um that is all i have does anybody have any questions i do yeah is this the is this the minimum signage that you or that we could get by with or this is what you're recommending or correct this this would be the minimum assignment that would be needed within the city every entrance point off of the state highway and off of the county roads and then just another question there was some question you previously talked about in option three does say under this option the city can have varying speed limits along different roadways under their jurisdiction main street railroad tracks was one of them that was sort of questionable whether or not we could alter the speech there does this now include us being able to keep things there that's correct good for now osprey to the south there on the south side so i just want to make sure that's clear that everyone on the council that i asked adam about and he said yes there is going to be one there yep um and then there's also what appeared to me to be an extra one in inspiration we have one at each entrance to inspiration but there's that extra one on inspiration parkway south and adam said that's usual which came up on the speed study as well but just wanted to point that out and maybe have you explain whether is that necessary that far that close to the other one that's right at the entrance and that one would be for westbound traffic on the other side of the road so the first one that would be placed there would be for eastbound so as you're entering the neighborhood and that would be for the westbound i believe oh okay so they're speeding right there as they're coming to the edge just west of the main entrance yeah okay that is canada it seems so close to the exit that i would think they'd be slowing down by them but okay maybe push it back a little bit um i also is only that's more when you get into the other when we actually talk about you're gonna show us more of the actual speed study that you did you go ahead um there's that one page where it shows all the different speeds that you tracked on the different streams there were two tracking points on fifth yesterday um correct yep is is changes to the speed limit uh staff does expect there to be some changes to the actual intersection uh traffic um so we we didn't there still is work to be done as far as the potential stop signs at certain intersections so those are still being looked at um but we do expect there to be a change to the traffic patterns the traffic the intersections themselves may have a change based on just the speed change so we're doing it separately as opposed to uh all at one time being various changes so that to customer hanson's questions so we talked about a little bit um i did talk to the engineers about then the the list of intersections um with well mr jorgensen did answer the questions why they were too close all right so we'll circle back to uh pinpointed intersections that may be potential ethan did you have a question i did have a question i know we originally talked that if we go to 25 we don't have to do the signs is that still a thing or do you have to put signs up no matter what speed we go to um you would have to put up the signs for 25 on the residential areas that changes it was we thought that maybe it was 25 you didn't have to put the signs residential neighborhoods so you would still have some 30 mile an hour streets in the city so you would need to sign 25. okay do you happen to have this study with you that you can bring up on your on the laptop um nowhere near what we have in terms of 30 mile an hour signage right this i mean in turn i know i have to study which is a lot the other thing i'm curious about is all of our alleys are actually 10 miles an hour is that just something that everyone should know we don't have to sign all the alleys okay good so yeah i think that for everybody here that 10 miles an hour in allies is a state law just so we don't have to sign for that if we're changing yeah okay thank you i was kind of hoping that we would have the full study to be able to share on screen but i have a few i have a few questions in the principles section which is in section 2 the study and this study was in the summary it says it's a attached report provides the engineering analysis needed so the city of bayport may select a speed limit that they feel is appropriate for their city roadways i was kind of hoping dation instead of just you know here's information but you know it does quote that the city council's desire is to change the speed limit city wide and then they go on to talk about goals and guiding principles were established regarding the speed limits and the first part is in the principles the partner where feasible with neighboring cities to maximize that we should partner if we're going to consider this we should partner with feasible aware feasible with neighboring cities to maximize consistency and new speed limits and i saw that the examples that were cited in the analysis are minneapolis who has a population of 420 000 plus their visitors and commuters st paul with a population of 304 thousand st louis park with a population of 48 000 and a dinah with a population of 51 000. now those are urban or almost urban sites we have very little in common with those except for that we have people who drive and people who walk so then i'm wondering where the information is or what we did to talk to oak park heights stillwater lake elmo lakeland because those are our neighbors sure any any information with those and i i just oh go ahead may i ask my questions so do you have any of that information we do not no but that is something that we can definitely i have some information and i'm almost certain i was going to try and pull it up quick that lake sanctuary beach didn't you didn't sch does the speed study for lake sanchory beach so one and they went to 20 miles an hour one one there's others no still water still water is is looking to move to lowering speed limits within the city as well i know that um and some of them in these larger populations not everybody everything is 20. on uniform traffic devices um they have the state agency they should conduct engineering we've got non-stationary limits on sections of the road undergoing significant changes since last review i