for reinvision contract. And so then that was so Yeah. So then that was how Good evening. Welcome to the city of Woodberry's housing and redevelopment authority meeting. We are meeting here in council chambers. Today is April 16th, 2025. It is 7:30 p.m. This meeting is taking place here in person, but also virtually. People can join the meeting anytime by finding the agenda online, clicking onto the green button, and uh you're able to join the meeting remotely. So, uh in future, if that's of interest to anybody, that's how you get in. Um so, we're calling to uh call into order this meeting. Jamie Fritz or I'm sorry, Jamie Fritz is here to present things. But before we do that, um Eric, would you please do the roll call? Uh Commissioner Wilson here. Commissioner Santini here. Commissioner Stafford here. Commissioner Morris, Chair Bert here. We have four out of five here tonight. So, we're able to conduct tonight's business. The um first item on the agenda is the consent agenda. All items listed under the consent agenda are considered to be routine by the HA board and will be enacted by one motion and affirmative vote by roll call of the majority of the members present. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a commissioner or citizen so requests in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered a separate subject of discussion by the board. With that, is there anybody here that would like anything removed? Seeing none, I always have to check online with Ashley. Nobody online. Um so with that, um council members, any would anyone like to put forth a motion? I'll move to approve consent agenda items 3A and 3B. Second. Second. I think Kim be to it. Motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. The roll call, please. Commissioner Wilson, I. Commissioner Santini, I. Commissioner Stafford, I. Commissioner Morris. Chair Bert. I. Those consent agenda items pass. We will now move on to our public hearing. Um, we've got two of these tonight. Uh, 4 A and 4 B. Jamie Fritz, I'm going to turn it over to you and have you tell us more about both of these. All right. Thank you, Chair Bert. Um, so tonight's first public hearing is in regard to a request by Woodbury AH2 LLP uh for the HA to issue 22,250,000 in conduit revenue bonds. Uh the bonds are tax exempt. That's why we have to have this public hearing. and the H and since these bonds are conduit uh the city and the HA are not liable for the repayment of the proceeds of the bonds and the proceeds of the bonds are going towards the financing of the construction of reserve as settller's ridge. So this is for phase two. We already did the public hearing for phase one. Phase two, right? And reserve at Settler's Ridge is a affordable multif family workforce project. And staff's recommendation for the HA tonight is to adopt HA resolution 25-03 approving the plan for financing a multif family housing development and authorizing the issuance of multif family housing revenue bonds for the benefit of Woodberry AH2 LLP approving the forms and authorizing the execution and delivery of such obligation and related documents and taking certain other actions with respect there too. and then I'll open the floor to questions. And I just want to recognize that the developer is here tonight with us if there's projects about the questions. Um Blaine back. Okay. And then we also have Sophia Ley, the city's bond council here if there's any additional questions about the bond issuance. Okay. This is a pretty standard. We go through this. We've done this several times. Um I don't have any particular questions. Um this is a public hearing. The hearing is open. Um any comments from the public? Hearing none. Anybody online? No. Um, I'll make a motion that the hearing is closed. Second. Motion is second. Any further discussion? All in favor? I. I. Okay. Council members up to or you are not council members. You are commissioner. Your commissioners commissioners in this role. I just wanted to um verify and I know that you did say it, but I always like to point it out one more time. The $22 million we are only issuing it. We are in no way obligated to for for anything whether it's whatever correct they we are the conduit and then the developer is responsible for the repayment. Can you just clarify what it is that we are um are we just doing resolution 253? So the like I'm just looking at our document here. So the first paragraph is just the explanation and we're just doing what needs to be stated I guess is my question. The second paragraph the second paragraph so that's the title of the resolution. Okay. Anybody else? If there's no questions would you like to put forth a motion? I'll move to adopt HA resolution 25-03 approving the plan for financing a multif family housing development and authorizing the issuance of multif family housing revenue bonds for the benefit of Woodbury ah I llp approving the forms of and authorizing the execution and delivery of such obligation and related documents and taking certain other actions with respect there too second motion a second any further discussion hearing none the roll call please commissioner Wilson. I, Commissioner Santini, I, Commissioner Stafford, I, Chair Bert, I, that passes. And I have to say we're very excited. This project has been It always these things always take a few years in the making, and there's always the question is, is the financing going to come through? We're I think phase one is already underway, which is great. This is phase two. Thrilled. Um, we need more multi- um, we need more affordable housing, multif family affordable housing, workforce housing in our community. Um, and this has been a great project, so we're very excited about it. Yeah. And just one more. How many units does this add then? Just so each phase is 126 units. Yeah. Fantastic. All right. Thank you. You want to talk about the next project then specifically? Yep. So, uh, the second public hearing tonight is in regard to a request by LSBD Woodbury Manning LLC, uh, requesting that the HR issue a total of $55 million in conduit revenue bonds. So, a portion of that 55 million is going to be taxexempt, which is why we're having the public hearing. Another portion of that is going to be taxable. Um, and once again, the HA and the city, even if something is taxable or non-t taxable, uh, we are not liable for the repayment of these bonds. Um, and the proceeds of these bonds are going to go towards the construction of the Meadows at Prairie Ridge affordable multif family project, which is 237 units. And this is just a one-phase project, one building. And staff's recommendation for the H tonight is for the