that and then just looking at the

[1:59:28] station incident so as far as if we're paging out a station uh and we fully suspect this as we move into the hybrid

[1:59:35] staffing of truck is that the duty crew you can see that on the far right they're at 700 calls for the first or

[1:59:41] first quarter and then the stations you can kind of see those trending downwards as we rely more on that staffed engine

[1:59:47] but we're still in need of those stations to cover when we have those overlapping calls that that one crew is busy and we will watch those numbers

[1:59:55] probably decrease about a third again when we add the second truck on this following Monday or this coming

[2:00:02] Monday just to highlight uh three of those responses that occurred in the first quarter so we did have a a

[2:00:07] significant accident with a semi versus semi or a box truck on the left side that you see there with injuries to the

[2:00:13] driver uh the center picture is kind of a an interesting one where uh residents called that two male eagles that were uh

[2:00:20] fighting and got entangled and then got stuck in the tree basically uh the raptor center came out uh we actually

[2:00:27] had Raptor uh center people in the ladder going up to freedom but as as they got about where they're at the

[2:00:33] eagles unlocked or got free of each other and then flew away so that's how

[2:00:39] uh and then the right picture is just showing a vehicle accident in a residential neighborhood that rolled over and just some of the measures to

[2:00:45] get the uh the occupants out how we have to secure the vehicle or make it stable uh to work in and around that vehicle

[2:00:53] uh our drone team was out in Farmington for uh for one call helping search for a missing lady that uh walked off in the

[2:01:00] neighborhood and just to kind of show some of the support that we have with that is uh the red trailer is our I'll

[2:01:06] call it an all-encompassing trailer so we carry extra air bottles for structure fires that we may need it's got a heater

[2:01:13] it's got uh water and such in there but it also supports our drone team so if they are on a lengthy deployment it's

[2:01:19] got a generator in to help charge batteries a heater for if it is in this time of year it was chilly out there but

[2:01:25] then we can also uh pull up uh a software program that we can monitor any drone that's in the air that is

[2:01:31] registered to that mission if you will for flying for searching for that so we can actually see our drones the PD's

[2:01:37] drones and anybody else that we give permission to log in and see that response times in the first quarter

[2:01:44] they remain fairly consistent uh the one piece that I'll just draw your attention to is that we've seen an increase on the

[2:01:50] alarm time that PAP handling so the time that uh our dispatch center receives the

[2:01:55] phone call to the time that they dispatch us uh slightly over it's about 2 minutes 15 seconds 2 minutes 20

[2:02:01] seconds uh the standard or the benchmark that they should be at is at 1:30 i know they've had an influx of new uh

[2:02:08] dispatchers now coming online from training so uh so we'll keep an eye on that uh and then just on the bottom I

[2:02:15] should reference these are all emergency response calls not if it was a routine call those are excluded from this time

[2:02:20] frame or the the report there and then uh the bottom bullet point on EMS calls

[2:02:25] is that we are running about 55% of our EMS calls that we do respond to we're arriving in front of the

[2:02:34] ambulance uh training uh so we had active shooter training or alert training this is a countywide uh program

[2:02:40] that's going on for this year to train all fire EMS and PD in a different

[2:02:46] response plan as far as that and coming together with a grander or a bigger response plan throughout the county uh

[2:02:52] hazardous material operations which we have to do every year medical training uh and then we also added uh to our uh

[2:03:00] EMTs on the trucks that they we now carry a cardiac monitor and then we added some medical variances as far as

[2:03:06] if it's a cardiac arrest there are certain things that we can do above and beyond uh what we have done in the past

[2:03:12] and then we also had a joint academy with fire officer fire instructor training going on quick question for you

[2:03:17] about training you know we keep seeing all these pictures of car accidents we have specific training for EVs great

[2:03:23] question so tonight uh we actually have a company that came in this month okay uh is doing EV training so they actually

[2:03:29] have a Tesla over there that they're going through how to open it if the batteries are dead uh he has a semi-trail that's out back with

[2:03:35] different batteries so you kind of get to see what's in there but it's uh been very good training and they were out at

[2:03:40] FDIC for uh basically the international conference uh so it's been very good training some of the things that we're

[2:03:47] taking from that is just the how to make the vehicle safe if they're in a vehicle accident or if there's a vehicle fire

[2:03:53] that that battery's on fire what do we you know some of the procedures that we have to update for ourselves okay good i

[2:03:59] take it you have to use a different fire suppressant or whatever the technical term is for for the electric cars the

[2:04:08] water is the best thing is you want to maintain or cool the battery if the battery is in a thermal runaway so one of those battery cells ruptures and

[2:04:15] starts going okay uh they're also recommending fire blankets so if it's around another vehicle or an exposure is

[2:04:22] that we want to try to cover that and then protect the exposure you're not necessarily going to get the extinguish

[2:04:27] the vehicle or the car fire the battery in there uh but if we can protect everything around it or move that

[2:04:32] vehicle out of the way so okay uh there's been some instance nationwide of a you know uh one of their uh pieces

[2:04:39] they had out in California car uh electric vehicle drove into a house caught the house on fire the batteries

[2:04:45] on fire they drugg the vehicle out of the garage that it drove into to get it out of the house to put the house fire

[2:04:50] out otherwise you're dealing with that that batteries on fire for quite some time okay

[2:04:58] uh community events so obviously fire prevention uh food trucks we've done 29 in the first quarter they continually

