[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Good evening and welcome to the April 7th city council meeting. If you join me for a moment of silence in the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible and justice for all. All right, Mr. Olowski. Roll call, please. Michelle Vulk here. Here. John Burmel here. Dan Walter here. Joshua Lee here. Okay. Moving on to item three, citizens comments. This is an opportunity for anybody uh citizens or business owners to comment up for three minutes about any issue that's not on the agenda. You want to come up? Just uh state your name and address. Never done this before. Am I doing problem? All right. My name is John Borup and I live at 20735 Hollands Avenue West. Go ahead. Thank you. Um uh as you may know, uh we received notice of a level three sex offender in the community and obviously this person has a right to move on um from their crimes they've committed. Um but kind of processing this with neighbors um and community members, business owners, etc. business um people. And apparently this person's actually been living in Lakeville uh for probably at least a couple of years. And this is in violation of um the sex predator registry in the state. Um uh he's been living apparently uh within a local business downtown um unreported. And like I said, we just got the report that it's happening now in April. Um, but apparently, like I said, uh there's very good evidence that he's been living here all along, which uh as a parent is uh wildly concerning. Uh apparently where he's living is uh right across from where like the Pan Prague festivities are happening, the rides, it's by Lakeville Brewing in the playground, it's by uh Dairy Delight in the playground, it's by the bike trail. Um uh and so it appears that this person seems to be uh uh breaking the law uh in staying here. And I don't know what powers you have in terms of zoning, whether this guy's allowed to live in this business. Apparently, he might be living out of a car. Um uh like I said, uh I guess that's what we're kind of looking for is is this being explored? as parents of kids that walk to school, use a bike path, are in downtown Lakefall, how are we supposed to feel safe um sending them to uh having them walk to school, walk the downtown? Um like I said, we know that this guy has a right to serve his time and move on with his life, but apparently he's in violation. So, um just looking for help, support, um not looking for answers right now. Uh yeah, thanks for coming. If you want to write down your name and contact information, give it to our clerk. We'll have our police department follow up with you. All right. Thank you. You bet. Absolutely. Any other citizens comments? Okay. Moving on to item number four. Any additional agenda information, Mr. Miller? Uh, mayor and council, at your desk is a a revised contract for item 6N. 6N is a professional services agreement with CNH Architects. The only change here was that um we changed the location of the project. Um, it had a different project location in there. We updated it to reflect the new location. Okay. Okay. Moving on to presentations, introductions. Um, I'll turn it over to our parks and recreation director, Mr. Macy Archand, to give a presentation about a donation. Uh, good evening, Mr. Mayor and Council. Um I'm excited to be here this evening to welcome uh Crichub Sports Academy. They're a new organization here in Lakeville and um are making a generous donation today towards the parks and recreation youth scholarship fund which helps to provide access to programs. Uh but we'll invite them up here to um tell you a little bit more about their organization. Great. Welcome. Thank you, mayor, and thank you city council. Thank you for this opportunity. Um u so as we discussed a lot of times like we have started the cricket cricket hub sports academy in the lake and um we are closely working with the lake area schools with elementary middle school and the high schools to bringing the cricket tournament and giving the cricket coaching to the lake area schools and I just want to give the opportunity to pra to give more. Good evening everyone. Um so as Surya said we are starting this new cricket coaching academy. Uh it's basically for the kids the boys and girls of all the ages. That's what we are targeting for. Um just to share a little bit of history of cricket. Uh cricket is really growing very fast in states. Actually I don't know if you guys are aware but last year there was a cricket world cup. T20 there are different formats in the cricket. T20 World Cup was hosted in the United States along with Caribbean island and USA team USA cricket team they did beat couple of good international cricket teams so that was a proud moment for us so it's really growing very fast and that's what uh we want to start this in the heart of Lakeville we want to empower the future of cricket here very good well thank you both for coming here do we want to take a quick picture Joe okay Yeah, we'll do. Yeah. You want to just Yeah, just stay up. We'll stand up right here. Y Thank you. Thank you very Well, thank you both for coming and from the support from your organization for the city. We appreciate it. As most people know, we're excited to be able to cut the ribbon next summer on our cricut pitch right here in town on Cedar 185th. So, thank you both for coming today. Um, okay, moving on to our 2025 Arbor Day proclamation and I'll turn over to our city forester to give um a little history I believe on Arbor Day. Good evening. Welcome. Hello. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council. Uh yeah, just uh wanted to introduce the Arbor Day proclamation for 2025 uh with just a few notes uh on this year's celebration as well as some of the things we've been working on uh in the background to support that effort. So uh a couple things just to to start off with. Uh this is the 32nd year that Lakefield was recognized as a Tree City USA. Uh we just received our packet of information on that. So it's all official. Uh we also received a growth award this year. So, we went above and beyond just those standard requirements uh by doing a few extra things to to demonstrate our commitment to forestry uh in the community forest. A couple of those were just you switching over our inventory system so we can all work together in the city across departments as well as continuing to support the Americanore program by hosting a member here in town uh with some job development. So, couple big things there that we're doing. Um as far as Arbor Day celebration itself and Tree City USA, there's two things that we're looking at uh to do uh to receive that. One is hosting an Arbor Day celebration which promotes you know tree planting and care across the city as well as then approving an Arbor Day proclamation that we can then submit to Arbor Day Foundation for that award. Uh this year's events include our annual tree sale which uh wrapped up really quickly again this year. Uh so we had about 200 well we had 200 trees for sale uh 13 different species and they sold out with within uh two weeks. So people are definitely looking for some tree cover around the city. So nice to see that. Uh maybe look at expanding that a bit next year to to get some more people uh in on that. Uh pickup event is going to be with our Earth celebration uh April 26th. So folks are able to come in and grab those trees and and get them planted. Uh the second thing that we're doing this year is again another volunteer planting event. Uh this year will be at Chadwick Park. Uh where we're going to put 30 trees in the ground. Uh that's going to be on Wednesday, May 7th. Uh we're hoping to build on last year's numbers. We had about 25 people show up last year at Independence Park for that event. A lot of neighbors came out uh mid grilling to join us. So, that was kind of fun to see. So, hopefully we'll get a good turnout on that as well. Uh and lastly, I'll just point out we uh expanded our website to include an Arbor Day page just so we've got a place to share information on Arbor Day, upcoming events, uh past events, so people can look and see, you know, hey, I was at that event. Here's what I planted. Uh as well as uh information on our tree sale for upcoming years. So, it'll be kind of a one-stop shop. Uh we're also hosting uh two tree tracks on that website. Um basically a self-guided walk around two of our parks where folks can look uh you know online and match map images and information about the trees they're seeing. So, way to get people involved uh on their own time as well. Uh so, with that, I thank you for your consideration of of this year's Arbor Day proclamation. Very good. I'll turn over Council Member Lee to read the proclamation. Very good. City of Lakefield proclamation for Arbor Day. Whereas established in 1872, Arbor Day provides an opportunity to celebrate the importance of trees and forests to our economy, culture, history, and future of the community. And whereas for the 32nd year, the National Arbor Day Foundation has recognized Lakeville as a Tree City USA for promoting community forestry programs. And whereas trees provide many benefits including clean air and water, shade, energy savings, wildlife habitat, recreational opportunities, wood pro products and jobs, and increased property values while capturing and storing carbon from the atmosphere to offset greenhouse gas emissions. And whereas thoughtfully selecting, planting, and caring for a diverse mix of trees supports a resilient community into the future by minimizing the impacts of forest pests and diseases and other stressors such as climate change while pro providing long-term community and environmental benefits. And whereas the city of Lakeville will observe Arbor Day on Saturday, April 26th at the Arbor Day tree sale pickup event and will continue to celebrate Arbor Month with a volunteer planting project at Chadwick Park on Wednesday, May 7th. Now, therefore, the city the the Lakeville City Council does hereby proclaim that Saturday, April 26, 2025 shall be observed as Arbor Day in the city of Lakeville, proclaimed the 7th day of April, 2025 by Mayor Luke Helier. Great. Thank you, Joshua. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, moving on to item C, our public works quarterly report, and I'll turn over to our public works director, Mr. Omi. Good evening. Good evening, mayor and city council members. This is the first quarter report for 2025 for public works. So, I'll kick it kick this off by just talking about some upcoming street projects um and other projects that are coming up for this year. Um queued up to have another busy construction season this year. The 185th Street project is now underway. Uh that's the reconstruction um and widening of 185th Street from Kenwood Trail to IPA Avenue. Uh we're urbanizing the the roadway, putting in curb and gutter, uh constructing it four lanes, putting in pedestrian trails on both sides of the road, turn lanes, and then a bunch of storm sewer improvements as well. Um the full construction is going to kick off in a couple weeks here in April uh 15th. Uh there's going to be some major water main uh relocations that will take place first and uh we're going to shut uh shut the road down here uh during that time period as well. Um, but we're hoping to have the the project uh completed and open to traffic by the end of August. Moving on to Con Road 50 in Hamburg roundabout. This is a county-led um project. Uh that project is more or less designed now. We're just uh um going to be bidding that project out here uh in late in late spring and hope to have that con started construction this summer as well. Um just a couple little highlights project little projects that are going around uh in town uh just but are really important. Uh 170 