commissioners to adopt HR resolution 254. It's another long one. Approving the plan for financing a multif family housing development and authorizing the issuance of a multif family housing revenue obligation for the benefit of LSBD Woodbury Manning LLC approving the forms of and authorizing the execution and delivery of such obligation and related documents and taking certain other actions with respect there too. And once again, uh the developer for this project is here and Sophia like Ebon Council. Are you all sitting together? Are you all friends with one another or no? You are. Okay. All right. Well, thanks for all the great work. Um the hearing's open. If there's any public comment, we can take it now. If none, anything online? Probably not. Okay. I make a motion we close the hearing. Second. Motion a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I I Okay, the hearing is closed and up to commissioners now to ask questions. I guess one quick question I probably for both projects. When do we think we'll start to see construction? It's anticipated that this project would begin construction within the next month with grading activities. The Karen Drive project is under construction for phase one and you'll just see concurrent activity starting on the second phase here within the next couple weeks. Um, I should have asked this question for the previous one as well, but I think the answer is you can answer for both. Can you just talk about the state's involvement in this and that the release and the lottery that goes forward and who gets the money and all that and just give us a little update on that? Uh, so you're referring to the conduit bonds. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Or Yeah. When they Right. Yeah. So, um, the federal government allocates a certain amount of tax exempt bonds to each state. It's generally based on the population of the state and a dollar amount for each person of the population. And there's a it's called volume cap and every year there's a certain amount of volume cap that's set aside to the state and then some other entitlement issuers which would be the larger metro cities, Dakota County, and then the state of Minnesota. So since we don't have an entitlement issuer, we have to go to the state which is run by Minnesota management and budget for this process. And projects that are affordable have to go through a competitive process to apply for this volume cap. So since there's a very limited amount of volume cap, it is highly competitive. So and you know your placement in line or on a priority list is based on the type of project you have. So typically projects with uh lower u income rent limits don't kind you know they kind of bypass the line and then also preservation projects that would be projects that are already affordable refi you know taking out financing to remodel their building those also jump ahead. So projects like our two like the two that we have they have to compete with all the other affordable projects that are going after tax credits in the state. So it is very competitive. It can take time and if you want to be financed with tax credits, you have to have the tax exempt bonding. So without that, you don't get the other pieces of the puzzle to make these projects happen. So that's been part of the reason for some of the delay. I mean, we approved these projects. Eric, do you remember when in 20 last year? It was just 24. Okay. But waiting on you've gone through the process and I think one of them has gone through three times before they were approved and it happens about every six months with the state. So again, we approve these, but until the financing comes through, the project will not happen. So very pleased to know that the financing came through and that we can move forward with this. So thank you, state of Minnesota or whoever there helped make sure we our lottery working worked well or whatever it was. And mayor, do you also want to mention maybe some of the special uh quality of these particular lots in history? I think we've identified that uh through the federal government there were certain areas that were favored and these were kind of unique situations in Woodbury and they had a clock. I don't know if Eric you wanted to it's complicated but if you want to describe it or Jamie. Yes. So I think you know the initial interest with these properties came from a designation that comes from HUD. So the housing and urban development department at the federal level and they designate certain zip codes throughout the United States as difficult development areas other you know DDA I think is the term the acronym we were using. And what that does is that it provides a big boost in the amount of t tax credit equity that you can get to make these projects happen because to get that designation it needs to be an area where there's high cost of construction land acquisition but on the other side of that there's a need for you know rents that are at that tax credit maximum level. So there's a need for affordable housing, but the cost to get stuff done there is higher than other areas. And Woodbury happened to have one of, I think, three in the entire state of Minnesota, which is the 55125 zip code, which is crazy, right? Crazy rid I mean crazy, right? So a lot of things had to come together to make this happen. Yep. And they do change year to year, and we were able to lock it in for an additional year. So, like Glenn said, there is a clock on that and that's a super valuable tool that we could have lost out on having to continue to wait for, you know, that financing. Wow. So, really great. Amazing. And how many units is this project? Uh, this Meadows. Yes. Oh, 237. Okay, great. Any other any questions or comments? For the motion? Sure. I'll move to adopt H resolution 25-04 approving the plan for financing of multif family housing development and authorizing the issuance of multif family housing revenue obligations for the benefit of LSBD Woodbury Manning LLC approving the forms of and authorizing the execution and delivery of such obligation and related documents and taking certain other actions with respect there too. Second motion a second. Any further discussion hearing? None. The roll call, please. Commissioner Stafford I. Commissioner Santini I Commissioner Wilson I Chair Bert I that passes. So again thrilled to be having these. I would love an opportunity for the developers coming just if you want to share a minute or two about your projects and one of the things that people are always curious about is when will it be done and when can people start having an opportunity to move to these wonderful