don't think we ever had original but um i'm just wondering did you document any changes that were significant to driveways um you know different parking situations uh in the last five 10 20 years did anything significantly change that was one of the factors to look at as far as making a recommendation to lower speed limits and i don't think that we have that other than inspiration okay okay thank you and then um you know we have the speed distribution of free from streets the information file we have the crash data that we evaluated but in that crash data it says that none of the crashes that exist that were um documented on city streets were where speed was a con excessive speed was a contributing factor so we are saying we have the potential for these accidents we've taken five years of data but we don't have anything that's happened that can be added to excessive speeding so just want to on average you know over 30 miles it was 31 miles an hour all their average speeds were less than 30 miles an hour the data points that we collected and supporting documentation so less of your crashes that's really intent of the council is and it seems to be pretty consistent because we've talked about multiple occasions to lower this to um so i'm just wondering has the city staff and police department addressed how that will take place and how with our current understaffed police team are we going to address and i was wondering maybe if chief easement could would want to comment or adam um i'll for the gps of the enforcement but there will be a period of when the change happens educating the public involved including the the stopping the stopping of vehicles but as the both the engineers report the society the calls our police have acknowledged that enforcement that did happen on our streets they did not involve excessive yeah but i think what we have to keep in mind is that what excessive speed has been in the past is anything over 30 miles an hour so to me that is even 30 miles an hour is an excessive speed on those streets so i think that has to be taken with that context you know we haven't already changed the speed limit so people are driving as you saw in the mid 20s to 30s on some of those streets like inspiration parkway and some of the other streets so i just feel like it's an unfair assessment of that because it is excessive still you know there's [Music] well that's kind of another point is that we've gone ahead and paid for a study to tell us something that we wanted to hear that's what it is so foreign i think that's unfair yeah i think it's unfair to me that's that's sort of uncalled for in my opinion um to to say that they there it was a foregone conclusion for them to come to these results is is not fair to seh and that's what you insinuated well i'm still not i'm i'm okay understand so you talked for quite a while that's right when it's a situation vehicle speeds the number shouldn't matter if it's 5 10 15 20 55 the number is the number either you pull somebody over for exceeding the speed limit or you don't pull them over for exceeding the speed limit it shouldn't be enforced to more when it's 20 than it is when it's 30. so that shouldn't be any more strain on our police department in my opinion i and i i do appreciate that she didn't show that we had people driving over 30 on average except for in the inspiration neighborhood so it will it will take an increase at least initially so until people do it the whole point of it is that's too fast you want it lower that's the whole point so yeah the data shows that but that's that's the point and it's in a busier part of town in a you know a wide avenue and something to talk to the chief about the speeds a lot are accessible i've got there is the usb here vehicle um i it's just as clear [Music] um um i think was there if you feel like you didn't do a very thorough report i read several other cities reports that you guys didn't do and this is very much a part of what has been presented to others i feel like you didn't do what we asked you to do because this was is what needs to be done in order to do the changes so it there was nothing maybe all right bottom line my decision making typically is revolved around a little bit more substantial data but that i do understand and i appreciate the effort i appreciate the discussion very much as always so with that adam do you have anything better i was just going to say that some of the process um the council i received a couple questions of i thought the the council already approved the 20 miles an hour um some of the the council was not able to you know formally approve the 20 mile per hour change until the study was done so the back end may when the sdh do the study the next step is to come back and accept the study and then foreign all right well done with that there's two possible motions one is to approve this limit step results and the second would be to potentially is prepared opposed approve the res of the results um do i adam do i agree with this is um no it would be accepting that they prepared a report and we received it miles per hour on it says applicable city streets but i think it's it would be all municipal streets also streets and bayport and other stuff to implement required efforts accordingly thank you michelle is there a second all second thank you john all in favor aye opposed i pose all right that concludes that topic and that the anderson operation to provide access to the clean water and legacy projects this item is what was formerly known as the land water legacy conservation properties that the city purchased a couple years ago and i've pulled up the concept map that's included as part of the easement um just give the public uh kind of a quick status update of where we're at um when the city purchased the property uh there was a timeline that the city had to provide access to the public that access has we but as part of that because the land was essentially landlocked other than some private uh driveway easements through parking areas the the city was interested in getting a better long-term access and so in our discussions with anderson windows the they offered to provide an easement through their what's referred to as the landing strip it's off of central avenue um down by lakeside park uh