Good evening and welcome to the Maple Plain City Council business meeting. It is Monday, August 24th at 7:00 p.m. Calling the meeting to order. Please stand if you are able and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> First item on looking for a motion to adopt this evening's agenda. >> So moved. >> Moved by DeLuca. >> Seconded. >> Seconded by Arvizos. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, please signify by saying aye. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> Opposed, same sign. The ayes have it, three to zero. Next item of business this evening is visitors to be heard. We do have um one speaker this evening, so I will begin by sharing um a statement about our public comment. Public comment is a courtesy extended to persons wishing to address the City Council who would like to comment on something that is not part of a public hearing. The public is invited to express any concerns they may have which are relevant to the affairs, policies, or practices of the City of Maple Plain. Speakers may approach the podium one at a time to make remarks that shall be limited to 3 minutes. Should you wish to participate in public comment, please state your name and address before addressing the council. All remarks will be made from the podium and should be made to the council as a whole. Personal attacks are prohibited as are obscene, profane, and threatening language. Public comment is not a time for council discussion or response, but for hearing the speakers' concerns only. Questions to the council will be for clarification only. If necessary, a staff report on public comment subjects will be prepared for the next City Council business meeting. So, thank you for those of you that are coming forward for public comment and to be engaged. Uh tonight we have Mr. Faye. >> Uh good evening, Madam Mayor, uh Council staff. Uh John Faye, 5819 Three Oaks Avenue. Um first I want to thank those that acknowledged receipt of my recent emails uh regarding water and sewer rate changes. I agree. Um effluent sent to the sanitary sewer should be a component of a utility bill. But where we disagree is your assumption that you pay sewer rates for all water that comes into your house and then if you want to carve out a pool or irrigation system to install a second meter. This is key. The mere fact that you're acknowledging the need for an opt-out provision is proof that you're aware of the potential billing flaws with outside water usage quarters two through four. You've repeatedly identified pool owners and residents who irrigate their yards as opt-out candidates, but you've overlooked the other 600 homes and their outdoor water usage in quarters two through four. These are the ones who will be disproportionately charged unnecessarily for sewer use. No one, not staff, not Council, or any resident has put more time into number crunching, water consumption analysis, meetings, and drafting correspondence over the past year and a half than me. And my results confirm my speculation. They show that if the city city continues in this direction, an undue financial burden will be cast amongst the greater Maple Plain population. This debate has been going on for 2 years. Staff has used phrases like fair and transparent billing, clarity, operational efficiency, and enhanced accuracy. Okay, but for all this to materialize citywide, every household in the city would need to install a second meter. And because that's not going to happen, you'll leave it up to the handful of select residents to pay 1,200 or better dollars for that coveted opt-out provision. What are you left with? You guessed it, quarterly utility billing that is less burdensome for the administration, but at a cost to all residents. I don't have a horse in this race. I'll install a second meter if necessary. I'm here because most residents cannot or will not. I'm here because I'm convinced the driving force behind this proposed change is less about accurately billing for sewer usage and more to simplify administrative billing responsibilities. And I don't want to pay for that. All I'm asking you to do is add this to an upcoming workshop agenda and do a little scrubbing. Engage staff in a narrative around these types of questions. Is first quarter water billing an inaccurate measure of sewer usage quarters 2 through 4? Is the city losing money in sewer billing quarters 2 through 4? What is the financial impact of a sample of residents that don't pay to opt out? Is this an I&I problem masquerading as a water usage problem? Why has People Service stopped recording total wastewater to Met Council? Is the city confident that residential water is accurately metered and billed? What is the impact of the commercial property billing change? Why is there disproportionate differences in water billed versus water produced? And why are there disproportionate differences in water billed versus Met Council sewer treatment? >> Please wrap up, Mr. Veilleux. >> If you're right and I'm wrong, I'll stand down. But nothing generated to date shows me that my effort, my data, or my assumptions are incorrect. Thank you. >> Thank you for your comments and questions, Mr. Veilleux. There are no others to be heard this evening for um visitors to be heard, so we will continue to move on. We do have a guest speaker today. I'd like to welcome to the podium Orono School Board member Wendy Lounsbury. >> Good evening, Madam Mayor, city council members, and staff. Thank you for having me. Um as a reminder to the public, I am um Orono School Board um liaison to Maple Plain, and I'm here to give you an update. I'm