You guys ready on this side? >> Ready. >> Call Shaky City Council meeting December 2nd, 2025 to order. If you could please take the role. >> Council member Delaney >> here. >> Council member Whiting >> here. >> Council member Contreres >> here. >> Council member Lara >> here. >> Mayor Layman >> here. Item number three, if you want to join us for the pledge of allegiance. Pledge >> allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Item number four, approval of the agenda. Is there any changes to the agenda? >> Nothing from staff, sir. >> Councel? >> No. >> Wish council. Mr. Whiting. >> I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. >> Is there a second? Seconded by councelor Contrarus. Discussion on the motion. >> Discussion. Seeing none. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. >> Motion passes. Item number five is consent agenda. Any changes to our consent agenda? >> Not from staff, sir. >> Councel, Mr. Lara >> was going to pull 5C >> 5B C. >> Yep. >> Any other changes from councel? >> Wishes councel. >> Mr. Whiting. >> I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as modified. >> Is there a second? Councelor Contrarus makes a second. Mr. Reynolds, would you please read the consent? >> Yes, sir. Members of council, these are the consent items for Tuesday, December 2nd of 2025. 5A, purchases of four skid steer loaders for public works and the purchase of a pickup truck for the fire department. 5B is our concessions operation policy. 5D is the sand venture large yellow slide refinishing project. 5e is a remodel of the community center sauna. 5F is a purchase of Copman playground equipment at the end of the year discount. 5G approves the easement acquisition for the Boiling Springs drainage improvements. 5H is approval of the November 28, excuse me, November 18th, 2025 city council minutes. 5 is the premier sponsorship by Metropolitan Dance Alliance. 5J is the event sponsorship by Laughler Construction Company. 5K is an event sponsorship by Krauss Anderson. 5L is an event sponsorship by Lionsite. By the way, thanks to all of those organizations for their generous donations. 5M approves tobacco business license renewals for 2026. 5N approves pawn broker business license renewals for 2026. 5O approves the taxi cap business license renewals for 2026. And 5P is the purchase of land in the west end for the open space to protect the bluff. >> Thank you, Mr. Reynolds. Any discussion on the motion from councel? Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. >> Opposed. Consent agenda is approved. Item number six, public comment. If you're here for an item not on the agenda, now would be the time to step forward and speak to council. If you're here for an item not on the agenda and you want to address the city council, please come on up to the table there. Name and address for the record. might have to pull that microphone closer to your mouth. >> Okay. >> The the base is heavy. It will move. There you go. >> Okay. Uh Jeff Bolt, uh 1401 here in Court. Um I was told that there'd be a topic on the consent agenda for a proposed connection between Marshall Lane and Wood timber trails and um winded acres and it wasn't on the agenda. And I'm just curious if there's any knowledge of that with this group here that the county was going to request consent from you folks to remove it from the agenda or from the proposed road changes on 17. >> Have you contacted Sydney staff? >> Tony uh the county engineer had called me and told me and was also emailed that it would be on this agenda today. That's why we're here today. >> Okay. Well, the county engineer doesn't control the agenda. I would suggest that you contact the county engineer and ask him what he's talking about. >> I will do that. I just thought I'd ask since I was here in case you knew. Thank you very much. >> Appreciate it. >> Okay. You bet. >> If there's anybody in the audience that would like to address the city council on an item that is not on our agenda, now would be the time to do so. Last call. All right. Item number seven, business removed from consent agenda 5C was removed by councelor Lara. Mr. Lara. >> Thanks, Mayor. Um, just uh to review this real quick. U just putting it on the record that the uh proposed policy um is not going to hinder on any um organizations that we work with um in their sponsorship efforts, in their events. Um all the questions from councel have been um uh answered satisfactory. Um um administrator Reynolds would like to make any comments regarding that, but u as far as we're concerned with the questions that we received about it. Um the answers were satisfactory. >> Yeah. And I will I sent an email out to council earlier. I'll make that part of the record. I've already talked to the city clerk. That way if there's any questions in the future um it's easily uh traced back and then any concepts or things that are unclear uh obviously we can use that to clarify it and it shouldn't be an issue in the future. >> Correct. And then any questions you know always they can reach out to uh city staff. So um with that I'd like to make a motion to adopt temporary ad advertising and sponsorship signage policy. Is there a >> second? Second. >> Seconded by Mr. Whiting. Discussion on the motion. Discussion on the motion. Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. >> Opposed. Motion passes. Item number 8A is a public hearing. 2026 budget and property tax levy and presentation. Um motion to open a public hearing. Councelor Contrers. >> A motion to open the public hearing. >> Second. >> Second by Mr. Delaney. All in favor say I. >> I. Poss hearing is now open. >> Uh good evening, mayor and council. Uh council members, tonight we have a public hearing on the 2026 proposed budget and property tax levy. Sorry, it took me a second. It the computer actually uh popped up the window that says, "Do you want to restart now and do an update?" So, it kind of threw me out there for a second. Uh anyways, the city annually adopts a budget and property tax levy for the upcoming year. Uh the purpose of tonight's uh meeting is to provide the public with information on the city's 2026 proposed budget and 2026 proposed property tax levy uh and allows the public uh a chance to comment on the proposed budget prior to it being adopted. Uh I did put a pie chart here uh on the slide. It's the breakdown of property taxes um based on the preliminary levies for someone who lives here in Shakape. Uh the portion we're discussing tonight is the city levy, which represents 27.7% of uh the property taxes paid. So it's only about a quarter of um the property tax bill that funds city operations. Uh we don't have any influence or control over uh the school or uh Scott County. Um and similar to similarly to assessed values, um those would be ter those will be determined by the the county assessor's office. Again, the city has no influence on assessed values as well. Uh so generally speaking uh bud our budget objectives remain unchanged from the past few years uh which include continue to be one of the lowest tax uh communities here in the metro uh and continue to grow our tax capacity of existing and new property. Uh we'll continue to be transparent and make decisions with uh the long-term uh best financial interest in mind uh and provide uh quality services at a reasonable price. Um, as we go through the budget process, um, we, uh, continue to update our our website, our budget page on our website with new information. Uh, try to be transparent with all of our information. Our tax receipt tool is still on the website. Um, for those who haven't checked that out, we encourage you to do so. Uh, basically provides itemized breakdown of how uh, property taxes are spent here in Shakape. Uh when you hear the word budget, you usually think uh numbers and dollars. Um but the budget is really setting the service level uh of the city. Um and what we want to provide uh in terms of uh public safety response times, how many potholes should we fill, uh how clean and well-maintained do we want our parks and open spaces. Uh providing high-quality city services uh is the foundation of a healthy and growing community. Uh as depicted here on the slide, uh those high-quality services uh drive population growth as more people and businesses want to be part of the community. Uh population growth then drives uh value re real estate values of both existing and and new um new inventory. Uh that growth in real estate values ensures uh rising tax revenues which pays for uh again the inflation cost of the high quality services. Um the cycle is the foundation of our annual budget development uh and helps identify and explain uh many of these influencing factors. Our role in the cycle uh is to ensure we're providing those high-quality city services. Uh influencing the mix between um industrial, residential, and commercial property types and then determining the appropriate balance between property taxes, user fees, and grants. Uh budget process. So, several steps it took uh to get us up to this point, including uh meetings on the city's long-term financial plan, capital improvement plan, and budget. Uh city also hosted a budget listening session um back in June 17th uh prior to the beginning of the of the budget process. Uh and then the preliminary uh levy was adopted on September 16th uh per state statute. This would be the maximum amount we can set a property tax levy so it can't be um increased from that September 16th meeting. Uh from a staff perspective, we're really happy with how this budget um came together and what it accomplishes. Uh we've seen a 5% growth in taxable market value. uh 58% of that growth is coming from new construction uh which has limited the impact on uh existing property owners. Uh based on the county assessment numbers for 2026 uh the tax rate will see very little change from what it is today and today we're one of the lowest uh tax communities in the metro uh with ours being the fourth lowest out of 32 cities um with the population between 25,000 and 100,000. Uh the budget also includes a $300,000 increase in the capital improvement levy uh which would pay for um existing street uh overlay and reconstruction needs. Um as I mentioned on that previous slide um this basically shows the the metro um cities of 25,000 to 100,000 and again um Shakabe being the fourth lowest in that comparison. The Department of Revenue website has