All right 7 p.m. We will call this meeting to order please stand for the pledge
Oh, we have a visitor
Yeah, Shane with the coalition of greater Minnesota cities is going to give a little legislative update and what the
organization does for us
How's that I'd made that up
Full great all sounds great. That was a great improv from Clinton. Well, thank you mayor and council for having me again
My name is Shane
Which sparked some discussion about the 1953 film Shane before the council meeting began is how we got on the movie topic
But Shane's art. I'm with a firm called Flaherty and Hood
But here today because our firm represents the coalition of greater Minnesota cities at the Capitol. So
First we always start these with what is the CGMC?
Which is a review for some like Clinton, but might be new to others
But the CGMC is a membership organization more than 110 cities outside of the seven county metro area
so we represent
You and our member cities at the Capitol on a few key issue areas
LGA and property taxes is always a number one for us since that's I know it's budget season here
So top of mind, but that's top of mind for us all the time at the Capitol
Environment and energy which also you know tends to include under the umbrella water wastewater infrastructure work on behalf of our cities
Housing which we'll touch more on
Transportation which Clinton has been a leader on for a number of years
annexation land use labor and employment and then as issues pop up that
Deeply impact rural communities in particular over the years. We've also added to this list a couple more recent examples of that or issues like child care or
EM apps emergency medical services
So what am I doing here today is we tend to after each legislative session
Try to get to as many of our member cities as we can give you an update
Let you make me stand here so you can throw questions at me about the
Legislature or what we do
This one comes sometimes we're here right after session
Sometimes we're here before the next session. This one kind of falls right in the middle a little later into fall
So we'll have to really rewind but but so we'll do a little looking back and looking ahead though
I also see you've got some materials in your packet
I sent to Clinton in advance those kind of go deeper on a few issues
Those are mostly meant as for your information. Maybe you read them in advance. Maybe you'll read them after
Maybe they'll look nice in the recycling bin
but you have those at your disposal too and and
But I will be touching on a few of those especially on the front handout that's titled
2026 session report but
To kind of set the stage as we do these things I know I'm on a time pressure here because Dairy Queen closes at 8
I just heard so yeah
But I'm not gonna scare you too much, but we got to rewind to January February heading into this legislative session
Expectations to say the least were very low by there was not a lot that the Legislature was expected to do
There was not a lot that I think between
Doctor members of both parties that they felt like they had to get done
They'd passed a two-year state budget in the previous session in 2025
There were maybe a few lingering issues like it might be nice to do a
Infrastructure bill this year to keep some projects moving forward, but part of that was influenced by politics to the
Legislature these past two years has been as tightly divided as it possibly can
As many of you know the house is tied
67 67 which means everybody has to get along at least somewhat to get anything done the Senate
I guess thankfully has an odd number of members so they can't tie but is as tightly divided as it can be it says
One seat DFL majority 34 members to 33 members in the Senate
So that means everything is a bipartisan negotiation which I I know
It's easy to become a cynic if you're watching the Capitol too much even when
There's a the terms are better. It's hard to expect everybody to get along after a while
But the agenda I know we're
Standing here with the the benefit of being able to look back and see that they did get some things done
They did pass a bonding bill had some good
Funding for infrastructure throughout the state had a number of local projects in it
So what transpired in between there a few things I think pushed
the
Legislature to have to compromise on a few issues one of those was the
Financial stability of hCMC you had a big county medical center
Was located in downtown Minneapolis, but legislators from both parties with that institution facing a fiscal cliff
I don't think that anyone was dying to be in this position
But had to coalesce around the idea that hCMC is so central to our state's ability to
Respond to medical emergencies that the state had to step in and do something stabilize that
institution
And then a number of other issues. I think
Forced at least some conversation compromise
One of them that gets a lot of headlines is the fraud issue in state programs
There were some bipartisan compromises on that issue to repeal certain programs to initiate investigations into others
But it really took a couple of issues like that where legislators had to act that kind of create the the
The conditions for a compromise on other things like a bonding bill down the line
So bonding very important to us as an organization of local governments
If the legislature doesn't pass bonding bills that often means that other things fall behind
That if the state doesn't continue invest in bonding bills that often means that programs that fund you know
Local roads local bridges all those go either unfunded or just fall behind it also matters
What's in a bonding bill?
