[Music] Okay, we'll call a Shaki city council meeting for April 15, 2025 to order. If you could please take the role. Uh, council member Delaney here. Council member Whitney here. Council member Contter here. Council member Lara here. and Mayor Leman here. Thank you, sir. Item number two or item number three actually. If you want to stand and join us for the pledge of 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. Item number four is a special presentation of the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority MVTA update. Councelor Whiting is our council appointed leazison to MVTA. He's going to be uh joining in on a tag team slideshow presentation with information about MVTA. Yes. Perfect. That's nice. Sure. They may be joined by Mr. Luther. Yeah. Luther joining us. Luther Whitney. Uh, all right. We got our slideshow. I'm just jumping into this slideshow. So, thank you for uh thank you for having us tonight. As you well know, we're members of the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority. Uh, our next slide is going to introduce uh Luther. And uh Luther will be joining us. He's a little late. there was some uh traffic issues. So, um he did not take the bus. I was about to say he should have taken the bus. He should have. We have um MVTA connect that could have taken him right here. But um uh here's a good snapshot if you want to take a look at this slide. Uh it kind of details the what MVTA is all about. I'm going to pull this closer. I was going to talk right into this mic. Uh so we have 170 buses, 24 routes, 14 P andr park and ride stations. Thank you. Uh and two garages. Uh Joy, you want to fill in a little more detail? Sure. And my name is Joya Stson. I am the community and economic development director at MVTA. So my job is really about being able to work with your team, work with Michael, work really closely with him and Kyle to understand what's happening in our communities so that we can be more proactive with the services that we're providing to you. So uh I'm grateful that you guys are such a a good partner for us and I have such a fun job to be able to go out and do all of the exciting pieces of this work. Um so like Jay said, we provide a few different types of services. So we have express services which allow people to get you know to and from suburbs to the cities or St. Paul to be able to go to work. Uh we also have our microtransit service which has just been initiated and that just started this year to be able to come to Prior Lake and shockpiece. So we were excited to be able to bring that here. And for those that have not leveraged the connect so far, uh it's an app-based service and it allows you to book on your phone up to three hours in advance and it's only $3 per ride. So you can go anywhere within like the developed out portions of Shockp and Prior Lake within that zone. So it'll pick people up if they're in that from their home, right? So it's a curb to curb service. So, it's really really nice for people to get to work, for people to get to, you know, appointments, um, or even just to go see family and friends. So, we're finding a lot of different purposes for that. Uh, we also provide local service. So, some of you may remember that last year we did a little bit of a reroute. We were able to, uh, bring our route 499 over to the Shakpi High School and allow students to access internships. And that was um at that exact same time, we also brought over that same route to the Southwest Intermediate School so that we were able to help individuals be able to get to some workforce training that was being put on by your amazing chamber here in Shakby. So like Jay said, we have a couple of bus garages. We have 14 park and rides and transit stations and about 24 to 25 routes. I say 24 to 25 because we do have a seasonal route which is our four fun route that's just begun. Um and let's talk about that. Yes. Yep. So, uh, the for fun route allows you to get to a lot of different interesting destinations. So, I like to call it our destination route because it goes to a lot of fun places. So, it'll go to Canterbury, Mystic Lake, Mall of America. Um, it does stop at the Marshall Road Transit Station here in Chakby. And then last year we added on the Egan Outlet Mall as well. So, and Valley Fair will be coming to fruition when they open up in May. So that will be also added to the schedule. And we found that uh Valley Fair folks, it's not just visitors that are using it, it's also their workforce as well. So that's kind of a good Do you do any any uh busing for the Renaissance? Yeah. Yep. So we do event services, too. And one of the great things about the event services is we're going to be sharing some flyers with your city team. We will be doing the concert series again this year. We just did AC/DC, which we had good wrership from Shaki, so that's exciting. Um, and we're going to be doing more of those concerts. We're going to be doing the Renaissance Festival and we're going to be doing State Fair again, too. So, I don't know if any of you have taken the bus to the State Fair, but it's a lot better than trying to deal with the parking situation out there, too. So, I heard they're going to be um charging, I think, more for the parking meters on the street now, too. $25. Yes. Wow. Yes. So, we will definitely continue to provide those special services and work collaboratively with your team here at city hall to make sure that your residents have that information at hand and can access those services. By the way, thank you very much for the effort that you did with the high school and the internships. That idea actually came from a student uh who brought that up at one time. We are one of the sponsors of uh one of themies, the human services academy. And it's so refreshing to have a an organization that looks at it and says as opposed to no we don't do that says you know what let's see if we can do this and thank you so much that was really really worth the effort. Uh Mayor Layman you brought up the uh Renaissance Festival and I want to u even bring that out a little more. I I think the bus service and not only MVTA uh really saved that whole venue for Shakipi. it wouldn't have worked uh as you know the county was having a lot of problems with the the past current state until and parking both. Yeah. So uh the uh Minnesota Valley was in uh integral in making uh that happen among other other people. I also want to mention um the four fund buses really not just Shakipi but very related to Shakipi. Uh, and uh, thank you for joining us. And there's also partnerships with Canterbury Park, too, that are coming up for some of the the new concert series, too. So, um, Luther made it. He did not take the bus. Um, so, uh, uh, we're kind of right at this slide, just the beginning of this slide. We can just pull that up and and I'll just pass it over to you. Thank you very much. Sorry about that. A little, um, there's an accident really unanticipated. All right. So, let's talk about the roots. Obviously, serve obviously Shakipi. We have a number of services that we do that serve this community. Um we have our express services. Our 490 does extremely well Minneapolis goes to UNM. Um we're actually looking right now to um add additional services there. One thing we've noticed is there's some time points maybe in midday and evenings that'd be beneficial for us to add for the 490 service. So be um stay tuned for us to talk about service expansion on that particular route. We have the 483 495. We also have a for fun bus which starts Thursday start next that starts um starts in a couple days um that Ashers Valley Fair as well as um Cannonberry. Excited about that. Um that takes us from our 25 to 26 routes that's seasonal. We also have our local routes of 487 and 499. Um you guys may be aware a couple years ago we actually reduced service on those on those routes and expanded microtransit. Um it added affect um some people's um 80 eligibility. So we're looking probably to add some additional services back there. Um, one of the things we look at when it comes to service frequency is reduced. Um, anything beyond a half an hour, a lot of times customers just don't see the viability of utilizing it. And we see that's what we kind of see with the four with the 497 at 499. Um, when it looks of overall picture, we're at for ridership for 2024. So we're up about 10 and a half% from 2023 to 2024. So you see on that um upward trajectory, express service is up almost 10%. Local service is down 2% but that's primarily due to the fact that we reduced local service by 15%. Um last year and reallocated those um that those um that save those cost savings to um our connect service which the next side we'll kind of talk about the connect growth. Um so overall when you look at system providership where we're at currently today this is actually March we're a little higher than that we're almost now about 50% of prepandemic levels which you see that's regionwide. um as well as what you see in certain communities. Now, there are some some cities um and some communities that are that are back to pre um pre- pandemic or a little bit above. That's mostly due to um work from home policies. Um as you continue to see different um pressures on employers as well as state governments um returning individuals to work, you tend to see an upward trend when it comes to individuals utilizing a service. Um year to date is about 5%. connect. Now, that is no, there is no shortage of people riding connect. Um, this actually is also I think we're up over I think 50% increase now. But from 2023, we up we're at 44%. Um, from 2024, our average um daily ridership is now say 434. We actually peaked over 500 rides now with the addition of adding Shakip and Prior Lake services. Our average weight time is still hovering around at 26 minutes. That is still that is still consistent. Um, one of the things that we um, and that depends on, um, geographically where the customer is booking the trip from, it's important to note from an agency goal perspective, we like to have our service levels about 20 minutes. Ser times about 20 minutes uh, for individuals. Um, when we start tending this 20 above 25 minutes, especially getting to 30 minutes, we normally have to make either some policy changes or try to add some additional vehicles. As you see right now, we're um, we're we're we're definitely trending that way. We don't want customers who utilize the app to have to obviously book the service or have to wait for 30 minutes to get service. Um our new zones as you talked about before um shock our ridership continues to double from our from from the implementation of the service in this community connect expand. So um two bright spots there I think I've talked about um obviously the addition to um Scott County but our ejust vehicles are for anyone's familiar with it. back in 2023, really short story, we um were the first in the nation. Those are electric buses. They were on um purpose-built electric buses that are actually um it was the number one selling diesel bus in Turkey. They're actually were manufactured in Turkey at the time. Um we were the first transit agency in the nation to put them in revenue service. They were an electric bus. Um we actually had it in 2023. We used it during the snowstorm that that great ice storm that we had. Um it handled extremely well. It was one of the first buses, electric bus that we had demoed that actually the battery life and what they said durability um during that month period. What they said it was going to do, it actually did. Um did really well for us. We ended up um working with EJS. Um we took the bus. I was at the um took it to Capitol Hill did some um conferences related to obviously making sure they can get the federal waiver. They were able to get their federal um FTA waiver as well as get away from the White House. Um they've actually