a listing of all uh preliminary uh tax levies statewide. Uh this slide shows comparable and surrounding cities to provide kind of an idea of what we're seeing um some of our comparison cities do. Uh we'll be one of the few cities in the metro proposing under 6% levy increase. Uh the statewide average is 8.7%. Um Golden Valley being the one that is slightly under us, but you'll see on a future slide they were at the highest um out of our comparisons. Um and I um do get a chance to talk to uh many of these cities on a on a frequent basis and um what's driving these larger increases are pretty consistent across the cities. Um they're new city buildings, street improvements, equipment costs, uh and then police and fire staffing. So, um we're not alone with some of those factors driving our budget. Uh the pros 2026 city levy is 28,214,480 bucks. Um probably would have been a lot easier if I had just rounded those numbers, but um that's what it ended up being. Uh in total, uh we're at a 1.47 million increase or a 5.5% increase from last year. Uh this in uh increase includes about 1.2 million uh for general fund operations and the $300,000 uh capital improvement levy increase. Uh the city did set aside about 350,000 of general fund balance at the start of the year um to be used towards the debt service levy. So, that's why there's no change in that as well. And then we've also included a $50,000 increase in that EDA levy. Uh here's the summary of the 2026 proposed uh general fund budget. Uh the budget um incorporates the general fund portion of the property tax levy. Um and then um many of the items that were impacted I'll show on the next few slides. Uh our largest portion portion of the budget continues to be public safety uh which includes police, fire, and uh building inspection. Uh here's a summary of the changes impacting the 2026 preliminary levy. Uh this is in comparison to the levy um the 2025 property tax levy. Uh the amount shown in red parenthesis uh represent a decrease in the property tax levy. Uh so in this example, red means good. Uh example here would be uh fee revenue increases would result in less property tax um needed to fund those um those services. Um through additional revenues and transfers we were able to offset about 2.1 million of the expenses that were um increased. And then overall the city is anticipating a net increase in nonpropy tax revenues of 2.1 million. Um won't cover all the items on the slide but wanted to touch on the most significant. Um so several organizations will contract with uh Shakabe Police Department to provide services throughout the year. Uh with the addition of the amphitheater, we've increased that amount by 616,500. Uh that revenue is uh will be offset um from staffing overtime costs as well as contracting with other agencies to fill those requirements. Uh the city has historically been conservative when forecasting building permit revenue. Uh the 2026 forecast does include a $450,000 increase in building uh permit revenue. Uh in total, we're budgeting about 3.9 million in uh building building permit related revenues for 2026. And then community center revenue. Um those have been increased to reflect the proposed uh fee fee increases for 2026. Uh which uh is also reflected of the the revenue policy that city council reviewed earlier this year. Uh even with those fee adjustments, the community center will be um will continue to be one of the most affordable community center options. And the city is also proposing to add uh health inspector to ensure um safety and cleansing of the 12 hotels and 72 restaurants within the city. Uh new licenses and inspection fees are budgeted to help offset those costs. Um we have um for transfers. So these would be uh transfer to the general fund to help pay for general fund operating costs. Um uh for example, use of the remaining uh overtime or use of the remaining um public safety aid that we had received in 2023. So we're utilizing the remaining balance of that uh use of selfinsur self- insurance fund balance which we had initially set set aside uh to potentially go to a self-insuring fund option. Um we're now looking at a different direction. So utilizing that fund balance um and transferring that in into the general fund. And then a new transfer beginning in in 20 uh 26 which we've talked a lot about at this level as a transfer from the EDA to um help pay or at least um basically uh provide support for uh general fund operations that they would use within their EDA fund which would include city council finance administration technology communications and HR. So from a financial standpoint just better reflecting that full cost of the the EDA. Uh moving on to expenditure changes like uh most other cities operational costs are primarily driven by personnel which represent about 63% of the increase in expenditures. Um I'll touch on most of the items on the slide and then I have a separate slide to talk about the third one there. Third one down on the list. Um wages and benefits uh account for 70% of the city's general fund costs. Um, city does have three unions, patrol, sergeants, and public works. All three of those union contracts uh covered a three-year period from 