half of that would be granted to the city um and allow the city to get much easier access it would eliminate some security issues the mixing of public-private um traffic and get us to where we would like to be or potentially in the future put a move the boat launch from fourth avenue the public boat ramp down onto the property as a result of giving up that parking area for the access easement it was discussed and negotiated to provide a future parking expansion if necessary and so that uh that it's not a one for one square footage um it is smaller than what is being uh granted by anderson to the city um but the the easements there are two easements so one is the city granting the future parking expansion up in the top of the map that concept map and then the other is the anderson granting to the city permanent easement for the access lanes and there will be additional parking there vehicle parking we don't anticipate public boat parking on that access strip it's 66 feet wide as we'll go to the next here's just of the two actual easements and as you can see on zoom in a little there's also a temporary uh easement area that that's for construction as part of the future plans if vehicle traffic does need to go onto the property to access the boat ramp the road should be lowered a couple feet um so there'll be a better match the grades from the conservation property and the landing strip um and so this uh that next phase would include kind of lowering that by a little bit and mr prody can if you have any questions about that specifically he can comment on that um but that so that's this does include a temporary construction easement which is that north uh this little box here but the permanent easement will just involve this section so just so i'm clear this estimate that we're doing now isn't just pedestrians can get in there or there's no car access not onto the property you'll be able to have a vehicle and there are there is going to be uh parking right near the access the not oversimplified but the security moves north um to where this uh to the north end of the easement area and the fast line that is working from the conservation property there is a section removed and has been and it's paved it's not the gravel thing that people can park on no it'll be paved it's part of the landing strip so the landing strip is part of the current the easement area is 66 feet wide it allows the parking essentially a parking lane that currently includes parallel or not parallel um we were going to put the design or um the public recollection it's october 17th um so we are up at that at that stage um we were granted an extension uh because of kovid um but that we are at the at the time so we were getting in so they moved the security fence that they moved is the one that used to run right on like central correct going into the park so they'll still have the western half of the landing strip that we'll have the gate gate possibly yeah people in the public can see what we're talking about and maybe you could point yeah specifically so previously there was there were two uh security gates one for the southbound traffic which is on the west and the northbound traffic on the right um on the east that there was this section of fencing was removed and reinstalled to the north where um that where the anderson parking that's not part of the easement will restart um or it's currently there but the all the easement area now will have a security vehicle barriers in between um the two lanes and so we get we get anderson is granting the whole eastern half of the entire landing strip which is comes out to 66 feet wide um so it will include parking right near the entrance to the property um the pedestrian path for the temporary access and um so is it one way two lanes so then how do you no there will be it'll it accommodates two lane traffic it does okay yes with the with the read plus parking in that half of that landing stream okay just i'm can't remember how wide it was that picture with the you know this cartoony kind of drawing doesn't make it look like it's wide enough no and that's not perfectly to scale um we did calculate using some of these uh diagrams uh some of the images uh to calculate for the public um current boat parking that the city releases is about fifteen thousand square feet including the drive spaces um so the total all eleven acres for access to the current dock or the parking that is not part of this okay um they're one thing that's a good question our mayor thank you that's a good question um there is a vacation of the private driveway um the former resident had a private driveway through the parking lot um that will be vacated uh within 90 days um from the approval of the of the eastmans and uh correct yeah if you look on i don't have it um an image here but if you look on the the map there's on the washington county property records you can see the kind of the track there's a curved section it's it's uh it would not be ideal for any type of public use that the city is not giving up any any other type of access to the property at this time it does not involve the fourth public launch access remaining because i was unclear about how all that worked but so we are actually um giving anderson 24 000 square feet of parking on the north end and they're giving us 35 000 square feet of their landing strip kind of give or change i'm getting a little bit correct just so that's clear that we're not getting the short end of the stick out no no they got they feel like they're comfortable with the amount of parking that they're getting on that north end it's based on on the on the agreements that we've we've been negotiating and we currently only have about 13 000 square feet that they're letting us use that and we're not giving that up yet but that's being used right now for the vote correct but we can have a total of thirty five thousand square feet forty five parking for on the on the actual property uh the conservation easement uh permits for up to forty five thousand square feet um vote twenty four thousand two or not no that it's a separate oh okay uh a separate section okay correct that's what the language today you don't know all that yet okay but it sounds like it's going to be playing there were two separate sections in