So there was a bonding bill in 2025
But the legislature made a choice last year to really only fund state programs
You know state assets invest heavily in those or to some extent to where local governments did realize some some funding through the 2025 bill
It was through state programs or public facilities authority certain deed programs
Did receive a little bit of money in last year's bill, but the state kind of looked out for itself in 2025
There's no reason to say that some of those state assets aren't important
But a lot of local governments were left on the outside looking in
last year's bill so a lot of hope that
2026 would bring a bonding bill that invested a little more broadly
the
Outcome I'd say across the mostly across the board on 2026 and bonding is positive
the
Thanks to the efforts of cities throughout the state and some organizations that represent local governments including CGMC
Significant investments into local roads local bridges public facilities authority programs that help fund water wastewater upgrades
Where I invest in I even well above what the governor's proposal was that doesn't happen without
Somebody else pushing for it hard and in this case that was local governments
one the one caveat that
Was a little bit of a disappointment to the CGMC, but I think hopefully won't have much impact on Jamesville
It led service line replacement as you know many of you know
This with both the federal government and the state have by their set
Mandates or goals that we eliminate led service lines for drinking water in
Well throughout the entire country by by the late 2030s, but the state has set a goal
It's a little more aggressive than that back in 2023. We helped
We worked with some other organizations including a kind of coalition of labor local government
State legislators to put some more money into that because often you know led service lines that run to homes or the homeowners responsibility
So I think there was also consensus to say to the extent this is impacting individual homeowners
We need to make resources available so that it doesn't
Legislature had a lot of money floating around in 2023, so they put two hundred million dollars plus into that program
That got out to a number of cities a number of homeowners got this work started
I know I think Jamesville has been at least in my understanding. It's been very good very on top of this issue
the
At least my understanding of the inventory
Is that you didn't have too much of a problem with lead lines before but there were some in town both led
Service lines and galvanized lines that will need to be replaced
And but it does look like all of those have been inventory. That's step one is that the mayor mandated to inventory all of them
That's done in Jamesville's case. I think you've only got about 30 lines left to to replace and I think I'd have to ask your
Your utilities folks exactly where you are
But I will say for cities throughout the state
You know that wouldn't have been possible without the 2023 money this year
I mentioned they only put that or they put over 200 million dollars into that in 2023
This year only 15 million dollars for the entire state and that both reflects where the state's budget is
But also I think that we need to continue to be loud at the capital for the cities that
We have residents who still have service lines to be addressed and we'll be a focus of ours going forward
I said it's a number one of my introduction, but so maybe I should start here, but LGA
It's a natural transition because I mentioned the
shaky situation the state's budget is in
there's
one thing that I
Sometimes say about LGA or even the just the state's budget situation is you might talk to two different legislators on the same day and one
Of them will say oh don't worry the state's budget is balanced for the next two years
We can spend this money or we can invest in this program
You'll talk to another one on the exact same day and they'll say
This is a this is terrible. We've been incredibly irresponsible
We're facing a fiscal cliff and I think what I sometimes say about LGA is that they're both right
And when the state
Has issues with its budget. I often you know some of the first things that we see
Propose of the chopping block the following legislative session LGA
Sometimes education sometimes human services programs
But LGA certainly on that list and that's a direct hit to you and your property taxpayers
I looked it up just to make sure Clinton probably hasn't memorized
966 thousand
740 dollars was is your certified LGA number for 2027?
