Good evening and welcome to the regular city council meeting for the city of St. Peter, Minnesota. It is Monday, July 28th, 2025. At 700 p.m. we are called to order. Would all please rise for the pledge. >> 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. Uh you've all received a copy of the agenda. Are there any revisions or corrections to the agenda as distributed? Hearing none. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? >> Second. >> All those in favor of approval say I. I. Any opposed? The agenda is approved. Uh the minutes are printed in the packet on pages 5 through 7. Are there any revisions or corrections to the minutes? Hearing none. Is there a motion to approve? So >> all those in favor of approval say I. I. Any opposed? The minutes are approved as distributed. Uh we have time on our agenda for visitors. Uh are there any visitors who'd like to uh address the council on any agenda item? Please come forward. I think you know the routine. We'd like to have your name, your address, and then you'll have five minutes to address the council. Hello, my name is Mark Plots, last name spelled P L O TZ. I live at 10009 Wedg Street, St. Peter, Minnesota 56082. I also own a business on Highway 169, aka Minnesota Avenue. You can probably guess why I'm here today, so I'll just get right into it. I prepared my remarks because I will stay focused that way. I am here tonight to talk about the Highway 169 project. To date, there haven't been many opportunities for public feedback on this project and the proposed design. By the time the open house happens this fall, I think in October, the project will be at final design. Okay. So, when you put your public comment period once the design has already been decided, I guess the question is what's the point of showing up? Okay. Uh there have been other opportunities. I think the last one was in 2022 and at that point the project was bundled with six others and the thing that was most pressing on people's minds was the 1692299 intersection. So I don't think at that point the project got enough attention and comment. So, I suppose we could count the council work sessions where you are briefed by Mindot on this project as an opportunity for public feedback. But, uh, as I hear about what happened at those, I guess my question is, does it feel like you've been heard and has the project changed as a result? Back to my remarks. Hopefully, the open house and comment period will be enough to alter the trajectory of this project. If I lived on that road and I was being asked to pay for it, I would look at the design and my first question would be, "What is the improvement?" The speed, it is still a 40 mph road and it just moved closer to my front door. Okay? And that 40 mph speed limit, that can change. Okay? So, if you remember one thing from what I said, never ever ask for a speed study because in Minnesota, when you do a speed study, the speed limit only goes in one direction, and that's the one that we don't want. This road is not the lifeblood of our community. If that were the case, then 24,000 vehicles a day would mean that every storefront in our downtown would be filled by retail or dining businesses. Real estate prices would be high. Second floor apartments would be renting for twice what they're renting and homes that are for sale on 169 wouldn't sit on the market longer than others in our city. You don't have to accept what Mandot is offering. North Mano didn't. Okay. So, North Mano is getting two roundabouts for their 169 gateway project. That was not the mind preferred alternative. MDOT wanted to give them one. Okay. North Mano decided to pass a resolution that said that they would not give local consent to any project that didn't preserve two intersection access points. Okay. Once a project is completed, that road won't be touched for another 30 years, right? I'm going to be a very old man by that point. So, it behooves us to take our time and get the design right. And because I know that I'm being recorded right now, I will conclude with this >> bypass. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Mark. >> Are there any uh other visitors present who'd like to address the council on any agenda item? We also have time for general visitor comments. Any visitor who'd like to address the council on another matter? Hearing none, we will move on to the approval of the consent agenda. The consent agenda begins with the memo on page eight of the packet and concludes with a resolution that appears on page 28. The consent agenda includes the following um approvals. We have a temporary gambling license to the St. Peter Hockey Association for the dates and location listed within the packet. The following employee appointments are made. We have four volunt or sorry, three volunteer firefighters, Corey Greor, Carson Kennedy, and Ashton Vulk. And the following items are declared as surface as surplus, and staff is authorized to dispose of them. I won't read the list. It is printed within the packet. As well as the schedule of dispersements for July 10th through 23rd. Are there any is there any discussion of any item that is on the consent agenda? Hearing no discussion, is there a motion to approve the resolution? So