Good evening and welcome to the Maple Plains City Council meeting. It is December 15th at 7 p.m. and I'm calling the meeting to order. Um please stand and join us for the pledge of allegiance if you are able. I pledge algiance 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. >> I am looking for a motion to adopt this evening's agenda. >> I'll make that motion. >> Move by. >> Second. >> Second by Duca. Any further discussion or questions hearing? None. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Four to zero. Um, first item on the agenda this evening is visitors to be heard, otherwise known as public comment. And before we begin that, I would like to read our statement of expected behavior. 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 practice of the city of Maple Plane. Speakers may approach the podium one at a time to make remarks that shall be limited to three 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 speaker's 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. Before us this evening, I have two public comment forms. If there are others, please fill out the form in the back and get those to administrator Coan uh Chalander, excuse me. Sorry, recently married. Um, with that, our first public comment is Nicole. I'd like to invite you forward. Please state your name and address, and you'll have up to three minutes. >> Thanks, Julie. >> Welcome. >> Hi, my name is Nicole McDade. I'm at 1472 Meadow Lane and I'm here to speak tonight regarding ordinance 348, amended rental ordinance. If you are in the audience and here to also support that ordinance, if you could please raise your hand. Now, we as a community were very upset by what transpired the evening that night. I was having dinner with my family, but I wanted to take a minute to thank Jacob and Kevin for being rapid in the response to help us change the language in Maple Plains rules and regulations to better support our community. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Mcdo, for being here this evening. Uh, next person for public comment is Mr. Justin McCoy. Thank you. For the record, uh Justin McCoy. I'm an Independence resident, neighboring town, 5700 Robert Road. But here, um as the Maple Fire Relief Association president, Madame Mayor, members of the council, I stand before you today in supporting the passage of resolution 20251215-04. On November 5th, 2025, our membership voiced concerns and asked fire relief leadership to look into and find potential solutions to the proposed PRA fund distributions. This resolution is in line with this request and is the first step in working together towards a possible solution. A fire relief department association is currently made up of 20 active firefighters and four deferred members. Of the 20 active firefighters, 15 are under the age of 50. And of the four deferred members, three are under the age of 50. Today, either myself or one of my fellow firefighters have spoken to 18 of the 20 active firefighters and three of the four deferred members, all of whom supports passage of this resolution. Tonight, our relief association will be meeting this Wednesday to discuss next steps and review the plan laid out with executive director of legislative commissions on pensions and retirement. We look forward to working with the city, our members, and state officials to address the concerns we have surrounding the perra distribution of funds. I'd like to publicly thank Jacob Chelander on your assistance in being a lison with PAR. The chief Dennison for his time and involvement on calls of state agencies and partners. Council member Francis and Duca for your many years of serving the MPFD relief association um as being council reps. Council member Barack and Arviso for your support on this resolution at the last um workshop last Monday and Mayor M Julia Moscus for your time and support and different phone calls with state officials agencies as we work together to address the fire membership's concerns. And lastly, like to thank the firefighters standing or sitting behind me for their patience as we work together to find a common solution to ensure all their concerns are addressed. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. McCoy. Hi, my name is Eric Schultz. I live at 59153 Oaks Avenue. I'm here in response to the amended change to the rental ordinance. I just wanted to thank the city council greatly. We've had a lot of issues with this family. This school has been a dead end. The bus company has their hands tied. This actually gives us hope that we can see some kind of change. I mean, we don't have any hard feelings towards anybody in this, but we can't continue to go down this road and wonder what this is going to escalate into next. So, I just wanted to tell you I'm very thankful on behalf of our entire neighborhood. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Schultz. There any other public comment this evening? Okay. Hearing none, we will close public comment and move on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda this evening includes November 24th city council workshop meeting minutes. November 24th, city council business meeting minutes. December 1st, city council truth and taxation public hearing uh meeting minutes. Uh December 8th, city council workshop meeting minutes. December 8th, city council special business meeting minutes and employee handbook update. I will be pulling item um December 8th, letter D. Anyone else have anything to pull? Administrator Schillinder. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Members of the council, just one thing I want to point out. Um, the approval of the employee handbook that would take first January 1st, 2026. Thank you for that clarification. All right. So, looking for a motion to approve items A, B, C, E, and F on the consent agenda this evening. >> I'll make that motion. >> Moved by council member. I'll second. >> Second by council member Burk. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none. All in favor of approving the consent agenda minus item D, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppos. Same sign. >> The eyes have it. Um four to zero. Uh I pulled letter D and that was the city council workshop meeting minutes. I did talk with assistant administrator Larson about that and I will turn it over to him with a suggestion for the corrections. >> Thank you, Madame Mayor. Um so for the December 8th uh city council uh workshop uh meeting minutes uh discussion topic C uh amending um the food truck ordinance. the under the council discussion uh I offer a change uh to the verbiage where the council uh reviewed the proposed changes and discussion and discussed inspections as well as uh registration clarity for operators. Um whips does not need to be a part of uh that of those inspections for the food trucks. So I just wanted to offer that as a clarification. >> Thank you for that clarification and correction. Um, Assistant Administrator Larson. Any questions regarding that update to the minutes? All in favor of approving the December 8th city council workshop meeting minutes with the amended change that was just spoken, please signify by saying I. >> I. Same sign. The eyes have it. Four to zero. >> Next item before us this evening is accounts um payable and I will turn that over to our administrator. >> Thank you, Madame Mayor. Members of the council, before you today are city bills, uh totaling $224,53.89, our AC bills of $11,200.72, and the 2024 street project bills of $936. >> Any questions for staff regarding accounts payable this evening? >> Hearing none, looking for a motion to approve city bills, city a and the street project. I'll make that motion. >> Motion by council member Visa. >> I'll second that motion. >> Second by council member Berk. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Post same sign. Eyes have it. Four to zero. Next item of business before us this evening is our staff reports. All staff reports have been submitted in writing except public works. So I am looking for a motion to receive the staff reports that have been submitted. I'll make that motion. >> Motion by council member Berak. >> Second. >> Second by council member Duca. Any further questions or discussion? >> Hearing none. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. >> Post. Same sign. The eyes have it. Four to zero. We have no old business this evening to come before us. So, we'll move on to new business. We will begin with um item A, the fire service contract and lease agreement found on page 133 in the packet tonight. And I will turn that over to staff. Thank you, Madame Mayor, members of the council. Um before us tonight is the fire service contract and lease agreement with West Suburban Fire District. Uh months of negotiations and meetings, uh going, you know, talking about how we can make this work. Um, and we've kind finally come to um an agreement that works for all parties. Um, in my summary, I have listed the fire station lease agreement first. Um, just a couple things to touch on that. Um, the West Suburban Fire District will lease the Maple Plane Fire Department building for a dollar per year. Um it talks the agreement talks about the responsibilities such as um who handles utilities, generator upkeep, um interior upkeep and exhaust system. The city will reimburse West Suburban Fire District up to $76,972 towards the um vehicle ventilation system. Um it talks about the insurance coverages uh that West Suburban Fire District will have. Um and then our lease agreement is also linked with our fire service agreement. Uh so if one is canceled, the other is canceled. Um and then moving into the fire service agreement. Um this agreement is with West Suburban Fire District, the city of Maple Plane and the city of Independence. Uh West Suburban Fire District will provide all fire services to the city of Maple Plane. Um the Maple Plane firefighters will uh transition over to West Suburban Fire District as long as they meet all criteria. Um that would be beginning January 1st of next year. Um and then all firefighters would be subject to a one-year probationary period according to West Suburban Fire District's um employee handbook. As far as the annual pair contributions for the first four five years, for the five years, um the city of Maple Plane and Independence will pay $3,62627 per firefighter uh to bring up their PAR benefit level to be equal with West Suburban Fire District. After that five-year time frame, that would no longer be the case. Um and you know if any firefighters don't go or end up leaving that number again is just based on the number of firefighters that they retain. Um cost of service uh is a formula of 50% market value plus 50% service usage over a three-year trailing average. Um, we went into the formula that West Suburban Fire District uses for all of their other contract cities um with the caveat that we will pay and by we I mean Maple Plane and Independence um will pay the difference um so the first year us going into the formula is a difference of $25,15626 Um so for the first two years we will pay 100% of that difference and then 75% 50% and 25%. And then after the initial 5-year term then we will be in the formula just like everybody else. Um we are covering a onetime cost of equipment of 37,000 split between Maple Plane and Independence. This is um logos, uniforms, that kind of stuff. Um and then we are also um going to put money aside um for a new engine that's capped at 1.5 million. West Suburban Fire District would pay 50%, Maple Plane 25% and Independence 25%. Um that we are doing a limited warranty on the transferred equipment. Um this would be through December 31st, 2027. that applies to uh any of the vehicles that we transfer over to West Suburban Fire District covers repairs exceeding 25,000 excluding insurance covered or accident related repairs. Um there would be cost sharing on that. West Suburban Fire District would pay 50% um and the cities collectively 50%. Uh so Maple Plane would cover 25, Independence would cover 25%. Um West Suburban Fire District will invoice the cities uh monthly. That was per our request. Um, I guess I'll stand for any questions. >> Any questions for staff? >> I just want to say you make that sound so simple and like it all just happened overnight. But it has been uh literally years in the making and especially this last year um very intense. But we will celebrate and talk about that more tomorrow. But I just want to acknowledge all the work and all the people and the collaboration between the two cities and um West Suburban and Maple Plane has been um exceptional and if our whole world could uh learn to get along and adult better, I think we've set a really good example. So I just want to thank everyone publicly for the work and look forward to celebrating that tomorrow with everyone. Uh with that, I am looking for a motion to approve the fire service contract and lease agreement. >> I'll make that motion. Motion by Berk >> and I'll second it. >> Second by Duca. Any further discussion or questions? All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. The eyes have it. Four to zero. Next item of business is the revision of the August 25th, 2025 business meeting minutes. And I will turn that um back over to our administrator. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor. Members of the council, the reason for this uh revision is to meet the gambling board's um requested standards. Um the St. Bonafacious um Minitrista Area Lions Club is a doing business as and that is what they put on their application. That's what we had in the packet um from August. However, they need the gambling board needs it to reflect specifically what's on their uh tax ID. So, that's what this is doing. It's amending those minutes so that they can get that approved. >> Looking for a motion to approve the revision of the August 25th um 25 uh business meeting minutes. >> So, moved by Duca. >> Second. >> Second by Bureick. Any further discussion or questions? >> Hearing none. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I >> post same sign. The eyes have it. Four to zero. Next item of business to come before us this evening is resolution 25-1215-01 approval of the 26 final levy and budget. Turn that back over to staff again. >> Thank you, Madame Mayor. Members of the council, we held our truth and taxation meeting on December 1st um where we kind of talked about the details of the budget. So, I will spare everyone the details. Um the total levy for 2026 will be 1,997,220. Um general fund budget is $1,582,91 and our debt service payments are $415,129. Um 51% of our budget is made up of public safety and that is where we've seen um the greatest increases on the 2026 budget. So I am looking for council to approve both the final levy and the 2026 budget. >> Right. Again looking for a motion to approve resolution 25-1215-1 approval of the 26 final levy and budget. >> So moved. >> Moved by Duca. >> Second. >> Second by bureak. Any discussion or questions? Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Same sign. The eyes have it. Four to zero. Next item of business. come before us this evening is resolution 2025 1215-02 donations received for 2025 and I will turn that back over to staff again. >> Thank you madame mayor, members of the council. This resolution is a um requirement by state statute that we uh receive and accept donations made in the year. Those donations total 20,000 $29,025. Um the specifics are listed uh in the packet there for you. Looking for approval of that resolution. >> Uh before I ask for a motion to approve this resolution, I'd like to look at page um 373 exhibit A uh the last item noted and I would like to remove um West Hanipan Public Safety as we do not receive their donations. They are separate entity. Um so that should not be in there. >> We will make that change. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh, with that change, um, I am looking for a motion to approve resolution 2025-1215-02 donations received, um, for the 2025 calendar year. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion by our viso. >> Second. >> Second by Berk. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Eyes have it. Four to zero. Uh, next item of business come before us this evening is resolution 2025 1215-03, the annual designation for 2026, Maple Plane Organization. I'll turn that back over to staff again. >> Thank you again, Madame Mayor, members of the council. Uh, we do this every year um like clockwork. Um I'm going to go ahead and just explain um the ending part, but I'm going to go through and talk about the official depository um is will for 2026 will be Midcountry Bank and approving the use of uh the 4M fund. Our official newspaper will be the Laker. Uh we've provided the meeting schedule as an exhibit. The acting mayor uh would be council member Mike Duca. Um and then we have a list of our annual appointments and committees. Uh our city attorney is Scott Lansman of Hofberry Associates. Our city engineer is David Martini Bolton and Mink. City auditor Clifton Larson Allen. And then attached is all the meeting dates for 2026. Uh the highlighted dates signify that they are on a different date other than the normal second or fourth Monday. Um looking for council to approve that as well as the um commissions. >> All right. Looking for a motion to approve resolution 2025-1215-03 the annual designation for the 2026 Maple Plane Organization. >> I'll make that motion. >> Move by Reviso. >> Second. >> Second by Duca. Any further discussion or questions? All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Post. Same sign. The eyes have it. Four to zero. Next item of business to come before us is uh resolution 2025-1215-04 repealing resolution 2025-0922-01 and directing the executive director to withhold payouts. And I will turn that back over to staff. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor, members of the council. Uh in September of this year, um well, let me back up. January 1st of this year, the fire department um fire relief association asked the city to put their funds in uh with PAR's SVF um account. Um which we did. Um September 22nd, we did a resolution that terminated that plan. Um doing this as part of this uh fire consolidation. Um, when I got the benefit payout numbers, uh, there it was quite a shock to myself and majority of the fire department members. There's a 6% reduction for each year they are under 50. Um and then the surplus that is in the fund then gets distributed out um based on that fact as well. So those that are over 50 gain more money um and then those that are under 50 gain less money. Um what I am asking so we've had m multiple conversations with parah um with uh Susan with the state legislative pension and benefits um and I am seeking for council to repeal that resolution so we can ask for special legislation. um that special legislation would still calculate the retirement based on actuarial um mathematics that I don't understand. Um and then the the surplus would then be divvied out based off of years of service um and benefit level. and then any excess surplus after that would be um divided out equally amongst all of the firefighters. Um with the majority of our fire department members being under the age of 50, I think it um behooves us to try and make everyone whole in a fair way. And I think that by stopping the payout now and seeking special legislation, um it's it's our effort in doing that. So I am seeking council's approval of the resolution to repeal a previous resolution. We'll stand for any questions. >> Any questions? All right. Um, with that, I am looking for a motion to approve resolution 2025 1215-04, repealing resolution 2025- 09-220001 and directing the executive director to withhold payouts. Any discussion or comments? I would just like to add that we would not do this until after the meeting on Wednesday. Just that you're not just to make sure. I appreciate the poll that was taken, but there is a fire relief meeting on Wednesday. So, I think just to make sure everyone has a chance if there's more people that want to speak that they're have that opportunity. >> Yeah, we'd like to know that the the majority of the membership is all in favor of this, >> right? And I appreciated uh relief president McCoy sharing that tonight, but I think there's value in at the official meeting that we um hear that as well. Any other discussion, questions? All right. Looking for a motion. >> I'll make that motion. >> Moved by council member Aiso. >> I'll second that motion. >> Second by council member Berk. Any further discussion or questions? >> I do. >> Senator Luca, >> I've been on council 14 years. If we do this, this is probably the biggest mistake that this council could make. Let me explain. As it stands right now, the fire relief has an excess in the pool. We're funded at about 116% of the liability. That's about $225,000 extra dollars that are going to be divvied out amongst the firefighters who have earned that money. If we are to hold at this point and tell the director to hold that, we run some risks. First of all, there will be additional expenses that will will be incurred that will take money from every firefighter. Secondly, we're subject to the market. We have been blessed the last two years with some of the most outstanding markets that have added to the surplus that is sitting in that fund right now. that's going to be distributed. A market adjustment that would happen while we're waiting would be dollars that would come directly out of each and every one of your pockets. And a market correction is not unthinkable in a off election year. You look back on history often are corrected. That's a liability to you. That's taking money directly from you. Third, if and I say that very cautiously, if the state legislature were to change, they're not even proposing a change that would affect the actuarial calculations. You each will have a 6% reduction. That's going to stay. The executive director has made it quite known. He will publicly lobby, testify to that, right? Generally, those carry a lot of weight. Even if there was a change at that point, the change in how the excess would be allocated back would depend on what is the excess at that moment in time. and assume for a moment that excess would be lower than what it is at this moment in time. At its high point, each of you will receive less money than you would have in today's world. I don't want to take that risk. I think it's irresponsible on our part to do that. I think it's it's taking something from each of you that I'm not willing to do. There's an additional liability to the organization or to the city at this point. 10 minutes ago, we just approved a contract to not be in the fire business anymore. You will not be employees anymore of this organization. We thank you for your service. And now here I am about to do something that could potentially take money away from you. Not willing to do that. The final liability that we have is that under state statute, if the markets were to correct enough while we were waiting, not only would that 225,000 extra dollars potentially not be there to distribute to you, the city could also be in a position that would have a potential liability of have to add even more city dollars to make sure that you each got the payoff you were entitled to. As I sit in this chair for the 14 years, I'm looking at the responsibility that I have in this chair and right now changing this is not the answer. I'd ask each of my council members to think hard about that when you make your vote in a few minutes. We are here to do what's in the best interest of the city and right now we have a a nice surplus to hand out in additional monies to you. We may not if we make that call differently. >> Other comments, questions or discussion points? >> Council member Berk. I >> I hear exactly what you're saying. Um Mr. Duca, it's looking at how these firefighters are treated at the last moment that they're here. It's trying to make sure that they get the fair deal because putting time in and losing just because your age because of a decision that we've made up here. So, >> thank you, Council Member Berock. Any other discussion? Um, I'm going to respectfully disagree with you, Council Member Duca, and I would like to communicate why. Um, I think while the executive director does have the final say, there is an opportunity to make everyone whole with the surplus. And everyone who has paid on call, volunteered to give time, has been told that they will earn $4,300 per year of service. I think that is our responsibility to keep our word and to honor that. I also think that the firefighters have spoken at the last relief meeting I was at. The consensus there was if we couldn't make it whole, if we couldn't make it right, they wanted special legislation. And that's why I went to Representative Robbins and asked and advocated for that and why we had the