Uh, welcome to the uh Tuesday, May 6, 2025 city council meeting. I hereby call the meeting to order. Go Timberwolves. Members of the public may attend the city council meeting in person or may watch and listen remotely by viewing the meeting on channel 8 WCTV and the city's website at www.wisetta.orgwv. Public comment during the public forum andor public forum or public hearing portions of the meeting may be provided in person at the meeting in advance or by logging onto the team's call and raising your hand during the public hearing. When your name is called in the meeting, you will be seen and heard in our council chambers and on the cable channel. You will be asked to unmute and then you may begin your comment. All public comics must include your full name and address with camera on. And with that, the second item on the agenda is the pledge of allegiance. If I could ask everyone to stand if you are able and follow along. I 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. The next item on the agenda is a roll call. Let the record reflect that all council members are present. Earlier this evening, the council participated in a workshop and discussed the following additional short-term rental ordinance amendments and review of next steps. Uh a presentation from uh staff and consultants on a public safety facility needs assessment report and an update on council to council on our strategic planning process. The next item on the agenda is to approve the agenda. May I have a motion to approve the agenda as is or does anyone want to make any changes? So move, Mr. Mayor. Do you have a second? Second. Further discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. Motion passes. The next item on the is the public forum. And just to a reminder for those that are here in public attendance tonight and are interested in speaking, please say state your name, address, and indicate if you're representing a group and limit your comment to three minutes when you approach the podium here. If it is on the agenda, um, please fill out a form at the back table there and hand it to staff. And for those who are watching on Teams, please send a note via chat to staff and let them know what agenda item you wish to speak about. We also, as I said earlier, require you to have your camera on when you speak. We have several items on the public forum today. The first one is the presentation of the 2025 Heritage Preservation Award to um Alden Adams, owner of 255 257 Central Avenue South. Um I'm just going to make a few comments and I'll turn it over to staff. Um the Heritage Preservation Board uh award is designed to acknowledge and celebrate the efforts in preserving the city's historical and architectural heritage. It serves to recognize the individuals, property owners, and organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to maintaining the historical character and significance of the city. I'd also like to highlight uh the heritage preservation board itself and their members, many of who are here tonight who play a crucial role in advising the city council on matters related to heritage preservation. And thank you all for your service. If you would just raise your hands if you're on the me members of our heritage preservation board. Thank you for your service. Um, now I will turn it over to the city manager for the presentation of tonight's award. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and good evening, council members. Our uh, great new community development director, Alex Sharp, is going to be introducing this uh, very prestigious award. Thank you, city manager D. Uh as stated this is the mayor's preservation award that is awarded yearly during heritage preservation month to a worthy candidate for essentially retaining a home that other or has faced some development pressures but instead of doing uh perhaps a tear down and changing the character of the neighborhood has instead tried to reinvest in that existing property and really market it and keep that uh character of the neighborhood retained. This year we have uh awarded it to 257 Central Avenue South. Uh Heritage Preservation Board specifically uh chose this property because there was a significant amount of reinvestment in the property over a number of years. Typically when reviewing these items we take more uh more of a internal or external look on the home. However, I would encourage those to look around. Uh you can find some really gorgeous photos online of some of the internal updates that have been done as well. The before photo is on the left here and the after photo is on the right. The uh award or the owner of the home is Adeline Adams and I believe her mother is here this evening to receive the award. Feel free to step to the podium. Beautiful. This is the award. We were able to get a uh very nice uh rendering of the home. Uh so this is an item that uh we do every year and then the Centennial Homes Awards will be at the second meeting of the month. Round of applause for feel free if you want to make any brief comments or politely declare very briefly. I am not Adlon Adams. by Amanda Adlan Adams. I am Add's mother and um I actually forced Addie to purchase this home in 2015 and she wanted to know why I wanted her to live with a bunch of old people. She grew up in Weisetta and was trying to flee and you know live with downtown Minneapolis and um best decision she ever made. My children are going to hold the corner there. They own the three little fish houses. And when I was working on this home, I did the the remodel on this home or the renovation on it. Um, people would go by almost in parade style and beep their horns because the working class or the middle class folks that lived in that neighborhood for all those years used to hold parties in what is behind this house, which is a uh a summer kitchen. And so we were able to, you know, remaintain the integrity of that as well. So these are really special three little homes and they will stay there as long as um I don't think my children will ever say save say sell them as they are trying to hold the corner. Thank you. Yes. Thank you again. Uh thank you. The next item on the public forum is introduction of new police department employees. Uh and I'll turn that over to the city manager. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We have uh yeah, Deputy Interim Chief Baker is going to introduce our wonderful new employees we have downstairs of the police department. Mayor and council members, Brena and Lauren, if you'd like to join me, that would be wonderful. Um I'd like to uh welcome the hub of the police department. These two have um come in and hit the ground running. I can't thank them enough. Um they really truly are what keeps the police department going. Um I can't say enough about them. Brena started her records tech career in 2021 at Robinsdale Police Department after after moving to the West Metro in 2023. She took the position with Madina Police Department until transitioning to Weisetta in December of 2024. Brena has been a familiar face to the department for several years. As some of you might recognize her last name, it's Growth. Brena was is married to Travis Growth, an officer within the Wise Police Department. Brena enjoys spending time with her three-year-old son and their yellow lab. There's a fun fact about Brena. She is an identical twin sister. And as you know, the former chief may or may not had a full conversation with her sister thinking it was Brena. Lauren Tholan comes to us from uh Carver County and she also joined us in 2024 after working with Carver County and their backgrounds uh supervisor and what for 17 years. While she was at the sheriff's office, she did background investigations, gun permits, and records. Lauren is happily married to her husband Brian who is the police chief for the South Lake Minnitonka Police Department and has only 17 days left. He will be retiring after a 29 career year career in law enforcement. They have two daughters. One is graduating from St. Thomas on May 24th, and the other is a junior at St. Thomas University. When Lauren and Brian became empty nesters, they added a two-year old border collie to keep I named Ike to keep them busy. Lauren enjoys spending time at the cabin up north, boating, traveling, and yes, taking both Ike and Brian for a walk. The fun fact about Lauren is this surprised me. She loves NASCAR. Uh she's been to three NASCAR Cup races so far and uh has a goal to attend several more. Uh she also watches races every single weekend. Thank you. Welcome, Mr. Mayor. I was just going to say uh I've been really impressed with Lauren and Brena. In addition just to being smart and motivated, they really embody our values as an organization. and they're friendly, responsive, they're team players, and they really strive for excellence and they're they've just been a great fit uh downstairs and we're happy to have them again. Welcome. Um next on the public forum is Ben Burkowitz. Um if you just approach the dis here and um I think I'm just going to offer a little context to this one. Um so, uh Mr. Burkwitz has been working with the city clerk and city manager and has some feedback for us about the um the public uh marina that we manage. So, Mr. Burkwitz, if you just state your name and address, please. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you for having me. Uh Ben Burkowitz, 1124 Holly Brook Drive in Weisetta. I've been a resident about 8 years. Um here to speak regarding, I believe it's city code 311.05, which governs the limitation on the use of boat slips and what can be in there. Um I was awarded a slip after eight years of being in the lottery. Just this season, uh, my daughter, who's 12, wanted a waveunner rather than a boat. Uh, the current policy does not restrict waveunners from being placed in the marina. So, we went ahead and purchased it. Um, and discovered that despite our best efforts, and we've come up with a pretty good system, um, it's a very un it's a very unsafe docking system for waveunners. It's very hard to secure a waveunner in those slips because there's no sideboarding. And so, uh, we actually had to spend a lot of time trying to figure out something that was reasonably safe, but it's still not safe. Um, you have to board from the back. You have to reach over the front to hook it uh to get to the pilings which are several feet away. Um, and so uh I sent a detailed description and some photos of a standalone docking system. Uh, the code uh essentially restricts you from attaching anything to city property um or any marina structures. There is a standalone docking system which allows for poles to be placed in the water and then a floating dock to be placed on top of those poles and then the jet ski can just be driven up onto the floating dock. Um, nothing's touching anything belonging to the city except for the bottom of the lake, but it sounds like there may be some gray area regarding this. And so, um, just wanted to come and give some context. Um, but as I said, Kathy from the the city does have a description of the product and kind of how it works. I had my daughter tonight take a video of what it's like for me to dock and undock this uh, waveunner. I can send that to anyone who's interested in looking. It is quite unsafe and because I should not go on America's Funniest Videos. Uh yeah, a couple more a couple more times I'll eventually fall in and then you can have that one. Um but in all seriousness, I did get this for her and as she gets a little older, she's going to want to do this by herself and there's just no way that anybody, an adult, much less a child, can safely get on and off this thing and in and out of that marina. So hoping that you'll consider um this docking system that Kathy has the details uh to. As you know, Mr. Mayor, I can provide any other details and I'm happy to have a discussion with anybody. Yeah. Um thank you uh Mr. City Manager. Um since this was encouraged by the city clerk to come here, what what do you want us to do with this? Well, uh given the new information, I think you know there is some level of the gray area or level of interpretation. What I would uh kind of suggest and maybe if there's any comments of my suggestion is that we especially for safety reasons, we allow this as as a trial for this year. Um, and then see see if we want to make any changes next year through the winter. Um, you know, I don't know what, you know, other marina uh slip holders will say or how that will impact them. I don't think so, but you never know. There could be some unintended consequences or precedent, but for this year, I would I would recommend that we uh after looking at the the actual apparatus um potentially allow this and see how it goes. Okay. So, just to be clear, the the current policy allows for a watercraft of this nature. It's just that this this person is pointing out the sort of safety issue of of safely managing said watercraft in our marina. Exactly. Okay. So, I guess uh following city manager's lead, are there any questions for council or any opposition to his proposal? I think the proposal sounds great. I just would loop in um the city engineer who's so familiar with the marina and have his weigh in with his expertise. Mhm. That's okay. Okay. Anyone else? Just this doesn't really require city council approval. It's just we it'sformational for us, right? And you can handle this administratively. Is that correct? I believe so. It's always nice to get comments, but I think we we can take care of it. Yeah. Okay. I like that speed of non-bureaucracy. Thank I don't think there's a gray area. Okay. I think it works just fine and let your daughter have a lot of fun. Okay. With that, I think you'll work with staff to administratively move this forward and thank you for bringing it to our attention. Yeah. Thank you all very much. Okay. Um, city manager, do we have anybody on teams for this part of our public forum? Uh, Mr. Mayor, we do not. Okay. So, now we move on to new agenda items. Item number six here. Does anyone have any new agenda items to bring up or discuss at this time? Okay. Okay, hearing none, we'll move on to number seven, the consent agenda. Uh, so approval of the consent agenda, which includes approval of city council workshop and regular meeting minutes of April 15th and local board of appeal and equalization hearing minutes dated April 15th and April 17th, 2025. Approval of the check register, approval of municipal licenses. Adoption of resolution 1225 accepting the donation from the Wise Alliance Club. Authorization for Great River Greening to submit a grant on behalf of the city for continued nature center uh restoration. Approval of the contract with the Minnesota Conservation Corps for woodland restoration project and award of the contract to MIT roofing for warming house roof replacement. So, is there a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented or have any items need to be pulled? Um, I have one that I'd like to pull and marry with uh the Clapbridge Park discussion, which is if we're going to award a contract to the roofing of the warming house and go on a renovation. I just would like those two to be considered at the same time to understand that a little bit better. So, that one I'd like to have pulled and married with that later in the agenda item. Okay. Any any objection to that? Okay. So, I would take a motion to approve the revised consent agenda. So, moved, Mr. Mayor. Okay. Second. Second. Okay. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. I. That motion passes. Okay. Um, now we're now on to old business. And first up under 8A, old businesses consider adoption of resolution 1325 approving a planned unit development PUB concept and general plan or a PUD zoning amendment, a shoreline restoration PUD conditional permit or CUP, a shoreline impact CUP, and a design deviation for street tree spacing and denial of a design deviation for massing brakes with the views of the lake Minnotonka and consider approval. of the first reading of an ordinance guiding 849 at 200 Lake Street East. So, I'm turning it over to you, Mr. City Manager. Yeah, I'll kick it off, Mr. Mayor. Um, and really, uh, that's that was a mouthful in terms of the title, but, uh, before we, uh, kick it off to planning staff, I wanted to ask the council, we've got about a 15 slide deck, uh, 15 slides of, uh, presentation here. Um, we could go through it. We could, it's kind of a light version of what we had uh 3 weeks ago. Uh we could jump to, you know, where we're at now because this is old business and we given direction. So question for the council, how how quickly would you like us to go through this? Um I would suggest the going through the 15 but going through them very quickly if that Yeah. I mean given the significance of this parcel and given there may be new members of the public that aren't tuned into the details. Um I I personally would just have more comfort having a very brief presentation. Yeah. Um and then we can move into further uh discussion uh for this old business item if everybody is okay with that. Okay, that sounds great. And uh are you gonna uh uh uh consultant planner Eric Sweber is going to uh kick this presentation off. Thank you, mayor and city council. So this particular property is zone PUB here at 200 Lake Street. Uh the comprehensive plan is uh central business district which allows up to 20 to 30 units per acre of residential density. uh existing condition. This property you could see here is is a long and narrow property. Um going from the south side of Lake Street from Ferndale Road to the west to Barry Avenue to the south you could see the the beach the boat works and the historic depot be uh on the south side of the railroad tracks along uh Lake Mitak itself. And then on the north side, there's a number of new developments including Weisetta Blue, Ventana, Melvin's 235, and Meer Place. Uh this is an image of the existing building on the site. So, uh just to go into a little bit more detail of the resolution and the request, uh they requested uh three parts of a PUD uh PUD concept plan, a PUD general plan, and a PUB zoning district amendment. Because this property is within the shoreland district, uh we do have the shoreland impact plan conditional use permit for imperous surfaces of 85.21%. This cadish use permit is required for developments with greater than 75% imperous coverage. The second shoreland request is any development that has more than four units is required to have a PUD CUP for that level of density. And then finally, there are two design uh deviation requests. Uh the first one is uh significant massing bricks that do not provide views from the public street and second the street tree spacing in excess of 26 feet. Uh here are the essentially four floor plans. Um we're showing the first one because that really shows the infrastructure around the six cores. So um on on the landscape plan, you'll see core one to the right, which is to the east. Um and then core 2, core 3, core four, and core five are all kind of identical in the middle. And then in the first floor of course six there is actually a surface parking lot. And then the indication of the properties in blue that would be the commercial spaces. So you see cores one uh cors 2 course three all have commercial on the first floor and then residential for the remaining part of the buildings. Here's a couple of renderings. in the top left that is a rendering from basically um the entrance to the underground garage at core A1 which is to the east. Uh the one in the upper right is basically a rendering of the pose massing bricks by the client. Uh the lower left is the view from Lake Minnotonka and then um the lower right is just some of the architectural details of how they're meeting the design code along Lake Street. So here's the elevations along Lake Street. uh upper left that is core A1 the farthest east and then you see uh core A 2 and that massing break where it's only open on that first floor with the buildings connected on the second third and you'll see the rhythm of that carries through all the way to core A6 on the far west side and then here's the rear elevation which we seen in the rendering uh before uh the city code has a higher level of architectural um requirements ments on publicly facing streets. Uh so this rear elevation um has some of the elements of the front elevation but um less uh less variety. Uh building height I think is important for people to understand because our code is pretty specific that um the the midpoint of the roof is the top of the building. So you could see both on core A1 and Corey A6 um you know that this is in the middle of the roof is where you would measure the top of the building. The yellow line is what our code calls the average grade plane. And since there is about I believe it's about 11 ft of grade change from far east side to the far west side. You'll see that that yellow line in core A1 is about four to 5 ft above the sidewalk along Lake Street than where it is core A6. You could see it's about the same distance below uh the Lake Street. So, the building does meet the height requirement of three stories and 35 ft. It's just going to look taller in core A1 than on core A6. uh they are meeting the parking required and this is a change from their previous approvals. They are no longer requesting a conditional use permit to share parking spots. So parking demand is for 156 stalls as with the uses they proposed they're providing 162. So