So that's aid to the state, you know with no strings attached or excuse me from the state to the city
No strings attached to help you keep property taxes in check but do the work that you need to do as a city
Why we focus on this it was not necessarily a 2026 story
2626 was good news, but 2025 scared us. I think is the way to say it in 2025
Mid-session even though the state was sitting on you know by the fiscal situation shaky in the out
In the longer-term outlook, but in the short term the state had the money to to balance its books
We still saw at proposed $20 million LGA cut come from the Senate DFL that year and there are omnibus tax bill
We've been doing this a long time. I've got colleagues been doing it longer than me
We've seen LGA cuts pro proposed over the years. We've never seen one when the state is sitting on a small
operating surplus
That was a first for us. I was kind of a red alert. I think we
I probably
Quinton you were probably a part of action alerts and everything else to tell everyone that's a bad idea
to to cut LGA
but
Because of that advocacy in 2025 we didn't see any additional
specific proposals new proposals of the legislature to cut LGA, but
2027 is a budget session and
One of the reasons I say two things can be true at once and our about our budget is that
In the short term the state's budget is balanced in the long term. We're still spending more than we're taking in
So at some point that'll catch up with itself
We're kind of living in our savings account right now. I'm sure to make the
Household analogy work
so
We may catch up to that at some point and that could be 2027. So LGA is something we're going to be very vigilant about
Are already talking to both legislators and candidates about as they run for for legislature
Because that's something I know as we sit here again during budget season for the city that if the state cuts that
That can be directed to your pocketbooks not only as a city, but your residence if you have to absorb those
costs by the three-year levy
So I'm going to keep kind of buzzing through and and I know I'm talking fast covering a lot and then I'll pause for questions
I do want to touch on
Housing and zoning as one of our topics here because as I kind of said the LGA story is one that we're looking both backward and forward
same with housing and zoning and
I think you know to to tee this one up and and be very clear
the
Cgmc and our partners and that advocate for you know rural, Minnesota
But also for local governments generally we've been working on housing as a both an economic development issue
I've you know a challenge for a number of years trying to invest in workforce housing programs the types of investments that will benefit
Greater Minnesota communities in particular
The I think the challenge has been is dating back now for the third year in a row
There's been a number of advocacy organizations who see the problem in housing equation as being cities and have proposed
I've worked with legislators to propose housing bills that would I try to attack the housing supply by taking authority away from?
City so this has taken a few different forms
the
First of them or it's come by a few different names in 2024. It was called the missing middle housing bill
2025 yes to homes 2026. It was called the starter homes act all of these sound pretty good
I challenge is I want to be I or some of the mechanisms in there would be restrict
You know the the ability for those like the folks in this room elected officials at the local level
From enforcing things like aesthetic mandates parking minimums in different versions of the bill
The original version of the bill would have required up zoning in every residential zone in the state
To allow up to eight flexes and every residential zone in your city
In more recent version some of that got scaled back. I want to be careful because the particulars have moved around a lot, but
Similar proposal to that is you know versions of these bills would require that all cities allow multi-family development in area zone
commercial
so
really
Number of ideas that
are kind of coming at cities from a number of angles and
I think even when the city government groups have tried to work with advocates and say well
You know if we're going to do this
We need this or we need some release valves on this or if you're going to put multi-family here
The city at least needs to be able to weigh in and say yes our utilities can handle that or know they can't
And a lot of those ideas have been shot down certainly by the advocacy groups pushing these as
Proposals, but but also in some cases by legislators. I think though
Why this one is is I
You know a focus of ours tonight is that it's well by it didn't pass for three years running
some of that I think is
Going to the CGMC, but not just us you know some of the other organizations
including ones that represent
Cities in the suburbs and are in the metro area that have resisted
These proposals as well
And but we do expect it to return. I don't think that we've seen the last of it
I don't know what the name will be for the fourth year running, but I think there's still motivation to
Attack the housing problem from this this angle. I think our job is to continue to