[2:05:04] come in uh fire safety talks we've done quite a few at daycare centers our uh

[2:05:10] stations and then also we had a crew at the home expo at Lakeville

[2:05:15] North and then looking at fire inspections uh we completed 325 inspections and kind of the pie chart

[2:05:21] shows a breakdown of of those different ones obviously the annual inspection the the 52% is the majority of our work the

[2:05:29] rest of the the ones are just kind of follow-ups that we do a routine uh and then you can kind of see some of the

[2:05:34] pictures to the right uh of that we found there so a golf cart blocking emergency exit obviously is that

[2:05:40] something that we want corrected uh and then the bottom one is uh while they're out doing pre-pl or uh inspections we're

[2:05:47] completing pre-plans on those buildings so we did 415 pre-plans were updated in the first quarter

[2:05:54] and you may ask what does a pre-plan look like uh so I thought as I was going through and I added this so the the picture on

[2:06:00] the left that you see is actually Century uh middle school so a lot of the stuff is if it tells us where our key

[2:06:08] box are so if we need access into the building how where we're going to find the master keys so to speak uh any of

[2:06:13] the utility shut offs gas electric uh the sprinkler connection and then for

[2:06:18] all of the schools we've gone through and numbered our doors so if we get called and they want us to come in a certain door we can look at the

[2:06:24] pre-planned map and determine where that door is on the school uh a unique thing

[2:06:30] about the program that we are using is that our some of our neighbor neighboring cities are using it and we can share those pre-plans with each

[2:06:36] other so uh the picture to the right is actually the Burnsville Center uh so that's Burnsville's pre-plan of that

[2:06:42] they've done on the Burnsville Center so if we're responding to the Burnsville Center we can pull up in our response

[2:06:47] and see uh if they tell us they want us to go to a specific door or potentially go find the fire sprinkler system to

[2:06:53] support that uh so it's become very helpful that we're we're integrating in that way and it's not just Burnsville

[2:06:58] it's other cities around us that are moving to the the platform that we're

[2:07:03] using uh recruitment uh so in March we started 16 full-time firefighters that

[2:07:08] were part of the safer grant uh as of last Thursday they completed their joint academy fire training uh this week they

[2:07:16] are and it's part of my update so I'm a little advanced but they are doing fire inspector one training this week and on

[2:07:21] Monday afternoon they'll start working 24-hour

[2:07:27] shifts uh late January we hosted our annual awards banquet at Brackets Crossing uh it was a very good

[2:07:33] attendance and you can see uh Joe Tolmes was our nominated as our firefighter of the year and uh Corey Blanchard was

[2:07:40] nominated as our our rookie of the year cory unfortunately couldn't make the banquet because he was sick that

[2:07:47] evening and just some of the stuff we probably already covered but just some department updates so we added the easy

[2:07:53] IO kits which is uh we can do an IV line basically uh for a cardiac arrest uh

[2:07:58] patient uh the cardiac monitor which is a picture to the top right uh we did the groundbreaking at the first responder uh

[2:08:05] skill center and then we've obviously worked uh been moving forward on the fire station as far as design meetings

[2:08:12] and such have been happening uh one thing we are waiting for is the report pending on our ISO review that was

[2:08:17] completed at the beginning of January that we're at and as I mentioned the joint fire academy just completed this

[2:08:23] last week that completes my first quarter

[2:08:28] report and I will stand for any questions but thank you for your support to the fire department council any

[2:08:34] questions i think especially the EV stuff that was I'm thinking about that a lot council member Walter thank you

[2:08:42] Chief uh okay moving on to item six our consent agenda anything you'd like to

[2:08:48] highlight Mr miller thank you Mayor uh tonight I want to highlight item 6D it's a resolution accepting donations from

[2:08:54] customers of Lakeville Liquors uh this past month over $29,000 was raised from our customers and those are going to be

[2:09:00] split equally between the food shelves at 360 360 communities and the open door and so we're very appreciative of that

[2:09:05] and I'm sure that we'll have them here at a future meeting and present them with with that item 6G it's time to

[2:09:12] start thinking panrog and so we're going to be uh asking you to approve a resolution temporarily closing streets

[2:09:18] for those festivities uh just as a heads up item 6J we are

[2:09:23] delaying the start time of the work session next week till 7 PM to allow for everybody to be there and on time and

[2:09:29] then item 6L is an ordinance amending title 8 chapters 1 and two of the Lakeville City Code um that was the code

[2:09:35] that uh detailed the organization of our fire department as you know that's going through a lot of changes so this was

[2:09:41] reviewed by the public safety committee last month and we're asking for approval of that change okay very good council

[2:09:46] any items you wanted to pull for discussion and if not I'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda

[2:09:53] i move to approve the consent agenda there a second okay any further

[2:09:59] discussion see all those in favor say I i opposed nay okay consent agenda pass

[2:10:06] we'll now move on to item 7A Pumpkin Creek Preliminary Plat and Reszoning and

[2:10:12] I believe the applicant David Nabel are you going to present first or come on up

[2:10:18] did I say that right canaby oh it is Can Gez way off

[2:10:24] welcome yeah thank you mayor council members my name is David Canaby i'm a civil engineer with the firm Civil Site

[2:10:30] Group here to present the Pumpkin Creek Residential Development Project project is located just south of 185th Street

