[music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Good evening everyone and welcome. I will call our Bloomington City Council meeting to order. This is Monday, August 31st, 2026. Welcome to everybody joining us here in the council chambers and welcome to everybody watching online. Thank you much for being here. We uh as part of our agenda this evening, we are going to be swearing in new police officers. So, we thought it appropriate to start the meeting uh as we always do with our uh our the pledge of allegiance, but the presentation of colors by the Bloomington Honor Guard. And so, we are going to do that to get us started. I'm going to turn it over to Deputy Chief Damon Bitney to call it and we will be on our way. DC. [clears throat] >> Officers, come to attention. Officers present >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisibley. and justice for order. Thank you all for that and thank you to our honor guard. It's always a great way to start a council meeting, I think, to have that take place. And we see there have been so many places around the community and so extend our thanks to them if you could, deputy chief, because they do outstanding work. We are deeply appreciative of it. Council, uh, first item of business tonight is the approval of our agenda. And on our agenda, under item two, our introductory items, we have four items. First will be the introduction of our public safety cadet ambassadors program with an overview of the program as well. Item 2.2 two is the main event that I think most people are here for this evening, the swearing in of our new Bloomington police officers. Item 2.3, we will have introduction of new Bloomington city employees. And item 2.4, we're going to have an update on our Three Rivers Park District partnership. Three Rivers and the City of Bloomington have worked together for years, and it's a wonderful partnership, and we're going to get an update uh from a couple of uh representatives from the Three Rivers Park District. Our consent agenda is a bit beefy. We've got, I think, 19 items on it, and council member Dalisandro has our consent business this evening. Item four is our hearings, resolutions, and ordinances. Item 4.1 is the Bloomshshire Village Town Homes resoning, uh, FSBP and the platting and so on. Uh, what I would like to do, if I could, council, at the request of Council Member Rivas, and I believe council member Dalisandro also, if we could move item 36, uh, excuse me, 3 point, yeah, 3.6, 16. That's the award of 2026 803 West 90th Street retaining wall project. If we can move that and let that become item 4.2 just as an information item because that feeds into item 4 what then will become 4.3 which is a public hearing regarding the city code amendment for the donation of surplus city property and disposition of abandoned or unclaimed property. We're good with that. >> Mr. Mayor, just point of clarification. 3.16 on our agenda is the approval of the surplus equipment donation policy itself and that's why we're asking them to be colllocated. >> So that's the 3.16. My apologies. >> No, no worries. >> And I know we the numbers messed up or mixed up because of the the item that is the approval of surplus equipment donation policy. Uh I think we lost 3.12 I believe. So uh that will be that will be the one moved down to as item 4.2. Thank you for the clarification, council member. I appreciate it. >> Thank you. And then item 4.2, our public hearing for the city code amendment for the donation of surplus city property and disposition of abandoned or unclaimed property. So uh policy. >> Very good. And then uh we will move on to item five which is our organizational business. We have uh a closed meeting this evening which would be item 5.1. What I would like to do council is move our council policy and issue update ahead of item 5.1. So then we can go into close session, come out of close session and not have to do the updates. we can simply uh act on the business in the closed session and and move on and then we will adjourn. Is that clear to everyone? Really? I'm surprised at that. All right. Uh if it if that's not if that is clear and no one has any questions, I would move approval of our agenda as stated. >> Motion and a second by council member Dalisandro to accept tonight's agenda as stated. No further council discussion on this. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. 70 and we have an agenda and our first item on tonight's agenda is item 2.1. It's the introduction of the public safety cadet ambassadors program with a quick overview. Sam Dabvern, Officer Davvern is here to give us an overview. Please come on forward. >> Hi, mayor, city council, city manager. Uh there should be a PowerPoint associated with this as well if you're able to pull that up, please. Thank you. Uh just a real quick clarification. So, the public safety ambassador program is formerly known as our explorer program. We'll kind of cover that here, but we just switched for uh making it run a little bit smoother. Uh, next slide, please. So, as I kind of mentioned, my name is Sam Davern. I'm one of the lead explorer or ambassador adviserss for the program here. Um, thank you. Um, so in 2026, we switched from the explorer to the ambassador program. uh went from the scouts over to a program that's more fit and ran by uh law enforcement from around the US. And so instead of learning from a broad program of the scouts, it's learning from specific public safety individuals and it's more focused specifically on public safety. Uh it's through the public safety cadetses. Since we already have cadets, we just switch the name to ambassadors. Uh next slide, please. Uh kind of like the Explorers as well though, it's for anyone 14 through 20 years old. Uh they're doing the exact same stuff they used to do, engage with the community, uh community engagement events, volunteering where they can. And then uh once a week during the winter, fall, and spring, they're learning uh from police officers in Bloomington about different variety of tasks and stuff. Kind of like before. Uh next slide, please. This is from our competition last year. um we had 25 ambassadors or explorers in the program. Uh so that was significantly up from previous years and we're hoping to kind of maintain that. That's kind of where we cap out. Uh so once again this year we had to unfortunately turn people away but we just can't accept more from making sure everyone's getting a good education on it. Next slide please. Uh so kind of quick numbers. Uh October of every year we go to Duth and compete in kind of like a small state competition and then in April we go to Rochester we compete in a large competition. Uh last October do you guys remember what we placed in? >> Couple different things. >> Yeah. So we took home three different awards at that competition. Uh then in 2026 uh this year in April uh we went to the Rochester competition where they competed against 44 other agencies that all either brought one to eight teams with them. Uh they placed in a couple different things as kind of seen on the bottom. They placed first and third in traffic stops, uh second in retail crime, and then fifth in street decisions. Uh for the awards they do there, it's first through fifth place, and they each do about four different events per um weekend, I guess, down there. So they have a Friday and Saturday they do the events and they all did really good this year. I think we brought seven teams with us this year. Uh next slide please. Uh so these are just some photos from the event this year. Uh this year we also were able to take over running the traffic stop event. So there's a bunch of different agencies obviously and they all help out with running the events down there, bringing down role players uh judging the events and so we were able to help out and take over that this year which is super nice to get us more involved with the whole uh program overall. Uh throughout here you just see the kind of different awards along with the signature orange jumpsuit of course we had to bring that with us. So uh thanks to the chief for bringing that down there with us also. [laughter] U yeah so up there you'll just see all that. Then a couple of different scenarios. Uh that one with the binder is just them kind of prepping. So they get the scenario 30 minutes beforehand and that includes walk time through Rochester to be able to get there and then prep for it as well. Uh next slide, please. Uh yeah, then there's the team that we brought down with us this last year. I think we only had one or two that couldn't go with us just from other scheduling stuff. So um we'll go to the last slide here and that should have my contact information. And if anyone knows anyone that wants to participate in the program, um, feel free to reach out to that email or give that phone number a call and they'll get it forward to me. Um, we will introduce a couple of our ambassadors as well here and I'll let them present about themselves. Thank you guys. >> Very good. Thank you, officer. Ambassadors, please. >> Mayor, city council, and city manager. My name is Thomas Atuma. Um, I grew up in Bloomington. I've lived here all my life. um grew up on the east side and just recently moved to the west side. Um I just graduated from Jefferson. Um I'm studying law enforcement at Normanddale. Um I'm looking forward to applying to the cadet position for the city here soon and I'm looking forward to maybe getting that opportunity. Thank you. >> Thank you for being with us tonight. >> Mayor, city council, city manager. My name is Selma Joffrey. Um, I also grew up here in Bloomington. I've lived here my whole life. I'm a senior at Jefferson right now and I'm on the swim team. >> Welcome. >> Good evening, mayor, city council, and city mayor. Uh, my name is Yur Vasquez Rubio and I've been part of the forest now public safety ambassadors program for the better part of three years now. um lived in Bloomington for close to 10 years and I'm going to head up in technical college for peace officer program. >> Well, thank you. Thank you for being with us. Thank all three of you for being with us and for introducing yourself. Uh I know that's not easy a lot of times in front of a room full of people, but you did a great job. Thank you much. And thank you for uh your commitment to public safety and your your willingness to step forward and do this kind of thing. Uh very impressive. Very glad to have you on board. Officer Dyvern, thank you for your leadership in this. And uh thank you to Chief Hodes and the rest of the department for for your your welcoming and your mentorship and your training of young people like this. Well done. Thank you. >> Appreciate the support. >> Thank you. [applause] >> Item 2.2 this evening is the swearing in of our new Bloomington police officers. I'm going to call Chief Booker Hodes forward and let him handle the swearing in. And I will say uh family members who are here this evening, family members, raise your hand. This is going to happen once. So if you want a good picture, do not be shy about it. So uh as they stand up and raise their hands, if you want to come up here in front of the the council de and and just uh if you want to get the best picture you can, don't be shy about it. You won't be blocking our view. Please do. So all right. Um I'll say my remarks for after. So, first uh we'll start off with badge 427 and then we'll end with uh 435. So, you guys know your badge numbers and you know the order. So, you'll come up um say what's on the sheet here and then tell people a little bit about yourself. So, all right. Who's first? All right. Mayor, city council, city manager. My name is Jeremy Morrison. I grew up here in Bloomington. I graduated from Normdale Community College and um I served here as a cadet for about two years before moving up. Thank you. >> Thank you. [applause] >> Mayor, city council, city manager. My name is Justin Schwagert. I grew up in Big Lake, went to Princeton, um did school in St. Cloud, got my four-year degree there, deployed to Iraq when I was in the army for 12 years, did that when I was 20. Um and now I'm here. So, >> welcome. Thank you. [applause] >> Mayor, city council, city manager. My name is Jack Fallen. Um, I grew up in