simulcast do request 10s of. Silence. I call the June 22nd council meeting to order. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge. Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Amen. Take the. Roll. Mayor. Elder. Here. Council member Corey here. Council member. Eisenberg here. Council member. London. Yes. Council member. Rey. Here. Uh. Item number three. Regular meeting minutes. Approval from June 8th. Is there a motion? So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Take the vote. Council member. Corey. Yes. Council member. Eisner. Yes. Council member. London. Yes. Council member. Rey. Yes. Mayor. Alder. Yes. We have the opportunity this evening to do interviews for our commissions. I’ll turn it over to Council Member Eisenberg. Yeah, I have the pleasure to make a motion to nominate Danielle plants to the Human Rights Commission. And Michelle Salado to the Planning Commission. I’ll second. It’s been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Take the vote. Council member Eisenberg. Absolutely, yes. Council member. London. Yes. Council member. Ray. Yes. Mayor. Alder. Yes. Council member. Corey. Yes. Next we have open forum. Anyone who wishes to address the council on an on an item that is not on this evening’s agenda. May do so. Step up to the microphone. State your name and address for the record, and you’ll have three minutes to say what you would like to the council. The council will not answer. This is our time to listen. So anybody who’d like to come up, please feel free. Moving from that 5.1 presentation of the Timothy Bowe Memorial Award to Chief Hoyt tonight, presenting this award will be Metropolitan or the Metropolitan Transit Police. I’ve done this for years. Um, Chief Joseph and Captain Ahmed, gentleman. Mayor. Council members. Good evening. My name is Joe, and I have the honor and privilege to serve as the Metro Transit Police chief. And today I’m joined by Captain Ahmed, who is our patrol captain. And really, it’s such an honor to be in front of all of you tonight to present this award to Chief Hoyt. For those that don’t know, the Metro Transit Police Department was established in 1993. Uh, this August will be 33 years old. And for many years we had part time officers. And when the blue line started in 2003, 2004, that’s when we started hiring full time officers as actually when I came to the agency in 2004. But the part time officers at the agency really helped us establish culture and provided a lot of service to our riders and our employees at Metro Transit. So while we focused on full time hiring and recruitment the last couple of years, we still have part time officers. And every year we honor the really the part time officer of the year with the Corporal Timothy Bull Award. So for those that don’t know, Corporal Timothy Bull was a state trooper, and he was killed in the line of duty and worked for us in Metro Transit part time. And tonight we’d like to welcome and honor, uh, Tim Hoyt, an individual whose service to the Metro Transit Police Department has been defined by commitment, character, and a willingness to show up when his department needs him the most. It is my privilege to present the Corporal Timothy Bow Award to Chief Tim Hoyt, chief Hoyt’s distinguished law enforcement career spans decades, with services across multiple agency and leadership roles. What makes his recognition today truly remarkable is not just his professional accomplishments, but his ongoing dedication to the transit police. As a part time officer for nearly 13 years, even after assuming the role of chief of police for the new Hope Police Department, an immense responsibility. As you all know, he continued to serve the transit police with the same steadiness, humility and devotion that have defined his entire career at the Transit Police chief Hoyt has been known for his presence. When you see him, he’s approachable, he’s upbeat. He’s fully engaged. He brings a positive attitude to every shift and takes time to connect with officers and staff on a personal level, which is extremely important to us right now as we are rebranding our agency and hiring so many new officers and community service officers, he is always willing to share his knowledge, offer guidance and support those around him. Many officers describe him as someone who makes him feel seen, valued and supported whenever he’s in the room. What makes Chief Hoyt exceptional is his willingness to give time, experience, and genuine mentorship, including myself. As I stepped into the role as interim chief in the August of 2024 and the permanent chief here this last spring. Uh, his dedication, his continuing his part time service despite the demands of leading the new Holt Police Department, speaks volumes about his commitment to public safety and the people of the transit police. The Corporal Timothy Boyle Award honors those who embody, embody, reliability, mentorship and dedication, traits that Corporal Bowe demonstrated throughout his career. Chief Hoyt exemplifies those same qualities. His contributions have strengthened the transit police shaped, and the officers who worked alongside them and upheld the highest standards of service for his loyalty, his leadership, and his extraordinary commitment to the transit police. We are honored to present the 2025 Corporal Timothy Abel Award to Chief Hoyt. I appreciate it, chief. Thank you. Thank you. These are two of my good friends. I’ve known them for, well, 13 years. And I appreciate it. When you get towards the end of your career, it, uh, and most of the part timers at Metro Transit, at least for the part timers, are at towards the end of their career. Um, you kind of realize that the job takes a little bit from you mentally and