move. >> We have a motion and a second. Call the role, please. >> Council member, >> I. >> Council member Devos, >> I. >> Mayor Noel, >> I. >> Council member Johnson, >> I. >> Council member Pettis. >> Hi. >> Council member Weisenfeld. >> I. >> The resolution is approved. We have no items of unfinished business tonight, so we will move on to new business. The first item of new business is the Highway 169 feasible feasibility study accepting and calling for a public hearing. And oh, we've got two people. Peta and Jeff are here to talk to us about this. >> Sure. I'll give you a little overview and then if Jeff wants to add some comments, we can go from there. Um, a little over five years ago, we began working with Mindad on this project. Um, as you know, uh, this would be the last portion of the, uh, what I would call the downtown area from Union to Jefferson that we would be redoing. We've done, uh, very well with working with Mandot on the other improvements there. Um, and as you know, uh, Jeff and Bolton and Mink prepared a report for us, and that's on pages 31 through 47 in your council packet. Uh during the last year here, staff has been working to identify the construction needs on the project as it relates to Mandot's planned improvement. Um this project once assembled will be uh the main uh thoroughfare for the city for the next 20 plus years. On June 9th, you guys authorize Bolton Mink to take that work based on the idea that we would do a feasibility report. um come back to you and tell you if we should be doing the project and what involvement we should have. The improvements uh mainly work with the new road surface medians, turning lanes, curb gutter, uh sidewalk in in certain areas, new services for water, new services for sanitary sewer, plus main sewer line replacement. Um there is some storm water drainage improvements to be had there as well and tree removal and tree planting along the corridor. MDOT has put together a total cost of the project at $7.2 million for which MDOT's share of this project is around $5.14 million. Uh the city's share is estimated at 2.06 06 and roughly 28% of that cost that the city's responsible for would come back in the form of assessments. Uh in other words, about 573 out of the 2.06. The remaining 1.5 million would be uh the responsibility of the city. Um estimated assessments as you can see in the packet run from 2 to 14,75 depending on the needs of each property in the rightway. Uh staff will also be working should this be approved uh to resolve additional uh property uh private property issues as they pertain to this project that we'll try to get accomplished during the same time frame. Uh Boltman Mink has deemed this project necessary, cost-effective, and feasible. And what we will ask you to do once Jeff is done is approve the resolution on page 48. And that calls for a public hearing on August 25th related to the assessments, and that'll be held here at the city council chambers. And Jeff, >> thank you, Pete. Um honorable mayor and city council members, Pete did a nice job of explaining the proposed improvements. Um I'll just add a little bit more. Um if you've had a chance to review the report uh we went into some detail there as to why the improvements that are proposed are proposed. Um sanitary suit I'll start with the roadway in order in the u in order of the report. Um roadway as you all as everybody knows that is a heavily traveled roadway as Mr. Plots had pointed out a lot of vehicles traveling there. Um it's in very poor condition. It's something on that was on Mindot's long range schedule for a number of years. um if the money was available in 2009 um I know they would have um pursued that at that time con reconstructing that portion of it. But um the improvements now that are proposed include um a new roadway, new curbon gutter, uh new sidewalk um uh and a median that will be a little bit different from what people are used to seeing there. Medians proposed down the center of the roadway uh very similar to what you would see at Minnesota Square Park. Um it's trees with uh grass. Um that's as the city council talked about that at the last uh goal our city council goal session. So um as part of that we would also construct uh look at constructing um median receptacles for electrical um for like lighting during the holidays on on the trees median trees. Um there would be the median would um have two access points to the to the highway. I should say left turns. Um you can right right in right out they call it. Those are always available um when traveling northbound or southbound, but um there will be two access points that are proposed. One at um Scarrow and then one at Ramsey, I believe it was. Um those will have left turn lanes and allow traffic to cross the highway or cross the roadway, Minnesota Avenue, and continue either south or northbound depending on which way they're crossing from. So essentially those will be the two full um movement intersections. Nothing really is changing at those other than uh roadways a little bit narrower and the medians there. Um so what's proposed there of course is a concrete roadway which is is very similar to what the rest of the downtown and south part of town