the conservation department um and as actually because because it looks like you could park like 10 cars on the little parking lot they've drawn on there correct it's about it'll be about three times as large as the space that we currently use um and the when we haven't got to that design stage right so that obviously the goal would be to maximize the usage with whatever improvement we do make i just didn't want to end up making a deal now that later could have so i appreciate you sending me all those numbers and clarifying it and going over it with everybody so everybody understands like a few steps behind all this north side of the property that was purchased by the city anderson will have 24 000 square feet um and what is the overall square footage of the entire 407 000 okay that that's helpful because otherwise it sounds like it's you know just parking lot a lot bigger uh you think it is that the 13 000 uh square feet that we're currently leasing from anderson that there's only about seven thousand of it that's actual drive lane that okay that's much more clear thank you um so when vapor grants anderson or if bayport chooses to grant anderson that little triangular slice are we locking in on that's going to be parking and nothing else can happen permits it's for parking expansion anderson's not able to uh do any type of other type of improvement other than it would have to be um you know approved by the city as far as the conservation usage they wouldn't be able to build offense there is that something that we know anderson wants to continue or is that the city's responsibility or is there it would be the city's responsibility uh for um it would still be ours uh as long as they have access to that um so it would be part of the part of the the conversation that would take place where they could actually make that go through planning but the maintenance will be on anderson so they'll have to plow that area the moving of the fence would be on anderson they'd have to move that um if that's what they if they want to put it in a new fence to control access that would be on them and that would only be at a time a future time if they were to start leveraging that correct there's no uh there's no current plan in place to break ground or start that project okay and then you know based on um you know this concept drawing the kind of the cartoonish one it is a nice drawing but um it's it seems like anderson's idea would possibly be to sort of intermingle some of their property with the land and water legacy property right i don't know if that's changed if we've heard anything else from them no no specifics on what type of improvements they um it was they were going to add additional green space uh to the the current parking area um that's something that we've gone back and forth with anderson over all their a lot of previous leverage has been working with them to try to improve um which also if they want to make improvements in that area they that would potentially restrict their parking even more so we were part of the uh right now behind working with them needing better access they haven't uh given us any plans specifically over what type of improvements they would want to make on their property where the current parking is the uh one of the things that part of the conversations was they did view it as a benefit to have the walking trails the access to the conservation property or for their public users um which is something that we you know we we value that for for all of our employees walk to lakeside from anderson right now so this would be a kind of natural connection um is there something that kind of was where i was going with my question that you know i know where anderson is on their um impervious coverage is there something we could or should include right now with this easement saying that you know they're agreeing to because we're giving up green space in vapor to potentially have more impervious [Music] you know narrowing it it's not something that staff is always always encouraging always trying to increase um sir did you have any other suggestions as to that that would be i think that would be the time to really emphasize that you know trying to maximize that john can i just add something yes so if uh anderson mayor members of the council of anderson were to come with a proposal to expand his parking area into the easement that we're talking about now your your ordinances would apply there and trigger the need for some storm water treatment under that scenario so uh council member doll i don't know if that gets partly at your question so and under certain circumstances that application would also need to go to the wmo um so i think you would have that covered in your orders now without adding additional language to the east necessarily we've done the wrong thing but we always seem to sort of give in and and i i understand this project wouldn't be happening without anderson but i just just throwing it out there is if there's something we need if it's not to do to ensure because i know we do it annually have a contract with them to use those 20 spots for trailer parking right now could they next year say and we don't want to give those to you i mean now that they know we have this new land i mean they've never been that kind of partner but i just is there something we need to do to make sure that we don't lose that before we get anything else i i can't predict the future um as you know that's why i want we do have fourth avenue is a city street part of the understanding is that the city doesn't allow parking on with the act with the easement if this is approved um we would also have you know that uh section there it we would if we were to lose that boat trailer parking that we currently lease then we would have to find another uh avenue the i don't think that the easement would really have any impact on on that one way or the other um that it really doesn't change the easement um the part of the easement and the remember understanding we have with anderson is to work towards relocating the um that was it was made clear that was their long-term goal was to you know separate the private and private public uh interaction um i don't the city would have to find another another option for that okay so that sounds