CompletedApril 21, 2025 Bloomington City Council Study Meeting

April 21, 2025 Bloomington City Council Study Meeting

Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 7:49 PMActual: Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM

April 21, 2025 Bloomington Minnesota City Council Study Meeting

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Published Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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"All right, it is 6:32. I will call this official city council business meeting to order Monday, April 21st, 2025. It's officially a study meeting. We won't be taking votes tonight. We'll be hearing a couple of presentations, but officially it is an official city council business meeting. So, we've got to follow the same protocols as we would do otherwise. So, we will start our meeting as we always do. If you would stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you everybody who is joining us online and thanks to everybody here in the college staff. Thank you for being here. Our first order of business council is to approve tonight's agenda. Uh under our agenda we have nothing under item two introductory or under three consent or four hearings resolutions and ordinances only we get to number five our organizational business. We've got two items. Item 5.1 is a discussion on franchise fees and item 5.2 is an update on federal grants and what that impact might mean for the city of Bloomington. And once we wrap that up we will adjourn. So unless there are any additions or corrections to the agenda tonight, I would move the agenda as stated. Second motion and a second by council member Carter to accept tonight's agenda as stated. No further council discussion on this. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. Opposed? The motion carries 70. And we have an agenda. We will jump to item 5.1 franchise fees discussion. We have the gang of four in front of us. We've got Julie Long, our city engineer, Bob Simons, senior civil engineer, Alice Dross, our sustainability coordinator economy shoulder, our CFO to present this item for us. So long, you're taking it away. Yes, it's all yours. Thank you. Um, our goal tonight is twofold. One is to answer the questions that you all asked us at the last organizational business when this meeting was presented and then second to get some direction from you so we don't have to prepare eight different ordinances. Um so we're going to do a discussion on our two new categories um which is retaining walls and sustainability. So this first graphic shows you the retaining walls all with around the city within the city right away. Um uh retaining wall work has been funded using the general fund and then council is aware that we often do carryovers mainly because the $45,000 that's in the budget doesn't really put a dent into our retaining wall needs. Um for instance there's a retaining wall project coming before you next Monday and that engineers estimate somewhere between $800 and $900,000. As you can imagine, it takes a really long time to be able to fund that um because we like to pay as our go as we go. So, that will be coming forward 90th Street along with in future years we have West Bush Lake Road and then some retaining walls on the Norman…

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