May 19th, 2026 to order. For Able, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> I aliance 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. >> All right, taking a look at number three, changes to the agenda. We do have a revised consent agenda and a revised hiring and termination report. And we're going to strike the park and wreck committee report because they did not meet last night. Is there any other changes? If not, I would entertain a motion to approve the agenda as amended. >> I'll make that motion. >> I'll second. We have a motion by Robin, a second by Rick. Is there any further discussion? >> Hearing none. All in favor, please state I. I. >> Anyone opposed? State no. Motion carries. All right. Moving on to number five, guests in open forum. We have Nicole Hubard with roadway safety concerns. >> Welcome. >> Yeah. Come up to the podium if you would. And >> I guess we already know your name, but >> I'll still introduce myself because it's written down and I got to follow my script otherwise I'll get lost. >> Oh, that works. >> Uh, good evening. First, thanks uh to the board members, Mayor Coinger for uh letting me speak and having the opportunity to be here tonight. My name is Nicole Huard. I'm here to share uh roadway safety concerns along 150th Avenue Southeast and 122nd Street Southeast. Um so, for those of you here not familiar with that road, it's the probably one remaining short gravel road half a mile long near the compost site. Um, I'm here tonight because families and residents along these roads are experiencing dangerous driving on this road on a daily basis. High speeds, reckless behavior, and drivers who treat this residential area like a cut through. Last week, uh, I had an incident coming home with a walk with my 5-year-old daughter on the road. Um, I know some of you have seen the video. um a very scary situation as a mother. Uh to the point where I had my daughter have to get into the ditch because I was worried uh something was going to happen um because this roadway is so unsafe. Becker PD appropriately and uh did a fantastic job following up on this incident um and very much appreciated their support. But it just goes to show the concerns that we have as residents here um and that something needs to happen. This isn't an isolated incident. Uh things like this happen on a regular basis, on a daily basis, and at all times of the day. If you'd speak to anyone who lives along this roadway, you'll hear countless stories of similar uh driving and reckless behavior. What we need are real, immediate, and long-term safety improvements that un that address the underlying safety issues on this road. There's no safe pedestrian space. There's no proper There's minimal proper signage. And I know there's challenges with that. Um, and there's certainly major issues with the visibility due to the constant dust from the unpaved surface. With this planned park going in nearby these, um, and these neighborhoods continuing to grow, the risks are only going to get worse and more. Uh, because who's going to be moving into these neighborhoods? Families, which means children and people that are going to be using this roadway. The current conditions simply don't meet the level of residential and recreational use this area sees. And more so, they're currently failing the families and residents that live here. Now, I understand change doesn't happen overnight. This specific situation isn't simple or straightforward. Uh the little bit that I know about this road, I understand it's a shared road between the township and city, which adds a whole another thing to this, and I I am aware of that. I also understand that long-term improvements take planning, funding, and coordination, and none of those things are easy to do within one entity, and then when you're trying to combine two, it makes it even more challenging. I'm well aware of that. I'm here speaking to you tonight because it is worth the time and it's worth the effort to do something. I'm not only here to bring forward concerns. I'd like to offer practical immediate first step. Um, my suggestion would be to close the road to through traffic, make it a dead-end road. Um the reason for this uh is because of the dangerous driving activity because 90% of people using this road I personally believe are not people that need to be using that road. They're using it as a cutth through and I know that the city has posted a compost sign. I'll tell you right now people don't go around. Um I know some do, but I live on that road. I have a garden on that road. I'm outside all day long every day, especially on the weekends. And you see constant traffic on that road. I feel like making this road a dead-end road would be a lowcost measure, relatively easy to implement. I understand that's a relative term. Um, but it would cut down on non-resident traffic, decrease the excessive speeding and hazardous driving. Um, as well as provide relief and reassurance to the community and the the members that live there. Might also reduce your maintenance costs on the road. So, I'm actually here trying to tell you how you're going to save money. Um, which I know is always nice to hear. Um, since the incident last week, I've spoken directly with neighbors and residents along this roadway, both with the township and with the city. Every single person I talked to signed my petition, and I'm I have it here with you. I'd be happy to share it with you, but it it basically says, um, we're asking to hopefully make this a dead-end road, and then let's come up with some plans to make this roadway safer for more long-term. Every person I talked to, city and township, signed this. We're asking for collaborative action between the city and township to prioritize this issue and start implementing meaningful, lasting safety improvements with the simple goal of preventing a serious injury or something far worse from happening. And without change, it's not a matter of if, but a matter of when something tragic happens. Um, so again, thank you for your time. I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys might have. >> Okay, I have a question. Have you been to the township? And >> I was there at the meeting last night. I presented um to them. I basically brought everything with me. Um so they're well aware. They know that I'm going to be here speaking with you tonight as well. So, yep. >> Okay. >> That that's about all I can say at this point, but >> yeah, I don't know how this I I don't know the process of all of this. I'm just here, you know, bringing forward my concerns and I look forward to, you know, doing what I can as a resident and a community member to work with you to maybe my solutions aren't the right ones. I don't know. But, uh, we've got to start somewhere. And I feel like, like I said, this is a really good place to start, a relatively easy thing to implement. Um, you know, from my standpoint, but just just looking for something to change to make this safer for our community and and my family. So >> yeah, the fact that they're aware of it will help because then if we talk to them then they know what we're talking about. >> I can give a little update at the end of the agenda, too. >> Okay. >> Um relative to that. >> Okay. >> All right. >> I do actually I do have a follow-up question for you. Um you're you're at one of your asks is to uh make a dead end at one end. Which end are you asking? >> Honestly, on the petition, I left it open-ended. I didn't know um I don't care personally. I didn't know if other people, you know, the township folks are the ones that are really using that road to get to their home. Everybody else that uses that road is using as a cut through. Um, so I didn't know from their standpoint. To me, and I don't know, there's a lot that I don't know, but what would make sense to me would be to do it on the side of the park because if you make that a dead-end road, you have a very safe pathway from that entire neighborhood community where there's no traffic going across that road where you have young children and families. There's no traffic crossing that road. I know obviously the city owns that property where they're putting the park in. It's not a paved road right now. So you have and I understand this takes money and time and more than just me saying this is easy. I get that. But if you're thinking of implementing it to me that would be what would make sense is to put it there. But again from my standpoint I don't care. I just want the road safer. And that's the feedback that I've gotten both from the folks that signed the petition with the city and and uh the township as well. So >> how many uh township residents live on that road? >> I believe 10. Don't quote me on that. And of the 10 I spoke with I I know that I spoke with everyone except for two. And the only reason I couldn't connect with them is the two nights I went door knockocking, nobody answered. But everyone on the township side signed the petition that basically um suggested making the road a dented road and then implementing some safety measures to improve that roadway. Okay. And then actually I believe every city resident that has a backyard that butts up to that road also signed the petition. Um so I realize it's not 100% but it's pretty good. And again, every single person I spoke with was willing to sign the petition. >> All right. >> All right. