Uh we'll order the city council meeting for April 8th, 2026. The time is 6 p.m. And the first thing on the agenda is the pledge of allegiance. If everybody would stand. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation >> under God, >> indivisible, >> with liberty and justice for all. The next item on the agenda is the adoption of the agenda. Is there anybody like to make a motion? >> It is Jenny. I can make a motion. I, Jenny, move to approve the agenda for April 8th, 2026 city council meeting. >> This is Scott. I'll second. >> We got a motion on the floor. It's been second. Any other discussion? Hearing none. We'll take a vote. Jenny, >> Jenny, I. >> Scott, I >> and Ron I. The motion passes. We'll go on to item B, consent agenda. Is there anybody on the staff or the city council that has an issue with items 1 through 4? Hearing none, I'll make a motion to move to approve the consent agenda for the April 8th, 2026 city council meeting. >> This is Karen. I'll second it. >> So, we have a motion on the floor. It's been seconded. Any other discussion on this topic? Hearing none, we'll go to a vote. Jenny, >> Jenny, I. >> Scott, Iron I. We'll go on item number C, presentations and items for council action. The first item is a public forum. Is there anybody in the audience that would like to come forth and uh talk to the city council? >> Yes, mayor. You do have a couple people coming forward, so you know. >> Oh, thank you. I can't see out there. Oh, my you got to say your name. My name is Myron Angel, 14048 Ferman Street in the city. I attended the meeting, the workshop meeting yesterday. Couple issues came up that uh are a concern, new building, all the issues with ADA compliance. Just wondering if there's a plan to address those issues. Uh there are needs in this this building uh roofing needs etc. I just wonder what the preventive maintenance plan was so that they don't become issues all of a sudden. Bare homes or I'll say let me back up. What other companies in our city have required kif and or myth? Do the benefits of each outweigh the city's exposure? And I'll leave it at that. Thank you. >> Thank you, Myin. Just to let you know, Myin, a lot of those items will be discussed further on. So, we'll go. Anybody online or is there somebody else out the audience? Nobody's off the audience? Anybody online like to make a comment? Hearing none, we'll close the public forum and go to item two under C. Force Lake Cable Commission accounting services termination. At the December 10th, 2025 city council meeting, Paul Peterson, access coordinator for Lakes Area Community TV, presented the 2026 budget for the cable commission. In addition to the budget presentation, Mr. Peterson informed the council that the commission would not retain their bookkeeping agreement with the city of Scandia after the end of 2025 due to cost increases that were in excess of their budget. Mr. Mr. Peterson inquired if the city of Columbus had an interest in assuming the accounting functions for Lakes Area TV. The city of Columbus discussed Mr. Peterson's inquiry and offered to provide these services for the remainder of 26 at the 2025 fee charged by Scandia. The city offer was made to assist Forest Lake Area Cable Commission in their effort to find a replacement for this service. At the December 10th, 2025 council meeting, the city of Columbus approved to provide a one-year accounting services in the amount of 36 for charge of $3,600 to the Forest Lake Area Cable Commission. This service actually began the first payroll period of February 2026. Upon commencing the service, staff found that there were undisclosed problems in their procedures, deficiencies in their internal controls, integration issues transferring to our accounting software and protocols did not align with our policies. Scott Wendell, city council liaison to the Forest Lake Cable Commission, was briefed on these matters and a meeting was held on March 2nd, 2026 with city staff and Renee Figan, Forest Lake Area Cable Commission community member to address these issues. Mr. Wendell and city staff received no sponsors regarding the matters discussed at this meeting. Mr. Mr. Wendell and Jack Davis met with Paul Peterson on March 26, 2026 and informed them him it would be their recommendation that this service be terminated effective April 8th, 2026 due to the incompatibility of our different accounting practices and the need for restructuring the Forest Lake system to correspond to general accounting standards board procedures that are used by the city of Columbus. Staff Mr. Wendle also conferred with city attorney Megan Rogers prior to the meeting of Mr. Peterson and as a result of that discussion, Mrs. Rogers prepared a draft city response to this matter. Her response is exhibited in attachment one of the April 8th, 2026 city council meeting packet. Staff recommends that the accounting functions provided by the city of Columbus to the Forest Lake Area