is. U very long um enduring roadway. um very um if you can build it out of concrete, that's that's what you should do. Um it just lasts a lot longer and there's a lot less maintenance involved. Um for Sen for the utility improvements that are proposed, as Pete noted, um sanitary sewer services are proposed to be replaced and the sanitary sewer mains are proposed to be replaced. Um sanitary sewer mains are vetrified clay pipe. Um as you as we talked about that many times before, vetrified clay is really susceptible. There's no um they're not gasketed. the joints are for every section of pipe and so it's really susceptible to inflow from groundwater especially when the river rises we see a lot more inflow at a lot more unh water that's being treated at the wastewater treatment plant simply because of that um and that's not it's additional cost to the city and it's taxpayers so it's important to to remove that if you can and that's why PVC new PVC mains are proposed um in the roadway and then also new uh service PVC service pipe are proposed up to the rightway line to connect to the existing services. Same with the water man. Pete noted that the water man had been replaced in 2009. Um so that is in good shape. Not proposed to do any improvements with the water man at all other than um replacing any non-compliant services. About one quarter of the services are compliant. Uh meaning they're 1 in copper already. Um those that are non-compliant are either 3/4 inch and a short piece of um copper pipe, but they're not one inch all the way up to the rightway line. A lot of those um services are old. Also part of the original, you know, who I'm it's been a long time, but it's it's been they've been there a while. So curb stops aren't necessarily operational. Those are the valves that um um control the water to the to the property. So those are proposed to be replaced for the non-compliant properties along the route. And then storm serve is um is a prrated based on the drainage. The city will have a share of that. that's based on um the split what portion of the city drains to the storm sur versus what portion of the Mindot right away or Minnesota Avenue drains to the um to the storm source system. So um overall costs Pete noted there are uh about a $7.2 $2 million project. Um, and sanitary sewer and water man are in the neighborhood of 424,000 359,000 respectively. Um, storm sewers is about 557,000. That would be a prorated between the city and Mindot and street uh median. Mindot um has a plan to pay for the roadway improvements, all the concrete roadway, um some sidewalk, and then also the median uh all the turf in the median and that sort of thing. Uh median curb and gutter, um concrete, that sort. That's a big part of the project. That's about 4.6 million. Um there's about $396,000 in other concrete walk improvements along the corridor. Um like I think unlike this project they're proposing to replace all the concrete walk along that whole corridor. Um that's my understanding. So lighting the there's about $355,000 worth of lighting that is proposed and I'll get to that in a second. But all these costs that we've got that I'm talking about right now um that are city responsibility other than the sanitary sewer and water main um would be MSA eligible meaning municipal state aid eligible um that's additional money that the city has and can utilize if they so choose. Um so the lighting boulevard trees median trees about 118,000 median electric receptacles about 124,000 and then the uh irrigation system in the median uh for watering the the turf um about 248,000 altogether about 72 million 7.2 million um assessments were prepared and there's assessment role in the back of the packet. Um those are that's based on the city assessment policy and the rates that this city council establishes every year. Um at the beginning of every year 2025 the rates were $8,50 per uh property and $2,000 each for sanitary sewer and water service. So altogether there's 40 or 50 properties along there. Um and it's broken out as to what that their proposed assessment would be. Um the next steps would be if the the city council chooses to move ahead, the next steps would be to um call for a or accept the feasibility report and then call for an improvement hearing. The improvement hearing would allow residents, property owners to come in and um speak to the council regarding the proposed project, the proposed assessments. And um and we do plan, like we have in other assessment projects, we do plan to have a an informational meeting prior to that meeting for residents to come in and uh talk about the project uh with us um ahead of time. So um with that, >> 53 um residents or individual properties are on the assessment role. >> Questions that we can answer? Um are the the um the meeting for residents is that already scheduled? >> We intentively set that for August 19th, I believe it is. Um >> send them a letter. Yes. >> Sure. They'll all get individual contacts. Okay. >> Um additional questions or Dustin. So you had said at the beginning that it would be 2 to 14,000 but if it's going to be 8,50 for the property and 2,000 for the water and 2,000 for the san sanitary I mean that's going to be $12,000 