every unit will get their own dedicated spots. um the residential units won't be sharing parking with commercial as was in some of the previous approvals. They also made some modifications from previous approvals to address loading and deliveries. Uh the two areas in gray are for truck loading. Our code requires that one of the two loading spaces or every other loading space is capable to accommodate a semitr. So, they are showing there on the very bottom that they have a little bit of a cutout um in the parking area to allow for that truck to come in, turn around on the site back into the loading area and then leave on Lake Street, uh you know, facing forward. No, no need to reverse on Lake Street. And then they're also showing some trash and recycling there, uh which of course larger vehicles would come and pick that up. and then a couple of convenience um spots for like uh uh door dash or other kinds of services there. So this is an illustration of the discussion we had at the PLA uh planning commission meeting um that there needs to be a massing break of 255 ft in width for every 100 ft of 150 ft of facade length and then there's a specific standard that says developments between Lake Street and the shoreline of of Weisetta Bay shall provide the required massing break as a midblock connection to provide pedestrian views of Lake Manaton. Anka and allow for potential future access. The ovals in red are um the two massing brakes that the applicant has demonstrated that you would be able to see from the middle of Lake Street over the railroad tracks and onto uh Lake Minnetonka. The grade difference between the uh Lake Street and the railroad tracks on the far east oval uh would not provide views to Lake Minnitonka because you would see that railroad burm. And then you have uh the two black ovals on the west side of the site. You have the development on on Grove Lane that uh would block any views from the public street in that location. Um this is again the floor plans but showing that they are providing the 25- f foot massing break at the first floor but the second and third floors do not provide those massing brakes. And then this is just an illustration of a couple of the elements they provided uh between a corors a3 and a4. On the left hand side is a is a vision uh diagram showing that somebody on Lake Street could see over the railroad tracks. Um the top right is the elevation between those two cores. Um kind of the bottom middle is the image that the applicant has provided from underneath the second and third floors. And then uh the bottom right is the diagram from the design guidelines that shows how to achieve that significant massing break showing that the void is open all the way through all three floors. Uh again, same language we talked about before that between uh Lake Street and the shoreline of Weisetta Bay there to provide that pedestrian views for the lake where possible. So, the planning commission uh made a recommendation to approve the PUB concept plan, PDU general plan, PUB zoning district amendment, shoreland PUD CUP, the SIP CUP, and the tree spacing deviation. And then they recommended denial, the massing brake design deviation at Lake Street. in the discussions that the planning commission um wanted those two that had the red ovals uh between cores A1 and A2 and between uh cores A2 and A3. At the April 15th council meeting, after the public comment and discussion, the city council recommended tableabling this application and directed city staff to prepare a resolution approving the PUD concept plan, PUD general plan, PUD zoning district amendment, shoreland PUD, CUP, and SIP CUP and the street tree spacing deviation with the difference of denying the massing brakes uh for to be open on all three floors through all five massing bricks. So between A1 and A2, A2 and A3, so on to A5 and A6. So the recommendation for action steps is to adopt resolution 13-2025, which is the resolution that the planning commission or sorry that the city council had directors bring back. If you recall at our last meeting, we had resolution 10-2025, which was the one based on the planning commission report and recommendation. Then to implement the um the PUD zoning district amendment, we would ask for approval of the first reading of ordinance 849, which would make that PUD zoning amendment. So with that, I stand for any questions. Uh questions from council staff. Okay. Hearing none, um would the applicant like to offer any comments or presentation? You don't have to, but you're offered that as a courtesy. Okay. Thank you. Um I'll bring it back to council for deliberations. Excuse me. Excuse me. Um so what is before us tonight, as uh planners uh stated, is a motion to approve uh the project with five full massing breaks as a condition. It would be new resolution 132025 requested by the council at the last meeting. It is based on the um planning commission recommendations but it also requires full massing breaks through all fours between all six building cores based on the PUD standards and we're okay with for example the deviation uh for tree spacing. So with that I would bring it back to council for for discussion or deliberation uh on this. Who would like to weigh in first? Don't everybody jump in at once. I'm happy to. Go ahead, Mr. Mr. Park. Go ahead. I I guess I don't have anything further to add. I think it's a reasonable compromise and not a big request. It's, you know, getting rid of the massing brakes costs 25 by 50. They're about 25 ft wide, 50 ft deep. Uh two stories high, that's 2500 square ft* 5, that's 12,500, that's 5.5% of the total project. Um, I don't think it's an unreasonable request for all the benefits that we're going to get of uh having that additional light and air and especially in the winter when that's on the north side of a building, it's going to be pretty dark there. So, um, I think many concessions have been made. I think, you know, the the, uh, developer has been through a lot. I hope he sees this as a positive that can move ahead now, full speed ahead and uh build this beautiful building. So, I'm hoping this is something that we can allow him the freedom to do that with. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Park. Who would like to weigh in next? Mr. Pos. So, um the last time we were here, we talked about this quite extensively, which is why we're kind of silent tonight. I think the uh the one thing I I would like to pull up one image if it's if you're available to do that and that is a picture of the development in its entirety from the lakeside view if you would please an actual rendering not the schematic. There it is. Okay. Well, that's partly it. Oh, it's nothing going back. Okay, there was there was another one. This kind of gets it, the lower left picture, but it's not the complete building. There's more off to the left that comes off the left of the of the screen here. So, what I would like to say is this is a beautiful design. A lot of thought, a lot of time went into it. I I think we'd all be excited to see this thing go forward. Uh the issue that came up last time was the the definition of what a massing break is. And uh both council member Parkhill and I were on the design standards task force when we came up with many of these things. And one of the things that was a very big part of those design standards was what is now referred to as a massing break. And the thing that we were trying to do, and I think we did do it in our definition, is we don't want any buildings in Weisetta to take on a very massive feel. We wanted uh for long stretches of property like this one uh to break it up so it doesn't feel ownorous. And from the lakeside view, you can see here that that really looks like one gigantic long building. and a massing brake is supposed to break it up and that's all we're trying to say. Um, I think there was some talk about how there were some design features built into the back and I'm I wasn't arguing that. That's fine. But just if you look at this, you can see that it's just too massive. And so by taking out each of those sections, it's a very good plan. And I had no problem with that. But I just wanted to bring that up, which is what the big sticking point was the last time. And I think we've gotten past that. So, uh, I appreciate all that you all have done and, um, that's all I had. Uh, thank you, Mr. Pleish. Who would like to go next? Mr. Sornson. Um well, we did have a lot of conversation a couple weeks ago about this, so I don't think we need to repeat the um most all of that, but I I would say I mean I am very supportive of this project and have a strong desire to see it move ahead and if this resolution is approved um I would hope um that's exactly what what what would happen because there I mean there is considerable fatigue about the site about this project, about the um development. So, um I think Councilman Plesic uh uh did a very nice job of articulating the reasons why we made the uh resolution read light like it does. And to me, it's not, you know, we shouldn't we don't need to discuss the definition of a massing break. To me, it's um the fact that this doesn't uh it's not consistent with the intent and purpose of the PUD concept and general plan or the PUD zoning district amendment. And defining the facts are clear in the in the resolution. I don't think we need to to to read those again, but it goes back to this long building without any breaks being something that um I think a lot of us are just not very comfortable with. So, I'll be supporting the resolution. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Saen. M. McDonald. Thank you, Mayor and um colleagues, I think, excuse me, summed it up uh really well. So, I'm not going to kind of belabor all the same points, too. But um I am proud of the work staff has done, the planning commission, ourselves up here, um the applicant, and and of course the community who all uh weighed in as well. So, I plan to support this resolution tonight as it's written. Thank you. Um, I don't have much further to add. Um, I have a slight difference of opinion about the definition of massing breaks, but to your point, I don't think it merits bringing it up because the PUB aspect of the subjective and objective criteria, I think, uh, provide appropriate rationale for the intent of what we're doing. And so, I agree with you, Council Member Sorson, on that. So, I'm not going to delay it uh with that regard. Um I I I support it. I I would like to see something closer to the planning commission, but I'm I'm out uh their position on massing breaks, but but there's not the will of the council to move in that direction. So, I'm not going to spend any more time on that. Um I guess I would just have a question for the applicant. Is there any other comments that you you'd like to make about about this before we move forward? No. Okay. Thank you. So, bring it back to the council now. Um I would uh hearing everyone deliberation I think there's a majority consensus to move forward to accepting a uh motion on this. Um and so this is I would accept a motion for adopting resolution 1325. Do I need to read all of it? David, Mr. Mayor, I know it's been a long process, but I think you should. All right, here we go. See how we do. So motion to approve adoption 132025 PUB concept plan PUD general plan PUD zoning district amendment shorland PUD CUP SIP CUP and street tree spacing design deviation and denying the massing break deviation at 200 Lake Street. So that's the action steps and then this is the ordinance amending the official zoning map of the city of Wisetta to change the zoning district. Right. And well Mr. Yeah, Mr. Mayor. Um, it's actually two steps for us. Y. So, the first one is to adopt resolution 132025 as you have articulated. Yep. So, I've read in the record the the adoption that needs to be moved and I would accept a motion to move that. Mr. Mayor, I'll make that motion and I'm glad I don't have to read it myself. That's a mouthful. Thank you, Mr. Pleers. Do I have a second? Second. Further discussion? All in favor? And let's just do a roll call vote since we've been at this for a few few years here. Council member Parkill. I council member Plekish. Hi, Council Member McDonald. Hi, Council Member Sorenson. I, Mayor Mullen, I. And now we move on to the second step of the process to approve first reading of ordinance 849 amending the official zoning map of the city of Weisetta to change the zoning district designation from the 1989 PUD district for office building and banking drive-thru to 2025 PUD district for a mixeduse residential and community residential and commercial building. I would accept a motion for that. I'll make that motion, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Do I have any further discussion? Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. All right. So, you have unanimous support on both options. Uh congratulations to the developer and the applicant and we wish you well in uh as you bring this forward to to building the site. So, thank you. All right. So now we are on to new business. Um so uh next on the new business aspect of our agenda is consider award for contracts for Clapric Parch Park project. Thank you Mr. Mayor. Did you want to handle the roof replacement after this item or do you want to do that? Um I spoke to uh is Mike even here? I spoke to Mike earlier tonight so he knows what my question is and I think he'll be able to Mike, are you comfortable building it into your narrative? Absolutely. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So, it'll technically be after this item then. Yeah, that's fine. But Mike Mike will connect the dots for me on this. Sounds good. Uh, okay. Uh, Mr. Mayor, our parks and environment planner, uh, Keyser is going to walk us through uh, the exciting results of the bid opening for Clappage Park. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Kzer. Thank you, manager Doll. Good evening, Mr. Mayor and Council. So, as noted, I'll be going over the public bidding process that we just completed for the Clappage Park project and go over those results and some of the proposed motions here tonight. So, to start, on March 25th, city council authorized city staff to solicit bids for the Clappage Park project as noted at that time. And within that uh solicitation, I did outline the bid packages that we did with um this public bidding process. So, I just wanted to go over those uh and summarize those. So, the first being we did a base bid for the site improvements and that really just includes grading, drainage, irrigation, the parking lot, uh the patio area, the playground retention or playground equipment area. And alongside that site improvement base bid, we did three alternates. The first being for hillside stairs, the second being for the Minnotonka Avenue sidewalk, and the third being for the Bell Courts Cabana updates. So we have the base bid alongside three alternates for that. We have a separate bid package just for the warming house. So we had separate contractors and separate bids for uh the warming house renovation work. And then we also had uh separate quotes for the playground equipment itself. And that came from Midwest Playscapes which parks and trails board had recommended moving forward with. And so we separated out those quotes into two separate quotes. So, the first being uh playground equipment for the main play area and playground equipment, which is essentially the hillside slide. So, we separated out those two. Those bids, all these bids uh were open on Tuesday, April 29th, so last week. And I did add some of the plans here too, just to kind of represent those a little bit better. This first plan here shows all the site improvements in the base bid alongside alternate 2, that Minnetonka Avenue sidewalk, and alternate three, the Bell Courts Cabana updates. And then zooming in um to the playground area, alternate one, as you can see here, is just that hillside stairs and the sidewalk leading up uh to that stairway. And then in the separate bid for the warming house renovation, this is the uh general site plan for that uh warming house renovation work. And then as I noted, we separated out the playground equipment quotes into two separate quotes. So the first one being the main play area equipment which is shown here in red. And then the second alongside the alternate of the site improvements there, that hillside slide and additional play equipment there on the south side there as well. So those two were separated out in those playground equipment quotes. So now these next few slides are going to be going in have a lot of numbers on them. So these are the uh bids that we got for the site improvement. So you can see we received five separate bids for the site improvement uh work. And so these are the numbers associated with those alongside so we have the base bid alongside the three alternates. And you can see the lowest responsible bid that we had here was Odessa 2. Um, and you can also compare that to the original estimate that we had at the very bottom there, the WSB estimate uh for those work items too. So you can note that um the actual bids that we got back are lower than the estimate except for alternate three which you can note there. Um, and just a quick note about Odessa 2, that is actually the contractor of the company that did our Bell Courts uh work recently, just last year. Now, the warming house bids. So, we received a total of nine bids for the warming house, but we of those nine, we only received four uh qualifying bids. the five that uh are mentioned as no for a qualifying bid there uh did not submit the required documentation to be considered a qualified bid. So we're going off those top four uh bids there. And so the lowest responsible bid that we had was Eber Companies there. And you can also note uh or compare that to the HCM estimate there of five so of $510,000. And so the bid that we got back was slightly higher than that proposed estimate. And then again the playground equipment again we went through Midwest Playscapes to um select and propose playground equipment. So again those two separate quotes the one for the main playground equipment is right around $342,000. The hillside um playground equipment is just over $115,000. So if we did total those together, that'd be uh just over $457,000 for that playground equipment. So once we start totaling these all together. So in this table it uh notes all of the lowest responsible bids here again the site improvements with the three alternates the warming house total and the two playground quotes for that total construction cost of just um a little over $1.7 million. And we also did a separate total project cost which includes the permit fees, testing, inspections, site furnishings, and adding a 10% contingency. We are uh just over $1.97 million for the total project. Mr. Before you go on, can I just ask a really brief question? When you say Hillside play area equipment, is that the slide itself? Just the physical slide? Yeah. Y it's just the slide context of the label. Yep. So everything in this plan here, everything in red. Thank you. Yep. So when we take that total project cost at at the very top of this table here, there also is an opportunity to use TIFF funding to fund certain aspects of this project. The first being the Minnitaka Avenue sidewalk. That was the alternate bid. So that one was quite easy to um measure. The second that we did confirm is that we can use TIFF funding for the parking lot um that is proposed as well. So we took that parking lot construction cost from the bid tabulation um incorporate that into this uh just over $140,000. So we have the opportunity or the potential to use um $140,000 of TIFF funding for those two items as well. And so we looked at that for a total parks and trails CIP impact of just uh just over $1.83 million. And as another note, the previous uh allocation or the previous estimate that we included in the parks and trails CIP was uh 6 $2.687 million. And at that point with that proposed 2.687 687 million. We were actually in the red in 2025 for the parks and trails CIP balance. Uh but with this updated bidding that we received with that $1.83 million, we would have a balance of $642. Remind me again what the estimate for D deficit was before these changes. So we the deficit would have been around $200 some thousand. Thank you. Uh so again, that was a brief summary of it. Uh we have we're going with a few different longer uh motion items here tonight, but we did separate them out into three separate uh proposed actions. The first just focusing on the site improvements with the three alternates, the second being just um the warming house, and the third being the playground equipment itself. and ultimately staff and the parks and trails board at this point recommends moving forward with the totality of the project. So with that, I'll bring back to council for any questions. Questions of staff at this point. Go ahead, Mr. Sornson. Yeah. So I like to say we got um bids below our estimates, but there I mean there's so much below they're like 25% in aggregate um below. I mean, any discussion about why that might be? So, we've Yeah, council member Sorenson, we've we did uh check with the contractors that submitted those lowest bids and they did confirm they are accurate for the project itself. Um, you can also look at something similar like the Bell Courts project. Like I mentioned, those bids came in quite a bit below of what we estimated