Cable Commission be terminated effective April 8th, 2026. To support an orderly transition of the change in this service, the city is willing to continue providing payroll process for a period of 30 days from the date of the letter from the city attorney exhibited in attachment one. This interim period will provide the cable commission time to engage another service to ensure continuity of their operations. >> Did anybody want to make a motion? Scott? Yeah, if I could just real quickly I just want to point out that um you know our city staff in particular our finance director have a high level of integrity here and I think the citizens of Columbus uh should be aware of that and understand that uh the city is being extremely responsible with our tax money. uh to get the cable commission up to that level of integrity um uh was a scope of work that went beyond our agreement with the cable commission. Uh I think we remain loyal to the cable commission and in our meeting with uh Paul uh we did inform him, Jack, uh Mr. Davis did inform Paul that uh and I should say that uh we gave them our recommendations on how they could achieve that high level. um um if they took our recommendations and and were able to get themselves up to that high level that we would consider taking that uh back uh from them too. So again, uh thank you to city staff for maintaining that integrity and and watching out for our uh citizens tactile tax dollars uh in regard to this. >> Did you want to make the motion? >> I sure can. Uh, I, Scott Wendell, move to approve the accounting services for the Forest Lake Area Cable Commission be terminated effective April 6, 2026. >> Should be April 8th. >> Uh, correction, April 8th, 2026. >> This Jenny, I second. >> Okay, we have a motion on the floor. It's been seconded. Any other discussion from anybody? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Jenny >> Jenny I. >> Scott I >> I >> and Ron I. Motion passes. We'll go on to item number three. Bear homes expansion MIF loan. Uh this has been a topic that's been discussed uh three or four times since the beginning of the year. And at the March 3rd, 2026 city council work meeting, the Columbus City Council discussed a request from Bear Holmes for the city to be the applicant for a miffloan from the Department of Employment and Economic Development for their proposed business expansion plan. Uh I won't go into reading this whole thing, but at the conclusion of the March 3rd meeting and the April 7th work meeting discussion, there was consensus among council to sponsor the application for a myth loan for the mayor home expansion project subject to the following conditions. Number one, that the loan would be only for seven years. The interest rate is 0% and include use of existing city RLF fund revolving loan funds for the bare home project in the amount of $100,000. That $100,000 is already in a city account which was created back in 2018 and any repayment to the city or deed for that would roll back over into reestablishing that amount in this fund. Also, there would have to be an approved agreement between the city and bear home that clearly defines the roles and duties of each and the administration of the loan. That there would be an application fee charged to cover the city's upfront legal and financial consulting cost and be initially set in escrow to $12,000. Another agreement would have to be approved that the costs that are normally reasonable in excess of the $12,000 escrow amount for consulting fees be paid by Baromes the city in the event the original amount is depleted. And then there would have to be an agreement that ongoing charges through the long-term for staff administration in cost incurred for those items set forth in the deed agreement as responsibility of the city be established in a civil agreement with bear home. These costs will cover the monitoring, reporting and compliance requirements of deed and be paid the bare home the city is invoiced. Staff is requesting that city council consider approval of the city being the applicant for the bare home expansion project myth loan subject to condition list in this staff report or any other condition recommended by the city attorney or the city financial consultants and a public hearing is scheduled for April 22nd 2026 council meeting to allow public comment on this matter. Okay. Uh, we got a motion. We don't have a motion on the floor yet. Does anybody want to make a motion? >> This Jenny, can I ask a question before we do that? Kind of going back to um, Mr. Angel's question talking about the city's exposure. Um, does city staff know in terms of MIFF loans any details about Miffloans in general relating to other cities and frequency in which they are given each year? >> Uh, I'm not that familiar with the myth loan process. It is one that's used uh quite extensively in the metro area and even outstate. Uh, myth, just to be clear, is totally different from tiff. There's