physically, and, uh, this award actually means a lot to the part timers because it’s in honor of someone who actually gave the ultimate sacrifice to his community. So it’s a it’s a pretty big deal to the part timers at transit police Department. And I thank you. Well-deserved. Thank you for being here. 5.2 A motion accepting a monetary donation from the Armstrong Cooper Youth Hockey Association. All right. Uh, good evening, mayor and council. Tonight, I have the privilege of recognizing one of the new Hawks ice arena. Strongest community partners, the Armstrong Cooper Youth Hockey Association. Representatives from the Armstrong Cooper Youth Hockey Association are here this evening to present the city with a $5,000 donation to support the ongoing improvements of the new Hope Ice Arena. Since 2011, the Armstrong Cooper Youth Hockey Association has generously contributed over $77,000 towards arena improvements over the years. All right. While we certainly are grateful for their financial support, their contribution to our community extends far beyond these donations. Each year, the Armstrong Cooper Youth Hockey Association brings hundreds of players and families to the arena. Um, purchasing significant amounts of ice operates a concession stand, supports the facility, advertising programs, sponsors community events, and provides countless volunteer hours to help make our programs a success. The relationship between the City of New Hope and the Armstrong Youth Hockey Association is a true partnership. Their commitment to youth athletic, athletics, community involvement, and the continued success of the ice arena has had a lasting impact on our facility and the residents we serve as the new Ice Arena Manager, I’ve already had the opportunity to see firsthand the positive impact that Armstrong Cooper Youth Hockey Association has on our facility and the community. I’m excited to continue building this strong partnership and working together to ensure the new Hope Ice Arena maintains our remains a premier destination for youth, hockey and community recreation. On behalf of the city and the new Hope Ice Arena, I’d like to thank the Armstrong Cooper Youth Hockey Association for their continued generosity, support and partnership. We greatly appreciate their investment to our facility and their ongoing commitment to the community. At this time, I’d like to invite Scott Allen up from the Armstrong Cooper Youth Hockey Association to come forward and share a few words. Good evening. My name is Scott Allen, treasurer for the Armstrong Cooper Youth Hockey Association. I just want to say a big thank you. Um, on behalf of the association, on behalf of the board, uh, we appreciate the longstanding partnership. As Troy was mentioning, uh, community based hockey is it survives when you have a good city like you guys. And I appreciate that. Um, I’ll be honest with you, I’m guessing you guys meet, uh, countless times throughout the year to allocate resources. That’s no small feat, I know that. I know that you probably have competing interests. You have to discern what’s best. You know, how are we going to use the money? What are we going to do? So I just, you know, on behalf of everything that we do, we appreciate the place to skate. Thank you. It’s awesome. I got three kids. We live in Robbinsdale, and, um, I’ve had three kids skate that, uh, that’s our home rink, the new Hope Ice arena. And so I just want to say a big thank you to you. Um, and we do have a check. I want to I know there’s probably some extra expenses that were incurred just recently with the new, uh, the North rink and, um, our association just finished the fiscal year. We finished in a little better position than we originally thought we would at this point. And so that allows us to make this donation. So please, please accept it on our behalf. Thank you. Thank you. I’ll make a motion accepting a monetary donation from the Armstrong Cooper Youth Hockey Association. Second. It’s been moved and seconded. Any discussion? I will just simply say that some time ago, as we looked at renewing, updating and the future of our facilities, we asked for partnership from the stakeholders and a few organizations were quicker to move forward than the Armstrong Cooper Youth Hockey Association, and they have been true partners and stakeholders in this rink. They stepped up and just an incredible organization, group of people. And providing these positive alternatives for children is immense. So a very deep, heartfelt thank you to that organization with nothing else. Take the vote, please. Council member London. Yes. Council member. Ray. Yes. Mayor. Alder. Yes. Council member. Coryell. Yes. Council member. Eisenberger. Yes. Thank you very much. And thank you. Uh, 5.3, this is dealing with a motion to accept the 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. And we get our annual visit. Good evening. Welcome. Good evening. Mayor. Council members. Thank you for your time on the agenda this evening. Uh, I know that you have already gone through the annual comprehensive financial Report in some detail at a workshop before, it was about 135 pages this year, and despite such a lovely evening, we really wanted me to go through a page by page. But I’m going to try it maybe about ten slides here with you and just go through, um, three things that I would like to cover this evening. Um, first of all, I want to, uh, give you some information that we’re required to share with the body that is charged with overseeing financial reporting as far as our role and the responsibility for the data and disclosures that made up that document. Um, secondly, I’m going to go through the audit process a little bit and just talk about the opinions and the report letters that we