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Oak Park Heights City Council Meeting - February 11, 2025 at 6pm.

Oak Park Heights City CouncilWednesday, February 12, 2025
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kight city council meeting for Tuesday February 11th to order first is the of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for [Music] all next is the approval of the agenda are there any changes or additions I move approval as presented second motion by council member Johnson second by council member lren all in favor hi hi hi um next we have a summary from our last meeting of January 28th we had a closed session and Kevin can you give the update on that yes than thank you Madame mayor and members of the council as was noted at the end of the last council meeting we went into closed session for the uh annual performance review of city administrator Jacob r that was a closed session held pursuant to statute 13 d05 um and as we typically do uh recapping that here at the beginning of the this meeting as we said we would do at the last meeting uh members of the public will recall that back in early January uh or sorry early December we um discussed uh engaging in a what so-called 360 degree review of council me or uh City administrator re um and so we did gather input uh summarized that input from both the council members and department heads at the start of the close session it was essentially just me and the city council reviewing the summary of all that data and then after the council had reviewed the performance review data we brought in uh City administrator R to participate in the review as well uh and in short uh essentially a very positive glowing review for administrative RI uh nice job well done for 2024 and uh uh kudos to him for his uh first annual review thank you and thank you Jacob next is Council staff reports um I just had quite a few Zoom meetings and calls over the last couple of weeks and couple meetings coming up but some I can make and some I've asked for backup on um next is council member Johnson I have the Middle St Croy uh wmo meeting on Thursday otherwise I have nothing else to report thank you council member Lil jren uh I have the uh fire advisory meeting um next week um question Jacob do we have a finalized agenda for that she's supposed to send it out well she supposed to send it I knew we had one that was preliminary but I saw the preliminary one just because of being co-chair but um perfect yeah supposedly it's it's on its way but I I'll check okay sounds great thank you mayor uh council member run I am nothing CVB is not meeting this month and neither is cable TV well thank you next is City administrator R uh mayor council good evening uh just uh heads up here and for the Public's benefit too we are planning to potentially again this is just tenative our next meeting on February 25th um to cancel that so we'll wait till it gets closer to the meeting um but it looks like we we won't have um significant items to bring uh forward so I just want to give you a heads up thank you uh police chief Hansen good evening mayor and Council a couple of things we're excited to announce our social worker our embedded social worker program has started uh she's effectively yesterday was her first day on um this is a coordinated Venture with Washington County uh so she's doing a lot of onboarding still so right now she's kind of half in half out at our city um still catching up on everything and then uh be fully implemented probably by the beginning of next month um with Sergeant's walk and then just another awesome acknowledgement here we've had a long-term employee Sandy Cruz front us she just hit 38 years as of yesterday with the city of O Park Heights that might be our longest serving employee I think I might be wrong on that but so it's pretty awesome and then um our new Squad patrol truck that is at the dealership I was just informed so we're hoping to take delivery of that in the next couple of days or early next week and then we'll get it upfitted with all the equipment uh so probably a couple weeks maybe three till it's on the road that's it thank you very much uh next is assistant City uh administrator Pinsky mayor council one item for you this evening Doug mson at 1 1515 65th Street North was chosen as the most recent recycling Award winner thank you next is visitor public comment section this is an opportunity for anyone in the audience to address the Council on any issue seeing none we'll move on to consent agenda approv bills and Investments check 71443 to 7149 98 for a total of 296,000 $6 5860 approve city council work session notes from January 28 2025 approve city council minutes from January 28th 2025 approve city council or approve resolution granting the application of white tals unlimited metro area to conduct a one-day raffle at the St Cy Event Center on April 10th 2025 approve resolution granting the application of a Stillwater area fast pitch Association to conduct a one-day raffle at Stillwater area high school on May 10th 2025 award the winner 2025 ashtree removals and stump grinding project to Willow River Company approved 2025 joint Powers agreement fuel contract with Washington County Sheriff's Office approv replacement of check valves at Sunnyside lift station and approved tradein of 2012 Ford F550 and purchase of 2025 Ford F550 and approve True Green Lawn Care proposal for we prevention at city parks I Jacob oh make a motion yes okay to approve the consent to agenda is presented is there a second second motion by council member rank second by council member lren Jacob council member Johnson yes council member ljen yes council member run yes Mary MCC yes and we have no public hearings for tonight um under old business we have approve a Construction Services agreement with stantech Consulting Services Incorporated for Construction Services associated with wall number three and pump house project in an amount not to exceed $160,000 Jacob y mayor council uh good evening this is the uh Next Step here in our well 3 project uh as you're all familiar with the well 3 project uh we're getting ready to get underway uh the well drilling is anticipated to start uh late May early June uh with that we need specialized assistance from an inspection standpoint contract review surveys uh miscellaneous construction oversight um so we have a contract before you here with stantech uh the amount is a not to exceed amount at uh 160,000 uh this project too I should note uh the duration of the project is pretty significant we have the well port portion of it and then we have the pump house portion so we'll be starting hopefully this spring uh but construction is going to go through till summer of 26 so pretty substantial project that we have here so I am uh available for any questions we also have as you know city engineer man here if there's any questions from the council are there any questions for Jacob ble is there a motion to approve so moved second motion by council member lren second by council member run all in favor I I I any opposed okay then we have no new business are there any Council items or announcements is there a motion to adjourn so moved second motion by council member lren second by council member Johnson all in favor I I 609 well thanks have a good night no that wasn't