all right it is H 7 o' are you all logged in and ready to go for sure all right so I'm I'm going to call the meeting to order and I need to get to the right screen here um today is today is May 20th and this is the regular city council meeting for Minista and in first order of business if you have cell phones please put them on silent airplane mode whatever so they don't disrupt the meeting and then second would you please join me in Pledge of Allegiance ALG to the flag of the United States of America and to the repic for it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all so welcome everyone I'm going to start with um introductions I'm Lisa wh I'm the mayor and to my left our council members Kathleen rkin an McGregor Peter vicory Claudia Lacy and then staff present this evening is Alison fski with WSB our city engineer um then we have I was going to say Peter Gary Peters director of Public Works and then um Al Ali paulus who is a director of administration and then we have an meerhoff who is our uh city clerk as well as our minute and then to my right we have Jasper kral who is our city administrator Brian Grim our finance director Sarah s Salah who is our with Kennedy engraven and our legal counsel and then we have our director of Public Safety or our police chief Paul Falls with that are there any changes or additions to the agenda hearing none is there a motion to approve the agenda as presented so move thank you Miss Lacy is there a second second thank you Miss rekin um further questions hearing none all those in favor signify with i i i all those opposed motion passes next we have um so this evening we do have a special presentation it'll be really fun I always say that there's a lot of people here for this drum rolls please so we have our audit um our 2023 audit presentation and we have um one of an individual from Clifton Larson Allen and it's l which one Luke Lucas Lucas thank you so please thank you for joining us all right thank you for having me um thank you H mayor and members of the city council uh for having me here I'm Lucas Chase director on the audit been on the audit however since we've had the audit many years that is Sever years here um a big thank you thank you to everyone involved you know Brian and his team Jasper Andie Rene everybody else there's a lot of hours that go into these audits a lot of collaboration and it was another great another great one and you can see looking at your letters it's all pretty much boiler plate language because there's no findings and that's that's always always great and helps keep things division as well uh on our agenda here you can see I'm going going through your required Communications those in your governance letter essentially just kind of a short slide on what You' see in that letter as well as some audit results that you'll see you're audit opinion control letter compliance things like that and then some plant results and some other Mis slous items coming up uh to expect from next year time first required Communications remember that the DAT provides reasonable but on absolute Assurance we do a risk based audit so we look at significant audit areas and areas of risk um focus on those and then uh other than that we we provide uh we do a test of of control we don't provide on Effectiveness but rather the design of those controls and then those signant aors do tests if we find issues then that's where we report report control findings um so just some reminders there and also remember that these fash STS do include some management estimates and the numbers uh you'll see this this little sub bullet here is a little different than last year because there was a new audit standard this year related to estimates we had to pull some of that testing up into our planning process um and then and determine if there are any higher risk estimates and you can see there weren't any any estimates that were considered higher risk um you know have your Investments your compounds calculations your your pension allocations things like that nothing too too crazy uh you do have a really small opep liability that normally some other cities you might see us upon a higher risk but since it's so immaterial to the city uh we didn't list any any higher risk estimates here uh also of note this year there's a lot of time put in by management and in the city and then us as well testing two new audits or Accounting Standards I should say gby 96 which is basically the least standard but for it agreements uh so any over a year uh that that you have right to use some software you'd be booking some things and we went through a lot of agreements there determined n are applicable and then one that's a little less common that you'll see applying that we did still have to do some inquiries review your minutes um is if you have any Public Public public private Partnerships service concession Arrangements things like that where um you might have to be booking any receivables to put flow so went through some testing there and determined there's nothing applicable that would affect your finan stat and then you probably already know by now but required to communicate receive the full cooperation management your audit results so this is kind of a pretty short slide but pretty important one um what you hire is for is their audit opinion that's that first bullet there you got to unmodified or clean audit opinion that's the best best we can provide so that's that's what you're looking for and that's commendable as I mentioned before we have an internal control letter you might hear call it a yellow book letter because you do have a yellow book audit which is a little bit higher than just a standard audit you know people have work on this they have to meet certain CPE requirements even specific to gby um de just work on it and uh in that letter if