good evening and welcome to the maple plane city council meeting it is Tuesday May 28th at 7:02 p.m. and I call the meeting to order please stand and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God invisible with liy and justice for all I am looking for a motion to adopt tonight's agenda I'll make that motion motion by Fay I'll second that motion second by Beck any further discussion hearing none all in favor of approving the agenda as is signify by saying I I I I post same sign eyes have it for to zero visitors to be heard see none we'll move on next item of business is our consent agenda our consent agenda this evening includes the April 29th 2024 Board of Equalization continuance minutes April 29th special city council meeting minutes May 13th city council Workshop minutes people service contract renewal approve the 2023 city audit the April 22nd city council business meeting minutes and the April 22nd city council Workshop minutes looking for motion to approve the consent agenda I know um administrator colander has something to say thank you Madame mayor members of the council there were a few changes that we needed to make on the 29th special meeting um no sorry the 22nd special meeting um Item B um motion was made uh by John Fay uh recommending the 120,000 reduction with the stipulation that the owner appealed to henen County Board um and that motion failed um we didn't have that what the actual motion was that he made um in there um and then for Council discussion on item D in those minutes um the we didn't put in that Fay opposed and the reason why he opposed uh wanting a period of temporary um defined um and then I had one more um and that was the spelling of uh Chief Dennison's name was incorrect so we will correct those changes okay thank you for those updates and then did you have other corrections as well that were sent to you that we need to note or I think I mentioned them all um there was one with the water oh yes thank you I know was in um yes it was mentioned in there too uh that uh we were having discussions about not providing Medina water um I don't even know how that made it into the minutes um because we did not say that so that will be taken out as well thank you on page 171 okay thank you so with those um corrections to those minutes are there any other Corrections all right so with the corrections noted looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda items a through G I'll make that motion motion by council member Francis second second by council member Fay any further discussion or questions hearing none all in favor signify by saying I I I post same sign motion carries four to zero next item of business this evening is accounts payable and I will turn that over to thank you Madame mayor members of the council we have um total of city and fire bills of $237,100 uh we had a payments so automatic payments of $ 65815 and our check payments that will go out tomorrow if approved of 23711 1970 um it is my recommendation that we approve uh the accounts payable Jacob a comment and a question um the comment would be um I was fortunate enough to tour the um revised spikes and hols um hardware department with the general manager and uh I know that the fire department um tends to go to go race in Long Lake for their Hardware related items please advise them that we now have Hardware um at uh in Maple plane and they can do their Shing there we'll do and then uh can you explain what the additional uh workers compensation costs is it just says agreement period 1 of 23 on both of them that would be page 175 leue of Minnesota Insurance trust workers comp for the fire department as well as I'm guessing city um I don't WR off the top of my head no um it's a little dated if we can let's try to get them the questions ahead of time so we can answer them for you tonight cuz I don't I mean if you want I can look it up and pull the invoice council member fa no who puts does ABDO put the AP together now both myself and ABDO okay mayor yes I have an idea of what it might be I don't know for certain but um around this time of year we do get potentially an additional invoice after the work comp audit is completed um some years there's an additional payment that needs to be made and some years there's a refund to the city um that dollar amount makes me speculate that that's what it is but um you know we can definitely look at that and get back to you for sure and that would make sense too with the period that it's noted corre January one do you know what I mean so that's fair okay thank you you're welcome any other questions regarding accounts payable for both City and fire okay hearing none then I am looking for a motion um to pay the city and fire bills in the amount of $237,100 second by council member burck any further discussion or questions hearing none all in favor of paying accounts payable signify by saying I I I oppose same sign motion carries four to zero um the next item before us today is our staff reports um those have all been submitted in writing so we've had a chance review those if anyone has any questions um regarding a through e um we can let Jacob know those so he can bring those back any questions regarding those all right I will turn it over to we'll start with our administrator for administration and Finance on page 212 in the backet thank you madam mayor members of the council for the month of