also moved some production now into United States. That's all pre that's pre-tariff. Um probably some more now, but they um they were really excited about they bought a battery plant in North Carolina and now have a version two a larger bus that'll be coming to market next year. So we like to talk about that's one of the great things about our agency seeing some good technology. Um and then moving forward we have that heavy heavy bus and that low center of gravity kept it on that snow real well. Oh amazingly well for us. What we found was um during that particular time the only um we pulled all the vehicles off the road during that on that particular week um that particular day and our maintenance manager just took out director he just took that bus out to see how it handled handled like a dream. So had we had had to make service or put they were in production had more of those vehicles at our petrol time we definitely would have kept those vehicles out doing connect service and probably none of our other vehicles would have been able to do and that's due to low center gravity and battery. Apologies. Trying to make some time up. Little talk about the um the connect demographics here. Um it's important to note where we're at is who we serve with this particular um that particular mode. Um so about 68% of our customers utilize connect service to go to and from work. Um 47% of customers um say if they didn't have connect, they'd use Uber andyft. But I always talk about this that that next bullet is the most most important one. One in five of our connect um riders have an annual threshold income of less than $15,000. Now we implemented service back in 2019. It's been a long time now. During that particular time, we looked at the average um Uber and Lift trip on our services and it wasn't in Chaki in Empire Lake at the time. Um it was about $238 um each way for an average trip in the suburban communities. Um a person making $15 $15,000 having to go twice a day relying on Uber and Lift um wouldn't be possible. Um when you look at our frequencies we have on some of our service like the 497 499 they're really unusable sometimes for people who need to get to work because of the because of time points which you operate. Connect really fills that void. 47% of our um riders of individual of color. When we first started the service the first year it was about 50% were women. Now you've seen they've taken over. So now it's 60% are women. 40% are men. So they'll probably keep going down as they come in there. But we'll try to get it back. Um, for the guys, um, one in 10 of our of our connect riders have a disability or long-term health condition. And, um, right now you see about 45% um, excuse me, 55% of customers are between 35 and 54 because that's kind of the working that's that's on one of our working the working age population. What we find is those individuals below 35 that that that 21 to 34 year olds a lot of times they think those smaller buses are buses for people with disabil disabilities, mobility. they don't see the connect as a viable option for them as a as an ondemand service. So, it's about the education component. I will say having those ejest buses has really helped because it's something to communicate. They see it, they understand it. It's a different bus type, but the more communication, but the word connect is for everybody. Event AC/DC that was very well attended. um that they're still very popular. But in 20 um from 2023 to 2024, we were up 27% for our for um special event service that was primarily driven um by Taylor Swift. She was quite popular. She is quite quite popular. The Swifties definitely um utilized our service um um we also have the Minnesota United games, the Minnesota Viking games, golfers, and we did a couple community events um historically as well as about 10% increase in Valley Fair partnerships. Oh, this is where it gets a little this is where it gets a little bit um heavy shock. Yeah, but also too the wording gets a little so it's going to charge my eyes, but I got it. Um so I will say Joya especially and the team have been doing an exceptional job obviously of coming out and doing a lot of community outreach at Shakipi. Um prior to having Joy and the team we've always focus our service and our time but we don't have the resources to kind of come on and spend a lot of time in the communities and I think this kind of shows. Um I get a lot of updates primarily a lot of updates from Joya um very spirited updates and a lot of them related always related to Shaka. So, I want to highlight her for her work right now and kind of communicate that and please feel free to um um if I've missed anything or represent uh to clarify. So, we have Canterbury Park. Um we're still working obviously for a service concept for them as we know. Um we will be providing some service to the epithe. We're working on a circulator design. Um we do currently I just approved we have four trolleys that have been that have been ordered. We're retrofitting four of our 40ft gild buses to tr giving a trolley package. They look like a trolley on the outside and a couple of them will have the trolley interior as well. We'll utilize them to run that circulator as well as some other local services around Prior Lake and Shakabe. Um so stay tuned for that. We think it kind of fits the characteristic of what we want to see for um I've always wanted. It's something we have back east on some of our beach community and some of our resort communities. We have that travel. It's a different vehicle type. It kind of lets customers know it's different than a bus, but it's still a bus. Uh maybe they'll give it a try. So look, we should have those should be online. We should have those in the next couple months. they'll be here um and they'll be using it to serve the epider when it does open. Um Valley Fair provided some um um a few months ago. Was it months ago now at this point? Feels like feels a little longer than that. But um historic flooding, we really stand up service and provide some ser when the park flooded provided service to them in pretty much a day times the fastest turn I've ever been able to do as far as obvious that much service. So they need as long as they they didn't need us as long as they anticipated, but it was good to be able to obviously be able to provide that service to them um during their time of need and when flooding happens. If there are issues like that, please reach out and we'll definitely try our best to make sure we can accommodate provide services. Um Shakip High School, a lot of outreach has been done um been done to Shakip High School. It's very interesting to understand that during the internship program that they have, a lot of their internships were on the 499 route, but the 49 didn't stop at the high school. So that's that that's that missing link that we have here. So that was recognized by Julie and her team. We've kind of remedied that. We've also been doing some really really good outreach them make them understand what's available to them and obviously now they have connect as well too that'll provide some assistance. Just want to jump in on that. We have seen over 60% increase on the 499 rout. So um that's been I think really good for us to see as an organization and hopefully you guys are proud of that too. I know that's amazing. It's it's that missing link just having that conversation and that's what you find so many times. We have the service footprint but people don't always know where it goes or what options it has and when you finally educate sometimes always fit the need but when it does it's it's a great synergy. Um Southwest Metro Intermediate School we add a Dean Lakes education center to the Route 49 um so they can access the career um lift initiative which is really important and we work with the district at large international teachers to connect them to transferration options. Now, one other outreach uh uh council member Delaney and Joya uh just did in Shakab here was BHS. You want to talk about that a little bit? Sure. Yes. So, um we were able to go to Benedicting Senior Living and we gave a presentation to the council. So, a colleague and I were able to talk a little bit about the work that we do at MVTA, the services that are available, and it was amazing to see the response that we were able to get from the community. So, we had hands shooting up that people really wanted to see more trainings offered. And since that, um, Council Member Delaney and I were able to schedule two subsequent trainings. So, we now have in the next 3 to four weeks two trainings coming up. One of them will be presentation style and then we have some experiential learning where we're going to get people on the bus and show them hands-on how to utilize service to build that comfort. a little bit about the 24 2024 rider survey. Important to note that our service is a little bit different now. Um our last survey was done in 2019 and what you looked at back in 2019 about 95% of our customers did a survey said utilize to go to work. Actually today about 60% of our respondents say now that their trip purpose primarily is to go to work and that's primarily due to the various different new service types we have serving our suburban communities like our connect service. 83% of our residents drove to their first um first starting location 2019 because primary we're a parking lot a parking ride excuse me um we have a couple parking rides here at South Bridge near Creek um in Scott County as well as Savage the borders um now because we have more obviously have more door to door service pointto-oint service um what we see now that's down to 54% more suburban local um ridership has been improved startup pidemic but we're not as talked about before we're not where we were pre- pandemic but we're moving there um we used to have one typical rider. That rider was a rider who got on the bus at one of our parking rides and used utilized our service to go downtown for um for our express service to go downtown from Minneapolis to work. That's simply not what we see today. Our local service went from at prior to the pandemic 25% now accounts for 40% of our of our postpandemic ridership. And it's something that I think I talked about, we talked about, we recognized prior to the pandemic. I always say the pandemic was a horrible thing that happened. But one thing it also kind of wiped away what we've been saying. We've seen this there's been always been an increase of affordable housing and senior living in our communities as well as that changing footprint of individuals moving from the core to the suburban suburban out suburban communities. But the transit wasn't there to provide access to them. When the pandemic happened and everyone stopped going downtown on Express, we're able to look at that and assess where people needed to go to get around the communities. we were able to pull that funding because it wasn't being utilized for express service and re and rededicate that and and um dedicate allocate allocate that excuse me to our um local service case of point we have connect and expanded local suburban service but I've always said if express service return to 2019 levels level ridership we would have to probably cut all of our connect service we would not be able to do both we cannot operate in this new model of servicing bot and still go back to the old model of about net level express service. We don't because we don't have yet don't have an influence of new funding. We I mentioned that the last time we talked about MVT. There's only so much money in the pot. Either it's going to go to the express or it's going to go toward the connect service. It can't can't do both. Can do both, but certain limits. Y and we'll talk a little about some of the I talked about the 490 all day service um that we're looking at right now. Obviously, we talked about the connect