we noted any issues we'd report it and there were no exceptions noted also we provided a m compliance letter based off in the osa's M comp audit guide covers seven different areas it's several Pages we do a lot of tests related to that we look at timely payments you look at your bids you you look like your collateral of your your deposits things like that and it's it's a decent amount of testing went through all that and there's no exceptions noted which is very commendable it's a very common way to have findings if you look at other cities what can I ask you what kind of findings do you find in other cities for instance um the the most common one timely payment of of invoices just you know they have to wait you know if they have one meeting a month they cut the checks and timing invoices you'll end up the late payment it's pretty common one B bid laws you'll run into some issue sometimes to okay some upcoming emerging issues more this is just upcoming gby standards um these will both be applicable next year's audit and kind of under technically your current accounting butum is probably out next year uh first is gby 100 it's just a county of changes error Corrections making it more consistent how everybody's disclosing and accounting for those um and one new thing which normally we're un expecting errors but one new thing you will see for example this is if you have some a fund changing from a non- major fund the base of statements is a major fund or the opposite direction we're required to then have disclosures for that going forward and reconciling tables so that's one one effect you'll see from that nothing too major there uh also next year is some changes in how you're booking your compensated advances your your vacation your si time your PTO comp time um little bit change in how that's interpreted the old standard gby 16 right this gby was written before the whole concept of PTO and comp time um second safe time things like that so it basically just called out second vacation vacation you booked if you had a balance sck you only booked it if you paid it out on termination this is going to make it a little bit closer to vacation if you earn it that's going to be paid out termination or taken at six time or P whatever you have you have to estimate a liability so you could increase your liability a little bit there um when we're looking at it with management doesn't seem like it' be too big of effect but uh you might see a little bit slight increase there next year these next few slides are going to be Financial results slides so this one if you're looking at it's five years of your general fund unassigned fund balance the bar is your dollar month showing with with the Y AIS on the left showing the dollar months and then and the line is fund balance as a percent of your expenditures so you can kind of see you had some plann spend Downs in 21 and 22 in 2020 you guys actually had a budgeted spend down but he had uptick there because you had those arpa funds coming in with covid-19 you able to kind of assign those to your Public Safety W that think you guys reported against so that helped fund balance in 2020 and then between 22 and 23 actually stayed pretty consistent yet had a slight increase increase from 41 to 43% there um um of note this is just your unassigned fund balance right you have you have total fund balance that increased a little bit more than your unassigned but some of that extra increases for a restricted category for that Public Safety Aid that do this year so you have $200,000 basically your your total fund balance increased 200,000 more than you're un assigned because of that Public Safety Aid and but if you do look at that you had 51% of of expenditures and total fund balances compared to 43% in unassigned so this one's looking at your general fund Revenue it's it's it's percentage as of totals um so you can kind of look at the the various colors with taxes on the left working your way over to licens and permits governmental uh uses and then other revenues uh big note other revenues includes your investment income so you look at 22 wasn't a great investing year you have an outlier that orange is over on the negative side the opposite side of that y AIS so 22 is kind of a strange year we had investment losses this year we had a investment gain so you had a basically a swing of 635,000 there to increase that that orange uh to the positive side and you know of course taxes your primary revenue still but as a proportion it went way down because you had increases in pretty much all the other categories so um your investment com as I mentioned increase license and permits another strong year there right you had two commercial properties going on that that that'll help boost those up and you stay strong and your residential permits and then intergovernmental if you look at that in here uh that also had increase about 320,000 that's a public safety a that 200,000 we mentioned before and then you had some increases in your drug task force revenues okay similar slide now for expenditures in your general fund this is this is almost you know not a whole lot say because it's very consistent as a percent of total by Department in the last five years so that's that's a great to see and makes prettyy predictable and you know great great way to budget too much I noted on that one unless there's questions now this one is just kind of combination all the previous slides in one um so you can see the the dark blue navy blue is your unassigned fund balance that that yellow um in there that's going to be your revenue and then to the far R your expenditures the last five years you can see there kind of uptick we mentioned before in 2020 revenues that Federal funding coming in excuse me and then um you know expenditures slightly exceeded revenues in 21 and 22 that was