sorry it's been so long um since I've been here to provide you an update, but I'm thrilled to be here tonight. Um just a couple of high um highlights that I'd like to share with you, and if you have any questions, please feel free to jump in and ask. Um first of all, um I want to start with the category of curriculum and instruction. Um near and dear to me, the Read Act that passed several years ago at the legislation. Orono schools um fully embraced the changes and have implemented new curriculum. The teachers have been incredibly thoughtful and have worked so diligently to um implement the new curriculum as well as additional and new assessments and interventions and a whole new framework of teaching how to read, and they are now in full implementation mode. Um training has occurred, and they are off and running. So that's really great news. Um math curriculum is up for review on the uh curriculum council um this school year. The next um is communication um so that you all know and the public is aware there is a lot of communication that happens throughout the district throughout the school year that we wanted to highlight to make sure that everybody's informed about what's happening in the district. Um first of all in just a fun lighthearted way um last year they uh via Facebook um the district um successfully um began a campaign spotlighting um various employees of the district um on Fridays and so that was really fun uh for recognition and storytelling. Um this year they are going to be doing a lot about Orono history, Orono schools history. Um a um time capsule was found in the intermediate school. It has not been opened yet. There will be a big reveal so in the meantime to play around until that reveal they're going to be um spotlighting some Orono history. Focusing on that. Um in addition um they send out every couple of months a newsletter like this. Um also little postcards with um community events and school events um orchestra or the band, choir concerts, theater um theater uh shows and um musicals and um in addition this year all of those dates can be found on the calendar section of the website. So that's something new for the community. Um last couple things um you know there's [clears throat] been a lot of construction. Things have as in all construction not everything goes as planned and I know that it has been a challenge across this building and the main campus so we appreciate everybody's patience um but what has been accomplished is the um parking lots most of the doors and windows um tuckpointing uh Schumann had a large water leak over Christmas break and that um is almost all finished. Um recarpeting, cabinetry, flooring, new gym floor um cafeteria, all of that. So, that's really great news. New security cameras were put throughout the um the campus, which is great. Um and um some pool UV filter, all of that, and locker rooms painted and IS Middle School entryways. So, a lot of construction that happened. Um but it's really, you know, as we know with our households, you've got to keep it up before it crumbles down. So, we're really proud of that work. Um And finally, the uh last two pieces that I'd like to share, actually um something that I think is really important. Um we talk about all that was done. So, um the legislation passed um and they are most likely going to um take effect some really um heavy financial burdens put on school districts. Um one of them is paid family medical leave which you know, um whether people you know, advocate for oppose um is one thing, but um and no money is given to the s- to us by the state, yet we um are on the hook for paying. That makes it just really tricky. Um same with unemployment insurance um additionally, you know, higher insurance premiums and a potential $350 million special ed cut that is going to be coming this beginning this school year. And that is going to impact Orono schools by several hundred thousand dollars um that we will not get that we have gotten. Now, we will continue to provide the services that need to be provided to our students who need um additional supports, but that comes from our general fund. So, that makes it really tricky. We're still hoping there's still a chance that they can maybe find the money somewhere else, but for now we are making plans that we will be um we you know, we're going to be just it's going to be a tough. Fortunately, we are in a great position when we have school districts all around us making cuts. We are not having to make any. We've actually been able to slightly improve our fund balance, which has been great. Last two things I want to share and then I will wrap up. The first if you just want to take if you care to have one I just um we are always proud of our students and how well they do. Um and what we wanted to show is Orono has always ranked really high for college preparedness, college and career preparedness. So, sending kids off whether it's into four-year universities, two-year universities, careers, military service, the trades, they're always very prepared and here are all different levels of experience that our students and this is unduplicated. So, the 11% are not also shown in the 13% and also in the 93%. So, we've got unduplicated services here and numbers showing that kids are really um they the the doors are open wide for them when they leave Orono schools. So, 97% of students have taken a college level course. Whether that's Project Lead the Way with this which is engineering, college in the schools, AP classes, our partnership with Hennepin Technical Technical College, or PSEO. So, we're really