"I. Yes. Night is. City council meeting, we're meeting here in council chambers for the City of Woodbury. It is August 28, 2024, and it is 7:30 p.m. This meeting is taking place both in person here and we do have a lot of people in the audience tonight. Good to see all of you. This meeting is also um available online for streaming. It's very easy to find the meeting, uh, go to our, um, just go to the, the website, find the agenda, and you can click into the green button and then um then you're live in the meeting. We do take questions or comments during the meeting. If anyone wants to say something publicly, you've got sheets on your chair. Just bring that, fill it out, bring it forward. Anybody online wants something, um, just there's a place to do a chat, please, uh, go there and uh we'll be monitoring that. Um, we also have many people from a few from the American Legion tonight. We always start with the Pledge of Allegiance. I'd love for you to come up here in front of the dias because you are an American Legion and help us do the Pledge of Allegiance if you would be so kind. Uh Bob, do you wanna, you can come like right here, you wanna kick us off? Come right here. So you're, you're kind of on camera, yeah, and here's our flag, OK? So kick us off to the to the flag of to the flag of the to the flag of the United to the flag of the United States of to the flag of the United States of America which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty OK, thank you. Um, some of you may know that our city clerk after many, many years retired recently, so Angela is sitting in tonight as City clerk. Angela, would you please do the roll call? Councilor Wilson here. House number date here, house member Morris house member Santini here, Mayor Burt, here we are all here, so we're able to conduct tonight's business. We have two special orders of business to kick things off tonight. We'll start with the presentation of the League of Minnesota City Sustainable City Award and the Minnesota Green Step Cities Award and Jen McLaugh. will tell us more about all of that. We've got some special guests here tonight too. Yes, thank you, Mayor, Mayor and council members. Um, it's an honor to be here this evening to, um, for the special order of business on the agenda. We have two awards as the mayor mentioned to present tonight. We'll start with the Green Step Cities Award, uh, Woodbury, as many of you know, um, joined the program in 2013 and we report annually to maintain steps 4 and 5, which is what we'll be presenting presented to the city this evening. Um, These annual metrics are um really a a collaboration of several departments. Um, we all pull the information together, the environmental division manages it, but it really is a group effort and so with that I will turn it over to Kristin Morose from she is the Green subsidies and Tribal Nations co-director with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Thank you, thank you, um, good to be here, Mayor and Council. Um, yeah, I'm excited to present Woodbury with the newest Green Step Award. Um, you've been a participant in the program since 2013, um, and just a little bit of reminder about what those steps are. There's 5 total in the program. Step 1, the council signed a um resolution back in 2013 to uh participate in the program, steps 2 and 33 focus on implementing and reporting actions, and then steps 4 and 5, like mentioned, are really looking at metrics. So what are the outcomes of those actions having over time. Um, where you're seeing improvement, um. And continuing improvement by identifying maybe some of those areas that aren't trending towards improvement, um, so, uh, Woodbury has been, um. has achieved steps 4 and 5 working on metrics since 2019, um, so every year since, um, even through COVID, so kudos to you for that. Um, I did wanna share just a few notable metrics that have been reported, uh, in the 2024 reporting year for this award, um, 100% of city owned street and traffic lights are LED. Uh, Woodbury at leased or owns a total of 14 electric vehicles on their C fleet, um, which is the highest of any of our step 4 and 5 reporting participants. So yes, congratulations. Um, 100% of housing is located within 1 mile of a bicycle route and and within a half a mile or 10 minute walk of a park. So I think the name Woodbury is very fitting, um, increased, you increased the number of acres of parkland from 3,386.2 in 2017, so one of those first years, um, that you were reporting data for to 3,647.45 in 2023. So, um, increasing acreage of parkland. Removed 800 tons of material through enhanced street sweeping methods in 2023, also a very big achievement, um, and then finally 39.9 or almost 40% of total city operations, energy use is generated with renewables or purchased, um, with renewables and so, um, yeah, really exciting to see all of those metrics, um, identified and so with that, um, we are. Sharing a certificate of achievement as well as the two award blocks for 2024, step 4 and 5. Fantastic. Let's You want me to wait for the other, why we do that and then we'll do it all at the same time, but um thank you for that. And as many uh of course council knows one of our largest and important strategic initiatives is all about the environmental sustainability. So these pieces go a long way to getting us there. We've got a lot more efforts underway regarding all of that, um, and we're excited to see what's happening with our strategic initiative going forward and our new environmental stewardship plan, um, but that's all part of it. So thank you. It's an, it's an honor to continue to. Get a word. Thank you to Jen Ew and staff and engineering team who helped make all that happen. So thank you, thank you very much. All right, the next one is the recognition of the American Legion. I'm sorry. No, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, I skipped, I skipped skipped this one so it was a little confusing, but um we're also honored to have two staff here from the Liga of Minnesota Cities to present council with the 2024 Sustainable City Award on behalf of the, or I'm sorry, I already said that the city was honored for the development. Of its water, Woodbury waterwise implementation plan and water conservation efforts, which have been a long-standing priority for the city. The plan was developed through a cross-departmental collaboration, um, before I hand it over, I just want to take an opportunity to point out that also on the consent agenda this evening is a grant for $200,000 from the Environmental and Natural Resources Trust Fund, and that will supplement a number of implementation items that um were identified in the plan, so it is all hand in hand and then I believe at the last count. meeting, um, there was an acceptance of the MET Council grant for to continue our toilet replacement program, so Steve's favorite, yes, I heard this, so thank you, um, so I just. Toilets with that, I will now turn it over to Luke Fisher, the executive director with the League of Minnesota Cities, and Craig Johnson, senior intergovernmental relations representative with the league. Welcome. We're honored to have both of you with us tonight. Thank you so much, Mayor, and uh good evening to you and the council and and your staff, um, I would just like to say hearing Kristen talk about Woodbury, I mean, that's a billboard in itself. The numbers don't lie and you've done some fantastic work and much that you ought to be proud of. We're presenting our award tonight and Craig is going to do. The heavy lifting with that, but I always think it's interesting to have a little bit of context about who you get an award from before you receive the award. Sometimes that helps you all know us, May, we see you all the time. Your City Administrator is certainly active with us and with the insurance trust, but not everybody gets a chance to know who we are and so the League of Minnesota cities is an association that represents 8839 of the state's 855 cities. Our largest member is the City of Minneapolis, population 425,000 and our smallest members of the city. of Barry. Any guesses on Barry's population? 