clear enough thank you and we have we have documented milestones that we have to hit on this project or and be defaulted with the county which then triggers all kinds of penalties and and reimbursement to the county if we don't hit our dates so we really have to approve this by at least october 17th of some kind of agreement that would be the best associated agreement which is a little different than some of your conditional use permits or any permits that you put conditions on so um that discussion although good to have those thoughts and thinking about that then that would be actually a recommended change to a negotiated agreement then that would have to be reconsidered by the other party so this is a little different than being able to put conditions on a land use regulation so it is helpful all right was there any evaluation i any evaluation at all of a property value i know that we made this agreement in this negotiation [Music] you know was there any value assigned to these that we knew what we were what we had paid for and what we're giving up no uh not not in that not in a dollar since one of the one of the items that we actually came across this um this last year 2020 uh the the parking area that we we uh by lakeside park the larger not the one because we actually use that to anderson um for money uh the city has to pay taxes on it um where the rest of our property we don't pay taxes um so we learned that keeping um anderson already pays you know any property that we would lease from a private business they're already paying taxes on that um but it loses that basically that tax exempt status so we we do want to be careful that we don't start having anderson pay the city for part of this with the two easements kind of offsetting each other trading off um that isn't necessarily triggered the same way um but the similar also similar to the any potential street vacation um we're not able to charge for that uh the property owner uh the underlying fee simple property owner essentially gets their property back so we're not able to charge them to step back in the benefit or any benefit for this if the council recalls a couple of other street vacations that we've dealt with that question was asked can we you know the saudi has obviously has a value to the applicant he's not able to to charge the property owner so did that answer my question of was the value of the 24 000 plus the 13 000 that we're going to end up it looks like the city will end up forfeiting um access to if it's does that equate the value that we're gathered gaining from the 35 a monetary value is not um how would you do that how would you monetarily decide how much it's well the same way that other properties are assessed i would imagine but i this appraisal which i don't i don't have that information go ahead matt are you asking whether so with this easement anderson still owns that property where we have these maneuvers so they still have to pay taxes on that so there's no real loss okay there so they own that and we own the city owns that section of the park yes industrial rates um and this agreement is for how long this is a permanent perpetual okay sell uh the proportion that we have to grant eastman as opposed to selling it is because we're not able to divest any of the any portion of the property we're not able to sell any of it but we can grant an easement um the and what would happen if anderson and let's hope this never happens but what happened would happen if anderson were to sell this easement would run with the land so regardless of who the property owner is they could sell it tomorrow or the day after this is approved to another party and this event would continue with it thank you what do you say the same okay am i missing asking any pertinent questions you're asking very good questions but am i missing any because this is well i don't know what your goal is my goal is to protect this the people that put this together were thinking about energy too so asking if there's anything that we haven't discussed i think that the important thing is to remember that um so they run with the land um is you have the use of the other property the public republic so it's not so that notice the difference is that their use is exclusive so that's what the word this is of this phase the next phase that we discussed uh regarding our uh some of the workshops that we need to have now um is that next phase to decide what uh how do we want to do this we are just questions that need to be asked um this is limited somewhat to the concept we don't have to put the boat parking in if we don't put the removable launch then we can have vehicle parking there um but we're authorized to put in 45 000 square feet of parking um and we're able to move the boat um we walking trails have arrested the shelter picking each other but we're limited under the conservation as to what the potential use can be it has to be a conservation purpose that that was the whole purpose of this was so so maybe it's been a long time since we discussed this but along those lines um was talked about early on that it's sort of going to be a passive use park i mean we're it's not going to get a ball field or a stop field or a tennis court naturally maybe stop i'm getting it done on time thank you sarah all right well is there um there is is there a motion or any kind of action that we need to take with this adam now that we moved it down um it would be to approve the uh the easements with anderson uh windows um subject no as normal subject to any minor changes with you know within the it's something like to make that motion i'll make a motion that we uh the execution of the easement with anderson corporation to provide public access and parking for the clean water land and legacy project site thank you michelle is there a second i'll second it thank you connie um please go ahead then um councilmember hanson aye councilmember carlson aye councilmember gilmore aye councilmember doll aye mayor sandors aye as well all right thank you very much and thanks for answering um on um to [Music] right right now i think did we already have one plan no yeah we thought within a month we were gonna speak to the city attorney discuss the actual legal formation of the board of the foundation um and then we