weekend services there. We have the 495V service to um hourly to the airport. We're trying to 45 has always been a really strong route service for us that serves Amazon obviously paid for that branch paid for by Amazon also Mystic Lake. But when we expand to the airport, we started to see a dip in ridership. So we're looking to see what we can do as far as um re um reinvigorating that particular route. We we think it might be something to do with the airport, but we're looking to see maybe hourly or maybe moving that airport um that airport connection off the 495 and make that route be what it used to how it used to operate. Also t we're also exploring trans options for Canterbury. Just talked about some capital project initiatives. We have Marshall Road renovations are happening. So it's going to accommodate a new um a new a new um anchor tenant. So, we're going to be um obviously changing our footprint as far as um how we operate at Marshall Road, just a reduction in parking, but also helps us because we'll have obviously some more individuals traveling from that particular site. Eagle Creek, we're currently right now in South Bridge, we're currently doing um some enhancements. Um Eagle Creek, we're doing I just proved the invoice some stamp concrete out there that was really in some rough shape. So, our goal is to get that um to get that um get that parking rod start utilizing again and also get it back up to um to our standards. Last but not least, we did have a build grant in for a Scott County um mobility station and garage. Um, currently we did we weren't successful in getting that um and and getting that um particular grant award, but one of the top priorities the agency is trying to secure us some land in in Scott County about 10 to 15 acres so that we can build a garage and have a mobility hub. Um that's our goal. will continue to ask for um look for some grant opportunities, but we are working with some um with a real estate with a real estate um agent now as well as um some to um some TOD individuals to help us assess where the possibility may be for us to find that land and obviously do some construction in the future. Last but not least, I want to talk about legislatively. It's important to note that Shakape of my seven cities, Shakape is one of my least funded cities. We we put quite a number of service in Shakipi but that's because we're primarily um funded by invest your invest for Shakape is a snapshot of what the community look like in 2001. So our budget is arrogate of say 30 35 million but it's made up of seven cities. Um Burnsville and Egan during in 2001 they were pretty much built out. So we went from property tax to invest we get a larger percentage for those two communities. Also when it comes to Apple Valley as well too they weren't they were a little bit more built out. When you look at Shakapei, especially what you've seen a few years ago, one of the fastest growing cities, not only in the state, but in the country, um there was no new additional no additional new additional funding in order to provide additional services here. It's always been through reallocation. Um taken from one place and obviously added to another. We have been getting some interim fast forward to the sales tax for the region. Now, that was um Metro Transit. I think the whole region um had those some of those same some same challenges and there was a 75% sales taxes passed in 2023. Unfortunately, right now Minnesota Valley still receives an interim policy about 2.8% of that about $10 million. Um of that $10 million we had to take out 5 million for some capital um as directed by directed by um directed by the state in the legislation. Our goal is in order to expand service dedicated funding. That's why I'm spending a lot of time at the capital. Now, we do have a bill in right now um that's being c that's being carried by represent Huitt will be carried represent Huitt um to provide 600 sales tax um that will go to Minnesota Valley as well as University of Minnesota who doesn't currently have um doesn't receive any sales tax funding and you look at that from standpoint that would go from the 10 million 10 to 12 million that we're receiving now to about 23 million is what look at as a floor that would allow us to expand service um provide that all day 490 service it would allow us to get back to running hourly half an hour frequencies use on our local services here on the 49749. It would also allow us to expand our our um connect service to cover all of Shakipi as well as Parlake and actually add weekend service as well too as well as a whole host of other things. That's our number one priority right now. We do understand because we're putting it at this particular time is the education component to it. We expect to get some traction on that in 2026, but the support and vacation is really really important because that's the only way we're going to see moving forward in the future to expand service here in Shakipi in our suburban communities. And with that, any questions? Questions of councel? Couple of questions. Luther. Um, the 450 annual is that for all the providers? It's split up to different providers. You said the 450. Yeah. You've got there's Oh, yeah. The 450 million right now. It's um that's the amount of sales tax, the new revenue pot that comes to the region. It primarily goes to the council. Um 83% of it goes to the council. um which 5% of that they delegate to TAB and they have the responsibility to provide that to all the providers right of which they provide um all four of us about a little bit under four a little bit over 4% of that funding. Yeah. So Metro Transit which they own gets a piece of that 450 which is kind of a conflict I see but yeah and that's one of the things we had a conversation with the council yesterday. They have some really great plans. One of the things is to expand service by 35% in the region. Unfortunately, we're not encapsulating that plan because we don't have the funding and they haven't asked. We I said the same. We'd love to expand our services by 35% in our suburban communities. We'd like that funding as well, too. And that's the conversation that has to happen um in order us to um do those and and the other it's not a question, it's basically a comment, but I like busing better than rail. And the reason I like it is because when when workforce changes, you know, you might have some big business with lots of employees build somewhere, it's a lot easier for the transit providers to look at their routes and just change a route. And it doesn't really take much effort or much money to do that. So, it's very flexible. It can adapt. It can adjust. It's not uh reliant on a long time of buildout and a whole lot of capital. So, and you Mr. Mayor, you saw MVTA adapt with made adjustments and had to uh but we kept ridership where we needed it. Uh uh the services where we needed it. Y go ahead. No question, just a comment. Just thank you so much for all the partnership, all the work you guys are doing, the outreach with, you know, the schools in particular. That's amazing because a lot of our kids want to do stuff but you know for whatever reason maybe don't have a car and it's like how do I do this and it's a worry in the back of their head but you coming in and like no we got you we'll help you get to your destination. So thank you so much I appreciate that. Well if we could think broader down the road you know I'm thinking is it St. Benedictine? Yeah. Um, which one they the one that you you just are going to imagine, you know, down the road where you have these ablebodied assisted living folks in multiple locations being being able to have a service, right? I think council member Delaney got a lot of their seniors downloading our app. So, I appreciate that. That's good. That's good. But the point I'm making is that's not the only location. It's a It's not the only location. No, not the only one. will get out there anywhere. You're going to probably learn a lot in that process both sides. Um and I, you know, just thinking long term, um what a service that could be for a lot of the elderly, the seniors. Yeah. I mean, because when you get a little older, sometimes you have to give up your transportation and that independence is still desired. So, this microtransit does help with that and that is much appreciated. It's a different it's a new service for us. We wanted to be different transit or smart way, but this service not a day before. I worked a lot of mobility services prior to coming out to Minnesota and you know a lot of services and if you don't know what you're going to do the next day you put that trip in just because your son or daughter something happens you need can't pick you up you need to be there so a lot of times a lot of cancellation pre talk about none of us really know I know I'm going to go to work tomorrow but outside of that I really don't have my whole day plan um but we do expect that for individual sometimes service 3 hours um if not up to 30 minutes before you need service that really gives that true level of flexibility um things happening different markets because it does that mayor thank you for bringing this up too um because I think for the council for staff for community members if there are situations or organizations that you would like to see us reaching out to please let us know. Um, I'm happy to to go out, talk to them, have conversations, and be able to provide training. MBTA never charges for our training services. We think that, you know, as a public service, it's our obligation to ensure that people have access. And so, that's something that's really important to us as well. So, we're just an email away and Jay is always able to to send a note to us, too. Yep. And just a last question, you didn't say it, but the website if somebody wanted a ride would be MVTA.com. And the app is uh ridem.com, right? It's it's actually So, it's actually an app. Okay. So, Okay. So, you download the app. Got it. Got it. Yep. And then payment. What's the payment options for riders? Cash. You could utilize your go-to card. Catch a go-to card. Any credit card? Credit card on the app. Credit card on the app, but can you do a credit card on the bus? Not yet. Okay. Go to bus. We will be able to. Okay. Or you do the cash on the bus. Mhm. Okay. Very good. Mr. Lara, can you book the trip and then pay cash on the bus? Yes. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. You can walk up to a bus too and um and book a trip. You can actually walk up to it and actually talk to the driver, too. Um, our drivers sometimes stay at um, well, there are different parking rides. Our drivers sit customers able to walk up and ask for a trip. The driver will put the trip in and take the customer and collect tax right there or the go-to card as well too. A lot of people don't know that. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. We appreciate it. Thank you again. Sorry. My apologies. Oh, I'm so freaking cold. Welcome back. All right. Item number five, approval of the agenda. Is there any changes to the agenda? Mayor, members of council, we have a couple changes. Okay. First of all, we will be pulling 6S, which is the social district. You will be seeing that in the future. And uh 10 C has a new resolution in front of you uh which has been properly uh posted prior to this meeting and it reflects the commitment to bore the sewer line under the hill to protect some of the natural resources which uh we had sent out an email earlier to you about. Any other changes? No sir. So 6S has been removed from the agenda and 10 C has an updated resolution that we all should have in front of us. I have mine. Mhm. Okay. Any changes from councel? No. Mr. Lara, make a motion to approve the agenda as modified. Is there a second? Mr. Delaney seconds the motion. Discussion on the motion. Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion passes. Item number six would be our consent agenda. Any changes to the consent agenda? No other changes, sir. Council, Miss Councelor Contraras. I make a motion to approve the consent agenda as modified. Second. Modified seconded by councelor Whiting. Discussion on the motion. Mr. Reynolds will read the consent agenda. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and members of council. These are the consent agenda items for Tuesday, April 15th of 2025. 6A awards a contract for the 2025 2027 emerald ashbor treatment project. 6B is an Arbor Day proclamation. 6 C awards a contract for the 2025 puminous pavement rehabilitation projects and accepts a proposal from Stantech for construction services. 6D awards a contract for the 2025 SCADA systems expansion project. 6E awards a contract for the 2025 puminous pavement rejuvenation project. 6F awards a contract for the 2025 to 2027 native vegetation management project. 6G is a cardio equipment lease for 2025 through 2029. C 6H is the 2025 trail seal coding project. 6 I is approval of the 2025 concession agreements. 6J approves on sale and Sunday liquor licenses for Trackside Hospitality LLC doing business as Boardwalk Kitchen and Bar in Canterbury. 6K approves a special event permit and a temporary liquor license for the Shockby Chamber and Visitors Bureau. 6L approves the city council meeting minutes for April 1st of 2025. 6M approves joint powers agreement between the city of Shakipi, the SMSC and SPU for construction of public utilities to serve the proposed healing center. 6N accepts a propo proposal from TKDA for engineering services for this L16 dual force main improvements. 6 awards a contracts awards contracts for the Kani Hills and West End dog park. 6P approves agreements with the metropolitan council to participate in the 2025 citizen assisted monitoring program for water quality sampling. 6Q is a a declaration of surplus IT property. 6R is a declaration of surplus fire department property. 6D is a change order for the Jackson Commons with Hoffman McNamera. 6U is a purchase of playground equipment from Compman under Omnia Partners contract. and 6V is the Tapa Field Baseball improvements left field patio project. Thank you, Mr. Reynolds. We do have a motion and we do have a second. Any discussion on the motion? Discussion. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Takes us to item number seven, public comment. If you're here for an item that is not on our agenda and you'd like to address council, now would be the time to come forward. So, if you're here for an item that is not on our agenda and you'd like to address council, last call. Seeing none, item number eight, business removed from the consent agenda. The item that was removed was uh deleted from the agenda. Item number nine, public hearings, general business number 10A, capital and AWCA accredit accreditiation update. Park and rec director. Miss McNut. Good evening, mayor and council members. Mr. Egan, floor is all yours. All right, Kelsey and I, I'd like to give you a little update on the accreditation processes. Um, both of ours, the APWA and then the CAPRA, uh, working on them separately. But I will say this is more of a a city. Um I think each department has contributed greatly and been a great partner um looking up all of our policies and procedures um to this point. So we want to thank them. Um quick update. So why do we want to go for this accreditation? Um on this slide here it gives you some of the uh reasons why uh we do want to be proactive. our day-to-day activities. Um being consistent. There are some other benefits for onboarding, recruitment, and succession planning. Accomplishment kind of verifies that the city is not only wellrun, but also aligned with national best practices. If we get accredited, we got a little ways to go. Uh we'll be the only Minnesota city that has both of them. So it's kind of some lofty goals, but we're we're going for it. You I'm sorry. You said both of them. The only city that would have both the capper and the Yes. Correct. Okay. And we will be accredited. Yes. And then efficiencies. I think it was last fall some of you on the council asked about, you know, are we being efficient? I mean, this is kind of a piece of that. Um, having all our policies and procedures in place. Uh, I mentioned the citywide collaboration. Um, again, every department has helped um started, I don't know, we both started about a year ago roughly set up meetings and everybody's been very supportive. So, again, thank you A little bit of background on the APWA, the American Public Works Association. Uh, the accreditation is a program that recognizes public works agencies for implementing best management practices and demonstrating compliance with IND industry standards. It is designed to foster continuous improvement, efficiency, and excellent in public works operations. This process involves a thorough review of policies, procedures, and documentation to ensure alignment with the best man management practices. Some of the key points, um, the accreditation is voluntary. It's a voluntary program that provides recognition and credibility to the public works uh agencies. Accreditation builds trust among residents, city council, and staff. That's one of the biggest reasons. um we can think we're doing things right, but when we put up our policies and procedures against some of these standards, um the good thing is I know we've had a lot that we've had that we've worked under for many years um have worked great, but we just want to make sure that we keep current with these changing times. Another one, it requires a comprehensive review of all the policies, procedures, and standards and operating guidelines, the SOPs. The process enhances operational efficiency, staff training, and overall service delivery. The accreditation must be reviewed every four years and maintain compliance and demonstrate continued improvements. That's another reason we want to do this is um just to keep current with everything. You know how times change and things change. We want to make sure we're moving up with with all those uh agencies benefit from peerreview feedback networking and adopting national best practices. We uh have a little slide here on kind of our journey. Uh these are kind of the main four steps here. Our little shopy shockby truck there's showing our progress. Um the self-evaluation process is the most lengthy. Um there's in our booklet there's like 40 chapters but we only do the ones that apply to us. Example would be water. We don't have water so we don't have to do that chapter. So we are actually doing 17 chapters. and we're pretty much done with that. And we just met last week with our peer review group. That's the yellow there. So, we're very close to that. Um, your peer group is that other cities or other accredited PE uh groups right now. We have an internal one with city employees, but um the accreditation team that be the national team will take a look at it if you request it. Okay. So, we may do that. And then the third one there, that would be when the APWA national team would come here and review all of our documents. And then the final one hopefully in roughly a year from now, uh they'll be giving us our accreditation. This is a rough. Some cities um have done it in one to two years. They figure three years is what they give you. Um so in August of 24 is when we applied and we started our self assessment. So we have it as year two. It's it's going to be close right at year two when our peer review will be done. And then later this year, we'll be we've brought a couple of policies already to this board, but there'll be more coming. We'd like to kind of get all of our uh policies that we want to bring to you and maybe do them in a little larger group. Hopefully, we won't have too many. We we do know a few. And then the final, like I said, it's the in-person review from the APWA accreditation team. So with that, you have any questions? Yeah, Mr. Eagle, before we go on to the next step of this, let's cover this part. Is there any questions on this part? I think they're similar. So we I I will just say we've got a great public works department. all the whole team is outstanding in my view. Um, but I know the rules and the SOP, standard operating procedures and stuff like that change over time and and it's never a bad thing to review all of that and insert where it best fits the organization. So, um, one comment I will make is you think you're going to be done at this time period, but as you mentioned, this is evolving. It's going to change and more constructions need to be updated, corrective actions, you know, need to be taken care of, things like that. Uh all this documentation and processes is uh continual. It's almost like uh other certifications. Every four years you have to renew. So it's it's an ongoing it's definitely a good process. So yeah. No. Um example would be we wanted to be 100% done with our peer review like right now and I'd say we're 85% done maybe 90. So, but we want to keep the process going. So, we're not going to hold up anything. The other question I had was, is this for the leadership going through this or is this all the employees? I'm sorry, what was that? Is this leadership doing this or all employees? Um, it's various. Yeah, like our review team, our internal review team right now, it's just staff members that we've pulled on. Okay. But but in the end, this is going to be the whole encompassing process and that comes that comes from your leadership down to the it's it's everybody really. Okay, Mr. Reynolds. Uh I was just going to say, you know, and as we go through day-to-day operations, we often see things it's like, yeah, we should go back and take a look at this. And we never have the opportunity to do it because we don't make that time because we're just focused on doing the day-to-day operations. M the beauty of of of both this accreditations these accreditations are is that it forces us to take a step back look at what we're doing making sure that it's the most efficient thing we can do making sure that we're doing the best practices we possibly can and you know that's that's that is probably the greatest benefit we're going to get out of this and you know I know we've said it but we will be the only city in the state of Minnesota that has both of these accredit accreditations and that is because of all of the employees in the city quite literally uh finance has a chapter HR has a chapter uh you know there are chapters that and so we've had employees from the whole of the city have been participating in this and and gladly because we want to get better and we want to make sure that we're you good stewards of uh of our property and our tax dollars. So uh I'm excited about this. I've been a cheerleader from the very beginning. I think it's a very important thing that we're doing and it's forcing us to get better and there's nothing wrong with that. Not to say that we're doing things that we shouldn't be doing and I don't mean that from a right and wrong perspective. I mean it from a service perspective. Um does it point out, you know, anywhere in the process maybe it's under efficiencies or standard procedures of maybe there's things we're doing that we shouldn't be doing or maybe there's things that we're not doing that we should be doing. Oh, there's certainly some things that we probably should be doing and some policies that we need to have in place that we don't currently have. Uh, and you know, that's that's part of the process and that's and we're going to get there and and ensure that we get all this completed and uh, yeah, I'm I'm exceptionally excited about it. Mr. Whiting. This it seems familiar to me because I'm coming from an ISO 9000 company that has documented processes and detailed uh uh policies and procedures, work instructions and standards. And