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Is there anyone else that would like to speak tonight? I thought maybe I saw another name on the sign in sheet. >> Well, I put my name on the signage. I'm with her. I live next door. >> Okay. >> To her and I am in the township. >> Okay. Did you want to speak tonight, sir? >> If I'm I I agree with her, too. >> You can come up. Come on up. Absolutely. >> Easier to sit down there. >> I know. But but our guy in the back room will come out and yell at us that we can't hear you on the TV. So, could you just state your name so we know? >> My name is Jeff Vote. >> Thanks. >> I I live at um 15093 122nd Street. >> Thank you. >> Like I said, right next to Nicole Hubard, it would make sense to shut it off at the park. the amount of traffic that comes through there and the contractors that come through there with their 14 foot 16 foot dump trailers to get to that compost site and they fly down that road. It's I've lived there. It's going to be 20 years for the last 15. I can't open my windows of my house. That's how bad the dust is. Cuz I could sit in my yard and watch it come across my yard. Why do I want my windows open? >> I just We got to stop something. It's It's really bad. It's ridiculous. There's kids out there. I have an autistic grandchild that gets dropped off at my house every day. I don't want anything ever to happen to him. And he plays at my house every day. There's other people here who have children that their backyards go up against that road. Sure, they don't all go out there and run on the road, >> but what if that one time that's all it's going to take. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. >> Say a couple words, too. >> Yeah. Come on up. Yeah. >> If you can just state your name for us, that would help. >> My name is Braden Parks. I live at 15109 Mandarin Street. So, right across on the city side, my uh backyard butts up to that. Um my only thought was that I understand if you didn't want to deadend that road because eventually as Elwin Creek gets fully developed, you don't want people necessarily going through that part, the fully developed part of the neighborhood. So, I could understand why you'd want to maybe keep that open for the future. But if that were the case, I'd recommend at least some speed limit signs because it's there's no there's there's a one on the corner. I think it's for 20 mph, but other than that, it's kind of vague or it's not super clear what the speed limit is. And I think that could be part of why people go so fast. They just don't know. They're like, "Oh, 55. Sweet. Let's go." So, that'd be my recommendation. And that should be easy enough to implement. Otherwise, um or in addition to you could you could consider speed bumps, but that would mean a paved road, I suppose, but that would force people to slow down. That's I have. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. >> My name is Josh Fleer. Thank you, council, for listening to us. Um I'm also on the township side. Um our property does butt up right next to Jeff's Nicole. We have uh this I guess 18 acres right there on the corner. Um, and when it comes to like placing the dead end, we don't we really don't care. We've talked to everyone that lives in that area actually goes down, but our easement of our property to get there, so they don't really care anyways. Um, but the biggest concern is we we don't want we don't need a paved road that costs a lot of money on both sides, the township and the city side. We we are aware of that. That's not what we're pushing for. We're pushing for more of the block it off. there, like they're saying, a lot of it is is the cut through. Um, even though the signs are there, but um I think this last winter I I pulled a few cars out of the ditch and Amazon, UPS, the road doesn't get plowed. It's not a priority to plow that road. It is a priority to plow the emergency roads that is needed for fires, ambulances, and stuff like that. it is set off to the side and we we get that. We we live we live with it. We're we're fine with that. But it's more of who's flying down the road. Um we my wife and I we can't send our kids out to the mailbox >> because of the corner. Um that just got graded the probably this morning or I'm guessing this morning. It just got graded and uh dump trucks are going through there now, but I will probably guarantee probably by the end of today there will be some burnout marks on that corner. Um that's how frequent as soon as it is graded, it is used. Um I don't know by who. We live back in the in the trees ways, but there's not just vehicles that it is four-wheelers, it is side by sides, you name it. Um there's a lot of people that come from the development there and they rock pick there and a lot of kids just they love it. But the thing is that it's drawing kids. The last thing we want to see and nothing's ever happened is want don't want to see some kid getting hit on that road. And I know everyone on council there safety is the main thing. That's the biggest thing of all of this is that we are trying to do something for keep everyone safe in that area. And as the development is growing and I believe there's also a new development coming up across the street from there, there's more and more kids that are going to be coming across. So before final decisions are made on the park, we have a window that can be designed into this into this without obstructing all kinds of construction and the use of that park. So that's all I have to say. >> All right. Thank you very much. Is there anybody else that would like to speak at open forum tonight? Can >> I just say one more thing? >> Yeah, come on up. Why not? >> I just learned at the um township meeting last night uh cuz I inquired about the speed limit on that road because I live there and I don't even know what the speed limit is. Um unfortunately, we found out the speed limit uh can only be enforced. It's 55 mph around that half mile curve stretch, which is very scary. >> I knew it was probably faster than I was going to want. I didn't expect 55. And so, uh, first off, as I mentioned, the Backer PD has been wonderful in in my unique incident that happened. But there's going to be no enforcement. You can't enforce driving slower on that road because you can't. And so the only way that we're going to make change um is to do something to change something. And I feel like even speed limit signs unfortunately because that's why I asked that question last night. I had the same thought. Let's put up some speed limit signs. Something in your face. And then after asking that question last night, it was like, okay, I don't want to put up a speed limit sign because it's going to have the opposite effect. And so that's kind of and my understanding from the I believe it was the sheriff that shared this uh last evening is that's a state Minnesota state thing. It's not a Becker thing. It's not, you know, it's it's bigger and that sounds like a very big battle to fight. And you know what, mama bear's out and I am ready to fight that battle if I have to. I just feel like there's a lot of different options that we can maybe address um because that part I don't see changing unfortunately. So I didn't know if you were aware of that. I didn't know that until last night. So, I just wanted to share that information with you as well. >> So, that's all. >> All right. Thank you. >> Anyone else? >> All right. We will move on then to committee reports, presentations, and awards. We got a lot of them tonight. Uh personnel committee is first. >> Personnel, we met on the 8th. Um, we had chief stop by and kind of we just discussed the sergeant position and just how we're going to move on with that and just to kind of explain what was going on with the position of the other officers and stuff once that comes into play. Um, we approved an out ofstate travel for Mark because he's going to his annual conference in Chicago this summer. And then we just kind of discussed, you know, the Minnesota paid leave that we've been we're four months in. We just kind of seeing where we're at and how it's going and and that's about it for that meeting. >> All right. Any questions for Becky on personnel? >> All right. EDA. >> EDA met on May 11th. We talked about um interest in a 5.75 acre city um lot. Um we didn't talk a lot about it, just that there was some interest in it. And we got our monthly market update. 19 homes for sale in our zip code. 17 pending and 12 contingent at that time. And that's up a bit from where we have been. That was it. >> All right. Any questions for Robin? Public works. >> Uh public works. Uh we had uh we met last uh the 13th and we had a discussion on uh crosswalk on Bank Street and we didn't take any action on it. We're going to look into it a little bit more. Uh we had another discussion on Third Street North. It was a request to move the crosswalk from Cobinger Park and we've decided to not move that. Uh that it's in about the best place it can be at this point. Um, and there was a discussion on the uh parking on the street on Second Street. >> Um, what did we do on that? >> Um, there was just a resident that was having because we were having issues with people parking in front of um, mailboxes and a resident has a very narrow driveway and can't get in. And >> I'm not going to mention his name, but legitimate complaint. It's a tight area there. And in fact, the day before I drove down it and there was something was going on with the township or something cuz there was cars all over and he couldn't have got out of his driveway if he wanted to. So >> So we're going to widen that skirt. >> Yeah. So what we talked about was widening his driveway cuz it's real narrow the apron on it. So that cuz you can't block somebody's driveway and that hopefully it'll help the situation because we can't do much with this street at this point in time. >> Sure. Um and recycle day we don't have any information on yet. We'll have that the next after our next meeting. Um we talked