meeting on Friday. And while I appreciate that there is a risk to us as RED residents that we if this fund falls below 90% we're responsible. Well, these men and women put their lives on the line every day whether the roads were bad leaving their family outings and they were told they would get paid an amount for a year of service. That is our job to keep our word and I think we owe that to them. I think they've had the opportunity to speak at the last relief association. As I already made a point to the last motion, this will only happen after direction at the relief association where all of the firefighters will have an opportunity to speak and the majority will rule. I think it is the right thing to do. I think it is equitable and I will be voting in favor of it for those reasons. Any further discussions or comments before I call for a vote? All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. >> I. >> The motion carries 3 to one. Next item of business this evening is resolution 2025-1215-05 accepting the 2026 industrial street project feasibility report. And I will turn that over to our engineer, Mr. Bowman. Thank you, mayor, members of the council. Matt Bowman, assistant city engineer and project manager. Kevin, if you can go to page 400, I think it was for the presentation. So, we have two studies tonight presenting. The first one is the industrial street feasibil industrial street improvements feasibility study and the impetus for this project is that it is a is ready for a mill and overlay um rehabilitation of the street and that is scheduled to occur about once every 20 years and then we can get about a six-year lifespan out of the street itself. Um and then another piece of this is to replace the east block of the water mane which is 1965 vintage cast iron pipe which is sub um subject to breakage and it's a little bit smaller than would be ideal for for that portion of town as well. Um and so on October 27th you guys authorized the feasibility study and so I'll present uh some of the findings here. Go to the next slide Kevin. Uh yeah, so I mentioned some of the information that we we gathered. The the east block of the the roadway was built in 1965 and then extended in 1989. The the water man under the 1989 portion is um ductal iron pipe and 8 in pipe over there. And as I mentioned already, the we'll be looking at the mill and overlay process here and recommend upsizing that pipe. We go to the next one. So the uh based on the city's policy, the assessment methodology is um assessed between 20 and 50% of assessment of accessessible items. Millan overlay per city code is not accessessible. So the the only piece that would be is the the water main improvements along this piece. Um so the city would cover non-accessible pieces. Millan overlay, minor curbon drainage repairs, and then um the non-accessible frontage, which I'll get to later in one of the maps here. Next one, Kevin. So there is a kind of an overview of the street work the street project itself. We go to the next one and we can jump. Uh so I'll just touch on the the process for improving the water man proposing that we do this by a pipe bursting method and that it's um going to reduce the disruption to the traffic and so we as a mill and overlay we can leave 90% of the street alone and with the the heavy large traffic in that neighborhood that'll be very beneficial the large trucks and all of the um boats and and everything that's going back in in and out through there. That's that's why we'd recommend this method for replacing that pipe. Um whether we were doing a full street replacement or not that it just far less far less disruptive and able to keep businesses moving there. We go to the next one. And so you can see here there's the assessment methodology is to assess those directly served by the main itself. And so that there's only two properties on this piece of the project. Um, and so I'll get to that a little bit more in the next slide, but the the large one to the to the north and then the smaller one to the south, we'd propose to assess those by the abuing front footage and then the city picks up the rest of the the footage for those other C3 properties that don't have that aren't directly served off of this main. All right, now you can go the next piece there. So, u cost aortionment sum aortionment summary. You can see there the different pieces assessments 100 roughly 100,000 that's the 35% of the water man that can be assessed the city would cover uh just under 49,000 of that the street work itself is 145,000 the remainder of the water man is 186 for a total of 430 um then just a little bit that similar breakdown there for a total total city cost of 380,000 and then you go to the next one And then so the the breakdown of the assessment summary water breaks down to 6671 per front foot. Um assessed to those properties is 51,900 and then the city again covers the almost half of that cost with picking up the other front footages and that and then that water um front footage cost is more is closer to what we was assessed in previous projects. They were done by the unit, but the doing it by the unit here broke it out to where the since there was only two properties being served, then they covered all of that $100,000. So, this made this is a more economical breaker, more um I can't find the right word, but uh more fair breakdown for them. Go to the next one, Kevin. All right. And so from an engineering standpoint, the improvements are feasible, cost-ffective, and necessary to maintain city infrastructure. And uh so we yeah, water man improvements can be made using practical construction processes. And I'll trying to summarize and go quickly here because I know there's a lot on the agenda. Uh then so this schedule you'll see again twice. This is very similar to the the next one that you'll see as well. So, um, next week we'd work on work with the city or next week and the week after we'd work with the city to get the ma the notices mailed for the improved hearing which we propose to be on January 20th. Um, then in between there we'll the notices will post in the advertised newspaper which is the Laker. Um, we'll host an open house meeting with the affecting affected properties here on January 6. Um, then the improvement hearing. Um and then January 26, so the following Monday, we close the improvement hearing and then council would consider resolution to order the improvements. Roughly March would be looking to authorize bids bid an award in April and then begin construction as early as May and then um final assessment hearing in the fall of next year. That I'll stand for any questions. >> Any questions, Mr. Roman? All right. Looking for a motion to approve resolution 20251215-05 accepting the 2026 industrial street project feasibility report. >> I'll make that motion. >> Move. >> I'll second that motion. >> Second by Derek. Any further discussion or questions hearing? None. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Same sign. The eyes have it four to zero. Next item of business this evening is resolution 20251215-06 accepting the 2026 downtown project feasibility study. Turn that back over. >> Yeah, thank you mayor, members of the council. So uh similar process but a little bit different project here. So we have the downtown uh street reconstruction project as we're going to call it just helps me differentiate between the different pieces going on here. Um, so again, October 27th, the authorized preparation of the feasibility study to analyze improvements for the following streets. And you can stay there, Kevin, actually. >> Give you a second. >> Good. All right. Um, so for the following streets, we analyze Main Street East, Pioneer Avenue, Delano Avenue, Maple Avenue, Marsh a Avenue, and Spring Avenue, and then also the fire station parking lot on the west side. of that map. Um we analyze all existing infrastructure elements within the project area of and uh as part of the report and proposed improvements, itemized cost estimates and cost aortionments preliminary assessment role. >> Yep. It's always always fun. All right, Kevin, if you want to jump to slide 440 or page 440 in the packet there. So, the need for further improvements is based on the uh limited asbuilt information. What we could find is some of the work, some of the streets were