new buildings in our city. Would you would you like an opportunity to say anything? If you would you need to come forward to the microphone. state your name and address for the record and I don't know just let us know who you are. Absolutely. Mike Hudson, uh one of the owners of Broadway Street Development. Uh thank you so much for having us here today. Uh we're excited for the Meadows project and to be part of the community here. Uh as Jamie said, 237 units. It'll take us about 22 months uh for construction and we'll start leasing about 3 months ahead of time. Okay. Fantastic. And again being a multi- or you know family, it's designed for families. You've got two, three, and four bedroomedroom or just two and threebedroom. Just one, two, and three, but we're primarily two and three. Primarily two and three. Great. Yeah. Beautiful buildings, great great facilities. I mean, they, you know, while they're considered affordable, they really are they look like market rent apartments. I mean, these are not, you know, these are high quality buildings. So, absolutely, they should stand the test of time and compete with the market rate uh communities. So that's terrific. Thank you. Thank you. And would the other do the other one developer want to say anything? Again, put a plug in for yourself. Hello, chair and commissioners. Thank you for uh having us tonight and and considering and approving um our project. I'm Blaine Barker with Real Estate Equities uh representative for the Reserve at Settlers Ridge project. Um phase one did break ground in January. We expect to open late April. Um, so we'd start leasing probably in January. Uh, phase two will just real quick, late April of 2026. Okay. Late April of 2026. No, no one's moving in in two weeks, Rick. Wow, they were speeding. Um, phase two will break ground um late May, probably late May, early June. Um, and that'll open late summer of next year as well. That's great. And your units are one, two, and three bedrooms as well. uh one, two, three, and some fours. Um but primarily two and three bedrooms and threes. Yeah. Terrific. Okay. Well, thank you. Good luck to both of you on these projects. Again, thrilled that they're coming here to Woodbury. Yep. Thank you all. Yep. Thank you. Um that's it. No discussion items. Um I think that's it for this meeting. I make a motion that we adjourn the H meeting. Second. Motion second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? We are adjourned. and we will momentarily just roll into our city council meeting next. Lisa will Oh, are we already there? Oh, we must already be there. Okay, we've rolled right in. Um, welcome to the city of Woodberry's city council meeting for today. It is April 16th, 2025. It is 7:46 and we are beginning this meeting. Um, it's taking place here in person. Glad to see people in in our audience. It's also um broadcast virtually and people can find that by going online to the agenda, find the green button, click it on and you can join our meeting. Um as with is our standard for doing conducting these meetings, we always start with the pledges pledge of allegiance and I ask you to join me in doing the pledge. 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. Okay. Um Ashley, our city clerk and assistant city administrator, would you please do the roll call? Council member Santini here. Council member Stafford here. Council member Wilson here. Mayor Bert here. And council member Morris is absent. Okay. We are here tonight to We've got a quorum. we can conduct tonight's business. So, we have a couple uh special orders of business tonight, and this is always very exciting. We have amazing people in our community that do amazing things supporting one another. Um and I'd like to bring up um Director Jason Posal, our director of public safety to talk about um a community member merit award that's going to be presented tonight. Thank you, Mayor Burton, city council members. I'm going to invite up George. George, come on. George, this is George Frambo. He's uh we're going to talk about his actions here. Um, you know, we put a lot of time and energy and resources in addressing fraud in the community and we host informational events. We attend events throughout the year and we're active on our social media as well to investigate these crimes. We have designated detectives who are working specifically on these cases utilizing specialty equipment and technology and we work closely with our regional partners as well. But we can't do it alone. Uh, we need the help of families, businesses, friends, and other community members to help protect our community. So tonight we're recognizing George Frambo. Uh George stepped up to help a community member that he barely knew. So on December 23rd, 2024, George was working as an Uber driver when he received a request for a pickup at a senior living complex in Woodbury. George picked up the 84year-old woman who needed a ride to the bank. During the trip, George noticed the woman had her phone, was on the phone with a man who was instructing the woman not to call the police and not to talk to the Uber driver. The man was directing her to withdraw $20,000 in cash from her bank. Realizing that something was wrong, George returned to the senior living complex and immediately contacted the police. Because of George George's quick thinking and attention to detail, officers were able to intervene and speak to the woman, confirming that she was being targeted in a scam. George's actions ensured the woman did not lose any money, and the scammer's plans were thwarted. George's awareness and compassion made him a true holiday hero for this woman. For this alert and caring deed, George is being recognized with the Woodbury Public Safety Community Member Merit Award. And I'm going to go ahead and read that um from directly from the reward from the award. Because of your quick thinking and attention to detail, Woodbury Police officers were able to intervene and speak of the woman being targeted in a scam. Your dedication ensuring ensured this woman did not lose any money and the scammer's plans were thwarted. For this alert and caring deed, you are being recognized with the Woodbury Public Safety Community Amerit Award. Great job, George. Thank you. I got to come and shoot your hand. I'm so impressed. Thank you so much. Wonderful. Would you like to take a picture with her group? You guys could just stand back here. How about um detectives that were involved? You want to be in here, too? You guys are do amazing work. Yes, they do. Are you just overwhelmed, huh? You're just so kind. Thank you for what you've done. You're an amazing man. to be that