50..... 778. Any other guesses? 8. All right, if we're playing Price is Right rules, staff is in, the rest of you are out as a population of just 19 people. Oh my gosh. And so as an organization, we get to represent big cities like Minneapolis and Woodbury and small cities like Barry, and in that work, we get to interact with really wonderful elected and appointed officials from across the state that are doing a lot of really exciting and positive things to advance their communities. We get to see the best, but We give our awards to the very best and we're so excited to do that tonight with you. When we give our awards, we get to amplify good stories that we hope other cities emulate, replicate and try on their own, and I think it's really fun when we see big cities like Woodbury lead the way, then we see smaller cities pick up ideas that you have and are able to make them relevant for the communities that they serve. So with that, that's a little bit about who we are, but I'm going to let Craig talk a little bit about the recognition specifically and then we're going to watch a short video. Thank you, uh, uh, Madam Mayor Council and staff, um, again, Craig Johnson with the League of Minnesota Cities, and we're here today to recognize Woodbury for winning the 2004 Sustainable Cities Award, uh, in your class of population of cities, you're it, you're the winner. It's we don't give it to 23 cities and come, you know, do that way, so, uh, it was presented initially at the league's annual conference in Rochester in June, but we wanted to make sure that the full council and the community got a chance to. See that and and uh uh take advantage of a little bit of uh pride in in the work that you and your city have done on the, on, on these issues. The Sustainable City Award is given each year to a self-nominated community that participates in the Green Step Cities program, so that's the first thing is you have to be a Green Step Cities programmed to be uh considered and then look at how that voluntary program is being used in the city to help achieve environmental sustainability goals. The league, along with 8 other For profit organizations, uh, and state agencies founded the Green Stepsivities program in 2010, um, and we now have 146 cities and 4 tribal members that have achieved Green Step cities and are participating in this process, so it's very widely used system. We work very, very hard to keep it a voluntary system of tools that a community can look at to decide what works best for their community and implement them on the priorities that their community has As for environmental issues. Uh, setting and achieving environmental sustainability goals goes a long way toward improving the quality of life in any city, and Woodbury has led the way on that, uh, consistently and in particular with the work they have done recently, uh, we are recognizing the project that staff mentioned earlier, the Waterwise program with components that could result in estimated accumulated water savings of 282 million gallons per year of water that is tremendously meaningful anywhere in the state and particularly In a part of the state where so much emphasis and pressure has been put on water supply, so. Very impressed by the effort and congratulate the community on the work both staff wise investment wise, and long term commitment wise that you have made in this, um, this is the highest level of recognition and participation that we have for cities doing this kind of work and so I hope you appreciate that from a statewide organization. And with that, I think we would like to have you see a brief video that league staff produced to tell our members about what we. Woodbury doing. So it'll take a minute to do that and then we'll present the award. And in this video we're gonna see two staff members that are not here tonight, but Heidi Quinn and um Kristen Seaman Woodbury is a growing city. We are currently in a population of about 82,000, and we will continue to grow until we're about 100,000. Be careful and concerned about our water and our environment and sustainability of all of our natural resources is really vital to our community. Water, especially as we continue to grow, add more housing, add more businesses. We need to ensure that we're going to have water for our current generation and. Generations to come as a growing community, the City of Woodbury identified the need to have sustainable source of water and we identified an area that we could further develop which is efficiencies doing more with less water in order to add people and businesses to our community, long range plan that has a timeline to implement or continue a different water efficiency programs and it's based on a cost benefit model analysis, so really looking at what are the most water saving programs and the biggest bang for your buck if you will. So to start the programs here in Woodbury, we definitely did a deep dive of research and what people across the country are doing and identified how the city can remove barriers to help participants in the city accomplish that so we didn't want to take a cookie cutter model and apply that as we've seen in states out west, we really wanted to make it Woodbury style here. Woodbury Waterwise implementation plan recommends 8 programs. The city currently has our residential smart irrigation controller program has shown to be our highest. Water saving program we do stormwater reuse for irrigation with our development toilet replacement rebate program, our commercial and homeowners nurse association cost share program or piloting a pressure regulated sprinkler head program, lawn education program, low water use landscaping program, water softener optimization and replacement program. The initial plan here in Woodbury really was cross-departmental in addition to taking feedback from the community. So members of our public works departments, our environmental division and engineering department as well as our planning division who works with new development and kind of that focus area of the community came together to make all these programs and to decide how can we be the most impactful for the city, for communities that are interested in doing a project similar to what Woodbury is implemented or other sustainability measures. The Green Step Cities program and the staff that work there provide a lot of support, resources, and funding. opportunities to help you get started. Environmental stewardship has been a foundation and a focus of City council for many decades and tied to that, we are so proud and thankful for the staff that we have that embraces these programs and it helps to implement them and more than anything for the residents of our community that have said yes, we're on board, we're going to do all we can to help. Awesome. So again, uh, congratulations to the City of Woodbury and your uh council staff and citizens, uh, and uh thank you for the opportunity to be with you this evening, uh, to represent to you, uh, in the local setting, the uh Minnesota Greensteep cities and League of Minnesota Cities, Sustainable City Award for the year of 2024, uh, and congratulations from the board of directors of the League of Minnesota Cities and from our staff who enjoy. Working on uh finding good recipients for these awards each year. So thank you very much and congratulations. a to So I'm going to council come down, we want to be able to have the city with your logo in the background, so put your chairs in so that or maybe even move one. A little bit and then um we'll gather with everyone down here. And uh Kristen. I don't know pick whatever, somebody at the camera somebody at the camera so let's so let's um you come in? Yeah this Yeah. gather in there. All right,,, 123, smile. Now hold cause I get another one. 123, smile. All right, thank you thank you. Thank you thank you. Thank you Congratulations. Congratulations