[2:10:37] north of the Preserve Third Edition project off of Exonia Avenue project is

[2:10:43] for the subdivision of the property into 26 single family lots and a reszoning of

[2:10:49] the property from an RS2 zoning to an RS3 zoning um the project we've been

[2:10:55] working with the city for quite a long time went through planning commission they

[2:11:01] um approved or recommended approval of the project we're here for approval tonight and we're here if you've got any

[2:11:07] questions or anything on the project be more than willing to answer

[2:11:13] okay thank you any questions yet or Thank you welcome thank you mayor

[2:11:19] members of the council um as Mr canaly said um the property is um Pumpkin Creek

[2:11:25] Pulary Plat is proposed just south of 185th Street um north of 190th Street um

[2:11:31] they are requesting both a primary plat and a resoning the existing um property the existing zoning is RS2 single family

[2:11:40] they're proposing RS3 which is the same zoning to the south um where Exonia

[2:11:45] Avenue will be extended from um this falls within the range for the low density land use category um the pulary

[2:11:52] plat um we've altered the the layout um north is 185th Street um at the top of

[2:11:59] your screen you can see the layout for the 26 lots the street um Main Street Aonia will extend up to 185th Street and

[2:12:06] then there's one other um short extension of a new street that could extend to the west as well as a

[2:12:13] culde-sac um the property does include three wetland areas um the applicant

[2:12:19] worked um really well with staff to protect these wetland areas as well as the buffer um and then at the same time

[2:12:26] tuck in all of the required storm water management it was a challenging site um they worked hard with us um we pushed

[2:12:34] them a little bit um lost a couple of lots in the process um which they don't

[2:12:39] love but we have to um abide by our requirements and it turned out to be a really good layout um in the end the

[2:12:46] lots range from 11,000 square ft to a little over 24 um,000 square ft

[2:12:51] depending on um the location um all of the lots meet all of the required setbacks um for the position of the the

[2:12:58] home site so um everything is being met um as he mentioned the planning commission did review this at their p um

[2:13:04] and held a public hearing on March 20th and unanimously recommended approval of the Pomeia plat and the resoning and I

[2:13:12] stand for any questions okay council any questions

[2:13:18] comments council member Lee just a comment not a question here um but I

[2:13:25] guess I appreciate the work that went into adjusting this um you know I I was

[2:13:31] hopeful that through this process we weren't going to try to find the most the smallest possible lots um for this

[2:13:38] uh zoning and you know doing some some statistics on the the uh square footage

[2:13:47] it's clear that most of the properties are larger than the minimum which is uh

[2:13:52] appreciated uh the preservation of the wetlands is is great uh congruence with

[2:14:00] the properties to the south i mean I just it it's clear that this took some creativity and some work to make this

[2:14:06] happen um I know that there's there it's never uh our our priority to clearcut

[2:14:14] some of the forests that or I shouldn't say forest they're wooded areas they're not always quality wooded areas um but

[2:14:22] to get all of the uh requirements in to maintain the water quality was was something that I appreciated too so um

[2:14:28] just well done uh around the board and and thank you for the work that went into it

[2:14:35] other questions comments if not I'll take a motion

[2:14:45] council member Burma

[2:14:52] I move to approve one a resolution approving the preliminary plat of Pumpkin Creek and two an ordinance

[2:15:00] amendment reszoning the property from RS2 to RS3 and adopt the findings of

[2:15:06] fact dated April 21 2025 is there a second

[2:15:12] second second okay any further discussion i'll just say I want to

[2:15:17] extend my gratitude to to staff and the planning commission you know as I mentioned they took a lot of testimony i

[2:15:22] watched that meeting a lot of answer a lot of questions so I appreciate that and and that of the developer as well so thank you for that and with that we'll

[2:15:29] take roll call please burmal i walter lee hi b i hi okay very

[2:15:40] good congratulations good luck uh moving on to items eight and nine unfinished

[2:15:45] and new business okay seeing none uh announcements next work session is next

[2:15:51] Monday at 7 p.m not 6 p.m here at city hall our next council meeting is May 5th

[2:15:58] here in chambers and with that I'll take a motion to adjourn to a close session to

[2:16:04] discuss some land acquisition so moved we had to say out

[2:16:10] the Oh yeah council member V numbers in there uh we move to adjourn to a close

[2:16:15] session to discuss the land acquisition of P number

[2:16:21] 22733700 070 and

[2:16:26] 2200900 079 011 persuant to Minnesota

[2:16:32] statute 13 D.05 5 subdivision 3C3

[2:16:39] second any amendments to that excuse me

[2:16:44] um any discussion not roll call please

[2:16:50] walter hi lee hi v hi hi burma hi

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[2:24:04] armmesus Day 1940 the day started out beautiful uh it's just like any other

[2:24:10] ordinary fall day uh Minnesota was primarily agricultural and uh things seemed fairly

[2:24:17] normal a day to remember but in those days 1940 there was no advanced national

[2:24:24] weather service like we have today where they can predict the weather days in advance there weren't cell phones in

[2:24:30] fact many homes didn't even have telephones at all the day started out mild sunny people dressed accordingly

[2:24:38] with just light clothing on but by midafternoon it had turned horribly cold

[2:24:45] the wind would picked up from the north it was very very cold it started to snow

[2:24:51] and people were not dressed properly many many many duck hunters were out in