24 to 2026. Uh, those uh contracts included a a 3% cost of living adjustment for patrol and sergeants and a 3 and a.5% for uh public works. For non-UN uh employees, we're matching that 3% for the the first two unions. Um across all the employee groups, um the cost of living adjustment amounts to approximately 792,000. Uh city maintains pay plans for all employees that includes step increases. Uh we budgeted 388,000 for those step increases. Uh 2026 budget also includes 8.3% increase for health insurance premiums. Um some of this uh ends up amounting to about 99,000 in total. Some of that in it would have increased more but because of uh plan election changes. So we had a number of employees switch from family to single or from low to high deductible plans which have also helped kind of offset some of that increase. Um that 8.3% is actually reasonable. If you look at the past couple of years we were actually uh last year 16.7 the year before 20.9. Uh so the 8.3% in comparison to that isn't isn't as bad. Uh and then new items impacting the 2026 budget uh would include that uh building health inspector which is a new position. Um that position again will be offset by restaurant and hotel licenses and inspection revenues. Uh Minnesota paid leave program which is a statemandated program. City is actually using a third-party insurance provider to um to implement that program. Um the new leave program basically offers job protected paid time off for eligible employees up to 20 weeks per year uh to care for themselves or family members due to medical reasons, family needs and safety concerns. um that uh the cost of that program would be split at a 375% between um the employer and the employee. Uh the city clerk uh or the excuse me, the clerk administrative assistant, we're proposing to move from part-time to full-time uh which would provide consistent uh front desk support and allow those that have been backfilling that to concentrate on their their duties. uh the part-time marketing specialist. This would be a shared position between recreation and communications. Um and it allows support for um communication programs as well as recreation events and and facilities. And then um some positive news uh city holds workers comp uh compensation insurance through the League of Minnesota Cities Trust. Uh between 22 and 24, we've seen those rates go up rather dramatically. uh past year, we've actually seen those rates come down and they're expected to go down um even further for 2026. So, we've actually um reduced that amount by 295,000. So, the one item I didn't cover on there, um the city recently completed a a market compensation study for all non-UN employees. Uh the goal of that study was to be at the midpoint of all our comparable cities, um which would be Maplewood, Rapids, Lakeville, Roseville, Blaine, St. Louis Park, uh, Golden Valley, Invergrow Heights, Burnsville, and Savage. Uh, the city council, um, has provided guidance. They want to be at that mid point for, um, for salary ranges in comparison to those comparable cities. Uh, the study showed that our pay plan was behind market averages uh, and included several positions that were significantly below that average. Uh, so as a result, the following uh, modifications are proposed to non-UN plan uh, which would be a 1% market adjustment. uh the proposed creation of an additional 2% step um basically a final step after each grade. Um and then the elimination of the uh step one grade for um a few of the or the step one of a few of the grades to help um keep all the or basically keep it in line with the other grades within the pay plan um with a number of steps. And then positions that were 6% or more more below market, uh we've adjusted up to a newly ha uh newly formed created half grade between the two grades. Um this would be inserted between the current grade and the next higher grade. Um which would impact about 18 positions. Uh so these pay plan adjustments we believe will allow allow the city to remain competitive, realign positions with the market average, and then also still keep our current play plan structure and maintain internal equity. uh that total impact of those changes were about 320,000. And here's just um kind of a pre um here's where where we're at currently compared to where it would be with the new pay plan. Um as you can see um the blue line is the current one, the green one's proposed and is bringing us closer to that midpoint range. So that was the goal of the whole study. Uh so during the budget process um we typically will identify any items greater than 10,000 um as kind of the initial step and then do a forecast for um some of the items like utilities and fuel just to m make sure that across departments um we we're handling the same way. Um, so that was kind of the first step in the process. And here's kind of the um kind of those items that were were greater than 10,000. Uh, public safety contracted costs and um engineering uh contracted constru construction inspections are passroughs. So, uh, the city collects contracted fees for both of those services. And then engineering fees also pay for those costs. Uh the contingency we've increased for remaining unknowns uh which include