May uh we are continuing our fire district discussions uh Administration is continuing its work with Independence on what that possible fire department merger will look like um Mark and I will be setting up some time uh to chitchat about that um sorry let me get this up on the screen here for you guys there we go um so we'll come back when we have some more information and some and stuff you know different methods that we want to look at uh excuse back to the fire commission uh and then to the council uh April 30th we celebrated Sergeant Rick Dennison's retirement serving our community for 35 years uh we said congrats to him I am fortunate enough that I continue to work with him as our fire chief so lucky me uh during the first week of May I attended the mcma conference in Baxter Minnesota uh there were great learning sessions that talked about how well we tell stories discussions about mental health uh there were also great networking opportunities so I thank the council for continuing to support me going to that conference uh mark your calendars for 400 p.m. June 6 for muffin Muffins with mayor um and then the Bryant Street Wyman Street and independent Street construction will be starting there uh there is already some utility work being done by Center Point Energy construction on Independence will start uh Monday June 10th um I have been asked by several people if they'll be working Saturdays they hope not to um however in the event that they do they are required to give us 48 Hours uh notice and get our approval um and we ask that everybody uh stay tuned to the city website for details and updates regarding the 2024 reconstruction project because that is the only place that we will be posting those updates so there's one place to go for those um and then uh Julie with ABDO is here to go over the first quarter finances for the council welcome great thank you mayor and members of the council um I'll walk through sort of Page by Page through the report just this is your first time seeing our quarterly report so want you to get a good understanding of the format and the information that we provide so in this first quarter report we are looking um at all of the financial information for March 31st of 2024 this information is UN audited um so no audit opinion has been provided on the first quarter information um throughout the report we do compare to either the year-to-date budget so a projected first quarter first three months of the year um and then to the 1231 2023 numbers um we going to start on page three of the report um this covers the cash and investment balances of the city in total um at 331 2024 the city had $4.8 million in cash this is a decrease of about 1.1 million or 1, 175,000 from December um we'll touch on why that large decrease as we go through the report um the second table on this page breaks out that cash and investment balance based on your checking and the different types of Investments that you have um so you can see that the majority of that decrease does occur in that checking category page four of the report is a graphical representation of your month over month change in cash just for your general fund um the orange line that just shows January February and March is the current year the yellow line is the prior year so you're 20123 um the I think it's a dark green is 2 years prior so that's 2022 your general fund prior year average cash balance is that great dotted line it's just under that $800,000 line and then the solid black line going across is your 50% Target Reserve so we that's where we would like to keep that cash balance on a month by month basis um looking at the graph your cash trends for the general fund are following the prior two years um you'll note that there are large spikes in July of each of the last two years that's when we get the tax settlements so um that's expected every year page five of the report um this chart just shows the last three years of Treasury yields just some good information to look at and review page six of the report here's where we get into the revenues and expenditures for the general fund so in this page we show the annual budget so that's your total budget for the general fund for 2024 um that second column is the year-to date budget so that's your projected budget for this first quarter then we show the year-to date actual and then the budget variance so the variance from that year-to-date projected budget when we um prepare this report we analyze changes greater than $15,000 and then with a and with a percent change of um less than 80% or greater than 120% so that's why we don't have explanations on each line uh we focus on those major changes um so that very first line in revenues is your property taxes is um we show $1 in actual Revenue that's just a rounding from audit entries um so we'll again show that Revenue starting in July um the number two bullet there is your intergovernmental Revenue so this is your local government Aid again that Revenue comes in in July and December so we will show um some Revenue starting in the third quarter there in the expense section um we've noted that police Administration those expenses are larger than projected for the first quarter of the year um that's just due to how the payments are made on the Police contract um we've paid ahead for the first half of the year and with the fire Administration that next line um we