[2:24:57] their blinds and weren't dressed properly and died froze to death farmers

[2:25:03] had a very difficult time getting to their animals out in the barn some of

[2:25:09] them got lost blinded by the snow and froze to death in their in the groves

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[2:25:21] it's a story that uh my mother told many times over the years of what happened with her uh during the Armistice Day

[2:25:28] blizzard November 11th 1940 as I look back to my years at the Lakeville High

[2:25:35] School there is one occasion I will never forget on November 11th 1940 my

[2:25:42] brother Julian and I rode the school bus to Lakeville as usual it was a mild day

[2:25:48] in November and uh warm it was kind of overcast a little bit misty and they her

[2:25:54] and her brother Julian rode the school bus to school each day so they just

[2:26:00] dressed in light clothes they wore light jackets no hats or scarves no gloves

[2:26:06] mittens and the girls all wore skirts to school so she wore a skirt that day

[2:26:11] before noon it had started to snow heavily we were served our lunch and then dismissed they called for the

[2:26:19] school bus and the uh owner and operator of the school bus was Arnold Sber my dad

[2:26:25] had a transportation company before he and my mother got married in 41 and part

[2:26:31] of that transportation was starting the bus service he also delivered cream to

[2:26:38] Lakeville and milk to Farmington so the bus service was part of him

[2:26:45] driving and working with vehicles and so he came to pick up the kids at school uh

[2:26:51] after they had fed them lunch and they started out for Credit River Township is where my mom grew up on a farm and so

[2:27:00] they only got maybe 2 miles out of Lakeville traveling west a terrible

[2:27:05] blizzard hit the area it was impossible to see the road and finally the bus

[2:27:12] became stuck in a huge drift arnold tried in vain to get the bus out of the

[2:27:18] snow drift get the bus unstuck and it just wasn't working and eventually the

[2:27:24] transmission went out on the bus and so they were stranded there arnold made some attempts to locate some shelter for

[2:27:30] them but the visibility was really very bad they couldn't see so they just kind

[2:27:35] of tried to wait it out and when it got to be about 7:00 at night Arnold felt

[2:27:42] that if they stayed in the bus they would freeze to death it was very cold out very windy and the bus was running

[2:27:49] out of gasoline arnold made a decision based on a farm that he had passed uh

[2:27:55] about a half a mile or quarter mile back that they should all hold hands form a

[2:28:01] chain don't let go and we're going to make it to this farm arnold and um some

[2:28:07] boys led the way cuz they had long pants on and then the girls were next and they

[2:28:12] tried to walk in the tracks of the boys the oldest boys brought up the rear to make sure no kids were left behind and

[2:28:19] they walked about a quarter of a mile to a farm and they got to the farm and they

[2:28:24] got inside and they were in shelter there was frostbite on their ears etc

[2:28:30] and my mom described having to peel literally peel ice off the back of her calves the farm family was a young

[2:28:37] couple that had one baby we thought the farmer's wife must have gone into shock

[2:28:43] with 26 kids coming into her home we were never offered any food that evening

[2:28:48] or breakfast the next morning after closing the kitchen door she made

[2:28:54] breakfast for her own family and then asked us if we would like a cup of coffee they didn't have a telephone so

[2:29:00] there was no calling for help arnold decided that that wasn't a good place to just camp out for the remainder of the

[2:29:06] storm so he and two of the oldest boys uh one of them being my mother's brother

[2:29:13] decided to walk for help and Arnold's family farm was about 2 miles away so

[2:29:18] they uh walked through the snow drifts two miles to the Saubber farm they got a

[2:29:26] team of workh horses and a box sled he brought the sled to the other farm they

[2:29:33] loaded all the kids into the back of the sled and covered them all over with horse blankets and they made their way

[2:29:40] into the town of Lakeville and the first place they stopped was the local

[2:29:46] cafe and Arnold told all the kids "Go in order whatever you want to eat don't

[2:29:53] worry about paying for it it'll be fine and in the meantime he got a hold of the superintendent of Lakeville schools and

[2:30:01] they started calling families in Lakeville and asking if they could take a child or two in until the till they

[2:30:07] could get back home my mother and another girl stayed with one family and her brother and another guy stayed with

[2:30:13] a different family and her brother and his friend decided they could shovel snow and make some money and the local

[2:30:19] movie theater operator opened up the movie theater for the kids one of the evenings they could go and they could

[2:30:25] have popcorn and they could watch the movies after a terrible experience in

[2:30:31] the blizzard it was so great to be safe and sound and to be treated with such

[2:30:37] kindness and the people in town had telephones my grandparents my mother's parents didn't know where they were and

[2:30:45] for over 24 hours once they got into town they could call all the families and say "Your children are safe." It was

[2:30:52] 3 days before my grandfather could get into town to bring them back home arnold

[2:30:58] he was only 25 years old when he had the responsibility for all these kids and

[2:31:03] making sure that they um didn't perish that they got brought to safety we never

[2:31:09] really heard about the blizzard story this was all news to me and wonderfully

[2:31:14] so when I talked with Judy and she filled me in on her mother's um writeup

[2:31:20] and he had the bus company until he was drafted for the war so it does not

[2:31:26] surprise me at all that my dad would have done the very best he could for the

[2:31:32] kids he not only brought him to safety once he brought them to saf safety two times by walking to his parents' farm