for every household >> that they are all impacted the same. You are correct. But some only need water service or they may not be on Minnesota Avenue. They may be adjacent to Minnesota Avenue and that was the only place to get water at a previous project. So, they will pay a portion of the cost to make improvements. >> I mean, anytime we're doing assessments, I we are asking a burden on the homeowners to come up with that money. This is for a road. Many would argue it's not the road that they use. It's the road people use to get through St. Peter. >> Carrie. So, I'm very much in favor of how we change the assessment policy, but then that leaves kind of a massive >> deficit to come up with the funds uh to cover our city portion. Um I understand that um municipal state aid funds would it would be eligible. Um but when would we have to start thinking about budgeting or adjusting rates potentially and our enterprise funds to to cover this? We haven't put together the final financing package for that. Really, what we're looking at today is to gather more information to see if the council is interested in having us move forward um based on the report from Bolton and Mink. It does seem feasible. So, we'd like to proceed with that process so that we can start looking into the details and put a package together. This doesn't authorize the project by any means. It just allows us to move to the next step. >> By doing the assessment role, we in essence make this project a bondable project. We can sell debt to finance this project. If we don't do the assessments, we got to come up with the cash. >> Correct. >> By doing this, you can put the mortgage on and sell debt probably against your MSA system to pay it off over 10, whatever five, 10, 15 years, whatever we choose to do. But if we don't assess, then we lose that ability to basically sell the debt. So this is there so we can meet the requirements of 429 so we can do the bonding. >> No, I was going to um echo a little bit what Daryl said. Our goal would be certainly to have the financing mechanism figured out by that time. There are a number of avenues which you can pursue. Again, assuming you have some assessment level with the project that allows it to be assessed under the Minnesota statute, certainly you could use cash from your enterprise funds, water and sewer to help supplement that. And so there's a couple of different ways that we can look at it, but there is a balance that would be necessary based on the total and final cost. >> The question is, I know this is one step in the process, but when when do we start really start to look at the financing? You'll start seeing more of that work here as we get into the middle of August. But the vast majority of what is not I mean the staff's recommendation so far has been we'll use MSA for everything that we can use MSA dollars for. So those are dollars that are allocated through the state of Minnesota based on a calculation and what we have in place. Um then we would go to debt issuance and so any cash that we couldn't develop through assessments or that the council might not authorize as a part of those enterprise funds um would be issued debt 429 and then would be paid accordingly related to the fund that it comes out of. So as an example if 200,000 of it was sewer debt that would be allocated towards your sewer fund and so that would have an impact on future rates. um you have um budgets that are set through the end of 2026. We would anticipate that this project likely comes into construction in 2027. So, we're really talking rate impact that would occur in 2028 more than likely. I would guess in the second half of 2028. It could be the first half um but likely in the second half of 2028. So that'll be something that we discuss as a part of that two-year budget cycle for those enterprise funds. That would be the 27year and the 28year because we are already in the first year of a two-year budget cycle 2025 and 2026. And so then it's 27 and 28. >> Thank you, >> Darl. And then Brad, >> there's no uh the sewer cost that we're assessing is for individual services. There's no assessment for the trunk sewer down the center of the road. Is there >> that? gets included in the sewer cost. >> Oh, it is. Okay. >> A lot of a lot of sewer cost is going to come out of our enterprise fund. >> Correct. >> 8 in or whatever 10inch main that goes down the middle of the road. We paid for a majority out of your enterprise fund. >> Most of these assessments are just your connection to the main sewer to the curb stop tier and then from there to the house is yours. A sewer assessment is set at $2,000 and that includes whatever work we need to do and that's determined by staff and our engineer. >> Yeah. And and the reality is even though it's a large sum of money, $2,000 doesn't cover a private service line. And so, however it gets categorized, it's a relatively small amount compared to the overall cost of providing that service within that location. I think there's also a comparative value here that um well I don't know how to uh well I do know how to calculate it but I think it's important that people understand the comparative value is is that if that work doesn't happen when DOT is paying