still no exposure or risk to the city and participating in this if there's ever any issues with loan payments. Bear home would be in default of their agreement and have to pay the loan off entirely from their own funds to deed. Uh as far as other cities have used it, it's something that I don't believe is really that been that prevalent in this far north metro area. Uh, I do know it's been used for a lot of other projects, but nothing that I'm familiar with up here. >> But clarifying that the city acts as a pass through and there is no risk. So, talking about opening ourselves up to risk, really the city isn't holding anything for risk relating to any financial agreements or anything like that. >> That's correct. And you described it very accurately. We're just a pass through and we take the requests each month for their loan payment and their reports they submit to back that up. We make sure that they're approved. We send them to DED. DED sends us the money and we send that to Bear Home. So, we have no financial stake in this at all. Uh again, I've been asked many times, what are the benefits of this to the city? Um there will be some job creation as far as it goes now. Well, I was told that the city has or Bear Home has three people live in the city of Columbus that work for them. The new job creation, I think, was sitting a huge difference in the amount of jobs in the city. Our biggest benefit would be the addition of another 120 to $150,000 in property tax annually. and there would be no delay in getting that tax. They would start paying that upfront as soon as the building was built and everything was completed with the county on their valuation. >> Thank you very much. >> And then Jack, if I could also ask a question about that. So, um, TIP is basically through deed for job creation. State money that comes from uh money that comes from the state passes through us with the idea being job creation. Correct. >> That's correct. This uses kind of gap financing to stimulate industrial or business growth. And uh it's uh not the whole portion of it. I think this total project that Bear Home is undertaking is going to be about $14 million. This loan application would be for 1.7. >> Yeah. And and what we heard earlier today from Myron, and I know Cindy is also here. Uh I think the city council expressed those same concerns in previous meetings and workshop meetings uh in no uncertain terms with them. Uh also calling out uh the difficulties in working uh with them uh in our finance department. Um I think the benefits for the city in a in a myth loan outweigh any risk there. There is no risk. So, we're looking at a potential uh uh doubling almost the size of the building which is going to increase tax revenue from the city with no risk at all. I share your skepticism and I think I've shared that publicly before where I don't know that they'll actually be able to uh complete uh getting the myth loan quite frankly. Um, but if they don't or if they don't respond appropriately, um, it is not like it was uh when we had the the TIFF loan and and the cooperation that didn't exist back then. So, it's it's almost a no-brainer to me. Uh, potential for tax revenue with very little risk to us. Why why wouldn't we? >> Thank you. uh one other question that that you I want to address the question you know why haven't there been others that have applied for this mostly because they're able to finance their projects either with other investors financing it or they have the ability to do it internally with their own funds. So this one is Scott said there's a lot of moving parts for them getting their financing arranged and to date that hasn't been done. this is just one piece of the puzzle for them to complete their financial package to pay for this. >> And and we advised them that there would be citizens in Columbus who would oppose this. So they were put on notice. >> This is Karen. I just have one question too for you, Jack. Um the $12,000 in escrow that's being escro. Does that is that for the administrative costs that are done monthly or is >> No, that $12,000 would be to cover our financial consultants examination of the loan request. >> Okay. >> And if they do that, you know, they may come back and say, "Look, this isn't >> going to work." >> Okay? >> And it's also to cover our legal cost. And I've gotten quotes from both that say their services will be around $5,000 each. So the $2,000 is just in there for a little extra in case we have to go over. But the second part of this too is we will require them to sign that agreement too that says if for some reason we go over these costs, they're obligated to make that escrow account whole to pay for these services. >> And this is a seven-year loan, correct? >> Correct. >> So it's not a huge amount of time. >> Not not not in the scheme of loans, though. This is fairly short term. >> Thank you. >> One final question. Uh this is Jenny. Can I ask um Cheryl if she