[2:31:38] and getting the horses in the sled and and uh making sure they were all covered up and warm and so he took a lot of

[2:31:46] responsibility for a young man of 25 [Music]

[2:32:03] [Music]

[2:32:14] the city of Lakeville held a groundbreaking for the first responder skills training center a regional public

[2:32:20] safety training facility that will help ensure our safety personnel have the highest degree of training possible to

[2:32:27] serve the public with construction to be completed by the summer of 2026 first

[2:32:32] want to extend uh my gratitude to Representative Whitty and Representative Cosnik who are not here uh and Senator

[2:32:39] Duckworth who really helped make a lot of it happen on the state side to secure nearly $8 million uh two years ago to

[2:32:45] really kickstart this program this is something that the fire department and police department has thought about for

[2:32:50] a long time to think about what a new uh training facility would look like and so the council has been thinking about how do we make that happen from a financial

[2:32:58] side of things but um their help and then including with Congresswoman Craig securing money for the engineering um

[2:33:05] really made this happen and I think from my perspective on behalf of the council when this building opens um after

[2:33:13] construction I think it really reinforces our commitment as a council and to the city about how public safety

[2:33:18] is our number one priority i think a lot of people say that um and not just from

[2:33:24] a Lakeville standpoint but this is a regional facility as everybody knows and um the future for public safety is going

[2:33:30] to require cities and counties working together when we think about making sure we have staffing levels that are correct

[2:33:37] and we've got all the training levels that are needed of course it's been an honor to be able to fight for federal funding both for the first center which

[2:33:44] I'm honored that we were able to get that's the kind of community that we have it's just embedded in what we do

[2:33:50] and uh putting together the funds for a phenomenal training facility in

[2:33:55] combination with the city in combination with Representative Craig and her help at the federal level is the absolute

[2:34:01] least we can do so from the bottom of my heart thank all of you and your families and your loved ones for the service you

[2:34:07] provide us here in Lakeville and the surrounding communities we want you safe we want you well trained we want you

[2:34:13] going home to your families at night so thank you so

[2:34:18] [Music]

[2:34:30] much rabbit Hole is a play about grief it is following this family including

[2:34:37] Becca and her husband Howie as they grieve the loss of their four-year-old

[2:34:42] son so Danny is the young son who accidentally was hit by a car eight

[2:34:47] months previous they navigate the relation their relationship and the relationship with their family members

[2:34:53] and the aftermath of picking the picking up the pieces of their life trying to

[2:35:00] find a way forward through this absolutely horrible staggering loss in

[2:35:06] their lives and trying to figure out where this family stands as they encounter new joys and new struggles and

[2:35:16] challenges becca is a very loving caring mother supportive wife and loved being a

[2:35:23] mom loved her husband loved her life until the tragic event we're not going to wake up one day just be back where we

[2:35:29] used to be i know that so we have to head in that direction becca's emotional journey through this play is really

[2:35:36] challenging because for a lot of it she is feeling completely overwhelmed as

[2:35:43] though she will never escape this pit of grief she now is just a shell of herself

[2:35:49] how do I navigate a relationship with this husband of mine and this family

[2:35:55] members that all seem to be doing okay for the most part and I'm stuck izzy is

[2:36:02] the sister of Becca she's very carefree kind of does her own leads her own path

[2:36:09] she definitely is the wild one the one who loves to party loves to have random

[2:36:15] jobs she gets fired often just because she has such a bad mouth and she kind of is a free spirit you hit her yeah right

[2:36:22] in the face boom she went down she finds out that she's pregnant and is having to

[2:36:27] face her own bit of crisis of well how do I reconcile the way that I've been living with being a mother it's

[2:36:35] definitely hard for her to tell Becca because of Danny and what happened to him becca wants to be happy for her

[2:36:42] sister she also feels very conflicted because she feels that Izzy didn't earn

[2:36:49] it there actually is quite quite a few moments of of humor and you see like

[2:36:56] even between Becca and Howie some of their jokey nature to each other um their tender moments with each other

[2:37:03] they're not constantly fighting they do love each other and you see that even with Izzy izzy's kind of the levity of

[2:37:09] the whole show she's got some of the most funny lines i think a lot of it has to do with how Izzy copes with

[2:37:16] uncomfortable situations if she senses tension in the room she has to immediately relieve it by saying

[2:37:21] something stupid i think I really hope that audiences come to see a very beautifully written show with amazing

[2:37:29] actors the people I've cast are bringing these characters to life i hope that they get a chance to examine grief in a

[2:37:35] real in a real way without having to necessarily have it pressed on them within their family even in the darkest

[2:37:42] times when you feel like the grief or the pressure or the weight of the world

[2:37:48] is just too much to bear there is hope please come out and see Expression

[2:37:54] Theat's production of Rabbit Hole we open April 4th through the 13th we would love to see you there and you know what

[2:38:00] they don't tell you it hurts to punch someone it freaking hurts well yeah they

[2:38:07] don't tell you that on TV

[2:38:17] [Music] the Lakeville PD Reserve Unit is a group comprised of 18 individuals who uh

[2:38:24] volunteer their time to provide volunteer assistance to our department community members uh can identify

[2:38:30] reserve officers out in our community by the fact that they're they're wearing a light blue uniform shirt compared to the

[2:38:36] navy blue uniform shirts that our uh full-time officers wear the reserve unit

[2:38:42] was uh established in October of 1973 in 1972 we had uh hired a new police chief