didn't want to we want to make sure that there was enough time to do that so once that happens then we were that was the next the next meeting would be scheduled okay did our community representative attend the meeting yeah so it was myself adam um two inspiration residents and heath heitkamp i'm not exactly sure how you say his name and rob mcmanus and it's a good group everybody was excited to get this going foreign that's why you didn't find them with aliens [Laughter] uh we have not met since the last time so i have nothing new to report okay great yeah on the show the planning commission hasn't met since we last talked either but i did go to a couple things that i just wanted to share some notes on just i did go to that toast and topics event that um so what the community development director for stillwater spoke his name they have a new one his name is tim gladhill we just started a couple months ago and in that time they have already just like the week before that i went there on september 14th to hear him speak and they just established an eda so we had been talking about doing that community development role is going to be slightly different for him going forward he's kind of trying to focus more on um kind of branding and marketing the town and maybe they might even start they might start buying selling property as a developer and the city itself so just kind of a different role looking at public financing for businesses etc and he's really doing a huge outreach right now to the stillwater businesses which is something i would like us to do and we've talked about like maybe having a liaison or something where we have a new committee or something we started talking about so they actually had um he's been doing some interviews already his name he's pretty new but he had um smith and mercantile through a business downtown so he had them actually sit there up at a table with him and he kind of acted like he was doing his little interview like he's going to businesses in the city of new business and it was interesting to hear them say you know that um communication isn't that great like they wish the city would talk to the businesses more you know i'm thinking we can learn from this so that's why i'm telling you all this stuff i'd like to see a jumper and that she likes that the business owners interact with other business owners she suggested a quarterly quarterly newsletter that the city puts out just to businesses i don't know if our city is big enough for something like that but i thought that was an interesting tidbit and then i guess there's some great resources on the stillwater city website for businesses and maybe we could look into what they have and if there's something we could do that would help ours so just some interesting things i took away and then just separate from what we might learn they actually well maybe this could be helpful they implemented a financial citation for city ordinance violations you know we've been talking about how do we deal with the fact that you know we have all these you know properties that aren't doing what we want them to do et cetera so um and they're actually looking into electric vehicle charging stations too so i thought that was kind of interesting so that was one meeting a little bit longer than this all over the shore i wanted to listen to i don't know if you guys see angie is the like a water expert and so she i don't know what her title is i should know this but anyway she spoke at fields of arbor glenn and i went to listen to what she had to say just because i'm curious about that and we obviously had some you know overuse of water this past summer and we've had some water issues so she said that woodberry their water use hasn't increased despite all that growth that they've had in their area so i feel like there's something we could learn from woodbury based on um saint croix river is quote an impaired river because of all the phosphorus in it she talked about that um i know we do the adopt a drain program that you can go online and you can adopt a drain and clear it out but they also have adopt a rain garden rain garden program and i'm not sure i wasn't aware of that before i heard her speak so that's something we could maybe look into um and then i talked to matt and adam about some other things that probably aren't gonna fit for us like retrofitting you know irrigation ponds and things um what is it oh there's a ribbon cutting for the washington county the new historical did you guys all get invited to that too i just thought i should say i'm going just in case anyone else is going to be there because you have to know right three boys are there or whatever a member of the chamber board so my attendance on different things would be assumed but i'm not sure otherwise okay so it's the washington county heritage center ribbon cutting on october 15th and they they invited us specifically to have a bayport version of it so i was hoping that wasn't just going to be me there right i mean were you under did you did anyone read that email or were we understanding what that meant that they were just hoping to have somebody because it was the next year 2022 is the 100-year anniversary of the naming of bayport um that they were hoping to have somebody there at the grand opening okay driven cutting okay gotcha so if i'm there that might be enough i don't yeah i don't think they were having a special okay you made it presentation different that was my understanding i'd have to go back and look at it again okay my long-winded so you're going update i am it's on my calendar unless something else comes up okay um i know that we're continuing to try to schedule the multi-city fire meeting that has not yet been slated a lot of work a lot of coordination and definitely executed activities thanks to everyone on the bcaa reports thank you madam air and callers uh december called the 69 70 and 20 are your date uh 97 compared to 693 this month i'm sorry anderson elementary listening to the trade-off you're sorry yeah work and investigation on different options on the number truck and budget and reducing that initial them easton is um um some signs try to get them done um is happy belated birthday yeah well thanks my daughters this is my daughter's birthday weekend for derby