Good evening everyone. Uh we're going to start the uh meeting [clears throat] at 602. This is the uh Columbus City Council regular meeting. And the first thing on the agenda is uh pledge of allegiance. If everybody stand. [clears throat and cough] I pledge algiance 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. [clears throat] Item three is the adoption of the agenda for tonight. Anybody want to make that motion? This is Scott. I move to approve the April 9th, 2025 city council agenda. Nope. [clears throat] The agenda updated agenda. The just approving the council agenda, not the consent agenda. And we'll go that next. Okay. Under a We have a second. This is Jenny. I'll second. Okay. We got a motion on the floor. It's been seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. We'll call for a vote. Rob I. Janet I. Scott I. Jenny I. And Ron I. We'll go to item B is consent agenda. I just like to state that items two and three will be off the agenda tonight because of technical issues. There's only one on the consent consent agenda is number one, approval of bill payments. Uh I'll make a motion. I move to approve the consent agenda as presented and the supplemental bill list which is distributed to the council prior to the April 9th 2025 meeting with the removal of two and three. What? With the removal of item two and three. With the removal of items two and three. It's Janet. I second. We got a motion on the floor and seconded. Any other discussions, questions? Question [snorts] uh on the spelling of supplemental. Is that correct? Two use. I'm sorry. What? The spelling of supplemental under three. That is not correct. We need to we need to correct that. Somebody was dyslexic there. Yeah. [laughter] Oh, yeah. So, do we need to make an amendment to No, it's just noted grand. All right. Noted. Then I'll second if it hasn't been. [clears throat] You're pretty good. Okay. Thank you. So, fixated on that. I know [laughter] it was a little like any other discussion, any other misspellings, [clears throat] all right, we'll uh take a vote. Jennifer, Jenny I, Scott I, Janet I, Rob I, and Ron I. Item C, presentations and items for the council action. We're first going to open up a public forum. Is there anybody out in the audience that'd like to make a comment? Nobody in the audience. Anybody on Zoom tonight would like to make a statement or ask a question or something? Being no hands, we'll close the public forum. Go on to item number two on TV, [clears throat] and that's Lake and Crossway Drive Light approval, pages three dash through nine. Jack, thank you, Mr. Mayor. City Council reviewed a request concerning the installation of a street light at the intersection of Lake Drive. Recording in progress, Lake Drive at February at the February 24th 4th, 2025 workshop meeting. As a result of that discussion, staff was directed to include this item for consideration on the February 12th, 2025 city council agenda. At that meeting, council directed staff to submit an application to Kexus for the design and installation cost of a street light at this intersection. The city received the installation quotes and agreements from Kexus for this project on March 31st, 2025. The outdoor lighting construction cost of $1,41 and the outdoor lighting energy and maintenance agreement for this location are exhibited attachment one in your packet. The estimated cost for this project was $1,500. The project location is exhibited in attachment two. Installing a street light at this intersection would greatly improve visibility and reduce the number of accidents that have occurred at this site. If this is pro proposals approved by city council, adjoining property owners will be contacted to explain the improvement and any impacts of the lighting created this location would be addressed. Staff is requesting that council consider the approval of the outdoor lighting construction cost of $1,41 and the outdoor lighting and interview maintenance agreement for this project is presented in attachment two. We've talked about this before. Anybody have any questions or we just make a motion? I'll make the motion. So, I move to approve the outdoor lighting construction cost of $1,41 and the outdoor lighting energy and maintenance agreement with Kexus for the Lake and Crossways Drive uh street light project. Rob, I'll second. Got a motion on the floor for and seconded. Any other discussion on this questions? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Rob, Rob, I, Janet, I, Scott, I, Jenny, I, and Ron I. Item number three is a fund transfer, fund 150 to fund 403, pages 10 and 11. The accounting department is requesting to transfer funds from Park Services Lawn Care to Park Equipment Capital Fund. This transfer is due to the contract with RBS not being renewed for the 2025 fiscal year. This change occurred after the 2025 budget was set and new bids for park lawn contracting services exceeded the budget and were not approved. The public works department will be maintaining city parks and the equipment necessary to do so. The first request allows a transfer of $16,628.94 from fund 150 to fund 403. The second request is to process the invoice from Olsson Power and Equipment in the amount of 16,628.94 along with the normal accounts of payable on the Thursday, April 10th check run. A copy of the invoice from Olsson Power Equipment is attached for your review. Item number three. I'll make the first motion. I move to approve the transfer of $16,628.94 from fund [clears throat] 150 parks to fund 403. Do I have to put all those numbers in there? No. Thank you. Parks Capital. This is Janet. I second. We got a motion on the floor and we got it seconded. Any questions? [clears throat] Any comments? Hearing none. Jenny Jenny I. Scott I. Janet I. And Rob I. And Ron I. Motion number two. So I move to approve the payment of the Olsen Power and Equipment Invoice in the amount of $16,628.94 cents for the purchase of a Ferris 1 SX 3300 mower with the normal accounts payable on Thursday, April 10th, 2025. Rob, I'll second. We got a motion. It's been seconded. Any comments, questions? Hearing none. Jenny. Jenny, I. Scott, I. Janet I, Rob, and Ron I. We'll go to item number D, [clears throat] engineers report. Brian, evening, mayor and councel. The one item I just was going to report is I received an invitation uh to a meeting at Anoka County to discuss the Lake Boulevard River roundabout project. That is a federally aed project. I've shared that with city staff. So, we'll arrange uh for who should attend that meeting that they'll be scheduling. It isn't scheduled yet. They're trying to find dates on the calendar, but um just received it today. So, we'll be working on that. Other than that, I didn't have anything else to report. Can I ask Can I ask a related question? um related to the uh presentation that we had by Anuka County here a month or so ago. Has there been any followup on the other two road projects um that they were talking about, the Lexington and the um PTOIC? [clears throat] I I know that I know there's kind of two things I have in mind. one was I believe one of them was being funded maybe both of them were by federal dollars and the certainty of whether those were still going to come through was sort of not known at the time. I was just wondering if there was any more um information on that. And then the second was that we talked about our concern on the cost of the trails on the Lexington project and I wondered whether or not there's an opportunity to have another dialogue with Anoka County on that before it gets too far down the road. Actually, we had a meeting today with Karen Blaska and Jeff Perryi with the Enoka County Parks Department. [clears throat] Uh Jim, Aaron, and Eleanor and I met with them this afternoon, and they came to see if we were going to participate in the trail project on a cost share basis, and we told them no, that money was not in their budget. And the only thing that we could afford going forward were our obligations in these other road projects that were mandatory for us to participate in. And uh [clears throat] they were fine with that, but we told them no, we would not be participating in the trail project. They proposed a realignment of the trail now from the west side to the east side of the road. That would put all of it in Columbus from 185th Avenue to Broadway. That's the section that they're going to do first. Uh so they informed us of that. We had a brief discussion and they wanted to know if maybe we might be able to participate some in maintenance if it involved just some mowing occasionally. We said we would be open to discuss that. We did not commit anything. We did say that uh if there was a JPA agreement in it, we wanted that to come from the county and the county administer it. So they were open to that. So, we have declined the trail cost for the Lexington improvement and we'd also declined the trail cost for that on the uh PTOAC improvement, but we haven't had any further discussion as to what the schedule is. I think the PTOAC one is probably the one that's farthest out. So, we can reach out to them and kind of get a brief or an update to council at the next meeting. Great. Thank you. Anything else? Hearing none. City Attorney Bill. Uh yes. Uh Mr. Mayor and Council members, uh tomorrow is a uh hearing in the House bonding committee. Uh your mayor and your deputy mayor will attend along with our staff uh provide brief testimony in support of the request for Hornsby. So that is moving forward. Glad to see that. Um, you know, it would be nice to have, but not it's not necessary to have a a hearing uh in the Senate side. As long as we have one hearing, our ores in the water and uh that means we're on one side of the bonding bill and then we actually did have one on the Senate side, but it was in remembered it wasformational. Yeah, it was it was in the wrong committee. It was in the transportation committee. Well, I think they were trying to cover their bases. They were going to do it in both of them if they had to. That's right. We Thanks for that reminder. It was anformational meeting in transportation. So we I guess technically we've been heard uh we will be heard in both bodies by uh tomorrow at this time. So that's good news. Uh with regard to the fiscal disparities amendment, I believe that's going to be deferred by our authors for another session. Uh just as we get into this session and you know all of the power sharing arrangements and so forth, uh there wasn't a strong feeling that that would uh make it through this session. So again, you know, we got bills introduced. Uh there were some conversations with the county. Um so you know in some sense the leadership knows that we're not going away. Uh but we also defer to our authors on when it's best to to move those bills forward. So good news that uh that we are being heard tomorrow and we'll be well represented uh by your mayor and deputy mayor. [snorts] That it bill. That's all I have. Well thank you. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Next one's personnel committee report. I think there's a question. Yep. Thanks, Mr. Mayor. Uh through the mayor to bill, uh is that in regards to the 1.3 bonding bill? The bonding amount is uh $762,000. Oh, you mean the the bonding bill as a whole? Would it come out of that that was proposed just last week? Correct. And who knows where that ends up in negotiations, but that's right, council member. Will be part of that bonding request. Okay. I heard you on I heard you on So, you did hear it. Yeah. No, I just wanted to share that I spoke in favor of it uh for a press conference last week, but I was going to do it during my council report since you're touching on it. So, hoping to push it forward and then um yeah, I'll save the rest for later. Sounds good. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you, Bill. Uh item number four, personnel committee report. Mayor and council report. Oh, I forgot that one. Yeah, we'll go to the council. How did I miss that one? Too many notes. I'm uh Jenny, you have anything? Um my only note was that I had a resident reach out because um our neighboring city, Loakes, noted that Highway 23 Lake Drive is going to be shut down uh before um before it meets 242, which would basically stop any traffic coming from Columbus. Um they did respond and note that that was going to be pushed out a few weeks and they would have more information because there was really nothing posted, but all of a sudden there were signs up noting that Lake Drive was going to be closed. Um so just an update that the city of Lo Lakes did update that that was being pushed out and they would follow up with more information. Jennifer, was that just the section of um Lake Drive that is in Lo? It that's the only part that was going to be closed because I wondered the same thing. I saw the lightup sign and wondered like what the heck. Yeah. The so the city their city um page didn't share any information. It was supposed to only be that small [clears throat] section, but they didn't have much planning and thought that went into that it sounded like. Um and so obviously it's a major concern for our residents as we try to get to 35W. Um but again, so I will send out an email if I see any additional information from Lakes on that. Mr. Mayor, I do have information from their city engineer which is an actual press release. They don't have a date when they're going to close it yet. So, I'm still waiting to hear from them to confirm when they're going to close it because I don't want to send out their press release before they send it out because that wouldn't be very neighborly of us to send their information. So, yeah, the timing is is uh where we're waiting on that one. So, but I do have it and ready to go on our social platforms. Perfect. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you. Thanks, Aaron. Yep. Is that all, Jenny? That is all. [clears throat] Scott, nothing for me today. I have a few things. Um first is that on uh April 3rd we had a Sunrise River WO meeting. Um just a couple things to follow up with. All the cities approved the budget um that was proposed. We saw it too. So that was unanimously approved. So that is going to be going in place in for 2026. The proposed amendment to the JPA failed. Um Ham Lake said no and it only takes one to say no to make it fail. So that that did not go through. Um all that meant is that the section the the part of the budget that talked about putting money aside for this for this um update to the watershed plan um would be allocated according to the formula that all the other non-operating expenses are rather than split equally by four. So um the amount that was approved for the total budget doesn't change. Um we also had a public hearing on a proposed watershed plan amendment. This is a plan an amendment that um included a Lynwood Lake tributary study which is um was done and we would be including that in the in the watershed plan as a um guidance document. And what that allows us to do then is to apply for grants to um uh further manage any sort of water quality issues in that lake using that as as documentation. So that process had to be done through approval um by Bowser and then having a public hearing and then having the the board um adopt the amendment which we did at that meeting. Um the third thing is that there was um last year there was a boundary adjustment between the Creek wershed district and Sunrise um along one side of excuse [clears throat] me of Lake and all of the changes to the maps were