aware. It's just remarkable and really and really just to just not only be aware but to take the initiative to do something about it afterwards. That's caring. Yeah. All right. All right, between the two of us, I think we got some hope. Thank you. Do you want to say anything or you're welcome to say something if you want to or if it's overwhelming you don't want to, that's fine, too. Again, just so appreciative of having wonderful people like you. I just want to thank my mayor, the city, and everybody here, the officers. It's overwhelming. Please, excuse me. I'm very, very emotional. But I just want to ask the city to do me one favor. Please in all the senior homes in the city, I want you to make a requirement that all the frontline staff should be trained on educated on this type of uh incidents because they are on the front line. when the incident happened, the first place I went to because I had the senior um citizen in the car, she wanted to get out. And so what crossed my mind was she could it could become a situation where she could say I was holding her against the wheel. So I went in and I was trying to get help, but I couldn't get help from anyone. And so I had to come back into the car. The only reason why she couldn't open the car and get out was because she was relying on me to bring her wheelchair. And so I really comfort her and I begged her. I said, \"Please be patient.\" I said, \"I will do everything to get help.\" And I want to thank you for recognizing me because you yourself, you do understand that there's a problem. This is a this is a nationwide problem and it doesn't happen only to senior citizens. even some of you or myself, every other person could be a victim to this very same crime. And I want to thank you. Thank you so much for your good work. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] Yeah, unfortunately scamming is real. I have a a a dearly beloved person who almost got scammed last night. and I know very well. It was just very it's crazy. So, yeah, any additional education support we can give to our senior community. We need to do that. And again, thank you so much, George. Um, next item on our agenda is public service recognition week proclamation. So, I have a proclamation to read. This is always very exciting. Although, uh, Jason, do you want to are you going to say anything about this? I can't remember if we No, I'm just going to read the proclamation. Okay. We have a lot of things tonight that we're reviewing. Okay. So this is proclamation of the city of Woodbury, Washington County, Minnesota for several items. We've combined them all into one. We used to do one at a time and this time we're combining them. Public service recognition week is May 4th through May 10th. Peace Officers Memorial Day is May 15th. National Police Week is May 11th through May 17th. And Emergency Medical Services Week is May 18th through May 24th, all in 2025. So really like four weeks in a row of great celebrations. So I hope you get a lot of cake and cookies and whatever fun stuff. So whereas the city of um sorry whereas the services of the city of Woodbury employees are a vital importance to the health, safety and well-being of all citizens and vitality of the businesses of the city of Woodbury. Whereas the members of the Woodbury public safety department police division play an essential role in working collaboratively with federal, state, county, and other law enforcement agencies to promote safety and safeguard freedoms of Woodbury residents. Whereas the city of Woodbury acknowledges the sacrifices of the public safety employees that they make in serving the community with compassion every day as well as those officers both locally and nationally who have sustained injuries or lost their lives in performance of their duties. Whereas emergency medical services is a vital public service and the Woodbury emergency medical services team used their medical expertise and compassion to provide life-saving medical care to those in need 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Now therefore, I anne Wbert, mayor of the city of Woodbury, Washington County, do proclaim May 4th through May 25th, 2025 to be public service recognition week, May 15, 2025 to be peace officer memorial day and May 11th through May 17, 2025 to be police week. Furthermore, I hereby proclaim that May 18th through May 24th, 2025 be the Emergency Medical Services Week in Woodbury. I encourage members of the community to observe these designations and express their appreciation of the important services provided by the city of Woodbury personnel. So, uh, once again, you know, we say this all the time, one of the reasons why we have the community that wants to be here, live here, play here, thrive, go to school, work, all of it, is because we've got a very safe community. And it's all due to the dedication and work by Jason, you and your entire team. So, thank you very much for that. [Applause] And now we're going to talk about the police K9 unit. We've got a visit. If you you heard it before, if you I don't know if you turned and saw it, but those dogs are always they're very excited and they pants when they when they do so. But we're here for the police K9 unit visit and the protective vest demonstration. And I would like to invite up uh Bob Bixby who is the current president of the Woodbury K9 Fund. um and director Jason Posel to tell us a little bit more about this wonderful demonstration and I think a donation. Yes. Thank you again, Mayor Bur and city council members. Uh tonight we're gratefully ex gratefully accepting the donation of two state-of-the-art protective K9 vests. So the fund purchased these vests the funds to purchase these vests came from a generous community donations to the nonprofit the Woodbury Police K9 Fund of which Bob is the president of. um has allowed us to purchase these special vests and I say special uh because they are just that uh these come from Canada. These are from a company called K9 Storm. Um they are custom measured and made for each individual dog. Uh the vests weigh 1 and a2 pounds. Um and this is by design which means that they're light enough that they can regularly wear them without getting fatigued. Um they offer ballistic protection and stab protection for our for our K9 partners. Um, they're also really expensive. So, they cost just over $3,500 each. Um, with that high of a price tag, it would be prohibitive for us to be able to purchase these through our city K9 budget. And that's the where the Woodbury Police K9 um has stepped forward as they've done so many time um to fund raise for for this equipment um for this life-saving