all right good evening and welcome to the maple plan city council business meeting it is 7:08 I'm calling the meeting to order please stand if you are able and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge Allegiance to the plag 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 at this time we will open up um the podium for visitors to be heard are there oh looking for a motion excuse me looking for a motion to adopt the agenda first looking for a motion to adopt the agenda I'll make that motion motion by Francis second second by Fate any further discussion hearing none all in favor of adopting the agenda please signify by saying I I guys have it 4 to zero at this time we'll open up the podium for any visitors to be heard for public comment Madame mayor yes uh we have Ron stenhagen to speak right Mr stefen Haagen please come forward to the podium state your name and address and you'll have three minutes Ron stefen Haagen 5464 Bryant Street Maple plane obviously um I had a question about the uh the 52% um interest on the the uh assessment for the Briant Street um 22% goes to the city and I'm I had two questions about that is that that 2 and a half% does that go for every project that the uh city does am I right about the 2 and a half% no no what is the percent I will turn it over to Mr martini and and correct me if I'm wrong but I believe uh the the money or the project was bonded for 45% so it's 1% City on top of what the city bonded for oh okay and that goes to the city okay well that's not as much so thank you thank you for clarifying Mr Stephen Heen anyone else to speak for visitors to be heard this evening all right hearing none we will move on to our next item of business uh very exciting this evening is our Good Neighbor award presentation and I'm going to go to the other Podium all right well thank you all for being here and it's so fun when we have something happy um to celebrate and I think it's important that we take time to do that and this evening um it is we are here to celebrate and congratulate our 2024 Good Neighbor award recipient Lisa shrier so come on up make you stand here because this is about you not me all right ready just keep breathing I don't want the Medics to have to do anything all right the Good Neighbor award is the highest award granted by the maple plan city council to an individual organization or a business in Maple plane The Good Neighbor award exhibits a lifetime of service and dedication through volunteerism virtue Civic engagement and the creativity to meet Community needs I'd like to share a quote with you this evening from our Reserve coordinator officer Ben Anderson West tenan Public Safety has been blessed with having Lisa on our team she is faithful and dedicated toward the residents of maple plane and Independence we are truly thankful she has called West hennipin Public Safety home for her dedicated volunteer service and we are proud to nominate her for the 2024 Good Neighbor award and we are proud tonight to give you this award so a little bit about Lisa and her service Lisa grew up in Independence out on Nelson Road she graduated from delno and is a local at heart West tenin stole her away from The Reserve officer program at the Wright County Sheriff's Department on November 28th 1986 almost 38 years ago to the the day Lisa has been a dedicated and valuable member of West hennipin Public Safety in addition to responding to emergency call outs transporting detainees and Performing traffic control for many community events she has been invaluable in some of her many office duties as well Lisa has for years edited the Whip's annual report which is sign a significant undertaking she documents all of the hours that the reserves put in and has performed the annual purging of dated records and reports in addition to these duties Lisa has represented whips at regional response training events she serves as a role player as a victim or a witness to active shooter training scenarios for the hanpen County area this training is critical to developing our officer ability to respond to high stress Dynamic events next Saturday December 7th the West tenan Public Safety reserves will be hosting the 44th annual View Santa event which brings Santa to our communities and raises food for the area food shelves this is a huge event for our community and for decades now Lisa has been the Workhorse behind this event she puts in countless hours of preparing the necessary documents plans and shopping to pull off this event she holds the children of our communities in her in her heart wanting to make sure they have a chance to see Santa and get a small present this time of Year Lisa has earned several gold level presidential Service Awards these awards are only issued to the dedicated selfless individuals who put in many hours of unpaid volunteering Lisa has been incredibly consistent and a valuable member of whips serving the city of Maple plane and Independence for 38 years now in that time she has donated approximately 35,000 hours Leisa I don't think it's a coincidence that your 30th Anniversary as a West tpin public police Reserve officer falls on Thanksgiving Day on behalf of the hearts you have touched the people you have helped the communities you have served and the maple plan city council it is my honor to present you with the 2024 Good Neighbor award and we are grateful for your service and your commitment [Applause] would you like to say anything I have a short statement see if I can go ahead see if I can make it through this is always the hardest part and here I go I want to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to the city of Maple plane for honoring me with the Good Neighbor award big thank thank you also goes to officer Ben Anderson for nominating me for this recognition and all of you for being here tonight I am truly humbled and grateful for this honor over the past 38 years as a Reserve officer with West hampen Public Safety I've had the pleasure of meeting many incredible individuals and building lasting friendships in the wonderful communities of maple plane and Independence even though I never lived in Maple plane except for a few days during the Halloween blizzard of 1991 when I couldn't make it home to my home west of Delano I've happily put a lot of time and effort into the community as of last week I volunteered about 35,1 7 hours to be precise uh which is roughly 16.9 years of full-time paid work or a full-time job along with that for 31 years I also worked full-time and overtime as a 911 dispatcher and until I retired in September of 2023 my love for volunteering comes from wanting to make a positive difference in the lives of others I see myself as an enthusiastic volunteer always ready to lend a helping hand wherever I can the journey brings me joy and fulfillment whether supporting local causes assisting those in need or working to improve our community in addition to my time with West henpen I volunteered with Second Harvest Heartland Special Olympics flags for Fort Snelling and the American Cancer Society among others meeting so many amazing people along the way has enriched my life I don't plan to retire from West ten public safety anytime soon so I look forward to continuing my volunteer efforts and seeing all of you in the future thank you once again for this wonderful recognition and I know Lisa has family here and um current staff and prior staff and um there's been requests to take a few pictures so we're going to recess for 5 to 10 minutes um take a few pictures and then we will continue with the meeting so help yourself to snacks and beverages as well thanks again for being here all right we are going to resume the meeting and at this time I'd like to invite Schoolboard member Wendy lens guard from the oral School District to the podium good evening hell nice to have an audience it's usually just me um good evening Madame mayor um mus kusy council members and community members my name is Wendy lunard and I am here tonight as a representative of the Oro School District um before I begin I would like to express the district's gratitude to mayor mosus for your continued partnership um in Co hosting the annual Veterans Day um celebration it is um a true honor to have the Color Guard from American Legion 54 right here in Maple plane to honor those veterans who have served our country um especially those who live in our community so thank you for that um so um I thank you for this opportunity tonight to share the school district's new strategic plan and I'd also like to briefly uh share some academic outcomes of our students please stop me at any time if you have questions Ong the way oh thank you fantastic great thank you um so should I just let you know Q okay thank you so as part of our commitment um in the Oro School District to continuous Improvement the district reviews the Strategic plan about every 5 to S years um we began this process most recently in the spring of 2023 and at the very outset of our pre-planning phase we made a commitment to strengthen our community community engagement and build trust as we move beyond the challenges of the pandemic um we recognize the Comm that Community engagement would be essential in shaping the future of our district so we set out to create a strategic plan that reflects the needs and values of our whole Community we started by gathering stakeholder input from