for that project last year. It's something you could say similar to what is proposed tonight here too. But so we've talked about um Odessa too and kind of went over the scope of work with them and I think they have everything covered. Okay. Correct. Okay. One other question mayor if that's okay. Please. Um so the playground equipment we're buying from Midwest Playscapes. Is was there a competitive process in this? Were they the only bidder or how'd that work? Yeah, good question council member. So, we did contact uh quite a few different playground vendors and the parks and trails board spent many months um taking a look at different renderings and different design options and specific playground equipment um and ultimately they recommended selecting Midwest Playscapes and so that's who we've been working with since then uh on throughout this process. Was that is that a sole source purchase with their product only? That's correct. It was about half million bucks. That's correct. Okay. Thanks. Other questions of councel? Miss McDonald. Thank you, Mayor. Um, Director Kelly, could you tell me if you foresee um any impact to trees or um the hillside on Managa Avenue with um adding that sidewalk? I'm not expecting any uh Council Member McDonald and council. Um there's going to be some minor grading to put in the curb and the sidewalk, but the trees are set back a little bit from the existing curb, so I don't anticipate any major problems. Okay. And I have one more if that's okay. And um Director Kezer, when you guys are talking about the cabana and the the concrete path, can you just remind me what exactly that is? cuz I know um parks and trails went over a few different options and there was one option that they didn't like at all and it was just a lot of meandering and switch backing and that's not this right. Yeah, council McDonald that is not this. So really what this did and with backing up a little bit to the last year Bell courts project where we just updated the courts themselves in the parking lot. We also added a sidewalk on the south side of uh Bell Courts to be ADA accessible, but we did not extend that uh ADA accessible route to the cabana itself. So, it really is just adding that ADA compliant sidewalk on that western side of Bell Courts and then also adding a ADA accessible drinking fountain and water bottle filler in that area. So it's not making the cabana itself accessible but creating accessible. Understood. So the ADA accessibility will just go around the courts but not going to bring you up to the cabana. Correct. There's existing path there right now. I wonder um it's just improving that to be ADA accessible. Making a little wider or something. Okay, great. Appreciate it. Further questions of council. Go ahead, Mr. Park. Uh Mr. Pash, sorry. Uh just real quick, could you remind us when you expect this project to begin and how long it will take? I can I can start. Council member Fleckers, good question. So we um we'll certainly have to talk with the contractors about specific start date. We did put uh completion dates in the specs for this project. So I believe it's September 1st for the lawn to be finished, October one to be uh substantially complete with the site improvements and then the warming house. I think we had a substantial complete date of December 1st 2nd to to have it open for the ice skating season. So effectively Clapbridgeidge Park will not be accessible this year. Correct. And that is what we've been communicating with folks to. Okay. Throughout this process. Mr. Parkco. Yeah. Um, Director Kelly, I I was I remember at one point in our conversations, we were having these slides on the hill to be alternate. And I'm thankful that our price has kind of come down on this. But what strikes me as interesting is that um 50% of the price of the 115,000 is slides. The rest is like concrete, synthetic turf and all that. Are we being any redundant with the person who's building the stairs or is this partly the stairs? I was just trying to It seems like it's separate from the stairs. So, it just seems like a lot of money to put in for the kind of the fountain. I don't know how big an area it is. Looks like 1500 square feet maybe. But um and maybe a picture of it would help. Um but it just seems like a lot of money to be putting in. I like the idea of the slides, but all the infrastructure seems to be pricey. Is there any way to be more practical there? Council member Parkill and Council, I think we've broken it out as best that we can. The stairs are literally the stairs and the additional sidewalk that runs along the backside of the play area to connect to that stairway that goes up to Park Street. The hillside play area or the slide incorporates the rubber matting which is a safety feature. Um I believe the concrete is an edging around the very outside to keep and kind of provide an a hard edge for that rubber matting along the edge of the slide. um everything is broken out into pieces so that we can do it if you so chose um separately. So if you selected the hillside stairs, all you're going to get is the stairway up to the top with the sidewalk that wraps around the play area with the hillside play equipment that quote of 115. You'll get everything that goes with the slide adjacent to the stairs. Yeah. Okay. Um I just was questioning whether just seemed I like the slides, but all the other stuff seemed to be a little bit um pricey. So, but that's just my thought. Thank you. So, I just have a question, couple questions, Mike. So, might as well bring up the roof now and then we can tack it on as an additional item to approve. My my reason for pulling the roof is we're we're tearing apart the park. We're tearing apart the the warming house to expand it. and I wanted to understand the connection between approving a bid to start working on a roof and how they interrelate with each other. So, could you just help me clarify how you've thought about the maintenance of the roof and the expansion of the building and how they kind of go together? Yes, absolutely. Thank you, Mike. Mr. Mayor and Council, uh, the roof has been a maintenance project that we've had in our CIP, our facility maintenance CIP for quite a while. We've been anticipating this overall capital project that was going to happen. The majority of the work that's happening for the warming house renovation is happening under the roof. Okay? Not having any impact to the roof. Okay? Can be completely done without the roof. Um, however, the roof is 20 plus years old and we don't want to create an instance where we're doing construction on the entire park this year and having another project come a year or so later or do it last year and then realize that there are impacts to the roof. We're trying to keep them together. Um, so that's the reasoning behind why we have the the roof project uh request with you tonight. Um, and will have no impact on the overall construction process for the warming house or the site work. The roof itself is probably only going to take a week to do. Tear it off and put it back in. It's going to be a smaller impact and we're going to fit that in when we have gaps with our site contractor and our building contract. Okay. Thank you for that clarification. And then Mr. city manager. We'll just tack on that item as the last request for consideration and approval as we go through this package. Okay. I don't have any further questions. Oh, go ahead, Miss Melo. Um, yeah, Director Kelly, uh, could you add some color to the plan on this the steep hill on the north side of the I know uh, parks. I know there's a lot of invasive species, but it does have this sort of woodsy feel that I think the community appreciates. So, I'd love to hear a little Absolutely. Council Member McDonald, Council, uh we don't intend to touch the majority of that wooded area on the north side of the park. Yes, there are some invasives. We'll be working to kind of clean that up, um enhance that a bit. There is a grouping of spruce trees, pine pine trees. Yeah. Um that are in poor health. We're going to remove those and that's one of the reasons why the design for the playground has kind of moved and expanded up the hill in this particular area and we will be enhancing with additional landscaping. But the goal throughout the project was to maintain that wooded area as much as we can. Okay, that's great. That's what I recall as well from the parks and trail board and also that engagement. Um I do just want to call out that sumac that creeps. You guys know what I'm talking about? Yeah, that's maybe I should finish. I'm sorry. The sumac kind of creeps and it's sort of taking over now. It kind of feels like right of way maybe on Park Street. Is that in collaborate scope? Again, the the overall goal, the maintenance of that wooded area is going to be either by our contractor or another contracted uh contractor to perform that invasive species management in there. But that's that's part of this. It'll happen along the same time frame. Yes. Okay. Okay. I bring it back to council for discussion and deliberation. Um who would like to start? I'd love to go first. All right. Um, yeah, this I I'm so pumped about this. It's this has been we've been working on this for years and I was privileged to be um that liaison for member for the parks and trails board. So, I got to see firsthand all the all the hard work that the the board put into this, which is um was staggering. So, I'm excited to see it getting done. Came under budget. So, I um uh wholeheartedly support um all of this and can't wait to vote for it. Uh thank you. Who would like to go next? Oh, go ahead, Mr. Push. Similarly, I'm very excited about this. I think Clappage Park could be maybe considered the crown jewel of the parks and trails in Weisetta. It is so utilized by so many people of so many generations. It's I think we deserve this and I was really happy to see that we could actually bring in all of the alternatives because we can afford it. Uh and that's because we have done such a good job with our finances. So, it's a big project. It's kind of expensive, but it's well within our means to do so. Uh we'll get it done within a year, within, you know, part of a season. I'm really excited about it. So, I'll be voting for it. Okay. Who would like to go next? Mr. Sornson. Yeah. I mean, I think it's a great project. Also, I think staff's done a nice job uh and parks and others just to get this project to the point where we can uh get it moved. Um I don't know what we're doing in terms of getting some mileage out of this. I mean, in terms of being out and public about it and let people know, you know, because it's going to be shut down all summer. So, we need to communicate that as much as we can along with but it's going