planned spent down that fund balance so that that navy blue dark blue uh fund balance was coming down then you had to uptick here in 23 that increase in fund balance we mentioned before so your your total fund balance increased 5 171,000 or 22.5% um but you're on a sign portion of that increase about 39 6,000 expenditures increased uh about 667,000 you guys had your union agreement changes there wage increases over time you know you had an increase in your fire contracts and then just kind of inflationary pressures in general uh increase that but your your revenues increased more than your expensers increase so still had that increase in fund balance now getting into your your primary Enterprise box water sewer storm water this is looking at under restricted uh net position so we're we're dropping your net investment Capital assets because that's kind of sat there and it's it's already spent on those Capital assets so if you look at this you can see your water net position kind of took a nice jump up back up to the 2019 levels with your your increases in rates and water usage and and adjustments to your tiers to help with water conservation right um You can see that you had a little bit of a increase in storm water build up that fun balance for future projects and then uh sewer remain relatively consistent with the previous two years so that's kind of just stayed status quo from the previous two years this is a little closer look at the water fund now um so you can see the the top red line is your offering income if you add back in depreciation kind of get closer to cash basis because we've already expended those funds so it's be kind of closer if you're looking at your operating your cash flows and your cash flow statement the green one on the bottom that's your actual operating income you'll see in your statements Last 5 Years and then you have your operating revenues on the left and then the light blue one is your operating expense expenses so if you look at that you can see we did uh have positive operating income last two years and positive cash flows and if you had positive operating cash flows all five years but uh weren't quite covering that depreciation expense in the previous three years okay all right same slide for the sewer fund now um so you had a a you know slight operating losses for all the past 5 years but if you add back in know that depreciation you had positive cash flows so you're going to kind of slight losses there but you're Bas almost covering that depreciation expense um so just you know maybe slight adjustments there and you could be just above you know positive operating revenues pretty close last five years there there we go storm water fund same slide uh so you had operating losses have been you know steadily improving but you have had losses in that that green line the red line you add in appreciation you know because you're so close to Breaking of course you had positive cash flows once you add in appreciation so you had an operating loss about 10 grand 2 went down to oper L about 5 grand 23 you can see positive cash flow from operations overall Last 5 Years now this slide looks at your debt service um before kind of looking at the this year and the next five years some notes on the bottom so remember you know we did we did Issue the 2023 Bond so that's almost 7 million there we issued in April of 23 uh your your total debt in 22 was 17,360 544 and then that went up to 22,5 47364 in 23 and you paid principal of 1.6 million during 23 so then if you look at that that affected that new Bond you have a initial increase in debt service for the next couple years but then that tapers off pretty quickly you have your PFA bonds are are going to be schedul to mature in 24 paying those off then your 2028 equipment shts are going to be uh paid off 26 and then you have 12a and 14a bonds scheduled pay off 27 so then you kind of come right back down to normal by about 28 29 and you know if you plan to pay off anything earlier then of course they'll adjust the schedule now this looking at this right see in 2022 there this is per capita data from osa's data of course other cities don't have their audits in their their state reporting forms things that in so we're using 22 data here and we had asked to get this cuz actually I don't think it's fully posted yet on their website but we did get some data here uh kind of comparing your per capita taxes to your you're kind of pure neighboring comparable cities and you're you're at least in 22 you're below kind of you're pure neighboring CI in so some interesting data there then here's a per capita slide on your current expenditures uh so this will back out capital and debt uh and then on a per capita basis you know take this for what it's worth because each city has different needs it varies year to year but you can see here you're pretty comparable to the the CI on the right and you get a couple outliers there well blow up uh any questions I can address I don't see any F glazing over so that's good lot of information but um good uh good chart and yeah yeah thank you and it sounds like staff did a great job as well so kudos to you and uh we're we're in good shape so thank you thank you all right so um we don't have any persons to be heard signed up so we'll move on to our consent agenda items they consist approve our work session meeting minutes from May 6 approve our city council regular meeting minutes from May 6th 202 for uh C is approve our claims and D is approve a transfer to close out 2014a Debt Service fund fund number 526 and then e is approve at allocation of the Surplus from the fire contract is there a motion to approve those a through e so much thank you Mr vicory is there a second second thank you Miss McGregor any further questions hearing none all those in favor signify with i i all those osed