about the water treatment uh plant for wells seven and eight just to get discussions going on it. Uh we're having trouble finding water. We they did test the wells at the golf course >> to see if they could be used and I think one was possibly was it >> one was similar to what our current walls have. >> Yeah. >> Higher levels of >> but that creates other issues too. So we don't we don't know what we're going to do there. Uh we got a wellhouse refurbishment. Is that on the agenda tonight? >> I don't think so. That'll be >> ne next meeting and see that's pretty much it. Okay. >> Questions for Mike on public works police management? Me, please. >> Sure. Um, so we met uh last Friday morning 0700 hours. Um, so, uh, we talked, as you can guess, we talked about the sergeant position, uh, posting as well and, um, some details on that. Uh, we also, uh, had an update on our current staffing. Uh, just like we reported last month, um, you know, we have a few folks that are out right now. So, and then with the sergeant position open, um, so we I mean, we are covering all shifts. It's not a, uh, it's not a safety concern there, but, um, it is, uh, tight. And so when folks need time off sometimes, unfortunately, they're not able to get that right now. So that's kind of where um it's kind of where that's at. Um we uh we also talked about just a just kind of a discussion on part-time employees. Um a lot of times, you know, this is where you would in the past, say historically, this is where you would fill in with um with part-time employees. And um you know, 10, 15 years ago, this was when you came out of the academy or whatever. this is how you got your job. You got your job as a part-time employee and then you, you know, you look for a full-time opening on a on a force. Um, now policing has shifted and um the there's uh if you go look and see what there is for full-time openings right now, there's more full-time openings than there are people coming out or people looking for jobs right now. So, um needless to say, if you're coming out of the academy and you go, "Well, I could have a part-time job here. try to have a full-time job over there, you're going to take the full-time job because that's um you know what you're looking for. And so um what our approach before to use part-time to fill in with these um types of situations where if an officer has court, officer wants some time off, things like that. Um you know, we're able to shift around some, but a lot of times we filled in with with parttime and that's really no longer an option. So um so we just had some discussions about that and what that can look like going forward. Um, more to come on that. Um, the uh um let's see, let's skip that one. The um the school or I'm sorry, uh as mentioned with um with staffing being uh down right now, um uh we're not going to bid on the SRO um project this uh uh bid on the school this year. Um that that was coming up, but um that would be if we were to bid on that, we would have to hire another person to take that position as well. So that puts even more stress on it. So that's um not the best time to be doing that right now. Um the uh if you remember a couple months ago we had the purchase for the uh the birectional uh the amplifier um that is uh installed and it is working as we hoped it would. So um we also had uh finally discussion on the uh squad car purchase um that is uh going forward there. But um so we talked about um strategies as far as when you know when to purchase them at least uh because we got bumped last year, we're going to get uh first dibs if you want to say this year. So um they are allowing us to pick uh our build week. So this is um as opposed to in the past you just put in and you kind of got a rough idea. Now we actually have the um we can pick the week that it gets built which of course will then dictate when it uh gets delivered. So, um, so we, uh, had an update on that and that's about it. >> Okay. Questions for Rick on police Excel advisory? Excel? We met uh, same day uh, last Friday, not at 0,700 hours. We uh, met closer to lunch. Um, we uh, um, so uh, we just had pretty much an update from the uh, all the entities that were there. Um, that's about all I got there. >> Okay, any questions on Excel? Uh, Fireboard Rick tonight. >> Um, so Fireboard, we met just last night. Um, 17:30 for anybody keeping track. Um, so we uh, excuse me. So, we went through our uh, went through the bills. We um, were a third of the year. So, any of the ones that use uh use straight line um any of the uh bills there, everything was looking pretty good. We did have a couple questions on a couple things, but um overall the uh the budget is uh holding steady to um to plan. Uh the audit uh is tenatively scheduled. The results of the report of the audit is uh tenatively scheduled. We have a meeting scheduled for uh June 15th is that's our regularly scheduled meeting. um if the audit can be uh done and presented by that time, then we're going to um invite them and we'll have the audit that night. Uh we do statutoily we do have to have the audit um given to us accepted by June 30th. So if the June 15th meeting does not work with our audit team, then we'll have to schedule another uh meeting later in June then and so we can receive that. Um we will also be uh discussing the um the to be the 2027 fire uh budget. Um we'll be discussing it at our June meeting and then we will do a joint meeting in July between the city and the township because the city and the township both own the uh the fire department. So we hold a joint meeting once a year in July to um take care of any other business for the fireboard and accept this budget. So of course that leaves us June to work on this budget. So, um we did uh talk about getting some uh upgraded uh exercise equipment. We had a um it was a treadmill um that had failed um which uh the equipment is used uh by our firefighters and so we are looking um we're going to get a replacement for that. Um we did have a roofing update. Um we uh had a um person come in to look at the roof and we were um we were uh pleasantly surprised uh that we were going to get the work done for about $1,000 in repairs. Um we were we were thinking it's going to be more. So um that was well probably shouldn't say that before we write the check, but that's a um but no it was it was favor favorable. So we are going to get some updates to the roof. um estimate uh was a rough uh replacement around the 2034 era. Um I believe the fire department was built in 2004 if I remember right. So you know we're talking about a rough variety that's over 20 years old. So um you know 2034 would put it at 30 years roughly. So um so that's something that uh among other things next month we'll be talking about with CIP is you know that of course we want to plan for that ahead. We don't want 2034 to just come and go oh we need a roof. So, um, uh, let's see, uh, June, in June, Excel Energy will be doing, uh, um, as you know, they're, uh, installing some batteries out, uh, out on the Shero property, um, which of course if you're the fire department, you have to be trained in how to put out a battery fire. So, um, you know, should one ever occur. So, there is Excel is going to be doing, uh, training in June. Uh thanks to Mayor Cobanger, they are going to be holding that training in the evenings cuz most of our or all of our fire department is volunteer and volunteers typically are at work during the day. So it's not a good thing to be holding training during the day when they're all at work. So um they are going to be holding that uh during the evening and I think we're going to invite some uh um some at least some officers from some other agencies as well. Awesome. Um we will we are going to be uh ordering a um there's a new Lucas machine that's like um compression gives the automated automated uh compressions. Um LPI has made a very generous donation um to cover nearly all of that and we'll um probably have a more formal from the paper um uh thing for that later. Um but uh so uh that was ordered last night um or was asked to be ordered last night. So, um, let's see. We also did, uh, we're going to do, um, the new HVAC project up on the, uh, on the roof mounted HVAC. Um, that came in, the estimates came in a little bit under what we budgeted for. So, we gave approval for that. Uh, the grass rig, which we've been waiting for patiently, is going to be here any day. And we said to send the old one to the auction, and that's what I got. It was a long meeting last night. We were there about an hour and a half. So, >> yes, sir. Any questions for Rick on fire? >> Planning Commission. >> Uh planning commission, we met last night also. Uh we had two public hearings. Uh public hearing for a plan unit development uh Edgewood Village and a public hearing for a plat for Edgewood Village and which will both come to the council I believe the next council meeting. And then we just had an update on the industrial park on this acreage that we got for sale. >> Okay. questions for Mike on planning. And finally, LPI advisory. >> LPI advisory. We met last Thursday, I believe it was. >> Yes. >> Um, we got an update from LPI on their their shutdown for upgrading and this is the last of it. And uh they've having a good year. That's about all I can say on that. It's >> good. Good. >> All right. Let's move on to board committee and consultant reports. Letter A, chief is up with the 2027 squad car purchase. >> Good evening, mayor and council. It's a little abnormal for me to be in front of you in May uh talking about a squad car purchase, but um as you know, last year our order from October got cancelled. That pushed back this year's squad, and we're kind of in