9 Topics in This Document
Consent Agenda Approval
Canterbury Park Southern 28 Acres Feasibility Study
Lease Amendment for River City Center
Monetary Donation for Aquatic Programming
AED Safe Station Donation for Joe Schleper Stadium
Proposed Fence Ordinance Amendments
Final Plat of Richland Court
2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report and Audit
Hotel Ordinance Review
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“Completing a market study of what is the best attractions for the Shakabe market. How do we make this a major destination for the region beyond the assets we currently have?”
“The reason I ask is because that, you know, we talk about bringing back a branding firm at a later date and I was wondering if the branding firm if if that's included in a not to exceed or if it's a separate thing. Chair and board members, it's included in the not to exceed.”
“I would like to see the best use of that space and I think it could be uh done really well and I'm hoping can't wait to see what they come up with.”
“This is the last renewal for concrete mobility. They'll be vacating after this, but if you remember, they are a good tenant. They only have a couple people that work there. They pay us six months in advance.”
“The reward that my fellow friends who teach with me and I get out of this class is probably more than our students get out of it. They become comfortable, but we feel like we're actually building women up and giving them a skill that's a life skill.”
“You may you may get the benefits now, but teaching people to swim if they ever need it could save their life. So noble noble of you. Thank you very much.”
“This AED save station is a gift from Advanced First Aid. Advanced First Aid is the company uh that I have worked through to put all the AEDs into our school district. They have given us um generous donation or not donations but um discounts and um helped make it happen.”
“My ask for the future is to consider a safe station for the first pavilion by field. I think it's still fields one and two and uh an a system that would come to a cost of $8,000.”
“It's fully automatic, which means uh you need to open it up and it'll talk to you. It'll say power on. Then you listen for the next. It'll say put the patches on.”
“This has been literally years in the making. City staff is requesting this current section be repealed and replaced to accommodate multiple changes to the ordinance, including clarifying the application requirements, including written notorized permission from adjacent property owners if a fence is proposed to be constructed on the property line or physically connecting.”
“If the permitting process if they're not encroaching and they're on the property line, I don't I don't I don't think that you need the you should need the property neighbor's permission. Otherwise, the neighbor's denying you the use of your cartilage and that's that's not allowed in if you had to connect it on his property or their their property. Well, there you need their permission.”
“My suggestion would be is we could remove in number two the word repair because I think replace you still need a permit because we need to know what you're replacing it with.”
“The big change after the preliminary plat and there were some council members that asked about um the requirements of the county. The county uh heard you and the applicant and now they're only requiring uh the only access change is a right turn lane on County Road 79.”
“This provides an unmodified or a clean opinion over the financial statements. And what that means is that we were able to obtain all of our audit evidence. We didn't run into any significant issues during the audit. We also review the internal controls of the city and make sure that the processes and the financial cycles are properly separated uh between the different review and approval processes and we didn't note any issues during that review. So all in all really good year for compliance and controls and the financial information that was prepared for the audit.”
“Your revenues did come in over budget primarily within interest earnings, investment earnings had a really good year and then also permit revenue. Again, continue to have a really strong year over what you had budgeted. The budget for those items are usually very conservative as they should be.”
“Because you guys collect a lot of different types of taxes from not just residents, but also those other types of entities. Your taxes per capita, you have a higher amount of taxes. It's um it's a little bit higher than what other cities might have of a similar size.”
“I would just point out that, you know, we we got through the co thing. right now we're in uh somebody tell us what uh the uncertainty is going to bring us from the federal state you name it. Um and considering all them things for staff to be able to be so even kill through all this uh says a lot to staff.”
“What I'm asking for is that we look at the residents we're impacting and try to find the wording to again have teeth for the ordinance but also have compassion for the residents.”
“we can we can change this ordinance to basically be back to what it was and we will not be dealing with the real problems we have within some of our hotels including over 256 visits uh uh and and we have some hotels that just aren't good community partners. And we also have organizations that stuff bad people into hotels. Uh and we have people that abuse the system that you know they were getting assistance and they are running a prostitution ring out of one of the hotels.”