street uh pedestrian crossing will be put in um this summer. That's connecting the the Greenway Trail, the North Creek Greenway Trail uh corridor. Uh we're going to be putting in those rapid flashing um beacons at that intersection and and narrowing the road way down uh just for for better um safety as pedestrians use that anticipate or produce that trail more often. Now um the Market Street Plaza parking lot is going to be reconstructed this summer. Um there is some bunch of tripping hazards that are out there that we want to re um fix and then also improve the previous pavement uh effectiveness of that um previous pavers that are out there as well too. So that'll that project will take place late summer. Moving on to the streets uh section. Uh the streets is busy right now with street sweeping. We're working six days a week on Sat and including Saturdays and try to wrap that uh program of operation up as as quickly as we can. We are done with Boulevard tree trimming and then we're still going um ongoing uh pad hole patching as well. Um currently we're up to 22 snow events um that we were called out on for this year. Hopefully this is we're done with uh this this chart for this year, but uh it's we're tracking pretty close to our operation and call outs were in 2023 and 2024 winter years. Um so, but we are way down from our historical average of about 50 inches of snow uh in this area. Um Bookshore Drive um park the lift station there that new new lift station is is um being constructed is underway now. Uh the uh pit for the lift station is now dug and the intersection at Jamaican 160 6th Street 61st Street intersection is now closed. We're putting in u the force man at that intersection and um north to the uh the storm sewer or the sanitary sewer um system that we're we're connecting to over the next couple weeks. Um we're hoping to have this project completed um early June. Uh we are rehabbing one well uh water well uh in the community this year. It's a well number 17 in um Sema Park. Uh we removed the pump and the motor and now checking uh all that all that um that equipment and make sure it's uh in good operational shape. Our sanitary uh lining project is well underway right now. We're about 50% done with that project. We are lining about 2 7 milesi of clay pipe within the in the community. This is to help eliminate the groundwater infiltration getting into the sewer system through via cracks and separated pipes. And this also helps reduce the risk of sewer backups. Our lead and copper rules um project is uh is going well. Uh we are really busy with uh still meeting with residents and talking to them and getting information on their uh services within their house. We are still needing to talk to about 900 residents um and look at their services near their meter. Um and then we are down to about 2,000 unknown material um service lines within the community. So, we're hoping to have all that wrapped up by the end of summer. And then moving on from there, we'll we'll start replacing some of the uh lead and galvanized lines that we have found in within our community. And um the state of Minnesota did indicate that there will be some grant funds available to help support the replacement of those service lines. Um the utility division is uh currently flushing all the hydrants within the community and we just started that um today. Actually, the hydrants uh that we do flush um we need to do that annually just to ensure that they're functioning properly and remove any sediments and uh stay taken water uh with unlooped mains that are in our community. Moving on to the environmental services division. Um last year the city did receive over $650,000 for to support environmental uh stewardship and different projects within our communities. They range from prairie restoration to evasive specy um mitigation like carp removal um aquatic um inspection of boats and uh other lake um devices and then storm water improvements uh like storm water ponds and infiltration basins. Um just in the in the spring uh we are working on several projects already. Uh the the channel um and Burm at Crossroads Basin uh is being um rearmor put um redoing that that that uh that basin um and putting uh w rip wrap in just to to armor it and make sure it's it doesn't erode it anymore. Uh North Creek channel uh maintenance. We are removing sediment and armoring that channel as well. And then Crystal Lake Golf Course uh storm sewer or yeah storm sewer catch basin and pond. We are uh removing sediment from that pond and making sure that the water quality um features of that pond are being met. in Ritter Park or Ritter. Yeah, R Park Park. Uh we are we have completed some prescribed burns this spring. Um and we're looking at removing some stumps and um replanting that those areas uh here in the spring as well. Um Summers Creek um restoration project u took place this spring and is currently underway. Uh the developer conducted prescribed Burma late in March here. Um and the developer is ready to plant and restore that that area with uh natural vegetation here in the spring as well. And there are going to be working on some creek channel um stabilization and restoration projects as well this summer as part of their development project. Um environmental services has also been busy with outreach projects. In January, we did participate in some step into future career exploration um with eighth graders here in the Lakeville area um to explore to expose them to different environmental services, environmental um careers that are uh opportunities that are available. And then in February um our staff did participate in Lakeville North environmental uh science presentation and talk about what environmental service stewardship means to them and in our community as well. We did uh host a biochar demonstration at Riddle Park um in February and then in March uh Lakeville North school uh student