are under budget in that line item and that's just due to timing of those payments um at the time that the quarter ended the U March payment hadn't been made on that fire contract um at the bottom of the table we have transfers out um we have not done the budgeted transfers for the general fund um we've been analyzing those at year end so um when we get to the end of the year those will be included um I'm going to jump to page eight page eight is the cash balances by fund so at the beginning of the report we showed cash and investment balances in total this page breaks it out by each of the city's funds um we do explain any changes greater than $50,000 in this chart um the first one being the general fund um first quarter is always really tough with the general fund the majority of our reasons are property tax revenue so um we've got payments going out each month um but we don't have our large main Revenue Source coming in so that's the reason for that reduction in cash there um the Debt Service funds that each have a number two next to them um again similar to the general fund um we've got tax revenue coming in to cover those Debt Service payments we've already made those payments in January um but that Revenue hasn't come in to offset those payments the 2024 Street reconstruction fund so the number three bullet there um we've got a reduction of about about $97,000 in cash um that's just due to additional payments going out and then the water sewer and storm water funds um again payments were made on the bonds in January and the principal payments are large so we're continuing to each month by billing recoup some of those costs as we're filling residents for their water and sewer use Pages 10 and 11 of the report give you a little bit more detail on those cash and Investments um so the the chart with the blue and white lines um that details out all of the different cash and investment accounts that you have and the balances at mark market value and then page 11 um gives you just a little bit more graphical information and shows you you know how your Investments fall as far as maturity timelines page 12 of the report um we look at the fire fund um so this is actually three of the city funds combined and we did include those at the Top Just for future reference and so when you're looking at those detailed Pages at the end you can cross reference um with some of these other funds we do also um provide a graph at the bottom showing the revenues coming in um so again you can see the month over month revenues and how they're trending compared to the prior two years so here we're right on track um looking at the items that we analyzed in the report um we've got salaries in the expense section um this variance is due to the timing of the annual pension contribution um this payment has not been made as of the end of the first quarter and then again the transfers out um we will process those transactions at the end of the year um going on to page 14 uh we're looking specifically at the water fund here and again this is two funds that are combined um variance here we have charges for services um and we're comparing to the prior Year's first quarter in the section um not two budget so we're looking at year-over-year comparisons um the large decrease from the first quarter of 2023 is due to um the baker Park Town Homes Revenue coming in in the first quarter of 2023 and that was about $172,000 and then miscellaneous revenues um that's due to a reimbursement from people's Services um for a water made break and that was about $57,000 and and then in the expense section Debt Service um the principal payments in the Enterprise funds are coded to a balance sheet account and not an expense account um so we've properly accounted for those in the first quarter of 2024 whereas in the first quarter of 2023 that payment was still included in the expenses and looking at the graph um for water revenues you're trending very similar to the last two years um moving on to page 16 this is the sewer fund um again two funds combined fund 602 and 622 um we've reviewed the operating expenses um reasons for decrease in expenses here um is due to pump installation and repairs um in March of 2023 that was about $177,000 um and then again with The Debt Service payments um the principal payments of those were coded to um the bonds payable account and not as an expense so we'll see that continue on throughout the year with that variance there and then the capital line um we have started to record depreciation expense on a monthly basis for the Enterprise funds so that's a change from how we've accounted for that in the past in the past it's been an entry just at the end of the year but we wanted to start showing that expense on a monthly basis and your sewer revenues um those three lines in January February and March are very close each year so right on track um page 18 we're looking at the storm water fund um that funds 603 and 623 and there was nothing noted here to analyze um everything seems to be in line with the prior year the remainder of the report is the detail general ledger reports right out of Banyon um a lot of information there and you know we'll work through as Jacob mentioned before the meeting to get that cleaned up so um through the budget process and the future you won't have so quite so many pages and with that I will take any questions so just to clarify