equipment and and other equipment and the purchase of our dogs along the way um allowing us to support this amazing K9 program which in turn support our officers which in turn supports our entire community. So next I'd like to turn it over to to Bob Bixby. Thank you Jason. I just wanted to uh introduce myself and say thank you to Donna for um allowing me to be the second president of this K9 fund. So uh extremely excited to and look forward to growing and developing and working for for our Woodbury Police Department and the K9 program. So and then along with me is Jen Golden who's also here and I think we have a little demonstration that's going to we're going to have the dogs come up and you're present share their share their talents. Mhm. And then Bob, I don't know if you want to share what your current experience is with the vest. All right. All right. You're going to have to introduce the K9 partners, yourselves and the K9 partners like So, I am Officer Robert Boline. And as you can see here, my dog is a almost four-year-old German Shepherd and his name is Ekko and he currently has the vest on. So aside from patrol, um I'm also on our SWAT team. So this does benefit us for call outs as well um with the extra protection. So um so is that will that vest will he wear that every day when he's on duty essentially or uh during callouts? Yes. or during calls uh on the road as well. Um but in between or just in the vehicle not is not Yeah, they're very they're very simple to put on. They just slip the legs through, zip up on the back, and then clip along the sides here. So, are they made of Kevlar then or there's Kevlar in them? Still the material that's mostly used for Yep. the same same material that's in all of our vests as well. Um and it fully protects both sides along with his chest and all the way almost down to his full belly. How's he like it so far? He does not seem to mind it at all. Um, very easy to put on for him and very tolerable. Fantastic. And for the public, the history with the previous ones were they were really heavy, right? And they didn't breathe very well. Correct. And so if the dogs are out working, it also exerts a lot more energy with that extra weight and not being a breathable material, especially in the summertime as well. How much heavier were the other ones? Uh, they're like 8 to 10 pounds. That's significant. That is these kind of expand with um Yeah. Hi, I'm Cameron voice. Nope, that's fine. I'm Emily. Um this is K9 Kane. Uh he's four and a half. Um but yeah, the old ones they were so heavy and these ones kind of expand with the ribs, so if they're out uh running or tracking or something like that, um they uh it's almost like the dogs don't even know what's on. So, um very versatile. Um there's some people that keep these vests on for their whole entire shift. Um Bob and I are just kind of figuring things out what works best for us. So but very grateful for it. That's fantastic. I'm just curious, normally they're just with you all. They're handlers, but do they get along together? Are they buddies or are dogs not really? No. Yeah, we have not we have not tested their buddiness yet. Yeah, our dogs think they're the best of the best each one. So, they're so alpha that um their personalities would not click very well. So, yep. Good to know. Well, thank you for being the K9 handlers and having uh your partners with you all the time. We appreciate that extra effort that you all go through. Thank you. Very appreciative about the fun for doing this. So, fantastic. Thank you. Bob, do you want does anybody want a picture? Do you guys We would love to do a picture. Okay. Do you want Can they Can you guys like separate yourselves on that side? Maybe we'll just stand up behind. Oh, a little visit. Okay, Donna, come on over. You got to stand up over here. Oh, I got to stand up. Yep. Bob wants I know Bob wants to get in the picture. Kim's got to get in the picture. Are the chairs in the It's probably Are they both Are they both male dogs? Yes, they are. They want to chase. Is that what Are you just teasing? What are you doing? Kane wanted to play. Can I make one more quick announce? Yes, you absolutely. Come on up, Bob. Andrew Andrew is also receiving a dog here soon, and we're excited to be uh having our third K9. All right. In Woodbury. So, is there a name for the new one yet? Yeah. Not yet. No. Is there a competition like Yeah, I guess so. Okay. And when is this one coming? Um I believe sometime in June and then K9 school in August. So very excited for that. Very fantastic. Well, thanks to the K9 fund for all you've done. Again, we as a city would not be able to do these programs and afford all this. So without the K9 fund, this wouldn't happen. So thanks to Donna, President Emmeritus, and Bob, current president. Thank you. And your whole team. Your whole team. Absolutely. Oh, you want to do you want to do a fundraiser? Isn't there a fundraiser next week? I heard about maybe next next Tuesday at Northern Tap House from 5 to 8:00 p.m. It's going to be 10 10% of all proceeds that are purchased at Northern Tap House will go back to the fund. Fantastic. Primrose and Primrose May 17th. May 17th. Yeah. Great. Absolutely. Thank you. Thanks. Um, okay. The next item on the agenda is an open forum. Typically, I usually talk about green sheets, filling them out. I don't Is anyone here for open forum? I don't think so. Is everybody online for open form? Okay, then we'll skip the open forum. Nobody's here to do that. We'll go 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 affirmative vote of roll call by 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 by the council. With that, does anybody want anything removed? No. Anybody online? Ashley? No. Council members, anything to be removed? Cross some off my list. Save some time. Oh, all of them? Nope. Just some. Okay, let's not get Okay. 6 M as in Mary and 6S as in Sam. Okay. M as in Mary and S as in Sam. Okay. That would be the fund closings and the SRO. Okay. Y terrific. Okay. Would someone like to put a forth a motion for all the others? I can move to approve consent agenda items technically 6A through 6R with the exception of 6M as well as the exception of 6S. Second motion is second. Any further discussion hearing? None. The roll call, please. Council member Santini, I. Council member Stafford, I. Council member Wilson, I. Mayor Bert, I. those consent agenda items pass and we will take up the uh the ones that were removed in just a moment. But we just had a couple uh buried in the consent agenda were a couple key um items that got approved and I just wanted to share and highlight this for uh those that