issued as a result of that. And finally, I’ll just go through very briefly a few of the very high level financial results for the year under audit. Uh, the year ended December 31st, 2025. As I mentioned, I am required to discuss with you and make sure you’re aware of kind of the division of responsibility when it comes to your financial statements. All of the data on the disclosures that go into making that document up as a responsibility, as city’s management and partnership with your consultant, Abdo, that does your internal accounting and audit prep for you. Um, our role is to come out all that information, provide an opinion as to whether it fairly presents the city’s financial position and results for the year under audit. In addition, because that audit is done in accordance with government auditing standards, we are required to review and evaluate your internal controls over financial reporting. So you’ll see a separate report letter that we issued with regard to that. And finally, you’re required to have an audit of your compliance with Minnesota laws and regulations. Every local government in the state has a responsibility to have an audit with compliance with state laws. There’s an audit guide. The office of the State Auditor puts out and updates annually that we added to. So you find another report letter with regard to that. As far as the audit results this year. Um, I wouldn’t say it’s about as good as you can get. It was a very clean audit. Um, once again, we issued an unmodified opinion on your basic financial statements. Um, highest opinion that we can give. We had no findings or noncompliance to report with your internal controls over financial reporting or your compliance with governmental accounting standards. Uh, and we this year had no, uh, Minnesota legal compliance finding Shreveport either. So clean report card. Um, usually I stop here to ask if there are any questions. There wasn’t really anything too controversial there, but any questions? Before I move on to some of the financial information. Okay. Then I’m going to start at the fund level. The city maintains two types of funds. Here are governmental funds and your proprietary funds. I’ll start with the governmental funds. These are your general special revenue debt service and capital projects funds. I’ll remind you, they’re reported on the modified accrual basis of accounting, which means that the long term capital assets, long term debt aren’t reported within these funds. Um, and your equity is known as fund balance. This table shows year to year comparison of your year end fund balances. Um, kind of in two ways here. First on top there is by the different components of fund balance that you report. And on the bottom of that is reported by a major fund. Um, so in your governmental funds, uh, as of December 31st, 2025, you had about $33 million in total fund balances. Uh, about 22,000 of that was non spendable. That’s basically prepaid expenditures. It’s no longer cash, but it’s still an asset to the city. Um, restricted fund balances were about $14.5 million. These are fund balances that are subject to external restrictions on what you can spend them for. Um, then the last three categories of fund balance, the city controls, internally committed fund balances, which were about 3 million at the end of the year. A things that are essentially governed at the by policy set by the city council. Um assigned fund balances, which were about 6.8 million at the end of the year. Uh, are either subject to controls put on by the city council or earmarked by city staff, and then the unassigned fund balances of 8.7 million are free to spend without any strings or internal earmarks. Um, your fund balances in total in your governmental funds went up by about $3 million compared to the previous year end. Um, a good chunk of that was in the restricted fund balance category, which run up by about $1.7 million. Um, mainly in two areas. Your HRA construction fund, uh, went up by about 8 million or, I’m sorry, $800,000 for future construction for the HRA. And in your non-major funds, um, mainly in the debt service, uh, fund balances went up by about $980,000. Um, the other area that changed quite a bit, um, positive was unassigned fund balance. That’s mainly to do with your general fund, which went up by about $1.5 million compared to the previous year. Uh, the one area where you did spend some fund balance down this year was in your committed fund balances, and that was mainly in your EDA. I’ll drill down then to your general fund, which is your primary operating fund. As I mentioned, at the end of the year, you had about $10.3 million in fund balance. In this fund. Uh, your fund balance increased by about $1.5 million. Um, that’s compared to a breakeven budget. You had positive variances on both the revenue and expenditure side, which I’ll talk about a little bit. Um, I mentioned already the non spendable fund balance there was prepaid expenditures, the restricted fund balance you reported in this fund is mainly public safety aid. I received that in 2023. Passed some of it through to your West Metro Fire rescue district. And the rest of you have to spend on public safety expenditures. And you had just over $10 million in unassigned fund balance at the end of the year. The city has a fund balance policy in the general fund that you’re going to try and maintain a minimum unassigned fund balance that’s equal to 42% of your annual expenditures. That’s right in the range is recommended by the state auditor’s office. They recommend maintaining 40 to 50% fund balance in the general fund, mainly because so much of your funding comes from property taxes, which are received twice during the year. So you can need that for