motion passes 5 we have no public hearings so we'll move on to our business items so uh first we're going to start with our um consider Personnel actions yes one request could we get a motion to accept the audit before we move oh I'm sorry yes I'm sorry um so is there a motion to receive and accept the 2023 Financial audit someone thank you Miss rekin is there a second second thank you Miss McGregor any further questions hearing none all those in favor signify with i i all those opposed motion passes fiveable thank you Alie no thank you all right um so there are multiple personal action items so I'll just kind of go over each of them briefly as we discuss them in depth at our last meeting the first two actions proposed are promotions for our associate accountant and our customer service representative the Personnel committee is recommending the asso the associate accountant deput City clerk be promoted to senior accountant Deputy Clerk and the customer ser service representative be promoted to Administrative Assistant these positions have been evaluated and scored and there's a 10% wage increase proposed staff has evaluated um the market data for these positions and the new wages are in line with the market the next two actions are Market adjustments for director of Public Works and director of Public Safety the 2024 Market data pulled for these two positions indicated that they were significantly below Market the Personnel committee is proposing a 10% increase for both of these positions to more closely align with the market and better retain our staff the total impact of these changes if effective um midye July 1 2024 is about $20,000 which is proposed to be funded through the Surplus from several open positions so far this year and I do know these adjustments are very appreciated by staff and by contining to do these and evaluating the market it will help in retaining our quality employees so those are the first four if we want to do do you want me to do the deputy chief right along with it sure go ahead okay yeah um this is a succession planning item Lieutenant Squires has been identified as an incumbent for the director of Public Safety position and staff has begun succession planning for Paul Paul's retirement the Personnel committee feels there is a need for a transition period fromen to um director of Public Safety originally we were going to propose this transition be um effective January 1 of 2025 but at the last meeting Council requested that this item be brought for approval today um this position will be non-union and staff has evaluated the position and proposes entering Squires into the 2024 pay plan at a grade 10 step seven which is about a 5% increase from its current wage and it also aligns with the market data for the second and command positions in surrounding departments the budget impact of this change if implemented mid year is about $3,000 so in total $23,000 for all those changes thank you Miss paos so um I just want to make a couple comments recently um council member McGregor and I were talking and she mentioned that we've really gotten a lot accomplished over the last 3 and a half years and I I told her my my comment back back was I agree and uh one of the reasons is because we have an excellent excellent staff and um in fact I I even commented and I I mean this sincerely we've had many good um great employees over the years but I do believe that we have the best team in place right now and it's because of your dedication and your hard work that we are able to accomplish so much in our city and accomplish it in a very um favorable manner or too and um so I really appreciate our staff and at our state of the city address I did mention to our residents said yes our um your taxes are increasing Prim one of the big um reasons is because we're paying our staff what they um what they should be paid and so I'm that's just my comments I think you guys do a great job thank [Applause] you any other questions or comments okay okay so I'm um asking for so I need approval um of promoting do you want it separate all together all in one motion is fine if you just can list them all up all right so the motion would be approval of promoting um accountant Deputy clerk to senior accountant Deputy clerk um with a proposed pay adjustment for Angie B and number two would be approval of promotion of customer service assist assistant to Administrative Assistant for Darcy ainson these would be a effect of July 1st and then also approval of a market adjustment for director of Public Works Gary Peters effect of July 1st and also approval of a market adjustment for director of Public Safety Paul Falls effective July 1st and then consider um and then the succession planning action would be approval of promoting a lieutenant to Deputy police chief with proposed pay adjustment for Craig Craig Squire's effective July 1st 2024 do I have a motion to the all of that so move thank you Miss Lacy do I have a second second thank you miss rekin any questions comments hearing none all those in favor signify with i i all those opposed motion passes 5 o thank you very much and keep up the good work all right next we move on to our pavement maintenance Pro um yes M maintenance project city project number 0224 thank you mayor wh members of council um this evening I'm pleased to present to you uh the results of two quote packages that went out for pavement maintenance and and I do apologize the maps um I did not include those in the in the packet um but we looked at this back in March uh was when Council authorized us to prepare and distribute the quote packages uh we did receive three quotes for each of the proposed projects um the crack fill and seal coat uh we have throughout uh throughout the city we have um some over in Maple Forest um up on the North side as well and then we're