has anything to note or con anything of concern before we move forward and vote because you will be directly affected by this and I want to make sure that we're all um that understanding. I feel um as long as we create a better working relationship and they submit all of the required documentation on time um that it would be a good um opportunity for growth in the city. Um so hopefully with the agreement that we're going to draft um everyone will have clear uh goals um timelines um and deadlines set. So hopefully this time it would go smoother. Thank you. >> And and to add a little more comment to Cheryl's uh statements too, uh it has to be done that way and it's been made very clear to them if they don't follow their obligations and they'll be definitely outlined then the city will attempt they will back out of the project. So that would place them in default. So there's a great incentive for them to adhere to their schedules. and cooperate with us and do what they're supposed to do in a timely manner. >> And so just so we're clear on that, uh, with a tiff loan, we were not able to back out. We were obligated to >> see that through. With a myth loan, if this shenanigans, for lack of a better word, happens again, we can back out >> and we have no financial loss in the matter. >> Yeah. When I say back out, they would definitely be in breach of their contract and their obligation. So that would cause a default situation. >> Correct. Yeah. >> Well, I got one comment to make. My comment is that uh Bear Homes came in 2017 and applied for that TIFF loan and there was a lot of people upset about that one and I kind of came in about 2018 19 in that era and uh They were hard to get along with with the council but and with the city staff but I think just talking to them in the last year or whatever I think the attitudes have changed a lot and they're looking more at progressing than degressing their business. So, I uh I don't think we've never had a myth. And if I'm correct, we've never had a TIFF application here either except for Bear Holmes. So, that's uh to you, Myin. I I we're kind of caught on one. Do we give up? And I think sometimes I don't know if that's it probably something to ask an attorney sometime but I don't think because their attitude one time you can deny. I think you have to have something else but we won't go there. So anybody want to make a motion or I'll make it. >> I can make Oh go ahead. >> This is Karen I'll make the motion. I, Karen Fleming, move to approve the city participation as the applicant for the Minnesota Investment Fund loan from the Department of Employment and Economic Development to Bear Home subject to the conditions set forth in the staff report for item CO3 of April 8th, 2026 city council agenda packet along with the recommendations of the city financial consultant and the city attorney regarding the role, responsibilities, and obligations of the city of Columbus relative to this agreement. >> This is Scott Myron gave me the thumbs up back there. So, I'll second >> and we have a motion on the floor and it's been seconded. If there any other discussion hearing none, we'll take a vote. Jenny. >> Jenny. I >> Scott I. >> Karen I. >> I can't hear Karen. Did you say I Karen? >> Yep. Karen I. >> Ron I. Motion passes. unanimously. We'll go on to the next item, uh, the March 2026 financial report. Everyone should have our current cash fund balance report in front of them. Um, and then an expenditure guideline report. And both of your reports are going to be through the end of February. we not have not closed out the quarter. Um so next council meeting I would be able to present you know a full quarter of financials for you. Um I don't know how in depth you want to go into the expenditure guidelines. Um there are a few items that you'll see that stand out um that may cause concern. So I wanted to point those out to you tonight. Um, if you look on the first page, page one, and if you look at our fund, uh, that lists membership dues towards the middle of the page, it's showing that we are 336% above budget. Um, that item is due to us joining the Minnesota Association of Small Cities. Uh, and that was not in our budgeting process, but overall, we will still remain okay. Um, another item that you're going to see is in our bonding and that starts on page 8. So there you will also see um, for instance under bond 308 are um, debt service bond principal payments. Um, you're going to be wondering, you know, we're at 97 12% of our budget for these bonding items, but that is because we paid our principal payment in full for the year, um, as of February 1st. So, um, the remaining amount that gets paid in July is our interestonly payments. So, uh, once we hit the end of the second quarter, all of this will even out. Um, Sunrise Watershed. It looks like we are at 76% of our budget, but that's because we paid our full year membership dues um upfront for Sunrise. >> How many year? I