did shadow um environmental staff here at uh at city hall and that they they showed interest in uh in becoming more involved with environmental stewardship. And then uh in April uh staff did present to the road cub about all the environmental projects that are taking place uh within our community. Moving on to forestry division. Um 2025 our ash tree removals are shown here. 125 uh trees that were removed in parks and uh in our rightways and on growing uh removals within our natural areas will take place um this spring as well. And uh we the city is still programmed to uh inject ash trees that we want to save. Uh we're anticipating injecting about 815 trees this this summer which is a reduction of 12% from our last cycle though. And the city still uh offers private treatments um partnership with residents within our community at a reduced rate with uh rem remote tree care if they wanted to um treat their ash trees on their property as well. So they can contact the city if they're interested in that program. And then our shade tree um private ash survey uh is was completed this year as well and we've had 604 properties that were identified for you that were that uh identified with infested ash trees on them. Um we did have good participation with the property owners and lots of inspections that took place and a lot of the almost half of the trees uh that were identified as being infected are have been removed now. So that's that program has been going well. Um and just an update on the the um DNR um tree replacement program, the uh EAB grant. Um this is the second year of that program. We are anticipating um removing about 55 trees from our parks and replacing with about 110 trees um in those parks as well to replace those ash trees that have been re uh removed. And then also we're planting about 60 trees in um um Aronson Park as well associated with this program. And then looking forward um upcoming public engagement events um as uh the forestry had indicated and uh we are uh planning on our Earth Day celebration program on September or at April 26th at the central maintenance facility. Um there will be um a puppet show available and many vendors and uh different exhibits showing um environmental stewardship and you can still sign up online for the watershed cleanup day. Um that takes place on between uh April 26th and May I think 3rd. So there's still opportunities to to help clean up um city of Lakeville. And then also the Qual Valley Recycling will be present at this event. Um they will be offering uh tool swaps um garden tool swaps. If you're interested, bring your old rakes and those you can exchange it for a new rake. And then also some other public engagements. Uh we do have there is a um free o there's an opportunity for landscaping um course introduction to landscaping um it's online provided by the Dakota County um on May 6th and also a uh in-person um course available in Farmington Library on June 2nd. And if you go to those courses there is an opportunity to u to apply for grants for your landscaping work. um if you are participating in the landscaping grant or in landscaping uh course and then there's also a master's course we call it here in Lakeville that will take place on May 19th and the 21st if you're interested um and um in that course as well and learn a little bit more about landscaping and then if you missed our March paper shredding event here in Lakeville uh in March uh there are still three uh paper shredding events held in Dakota County in Egan, Apple Valley and Burnsville uh in May in April, May and June as well. So, still a lot of opportunities there to get rid of your old paper. And then with that, I stand for any questions. Okay. Very good. Any questions? Council member Lee. Thank you, Mayor. Um Mr. Show me just a question about um I was listening to a presentation from your environmental resources team recently and regarding the grant removing um invasive carp and goldfish from East Lake. I'm wondering if folks are fishing that lake and catch one of those. Is there I'm guessing we don't want that back in the lake. So, is there is there a a process or a tub? I used to live in another city that had a a place to put them. So, what is our process if if we're not looking to have those fish in East Lake? Well, we've we we have to follow the DNR rules. So, uh, if you're a licensed fisher person, um, you're if you're not going to harvest that fish for for use in any way, um, you're technically required to put that fish back in, even if it's a rough fish or a carp. So, unfortunately, that's that's the process that we have to follow. Now, if you use it for some other purpose, um you know, the the spoils of the of the fish, you can still recycle those or use or put that in your compost or sure garden or something like that, too. So, that's that's basically the process we have to follow. So, we don't want any uh carp just on the the shoreline of East Lake. Yeah. Because I have seen some of those there, too. Okay. Yeah. I mean, if they're they're a nuisance, we can have, you know, somebody pick them up, but uh we don't we don't we don't encourage property owners to remove the fish and leave them on the shoreline. All right. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions? So, one quick question about Hamburg. Y is was there plans for any elevation change or they're just going to do the roundabout at Yep. 50? Yep. Good question, Mayor. Um so, there is no elevation change that that uh is currently in the plan. We don't want to lower section anymore um just due to the fact that there's water man in the way and then if we lower it anymore it's really big impacts on the residents that that bought um the rightway at that intersection. Okay, good to know. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, with that we'll turn item six, our consent agenda. These are some routine items for the council. Mr. Miller, anything you want to highlight? Thank you. Two items tonight, Mayor. Uh 6R is a temporary on sale license to the Dakota County or the Dakota Curling Club. They're having their Cinco de Mayo bonds downtown and so that's always a fun event that or they do great events and so that should be a good one. Then item 6T is a resolution appointing Christy Harms to the Lakeville Area Arts Center Advisory Board. Her name was inadvertently left off the resolution when you approved that the last time. Okay, very good. Thank you. Council, any items you'd like to remove for further discussion? If not, I will take a motion. Member Walter. I'll move approval of the consent agenda. Second. Second. Further discussion. Say I. I opposed. Consent. Agenda passes. We'll now move on to 7A. Public hearing and award of contract for the 2025 street reconstruction rehab improvement project 25-02. And are we having Mr. Omi again or Okay. Thank you, M. Um, Mr. Mayor. Uh I'll kick this off and then I'll hand it over to the consultant for additional information as well too. So um this is uh the annual street reconstruction project and assessment hearing. Project number 252. So this year's project uh includes about 1.3 miles of streets um that we are looking at reconstructing. They include Hayes Avenue, Harbor Court, and then 170 Street. This is shows the project background schedule that we've had. We've had three neighborhood meetings. The uh latest one was on March 27th. Um we did have a public hearing. Um as you may recall back on November 18th as well. And tonight we're like to hold the assessment hearing and award of consider award of a contract for this project. So just a brief background on the project. This is a street reconstruction project. So um as typical per our reconstruction um methodology, we are planning to reclaim the pavement, grind it up, um and reuse that for the the base aggregate, dig out any soft spots with uh in the street that we come across, replacing some of the curb and gutter, not all of it, on spot areas, just the damaged curb. Um and then around catch basins and some other utilities as well. We are looking at um putting in some enhanced storm sewer improvements in the in the project area as well. We did hear for some of the residents that we they have had some storm sewer concerns and some backups. Uh so we want to try to address some of those issues. And then um there's some spot sanitary infiltration barriers on some of the uh structures that we will also put on in in this project here as well to help with the infiltration of the water not getting into our sanitary sewer system. Um one of the concerns that we heard from the residents was was traffic along um 170th Street and Hayes. Uh we did do have complete a traffic study um within this inter within this corridor. Uh there's two stop conditions along the uh the roadway. Um and we did take traffic counts and then um also uh we're we're out there observing the traffic and we did some um crash data uh look back at some of our records as well too. So based upon the uh the information that we we saw actually have it shown here some of the information but we did find there are minimum crashes along this corridor. Um there were two accidents at at the intersections on Hazen on 72nd Street. Um the speeds are um are are typical of what we see for uh residential streets um on collector roads and this size of of roadway. So 71% of the of the cars on Haze are going at or below uh 30 miles an hour. So with the data that we gathered um based upon our traffic study, we are looking at making some improvements um out on this quarter. Uh we are looking at painting the um wider um shoulder lines or the the fog lines, the white lines on each side of the roadway um a little wider than they are currently today. We're looking at painting about six six inches wide and then having stop bars at each of the intersections. We hope that the stop bars would encourage um better adherence to those stopping conditions along the corridor. And then the again the the painted wide the painted wider edge striping would u help with identifying where the roadway is and then narrowing down the the drive lanes uh from say uh 12 to 13 inch feet down to 11 ft. uh that would encourage um um a uh more calming of the traffic uh along this corridor with in the narrower drive lanes as well. So, but in the future um uh with those improvements, we'll still be monitoring this quarter and then we we have some maybe in some enhanced signage that would go up or some temporary radar traffic signage that we we put up along the quarter to help um calm the traffic as well. Um, water man. Uh, we do have an extensive water man improvement plan for this uh for this area. The water man on 170th street. We're looking at lining that that water man. It's a 12 in um water mane um trunk line that uh we have had numerous water mane breaks. instead of replacing it uh and digging the whole road up um we are looking at lining it which is less intrusive to the residents and it gives a same quality of uh of water man and then along Hayes Avenue we're looking at replacing a lot of the bolts at uh the gate valves and hydrants and those type of things just to make sure that those are are in good condition as well. And then also one of the bid alternates in the project was to replace um the water man in Foxboro Park for looping um to the development to the north. So that's in included in the uh the project cost as well. And with that, maybe I'll just turn it over at this time to Rachel Shai with the WSB to go over the uh the results from our bids. Great. Welcome. Great. I'm a little shorter than Paul. Uh thank you uh Mr. Mayor and council members and Paul for introducing me. Uh my name is Rachel Shai and I am a project engineer at WSB and I was part of the design team for this project. Um so getting into the bid summary. Um we held the bid opening on March 4th