[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Good evening. Tonight is Monday, August 10th, 2026. This is a regular meeting of the Minnetonka City Council. We'll call this meeting to order. Those who Those of you who are able, please join us for the Pledge of Allegiance. >> Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Ms. Suraqui, please call roll. >> Maxwell. >> Here. >> Wilburn. >> Here. >> Calvert. >> Here. >> Rumeli. >> Here. >> Coakley. >> Here. >> Foster Bolton. >> Here. >> Shack. >> Here. >> Um just a reminder for folks in the audience, we do have a open agenda item on item number eight, which is citizens wishing to discuss matters not on the agenda. If you are here tonight to speak on that item, we've got some white cards out in the lobby. You can fill one of those out and staff will grab them. Just a reminder that we ask you to limit your comments to 3 minutes. Uh item onto item number four, approval of the agenda, and we have no agenda tonight, so I'll take a motion to approve the agenda. Council member Maxwell. >> I move approval of the agenda. >> Uh council member Romilly. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion by council member Maxwell, a second by council member Romilly. Ms. Surratt, please call roll. >> Maxwell. >> Yes. >> Wilburn. >> Yes. >> Calvert. >> Yes. >> Romilly. >> Yes. >> Coakley. >> Yes. >> Foster Bolton. >> Yes. >> Shack. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. Item five, approval of the minutes. We do have one set of minutes tonight, 5A, the July 2020, excuse me, the July 27th, 2026 regular meeting minutes. Any comments? Otherwise, I would take a motion. Council member Calvert. >> Thank you, Mayor. I move approval of the July 27th, 2026 regular meeting minutes. >> Council member Romilly. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. I have a motion by council member Calvert, a second by council member Romilly. Ms. Surratt, please call roll. >> Maxwell. >> Yes. >> Wilburn. >> Yes. >> Calvert. >> Yes. >> Romilly. >> Yes. >> Coakley. >> Yes. >> Foster Bolton. >> Yes. >> Shack. >> Yes. Motion carries. Item six is special matters, and first up, 6A, is the 2026 City of Excellence Award, and Mr. Funk, you're going to start us out here. >> Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Good evening, Council. With us is also representatives from the League of Minnesota Cities. I think they're making their way to the podium. I'm going to turn it over to them here in just a second, but before I do, I do wanted to say just a number of recognitions and some thank yous to a number of folks that made this City of Excellence Award possible. First, want to recognize the League of Minnesota Cities for their efforts in working with cities. The City of Minnetonka obviously has been a long-standing member with the League of Minnesota Cities. We've been historically a good partner with the League and so we appreciate their attendance this evening and their recognition of our submittal. Also then want to recognize numerous folks in our police department. Police Chief Scott Borboom, Deputy Chief Jason Tate really was uh came forward here this last year, over a year ago, with this concept of drones as first responders. And then also then want to thank you, Council, for really taking and accepting staff's recommendation for this initiative. It was a bold initiative. Minnetonka was the first in the state of Minnesota to uh implement such a program and and frankly one of the first cities in the Midwest. And so we're very proud of this effort and really want to go back to Chief Borboom, Chief Tate for their vision and initiative to really utilize this new technology. And then finally just also want to recognize our police department staff. They've embraced the technology cuz anytime you do something new, it's a change. And so we've really done a really masterful job of implementing the software, creating our dashboards, making sure we're transparent about the work that we do. And then in terms of the response that we're providing to the city and to our residents cuz ultimately this is about customer service and providing great service to those that we serve. And it checks all those uh items and again really appreciate the effort by many many staff members. And finally want to recognize Jessica Chase, who's on our communications team, for writing the applications. So a lot of work went into that and appreciate all of our staff, just the collaboration and cooperation across multiple departments, police, fire, admin, communications, council collaboration really to make this project happen. Uh we were showcased here recently at the League of Minnesota Cities annual conference uh with the award. And with that uh Mayor Shak, I'd like to if it's okay with you, turn it over to Luke Fischer, executive director from the League of Minnesota Cities for a formal uh comments and presentation. >> Absolutely. Welcome, Mr. Fischer. >> Great. Thanks so much, Madam Mayor and members of the council. Mike, you said a lot of the things I was planning to say, so I'll do my best here. Um but it is really good to be here on behalf of the League to recognize the city of Minnetonka for the good work that you're doing. You all know us well. I won't do like the normal, you know who the League is, right? thing, but it is important to know that we represent 842 of the state's 856 cities. And the important part about that, the headline for that is we get to see cities when they're at their very best and when they're navigating some of the hardest times and biggest challenges that they could potentially face. And in that, we get to see cities shine. We get to see cities rise above whatever challenges are in front of them to think innovatively or to try something new. And really, that's why we're here in Minnetonka tonight. Now, Mike mentioned it just a little bit, but I think it's worth pressing on a little bit that to be a city of excellence, it doesn't mean that you're just really good at your job, right? It doesn't mean that you're good with your community. It means that you contribute to the broader community and to the greater good and to cities across the state. And Minne- Minnetonka has done that in this regard by leading and trying something new that maybe hasn't really been tried or uh it is new to the Midwest and I think that that's notable. But I think it's also notable because this isn't a flash in the pan for the city of Minnetonka. This isn't the first time that I've been here to say congratulations, you guys did something great or to recognize a person here. If you think about it, Minnetonka gave the League an executive director once in Jim Miller. Karen Anderson, a former mayor here was a president of the League and president of the National League. Brad Weiersen was a president of the League. We see Rebecca all the time. Mike is engaged in everything. Eric's involved with the city attorney community. I don't think we hardly have a conversation about land use without talking to Julie. Darren's on the 4M committee. I mean, Minnetonka is really baked into our organization and contributes to our organization every single time. You all contribute to our policy committees. You make us better as an organization. So, when we think about what a city of excellence is, it's a city that doesn't just do it once. It's a city that does it time and time and time again over many years, over many people passing the torch onto the next group that comes. And you all are doing that by showing your leadership through this award and this recognition that you got, but you do it in a myriad of other ways. And we're just really grateful for that. I also want to say just really briefly, I know it's hard to be an elected official right now. We hear that all the time. And I want to thank you so much for stepping up even though it is hard, and for the creativity and the purpose and the intention that you're bringing to your work. So, with that, I'm going to turn it over to Jen. She's our chief insurance officer. And she's going to talk a little bit more about the recognition that you received at our conference. >> Thanks, Luke. Madam Mayor, council, we're here as Luke said today to recognize Minnetonka for winning the City of um Excellence Award. Uh or the League of Minnesota Cities City of Excellence Award. And in your category, it was cities for 30,000 and over. And this has been indicated your drones as first responders program. And specifically, the City of Excellence annually recognizes projects and programs that enhance not only the Please excuse me. Um enhance city services, but they introduce innovative solutions, adapt existing programs to local needs, save money while maintaining or improving results, or engage residents and staff in decision-making. Public safety and emergency response are core services of city government. Thought leaders continue to explore how emerging technologies can help improve these essential services and Minnetonka's drones as first responders is an excellent example of that approach. A project like this requires teamwork. In the application for this award, there were numerous departments throughout the city that were mentioned. Your police department, your fire department, your IT department, your public works, city leadership, and communications as key partners in developing and implementing this program. Through a broad range of input, the city ensured that questions, ideas, and concerns about the project were addressed at the outset. At a time when residents are rightfully concerned about privacy issues, the city has done a commendable job in aligning community expectations and existing privacy standards with a commitment with a city commitment to transparency and accountability. To help maintain public trust, the city provides accessible information about drone operations and communicates openly about the procedures guiding this program. These efforts helped residents understand that drones are deployed only in response to calls and are not used as surveillance tools. This recognition reflects the dedication and teamwork of everyone involved in bringing this program to life. It is an excellent example of how cities can use innovation to enhance services while keeping residents informed and engaged. Let's hear what some of your city colleagues had to say about the program. The video you are about to see was first shown at the League's annual conference in June in Rochester. The link is also available through the League's YouTube channel [music] and may be shared by the city as you wish. >> [music] >> Here today we're in the real-time Operations Center here at the Minnetonka Police Department. So, this serves as our main location to connect information and criminal intelligence, >> [music] >> while also supporting our officers in the field. >> have access to those drone >> Here today, we're in the Real Time Operations Center here at the Minnetonka Police Department. So, this serves as our main location to connect information and criminal intelligence, >> [music] >> while also supporting our officers in the field, including our firefighters and paramedics as they respond to 911 incidents. >> The Drones as First [music] Responder Project is a project that allows our public safety personnel to send a drone out to get eyes on a situation when we get a call that comes in to our call center. The dispatch will let us know, and in appropriate instances, they'll send a drone out to better understand what the issue is, and to give our dispatch and our responders the opportunity to deploy the [music] appropriate resources. >> We have roughly 700 cul-de-sacs in the city, and so that makes it very difficult when you don't have true north, south, [music] east, west roadways. And so, with the drones, they're able to get to calls within 2 minutes. That's happening 68% of the time where our drones are responding before a squad car or a public safety personnel member can get there. >> Overall, crime has not been [music] increasing in Minnetonka, but call volume has increased. And so, this gives us an opportunity to create some efficiencies without having to bring on additional personnel to deal with those call volume increases. >> I think when you talk about safety, it's beyond just criminal activity. [music] In fact, I would say it's more so to assist our fire department, our public works department. We all have a responsibility to provide public safety. >> What [music] we did was make sure that privacy issues and surveillance issues were addressed at the outset to make sure [music] that everybody's rights were being preserved, that we weren't gathering information or data that wasn't otherwise appropriate under the circumstances, and made sure that our ordinances aligned the state statute and also [music] the expectation of our residents. >> With our dashboard, the public can go see all of our drone flights, have access to those drone flights, >> [music] >> and so we're transparent about it. >> Uh we've had folks uh call and and ask us about the data and how it's protected. >> information's power, and the more we can have on the front end, we can develop good solutions and slow things down. We are shaving off seconds and minutes of responses, [music] and that's something that is just remarkable for how law enforcement emergency responses have moved in this century. [music] It's It's remarkable. >> [music] >> So, congratulations again to the city of Minnetonka on this well-deserved recognition. Your leadership, collaboration, and commitment to serving your community exemplify what the City of Excellence Award represents. So, thank you. >> Uh congratulations, and we'd love to get a picture with you, too. So, let's clap for you [applause] first, right? Come on up, Chief. And your girls. >> Jason, come on up, too. >> Do you want to take a picture with me? >> Thank you so much. >> How about you? >> We'll put you in the middle. >> I'd love to do it. >> Um Yeah. All right, good. You guys are self uh You have to scrunch a little bit more together. Perfect. Get out of way for you. Ready? 