uh potential impacts from um the fire department if um as they've also have provided notice that they would be forming a union. Um the fire department also requests additional funding to provide for turnout gear, additional medical equipment, uniforms, and additional training. Uh an increase in our prosecution services contract with the county. And then the community center is proposing uh an increase to allow their cleaning contract uh to go from two days to seven days which would allow their staff to um focus on more preventative maintenance needs. Um the city uh has internal service funds uh which accumulate funds for the purchase of uh purchase and replacement of large city equipment and facilities. Uh the funding sources are annual rents which are basically internal service charges um to the various departments. Uh the equipment rent will increase both as a result of new equipment being added to the schedule um as well as uh year-over-year uh just cost of vehicles and equipment increasing. Uh we do have a 20-year equipment replacement schedule that includes every um piece of equipment the city owns included with our CIP plan. Um and then building rents. Uh we set those with the intention of not necessarily being able to fully replace buildings, but to be able to pay for the um major maintenance projects like the roofs, the the boilers. Um the rent increase is both a result there as projects related to that the age in a city building as well as inflationary costs for those projects. Um so general fund typically they're mo the swings up and down are typically moderated through those internal um rent charges. Uh however we do have some one-time items that pop up um every budget cycle. Uh so these aren't expected to necessarily re recoccur in future budgets with the exception here of the comprehensive plan which is a two-year will will fall over a two-year span. Um so this cost uh for the comp plan would be offset by a onetime reduction in salt inventory um built up by the recent mild winters. We've um we have enough inventory we we believe to not buy as much salt as we typically would. Um, and then that we're also removing the previous onetime items that were in the 2025 budget. Uh, as mentioned kind of earlier, we are proposing a $300,000 increase in the capital improvement levy. Um, that would go um uh for uh the cost of maintaining um basically the overlays and reconstruction projects of our existing streets. uh the costs of our street projects have pretty much doubled um from the five-year CIP leading up to today to the 5-year CIP looking forward. Um so this would be a way to kind of bridge some of that gap um with a kind of a you know there's been a little bit of a funding shortfall between um what we get for um the CIF levy and franchise fees compared to what we're actually paying for some of these street projects. Um what we've done in the past typically we've used our um any balance we'd have have available at the end of the year to help pay for some of these costs. We've also issued a bond in 2022. We continue to look at those options as well, but uh this would help mink um I guess help that gap uh not grow any further or maintain it. Um so the city's taxable market value is at 8.7 billion which is an increase of 412 million or 5% from last year. uh residential, apartment, commercial all uh saw growth in market value. Uh and then again, new construction amounted for amounted to about 57.8% of her taxable market value increase. Um on this slide here, I just touch on residential properties. Um overall, the average home value of existing homes in Shakabe increased 2.1%. Uh, as you can see, uh, from this chart, 93% of residential homes saw very little change in their values, plus or minus 5%. Uh, we do have 950 homes that saw their, uh, values rise by greater than 5%. Um, I do get these numbers from Scott County. Um, I did look back at this slide from last year, and if you're curious, there's 197 more residential properties than there were um, at this time on this slide last year. uh the gross uh tax capacity of the city um which is uh how what we use to calculate that taxes um it gets adjusted for the fiscal disparities program which is unique to the seven county metro area in Minnesota uh 40% of commercial industrial growth since 1971 gets contributed to the pool and in turn we we receive a distribution based on uh population and market value of all property per person uh compared to the average market value per person in the metro area. Uh we are one of the largest net contributors to this program. Um the 2026 data shows we're fourth out of 179 communities. Uh this chart shows uh Shakabe's fiscal disparities. Uh in terms of tax capacity um basically with our growing commercial industrial base has gone from 2.2 million in 2017 to 11.7 million in 2026. Uh so put that in context in terms of u what percentage of tax capacity is going um is being contributed net contributed it's about 10.2% 2% of the value in Shakabe is going into that program. >> And and if I may, it should be noted that this particular program doesn't exist anywhere else in the United States except for the >> county metro area. And unfortunately, that's obviously a lot of