operating capital. Um, as you can see from this graph, uh, you’ve successfully complied with that policy over the last five years. You had about 54% of your annual expenditures in unassigned fund balance at the end of 2025. Your general fund revenues for 2025 were just under $20 million. Uh, there are about $1.4 million higher than last year, and about $637,000 higher than budgeted variance of about 3%. Um, the largest variance was in the all other category that you see up there. Kind of two things drove that. Special assessments were about 210,000 higher than budget because you had some prepayments and your investment income was about $380,000 higher than budget, mainly because you budget very conservatively. There a lot of your investment income isn’t realized until you actually sell the investments. Um, you have you have to report the change in the fair value of your investment portfolio from year to year. But usually you hold those investments until maturity and don’t really realize that income until you spend them. But you do have to report it in your funds. So you budget mainly to reflect what you think you’re going to get in spendable interest each year. Um, a couple of other areas your state Aids where about $187,000 higher than budget. Uh, a lot of that is passed through to the police and fire. Uh, purposes there. And your charges for services are about $64,000 higher than budget, mainly in your park and rec programs. General fund expenditures are about 18.7 million. Um, they were almost $900,000 under budget. About 4.5% variance, and actually about $137,000 lower than the prior year. So you’re about 7/10 of a percent lower in total spending in the general fund than in 2020. For. Um, some of the larger budget variances, obviously, public safety is the largest category for all of our cities. Um, you spent about $553,000 less than budgeted in that fund. Uh, a lot of that was in the police personnel costs because you had some open positions during the year. Um, administrative salaries and the general government category were also about $100,000 under budget, and public works was about $225,000 under budget, mainly, and street maintenance costs. The other type of fund that the city maintains is proprietary funds. Uh, you have six enterprises that you account for here at the city for utility types water, sewer, storm water and streetlights, and two recreational amenities your golf course and your ice arena. These are reported full accrual. So the fees that you collect user fees in these funds are meant to totally finance the these operations, including the cost of adding and maintaining your capital assets. Um, so at the end of 2025, you had just under $40 million in total net position across these six funds. Uh, that was an increase of about 2.2 million from the year before. So you can see from the top half of this, we split that up into the two categories. You report the net investment and capital assets of about 29 million, makes up roughly 73% of your net position. And that’s mainly the infrastructure for your utility bonds. It’s not a spendable asset, but this is what you’re using to obviously generate those services. Um, two things I will point out within the various funds that were kind of unusual this year in your water fund. Um, you took on a water tower painting and refurbishing project. So your expenditures were about 1.9 million roughly for that and were reimbursed, um, from the Joint Water Commission, because that is a joint Water Commission capital asset. Um, and as you can see, all of your enterprise funds did have a positive change in that position. Um, one thing I will point out, though, the ice arena, um, that $380,000 increase does include a half $1 million transfer from your park instructional fund for debt service and capital purposes. And the last table I will share with you, um, is a very, very brief summary of the first, uh, first financial, uh, presentation that you’ll see in your act for, uh, it’s a summary of net position for your government wide financial statements. So this is broken into governmental activities and business type activities. The lower part, the business type activities relates almost dollar for dollar to the enterprise fund information. What this does is take all of the governmental fund information on the top half of this presentation, convert it to full accruals, and we’re bringing in all the capital assets, all your outstanding bonds, uh, liabilities for long term employee benefits like pensions and Pep and things like that, to give you kind of a longer term full accrual. Look at your financial position. So I’ll kind of focus more on the top half of this. Um, your governmental activities when you include all those things. I had about $86.5 million in that position that increased about $7 million from the year before, uh, about 2.5 million of that was in your net investment in capital assets. And this is kind of been how your, your, uh, investment capital assets has gone here at the city. Um, this kind of relates to how quickly you’re depreciating your capital assets versus how quickly you’re paying back your debt, but you have implemented a tax levy for street improvements that’s been in place for quite a couple of decades, quite a while. Um, so since you’re you’re making those improvements without issuing you debt. This has been rising for your city. But that does both on this side and on the business type activity side. It does also increase the amount of capital assets that you have to maintain and increases those maintenance costs over time. Um, the restricted net position is related to those restricted fund balances. We talked about mainly that was um, in your EDA, HRA funds and debt service and then that unrestricted