made correctly, but there were four parcels of property that were not um reassigned in the In Noa County tax um tables. And so there was a concurrence uh document that we had to sign or not that we had to approve at our meeting basically saying that we agreed with this and then Creek will work with the NOA County to get that to get that changed. So it was only four very small parcels that would be moving from the Creek wershed district to the Sunrise District. Those property owners were notified of of the mistake and so that that was just more of a recordkeeping thing. And then for Jennifer, yes, Sunrise will be at Fall Fest. There'll be an exhibitor there. Um, I'll ask Lori to to send the um form and he is Jamie is checking on whether the uh turf extension exhibit, which is a University of Minnesota extension um big trailer that they did last two years ago and was really popular if they would be available to come. So more more on that when I hear hear that. Um, I think the other thing that we just I just wanted to mention quickly is we had a meeting yesterday um with Tom Hunt, who is the In Noa County um elections um manager, director. I don't know exactly his title, but he's he's he's the he's the go-to in Anoka County when for all things elections. And so he came to talk to us because of the request that as the the group that is the Anuka County um integrity election team had asked us to uh follow up with him. Ideally we wanted to have him come to a council meeting. Um there was some problem with that from his higherups but he was willing to talk to us on a one-on-one basis. So spent some time talking about the poll pads and the issue that were brought up here by that group and kind of hearing the county side of it. Um the the takehome really is that there's a lot of this that's being dictated from the state down to the county and some other interpretation that's being done by the county. But I think that we hit on a possible compromise that might help um uh allay some fears or concerns I should say that Aset has and that would still um work for the county and he was open to those ideas. So, I'm going to talk to Brenda Miller about those and see what her reaction um is to it. And then maybe that's something that we could put in place for Columbus um that really wouldn't affect um the processing or the or the sort of automated u backend side of the of the elections, but I think would actually address their concerns about um data security and and like I said, he was open to that idea. So, we'll see where that goes. That's it for me. Thank you, Janet and Rob. Yeah. No. Uh, all I all I wanted to add to what I was talking to Bill about after after doing that press release, I was able to get a uh one-on-one meeting with Nolan West to talk about that bonding bill and know that we wanted it because possibly we would get something out of it. He obviously knew that, right? But just being in his office and having that one-on-one, I think helped uh push it. Asked about sports betting. He said it hasn't been a hot topic really this this session. Um which I was surprised. Um I haven't been following it real closely. Uh but the biggest thing was uh that that I would be in favor of the bonding bill uh knowing that we'd get some funding out of it. Um and I missed my meeting with Senator Krun. He had a full office. Uh so I passed on that one being we just saw him recently. So yeah. Well, thanks. Um, [clears throat] the only thing I have to say is, uh, just what Bill said that me and Janet are going down to try and get 762,000, convince some people to get that uh, money tomorrow. So, hopefully it's it's going to work out for us. We already paid those water credits, right? We haven't paid them yet, but we've approved them. So, we'll be getting a bill from Forest Lake here in sometime in May. Yeah. Hold that check until after. [laughter] Uh 10:15. Is that when it starts or is that when you testify? That's when we testify. Okay, sounds good. I'll do my best. Try all right. Uh personnel committee report. Janet. Um really just uh letting you know that we're we continue to move forward on um the compensation uh plan, revi revising the compensation plan. You guys heard from Mark um in his presentation at the last workshop that we did. um he has put the recommendations that came out of that um in place and we're going to be looking at the model on Tuesday next week. So I know there was a lot of information that was that was shared during that. So I you know I'd invite you to go back and take a look at the PowerPoint presentation that he had and if you have any questions or um concerns or anything you know uh other kinds of things that you want to share with us, please do it before Tuesday and then we can pass it on to him and we'll have him work that into the model. Um, I think uh Erin, help me remember when we're scheduled to have that whole that whole thing brought back to the is it June? Yes, I think it's at the June beginning of June. Yeah. Yep. So, we've got some time, but there's um it's moving ahead, which is pretty exciting. That [snorts] it. Yes. Well, thank you. I was looking at the planning commission report, but it's back to you. Here I am