to redo the road then that individual property owner is responsible for digging into the roadway repairing the line and then repairing the road. And there's a substantial a much more substantial cost involved in that into the 20s or $30,000 range probably in today's marketplace to make that happen. So this is um even though no one likes assessments, this is a very coste effective time to ensure that water and sewer services are done appropriately and well for the next decades. Um if not the risk is very high from a cost perspective. >> Yeah. Um, so I am in favor of accepting the feasibility study. This is part of moving the assessment process forward. Um, uh, to address Mr. Platz's concerns that he raised earlier, I actually I I I have concerns I've raised in the meetings regarding the speed as well as l lack of what I think adequate traffic controls. Uh, but that will be address. Um, but at this point, we're not doing either municipal consent or a resolution of support as has been proposed in this situation. Um, so that's why at this point I'm I'm in favor of accepting the feasibility study and we will we will address uh at a later time uh either resolution of support or municipal consent. So additional questions hearing nothing further. The resol uh let's see let me get on the right page. Um let's see the resolution. I'm still not on the right page. >> Thank you. Oh 48. I'm going too far ahead trying to get us to provide city assistance for Rochester. Normally I help and say the resolution in front of you is on page 48. That's normally what >> Well, usually I'm working ahead. I thought there'd be more discussion, but um the resolution receiving feasibility report and calling hearing on improvement for the 2027 Minnesota Avenue improvements Chestnut Street to Union Street is on page 48 as we well know. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Call the role, please. >> Council member Devos, >> I. Mayor Noel. >> I, >> Council Member Johnson, >> I. >> Council member Pettis, >> hi. >> Council member Weisenthal, >> I. >> Council member Sharen, >> I. >> The resolution is approved. >> Thank you. Uh, next up, River's Edge SEARM purchase approval. And I see that Paul is here to talk to us about that. Mayor Council. Um, tonight I am coming with uh the request to purchase a SEARM. Did the pictures make it in? >> All right. So, the Carm is a piece of equipment that we take into the operating rooms and we use this on most of our total joint replacements um and our spine surgeries. And we currently have three C arms. We have a Super C, which is the oldest of the three. We have a 31 cm and the most recently purchased a 21 cm. The centimeters on the 21 and the 31 really gives a picture gives an idea of the size of the picture that it's able to take when we're in um taking the vi the visuals and the images in the operating room. Um currently the 31 is preferred by many of the ortho providers and it has multiple uses with multiple procedures. So, it is required for any uh anterior hip procedure that's done, which is an approach from the front side versus the side on a hip replacement. I'll give you all my head, shoulders, knees, and toes. Um, and the 21 cm doesn't have a big enough view to be able to grab that anterior hip. Uh, we are able to use the 21 cm on some of Dr. Jones's spine cases, but many of them are also requiring the use of the 31 cm. Right now, we have the Super C, which is again the oldest one that we have that is not preferred. Um, the picture isn't quite as good as the newer equipment. So, that one is sitting, we're calling it a little bit of a stepchild, kind of sitting in the corner and not being used. Um, and so as we look at new equipment and what we can do to make the scheduling easier and to get um, our patients so that we can have the right equipment in the room without having scheduling conflicts. Um, our current super C is worth about $15,000 in the blue book world of medical equipment. GE, which is the company that we've looked at, the vendor that we've looked at for the new 31, which would match a 31 that we have already, uh, has told us that they would give us a $49,000 tradein for the super C to put towards the purchase of a new 31 cm. That would make the final price of a new 31cm CRM $132,775. the hospital and the hospital commission has recommended the purchase of the 31 cm searm and the trade in of the super C. We would use our cash to make the purchase which would leave us with still about half of the money that we've set aside for our capital purchases for the rest of the year. >> Thanks Paula. Any questions or any of our hospital commission uh members have anything to add? All right. Hearing no discussion, the resolution approving purchase of OEC Elite CFD 31 cm digital mobile erggo C arm ESP with OEC touch for River's Edge Hospital and clinic appears on page 51 of the packet. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. Second. >> We have a motion and a second to call the role, please. >> Mayor Noel. >> I. Council member Johnson, >> I. >> Council member Pettis, >> hi. >> Council member Weisenfeld, >> hi. >> Council member Sharstrom, >> hi. >> Council member Glass, >> I. >> The resolution is approved. Thank you. >> Uh, moving on uh to new licenses, >> members, the information starts on page 52 within your packet. Just as a reminder of your policy and practice is that new licenses fall underneath new agenda items and renewals are a part of your consent agenda. These all happen to be new licenses. The first is for Smithsonian Consulting um doing businesses tree and turf home care for a tree workers license. The second is Cavo LLC. Um they are looking for both an on sale liquor license and Sunday liquor license. And this is for the restaurant that's located at the corner of Nassau and um um Minnesota Avenue. The third is Dylan Smith on behalf of Econo Shield Pest Control. This is a six-month pedaller's license. As you know, we do the appropriate investigation with this. The last is for Benjamin Ramp doing business as 10,000 Lakes Cannabis Company. This is slightly different in that it's a registration based on the state law for the retail sale of cannabis at 202 South Minnesota Avenue. Mayor, members, the resolution approving all these licenses based on the information that we have, the applications that we've received, and the background checks that we've done um is included within your packet on page 54. Again, I'm happy to answer questions as best I can. >> Any questions for Todd? >> I will only add a reminder because it is in the summer months and this is when peddlers tend to appear on our doorsteps that uh if anybody shows up on your doorstep trying to sell you something. Ask them if they have a peddler's license. >> They should have a license that looks like this, the um information is kept by the city and certainly during business hours. Um you can call the community development office and they can let you know. Um, and so for the time being, you can certainly call the police department. They are allowed to maintain a list and we'll follow up and if we have folks that don't have the appropriate pedaller's license. Um, frankly, we ask them to leave town and get the appropriate licensing. >> All right. Hearing no discussion, the resolution approving new licenses is on page 54 of the packet. Is there a motion to approve? >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Call the RO, please. Council member Johnson. >> Hi. >> Council member Pettis. >> Hi. >> Council member Weisenfeld. >> Hi. >> Council member Sharstrom. >> Hi. >> Council member Devos. >> Hi. >> Mayor Noel. >> I. >> The resolution is approved. Uh, next up, city assistance request for Rock Bend Folk Festival. >> Mayor, members, the information starts on page 55. Um, go Rockbend Folk Festival is a tradition in St. Peter. Um, dare I say an institutional event. um within St. Peter and Minnesota Square Park. And so it happens in September. This is their usual request. This is substantially similar to the request that you've seen over the last half a dozen years or more. Um certainly we require specific things from them and anyone that operates a festival of this type on city property and that includes um the appropriate type of restrooms. It includes collaborating with the police department and public works on setup and stages and all of those things. It also includes the appropriate insurance that's um dictated through city policy and so they're required to have that all in place. Um Rockbend has been fantastic in working with your city staff and always put on a very nice event. Be again happy to answer any questions that you might have and um this would be for the 6th and 7th of September and the resolution is included on page 60 and well 59 and 60 of your packet. >> Thanks Todd. Any questions? Any discussion? Hearing none, the resolution authorizing city assistance for Rockbend Folk Festival, pages 59 and 60 of the packet. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second to call the RO, please. >> Council member Pettis. >> I. >> Council member Weisenfeld. >> I. >> Council member Shorstrom. >> I. >> Council member Devos. >> I. >> Mayor Noel. >> I. >> Council member Johnson. >> I. >> The resolution is approved. Uh, final item of new business, community center lease with St. Peter School City Schools. >> So, mayor, members, this is a lease that the council's had the opportunity to review. I will mention that there were a couple of typos that were fixed and one other small modification that I suggested to the um superintendent, which he believes is appropriate. The lease would essentially be for the 2526 school year to use room 114 here in the lowest level of the community center. Um, some of you might know this. We commonly refer to it as the large muscle room. Um, this would be for an academy that the district has operated for a number of years and in fact operated this academy during COVID here in this very room. um during COVID time and you council members may remember that um we were online for meetings or kind of a hybrid online and in the senior center to keep social distancing as appropriate based on the recommendations at that time. Um this lease would generate um approximately $1,300 a month in revenues. There's not a substantial amount of work that would be required to that room. We had planned previously to upgrade the lighting which we will continue to have and do in place before this is