[2:38:50] and uh with that the new chief brought uh with him some uh innovative new ideas one of them was to establish the reserve

[2:38:56] unit earlier in the year we had a tornado that had struck uh Lakeville and severely uh impacted and damaged the

[2:39:04] Conley mobile home uh community and so uh Lakeville reserves were used to

[2:39:09] provide uh security to the mobile home park as repairs uh were made to the area

[2:39:15] the department as a whole was much smaller uh there was only eight patrol officers uh at the time so the reserve

[2:39:22] officers were there to assist our uh full-time officers um just providing

[2:39:27] them another uh set of eyes and ears much like today the reserve unit uh

[2:39:32] assists our department and our officers as needed uh when we simply don't have the the staff to uh cover events our

[2:39:39] reserve officers uh come from a variety of backgrounds reserve officers receive

[2:39:45] approximately 60 hours of initial training uh over the course of say 10 to 12 weeks and they receive training in in

[2:39:52] many of the same um areas that our full-time officers receive training we do go through extensive training if

[2:39:59] we're there to help our officers on an emergency case we have to know what

[2:40:04] we're doing we do hands-on training during the reserve academy itself we do

[2:40:10] have to also keep current and do recurrent training as far as defensive tactics handcuffing procedures

[2:40:19] uh transport procedures if we're transporting a prisoner to jail uh any

[2:40:24] type of internal process we're constantly always making sure that we're

[2:40:29] recurrent on training uh we teach them how to operate the squad car we teach them uh radio communication with both

[2:40:36] dispatch and other officers uh they receive training in uh traffic direction

[2:40:42] crowd control uh and deescalation techniques they may encounter uh individuals who are in crisis or uh who

[2:40:49] who were deescalation would would be very uh beneficial to know and they also

[2:40:54] are willing to come out at a moment's notice if we have a significant incident say a a severe traffic accident where we

[2:41:01] need uh more assistance in shutting down roadways or directing traffic we can call them in uh short notice and they

[2:41:07] can assist us in that capacity by helping our licensed officers with

[2:41:12] different events of traffic control um community events sporting events we were

[2:41:19] able to free the officers up for more dire emergencies there are so many

[2:41:26] different positions and different duties that we can do to help the full-time officers here at Lakeville PD if there's

[2:41:33] anyone at the parks late at night um after curfew we can ask them to leave

[2:41:38] it's just extra patrol so they can focus mainly on the streets we also do a lot

[2:41:44] of community events we are very present at Lakeville's Panaprog every year uh

[2:41:50] we'd love to help with the fireworks any type of community events that we can participate and help out in you'll

[2:41:56] definitely see reserve officers there they allow us to accomplish our mission

[2:42:01] sometimes and we simply run out of bodies um again Paniprog it's a large-scale community event we need our

[2:42:08] reserve unit to help us make sure that that event runs safely and smoothly they

[2:42:14] make us feel like part of the team they're very appreciative of what we do

[2:42:19] we are one big family we are not treated any differently or any less than in any

[2:42:26] way the full-time officers are always showing their gratitude and expressing

[2:42:32] their thanks for us being able to help assist them in whatever situation that

[2:42:38] it may be as a Lakeville Police Reserve I understand the importance

[2:42:44] of helping out the community and I am also part of the face of the Lakeville

[2:42:52] Police Department we are very fortunate to be in a community that respects and

[2:42:59] appreciates their local police department the reserve department helps connect the community and citizens of

[2:43:05] Lakeville with the internal police department they get to uh see the inside

[2:43:11] workings of the police department interact with all the officers but then they can also share their experiences

[2:43:17] here within our department with their family and friends you know and and and just share what our department uh is

[2:43:24] about with a with a broader set of people that maybe wouldn't get to experience uh what it's like working

[2:43:30] inside the police department it's a great fit on both sides because we can

[2:43:36] explain to the citizens as well as to the full-time officers what's actually

[2:43:42] being asked and what they actually want to know out there the Lakeville Police Department and the citizens of our

[2:43:49] community are very fortunate to have uh the Lakeville reserves at the ready and these are uh volunteers for our

[2:43:55] community that are donating uh giving up their time from their lives and their families uh to provide a service to the

[2:44:03] citizens of Lakeville and we simply couldn't provide the level of service that we do to our community without our

[2:44:08] reserve unit

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[2:44:23] hi I'm Grace Benson i'm the new forestry technician for the city of Lakeville i've been working in the cities and the

[2:44:29] metro area for about two years now working in municipal forestry helping out with forestry departments and their

[2:44:36] tree disease and insect issues most recently I was working at Minnetonka where I worked as a tree inspector

[2:44:43] scouting the city for tree diseases as forestry technician here at Lakeville I will work with residents to manage trees

[2:44:51] in the city i am available to consult about private trees specifically

[2:44:56] concerning diseases and insects such as emerald ashbor Dutch elm disease and

[2:45:01] oakil management these are diseases that affect our urban forest and all of our

[2:45:07] trees individually what we're dealing with the most right now is emerald ashbor i've been scouting the city for

[2:45:14] ash trees that are affected and working to manage it in the city so that we can keep the effects of the insect under

[2:45:21] control i also work to manage park trees and keep them healthy and safe in our

[2:45:26] parks and work to replace a lot of the ash trees that we currently have planted as we move in more diverse species with