tax capacity that we uh could be using for far greater things in our community. And it's unfortunate that there are more takers than our givers uh in this particular program. And I've been fighting, as you know, for almost nine of the 10 years I've been here to try to somehow affect this particular program. But, uh, unfortunately, it's a political decision at this point. with Minneapolis now switching over to being no longer a contributor but a a recipient of these funds. Uh that made a big difference and uh I don't see this particular program going away in the near future unfortunately. >> And I'll just add one thing too. When we get state dollars to help build commercial industrial projects to create jobs, they turn around and punish you for doing that. So, they are kind of speaking both sides here. And uh just put you a little bit at ease, Mr. Reynolds. It's been a little longer than nine that I've been battling this animal. And uh we'll just keep on fighting it because it just doesn't make any sense. >> Yep. continue. Sure. >> Um so the city levy is a flat dollar uh for taxes which is spread against all taxable properties in proportion of the percentage of tax capacity of the city. Uh residential uh represents 45.7% of the city's tax capacity. Uh this in comparison to the chart last year shows that it's uh slightly more than the total um from the previous year. Uh so this uh chart is percentages but if you want to think of it in dollar terms uh it works out approximately the same way. So for every dollar the city requests in the property tax levy, residential properties are paying about 45.7% or 45.7 cents of every dollar. Um and this slide shows the tax rates over the past 10 years. Um oops, sorry about that. Um including the 2026 estimate based on the previous slide. Um but based on the preliminary assessment value as it stands today, um slight increase in the city's tax rate to 28.67% from last year. Uh the chart um this chart provides information on the median value home and city property taxes paid since 2021. Uh orange bar amounts on the left axis represent the median value home. Uh where the gray shaded portion is the property tax paid on that median value home. So median value being if you lined up all cities from lowest value to highest value, it's the one in the middle, the exact middle. Uh the value of the median uh value home has increased from 350,700 to 361,500 um over the past year, which is uh $10,600 increase. Um for the median value home, this equates to uh $63 or 6.8% in property taxes. Again, it's also taken in in consideration the value change. Uh absent uh any change in value, um that median value home um would see a tax increase of about 30 bucks or 3.2%. Um this uh this slide shows just a couple of different um levels of home. So uh the $270,000 home that represents the 25% cortile where the 433% represents the 75%. Uh again this considers the market value change as well from the previous year. But uh $270,000 home could be could expect about a $39 increase and then a $433,000 home could expect about a $66 increase. Um my favorite slide here. Um this is a comparison of the cost of city services on a $350,000 home uh utilizing 5,000 gallons of water. So uh this is comparison of property tax paid as well as the two utilities that the city of Shak Shakabby provides which is storm water and and sewer. Um the annual cost for Shakabby is the lowest of our pure comparison cities at $1,246. Uh the other cities range from 1509 to 2394. And as Mr. Reinhardt had noted earlier, uh, Golden Valley has a smaller percentage this year, the only one of our comparable cities that does, but you can see that they are also the largest tax uh, taxers of the group. And, uh, when you put that in perspective, once again, Shakip is at the lead. >> Um, just one slide on the schedule for reference if I if if needed. Um, which is going mentioned property taxes were noticed or mailed by the Scott County in middle of November. Um, which brings us kind of to where we're at today. Um, and then my final slide here is just this is a public hearing. So, public is welcome to come and speak on the budget um of the and the or the proposed levy. Uh, there's no council action being requested tonight. Um, we'll bring this back um to city council on December 16th after taking public hearing and you'll be able to vote on it then. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Reinhardt. Any questions of staff? Questions of staff? No. None. This is a public hearing. If you're like to address this matter, please step up and love to hear your comments. Anybody like to discuss the city budget? Last opportunity. Very good. No action is needed by council Mr. Whiting. >> Make a motion to close the public hearing. >> Is there a second? Second >> motion by Mr. Whiting, seconded by Mr. Lara. Discussion on the motion. Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. Opposed. Public hearing is closed. Okay. Item number nine, the recess for economic development authority meeting. Councelor Contrers, >> make a motion to recess to the EDA. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Motion and seconded. Discussion on the motion. >> Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I. opposed. Motion passes. >> Like to call to order the December 2nd meeting of the Shakabe Economic Development Authority. Uh please make note of the role. Item number two is our agenda. Is there any comments on the agenda? Mr. Layman. >> Mr. President, I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. >> Second. We have a motion and a second. Uh uh discussion. Discussion. Discussion. All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? We have an agenda. Uh we next item is our consent business. Any questions about the EDA meeting minutes? >> Look for a motion. Mr. >> I'll make a motion to approve the consent. >> We have a motion and a second from Mr. Delaney. Uh any discussion? Discussion. Discussion. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Uh that's approved. Any opposed? I think we got them all. General business, Mr. Kurski. Approval of the transfer guarantee and contract for private development from Deco Shakapi LLC to Lman Holdings Deco LLC. >> Good evening, uh, chair and board members. So, um, this is a requirement of our agreement that if the property is sold, we have to transfer the original development agreement along with the guarantee. If you remember, the city holds the TIF note and receives the TIFF value. That includes a guarantee from the property owner that if the taxes fall below uh the amount that's due every year, the property owner has to make it up to us. So Austin Morris, who is the chairman and founder of Enclave, said an offer came along. The limited partners that are in this project wanted to transfer money to a different project. So they had a willing buyer, so they decided to sell. And I included in your packet some information about the buyer and the buyer's representatives are here tonight. >> Questions of staff? Mr. Layman. Uh >> Mr. President, question I had was uh in the memo it talks about an inter fund loan with interest payments. Um do we can you just let us know where that's all at yearto date type thing? >> Yes, be happy to. >> Okay, that's all I have. >> Any other questions? >> What are the wishes of the body? Mr. Petra. >> Um, I'll make um actually let me see. Let me find the motion. >> The recommendation. >> The recommendation. Where is it? Oh, sorry. I didn't see it. There it is. Approve um approve resolution E2025-005 approving the assign assignment and assumption of the contract for private development and transfer of redevelopment property from Deco Properties LLC to Lumen Holding Deco LLC. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second a motion and second. Any discussion, Mr. Layman? >> Mr. presence. So, my understanding is all we're doing here is we're taking an existing property that's currently operational under a TIFF agreement and transferring ownership under the all the same terms. >> That is correct. >> Okay. >> Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Uh let's see. Uh, next on your uh agenda is the EDA bill list. Is there any questions on the bill list? >> No questions. >> We'll call that unanimous consent and look for a motion to adjourn. We can use an Mr. L. >> Make a motion to adjourn to January 6th, 2026 at 7 p.m. >> Motion. >> Second >> and a second. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> We stand adjourned. >> All right. We'll reconvene the city council which takes us to item 12 lison on administration. Uh Mr. Delaney, you can go first this time. >> Okay. So the 169 coalition will cease operations in 2026. Uh there'll be a fighting final meeting in there'll be a final meeting in 27th February. We we're going through all the the emails and um to get this and the resolutions from the different members to get this uh close the activity down. So you will see emails coming about that going going forward. Um there was a uh Shaki public utilities meeting yesterday. Uh let's see. Um nothing new there. Actually I have something I wrote down here. Uh let's see. 1300 customers with unknown pipe type. Uh they're going to get letters. This is basically lead replacement for the pipes. Uh fire hydrants. You see the covers on the fire hydrants. Those are in place. And uh we had now have 41 electric AMI meter customers remaining to get installed. And uh let's see what else. Um went to the uh Chief Tates award ceremony. That was uh I think everybody here was there. So that and uh that's it. >> Question on the lead pipe. Um, and maybe staff might know the answer if you don't, but if the lead pipes are found on the private property, there's funding available. I think it's federal funding to pay for that. >> There is funding available. I'm not sure whether it's federal. >> And if it's found in the service side of it, which is the utility. >> Um, then do they get funding from the I think it's federal dollars? >> Yeah, that certain. >> Anybody know the answer to that? I'm pretty sure it's federal dollars. I'm not sure, Alex, or you, >> Mr. Mayor. I believe it's a Department of Health funding for the lead service line replacement. Yeah. >> Okay. Federal. Yep. Okay. >> I know there's some residents that were concerned about that that if they find it, what's it going to cost me? Right. >> Um, it's it's a federal program to try to get