then about the last 40 pages are just general ledger yes okay yes so that's directly out of the finance system um okay showing the very detailed line items that have rolled up into the report okay I don't believe I had ever seen that before so I just just reading sure and reading and I was like I'm okay good to know yes that makes sense um and then you said we will expect to see that then every quarter yes okay yep and we'll work to clean it up yep great yeah it seems like we have a lot of things that aren't being used administrator Callander thank you madam mayor members of the council so um the quarter reports that we get for the this year you're going to get all of those pages with those zeros cuz that's part of that report until we go through the budgeting season 2025 is when that'll go away cuz it'll clean that all out of there am I correct or can we do it can we get rid of them now I will work with Jesse if we can get rid of them now um we'll try let's do it if we can Okay um council member Duca and I worked with Bonnie a couple of years ago to try to consolidate um and close out accounts that we weren't using is that gone in a way and now we're dealing because you're our finance outsourced Finance director that we're going back to this going back to where we started from and will narrow it down from there I guess I'm not aware of what some of those conversations happened before we came in um but we when we first came on board in January we did meet with Bonnie and I think um Jacob was a part of that conversation to go through all of the funds and determined what they were for um and if we could clean up and inactivate any of those um so we're still working through that cleanup okay ministrator colander thank you Madame mayor members of the council I think one thing too now that I think of it um the monthly reports that you guys were getting before were in an Excel spreadsheet that Clarissa had created and there was some magic that I don't know how to do that would pull certain things out of banion and I think that's probably what you're referring to is like Dingle down to that but we're using Bion we're not using a spreadsheet so when we when we clean it up I mean that's something probably we could probably look at that spreadsheet and say okay if it's not one of these let's get rid of it so so th this is basically every accounting code known to man well to Maple plane yes go far as to man in the maple plane Finance system and somewhere over the course of the the past years or decades it got put in here correct and you're going to get rid of the stuff that continues to come up as zeros because we're not using it anymore yes yep we should be able to modify the report to exclude zeros and those funds that we've inactivated great I think that will I know for me personally make it much more manageable when we're reading it and paying attention to it and keeping an eye on things and then um help me with the terminology here but when I look at 35447 13-14 that is a category a a general category could you in the future put a cheat sheet in here that lists the titles of what the the different categories are I know water I know sewer I know fire I know police know General but there's a lot of funds here that I just by looking at it I don't know what they are sure so like your debt service funds your bond payment funds what are those fund numbers correct just the first sheet might just be 15 categories with with their with their numer numerology for it so that I know that when I'm looking at 601 it's water looking at 602 category it's sewer 801 is fire okay so basically take these here can you see this screen not at all oh so basically take go this screen that has all the funds and put the code next to it make a little Legend okay yeah it's in here Capital Improvement four it just doesn't carry from page to page it doesn't carry from page to page I think that's what you're asking for I read right yeah we have that okay okay okay it's just on the page breaks I think I caught you off yeah it's there and it will help when all the zeros are taken out it will clean it up right CU there's stuff on here that we don't care about because packets absolutely well part of it is you know we want to be I think of is like we want it to be transparent yeah we're not using them but you guys know at least that they're all there but yeah and has been our discussions that we're going to clean those out and just get rid of them so then you don't even have to print a report that excludes anything with zero you're just getting what we got will you get rid of them or will you just hide them I was thinking about getting rid of them um probably in activate you probably know better than I do it's going to depend on how recent the last transactions happened yeah um to so that'll impact whether or not we can completely get rid of them or if we'll have to just hide them so and then eventually after they're hidden long enough then they can be depending what they are foring purposes documentation we can't just erase it all right right we don't want to right right at we can't we we don't want to any other questions for Julie well thank you for being here and walking us through um this first quarter that's very helpful so hearing no other questions um I'm looking for a motion to receive all of our submitted staff reports um a through F so moved move by Francis I'll second