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 >> Congratulations. >> Yeah. Thank you for coming. It's just something that's worth it. There you go. >> Well, we're very proud of this uh award and just the program in general and we appreciate the league coming out and for recognizing the innovation and also obviously for staff. So, this is wonderful and and at some point um you know, the rest of the community is very interested in this, but we will we will stop talking so much about it. Um all right, item six B, recognition of the communications division awards and Ms. Damon, you've got this? >> Thank you, Mayor and Council. Good evening. I have the privilege of overseeing our communications division as the admin services director. And when I first started here 11 and a half years ago, there was one individual in that division and she was a community relations manager. She ran the farmers market, the Burwell house, did the website and the memo. So, in the last 11 years, the group has developed what they are today and it's pretty remarkable. Particularly this group, most of them have been here in the last 5 years and if you look at our social media and our website the last 5 years, it's phenomenal the work that has been accomplished in the last 5 years and it's such an honor to be able to recognize them for this for these awards and all their hard work and I know they have a really great few things they're going to say here. So, with that I'm going to pass it over to our communications manager, Andrew Wittenberg. >> Thank you, Ms. Damon. Uh Mayor and Council, thanks for having us. Uh the Communications Division, I think we're all a little bit different from each other, but I will tell you it's pretty safe to say one thing I think we all have in common is that we do not like the spotlight on us. We're much happier if it's elsewhere and we're talking about other things, but I am going to ask them, I fed them dinner ahead of time, so I'm going to ask them to stand behind me because I'm going to talk just a bit about them and the work that they've done. As Ms. Diamond mentioned, the Minnesota Association of Government Communicators holds a statewide um Northern Lights contest every year and these are communicators at the state and county state agency level, cities, and so to enter, I believe five awards and come away with a recognition in four of them is a remarkable achievement. Uh and disconcerting, but also great for me is I had nothing to do with it. They did great work on their own and they had this recognition a few weeks ago and so you're kind of have us here and for us to talk just a bit about it. Uh we said we're not going to talk about it anymore, but but Jessica Case, uh as was mentioned in the previous segment, did the Communications plan and the outreach around our drone as first responders program and so that is one of the the programs that was recognized by the communicators just because of the plan that she put together. It had not been done very much before and she really had to do research and look around the country to see how to talk about this as well. And Jessica recently attended an FBI PIO class, public information officer, where one of her classmates called her out for being super smart and super thought-provoking during the presentation. And Jessica, if she's behind me, I'm going to make her wave. There you go. She's so happy that I said her name and pointed her out. Uh another award that we received is, I think you knew we're aware that the city took part in an internal employee-led competition where we competed against the city to the east of us that begins with an E and we did really, really well. And as part of that program, we developed a slogan to celebrate it and that was also recognized for the communicators for the creativity that went behind that. And so, that was the work done by Amy Knapp. Amy is right there, and she has no problem waving, so that's great. One of the things that Amy when I first came here, the council had recognized the need, and I think with the growth of social media. So, Amy is with us on just a part-time basis, but it feels like full-time. She does a great job of managing we now when I got here we had maybe like five social media accounts. I think we have like plus 12 right now. Uh but Amy also does a great job of internal communications and project management for us, and you're going to see some of the inspiration for her work here in just a bit. Uh and then another award or recognition that we received uh was in making a fire brigade bucket talk. Um that is animation creativity that I think that John, like said over here, would say probably gave him a few headaches, but I will tell you all the third or fourth graders whoever see this in the Hopkins and Minnetonka schools love that this bucket talks to them and preaches fire safety, which I think you know probably around the 4th of July but other holidays it's really important that kids understand the dangers and the preventive measures that they can take around that. And then finally, we also did a hiring recruitment campaign for the fire department this past year where we dressed up kids in firefighter outfits and put them in fire trucks, and we thought it was a way that we needed to break through because, as I think you've probably heard a lot, public safety hiring and recruitment right now is tough, and we're looking for ways to be creative and break through. And that work was done by Kristen Dorn, and she is our senior communications coordinator. And Kristen's work here, by the way, John's work is on communicating about road construction, but also video and does many of the videos that you see and enjoy here. Kristen, in her role as a senior communications coordinator, works on many of our digital products, our websites, and we have a couple of them, our email and text communication, and digital accessibility, which I'm sure you remember hearing about a lot last year, and there's more to come on that. But, as an inclusive city striving to be inclusive all of the time, it's very important for us to try to work to make sure we're making our programs and our services as accessible as possible. And then, there's two people that I asked to join us tonight who are here for the summer, Levi uh Black and Sophia Ashworth. They're uh college students who grew up in this community, and we are fortunate to have them join us, and we said it's way too short for just a couple of weeks this summer as interns. Um is one of those things really where we've learned so much from them, especially when it comes to communicating on social media and in video. And you are uh going to see here in a just a second a bit of their work. One of the things that we have really strived to do this year is communicate more about how great our park and trail system is, but also the young adults and the teenagers who enjoy our park system and who involved in many of the programs that I think you as a council have called for and support. And so, I'm going to ask that uh they play just a short video of some of the work you've seen and we'll see here in the weeks to come. >> [music] [music] [music] >> We've uh covered more ground this summer than I ever would have imagined, and uh it's thanks to having them on staff and having them here, and we're going to miss them when they're not with us so much here in a couple of weeks. But, uh thank you so much for having us. I would say as communications people, I think one of the things that is great about working for a city is every day every day here is a little bit different and the cities do so many different things and it's a lot of fun to just be able to tell the story of all that goes on here. So, thanks very much for having us. Appreciate it. >> Well, thank you all. >> [applause] >> VERY WELL DONE AND CONGRATULATIONS. Very well deserved. Having been on the other side of the camera now more so as mayor recognize how much work goes into it and how easy you all make it for us to do our jobs. So, thanks again and and keep up the good work. >> Thank you. Have a good night. >> [applause] >> All right. Item 6C, strategic plan quarter two report. Mr. Funk, you'll kick this off. >> Yes, thank you, Mayor, and again good evening, Council. I'm going to turn over to Ms. Saraki here in a second for the presentation, but before I do that, just want to mention a couple things regarding our strategic plan. Just a little bit by first uh kind of background. Uh our current strategic plan plan is 25 through 27. So, it's a three-year plan. Uh and I say this more probably for the public's benefit in that every December uh the council does do uh tweaks and revisions to that plan as we look at solidifying our six major pillars uh along with our desired outcomes and then in that collaborative effort with the council, uh we work through action steps every year. And so, as we're now into 2026, which is the second year of our three-year plan, tonight is that mid-year report. Uh for quarters uh for the first quarter and for the third quarter, we do bring these reports to you uh by way of consent agenda items, but this is our mid-year. And so, at this point we want to check in with council, share with you the work that staff has been doing for the first 6 months of this year and you get a glimpse into that progress. A part of our strategic plan, again, this is more for the listening audience that we do have, as I mentioned, action steps that align with our desired outcomes that then again align with our six strategic priorities. And then in that we have performance metrics. And all of the data that you see in the staff report, which is there's a lot of words in that written updates, we also then use performance metrics. Part of that is sharing the city's progress. And really what this boils down to is accountability. We are as staff accountable to the Council. This is your strategic plan. And so we in this report this evening want to make sure we showcase that work that's happened for the first 6 months. And then fast forwarding we'll do a year end as well. So we'll do a year in review likely in January of 2027. I don't want to also mention that this is our strategic plan again and not everything that the city covers is in our strategic plan. We do have separate work plans. So departments have separate work plans that are aside from our strategic plan. We also have boards and commissions that have their work plans. So there's a whole body of work that the city does that is again beyond what you're seeing here today. But these are the high-level priorities that is the City Council's vision for the future of Minnetonka. So with that I really want to turn it over to Serissa Saraki. Ms. Saraki is our senior management coordinator. Serissa does a a fabulous job managing our plan, works with all of our directors and all of the stakeholders that are involved in this plan. We have roughly 50 employees that have their hands in what you're about to see and so it's it's deep and far-reaching amongst our staff. And Ms. Saraki again is our coordinator on this plan and with that I'd like to turn over to her for the presentation. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mike, Mayor and Council. So with this report staff is recommending a motion to accept the report and four votes are needed. I will skip over this slide, but we do have 74 action steps that we are updating in 2026. These are our six strategic priorities and our six team leads. They have been probably the team leads for the past few years now. And this is where we are currently sitting after quarter two and quarter two ended June 30th. So we are 59% complete with our 2026 plan. The goal is to hit 100% end of a 2026. So this means 77% of our action steps are on track. 4% hit some disruption and 19% are fully completed. And moving forward, I will share some accomplishments for each strategic priority and show a couple of their performance metrics. So for financial strength, they maintain Moody's very strong financial ratings for 2025. They exceeded financial targets by maintaining governmental fund balance above 30% of revenues. And water and sewer sewer utility find cash balance is at 149% of the minimum target. The 2025 budget was fully implemented into the priority based budgeting application. The planning and communication for the local sales tax referendum it has been paused but may be reactivated. And they established an updated process for grant management in which will be implemented in August or September. Um here are a few performance metrics. So the AAA bond rating, the GFOA certificate of achievement. And this is where we are sitting with our 2025 and 2026 grants. This is how they align with each strategic priority. So, this pie chart is showing the dollar amount for a awarded and currently submitted grants. So, you can see a bulk of them or half almost half of the over half of them align with safe in the healthy community followed by infrastructure and asset management. Second, we have a safe and healthy community. They expanded emergency response capabilities through the real-time operations center. They improve police and fire service delivery through operational efficiencies and this include included revised medical response protocols, AI system reporting, and expanding staffing initiatives. They advanced public safety planning for the Opus 3 development and green line extension. They trained more than 200 public safety personnel on light rail emergency response. And they expanded innovative mental health response and community wellness initiatives. And lastly, they increased community outreach and engagement through partnerships with apartment apartment managers, businesses, schools, faith communities, and social service service organizations. For their performance metrics, um we are currently at 331 mental health calls for service year-to-date. And last year we ended at 452 mental health calls. And for fire response time, you can see the pink line is their average response time for each quarter since 2025. And the red line is response time at 90th percentile. And this means 90% of the time fire is responding is responding at this time or better. Next, we have sustainability, resilience, and natural environment. They continue implementation of the climate action and adaptation plan. They expanded community participation in sustainability initiatives through the resilient Minnetonka program and outreach at community events. They advanced habitat restoration and urban forestry efforts through buckthorn removal, native habitat restoration, and tree planting initiatives. They invested in resident energy and water conservation programs, including more than 27,000 in water efficiency rebates. They also increased sustainability education through community partnerships and events. And lastly, they leveraged grant funding to expand environmental and conservation initiatives. And here we can see in 2025, they planted in or sold and planted 1,063 trees, and they hope to get that number up to 3,000 by 2028. And in 2025, we had 1,849 registered electric vehicles, and you can see our targets for each upcoming year. And then in 2028, we hope to be at 3,099. Next, we have livable and well-planned development. They advanced strategies to increase and diversify housing through completion of a draft evaluation implementation plan and ongoing affordable housing preservation efforts. They prepared a draft zoning ordinance update to modernize development regulations and support future community goals. They strengthened business retention, expansion, and economic development economic development initiatives. They continue supporting businesses impacted by road and trail road and trail construction activities. They advanced planning and infrastructure improvements for the Opus area and Green Line extension, including light trail lighting, wayfinding, public safe design, public space design, and pedestrian improvements. And they continue with public engagement to help shape redevelopment, housing, and future land use decisions. For their performance metrics, you can see this is a plan for to be complete by end of 2026 for Opus trail lighting and wayfinding. They hope to have more than 151 new lights along the trail, more than 4 miles of existing trail with new lights, and more than 20 new wayfinding signs with area maps. And for construction volume in Minnetonka, we don't have the numbers for 2025 yet, but the goal is to be at 495 million, and then by 2028, 870 million. For infrastructure and asset management, they advanced major utility infrastructure projects, including the White the White Gate force main replacement, Minnetonka Boulevard lift station improvements, and underground utility upgrades. They continued modern modernization of asset management through fleet software and enterprise GIS. They delivered roadway maintenance and pavement management projects. And they strengthened regional partnerships to coordinate transportation, transit, trail, and highway improvement projects. And lastly, they expanded multimodal transportation improvements through construction of the Minnetonka Boulevard trail, Opus area trail planning, and e-bike safety education and enforcement. For their performance metrics, um this shows the new miles construction, new trail miles constructed. And in 2025, we were at 15 miles, and the goal is to hit 19.2 by 2028. And for money spent on utility improvements, the goal is to always be more than 1% of the overall system. And in 2025, we were at 2.35%. And lastly, we have community inclusiveness. They expanded inclusive programming through successful sensory-friendly events and accommodations at Summerfest. They strengthened internal external partnerships to improve community engagement and accessibility. They increased opportunities for youth engagement through new programs, partnerships, and the expansion of youth-focused initiatives. They improved access to recre- recreation by launching new recreation and March programs and awarding scholarships to all qualified applicants. They advanced efforts to improve equitable decision-making through research on standardized demographic data collection. And lastly, they expanded partnerships supporting public art, community engagement, and inclusive programming. And for their performance metrics, um here it shows our East Intern Program. This year we had 17 interns spread across Minnetonka, Hopkins, Richfield, and Nine Mile Creek Watershed District. And this is an increase from 13 interns in 2025. And the DEI team also did an audit of the public art located on the city of Minnetonka's campus. And here you can see the artwork subjects and 65% show nature and landscape followed by 23% showed people. And this is just a reminder that we do have a community dashboard on our city website. You can see the overall progress for each strategic priority. And then if you click into one of them, you can see more details of the progress of the desired outcomes and action steps, the latest update, and then more of the performance metrics. And that is all I have for the presentation. So for staff, we are recommending motion to accept the report and four votes are needed, and I'll pass over to you, Mayor. Thank you. >> Thank you. Excellent work. Um lot of work done by you just in managing this, not to mention all the hard work done by staff in keeping everything on track. So thank you. Council, any questions about the update? Comments? All right. Well, we'll take a motion to accept the report. Council member Calvert. >> Thank you. >> [cough and clears throat] >> Excuse me. Thank you, Mayor. Uh I did just want to comment. I I want to echo what the Mayor said about all the hard work and when you uh Ms. Saracino didn't get into it, but in the report it talks about uh accomplishments, it talks challenges. There are very few challenges and uh few challenges that were mentioned um are are being dealt with swiftly and and sensibly, and it just makes me incredibly proud to work for this city because we are so well run um and it was just uh great to see that um all of the work on our major pillars is so far along. So, and it's all due to our wonderful staff. So, I we heard how wonderful our our public safety people are, then the people that are promoting our public safety people in our community, and our communications team, and all of the people up here on the dais, and um we're just a great city. So, um I would like to make the motion to accept the strategic profile report. Thank you, and Councilmember Romilly. >> Thank you, Mayor. I'll second. >> I have a motion by Councilmember Calvert, a second by Councilmember Romilly. Ms. Sorachi, please call roll. >> Melz. >> This is the fourth year that this competition has been held. Minnetonka lifeguards took first place out of 20 teams. And so, this is the second time that our team has took first place. The other 2 years we took second. So, again, a real shout-out to our team at the at the beach, Kelly O'Day, our rec director, and all of the the team that really supports our lifeguards. And just knowing that they're at our beach every day overseeing hundreds of patrons and folks that are swimming at the beach, and they're in really good hands. So, again, congrat- congratulations to our team. In terms of recreation, Minnetonka is Excuse me. Registration is open for annual Minnetonka Police Academy. So, Chief Warroom and his team every year, over the course of 9 Wednesdays, starting this year, September 9th through November 4th, uh folks can register for the academy. They'll get an in-depth look at our police operations, including investigations, crime, our K9 unit, forensics, emergency response, and the whole array of services provided by the police department. It fills up every year, so I encourage people if you're interested, please sign up, uh cuz we usually Again, that fills up. So, wonderful experience, and then that's this fall, and then in the spring we will have our regular uh academy for other residents and there will be more advertising coming up on that. Also then fall recreation programs are opening this week and so Mr. Odin's team have prepared a great registration opportunity for all sorts of opportunities for our residents. It does open tomorrow Tuesday August 11th for general programming. You know every year every time we open these Mr. Odin will say well this first week we've had thousands of registrations. So we're we're happy to announce those are opening up tomorrow for general programs. On the 13th is for senior programs. August 18th for ice skating lessons then on August 19th swimming lessons. So stay tuned for our website and getting registered for all the wonderful programming offered by the city. >> [gasps] >> Then last I would