[2:45:35] a bunch of different kinds of trees that will be more resistant to insect and pest problems in the future i'm

[2:45:42] available to answer any questions about forestry concerns in the city especially

[2:45:48] concerning Dutch elm disease oakwilt and emerald

[2:45:54] [Music] ashbor attention all Lakeville pet

[2:46:01] owners please remember to pick up after your pet not only is it good for the environment it's a city ordinance please

[2:46:08] do your part and pick it up [Music]

[2:46:18] did you know the city of Lakeville has a food waste drop off point it is located on the west side of the water treatment

[2:46:25] site at 18400 IPA Avenue residents need to register on the Dakota County website

[2:46:32] search the keyword organics for more information

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[2:46:49] we have three social workers that work out of our building this actually puts a better solution in place if we're

[2:46:55] dealing with someone in crisis we usually reach out to our Dakota County crisis social worker in Dakota County we

[2:47:02] follow the crisis continuum model so a couple of years ago there was a public

[2:47:08] safety law that was passed that changed the way dispatch managed mental health

[2:47:16] calls instead of routing those calls to

[2:47:21] police they were required to screen those that didn't involve a crime or a

[2:47:27] violence or something immediately dangerous would be routed to the local crisis unit that's when our continuum

[2:47:36] started developing and changing and within that model I work for crisis

[2:47:42] response unit or CRU she deals with improgress situations so she may

[2:47:47] actually respond to the scene or be available to deal with the victims over the phone and she provides a calming

[2:47:55] effect to try to help people that are in crisis crisis an immediate response

[2:48:00] something that is going on right now with a family or an individual so if they get a call from dispatch that

[2:48:08] something's going on and they need somebody to respond or dispatch calls crisis with a mental health call that's

[2:48:15] going on I would respond either by myself or with an officer depending on

[2:48:21] how the call came in and what it was she might also arrange for where the person

[2:48:26] may be transported to if they need to be transported to the hospital she'll help to assist with that it's really valuable

[2:48:33] for us to work with the county uh and a social worker and to have her in the building is very beneficial to have a

[2:48:40] social worker following up on calls allows our officers to stay available for emergency situations in

[2:48:48] 2023 dispatch had 992 calls that they routed to the crisis

[2:48:56] unit instead of police that were mental health calls and 80% of those we were

[2:49:01] able to manage without having to involve law enforcement i think these social

[2:49:07] workers bring a lot of value to our community they provide more of a long-term solution to help uh people

[2:49:15] that are in crisis people that are dealing with difficult situations we are very fortunate to have them working at

[2:49:20] the Lakeville Police Department what the embedded social worker Jess and I have been able to add to the Lakeville Police

[2:49:28] Department as well as the city of Lakeville is more availability for

[2:49:36] mental health services letting people know what's out there and quicker access

[2:49:42] to them people don't know what they don't

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[2:49:57] here at the Lakeville Police Department we have an embedded social worker our

[2:50:03] social worker Jess Hoppy is actually a Dakota County social worker what that means is that I am specially located in

[2:50:11] the Lakeville Police Department dakota County actually has an embedded social worker in pretty much every city now the

[2:50:20] first contact is going to be through our crisis response unit also known as CRU

[2:50:26] and when CRU works with the police department I will be forwarded the

[2:50:31] information either through a police report or through a CRU referral the nice thing about having a social worker

[2:50:37] like Jess at our police department is she's able to dig in deeper to the problem and look at what what is going

[2:50:44] on at that house what is going on with that person rather than us responding and putting a band-aid on that situation

[2:50:50] Jess is able to provide resources she's able to help them as they navigate these tough issues i have been fortunate

[2:50:58] enough to be paired with a very competent mental health team that mental

[2:51:03] health team is made up with quite a few police officers who have dedicated their

[2:51:10] time to specialized training in mental health all of that communication and

[2:51:15] connection can help me really understand what I'm looking at and provide a really

[2:51:21] effective and efficient response to the person the benefit to our community to have a social worker following up on

[2:51:28] calls allows our officers to stay available for emergency situations one

[2:51:34] reason that we have this partnership is to ensure safety and support as well as

[2:51:41] bridging the gap and stigma of police departments and police officers we are

[2:51:48] providing a right service right now and we're also able to connect people with services and give people referrals to

[2:51:55] services maybe working with one as a Dakota County employee I'm able to actually call a couple agencies that we

[2:52:01] partner with and get people into a crisis therapy session within about a

[2:52:08] week or so i'm able to provide uh services for not only mental health but

[2:52:14] for substance use and addiction and overdosing so this actually puts a

[2:52:20] better solution in place rather than dealing with the same person over and over again this person is given the

[2:52:26] resources and the uh the tools to help themselves being a single parent I mean

[2:52:32] that's I also am a Dakota County stabilization worker what that means is

[2:52:38] I receive referrals i might work with a client for a few weeks maybe up to about

[2:52:43] 10 or 12 weeks in that time that we work together we're doing therapeutic

[2:52:49] interventions we can do check-ins referrals for a variety of Dakota County

[2:52:56] services as well as other community services one challenge that people may face they

[2:53:04] may not have health insurance or really no funds which can also be a deterrent

[2:53:10] for somebody to seek out help we can actually offer support in obtaining

[2:53:15] psychiatric medication a really key point of the stabilization work is to

[2:53:22] set people up with more long-term services i think these social workers bring a lot of value to our community