sorry. Thank you. Good to see you. Good to see you, Luke. Thanks for coming. I was like. Uh, Mayor, if I could just mention before Craig Johnson leaves. Craig has been an indispensable, uh, advisor to staff as we've wrestled with water issues and we think about legislation and state agencies. Craig is our go to person. He is just invaluable in terms of, uh, who do we need to talk to, um, state positions, he's a lobbyist and represents the league in many different environmental areas, so Craig, thank you for your service and your help for we've been walking through the uh PA journey and and again from time to time we call on Craig to say, give us a little advice on how to do things and you've been so helpful over the years, so thank you. My pleasure. Thank you. Well, um, I'm hoping that we can take that video and share it with our community through some channels because I think it's a nice message and supplements all the work we're doing with our strategic um initiative plan for environmental stewardship, um. And then I understand too we're gonna get an article in the magazine, is that right? So that's exciting. So the Minnesota City publishes a magazine will get some press on that, so thank you. Appreciate you both coming tonight very much. And Kristen too, all three of you. Appreciate all three of you. Um, OK, we will now move on to the next special order business. This is what I had started to mention before. This is recognition of the American Legion Post 501 and partners for the donation of fire suppression units. So, um, Bob Dolan is here. If any of you else want to come up, you're welcome to come up to the microphone. Um, tell us more about it, but we did, you might remember two when our last meeting was, we did accept some of these units through the consent agenda last go around, um, and we thought it was important for Bob to come and tell us. about it because I think this is really unique technology. And if you want to introduce everyone else that's with you tonight, that would be. We'd like to know who everybody is. It's a big team effort. And we do have a video and we have a video that's gonna explain this, yeah let me, uh, let me go ahead and and introduce as many people as I know, there's some strange faces in here. Steve Ingram from the, uh, uh, Newport, uh, the Sonic Lodge, and I think you brought some other gentlemen with you. This is our, this is our master. Hunter Pettitte, nice to meet you guys. Nice to meet you. Thanks for coming. This district representative. So sober. thank you this is uh Ken Cartier, one of my posts members. This is the man who gave me the idea to go off and start doing this thing, so, uh, we have uh Mike Messing uh from the uh Woodbury, Woodbury lines and you're you're you're you're you're another person a you're another person a you're another person a you're another person a stranger, stranger you're another person a stranger, stranger you're another person a stranger, stranger you're another person a stranger, stranger you're another person a stranger, stranger. Great. OK, I'm a reader and I'm the senior warden at uh Newport Lodge Basin's Lodge. A fantastic. Wow, so, so I was looking for something for our leeching post to do do something this year that was impactful for the Woodbury community. Uh, I moved in this community in 2014. I, I, I just, I just love this and I wanted to try to do something to kind of give back to Woodbury and it's and it's a a residence like I mentioned, uh, Ken was the uh the one that made a suggestion of, of donating these fire suppression units. Uh, he had seen another Legion post in uh in Minnesota, I think was Langdale. Yeah, Lans Who who's done the very same thing, uh, so I, I did a little bit of research, uh, and I coordinate with Elizabeth Olson from the Public Safety and apparently they were thinking about the very same thing. So we're all on the same page and doing that which was great. Uh, I put this all out in social media and then Steve, uh, from uh Newport Masonic Lodge. I got in contact with me, apparently they've been doing this uh throughout the state of Minnesota and so far they have deployed 400 of these of these units, uh, Various cities within within uh within the state. Uh, but without their subsidy, you know, I would not have been able to get this far this quickly. It made my fundraising effort so, so much easier, um, with the, with the lions, uh, my post and Hefner's auto repair, we were able to put enough money together to buy 22 of these units which uh the public safety department has, has those in in uh in hand, um. These units are small, compactful. Uh, this is a used one, I think somebody has a brand new one, but uh, but these are the thing, this is, this is a state of the art unit that you toss it into the fire, uh, you pull your pin, toss it in the fire, and it knocks out a a fire within less than 30, 30 seconds. Uh, I think there's a video that actually will show this in action and it's better than any words that I can give so. Can you, before we click on the video, um, just explain who is gonna carry these police officers. OK, so it's going to go in the car or the truck of a police officer that was one of the things I talked to Elizabeth Olson about, uh, their goal was to put one in one in each squad card when, uh, which has 40 of them, yeah, that's a, that's a brand new one. So fascinating that as we have patrol officers out if we do get a fire, we, you know, we get those calls and you've got to rally the team and get the equipment and everything, but if somebody can get there sooner and you don't one of these devices, it could make a significant police officers are the first one on the scene, and they can use these to tamp the fire down, get it under control and and uh and sometimes put the fire out before the fire department even shows up there, so it saves lives. It saves property, and it doesn't leave a lot of mess behind to clean up. That's fantastic. All right, so let's see the video and then we might have some more comments or questions for you. It What you're witnessing. Ma. Because as this. Can be tempered with a toss. but it is certain to do some damage. Of course water damage is better than fire damage, but you may be able to avoid both. With one of these, it's just another great tool in our toolbox that's going to make our environment for the fire and the public safer. It is the extinguished FST as in fire suppression tool which allows anyone battling a structure fire to do their work without being within the walls. Everybody out? Simply put, you pull the pin. And throw it in. You have 8 seconds to throw the product into the player. It doesn't have to be at the base of the fire. It just needs to be in the uh, the room or the area, the dry aerosol then will fill this room up to 5000 cubic feet and suppress the fire. We went from 1200 to 300. Once the fire is out, the clean up is easy. It can be cleaned up with a vacuum it cleaned up we say within 24 to 48 hours. It's just like cleaning up a talcum powder. He makes it sound good. Almost unbelievably good. My first thought was no way it's too good to be true. Heartland Fire Chief David Dean's healthy skepticism comes from more than 25 years in the fire service, but then he witnesses the extinguished FST at work. They through this device into this burning infernal, and we could see the temperature drop, drop, drop, drop, and extinguish the flames. It was like nothing I'd seen before. So the department gets 2 devices months later. I came around the corner there and they were just flying out of the dishwasher. Gail Stapleton is talking about flames, not dishes. She calls 911. This residence was on fire, occupied. Both people were inside the house when Chief Dean arrives. Standard fire extinguishers are already empty. It slows it down but couldn't put it out, couldn't, couldn't do the job. But a job still needs to be done. So the chief tries a new tool. I run it up, hand it off to him. He pulls the pin, opens the door, slides it into the into the kitchen area we