students staff parents and community members we conducted comprehensive surveys held Community meetings at all of the schools gathered perspectives from recent graduates through focus groups and sought volunteers to serve on our core planning team this was an unparalleled engagement effort with our community with over 1,000 people sharing their ideas and feedback we are extremely grateful for all of those who participated in what was a monthlong process a key part of the planning process was assembling this core planning team of community members they represented very diverse backgrounds experiences and perspectives this team helped guide the development of the new plan working through several rounds of feedback and revision to ensure the Community Voices were heard and Incorporated at every stage in June of 2024 after months of collaboration and refinement the board approved our new strategic plan the plan reflects the key themes we heard throughout the process next slide please our community conversations and input revealed desires for meeting the needs of all Learners while maintaining high expectations as a Hallmark of Excellence for Orno schools seeking well-rounded students with strong relationships and a sense of belonging and connectedness having strong academic programs and college preparation high quality and caring staff as well as opportunities for involvement and partnership for parents slide please the community survey feedback was both affirming and aspirational it demonstrated a deep investment in Pride in oros schools it stressed academic Excellence as a priority it emphasized that students should be valued well-rounded and prepared for Life After High School nearly all Community respondents said they would recommend or no schools to a friend and this is something we're very proud of feedback showed positive emphasis on our school Community the high quality of our teachers the strong character programs and our single campus environment and the strong relationships within our district right the district's strategic plan outlines our vision and our mission our vision is our highest aspiration for the future of our school district the vision of our district is that Orno schools will inspire lifelong Learners and ethical citizens who positively impact our world the mission is the heart of why we exist as a school district the purpose that drives us every day our mission is inspiring and empowering every student to achieve their Highest Potential through exceptional experiences in terms of goals we maintained a strong focus on scholarship and character but we also refined our third goal rather than simply focusing on relationships as we have in the past we've embraced the concept of connectedness this reflects the core values of our school Community a commitment to ensuring that every staff student and Community member feels a strong sense of belonging value and empathy our desired outcome is to Foster an environment where everyone is connected where relationships are strong and positive experiences are at the heart of everything we do we see the Strategic plan as a living document it's a framework that will evolve over time as we continue to assess our progress and adapt to the needs of our students in our community Through ongoing feedback and continuous Improvement we will all ensure that the planner remains Dynamic responsive and focused on academic Excellence for all students staff families and community members this plan is available for viewing on the website it includes some more information about values and what we consider to be Pro to be the profile of an Oro graduate and I have copies here for city council and I have a few extras if anybody's interested take them home all right next slide I'd also like to share uh yes this is correct thank you I'd also like to share some data tonight on the academic outcomes of Orono students beginning with college preparation and credit our data shows that the majority of students engage in college level experiences during their four years in high school for example 90% of the 2024 um class enrolled in academic programs that could lead to college credit these experiences included dual enrollment classes AP or advanced placement classes henip henpen Technical College coursework and full or part-time PSO which is the post-secondary enroll enrollment option not only do these college level courses prepare students for college but demonstrate academic rigor on their college applications and they can also result in cost significant cost savings for families when college credit is earned next slide please looking specifically AT AP participation more students participate in AP classes than any other college level experience at Orono 84% of the class of 2024 enrolled in ad in AP courses we offer 23 different AP courses and we offer we have opportunities for students in grades 9 through 12 to enroll the graph shows a number of students enrolled in AP courses in recent years as well as a total number of AP exams taken each year you can see that there's a dip um over the years of covid but we are excited and encouraged by The increased enrollment of students this in this year's AP classes with 68 students enrolled and 1,55 exam registrations so that ultimately means we have many students who are enrolled in more than one AP course at a time that's why that number is greater next slide please and finally I would like to address how the district determines proficiency for Oro students and this is very um I think this is probably the most important slide for the community as a district we have a few ways that we measure proficiency many people are are familiar with the MCAS as a measure measure you see it all over the Star Tribune hear it all over the local news and all the metrics we do use this metric but it is important to note that a significant number of Orono families every year choose to opt out of their student taking the test when proficient students opt out they are measured as not being proficient they are in the denominator so the way it works is they're actually not given a score but they their their number is being a student is in the denominator so mathematically they're given a zero this ultimately results in a decline in overall MCA scores and a drop in national rankings for the district and this is a really important note I think a lot of community members do not realize that when students opt out he or she is considered not proficient regardless of whether they're proficient or not so while some challenges exist in the MCA assessments not accurately reflecting the proficiencies districtwide the use of additional measures provide the district with a more comprehensive picture of our student proficiency the ACT is another good measure so as you can see 89% of the 20 24 class took the exam which tests Proficiency in the core areas of English reading math and science it's important to note that students that most students who opted out of the MCAS tested proficient and um when taking the ACT lastly we look at students course work and their gr achievement if a student is earning an A or a B in a particular class whether that be math or language arts or science this shows that he or she is meeting and and exceeding expectations for his or her grade level we take these three measures into consideration 94% of the class of 2024 were proficient in English language language arts 85% math and 82% in science and I want to note because it's important that each student is only measured by one of these aspects so if they showed proficiency on the MCAS in terms of this calculation they were only noted up here once so we are not um they're they're not counted twice on here so we're they're not um sorry what's the word I'm looking for they're not um redundant thank you that's the word um so yeah so the the um the proficiency it's not like one person is representing all areas um if they didn't take the MCAS we look at act or coursework to we don't have inflated percentages okay so that concludes what I wanted to share with you this evening thank you for your time and I really thank you for your support of Orno schools I'm happy to answer any questions you may have any questions for um Schoolboard member lansard council member DeLuca how did those percentages compare to other schools in the state of Minnesota so that's a great question um so or and I don't know all um I will say very high um when was it in the spring I believe um and it is on our website the district sent out a mailer so um when it comes to um College preparedness and taking all of that into account in terms of rigor in terms of students proficiency Oro ranked the top according to US News and World Report of all of our um of all our local schools and that is with college preparedness and again that's taking into account all of this so I don't know specifics um but I do know that we are the top other questions is there a reason why you're not mandating students to take the MCAS so it is a federal um option for and without any reason they can anybody can opt out for any reason it doesn't have to be just medical or just so on Oro action which is a committee of the school board a legislative Committee of the school board that I am also a part of um we work with legislators to let them know about this and say either because it's not it's not fair right so rankings go down or you know the