also looking at Sam Mar's and Woodland Cove and then we're also uh doing some um crack fill seal coat in on water set um smies in Woodland Cove and then doing some reclamite down um in the project area that we did in 2024 so we had two quote packages um because reclamite tends to be a little more of a specialty or rejuvenator tends to be more of a specialty product so we we bid it out as packages um and included in your packet is that summary we had three um three companies respond to each um each quote package um included on page 197 of your packet uh Pearson Brothers is the low quote for the crack fill and seal coat and corrective asphalt is the low for reclamite um they are both under the estimated um cost for each component of the pavement management uh project for this year um um they've both performed well um on past projects and we are recommending that the council award U the the contracts for the uh pavement management project this year thank thank you Miss fski um question Pearson Brothers have they done work in the city before okay so you're familiar with them and they're good yeah they're very good okay and then also um corrective asphalt I haven't heard of them so um last year they yeah they do last year will if I may so um the reite components is is kind of relatively new to the city's um Arsenal if you will of of pavment management and corrective asphalt um has provided quite an extensive history with um Public Works director Peters um and they did last year's project so um we are very confident in their ability to perform the work here and just explain really quick once again what's the difference between crack seal and and and and then the reclamite sure so um should say um yeah I'll go through all of them thank you for asking you don't have to go through all of them just just it'll be quick so crack fill when you see the cracks on the surface of the pavement they're blown all the debrises blown out and they put a sealer in those cracks um a seal coat is um like a a tack of some sort that's spread across the the the roadway surface and then little chips Rock chips are put on top um it stays in place for a few days and then the rocks are swept up um reclamite is it's what they call a rejuvenator so I I can tell you the 10,000 ft level cuz that's all I understand to but um and what do they do is they apply the the material to the surface and it and it replenishes the asphalt that's in place in the mix in the pavement and so it helps keep that pavement flexible because when that pavement becomes hard and and isn't flexing anymore that's when we start to get breaking so there's been a number of um test locations for re through the city and Public Works director Peters is is happy with the performance and so we continue to look at options to um to use that reite okay similar it' be similar to treating like your deck with like a water sealant you almost where it soaks in it helps repel water it rejuven you know kind of seals up the wood more and puts that protected burrier but you know like I said it actually it it can penetrate in there makes it and uh keeps the um from um drying deteriorating it keeps that asphalt from deteriorating in the Sun and stuff like that from getting beat up so it really helps PR on the life yeah okay and then um some of these um I think would be covered by um our escrow accounts is that correct or uh in the Woodland Cove area Woodland Cove will be yes are we getting enough money to cover this in our escrow do you know I think we changed it now to state that that it is at the market value I believe is what is in now in place cuz don't we take the escrow like a couple years ahead a time so we take it with the development agreement so I mean usually I think we've I think we've done an okay job of making sure we get enough to to get the respective development areas or respective targeted streets so it seems like it's matched up pretty well okay I just want to make sure that we're es growing enough yeah okay all right any any other questions and hearing none is there a motion to let's see to um accept the quotes an award contract the uh contracts for the city project number any other questions hearing none all those in favor signify with i i all those opposed motion passes by V and then um next accept the bids and award a contract for the M Municipal production of Wells 8 and N mam May Council yes this is um for the drilling of the new wells uh that will be serving the new water treatment plant um we had e2s put a plan together to and plan in specs to send off we had a pre um bid conference um mandatory for anybody that wanted to put a quote in on this to meet to understand the complexity of our quote um we had different timelines in there so we just want to make that identifi to them that um what would the cost be if you did it this year what would the cost be if you could do it spring what the cost would be next fall um three people three biders uh companies showed up um only one returned a quote unfortunately and that was TR companies um the other two were were contacted and um rener was one of them they said they're just too busy cannot and could not honestly Supply a quote and um Keys who was doing our well six rehab honestly said that they probably could not complete with trout at this time their Forte is more in the rehab area where trout is more into the drilling MH side of it so we ended up getting one quote uh from uh troll companies but the good news is they pick the alternative to have it done by May 31st which is 24 yep not this year2 I hope they're not they by the end of the month I'll be really impressed 2025 so they can get us on the SCH and get it done so um we're happy with that um and it is a little bit below what the uh projected price was to be the second part of it is if we end up having to put a screen on that