I would assume ASA for automotive is is something similar to that. You have the processes. So when someone says, well, what how do you how do you uh do this? Well, you have a process. if that that might change. Maybe you find a better process or it's completely outdated. You change the process or the work instruction. And part of this is you're going to review these on a time period basis each of them. What they're doing is they're taking information nationally and they're compiling it just like the tech connect does in the automotive world and everybody puts that feedback in. So, example, you can put in um car making model with this code and you can get the fix 9,000 times was this and the second likely fix 4,000 times was this and this was gathered throughout the whole country and it's now that information is now available to you and I'm sure they're doing kind of the same. I wish city problems were codes like that. Well, no, they're not looking at specifics. They're looking at the the general standard stuff. I get it. And and it's requiring us to be accountable. You know, uh we need to make sure that uh like I said before, we're doing what we need to be doing with the property and the tax dollars that the residents have given us uh in the city. And we certainly can look and say, "Yes, we we have reviewed this stuff. We have made sure that we we've uh uh are doing the best practices." And and I fully expect we'll be changing some things. Mhm. Uh I hope so. Uh you know that's that's the whole point. Another area I know last year sometime this body also talked about succession planning. Um couple things about that is we we will have like a formal policy but another thing we have an employee that's been there 40 years and has been specialized in a few areas and is really good at it. Well a lot of it up here. A lot of it's up here. So, we'll have a lot of our just internal processes like used to be closing down the pool. Um, I remember somebody saying, "I don't know. I just close this valve down because that's what we the old guy told me to do." So, now we'll have like a formal, you know, you do this and that so you don't freeze a water line, right? Yeah. Yep. And one more comment. I mean, the easy way out would be just to not do this, but we're not looking for that. So, Well, thank you for your presentation. We got I think we got some more. Yes, Kelsey's up next. Yep. Good evening, mayor and council members. Um I'm here to give you a little bit up little update on um the Kappa accreditation. CAPPRA stands for the Commission for Accreditation of Park and Recreation Agencies through the National Park and Recreation Association. A lot of words there. Um, this will help ensure that we are operating and continue to operate under the industry's best practices. Like Bill and Mr. Reynolds have already said, it's going to force us to continuously evaluate the programs, services, and facilities that we're running to make sure that we're staying on top of trends and meeting these best practices. So, we have a little blue car instead of a red pickup truck, but this is kind of where we are with our journey. Um, similar to the APWA, but a little different. Um, we submitted our preliminary application in September of last year. And with that, our staff, myself and a few others went through um just an online training to get a little bit more familiar with the process. And now we are in our self assessment with a report which similar to the APWA is the most lengthy part of the process. Um once we submit that, which our goal is to do that by the end of this year, we will have um our initial evaluation and then our on-site visit where the CAPRPA team will come out and tour our facilities, observe our programs, and verify that all the evidence of compliance that we have submitted is actually true. Um so that will happen the summer of 2026. And then unlike APWA, we have to defend our um accreditation at a hearing at the national conference which will be September of 2026. So that is when we will get our accreditation awarded hopefully. Um so Kappa right now consists of 10 different chapters. I say that because right now in those 10 chapters there's 154 standards and we renew every five years. They are currently in the process of um streamlining this a little bit. So when we renew in 5 years there's going to be only 68 standards I believe. And what we are noticing is that there's a lot of standards where there's some duplication. And so I believe the goal is to, you know, where we have that duplication, they're going to streamline into one standard. Um, but this is kind of where we are. So the blue represents everything we've completed and the red where we still need to complete um the self assessment. And then there right now there are 36 yes 36 fundamental standards which means you have to meet those in order to receive your accreditation and then the rest they call nonfunddamental standards. In order to receive our accreditation we need to meet at least 90% of those. And then moving forward, every five years when we are going through the reacredititation process, we will need to hit a 95% um rate in order to renew our accreditation. One key change that we made this year when we brought on our new community outreach coordinator, one of the major job duties in that was to be our accreditation manager. Um so Rachel will be continuously monitoring this as once we get our accreditation and then helping us towards reacredititation moving moving forward. So kind of our next steps. So these are our biggest things that we need to develop right now. Um our recreation program plan I would say that we do a lot of this but to Bill's point it's a lot up here in our heads and we need to put it down on paper. um create our maintenance and operations management standards. Again, we have a lot of it up here living in people's heads, but really getting it down on paper um so that everyone's aware of what's going on when it happens. We're also need to develop a comprehensive revenue policy. So essentially looking at the different programs and services that we offer and determining what cost recovery percentage we want to be at or what the council directs us to be at. And then lastly um we are looking at as come larger priorities for CAPRPA creating a donated improvements to public facilities policy. This is one where I really feel like we're going to um achieve a lot of efficiency. Right now, these are just as they come in, we're talking through them, meeting as staff, bringing to council as needed. This will create a more streamlined and efficient process for that. And with that, I will stand for questions. Questions? It's more so of a comment. Um, I just wanted to say with these two accreditations, I wanted to I mean, it just clearly shows that um, our city staff are dedicated to making our city the best it can be. And um, it shows initiative and I mean, kudos to them. I mean, clearly this is this isn't these aren't they don't make it easy for a reason and it takes dedication and um it just shows to the rest of Minnesota, other cities in the metro that we want to be better and we want to do things um more efficiently and this helps us get there. Go ahead. I just want to add to that. Um it's I'm very proud of you guys because like Mr. Egan said the easy way was just like nah we'll pass but it's not just right now doing all the work because all the work will be done we'll get it the hard part is maintaining it so it's like you guys are doing it um all the teams are working behind you guys you guys are doing it so just you know it's not going to stop at oh we got the accredit accreditation it's like here we go now five years we got to work and keep it up so best of luck guys but we will get it yeah Mr. No, good point. It kind of echoes the uh the what we're getting at is the continuous improvement, but the sustainability is going to be the the hard part, but it's kind of built into the process. So, at least that will be continually improving. So, uh good for you. Same here. Just kind of echoing the same thing. I know it's a lot of time put into this, but I know it'll pay off in the end. And thank you for the the hard work put into it, everybody. And I'll just point out once again that we have a great park and recreation department already. So the benefit that this company agency whatever it is um for both your departments they get to gather the best of the best information from us and utilize it for others. Okay. So uh when they capture all that greatness that we offer their programs we'll make sure that we uh charge them adequately for that. and how to drain the pool. I'm just saying we we do have a lot of great things going on and our park and recck department is great just as our public works is too. So I'm sure that uh this accredit accreditation accreditation accreditation uh is going to gain because that's what they do. they gain insight from everybody nationally and try to decipher best practices and stuff and and they're going to get a lot of good information from us already. So, uh and we're going to get some from them, too. So, on behalf of all staff, we sincerely appreciate your efforts, uh your support in this effort. Uh it's something that the whole city will can be proud of once we're done. Y awesome. Thank you both for your presentation. Any questions for us? put a little pressure on us. Yeah, this done that helped. Thank you again. Item 10B, uh, preliminary plat of Richland Court, Mr. Kursky. Good evening, mayor and council. This is the preliminary plat for Richland Court. So, Stone Brick Engineering on behalf of Matt Le Jose, South Oak Realy, Inc., the property owner, have made an application for a preliminary plat of Richland Court. The subject property is located uh north of County Highway 78 and east of Townline Avenue, County Road 79. The applicant has proposed a plat that would consist of eight single family residential lots and 4.38 acres and two outlets that would be a storm pond and a wetland. This is a change from their previous plat which showed 10 lots with a smaller storm water pond and public easement. So this went through two planning commission meetings. Um they did submit a new application after the first meeting reducing the number of homes from uh 10 to 8. So the net acreage will be 2.23 23 acres with a density of 3.5 units an acre. So this is the plat. You can see here the two outlots on the end. This is an existing wetland and this will be their new storm water pond uh over here. So this is the actual area where uh homes will be constructed. These are the two outlots. So significant time has been spent with the design of the access to Townline Avenue to ensure compliance with Scott Countyy's design standards. This access will be a right in right only with a bypass lane and a pork chop island and a curb median between the north and southbound traffic. So um basically you can see that here. So only a right in and a right out. That was a requirement from Scott County. And then here's a larger scale plan. So you can see they'll have both a new bypass lane and a turn lane here into the project. So pretty substantial amount of improvements out on the county road. So you can see from the grading plan here, this is the uh wetland that will be over here and this is the new storm water basin uh that will drain off into an adjacent pond. Um and then this area does have sanitary sewer. So here's your sanitary sewer plan. and a water main plan. There is a uh Shakabe public utilities water man in the back here. And again, storm water management and landscape plan. We have um as part of the project review and at the planning commission there's agreement to move some of the landscaping that's at the entrance here behind some of these lots. whenever there's an existing house up against them, they would plant additional landscaping across the back and the developer has agreed