newspaper comes out with these very um misrepresentative St statistics and so to say um to have to explain it you know if you're explaining it you're losing the the headline is the winner so to say it should be all or let districts you know show their own proficiency I know Christen Robbins has strong feelings about it we've talked about it a lot yes well we all know that great cities need great schools and Great Schools need great cities so we um truly appreciate and value the partnership and the Orno Road um which molain city council is a part of is so grateful um for the open door policy on Veterans Day and it has been such a privilege to be a part of that and to watch that relationship grow and also we would just really be remiss this week um to just not acknowledge um everything that's going on in the district and the grief with the sudden and tragic passing of um 17-year-old Lucas canuteson um last Sunday evening who was laid to rest today so we remember and um honor him and we are grateful for his Legacy um he was working on a project through Deca to raise money for Wells in Kenya and his goal um was to raise $40,000 which would pay for one well and um with his legacy they've already raised more than enough for almost nine Wells um so we hope um that his legacy will carry on and um we just um our hearts and prayers go out to the district and um especially to Lucas and his family and loved ones so we are just so grateful for the Partnerships that we all share together and that we can be there for one another I will pass on the message thank you thank you thank you for being our representative all right thanks for being here thank you very much right next item of business before us is our consent agenda which includes items a through e um Madame mayor is it uh possible to PLL consent agenda a the meeting minutes from the TW 28th October city council work Workshop um we discussed in Workshop earlier some math needs to be corrected and it be I'd be okay to have it corrected and put on to the next agenda in business meeting December okay we will remove item a minutes of 10:28 city council workshop and bring those before us at next month's business meeting with that I'm looking for a motion to approve items b c d and e on tonight's consent agenda I'll make that motion motion by council member Francis second second by council member Duca any further discussion or questions hearing none all in favor signify by saying I I I oppose same sign motion carries four to zero next item of business before us this evening is accounts payable and I'm going to turn that over to staff thank you madam mayor members of the council uh for the month of November our city bills total $295,900 99 our a transactions were $2,811 55 and Street project um uh totaled 52472 38 um I will stand for any questions that you may have on this otherwise we are seeking for approval questions for staff at this time regarding accounts payable hearing none I'm looking for a motion then to approve accounts payable for City bills a bills and 2024 Street project I'll make that motion motion by council member Fay second second by council member Francis any further discussion or questions all in favor signify by saying I I I post same sign motion carries four to zero all right this evening we have our staff reports before us from all of our staff city planner West tenant and Public Safety City engineer Public Works and the fire department as well as Administration and finance um written reports will be received from the planner West tenen Public Safety City engineer Public Works and fire department and at this time I will turn it over to Administration and finance uh thank you Madame mayor members of the council uh Jee McAn um one of our finance directors is here to present third quarter's uh financial report thank you good evening 2 weor members of the city council um as Jacob said my name is Jean mcen and uh thank you for having me here this evening uh in your packet you will find a copy of the third quarter 2024 Financial reports uh tonight I'm planning to give more of a high level of the reports and if you will turn to page three um I'm kind of going to you know just go over I'll tell you what page I'm on you know go um over the references to for the explanations within the financial report and on page three that's really focusing in on the overall cash Investments and there's a couple points I do want to draw your attention to overall the city has a cash increase of about $2.2 million and that is on the top section of Page Three if you look at the bottom part of Page Three though you will notice that your cash and your checking accounts um actually had a decrease of about 2.5 million and the reason for that is because they there were um some Bond payments made but yet there is additional Revenue coming in and rather than keeping the money in the checking account that money was turned into Investments and as we go further into this report you'll see that investment earnings have increased because the market has increased so and there has been more money put into the Investments if you go on to um page four you'll see a trend line for your overall general fund cash balances um overall um it's you know pretty relative uh if you look over the past two years and on page five this is just the overall treasury yield um it just is showing it over a 10-year period um so you can look at that you know at your leisure if you go to page six this is where we're really getting into the general fund revenue and expenditures um and so as we look at page six the first item I would like to point your attention to are uh taxes now taxes come in in July and December and then there's like a settle settle up um that comes in in January which is a very small amount and so right now you are going to you know see a um unfavorable variants but yet the December settlement hasn't come in so once that comes in you'll be right uh on target with your budget uh the next item would be licenses and permits there were um additional revenues coming in in 20124 and that is due to um rental permits if you look at your intergovernmental Revenue um the difference on that is due to timing because local government Aid the second payment hasn't come in yet and that'll come in in December uh previously I mentioned interest earnings well if you look at the uh year-to-date budget we only predicted about $2,200 well year-to dat there's been about 21 almost $22,000 and that is you know just based on the market and the fact that more dollars are being invested at this point under your uh expenditures uh the first item I'd like to point out is under police Administration and this is also a timing difference because there is a contract payment to West hopin uh Public Safety that hasn't been paid yet for this year and so that will also be right in alignment with budget by your end uh under public works there were there is a variance there and that's due to increased engineering and mowing expenses under your highways streets and roadways that is due to timing of Street Maintenance projects and so there is a favorable variance right now but there will be some additional expenses incurred there prior to year end and in parks there is a unfavorable variance there of about $199,000 and that's because of mowing that was not budgeted for the year as we move on to page eight uh this page is showing all of your funds and all of the cash balances so once again if you look at your general funds um if you look at the prior quarter balance of 930 of 23 there was about 739 th000 quarter end of uh 9:30 to 24 there's about 533,000 however if you look at year end of 1231 to 23 there was about 1.1 million so if you look at the year-to date change is about 5 169,000 and that is due to the property tax receipt that'll come in in December um we also have um under your debt service payments now there is some variances there and that is just um merely because of uh either property tax settlements and the timing of Debt Service payments so all of those funds are absolutely fine it's just all a timing difference there under your Capital Improvement projects um we do have um excuse me uh we do have a little bit of a variance there um but there again it's just due to the different capital projects um that are happening at this point and then there was also a transfer uh from the general fund into the CIP fund and so that did increase the cash a bit um in the 2024 Street reconstruction funds which is also a capital project fund uh there was a bond issue in 20124 which of course had the influ of cash into that fund uh in the water fund um we do have a uh variance there of you know negative variance of $25,000 and that's due to a principal payment on Bonds in the storm water CIP um with this one this is a timing difference um previously or in Prior years any budgeted transfers weren't made till year end and we've been making making them throughout the year so you have even even um payments throughout the year for transfers as opposed to making one lumpsum transfer it's just a better um way to look at where your overall Financial condition is all right and under your fire funds um you do have a positive um variance there and that's the additional VAR is due to Capital purchase of the Rangers and fires accessories so if we um go over to um page 11 on page 11 we're going to be showing uh where your Investments are at