Gather feedback from folks like you on what you are doing to try to attract housing
I also we would like to continue to play offense not just defense
We want to continue to invest in programs that we think do help increase housing portability and a supply in greater, Minnesota
So that'll continue to be our charge
Now I know we're all kind of looking ahead now because it's
We're coming up on an election as many of you know
From the statewide sense. It's a big one. So all 201 legislators are up. I have to run for their seats
All of the constitutional officers. We've got an open governor's race. We've got you sitting US senator Senate or running for governor
There's a primary on the Republican side for governor. So it's very competitive very contentious election year
I think for us as an organization
you know
We're in the process of setting our 2027 priorities and to some extent we know what they're going to be
It's going to be you know the things that you help us identify. It's going to be LGA. It's going to be property taxes affordability
Some of those things and I think but the November elections and maybe even more to the point that November budget forecast for the state
We'll have a lot to do with what comes for us in in 2027
including and I
Want to touch on
Transportation real quick just because it relates back to affordability
I think you've got folks probably throughout the community
There's like throughout the state who are well if you renewed your tab fees really recently for your car or your truck
And I'm guessing that somebody you have where they hire or lower than they were before I think probably a lot higher
Yes
And some of that was
finally some of the changes that were made to
the
Those fees and the depreciation schedules that help set what you ultimately pay when you renew your license tabs
Each year those were all increased in 2023 and those are continuing to phase in I know by
Senator jesinski for example is one that I
Guess I don't know his source, but I take his word for it started saying a lot this session that
We had the highest tab fees in the country
So I know that some legislators are very focused on that issue of affordability
You know we want to work on that as well
Especially from the standpoint of are there things driving costs of living in rural, Minnesota
and
But you know I also
We need to be mindful too of
Some of the you pull some of those levers and and the impacts that can have
I know Clinton I for a number of years was one of our co-chairs for our transportation policy committee for the coalition of greater Minnesota cities
Including during that time. We'll give you some kudos
You know, yeah, imagine that cities under 5,000 population
Don't receive MSA dollars
So you know you have the constitutionally dedicated dollars when you pay your gas tax when you're filling up your car
Cities over 5,000 get those directed by the Constitution cities under 5,000 population historically haven't gotten anything specifically for your streets
And Clinton it was one of our transportation co-chairs when the legislature finally changed that
But that was part of a big package that had a lot of moving pieces in it
Including some like those tab fees increases where I think a lot of us at the time said, oh, you know
We're gonna like where some of this money goes. We may not like, you know, all of where it comes from
And so some of those challenges will persist going forward too, especially when we think about folks in their their pocketbook
So I've rambled on quite a while
touched on a lot
I do want to highlight in your packets too. There's kind of a one-pager that has some of our events
That are coming up. It might be the last one if I see Clinton is scrolling to it. You've got a lot of information there
And yep events so we do typically three events through the year our fall conference is coming up in November in weight park
And then February 10th is when we ask all of you or as many as are available to come to the Capitol and and
Talk to legislators with us and then next summer by and this one
I guess you'll have not much of an excuse because you can see the location there our summer conference next year is Oatana
so by the other we
Highway 14 is safe in four lanes for all the way from Newham to Rochester
We've
Last year's summer conference was in Newham. This next year's is in Oatana
So there you go. No excuses not to not to be at that one. I'll see all your faces there
But anyway, thank you. I'm happy to answer any questions and I'm sorry if I'm the reason you don't get Dairy Queen tonight
Yeah
Sean
Talking about housing
We haven't built an apartment house in this town in 30. Yep
And
We find that we're competing against developers in make ito and draw
For the $800 more per unit
Then we could get here so it makes
Apartments in this community
Unaffordable to build
That is there a way we can access additional funds or make that more attractive to developers
Yeah, I think that's why well you're really at the core of the question that we've that we've been asking I think is
You know where I kind of focus a lot on the defense. We've been playing like I said