just mention zoning update. So the full draft of the proposed changes is now live on Minnetonka Matters. So anyone that has an interest in reviewing the proposed changes to our plan that is now out for public view and engagement starting this week. So with that mayor and council turn it back to you. Thank you. >> Thank you Mr. Frank. Council anything? Council member Calvert. Thank you mayor. I know that many of us participated but uh uh last Tuesday was our annual night to you night uh all over the city and uh I got to ride along with our wonderful community development director Julie Wishnak and Captain Rachel Meehan which was really um a lot of fun to have uh kind of the girl gang um riding around in our beautiful city with wonderful neighbors who take great pride in their community and really some of them have just done um some really amazing things this year. This was not an easy year for Minnesota. It was not a easy year for the metro area and there was one neighborhood that we went to that is a very quintessential lovely Minnetonka neighborhood where people I think the the host of the party kind of the block captain said that I think 70% of his neighbors participated in constitutional observer training to help to protect their neighbors. And there was just a lot of civic involvement you know delivering food supporting the schools and it I found it actually very moving and it just makes me incredibly proud to be part of this community. And every single party had a little character of its own and it's just a wonderful opportunity to meet I happen to be an at large council member so I represent the whole city and it's wonderful to go to all these different neighborhoods and meet people even crashed one that we just saw on our way to another party and it's just you know it's just a great way to meet your neighbors. So next year I encourage you to go to your night to you night um parties have or host one there were many that were supporting our local nonprofits to help them get kids ready for school with backpacks and school supplies and those organizations still need your help because school is right around the corner. Um but I just wanted to say thank you to all the people that helped organize it and the police department and other departments and um I'm so glad that so many of us participated and I also wanted to just put a plug in Minnetonka has a great repu- reputation for voter participation. We are often um among the highest in in the country per capita. So I just want to encourage you. This is very important primary. Please go out and make your voice heard and vote. And I want to thank our wonderful election staff because we've had such good election staff that they sometimes get snapped up by the Secretary of State's office. So, thanks to all of that um you put into it. >> Council, anybody else? Council Member Remele. >> Thank you, Mayor. Um I just wanted to say have a quick shout out to the folks in the Wildwood community who personally reached out and invited me to um their Night to Unite. Lovely community. I know they said some of them watch the meeting. So, I wanted to make sure that I I thank them properly for their wonderful hospitality and also for this thank you note. Um as others have said, tonight being an elected isn't always easy. And so, when people reach out and you know, invite you to things and you know, show appreciation for what you do and what you hopefully what you're trying to do, um it means a lot uh in terms of of uh keeping up your motivation and also just having that connection with the community. So, I want to take thank them and also the other uh parties that I went to including one at the headwaters of the Minnehaha and just all of the communities that hosted parties um or all of the neighborhood communities that hosted parties this year. So, thank you so much. >> Anybody else? Mr. Funk. >> Well, thank you, Mayor. I I appreciate the opportunity to say one more thing that was important, but I failed to mention. Uh so, the the announcement is happy birthday, Mayor. >> Thank [laughter] you, Mr. Funk. >> Happy birthday. >> Thank you. >> [laughter] >> Thank you. >> What a sneak. >> Well, on that note, um I will just mention that Night to night is always a highlight and the highlight is to talk with uh members of the community when they're just out doing their day-to-day uh socializing and not when they are concerned or need something, although we'll listen to them then as well, but it is very rewarding to talk to people on a kind of a neutral ground and and so I really appreciate that. I also want to thank staff and also um some of a couple of the businesses in our community we did our joint tour with the EDAC and the planning commission. We were able to visit um Cargill what or not Cargill, Callaghen. Much smaller business, but still a proud local business here and they're celebrating 80 years, so just highlight that. Um and so appreciate staff putting together, I'd say one of the best tours we've done and you know, I've done eight eight of them, I think. So, thank you and thanks for the community for hosting us. With that, we will move along to item eight, which is citizens wishing to discuss matters not on the agenda. Nobody filled out a card, but I'll give one opportunity if there's anybody here on that item. Now would be your time. All right, not seeing anybody anybody, we'll move on to item nine, which is bids and purchases. We have none. Item 10, which is the consent agenda items requiring a majority vote. These are items that are considered routine in nature that staff placed on this portion of the agenda that may be approved in one vote. That said, if anybody wants a further discussion on any of these items, either on the council or in the audience, you can ask for that item to be pulled. 10A is the collective bargaining agreement between the city of Minnetonka and law enforcement labor labor services local 61621. 10B is resolutions resolutions pertaining to levying the 2026 special assessments. Anybody wish to pull either of those items? Otherwise, I would take a motion. Council member Wilbern. >> I move adoption of consent agenda items 10A and 10B. >> Thank you. And Council member Calvert? >> I'll second. >> Thank you. I have a motion by Council member Wilbern, a second by Council member Calvert. Ms. Surakey, please call roll. >> Maxwell? >> Yes. >> Wilbern? >> Yes. >> Calvert? >> Yes. >> Ramaley? >> Yes. >> Coakley? >> Yes. >> Foster Bolton? >> Yes. >> Schack? >> Yes. Motion carries. Item 11 is consent agenda items requiring five votes and we have none. Item 12 is introduction of ordinances and we have none of those. On to item 13, public hearings, 13A. A temporary liquor license for the Minnetonka Rotary Club for Links and the Links and Libations event at 14350 County Road 62. And Ms. Wishnak, that is you. >> Thank you, Mayor and Council members. This is the annual event for the Minnetonka Rotary Club's um fundraising event. It will be held on September 10th uh in the afternoon from 1:00 until 7:00. It is a charity event and they do provide grants to folks who need scholarships. Um also, the event involves beer tastings and service of alcohol, uh which the Rotary Club volunteers conduct. Um they also have a process for our identification of 21 years and older. Uh the city staff is comfortable with granting the request and recommend that you approve the temporary liquor license. If you have any questions, Mayor, I'm happy to answer. >> Thank you, Ms. Wishnak. Council, any questions on this? Seen many times before. Not seeing any, I'll open the public hearing and I'll invite the the patiently awaiting Mr. Rosendahl up to to talk about the event. >> I have to tell you this has been one of the more uh uplifting meetings that I've been to. Not that they're bad, but I mean this was awesome. I mean that what a collection of great youth and uh young people you have working in your communications group and congratulations to the law enforcement and the city for the great awards that you get. Uh if I could I'll hand out a brochure here for our event. And we'll be very brief. Yeah, I know you got it. >> [laughter] >> Uh just to properly identify myself, my name is Chris Rosendahl. I live at 8672 Meadowvale Drive in Eden Prairie and I'm here in support of the Minnetonka Rotary Club's application for a temporary liquor license for our Links and Libations Golf Tournament Fundraiser which is on Thursday, September 10th at the Glen Lake Golf and Practice Facility. Minnetonka Rotary Club is the club for building responsible youth and the club that is more fun than you want it to be. And we meet each Wednesday morning over for starting at 7:15 over at the Marsh and we're done promptly at 8:30 and all are welcome to join us for a light breakfast, uh great speakers and connecting with community minded people and uh we'd enjoy any of you. You're always welcome to to come and join our our meetings. Um the Links and Libations Golf Event is our major fundraiser each year. It's a nine-hole scramble tournament and is followed by a fresh grilled dinner, beer tasting from local breweries including Excelsior Brewery, Unmapped, Boom Island, Bear Cave, Fântasma, and and others. Uh we have a great silent auction, a cash raffle, and fun games for the family. And that's one piece that we're doing this year is we're kind of expanding it so that we have a lot of our members have kids and and neighbors that have kids. And so we're going to have some kids events there along as well. And the event starts at 1:00. The shotgun start for the golfers is at 2:30 and the dinner is at 5:30. And non-golfers are also welcome to come and and enjoy the food, the libations, the silent auction, the family events that we're having. And there's more details and registration options that can be found at our website at minnetonkarotary.org or imagine this, a bunch of boomers put together a QR code. >> [laughter] >> Pretty slick, huh? Anyway, 100% of the net proceeds go to our foundation which provides grants and scholarships to organizations such as Lift Garage, Resource West, ICA Food Shelf, Senior Serve at Minnetonka High School, Can Do Canines, Special Olympics Minnesota. We also do some international projects including clean water projects in Central America, Books for Africa. And we also provide scholarships for deserving students at Hopkins and Minnetonka High Schools that are moving on to to college or or trade school. And we'd appreciate your support for application and hope you can all attend. And I'm happy to take any questions about the event you might have. >> Thank you, Mr. Roseland. Any questions, Council? You did it. You You had your notes with you tonight. >> ready to go. Well done, right? >> Well, you sold it. I'll be there. >> All right. Fantastic. >> So, this is a public hearing. So, we will give an opportunity if anybody wants to comment, one last chance. I'll close the public hearing. And I will just before asking for approval on on this item, just indicate that this really truly is a fun event. And even if you're not golfing, although Mr. Manchester often golfs in this tournament and he will he'll tell you it's a good time. Um good food and really good silent auction items as well. So, come by for dinner even if you don't golf and and hang out with us at Glen Lake. So, Council, we have to I'm looking for a motion to grant the license. Council Member Remely. >> Thank you, Mayor. I will make the motion to grant temporary liquor license for the Minnetonka Rotary Club for Links and Libations uh on September 10th at 14350 County Road 62. >> And a second, Council Member Calvert. >> I happily second. >> I have a motion by Council Member Remely and a second by Council Member Calvert. Ms. Rock, can you please call roll? >> Maxwell? >> Yes. >> Welburn? >> Yes. >> Calvert? >> Yes. >> Remely? >> Yes. >> Koeckly? >> Yes. >> Fasbender? >> Yes. >> Schack? >> Yes. Motion carries. Excellent. All right. Uh onto item 14, which is other business. 14A, a resolution for the Kinsell neighborhood reconstruction project. Mr. Manchester. >> Yes, thank you, Mayor. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Before you tonight is the Kinsell reconstruction uh project for the neighborhood of 14A. I do want to introduce a few people that are here tonight. Um Mr. Kevin Rudd, Mr. Mitch Thatcher, and then Phil Olson from our engineering department who are leading this project. Our recommended action tonight is a motion to adopt the attached resolution receiving the feasibility report, which does not include trails along Kinsell Road, Mayberry Road, Glenmar Road West, and South Street, ordering the improvements, authorizing the preparation of plans and specifications, and then authorizing easement acquisition for the Kinsell neighborhood reconstruction project number 27602. Uh this does connect our strategic profile um as Cerissa mentioned earlier tonight and Mr. Funk. Um it's along the lines of 5.1, which is to improve the reliability and efficiency of our utilities and facilities. And then 5.2, preserve quality and well-maintained roadway system. Just some background on the reconstruction. Um our local rehab program, it was formally adopted by council in 1994. Um it looks at our pavement management as a program. It does the utility assessment. And then it looks at our funding. So, primarily these projects are funded from the street fund, which is our general tax levies. And then our stormwater fund and utility fund, which are fee-based. And there are no assessments for these projects. Uh further in the background, we evaluate a quarter of the city each uh year. So, in 4 years, we evaluate the entire city. Um just to split it up because it's a lot to do in 1 year. So, we make sure we continuously cycle. Once we get done with that 4 years, we start over again and just make sure we're continuously assessing. Uh we look at different scenarios on how to repair things uh as far as cost benefit. We look at upgrades to the systems. And then we look at how to use tax dollars. And then we have our utility assessment program. Uh we look at our age, conditions, uh past maintenance, and a number of different things. Um in this case, we have a number of strategies, but tonight before you is a full reconstruction. We do have a number of other strategies that we look at as well just to look at costs and how we do things with projects. Uh on the right of this, uh you can see our map that you've seen in the past as part of our CIP. And so, when we look at projects, we put together a 5-year plan. Um and we're always continuously planning as things change. Uh this project is located uh just to the southeast of Excelsior Boulevard and to the west of Baker Road uh near Glen Lake. Uh the existing conditions, as you can see, the pavement's deteriorating, but there's a number of utilities that drive these projects, such as water main, force main, sanitary sewer, uh as well as storm sewer that we look at for repairs. So, a lot of the stuff you don't see in these pictures, but we just kind of want to show uh what's going on in the neighborhood. Um if you I I know most of you have been out there, but just to show you a little bit of the background. Um our existing conditions are some very narrow streets in this neighborhood. They range from 16 ft, which is quite narrow, to 30. Uh they do have bituminous curb, and there's minimal storm sewer uh when the neighborhood was originally constructed. Uh as far as water main goes, uh there's 6-in water main generally. New water main would be 8-in to make sure we have adequate fire flows. Um there's a 24-in water main in this area that runs through the neighborhood as well as uh under 494 to make a connection to our east. There's aging sanitary sewer, so there's 8-in gravity sanitary sewer, aging manhole structures, and then we do have a lift station in this neighborhood as well that's connected through a 4-in force main. As far as proposed improvements go, we would look at replacing uh essentially the items I just mentioned. We would do a full street replacement, so we would dig out uh the gravel, the blacktop, everything, and replace it from scratch to make sure it's new. Um we would look at water main sanitary sewer replacement, stormwater management. There'd be some new stormwater features as well as new storm sewer that would go in the neighborhood, and then uh we did look at a trail consideration, which I'll talk about further in a second. As far as the street uh goes, we do look in some cases at a best fit just due to how narrow some of the streets are. It's very difficult to increase uh the width too much because of the impacts, which I'll talk about regarding the trail as well. In this case, we are looking at proposing 20 to 26 ft for streets. The city typical, if we were to build a new street, would be a 26-ft street, but we have in the past on other projects, such as Toka Woodcroft and Groveland, done less than 26 just because of impacts in the neighborhood and how we manage those impacts. We [snorts] would uh look at installing concrete curb and gutter. We would reduce the impervious area, improve water quality, and then we would look at drainage in the neighborhood as well just to make sure the improvements are taking place. This is just kind of an exhibit we generally show just to show what's going on under the pavement. As I mentioned before, there's a lot going on. Uh you can see there's storm sewer, water main, um sanitary sewer, all those things are happening that you don't see, which is part of the neighborhood. As far as utilities go, uh we would do a full water main replacement. Uh we would look at upsizing the 6-in lines to 8-in lines. Uh we would actually look at downsizing. Uh we do have a 24-in uh water main as mentioned that runs through the neighborhood. So, every time we do a project, we look at how uh the lines are needed. We have a a model that we run throughout the city, and we do actually reduce the lines if we don't feel like we need it cuz there's big costs associated with bigger lines. So, in this case, uh when we looked at the neighborhood and how things come together, we were very comfortable with reducing that to an 18-in instead of a 24. Um with the new pipe materials and other things too that helps us as well. So, we would look at making that reduction. Um there is a line that runs under 494. We would just look at lining that. So, we put a liner in the water main uh versus digging it up or putting in a casing and trenching across. So, it's a much easier, less um disruptive repair. We would replace hydrants, uh services to the property lines. Uh there's spot sanitary sewer repairs. And then uh when we looked at the sanitary sewer force main, uh it's currently a 4-in. We would replace that with a new 4-in. There's no reason to change the size of that when we did the analysis. Storm sewer, um our installation would be from a 15-in line to an 84-in, which is quite large. But we need to make sure we maintain the drainage. Um we would look at any street bonding that exists. Um in heavy events, look at decreasing the flood risk. And then improve the water quality. Uh in a number of different ways. We are working with Hennepin County currently to the west on some additional storage there, too. And that those that'll be ongoing during the design. Uh just some things we would be looking at as part of the project. We've shown these in the past. Just different stormwater features, buffer strips, retention swales, underground chambers. Just different ways we would treat stormwater to work with the watershed as well. Um as far as our stormwater improvements go, you can see on the left the existing storm sewer. Uh in green, we would look at to the right the the magenta color would be what we'd be looking at proposing for storm storm sewer in the neighborhood. Uh we do like our other projects, if residents would like a rain garden, we certainly work with them to do curb cuts and put in rain gardens on their property. They would need to maintain that, but it's something we offer through the neighborhood as well. As well as if we have other things for our stormwater features. In regards to the trail, the city does have a trail improvement plan which all of you are familiar with. There are two segments that fall in this neighborhood that are ranked number 65 and 67 out of 71. So they're certainly in the lower end of that trail improvement plan, but as part of our analysis in the feasibility report, we always look at the trails that are in that plan to see the feasibility of actually constructing them and what they would actually do if we were to construct them. So that was part of our analysis. Uh the first one uh We look at Excuse me, going back. This is the existing neighborhood. The red area would be the proposed area that we looked at. Uh the blue is existing and then the yellow is some of the Three Rivers work that's either taking place or could take place in the future. Uh trail segment 65 out of South 1 is along South Street from Mayview to County Road 60. This is one of the segments of the trail would be proposed along the north side of was of South Street, which was what we did on our analysis. This is kind of something we look at, so we actually put together an exhibit to look at the impacts when we were to do a feasibility like this. You know, we don't dig into the final design yet, but if you look at the top picture uh versus the bottom, the top would show kind of some of the existing conditions. It's a very narrow street currently, and that's some of the struggle that we run into or challenge when we look at a trail. You've seen trail projects in the past on Hopkins Crossroad or Plymouth Road or some of our bigger collectors. You know, we're generally starting with a much bigger area that's wider and easier to work with. Certainly in this case, um we start off with a much more narrow situation, which is some of the challenge that we run into, and I'll talk about it as we keep going. The other segment is 67. Um it's Kinzel Road Mayview from County Road 3 to Glenmore Park. Kind of similar. Um it's a a narrow area. Um if you look at the kind of the rendering that we've done to just look at how we would need a retaining wall, widen the road. In this case, the road is only 16 ft wide existing in a number of areas. It does vary slightly, but there would certainly be some impacts to the area um and additional easements that would be required as part of that. We did have two meetings with the neighborhood. The first was on May 12th. We talked about the project background, existing conditions, what's proposed, uh some of the trails as we looked at proposing them and doing an analysis, and then schedule. We did hold a second open house on June 16th in the park uh just to talk about some more information regarding the trails as we did receive a number of concerns from residents regarding the trail, so we did hold a follow-up meeting as well to take some more data from that meeting. Um at part of that sec- first meeting, excuse me, we did have an alternate uh that was suggested, so we did include that in our second neighborhood meeting as a potential third option to replace uh one of those other segments, and so we took feedback on that as well. And that was our connecting Glenmore Park to the regional trail. It's shown in purple, kind of wrapping around the south side of the neighborhood. Uh as part of the public engagement, we did, as you saw in your packet, uh we did take um feedback from residents on the three different segments that I've discussed and that we proposed. Uh the red is segment one, the blue is segment two, and the purple is segment three. And so we essentially just asked, "Would you like to see this trail, yes or no?" Just so we had that information as well as we worked on some of the feasibility. Um in our report, we did um at this time not recommend uh the trail segments primarily because starting out with such a narrow road is quite a challenge, and the impacts were greater than kind of what we've seen in the past. We We definitely understand the neighborhood um overall as a whole did not want this trail. We don't solely base it on that, certainly, because we're always looking long-term, but we do definitely factor that in. Um in this case, starting at a 16-ft road, trying to widen the road and then put the trail in um can be a challenge. We did look at different size trails and sidewalks, so we considered something less than eight. Uh we considered a six as well. The impacts are generally the same for the most part. We