portion that went up by about 2.5 million, mainly relates to your general fund. Some of the other things that drive that number changes in your state pension plans, your other post unemployment benefits. So that is typically everything I cover. Um, questions that anything that I went through. Council member London. Thank you. Mayor. Uh, Mr. Lauer, I want to spice it up a little. You know, use the fun word of the day fraud. Uh, and, you know, the federal, state and local fraud that has occurred. I know in reading over some of the information you presented us, uh, I believe it’s the W9 form that the city could use to evaluate whether, in fact, an invoice, uh, could be real or fake from a fake company. Could you just talk a little bit about where you see local governments, such as, you know, the City of New Hope getting in trouble, where possibly we would be open to any kind of fraudulent activity. Absolutely. Yes. One of the things that we try to do a year to year during the audit is throw in a few different things that we focus on. Um, unfortunately, what we’re seeing with our governmental clients is the same thing you’re seeing. You know, individually, um, the number of phishing attempts, uh, different attempts at fraud just keep getting greater and greater and greater. Um, one of the areas that we took a look at, uh, with your city is documentation of approved vendors, changes and vendors. That’s one of the areas that we most typically see fraud occurring in our client base. In fact, I just had a a school district not too long ago that, um, had a check that was intercepted and made out to a different, payee. And, uh, luckily it was caught at the bank. But, um, because they had positive pay, the bank was reconciling that with a list of approved pays. Um, so they caught that before the money went out. But what we tried to do is give you just some best practices, a short list in the management report for different things that we you can focus on. One of those is making sure that control over your vendor list is, uh, is good. And that would make sure you have an approved vendor. You have the proper information for that vendor. If there are any changes, then your staff has something to check that against and any changes to that information should be approved before those checks go out. Um, so just, you know, kind of good best practices, um, when you change over your computer system, I think some of the old documentation was, was lost there was gotten rid of. So just making sure you’re building that back up and have that on file, whether it’s electronic or paper, however you’re keeping it. But you have a good a good system to keep those vendors current. Thank you. Any other questions for Mr. Lauer? Is there a motion. One one question. Um, Mr. Mayor, if I may, please. Um, there was a term, and I apologize. I was not able to see the presentation last week. Um, but you described at the beginning of, um, your presentation to us, the, um, that your advice was, uh, unmodified. Yes. Can you tell us a little bit more for those of us that aren’t familiar with that as an accounting term? What does that mean to say that the advice was unmodified? Yes, that that is our jargon. Um, basically an unmodified. It’s kind of commonly referred to as a clean opinion. It means that we neither qualify or give an adverse opinion. There’s there’s no reservations on that opinion. It’s unmodified that it’s fairly stated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Basically. Thank you. I’ll make a motion to accept the 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. I will second. It’s been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion amongst council? If not, take the vote. Council member. Ray. Yes. Mayor. Alder. Yes. Council member. Corey. Yes. Council member. Eisenberg. Yes. Council member. London. Yes. Mr. Lauer. Thank you. Thank you for. Your time. Always. Uh, under the consent agenda. City manager Bertha. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Council. Good evening. Item 6.1 is the approval of financial claims through June 22nd of 2026. This item involves a routine financial claims against the city. And the check disbursement report is included in the packet. As always. Item 6.2 is a resolution appointing election judges for the primary election of August 11th, 2026, in accordance with Minnesota Statute 242. One cities are required to appoint election judges who will serve as the primary election. I’m sorry. Serve at the primary election of August 11th, 2026. The city is grateful for those who are willing to serve in this capacity is very, very important that we have these folks in order to administer the election. City Clerk Finney and I recommend approval and give our thanks to those that are willing to do it. Item 6.3 is a motion accepting the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting. The city received the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for the annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the year ending December 31st, 2024. That’s what we just heard. But last year. This is the highest form of recognition in governmental accounting and financial reporting, and its attainment represents a significant accomplishment. A plaque is on display in the lobby showing the years that the city has achieved this award, and staff requests council to formally acknowledge receipt of this award. The City Manager extends appreciation to the City Council and city staff for assisting the city in accomplishing this goal. Year over year. Item 6.4 is a resolution approving the renewal of the agreement with Invest, Inc.. Doing Business as True Comp to provide labor costing software for the city effective May 23rd, 2026 to May 23rd, 2029. As