We want to play offense to I there are a couple of programs that we've had success in setting up
But I think we're not all the way there in terms of where we'd like to be in supporting our communities
But I you know some of you may have heard of a program over at deed
This is not a housing program
But it's called the greater Minnesota public development or business development public infrastructure program
We just call it BDPI because it's kind of a clunky name
That has been around for about 25 26 years now when that was set up
The idea kind of was if you got a business in town that wants to expand and stay in town
But in order to enable that the city would have to run you know new utilities, so frontage road
Sewer water whatever it is. Let's create a state program where only in greater, Minnesota
This is outside the seven county metro area the state can come in and pay half of that cost
That has been a great program on the the commercial side or on the industrial side
We just a few years ago were able to create a kind of housing
Analogy for that so you know if we can I get developers in but the ultimately
We can have a grant program to the city to help fund some of the public infrastructure costs that would normally be born by the developers
Or the city
We've set up a program to help defray some of those costs. That was one approach
There's others where we've tried to seek some policy changes to make some of the greater, Minnesota
Or in some cases greater Minnesota in some cases statewide workforce development tax credits a little more generous
and so we try to attack it from both the
affordability side on the
The individual but then also the developer so you know I think the answer there is we've had some success
But I think as you can hear in my answer
I feel like what we've been able to do so far is nibble around the edges and we're not there yet where
Because as you know, we're exactly what you're talking about is
And in a community the size is a developer willing to come in and they just want to know what's in it for me
If at the end of it I don't want to make it sound too greedy, but you know, it's got a pencil out or else
It's just you know, they're not gonna come to some of our communities. So defraying some of that
cost on the front end is some of ours or you know
I think
What we've also tried to do were encourage or even just enable some sharing the best practices between our communities is
some communities through there I
You know housing authorities or or other mechanisms
Sometimes have taken on the challenge of kind of becoming the developer and I don't think anyone's dying to do that
It's happened. I think we've seen that though in a lot of the markets that we see unfortunately
We kind of see not keeping up where the the private market isn't fulfilling a need
So we've seen cities get into the business of childcare cities get into the the business of housing development
I don't think that's the perfect solution because it's the you know
The city takes on some risk in those
Circumstances, but I think where we can make some funds available from the state or from other
Parties to help take some of that burden or some of that risk off of the city
So that the city can take some of that risk off of a developer
Maybe we finally find the magic mix and but you're exactly right and I think that's one of the things that we emphasize
With legislators too is our communities are begging for developers to come in
Some of these zoning changes and that you know, we're gonna oppose
The vast majority of those because we believe in local control. We want folks like in rooms like this one to be able to make those decisions
but we also think that
Part of the challenge is some of these are one size fits all these are solutions that are maybe based on ideas that worked in
Seattle or some of them work
Okay, and Minneapolis frankly, but that's because the Minneapolis Council chose to institute them for their city
So by kind of attacking the housing problem by imposing
Go top-down requirements that work in big cities isn't gonna work for us. So I don't know that's kind of an unsatisfying answer because
It's one of the challenges there that yeah, exactly. I mean, that's I wish I had a better one for you is
But I hope that's it's all I hope it's also an honest answer is that you know, those are the things we've tried
Yep, there you go
I have a question on public safety. Yes, it's a
statewide
Country-wide problem with like towns like ours. We're lucky enough to have a good
Police Department, but the cost of having a police department is
Becoming very expensive and it's there anything. Oh, I mean because there's small towns
All the way across the United States that are
close enough shop
They're police department non-stop and is there anything out there for the small towns that
anything that they're working on or
could work on for keeping the doors open for places like us I think the
Well, you're right. I think that I even to where
some of our member cities are
Maintaining their departments
You know officer recruitment has been an incredible challenge to so we've seen you know, both just the cost of
You know
Keeping up the department, but then also we've got the department
So the challenges have been so deep