to be worth it. Here's something really special that's going to happen. Uh, and whatever we can do to um, you know, promote that a bit, I think it' be uh, welcomed in the community. Okay, Mr. Parkill. Well, I, as I was driving down Weisetta Boulevard several times last winter, saw the lights and people playing hockey and there I mean it was like -20 and there were 40 people out there playing hockey and I'm like, are you kidding? Minnesota. But it's Minnesota and it's like this is so nostalgic and so such a special part of Weisetta and I hope we get a longer season out of this more level playing field and our kids need another place to play and they're going to love running up that hill and coming down that slide. So, um I'm all for it. Thank you for Parks and Trails and all you guys all your hard work. Thank you. Um, my comments are, you know, hats off to the park and trails board and and to staff for all the level of effort on this and work over the years. I I think you've you've come up with a a reasonably good project and and certainly found ways to get the cost within line of not draining or going to a deficit in the CIP. I I I do have a couple concerns though that um while it's good to be investing in parks, I'm a big believer. founding uh sort of council member of the existing park and trails board. Um I think I've advocated as strong or equally strong to anyone to invest in our park system. I'm concerned about a couple things. Even with the dramatic uh reduction in budget, you still wipe out a significant amount of the CIP and you look at the forward-looking projects and they're all quickly at a deficit. Number two, we don't have a sustainable funding source uh for park and trails at this point because of the park dedication fees are continuing to go down down down. Um and third, um while I appreciate all of the um ways to use the park outside of the winter season, I and I know it's not in the table and it didn't make it through the process, but I would have liked to see some additional effort to preserve winter programming, which is where this history of this park is. And while the leveling may accomplish that, I think we're on a trend that if we want to maintain outdoor skating, it's going to require some artificial support to do that. And I would have favored that over some of the other amenities that are prioritized in this project. And so I would not support this project unless there's a significant reduction of scope um minimum half million dollars less investment. And my rationale is not that I don't support this. I want to do other things in our park system. And by blowing our entire investment here, you're you're you're you're reducing our ability to do other things and for the reason that we don't have a sustainable funding source. And um I think big picture to my um I guess philosophy on our finances. Um we've raised taxes significantly over the last four years, and you can say it wasn't for parks, but everything matters. and fiscal discipline at this time in a in a wonky economy where we're headed likely to a recession. And for all these things, I'd be more conservative to reserving this money for other purposes in our parks or other needs. And so for that reason, unless anyone supports reducing scope, I'm I'm going to vote no. I'm for parks. I'm not for investing at this level in this park at this time. So, with that, I would uh I don't see anybody take her, so I'll What do you think would should be cut? I'd take out the stairs, the slides, and the the unless Tiff's paying for the sidewalk on Minnetonka Avenue. I'd take that out. Or is Tiff paying for it? Council member, council members and mayor. Uh the use of TIFF funds I think still requires uh council approval as we work through our budget process. But as for now, we are intending uh to use the TIFF funding for the Minnitonka Avenue sidewalk and the parking lot to help reduce overall impact to the park cip. Yeah. And it's not that I don't believe in any of those amenities. It has nothing to do with that. It all has to do with budgetary uh concerns and and taking away from other future projects. So, don't don't misinterpret my words. I'm not anti-slide. I'm not anti-kids. I'm not anti-play. Um I'm just u you know thinking a little bit more fiscal uh pullback on this is is merited in my view. Well, the slide only gets us 115,000. Right. So, I mean it's not nothing but um your goal was 500. Yeah. that could go to the sidewalk and then you get another but that's covered by tiff which if my understanding was there weren't a lot of options where to spend that tiff money but I could be wrong there always are options to spend tiff money and and but it seemed like it had to be go sooner than later am I wrong tiff dollars in general are highly restricted to utilities ground down type expenses uh sidewalks and park uh sidewalks and uh uh parking spaces and I'm hearing strong support for this to the council and I I don't you know I'm not going to die on this this sword by any means. So I mean I'm hearing majority of support. I just offered my comments for why why I feel the way I do but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't move forward and I I hear consensus to move forward. So yeah I think those are all if if I mayor I think those are very valid um concerns and important perspective to have up here. So thank you for that. I just want to mention that during those meetings that I I um attended with the parks and trails board, I specifically asked that question. What won't get done because of this? And I was told me more than once that this is it. This is what's in our plan. So I feel really good about that knowing their future plans as of it stands today are won't be affected by this investment in Clapbridge. Well, except for the CIP that goes red two years out. But yes, I I agree that that might be their perspective, but the CIP tells a different story. So, but thank you for that. But in terms of other projects, yes, that are done. Okay. So, just question, our bids, our low bids right now with 10% contingency are about $700,000 lower than what we had in the CIP. So, what what So, does that money stay with the C uh CIP with parks or what's the process? Yes, it does. Okay. Council member McDonald. Yeah. And it would take the red number and bring more projects forward. It's just not enough for me. Okay. Any other comments? I would accept a motion. We're going to have to have four motions, I guess. So, um, we're going to step through the three about the different bid alternatives that are supported by the will of the council and then we're going to add a fourth which is uh accepting the award of the contract to mint roofing. So, do we have to take these one by one and vote? Is that how we do it? Okay. So the first one is award the Clapper Park site improvement project contract to Odessa 2 in the amount of 730 79 971 which includes alternates 1 2 and three. I need a motion on that please. So move Mr. Mayor. A second. Second. Further discussion. All in favor say I. I. No. Um second. Uh award the Clapper Park warming house project to Eert Companies in the amount of 516700 which includes alternative number one. I would accept a motion uh for that. So moved. A second, please. Second. Further discussion. Hearing none. Uh we'll vote again. All in favor say I. I. I'm sorry. I'm going to say no. Um on that one, so let the record reflect for yes, one no. Third item, authorize the purchase of the playground equipment for Midwest playscapes in the amount of 457820s 47, which includes the hillside play area. I would accept a motion for that. So moved and a second. Second. Further discussion? All in favor say I. I. No. Last item is to approve the contract uh awarding the warming house roof replacement to mint. I would accept a motion to accept that bid. Uh or is it a bid? Quote. Quote. Sorry. Accept that quote. So moved. Uh can I have a second? Second. Further discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. I. That passes five to zero. Okay. Um moving on. Mr. Mayor, if I could just make a comment to address a question from council member Sorenson. Yes. It is now our full intent with the approval of the council to move forward with this project to start a communication plan uh to let our public and our residents know of this very large and impactful project and the goals of the project. I just wanted to let you know we've been a little bit hesitant to do anything until your action just now, but we intend to move forward. Address your question, Mr. Sorn. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Mike. Okay. Um, next we're on to B on the agenda, which is consider approval of a special event permit for the Hi-Fi on the Lake concerts at Makanda Restaurant at 294 Grove Lane East Suite 150. Uh, who am I turning this over to, Mr. May Mr. Manager? Uh, Mr. Mayor, it's the Director Kelly's show tonight. He's going to take this. Okay, Mr. Kelly. Thank you, Mr. Manager. Is there music? It's not my show. It's the Keyser show tonight, and I'm happy that it's the Keyser show tonight. Um before you tonight, we have a request for a special event uh similar to the concert series that we've had in the past. What just happened? Did you um the concerts that we've had at the beach as part of the uh Weisetta art experience weekend? Um we have a proposal from Makanda to have Somebody's touching it. Gremlins in the building somewhere. Let it go. Although I want I want to see that slide. There's a gremlin in the building. Is suggesting two concerts to be held uh Friday and Saturday of that weekend uh from 4 to 10:30 each evening. Approximately 750 to a,000 attendees each night. As what in the past with the uh Weisetta Art and Music Festival, uh the music is intended to be electronic dance music EDM. Uh it includes use of the boat works boat launch much smaller scale. I don't know if some of you remember a number of years ago we had uh Oak on the water. Uh they came and held Oh yeah. Uh couple concerts down there a couple different times. Uh and the depot parking lot. Um we've been working with the applicant Aaron Switz. Uh both Jamie Baker and myself. Uh the applicant fully intends to meet all the same conditions that we placed on the WHAM festival in last year with a noise mitigation plan, emergency plan, approved traffic control plan, additional public safety personnel, which in addition to contracted police officers does mean private security and notification to adjacent properties. Here's the event layout. Most of you are familiar with the boat landing adjacent to uh Makanda and the depot parking lot. The lake is just to the north of this photo. I'm not changing that on purpose. Uh and the depot parking lot is located on the left side of the picture. Uh why is this here