in place. And again, as the information shows, um this would be for a period of August 22nd of this year to June 2nd of 2026. Um it's a one-year lease. See how this works. Um and council has talked about other opportunities as well. And so I think those will continue to have discussion and potentially evolve into the future. um the tenants located in a lower level, at least board members. I have talked with both of the child care operations and head start um that are located there. So, they're aware that this is going to be in place. I do want to be very clear that this academy, which is called Rockbend Academy, are for um high school students that need to catch up on their credits and do other things. This is different um than what some people are aware of that's located on Davis Street and is the min part of the Minnesota Valley Educational District. Um, again, I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. Um, this lease falls in line with from a pricing perspective and from an amenity use perspective substantially similar to the other leases that you have within the building. Again, happy to answer questions as best I can. >> Questions for Todd? Hearing no questions or having no further discussion, the resolution approving execution of a lease with the St. Peter School District 508 for a room in the community center is on page 69 of the packet. Is there a motion to approve? >> May I could interrupt one more thing that I did not mentioned that I should mention is that the school district reviewed a draft of the lease at their last meeting and has approved or given the superintendent authorization to enter the lease should you agree to approve it as well. >> Thank you. Uh with that in mind, is there a motion to approve the resolution? >> So moved. >> Second. We have a motion and a second. Call the role, please. >> Council member Wisenfeld. >> Hi. >> Council member Sharstrom. >> Hi. >> Council member DeVos. >> I. >> Mayor Noel. >> I. >> Council member Johnson. >> I. >> Council member Pettis. >> I. >> The resolution is approved. Uh, next up, reports. Report of the mayor. It is my honor to uh extend our uh gratitude to Sally Vogle who is retiring with seven years of of um service to the city. So, thank you, Sally. Todd, >> you know, I I want to mention that we are sad to see Sally go. I'm very sad to see you go, Sally, but I am so excited for your next adventure, whatever that is. you've been very tight- lipped about it except you're going to retire and have some fun. So, that that covers like a long broad stroke of things that could happen, but you've been a very positive and trusted advisory, good steward of the resources that were given by people in town. Um, you've helped us work financial things out through many, many projects, both little and very big. And so, we want to thank you for that. Um, you've hired a great team. You've done a great job in hiring a great team that will help propel us forward. And so we I really want to thank you for that. That's so important to have those folks and you've done a wonderful job with them and a wonderful job in that process. Um I'm just excited to see your next adventure and I hope you haven't been serious. You have said many times I'm not coming back. I'm not coming back. But I hope on occasion you'll stop by even if it's just to pay your utility bill in town. Sally, we hope that you'll stop by. So I want to give her a hand for sure for all that service. S I don't know, Sally, if if you want to say a few words, you're sure welcome. That's what I figured, Sally. I appreciate that, but I thought I would offer. >> No, I'm good. Thank you. I've said plenty of words, but thank you for the support from the council and you Todd and the staff. It's been a great >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, if you are ever bored on a Monday evening, Sally, you are welcome to join us anytime. Uh are there any uh on that note any reports from any council members? >> Um well Darl uh council member Pis and I uh attended the CGMC conference. CGMC stands for Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities. So it's an advocacy organization that we're a member of and pay dues toward. um and they have a summer conference every year where they uh have presentations, talk about the past legislative session, but there's business to attend to. So, in terms of approving um recommended items like the budget um and uh also if there's any change in dues, so there are no change in dues proposed or were not approved um in the upcoming year just in anticipation of harder times coming down the road. So, we appreciate that. Um, and then also, uh, election of officers, and I was honored, um, to be installed as a president of the coalition for the upcoming year, and I'm really excited to to be a part of, uh, the executive team in that way. Um, it's it's great to be a member of CGMC and they do a really good job of educating on the issues. is they're not just lobbyists, they're they help the members. Um they they're reactive and they're proactive. And so this last legislative session, they really countered a lot of not so great legislation that could have um passed that would impact cities. Um one of them just being the