exit. And within 30 seconds we had nothing. It was all completely out when Gayle gets back inside her kitchen, she sees this, but it's what she doesn't see, which she finds most impressive. We wondered where is all the water. It's truly is a little miracle machine we believe so much in this new device that we have one. In every one of our police cars here in Heartland. It's it's just amazing when you see that you, you really think it's, it's a really incredible to have something like this, uh this size in the hands of the police officers to help help uh tamp down uh tamp down fires. That's great. Can you just share us financially like how much of those cost, uh, you know, you've raised a lot of money to pay for these. We're so appreciative, but do you have a rough idea of what what the investment is in these, these units by themselves cost $900 apiece. Uh, the, uh, the Masonic lodge is, is subsidizing $600 per unit. So, so I said, may my job easier trying to raise $300 per unit. So we've raised enough money to buy 2222 of these. That 66. No, 30 3 $3600 right? So that'd be 7221, 21,000 is the initial yeah yeah wow, that is fantastic. And I think when you and I chatted before, they're reusable, are they? Well Well cases are, yes, the case so you so once you've used one that case can be recommissioned somehow and used again. Oh wow, and one of the things that we were doing uh during uh during uh Woodbury days we had lead to a buffet and we're doing a raffle to raise additional money. So through those. 2 days, 2 full days, we raised enough money to buy 2 more units. So here's, here's the check, and I'll hand it over to the Masonic Lodge for you for you for you you spelled my name wrong, OK, yeah, yeah, yeah, OK. Wow. Well, thank you. We appreciate it. Um, I, it's gonna make, oh, let's, yeah, Elizabeth is saying let's do a picture. Can we, um, you know, if we, if we, if you could, if you come to the microphone please and just um for the purposes of our people who do. Accordion, would you just state your name again and that is Steve Ingram, and I'm, I'm, I'm the secretary at the Newport Masonic Lodge in located in Newport in Saint Paul Park, um,, , $300 of this is donated or is is uh from our uh our chapter, or, or excuse me, from our uh Minnesota Masonic charities. And we give, we give, we give out tons of money every year, and the other $300 is through the through our Grand Lodge in Minnesota. And that's, that's where the $600 comes in. These things, um, I just kind of wanted to point out that this this one that you saw was used in Saint Paul Park by Sergeant Harrelson of the the Newport substation and a little backstory behind that is that he received that on a Thursday. Watched a tutorial on it on a Friday. And deployed it on Monday. It it it and it ended up saving most of the house. And the pets that were inside the house, and that's the biggest thing is that I I. I just need to expresses that these things do not take the oxygen out of the room. So it makes it a lot safer to for the police officer or whoever the first responder is to go in and get those. Kids, pets, adults, whoever out of there before the fire department gets there and it will also stay in the air for about 30 minutes. Thank you. That is great. Let's do a photo. I'm gonna make this a little bit easier. Council, you can stand in your seats. Um, I'll come down here. Let's hold one of those suppression on your chair. Uh I I Yeah, let's see um. We got in. Jason Posel, director of public safety. Folks wanna Folks you wanna you wanna Folks you wanna I I I know everybody and you got There you go. OK, we've got a couple. There's this is Steve's a lot of camera is not good enough. He Oh, I'll get this faster, so we know And I've got somebody else's as well. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you again, this is just so awesome thank yous Oh yeah, I'm, I'm I'm they order scooters chase after you know you know No kidding, I have On, oh no. So I was glad to see the video to see how that worked, but now I'm gonna, we're gonna make sure our cable commission does our own video. Yeah, that'd be kind of cool, so there, yeah, OK, that's awesome. I wonder, um. right. Thank you everybody. Again, much appreciation for that for these donations. Um, we will now move on to the open for portion of the meeting. Um, do we have any open forum green sheets or anybody online or then I'm gonna actually skip reading all of that. We'll just move on to the consent agenda. All items listed under the consent agenda are considered to be routine by the City council will be enacted by one motion and an affirmative vote by roll call of the majority of the members present. There be no separate discussion of these items unless a council member or citizen so request, in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered a separate subject of discussion with the council. So with that, we always ask the, uh, live people here first. Anything, would you like to have anything removed from the consent agenda? Say no, then I turn to see if anybody online. No, all council members. No, OK, if someone would like to put forth a motion. I'll move the consent agenda. Item 6A through 6L 6 N. I'll set it. Motion is 2nd. Any further discussion? Right down the rock please Angela. Council member date. Council member Morris, House member Santini Marie Wilson. Mayor Burt. I, those consent agenda items pass. We'll now move on to uh public hearings. We do have two public hearings tonight for two different projects, um, do we have any green sheets for public hearings at this point? OK, then I'm not gonna explain all that either. We will have a presentation by our staff member. We've got somebody here from our planning commission to review, so we'll kick this off first. Janelle, would you tell us about Good Times Park? Thank you, Mayor Burt, members of the City Council, Patrick Griffin on behalf of Good Times Park has submitted an application for conditional use permit or CUP for a commercial recreation use over 5000 square feet. The Good Times Park is an indoor playground, um, or playgroup proposed to be located within the existing building located at 7805 Hudson Road. No exterior modifications are proposed with this application. The property is on B4 office warehouse district and is guided as places to work on the land use plan. So Council approved this building uh for Hudson Road Technology Center, as it's called, um, back in 2000, the building is just over 140,000 square feet, the um approval at that time covered parking, landscaping, stormwater management and architecture. Good Times Park is proposing to occupy 200,000 square feet of this building as a commercial recreation use. It's an indoor playground with within an existing suite of the building, commercial recreation uses over 500. 1000 square feet are considered a conditional use permit in this district, and a resolution with findings of fact supporting that conditional use permit are included with your packet. Commercial recreation is considered a um a supportive use in the places to work land use category, and as such, uh staff is proposing that this building would be limited to 15% of its total space being dedicated for commercial recreation. um, Good Times Park at 20,000 square feet would be 14% of the building. likely the only commercial recreation use. You may recall we had a similar condition just very recently when we did the all world pickleball facility out in the Northeast building our business park. We also imposed a 15% um restriction there again, more of that supportive nature. Uh, this is a rendering of the floor plan, which is kind of boring, but let me show you this one instead of much better to kind of show you some of the amenities that would be included, so 4300 square feet of playground space, 1200 square foot jumper, 2400 square feet of turf and open play and obstacle course, building blocks, areas for children under 2 years, a quiet or reading room, a prayer room, a large picnic area with vending options and to. Rentable