I broke up in my ear here. >> Oh, we paid Sunrise our full year of >> Mhm. Um other than that we're running 15 to 20% of our budgeted amount which you know we are um expected to we are expected to be there. Um our cash fund balance uh there aren't a lot of changes yet. We have not received our first property tax payment. Uh so we don't have a lot of different revenue coming in. Um, and the only large expenses on our cash fund balance changes are the ones that I pointed out, which would be the bonding payments. >> Um, going back to the membership dues for the small cities, I know the council uh voted that in earlier this year, I believe. What What was the dues? If I recall, it was very very small. >> I'm going to look that up. >> Okay. I'm going to say 25 is what I recommend. >> It was a per one invoice for the entire year >> because they >> cuz when they presented it wasn't it a monthly dues but then they sent a year. I think we had the option of paying it in several terms like monthly, quarterly, semianually, or annually. >> That would make sense then. Okay. >> The dues for that were $5,585. >> Okay. >> Mhm. >> Thank you. >> There any more discussion on this? There isn't. There's no action. So, we'll go on to item number five, resolution 26-05, approval of acceptance of the LRIP grant. The city of Columbus submitted a local roads improvement grant application to the Minnesota Department of Transportation on December 11th, 2025 for the North Hornsby Street project. The street section of this project begins at a point approximately 1,350 ft north of the Hornsby Street intersection with Lake Drive and then continues to the Forest Lake corporate limits. This 1,320 ft segment approved for the LRIP grant will complete the upgrades to North Hornsby Street within the city of Columbus. The city received notification of the grant award in the amount of $535,000 on March 27th, 2026. Local costs will be approximately $140,000 and include new street lighting, street lighting, existing street lighting relocation and engineering expenses. Sydney Road and H funds are available to cover the local share for the project. This cost will not affect the 2026 levy nor for future budget years. The Hornsby Street project is part of a larger road improvement in Forest Lake that will reconstruct Eureka Street from the Columbus Corporate Limits to 11th Avenue. Both portions are scheduled for completion by 2027. The city also submitted a request for this project to be included in a 2026 state bonding bill proposal that is currently before the legislature. This project was submitted to both Mandot and for bonding bill capital projects to improve our chances of receiving funding for these improvements as submitted as the bonding bill project. Though keep in mind the following regarding this source of funding. There is no assurance that this project would have been funded. It was submitted in 2024 and 2025 and not funded. Award known to late May to mid June. Also, having been approved for the VINDOT funds may reduce their projects chances on receiving money from this source. And even if our project receives the bonding bill funding, there's no guarantee that we would have received the full amount of the $675,000 requested. So, the bonding bill is still out there and if it should be approved, we may be able to negotiate being able to use that for gap funding to complete our local cost share. Some of those still may be ineligible under that. So, we'll see, but we won't know until June for that. Uh, the MINDOT local road improvement grant requires the city approve acceptance of the award as soon as possible. With this source of funding secured is recommended the city of Columbus approve acceptance of the LRIP grant by resolution for the North Hornsby Street project. is also recommended that upon approval of the resolution of acceptance, we notify our bonding bill sponsors of this decision. Opportunities for further discussion of this alternative with Senator Crew and Representative West can occur on April the 14th, 2026. The city meets with them in St. Paul as part of our lobbying efforts for the Hornsby Street project and our attempts to remedy our issues with fiscal disparities. >> I got a question, Jack. Can you hear me? >> I I see some heads knocking. It must be okay. Uh >> Jack, maybe we have to ask Brian or whatever, but does that funding go for the bike trail or the trail that uh Forest Lake is building on that? Is that going to be a connection on that? >> That's correct. That is an eligible cost for this project. It will be included. >> Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? I'll make a motion by Ron Hanigraph. Move to approve resolution 26-05, a resolution accepting a local road improvement program grant from the Minnesota Department of Transportation for the North Hornsby Street project. >> This is Scott. I'll second. >> We got a motion on the floor. It's been seconded. Any other discussion? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Jenny, >> Jenny, I >> Scott, I >> and Ron I. The motion passes. We'll go on the agenda here. Item D, consultant liaison and staff reports. We'll go to Brian first. City engineer report. Brian, >> good evening, Mayor and Council. Brian Bachm, consulting city engineer. Just going to mention a couple of things. I'm still waiting for the uh soil boring results for the water tower site. Uh it's not for lack of trying. I've been contacting AET on a regular basis and it just seems like there's some delays u in getting the lab tests completed before they can write the report. So hopefully u it'll be very soon and we'll be able to get those uh report to you. The second item uh we did have a good opening today for the Notre Dame Mill and Overlay project and the results were uh very favorable. So, we will have a recommendation for the council at the next meeting. Um, that's all I have to report and stand for any questions. >> How how many bids did you receive? This is Scott. How many bids did you receive? >> We had four contractors submit bids for the the work and in all honesty, they were all less than the engineers estimates. So, >> okay. >> Very good estimate. >> I take back what I said before the meeting. >> Any any other questions of Brian? Hearing none. Thank you, Brian. We'll go on to Megan, the city attorney report. >> Yes. Uh good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of council. Uh the only item that I have for my report is a reminder that next Tuesday, April 14th, is the city of Columbus Day on the Hill. Uh we look forward to welcoming you at Lurenhoffen Public Affairs and uh starting those important conversations with your legislators. Thank you. >> Thank you, Megan. We'll go on to the mayor and city council's report. Uh Jenny, do you have anything to report? >> Uh this is Jenny. I have a couple of uh different uh resident items to update on. I believe at the last council meeting, I mentioned that we had a few residents that had a dispute um basically related to a resident petfarm animal situation um and some potential um not disposing of waste properly. I know that city staff um worked really diligently with um both both of our residents uh and it sounds like we're able to come up with a resolution um to mitigate this going forward. So, I wanted to really take the time to not only thank the uh resident who um brought up the issue for his patience uh for their patience and and working with our city as things um do take a little bit of time to kind of work through a process. Um but our city staff was very diligent. So, I wanted to thank you all for that. Uh the second thing was that I received an email and some of you may have as well. I'm not sure uh last night from a resident uh relating to some questions about the funding for uh not only the water tower but a potential uh city site. Um and so they just had questions relating to um um what communication would be going out, how residents would be impacted, what residents u would be able to speak about this going forward. Um, so I did communicate as well that that resident input would be um very much a part of this and and that that would be communicated out so that there would be an open house uh if and before anything were to be decided upon. Um, so just giving that update as well. And that's all I have to report. >> Thank you, Jenny. Scott, do you have anything? >> No report tonight. Thank you, Mayor >> Karen. No report tonight, Mr. Mayor. And I don't have any report other than mark your calendars again and get your gloves out and your rakes and your shovels. On the 25th, we're going to clean up the park. So that's on. Lions are going to help us. They're going to uh raffle off a tree to the public and uh they'll have coffee refreshments. So that's all I have. And then the next item on the thing is the EDA report. And uh we don't have uh anything to report them to EDA, right? Uh Jenny, >> uh the only thing I think to note was that council members received um some pamphlets or some information cards um that Aaron had put together. So, thank you, Aaron. Um and I think you all picked those up to potentially go out to our businesses. So, I think if you are able to do that, that's great. Uh because we do have Columbus coming up in the next few weeks. >> Good thing you pointed that out. It's the 23rd, 2 days before. Thank you, Jenny. We'll go on to uh personnel committee report. Public works seasonal employee. >> The Columbus City Council approved $18,000 in the 2026 budget to hire a seasonal employee or two seasonal employees for the May through September peak summer work schedule for ground maintenance at the Columbus City Park Boulevard and roundabout mowing and assistance to the public works department for mid-spring late summer project needs. This position will also fill in for regular public works employees taking lead time during this period. The need for seasonal help is to