try not to go below the six um for maintenance purposes. You know, our equipment to get through there doesn't get really much less than six, and so that's kind of primary reason six is our minimum. We certainly could do less, but then it's much more difficult to actually maintain that sidewalk um in a quick timely manner in the future. Uh there is a structure that's within around 9 ft. You know, if we were to construct it, the structure itself got pretty close. Uh there were additional easements required. It doesn't provide uh the regional connection. You know, we look at the neighborhood like a Hopkins Crossroad or a Plymouth Road just as an example or Minnetonka Boulevard certainly doesn't make that same connection for the region. Uh these are definitely much lower volume streets, which is why they were likely ranked really low on the trail improvement plan, and so that's another one of the reasons uh that we're not recommending it at this time. As far as the park goes, there is certainly a park in the area. Um there was an existing storm sewer that runs under the playground and the basketball court. Uh we would just look at abandoning that at this time. We wouldn't want to dig that up. Certainly, we need a place for construction uh staging to take place. We would like to keep the playground open during construction. We would need to use some of the actual park itself for materials and other things because it's a very tight area. We would certainly restore that back to um what it was before if not better. And then we are looking at some of the stormwater features, evaluating the pond to see if the pond should expand. That would take place further in the final design. Overhead burial, we understand um there is a desire to bury it for an aesthetic purpose. Um in this case, we're not recommending the burial only because um somewhat cost. Um burial's very expensive um to add it to the project would be several million dollars, and it would be aesthetics primarily. I mean, certainly uh we would propose it if if we felt uh the funds that the city would provide us the money to do that at this time, but we've got a number of other priorities that are we're trying to balance at the same time. So, certainly power can be buried in the future. Uh there'd be impacts uh to like green space and other things, but it doesn't preclude this being a project in the in the future. It's not scheduled currently though, but I did want to mention that as well. Um easements is approximately 36 easements required. Some is for roadway, some is for water, some storm sewer. It just kind of depends on the area and what each is dealing with. There would be more if a trail would need to be or is desired to be considered. As far as impacts go, like other projects, uh we would keep access maintained. There certainly would be some exceptions during the actual installation of the utilities and then concrete curing when we would do curb and gutter and other things. We would maintain the garbage, mail, bussing services. They would all be maintained during the project. Uh we do have an inspector that would be on site during the project as well just to make sure things are going well. And then our construction hours are 7:00 to 10:00 Monday through Friday, 8:00 to 6:00 on Saturdays and no work on holidays. It's generally the contractors do not work past 5:00. We don't ever really see them work until 10:00 unless there's an emergency or some other. As far as impacts go, I mean we'll minimize tree impacts as much as we can like every project. Um [snorts] there are street, storm sewer, and utility service conflicts with some trees and so certainly we do um have to remove some. We'll certainly talk with property owners and make sure we're working with property owners and anything that does get impacted. And then we'll continue to reduce anything we can during design. Um we know that there'll be impacts, driveways, landscaping. Excuse me. Retaining walls, turf restoration, uh sprinklers, and pet fences. Uh we work with property owners on replacing those as well as uh they get impacted. You know, these are disruptive project. We always like to mention um there's certainly disruption, but it's something we need to do. Uh we need to get the water main replaced as well as the other utilities and the road. Uh we had the informational meetings. The second meeting as I mentioned before you tonight is your consideration for the feasibility report and to move forward into final design. If you decide to move forward, uh we would come back later looking to bid this winter and then construction would start in the spring of '27. Here's just some examples of other similar projects. On the left is before and then on the right is after. So we certainly try to make them look as close to the same as we can without disrupting as much as we can. Um our communications plan, you can see Kevin and Mitch in the photo. Uh they'll be working on this project uh just to make sure things uh run smoothly. Uh we did let everybody know that council was going to consider uh this project tonight uh through our updates on our project websites. Anybody that signed up got a notification that this would be considered tonight as well. Uh just stay connected. If anyone hasn't signed up yet, they can certainly call Kevin uh for his direct numbers on here. And that is well as uh if they'd like to sign up, they can sign up for project updates at any time on our website. So I won't read the recommendation again, but our recommendation tonight is as mentioned before. And with that I'll turn it back to the mayor and council for any questions. Thanks. >> Thank you, Mr. Manchester. Big project. Your details very much appreciated. Council, any questions? Councilmember Calvert. Thank you, Mayor. I have to find it cuz it was a 319-page report. >> [laughter] >> So there was a lot a lot to sift through. So um I just had a couple of little questions and it's just I mean, you know, there's so much to digest, but um on page 10, is that what it is? Um or 16 is your scroll, I believe, 4.2.4 management in the middle of the page. It talks about um, this existing storm water pond at Glenmore Park, and it talks about, um, the outlet from the pond is proposed to be up-sized in order to reduce the 100-year elevation in the pond and in turn reduce flood risk to adjacent prop- properties. And then it talks about manufactured treatment devices are proposed prior to Glen Lake at the outfalls located at Mayview. So, what what are those manufactured treatment devices versus other things? Mr. Manchester. >> Sure, Councilmember Calvert, Mayor and Council. Um, if I can find the photo here, it's some of those pictures I showed before, just underground storage, um, sump manholes, just different things that treat storm water, so we can take out the contaminants before it goes to the final outlet. Like right right here. >> Uh, a couple of pages later, maybe the very next page, it talks about, um, the recommended outlet, um, proposed for the basins, uh, I think it's 613 and 6 14 613 and 614, and the ultimate outlet of basin 614, yada yada yada, that uh, is proposed to go under Interstate 494 to an existing storm water pond, um, but that it's out of the existing project um, extents and, um, it's going to be in a future date. So, like how like what are what are we talking there? What's going to be involved in what's an idea of a timeline? >> Sure, Councilman Calvert, Mayor and Council. You know, we don't have it scheduled currently. It's something that we didn't feel we needed to add to the project. It won't affect any flooding or any or any potential flooding at this time. But, once it reaches the point we feel like it needs to be replaced, it'll be quite a project, certainly getting under 44, but it'd be a liner likely or something along those lines. >> Okay. Thank you. Council, any other questions? Okay, well, this isn't technically a public hearing, but this is a really big project. I know the neighborhood's been very engaged, so I will give an opportunity for some brief comments. Is there anybody who was just by I want to get a gauge by raise of hand um understanding the staff's recommendations. Is there anybody who wanted to provide comment tonight on this item? Oh. Okay, come on up. I'm going to ask you to keep it to 2 minutes or less, please. Provide your your name and address for the record. >> My name is William George and I live at 13519 South Street. And I do have a a few comments. First of all, I'd like to thank the city staff. They've been very responsive in helping us understand what the project was. There have been a number of surprises, though. Uh for myself, I live in the corner where the two proposed trails were coming together. Uh now those have been taken off the table, but it still remains that the the city wants to take some of my property on a permanent access or a permanent um >> easement >> Yeah, easement. Thank you. And I have a wildflower garden on that particular piece of property. And that's one of my concerns because that my entire hill will probably go when they construct the storm [snorts] water. Um uh So, the storm water is one of my big concerns. Is that I've lived in the neighborhood for 50 years. And we've never had a particular issue controlling the storm water. Water runs down the hill, runs underneath the street through a culvert. It trickles down a a city established rock ripple kind of thing into the Glen Lake. And so now the proposal is you're going to put the storm sewer in, which is going to encroach my property. Which there has not been a storm sewer pro- before this underground. And [clears throat] Let me So, the the the the storm sewer would encroach the encroach my property. I don't see how that's going to actually improve the water quality as stated in Glen Lake. Uh with these retention ponds and so forth. So, I would like an explanation on how it's going to improve water quality and how that's going to be measured. And the second thing is that the proposed concrete curb and gutter uh many of the neighborhood would like to see the asphalt bituminous curbing retained to give it the characteristic neighborhood that we have. Uh the argument by the city engineers was that it creates longevity for the road by putting concrete. And I'm going to challenge the city to demonstrate to us why that is true for narrow [snorts] roads with very minimal traffic because my understanding from most studies I've done on concrete curbs uh and uh bitmus uh [snorts] roadways, it's for larger higher traffic situations. So, as a neighborhood I can't speak for everybody, but I can speak for quite a few of the neighbors. We like the characteristic of our neighborhood. >> Thank you, Mr. George. Appreciate it. Uh I think I saw one one other hand come on up. If there's another person that wants to speak, I'd ask you to come up and wait in the chair right behind. Um the podium, otherwise we'll be done when there's nobody in that chair. >> Ann Farrell. 