party rooms and I think these pictures are probably from Egan or one of their other facilities. As far as access, uh, again, this is an existing developed site, the access, there are 3 access points. The two off of Hudson, 1 off of Woodduck. The use would likely traffic would likely use the access of the Hudson, uh, just that it's more uh conveniently located to the location in the building. And as far as parking, the original building was parked or assumed to be parked for office use with a ratio of one space for every 200 square feet, so there's 688 stalls on site, um, using the 14% allocation that would be about 96 of those stalls for this, the area in blue, I believe, identifies about 100 stalls and the anticipated peak use of this use would be um sort of opposite or not in conflict with the office uses. There's also a church if you recall on this end, I think River Valley Church is on the far east end, um, and again, not necessarily the same times in terms of parking conflicts. So the planning commission did review this at their August 5th meeting. We do have Commissioner Stephanie Swanson in the audience, provide their um recommendation and review, and we also have the applicant in the audience, Patrick, and if I forgot your wife's name already, but um, Patrick and his wife here, um, Patrick Griffin. Great planning commission, yup. Hello, my name again is Stephanie Swanson, and um the project we had very little discussion about this project was supportable. Um, most of our questions were kind of outside of our purview there they implement a staffless model and so there were questions about people get rowdy if there's an emergency, what do we do? kind of those kinds of questions, but in regards to the actual conditional use permit, we had no objections. OK, fantastic. Um, maybe the applicant can come up and just answer a couple of things, hours of operation, days of the week open. Things like that, um, do me a favor, state your name and your address for the record. Patrick Griffin, 11 7 91 33rd Street North Lake Elmo. Uh, so hours of operation were open 7 days a week, 363 days a year, um, from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. every day, so it's, it's a very accessible facility for people. That's fantastic, and you do you own another one of these, or is this a franchise? Is this your own business? This is our own business, so the, um, we didn't found it another couple founded the original location, which is located in Egan, um, similar footprint, same business model, it's been in operation since 2011 and. We took it over almost exactly 2 years ago. And you have little kids. That's why you know that this is it. We do. We have 4, little ones ourselves, well, some of them aren't so little anymore, but ranging from 2 up to 15, so yeah, we were really attracted to the idea when we when we saw the opportunity. Yeah, fantastic. I've heard from others that this is just a great, you know, but it's just great to have more indoor play space, places for kids and what age groups really are like is the focus of this? Sure, from 1 to 10 is probably the target. We do get some older kids there, but it's not really core for them, but because we have a lot of open play. So we'll have kids come in and just bum around playing some soccer, um, older kids will, or, you know, there's a, there's enough to do to entertain them, but, um, as they get to become teenagers, it becomes more and more kind of out of their, their core purview, yeah, and what would be your time frame for being open and ready? Ah. Hopefully before the end of the year, so sometime in the month of December would be a plan. Fantastic. That's great. Thank you. I have a question. Could you just, what were those hours again? I told you 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. uh, and then 7 days a week, basically, we close for Thanksgiving and Christmas Day is all. Fantastic. Thank you. And then the commissioner mentioned so it's staffless, she was she was saying or how does that work then the facility is all, um. Controlled access, so there's a door key code on the on the door, and so when you purchase what you get is actually a key code that's activated for the day you purchased or if you have a membership, it's, it's active for them, um, and we do not have staff there all the time. We have remote camera monitoring monitoring going on all the time, but we have staff there uh during key times, weekends when it's busy, you a lot to keep up with cleaning really as much as anything. Great. Thank you. All right, thank you. Um. And the other, do we have any green sheets, any comments from online, right, then I make a motion that we close the hearing. Motion is second continue discussion, hearing none, all in favor. Aye, OK, the hearings closed and now open to counsel for any comments, questions, or put forth a motion. Can I just ask a question? Um, I know I was at the planning commission meeting, but I'm a silent person at the meeting. Um, so if there's a party room and um and it's staffless. How, how are we monitoring um things like that. So the party rooms we specifically only um have reservations during the times and when we always have an attendant on site. So we avoid that situation because we had some of the same concerns. Thank you, is that it? That's that's all I got. That's all you got anybody else have anything? I'll just say that I took my kids to the good times Park in Egan once and the only reason I didn't bring him back is it's a little bit of a drive from Wberry, um, even though we'll have the Central Park indoor facility as well. I feel like variety is great and both will be very well used, you know. Thank you very much. Mm Motion. I'll move to adopt um a motion approving the Good Times Park Conditional use permit based on the findings of fact in Resolution 24-186. Project number 05-2024-00557 subject to the conditions as outlined in Council letter 24-230. Second, motion is 2nd. Any further discussion? Harry Nun, the roll call, please. Council Council member Council member Morris Council member Morris Councilmemb Council member Morris Councilmemb Santini Councilor Wilson Mayor Burt. I, that passes. Congratulations. Welcome to Woodbury with your new project. Um, OK, the next, um. Open forum, uh, project is Valor Classical Academy, and the hearing is now open. Janelle's gonna tell us a little bit more about this one as well. Thank you, Mayor Burt, members of the City Council. Jake Lee on behalf of Valor Classical Academy has submitted an application for conditional use permit for an accessory use or school in a place of worship. Uh, the proposed school will be located in the existing Woodbury Community Church building, which is located at 2975 Pioneer Drive at the intersection of Pioneer Drive and Lake Road. The property is zoned R4 urban residential and is guided as public, semi-public on the land use plan. The City council approved the preliminary site plan for the church um back in 1993, it's 7000 square foot building. The site plan established again landscaping, architecture, lighting, parking requirements, accessory uses for places of worship are considered a conditionally use permit in the R4 district. A resolution with the findings of fact for the conditional use permit is included with your packet. Um, the youth or the school would use a majority of the building when the classes are in session. However, There are no exterior modifications proposed with this application. Valor Academy's mission is to provide a concentrated liberal arts education at least the foundation of mastery, Valor Academy anticipates having 65 students grades K through 12, and 6 faculty members, with a maximum of 70 students per post. The core instruction fields are given instructed at the site Tuesdays through Thursdays, so 3 days a week, and parents can choose Monday or Friday as a practice of preparation day at home. Start time is 8:45. Dismissal is at 3:30 students are are expected to come from Woodbury Cottage Grove, Afton, West Lakeland, Newport, and