now the one thing I do want to point out is with your Investments you will note that they are all basically one year and less uh and the reason for that though is because if you look at the average interest rate you're at about 5% right now and 5% is actually a pretty good rate of return and as we continue to watch the market we also need to look at is it a good idea to Lad these out you know where you know how can we forecast out um where dollars need to be spent and match that up with what the market is doing and what type of rate of return that we can be giving so we will be taking a look at that as well um and the following page is just some additional breakouts on page 11 some additional breakout as to um where your cash Investments are at if we go to page 13 oh excuse me uh at page 12 sorry about that um this is looking at your fire funds so if you look at your fire funds um under the intergovernmental revenue and this uh particular variance is due to the timing of receiving your fire state aid so by the end of the year this will all be caught up because fire state aid will be received in the fourth quarter um if you look at your expenditures you'll see a variance under your salaries and the year-to DAT budget is 183,000 and currently there's 104,000 and spent well um these wages are paid on a quarterly basis and so that will also equal out by the end of the year under your Fire Supplies we do have a variance due to a coding change for rentals to radio unit code and so that you know it's really it's a variance but it's just a coding change so it doesn't it doesn't make a a difference within the overall expenditures uniforms uh there is a very because there were not as many as much gear purchased in 2024 as what was anticipated and under equipment um there is a variance due to a $71,000 purchase uh from polarus Polaris for a ranger and RKO Fire Rescue Unit for for the Ranger and uh once again you have your transfers out like I mentioned before uh we are doing those throughout the year as opposed to just doing it at the end of the year if we look at uh page 14 that is going to show the revenue and expense report for the water fund so there's just a couple items that we want to cover on there and within the water funds um the variance there is um under your charges for services we have about a $200,000 Varian and that's due to a prior year purchase of $172,000 for Baker Park Town Homes as well as the prior year had less rain and more demand for water during the summer months because we had a bit of a drought uh and once again we do have about $40,000 worth of Interest earnings which um we did not have in the prior year nor was there dollars budgeted there and so that is a really good thing for the um water funds and under your miscellaneous Revenue there's about $60,000 there and that's due to reimbursements in the current year for water Bane and water hydrant brakes under your uh expenditures uh we do have $76,000 variance under your operating expenditures and that's due to um recording depreciation monthly as opposed to just at the end of the year is what has been done in Prior years there again we're just making certain that you have um financial reporting that's reflected um monthly throughout the year as opposed to having a big hit at the end of the year um under your debt service um the difference there is because um previously principal and interest was all being put under Debt Service and now you only have your interest payment that's being put under your debt service under your expenditures and the principal component is being hit on the balance sheet under your debt payable so just a different you know the you need to account for it that way because only only interest is an expense um if we go to page 16 uh on page 16 this is going to uh show you your financial report for your sewer funds and under your charges for services we do have a positive variance of about 50 almost $660,000 and that's due to higher uh sewer sales and fixed charges in the current year and um there we have the same thing under your debt service for your expenditures where um we have only the you know interest expense being shown there as opposed to both the principal and interest and then under um your Capital um we only have the um monthly dep we have the depreciation being shown there and if we go to page 18 which is the storm water funds um we are showing $ 6,283 in interest earnings which definitely helps the storm water fund out um and again we have the depreciation uh monthly depreciation expense being shown here and um you know our transfers in and transfers out are being shown um on the quarterly basis as as opposed to on the annual basis uh the remainder of the report is showing the detailed revenue and expenditures um by line item and I do understand that uh there are some changes that you would like to see on the report where we eliminate any these zeros that are on the revenue and expenditures report and so we will be making that change for the next report and so you don't have to see all those zeros you're very welcome and our report won't be 63 Pages exactly right yes yes it would be um yes difficult to get through a report that long more man and with that if there's any questions I'd be happy to address them questions for Jean this evening thank you for being here and thank you for the work and the detail put into this it's very helpful having the transfers done as needed instead of doing a one monum sum at the end of the year thank you uh no I am good we'll just need a motion to approve the finance report we'll do all the St reports but I don't know if anything all right with that I'm looking for a motion to approve all of the staff reports Tonight Tonight including Administration and finance I'll make that motion motion by council member Francis second by counc any fur next item next we move on to new business first item of new business resol thank you Madame mayor members of the council um this is uh a formality at this Point uh we've moved all of our accounts over to midcountry bank um and in order to close our accounts with Bank of maple plane we need a resolution authorizing me to do so looking for a motion for resolution 24 11 21 I make that motion motion by council member Fay second second by council member Francis any further discussion or questions Jacob there there all balances currently are all at zero um no the checking account with Bank Maple plan is like $554 in it got it leaving it there just as a cushion understand fa enough and I would just like to State for the record too as I did have a resident reach out to me again regarding this the bank of maple plane did not submit an RFP uh request for proposal um at all when we were looking at new banking so I just wanted to make sure that that was stated again correct all right so we have a motion and a second for resolution 24125 D1 closing the bank account all in favor please signify by saying I I I oppose same sign the eyes have it four to zero next item of business before us um is resolution 241-11 11252 authorization to close our PSN account I will turn that over to administrator cander thank you madam mayor members of the Council again another formality uh We've switched our payment processing over to municipay um and we'll be closing all of our accounts with PSN um with this resolution um just so you're aware that resolu or that uh true closing date with them will be December 10th um it's two weeks after the notice is given just so you're aware okay thank you for that clarification U looking for a motion to approve resolution 24-11 25-2 authorization to close the PSN account I'll make that motion motion by council member Francis second second by council member Duca any further discussion or questions hearing none all in favor signify by saying I I I oppose same sign motion carries four to zero um next item of business is uh resolution 24-11 25-3 assessing the delinquent utilities to the tax rooll and I just want to restate again that anything that has been paid ahead of time will be removed um from this list so it will not be submitted to the county will they have till Wednesday then or till December 2nd or what is the absolute drop dead line for that for residents thank you madam mayor members of the council um the notice that was sent out um to Residents that were delinquent they had until today the 25th okay pay um so yes anyone that has paid will be removed from this list um but any payments that we get from now will be assessed or we won't take any payments now it's it's the deadline has been met okay the deadline's passed and after this resolution assing passes it's done correct so basically if someone does pay after today it would be considered as a prepayment of the assessment so it'll still show up on as an assessment but we would send paperwork and saying it's been prepaid like it it's done okay thank you for that clarification so looking for a motion for resolution 24-11 25-3 assessing the delinquent utilities to the tax roll I'll make that motion motion by council member Fay second second by council member Francis any discussion or questions hearing none all in favor please signify by saying I I po same sign guys have it four to zero next item letter D approve liquor license and tobacco cannabis license and I'm going to turn this over to staff for a summary please thank you madam mayor members of the council uh we