again. This is short and sweet. They had a pretty light light uh meeting last week. It was um the Lo's site um plan that came before them. Loves is planning to install um two more islands of pumps. So it would be a total of four pumps on the end closest to the um to the freeway. And so there was a lot of discussion. I think some of it was um kind offormational. Uh there were there were things that were brought up that were kind of outside the scope of a site review, but the planning commission um all the planning commissioners all took the time to go out there and take a look at it and that was that was good too. Um they had uh planned to carry that that uh piece forward to their next meeting and so we'll be looking for a recommendation from them um after they meet again to discuss. And then they had an inservice on zoning which um Elellaner did a really nice job of putting together with some someformational memos and things like that. So they spent some uh some time just discussing that and kind of getting the especially the newer members up to speed on on uh what zoning is and the different kinds of applications and things like that. Thank you Janet. With item number six, the public works director. Jim, I just want to say thank you for approving the money transfer because we have the mower in the public works. [laughter] Might have been kind of hard not already trying to break it in. [laughter] So that that's all I have. Well, thank you. City administrators report. We've had several inquiries lately on the city-owned property that's adjacent to and north of Caribou Coffee. This is the property that was the original site for the Harinko Apollo apartment project. [snorts] Uh in the last six to seven months, we've had four different inquiries. We certainly we have one now that's really a legitimate one. Uh, in order to carry this on any further, I'm requesting that city council authorize me to engage an appraisal firm to get an appraisal on that property so we'll have a negotiating or a starting price to begin further discussions with that. So with that, I would request a motion to approve an authorization from city council to engage in appraisal for property pin number 2432211-00001 with weight appraisal. So one of us has to make the motion. That's what I'm requesting. Yes. I'll make the motion that we approve uh the monies for the property appraisal for pin 24-32-22-11-0011. Anything else I missed on that? No, you got one one other thing I left out. The cost of this will be approximately $1,200. And the cost and it would be paid for. It'll eventually be charged to property for resale on the property and be reimbursed back to the general fund when the property is sold. Okay. So, I second it. This is Janet. All right. So, we got a motion on the floor. It was seconded. Any other discussion or question? Yeah. Yeah. Mr. Mayor, uh to Jack, uh when was the last time it must have been a while ago that we got that appraised? Probably before the EIRD proposal. Uh we haven't had this one appraised. We had the other one across the highway north of their appraised. The last appraisal on this one was probably done prior to the purchase agreement signed by Arhinko in 2021. So that appraisal was $800,000. Okay. And uh it's been four years, so I'm sure values have changed significantly since then, I would imagine. So thank you. Any other discussion? Well, we got a motion. Second it. Uh, we'll take a vote. Rob, Rob I, Janet, I, Scott, I, Jenny, I, and Ron I. That's the end of that section. Go to announcements and reminders. EDA workshop uh and regular meeting April 15th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. The planning commission meeting, April 16th, 2025 at 6 p.m. The local board of appeals and equalization is April 17th, 2025 at 6 p.m. City Council meeting, the next one will be April 23rd, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. And not on the agenda, but this Sunday on the 13th is the Lion's Pancake Breakfast 8 to 1. We'll go to item number F. Anybody wants to make Can I ask a question first? Sure. Um related to the uh local board of appeals and equalization. Normally we get um a report from the county in advance of that. Do you know are we going to get that? I will contact Alex to see where that is. And do you know if there's been any There have been no calls into city hall regarding that. You can maybe ask ask Alex if they've been if they've been fielding any too. But um I it's always really helpful to have that report because it's got all the the market value information and it's it's really helpful. I did get I did get two calls on that wondering when it was. So Oh, the local board. Huh. some some constituents wanted. I told them that they should call Alex first before Yes. Yes. But I don't know if they did or not. Okay. We'll see. Come Thursday night. Uh, anybody want to make a motion to adjurnn? It's Rob Bush. I'll make a motion to adjurnn. This is Janet. I second. Got a motion on the floor. Any discussion? Any questions? Nothing. Jenny. Jenny. I. Scott. Janet. I. Rob. I. and Ron. I also time is 6:31. We're going to end a meeting. Thank you all for coming. Appreciate it. Is that a new wreck? [music] [music]