I think a couple have said you know what we're contracting with the County now
Just because we can't find officers to staff and and that's good the money thing because yeah, I mean
It's it's expensive and yep
There's not a lot of police officers all. I mean they they deserve a
Good wage and that's that's hard to base. I mean it. Yep. Yep. Yeah, and and you know by
I think I was in a city last week that doesn't have its own department and there are fees with the County
Just went up 35 grand from last year and that and so, you know, there's no easy issues or no easy answers to that one either
I you know
the challenge
With this one from the standpoint of the CGMC
In recent years has been you know, there was some of it was coming out of the
You know pandemic
some of it was just the
Both the availability of dollars in the 2023 timeframe and you know combined with the rise of inflation and some of these other pressures
That we're putting on budgets where
Now I'm gonna maybe look to my resource Clinton here
did Jamesville receive that on one time public safety aid and
So that was the one thing that we've seen in recent years that got across the finish line from the state level to just say
You know what let's get some money out the door from the state to support
departments throughout the the state
When we came back the next year as those dollars were still in place, but we came to the following budget session
There were a lot of legislators
And folks at the capitol who said no, that's a one-time thing
We don't want folks to become reliant on this. That was a special circumstance, you know to respond to inflation to respond to
I
You know some of the rapid cost increases we saw during the pandemic era
Well, I think you know, we're enough years on now that we know those challenges weren't exclusive to the pandemic era
We're you guys are where you are
So no, I think that
That was the one thing that's got across the finish line. I know that the
Public safety committees at the capitol have also looked at you know the
You know officer recruitment training
That type of thing how do we incentivize new folks to to enter the profession?
You know, none of that is easy to because like you said there's only so many officers out there
You also need it to be an attractive career that folks in their you know, late teens look ahead and say, you know
Well, I want to do that and you know go to some of the institutions. We have run states train new officers. So do you have any answers?
No, I think that other than kind of validating that you have a great point there
But you know for Clinton to I and you may remember some of this discussion
I remember it being a major piece of feedback. We got after that one time aid
Ran out is was from cities saying we need that or something like it to be permanent
And especially if you know in a world where LGA is going to be stagnant
You know, it's not a program that you want to compete with LGA
But you know if we can invest in both of these things and have something specifically for public safety. We need to have it
so
That's one. I think that yeah, I'd encourage you to well since Clinton has been active in the organization
You can task him with it or you know sign up for one of our CGMC committees and encourage the group to get more active on that subject
too, but
But I'll take a note to take that back to my colleagues that we're still here in that as well because we know the issue hasn't gone away
you know, thank you
Any other questions
All right, thank you very much. Yeah, thank you very much. Yeah, all right
Jane yeah, we want Paul to go now. So is he has an extra sitter all night
We should move Paula
Yeah, I can I can live with that
This will be very brief, so I
Just wanted to first thing I want to say thank you for the support you guys have all given the songs on the park
I mean, it's been incredible the
The people who have come have really enjoyed it. We've had nothing would good comment
So just thank you for all the support everything that you guys have given me
James will night out went great. I want to thank the people who served the hot dogs and helped with that
I
Want to think that they enjoyed it too because they certainly seem to so and people enjoyed it
It went really well. Everything went really well. So
felt bad for
Um, Samantha Westfall at the bounce house is if anybody was over there. She was buried
with all the kids and I promise next year we'd have more people to help her and
infinity
Talking to mark afterwards. He says I my concern was with infinity is I gave him the option
I said if you guys want to come fine, but we're serving the hot dogs, you know, yeah, we'll come
Well after after he says yeah, I suggest him for next year is to get a second food truck because he were that busy
So a J's all night. I was a big success
We'll hope to do it even better next year. Just a couple, but thank you for serving the hot dogs
I appreciate it. I'll be hitting you all up again next year. So
Just a couple other things
for next year the plan is to have a five person committee. It'll be kind of a loosely formed one, but
Help with promotion marketing
We want to get the businesses involved not not necessarily for sponsorships, but maybe tables at the