a unique position with the change. um that Rick kind of highlighted earlier in his um brief from our police committee meeting is that Ford is changing a little bit of the way that we are able to order a squad car. In the past, we would order in August, anytime between August and October and then just hope and wait and see when it shows up and then go from there. Makes a little more difficult for us to plan for things like upfitting and whatnot when it comes um comes in. So, with the order cancellation, uh Ford has confirmed that what'll happen is our other car kind of goes to the top of this pass list. So, because we got our order cancelled, that one's good. Um, but they don't start building till I think he said August or September, uh, the model year. So, we anticipate we won't still receive our 2026 squad until end of year sometime. um puts us in a unique position as you know because we order one squad every single year and they're spread out mileage wise and and and service life-wise based on that. So uh with the change in the ordering ability to pick your week that you can build this the squad car. We kind of looked at that as maybe an opportunity to kind of change how we order this particular time. And what it would do is um we would be able to starting I think next week. I'm waiting to hear back. Um I don't have the order window hasn't opened from 10:40. It's supposed to open later this week here. So hopefully by Friday I'll I'll know a little bit more detail on that. But essentially what it'll allow us to do is soon as that order window opens pending your approval, we could go to 1040. We could put in our request for the squad car for our 2027 um budget year and request a build date like the last week in December, first week in January. Um, again, don't know exactly how particular it'll be for timing, but according to 1040, it gives us a rough estimate of when that car will be built. And therefore, what it would do is it would allow for us to have the car early in 2027. It'd still be under the 2027 CIP, which has identified the purchase of that squad car already. And then, um, what it would do is we'd have basically two cars starting within a few months of each other. And then to kind of make up for that on the back end, um, in our CIP, instead of identifying a car each year, what would happen is, um, 2030 would be kind of a drop year where we wouldn't purchase a squad car. Uh, we would just transfer those funds to 2031. And so then 2031, we'd have a twocar purchase year and we can carry that as long as we want to do that. So, um, that's kind of how I came to be here, uh, in front of you in May. So, the plan would be by the end of this week, early next week, um once they contact us that the order is ready to be opened, um we would submit the order. Nothing changes. Uh the order form is going to be exactly the same as the last car that we ordered that we're still waiting on. Um he said the only thing that ever changes is occasionally some options here and there. So, um I didn't identify the exact price as I normally would just because it could fluctuate a little bit, but he indicated that they don't usually fluctuate a whole lot. So, what I'd be asking to from you tonight is a motion in a second for me to um sign an agreement with 10404 once that opens here to place a purchase for our 2027 squad car now with a build date um either end of December, early January. Um I'll talk with the 1040 rep and see what he recommends on that in order to get that car in the beginning of the year and then therefore um we wouldn't have any impact budgetarily wise for it. It's already identified in CIP and we would just start the those two cars together and their lifespan would kind of go on as normal. So, any questions? Questions for Chief? >> Not. Does anybody want to make a motion for resolution 2644 for the 2027 squad car purchase? >> I have a question first. Yes, sir. Um, >> this will work with the CIP. >> Mhm. Yeah. So, we're budgeted for 2027 for a squad car purchase. We we pay on arrival. So, that that would be the plan is that it would arrive early sometime in January, hopefully 2027. So, we would just um >> the funds would we'd have the funds available? >> Yep. We already have the funds identified. I think there's 65,000 identified for that car already. Um and we anticipate the price to be pretty similar to our last purchase, right around 45. Um and then the remainder is just any other equipment we need for upfitting at at the upfair. >> Yep. >> Yeah. I'll make that a motion. I'll second. >> Okay, we have a motion by Mike, second by Becky. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, please state I. I. >> Anyone opposed, state no? Motion carries. >> Thanks for your time. >> Thank you. All right, Mr. Evansteiner is up with our first quarter financials from 2026. >> Great. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Um, yeah, just wrapped up the 2025 audit report. Just presented that. um required newspaper articles or the statements were in the paper last week um and we're on the cusp of getting into the 27 budget discussion. So Q1 good good uh snapshot to see where we are um moving along in 2026. So also give give a quick snapshot of the general um special revenue funds and then the enterprise funds. So starting off with the general fund tax revenues at 0% as you're aware um those tax revenues flow to the city after collection by the county. uh we would expect to receive around 35% in June, additional 15% July and then the remaining 50% of those tax collections would come in in November or December. Uh interest revenue uh within a general fund is at 44% of budget. So really reflective of those strong uh interest rate uh environment. And then uh overall revenue is at 4.27% of budget um with the community center now being reported uh within the general fund. um definitely a little stronger um revenue than than in the past. So um currently the charters for services within the community center at 30% of budget and that reflects they've had some really strong memberships and they also opened up uh signups for adventure zone adventure zone registrations uh early. So great to see there. Uh overall general fund expenditures 19% of budget through 25% of the year. Um workers comp that premium is paid uh in the first quarter. So that's kind of allocated throughout the year, but but paid in the first quarter. Um, and most departments are are under that that run. There's a couple of the smaller departments uh with some of the dues that are paid in Q1 that are for the full year that are trending a little bit higher. Um, EDA fund, those revenues are also tied to uh the same constraints with taxes within the the general fund. Uh, interest revenue is really the only revenue in there now. that's at 48% of plan uh of the plan budget, a little over 9,000. Um and expenditures at 20% of budget through 25% of the year. So definitely EDA fund expenditures a little more consistent. Uh we wrapped up that grant uh in 2025. So more of a a similar trend that we were uh previously used to. Golf Course fund um performing well. Revenues are up 2.88% over the same period last year. So really a great start to the year. um user fees uh including memberships uh came in strong uh through Q1. Uh expenditures uh those also include the workers comp premiums. Uh so overall golf fund 16.6% through the first quarter. Um and currently returning uh around 60,000 of income for for quarter 1. So great start uh to the year for golf. Water fund revenues consistent with typical quarter 1 um use and slightly ahead of 2025. Um what you'll see with the other revenues uh we did get a portion of the PAS settlement in March. So that was around 365,000. We expect to receive some additional of that settlement as well. And then we'll set that aside for for future use uh related to some capital needs within the water fund. Um and then within the water fund expenses at 18.5% of total year total year budget. So, uh, performing well, um, there wastewater fund, domestic wastewater fund, uh, typical quarter 1. Um, and sewer tends to be more consistent. So, we're at uh, just a little under 21% through March on the revenue side. And then expenses are at 20% the budget through Q1. Definitely capital heavy. We'll see some additional capital coming in both in water and wastewater. Um, so we'll see some additional expenses there. And then industrial wastewater uh revenues are tracking as expected. Uh revenues at 24% and expenses at 18.5. Otherwise uh discuss the budget and finance um and no action but can answer any questions. Appreciate the time. Anybody have any questions for Mark? >> Nope. >> Great. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Okay. Next up is the consent agenda. Mr. Laroo. >> Mayor Cobinger, city council members, items for review, approval, or adoption on tonight's consent agenda include the revised hiring and termination report authorized the Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 payment of claims is presented. The claims listed listing has been provided to the city council as a separate document and is available upon request for public view at city hall. The total claims are $439,889.18. Approve the minutes of the May 5th city council meeting. Adopt resolution 26-43 accepting the following donations. $300 $350 value grow from safe food training to the police department. $7,500 from the Becker Alliance Club for fireworks for Becker Freedom Days and $721.98 from the Becker Youth Baseball Association for the BAC shed rebuild. And I'll be happy to answer any questions. >> Great. Anybody have any questions? Just a note, the uh baseball building that was a victim of arson and it has been repaired. They did that in house. So, thank you to staff for doing that. Saved a lot of money doing that. And thanks to the youth baseball association, we built it a little bigger so it can serve more people out there and and they kicked in for that. Um, and our usual thanks. I don't know. I feel like 100% of the meetings I've been at and for my year and a half, the Lions are donating something. So, thanks again to the Lions. Keep playing those pull tabs, people. All right. Any other questions on the consent agenda? If not, we would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> I'll make that motion. >> I'll second. >> Motion by Robin, second by Mike. Is there any further discussion? >> Hearing none. All in favor, please state I. >> I. I. >> Anyone opposed? State no. That motion carries. Um just a quick followup. So um when we do have open form, we don't take action formally uh on those except I would recommend we refer this to public works. Do that tonight. >> Um just a couple notes. Um did have a brief conversation already last night with um town board supervisors. Um, we have some experience working with the town board on this. We have some recent experience on shared roadways. Um, which is is a really good experience. And we did have staff today did speak with some township road supervisors already. >> Um, so they they have a jump on this which is really good because you mentioned it. It's it's difficult when it's multiple entities, but um, those conversations are already taking place. So, uh, if council's good with that, we'd refer that to public works and and work on that with some solutions as quick as we can because we agree we we want it to be a safe roadway. >> I concur. >> People good with that consensus. >> Do it. >> All right. So, that gets the ball is rolling and that just helps it roll faster. >> I I do have one question that maybe >> Philip >> there. No, no, no, no, no. Phil's back there. Yeah. Um, if we upgrade the road, the speed limit is still going to be 55. >> That's what I was afraid of. >> Yep. He nodded his head. Yes. So, um, upgrading it. And I know we're not going to discuss it tonight, but I've heard pretty loud and clear from residents. They don't want it tarred. Um, and upgraded because if you do that, you're going to increase the traffic probably 10fold. >> Um, so >> and faster. >> And faster. >> Mhm. Um and recent experience fit road you get even more burnouts and um not talking about people I'm talking about the tires. Okay, just before that gets misqued there. Um so I think that was pretty loud and clear that that's not what people were looking for. So um but I know staff's had some good preliminary discussions. So, I think um the township expressed a willingness to to work together and and quite honestly, they have a lot more people on that road. Not that you're not important, you are. We have one city resident. So, we want to be cognizant of of and being aware that it affects more township residents. So, um I have all the faith in the world that our staff will work quickly with them and come up with some plans. Mhm. >> So hopefully that's >> something that's good to hear. >> All right. Does anybody have anything else to come before council? If >> not, I would entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> Move we adjourn. >> I'll second. >> Motion by Rick, second by Mike. All in favor of adjourning, please state I. >> I. >> Anyone opposed, state no. meetings adjourned and we will just have a couple minute hiatus as we prepare for the executive session coming up. Thanks for coming everybody. >> Thank you. up. Okay. It's the longest two item agenda meeting I think we ever told the public health people I said you better be there by about 520. >> Yeah's like there's not much >> Yeah. There Well, >> I'm pretty loosey on the top. >> Yeah. And typically we don't all in favor of making that. >> Yeah. >> I don't know if we can though. I don't know. >> Well, township would have to go along with it, >> right? >> Yeah. >> Well, that's just been a nightmare back there forever. >> Good easy solution, >> right? Well, it's been a nightmare back there forever before. >> What's that? >> It's been horrible back there forever. >> I' I've been out there. I've witnessed cars going down that road >> and and they go to like >> Oh, god. Yeah. Move it over. Absolutely. I do, but not over here. >> I was just the settings or whatever. >> Holy Christ. >> What was that? >> We got We got a lot of things up here. Presentation 11. >> Don't do that. >> What is he saying? All in. >> Look at this. Is all part of that. >> Turn your monitor on. >> Yeah. >> I had a >> another meeting Monday night at 8:00 >> at night. >> That's is that for the fire? your plan. I guess >> that's ridiculous. >> And our one budget meeting in July is the only night I was going. >> Oh, I can ask them to move it. >> No, I was definitely going to do that. I'm not going to the next planning cuz I am >> so feel like I feel need I guess I got more of these. >> Clean up day was >> it was good. >> I think it went pretty good. I think we had a pretty good turnout, too. Hey Chris, >> look what >> look what I just got while sitting here. >> What was he doing? >> Yep. He's like he had to show me he got his best. >> It looks very nice. >> Very crisp. >> Oh, is this in clouds? >> Yeah. >> Oh, he never told me he got that. >> He didn't. >> I'm getting real irritated with him cuz like >> Oh, that's okay. He just started yesterday. >> Never even told me. He said, "Hey, tell her >> we've had agenda." >> Yeah, >> we've had agendas that were way longer than that and our meeting lasted 15 minutes. >> Let's go to >> All right. We are going to call the executive session meeting to order. Doesn't mean everybody has to leave, but um we'll call that to order at 5:49. And we're starting off tonight with a public health presentation. So, I will turn it over to our friends from Sherman County Public Health. >> Good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Ameilia Bucklers. I'm a Sher County Public Health community health coordinator. >> And I'm Allison Miller, a Sher County Community Health Coordinator. And we are just here today to just talk a little bit about what public health is and what public health isn't. Just to give you a quick o overview of um a way that we can maybe partner in the future. Oh, sure. Yeah. Um a way that we can partner in the future because we really are your public health department um in Sherurn County. So um we hope to form a trusting relationship. Um so let's see. Okay, so public health versus healthcare. Um what we like to say is public health is more like the upstream. Okay. So um if people are if you're looking at a stream and there's people that are in the stream and they're drowning um like a health care or an emergency response is to get these people out of there. But public health response is why did it happen in the first place? So we go up the stream and we see that the bridge is broken. Um, and so it's more like we're focusing on prevention, population health, interventions aimed at community environment, social conditions, um, and health behaviors. So, that's really kind of where we're at with that. So, community health and community partners. So, it's not just us at the the county that is public health. The public health is really the entire community. So, we work with healthcare um providers, nonprofits, cities, um other other uh counties, schools. Um so, we have a lot of community partners and and work working with them is really um what public health is all about. Oops. Did I go one too many? No. Is this right? >> Okay. All right. um to explain a little bit about how public health is structured in Minnesota. Um there is a statutory requirement for um to set establish a community health board and then to follow the public health responsibilities that are listed on there. Um, so community health boards are either built up of multiple counties if they're smaller counties, um, one singular county like it is in Sherburn County, and then an instance of more of our urban areas, um, if they're big enough, they're able to have their own local public health department, um, like city of Minneapolis and city of Bloomington. So, just a reminder that we are your local public health department and we're really just an extension um, as the department of the city of Becker. Um we won't go through all of these but just a quick explanation of the work that we do. Um communical disease and prevention and control is really just preventing monitoring and mitigating um communicical disease in the community. So whether that's working with refugees and immigrants to make sure they have the proper vaccines when they come in and to help make sure we're not spreading any disease. Um tuberculosis control. Um think of all things COVID that kind of stuff. um to making sure that we don't have major outbreaks. Um environmental, it really depends on local public health. We don't personally do that at Sherburn County. We defer to the state, but we do do public health nuisances, which is if in a home or a business, um basically indoor things, if it were to impact people's health, that's where we would step in. So, um, examples of that, we've had cases where, um, people are hoarding multiple cats in their home and it's no longer safe living situations where we'd step in. Um, we've also worked with like drug task force before. Um, if people are selling drugs out of their home, they're cooking things, that's when it becomes unsafe in the home's conditions. Um, maternal child and family health, it we have our family home visitors. They go into homes to support moms and babies up to age five. um our wick team, so women, infant