eina, Minnesota. Um, I have a college degree from Michigan State University. And then my last job before this, I worked for the Honolulu Police Department for a handful of years. >> Hold on. Did you get Did you get the shot? [laughter] >> She's doing double duty there. She's got to make sure. [applause] >> Mayor, city council, city manager. My name is Kevin McCabe. I grew up in Burnsville. Um, I went to Metro State University. I have a bachelor's degree in law enforcement. Uh, I previously worked at the Metro Transit Police Department and the Prior Lake Police Department before coming here. >> Welcome. >> Thank you. [applause] >> All right. Mayor, city council. I'm going to talk really slow so they can There we go. [laughter] Mayor, city council, city manager. My name is Nick Mahan. Um, I am from Chicago, Illinois. a little suburb called Darien. Um, just south of the city. Uh, I have a degree from Hench, but I also went to the University of Missouri. Go Tigers. Um, there we go. Uh, before coming here, uh, I was a police officer for two years in St. Louis Park, and I'm super excited to be here as well as my family as well. >> We're excited to have you. Welcome, [applause] >> mayor, city council, city manager. My name is John Tambberino. Um, I grew up here in the Twin Cities, West St. Paul. Uh, I got my four-year degree in economics from the school out in Milwaukee. Uh, but then I moved back to the Twin Cities about two years ago and then my got my criminal justice degree from Henipin Tech. And, uh, this is my first police job. So, thank you. >> Welcome. [applause] All right, I'll keep this brief. Uh, just to remind the public, uh, when I became chief, one thing I changed immediately was we only bring people before you who have completed all their training and are off FTO. Uh, some of our bigger cities don't do that. I just think it's um, not appropriate to bring people before you when they just graduate the academy and they haven't completed their training. So all these folks here are out on the street right now patrolling the city of Bloomington. So we will have additional swearing in as uh other folks come off their training. Um and just to them uh you've been fortunate enough to be hired by what I believe is the best police department in the country. Um and the reason I get to say that is I believe Bloomington is the best community in the country. Um, and it's an honor that when you put that uh badge and you wear that patch, this community loves this police department. Don't do nothing to screw that up. [laughter] All right. Um, and then to our, um, ambassadors, um, I'd like to thank Officer Davvern for all the work he's done in that program. And, you know, a lot of people in law enforcement will say that they don't want their kids to go into the profession. The first picture was actually uh, my oldest. And for those of you have kids, you know, the oldest is always the baby, even if though they're still the oldest. But um I'm not one of those people. I believe this the most noble profession in the face of the earth. And if any of my children decide to do this job, I'll support them 100%, especially when it comes time to work in in this city. So again, thank you all for your support of this police department. And um to our community members, thank you all for your continued support of our city and our officers. And we are grateful for that every single day. So now that I done got through talking, uh you guys can get up and go shake everybody up here's hands cuz you have a good counsel. All right. Swear in [applause] Hold on. Stand by. Stand by. >> We need to do a swearing in first. [laughter] >> So Oh god. Okay. All right. All right. And this is another spot for family members. Come on up here. They're going to raise their hands once. Get up here and get a good picture. Don't be shy. >> That's why we're here today, right? Uh so all you guys can come up here. Um no, we'll bring the cops up here. The family members can come behind here. Sorry, they've just for people who want formalities. Uh they are they do this the day they get hired. So this is a symbolic one for them. All right. Uh so you're going to raise your right hand. Then you're going to state your name. Uh, but you know, state your name, not state your name, if you understand what I'm saying. Um, all right. I >> do somnly swearly swear >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States. I will support the Constitution of the United States >> and the state of Minnesota >> and the state of Minnesota >> and faithfully discharge the duties >> faithfully discharge the duties >> as a police officer >> as a police officer >> for the city of Bloomington, Minnesota. >> for the city of Bloomington, Minnesota. >> To the best of my judgment and ability. >> to the best of my judgment and ability. >> Congrats again. [applause] >> All right. Now you must shake hand. [applause] Now, I have been told to remind everyone uh who is associated with the swearing in, go up to the HEG conference room because there's a party going on up here and you're all invited. So, >> or stay. [laughter] >> Oh, yes. Mhm. >> No way. >> Council, we will move on with our agenda. Item 2.3 is the introduction of new employees. We have, I think, I see three new employees. One in our uh community development, two in our IT department. So, I'm gonna do uh Kim Bergen or Kyle Johannes, who wants to go first? Kim Bergen is gonna go first, please. >> Okay. Hi, council. Um, good evening. I'm Kim Ber, and director of community development, and I'm here tonight to introduce one of our new staff, Ryan Soulberg. Um, he is the new housing development specialist in the Port Authority and also works for the HRA. He started in the city in June. Um he comes to us with a bachelor's degree in political science science and also a master's degree from the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. Ryan has spent six years working in community and economic development with the city of or with Sou Metro Growth Alliance, the city of Fidley and the Minnesota Extension Office. He's excited to have joined our community and where he can do more housing work at a broader scale. And on a personal note, um Ryan is from Mitchell, South Dakota, which is best known for >> the Corn Palace, which I just got to visit this summer with my family. So, >> welcome. >> Good evening. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Um, as Kim introduced me, I'm Ryan Soulberg. Uh, today marks the end of my third month here on the job. So, uh, it's been a great experience so far, and I look forward to getting to work more closely with you all in the future. >> Welcome. Thank you for being with us and uh congratulations. Glad to have you here. Thank you. Uh so we're informed council that our our two IT specialists are not here this evening. So Ryan is our only uh introduction. Ryan, I will I will tell you what I tell everybody who is hired. While we are the ones who sit up here, a lot of in a lot of cases, it's uh all it is all of the employees of Bloomington that are actually the face of Bloomington that people recognize and that they count on and that they uh consider to be Bloomington when they need something from the city and and that you you folks deliver the services. So, it's a big responsibility, but uh I have no doubt of your ability and your willingness to to keep that responsibility uh true. And so, welcome aboard and thank you for being with us and looking forward to seeing you out and about in the community. Welcome. Thanks. Item 2.4 on our agenda, council, is uh Three Rivers Park District Partnership Update. Uh Renee Clark, is going to kick this off, but we have uh the chair of the Three Rivers Park Board, John Gibbs, is with us this evening, as well as the uh the guy in charge of it all, Bo Carlson, is also with us. So, good evening, Miss Clark. Welcome. >> Good evening, Mayor and Council. Well, we're joined tonight by Three Rivers Park District uh Superintendent Bo Carlson and board chair John Gibbs to provide an update on the city's partnership with Three Rivers. Bloomington, as you've said, um has a long-standing partnership in the Highland Anderson Regional Park Reserve and our regional trail system. In recent years, that partnership has expanded with Three Rivers, operating Highlands Green Golf Course, and beginning in 2025, assuming the responsibility for the management and operations of the city-owned portions of the Highland Bush Anderson Regional Park Preserve. Uh, tonight's an opportunity to hear how those partnerships are going and some of the investments and accomplishments to date and what's ahead. Um, it's also an opportunity for council to ask questions and continue the conversation about how our two agencies are working together. So, with that, I will turn it over to Superintendent Bo Carlson and Commissioner John Gibbs. >> Mr. Chair, good evening. Welcome, >> Mr. Mayor. Thank you very much. And members, uh, I am John Gibbs, 7601 Auto Club Road. I chair the Three Rivers Board right now. And with me is a superintendent who, as the mayor pointed out, really runs the show, Bo Carlson. We're respectful of the agenda you've got tonight. So, we'll get right to it. I will do a short setup, which is to let you know that we uh established a 2040 system plan for the Three Rivers Park District a few years ago, and it had a few fundamental tenants. And the first of which was you belong here. it was outward facing and the U is really everybody in this region who might have occasion or an interest in participating and uh other tenants were to try to lead and collaborate with others to get the mission of nature-based recreation well done here in our metropolitan area and I think we're succeeding at that. We have uh just received some data that we had over 16 and a half million visits last year. That's more than twice the number of visits uh when I joined the park board. oh so many 16 years ago, but it shows some success and and we appreciate that. Most of it's based on maximizing partnerships and there are none that are uh more meaningful and in my opinion successful than the partnerships we've been able to develop here with the city of Bloomington. Hopefully our approach to partnerships is creative but also to engage in them with humility, you know, institutional humility as well well as individual. think we're trying to do that pretty well. We are pledging to take care of what we have to not leave the next group of taxpayers and commissioners and council members with deferred maintenance burdens and I think we're making progress on that. We're quite focused on that as we look at our levies this year and uh and and budget, you know, for going forward. So, with that, I'd like to introduce or reintroduce Bo Carlson because he's the one who really knows the answers and we do invite you to interrupt or to ask any questions. I'm certain you will, but we're we're game for it. So, thank you very much, Bo. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Carlson, good evening. Welcome, >> Mr. Mayor, council members. Thank you. Uh, as was mentioned, Bo Carlson. I'm the superintendent of the park district. Uh, very happy to be here tonight. This has been a wonderful partnership. This is a great opportunity for us to share just some details, some information, some of the developments that have gone on out at uh both Highland Greens as well as Highland Bush, Anderson Lakes, um, and just what's happening in Bloomington in general. So, uh, as John mentioned, yes, certainly jump in and and, uh, ask questions if they do pop up. And actually, I am going to go through some information first and then I'll kind of run through the pictures. So, if we could take just a step back, um, I'll give you a little bit of detail. I'm just tickling your curiosity maybe with some of those pictures and then we'll run through all the pictures and kind of see everything. But just wanted to start with some general information. So, the Highland Bush Anderson Lakes Park Reserve uh, last year actually in 2025 had 1.7 million visits. Um, when you factor in the amount of visits that we had at Highland Hills, which is about another 200 to 220,000 visits, we're pushing two million visits as a system, as a park itself. Uh, which is pretty amazing. That puts us number seven overall in the metro regional system as far as overall visitation, which is an incredible number. Um, that's the highest visited park in our system, uh, in some cases by far when you factor in all the other elements overall in the city of Bloomington regional facilities. So, if you take not only the Highland Bush Anderson, but you take some of the regional trails, Bloomington's at about a million visits total within the system. Um, between 24 and 25, interestingly enough, we saw a jump of about 40% in visitation. It actually went up 39.7%. I don't know what the factor of that was or why the significant jump. Um, but that's a positive sign. Obviously, people are coming to the parks. They're using the parks. That also puts a lot of pressure and responsibility certainly on us to recognize that we have to do what we can to keep that good spirit going and keep that good customer service flowing as people are coming into the park and set the expectation high that they want to have clean, safe facilities that they can utilize. And I think we'll show some enhancements and some uh examples of that going forward. Just for your interest, last year or in 2026, excuse me, we had 297 reservations at both Bush Lake and at Normanddale Banshell. So, reservations remain strong. That's a nice uh revenue stream for us that helps support or offset the operational costs of the system itself. Um I think it shows a good transition from one organization to the other from a fee structure that we didn't see a significant dip or drop or anything. It stayed pretty consistent. So, that's a very good sign. Uh in addition to that those reservation groups I should mention we also do a lot of partner uh programming through the optimist other community groups that we try to provide those programs free free of charge uh that we do see as a community benefit and in fact uh this Halloween we're going to be hosting the optimist uh Halloween event down at Highland Hills Chalet. So we're very excited about that. So get a plug in for that. Everybody come out to the chalet. Uh Highland Greens as Renee mentioned has been a great partnership dating back to 2021. Uh that was the first year that we took over operation of that facility. If you'll remember, uh that facility was closed in 2020 and did not have any rounds of golf that were played. We were able to reopen in 2021. Uh we had 17,000 rounds in 2021. Uh last year we had about 24,000 rounds. So we're seeing growth in rounds. That's awesome. Uh we have a goal in 2025. We think we can get close to 25,000 rounds, which would be great. Uh it's been a great fall so far. We still have a little summer to go here with one more week and weather looks fantastic in the 10day at least. So, uh, that should be an achievable goal. That would generate about $800,000 in revenue for that facility and we're think we're in line to make that. We did extensive tree removal when we first moved in. Uh, if you remember, there was a lot of ashbor. I think we had about 164 trees that we had to take out. Uh, we've been doing a lot of replanting, which is really exciting. It's been a great opportunity to see some fresh growth out there. Uh we also went through an extensive bunker renovation. All of this work has been done inhouse. So this was all stuff that our staff took on. Again, the benefit that we have from a scalable system where when we have crews come in from all of our golf courses, we can bang out a lot of work in a very short period of time. So the benefit of the partnership really is reflected in that um work that can go into doing some of these really significant renovation projects that otherwise would require contractors to do that work. So, it's cheaper, it's more efficient, we can get it done on our schedule versus their schedule long term. This last year, we created a new par4 hole. So, we converted holes four and five into one longer hole uh to give people that par4 experience where they could actually bring out a driver and hit a driver. Um, we thought that was going to be a well-received addition and it certainly has. people have appreciated that opportunity to have some diversity, a little bit different experience when they're out there. And some of those folks that maybe don't want to just play a short course with their kids or maybe some of those folks that still want to test their metal and how far they can drive it have that opportunity with that. So again, that was something we were able to do uh just inhouse and had again been very well received. Some really good news we're excited about. Uh the fence that's along Normanddale Drive should be removed this September uh as part of that road and trail project. Again, that a great example of the partnership between the park district and the city. The city is actually leading some uh utility improvements along the right ofway of the road. That's going to require bumping that fence back. They'll actually remove the existing fence. We'll have a reinstalled black vinyl clad fence that'll be much more uh attractive to look at as much as a chain link fence can be attractive. Um but yes, we're very excited about that happening. So, that's going to move forward. Um, one of the things I just wanted to mention a little bit about, um, we do have the Highland Mountain Bike Trail that we've been in a lot of discussions about. This started this last May. Uh, we had kind of a conceptual open house with the community. We actually had two different openhouse meetings at that time. Uh, we had one for the general public just to come and hear kind of the thoughts, the ideas that we had. And then we had one explicitly for the neighbors that we invited everybody in the neighborhood specifically around North Commons uh to come out or north corridor excuse me to come out and take a look kind of see what the idea was what the concepts were during that period of time we also collected feedback through our let's talk website we had about 380 commenters in that process where people gave us feedback that also benefited in giving us an ability to develop a list of all those contacts of folks that are interested in that project. Uh we had an open house just last week to kind of share the conceptual design and what a proposed alignment might actually look like within the park. Uh we got about 95 people that showed up. Obviously the mountain bike community is very enthused about this and very excited to see this happen. We do still have some neighbors that have concerns and we're working through some of those. We'll continue to accept comments on that plan uh over the course of the next couple weeks and then proceed from there in a plan kind of going forward on that. So, I just wanted to make mention of that as we go forward. Some enhancements of the current facilities and we'll talk and I'll show some examples of this as we go further. But we added shower towers out at the beach as well as some shade structures. Just some things people can get out of the sunlight um as obviously if you've all been out there seen that that was kind of a exposed area. So, just give some people the opportunity out there. We did add our paddleshare program which is a self-directed uh phone enabled system to provide opportunities for people to rent boats uh which has been very wellreceived. So we had that at the Bush Lake Beach and it was very popular. We installed an ADA accessible kayak launch um which again made opportunities for folks to get on the water that much more accessible and available. We installed the fishing docks and upgraded railings and decking. So, this was a pretty major initiative undertaken by the city of Bloomington where you were able to actually purchase those peers and then our crews installed them uh and put them in place which again another example of the great partnership and the great relationship that we have with the city [snorts] uh throughout the park. We've been doing a ton of preventative maintenance. Again, it goes to what John was mentioning about um taking care of what we have, recognizing that we got to keep these things in good condition and make sure that people have good safe experiences when they're out there. And then we've doing a number of preventative maintenance uh things on the picnic shelters. We're going to have a new roof that's going to go in actually on shelter 3 in the next couple weeks. You'll see that work happening if you're driving by on East Bush there. We're also going to be doing improvements to the beams, just staining, painting, refinishing them, get shelter 3 cleaned up a little bit. Uh we were able in one and two to do some significant bathroom improvements. So we refinished both the floors and both bathrooms and it looks very nice for a picnic shelter bathroom. So that was exciting. um the Bush Lake Beach building remodel. This is one of the more significant capital improvements that we're embarking on. Uh we're going to be looking at totally reconstructing that building itself, making it more functional. Right now, it's not real functional. It's a little out of date. Uh the bathrooms are a little rough, a little rough shape. So, I think a facelift will look really good. It'll make it more efficient for use of the space. We have a lot going on there. When we have Camp Cota going on, we have the beach activities going on. We're going to add uh some boat rental facilities there as well. So, we'll have boat rental and paddle boards uh available for folks to utilize. So, fitting all that space together is going to be a little bit of a challenge, but I think we're up to it for sure. We're hoping to construct that in 2027. Design is going on now. Actually, city staff is on our planning team to uh assist in that and provide feedback. We've got accessible restrooms, changing rooms that'll be included. We're going to have a boat rental space as I mentioned and then space for Camp Cota uh where they can both have storage but then also have a safe shelter when they can get out of the elements as need be. On the natural resources side, I'm really excited about this. This is one of those elements that I think is a value ad that we bring to the table being a natural resource-based agency. These are some of those things that we can focus on that maybe are a challenge for the city just from the standpoint of all the other needs and things that go on in a large scale city government. uh we can focus our attention on this and we can really take the time. So, we've got a number of different things we've been doing out at the park to improve kind of the natural resources out there. One of the big things has been dealing with hazard trees, trimming and removing trees in the park. Uh we've had to remove or uh prune about a hundred different trees within that facility that were either dead or dying uh or were hazard trees ultimately. The good news is we're going to roll in this fall with some bare root tree planting with our tree spade that we're going to be able to replace a number of those trees as well as some different areas we'll be able to rehab in the future. We're also partnering with Bloomington and the Isaac Walton League and Nine Mile Creek wershed. Uh we're going to be doing some buckthorn removal beginning this fall. There's about a 10 acre area around Walton Pond that we're actually partnering with them and we're going to do buckthorn control in that area. So really excited again to see the Iikes as part of that program and a great partner as well as the wershed going forward. So again trying to bring as many of those resources to the table as we can to show some love to the park and show some uh action and kind of dealing with some of those invasives that are out there. And then lastly, I want to mention we have a new wayfinding program that we're instituting districtwide. Uh Highland Bush Anderson is going to be our first park reserve. We've done French Park which is a regional park and it's been very wellreceived. Uh we're going to venture into a much larger space with Highland Bush. Um but we think it's going to be a great program and I'll show a couple pictures of that as we go forward. Do I have control on this? >> Okay, maybe not. Oh yeah. So there you go. We can see the shower tower on the left there, or I guess my left. Um you've got the