have before us tonight our yearly renewals uh Eminem Wine and Spirits for off sale iron exchange for off sale and Sunday liquor and moanings for offsale on sale um and Sunday um at the time of creating the packet I did not have applications for Renewal from Liquor Depot mcgary's or the smoke shop I have all of those now um they've been sent to uh West H and public safety for their criminal background checks um which I'm sure they will probably just come back so I would ask the council that they approve um all of them that are listed here um would you recommend doing that U pending approval or we're not I think that would be a good idea okay I think that would be too all right um so looking for a motion to approve liquor license and tobacco cannabis license um for Eminem Wine and Spirits iron exchange and monies and pending approval for Liquor Depot magar's and the smoke shop I'll make that motion motion by council member Fay second second by council member Duca any further discussion or questions hear none all in favor signify by saying I I I oppose same sign eyes have it four to zero um next item before us this evening letter e resolution 24-1 11254 5370 Highway 12 subdivision I'm going to turn this over to our city planner Mr culus to walk us through this thank you honorable mayor and Council I have two items for you tonight coming from the uh Planning Commission after being considered at a public hearing first of which is a minor subdivision to allow a property located at 5370 Highway 12 to be split into two Parcels the applicant Jake sofle and the owner outcome limited partnership have requested that the city consider allowing a minor subdivision that would split the approximately 13 acre parcel into two Parcels one would have uh one would be approximately 7 Acres uh which is the West track and the the other six acres which is the East tract property is located on the north side of highway 12 12 generally between Delano and spring Avenues um the subject property has an existing manufacturing warehousing building that can is comprised of approximately 130,000 Square ft it's zoned mixed use bud Avenue by the city it's also guided as mixed use under the city's 2040 comprehensive plan the applicant approached a city about the possibility of splitting the two properties uh several months ago and one of the uh kind of major considerations relating to that split was access to what would become a second property the applicant requested that the uh property to be split would also have a uh individual access that would Ingress egress onto Highway 12 the city uh is not the um Authority or the regulator the the regul or does not have the regulatory authority over Highway 12 access points and it was sent to mindat for their review ultimately minda uh recommended that the city do uh does not allow a second access uh to the property that would be split off and the city worked with the applicant to then uh develop a shared Ingress egress that would serve both the uh existing what is what is going to be known as the West track uh as well as then the proposed East track uh property and so with that uh mindat um consideration the applicant uh then asks the city to consider the subdivision uh the City reviews all subdivisions um and goes through a process of understanding standards relating to uh both the existing and then the proposed property you can see by the aerial photograph that there's the existing Warehouse building which is located on the far west side of the property you can also see then the the kind of undeveloped portion of the property uh that is U makes up the east side of that propert property and so with the split the applicant would maintain approximately 7 Acres with the existing manufacturing warehouse building and they would break off approximately six acres with the undeveloped uh Eastern portion of that property city does have standards relating to mixed use development in this particular case uh the size of these parts actually fairly substantial for uh Maple plane properties and with that uh the minimum lot size for mixed use bud for commercial properties is 10,000 square ft uh 6 Acres certainly exceeds the 10,000 square ft so they would meet the applicable standards with both the existing uh site which would be the remaining portion and then the proposed uh new portion which would be that East track the um City noted the Ingress egress and there is a image in your packet that just highlights how that would uh come into play and so if you looked at the uh that particular diagram there you can see the pink represents what would be a easement area over and across the uh Ingress egress that would then provide an access point into that East tract as well as maintaining access into the West tract of um the West tract and all of the various improvements the applicant is proposing to widen out the uh the kind of throat of that uh particular Ingress egress such that they would have a left and a right turn lane coming out as well as a single Lane coming in um the city talked about a couple of other points relating to the proposed subdivision they noted that we noted that the um proposed subdivision line runs north and south through the property it was noted that that line runs right down the middle of an existing storm water uh management Basin that was installed as a part of the improvements associated with the warehouse building when it was recently uh when it recently went through site plan approval to allow that building to be split into essentially three uh individual portions of that building uh it was noted that this line runs right through the middle of that at the Planning Commission meeting there was quite a bit of discussion relating to that line initially City staff had recommended that that line be moved to the east so that the storm water management facilities associated with the West tract were wholly on the west tract during the meeting uh with the Planning Commission and then through some additional discussion the the applicants engineer noted that that storm water basin would likely be the the location for future storm water that would serve both the East and the West tract um and so with that Planning Commission felt comfortable with that line running down the middle but it was noted that then a the storm water management agreement which now um is really associated with the building on the west side and the improvements associated with the West Side would need to be amended such that it would cover both parts and there would be a shared storm water management agreement that would uh provide for that shared uh management of that facility the city also noted that future access to both properties may be limited due to potential changes to Highway 12 we have no kind of plan for Highway 12 but we have talked a lot about access management on the highway 12 and it was just noted whenever we do subdivisions whenever we look at uh kind of future development we try to look at how does access uh work for those developments now and in the future we did note that there is a potential in the current um on the current site uh where a road connection could be made to Pioneer Creek uh drive on the very north side there are some great challenges there may be some space challenges associated with that we also identify that there's potentially some sensitive cultural resources that could be in play with that with that access but I did note uh for Planning Commission um discussion and ultimately C Council when we're looking at a subdivision of a property these are the times we look at are there ways to Future proof that or are there things we should be considering Planning Commission did review that and ultimately recommended approval without any kind of further consideration for a future access noting that if Highway 12 ever had that significant of a change where access was limited say right in right out or something of that matter um that that would be the time when we would look at secondary or additional access points um into this particular site so with that we did hold a public hearing at the Planning Commission meeting Commissioners discussed the application they talked about the stormw water basin and that north south property line they talked about access into the site uh both relating to the mindat uh comments and and direction as well as that Northerly uh potential access uh that could connect to Pioneer Trail uh Commissioners found that the um condition or criteria conditions or criteria relating to a minor subdivision had been satisfied by the applicant and they did recommend approval to the city council with the conditions and findings that are included in the resolution and in your packet so with that I'd be happy to answer any questions or go into any more detail relating to the request I would be interested to hear the public hearing if there forward uh there was um nobody at the public hearing specifically for this item there was somebody who had attended the public hearing who was there for an item that got pulled off the agenda the 1741 Bud Avenue they happened to live on Pioneer Creek they happened to then make a comment about the traffic on Pioneer Creek but it really wasn't related to or targeted but they'd made it during this particular um public hearing so all right thank you Mark that auxiliary ESS um off the north side down to Pioneer Creek in case you mentioned future