5658 7 Oaks Court. And first I want to thank council members Foster Bolton and the city for listening to the neighborhood concerns about the proposed trail routes. The recommendation not to include the routes along Kessel Mayview and and Glenmore and South Street is very encouraging. So, we appreciate that and we understand and support the need to replace and improve the aging water and utility infrastructure. That part of the project makes sense. What is harder to understand is the justification for widening neighborhood streets that are not through streets, that were not originally designed for standard width roads. So, the surrounding streets widening could be mean more and pervious surface, more impacts to yards, streets, driveways, and landscaping, and potentially faster traffic without a clear benefit to the residents who actually live there. And I'd like to better understand what problem the street widening is intended to solve, whether the narrow reconstruction option is just to sort of even out like the math on how much green space there is, and if that's very practical. Um we're also just want we're appreciating the continued communication and um feedback opportunities so that we can be informed about what's going to happen, the longevity, the impact, and um what to expect in terms of the construction duration, access, and and disruption. So, I understand that also finally burying the power lines may not be simple or inexpensive, but I would still would like to know whether there has been documented conversation between the city and Xcel and other utilities about coordinating that work while the streets are already being reconstructed. Um any Thank you again for improving the proposed uh removing I'm saying the the proposed trails from the recommendation and for continuing to work with us residents on the remaining design concerns. I appreciate the the communication and the opportunity for us to have feedback. Great. Thank you. All right, next up. Come on up. >> Good afternoon. Uh Joseph Herzog live at 5538 Mayview Road. And I'm at the corner that intersection where Phil George was talking of Mayview and South Street. The streets on the one picture you showed where what was before and what's now look pretty similar. If you go from South Street and look north after this project's done, a bulk of the trees are going to be removed, and we're going to have white stripe curb in there. I don't want the curb. We're going to lose our rural look widening the streets. Would we want that rural that asphalt curb? Again, it doesn't Bill George harped on that, mentioned that about we don't we don't want the concrete curb. Um I wish we could do more to keep trees. We talked earlier, you people talked earlier about how many trees we're planning. We're looking at cutting down 100-year-old trees. I don't know how old they are until you cut them. There's some people here, Bill George being one, and we got other people that have lived their whole lives here who would know how old these trees are. We'd like to keep those. Um I was kind of I couldn't believe we got proposed 7-ft diameter sewer pipe. A massive pipe when we don't even have one now. Um I don't I don't I can't imagine that's necessary. Um that's about it there. Keep the roads neat. We want to keep our our neighborhood. We don't want to turn it into a thoroughfare street. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Herzog. All right, I'm not seeing anybody in that chair, so I think we've covered everybody who wants to speak. So, we will bring it back to staff to just address a couple of the questions. So, uh Mr. Manchester, can you speak to I'm just going to list what I have in my notes. I've got water quality, um the kind of standard of curb, the justification for widening, and then just share a little bit about how the decisions are made or how the communication is done on power lines. >> Sure, Mayor and Council. Um as far as water quality goes, you know, these are difficult projects because a lot of this stuff isn't there already. So, any chance we can to hold water before it goes somewhere else is what we look at. So, certainly lower our areas uh we would work with residents, certainly, um just to make sure we're minimum impacts. And so, we don't want to do anything more than we can. The final design is not done and so we would certainly meet with residents too at this time as the design proceeds to try to minimize anything that's happening. As far as curb and gutter goes, we've had similar on other projects. Many years ago the council actually added it to a policy just for the the concrete curb and gutter just to it does improve the longevity of the road. It helps with a lot of our maintenance. I understand that the look is different for sure. It does fade out over time but I I totally understand it's not the same. It helps us build the road as we're doing it. Concrete curb certainly last much longer. The maintenance is much less. The look is different. So for example when the plows are plowing the road it's easier for them to find a concrete curb as well with the blade versus tear off an asphalt curb so it's helpful for that as well. As far as widening the roads we minimize it as much as we can. Where we can go to 26 feet we do. 20 feet is our minimum for our emergency services and so you know, [snorts] we try to keep stuff as similar as we can. If cars are parked on the side of the road in discussions with emergency services we we just make sure they can get through and so that's some of the widening associated with the streets. Certainly none of us were here when they built them originally. We wouldn't do it today for that reason essentially. And then finally as far as Xcel Energy we are in contact with Xcel Energy on a number of projects including this one. The cost we work with them on per mile cost. We're familiar with what it would cost. It's very high. We understand it would be something that's desired from the residents. It's just something that doesn't seem cost effective in this case. I mean certainly if if it was in the way and we needed to get out of the way it was something we would have to do but in this case that's why we've proposed to leave it. So hopefully that answered it. Certainly I answer anything further as well. >> Thank you, Mr. Manchester. I think it covered my notes. Council, is there any other questions before we bring this back for discussion? Um I'm going to go to Council member Maxwell. She had her hand up and hasn't down. >> Uh yeah, could you Mr. Manchester talk about the increase in the uh sewer from 15 to 84 in and what's necessitating that massive increase or five times increase? >> Sure, I'd have to look at specifics of the plan. It's probably not a a 15-in pipe going to an 84, but that's the range of pipe in the neighborhood. Um if we are proposing an 84, when we look at neighborhoods like this, um we look at flood storage for the future. You know, since this development was done, uh the stormwater through the watershed and you know, the the NOAA atmospheric atmospheric sciences, if I can say it, I still can't say it. Those numbers have increased and so we've gone uh a much higher rainfall. And so we're just planning and when we do a project like this, we're not going to do anything for hopefully 70 years uh for something like this and so it's something we're planning ahead for. It doesn't mean those pipes will run full all the time by any by any means, but it's certainly something where we've modeled the rainfall and that could potentially happen in the future as things change, as certainly cycles. So hopefully that answers it. >> Okay, Council member Calvert. Thank you, Mayor. I have just a few questions. On one of the pages it talked about paying preparing for uh stormwater event and it said 1.1 in and I'm I think it was I think it's 1 ft and 1 in. I'm thinking that it would be a 13-in event. event. >> Yeah, Council member Calvert, um essentially 1.1 in is what we treat for stormwater. So for water quality, we we treat the first 1.1 in. >> Okay. >> Um as far as like a flood storage, a lot of the times, um, there's a freeboard number of 1 ft. So, that's factors in as well, too. >> Okay. And then, um, in terms of I just wanted It's hard to It's been a little bit hard for me to hear you, so I don't know how people in the audience, um, you you you are very soft-spoken, gentleman. Um, but I just speaking about the, um, water quality, you know, what I read in the report, um, was that there's a lot of just sort of free-flowing right into Glen Lake, and it is really deteriorating the water quality. So, uh, what what the stormwater management, as I understand it, to paraphrase what Mr. Manchester was talking about, is that you can collect the stormwater, it can sit it can filt it kind of let some of the sediment settle out of it, and also, depending on what the what the um, mechanical, um, uh, devices, it can also get some of the contaminants out of it before it flows in to the lake. And our lakes are like Glen Lake is very compromised. And, um, so some people don't want to accept it, but I mean, we do salt our roads. That goes right into the lake, and all our lakes are becoming salinated. So, um, you know, it does it does change our neighborhoods, but it does also protect our habitats, and Glen Lake is a habitat. Um, uh, also, I did have a question about So, the about the curbs, and I know that people all over Minnetonka kind of mourn the loss sometimes of the country lane look. And again, you know, it can have water quality issues because the dirt on the side of the road just kind of runs down the road and it, you know, all those particulates end up in the water and again, compromises our water. However, I always do wonder, we have the sort of square curbs and then we have those ribbon curbs and I was wondering, has any consideration There was at least one question in the packet from a from a resident about at least having curb cuts because there are a lot of turtles there, but I'm also just wondering about why not ribbon um curbs versus the square curbs. >> Sure, Councilmember Calvert. Um we do look at some of the ribbon curbs, so that would be where the water would essentially just flow off the curb. Um we generally don't use it where we, you know, there's runoff issues and other things that go with it. So, we generally use the the higher back curb just to control the storm water. So, we treat that as part of our storm water system and, you know, as of right now, there's a lot of different areas, like you mentioned, where storm water will just run off and go different places. This way we can control it and actually treat it. Generally, is why we use the higher back. >> And then, just to address the turtle issue, is there and due to make sure that our little turtles can get up and down the curbs? >> Sure, Councilmember Calvert. You know, generally, a turtle can climb a curb. I've seen it cuz I've wanted to make sure I I know. I mean, certainly, if there's smaller ones, um but there are driveway openings and other openings that they can travel along. So, a lot of times they can travel along the curb and get to a driveway. >> Thank you. All right, Council, other comment or comments about this project? Councilmember Remley? >> Yeah, I just had a a quick question or two quick questions. Um, so you're saying that the ribbon curbs are to go back to that but um, basically you can't channel and control the water and get it to treatment, you know, where it needs to go so it can be you know, treated held whatever before being released. >> Uh, Council member Remley mayor sometimes you can. I mean certainly we'll look at that as we do this this project. We've used it in other places uh, but generally yes if you're trying to control it it's much more difficult. >> Yeah, I remember we also looked at this for Excelsior Boulevard same reasons. Okay. And then um, for the power burial. I mean I guess I you know, the costs have gone up exponentially for that um, recently unfortunately. Um, so I guess it would be um, you know, the option for the neighborhood would be uh, if they wanted to do that and there's enough people who wanted that um, is there a way to do a special assessment where you know, they pay those costs? Would the city be willing to consider that? >> Um, Council member Remley mayor Council I think it's always an option. Certainly I defer to Mr. Funk if he has a different opinion but yeah, we the city will assess for petitioned improvements. >> Okay. Great. Thank you. Just wanted to see if that would be an option if enough residents wanted to do that to do a special assessment of that for over the years because it's just yeah, like you said it's very difficult right now to balance um, those budgets when you've had up to 100% increase in cost for um, power line burial. Thank you. Council member Foster Bolten. >> Just to follow up on that. Do do you know like how much more it would be like if if there was how much would the residents do you even have just a ballpark? I mean 100% is a lot. >> Uh, Council member Foster Bolten mayor and Council I it'd be likely I mean we're we're looking at over a million dollars a mile right now on burial. So, I'd have to do the math on it. I don't recall the number. But, uh we could certainly get that number. >> A million dollars a mile, I just want to be clear. >> Roughly. Sometimes more, sometimes sometimes less, but >> Thank you. >> right in that ballpark. >> All right. Council member Wilburn. All right. I swear I was going to talk about this before everyone else did. Um but, so just I was