At the at the events or something. I will talk about it
We'd really like to get the town involved into that kind of thing promote it. You know, we also want to try to figure out how to
The ones that sponsor and how to do more for them. I don't see if we can get their name out more of that kind of thing
So though, that's part of what the committee will be doing
Just mainly like promotion marketing all that kind of stuff and there'll be other things too
But that that's a lot of it and also I think we're gonna cut out the September dates next year
It by the time you hit to September in school starts. There's so much going on
So it went well this year, but I just think maybe through August is the best way to go with it
So that's kind of the plan for next year
We'll probably start planning again or at the end of October already because there's so many of them now that
The bands get booked out the food trucks get booked up
So you got to do it quick some hope and I have everything done by the first January this year, so
Other than that that short and sweet hopefully if anybody has any questions, I'd be happy to answer but it was a great
It was a great season. It was a really cool, you know, talk about it
It was it was a good season on that. Yeah, it was we enjoyed a lot. James will night out was a lot of fun
We enjoy it. We went home and we set up a long time because you know everything going on
I couldn't sleep and all that you know how that goes, so I didn't have to work the next day, so
But no, it's fun. So thank you everyone for the help. I really in support. I really appreciate it. Thank you
All right, thanks
Do we have any additions or correction to tonight's agenda? I have none
Well, it's not being too big a hurry most to approve
Okay, all in favor. Hi
Uh, consent agenda
Okay, you have the minutes from our last meeting
Our payables that we have are pretty routine right now
For this time of the year. They total about $35,000. I don't know Sarah. Do you have any I don't really have any specific to point out
I
Have been on for a while um
Was that a was that a Jager project? Yeah, yeah, okay
So they'll will pay the invoice they'll donate gotcha, okay
Shouldn't be an issue
Well, I'm gonna ask the question. Why don't why do we not have to pre-approve the project they just go ahead with it and
pay the bill. I understand that
But it's still our golf course
Don't we have ultimate authority over what it's done. Okay
Yeah, I mean they they got a building permit and everything beginning of the summer
And that all gets ran through Jacob and I guess I
I trust Jacob's judgment on
Correct, yeah, there was right
We have a question
I'm not a golfer. I'm not gonna think about it
Hey Ed from the beginning. It's never felt right with me that
We allow a private group to come in and make changes to our golf course and it's okay
It doesn't make sense to
Well, I think they just needed it
The city would take care of the golf course they wouldn't have to
The city would budget money for projects and the improvements that community group was not half to the city goal is refused to take
Responsibility or pride in the culture. So I applaud that group for stepping forward to do
The city point that what they never have perhaps in the future that will change for the present the city if the the
week stepchild
No
One thing that has changed is as we look at the golf course budget. They are returning money back to the city
They hadn't done that
Except for the last two years I think five five five
but
You know that is a change we could get in the history of that
But we won't yeah, there's a reason that that was that that deficit thing
The city short changed them on the land that they
Thought that they bought and then they sold it for housing and none of that money was ever paid against that
There was a part of history here, so
The city is always short James that I'm just applaud the group for stepping forward
And it does get ran by the city I
mean it gets
Jacobs every never Jacob the na
Kevin are you know, they're they're well in tune with what Jeg is doing out there
Anything else
Motion to approve all in favor. All right. All right public forum
You're up
Okay
Moving on
Notices in communication. Yes, you have the magazine from the league on the table there for you
Council reports got me them Ivan
We will be meeting down to park road again tomorrow and I'm not sure what that meeting is about because he called it just
Today
But at our finest meeting we were made aware of a resident
who
the condition of their apartment became over bearable and
They have been removed and we've had to go through our
Procedures on conditions and responsibilities for residents
to find out what our
position really is on that so
We could be doing some of that information
I
Actually don't have anything at the moment, but I will ask Clinton if we could get a call for a advisory board meeting
fired up here
October November I would like to get the group together and
Look at next year's projects how everything's looking coming down the stretch and
Meet with them guys one last time
Caitlin canceled the planning commission for Wednesday
Park board met
Two hours ago