that motion second by Beck any further discussion hearing none all in favor of accepting the staff reports as submitted signify saying I I I I oppos same sign motion carries 4 to Z all right thank you for being here with us thank you all right our next um item this evening is new business and we will begin with resolution 24-5 28-1 scan documents um are to be considered original and I'm going to turn that over to our administrator thank you Madame mayor members of the council this is just kind of a formality uh we're moving in things into laser fees and going into that electronic route um this resolution is basically the council saying we recognize that anything that is a scan document is an original document um basically just a formality so I'm looking uh for a motion for the council to approve that resolution I'll make that motion motion by Francis to app approve resolution 24- 0528 D1 second second by council member Fay any further discussion or questions hearing none all in favor of approving resolution 24-5 28-1 signify by saying I I I oppose same sign motion carries 4 to zero all right our next item of business this evening um to come before us is the 2024 Street project Finance plan which also includes another resolution um that um Tammy amall and our administrator will lead us through and I am graciously going to allow Tammy I wasn't sure I don't want to cut anyone off cut off either good evening mayor City Council Members Tammy umdal with North and Public Finance serving as adviser to the city on the proposed sale of the series 2024a bonds you have in your packet a finance plan and you were talking talking about seeing a lot of numbers this has a lot of numbers as well but I'm going to focus on the executive summary so the city has been preparing for this sale for a number of months related to the 2024 Street Improvement project the estimated principle which we call Par amount of the bonds is 4,890 th000 that may change a little bit between now and the final and again being issued to finance your 2024 Street Improvement cost and the cost of issuing the bonds the bonds will be General obligation bonds of the city meaning full faith and credit but the um Revenue that is pledged to the bonds will be the tax levy and special assessments and the city is planning to transfer revenue from the Enterprise funds to pay a proportionate share of the bonds I note that because that transfer while planned and estimated is not pledged to the bonds so there's some flexibility from year to year as you determine those transfers and that will all be detailed in the final cash flows the repayment terms will be the same um schedule as your existing bond so February 1 principal payments you cover that in your quarterly report and the draw on those um so these will be February 1 as well and interest of the bonds will be on payable first payable on February 1 2025 and then semiannually after as far as the rate and that's often a question I get asked at the set sale meeting is what rate um the estimated rate for planning purposes is 4% rates have been bumping around a little bit um this will not be sold until June so we will not know the final rate this will be sold through a competitive process where Northland will take bids in the morning and I'll cover that in a minute so that is an estimated rate at this point and that um results in after you account for the special assessments and the transfers from the utility funds the average annual tax levy is estimated at about 130,000 um for planning purposes the bonds will be um have a prepayment option at par meaning no penalty and that's approximately a nine-year call so they would bonds maturing in February 1 123 through the remaining term would be callable on February 1 2032 I mention that because that gives some flexibility on the timing of the special assessment revenues and how you manage your levies Etc we are recommending um because of the size that these bonds be rated SNP Global currently has ratings outstanding on the city's existing bonds your city administrator and I and Northland have already begun to prepare for that rating call which will be next week um based upon my preparation with City administrator I see no concerns with respect to affirmation that ablea but that that will dep depend on the rating process and that rating will be available before the bonds are sold so we are preparing for that diligently with respect to timing um we will take proposals bids on uh June I almost said February Monday June 24th at 10:00 a.m. and then you will consider the award at your meeting that same evening um with the final low bed being determined on true interest costs with respect on to the closing when the city will have the cash on the bonds that will be on July 23rd the closing with that mayor and Council again a lot of numbers in your packet on this happy to get into more detail if there are questions which I will stand for now thank you anyone have any questions for Tammy actually do sorry administrator um so I was just putting this together in my head so you get the purchase of Bonds on Monday June 24th at 10:00 a.m. and the council has to award them that same night yes and typically that information would go to them in advance um great question so you will have a resolution in your packet in advance that Bond Council Kennedy and Graven will complete for the city that will have some blanks