and children. And they provide that supplemental food support and dietitian support, um breastfeeding support, and then the child and teen checkup. So, encouraging families to go to the doctor yearly for those checkups. Um today, we're going to be mostly talking about our chronic disease and injury prevention and that access to um clinical care. Um and our work is really guided by our assessment and looking at the data and um using that to guide the work that we do. Um, one of the data sources that we do use and that what guides our work is our community health needs assessment and then making our community health improvement plan. Um, so we back in 2019 created the central Minnesota alliance which is an alliance of Bettton Sterns and Sherburn County along with Centricare. Um, it was created because we all share St. Cloud as well as we know that Centricare is the primary healthcare provider in the area. Um and with our statutory requirements, local units of government, the local public health is required to do a community health needs assessment every 5 years and um healthcarees are required to do it every 3 years. We said, why are we duplicating all the work? Let's do it together. Um so that partnership was created in 2019. It's really been able to um do more work as a team um and reduce the amount of staffing costs and get those resources out further. And so we are currently in a cycle from 2025 to 2028. Um they take the data from the community. There's voluntary surveys. Um they can take the surveys that people take when they go into the doctor's office and it asks about food security. Um whether they're able to pay their bills, um how much they exercise, things like that. And we're able to look at what are the concerns of the community. Um and from there we have to prioritize them. We want to do it all, but that's not possible. So here are three priorities for 2025 to 2028 that are guiding our work. Um a top one is mental health and substance use. We know that's a concern in our community. Making sure people are talking about it. We have access to resources and then having that prevention um ahead of time to help prevent substance use concerns from happening or mental health concerns. Um and some of that is creating spaces where people feel like they belong and have that connection. Um community stability. Um we can't always fix the economy, right? Um, but we can make sure that people know about the resources that are out there. Um, so having like housing resources available, being able to apply for that food security and stuff like that within your community and be able to make it more accessible to people and then community access, making sure people can access health care even if they are homebound or how we can help with transportation concerns. Uh to give you a little background, the previous reiteration of the community health improvement plan, they did work on broadband, broadband access, and I know we've made great strides on that in the three county area the last couple years. Um so why does this matter to you? Why is this even important to you all if we're doing it here? Um really public health is about more than just somebody saying, "I'm going to eat healthy and I'm going to exercise and I'm going to go to the doctor." only 20% of somebody's health is geared towards the health care that they receive and 50% of it is traced back to your zip code. Um and so it's really important that they have opportunities within the community to making sure it's walkable and bikable with um safe sidewalks, crosswalks, um in the instance of our community forum today, making sure roads are safe for children and having parks available, things like that. um that there's plenty of jobs available, that the cost of living is manageable so people can then pay their bills, and then also contribute to the economy by spending as well. Um making sure our schools are supported so we have high graduation rates and people are ready to go off into their next step, whether that's to a secondary school or to go into the trades and things like that. Next thing we're going to look at, we're just going to look at a few different data points to kind of explain what is happening in the city of Becker and get you a better understanding of your residents. Um, so up here on the screen we have social vulnerability index. Um, this basically looks at poverty rates, unemployment rates, our education levels, how our households are built up, whether we have transportation opportunities, different housing opportunities, um, and things like that. If somebody has a high social vulnerability or that population does, it means that they're less likely to be able to bounce back and be resilient um if there was a emergency if there was external stressors um which then can increase the costs on the community as well. So they're more likely to have um emergency room visit costs um less likely to be working and be able to contribute to the economy. So it can all bring that cost back to the rest of the city and taxpayers. Um you can see by the screen that Sherburn County is doing really really well. We have pretty low vulnerability rates. Um and you will notice that St. Cloud does have that higher um social vulnerability index which is why we have to focus on them a lot to making sure that the resources are there for the community and helping them to get to a lower social vulnerability index. Um quick look at what Becker is at. The average household income in 2024 was $86,094. Um, this is right along with state average. Um, and you'll notice if you look at other um counties and cities around you, as the more you go towards the cities, more urban it is, the higher the household income is. We also know the cost of living is higher there as well. Um, so we're doing good there. Still higher than Benton counties and then lower than Anoka County. And then looking down um highway 10 still in Chron County, Elk River is about 108,000 right now for their average household income. Um and poverty rates are also doing well. We're at about 9.5% which is about consistent with state average. Cost burden households. This means that someone is spending more than 30% of their gross income each month on housing expenses. So, rent or mortgage payments or utilities. Um, you can see for the total for Becker residents, it is 28.6%. Um, Minnesota state average is 28%. You'll notice for those who own their home, it is 22%. And then for our renters in the community, it is 53.9% which is quite high. Um, and could be a concern. Um, once again, we can't always change the economy, but one thing that can lower it is by adding more of rental rental income opportunities, which would then probably drive the price down a little bit. Um, just a quick snapshot of what our um, households are made up of, we do have about 37% have a child in the home under 18 years old. So, it's really great that we have opportunities in the community for the kids to get out there with a community center and other opportunities. Um, and then we do have a high population um with households with one or more people 65 and years and older, 32.9%. >> Backer. >> Yeah. >> Hey, I'm not the only old person. >> And it's also it's your household that also has it in there. So it's not we're saying all of your >> cuz in the 2020 census I think our 65 and over population was >> lower >> wait like under well under 10%. >> Um >> and this is households so it might be still that as well. I can go back and double check though and I'll send a follow-up email. Um but as you have aging populations, it's just important to have um resources available to them to have whether that's assisted living complexes um to have different ways they can get out in the community and different transportation opportunities. >> All right. And then a quick look at our programs that we have that would apply to you all. >> Can I ask one quick question, Jacob? Does Jacob are these is this something we've provided to our housing study people or do they have access to that information? >> I assume a lot of these come from census data American community survey. So yes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Sorry. >> No problem. Okay. So shift this is um a part that I work on a lot in my job at Sherburn County and it is the statewide health improvement partnership and so it supports um PSSE work. So policy, systems and environmental change. Um we work in communities, schools and child care, workplaces and health and health care. Um we really want to make a change in their environment um to make their lives healthier. Um so some things that we've done in specifically in Becker, we had some community partner um awards that were g given out a couple years ago. Um so for example in Becky Becker Early Childhood um under the Minnesota Moves we purchased large mo motor skills equipment for their youngest learners out in um both indoor and outdoor. Um Becker Primary we um helped build a gaga pit and Becker intermediate we created some calming spaces for their tier 2 and three students. So that's kind of some work we've done recently in Becca. So active living some um there's really um four areas of ships. So it's active living um Minnesota moves, Minnesota eats and and um tobaccof free living. Um so some things that active living is safe routes to school. So again, Amelia mentioned um with the forum this this evening um talking about maybe safe routes to parks that we could possibly partner with the townships um on that area that was discussed this evening. Um park planning, traffic safety policies, those kind of things would really um I took a photo of um what the the woman had and I'm going to bring that back and see if we can