are listening um because I think they're pretty important. One of them is the solar array at the fleet services building. Um this uh first item was award was awarding the construction contract for a roof mounted solar system on the fleet services building along tower drive south of elicook road. In 2018 the facility was constructed to allow the future installation of a 120,000 rooftop solar array designed to offset approximately 105% of the building's annual electrical use. So again remember the building was 2018. It's now 2025. We've been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to do this and it always comes with some financing requirements. So, the $55,000 project came in at 23% under the estimated cost. Several external funding sources including the inflation reduction act clean energy investment tax credit, the photo voltaic photovoltaic demand writer credit, and a Minnesota pollution control agency local climate action grant will help help pay for this project. As a result, the project is positioned to achieve maximum return on investment with an estimated payback period of eight to nine years. In add in addition, staff was recently notified that the city has been selected as a recipient of the MPCA, that's the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency implementation grants for community resilience grant for a battery energy storage system at the fleet services building to tie into the new solar array. Acceptance of the grant and more information about this project will be considered by council in early May. These projects continue to advance the city's environmental stewardship plan goal of sourcing 100% of municipal building electricity from renewable energy by the year 2035. So, yay. And I know if Andrea is listening, our former council member, she worked and wanted very much to get this project done during her term. It always takes a little bit longer. So, Andrea, thanks for all your support. We're making it happen. Yep. Um all right. And then in addition, the other one that was uh approved was the Woodbury Water Wise implementation program. Um this second item was related to approving the cooperative agreement between the city and the South Washington County Wershed District, SWWD, for funding the water wise implementation program. Under this agreement, the watershed district will provide the city $25,000 to support the residential smart irrigation controller program and drum roll please. The toilet replacement rebate program with a required 25% I'm sorry, a required $25,000 or 50% city match. These city- managed programs include selling water sense certified smart irrigation controllers at a discounted rate to participating households, reimbursing up to $100 for toilet installation to participating households, and monitoring water use changes resulting from the installation of these water sense labeled devices. The city's goal is to distribute 6,500 water sense labeled smart irrigation controllers and 5,500 water sense labeled toilet replacement through the life of the program. Since 2016, the city has distributed 40 4,115 irrigation controllers. So, let's see, that's that seems like two about twothirds of our goal. Um, and 1,3 which is only 20% of our goal of the low flush model toilets and reduce the water consumption by an estimated 126 million gallons per year. It's a lot of water. Uh this program aligns with the grant application and management policy objectives in the environmental stewardship plan. So thank you everyone for your continued engagement as we work together to implement the goals of our new environmental stewardship plan. And you can always stay informed about roadway and trail impacts through the oh through construction by signing up as we've got a lot of construction going on besides all this um by uh signing up to woodburym.gov in touch to get more information about all of that. So, thanks again everybody. Very, very proud and thanks to all the city staff that work so hard to make all those things happen. Um, Chris, do we know when the solar array project will be completed? We're always looking for that final date. Mayors members of the council, the both the photo voltaic array and the battery energy storage system will be completed this year. This year? Okay. Will we be able to climb on the roof and get a photo of city council? Is that possible amongst the array? Yes. As well as drone footage. Good. Because we want to we'll want to highlight that. Um, okay. Let's uh let's handle these items that were removed. Kim, let's see. We'll start with what was it? M. Uh, and please uh share with us some of your thoughts. First, I want to go back to 6F and just say I appreciate the statement there because some of the questions I had were answered in that statement, which is why I was going to pull it. So, thank you very much. Okay. So, um 6M was the fund um 2024 fund closing and transfer of assets. Um uh uh I believe that the sports center utility or I'm sorry, sports center enterprise naming the naming rights. Yes, I'm I'm just I'm going to stick with generic terms. the naming rights for the sports center. That money is that fund that was set aside in its own account um is has been under the approval of the 2025 budget folded into the just general sports center. Um uh council member Wilson correct though a little more specific to the capital side. Okay. So it's not part of the operating revenues it'll be part of assets there. So when the HVC system needs to be replaced or major roof repairs or other improvements you want to do, perhaps there's additions to the facility, it's there within the capital portion of the sports center. Okay, I appreciate that. It's always been um council's intention since that had started that that money would be used for something special and not folded into just the whether it be the general fund or the capital fund or whatever that we could somehow highlight this was done because of the naming rights of the sports center. So that was one of a few reasons why I voted no to the budget and it will be again the reason why I'm voting no to this. Just uh if I could just add a clarifying point. So those monies sit there um they're available to the council and should you in the future have an improvement that you want to dedicate the money to, you'll be able to. So because it's not in operating, it's not going to just be used for programming or staff because it's in the capital side. You can use it for capital systems replacement or if there's an improvement project that comes about, you'll be able to use it for that as well. Correct. I think the intent though of the council when it had first when it