days so it was a party about her party for you thank you i appreciate all the the community outreach that you do and that you're sharing it with the community on facebook too all the things that you guys do i think that's great and thank you and the officers for being there at derby days it was it was fun to have them there i hope they enjoyed themselves oh my gosh the peppery it was we had like thirty three pets on display at the pep parade it was a big pitch all right back to you adam public director klein uh madam mayor members of the council as i'm sure a lot of you are aware of that windstorm that came in through uh september 17th so that's kept public works very busy i just like to thank the department and a lot of the individual homeowners who had chainsaws out to helping clear some of the city streets we are working through some of the um um when is is foreign we have been brought to our attention that uh the landucci um project which has been going very nicely the building um and then uh progress on their on their uh development but also there had been just a discrepancy in the number of trees in the height of the trees that had in some instances with what we had agreed the processes um now that it's fallen those other additional trees that uh needed to be added as compensation for having different methods on the day of the storm so it was you got it all done so thank you so much and back to you adam and sarah assistant administrator taylor at a mayor and council a special election will be held on november 2nd to vote on our area's referendum um we had a presentation last month on that from a representative of the school district early absentee voting began on summer 17th and can be done by mail or in person at the washington county government center in stillwater the city will prepare for staff and conduct the election on behalf of the school district again that will be on november 2nd but we will be reimbursed for all the related expenses for the election and just a reminder that all residents vote fire station on fifth avenue north a vacant seat still exists on the planning commission it is posted on the city's website residents interested can email me a letter of interest and we are accepting those until a position has been filled the minnesota land trust completed their annual monitoring inspection of the conservation easement the open space and prairie in inspiration on september 17th a formal letter will be from will be sent from the land trust summarizing the observations um that will be sent to the city which and then will be turn in turn be sent by the city to individual property owners and the homeowners in association with encroachment violations such as mowing into the prairie there is some composting going on some minor footpath trails those types of things so the city will work within the homeowners and the homeowners association to correct those violations that'll be done this fall yet and then finally the allen s kink allen s king plant advisory panel met on september 15th and that meeting focused on environmental regulations and considerations that will pertain to the property when oak park heights is contemplating rezoning or redevelopment of the king plant site presentations were given by excel energy on the history of the overall site the national park service on the wild and scenic river designation that will apply the dnr on fishery habitat and how the discharge of the water at the plant right now may affect that fishery habitat in the future as well as washington county on economic development and conservation opportunities for future use of the site i stand for questions any questions for sarah all right thank you very much thank you madam mayor members of the council for my report tonight a lot of it's already been talked about uh one of the items uh that has again to reiterate is the 2020 budget and it did include a 6.6 levy percent or sorry 6.6 levy increase and a 20 budget increase but um if anybody hadn't seen the explanation already that was mostly due to the change in kind of a change in accounting some of our our auditors had recommended to staff to change some of the way that we had calculated or reflected items in our budget um so the actual dollar increase for the median home in bayport was only 12 it's it wasn't a 20 expenditure increase it was just a reflection of expansion being incurred by the city um but they are now reflected in the budget uh so going forward it'll be less shocking sticker shock um but i just want to make sure to reiterate uh due to the increase in value property values and the the expansion the increase of the number of homes in paperwork due to the new construction we were able to accomplish the budget even with the the 6.6 levy increase with a very minimal tax dollar increase um the the number or the median increase for the proposed school levy was uh 29 i believe or 28 and then the uh the washington counties uh was about a four dollar increase over 2020 but again that came out to the upper 20s so bayport is well under the other taxing jurisdictions um our tax rate did go down uh by two and a half percent um so if there's any question items uh this year that was new was the format of the budget materials um and there were a couple items that needed to be corrected since the meeting that [Music] we would staff had to make but if it will be available is available on the website so if anybody wants to take a look at that again the truth of taxation hearing uh that's the public's opportunity to come and uh speak to the council about the final budget number uh that will be at the regular december sixth meeting this year at six o'clock uh the other item that i've been working on that hasn't been addressed uh tonight was labor negotiations are ongoing uh with one agreement reported agreement with the police officer union and i have a public works union meeting tomorrow morning at 8 00 am and we hope to have all three uh done by the november meeting for the council to consider um so with that i stand for questions thank you and thank you for that summary of the budget i think it's um and that was nice and clear on on the impact overall impact i think would input some money away for uh saving to replenish some of the funds that um michelle thank you you