prooof it's really not the city's responsibility to Future proof I mean they're aware of it that's all we have to do yeah I just I like to bring it up right um with the minor subdivision I think you do have the city does have some ability at that time to say hey you're creating a new property we think that new property ought to have X Y or Z as it relates to the access um we staff doesn't have a strong feeling on this particular one I just want to point out that there is this little bit of area if there was strong feelings from planning or Council or something relating to requiring a Ingress eress easement from the East tract across the West tract that could certainly have been a common or something that you could consider but Planning Commission as they reviewed it said I don't think we need to do that at this time um that could be something that's looked at in the future and the property owners can always work that out in the future it's not to say that's off the table so it's possible other questions for St okay here hearing none I'm looking for a motion regarding resolution 24 11254 5370 Highway 12 subdivision approval I'll make that motion motion by council member faay and I will second it second by council member Duca any further discussion or questions hearing none all in favor signify by saying I I I oppose same sign motion carries um four to zero all right next item business before us is ordinance um 3 331 cannabis ordinance Amendment and I am going to turn that over to um Jacob or Mark I'm not sure to Mark okay to Mark again I was gonna wait and see if he'd grab it no he I was like um I didn't ask who gets this one not me okay honorable mayor council this is an item that's coming before you also after being considered at the Planning Commission meeting and this is a proposed amendment to the city of Maple plan ordinances um title 15 relating to land usage which would consider adoption of Standards relating to cannabis businesses as everyone's well aware the state made changes to allow um cannabis use uh cannabis sales in the state of Minnesota and so the cities um have been waiting for some time trying to monitor the status of um where the state statutes um powers that were that were created when the law went into effect where they would kind of pan out and filter out as it relates to land use and then other aspects of of essential regulation around uh cannabis businesses so on July 31st the office of cannabis management which was the office that was created to then deploy or uh oversee the new statute relating to cannabis uh use and management and everything um along with that issued the first draft of its administrative rules related to adult use cannabis for the State uh with that issuance um they did start to outline what cities can or can't do as it relates to regulation and it also started to outline what they intended to do relating to lure um for for businesses cannabis businesses in the state and so um we've been kind of waiting on this because we had been told previously that cities have until essentially January 1 to adopt ordinances pertaining to uh cannabis use regulation um what we've been told now is that they issued this draft they still have to adopt the rules um and then they have to begin issuing licenses and that is probably now Sometime Late 25 is what we're hearing um it was originally end of 24 then it went to Spring 25 now I'm hearing it's maybe even late with that said we proactively want to be in front of it we want to meet the deadlines if cities want to establish regulations on um cannabis use cannabis business locations a number of cannabis businesses um we would have to make an ordinance amendment to do that and so what's being proposed tonight is adoption or consideration of adoption of an amendment to the city's ordinance which would begin to create uh some sort of structure and regulation around uh cannabis uh adult used cannabis businesses and so there's a couple of things that the cities are um are able to do and and some things we can't do so the city cannot prohibit The Establishment or operation of a cannabis or hemp uh business which is licensed by the office of cannabis management um the cities can enact or um put into place uh regulations relating to certain types of uh cannabis or hemp businesses by way of zoning and we can stipulate then where various businesses can be located within the city um it's similar to like what we used to or what we've all done with adult use at some point we can regulate that we can't uh prohibit um and so we have the ability to do that we also have the ability to establish buffers around certain land uses and so really what we tried to do then is sift through this information the City attorney uh uh administrator cander um assist administrator Larsson myself we all kind of went through this we talked about it and we kind of came up with here's some here here's where we would start to regulate we took it to the Planning Commission they they made some additional comments and now we're bringing it to you and I'm going to just walk through it I'm not going to go crazy into detail I'm not the well I'm not the expert um I know more than some people um but we did this in concert with a City attorney um and so if there's questions or or comments or concerns that would somehow kick this to another meeting or we needed feedback from from him we can always do that we have time now most like well we do have time because the office of cannabis management is not ready so while we were trying to just get this done by the end of the year there is some time with all that said there is a list in your packet that talks about the types of licensed businesses um and we went down that list and you can see the table um where it identifies all of the various businesses that can be licensed or that will be licensed by the state and so we have tried to break down where each one of those businesses solely from from a from a land you standpoint would be permitted to operate um by way of zoning District in the city of Maple plane and so you can see that all of the various licenses with one exception would be permitted to operate in the city's iindustrial district and we we used to have multiple industrial districts we only have one industrial district and I'll show this a little bit more on a map um in a in a future or subsequent slide the one that we took out of iindustrial is low potency hemp retailer and there's um there's provisions on what then that low potency hemp in a definition and there's potency uh stipulations on what they can sell how potent what what type and we said that that particular type of retailer that would meet the definitions that the state comes up with on that um could could potentially operate within the MU uh District is our mixed use Gateway District that is also the location we currently have low potency hemp uh retail businesses we have uh at least one uh licensed and um with that we also have the iron exchange which um is a retailer that potentially could sell under this low potency hemp retailer license so with that we took an approach that all of the uses with that one exception could be located in the industrial that one exception because we already have some uses and because there is some uh you know something to having a retail establishment with that kind of in that retail District uh would be permitted um we also talked about um some other regulations that the the the statute allows it allows the city to limit uh the number of non hemp edible retailers and the city is allowed for C's under 10,000 to limit that to um one for the entire city and so we're suggesting that that be incorporated into this ordinance in that you could have one non- hemp edible retailer uh within the city the the ordinance or the statute also allows um the city to place these types of uses as conditional rather than just permitted as long as there's essentially reasonable criteria for that and staff is recommending that all cannabis businesses including low potency hemp uh become conditional uses meaning that they aren't just outright permitted but they would have the conditional use permit process that allows the city to at least review businesses re review relationships between businesses and surrounding land uses ensure that kind of all of those aspects are at least able to be looked at and it kind of adds another layer of transparency to the for the ability for the public to comment on conditional uses and then if there are circumstances which require mitigation uh such that the use being proposed doesn't unreasonably take away from or take away from reasonable use and enjoyment of the surrounding properties that the city has the opportunity to at least comment on that so um we're recommending all cannabis businesses are included in that conditional use then the the last piece that the city has the ability to do is that we may prohibit the operation of cannabis businesses within a buffer distance from certain other land uses so those other land uses are schools and then daycare residential treatment facilities public parks uh public or athletic fields um and similar uses where there are where it is common that children are miners gather and and take part in activities so with that the city is also recommending that the city consider establishing the maximum buffer of a th000 feet around a school and then uh 700 feet around