was first done was that this money would be used whether it be at health east health east or um somewhere else. But I think it was decided because it was health east we should um keep it there. something specific to that whether it would have been some uh I think there were a lot of things tossed around at that time from benches or resting areas to outdoor exercise equipment something that that money could tangibly be seen uh within the community that this is what the naming rights have produced. So although I can appreciate that it's now in the capital side of things, I think that money will tend to get lost in there as opposed to being in its own special fund. So, but it is something that the council agreed to during the budget meetings and decided to point it in that direction and use it for that purpose um and have it available which is why I voted one of the reasons why I voted no to the budget at that time and why I will vote no for this and I just want to clarify for because it might get a little bit confusing with the minutes because it used to be called Benberg at one point it was healthies I only called it healthies yeah I think you call it but but it's Mhl Fairview sports center so just to clarify those all the same if for the purpose of the minutes if they just want to call it a sports center I think that would sports center simplify things it'll always be Benberg to me because that's how it was for so many years so I'm really trying to get the name correct and I I am very sorry about that especially since we're talking about naming rights to say if I could just add a little bit and I don't want to sound uh um you know like we're trying to pat ourselves on the back too much But to do this was really unique for a public entity. Now certainly private entities had done naming rights and the man across the way spent many an hour in negotiating this um you know and it involved uh the Minnesota United was a complex transaction. Minnesota United the city um health east it was it was quite an agreement very unique. I have had many city managers contact me and say how did you do that? How did you arrange that? So frankly this is a million plus at a disposal through the naming rights and I also have to thank the Beenberg family. We went directly to them and said how would you feel if we um entered into a licensing arrangement and removed your name and put in corporate and they couldn't have been more welcoming. So we really owe a a debt to the Belenberg family. Um they didn't control that was the first mayor of Woodbury. It was the first mayor of Woodbury know that and and the family members that remained. So they were very kind and gracious and humble about it. Um the doggginess of our assistant community development director who had quite a threeparty u situation going on. The creativity and the willingness of the council to go forward with this. Again, it was it was quite new and in setting some um some ability for us to do improvements like you described, Council Wilson, we haven't touched those monies. We've let them grow and it is that something special in our account should we want to use it, but in the end, the council is the deployer of that. I mean, we as staff might bring one ID or another, but you you the council or whoever's at the council at the time will make the decision on how they want to use it, when they want to use it, and what do they want to use it for. So, what a wonderful asset to have. We're very blessed by it. It has kind of a long crazy history that maybe someday it'll get written up. Um, but we're really, yeah, grateful for these funds that were able to be located and frankly in the end just it was simplifying our accounting. we had in a special account. It just sat there and so why not just fold it in with the existing that is a u a uh enterprise fund so it does stand alone. It doesn't get mixed with other tax revenues. So and just real quick does it have its own line item under the but like is it'll it'll it'll be so the revenues are tracked annually. That's that's what I'm just wondering. We can keep continuing to understand and learn and appreciate how much it's grown or how much is there. Okay. So, we could so we could So, you're saying I understand what you're you want in a line item in the um sports center budget for the naming rights. So, we'll have a revenue line item. Um if the council wants sort of a a sub fund balance number, we can accomplish that. Just it's again every fund we had adds a little complexity. We can do a sub number relative to this if council wants that. Um, but you will definitely have a revenue number, but it will only show, just to be clear, it will only show this one time and then after that it it will just be in the capital part of the sport. Capital fund balance is what our plan was. Correct. But, you know, again, the council can say we want to have um the fund balance divided into two pieces. the general capital fund balance and we want to have this as a sub to that. I would love to see that that we don't co-mingle and just so we can keep track. It's the same fund. Same fund. Same fund totals up together. Two different. Right. Exactly. Two little. Yes. Exactly. I think that would be helpful just for ongoing visibility. Sounds good. I appreciate that. Thank you. And one less fund to account for. Yeah. Right. Yep. Got it. I'll move to adopt resolution 25-87. Then a resolution authorizing the closing of three certain funds and transfer of assets and liabilities. Second. Motion second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. The roll call, please. Council member Stafford. I. Council member Wilson. No. Council member Santini. I. Mayor Bert. I. That resolution passes. All right. And 6S. S is in Sam. So this was tabled from our last meeting uh the SRO agreement which uh again for the record very happy that we have an agreement and that our um public safety department is now um covered uh not not only with a monetary agreement but with very clear uh job responsibilities and what is expected and not expected within the so I had concerns working um five four months five months without a contract. But um I know it was tabled last time because of the whereas and I know it seems crazy and almost petty to some people, but I guess my question is e even though we were supposed to get a copy of the 23155 letter that was sent to the school district. I don't believe we have. Um and then the second question I have is I've noticed that that whereas is taken out alto together now who who doesn't want it in who doesn't want that whereas in I think that there was the um mutual decision and recommendation of staff of