at 10:30 a.m. We had five contractors bid on this um with our lowest bidder um being McNamera Contracting. Um here we have a cost comparison of the total project cost. This does include both the indirects and contingency on top of the construction totals. Um and that's comparing from feasibility to what we received as our bid results. Um and our cost went down by a little over 4%. And here's kind of a breakdown of the funding split. Um all of our areas went down from feasibility through design um where we got to bids um except the storm storm sewer infrastructure fund. Um that went up by almost 50%. Um that was just due to kind of an enhanced analysis through design that involved adding additional structures or replacing existing structures than we had anticipated during feasibility. Here are proposed special assessments. Um, again, from feasibility to bidding, these went down by almost 5%. And we do have both single family units and duplex units on the project. The special assessment policy follows the Minnesota state statute, chapter 429 for public improvements. Um, with the street reconstruction, the city of Lakeville assesses 40% of the parcels in the project area for street and storm sewer improvements. Properties benefiting from the improvements will be assessed and any water main and sanitary sewer improvements are not assessed to residents. All parcels are assessed on a perunit basis for single family use. The duplex and town homes are at a half single family unit rate. Any commercial exempt or public use properties are calculated as a front foot assessment rate, which I do want to note that we do not have any on this project area. Any corner lots within the project area are assessed at one unit um for either the side or front. This is determined based off the driveway location, house orientation, or past assessments. So, assessments will be considered at the public hearing this evening. Assessments can be paid based off the following. They can be partially paid to the city without interest by November 15th. They can be paid in full to the city by December 15th with the daily interest acred and paid in full to the county by the end of December with daily interest acred. Um then they will be put on property taxes um with 10-year and 15-year assessment periods and the assessment interest rate is 3.88%. For senior citizens, disabled persons and active military duty, there is a deferral option. This deferment ends upon death, sale of the property, transfer or subdivision of property, loss of homestead status on the property, determination by the council that no hardship would occur if payment were required, and failure to file a renewal application on time. This uh these deferral applications must be submitted by July 7th of 2025, just 90 days after the adoption of assessment. And then assessments will be certified to the county in December of 2025. And if any residents would like to appeal the assessment, they need a written intent to be presented either prior or at the hearing. And our kind of look ahead project schedule, the assessment hearing is tonight. The applications for deferment will be due 90 days from now on July 7th. and completion of the construction project will be in November and prepayment deadline to the city for the assessments is November 15th and then certifying of the assessments in December. So, next steps will be to conduct the public hearing and consider a resolution for adopting the assessments for the 2025 street reconstruction project street reconstruction project city project number 25502. And we will now open the floor to questions should there be any. Council, any questions? Okay. Thank you. This is a public hearing. So if there's anybody that has comment on this project either in the room or online. Okay. See now I'll take a motion to close the public hearing. Council member Burma. I move to close the public hearing. Is there a second? Second. Any further discussion? Okay. Roll call, please. Burmill. Hi. Walter. Hi. Lee. Hi. Bulk. Hi. Helier. Hi. Okay. Any further discussion about street recon? If not, I'll take a motion. There's four of them actually. Lee move to approve one, a contract with McNamera Contracting Incorporated for the 2025 street reconstruction rehabilitation project, city project 25-02. And two, resolution adopting assessments for city improvement project 252. And three, resolution authorizing funding and 2025 budget amendments and fund transfers. And four, proposal with Brun Intertech for professional services. Okay. Is there a second? Second. Any further discussion? Please. I Lee I Bulk I Helier I Burmill I. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you both. Move on to item B. Public hearing for vacation of drainage and utility easements and spirit of branch and farm 25th edition preliminary plat and pud amendment and I don't know if Mr. Rossi is presenting. Good evening, council members. Pat Rossi with Tradition Development of Lakeville, Minnesota. Happy to be here tonight to uh introduce what will be the final phase of Spirit of Branch and Farm. Um 25th phase and we're proposing to build seven of our revival type homes uh in this section of the development. These are essentially the same product that we built in the 21st and 23rd edition northern section of the development. And I I believe one of those um maybe the 23rd may have been previously assumed to be the last edition, but uh we're changing up things a little bit with our plans for the Farmstead Preservation Area and our office location. And um rather than, you know, we don't build uh commercial or retail developments. We're a single family home builder. And we thought that rather than selling off this last portion of of the project area to a third-party developer, we would be better better served in the community, better served by us uh developing a kind of a transitional home product type between the adjacent