a um daycare uh 500 feet around a daycare or Residential Treatment Facility or public park um what that means for us and we created um a map I'll first just show that that red area is really the area then in the mixed use um Gateway District that the city would allow low potency cannabis really retailers that is the only area in the city that would allow that type of use uh pretty much every other uh portion of the city from a low potency uh retail standpoint would be excluded we then also um we created the buffer map but can you just show the exhibit um I'll call it Kevin's exhibit because he he pushed me to make this one to try to be a little more clear so what I did is I almost took the inverse of the buffer and I said if you applied the buffers as we wrote them in this ordinance we would have the following allowed or permitted areas for certain types of businesses so the purple if that I guess that's purple pink um those areas uh highlighted in pink would be the only areas where all other can abis based businesses could be located and only within those areas in the city of Maple plane the green triangle generally and and I rounded these lines a little bit but that would be the box within which the uh low potency hemp edible retailers could locate within the city meaning if you look at the buffer map all other areas of the city um are either zoned wrong or or or not zoned to to allow or they would be included in a buffer so um with that uh Planning Commission did hold a public hearing Planning Commission did have a pretty lengthy discussion Planning Commission ultimately worked with the buffer limits and we added some language to um address planning commission's recommendations such that they really said let's try to get the buffers to allow that Gateway strip and not prohibit that Gateway strip where um and one of the buffers if you know our buffer map we have Meadows Park which is a public park and Meadows Park if we enacted a buffer around the full perimeter of Meadows Park um e really at any level almost it would start to infringe on that Gateway um Gateway retail district and Planning Commission felt that that should be the area where the low potency uh edible hemp retailers would be allowed and so what we ended up doing and um City attorney lansman wrote the language where we enacted a buffer around Meadows Park but we took the buffer off of the south and east sides of Meadows Park we eliminated the requirement from those two property lines to allow essentially that red box to occur if that makes sense so with that I'd be happy to answer any questions going into more detail I'll be honest you're the first city that I've taken this language through a lot of the other cities are working on it every City attorney has published 20 memos on model ordinances and all these other things one of the things Planning Commission said is and we talked about it is they're like hey Mark if we put something in place and we decide later maybe we need to change it and I said you can change it we don't know and so really Planning Commission their conversation I think they were they were saying we don't know enough about this business we don't know enough about these uses let's let's put the the regulations and we can always come back and massage take off move however we need to based on what we um learn as the as the kind of this whole new thing rolls out in the state so and there was no public comments just that we did have a public hearing zero public comments so okay and council member Francis you sit on the Planning Commission yes okay all right questions for staff has anyone talked with um director KS regarding this yeah he's not here um he's 100% in favor of the regulation obviously that we're imposing I think he'd recommend kind of he feels extent confident with the perimeters and the numbers and yeah I think you know in our conversations I mean he just wants the city to be ahead of it so we're not behind it and then we're dealing with that type of that type of use without any regulation around it so okay thank you than you I don't know did you have any other conversations with Chief KS I have not talked at all about this one so that's why I'm asking and the and the page in which you highlighted in a red outline that kind of carves out uh um mixed juice Gateway um is more consistent than the color highlighted one because the color highlighted one includes half of Haven Homes and I didn't think it was your intention to allow retail sales of low potency hemp at a senior facility yeah I mean I think that's right okay they haven't talked to me about it um I mean as you know they have the ability to administer right they can medical we're not getting into they can't sell it but they could administer I suppose so yeah I mean all the things I never thought we'd have to deal with as elected officials so I've read more and talked more about cannabis in the last and it's still super unclear just to be clear well they're not they're not even clear the state's not clear the League's not clear on giving us something to model I mean everyone's trying and if we get something I mean we monitor it so if we get some more information before the licenses are issued we'll we could always we'll always come back if we need to but so just to be clear then all staff is in recommendation of this in favor of this and we do have the flexibility to make changes as needed as things progress and change from the state and but be careful you you you can't make changes after the fact if we allow a license to someone in mixed use Gateway and they're up and operational we can't go in after the fact and change it to our liking no so additional so that's a good point and I guess in my so we're trying to put probably the most restrictive right we have to create an area we're limiting that area to one zoning District in the city and we're limiting it to a pretty specific area within that zoning um so you're right once we once that um once that's out out we those businesses could be grandfathered now we can change the ordinance and a new business could come in right um but what what what I was suggesting in we we can add additional stipulations if something changes that would require us to make changes we can do that the Planning Commission actually was asking are there a couple other businesses that should be allowed in the mixed use Gateway for one they were talking about should medical cannabis sales specifically be allowed so a dispensary of medical cannabis sales be allowed in the Gateway mix use Gateway rather than away away and they had that conversation ultimately they said kept that we don't know it now I don't know so they said let's not do it today but we could change it in the future and say yeah we can we can move any of those over into the you know these districts um so for what it's worth yeah it's a good point though we can't take it back on the on the ones that are there that would be there but you also mentioned that every applicant would be under a conditional use correct so I mean we could impose certain conditions correct and we talked about what those conditions would be and I think what we left it as for now is our criteria in the conditional use um section of our ordinance are already spelled out it can't negatively so let's use that to start and then if we decide later we need to add additional conditions we can do that cool that's a tool for reassurance yeah okay all right with that then um looking for a motion for ordinance 331 cannabis ordinance Amendment not at this time sorry a move we approve this ordinance as written okay motion by council member Duca I'll second that second by council member Fay any further discussion or questions hearing none all in favor of ordinance 331 Canabis ordinance Amendment please please signify by saying I I I oppose same sign motion carries 4 to zero all right thank you for your continued work um next item of business is resolution 24-11 9- 05 certifying the special assessments for the 2024 um Street reconstruction project and I will turn that over to um administ colander or engineer martini cander thank you madam mayor members of the council um unfortunately I was not here for the public hearing um for the uh Street assessments um however I just wanted to touch base on a few things that are um included in the resolution um the interest rate of 5 a half% per year um is the interest rate that we're going with there was a question about that earlier our true interest rate according to our financial plan was 4.0 and they recommended that we have a 1 and a half% increase over that in order to cover um the principle and interest for the bonds so that's where that interest comes in um to play excuse me um Mr Johnson had approached the council about the assessments um from the Howard project Howard Street project um the engine engineer did take a look at that um and that has been removed um because he was assessed at that time uh For Those portions um we have had one so far um U payment in full um already um we did make some changes to the the end language of the resolution um it was a little confusing um so basically just set it so that everybody has until December 31st um to make an interest free payment after the 31st it'll be assessed the taxes the first Monday in January um and the one year's interest will be applied at that time if someone makes a partial payment their interest