Stillwater. In terms of site access and parking, again, there are 2 access points, one off of Pioneer, which is a full access and off of Lake Room, which is a right in right out. Um, it is anticipated that most students will be dropped off by car. However, there is pedestrian access trails on, on both sides of the road here, um, parking and zoning, um, for this particular use, uh, the zoning ordinance requires 3 spaces per classroom and an additional space for 100 students for. Entry in junior high, and then for high school, it's one space for every 4 students and for every 2 staff, um, with the proposed number of students and staff and the enrollment pro uh that they project by class. The use would require roughly 25 stalls, um, and there are 100 stalls on site, which is sufficient to accommodate the proposed use. The church has offered that there would be no church programming during the times when the school is in session, so there'd be no conflicting uses for that parking. Uh student and parent parkkoff, excuse me, drop off and pick up is um denoted in yellow on the plan, staff parking is shown in green, and then you can see the routes in terms of the access. Um, there is no bussing proposed at this time, but if it if it were proposed in the future, we would require a a full site circulation plan to be submitted. So the planning commission did review this also at their August 15th or 5th meeting, excuse me, and we do have again Commissioner Swansonier and the applicant Jake Lee. Commissioner, come forward. Thank you. Hello again. Hello. Again, this project had almost no discussion along with it, um, the only clarification that we asked for was that the school is not actually associated with the church, and so then, um, we were very supportive of it. It's infilling tenant space without having to do any extra development. Yeah, so to clarify, the church, the school is not associated with the church, OK. Got it. OK. Thank you. Um, we have any, any green sheets, anybody online? Can I make a motion that we close the hearing. Motion is 2nd. Any further discussion? Carry no, all in favor. I can, we are hearings closed, um. Council members, questions or comments. Or emotion. I have a few questions about parking. So the overhead map, thank you, Janelle with the overhead map shows currently 280A spaces of those is that compliant with this new use? I don't know the answer right off the top. I believe it's rate, it's based on the number of overall parking, not necessarily by use, but by the number of stalls. Um, it's a percentage for like every 50 stalls you need 188 and making that uh equation up, but there's a ratio. I see 4. Do you see 4? I see 2. There's 4. There's 2 in the yellow and 2 in the blue, at least that's what I see. I see two that are not highlighted, so maybe the other ones are obscured because of the highlighting. That's fine, I would just the staff just reviews the reviews ADA access, um. Because the the other question I have is, is, um, pedestrian access throughout that. So this moves a little bit now, a little bit different than church use and a school use is a little bit more activity coming and going, um, a little bit more regularly. I don't see any crosswalk sla uh markings on the pavement if I'm going from anything that's not directly adjacent, and I'm not familiar with this site. Is that a sidewalk on the northeast? Is that a sidewalk on that on that side of the parking spots. No, no, no, next to the yellow, there you go to the right. No, no, no. Jason adjacent to the parking is that sidewalk, is that pedestrian? OK, and then nothing from the left side, my only thought being is that this is a little bit different than church use, um, from a pedestrian movement standpoint is just at least some markings, pavement markings to designate, uh, because there may be a cross traffic. A little bit more um. Continuous, I think, is my my my thought there. The other, the other, sorry, Kim. The other thought I had is you had the applicant noted 8:45 to 3:30. What is Lake Middle and what is the elementary what is the the school times. I I I know I know 7:55 to 2:40. OK. Um, Will not overlap with bussing, I, I actually think Middleton is one of the Middle start times here, but we should double check. So this might the middle time for the schools is around 8:20, so it'll be a good 25 minutes. My concern is. that's a lot of traffic and a lot of, even though there's not a lot of expected traffic from the students enrolled in valor, there's still pedestrian traffic going back and forth from like in Middleton that that's additional traffic in that lighttime in that time frame, so uh. I don't know that there's a condition that's necessary. It's just a concern of mine of that additional pedestrian traffic. An additional vehicle traffic in an already uh not so intersection is actually 8:40 to 3:10. So that's exactly, that's 5 minutes off, so that's it's elementary school drop off and an additional 65 students, 65 to 75 students or whatever that number was, and that exact same time, uh, it's a lot of congestion, uh, potential and, and as well pedestrian if they're walking to and from elementary school, it's a lot of additional. vehicle traffic. I don't know if there's a condition. I, I don't know that I have a. Concern. Overall, I don't know, I guess it's just a point for the council to discuss. I don't know that I have a one of my questions was how do we know or regulate or understand, so I, my understanding is if there was expansion in terms of capacity of students. How would we know? There's a condition in here now, I think that says 70, um, so if they went beyond that, they would have to amend the CUP, so they're anticipating 65, I believe the condition is up to 70, so if I wanted more, they would, and I think. They've even said if they were going to expand they need to probably separate out maybe the high school students from the elementary students and look for a different location. Self-reported though, you know. When are you expecting school to begin? Is this, um, I mean, are you starting this school year or is this, are you planning for the future? You, if you would Yeah, because you're, you're Jake, is that right? Are you if you come up, introduce yourself, name and address. 15799 15th Street South in Afton, Minnesota. OK. And maybe just tell us a little bit more about this school and um, what your plans are and when it's starting like our kids beginning like on Tuesday. We're starting, yeah, that's with the timing, this is very tight timing. We've been going through the steps with their staff and they've been great to make us aware of uh what we need. To do and what information we can provide, so I'm happy to continue that tonight. OK. And do you have that many like signed up already, or are you gonna be at full capacity to begin with or you 2, like Janelle mentioned if we even got above that 70 mark, we'd probably just be looking for a new location, but we, we have an option for splitting off the um high schoolers as well as Janelle mentioned, so, so 52 to start. OK. I don't know if I could address some of the traffic concerns. I think the one thing that we talked about. With uh the staff was. The fact that it's, it's only a right turn going towards those other, um, school areas, so if someone was to go out of that um self exit, they're forced to the right, and have to go back around, um, the only other thing. Or two things I would mention is, um, most of our uh faculty also has kids that will be enrolled at the school. Uh, I would also mention that both of them are, um, homeschool families and if you know homeschool families, uh, they roll pretty deep, so I born and raised and graduated as one, so, uh, they're they're not usually, um. Two children families will come in 4 or 5. I mentioned that just because the amount of cars is probably even less than. What might be uh expected uh for uh the 4 of the faculty will have kids attending as well, so. Well, you're up there my other quick question was like