single family areas and our office complex uh within the farmstead preservation area. So, uh excited to hear the staff presentation and we'll stick around for questions. Very good. Thank you. Meeting, Miss Good Road. Good evening, mayor, members of the council. Um, as he mentioned, um, Tradition Development is requesting approval of, um, Spirit of Branch and Farm 25th edition preliminary plat. Um, the property is just north of 170th Street and east of Draft Horse Boulevard. Um, and this is the master plan that um, he referred to and it's the area down here in Brown that has been under that farmstead preservation area um, kind of guided. You could see a little bit more on the open space here and then I've got an aerial up here where you can see a little bit better. Um, there's the farm building where they hold events, the office. Um, the homes will be located in this open area as well as in the community garden area. So under that original PUD, the farmstead preservation area did have some specific uses that were allowed in the master PUD. So a PUD amendment is required to allow the detached town homes. So that is the reason for that portion of the request. And then the preliminary plat will lay out um the location of the seven detached town homes. Um it'll be accessible to from a private drive from the private east west ranch and farm drive um to the north again 170th to the south. Um so these are rear loaded town homes. So the front door will face Draft Horse Boulevard and they'll have a twocar or two driveway space driveway um rear loaded garage. Um and then again the private street with on street parking to accommodate any guest parking. In addition to that, this open field space that is used for parking and for events will be paved and will be striped, so it'll be used far more efficiently. About 50 spaces will be created here with an additional 26 available for the future. And then other events that take place within this building. There's parking up in this corner and then you can see this available public parking as well. So we believe ample parking will still remain with this change. Um there is an easement vacation. Um there's some easements over the property. Let me show you that slide in a second. Forgot we had the landscaping. Um but they are adding ample landscaping um both along um the two streets that are budding it as well as along the private drive. Um and then landscaping at the front of the homes and the rear of the homes. And this is a picture of what some of the styles might look like depending on the buyer's choices. And then there are um public drainage and utility easements over this property that needs to be vacated through a public hearing this evening. These will all be replaced with the final plat and we anticipate submitt of that final platoon. The planning commission did hold their public hearing um on the PUD and the preliminary plat on March 20th. There was no public comment and the planning commission unanimously recommended approval and I would stand for any questions. Okay, very good. Council, any questions? Council member Lee, I do have a question for the developer uh regarding parking. Um, and it's more so for special events. I mean, it it is a to me a little odd that folks are accessing their driveway through two parking lots. Um, but I think I can get beyond that. more of it's about in times that I've been here for either retirement parties or a food truck uh festival, these spots are pretty full. And so is there an idea of how you might manage that in the future with what looks like fewer overall parking spots? Well, uh, Council Member Lee, I would I would say as as, uh, Tina pointed out that we're going to more better define these parking spots. Now, we have a portion of our employees that use that rear undeveloped gravel parking lot. And it works out pretty well for a few weeks after our main corporate uh event with the Hope kids there when we when we stripe that parking lot and people are able to park very precisely. Um, but after a few weeks it it washes off the paint and you've got a big open field there. So, we're going to define uh 50 50 spots there. We're going to encourage our employees to use that back parking lot rather than the on street parking lot and the HOA parking lot of which we are a member uh to the north. So, we think it'll be improved over what's there right now and um hopefully shouldn't be any problems. But we also did include um I guess a ghost plan, if you will, on that green space area directly south of our two existing buildings where we could develop another I think uh 26 or 28 spots there if it becomes a problem. Sure. Thank you. Um with that, this is a public hearing. Does anybody who's in here online have any public comment about this project? Okay, seeing none, I will take a motion to close the public hearing. I'll make a motion to close the public hearing. Okay. Is there a second? Second. Any further discussion? Uh, roll call, please. Bulk. Hi. Helier. Hi. Burmal. Hi. Walter. Hi. Lee. Hi. Okay. Any further discussion about the project? If not, I will take a motion. Council member Burmal, I move to approve a resolution approving the Spirit of Branch and Farm 25th edition preliminary plaid and PUD development stage plan, an amendment to the Spirit of Branch and Farm planned unit development and adopt the findings of fact and a resolution vacating public drainage and utility easements. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Um, roll call, please. Lee, hi. Bulk. Hi. Helier. Hi. Burmal. Hi. Walter. Hi. Okay. Very good. Looking forward to it. Um, now we'll move on to item C, public hearing and resolution adopting assessment for unpaid special charges. And I'll turn it over to our finance director, Miss Stall. Good evening. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the council, we are um doing our spring certification this evening. Um, the public hearing for these. This is um a means that the city can minimize our losses that are maybe due to bankruptcies that could be happening. Um these are for nuisance properties, false alarm charges, unpaid utility bills, and tree removal charges. The utility bills are just the final utility bills, the inactive accounts, so it's been sold. Um so it's it's much smaller certification list for the utilities than we would be doing in the fall. Um public notice of the hearing was mailed to all the customers and posted on the city website and published in the newspaper. In um as far as our numbers this year, we have 45 delinquent utility bills uh totaling $9,57. Uh four nuisance abatements for $1,00056 $1,56. uh seven false alarms that totaled $967 and one tree removal for $1,550. So the total assessments um in this packet is $12,630. Um owners um of these assessment charges can they have 30 days from tonight to pay these um without incurring the interest charges and um but they would be responsible for the $50 administration fee that the city charges. So, uh, with that, I'll open it up for any questions from councel and then ask for the public hearing to be open. Questions? I see none. This is a public hearing. There's any comment about assessments. Okay. Now, I'll take a motion to close the public hearing. So moved. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Uh, roll call, please. Burmill. I. Walter. Hi, Lee. Hi, Full. Hi, Helier. Hi. And I believe do we have a motion? Let's see here. Yes. Take a unless there's any further discussion, I'll take a motion on the assessments. Walter, I move to approve a resolution adopting assessments for the unpaid special charges. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Any further discussion? Okay. Uh, roll call, please. Walter, hi Lee. Hi Fulk. Hi Helier. Hi Vermill. Hi. Very good. We'll now move on to item D. Lord of life town home preliminary plat variance and easement vacation. And I'll turn over to our community community development director, Miss Goodro. Welcome back. Yep. Thank you, Mayor and Council, for having us here tonight. And I'm Matt Frisbee based out of River Falls, Wisconsin, uh, representing Frisbee Companies and Frisbee Properties that's doing the project. We've been working on this now for a couple years. Pastor Jamie Thompson's here too with Lord of Life. We worked with them back in 2004 and five on the initial church and this is uh kind of another phase we've talked about over the years and the church is not financially involved in the project. We've uh acquired the land from them and we're moving ahead uh hopefully through the process here and this is one more step. So I'll follow up with any questions. Very good. Thank you. Welcome. All right, mayor, members of the council. Um the property, as you know, um is the Lord of Life Church um property or the open area to the south, which is south of Dodd Boulevard, um just along Dod Road or or Dodd Lane to the east. Um you approved a comprehensive plan amendment debt back in um September 24 um 2024 for a regiduiding to low medium density residential and the zoning is RST2 and so the plumeary plat action and variance um and um vacation of easements um are requested of you tonight. The vacation hearing was conducted at the public um at the planning commission meeting. Um, as you can see from the site plan, they are proposing 24 twin home lots. Total acreage is 5.74 um, acres. Um, not a whole lot to share. It's pretty similar to what you've seen when we went through the comprehensive plan amendment. Um, the top picture does show the landscaping. Um, they are providing a lot of additional landscaping along the north side of those properties. So, the rear of those homes when they're abuing the church parking lot to provide a nice buffer. They do have some amenities for the neighborhood. The variance is in related to the length of the culde-sac. The subdivision ordinance requires or has a limit of 600 feet. Um because of just the the layout and the the existing land and lot area, they are requesting a small variance to that up to 638 ft. And this is an example of some of the homes that will be proposed. Um they have submitted plans for final plat. Um so they are very eager to get going on this project. The planning commission did hold a public hearing at their March 20th meeting and there was no public comment and the planning commission unanimously recommended approval and I would stand for any questions. Okay, council, any questions, comments. Okay, I'll take a motion then. Yep. Council member Lee. Um, this is not a public hearing though, correct? It is not. Great. It's the first one. I was going to say I was start getting into the uh repetition here. Um I'll move to approve one a resolution approving the preliminary plat of Lord of Life Town Homes, two a variance for culde-sac length and adoption of the findings of fact and three resolution vacating drainage and utility easements. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Any further discussion? I'll just say um I I know when this was first proposed there was a lot of concern and questions by the neighbors. So I just want to thank both the church and the developer for taking your time and meeting with neighbors and going through and and answering a lot of that. So I appreciate it because clearly with no one here tonight you did a very good job at that. So um thank you. And with that roll call, please. Lee, I bulk. Hi. Helier. Hi. Burmill. Hi. Walter. Hi. Very good. Congratulations. Thank you. Um, okay. Moving on to items 8 and nine, unfinished and new business. Okay, seeing none, uh, our next council meeting is Monday, April 21st, and our next work session is Monday, April 28th. And with that, I'll take a motion to adjurnn. There's a second. Second. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppos. We're adjourned. Going to meet you. Yeah. Get in there. [Music]