originally constructed in the 1930s, maybe even sooner than that. The wine, the best guess I have is a lot of it was constructed in the 1930s. Um and then some as late as the 60s on some of the other streets. Um as you're aware of the area, the pavements are very deteriorated state and traditional maintenance activities are no longer cost effective. Milan overlay would would not work for any for any of these streets. Um and then again and Pioneer Avenue is an undersized street. Several of the streets don't have curbon gutter. So Pioneer Avenue, portion of Main Street East on the west side and then Delano Avenue don't have any curb and gutter to kind of def define the roadway. Um again, and then due to corrosive soils, water water manes are subject to breaks. Sanitary sewers cast is a petrified clay pipe which is subject to lots of inflow and infiltration. And all right, so we go to next slide, Kevin. So you guys saw the the map here again that just re reinforces the streets there. So the two green ones, I'll get to those in a second. Those we actually are recommending um milling overlay, but the rest of that we're looking for full reconstruction. So next slide, Kevin. So the different pieces. So full reconstruction for all of the streets besides Marsh Avenue and Spring Avenue. And the reason we're recommending that is Marsh and Spring are in a pretty good state. There's fairly new curb and gutter that's in good shape as well. Um, and don't remember which one off the top of my head here. Go to the map. Marsh Avenue itself doesn't even have a water mane underneath it. So, we're recommending that those two are melon overlay. The rest of them, as I mentioned before, be full reconstruction. Make sure I'm on the right slide here. Sanitary sewer and water mane will be replaced. the water mane we would actually loop up to Pioneer. Um there's a piece I'll show you on one of the slides in the FE coming up where it it doesn't come all the way around. So that will help um any future development or anybody looking to make changes there and then improve also improve fire flows and reliability. We'll replace and add a lot of storm sewer to the project. Part of that is to coordinate with the downtown redevelopment. um be doing some water storm water quality treatment which will be likely um to the west of the public works and water treatment plant building over there and then I mentioned already replacing an adding side um replacing an adding curb and we'll also look to replace and add sidewalk. So we'll connect to the existing trail over on Pioneer Avenue with the some of the sidewalk that does exist now on the west side of Main Street. Uh there'll be some streetscaping around the development which we're working with Mark and the developer on there. Also adding lighting. The lighting will be um around the downtown redevelopment block, but that will also coordinide with where the sidewalk goes. So it'll be lighted all the way up to the trail on Pioneer Avenue. Um and then we'll also look to bury power around the development there. So, I will skip over most of this except for uh one thing that we did add into that was to remove the Bud Avenue portion between um Main Street East and Highway 12 and that has been in the um comp plans and and many of the studies for a long time to reduce some of that crash risk and so that will force um traffic to use better visibility intersections. So that's so we added that in here based on some feedback uh the last workshop. Um and then we're be um modifying the streets. So they're they vary quite a bit right now. So we're going to get to more standard drive driving lanes and parking lanes. And I'll show that on the next map here. We go to that one now. So you can see the yellow is and I haven't mentioned that uh today yet. The yellow is actually what we were considering for the local road improvement program grant which was submitted on Friday so that we potentially get uh up tound or one and a half million dollars back for that. Um but it's pretty competitive process so we'll cross our fingers and hopefully hopefully we got a good application in there. Um the two orange streets are the ones I mentioned. Those are Mill and Overlay. Delano Avenue is will be a full reconstruction, but we didn't consider that to be one of the candidates for the local road improvement piece. The green on the far right, it would be the removal of Bud Avenue. We'd have we'll have to work that out more in final design exactly what that looks like, but it's costs were accounted for in the the study here. The the dash lines are recommen uh is where we recommend parallel parking. And so much of it will be the same as what is what exists now, but we will be changing portions of Main Street East. Right now, we're recommending that most of Main Street East just have parallel parking on the south side and then the north side will be no parking for now. Um, and the then with the blue, if you can see it in there, that's where the sidewalk would be. So, I think right now it ends at Can't read the streets there. I think it ends at Marsh Avenue right now. And so we'll be adding about three blocks of sidewalk to get up to the the trail and pioneer on the the west side there. Again, the purple is that is the fire station parking lot improvements. Then the you guys can see the the dark piece on the far right, that's the proposed downtown redevelopment block that we're trying to coordinate all this work with, too. and and coordinate some uh diagonal parking that'll be placed around that building there. I think we can go to the next slide. Uh so reiterating so the city's assessment policy is 20 to 50% of accessible pieces can be assessed based on past practice. We're recommending 35% of the street and storm sewer. We're going to recommend that be done on a adjusted front footage basis and then the utilities are assessed on a unit basis. U only and again only properties served by the utilities are assessed for those. I'll go over that those pieces in a little bit more detail in the next maps. Um city is going to pay for the nonaccessible frontage project elements and this is this is consistent with past projects. of Jacob and I dug through some of the previous feasibility studies for some of the uh the more nuance pieces. Um Marshia Avenue Millan overlay again is not assessed. We're not recommending assessment for the sidewalks or for lighting. That's similar to what was done on the 2016 Bud Avenue project. Uh we're not recommending assessment of the bearing of the overhead power on Maple and Main Street. The fire station parking lot for just because that's private improvements is not p not part of the accessible portion. And then Bud Avenue removal. Not recommending assessment there. It's not necessarily a a street improvement. It's a reduction. All right. Next one. So there there's the map again. Um just touch on so the the properties abuing the green only streets are not being assessed for any street frontage. the it's hard might be hard for you guys to see, but the the couple properties they're numbered 31, 32, and 33 in our um preliminary role. Those are not going to be assessed on front footage itself. They're assessed based on the midpoint distance of the properties just because they have they have a lot of frontage in a very small area and that's based on city policy. We made that adjustment there. And then any of the the rest of the corner lots that are fully abuing to the re fully reconstructed street, the the longest piece of the lot is assessed at 100% and then the shorter the shorter side is assessed at 50%. Based on city policy, you go to the next one, Kevin. So then the so the water man you can see anybody that is directly served with a with directly served and as a service will be assessed. The the one difference here is that the development lot we're recommending that be assessed on the based on the sack units and so that comes to 70 one I believe based on the the number of apartments that'll be in there and so that really kind of just distributes a lot of the cost to that lot because there's going to be so many users in that building. And then similar on the next one, Kevin, is the sanitary sewer. So again, directly abuing properties will be assessed. Um then a big portion of that goes to the development property. And then the last map is