accessible dock in the middle. Just an example of some seal coating that went on on some of the trails. Again, taking care of what we have is a very important element. uh as well as the new peers that went in. The building itself, as you can see, not a real efficient use of space. Uh a little bit of a dated architecture style, but nevertheless, a very needed building out there. So, we're excited to see this undertaking. One of the things I should mention within the uh capital improvement program that we have for the entire park, that's something we've gone through to identify utilizing Metro Council dollars as well as legacy funds for these capital improvements. So that'll be the capital dollars that'll cover the cost of the replacement. Natural resources, I mentioned some of the details of that. Buckthornne removal in an urban environment is a very large element of it. Uh, one of the things that I didn't maybe mention in my summary is also dealing with some wildlife management. Recognizing we have some issues out there with goose populations as well as deer populations. We were able to include our aerial deer survey uh this winter to get an assessment of kind of what's the magnitude and scale of the deer uh that we're dealing with in the Bloomington area. So again, just some of those elements and expertise that we bring to the table that I think is a real benefit long term. And then finally, our wayfinding signs. I think a very userfriendly, easy to use, easy to interface. It's a combination of the long uh kind of narrow signs that'll be at a variety of all the intersections that will give you an idea of the type of trail. It will have the distance to the next sign. It'll show you what the allowable uses are. It'll include a QR code also that'll have a map and it'll link right to where you're at uh within the system. So, it's pretty neat. a great way for wayfinding on the trail system that sometimes can be fairly complicated. So, we hope it it's helpful for folks. Uh we will often also have the you are here signs which are the Highland Lake Park Reserve gives you just an identity of where you're at on the system, how far it is maybe to a significant landmark and get you to that point. Again, a QR code that shows an interactive map, picks up right where you're at. Uh really excited about this program. I think it's going to be great. Something the public's going to appreciate. We have some very active hikers uh as well as bikers down at Highland Bush Anderson. So, I think this is a system they're very excited about. We've already gotten some feedback from them and they love it. Uh so, we're excited to see that installed this fall. I think that might be it. And with that, Mr. Mayor, council members, happy to answer any questions if Carlson. Thank you. Council, do we have any questions for Mr. Carlson or Chair Gibbs? Council member Nelson and then Council Member Disandro. Uh, thank [clears throat] you, mayor. First of all, I'm very excited about the fence. >> Yes, agreed. [laughter] >> As we all are, >> especially the location, someone tried to take a shortcut to the clubhouse, but um that's a different issue. Um the the question I had is in terms of the beach uh building there that you're looking at, have you looked at um options for food and beverage? Um, and one of the areas I'm familiar [clears throat and cough] with, I think it's Antlers Park in Lakeville on Lake Marian has like a restaurant type. I mean, it's not full service, but has that type of option. And just wondering if you considered that or will be considering that as you go through the planning process, >> Mr. uh, excuse me, Mr. Mayor, Council Member Nelson. Uh, yeah, that is very much an element of this plan. It'll be some level of concession that'll be available. Um, and we have the gamut in our system. We have full service kitchens like we do at Highland Hills, Elm Creek Park Reserve. Uh we have much smaller traditional concession air facilities at some of our swim ponds that are more ice cream, ice cream snacks, that kind of thing. I it's going to be a hybrid. It's certainly not going to be a fullscale restaurant type facility, but I think it certainly will have a variety of different options available for the public just to have some refreshments and that kind of thing. So that's very much an element of it. >> Okay. Thank you for the update. This is great. Council member Disandro. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, yeah, thanks for being here. Really appreciate it. Always great. And appreciate you coming prepared with some of the questions. I know we've been getting asked. Um, I think the wayfinding is really important. So, I'm grateful that you're you're doing that. Um, and um um curious if whether or not some of that uh QR code for for those signs. I know you you know there's always the the the attempt to have both visual cues as well as written cues. um we have lots of different languages spoken and things like that. It might be worth it to have that QR code offer alternative languages as well. So, just throwing that out there. But, um two quick questions. One, I'd be very interested in understanding the results of the study that you do on deer populations in the area. Um at National Night Out, I I was over in the Norman Ridge area and got a lot of questions about deer management over there. Um, so they they'll be happy to hear that we have an a plan to do some population studies. So I would just ask if we could um, you know, make a note to bring that back to council, even if it's just a BTW update or something when you have that finished over the winter, that would be great. There's a lot of people interested in that. And then, um, on the Bush Lake beach building question, um, so you you know, we've been going through with our parks system master plan a lot of capital investments in our buildings. I was just kind of curious whether or not there was any plan to like normalize the look and feel of the building to match the other buildings that are going up uh right now throughout our parks. Whether you think of like the new Bryant Park buildings or the ones that are going over in the Nine Mile Creek area. Just curious if we're sharing planning uh around that to number one save cost, but also to to create the kind of common aesthetic. >> Mr. Mayor, Council Member Dellesandro, um great suggestion. Yes, absolutely. That is why we try to have somebody from the Bloomington team on our project team. We're not quite to the stage yet of finishes. We're still trying to figure out square footage and size and all of that. But that's a great suggestion. We certainly can do that. >> I think we paid a lot of money for those designs. We might as well use them is my point. Yeah, >> for sure. Right on. >> No, that's great. That's great feedback. >> Appreciate it. >> Um the other thing I just want to mention on the the deer uh management side of things. So, we are hosting in September a a deer management consortium over at Silverwood Park where we invite all local professionals to come and hear resource managers to hear how we go about our system and how we go about planning for that and doing some of the inventory and surveying and then recommendations for management. Um, we are more than happy to reach out. We've done that in the past and welcome Bloomington staff to attend that uh and hear some of that information and that can show kind of next steps of how we would go forward. >> Sure. If DC Bitney is still here, he knows that we had those questions during our ride along. So, he he and some other members of BPD might be interested in hearing about it from a public safety perspective. Yeah, >> that'd be great. >> Yeah, thank you. I appreciate it. >> Thanks, >> Council. Anything additional, Council Member Carter? >> Thank you, [clears throat] Mayor. I just want to say thank you. This is great. And I want to um I guess specifically point out or emphasize the fact that you said taking care of what you already have and the maintenance pieces. And I think that's super important and not kicking the can down the road and um having other people deal with it in the future. And so thank you for all of your hard work. Um thank you for getting rid of the fence underale. [laughter] Um and as somebody like many residents who uses the facility daily, I just I can't tell you how much it means to me living in Bloomington. And when I talk to people across the community, the number one thing that they love about Bloomington is the parks and green space. And so thank you for your stewardship and and making sure it's well taken care of. Thank you. Thank you, council member. There's nothing else, council. Very good. This was an information item only. So again, thank you, Mr. Chair. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Carlson. Thank you much for joining us here this evening and thank you for your continued partnership with the city of Bloomington. >> Thank you. >> Thank you much. >> We'll move on. Council. Item three is our consent agenda. Council member Dalisandro has our consent business tonight. Council member Dalisandro. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. uh per our agenda modification from um uh the first part of the meeting, we are going to skip uh item 3.16 and move that to our uh item four business. Um I am holding uh item 3.4 as a point of personal privilege. Uh nothing wrong there, just uh comment on from my end. So uh with that, I'd be happy to move approval uh because I heard of no other additional holds. Um move approval of tonight's consent business. That's items 3.1 through 3.3. items 3.5 through 3.15 and items 3.17 through 3.20. >> Second. >> Motion by council member Dallas, second by council member Carter to accept tonight's consent agenda as stated. No further council discussion on this. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I opposed. Motion carries 70. Council member Disandro. Item 3.4. >> Yes. Thank you. So, this is just me saying thank you to the team members who uh were willing to table that discussion from the last time and meet with me personally. It meant a lot to me that you guys were willing to understand my place there. For all of you who may not have noticed the slight differences in the thing from the last time to this time, it was mostly about making sure we had a clear understanding of city council's role and our our our position in in the new policy. um so that we knew that on a regular basis that we would be getting that as part of the annual budget and that we had ultimately the um uh the authority over it [snorts] as as it stood including changes that would be made to it. So mostly just a definitional thing but to make it really clear where our job was in the scheme of that new policy was what was important to me and I feel like they did a great job. So just wanted to say thank you and with that I'm very happy to move item 3.4. Second >> motion by council member Delisandro, second by council member Carter to accept item 3.4 on tonight's consent agenda. No further council discussion on this. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carries 70. Thank you much council member. I appreciate you are bringing it forward tonight. We will move on to item four this evening, our hearings, resolutions, and ordinances. And our first item is item 4.1. This is the Bloomshine Village Town Homes. Uh we actually had this discussion at a previous meeting. We had the uh public hearing at a previous meeting. We closed the public hearing. Asked staff to continue to working with the uh the applicant and to come back with a uh a revised option if possible. And Liz OD is here to bring us up to date as to where we stand now. And I will turn it over to her. Good evening. Welcome. >> Thank you, mayor and councel. As you just mentioned, this is for Bloomshine Village Town Homes, continued from the August 3rd city council meeting with direction uh for staff to work with the applicant on some revised plans that kind of reflect the feedback that was heard um at the public hearing. So, just a reminder of what's being requested before you this evening. So, this is a resoning request from R1 single family residential to R3. A final site and building plans to construct uh 30 town homes and associated improvements as well as a plat two or plat six single family lots into 30 individual town home lots in one common lot. So, the um resoning request from R1 to R3 um currently the uh six single family lots are currently zoned R1. So, consistent with the medium density res residential guidance, uh the sites must be reszoned to R3, uh which allows town homes as a permitted use. So, a little bit more about the R3 zoning district specifically allows up to 12 units an acre. It's consistent with the existing land use guidance. It's designated to be compatible with uh nearby low density residential. It has um adequate access to transit as well as access to a major collector road 86 street and a regional uh trail along Old Cedar and also close to two parks. So originally the applicant um proposed 33 units. Um you can see the three units that they uh removed at the top. And so what's before you this evening is a modified plan uh 30 units which ultimately um reduces the density from uh just shy of 12 units an acre down to 10.9 units an acre. Uh increase sideyard setbacks from 10 ft to 19 ft and 15 ft. Uh increase open space by 14.4% 4% which allows additional space for snow storage um space for snow and reduced impervious uh surface. And then they also revised the building height um just modestly. So before it was just shy about 41 ft, reduced it to 39T 4 in tall. So with that pretty um short presentation for you this evening. Planning commission and staff are recommending approval and the um applicants are here in attendance if you have any questions. >> Very [snorts] good. Thank you council. Any questions of Miss OD this evening? >> Uh as I said this is not a public hearing but I think are there any questions of the the applicants that we want to address directly to them? >> No. Very good. Don't go far. There may questions may arise. Uh with that, council, we we've got this in front of us and I know we've had the discussion. We had it last time and I guess the question for us is uh we we brought concerns. We heard concerns from the neighborhood. We brought concerns forward. We tabled this and asked council or ask staff to work with the applicant a bit more. I guess the question is does this meet what our expectations were? Does this meet uh does this bring it to a level where we're comfortable moving this forward? Council, any thoughts on this? Council member Revas, >> I I I don't think it does from my point of view. Uh they have made some compromises. Um of course they reduced the amount from 33 to 30. They extended the green areas uh from 12 feet I believe to 15t. Right. So that's a still a very minimal area that has been extended. Um I'm just concerned about how the residents feel about all these. Um and also I don't want to mix a lot of things but it's part of it. Uh when I was reading about the um um transit or the cars that go through that area study um there's a bus stop right on 87th I believe. Um, and so there's also a driveway into the town homes in the same spot. So I was wondering if they measure a 50 foot bus stopping in the area and how would residents will go in or out of that location. Um, yeah, that's that's one of the questions I wrote down earlier. Um, so I'm curious how that traffic study took place. Um, and if they took into consideration a bus stopping at that bus stop and then if the project is already finished and residents have moved in, how would they be accessing the the driveway into the location or in and out that you know I was wondering about I don't see the um engineer here today but uh >> well we do have Mr. Roberts here. I see him in the back. I don't know if either M O M O Mr. Roberts have any insights into the traffic study and if that question was considered? >> Uh uh Mayor, Council Member Weas, um there is a Metro Transit stop on 86th Street. Is that what you're referring to? Okay. Um so we did provide the plans to Metro Transit and they um are aware of this project taking place and there is a condition of approval uh for the applicant to work with Metroransit on moving that bus stop um further um I think east. >> Yeah, I I did read that part. So my my question in regards to that is is you know Metro Transit hasn't said yes to that moving that bus stop there. The possibilities are there though of that stop bus stop being moved uh before construction starts so it doesn't interfere with people using trans public transportation as well. >> Um so they'll need to maintain they'll have to work with u metroransit temporarily to um still maintain that bus stop whether I don't know what that would look like um but I know that they are working with um metransit to come up with a solution. invite the applicant if they have any an additional um modifications that they want to present. Um >> and if I if I if I may I have a follow-up question on that. Um so if the bus stop gets moved um I I'm sorry I'm don't want to get too confusing here. So in in the in the event that the construction goes in and this gets boarded in um the construction will take place in uh stages right so construction will start on 86 or 87th but one of the two roads will be only uh utilized on construction at the time right not both of them is that true um that question is probably more for the the developers than than you I guess but >> yeah I would invite them to address kind of project phasing and how they plan on addressing that. >> Yeah. Good evening. My name is Dean Devolish, DJ Architecture, 333 Washoon Avenue North, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Um advisor to Hung Lee, who is the primary architect in the project. We would adjust to protect the buses. So, we're not going to cause harm to the uh stop. And if approval comes later, um we would temporarily move the road or not do that. Yeah. So we wouldn't intentionally or even accidentally cause traffic to be stopped or cause the bus to overshadow the driveway. So yeah, that would be a consideration. We'd coordinate that with Metro Transit. So absolutely. >> Okay. Um >> and if I if I could ask just a moment for a clarifying when you say move the road, you mean move the access into the town home development? >> Yeah. Temporarily during construction. Yeah. So my apologies, not move the public road. Yeah. >> Yeah. little clarification. Thank you. Sorry about that. >> Um, council member Revas, additional questions. >> Oh, that's that's all I have. Thank you, Mayor. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mayor. >> Council member Robertson. >> Uh, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, I was going to say that I am in support of this project. Um, and for those who uh may recall, this was something that I was um in favor of previously, but I do agree with my colleagues that we some revamping was was necessary and was a good thing. Um, but I'm pleased with the modifications that have been made and I think that it does get it um for me at least to somewhere where I can approve this tonight. Um, I appreciate the um developer and everyone listening to the feedback. I really appreciate staff taking in that consideration and everyone taking their time to do that. Um, and for me, this works. I'm looking forward to hopefully welcoming new neighbors to the east side and um I think everyone did a great job. >> Thank you, council member. Others, council member Dellesandro. >> If we're in the comment portion of the program now, if that's >> We are indeed. >> Okay, perfect. Uh yeah, so thank you. I So um I was the uh I was the main well one of I was the loudest complainer at the last meeting. So, I want to thank you for coming to the table with uh something that um took the took the consideration of the of the group um to heart. Um my my issues with this aren't really related to to the specifics of this development as much as it's uh a function of um uh how how we could uh potentially plan things differently. All that having been said, because you have done what you've done, um you've shown that, you know, these are the kinds of compromises that we can make when we work together, um and and and to to uh to manage uh project projects like this. So, it it probably reinforces uh bad behavior on my part in the sense that I'll be asking for these kinds of things in the future um you know, on other projects, but but I think it's because it's important. Now, on on the letter of things, there was nothing that, you know, I we if we wanted to not vote for the zoning change, we could do that. But in terms of, you know, how it fits and and how how, you know, Mr. Johnson and and and Miss Bergen were kind enough to sit down and talk with me directly about this for quite some period of time to talk about it. We we need to do a better job, I think, uh, as a city to help people understand exactly what their neighborhoods are are are um, subject to to begin with, right? Because ultimately the developers here didn't do anything outside the bounds of what the city allows. And, you know, so there's no foul play here. There's no anybody trying to get anything over on anybody. And, you know, the neighbors sold their houses to them and stuff. So, it's not like it it wasn't all above board, but I think most neighbors are caught off guard when these types of things happen. They don't know that they live in a medium density housing area per our comp plan. Why would they know that? We don't disclose it as part of time of sale. And we're not very we don't do a very good job of of making it easy for you to figure that out when you look at your own plans, your own plat. And so, I think we have opportunities. this taught me something which is we have opportunities to do a better job you know in the same way I and and I know you know Kim and the team are looking into this in the same way that you can say you know where's my polling place and there's a lot of data behind your polling place but all you need to know is what your address is and it tells you where to go right in the same way couldn't we say you know what are my what are the zoning laws associated or what are the land use laws associated with my house here's my address tell me what I have to work with then you can figure out what the complaint tells you what the zoning tells you, what you know the recent changes to our our plans have told you, etc. And you can make it a better experience for um for the for the the the the homes. You can also disclose that stuff as part of time of sale, which makes it a lot easier for people to know what they're buying and maybe make a decision about PL, you know, house A versus house B depending on what they think about those things. So, there's there's opportunities for us here as a city. I think the learning was really great. Um, I'm very appreciative of the work that you did. Um, in the sense that I know the long-term impact of not having three additional places is not nothing, and I want to be respectful of that. And I also think that the changes to the shade as well as the open space um, and the snow plow removal addressed several of the concerns that we heard at the night. So, I'm I'm I'm happy with the results and I want to just thank everybody for moving with us on this one. Thank you. >> Thank you, Council Member. >> Other thoughts? Well, I I will weigh in. I mean, we we brought forward a number of questions on this and another a number of concerns and and frankly, I was a bit skeptical for a couple of reasons and I think we talked about all of them. I was less skeptical on some of the other things we talked about, but in particular the density. I thought it was just too tight of a site for what we were looking at and especially for where it was. Um, and so I was glad to see a bit more breathing room, a bit more space in between, and also uh, you know, lowering the, uh, rooftop is not it it wasn't significant. A foot and a half isn't enormous, but it is lowering it by a foot and a half. And I I think uh, that will make a difference ultimately. Uh, I do think some of the questions that we brought forward and that staff considered and we heard during the the public hearing last time about traffic, I don't think there's going to be a noticeable increase in traffic. This is just 30 homes. This is not that uh just just by the practical numbers, it it's simply you will not notice it. You're on a collector