perform the work previously done by Ryan Stark with RVS Turf and Snow Incorporated. Mr. Stark's company providing mowing service and park maintenance for the city from 2011 through 2024. The Columbus Public Works Department performed its work in 2025, but doesn't have the capacity to continue this maintenance activity without postponing or delaying other priority projects. The city advertised for this position from February 23rd to March 22nd, 2026 on the Columbus website, the reader board, and our other social media outlets and received two applications for the position. The applicants were interviewed on March 23rd, 2026 by Jim Windingstead, public works director. Both candidates met the job description requirement. Applicant Simon Johnson, though, was the preferred candidate. Staff recommends that Simon Johnson be hired as a seasonal employee at the rate of $18 per hour. The start dates will be between May 14th and May 18th, 2026 with an end date of no later than October 2026 or 800 hours of work, whichever comes first. This is a seasonal position, offers no city benefits or paid holidays, and this is an hourly paid job. Mr. Johnson's background and reference checks have been completed with no concern over either. >> Uh, Mr. M, this is Scott. Are we just hiring one or two? >> Okay. >> Are you going to make the motion? Any anybody going to make the motion or >> Jenny? I can I can uh I Jenny move to approve the hire of Simon Johnson as a seasonal employee at a rate of $18 per uh per hour subject to the conditions listed in the staff report for this recommendation. >> This is Karen. I'll second it. >> Got a motion on the floor. It's been seconded. Is there any other discussion on it? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Jenny, >> Jenny, I >> Scott, I >> and Ron I. Motion passes unanimously. Go on. Uh, item number six, park board report. We didn't have a a meeting, but then again, we going to have um the clean up the park on April 25th, planning commission report. Scott, >> uh, I think I already gave it, so no report tonight. >> Okay. Public works. Sorry, I'm I'm still stuck on cable commission. My gosh. Uh, planning commission did have one uh uh uh cup that came before them uh that they will pass on to us. Sorry, I don't have more information on it. I'm still stuck in cable commission. So, we'll see that at our next council meeting. >> I think we all were there, too. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Whatever. Okay, we'll go on to item number eight, public works report. >> No report, >> Jim. No department. >> Thank you, Jim. Item number nine, city administrators report. Jack, >> the only thing I want to remind everyone is that the local board of appeals and equalization is coming up on Monday, April the 20th. And this is the only chance residents have to locally appeal their property valuations that were made by the county assessor. So if you have questions or want to dispute that valuation, this is the meeting to come to present your your case and the city council can actually make a recommendation or act on that to change it, modify it or just sustain it. So keep in mind this is the only chance. Uh if you did miss this one, the county says you can't come to theirs unless you go to ours even though they have let people do that before. But this is a one time only and it's only regarding valuation. It's not about city budget. So keep in mind that date. >> Is that it, Jack? >> Thank you very much. We'll go on to item E, which is announcements and reminders, which we all probably just heard. Uh, Sunrise River, a water management, April 9th, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. East Bethl City Hall. Day on the Hill, like Megan said, April 4th, 2026, St. Paul, Minnesota Planning Commission meeting, April 15, 2026 at 6 p.m. EDA meeting, April 16th, 2026 at 4 p.m. Local Board of Appeals and Equalization, April 20th, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. City Council regular meeting, April 22nd, 2026 at 6 p.m. And a local government officials meeting April 29th, 2026 at 6 p.m. Bunker Hills Activity Center. I think I left the Columbus date out on that. What is that date, Aaron? >> 23rd. >> I think Columbus is the 23rd. >> Am I correct? >> 4 to 6. >> Yeah. >> Boy, we got a busy week that week. >> Yes, we do. >> Holy cow. Well, anybody want to make a motion to adjurnn? Uh, mayor, I just want to say one thing. Thank you for, uh, making the meeting is I know you've not been feeling well, so uh, your dedication to the city council. Appreciate it. Thank you. >> Well, thank thank you, Scott. But, did you believe I sat back here and didn't sneeze once? >> No, I don't. >> And you got to be up there up in that room. >> All right. This is Scott. I'll make a motion to adjurnn. >> Is Jenny? >> No. >> Okay. We got motion on the floor. Second. Take a vote. Jenny, >> Jenny, I >> Scott I. >> I. >> And Ron. I motion's the council meeting's done at 6:42.