to that. So, the property has been zoned R1B since 2006 and received final plat approval for a six lot subdivision. They did not move forward with that at the time and I believe the owner um passed away. Staff has determined that the approval occurred prior to 2030 and the 2040 comprehensive plans that are more specific in establishing densities. This plat is compliant with the R1B zoning and the 2040 comprehensive plan and the design performance standards which require a density of 3 to five units per acre. So, uh, we ask approve resolution R2025-003 approving the preliminary plat of Richland Court. Questions of staff. Mr. Lara, Mr. Chris, can you help me understand why Scott County is wanting a right in right out for eight homes, but I can take a right or a left on Barington Drive and there's 20 plus homes? I will leave that answer to the city engineer. Uh, thank you, mayor and council. It it comes down to their access spacing requirements along their county highways. They look at corridors as a whole. So looking at existing accesses and how they're spaced to their major access locations. Um while there are other accesses adjacent to this subdivision to the north that currently don't meet the access spacing requirements, those uh were originally constructed as full access locations and the county wouldn't be modifying those accesses without a development essentially. So they will leave those the way they are. But as new subdivision and permits come in that the county reviews, that's where their um authority comes in for jurisdiction on their county highways. So if this subdivision does not meet their access spacing requirements, they would require it to be restricted to comply with that and that would be a developer expense. Uh the city did have conversations with the county through reviewing this application to look at alternative options to provide um different access control given that it was an eight lot subdivision. Um however, the county viewed that the fact that they're constructing a roundabout to the south uh this summer at this location that it provides alternate access and some ways to navigate the neighborhood. If you're coming from the north, you're able to use the roundabout to the south and come back and enter the neighborhood and then you're able to leave this neighborhood and go to the north where uh they viewed the majority of traffic would go. Um so we did have conversations, but ultimately it's the county's decision. Just having flashbacks to other projects. Oh, thank you. You know, yeah, I know there's a on this uh map and I'm on the colored map here. Uh there's some shapes parcels around there and I assume that they're not under ownership of this current development. But is this going to leave some uh unusable parcels here or is this on a hill where these are unusable like back here? Yeah, this behind the space here and then this triangle space up on town line. So, uh excuse me, mayor and council. So, the property around here is either owned by uh single family homes or it's common space for the association not associated with this project. This parcel was part of one of those associations at one time and was sold off to pay for their sewer connection, some of the fees. So, the then developer bought it and then didn't develop it. And this was now purchased from that family by the current developer. This is what's left. One other question. Um, didn't we talk about Hillwood Drive? Didn't we improve the sewer connections in there or did that go through without connections on Hillwood? Um, mayor council, I believe that is sewarded uh real residential, but city engineer can correct me out by Stonebridge. You're talking about 16 Hillwood here. I'm seeing I thought that we didn't Didn't we just do something there? Uh, thank you, Mayor and Council. Hillwood Drive, there is no sanitary sewer service for that neighborhood. Um, we constructed utilities for the Bington neighborhood in the the rear of those lots previously. Um, so Hillwood is still not connected. That's correct. Yeah. This be an opportunity. Uh, sanitary would still need to be extended up County Road 69 or 79 to the north to get to this area. I it's it's always an option. However, based on the city's special assessment policy, those who are extensions would be 100% accessible to property owners. Um, if the property owners haven't petitioned the city for that yet, the city hasn't taken the the initiative to initiate that process. Um, but certainly if it council would direct staff to explore that, we could reach out to the neighborhood. I would think we're that close to the uh costbenefit analysis and how their system is and everything else. That's not part of this discussion tonight. Okay. So, other questions of staff. Okay. The question I had was the the dotted lines toward the back of the lots. Is that is that an easement? Uh you had the right map up. There's some dotted lines here. Mayor, which which one are you talking about? Can you put the other map that you just had up? There you go. This one. Next one. The That one. That one. That one. So, if you look at at the back side of these lots where you've got the two dotted lines, what does that That's our drainage and utility easement mayor and council that we have on all our lots. Okay. It just looks wide. Yeah, it's hard to tell. Um, you know, one of the options for access if it wasn't so developed on both sides is they could actually come over to Bington or go over to Hill Drive Hillwood, but they already have houses there, so you can't make that connection. But this is a good example of of what a standard operating procedure written down uh does. You know, the county looked at their current standard operating procedure and said, "This is what our current policy is. We're not going to deviate it from you. Otherwise, why why have the policy and we'll just go on a case by case basis. Like it or not, that's what it is. All right. What's the uh of councel? Mr. Whiting. I'll make a motion to approve resolution R 2025 tax 003, a resolution approving the preliminary plat of Richland Court. Seconded by councelor Contrarus. Correct. Discussion on the motion. Discussion. I I know there was some concern with neighboring properties. Um the amount I don't know if I don't know if it was the amount or whether they fit in or whatever, but the bottom line is is you've got a private piece of property here that's going to develop it based on our zoning code and it's within code. So you really don't have much legitimate justification to deny property owner rights. So got a motion to second. Any uh discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. I opposed. Motion passes. 10 C annexation zoning and metropolitan urban service area amendment to multiple properties located within Jackson Township. So mayor as you said this is the annexation zoning and Musa amendment for the properties within Jackson Township. So, city shakabe is proposing the annexation and zoning to agriculture preservation. An amendment of the metropolitan urban service area, also known as the Musa. Properties in question are all located north of county state aid highway 78 with several east of old Brickyard County Road 69 and several others just east of US Highway 169. There are 11 parcels total consisting of approximately 61 acres with the potential development that generally consists of a mix of commercial residential projects and open space. These are all in areas A and B of the orderly annexation area that allows the city to annex up to 250 acres per year. City staff have provided a certified notice of intent to annex to the Weber Brigamin and Melture properties as required in the in the approved OA. Staff have met on site with the Melture family to share details of the proposed sanitary sewer project. Staff have had multiple discussions with some of the families to share details on what may occur with upcoming developments in the vicinity and impacts on the annexation into the city. Some of those details were included in the notice of intent to annex to the families. Proposed resolutions will extend the Musa to the properties that can be developed, annex properties into the city of Shakapei, abate city taxes to what is currently collected as Jackson Township taxes until the three properties are sold or transferred. Uh those are the owner occupied homes that are located in the future open space in the 2040 comprehensive plan and provides that when the future sanitary sewer is constructed through the current Melture property and forest that it will be bored under the forest through the bluff so as not to disturb the existing forest. So this is a site aerial of the annexation parcels. So these are two Scott County parcels along 169. And this is two properties. Um, one, uh, was formerly actually connected to this property, which has since sold. And this is the old Scott Carver County Humane Society site, which was never never developed. This is a vacant parcel that goes uphill into the bluff. This is the Melture property, Weber, and um, Brigamin parcel. Um, I did find out um, this afternoon that the Brigamin property did close. If you remember from our last discussion, there will be a new subdivision here developed um with Deer Horton and there's a new commercial industrial subdivision down here and then this will be the city's um open space that will be acquired. So that closed today. So this parcel was created today. Um so the city's in the process of getting that um appraised. So give you an idea about the current um city of Shakipi. It's the red color here. These are all properties within the city of Shakapei. Um the blue properties are the properties that we're discussing tonight for annexation. The Musa properties you'll see in a second are the ones down by 169. So after this annexation tonight, this is what the city of Shakipi will look like. And we will be working with these property owners down here to annex this last section in. Um if you remember we had a discussion two or three years ago with these property owners to hold off annexing this area until um such time there were utilities or they decide to sell for future development. So here's the comprehensive plan guiding the areas highlighted way down here in red are the proposed Musa changes. So that um former uh property down here that was the Humane Society and the two Scott County parcels that are along the highway. This a blowup of those parcels. And again, here is the orderly annexation map. So here's area A per the map I showed you. We are doing orderly annexation here. Um this is the last area left in area A and area B. We're finishing off taking in those areas with these three parcels and we're going to work on this last parcel in area B. Current Scott County zoning um is urban business reserve for most of this. Um this is the 2040 comprehensive guiding. Um the parcels that are currently residential and the um parcel that's guided for u mixed density residential down here. Um this is the area that will end up being um either bluff or open space. So the bluff does come down into this larger residential parcel and then the blue area is the remainder of the bluff um as the green comes through here. So the three actions required tonight. Approving resolution R20250 approving the annexation of the property of Jackson Township as was mentioned that's been amended. Approving resolution R2025-34, a resolution approving the comprehensive plan amendment to figure 4.6, which is extending the Musa. And three is adopting ordinance uh 02025-008 approving the zoning of these properties to agricultural preserve. That's our holding zone similar to the urban reserve zone that the county has. questions of staff point out where that boring was going to go through the woods. Yes. So, if you look on this map, um if you remember, um this is getting developed right now or will be developed shortly. There'll be a sewer