just kind of showing the mainly the all that storm sewer on the south side on Main Street. very there's very little storm sew that exists there now. And so that'll be the big ad to this project is to gather the storm there, get it from the development, and that'll go all the way down to the uh the public works and water treatment plant lot. Last map here is just kind of a highlight of the proposed lighting. We'll have to work through that a little bit more in final design, but the purple dots are the the added lights that we'll be looking at. And then the next few slides I'll go over pretty high level. There's a lot of numbers in here. Uh the big piece of this is the estimated total cost with all the items together. So about 5.9 million estimated now. Um the assessment piece is 1.67 million and the city is going to cover roughly half of that. I'll go over those breakdowns here in the next couple. Um and then the streets then streets storm sewer water sanitary sewer all those pieces would be covered by the city. Go to the next one Kevin. So those those are the break there's the breakdown of all of the city directly funded pieces of the project. We can jump to the next one too just so I don't bore you guys with all the numbers. Uh assessment summary. So street and storm sewer. Again that's based on the adjusted front footage. So that breaks down to $226 per foot. Um sanitary sewer is one point uh >> $1,814 per unit and the water man is 2,700 per unit. And those are so the sanitary and water um compared to like the 2024 project are going to be lower per unit just because of that sack takes um a much bigger chunk of the the project there. Go to the next one. So then the assessment type. So the city by the non-accessible front footage. So there's a big chunk of the railroad that um normally there'd be homes there that they would share in the cost of this. So to be fair, we took that and converted it to 10.4 units. Um and then some of the and then the front footage that of all the the corner lots, we converted that to the city as well. So that they reply cover almost $400,000 of the assessment there. development lot with the the street and then the water man or the street and the utilities pieces is a little over $400,000. The city and the fire station lot is only um street frontage, no utilities. So that comes to 74,000 and then the average rate the average unit u with water and sewer for the businesses and properties is 26,000 a little over 26,000 estimated. Uh then the next one just breaks down the non-assessed pieces of the project. So Millan overlay, lighting and power, um the sidewalk edition of Buttud Avenue, but a the Butt Avenue removal is not all that expensive. Um but we got to work through some of the details and figure out how we where and how we still provide access uh to the library and to the other budding property if we need to and the fire station lot as mentioned as well. And that I'll wrap it up with that. Uh actually let's go to we go to the last one with the schedule. So this is all the same. The only change is that um assume this is going to take at least a month longer for us to get to bid authorization. So that's roughly going to be April open and award bids in May and then hopefully begin construction in June with a um again a fall final assessment hearing. All right, that was a lot. stand for any questions. >> Questions for Mr. Bowman. All right. Looking for a motion to approve resolution 2025-1215-06 accepting the 2026 downtown project feasibility study report. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion by Berk. >> I'll second. >> Second by Reiso. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. I. post. Same sign. The eyes have it four to zero. Next item of business is resolution 2025-1215-07 Northshore Gymnastics Site Plan Review, preliminary plot and final plot. And I'll turn that over to our planner, Mr. Goldis. >> Thank you, honorable mayor and councel. Before you tonight is a uh several applications for a new recreational facilities development in the city's industrial park located on the properties that are currently 5380 and 5480 Pioneer Creek Drive. Northshore Gymnastics, a longtime uh business in the city of Maple Plane, has been looking for some time for a site to construct a uh their own uh uh owner occupied uh structure. and they have uh put together two properties that had historically been used for the protolabs overflow parking. They're asking the city to consider allowing the preliminary and final plat to replplat those two properties uh such that they would break off a parcel um that would accommodate their new uh recreational facility and then leave an outlot that has a portion of the existing parking that's still associated with the Protoabs site. Along with that, they're asking for site plan review for the new commercial building. So, uh, the application has gone before the planning commission on two different occasions. The applicant originally went before the planning commission, uh, earlier this year in September and then most recently went to the planning commission earlier this month, uh, after the applicant had or was really needed to make uh, some revisions to the type of building uh, that they would be proposing to construct on the property. And so with that, uh, it's been considered twice by the planning commission. The proposed building would sit on a, uh, that new property that I, uh, described. It would be approximately 40,000 square feet in overall size. It would have a new parking uh area that would wrap around the west and north sides of the building uh to accommodate the um parking that would be required for the facility. with that city did a full review uh planning commission discussed the review um at several of the meetings as I mentioned and ultimately um it came down to just a few comments that were made at the last planning commission uh associated with landscaping in the front of the building. Um and the land and the planning commission had a lengthy discussion on looking at kind of all of the various aspects of the of the site layout. um sidewalks, landscaping, lighting um and and everything else associated. The planning commission and uh had also discussed then building design. The original building that was being proposed by the applicant was a concrete tip up uh building and the applicant is now proposing a steel panel building in an attempt to try to um come in at a cost that is uh something that they can um obtain. And so with that, planning commission thought the design was still in keeping with the surrounding buildings in the industrial park, noting that we don't have a specific architectural standard associated with our II industrial zoning district. And ultimately then recommended approval to the city council for the facility that's being proposed. And I don't know Kevin, there is a a building elevation and then site plan um that was in the packet along with um all the comments and resolution. See if we can get to Yeah, any of those site plans would be fine for just kind of showing the overall. There we go. So, as I noted in the site plan, just there's a connection to Pioneer Creek that's going to be in the existing location of the current uh driveway connection that serves that parking lot. So that that connection stays the same. The landscaping that's currently located along Pioneer Creek between the uh the road and the building for the most part they're going to maintain that existing landscaping that's in place. In order to get this building to work, they have to cut the building down. So the property that's just due east of this property um sits much higher. Uh there's going to be a hill that kind of goes down to the east side of this building um to uh to really try to fit that building in there. And so that building is going to sit almost 15 ft lower than the adjacent property uh or properties because there's two properties to the east. And then they have a driveway that comes in uh off of Pioneer Creek. It's going to have parking on either side. It'll have an access point leading to the front entrance of the building. And then there will be a turnaround as well as a kind of backdoor uh back of house area for um refues and things like that in the back of the building. There'll be a sidewalk connection to Pioneer Creek which will allow