because when their bonds are sold competitively you don't know a week in advance what those final rates and amounts are um most Bond councils including Kennedy Graven is really good about during the day completing those blank items that are in the council meeting packet so that final resolution form of the resolution can be shared with the city council before you take action that evening okay thank you you're welcome any other questions or clarifications administrative thank you Madame mayor um and I don't have any questions or comments um but I kind of want to touch base on a couple more things uh while Tammy is here um that was in the packet um there is the uh resolution 20245 28-2 um and then also um sorry had to skip ahead here um a letter that I would be sending uh to Ellers uh to cancel our services uh um with Ellers and going with Northland um I did pull it up earlier and I can again for the council um I should have just left it pulled up so my apologies and Tammy if it pops out H you please holler here are you looking for your letter to tlor no I am looking for this just to kind of show you guys the oh the the fee differences and stuff like that what we're paying uh Ellers and what we'll be paying Northland um I you know one of the reasons that I want to switch to Northland too is I've worked with Northland uh in other cities I've worked with I really enjoy working with them Tammy has been extremely helpful um and I haven't heard from anybody from ERS since I've been here so Tammy was the person I reached out to when we had to talk about this and so that's the direction that I would like to go did you do our last Bond sale we did not so this will be the first that we so I just wanted to give that background and that that information to the council thank you for that and are you looking for a recommendation for that to end the relationship with others and to go with Northland and for the resolution am looking for two different things all right so let's do those separately um so I am looking for a motion to send the formal letter ending the relationship with aers and to work with Northland security going forward I'll make that motion motion by council member Francis I'll second that motion second by council member Buck any further discussion or questions hearing none all in favor signify by saying I I oppose same sign motion carries 4 to zero the next item before us then is the resolution which is 24-5 28-2 and that is in our packet that we had ahead of time looking for the resolution providing for the issuance and sales um for the general obligation Improvement bonds and again that is resolution number 24-5 28-2 I'll make that motion motion by council member Fay second second by council member Francis any further discussion or questions all in favor of approving that resolution Solution please signify by saying I I oppose same sign motion carries 4 to zero all right thank you very much thank you for coming out tonight Tammy and being here in person all right next item of business under new business is letter C hpen County assessing Services contract I will turn that over to staff thank you madam mayor members of the council I am very excited to announce that the henip County Commissioners voted to to uh continue assessing uh hanpen County cities free of charge with populations under 30,000 which will save us about $20,000 a year um and this is new this is not a continuance no this is brand new yeah um starting for 2025 um I'm used to seeing this so more counties are going to this model um so it kind of surprised me when I seen this but it is good for us um so there is an there is an agreement that we have to sign um um with them that's pretty much on par with what I've had to do in other cities that I've worked with um but it's good news it's very good news it is good news but there is no free lunch it's part of our taxes all right so any questions for staff regarding this all right and and staff has no reason why we wouldn't do this no I could think of any any else all right so with that then I'm looking for a motion to approve the hanpen county assessing service contract that was in our packet for review I'll make that motion motion by council member verak second second by council member Francis any further discussion or questions hearing none all in favor signify by saying I I I oppos same sign motion carries 4 to zero all right next item of business is a resolution another resolution before us tonight resolution 24-5 28-3 this is authorizing Bank signatures and I'm going to turn this over to assistant City administrator Kevin Larson thank you Madame mayor uh and Council uh so this is actually a continuation from a workshop that we had uh about a month ago um and since I joined the city uh in February uh we need a check and balances and we also need a backup for Jacob when he's gone uh and so the city of Maple plane um requires uh two signatures for uh official uh financial documents and the resolution uh in front of the council um allows me uh to be that uh that siner and Jacob's absence um with as a followup to our our last meeting um there is a checks and balances to this with the specific verbage that states uh permits only one staff me member to serve as one of the two required signatories um that makes it so there is uh Council approval for all financial decisions that take place and there's an awareness of it there's