proud of this and whatever whatever students have you know, it's rigorous, but they've been able to accomplish it. And if any questions I keep running through I know I only have another probably 30 seconds. The final thing that I want to share and I am here to inform neither to advocate nor oppose a constitutional amendment that will be on the ballot in November and it has a direct impact on school funding. It's the permanent school fund and the current fund value is about 2.3 billion dollars and that is funded through school trust lands, mining, logging, lands, land use and it that money supports every public school. So that trust was set up when when the school the when the state was established. And the way the they distribute money now is it's interest and dividends only. So a several year study was done and it is now proposed that um the funds distribution will include full market value. And so it will run similarly to how university and endowments are run, state endowments. They there are many many many states who are moving towards towards this um more predictable funding of schools. And it will for Orono it will be about additional 36 dollars a student. So it'll be you know, a couple hundred thousand dollars 350 360. Um so that will help. Are we still going to have challenges? Of course. But that will definitely help. So anybody who does not vote on it is it is a no vote. So if you want to vote yes, you have to check yes. If you don't check anything or you check no, both are no votes. And I think I covered it all. That was a lot. It is a lot. >> Wanted to give you a lot. Any questions? >> Any questions for School Board Number 11 Garden? >> Okay. >> Just really appreciate the partnership um that the schools and the city share and then also with us renting space from you, it's an extra special one and we know that the Orono School District is made up of six cities. So, um good cities need great schools and great schools need great cities. So, um just value that so much and thank you for making a priority to come and give us an update. Council Member DeLuca. >> Quick question. We're in the middle of budgets, I'm sure just as you are. Give us any kind of a sense of of how the budget process is going for the school board. >> So, it's been really great. Our audit um will begin, I think, August 31st is the audit. Um our budget like as we um so, we have board policy that we have a 5% fund balance and because of COVID, we I think we were at like 19% and it went down below five um because of COVID. We have brought it back up, I believe Oh, I should be more prepared. Um I believe we're at 7.5 now. Could be 6.5. Um which is great. And so, we haven't had to cut any programs, any personnel. Um we have had really nice negotiations. We've got amazing staff and they recognize that we all have to work together within the constraints. You know, we wish we could pay you all a ton of money. Um but everybody is very you know, thoughtful about our budgets and knowing kind of what we what we have. Um so, we're feeling really confident. Um our [clears throat] you know, the way Orono works with our um debt is we we like to keep it flat. So, when debt run is rolling off, we start new projects so that everybody's base kind of stays the same versus letting it go down and then needing a bunch of, you know, higher taxes and then lowering taxes and higher taxes. Basically stays flat. Um and so all of our projects were able to to do without, you know, we were able to do the the parking lots, the windows, the doors, all of that without having to raise taxes. Thank you. So. >> Other questions or comments? Well, again, thank you and we appreciate the partnership between the schools and the cities. >> Thank you and you know where to find me if you have any questions. Thank you again. All right, take care. >> All right. Next item of business this evening is our consent agenda. The consent agenda includes items from our August 3rd City Council workshop meeting, our August 3rd City Council business meeting, our August 10th City Council workshop meeting, uh August 19th City Council workshop meeting minutes and our July 27th, 2026 City Council emergency meeting minutes. Looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> So moved. >> By DeLuca. >> Second. >> Seconded by Arevalo. Any discussion or questions? Hearing none, all in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed, same sign. The eyes have it, three to zero. Next, we'll move on to our vacant council seat and appointment and oath and I'm going to turn that over to Steph. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor. Resolution 2026-0824-01 is um accepting the resignation of Connie Francis and declaring a vacancy on the council. Um I know that we've already discussed and talked about that, but this is a formality that we need to follow before appointing someone new. >> With that, looking for a motion to approve resolution 2026-0824-01 accepting the resignation and declaring a vacancy. >> I'll make that motion. >> And I'll second it. >> Move by Reviser, second by DeLuca. Any discussion or questions? Hearing none, all in favor, please signify by saying aye. >> Aye. >> Opposed same sign, the ayes have it, three to zero. Next we'll move on to resolution 2026-0824-02 appointing Nathan Pearson to the council and I will turn that over to staff if you have anything to add. >> Madam Mayor, I don't have anything to add. >> All right, then with that, looking for a motion. Before I ask for this motion, I would just like to explain that this is all explained in the packet, but council did spend time with Mr. Pearson and reviewed the application and had an interview and then with that made [clears throat] the recommendation to appoint Mr. Pearson to the council. So with that, looking for a motion to approve resolution 2026-0824-02 appointing Nathan Pearson to city council. >> I move we pass that resolution appointing Nathan Pearson to the city council to fill the vacant term of that we just created as a vacancy. >> We have a motion by council member DeLuca. >> I'll second it. >> Second by council member Reviser. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none, all in favor, please signify by saying aye. >> Aye. >> Opposed same sign, the ayes have it, three to zero. Next item of business this evening is we will invite Mr. Pearson forward for the oath of office that administrator Shillinger will administer. >> Raise your right hand. >> [clears throat] >> And repeat after me. I, Nathan Pearson >> I, Nathan Pearson >> do solemnly swear >> do solemnly swear >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> the Constitution of the state of Minnesota >> the Constitution of the state of Minnesota >> and the ordinances of the city of Maple Plain >> and the ordinances of the city of Maple Plain >> and I will discharge faithfully >> and I will discharge faithfully >> the duties of office of council member >> and the duties of office of council member >> in the county of Hennepin >> in the county of Hennepin >> city of Maple Plain >> city of Maple Plain >> state of Minnesota >> state of Minnesota >> to the best of my judgment and ability. >> to the best of my judgment and ability. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Mr. Pearson, if you'll please come have a seat at the dais. Excuse me, Council Member Pearson. We'll give you a minute to get plugged in and logged on. The rest of us will begin on page um 23 with accounts payable. I will turn that over to staff. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor, members of the council. Our city bills for the month of August totaled $246,869.82. Our city ACHs were $13,635.84. Our 2024 street project bills came to $99. And we have pay request number one and the bills for the industrial street project $224,479.16. Pay request number one for the downtown street project and bills $766,908.66 for a total of $1,251,992.48. One thing that I wanted to note on the city ACH, um the LMC conference is listed as um >> Garden Grill >> the Garden Grill for some reason that the name that the credit card comes through for the hotel. So, we did not go to a Garden Grill and and spend $1,500 in in food. So, just wanted to clarify that. >> Thank you for that clarification. Um All right. Any questions regarding any of the accounts payable? Um I just wish more of our bills would be in the $99 range. It's not too often we get to approve a bill that's on two digits. So, that was nice to see. But with that, looking for a motion to approve all of the accounts payable for this evening, the city bills, the city ACH, the 2024 street project, the industrial street project, and the downtown street project. >> And while some of our bills being $99, I also like to be able to approve $1.2 million worth of payments. So, I'll make that motion. >> Motion by Council Member DeLuca. >> Uh second. >> Second by Council Member Arvizu. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none, all in favor, please say "Aye". >> Aye. >> Opposed, same sign. >> Aye. >> Oh, okay. The ayes have it four to zero. All right. Next before us this evening is our staff reports. All of the staff reports um are submitted in writing. Chief, did you have anything you wanted verbal to this evening? Okay. >> I don't have anything to add. >> Okay. Um Administrator Schindler, did you have anything? >> No. >> For an administration and finance, any council members have questions for any of the staff present? Okay, hearing none, looking for a motion to receive staff reports this evening from the fire department, West um West Hennepin Public Safety, our city engineer, our city planner, and administration and finance. >> So moved. >> Moved by DeLuca. >> Second. >> Seconded by Arevalo. Any discussion or questions? Hearing none, all in favor signify by saying aye. >> Aye. >> Opposed same sign. The ayes have it, four to zero. We have no old business come before us this evening, so we will move on to new business, which is resolution 2026-0824 -03, using park improvement funds to purchase the wood chips, and I will turn that back over to staff. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor, members of the council. Um if you've been at the parks uh recently, we are desperate need of putting wood chips in. Um we have held off on that because we applied for the grants for the pour-in-place rubber mulch, or rubber pour-in-place. Um and unfortunately, we did not get either of those grants. Uh so it is the time to fill those in. So this resolution is authorizing us to use uh park improvement funds for the purchase of those um wood chips totaling $18,700. Um there there were some additional um quotes that we had gotten for the Bryantwood Park that's on the east side of the walking trail. Um and that was roughly about $28,000 just in and of itself, so I am not doing anything to that yet. Um we'll once we have our capital improvement plan put together and and we'll look at options for for that portion, but that one is is okay yet. So looking uh for a council's approval on this. >> Looking for a motion to approve um resolution 2026-0824-03 um from the park improvement fund to pay for the wood chips. >> And this is This is something, Mayor, that