We went over the some of the upgrades for Elke park and
Reviews
Got redone
We are going to move forward with the veterans park upgrades a
Swing a bench and we requested a bar top table
We have to click with
Some stuff done at the
Nursing home is pretty high there between
You were in contact with
Thank you
Administer report administrator
Yes attached is the cash balance report dated last Friday
I
Has spoken with Dan peeps. We're still looking for a start date. So I'll just let you know. I think I'm going to talk to him tomorrow in fact
Health insurance we found out a couple of Thursdays ago that our health insurance went up a whopping 18 to 20% per person
So
We had to make some adjustments with our draft budget
But uh, we will have our open enrollment period coming up here in October so employees can choose
You know if they want to keep the same program they have now or if there's a couple different options it can choose from so
It's the rate
No
That's the new one
13 months into it right
The board and the
Morning Commission vacancies that that list was put together server and put that together
We're gonna have that in the newsletter coming up here, and then we'll get it in the newspaper
I do have a handle for you. I don't know
From what you want to talk about this tonight on
Sam bourniquet has requested that we
discuss
Like a
Development incentive for the locks are all here
He has sold all but one of the lots now in the past we have done incentives per lot if a building permit was obtained
Typically of occupancy was put in after the final inspection, and then someone you don't want to purchase and move into the house
This is kind of a different situation because like I said earlier most lots are have already been sold
But Sam sent this email to me last night. I'm sorry tonight
So I haven't honestly really read through it carefully yet, but I think Sam plans on attending our next meeting
So if you can read through that
I'm still getting some more information from Jason Moran on
this
This as well. Okay, I
Do want to point out that the
Electric utility
It's been quite a bit of money providing the electric infrastructure or the for the lots out there
In years past has the developer paid for all the electrical it depends we had a buy the territory from Excel on this one
So in years past if it was within city limits, and it was already
You know our territory it cost was so much less sure, you know
Yeah, food for thought bring that home with you and read through it if you would
And other than that I guess
I really don't have anything else for administrator report
The last half been transferred to other people I think 11 of the 12 half sold
So then it's already recorded at the core gums
And I will say I mean we're looking at our preliminary levy tonight. I did not put any money in our budget for this request
It's already transferred. I don't see how he could receive the money
The conversation if he wants to I
Possibly in the near future if you choose to do this again come visit with us early on
Because this is the first time we've seen this information. I don't think you can make any decision tonight
Yeah, and if there was any sort of abatement type program that you would do
I'm almost a hundred percent certain public hearings are required in everything. So
Yeah, I'd say be it's kind of a tough call at this point prior starting it'd be nice to have
But we will
I
Motion to approve
All in favor
Department had reports I did not schedule any tonight's a new shame is gonna be heard
That's all right
We already talked Paul
I
Look nuisance special assessments
Yes a property on West North Street as you know people have come to address the council about the
the appearance and the quality of the life that we did have to go in the summer in mall and
Obviously, we sent the bill. It wasn't paid
We have the right to assess that onto the property taxes. So that is what the resolution here tonight is
We're required to do this. I think by November of each year to get it to the county recorder
so this
Expenses about seven hundred dollars to you know
Yep, I'm a motion. We approve the right
resolution 26 31 all in favor
Preliminary
General tax fund
Fund tax levy. Yes
Like I've always said, thank you to all the departments and employees of staff that helped with these budgets together
As the council knows we look through this every meeting throughout the summer. So tonight we are going to adopt our
Preliminary levy and announce that the budget hearing will be on December 14th. I
Do want to point out that this preliminary levy increases a 7.2% increase from last year
I was recently at a regional meeting. It was kind of asked around the different communities in our area
What their increases looking like, you know, it was like kind of at that 8% level
So this is 7.2 my dream would to have with the five to six by the end of this year
Does anybody have any questions
I
Know I know in the past I think Andy has asked this question
How much is a percent roughly? Yeah, so
1%
Just
Just in terms of
1% is I'm just give or take a hundred and forty thousand dollars
Thank you
I'm ocean we
Move forward with
7.2% preliminary
All in favor
Anything else don't have nothing make a motion be doing
All in favor