just going to say that it's unfortunate that we can't do the the the the power the utility burial. Um and that there's more advantages to just aesthetics. Um as to there's more reasons to bury the lines and I know that we've we've talked about the increased cost when we're looking at the Opus projects and and what's going on. And so, I don't know if there's things that we can do as a city and as a council to maybe talk to our legislators. I know that we've been talking to Excel, but it it almost seems like there's some some price gouging going on. Um so, like if there's anything we can do to to bring the cost down cuz it's unfortunate that it we're going to be you know, start looking at leaving that out of projects and then going back later, it's not it's not going to be cheaper. So. All right, Council. Let's um So, we have the the issue at hand is the motion to adopt the resolution receiving the feasibility report. And um so, what are the comments about this project and and how we and are we comfortable moving forward here based on this preliminary information? Council member Fastor Bolton. >> Yeah, I I really support the project. And I want to commend the neighbors. I mean, I met with them on Memorial Weekend, which usually people are out of town, so I did not expect the crowd that was there, and I was impressed. Um with the neighborhood engagement and how important this is. Um and I think you know, a lot of a lot of the letters and the emails that you sent um helped. And I also wanted to um really um appreciate the engineering department. Um I think you guys really reached out and listened to the neighbors during that time after the the initial meeting and um the meeting in the park. I mean, there were like 50 people there. Um so and your patience and just explaining it. Um I think that all in all, this is a project that was it's a huge project, an expensive project. You can't please everybody, but I think that um that we did a really I think we worked really well with the residents, and the residents really hung in there um to stick up for their for their um neighborhood, so but I support this. >> Thank you. Council Member Calvert. >> Yeah, I agree with everything that Council Member Foster Bolton just said, and I I just want to say a couple of things to on top of it. One is you know, sometimes and this is not one of those times, but sometimes residents kind of have this idea that we've made up our minds and we're just going to shove some project down people's throats, and this is a perfect example of actually how we normally operate that we do try to listen, and that input really matters, and that people in neighborhoods can help shape a project into something that that works better for them and and ultimately improves the project. And really helped, you know, council members and staff understand, you know, why maybe trails didn't make sense in that particular neighborhood or in certain sections of the neighborhood. And you know, there are such good reasons to build trails, but maybe not right there. So, um and I just want to commend the staff for really listening to the feedback, really shaping the project. And you know, this is going to be a huge undertaking and clearly, I mean, a 319-page feasibility study um just kudos to everybody that put that together. And then um you know, every single bit of feedback was included in it. And um I thought everything was explained. I mean, I am not an engineer and I got a basic idea of exactly everything that's going into it. And it's just kind of mind-boggling. Um this is just one little neighborhood in a 28.22 square-mile city. And so, just thanks in advance um to staff and all of the people that are going to do this. And I just want to, you know, I'm going to have a big project in front of my house when the three rivers park district trail goes in front of my house. So, I hang in there. We're going to go through it together cuz it's not going to be fun, but um it's really important to maintain our water quality and um improve the um the condition of our roads. >> Thank you, Councilmember Calvert. Any other perspective or anybody else? Okay. Well, great. I will just mention two things. The first is I agree with Councilmember Calvert. This is a case study on how these um projects should come to us and and how they do, how we endeavor to work with staff and the residents and get the project right. Um and so really appreciate that. Really appreciate the professionalism and the staff report was was was great. The second thing I want to indicate is for today, some of these things maybe seem like overkill or or that we've gone too far and we are not building these roads for today and what we need today. We're building these roads for what? Two generations from now. People who are living in these houses, we don't want to one have to add infrastructure to meet the times. We want to anticipate what the times will call for in developing infrastructure and we just have some really good idea about what the future is going to look like. And two, you know, we work and we talked a lot about it tonight about public safety and that includes access to people when they had need emergency services. It means allowing for if we're not going to have trails, allowing for a wide enough road that uh somebody can be on their bike and we can they can cars can safely pass by. So will that change somewhat um the feel of the neighborhood? I think it will somewhat, but I think you'll be surprised at what a good job staff does in planning these and they're going to spend the next six to 10 months working on planning this to make sure that the impacts are minimal and that it's not going to be too disruptive. The project will be disruptive, but hopefully the end product will allow you to continue enjoy your neighborhood as you are now. So with that, I would take a motion. Um Councilmember Foster Bolton. >> I'll motion to adopt the attached resolution receiving the feasibility report, which does not include trails along Kinzel Road, maybe Road, Glenmore Road, West and South Street. Ordering the improvements, authorizing preparations of plans and specifications, and authorizing easement acquisition for the Kinzel neighborhood reconstruction project number 27602. >> Thank you. And a second? Councilmember Wilbern. >> I'll second. >> All right. We have a motion by Councilmember Foster-Bolton, a second by Councilmember Wilbern. Ms. Araki, please call roll. >> Maxwell? >> Yes. >> Wilbern? >> Yes. >> Calvert? >> Yes. >> Ramelay? >> Yes. >> Koehler-Ashley? >> Yes. >> Foster-Bolton? >> Yes. >> Shaq? >> Yes. Motion carries. Thanks everybody for hanging in with us on this one and for your engagement and staff will continue to be in touch because this is just the beginning. So, Council, if you can hang with me, we'll get through the rest of this agenda and the next and get out of here in a couple of minutes. I know it's time for a break, but we're just going to plow through. On item 15, which is appointments and reappointments, a 15A is a planning commission appointment. Um Let me pull it up here. And Mr. Funk. >> Thank you, Mayor. In front of you this evening is a recommended action to approve Hindi Abdi's appointment to the planning commission. As you know, there's a planning commission vacancy. The City Council did interview candidates here recently and Mayor Shaq reviewed the input from Council and makes a recommendation to approve the person I just noted for the term for the planning commission. It's a very short report. So, straightforward action here this evening being recommended. Thank you. >> Excellent. Thank you, Mr. Funk, and I'll just indicate that we did confirm we've currently got one vacancy on the Planning Commission, so we're filling that. We recognize that we're doing some work with other boards and commissions, um, just getting some of the their ordinances aligned with how they're operating, and so that's going to come to us in the next Council meeting, I believe. So, folks have questions about where things stand relative to other boards and commissions, they can stay tuned for that. So, with that, I will make the motion to appoint Hindi Abdi to the Planning Commission. And Councilmember Foster Bolton? >> I'll second. >> So, a motion by the mayor, a second by Councilmember Foster Bolton. Ms. Araki, please call roll. >> Maxwell? >> Yes. >> Wilburn? >> Yes. >> Calvert? >> Yes. >> Remaley? >> Yes. >> Conkly? >> Yes. >> Foster Bolton? >> Yes. >> Schack? >> Yes. Motion carries. Item 16 is adjournment. Councilmember Wilburn? >> I move adjournment. >> And Councilmember Calvert? >> Second. >> Motion by Councilmember Wilburn, a second by Councilmember Calvert. All in favor? >> Aye. >> Aye. >> Motion carries. We are adjourned. Turning the page to the, uh, EDAC, or excuse me, EDA. So, I will, uh, Tonight is Monday, August 10th. It is This is a meeting of the Minnetonka Economic Development Authority. I will call this meeting to order. Ms. Araki, please call roll. >> Wilburn? >> Here. >> Calvert? >> Here. >> Remaley? >> Here. >> Conkly? >> Here. >> Foster Bolton? >> Here. >> Maxwell? >> Here. >> Schack? >> Here. Item two, or excuse me, item three, approval of the agenda. Ms. Wishnak? >> No changes. >> I'll take a motion to approve the agenda. Commissioner Maxwell? >> I move approval of the agenda. >> And Commissioner Wilburn? >> Second. >> Motion by Commissioner Maxwell, second by Commissioner Wilburn. Ms. Araki, please call roll. >> Wilburn. >> Yes. >> Calvert. >> Yes. >> Romilly. >> Yes. >> Cochley. >> Yes. >> Foster-Bolton. >> Yes. >> Maxwell. >> Yes. >> Shack. >> Yes, motion carries. Item four, approval of the minutes. We have one set of minutes. 4A, the July 13th, 2026 EDA meeting minutes. Take a motion to approve the minutes. Council member Calvert. >> I make the motion to approve the July 13th, 2026 EDA meeting minutes. >> Council member Romilly. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Council member Calvert, a second by excuse me, Commissioner Calvert, a second by Commissioner Romilly. Ms. Araki, please call roll. >> Wilburn. >> Yes. >> Calvert. >> Yes. >> Romilly. >> Yes. >> Cochley. >> Yes. >> Foster-Bolton. >> Yes. >> Maxwell. >> Yes. >> Shack. >> Yes, motion carries. Item five, business items. 5A, Marsh 2 collateral assignment. Ms. Wishnak. >> Thank you, uh, President and Commissioners. This is a short report on a project that happened quite a while ago. So, for your memory, uh, this is 197 units of rental housing right along 394, and it had 40 affordable units in the building. Uh, to secure that, uh, affordable housing, you did issue 4.6 million in tax increment financing. So, it's just like a home construction when you have a construction loan, that's usually turned into permanent financing. That's what's happening here. It's Wells Fargo that is becoming the lender. And when the bank is the lender, they ask the developer and the ownership group to assign their rights under the tax increment financing contract with the city. And that's what the collateral assignment is all about. So, we do recommend approval of the, uh, uh, resolution, excuse me, approving the collateral assignment for the contract for private redevelopment and the TIF note with Minnetonka Marsh LLC and Wells Fargo Bank. Thank you, President and Commissioner. >> Thank you, Ms. Ushnak. Any questions or comments on this one? Pretty straightforward. All right, I'll take a motion. Council or Commissioner Calvert. >> Thank you, Madam President. I move approval of the resolution approving a collateral assignment of contract for private redevelopment and TIF note with Minnetonka Marsh LLC and Wells Fargo Bank National Association. >> And a second, Commissioner Maxwell. >> I second the motion. >> I have a motion by Commissioner Calvert and a second by Commissioner Maxwell. Ms. Araki, please call roll. >> Wilbern. >> Yes. >> Calvert. >> Yes. >> Remaley. >> Yes. >> Cochley. >> Yes. >> Foster Botlon. >> Yes. >> Maxwell. >> Yes. >> Schack. >> Yes. Motion carries. >> Item six is adjournment. Commissioner Wilbern. >> I move adjournment. >> Thank you. And Commissioner Calvert. >> Second. >> Motion by Commissioner Wilbern and a second by Commissioner Calvert. All in favor. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> We are adjourned. Thank you.