was noted by our citizens advisory group as a need and in fact was brought up recently. I appreciate staff holding off on this until we could see if we got the grant. But I would move that we uh approve this item uh this resolution and use park improvement funds to get the wood chips, get them in. >> Thank you, Council Member De Luca. Looking for a second. >> Second. >> Seconded by Council Member Revizzo. Any comments or discussion? I'd just like to thank the citizens advisory group for their work on this. I know you guys did walks of all the parks, talked with insurance, spent a lot of time uh making a plan. So, thank you for your patience and um your dedication to all of those members. Okay, with that, um all in favor, please signify by saying aye. >> Aye. >> Opposed, same sign. The ayes have it, four to zero. Next to come before us this evening is council reports and other business. Who would like to kick us off? >> I can start. >> Okay. >> Sure. Uh so, this last Thursday, yeah, last Thursday, we had our Pioneer Creek the Creek Water Commission and our main items that we approved is phase two of the Crow River pit mining project in Greenfield with the conditions tied to their CUP and the MPCA mining permit. We also um went further with our RFPs for a new watershed website and there will be comments open through September 5th for anybody interested. Um we are still still spending down our FY21 grants for the North Fork or actually sorry, that's fully spent. And we are close to spending down our South Fork grants um and we are reallocating uh dollars from um from FY23. And I also like to say that I did enjoy going around to different um parties and on the National Night Out. So, I'm going backwards here, sorry. >> It's okay. >> August 2nd. >> Right. >> Yeah, 2nd, 4th. I don't remember the day. Anyway, it was really nice to see old neighbors and meet new people. So, thank you. That's all I have. >> Thank you, Council Member Burby. Council Member DeLuca? >> We are con- We are continuing to monitor and making sure all the fire relief uh changes are being made for the firefighters that are moving their pensions out. We're kind of in a collection of data phase. And then it's been budgets, budgets, and more budgets. Um including work with the police commission on their budget. Um absolutely committed to maintaining this community as an affordable place to live. Um I've lived on that theory for the 14 years I've been on council and I see no reason to change that during this round of of budget cycles. Police will be meeting again next week and we have a personnel meeting before the end of the month. So, a lot of activities, but uh this is the time of year when we spend a lot of time and energy talking about budgets to make sure we're responsibly spending everybody's tax dollars. >> Thank you, Council Member DeLuca. Council Member Pearson, I know you've only been on council for about 10 minutes, but I don't want to overlook you if you have anything you'd like to say. All right. Well, thank you for being here and thank you for stepping forward to serve our community. Um August, although it's been summer, I felt like has been a little a uh with the League. We had the 4M fund, which that is doing great, so that is always good to see cuz we as a city, we have money in there, so that directly benefits us. Um your council, we've all been very busy. We've had three workshops, council meeting, and EDA. Uh the National Night Out, I was able to attend five parties and just want to thank each of the host and as well thank uh West Metro Fire District and West Hennepin Public Safety for being present at every party. And a special thank you to West Hennepin Public Safety for arranging it and doing all the work. We just get to show up and have fun and um visit with the neighbors. It's always one of my favorite nights. Um Administrator Schillinger and I had a meeting with um Chad, the president of People Service, just talking about service and partnerships and collaboration and look forward to having a follow-up meeting with him um soon. Rotary's been busy. We heard from our district governor. We had a speaker on AI. We had a service project putting together snacks um that we'll drop off at the school for the students when they start. Uh for those that, you know, might be hungry, they can go down to the guidance office and grab a snack and then each one has a handwritten note from a Rotarian. Uh I was able to attend the Orono Schools Family Color Dash um here at the Orono Discovery Center sponsored by Community Ed and do the welcome. That was a great night. Um Administrator Schillinger and I and Chief DeRose met with Representative Robbins and staff from the IT Service Department um just talking all things cybersecurity and uh looking at how we can best move forward and takeaways from the cyber attacks. Uh Councilmember DeLuca already referenced our Police Commission and very excited to report that we are starting the West Hennepin Community Safety Foundation. So, they are in the process right now. We're in the process of recruiting board members for that. And this is just a great opportunity, a way to support our local first responders here and created the 501c to do that. Had a fun muffins with the mayor at Haven's Homes. Uh over 31 of the residents came down and we uh the room was overflowing and their questions were great. I think a highlight for them was many of them commented on the MRAP, that big large vehicle, um at the National Night Out and as well they are loving QuickTrip. They're thankful for the flashing light, but they are ready to have, you