before you tonight? This is a level three event. It's over 500 participants. It requires city council approval per our ordinance. One of the features that we're talking about tonight, I didn't change that again. Um, is uh ticket fees. We've made the applicant aware that our city code requires that for these larger events that are ticketed that a fee was established last year uh and is the greater of $1 or 1% of each ticket and the fee will be due uh two weeks after the event on publicity. Yeah. On public property. Um, I did also want to mention that per our special event matrix, we do permit two of these larger events in June. The first being the art experience, the second would be this. If there are any questions, I'm happy to address them. The applicant is also in the audience, Mr. Erin Switz, but it's our recommendation to approve the special event permit. Thank you, Alex. for the hi-fi on the lake concerts to be held by Makanda the same weekend as the art experience. Questions of staff? Yeah, Mr. Park Hill. Okay. So, um were there any other applicants for this level of um permit? There have not been to date and we typically go by first come first. Okay. So, um I just wanted to clarify a discrepancy. There was um in the write up it says the applicant is anticipating 750 to a,000 attendees. I saw it some other place where it said a thousand and then I saw another place on page 318 where it says 2,000 attendees each night. So I wasn't sure what the accurate number was. Yeah, I can clarify a little bit. Some of the application materials that were attached to the overall permit are examples of the emergency plan and some of those plans that were provided by the Weisetta Art and Music Festival, Wham. Um, so they're examples and if you look carefully, some of them show Wham and 2024. Um, so the clarification and I'll look to our applicant, but still intends to be in that I'm probably going to say closer to 750 range. We we did we did a little bit of modification to to ensure that the chamber has some access and there's public access to the docks through the parking lot around their event and it's scaled down just slightly but I would anticipate it's going to be in that 750 to a,000 range. Okay. Can you elaborate a little bit on accessibility to the our public amenities? So lakewalk and docks park that sort of thing. Um, as part of this plan, and it may get tweaked just a tiny bit adjacent to the sidewalk, but the chamber needs access for their the golf carts that they have going back and forth throughout the weekend. We obviously want to maintain a public walkway to be able to get past this event and the fencing for this event to our docks. As you can see, along the sidewalk and the railroad tracks, they're leaving a gap for that. Um, and then the chamber has asked that the applicant do the best that they can to kind of clear this out and maintain some parking for the chamber vehicles on Sunday morning. It may not be a full parking lot, but we'll work to get them accessible uh spaces so that they have that availability for their own cleanup of their event. Um, but that's how it would be provided. Further questions of staff? Okay, hearing none. Um, I guess I'd like to ask Mr. Switz to come forward and just kind of give your summary of the intent of the event and how it compares to some other events that we've had in town just so everyone understands the context. Thank you. If you just your name and your address, sir. Yep. So, uh, Aaron Switz 20,100 uh, Lake View in Deep Haven. Um, I own Josephina and Makanda. Um, the idea behind this like Rick had said he's not doing doing it. He had asked me about it. We kind of waited till the last minute, decided, you know, um, from the people in the community were kind of missing having that. The kids, my son was a senior the first year that happened. My daughter is a senior this year. Um, they all thought it was the most fun weekend they've ever had. And so I kind of felt like, you know, we'll uh like to try in a little different capacity. I I don't, you know, I think the larger event is really hard. I don't think it pencils well anymore, personally. Um, you're referring to Wham last year. Wham. It's just Yeah. So that was 5,000 people. Yeah. So, it's significant to a,000. Um, you know, we're playing with the ticket pricing. I mean, you know, we could do a 500 person event, just charge more, you know, cuz the GA tickets aren't that expensive. Um, but that felt like maybe a little small to get, you know, reasonable acts to come out and play. When you say, "Hey, I'm only going to have 500 people at the event." That that kind of throws people off. Um, the people we have are, you know, it's a girl out of uh LA. She's like 24, really fun, upand cominging. Just signed with John Summit who's playing at the Breakaway. So, I think it's it's kind of a cool event. It's kind of curated by me. I think it's a lot more it'll be a lot more sophisticated and very more curated if you want my opinion. It's not much smaller. It's much smaller. I mean, everything's basically taken down by 70%. The stage is 20 by 25 to put in perspective. I think Rick's was like 50 by 70. Um, the noise and all that stuff is all reduced by 60. It's a much much smaller. The building also protects and kind of makes it more of like um protected from a lot of different angles and all that. So, you know, what we're trying to do is like, you know, I would like to ask the chance to try it if the council doesn't like it. You know, it's something we don't ever have to do again. Um, I think maybe it's a happy medium that the city and the kids win and it's not a massive disturbance. Um, that that would be my hope and that was kind of the idea behind this. Let's give it a shot and see like is this something that the council and the city and people can get behind. It's a it's a much much reduced obviously in every capacity obviously. Yeah. Thank you. That was the context I was looking for, more for the benefit of the public because they don't think about it in terms of event attendees and whatnot. So that's a we're trying to like even curate like a dinner beforehand. It's like I think a little bit more civilized honestly, you know. Um I mean I don't want my name, you know, my name's attached to it. Obviously now it's not Rick. Um so I I would like Yeah, I would like to be very curated and and a much much like cool experience that's that's you know a very nice experience for people. and our restaurant's right next door. So, you know, we're even thinking hard about how the noise even impacts the dinner service and all that. So, um yeah, that was my ask to see if it was something that you guys would kind of consider. So, thank you for that context. Any any questions of Mr. Switz? I don't have a question, but a comment, I guess. Yeah. Uh the only thing in here that not even a concern, but a thing that blipped in my head is the EDM. Y because I know that was a big deal with the other concert, which by your own admission is way bigger than this one. Y uh I'm glad to hear that you said that everything else is scaled down so I can assume the EDM volume will also be it'll be like I said probably 60 70% less. Okay. I'd like to hear that. Thank you. And the bass especially I think which would be you know bass kind of travels in all directions and I think that's what I you know the coial and the condos next door. Um I think that's the thing that rattles things. I think the actual volume stuff won't be a problem. That's my perspective. I don't think it's going to be an issue. Um and the base will be taken down dramatically. So like I said, I don't think it'll be super less than what happened. You know, obviously the first year wham it was really loud. I think last year it was mitigated and it wasn't as bad, but this taken another 60 70% down. I would hope that people don't have a huge issue with after that. There was the rails and nails that I actually participated in in 2023. And so, you know, that obviously was probably 50% less than what we will be, but it was like not even really an issue at all. So, and that was done by the chamber. So, I don't think it'll be a huge noise issue this year. I'm hoping anyway. I don't think it'll be a bad one. Thank you, Mr. Switz for that context. I guess I'll bring it back. Oh, go ahead, Mr. Paul. Mr. Mayor, just question. Um, Mr. Switz, are you performing at all? Uh, I will be one of the Yeah, one of them. Yes. Y, there you go. And then, and I think, you know, the EDM thing, I I you know, we're looking at some different acts. Some are like ones actually playing like MKOS. I mean, like it's pretty classy and like actually pretty cool. So, we're um we're very close. We have, you know, some one the the Friday night person she wants to deposit this week. she's kind of a little bit on the younger side. Um, but Saturday night we're looking for something that'll be even a little bit more like kind of slash like adult oriented, so to speak. So, probably won't appeal as much to the kids, but Friday night will be much more, I think, kid focused if, you know, by the act that we're picking. And I think Saturday night will be a little bit more um a little bit older genre of people that will probably, you know, enjoy it. We'll look to Molly EDM gets you. I'm not into it's like it'll be a little bit different, I think. So, um should be fun. Thank you. Um Oh, go ahead, Mr. Pleish. This is just for fun. Yeah. City Manager Doll's got my curiosity peaked now. So, what is it you're going to do? Oh, me? Yeah. Oh, I'm I actually DJ on the side. So, I I I enjoy it. So, I'm I I'm trying to make it more fun for adults. Okay. Well, I just learned something new about you. Yeah, I do. I've done Fletchers. I'm actually doing it July 3rd at Fletchers. I done Burchches on the Lake. So, and I think that the music we're playing and that's I guess the hope even with at hi-fi it's it's not I don't want to get it classified as like the stuff that I think maybe like a stevio and things like that. I think that's a different genre. I mean I can go through the genres but it'll you know there's melodic there's this there's there's a lot of different things that are out there different to hold the needle in your own place as well. That's right. Yeah. And Yeah. Yeah. And it's it's just hard to get the numbers to work. I think we found the happy medium. I think of you know Rick took the attitude of getting very very large people that have brand recognition but the the fees are just there and it's it's a crazy amount of money and when you do that large space the infrastructure that goes into it you just have to charge so much for the tickets and I think that you know with the breakaway and target field there's just so many outdoor venues the new shocky one that they're