street. You're on 86th Street. There's there's already plenty of traffic there and you're not going to notice the extras. Uh you will notice the um I I think uh I think we have examples across the city. We we talked about having town homes mid block as opposed to on a corner, which I think was legitimate, but I know that we have we do have examples within the city where that exists now. And it it does work. it it uh it looks uh it can look very nice and it can be made to fit into the neighborhood as well as possible. Uh and then I think there there is also the the need in Bloomington for this type of housing. There is the need across the metro area for this type of housing and we have talked about this as a excuse me please >> allowing us to talk sir >> we had a we had a public hearing at our last opportunity. Thank you for your >> sick and I'm sorry you were sick. I am I think the last point being uh this is the type of uh housing that we we hear that people would like an opportunity for housing that they can own. housing that uh is kind of fits right in the middle in between single family homes and uh larger apartment buildings and the type of housing again on on transit on close to parks just the type of of housing that we hear people um [clears throat] I do think it was unfortunate that the folks sold their homes and the homes were torn down right away before we were to a final development plan on all of this. I think that was uh the timing was not ideal and the uh the way they put it all together because it uh I mean it's a a stark contrast now if uh uh we have a a bare spot in the middle of a block and I don't think that's ideal but uh again as council member Dallaso talks about lessons learned. Yeah, there are lessons learned there I think as well. So, this is uh this is the type of of development we've been talking about in terms of infield development, opportunities for people to own uh and and opportunities for um additional housing within the city of Bloomington. That those are my thoughts. >> Council member Carter, >> thank you. Question kind of a followup to the comment you made. Is there something that we can do as a city to prevent um multiple lots being bought, houses being torn down, and then developers coming to ask for the reszone because I mean it kind of feels like now we're at a point I mean >> Yeah, I I agree. That's what I I was thinking how it's Yeah, it's kind of backwards. It's >> Yeah, it feels like they should have >> come to the city first with the plans. >> Yes. like buy the lots, come to us with the plans, and then >> go through the So I Yeah, I would definitely >> and and I I'd turn to our city staff, maybe we can talk about this in in the future, whether it's from a legal perspective or a development perspective, whether or not that's doable. So something to put on the possible to-do list. Um the other really quick um comment I would have uh I wasn't at the last meeting but um for the affordable or the um oh um pieces the um affordability pieces I would really strongly suggest and my preference would be that the three units be reserved for affordable home ownership. I think in the packet it said that it might be home ownership or for rental and um I think this would be a great opportunity for families or individuals whoever um to get into a home ownership opportunity and so if they could be under the OO um really specifically for home ownership I think that would be great. Um so those are my kind of two comments. >> Thank you council member. >> Any other comments council members? Council member Lman, do you have a comment or if uh there are no other comments on this? Uh council, I would look for action item 4.1 on tonight's agenda. >> I'd be happy to make that motion. >> Council member Lman. Mayor, I'll move to adopt uh an ordinance reszoning 1525601600365 East 86 Street and 1604 and6006 East 87th Street from R1 single family residential R1 middle housing residential. >> Second >> motion by council member Lman, second by council member Robertson to reszone the properties as stated from R1 single family residential to R3 middle housing residential. Any further council discussion on this? All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. >> Opposed? >> Motion carries 61 with council member Rivos in opposition. Council member Lman. >> Mayor, I'll move uh to adopt a resolution authorizing summary publication of ordinance uh number 2026. Um and [snorts] an ordinance reszoning 1525601600365 East 86th Street and 1604 and 1606 East 87th Street from R1 single family residential to R3 middle uh housing residential. >> Second >> motion by council member Lman, second by council member Robertson for summary publication on the resoning. No further council discussion on this. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I I >> opposed. >> Motion carries 61 on summary publication with council member Reebos in opposition. Council member Lman. >> Mayor, I'll move the uh final site and building plans for 30 unit town home redevelopment is located at 15256016365 East 86th Street and 1604 and 1606 East 87th Street subject to the conditions and code requirements attached to the staff report. >> Second. Motion by council member Lman, second by council member Robertson. Council member Nelson, a question. >> Yeah. Would this be where we could consider uh Council Member Carter's suggestion with regards to um the home ownership? And what would the path look like to do that? Would that be a condition? Is that something we can actually do? You know how I like to add conditions we can't do. So, [laughter] >> Mr. Mayor, council members. Uh, it's a it's a really good question uh and a very good suggestion. I we have to look into the code more, but I'm not sure that we have the ability to to say it has to be ownership. The requirement is to provide three affordable units based on the total quantity of units. I think we have the authority to to say it has to be ownership. Uh, but it's I mean it's a it's a great comment and suggestion that we can look into. And mayor, if I might, could we just ask the applicant if they're open to that and if they'll do their best efforts to do it that way? >> Yes. I'm sort of glad you clarified that because our intent was not along to have the whole development ownership. So, this just helps clarify it. So, yes, thank you. >> Very good. Thank you. So, additional questions, council, we have a motion and a second to approve final site and building plans for the town home development as stated subject to conditions and code requirements attached to the staff report. >> Mayor, if I may comment, um, I would like to see the city staff to communicate earlier to the public that are affected by these developments. I I have no opposition about about this kind of construction happening because as we are all aware we need that type of housing in in the city. However, u bringing the the residents attention at the last minute like it happened this time and it happens many times. I I I think it creates this difficulty um of of you know it's a challenge for everybody the residents and you know for us to vote I guess you know we all have reservations in my case I I agree with the residency if they don't know what is happening what's coming they have more difficulty supporting it but if they do know in advance and I know that um they mentioned the planning commission mentioned last time that they don't do it until it's a reality But before it becomes a reality, the neighbors need to be aware of it. I think that we will have a lot more support from the neighborhood. If we were able to communicate to them at an earlier time instead of bringing these things when it has already been architects are already involved, a lot of funds have been already spent on the project. And then you know we have a difficult time saying no to that because everything has met requirements except with the fact that the residents didn't have a clue that this was coming. If we can um remedy that situation in the future, you know, I don't think that we will have any opposition on these projects. But that's all I got to say. Thank you. >> I think council member I think you're in saying you're in agreement with council member Dalisandro and it's exactly what she was saying earlier and I I agree with you both also. We uh need systems in place where we do a better job of that. I agree. So once again, we have a motion and second to approve the final site and building plans for the town home development as stated. No further council discussion on this hearing. None. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries 61 with council member Rivos in opposition. And finally, council member Lman. Mayor, I'll move a motion to approve a type three preliminary plat and adopt the resolution approving the final plat of 80 60 Bloomington Flats to subdivide 1525,6601,6603 and 1605 East 86 Street and 1604 and60 East 87th Street into 30 town home lots and one common lot subject to the conditions and code requirements. It's listed on the resolution. >> Second >> motion by council member Lman, second by council member Robertson to approve the preliminary plat and the final plat for the 86th Street Bloomington flats to subdivide as stated. No further council discussion on this. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries 61 with council member Rivas in opposition. Thank you uh to staff. Thank you to the applicants. Thanks to the to the community coming out and u appreciate the the comments that were brought forward at the uh the public hearing and I think uh I appreciate that you took some of those to heart and um appreciate how we're moving forward on this to meet some of the needs in the city of Bloomington. So thank you. >> Thank you mayor. Thank you. >> Thank you mayor. >> We will move on on our agenda and this is where we made the change council. We moved item 3.16 to this spot in our agenda. This is 3.16 is the approval of surplus equipment donation policy. I'm not sure uh is this Mr. Zunigan is going to kind of tie these two together for us. >> I can certainly do that, Mr. Mayor. Um but I also before we get into that, wanted to introduce our presenter on both the policy and the ordinance that's before you in the city attorney's office. We were fortunate to have two summer law clerks uh this summer. Uh we had a one law clerk in our criminal division that uh worked alongside our prosecutors, was able to attend and appear in court. Uh we also had a law clerk, Jackson Jackson Snyder, who you'll hear from in a minute in our civil division. Jackson was able to work on a number of projects for our division this summer. Uh one of which is this policy and ordinance. and we thought as he was getting ready to start his third year in law school that it'd be a great way to wrap up his summer experience with presenting his work to you. And so he's going to be on the hot seat, not me. Um, just to tie these two items together, uh, the code amendment is allowing for the donation of surplus equipment, which is authorized under state law, as well as how the city handles abandoned or unclaimed property. Um, in order for us to be able to donate surplus equipment, state law does require us to have a policy. And so that's why the policy is in front of you today, too. >> So, I'll turn it over to Jackson. >> Very good, Mr. Snider. Good evening. Welcome. >> Good evening, Mayor. Good evening, council. Thank you for having me. >> Absolutely. Where where's year three of the law school? Where where do you go to school? >> Mitchell Hamlin. >> Very good. >> Very good. Oh, welcome. Glad to have you here tonight. >> Thank you. [laughter] like we started it. >> Well, I'll start tonight with just some background on >> Mr. Could I ask you to get the microphone right in front of your mouth so we can all hear you? Thank you so very much. >> Okay. I will start tonight with just some background on why these amendments are necessary. So, Minnesota law authorizes municipalities to donate surplus equipment. And surplus equipment is defined by state law. And although Minnesota law authorizes municipalities to donate this equipment, our city code does not currently provide a process for the city to actually exercise that authority. So, as a result, when qualifying