know, paint and better markings. I reassured them that is happening after the seal coat. But, they are very engaged. So, it that was a fun thing. Uh the Minnesota Mayors Association, we had our meeting to prepare for our annual meeting which will be coming up in October and I will be going off as president in that board. So, looking forward to transitions and new leadership and mentoring the new president. Uh the West Hennepin Chamber of Commerce, we had our summer picnic at Veterans Memorial Park. It was a beautiful day and just a great opportunity to network with um other business owners and community members and thank you to Chief for grilling for that. Uh the Or- We had an Orno Regional Commercial Tobacco Prevention Meeting. So, working with all of the cities in the Orno School District, looking at tobacco sales um in our area and working on coming up with a collaborative and a team approach to that. So, more information to come on that. Was able to attend the carnival at Haven Homes. Again, just a blast watching them throw Cool Whip pies at each other, at their staff, and uh eating the cotton candy and it's just fun to watch people having fun together. Was able to attend the LMC Board of Directors meeting and as Council Member De Luca already alluded, it's budgets, budget, budget everywhere. So, that was a big part of that meeting as well and then um onboarding the new members and welcoming the new president and board of directors. Couple weeks ago was able to attend the McGarry's Charity Golf Fundraiser. We were blessed with a beautiful day, lots of golfers, um all of the money raised will stay here with our local first responders at West Hennepin Public Safety and at West Suburban Fires. So, we look forward to a check presentation from them. Today was Chat with the mayor. A couple um residents came up. Always appreciate the engagement and the opportunity just to casually visit. On Friday, I was able to um go with the Orno Rotary, which is our city membership, so represent the city and the Orno Rotary. We went down to Winnebago and we went to a house called the Bravo Zulu house and the Bravo Zulu house is a home for veterans that are in transition. They're struggling with PTSD, um chemical where chemical use and it's like a sober house and they are transitioning to be back in society. Um in this house, there are 11 housemates, all veterans and one house manager. Um they partner with K9s for Warriors and each veteran has the opportunity to have their own dog. And these dogs are each rescued. Um the Orno Rotary, which raised funds, sorry, some of it from Party in the Park, we were able to sponsor a dog kennel. And it was the grand opening for the Cook Family Kennels for Loyal and Healing Companions and it was just really cool, neat to be part of something so big. Um they were saying at the program that they're saving lives at both ends of the leash cuz these veterans who've given so much and struggle with PTSD and addiction, um many of them, you know, are feeling that that despair and then these dogs are all rescue dogs. So, it was really a powerful day and at the end in visiting with one of the veterans, the program was the ribbon cutting was getting ready to start and I just put my hand out to shake his hand and I said, "Thank you for your service." And he looked at me and he said, "You're worth it, ma'am." And that really hit me. I mean, these men, this is a men's house. Um you know, they've given so much for all of us and we have so much to be thankful for because of them. And just exciting with that, they are looking at opening, they're getting ready to open a break down, excuse me, on a women's Bravo Zulu house in Mankato. So, watch for more information about that. The Plymouth Rotary was a part of it. There was agencies from throughout the state. So, just a great opportunity to support and give back and again little Maple Plain being part of that that we are making a difference. Also want to thank everyone who voted in the primary election, but a special thank you to our staff and to our election judges. I know you go to Haven Homes. I know there's lots of extra training and meetings. So, just want to acknowledge that and thank you. Also want to thank everyone in particular the first responders um everyone that helped the gas leak last week or and the evacuation, closure of Highway 12. It's never fun when those things happen, but really appreciated the way everyone worked together, communicated, kept everyone safe, evacuated the day cares, all those things. Um I know it sounds like it's a long ways away, but we will not have a council meeting meeting before then. On September 22nd we'll have Art in the Park, which again is another collaboration between the schools and our community and the parks. So, it's a great evening whether you have kids or not. Just come out to the park and visit. There'll be food food trucks and art projects and um some drummers and lots of cool things going on. So, hope to see you at that on September 22nd if not before. And that is all I have. Is there anything from any staff or anyone else? >> I just like to add at the Art in the Park there will be a native group doing traditional dancing as well. That was sponsored by Arnault's APAC. >> And drumming, right? Aren't they? >> Um yeah. Yeah, I think both. >> Yeah. Okay, awesome. Perfect. Anything else? Okay, with that I am looking for a motion to adjourn. >> I'll make that motion. >> Move by Wezel. >> Second that motion. >> Second by Pearson. All in favor. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> All right, the meeting is adjourned at 7:38.