line that will serve the areas to the south. So, it's a fairly deep sewer because it has to cross um 78 and go down into the rest of Jackson Township and then into Louisville Township. So, if you remember, we have two sewer lines here. One is um in the Zumbro area. This is the other sewer line. So, it will be bored basically right about here. I just curious. Okay. Any other questions of staff? Couple of questions. The uh Scott County sites, the two right on the are them remnant 169 parcels or council. Yes, those are parcels. They must have acquired property when 169 was done and they're leftover and I assume they're tax exempt currently. Yes, mayor. They are. So, there won't be no cost to the city. Correct. As you remember, mayor and council, we pay seven years of the township taxes to um the township when we annex property in. So, on those two parcels, we will not be paying them the seven years. And the Scott Carver Humane Society, who who owns that? Is that a joint? That was mayor and council. That was just acquired by a developer, so that will be taxable. Okay. It was tax exempt. Yes. Okay. Um, all the concerns with the Weber Melture and I guess Brighgamman's going to have just a little site remaining. Correct. right there. Mayor and councelor, there will be So, this is the Melture property, the long parcel right here. Their house is here. Um the Weber property is right here. And this is the last piece of the Brigamin property. Um and then there's this road. Um one of the other things that we're doing this for is part of this project. If you remember, there's a storm water basin up in here. the emergency overflow will work its way down through the open space and actually run down this road into the ditch on County Road 69. So, we'll um need to take up that road and put that pipe in. So, it'll become a city road and the city will be responsible for its maintenance. Is that road gravel today? Mayor and council, yes. Will we be black topping that road? I've had a discussion with the city engineer and in order to maintain it, we'll be doing at least a temporary blacked up on it. Okay. You want the water to roll out? Well, it's going to be in a pipe under the road. Oh, I see. But still, if you're going to plow it, since we're going to be tearing it up to put the pipe in, my discussions with the city engineer, we figured it'd be easier to then pave it. And that begs to the assessment question, I guess. So, we would be absorbing that. we would not be assessing these people for basically it'll be a temporary road eventually somewhere down the road um we're in the process right now we have an appraisal for the large bluff piece and for these three properties we'll have um our agent working with these people to decide whether they want to stay here longterm in a life estate do they want to sell etc so that road may not be used you know for that many years right just okay all right any other questions of staff Is any of the properties affected in the audience tonight that would like to speak? Good. Are you an affected property owner? Yes. Up to the mic, please. And we can get your name and address for the record, please. Sure. Mayor and Council, my name is Paul Meltchure. Um I'm the son of the owners who are not able to be here tonight. Okay. Um Tom and Sue Meltchure. Okay. That's the 10acre approximately property with the woods. Um just a couple of comments. Thanks for letting me speak tonight. Really appreciate uh Mr. Kurski and uh uh Mr. Jordan uh for their time coming out to the property, meeting with my parents and my brother and sister and I. Um our major concerns have been met. I think by this resolution uh both my brother and I are biologists. Our our family is very uh involved in maintaining the ecological character of that property and and my parents have lived there for about 60 years now. Our goal is to maintain that property um and and see it eventually probably become part of this Bluffland Park system, although that ultimately will be up to Tom and Sue. Um, and so you can imagine that, uh, hearing that a a sewer trunk line was going to biseect it was pretty scary. I think that the, um, the what the engineering staff has come up with is is acceptable to us at this point. We'd like to see it not go through the property at all, of course, but we're uh, you know, we're not naive to the needs of of development around it. So, just a note of appreciation on that. And um thanks for the support. Absolutely. The uh and the city's intent is to have that bluff line bluff area as a conservation area for long-term um saving that's been in the plans for many years. Sounds like Milkier Parker to me. Any questions for uh this property owner from council? Thank you. Appreciate it. Is there any other property owners in the audience that would like to speak on this matter? and your name and address for the record, please. Yeah. Uh, my name is Frank Weber. I, uh, own the property on the top left there. Just that little bump up. I've got a question for Mike there. You said that when you tear up the road to put on uh that sewer pipe or water storm sewer pipe, you're going to black top that. What's to keep from traffic once the development's done to the east of our property there from cars going up that road? Mayor Council, there's no connection. We actually changed the design of the subdivision I think back years ago. I think before I actually came to the city, there was a plan to actually connect down through this area. This subdivision has actually houses over here and no connection. So, there's no way for them to get there. I I think the answer to your question is there probably most likely be a signet that either says dead end or no outlet. There's already a sign that says no outlet. And there's probably the bragman is there's probably 20 cars a week that go up do a turnaround cuz they're looking for a shortcut over to the other side of to Mary'stown Road. The only thing that's stopping him now is there's a gate across that farm road. That's the only thing that's stopping them from going that way. So So to your point, there's no absolutely no connection to the new subdivision. There's houses that back up there. So, you'd be driving into someone's backyard. Okay. If it makes you any make makes you feel any better, I can't get people to stop at the red lights in town either. That Thank you. Yeah. One more. Anybody else? Did you want to Did you want to say a few words? No. Anybody happy with us? Anybody else? Seeing none, Mr. Delaney, actually question. Would it be possible to put a no outlet sign at the entrance since to keep people since they're going to the end and then turn around if you see the sign before you get over here? Uh, councelor Delaney, there already is a new outlet sign at that intersection, but we could look at improving the size of that sign or better location for visibility. Um, signs don't always stop people from driving in certain areas, but we can do our best to try to improve the signage out there. Thank you. I got the first one. Councelor Contrus, if we're ready, I have the first one. And you have we all have the new resolution on the table. So, all right. Councelor Contrus, that like to approve resolution R2025-035, a resolution approving the annexation of Jackson Township property. I'll second. Motion by councelor Contrer, seconded by councelor Lara. Any discussion on the motion? Discussion on the motion. Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Two. Councelor Delaney. Second one. Um, I'd like to make a motion to approve resolution R2025-034, a resolution approving the comprehensive plan, amendment to figure 4.60, Metropolitan Urban Service Area, MUSA, in the 2040 comprehensive plan. Is there a second to the motion? Second contrary seconds the motion. Is there discussion on the motion? I'm going to guess that figure 4.60 is the three red pieces on the map. The Scott County, Scott County. Well, they're blue. Scott County, Scott County, and Scott Carver Humane Humane. That's correct. Okay. Any discussion on the motion? discussion. Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Uh, one more to go. What's the wishes of the council? I'll take it. Mr. Whiteying. I'll make a motion to adopt resolution uh R 2025 Tag 008. Is there R? It doesn't show what R, is it O? It's an ordinance. Ordinance O. 2025 tax 008. An ordinance approving the zoning these zoning these properties as agricultural preservation a zone. Sir second to the motion. I'll second. Mr. Lara seconds the motion. Discussion on the motion. Discussion. Seeing none. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Okay. Welcome to Shakipi. That concludes tensive. Thank you for your comments. We really appreciate you being here and and your comments on this discussion item. Thank you. And I'm glad that staff was able to work with the property owners and address these concerns. Um, and thank you to the city attorney for working on Sunday and getting it a fix. Well, what's that going to cost us? At what rate? I don't even try double time either. Thank you. I thought your regular time was like triple already. All right, moving to item 10D, final plat of High View Park, fourth edition. Mr. Kursky, mayor and council, as you said, this is the final plat of High View Park fourth edition. Fourstar USA Real Estate Group owner and applicant has proposed the final plot of High View Park 4th edition located south of County State Highway 78 east of Zumbro Avenue and west of Marius Town Road. This is the fourth phase of the development. It consists of 115 single family homes. Fourstar is a partner with Dr. Horton and the home starts have been strong in the High View Park subdivision. Their proposal is consistent with the comp plan guiding and zoning density requirements. The developers proposing homes compliant with the design and performance standards of the R1B zone and the city, county, and developer have spent considerable time discussing sewer and rightsway design and all issues have been addressed and are reflected in the latest plan set. So, here is the fourth edition, which if I get this to work, come on. Well, it's the area. Here we go. It's this area outlined in blue and this piece over here. You can see High View Park has rapidly been growing down uh Zomber. Some of you remember when we started this, they figured this was a five to six year project. I think that we're way ahead of that schedule. Um so the fourth edition is coming in. So here is the final plat with these um three pieces. So there's uh different plan sets, but this is basically the connection here. There is a um existing piece that's already been done through here. So, uh approve resolution R2025-005 approving the final plat of High View Park fourth edition. Questions of staff? Just a comment. I noticed that park dedication fees are going to the Jackson Commons Park. So, we want to make sure we note that. That's always good to improve that park for uh Jackson Commons Park. Um nothing else. And I will add that we had some comments from county commissioners uh of how wonderful that park is coming along. That's awesome. Any other questions? If we only had winter, it would be much better shape. Right. Right. So much we we'd get sick and tired of the same old weather if we didn't have a change. Right. Um any other questions of staff? My question is access. Um, with the county spacing requirements, is that uh Mary'stown Road? No access to Mary'stown. How do you ask? Will there And there's no access to Zumbro either. Or wait, let me go back and look at this plan here. Turn it. Yes, there is access to Zumbro right here. Is this an access down here? Oh, here. Yeah, it's right here. point out how you get to this uh development. Mayor, you come through um this main road right here down into this subdivision. Okay. And then there's roads here. So there's a road right here that goes into this portion of the subdivision. The