well um that was what the $ 38,840 was for we are hoping we do not have to do that um well for at this time has one um for that need but we're hoping it doesn't but it's just in there just in case okay we'll find out once the Well's drilled they do test pumping and see what the water quality is and content comes result but we're anticipating we should need one but it's just in a precaution so we recommend adopting the resolution that's attached 4324 to accept the uh the bids and award to contract to um trout Wells uh for the municipal Wells drilling of numbers eight and nine okay and just a real quick question for Sarah um because we only got one bid we're still good right because we did go out for B public bids uh Madame mayor members of the council asked from reading the staff report looks like this project was competitively Bid And if you only receive one bid that's all you have okay thank you just wanted to double check all right any other questions comments let's drill Dr all right um is there res a motion to accept uh resolution number 43-24 which would be accepting the bid and awarding a contract for the municipal production of Wells 8 and n and it would go to the trout company so move thank you Miss Claudia is there a second second thank you Miss rkin um any other questions hearing none all those in favor signify with i i all those opposed motion passes 5 so we're looking forward to those Wells being drilled by May 31st 2025 okay um then and then amen city code uh number 21- or 0.01 which is the absentee ballot counting board ordinance yes thank you mayor our current absentee ballot board city cing which is not align with State Statute um City attorney sinala has drafted an amendment to city code to reference State Statute is to cover any future changes this will not impact how we administer absentee voting um just clarify the city code so City staff is recommending approval of this code Amendment so it is effective prior to absentee voting for the primary thank you any questions okay hearing none is there a motion to approve ordinance number 488 which is amending city code 21-1 subdivision 2 pertaining to absentee ballot counting board so much thank you Mr vicory is there a second second thank you Miss McGregor all those in favor signify with i i all those opposed motion passes 5 so now we move on to our ad administrative item staff reports Mr krugle yes um Madame mayor members of council um I kind of gave a little brief legislative update at the work session but um uh I guess the big component is that there was not a bonding bill that was passed um I think everybody's aware of that but the legislative session is now closed uh until next year so um the other thing I had we had obviously trist to Day on on Saturday it was a beautiful day um I was not able to ATT but I heard it was it was a great day um and and pretty well attended by by the public as well um and then the the next event that we have coming up is the bus tour on June 4th so believe that the RSVP is currently open I think there's still some seats available if anybody lot seats Avail lots of seats available so if anybody's interested in going please uh check out our website and uh and RSVP that's all I have okay and then we have our city engineer Eng ing update uh thank you mayor wh and members of council uh so the Reconstruction project from last year as you may recall um they were they got everything paved they got everything seated um the item that they didn't get to was the tree planting um so here we are in the spring uh we have some some resident a lot of residents that are quite anxious to get the work done as we are I've been in uh weekly communication if not more than once a week with the contractor um you know true motans we get that false sense of spring when we get those warm days and the the challenge with construction is um we need some consistently warmer days and we just weren't getting those um certainly in March and and the first part of April um you know we were still highs in the 40s lows in the 30s so um Still Still challenging to to go um and and get any work done out there and on top of that um contractors um they don't have all their employees back yet um they're they're on on Furlow typically through the winter so we've we've been doing our best to communicate to Residents um that while we see some warmer temperatures it's it's not the um you know everybody's waiting to get out and and get the work done we get got to get those workers back in those temps up but we're there now um I I believe the irrigation contractors's been out there um doing some work they didn't notify me um but we're seeing some Flags go up so I did talk to the The General contractor today and I said they need to tell me when they're coming into town um and then we're going through and looking taking a look at the restoration work um we've been taking calls and emails from residents but now we're at the point where we've had enough of a of a time um for that seed and sad to grow that it's time to go and inspect that and get that punch list ready and and over to the contractor so um they were out last week the contractor was out last week extending um some storm pipe to put in some drains CU we saw a couple areas that were folding water so um they have been out there doing some work just not as quickly and not as all the work as as I know some of the residents are anxious to see so it's it's coming okay I don't have a specific schedule for you yet unfortunately all right um Chief I think you're next thank you madam mayor council uh so as you're probably aware we are uh part our min to St Bonnie are both part of the Highway 7 safety corridor uh and that uh group I believe minaka took the lead on applying for a grant uh that would allow for some funds specifically targeted at enfor extra enforcement uh