overflow parking. It will allow bus drop off things like that uh to be able to drop off um really at the curb essentially and then have a a sidewalk going all the way to the front door. And then Kevin, I don't know if you can grab the elevation. No, >> I'm telling building elevation. I'm sorry. >> Um, it's down. >> It's way way down towards the bottom >> towards the end. >> Uh, it is page Does it tell me what page What is it? >> Yeah, >> keep going. There it is. So, the applicant provided the city with the updated building elevations. You can see that they'll have their logo facing the south side towards Pioneer Creek and then they'll have the front door facing to the west side with kind of a front entrance. um door and then their sign on the front side of that building as well. So, I'd be happy to go into as much detail or um uh as needed or any questions by the council. So, with that, I'll yield. >> Any questions for our planner? >> All right. Looking for a motion to approve resolution 2025-1215-07 Northshore Gymnastics Site Plan Review Preliminary Plot and the Final Plot. >> So moved. >> Moved by Duca. I'll second it. >> Second by Viso. Any further discussion or questions? I just want to say thank you to the planning commission and you know for bringing it here ready for us to go tonight. Appreciate the work and the time everyone's put in this and to Northshore for um continuing to add to our city. We appreciate that. Any further discussion or questions hearing? None. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. Same sign. Eyes have it. Four to zero. Next item of business is resolution 2025-1215-08 repealing resolution 2025-1124-04 and I will turn that over to our administrator. >> Thank you madame mayor, members of the council. Um in November we approved setting a public hearing for um a tiff district. Um unfortunately due to scheduling um we won't have the necessary people at that meeting so we would like to reschedu it. That will be the next resolution. Um so this resolution just nullifies that one. >> All right. Looking for a motion um for resolution 2025 1215-08 repealing resolution 2025-1124-04. >> I'll make that motion. >> Moved by Berk. >> Second. Second by Duca. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Post. Same sign. Eyes have it four to zero. Next item of business. Resolution 2025-1215-09 ordering a public hearing for TIF district. >> Thank you, Madame Mayor. Members of the council, this would be setting that um public hearing for the TIF district for February 9th, 2026 at 7 PM. >> Looking for a motion to approve resolution 2025-1215-09 ordering a public hearing for the tiff district. >> So moved by Ariso. >> Second. >> Second by Duca. Any further discussion or questions? >> Are all the people that need to be there going to be available on this one? >> All right. >> Yes. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I post same sign. Eyes have it four to zero. >> Okay. >> Uh looking uh next item of business is ordinance 344 amending chapter 4, article 4, mobile food units. I'll turn that over to staff. >> Thank you, Madame Mayor. Uh, honorable council, uh, the proposed amendments to chapter 4, article 4, u will modernize how, uh, Maple Plane regulates mobile food units. Uh, the current ordinance, um, in front of you, uh, primarily focuses on vending, uh, in public streets and right away, leaving some ambiguity uh, for food truck operations on private property that that is open to the public. Um this amendment in front of you uh offers uh some potential changes. One is applicability epicability uh that will cover both uh public and private property registration requirements and uh proximity restriction of 300 ft uh between mobile food units and brickandmortar restaurants. So with that being said, I will stand for questions. Any questions for our assistant administrator? Right. Looking for a motion to approve ordinance 344 amending chapter 4, article 4, mobile mobile food units. >> I'll make that motion. >> Moved by Verac. >> Second. >> Second by Duca. Any further discussion or questions? All in. Oh, administrator Shelinder. >> Sorry, Madame Mayor, members of the council. We would also be seeking um with this would be approving ordinance 344 and approving the ordinance summary publication. Okay. So, do we need to do a whole new motion and second then because that's different than what we had. >> Yes, you should. >> All right. So looking for a motion to approve ordinance 344 amending chapter 4 article 4 and the summary publication. >> I'll make that motion. >> Move second move by second by Duca. Any further discussion or questions? >> Hearing none. All in favor please signify by saying I. >> I post same sign. Eyes have it four to zero. Next item of business is our ordinance 345-2026 fee schedule. And I will turn that back over to staff. >> Thank you, Madame Mayor, members of the council. Um, we've worked hard this year at going through the fee schedule, um, finding areas in code that reference the fee schedule, but we didn't have a fee for it. Um, so we've made some updates, move things around, um, and then added a general fee, um, permit fee. So if we've missed something that fee would apply. Um we will update the uh utility rates and enterprise funds. Um here coming in January is when we will uh look at those budgets. Um and then we will update this uh ordinance uh accordingly at the end by the end of the first quarter of 2026. Um with that I'll stand for any questions. Otherwise, I am looking for um approving ordinance 345, the 2026 fee schedule, and the ordinance summary publication. >> So moved. >> Move by council member Viso. >> Second. >> Second by council member Duca. Any further discussion or questions? Approving the ordinance and the summary. Hearing none. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Post same sign. Guys have it. Four to zero. Next item of business before us is ordinance 346 repealing the cannabis ordinance 331 and ordinance 347 establishing a new cannabis registration. Turn that back over to staff. >> Thank you, Madame Mayor, members of the council. Um with the new law going into effect regarding um THC and cannabis January 1st. Um this is repealing the ordinance that we currently have um as it does not meet uh state law as of January 1st. Um the new ordinance is putting in a business registration um language that requires businesses to register um their cannabis businesses with the city. I'll stand for any questions. >> Any questions for staff? Right. Hearing none. Looking for a motion um to approve ordinance 346 repealing cannabis ordinance 331 and ordinance 347 establishing a new cannabis registration. >> I'll make that motion. >> Moved by Viso. >> Second. >> Second by Duca. Any further discussion or questions? >> Hearing none. All in favor please signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. Same sign. You guys have it. Four to zero. Next item of business this evening is ordinance 348, the amended rental ordinance. And I will turn that back over to our administrator. Thank you, Madam Mayor, members of the council. Um, ordinance 348 is uh coming before you to strengthen um our rental ordinance. It offers a section for safe rental housing. um with recent events um that happened in Maple Plane um kind of sparked looking at code. We didn't have anything specifically in code that addressed um the complaints from the residents. Um, this really spells out um what is considered a safe housing unit and gives the city more teeth, if you will, as far as um inforcing or or revoking um or suspending a rental license uh when they have tenants that um commit these crimes. Um I was asked by a resident um earlier today why we just don't put it in there that if they do it they have to be out. Um and unfortunately you know I understand that. Um but we also have to give the landlord and the tenant due process. Um and that has been spelled out um in this language um with a basically a three strikes. You're out. Um there's and there's steps for each of the three steps spelled out in this ordinance. Um so I ask council to approve um this ordinance and the summary publication. >> All right. Looking for a motion to approve ordinance 348 the amended rental ordinance and summary publication. >> Moved. So moved. >> Moved by >> second. >> Second by Duca. Any further discussion