building I just don't think that you can get enough people to pay that level of money and I think the setup there also was not a great setup for the customers if you were VIP you were great and there was a huge gap and then the GA we want to make it a little bit obviously tighter and so it just feels a little bit you know a little bit better to the people that are buying the GA tickets as well and so um that was a that was a negative. I think people also were bummed when they came out to Wisetta and realized it wasn't on the lake last time. So the first year they're like wait this on the lake this is not really on the lake where we have the stage and so the background it's the lake and really cool setting and the boats and all that and so I think that part will be um will be fun. So great thank you for that. What is your ticket prices and um when do they go on sale? Yeah. So, we're going to probably announce sometime probably next week, I'm guessing, or late this week. I wanted to wait for tonight before we kind of got ahead of ourselves. Um, ticket prices will be about 35 or 40 for GA and about 75 to 80 for the VIP. We're just playing with it a little bit because like the VIP obviously goes a long way to paying for the infrastructure and the things and the GA tickets at 35 bucks. It's not a large space and so when it's that, you know, I mean, I'd be tempted to go 50/50 at some point. We'll learn a little bit this year on, you know, what truly makes sense in that space. Um, but right now we want to make sure it's accessible to, you know, a range of people. I'm a guessing, you know, just between honestly like people that were me, my friends, neighbors, Deep Haven, Wisetta. I mean, we'll have each night, you know, I'm probably responsible for three or 400 of the people of that thousand, you know, and then you add in the Weisetta, my my kids, my son, the kids coming back from college and all that. I mean, I could probably fill up the 500 myself with the wow people in the community because the people had a good time. And that's the thing I'm playing on is like Rick went out for the big the big people that want all the money. I'm trying to curate people that I think are going to become really big. And so at the girl on Friday night, she will be one year from now. I mean, she just played in Miami at the music festival. She's playing at the Vegas one. So, I mean, we we got her at a pretty good price. And uh our our whole idea to the people is to say, "Hey, trust us that we're going to curate really unique people that that maybe even play around the world that are young and not hit it big yet because the prices go up pretty dramatically." I mean, you know, we're basically, you know, transparent, she's about $8,000 and that we're paying for our airfare out here. And then the act on on Sunday or on Saturday is um $10 to $12,000. Just don't give too much money to Whitaker, please. I won't. I won't. Good. Thank you. All right. Um further questions. Otherwise, I think we we bring this back for a motion for consideration here. Okay. So, bringing it back to council then. Thank you, Mr. Switch. Appreciate all that additional context information. Um, I would accept a motion to approve the special permit for the hi-fi on the lake concerts at Makanda Restaurant, 294 Grove Lane East. Who would like to make that motion? So move, Mr. Mayor. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. That passes. Good luck, Mr. Switz. And thank you for that. And we look forward to a successful event for you. Thank you. Yeah. weather. Knock on wood for weather for for Becky, too, in in the chamber for art experience. Okay, so now we move it to the city manager. I just have a couple items, Mr. City Manager, before we go there. Um, we've invited our LMC rep to present the next meeting, Matt Thompson. Um, there's been some discussion on the lake postco of reducing the onwater patrol services due to lack of funding, but they have resolved that and I've asked Mr. Thompson to come and update us about water patrol issues and safety on the lake which um I think we all want to know about. Um two other quick things is yesterday um council member uh Park Hill Sorenson and McDonald and myself as well as key members of staff held a um listing session at the depot park um where we met with I don't know 40 or 50 residents and had a really nice session of feedback. This is part of our planful way to bring city leadership out into the community to uh have more feedback. Uh maybe outside of this chamber. I think it was awesome. I vote for the next city council meeting to be outside. Maybe. No. Yes. Under the stars. No. Okay. Um next we had another community meeting last night, a second one, a double header. um at Gleon Lake Elementary School, we had 104 community members join us at Gleon Lake Elementary to give us feedback on safety and traffic issues on 101 Central North. And I would like to pay special uh thank you uh to uh Commissioner Eden from Henipin County um and Senator Anne Johnson as well as Major Wji from Plymouth uh as well as Bo Carlson and sending their staff from Three Rivers and Chase Anderson from sending their staff from Wisetta Public Schools. I think we had a really nice thoughtful conversation about safety and involving all the agency partners versus what normally happens to Weisetta is Weisetta residents get frustrated with Weisetta for a non-Wisetta road. And so I thought it was a really uh good dialogue and I think it helped inform the county of the issues our residents and Plymouth's residents are facing on that road. So with that, I will turn it over city manager for anything else. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just a couple quick things here. One is uh next week uh we're going to be holding two sessions uh to inform and to get feedback from residents and community members about the city's advocacy for a food and beverage sales tax. So on Wednesday, we're holding one that's specifically designed for businesses. Uh at 8 or yeah, at 8:00 a.m. 8 to 9:00 a.m. here in the community uh room. Again, that's Wednesday for businesses. Uh food and beverage sales tax advocacy. And then on Thursday um from 5:30 to 6:30 uh we'll be holding it in this community room again for more geared towards residents. There's two different perspectives. Doesn't mean that they're completely separate, but um some of the the questions probably will be a little bit different that we get from from uh the attendees. So come come on, come all um call me or email me if you have any questions. Go to the website to get that information. Uh but we look forward to uh mingling and and hopefully informing and getting some good feedback from the community. Uh for those that have been along or driven through Weisetta Boulevard recently, the Broadway intersection work is coming to an end finally. Uh the lights are up and and working. The final phase of that project is to restore the north side of the uh intersection and the um the sidewalk and the pedestrian access area. So almost there. it's it's uh completing or will be completed earlier than anticipated. So excited to see that wrapped up and at least most of the congestion around the intersection is is has been removed. Uh digit day is May 17th. That's at 8:30 a.m. Uh the the area where we kick it off is right out Panway. Uh again, come one, come all. It's a great event. It goes by quickly. It's about, you know, hour and a half or so. staff will have donuts, coffee, all those all that important fuel to go out in the community and help plant in our beautiful areas. Come help make Weisetta look so beautiful as it always does every year. A great way to meet your neighbors and other staff members, too. Um later this week, uh we are expecting that our stepdowns will be uh delivered to the lakewalk and hopefully installed. Uh the delivery I believe is going to be happening on Thursday and then I you know we're not quite sure how long the installation process should take. It shouldn't take that long. Uh but once we have them up and running we'll be sure to uh let the community community know and even before then we'll we'll let people know like when they can plan on using them completely. But again uh the the step downs were anticipated to be operational last year. They needed some design tweaks. Um, so we had to wait till the winter obviously, but really it'll be residents, community members, people that visit a chance to really dip their toes into the lake, really experience the lake. So you don't, you know, actually have to live on the lake to have that feeling. Uh, a long uh, awaited for and high demand part of this project. So we're just happy that that we're finally uh, seeing this, uh, being installed. Lastly, just would like to say thank you to the conservancy and all the partners that um the executive director Hitch, President uh Sanvold, and everybody else on the board brought to the plaza on Saturday. What a great event. A lot of kids uh Three Rivers Weisetta Schools, bunch of our partners uh came out, showcased all the all the programming for the summer, the great cause for the conservancy, and and free hot dogs and ice cream and just a ton of kids. It was a lot of fun. Perfect weather. Uh, thanks mayor for for for being out there as well. A great event and I hope it gets bigger and better even in the future. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Questions of Mr. City Manager. Um, I just have one. Um, Jeeoff, I brought it up to you earlier. Um, both from feedback from the community and own observation, you know, the Caribou building where we've closed off the street. um despite you know the signage and the blocking and and whatnot um noticing kids, people, dogs all walking in the street, which is not what we want from that. And so um just ask that you uh work with the um developer and and the Carish family to see if there's an alternative way to address that because we really can't have people walking. We we were all concerned about that intersection with the water feature across the street and then when you have people walking in the street at the same time. Yeah. Um probably not a good idea. So I don't know what the right solution is, but maybe just ask them to take a look at it and see if there's an alternative way to to deal with that. Yeah. Thanks for bringing that up, Mr. Mayor. We're on it. And uh hopefully we'll have a update uh that's that's a positive update. Yeah, I don't know what the right answer is, but hopefully you can find a find a find a path. Okay, so other questions with that? Um, is there anybody on teams? Uh, no, there's not. Okay. So, I would accept a motion to adjourn tonight's meeting. Make that motion. Uh, second. Second. Further discussion? Hearing? None. All say I. I. We're I.