as well as education and advertising uh for like messaging and so that Grant was awarded and our group which goes from St Louis Park all the way to us so every agency is part of this uh was a awarded $450,000 200,000 of that is specifically for enforcement so you will start to see some additional uh enforcement that we can pay out overtime dollars to go out and provide extra enforcement along Highway 7 uh in an attempt to get people to drive more safely so that's this is above and beyond the safe and sober or I guess today it's called the tzd toward zero death Grant we we participate in that Grant as well every year but this will be in addition to that so um and you'll probably see a lot more messaging there will be some meetings coming up in the coming weeks where they will kind of dive in specifically what the topics will be or targets will be and what the messages will be but uh I just wanted to let you know that we were awarded that Grant as part of the group that's great um Chief could you also tell the council a little bit about the uh cameras the license cameras oh yeah uh update on the on the cameras so flock is the company that we um used to get the cameras the license automatic License Plate Reader cameras it's a lot to say um these are in use all over the metro and uh our company is currently in the they have staff that went out and evaluated the sites that we identified two on Highway 7 two on County Road 92 so that installation will be coming up here hopefully in the coming couple of weeks uh and then there's some things that have to happen before they go operational but they are moving forward fairly quickly so all of the authorizations uh to be able to connect these to the BCA system all those agreements have been taken care of so there's a lot of behind the scenes work that had to take place before we could actually make this happen but all that's been done so uh I'll certainly as soon as they get installed in our operational let you know y thank you we're looking forward to that good okay any other staff reports okay so we'll do Council I'll start um so first I'm uh I had a um meeting with uh the chair and vice chair of the park committee uh commission and of course as I mentioned earlier at a of uh earlier meeting they would like to do a uh Party in the Park and we'd like to start with one this year and they picked a Lyall Park in the hunters Crest neighborhood and the cost will be very minimal uh what they're thinking is um I think uh Anna uh who is a vice chair was able to uh secure or get a a commitment from like a um a sweet treat truck or whatever that wouldn't have a minimum so they would come at no charge and we're planning and I talked to uh the freshwater um education people that have the bounce house and they said that they would bring their bounce house and then um we'll have a few little incidental expenses such as buying some uh tattoos for people to put on their kids to put on their faces and and maybe some crayons or something like that so we'll have and we'll have activities uh some fun games uh Brett the chair is in charge of the games and then he's also bringing a um a music that's family appropriate so so there'll be a lot of fun things happening and that is um occurring on June 25th it's a from 5: to 7: again June it's a Thursday evening June 25th from 5:00 to 7:00 um in Lyall Park which is in the hunters Crest neighborhood and um come one come all bring your kids bring your grandkids and have a lot of fun clarification is it Tuesday the 25th is it's the 25th I'm sorry did I say Thursday okay I have too many dates going on here all right um so that's one thing um and then um I attended uh the um public safety meeting with Paul fs and Jasper and St Bonnie so some of this stuff is um he brought forward and um notified you about some of the ongoing things there the other thing is um I also attended let me see my list here cuz it's kind of long okay so I attended trist today um as did an McGregor thank you too an for being there really appreciate that and then um I also uh participated at the St Bonnie fire committee meeting and I know that miss refkin is usually there and I know that you're the backup and I know that he's the back Jasper is the backup back up and they had to settle for fourths so I did attend that um it was it was very a nice nice meeting and we talked a little bit with uh one of the things that we wanted to talk about was um with the Watertown Township group and the Lake toown Township group whether or not they wanted to be part of the um we call it as as Chief Peterson says a partnership and um they they're fine just continuing to contract with whatever this the um I'm going to call it fire district meeting okay so we're talking about fire district or fire fire um jpa and they said they're fine with just continuing to contract that was one of the big discussions at the fire meeting and the other one um they did have a whole long list of everything and I know I didn't do very good notes or not as well as Miss refkin usually does but they have a whole long list of stuff that they do during the year and I never knew this and it's really impressive uh they do an Easter egg hunt they did that March 30th they had 1500 people attend then they did they attended the Trista Day event with their fire trucks and the Memorial Day they're going to be doing a parade around town then they do quarterly meet uh dinner meetings with former or retired um firefighters to kind of keep them in the loop and keep them informed they also are participating in a softball turn tney in New Germany August 3rd through the 5th then they have an October fire prevention week and then they also have breakfast with Santa they're also going to be participating again uh December 5th just a reminder for our holiday Tree Lighting Event and then they also