city property is no longer needed or has little or no resale value, the city may have limited options for disposing of it. In some circumstances, that can leave trash or recycling is the only practical option, even when the property could still be put to productive use by another entity. The proposed amendments would provide an alternative by allowing qualifying property to be donated rather than simply discarded. The second issue addressed by the amendments involves unclaimed and abandoned money. Money can lawfully come into the city's possession in several ways. For example, it may be found or seized by a police officer in the course of their duties, or it may be turned into the city by a resident who found it. Our city code currently provides procedures for disposing of other types of unclaimed property, including through sale, but those procedures do not translate well to cash or money because money cannot be sold or converted into proceeds because it already has a fixed monetary value. As a result, the city does not currently have a clear process for the final disposition of money that lawfully comes into its possession but is never claimed. In practice, this has resulted in the city retaining unclaimed money for extended periods of time. The proposed amendments address both of these issues. Oops. Okay. Um, so first with respect to surplus equipment, the proposed amendments would authorize the city to donate surplus equipment to nonprofit organizations. So the surplus equipment donation policy that's on the agenda tonight is required by state law and provides the procedures for donation. So, first the department seeking to dispose of the property would attempt to transfer it to another city department. And if that's unsuccessful, the department would receive approval from the purchasing manager who would then consider whether the property could reasonably be sold on the open market. And basically, if sale isn't pursued, probably because the property would have little or no resale value, um the purchasing manager would prepare a resolution for city council to approve the donation of that property. The amendments would also authorize the transfer of city property, including property that does not qualify as surplus equipment, to another city for public use when approved by city council. And finally, this portion of the ordinance would clarify the city's existing procedures for disposing of lower value property. So currently, the code provides that property valued at $10,000 or less may be sold on may be sold by quotation or on the open market. Because that language technically includes property that's valued at $0, the code does not clearly distinguish between property that has some market value and can be sold and property that has no market value at all. So this amendment clarifies that the existing sales procedures apply to property valued at more than $0. It then establishes a separate process for property with no estimated market value which includes the donation of surplus equipment. The second portion of the amendments establish a process for handling abandoned money. Under the proposed ordinance, money that lawfully comes into the city's possession in the course of municipal operations and remains unclaimed for more than 90 days is presumed abandoned and may be retained by the city and deposited into the city's general fund. The amendments also establish notice requirements during that 90-day period. If the apparent owner's identity and address are known or can be reasonably determined, the city must mail written notice informing the owner that the city possesses the money and that it may be claimed upon satisfactory proof of ownership. The ordinance also provides an additional safeguard for an owner who does not claim money during the initial 90-day period. If the owner comes forward within six months after the city retains the money and provides satisfactory proof of ownership, the city must reimburse the owner from the general fund in an amount equal to the money that was retained. So, for example, if the city retains $100 after the 90-day period and the owner subsequently establishes ownership within the six-month reimbursement period, the city would reimburse that person $100 from the general fund. So, taken together, these amendments provide clear procedures for two situations that are not adequately addressed by the existing code. They give the city greater flexibility to put surplus equipment to productive use rather than merely disposing of it while also establish establishing a clear process for handling money that remains unclaimed and protecting the ability of a rightful owner to recover that money. So with that, I have a recommended motion and I am happy to stand for any questions. >> Thank you, Mr. Schneider. Well done. >> Thank you, >> council. Any questions? Council member Disandro. >> Thanks, Mr. Premier. Um, real quick before I get to your question, just a point of clarification. Are we to pass 3.16 before we do this? Do they like does one have to go in one order or the other? I'm just curious. Does it matter? >> Mr. Zuniga, what are your thoughts on that? I I'm assuming it does not matter, but uh what are your thoughts, >> Mayor? Council member Dellesandro, I don't think it necessarily has to go in a particular order. Um, but in order for us to effectuate any ordinance changes, we do need that that policy adopted. >> Understood. Yeah, that's no problem. I understood. Okay, two quick questions for you. Uh, thanks for being here and congrats on your upcoming third year is last year, correct? Yes. You'll sit for the bar sometime. That's nice. All right. So, um, does does property uh does mo money that is seized in the in the course of of a related to a crime count as unclaimed money after a period of time or is that subject to a different thing altogether because it's considered part of a criminal investigation for example? >> Mayor and council member that is included in these procedures. So any money that is seized by the police department ultimately um would be held for a period for investigation, but it is still subject to the city's um retention proced. >> Okay. So for example, if uh if we had a $5,000 that was seized as part of something, but that that trial took five years to get done. It would be five years and then when it's done, the 90 days kicks in after that. >> Might just some clarification here. >> Yes, mayor. Thank you. Uh, Council Member Dellesandro, just to qualify that there are certain circumstances where uh there is a state law that governs how um certain proceeds are forfeited. Uh if they're used in the commission of a certain crime, um there is state law that governs how the police department and the city would forfeit those funds. >> And so that process would still govern those types of crimes. But Jackson is correct that um you know if if a crime is committed and money was seized as part of that crime and it doesn't qualify for forfeite and it's still in the possession of of the city, uh it could potentially be part of this process as well. >> Great. That that's helpful. I I remember that sometimes we've gotten requests to to to move those forfeited funds somewhere else and so I just wanted to make sure I understood the connection there. Okay. And the um the second part of it was um the I'm assuming there's no um because there's no value placed on the property when it's donated. There's no concerns. Not that we have tax concerns, but there's no concerns for tax on that property either then either to the nonprofit, to us, or to anybody else that might have been involved, including the people that might have donated it to us in the first place. Is that correct, >> Mayor Councel? That is correct. all costs any costs um associated with the donation would be um placed in the responsibility of the nonprofit organization receiving the property. So the city would take on no financial burden from the donation. >> Yeah. Okay. Great. That's all questions I had. Thanks. >> Thank you, council member. >> Mr. Mayor, my questions were already answered uh by his presentation and also I had some questions that got answered by the city manager earlier. So, >> very good. >> No further questions. Council member, very good. And council member Rivas, no further questions. No. Okay. Council member Lman, >> let me see if I can give a softball one to you. [laughter] Uh, so, you know, you were doing all this work and and bringing this forward and I'm happy to see that this is finally uh done. Uh, well, well, not done yet. I don't want to get ahead of myself here. Uh but uh I'm curious to to know uh you know as you were working through this process and uh developing uh this for us to review are there any insights or things that you learned or things that we may want as policy makers kind of looking forward on this particular item or maybe some other items that are tangential to this we may want to think about as we kind of go forward if we were to pass this tonight. Mayor Council, I would say while it may seem unclear what exactly is able to be donated, um, a lot of it is going to be a case- by case basis. So, in terms of how, say, how much property the city is actually donating, it's going to vary yeartoear. Um, so it's going to often depend on how often is the city replacing property, how often does our property become outdated. So I think the policy really isn't going to be something that's used extremely often. It's more going to be used to govern the specific cases that come up that we currently have nothing to address. So I think I guess what I would say is it's you know it's not going to be a big part of our lives but it will be helpful and come in handy in certain scenarios and it'll allow us to reduce waste which will be exciting. Yes. >> Thank you. Anything additional, council? If not, council, I would look for action on item 4.2 this evening. >> Council member Robertson. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. >> Sorry, Mr. Mayor. Uh, this is a public hearing. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I went out over my skis. I apologize for that. >> This is a public hearing. Yeah, given what we have in the in the bill in the building right now. This is a public hearing and item 4.2. I'd like to open this public hearing. This is regarding our city code amendment for the donation of surplus city property and the disposition of abandoned or unclaimed property. Anyone in the chambers wishing to speak? Briana, do we have anyone on the phone? >> Mayor, we do not have anyone online. >> Last call for anybody in the chambers. Council, no one in the chambers coming forward. No one on the phone wishing to speak. I'd look for a motion to close the public hearing item 4.2. >> Motion by council member Reva. Second by council member Dalisandro to close the public hearing on item 4.2. No further council discussion on this. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I oppose. The motion carries 70. Now looking for action on this and I will turn to council member Robertson. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I don't have it on the screen in front me so I'm going to read it out of the packet that I have here. Um, so I move um an ordinance amending chapter five of the city code to authorize the donation of city surplus property and to provide for the disposition of abandoned or unclaimed property in accordance with state law. >> Second motion by council member Robertson, second by council member Lman to approve the ordinance amending chapter 5 of the city code. No further council discussion on this one. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. >> Opposed. Motion carries 70. Council member Robertson. >> Thank you. I move a resolution authorizing summary publication of the adopted ordinance, thereby amending chapter five of the city code. >> Second. >> Motion by council member Robertson, second by council member Lman for summary publication on item 4.2. No further council discussion. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. 