rid of lead. >> Exactly. >> I forgot. >> Okay, >> that's it, >> Mr. Whiting. Um, we all made it to Chief Tate's uh award winning uh award presentation. So that's about all I have for leazison reports. >> Very good. Councelor Contra, >> mine's short. So on the 19th we attended the boardwalk ribbon cutting and on the 25th um Chief Tate's award ceremony. >> Very good. >> Very proud of his achievements. >> And councelor Lara >> uh exact same thing. On the 19th the boardwalk ribbon cutting and the 25th was Chief Tate's award ceremony. >> And due to the holiday it's pretty consistent across the board here, right? I also attended the boardwalk uh bar and grill ribbon cutting with other council members. What a fantastic space they created out there. >> It's it's open. It's >> very unique. >> It's got a really unique uh layout, unique um menu. Um >> right on the track. >> It's a nice place. So, uh I would encourage you to visit it if you haven't for the first time and come to your own conclusions of what your preferences are. And the uh chief Tate Shakby police chief Tate award was received an award at the Rotary. Um and a name of that award was >> the Merald >> Doc Mertt >> Doc Merald award >> which is a pretty substantial award given by the uh Rotary to Chief Tate for his many years of service to the community. Uh there's a high standard for that award by uh that goes back quite a while in history through the uh Doc Maralt and it's it was uh it was pleasing to see the chief of shock be chief of police to receive that very welldeserving >> welldeserved >> does a great job with the community and uh we look forward to that legacy carrying on within our department for for the future to come. My report uh that's all I have Mr. Reynolds. >> Thank you Mr. Mayor, I'd just like to, you know, we really haven't acknowledged it publicly yet, but Chief Tate will be retiring in February, uh, the end of February this year, and, uh, will be going to work for the county, uh, in a a position that will hopefully help steward their transition process with LEG and other uh, uh, things that they've been working on for some time. Uh, with that being said, we are currently accepting applications. So if you want to be a police chief uh please yes counselor Whiting we will accept your application >> but uh uh essentially uh you know we we hope to have another chief identified prior to him walking out the door. So uh uh Jeff, thank you for all your years of service and everything that you've meant to this community. uh you stood on the shoulders of Dan Hughes before you who uh adopted the concept of community oriented policing which is our call at this point. uh we are one of the leaders of that in the state uh and uh it's exciting to uh think about the future uh although recognizing also that uh Chief Tate will be leaving us and uh big shoes to fill uh but good luck in your in your future endeavors and you know obviously you always have a home here. >> That's all I have Mr. Mayor. >> Very good. Um, we've got two items under 12A news and announcements. We'll give one to each end. All right, Mr. Lara. >> Uh, winter parking restrictions um are now in effect and run through April 1st. No parking is allowed from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. on city streets. Certain certain exceptions apply within the calendar zone. Uh, please visit uh shockbn.gov/winterparking for more information. >> Very good. >> Okay. this in. Holiday Fest 2025. Holiday Fest is Saturday, December 6th, 2025 from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. in downtown Shakabe. Holiday Fest is a celebration to kick off the holiday season. There will be a winter vendor marketplace, pictures with Santa, a tree light, and fireworks. Come join the holiday fun. More information can be found on Shack Chamber of Commerce website. This is always a great time. I think most of us have actually all of us have been here every year. It's always a great time. Get some uh stocking stuffers. And >> we're going to have 40°ree weather. I can find the fireworks aren't on the the tree lighting isn't. >> And let's not forget the let's not forget the traditional shockbybe floats that are always award winners. Uh I don't even know what we're doing this year, though. I think we're kind of falling asleep at the wheel. So, we'll allow somebody else to uh garner those awards awards, but you know, we we have been very proficient in and getting some awards. >> City's pretty good at that. >> Yep. Very family family oriented. Please join us. We'll be down there having a good time. And uh uh Mr. Whiting, remind me next meeting if there's only two, it'll be the two inside. >> Okay. >> 12 B. City bill list. Any questions on the bill list? >> No questions. >> No, we don't save money if we don't pay them. I asked that question for many years and we got to pay them. The penalties cost more. So, any other business from council? Any other business? >> Nope. >> Staff wishes of councel >> make a motion to adjourn to December 16th, 2025 at 7 p.m. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Motion by Mr. Delaney, seconded by Miss Contrarus. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. Opposed. We are adjourned.