external play, like is that anticipated that on the days that they'll be in attendance that they would be outside. They have a playground on the site where because of the backside of the church. Yep, it's a little hard to see on there, but you can kind of maybe see it back there, yeah, they actually just put in um a new playground and kind of redid the landscaping around it, but. Because it's a 3 day model. To be honest, there's not a lot of time for that. That's why we try to leave those Monday and Fridays for families to um have their own sports and arts and things like that. It's a pretty intensive intensive model that we're following, so and I just wasn't sure it was more just I was assuming that most likely that it would be geared towards the back of the property versus, you know, being in, yeah, they have that goes straight out to that area. I'm speaking of the model, I'm just curious to know a little bit more about the school because the 3 day is new and different. Is it, um, is there an accreditation program that you go through through the state and what is the, the purpose of that model? What's the benefit? So the parents are still acting as a homeschool family, so they still have to report back to the state, do all the state testing. Um, it just gives parents the ability that would like to still do some of their own forms of education, sports, arts to do it. And those other two days. But they, it gives them the ability to not have to completely manage your child's, um, education cause it's especially if you have a certain desire of uh this being considered a classical education, it's really hard to step in and um feel like you're doing a worthy job, and I speak from experience from myself and my wife. It's daunting to to do that, so. So all of them are technically homeschooled and they, OK, interesting. So it's a 513, but they still have to accredit themselves through the state, um, and do that testing like you mentioned. So and just to be clear, 17 years of I've been homeschooling. I just started my youngest, uh, in her PSEO or dual enrollment today at Northwestern. My son just started there. Oh, OK, we'll talk, um, this would have been very nice to have this close. My house because I live right in that neighborhood. was very beautiful. This has been part of her retroactively approve this. I'm gonna fail them and bring them I'm gonna fail them and bring them um. It's hard to explain homeschooling, um, and the 3D model and is this a classical conversations then or is it just? That's actually what we're coming out of um the, the difference is with classical conversations as a parent. You have to be very involved in it and, and very, uh, able to be there with the with the children during the day. Because you have to know what they're talking about so that you can do it the other days, um, and I think our feeling was, and obviously a lot of other parents that we have. They didn't feel like they were doing right by their child, uh. And that's not everyone, I mean, obviously it's different for everybody, but we certainly didn't, we felt like we want to give our kids a better education through people that were. More knowledgeable and um so. I like it. I just wanna say I'm, I am, believe it or not, 100% I'm bored with this. You'll see a lot of conversion bands roll up through there 4 kids will hop out and. I was one of 6 homeschool my mom, so there's a lot of tears, but she did get really good. Yeah, um. I, I don't even, I mean, I could go on and on about homeschooling, but that's would you like to make a motion? Can I? Yes. I don't think I've ever made one before, so I'm very happy. Wait, are we gonna put it up? I'm also nervous now. I don't know what to do. just kind of want me to read this one? You just read it from your sheet I make we approve the valor Classical Academy, conditional use permit based on the findings of fact and resolution number 24187. Project number 16, 2024 00555 subject to the conditions outlined in the council letter 24 to 31. Second, motion is second. Any further discussion? Harry Nun, the roll call, please. Council member Santini Councilmember Wilson, Council member dateate Councilmember Morris. I congratulations and uh. Kick off the school year on Tuesday. Yeah, good luck with all that. Thank you. Um, We will now move on to staff reports. Chris, it's your turn. Transportation report is the month of August. You have 2 more of these before you before you released of the of these duties is only allowed to give us positive news about construction. Are we done yet? Thank you. Good luck with everything. Although I haven't been here for a week, so I haven't been on like the highways. I don't even know what you get I don't know. I actually haven't tried. We'll find out tomorrow morning, um. Thank you, Mayor, members of the council for allowing me to present again another transportation update, uh, for the 2023, 24 roadway rehabilitation projects in Royal Oaks, phases 5 and 6 have completed their first lift of pavement. These are the pictures, lamplight drive looking south. And you can see the trucks lined up all filled with asphalt, ready to pave and looking the other picture lamplight Drive looking south is after that first wear course, which is the very usually comes in two lifts. That's the first lift. Phases 7 and 8, the remaining two phase of the project removals have been completed and underground utility work is ongoing. This is a picture of Queen's Drive looking south. Your favorite project, the I-94 construction, Minat's resurfacing product on I-494 between Highway 120 and Century Avenue and the Saint Croix River is scheduled to be completed this fall through September 14th, the I-94 westbound is reduced to two lanes between Century Avenue and Woodbury Drive, I 94 eastbound has two through lanes split to the left with one additional lane from Century Avenue to Woodbury Drive, available to exit and enter the freeway. There is a detour needed for those eastbound and iPhone 94 from west of I-494 that would like to exit on radio Drive or Woodbury Drive to be able to stay in the entrance and exit capable lane on 94, and the map shows that detail. So traffic going east past Woodbury Drive should use the left two lanes. Traffic exiting on the I-494,694, radio or Woodbury Drive should use the right lane. I will say that that's not very well signed and I ended up in Wisconsin accidentally. I did the same, OK, good. I don't feel bad trying to get home. I mean, I never drive anywhere working from home, but the one time I had to take 94 wrong lane and I was stuck and then I was like 10 minutes late to my next appointment cause I. Well, if the city had signed it, it wouldn't be an issue. Um, so when is, is that project complete then this fall? When do we know when? Well, it's stated October, so much of that depends on construction conditions, weather conditions. OK, couple more months and then it's done, and then we're done. Yeah. OK. I feel a little bit of reserve over there like it's supposed to be done. But if the state realizes they need to continue to do more next year. I think they won't continue to do more. I always get nervous around construction. Because if you have a, you know, a couple of weather events, it starts as cascading chain. And I think we're on target, and I don't think we're in a danger area. October is plenty earlier and I normally things go through almost to Thanksgiving. Uh, but after Thanksgiving, the plants usually shut down and it makes it impossible to continue construction. I'm showing I've not heard of this one before. Yeah, I mean the maintenance group came forward and said, hey, by the way, we'd like to do some ADA improvements, so cleaning up some of the ramps, um, cleaning up some of the ADA, um. Uh, PE signals. So eastbound is going to be worked on approximately 3 weeks, uh, to my very to my very surprise, uh, I totally forgot about this, and on Monday I drove in on 494, and then I watched as the lane to the uh to Valley Creek was backed up onto the freeway and. I got