do a fire recognition banquet that's a lot of events for our small fire department so they do a great job with community outreach programs um and then of course they talked a little bit about the new fire truck that they ordered they should be getting that sometime in August sorry I didn't National out on there not you he did um and then um let's see Public Safety advisory meeting I went um the city bus tour um which will be June 5th so 4th see I have too many dates here um one other thing uh upcoming ones uh I know Ally Jasper myself and an are going to be meeting with um midco this next week talking to them we'll see what they they want and what we can do and then also I have a question for Gary when will the tennis pickle ball court at the Gan lir Park be painted you and everyone else get away weather wait for the weather bra to stop we just uh talked to them they are we are first on the list to get done and same we're hoping for the second weekend June to have all the other courts resurf okay and so then we need like the rain yeah we like the rain we like the rain much get tonight yeah know we've had a lot of questions everything is coming in we just uh slit seat it there we slit seat a few other parts that are growing in real well but everything's coming in yeah yeah and I'm looking forward to a ribbon cutting there too and with all the rain we don't need a sprinkler there yet there there you go there you go um that's all I have so we the Mountain Fire you can talk about that um Lisa myself and Jasper attended the mound fire St Bonnie fire partnership district meeting whatever we're calling it um last week um most of the time was spent discussing when everyone is available to meet um and then the plan is to go forward and set dates and goals that we want everyone to meet and get the information that we need um we're still waiting to get information from Kevin about taxes and what this will do to taxes for from taking the money out of our general fund and then seeing what people would be taxed with the fire district to give other towns not necessarily ours an idea that what their residents would pay for the district but the next step will be to find a date that everyone can attend and start moving forward but on the plus side both Chiefs are 100% for this so that is working to our advantage and anything uh well I attended trist today and I want to say that I thought it was an absolutely fabulous day um if I Rec they had the flu last year and so I missed the year and this I the pony rides and the and the rabbits and the goats I I sent a picture to my husband threatened to bring one home and I went around and talk to a number of the vendors food was excellent it was excellent choices it it was a really really great day yeah really good day yeah I attended the Pioneer Sarah Creek Watershed district meeting and we adopted our budget for next year and so minista's uh commitment there will be 15,1 826 which is an increase of $109 45 $19 so wow do you think we can handle that Brian all right we'll get back to so and then um we did have a presentation from the county um who's actually involved quite a bit in in this water conserv protection and so on and uh they're developing a um program to U mesh with our Planning Commission U information so that if there are opportunities like to uh uh improve the Watershed uh or or do conservation in general when a developer comes to us uh with a project um then um we can be aware of that the you know this has been kind of mapped out and maybe there's a you know Ravine that needs some work or something like that so I think it'll really uh uh be a good uh additional tool for the Planning Commission to just build in some of the solutions right Away Great thank you cladia uh Council I attended the um gpie Center May executive board meeting uh they did hire a permanent um executive director she's local um very well known by people in the community her name is Tracy Phillips and I was surprised to see that they're actually doing financially better than I had I had heard so they're operating at a deficit annually but it's somewhere in the $30,000 a year range not what I had previously been told um they are um very actively they have a food shelf there now it's not just the bakery they actually are working with the West honka food shelf and I wondered why that was necessary but um I guess the handicap parking at the food shelf is very small there's only two spots and um it's very easy for the um kind of the older seniors that are in need of this service to come right up to the glasby park under covered parking scoot in get some basic necessities but I was completely surprised at how much food um is needed in the community so um I know they do plan on kind of having a road show coming up where they are going to go back to cities um kind of present their new plans what they're doing what's working their fundraising is really uh going quite a bit better than it had been in the past years um a lot of that is than so this new um this new arrangement with mcant tun they've been so generous and they've more than doubled their little baked um B is is kind of wonderful thing brings a lot of people in and they love it so uh look forward to them coming and presenting they're going to be going to all the cities there's really only one city Oro that is still um kind of giving them an annual stipend so um hopefully we'll get to hear what they have to say soon okay that's it you so thank you um that concludes all of our reports and business items so if there's a motion to adjourn we can be heading home so moved thank you Miss Lacy is there second second thank you Mr vicory all those in favor signify with i i all those opposed motion passes 5 O and we'll see you on June 4th third third bus tour on the fourth bus tour is on the fourth okay I know something