[2:53:28] and our our citizens i think that they help uh people that are in crisis people

[2:53:34] that are dealing with difficult situations and uh we are very fortunate to have them working at the Wakefield

[2:53:40] Police Department

[2:54:01] my name is Melinda Martinez i'm community advocate for Farmington Lakeville i currently have offices out

[2:54:07] of Farmington Police Department and Lakeville Police Department i've worked for 360 Communities nonprofit for just

[2:54:15] over a year they trained me in domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy we've had a partnership with 360s

[2:54:22] communities for a number of years melinda is an advocate for victims and we rely on her to help us as we uh deal

[2:54:31] with people that are in domestic situations our services are free and confidential it's not income based there

[2:54:38] are no requirements law enforcement refers information to us refers clients

[2:54:44] we touch base with them we follow up if the officer that goes out on the call labels it as domestic violence or crisis

[2:54:51] or mental health that's how we get the reports in the back you know it's it's

[2:54:56] also dependent on the victim asking and saying it's okay to be reached and

[2:55:02] contacted we respect that um if they ask for our services or want to get to know

[2:55:08] more about what we can help them with we reach out we like to give them breathing space after an incident has happened so

[2:55:15] anywhere from 3 to 5 days after an incident we touch base see if they're needing any support anything from food

[2:55:23] clothes hygiene products um we can provide court advocacy court advocacy

[2:55:30] looks like either getting an order of protection or harassment restraining

[2:55:35] order it can also look like connecting them to victim witness with the county

[2:55:40] services we can write the order of protection petition for them we can go

[2:55:46] with them to court hearings and let them know what to expect if their abuser gets

[2:55:52] charged we go with them we follow the case we connect a lot of services that don't talk to each other housing food

[2:56:00] support all of the county services then you have the criminal services and so we

[2:56:05] walk alongside the victim survivor officers tend to go to the same houses and deal with the same situations over

[2:56:12] and over we've actually seen a reduction in the number of times that we have to go out to the same place because we've

[2:56:18] given them the the tools that they need to cope with whatever is going on in their life we don't pass judgment we

[2:56:24] don't put our input it's not about what we want or what we would do it's about what the victim survivor wants what they

[2:56:30] want to do with their family it's their situation and we empower them to to stand up for themselves something that a

[2:56:38] lot of them need at a very dark

[2:56:53] [Music] time rd1 is known for their amberana

[2:56:59] finish it is a Brazilian wood that kind of gives you a little bit of a cinnamon

[2:57:05] almost a cereal cinnamon toast crunch sort of flavor jess has a lot of passion especially for bourbon um she's taken

[2:57:12] trips down to Kentucky she's picked out private barrels for our stores um she's

[2:57:18] very well known for her pallet uh she's very knowledgeable in our stores as far

[2:57:23] as anything spirits have a certification through the wine and spirits education trust which is shorthand wct um they are

[2:57:32] kind of the premier global authorities in spirits education and wine education

[2:57:39] um I have a level three certification which is the highest certification in spirits um where level one and two are

[2:57:45] more kind of the fundamentals of what goes on um what spir how spirits differ

[2:57:51] from each other um the one I did is more kind of what makes a spirit what it

[2:57:56] really is so the the production the materials everything that goes into a good spirit to make it a great spirit

[2:58:02] with the competitive market the way it is just offering quality products isn't enough um our customer service is the

[2:58:09] parts that sets us apart um if you're looking for something a little bit less I think the filthy cherries would be

[2:58:16] um they're a little bit more traditional a little bit like standard cherry often but we focused our training program more

[2:58:23] on individualized and certification programs for all of our staff which gives them the knowledge and the

[2:58:31] um confidence to help a customer find a product that they're looking for um in

[2:58:36] the past year we have certified 18 of our staff members in WCT level one wine

[2:58:43] i think it really sets us apart i think that um to my knowledge we're the only people that really put this sort of

[2:58:49] emphasis and this level of emphasis on education um I think that our staff is highly knowledgeable i think that people

[2:58:56] are going to find what they are looking for and probably be more satisfied with what they bring home

[2:59:03] [Music] burglary is on the rise and thieves are

[2:59:10] always on the lookout for easy targets an open garage door can be an invitation for trouble lock your car

[2:59:16] doors and keep your valuables out of sight it sounds simple but it's your first line of defense against theft

[2:59:23] don't let thieves ruin your day it's time to lock it up and keep what's yours yours

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[2:59:42] hi my name is Nick Layman and I am the new construction representative at the city of Lakeville i came over from Brun

[2:59:50] Intertech over in Bloomington i was a field technician for them so I was on a

[2:59:56] lot of our construction sites doing a lot of material testing concrete and soil testing i was on our downtown team

[3:00:04] so I was up in Minneapolis St paul every day and I felt the transition over would

[3:00:09] be pretty smooth my new position here as a construction representative for the

[3:00:15] city of Lakeville i am our on-site presence for our contractors if they

[3:00:20] have any questions or concerns about the project I am on site to kind of answer

[3:00:26] those as well as helping any residents if we're working in a residential neighborhood with any questions and

[3:00:32] concerns and also just making sure that the project is running smoothly and that

[3:00:37] the contractor is doing everything according to the plans and if you have any questions or concerns feel free to

[3:00:44] reach out to me myself or the public works team in general and we'd be happy to

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