only one this one, but there won't be no access onto Mary'stown on either of these. No. Okay. The applicant's here. He can answer any additional question. Well, I was wondering what the spacing is from the other access points and does it fit into what what's allowed. I can't really tell on this map. It looks like there's access on Zumbro, too. Yeah, it looks like there's a lot of accesses already on Mary'stown. There's one right here. There's one right there. And if there's a fifth edition, which you'll see next, right, coming next. That's over here. I guess the only the best answer I'm looking for is Scott County won't allow an access. Is that correct, Mayor and Council? That is correct. Um, if you look on the map uh that Mr. Kurski has up, there is a road that already connects Mary'stown Road on the east side. It's just un just below that blue line for H High Park Fourth Edition. That um parcel that's south of there on the west side is outside of the High View Park subdivision. So, the developer does not have control over that. that's not part of the subdivision. So, there would be an access at that location in the future um as the streets from High View Park fourth edition get extended to the south. That would provide an additional access to Mary'stown Road. That access would be restricted in the future. Um the full access is shown just on the bottom of the screen. It's uh Privile Pond Lane. That's the ultimate full access to Mary'stown Road. um that would be built in conjunction with the property to the south which is the Olaflin parcel at the time that is subdivided and developed. Uh but there are multiple locations for access proposed to Zro Avenue. A second access proposed with this subdivision as well to provide a looped system um throughout the neighborhood. Thank you. Any other questions for staff? All right. What's the wishes of the council? Mr. Lara make a motion resolution R205-005 approving the final plat of High View Park edition 4. Second. Second. Oh, you guys want arm wrestle for the second or councelor Contrera seconds the motion? Discussion on the motion. Discussion on the motion. Nope. Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. 10 E final plat of High View Park fifth edition council. This is the final plat of High View Park fifth edition. So we are moving quickly through this subdivision. Again, fourstar real estate is the property owner in cooperation with Dr. Horton. Uh fifth phase of development consists of six 73 single family homes. uh developers proposing homes compliant with the design and performance standards of R1B zoning. There will be additional future phases of the fifth edition um in the outlot areas. So here is the fifth edition uh over here in the site aerial. So give you a frame of reference. This is the Scott County um tower arrangement right down here. And you just did the fourth edition which is this area right over here. So this is across Zumbro on the west side. So here is the final plat. So this will be an outlot up here for uh later development. So action sought to approve resolution R2025-36 approving the final plat of High View Park fifth edition. Questions of staff. Mr. Lara. Hey uh Mr. I It's been a while since we reviewed this and I remember when this first came through that this was going to be a very deep to the south development. How far south are we going exactly? When does it stop? Hang on. So, um Dr. Horton's property and Mr. Su is here from Dr. Horton. I believe they have this piece and this piece. So, they do own this piece right down here. Um they have not come in for any plans yet for that. As the city engineer mentioned, they do not own this parcel right here. Um the um Olaflin parcel is um currently for sale and I believe they have an offer on it. Um we'll probably annex this in because we don't want to leave an island at some point soon. This parcel is a single family home and they are not currently involved in any of these discussions. Just past here is Louisville Township and the families that own um the first group of properties in that township have already met with the city and are negotiating with a number of developers right now. So to your point is we will keep going south. The township line is where? Just the other side of the Olaflin property. 282 pardon me. 282 or is that too far? I think that's too far. Mr. White, without an orderly annexation agreement with Louisville Township, can parcels be added in if they request to and as they're developed? Mayor and council, that's correct. Um, state law allows for any property owner that's adjacent to city without an orderly annexation agreement can request to be annexed into the city um without any payment or approval from the township. If we did have an orderly annexation agreement with Louisville Township, the township would actually receive some as part of our agreement, much like we did with Jackson, they would actually receive some tax dollars from the city for a period of time. But since there's no agreement, uh Louisville Township will get nothing. and mayor council. That's why the other big thing that the city engineers uh worked on is bringing that sewer line um as part of this project down to this area. And there will be a lift station either on the Laughlin or the Sand property. The sand property is the property that's in Louisville Township. But we have this whole area was designed as part of if you remember the AU. There was a a master sewer plan done to serve Louisville Township, right? And we will be updating that AU because we're I believe it or not we're near five and so by the end of this year, the state requires us to update that. Any other questions of staff? Mr. Delaney, does SMC own any property further down that butts up against that or mayor and counsel? I was actually texting with um senior planner Kabota. is working on a map that will show all of the SMS properties in Louisville Township. They have acquired a significant amount of property in Louisville Township. Thank you. Well, in Scott County, too, for that matter, councelor confers. All right. I will um make a motion to approve resolution R2025-036 approving the final plat for High View Park fifth edition. Is there a second? Second. Second by Mr. Zelane. Any discussion on the motion? Discussion on the motion. Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Thank you, mayor and councel. Welcome. We don't have reports. Leazison is on reports. Where did we start last time? I think we started over here, didn't we? I wasn't here last time, but we can start over here. Start here. get my by the numbers up here. A couple of things for Shaki public utilities and I thought I'd put that up here. One was we had residents that were concerned about the uh solar access charge the cap on that. We did adjust that down to 40. Um existing residents will be half of that and then the following year it'll jump to to 40 as far as the the max. But I was looking for my numbers with this to give you kind of a by the numbers for the utilities. Utilities has looks like the city has great staff. Uh, utilities also has great staff and they work really hard just like our our city staff does uh to make sure our 20,000 plus electric uh users have limited number of outages and I can't find right here in my packet but uh they were basically top in the the region uh top of the the various uh other providers and also they beat Excel as far as um time out time for outages. is I think it's around 30 minutes on average. How much how much the best or they had the most they were the best as far as the lower amount of of outages. Um typically about half the outages are usually due the wildlife uh storm or tree. Everything else is kind of added up there. But again I I can't find the numbers here for my SpU package. We can pull that up. But overall uh they do provide great services for the city and just like we're blessed to have the city staff over here. We're blessed to have the staff that we have at Spuck. Um, as far as uh 169 coalition, nothing there. We do have everything sitting everything uh transportation next week. Um, as there is a legislative meeting Monday, kind of a a conference down at the capital on Monday. Then Wednesday, there's a groundbreaking for Jordan for 28269 and 9, I believe. Um, that that's going in. So, that'll be pretty exciting to attend. So, 282169. 282169 and 9 and 9. Yeah. And that's it. Thank you, Mr. wedding. Well, I got to say that we don't have the the wildlife squirrel report as much as we used to since they've coded the the telephone uh polls. So, uh we that's all good for squirrels. Uh we on Monday did the uh suburban transit association board meeting. We talked about our legislative agenda and uh again talking about consistency in funding trying to get there. And we had your MBTA presentation tonight. Yep. I hope you all enjoyed that. Uh um we're active in Shakipi, but as they mentioned, we uh can't grow uh that base because we're stuck at those uh early numbers when we first adopted even though our community is growing. So So what do we do about that? Yeah, I'm not sure. We'll have to talk to I'm not sure how that works. Put her up some green paint, start printing that money. Yep. All right, councelor Contrarus. Um I was ill on Friday so I could not make my scale meeting. So um I don't have a report for you this week. Okay. Mr. Lara, um previously you'd mentioned you'd asked about the school board and um I think with in terms of like budgeting or finance. Yeah, they just put that out today. Got an email today on on that. Okay. Um I I just had a brief discussion with the uh president of the school board and um at that time he um high level there was no immediate concern but I'm sure things will progress and change. Um other than that I have no other updates. Very good. Mr. uh Reynolds uh nothing from me sir. Appreciate it. All right. Uh staff and I met with Scott County two commissioners and their staff. Basic stuff. people not following traffic laws. Uh uh what else do we talk about? What's developments happening? Just reminiscing. Nothing uh earthshattering to report from that. So that's the extent of my report. City bill list. Any questions on the bill list? No questions for me. Other business. I just wanted to do a a mention of Shockby cleanup day is Saturday 26th 7:30 to is it 11 or 11:30? 11:30 at public works off 4th Avenue. Get in line early. Uh if you're unlucky, you might see me there and if you're lucky, you might see the other council members there. Anybody else have anything else to uh give to the community? Kelsey, you got anything? Public service announcements. So, on Friday, April 25th, we will be doing a event and sale at the community center. It'll be 25% off all season passes and punch cards for Sand Ventures grand o regrand opening in 2025. And we will also be having a pirate funday. The community center will be free that day from 9:00 a.m. till 2:00 p.m. We have arts, crafts, story time with our favorite pirate and a pirate themed open swim that day. So, it should be a lot of fun. Very good. Who's the favorite pirate? You got to come to find out. Yeah. Any other any other I will only say that I it's our I've heard that the pirate will have treasure to hand out as well. All right. There you go. Come get your gold while you can. Any other public service announcements from anybody on staff this weekend? That was amazing. The egg hunt this weekend. Just wanted to say great job on the Easter egg hunt this weekend. It was amazing. I mean, I didn't get a chance, but I heard and saw the pictures. Amazing turnout. I'll say that. I did drive by and the fields were full of eggs. I was like, I want to go. And I'm like, never mind. I can't do that anymore. Yeah. Very good. Any other business? Item number 14. I'll make a motion to agenda May 6th, 2025 at 7 p.m. Is there a second? Second discussion. Favor say I. I. Opposed. We're adjourned. Yay.