partner a little bit with that healthy eating. some things that we've done, community gardens, working with farmers markets, um a few years ago when the food shelf was still I think in this building um now it's in the furniture mart. Is that right? That's correct. Okay. Um we worked with them a little bit um a lot during COVID um but um to do some improvements with them. lactations rooms, uh, food RX super shelves um is one thing that is a really popular thing now um in the state to make uh visiting a food shelf more like a grocery store experience. So there's carts, there's aisles, you know, it's not just box bucks of food being given to you. It's, you know, a much better experience. Work site wellness. So many people spend a le at least a third of their day or more at work. Uh so it's really important that people at work feel supported and um feel healthy. Things like standup desks. This photo is Big Brothers and Big Sisters um in St. Cloud for and we um provided some stand-up workstations for them. Um that helps to um bolster employee wellness, morale, commitment, commitment, less days uh missed, lower health care costs. Um and then we do have um a a committee or a a is it called a >> partnership? >> Partnership. Yes. Try wellness at work. So um one of my co-workers helps lead lead this with a woman from Sterns and a woman from Benton and um it is a um it was formed in 2016 but has really grown a lot since then. um 61 or organizations in the tri county area have connected with this um and if anyone is interested in joining if you own a business or the city itself wanted to be part of this um it's a really great um opportunity for your employees >> and the city has worked on it as well. Partner as well as Guardian Angels >> and Becker. >> Yeah. Yes. >> Well, Guardian Angels is Yeah. Yeah. Um one more quick data point and then we'll keep moving on. Um this is our obesity prevailance in the county. Um so this takes data from the Minnesota Electronic Health Records Consortium. So 11 different healthcare organizations, the biggest ones in the state, all work together to report out um the data they get from their healthcare systems. Um of course they take out anyone's personal information, but it helps us get a better understanding of what is going on in our communities and how you can better support them. Um, our obesity prevailance, this is for the whole um, county is 34% prevailance rate for obesity. Um, where the state of Minnesota is at 31.4%. Another thing we work on is child care, making it easier for people to be able to find the child care um, facilities in the area, whether that's in home or centers. And then also making sure that those people that do these centers and um in home daycare that they feel valued and have the supports they need to continue going because we know that there's a need for them and there will continue to be a need for them. Um so we have partnered with our economic development director Brian Filming at the county and he created a child care map. If you haven't seen it before, it's really really fantastic. And so instead of parents having to call 25 different daycarees to see if there's an opening, um people, the childcare providers are able to just submit what openings they do have available. Um and then people can check it right there on the website. So that's a great thing that we have now in Sherburn County. So please share that with everyone. Um but then as well, we are working to better support our child care um businesses and in homegate cares by providing training to them. Were were you involved or aware of any of the new legislation surrounding inh home daycarees that was just passed? I didn't know if that was discussed at all. >> I don't know. >> Supposed to be a lot of it. >> According to Facebook, it was really bad and it was a lot of it. So, I was just curious. >> I'll pass on the word. >> All right. I should mention um I primarily focus on our substance use work and Allison primarily focus on our um foods work but also you contact us and we get you a new one. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Um other part of SHIP is tobaccof free living. Um but we also work on cannabis alcohol and other drugs as well. Um I won't go too much into this. A quick preview. We are also presenting specifically on substance use with our joint boards um the Becker joint what what do you call it? >> Park and wreck >> maybe your partnership with city township schools. >> Oh. Oh the local government roundt. >> Yes. >> Yeah. I forgot about that. >> Yes. Um so in June we'll talk more about that. >> No forgot you were presenting. Thank you for coming to that. you'll see us in June. Um but with that um policy work to making it to reduce the exposure um making youth less likely to use as well as access to secondhand smoke exposure. Um working on compliance checks, making sure our businesses are complying and not selling to minors, providing education to them so they're less likely to sell products they're not supposed to. working at their schools um to better support their students and the issues that they're having with substances and as you may have all know the Shervin County Substance Use Prevention Coalition. You're also likely probably aware that the county updated their tobacco ordinance and that will be going into effect July 1st um of this year. Um it's great if cities do take on that. Um but not everyone is required to of course and a big thing that some cities have been interested in implementing is especially the required education piece um as it's a free program to do. Last thing is we also do public health emergency preparedness at the county. So to prepare, withstand and recover from public health threats. Um, we specifically work on things like if it's a communical disease threat like CO 19, but we also help support when there's other threats out there as well for natural disasters, biological, chemical, nuclear, radiological events. Um, and to making sure that people still have access to their healthcare, they can get access to their meds and things like that. Um, so as you have those plans at the city, that's something we also work on as well. And just know that with public health there's always a return on investment. We have significant cost savings through prevention. Um the return on investment is $5.60 for every $1 spent because it reduces mortality rates, lowers healthcare utilization, and then there's an economic benefit from having a healthier workforce. They're less likely to take days off, more likely to stay employed, and then also give back to their community by spending in it. And then you're able to address health equities and disparities by targeting root causes. Think of it kind of like car maintenance versus car repairs. The more money that you spend in car maintenance, the hopefully less money that you have to spend in car repairs. Same idea for public health. The more money you put into public health and prevention, um, the less money you're going to have to spend in healthcare in the end. So hopefully that gives you a better idea of what we do with public health and maybe some ideas of how we partnered together. Any questions for us? >> One more thing about the food shelf. We're in the process of trying to build a new one in town. So do can you just talk about that little bit of that again? What what you had to offer? >> Yeah. So um we could um I could reach out to them. Is that that's through the city still? >> Nope. It's they have their own board. >> Okay. Um so yeah, we could uh work with them like on a a Super Shelf initiative um to like I said design it in a way that it looks and feels more like a a grocery store. Um yeah, I could reach out to them as soon as tomorrow and kind of So if I could even start during their planning planning meetings, that'd be great. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> All right. Thank you. Any other questions for Alison? >> One of you mentioned uh immigrants and vaccination. >> Is that something you monitor? >> The like vaccination rates of them. Um so they um get all of their referrals from the Minnesota Department of Health. So when people come through then they recognize that we need whatever vaccines or that um they have maybe latent TB or have active TB so tuberculosis and we need to get those medications and so then they stop it and make sure those medications are taken care of. >> They so it's done locally now it's not done like it was back in the 20s. >> Oh we don't do that part? No. Um it's more that part's still happening as well but also making sure They don't support go over vaccinations and stuff at that point in time. >> They do, but then this is another step as well. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. >> You mean the 2020s or the 1920s? >> And then it's also kind of making sure like there you're just making sure you're checking a box. Um once you get here, it's a better to understand the local health care system and getting access to that. >> Island Mike was at Island. I used to do >> I wasn't there during that time >> first job. >> Lordy lordy. >> All right. Any other questions on that note? All right. Well, thank you very much for your time. We appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> All right. Round table. H. >> Did we scratching that one or >> Oh, >> I was going to say, yeah, we got the >> I must have missed the revised one. Sorry. >> Thank you, Rick. >> There it is. >> Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Rick. County or US Highway 10 County Road 11 grant application cost share. >> So, um I met u late last week with Andrew Witt and Bruce Messled at the county. There's a federal grant program, sesi it's called, has to do with consolidated rail infrastructure and safety improvements. And they um were interested in in submitting a joint application uh that would include both their intersection at county road 10 uh excuse me, highway 10 and road 11 and our intersection at highway 10 and highway 25. Um it is a quick turnaround. It's the application due sometime in June. So they had already reached out to Bolton and Mink uh who they worked with to secure funding in Zimmerman and some other places um and and received a proposal back um uh to to do a grant application include us both. The the uh application itself was 30. Then they had anformational handout that was another five and then traffic modeling was another five. Uh Andrew has been out of the office. He'll be back next Tuesday. So, I don't know which part of that or all of it that they were asking to share, but anyway, the city's commit commitment would be 15,000 to $20,000. And so, tonight, I want to bring this to you. If there's interest in doing this, um there are sufficient funds in um future projects or Trump funds uh to do this. Um then, uh the county would likely come back with a cost share agreement at the that would be approved at the June 2nd meeting. Um it isn't likely that this would be funded on the first goound. That's there's $2 billion available um nationwide, but the money um and what whatever is prepared um and this application could be updated for future applications or um even used for other program applications. So um I would recommend that it is something we pursue with them. um they they initially they contacted um the folks at at Federal Rail and and very much was um viewed as a system improvement both together. Um that that would be viewed very favorably on their end. So and with that I'll answer any questions I can. Um >> would it be beneficial to do it? I mean >> would it improve chances of getting it >> together? I believe it would and that's why they approached us as well. the attitude that we probably won't get it this round, that doesn't mean anything. It could happen. >> It could. >> It could. Yes. >> I mean, >> it is a 100% funded >> for the uh Lan Drive out there. So, that was a first shot deal. >> So, was Bolton and Mink would just do the application for the grant? It doesn't affect anything because we have >> no design services, no no nothing. I think the construction window on this was up to starting in the early 30s. So, it's and we are farther along on our project planning than the county is on theirs at their intersection. I think getting the county involved might I think it might help us. I I don't know that, but I'm >> I just got that feeling that working with the county and submitting them both would help. you know, they they partnered Zerman benefited very well by partnering with the county on the county road 4 and 169 project. So, I I agree with you. >> Yeah. Yep. >> Is there anything I'm just reading the, you know, some of the things like the traffic modeling and so forth. Is that already going to be done by our consultant? whatever they will reach out obviously to TKDA who's doing our work and anything that they can share we would ask that they share for this I don't know how it would all piece together >> but they would communicate in >> Oh absolutely yes of >> well and they've done a lot of the preliminary work on our intersection of course >> what type of uh I mean let's say you hit the home run and you do get one of these I I mean, what type of money, you know, we spend $15, $20,000. I mean, what's what's the potential return on it? They >> It's 100% funded. >> Just 100. They Okay. >> Now, you're talking my language. >> Yeah. And I, you know, our intersection, I think, was estimated in the low 50s. I think theirs probably is. So, by the time it's built, it's probably $150 million project between them. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah, when you add in the rail crossing the >> Is there anything, Greg, we would take out of this that could be used in the future? You know, even if we didn't get it, I mean, is there any product, if you will, that we're going to get from the grant application? >> Certainly, the information um could be used for for other applications. Sure. >> The traffic modeling I think would be great. That'd be uh when we talk about I this kind of ties into the bridge the Monella bridge project or potential project and that would I don't mean it might be stale by the time they need it but >> and thank you for bringing that up. I did ask specifically Andrew and Bruce about that. Is this going to impact that project that because it was they didn't want them linked together. Baming did not want them linked together as they're doing the PEL study because then it looked like you were guaranteeing a location they said has nothing to do with that and there's no impact. Would they constructed in such a way that if a fourlane divided road were to be coming in on what we now know today is County Road 11 and hit that approach, would they construct or do we think we do we >> I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. presumably, you know, there the what they've been looking at out here would be two lanes over um highway 10 and going down route 52. So they are looking out to 2050. So to answer your question, probably Yep. There's a lot there's as much traffic over there as there is over here. >> Yeah. Right. Do we have a preference on uh whether it's future improvements or trunk highway fund? I mean, does um >> I'll visit with finance staff and when we come back if if council wants to proceed, we'll come back with a specific recommendation on the second. >> Yeah. I don't think I have a preference either way, but they both make sense. >> It is a future improvement. It's also a highway project. >> Bolton makes done work for us before. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> All right. I'm in favor of >> Okay. >> And fine. >> Thank you. All right. Then the round table. >> Um, pretty good chance I'll be absent at the next meeting. Okay. Take a guess where I'll be. >> Texas. >> Ding ding. So, I >> Okay. >> Pretty good chance I'll be at the next meeting. pretty good chance I'll be here. >> I will be here. >> I don't think I'll be pushing up the yet. >> Michael, with all that TV work you did at Ellis Island there, they might catch up, right? >> There's an outside chance we could have a playoff baseball game that night. So, >> that could affect me. I'd like to think we'll have a game, but >> and then I don't want to be here either. And then what are we going to do? >> I think we have a lot of stuff on that agenda. So if there's going to be less than >> two or Yeah, less than two, we need to know they're going to be here. So >> I would the previous Saturday. >> Okay. >> I mean, that's as soon as I would know. >> Well, it still sounds like we have three. >> Yep. >> Yep. Okay. I'll just take one for the team. >> If Rick and I are if Rick and I are gone, you can fight over who wields the >> to run the meeting because >> I think Robin's the next one up. >> What's the order of succession? We have that somewhere. >> Oh, Robin's the next one up. >> Yeah, we do. >> I'm reluctant to say that because that person may not want to show up. >> Robin, you're the designated survivor that night or whatever that thing is. >> If if if it happens, I'll I'll I'll do that. I can still remember how to do it. >> Back to the 80s night for Mike. >> Yeah, >> we all wear 80s gar. We got the whole town here. >> Oh, when he was the mayor, I remember. >> I know. That's what we should all wear. >> If you come back and your gavvel's broken, you'll know why. >> That's right. Mike lost it. >> They just won't listen. >> All right. Anything else? >> No. >> Recycle day went good. >> Yep. Okay. >> You might be suggesting a time change, though. H really >> to what evening or something or >> two hours? >> Oh, just narrow it down. >> Yeah, >> there's just a big l >> already on the agenda for the public works meeting in June to discuss and make recommendation back to council. >> Well, because there was discussion about possibly doing it in an evening though, wasn't it? Next time the >> let you say that >> household hazardous waste will only go until 5:00 >> and that's critical for our event. So I think it's I think we're locked into a Saturday. >> The recommendation that'll go to public works from staff is >> I think when we did that survey too there wasn't especially during the week it wasn't that wasn't real popular for >> was there was a lot of >> whatever. Yeah. >> 7 o' honestly having covered a lot of these for other townships. Part of it is your operation is so efficient. People get through there. I mean that is a big part of it. They're not waiting in line for hour and >> the big rush. I think we're through it first half hour. >> 8:30. Yeah. Yeah. >> 8:30. >> Lot of mattresses here. pay and scan codes. >> Yeah, >> that was slick. >> It was very >> biggest one I wrote up was $400 and some dollars. >> That was tires. >> I was going to say, was that Frank >> tires? >> Was that where you were at? >> No. >> What? >> No, we put the SDS guys over there, man. >> Okay. Cuz literally every time they came through like poor Rick, >> this ain't my first radio. I know how this works. No, >> I was helping with large appliances for a while. So, we were lifting refrigerators out of >> Oh, yeah. >> Yep. >> In case you didn't know, you know. >> Thought you looked buffer. >> Your arm sore from patting it back there. >> Pull pull the muscle. >> Pull the muscle. >> Pulled some fat. >> Yeah. >> Rick the forklift. Hendrickson. All right. If there's nothing else, >> let's adjourn the meeting at 6:25.