Senate proposal to reduce um LGA as a way of balancing the budget. and LGA is local government aid is really critical to our city. It's a huge portion of our of our budget and um so it's it's worth it to be a member of the coalition and um it's always fun to go with Daryl because Daryl is so beloved everywhere we go he's like just people are excited to see Daryl even the exhibitors um he's kind of famous and so um but but Daryl and I we like to split up at the conference and network around and um but he's just he's just wonderful to uh go to the conference with because he's very very much admired um for all the work he's done not just with the city but in all of his work uh with the counties and as an engineer as well. So yeah, it was a great conference and um the next summer conference will be in Newm >> Oh, >> so we'll have to we'll have to show up for that one local. >> So thank you. We get much else over 35 miles or is it 30 m? >> Uh, is there anything you want to add about the conference, Darl? >> No, thanks. You did a nice job. >> When I, you know, when I joined the council, CGMC was one of those um items in our budget that that people asked, are we really utilizing this membership? And I really have appreciated um your uh leadership in representing St. Peter. um and uh all cities all cities in greater man greater Minnesota through your service on CGMC. So, thanks for doing that, Carrie. >> Thank you. And if I may, yeah, >> um quite a few of our council members have participated on the policy committee. So, those opportunities will be coming up here soon. um not a big time commitment, but um if you are, you know, if your uh niche is economic development or transportation, um like Darl has participated on the transportation committee, they've got environment and land use and annexation, which I believe you've participated on, mayor. Correct. >> I haven't, but I'd love to. I'm very interested in that. >> We'll tag you for that one, but um it's a great way to just participate even if it's, you know, just for a couple meetings. It it really helps. um set the tone for what the policy should be in the next upcoming legislative session. So, lots of opportunities to be involved. >> Thanks, Carrie. Uh any other council member reports hearing? None. We'll move on to reports from our city administrator. >> Mayor members, um I have two other ones that are not listed that I wanted to just talk about quickly. First of all, seal coding. So, seal coding will start the week of August 4th pending weather a little bit. Weather always has an impact on that. That's why we want to make people aware. There'll be some great information on our website about that and in previous council packets. So, we do about 100 blocks a year and we'll provide some more information to folks when that happens. Um, we appreciate folks patience. It doesn't take too long when it comes by your house and in your block. Um, it's really fantastic how quickly they can make it happen. Um, but we do do understand that it causes a slight con inconvenience for folks. So, we thank people for their patience. It saves you lots and lots of money in road repairs in the long run. So, it's a great investment for us. The second one that I want to mention is filing for local elections starts here very, very soon. And so, there's some fantastic information that's available for folks that might be interested on the website. It'll be available tomorrow. If it's not already on there, it'll be available tomorrow. And so, certainly, we'd encourage folks that have interest to check out that information. And then ultimately filing lasts for about two weeks. And so, the dates and exact times when you can file um will be listed on there. And um we encourage everybody who's interested in participating whether it's at this level or volunteering on a board or commission to let us know and we'll be happy to visit more about what it takes and what your commitment is to that. Um mayor members, that's all that I have except for the request on the last page of your packet for a closed session. My hope is to discuss um the potential transaction of real estate at 107 Nassau and 105 Brown Street. I would anticipate that we would come back into open session only to adjourn. So, I do not anticipate any action about these two items this evening. We'd only come back into um open session to adjurnn. >> So, uh uh if the resolution calling for a closed session is approved, we'll we'll adjourn down to the Traverse D to Sue room. We will not return back here. >> We would not return back here. >> All right. Uh is there any discussion about the request for a close session? >> Hearing none, the resolution is on page 70. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Call the role, please. >> Council member Sharstrom, >> hi. >> Council member Devos, >> hi. >> Mayor Noel, >> I. >> Council member Johnson, >> I. >> Council member Pettis, >> hi. >> Council member Weisenfeld, >> hi. >> The resolution is approved and uh we will adjourn to close session. It is 7:47 p.m. >> I'll I'll send you an email, but I forgot to mention I won't be here. >> Well, I didn't know what was like. >> Thank you for sending us email because I mean you say that now. Yeah.