both the city and the school district that if there was going to be debate about the language that would go into that whereas clause it would be easiest and most expedient to just remove it because it didn't affect the functionality or the the legal obligations in the contract and if parties are going to debate about it, we might as well just remove it. But I mean, I guess at the last council meeting, you know, it was the the version we had it was in and then it was mentioned or pointed out that that version is was not the most recent and updated version. We were on like version 42 or something. I don't know. So, who is it that doesn't want it in there? I mean, obviously, it came to us with it in, but somewhere between getting into our file and coming to the council meeting, it wanted someone wanted it removed. So, my question is who who doesn't want it in there? Do you want to just clarify though? Because it there were two different which whereas clause are we talking about? There was the original where as clause which we thought was agreed upon and then it went to the school board for re well you tell me I don't know it gets complex. So there was a a version in your council packet that was I think crafted and that where particular where clause that was in your council packet was crafted by me. Uh the school district prior to it ever becoming before you. the school district had requested a change to it and I looked at their change and I said to myself uh as your city attorney, \"All right, you're trying to word smmith my whereas clause. I'm just going to let it fly and slide because I just want to get this contract done.\" But then inadvertently staff put my version of the SRO agreement, my original version with that whereas clause into your council packet rather than the version that the school district wanted the change language to. So I pointed that out to you at the last meeting. Um and then based upon all the back and forth and the discussion of the council at that last meeting, we felt it was best to just remove that and the school district was agreeable to removing that where clause as well. Version one of the wearers clause isn't in there. Version two, the updated one wasn't in there. Both are removed. We now don't have that particular wear clause. Correct. Right. Okay. Um okay. Somebody must not want it in there for some reason. I can't figure out why. I still feel that this is not an accurate description of what exactly happened. So, and I I would have liked to have seen the letter that actually went to the school district that um council had given direction to would have made it easier for me to come to a conclusion on instead of surmising or guessing or relying on one person's um recollection of what the letter said. So, and counc apologize for not following up on that. Um did look at it. The language is is an email from myself to the school. Um the language is very clear about the termination of the agreement. So there really from our perspective there's no mystery on whether we terminated the services or not. We did. So did you did you send an email to the district to terminate though? very next morning after the council direction I emailed to the uh school superintendent the direction of the city council but not a formal letter. Well, no, it was an email but it was received and it was acknowledged. Um the point being though is this agreement and its nature and its history is really past us. And so right now we're talking about the present and the future. And so you know I appreciate just dropping that clause as a clause of contention based on each party's view. And really it isn't germanine to providing SRL services today. So and that's a very that that point is a very good point. It really isn't germanine. It doesn't need to be in there. There's past history that's recorded in other ways. It's not necessary to go forward. Yeah. So with that, I'd like to adopt resolution 25-91, amended resolution authorizing the approval and the amended agreement between the city of Woodbury and South Washington County School District 833 for school resource officer services. Second. Motion is second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, the roll call, please. Council member Wilson, no. Council member Santini, I. Council member Stafford, I. Mayor Bert, I. That resolution passes. Jason and team and everyone from who has ever worked on this, city attorney, everything. Thank you for getting this done. Happy to be moving forward. It's taking a while to resolve. Okay. Uh Clint, you have a little bit of an update here as a city administrator report. Thank you, mayor. And a little bit is right. Uh just a couple meeting items to note. So, we have a neighborhood meeting for the Ranch Road edition, uh 8040 Ranch Road on April 21st, 6:00 p.m. at the council chambers. For the economic development commission meeting of April 22nd, we have four items. We have destination Woodbury update, economic development dashboard, business celebration update, and development update. And then for the uh council workshop of April 30th, I should note this is a five Wednesday month. So, we have a special council workshop. It is only going to be a workshop. We'll have a um discussion of the replacement of the city administrator, my position finalist selection. We'll be having u a number of community development related items. We'll talk about the housing redevelopment authority. We'll discuss a little bit about the housing action plan. We'll talk about the local affordable housing aid from the state. Uh we'll be discussing the 2050 comp plan and the process for that. And we'll also be discussing the opening of subphase 2D. So it should be a very interesting meeting. Terms of other I ask a question on that. Is that when the Washington County CDA is are they part of that with we're talking about all those things or is that a different meeting? So we in in light of the League of Cities form that they did and the housing presentation. We felt in the end it wasn't necessary for them to come to the meeting. The schedules got a little bit difficult too. So, um, okay. We we thought about and certainly it's an open meeting for any of the CDA members to attend, but we thought that the majority of what they would bring has been already been presented to the council. Perfect. Thank you. I didn't mean to interrupt you. That was my report. That was just it. Okay. All right. I make a motion that we adjourn this meeting. So, um, motion a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. We are adjourned. And by the way, we're moving right into a workshop. And this time it's a cherry right next door.