nothing that the the staff can do without your knowledge signature or yeah signature thank you all right thank you for that update and for making those changes so looking for a resolution or looking for a recommendation for resolution 24-5 28-3 authorizing the bank signatures I'll make that motion motion by council member Fay I'll second that motion second by council member barck any further discussion or questions I have a question yes council member Francis do do we need to have a backup for you as a signer either the the deputy mayor or council [Music] member I know I know we've discussed it before is I mean to add another if something were to happen to me there would have to be a council meeting you know adding someone else otherwise I can do it all electronically I don't have to physically be here oh okay yeah I can do it for my computer I I don't go to the bank so I get sent something with passwords and logins and then I go in and approve it that way so I don't physically need to be in town or here okay so I wasn't aware of that aners that answers my question okay well then technically couldn't sh could do it from anywhere too probably okay but if he's on vacation I don't think that's a fair ask or if he's laying in a hospital bed let me let me make a clarification on that please um I can log into the bank I can do transfers I can make a approvals remotely but I cannot sign checks remotely I my signatures are wet signatures oh mine are not I understand sorry I didn't realize that yeah thank you for clarifying that I stand corrected okay he can not signed the checks I can good questions is that comfortable with that answer council member Francis or yes ma'am all right so we have a motion we have a second we've had discussion all in favor of approving resolution 24-5 28-3 authorizing the banks signatures I'll make that motion did we already have a motion yeah V we just I'll in favor signify by saying I I I oppose save sign all right motion carries four to zero thank you for your flexibility on that sorry about that um Council reports and other business this evening council member Francis do you want to kick it out I would be happy to okay so for the month of may I started off the month attending Highway 12 safety Coalition thank you and uh we were told that mindat has started surveying the native burial mounds at Highway 12 and County Line Road and County Road 92 which is the first step in the whole reconstruction of that last piece of Highway 12 uh from there had workshops uh special meeting regarding River Oaks I attended the Memorial Day service heard an awesome uh talk from Sheriff wit um inspiring and it was good to see our veterans be recognized and and then finished the month with today's workshop and business meeting all right thank you council member Francis council member Fay well um semi busy uh I maintain regular uh Thursday attendance with the mayor at uh corer uh Rotary Club uh PA highlights this past month we uh uh we sponsored uh the ice cream social component of the Oro High School Community Ed uh Wellness Expo uh we ran out out of ice cream and had to actually go get more it's a good problem to have it was a good problem and you're also the most popular vendor there yes we were everyone knew where the rotary Booth was yes we were um and then uh just last week we uh sponsored the meal as well as scholarships to five deserving uh high school students who graduated from rotary's uh year-long mentorship program the strive program it's a uh cooperation with uh with Orno high school and the Orno rotary as well as other rotaries across the country I suppose internationally um uh I've spent much time since the beginning beginning of the month on rotary's Party in the Park uh which is uh going to take place this Saturday from 5: to1 I've been working on developing printing uh Distributing and hanging banners and flyers and electronic information um spent an hour with uh Kevin and his meet and Greek got to know him a little bit more thank you uh Fire Commission meeting with mayor um two days two evenings of strategic planning uh where we charted the direction of the city council um um and a joint meeting um with planning and all city council and all of you uh on the cup application for uh River Oaks it was a difficult analysis it was uh a great deal of discussion um about the use of uh Maple planes um Public Safety Services um in addition to a pair of workshops in tonight's meeting I'm done all right thank you council member F council member ver well it wasn't quite in May but I think it should be right recognized the retirement party for Rick Denison since our last meeting um tended workshops um but the strategic planning for me was great because it really got to show to all of us a as a group how we want to look look forward and what Avenues and strides we want to take priority on and to make changes for the better um public safety meeting with River Oaks was definitely a great meeting because it did show the taxing that are not tax I shouldn't say um the stress that our Public Safety does have on with the shorting short staffing and the volunteer ability for the fire department to recruit Staffing so and then tonight's meeting thank you um many of the things have been said already here tonight but I just think um May was a busy month for Council and just want to thank everyone even tonight our one packet was 347 pages