70. >> And then Mr. Mayor, I will um we'll need to move 3.16 then to just cover it off. Would you like me to do that now? >> Well, let me call it first. Uh >> my bad. We have >> I thought you were going to say good night to these folks and we move on and I'm >> No, I was going to thank Mr. Schneider for his work and wish him the best of luck in year three in law school and uh whatever you end up with. So uh thank you for your work here with the city of Bloomington. It's appreciated and and your legacy will live on in this in this ordinance. Well done. With that, I will call item 3.6. This is the approval of our surplus equipment donation policy. Council member Disandro. >> Uh thanks, Mr. Mayor. Sorry again for jumping the gun there. I apologize. Um, I would move to approve the surplus equipment donation policy. >> Second. >> Motion by council member Dalisandro, second by council member Robertson to approve item 3.16. That's the approval of our surplus equipment donation policy. No further council discussion on this. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. 70. Thank you all very much for that. Next on our agenda is uh the second thing that we kind of moved around council before we head into closed uh discussion uh I'm going to move up the council policy and issue updates and I will kick us off recapping our listening session from earlier this evening. We had six council uh six folks speaking with us this evening. A full group uh that everybody had some good thoughts. Matthew Howlet uh spoke about uh the Humbult Avenue repaving and the need for bike lanes or the possibility to put bike lanes in there. Sally Nessa spoke about the the Smith Park shared use agreement. Uh Chris Scanland talked about uh code requirements and specifically how it impacts her neighbor and we directed her to speak directly with a member of staff to get that neighbor's address so we can try and work towards solutions there. John Minkx talked about uh had general questions about long range planning. Uh more specific questions about the gateway district. Uh Brian Emerson uh had continued questions and concerns about the impact of the community health and wellness center construction project. And uh Pam Palmer talked to us about the neighborhood watch program and the suggestion for the for the program including uh mass emails uh set up for that for folks who would be interested in the neighborhood watch program. Oh, and I'm sorry. We did have a seventh. I I forgot Mr. Thu. Andy Thu talked about parking on Park Avenue. So, uh once again, a a robust discussion that we had and uh appreciate everybody who came out and spoke to us this evening. With that, I have uh nothing else. Mr. Walker, do you have anything? >> Uh briefly, mayor, just a few items. Uh first, I want to give a kudos to a couple of our staff members who are being recognized for their outstanding work. Uh Barbara Wolf, our assistant port authority administrator, uh is being recognized with the Karen Evans Immigration Champion Award by the immigrant entrepreneur summit. Uh that is award that recognizes a non-immigrant individual who's dedicated to making a positive impact in the immigrant community, particularly helping uh immigrants um foster their uh business and entrepreneur skills. So congratulations to her. Uh and then Maryanne Wilson in our public health department is being recognized with the 2026 WICK everyday hero award uh for the metro region and that is an award that recognizes somebody uh who works in the wick program and exemplifies um participant centered services. So want to congratulate Maryanne as well. Procedurally, just a reminder to the council and the public, no meeting next week because of Labor Day, but the September 14th meeting uh will include uh consideration uh and action on the preliminary 2027 property tax levies uh including public comment on those items as well. >> Thank you, Mr. Walker. Council, any questions of Mr. Walker on his items? >> None. Council, do you have anything to bring forward tonight? Council member Lman, >> just ever so briefly, I know this is related to the item 4.1, and I made a lot of my comments uh last uh last time we met a couple weeks ago um on it, but I wanted to just uh kind of, you know, some of my colleagues have already talked about it. Mayor, you you spoke to this as well on that 4.1. I do think there really is an opportunity for us to, you know, look at our our procedure which has been discussed, you know, in in a uh in detail um around the housing zoning and the development uh component of it so that we can try to get ourselves a little more in sync with where the developers are. Um they're very aggressive to try to take uh take advantage of some of the things that we're trying to do within our comprehensive plan. Um you know, we have other plans that we've done, mayor, you know, for other parts of our our town. you know, for example, the pen, you know, pen and American area, maybe it makes some sense to look at some of these other neighborhoods on on the east side, uh, that are, you know, you know, getting a little longer in the tooth and, uh, you know, look at some of those those individual neighborhoods and maybe look at maybe there's a plan for those areas. I know we kind of already have the comprehensive plan there, but just for these, you know, to the point that, you know, my colleague raised, uh, Council Member, uh, Delisandro, uh, this idea that folks don't kind of they don't know until they see the, you know, the tractor there getting ready to plow the plow the houses underneath, it makes for a really difficult situation. I mean, I do think this, you know, this made sense where it was, but I just think there may be some other opportunities for us to ever find a way to make it a better uh opportunity for those folks. So, just just, you know, one council member's point of view and I wanted to make it more so so as on the policy side of things as opposed to when we're discussing the the actual item. So, >> thank you, council member Lman. Council member Nelson. >> Yeah, thank you, Mayor. I've just got two quick things. One, following up on our listening session, Mr. Howlet talked about bikes on Humboldt. I'd be in favor of taking a look at that. I think that actually came up often in our conversation about bikes down along the creek or somewhere through there. And it was referenced that well, you know, you could create bike paths there to connect into existing infrastructure and someday the county may put bike paths along Old Chakapi too. So, who knows? [laughter] So, if they if they ever nor figure out Normandale. So, um uh so I I would be interested in taking a look at that. It sound like a sensible solution. Um reszone. Um I would like to talk about item 4.12. Um it it wasn't pertinent to the discussion that we had here, but um should we be looking at all of the property that is R1 and guided medium density? Because we only reszoned six of those or however many they got replatted as or whatever, but the rest of that neighborhood is in the same identical situation. And if we said, hey, that's what we should do. Should we just go through that that to to a certain extent will provide some notice to those residents that may be in that situation. And I'll also be honest, I mean, I believe we have the authority if we looked at and said, you know, this doesn't make sense here. Um, we could regu it to low density [snorts] and say, "No, this doesn't any longer make sense." I mean because there is a little concern on my side that I mean it's been guided that for 50 years which is an argument like okay it's always been intended for that or it's just no one ever thought of it until someone came along and did something and it just kind of got missed and ignored and so I don't even know how extensive that situation is throughout the community. Um, I also would say that, you know, I, um, you know, I was obviously supportive of the project in its original form and in the the new form. I do have a little bit of concern making zoning decisions based specifically on a particular development um, because it may box us in in the future. Um and you know so um I also don't know that frankly it's fair to the development community to use withholding of the zoning to force negotiations on [snorts] an otherwise code compliant project. So um I would just like to avoid that in the future and then have those two things as much as possible separated and we should just make the zoning decision based on the merits of the zoning and understand what it is. And I have heard now on this one as well as Penn Lake that there's a discomfort with how much density these town homes are. Should we be looking at that level of density? Should we be looking at our density levels in R3 and town homes and just modifying that to where people are more comfortable so that we don't have to have that conversation every time and just say, "Hey, you know what? 12 is maybe too much. We're just not feeling that. You know, maybe that needs to be 10." Something like that. and and do it through those changes as opposed to having to go through this back and forth and negotiated process which costs our staff time which costs the developer time and all of that. So just a you know in addition to the other process things of notification of the neighborhood and things like that um bring that forward. >> All good thoughts and I think uh I think with your thoughts and Mr. with council member Lman's thoughts and council member Alesandro and revas your thoughts on on the making sure everybody knows I think we we have a package of things that staff can consider and we should continue this conversation and make sure that we uh can can move in a more smooth fashion as as we look at this in the future this type of thing in the future so thank you for that anything else council if not council I'm going to call item 5.1 this is for a closed meeting for an attorney client privilege discussion we've tked talked about this before. The Minnesota open meeting law allows cities to close meetings for a handful of things, including negotiations and and uh HR issues and so on, but it also does uh does state in part that meetings may be closed if the closure is expressly authorized by statute or permitted by the attorney client privilege, and that is what this is. So, we are going to meet with city legal council for the purpose of considering litigation strategies related to federal rulemaking. And after our discussion in close session, the regular meeting of the city council will be reopened to the public and adjourn the city council meeting. So with that, uh, I would say thank you to everybody who's here, but we're going to close the meeting now and, uh, we will go back into open session to close the meeting, uh, in a bit here. So, thank you. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, we need we do need a motion to direct the closure of the public meeting. I will actually I will move the resolution directing the closure of the public meeting of the city council. >> Second. Got a motion and a second by council member Rivas to accept the resolution directing the closure of the public meeting of the city council. No further council discussion on this. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. >> Opposed. Motion carries 70. So we're headed into close meeting. >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Heat. 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Council, I would make a motion to authorize the mayor, the city manager, and the city attorney's office and other required staff to take actions consistent with the closed meeting discussion this evening. >> Second. >> Motion a second by council member Robertson to authorize the mayor, the city manager, and the city attorney's office and other required staff to take actions consistent with the closed meeting discussion. No other council discussion on this. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. 70. With that, council, it concludes our work for this evening. I'd look for a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> Motion by council member Dallasandro, second by council member Robertson to adjurnn this evening. No further council discussion on this. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries 70. Thank you much, council. Thanks for the work tonight. Thank you to staff. Thanks to everybody who participated and congratulations to our new police officers. Everybody have a great Labor weekend.