or questions? I just want to thank staff and the attorney um and the residents and the law enforcement just for the again the collaboration and uh just working to have clear direction and things documented in our ordinances and updating this. Any other discussion or questions? All in favor please signify by saying I. >> I oppose. Same sign. The eyes have it four to zero. Last item this evening is council reports and other business. Who'd like to kick us off? >> Council member Berick. >> I guess I'll start. Um, well, with, you know, workshop and business meeting and such a quick turnaround kind of gives you a new perspective of getting government work done quickly. Um, but I do want to say over the last year, this has been a great change for the city that has come through. We have new in businesses, new fire services being taken on. And I want to thank the staff for what they've done for the rental ordinance, dealing with the residents, dealing with businesses, and dealing with council. I want to say thank you for your time and thank you for your service. And also to the first responders that we will be losing here at the end of the month, no longer being the managing city. Um, thank you for the service and I really hope that this partnership moves forward to excel Maple Plane to new heights. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Council Member Berack. >> Council member Visel. >> Uh, thanks. Um, I'd like to echo what Council Bure has said and it's Thank you for saying all that. Um I like to say that um also just out of public service maybe more personal thing too as well is that you know the winter season is upon us please be sparing on amount of salt you put on your driveways and such because remember we are part of a wershed. Anything we put onto our any excess salt that's not being used is going to go right into the waterershed and affect our wildlife our aquatic life. So please be judicious and sparing when using your road salt. So that's just my my public service announcement to you all or my plea I suppose is someone that's wershed commission. Um there is no commission this month. They had cancelceled it due to I don't know why bitsburg I guess. Um and then we had a nice time at Chamber of Commerce with our uh annual potluck and a nice fun game led by um Mayor Mayor, sorry, our mayor here. I cannot talk tonight as always. Um but that's all I'm going to say. Thank you. >> Thank you, Council Member Visel, Council Member Duca. >> And it seems like we were just here and then I realized I was just here, then I went on vacation and just came back. So, uh, but this has been an interesting month of wrapups and staff has done a wonderful job of putting together a lot of these new ordinances that we we've seen. They seem cumbersome, but there's purpose to ordinances that we have. um had the chance to spend some time working uh behind the scenes on Jacob's performance review and many of you in the audience were asked to provide feedback to that and the council will be meeting with Jacob tomorrow to to do the year-end review. I can say it has been a very full year in this year. One, probably one of the busiest years in the time I've spent on this council. And however each of you uh celebrate this time of the year, um it reminds me that this is a time to be thankful. And as I've talked to people, what are we generally thankful for? our friends, our neighbors, our family, and our colleagues that we work with. Those four things. And this is a good group of people to work with. A wonderful staff. Serving this community for the 14 years that I have has been a joy for me. And um I am thankful for all of you and the things that you do for this city. Thank you. >> Thank you, Council Member Duca. Um, as it's already been alluded, it's only the 15th, but it has been a busy month. Um, we began with our truth and taxation hearing. Uh, Chief D. Rose and I were able to attend the Youth Stabilization Center grand opening um down in Henipin County. And that center is for um children and teens ages 8 to 17 years old who have complex um mental health and behavior health needs. They will have 13 bedrooms. They will have four beds for withdrawal management. um just a huge resource for our county. Um administrator Schillinder and uh city planner Cultus and I were able to meet with our new Henipin County administrator Jody Wentland and just talk about our downtown and our county roads and our city and our vision um for our library and just again to plan for the future and to collaborate and just the value in that and working together. At regional council mayors, we had our Minnesota um our theme was a Minnesota um headquarters economy. We had Curt Zeers, the CEO of Business Partnerships, and he just really emphasized on working with builders and not dividers and just surrounding yourself with people on your team that are builders and not dividers. And again, that message is just crucial um for all of us. We had a police commission meeting and for any of you familiar with police commission meeting, I am thrilled to share that Elmac records agreement has finally been done. I have learned more about that than I ever thought I needed to know, but it's done. So, thank you and great work for that. Talked about staffing um Bluetooth holster sensors. Um talking about future needs and meeting dates. So, continue to provide um public safety. Um chamber, we've already talked about um Christ Lutheran Church um had a huge celebration on Saturday, invited um us to be there and celebrate. They celebrated their 150th anniversary and it takes so many different entities to make up our great community. So, congratulations to them on their anniversary. I'm sure you haven't noticed or heard, but Quick Trip did open. Um, we are thrilled and their ribbon cutting will be officially tomorrow at um 10:00 a.m. So, we hope to see all of you there if you're available. Rotary has been busy. We heard from Ryan McDonald who's a Weisetta resident whose children attended Orno and he started Duke Cannon and really talked about building a business from brick by brick and just very inspirational talk and literally started in his garage. Uh, we also adopted some seniors at Haven Homes and wrapped gifts for them. Um, I'm kind of biased. I've lived in this community since I was five, but Vue Santa is by far one of my favorite favorite um, city events. And it was absolutely beautiful again this year with the weather and all the people and community um the museum um, serving cookies, the different cities working together. Again, just true community. And in addition to that, um, we all really stepped up and 1,400 pounds of food was donated and $800 in cash was donated to the West Tonka Community Food Shelf, which comes directly back to our residents in Maple Plain and Independence. So, um, and a fun little add-on this year was Santa Tracker. So, that was really cool to watch Santa on your phone. He made it up to 13 miles an hour on a sleigh. So, that was really cool. So, thank you to everyone who made that happen. Um the fire consolidation has been years in the making and it's been lots of meetings and phone calls and emails and conversations and super excited to um be closing the door on that chapter. This week will continue to be a busy week. We have Jacob's review. We have a big um tomorrow we have the joint meeting celebration and independence. I have Arno Healthy Youth. We have fire relief. We have Rotary. Just lots going on. Um, and really just want to echo what everyone's already set up here since this is our last meeting for the year. Just a thank you to everyone um, that just keeps the city functioning and um, from the residents um, to the staff to the team to our public safety and really looking forward to 2026. And I know I say it all the time and you guys get sick of it, but together we are better and even if we don't like each other, we need each other. So, um, it's important to get along and continue to be respectful and model that for our world today. So looking forward to 2026. And with that, do we have any other business come before us this evening? Hearing none, looking for a motion to adjurnn. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion by Verack. >> I'll second it. >> Second by Arisel. All in favor? >> I I >> oppose. Same sign. Meetings adjourned at 8:21.