discussed at the June 15th work session, staff began working with True Comp in 2023 at the recommendation of the city’s financial consultant, Abdo. True comp assists with labor, costing each year as a part of the annual budgeting process. After significant negotiations, a three year agreement totaling $33,000 was reached. Director I’m sorry, Director Johnson, and I recommend approval. That is a typo there that almost had me saying the wrong director. Item 6.5 is a resolution approving an amendment to retain the lease for overnight parking at the new Hope Village Golf Course due to a transfer of ownership of the Ironwood Apartments. Staff was recently informed that the Ironwood Apartments are selling and are transferring ownership from Erhardt Ironwood LLC to a MFP seven. Ironwood LLC, with a tentative closing on July 14th, 2026. Per the parking lot lease, a transfer of assignment is allowed with written consent from the City Director Thielen, and I recommend approval. Item 6.6 is a resolution approving the Elem Lutheran Church Facility Use Agreement for the gymnastics program. The proposed lease agreement for Elem Lutheran Church from September 1st, 2026 through August 31st of 2027 is $40,000, which includes all utilities, custodial and cleaning fees. The location is approximately nine minutes from new Hope City Hall, and the space is slightly larger than the Sandburg Middle School gym, which we currently were operating out of the elem. Lutheran Church staff have been great to work with, and city staff is excited about the opportunity to lease their gym space. Director Thielen and I strongly recommend approval of this item and we are quite frankly, grateful for the community partnerships that allowing us to find a home for gymnastics, as this was, and a question with regard to what was going to occur with the changes going on at the school district, with space with that, Mr. Mayor. That concludes the consent agenda. Thank you. Does anyone want to pull anything off the consent agenda? Is there a motion for the consent agenda? I will make a motion approving item 6.1 through 6.6 of the consent agenda. I will second. It’s been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Seeing none. Take the vote. Mayor. Alder. Yes. Council member. Corey. Yes. Council member. Eisenberg. Yes. Council member. London. Yes. Council member. Ray. Yes. Item number 7.1 A public hearing. Uh. Resolution revoking the site plan. Review for change in use to grocery store and revoking conditional use permit for adult daycare at 7,342nd Avenue North, as set forth in resolution number 2024. Dash 116, as extended by resolution number 2025115. New Hope planning case number 2413. Director. Sargeant. Good evening. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the council, Jeff Sargeant, community development Director. Uh, if you recall, in March of 2024, the Somali Community Resettlement Services purchased the former funeral home at 7,342nd Avenue, uh, at the November 25th, 2024 City Council meeting, the council approved a request for a site plan review for the change of use to a grocery store and a conditional use permit for an adult daycare. Uh, our code requires that, uh, for implementation, a one year period for implementation. If nothing occurs after that one year, then, uh, the conditional use permit can become null and void or revoked by the council. Uh, a little bit of background. Is that a building permit for that first phase of the project was issued, including all the exterior improvements and interior construction related to the adult daycare that was issued in August of 2025. However, no work was completed. Phase two of the project was to include interior building changes to allow for the opening of the the grocery or deli store. Uh. On October 28th, the 2025, the applicant requested an extension to the implementation deadline, and on November 24th of 2025, the City Council approved a six month extension for all the approvals, requiring that the approved use and associated work should be, or would be implemented no later than May 25th, 2026. And as you know to date, that work has not been completed, which is why we are in front of you requesting the revocation of both the site plan review and the, uh, the conditional use permit for the adult daycare. This is a public hearing. So for this reason, staff would recommend that the council conduct a public hearing. Consider approving the resolution, revoking the site plan review for the change in use to a grocery store, and a conditional use permit for an adult daycare at 7,342nd Avenue North. Again, these were approved in November of 2024 and then extended again in November of 2025. I’d be happy to answer questions that the council might have. Council member, London. Thank you, mayor, director. Sergeant, was there any communication in the last, say, five months from the applicant? Uh, obviously from the only communication we had was through the permitting process that, uh, when we issue this permits. But obviously nothing has transpired since then. And then, uh, just normal upkeep of the property. We were in communication with them to try to keep that property. Um, updated up, kept. Thank you. Council member Rey. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I’m all in favor of the motion. Um, when we get to it. Um, I guess my question, though, is why do we need a public hearing? The the statute says that, uh, if work hasn’t been started, then the application shall be automatically terminated unless we receive a request for extension. I don’t believe we’ve received another request for extension. I’ll defer to our city attorney for that. Yeah, I can chime in there. Um, so actually, we the statute or the code does require that we give notice and have a public hearing because, um, a copy is a property, right. And to revoke it, even though technically a year or the time frame had passed, we still needed to give them notice and the right to appear. So, yeah. Okay. Uh, I will now call the public hearing to order if anyone wishes to address the council on this issue, you may step up to the microphone, give your name and address for the record, and let us hear your thoughts. Seeing no one, is there a motion to close the public hearing. So moved. Seconded. Moved on. Second to take the vote. Council member. Coryell. Yes. Councilmember. Eisenberg. Yes. Councilmember. London. Yes. Councilmember. Ray. Yes. Mayor. Alder. Yes. Now, is there a motion for 7.1? I’ll make the motion a 7.1. Revoking the site plan review for change in use to the grocery store and revoking conditional use permit for the adult daycare at 7,342nd Avenue North, as set forth in resolution number 2020 2024. Dash 116 as extended by resolution number 2025. Dash 115 new Hope Planning Case 24-13. And I will second it. Any discussion on this? Uh, London. Thank you. Uh, it’s unfortunate that the applicant and their organization was unable to come to the ability to develop this. Uh, however, I think that, uh, the city hopes for some great opportunity in potential redevelopment for this site as it’s a very attractive site. Uh, and my fingers are crossed that in the future we will see a proposal submitted to the city, uh, that everyone will be proud of. Any other questions or comments? Seeing none. Take the vote. Council member. Eisenberg. Yes. Council member. London. Yes. Council member. Ray. Yes. Mayor. Alder. Yes. Council member. Coryell. Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Director. Uh, 10.1. Ordinance 263. An ordinance amending sections 25, two, Dash 25 and 2-35 of the new Hope city code regarding number of commission members for Human Rights Commission and the new Hope Citizens Advisory Commission and adoption of summary ordinance for publication purposes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. May 18th, 2026 Work session staff and Council. Discussed reducing the number of Commission members allowed by. chapter two of new Hope City Code. After discussion, Council asked staff to work with the City attorney to make the following amendments one. Reduce the number. Excuse me. Reduce the max number of. commissioners serving on the Human Rights Commission from 10 to 9. Number two require two of the commissioners serving on the Human Rights Commission to be students. And number three, reduced the maximum number of commissioners serving on the Citizens Advisory Commission from 15 to 9. We believe the reduction in membership will help to ensure that the Commission is representative and responsive, while still having the expertise to accomplish the task. City clerk and I recommend Approval and Austin, the city legal Council, are ready for any questions. Is there a motion on 10.1. So moved? Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Coryell. Uh, any discussion? Councilmember Ray, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Am I correct, Mr. Birkhoff, that one of the other reasons for wanting to move forward with this is the opportunity to then bring some of those meetings in here to the council chambers and be able to open them up to transparency at some point, potentially. , on the first part, he has to put the nine members at the dais for those meetings. That’s what will work. That does open potential discussion in the future for what that looks like for the meeting transparency component. But that has not been discussed. Thank you. And meetings are open to the public regardless. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions or discussion? Take the vote. Council member London. Yes. Council member. Ray. Yes. Mayor. Alder. Yes. Council member. Corio. Yes. Council member. Yes. Well, anybody have anything for the good of the order? Okay. We’ll move on to 12.1. Exchange of communication. When? Upcoming events. Wednesday, June 24th, 7 p.m.. Music in the Park presents the Eden Prairie Community Band at the new Hope Performance Center. Thursday, June 25th, 3 to 7 p.m.. New Hope Farmers Market will be at the new Hope church at 4225 Gettysburg Avenue North, Saturday, June 27th, 945 to 1045. Top time at the new Hope Aquatic Park. Uh Thursday, July 2nd, 3 to 7 p.m.. New Hope Farmers Market still at the new Hope church parking lot. Friday, July 3rd. All day Independence Day holiday observed. City offices will be closed July 4th, 945 to 10:45 a.m.. Top time at the Aquatic Park. Tuesday, July 7th, 7 p.m.. Planning Commission meeting here at new Hope City Hall and Wednesday, July 8th at 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.. Storytime in the Park at the new Hope Performance Center. Uh. Wednesday, July 8th, 7 p.m.. Music in the Park presents swinging on a star at the new Hope center. Thursday, July 9th, 3 to 7 p.m.. The new Hope Farmers Market at the new Hope church, Saturday, July 11th, 945 to 1045. This time at the new Hope Aquatic Park. Thursday, July 14th, 7 p.m. Citizens Advisory Commission Meeting here at new Hope City Hall. Thursday, July 16th, 3 to 7 p.m.. The new Hope Farmers Market. You know where it’s at. Friday, July 17th through Sunday, July 19th. All three days. The aquatic park is closed for a swim meet. Wednesday, July 22nd through Saturday, July 25th, 8 p.m. nightly Off-Broadway Musical theater presents The Addams Family The Musical at the new Hope Performance Center, Thursday, July 23rd, 3 to 7 p.m.. The new Hope Farmers Market new Hope church and Saturday, July 25th, 945 to 1045. Top time at the Aquatic Park and Monday, July 27th at 7 p.m.. The new Hope City Council meeting right here at City Hall. And Mr. Berghoff. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just two points of clarity. Just for the public is aware, this is our last City Council meeting. Until that meeting on July 27th. And additionally, if we back up a slide to the BMT musical theater in the park in July, they have information on their website and they are always willing to accept sponsorship donations. This is not a solicitation. I just want to make sure that the public is aware that that opportunities opportunity does exist. To sponsor one of the nights for the show. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Anybody have anything else? Motion to adjourn. Seconded. Moved and seconded. All in favor, say aye. Aye aye. Opposed. Meeting adjourned. All right. Anyone need a break? All right, let’s jump right into the EDA meeting. I now call the June 22nd EDA meeting to order. Take the roll. President. Elder. Here, Commissioner Coryell here. Commissioner Eisenberg here. Commissioner. London. Yes, Commissioner. Ray. Here. Uh, our EDA meeting minutes from June 8th, 2026. Is there a motion? I’ll move the minutes from June 8th, 2026. Second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Take the vote. Commissioner Coryell. Yes, Commissioner. Eisenberg. Yes, Commissioner. London. Yes, Commissioner. Ray. Yes, president. Elder. Yes. 4.1 resolution approving assignment and assumption of products. Strike that assumption of purchases and development agreement and tax increment. Note in connection with IoT, Ironwood, LLC as successor to a lattice new Hope I, LLC and authorizing execution of consent to such agreement. Director Sergeant. Thank you, Mr. President. Members of the Commission. Uh, my apologies for a very technically written RFA.. I think. That was. Mostly done by actually our TIF attorney, who is Gina Fiorini of Kyu-Tek Park LLP. So I’ll try my best to explain what is meant and what is being proposed in front of you tonight. So as we heard at the council meeting, um, the Ironwood Apartments at 8400 Bassett Road are undergoing change in ownership. Uh, they’re being sold to, um AMF seven Ironwood LLC. The current owner is IRA T Ironwood LLC. Uh, what the the motion in front of you tonight is to, uh, approve the assignments and assumptions of and rights and obligations under the development agreement and the TIF. Note, um, from irate to the new owner. Uh, this is done through obviously this resolution. What this means is that this action will ensure that the new owner will take on all responsibilities and obligations of the current owner and relation to the development and purchase agreement, and will allow the new owner to become eligible to receive, uh, the payments under the TIF. Note. Uh, so this is, uh, critical in the fact that the current owner has those obligations to make sure they continue to to own and operate the apartments as was approved originally by the council. And the change in ownership, essentially, it’s a it’s a legal process to assign that development agreement and that TIF note to the new owner so that they can then keep going and take the obligations of ensuring that the development agreement and TIF note assignments are taken care of. Uh, so with that, we staff would recommend that the EDA approve the resolution, that would approve the assignment and assumption of the purchase and development agreement and tax increment node in connection with the Erat Ironwood, LLC, as successor to the Allardice new Hope. Uh seven LLC and authorizing execution of the and consent of such agreement, and I’d be happy to answer questions that the EA might have.. Is there a motion for. Yeah, yeah. Question, please. Thank you. Uh, director. Sergeant, this is the third owner of this property since it was built. Is that correct? I believe so, okay. My question is this is it just the naming of the TIF that in fact, it was a lattice, which was the builder, the original builder? Uh, did they hold this TIF note and didn’t transfer it to the second owner? But now it’s being transferred to the third owner. Is that what’s happening here? It is correct. I’m my hesitation is the fact that I don’t know if it was just a change in name or an actual change in ownership from the original. I don’t know. If. Um, yeah, I, I do believe that shortly after they bought and developed it, um, not too much after that, they sold they sold it. And a lot of these properties are owned by IRAs, which are investment trusts. Um, so it’s kind of complicated finance revisions. But yeah, I believe this would be the third time I believe. Yeah, that they’ve sold or the third owner. Right. But is it the my question really is, is the TIF note? Is it the third transfer or is it just the second transfer of the TIF note to now the third owner. Would be the second transfer to a third owner? Okay. Thank you. Like when you say complicated finance, it truly is because they move this into a family trust. And I was against this from the beginning. I think I’ll be against this you know transfer and whatever again. So thank. You. Is there a motion. I will move the resolution approving assignment and assumption of purchase and development agreement and tax increment node in connection with IoT Ironwood LLC as successor to Altus New Hope one LLC and authorizing execution of consent to such agreement. Is there a second? I’ll second. It’s been moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? No further discussion. Take the vote. Commissioner Eisenberg. Yes, Commissioner. London. No. Commissioner. Ray. Yes. President. Elder. Yes. Commissioner. Coryell. Yes. Thank you. Director. Anybody have anything for the good of the order? Just a motion to adjourn. Seconded. Moved and seconded. Uh, all in favor, say aye. Aye aye aye.