will be based off of the remaining balance not on the full assessment amount um so I'll stand for any questions or if Dave has anything else uh that he wants to provide to the council um we'd be looking for a resolution or a motion to move that resolution questions council member Fay I just want to confirm something for the public record um there was some discussion on what was on that video there was some discussion on um Corner lots and Frontage and someone had mentioned 10 years I believe at the public hearing I think I identified a resolution that we put together back in 2018 I believe that identified it as six years does that I should have printed it we don't have it in front we we're outside of the six that that's fine but it it was but I just wanted can confirm going forward what that time frame is that would have been before they were here right right I yeah the the 10 years is is um what I had seen before but uh can't confirm where that came from so um we would' have to look at that going forward okay other questions for staff all right so with those updated um changes uh looking for a motion to approve resolution or adopt resolution 24-11 9-5 certifying the special assessments for the 2024 Street project I'll make that motion and I will second it motion by council member Francis second by Council member Toca any further discussion or questions hearing none all in favor say I I oppose same sign motion carries four to zero right thank you everyone for your work on that um those are hard things to do all right next item of business is Council reports um council member DeLuca would you like to kick us off yes yeah congratulations again to Lisa on her good neighbor award it brings joy to my heart when we have neighbors that work together and she's a great example of of who we are as a city um this month was filled with difficult issues to deal with the public hearing on Street assessment I've said this before and I'll continue to say it it's one of the most difficult things I do as a council person just to have to assess or to tax somebody for something um but I did appreciate the interest that was shown and glad to see so many people that took an interest to show up to share their perspectives um I take that responsibility though very seriously and I think we have been very responsible as a council and very fair over the years in the way we've um had to do what we had to do uh secondly we had this month the citizens Advisory Group Uh Kevin and I began working with a group of citizens that are looking at our common spaces in dreaming of the things that we could do and it was very eye openening for me and I think Kevin probably for you as well that you know we're seeing it from a different lens we're seeing it from the lens of residents and from the lens of uh parents and it's it's very refreshing and I think ultimately our common spaces will have will be better utilized when we can bring some ideas back to the council and to the Planning Commission uh finally we had Personnel meeting uh this month talking about our year-end performance review and pay Cycles uh so that we're ahead of that as we get to the end of the year um we came up with a process for the administrators review that we talked about at Workshop today so that we'll be doing Kevin or Kevin Jacob review on in December on December 10th and then talked a little bit about the HR issues related to the transitioning with our Council effective at the beginning of the year so been a busy month thank you Council membera council member f it has been a busy month um election day came early and then it was followed by caning myself right out of a job um um we had a Veterans Day ceremony at Oro High School sponsored by both uh high school as well as the Rotary Club of Orno um attended special meetings and public hearings on assessments and delinquent uh taxes in addition to a uh mid-mon Fire Commission meeting uh where we spent a great deal of time discussing potential Department merger uh updates I continue to uh participate with mayor uh at The Rotary Club um service projects uh speakers um as well as a pair of City workshops uh tonight's Good Neighbor um award presentation and uh tonight's business meeting thank you council member Fay council member Francis so for me it was a busy month we had Planning Commission after not having a meeting for six months seven months between meetings um great discussions uh for that meeting attended the Veterans Day program at the high school um did the election canvas and uh attended at Highway 12 safety Coalition and you know we felt that we have accomplished a lot with that but in the last couple days we were reminded that Highway 12 is still a very dangerous Highway and there's room for more improvements to make it a safe path to travel um so and then uh some public hearings workshops business business meeting um a lot to take in and a lot to process makes my head spin so that's about it thank you council member Francis um yeah November was a busy month um for everyone um the other thing that uh We've continued to work on is the rebranding committee um and had a couple meetings for that and uh was able to bring some designs forward tonight um during the workshop and look forward to moving that along and getting resident feedback um and input when we're ready for that um uh the league of Minnesota cities was able to attend their board meeting uh really we're working on policies and priorities for 2025 and then there was a very nice um veteran celebration there as well um at the chamber meeting this month West henan Chamber of public Commerce we heard from our one of our very longtime businesses in town her lift so it was um fun to even learn new things about them and then Senator limmer and representative Robbins came as well to do an update uh council member fig uh did a good synopsis of the Fire Commission so we'll continue to keep working on that uh the Northwest H up been league and municipalities we had um different law firms come in and talk about uh municipality law so that was a little bit I wouldn't say exciting um maybe a little bit over learned some new things um we'll just say that a rotary we continue to serve Veterans Day flags for Heroes and uh have speakers and meetings um Highway 12 as well um it's just it's so hard every time you hear those fatalities so again our condolences to the um the deceased and the injured um in the accident this past weekend and we'll continue to Advocate and work um for improvement upon that road in that 36 mile Corridor there a Personnel council member DeLuca did a great recap of that and then the street assessments um as well um those are those meetings are just filled with so many different emotions um definitely not my favorite um but as an elected official you know our priorities are to make sure you can drink it drive it flesh it and keep people safe and Street assessments meet three out of four of those priorities and um we all know all of us sitting at this table um all live in this same town where your neighbors and um we have a street Improvement plan and our streets are on there too and uh one day if not already it will be our streets being assessed so I just want to acknowledge that that it is not easy and it's um what we need to do to continue to move forward as a city so on a positive note I get I had the opportunity to do some fun things um as mayor and I was able to speak to a group of Girl Scouts and it's um always um fun just to talk to Future Leaders and hear their questions and spend time with them um ALS so I serve on the Haven homes Mission advancement board and it is just great to hear about businesses in our town thriving and doing so well and they received multiple um five star ratings and their waiting list is long in all levels of care over there um independent skilled and Transitional Care so it's great having them on greatway Boulevard and in town um was able to attend the Orno healthy youth meeting and then I'm the municipality represent representative on the Orno Coalition so again it's that partnership with the schools that we never want to lose um had coffee with representative Robbins this last week to talk about Maple plane and priorities and opportunities to partner um had coffee with two new mayors elect that we will soon be working with together and then tonight obviously it's just fun to celebrate um The Good Neighbor award and it's just a great thing for our city to do together to focus on something positive and really proud of that award and all of the recipients and welcom Le to that group and then would be remissed if we did not talk about Saturday is the 44th annual view Santa event and um that started I moved to Maple plane when I was 5 years old and it is still going on so it's awesome so we hope you can get outside um and visit our local police reserves they will be at independent city hall from 3:30 to 4:15 and they will be in our very own Veterans Memorial Park from 4:45 to 5:30 um collecting food and donations and you can take pictures so come out and celebrate that beloved tradition and kick off the holiday season with that any other business to come before us this evening right hearing none looking for a motion to adjourn make that motion motion by council member Fay second second by council member Francis all in favor of adjourning signify by saying I I the eyes have it the meeting's adjourned at 8:47