up to the end of the freeway and there was a lot of people standing around just like the me pointing in different directions but no work happening. So we are looking forward hopefully to getting this work done, Minats again doing this work. On the eastbound lane is. Uh, finished the westbound lane will be under construction. And at that point, um we we reached to a lane, but they'll also close the north ramp. To get back on the 494, so it's made life difficult for everyone in Woodbury, hence why I put frustration ahead and somebody tearing their hair out because I felt that way on the way to work the other day. And you said that's a 3 week deal, 3 week going eastbound. OK, 3 week going westbound but they just, I'm confused. What they're just putting in those little ramps, some of the sidewalks improvements and upgrades to some of the, the ped crossing signals. A lot of coordination at work and it, it gets slowed down because of all the detours and lane closures and other activities that happen. So why does Minot, why is Minat doing this and that because Minat owns all of the the the ramps on and off the freeway in this area. It's all they're saying it's the rent and there's a statewide initiative everywhere from Minda to update all of their ADAs, you know, accessibility areas. So this is just the first here, well, actually it's a second project this year. Um, but they're all over the state right now in every community. It's just coincidentally happening when we have all this other construction and I'm sure it's making people frustrated. Um, metro goal line, bus rapid transit project is still on target to be completed in 2025. Final wear course paving has been completed on Bileenberg and Geyer Drive. Lane striping will be occurring soon following by a newly installed traffic signals going live. Construction continues for the Queen's Drive, Tamarack Road, and Wood Lane Drive stations and the park and ride site. Ger Drive is open under limited access to provide better access to residents, so that work was supposed to be completed relatively soon. Glad that the Metro goal line, we're able to complete that because there was a lot of pavement ripped up and not a lot happening for quite some time. So our staff has worked really hard to to get the contractor to push that forward. Preparations for landscaping has begun with planter bed areas being excavated and their underlying soils being corrected for plantings instead of roadways, temporary and moving lane closures are still occurring throughout the project, as this landscaping work occurs in the boulevards and the bus guide where median areas. This is a picture of Lake Road, uh, west of Radio Drive. It's looking east, uh, construct, this is the construction of the final retaining wall near Radio Drive. It's scheduled to actually be completed this week and paving of the remaining trail corridor will follow. The project is on track to be completed by the end of September. The Bilenberg Drive rehabilitation and Correll Boulevard Roadway rehabilitation project. It's a mouthful, lane coaches on Bulenberg are being coordinated with the goal line project. Spot curb replacement and pedestrian ramp construction along Bileenberg Drive are complete, and the easterly trail along Belember Drive has been paved. Milling and paving operations on Bieberg Drive between Valley Creek Road and Geyer Drive is scheduled to start on September 4th, construction along Cle Boulevard is scheduled to start at the beginning of September. Eagle Valley Golf Course parking lot, um, construction started in the parking lot. It's going relatively quickly, uh, right after Labor Day, they're going to mill up the pavement. Um, they're gonna put the pavement back in that Wednesday and Thursday and the golf course will be back open in an operation for Friday and the weekend, so a relatively quick project. And it's just it's like a small project, but it's really the start of our water treatment pipelines project. Uh, this is an area of Wood Lane Drive in Hargus Parkway. Um, the important thing here was getting the water main underneath the access to Gordon Bailey Elementary, so that we can be open for the school year. And then one of our favorite things, which is not transportation related, but name the street sweeper contest. Again, we partner with South Washington Watershed District and Ramsey, Washington Metro Watershed District to increase street sweeping done throughout Woodbury, which we were just recognized for and 840 tons of material moved from the roadways out of the out of the water we 40 tons 40 tons. It's a tremendous route. Um, it's a tremendous um program. It does a lot of good. In fact, it may do more good than all of our BMP devices um together, so really proud of. Our staff partnering with the watershed districts to do this program. It is really impactful to water quality improvements. Again, we're naming our streetsweeper if you remember last year, the selected name was Obi-Wan Kenobi. I know there's a lot of fun names coming in. So if you'd like to, you can visit Woodbury Mn.gov Streetsweeper contest. Submit your potential names before September 2nd. If you have any questions, uh, please sign up for our project website at Intouch Woodburymn.gov in touch. If you have any questions tonight, I'd be free to answer them. Great. Thanks, Chris. Any questions? Oh, thank you. It's a lot of construction, a lot going on. All right, Clint. Said administrator's report. Thank you, Mayor Burt, uh, just a few mediums to take note of. So we have a neighborhood meeting planned for the Pioneer Drive and water treatment plant connection pipe project open house, which would be September 19th at 5 p.m. at the media center at the Lake Middle School, uh, 3133 Pioneer Drive. So the planning commission meeting on September 9th, we have uh no items yet listed. For the council workshop of September 11th, we have our annual budget workshop that does start early at 4 p.m. and it'll be held at the Public Safety Education Center, uh, per our past practice. For the council, um. Workshop meeting of September 25th. We have two items to discuss. One will be Safe Streets. Then second, I'll be returning back to you with our updated strategic plan statements from the council retreat earlier in the summer. For that meeting later, the regular meeting, we do not have any public hearings yet scheduled. Other meetings are the auto Investment Commission on August 30th, 7:30 a.m. Ash North and South conference room, the Parks and Natural Resource Commission will meet on September 10th, 7 p.m. at the Emh Fairview Sports Center, and then the Economic Development commission will have a meeting on September 24th, 7:30 a.m. in public works cover a conference room. So that is my report. Thank you. Any questions for Clint? OK, um, we now need to be moving into a closed session and I have an important statement to read. Um, this is for today, August 28th, 2024, pursuant to statutes Section 13D.05 subdivision 3B and based upon the advice of the City attorney. I recommend that the City council recess, the present meeting and enter into and hold a closed meeting to discuss the following active litigation. Raymond Lee versus Steve Woodbury, Washington County District court file number 82-CV. 23-4267. The reason for the City council's action to close the meeting results from the City council's conclusion that a balancing of the purposes of the attorney-client privilege for discussion of litigation status and strategy against the purposes of the open meeting law and open dissemination of information demonstrates the need for absolute confidentiality as to this act of litigation matter. The council will provide a report of the closed session at its next regular meeting on September 25, 2024. I now request a motion to recess the present mean to enter into and hold a closed meeting for the purposes stated above. Some of Motion, does anybody have a second? Motion is 2nd. Any further discussion? Carry none all in favor. I, we are adjourned to closed session."