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HomeMy WebLinkAbout09.21.09 Council Minutes ~ COUNCIL MINUTES REGULAR SEPTEMBER 21,2009 1. CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order by Mayor Larson at 7:00 p.m. 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Mayor Larson led the audience and Council in the Pledge of Allegiance. 3. ROLL CALL Members Present: Members Absent: Also Present: Audience: Larson, Donnelly, Fogarty, May, Wilson None Joel Jamnik, City Attorney; Peter Herlofsky, City Administrator; Robin Roland, Finance Director; Randy Distad, Parks and Recreation Director; Kevin Schorzman, City Engineer; Tim Pietsch, Fire Chief; Cynthia Muller, Executive Assistant Beve Preece, Elsworth & Kay Hoeppner, Jeff Thelen, David Pritzlaff 4. APPROVE A GENDA Councilmember May pulled items 7b) August 2009 Financial Report, 7g) CDBG Subrecipient Agreement with Dakota County CDA, and 7h) Bills. She also recommended removing item lla) CEEF Events as that was handled at the last Council meeting. Mayor Larson recalled no action was taken as the motion failed for lack of a second. Councilmember May noted this is the third or fourth time it has been on the agenda. Mayor Larson stated there is new information. Councilmember Fogarty pulled item 7a) Council Minutes to abstain, and 7g) CDBG Subrecipient Agreement with Dakota County CDA. Councilmember Wilson agreed with Councilmember May regarding item 11 a) CEEF Events and felt it should be discussed at a workshop. Councilmember Donnelly pulled item 7a) Council Minutes to abstain. MOTION by Fogarty, second by Wilson to approve the Agenda. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. 5. ANNOUNCEMENTS a) Representative Pat Garofalo The legislature left the Governor to balance the budget on his own. Representative Garofalo presented the State's general fund projections for fiscal year 2012-2013. There is a $3.1 billion budget deficit for the upcoming fiscal biennium. The biggest item for Farmington was the reduction of the market value homestead credit. For 2012-2013 budget planning he suggested the City should not plan on those dollars being available. There is still an ongoing battle with the Council Minutes (Regular) September 21, 2009 Page 2 transit taxing district which would cause a property tax increase. Representative Garofalo would not support this unless there is bus service to Farmington. Some cities are complaining that Farmington has not paid its fair share to reduce the budget deficit, but the State has taken everything they can from Farmington. The concern is that the State will demand the City write an extra check to the State through property taxes to get us up to the same level as other communities who receive generous amounts of local government aid. He felt this legislation will not pass for 2009-2010, but the Governor and the legislature will change after the next election. b) Bill Coleman - Dakota Futures Mr. Coleman, Executive Director of Dakota Futures, stated they are a county- wide economic development organization. He gave an update on their activities. c) Acknowledged Retirements - Jeffrey Adelmann, Mark Kindseth, Terry Thraen Council recognized Mark Kindseth for 23 years of service. Jeffery Adelmann and Terry Thraen were unable to attend the meeting, but were recognized for 19 years of service and 26 years of service respectively. 6. CITIZEN COMMENTS Mr. Elsworth Hoeppner, 27 Walnut Street, was disturbed and mad because Saturday there was a big truck across the street and at 9:00 a.m. it was so noisy you could not stand to go outside. They had to close all the storm windows. He and his wife got headaches from the noise. It went on from 9:00 a.m. - 5 :00 p.m. The truck was suctioning stones off the roof of the building at 517 15t Street. Sunday morning at 6:45 a.m. they started again. He called the Police Department. An officer came, but could not do anything. Mr. Hoeppner stated he has been working with the City Planner for two years to get an ordinance for the noise from the trucks and nothing happens. He has lost faith in the City because no one works with the residents. They always work with the commercial. Why can't we get something done? The officer told him there are no regulations for this situation. Earlier in the spring he called the Police Chief because there were problems with trucks at that location. The Police Chief spoke with the owners and Mr. Hoeppner and said from now on, if trucks come Mr. Hoeppner should call 911 and the officers will take care of the problem. Mr. Hoeppner asked the officer on Sunday if the Police Chief spoke with him regarding this problems. The officer replied no. He has been fighting these people for two years. Nothing is done. Mr. Hoeppner felt noise like this should not be allowed in residential areas. It was louder than a grinder. He asked the officer if he would put up with this noise and he said no, but there was nothing he could do. Mr. Hoeppner stated he has lived at this residence for 50 years and in Farmington for 71 years. Now they have to sit there in their retirement years and put up with this. The City does nothing about it. Mayor Larson recalled this was discussed at the Planning Commission meetings about the trucks unloading. Mr. Hoeppner stated the truck has a machine sucking the stones off the roof. He was there from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and at 6:45 a.m. Sunday. He left for church and when he came home at 11 :30 a.m. they were gone. City Administrator HerIofsky noted noise is governed by the state, but staff will research the issue and respond. Mr. Hoeppner also asked if a permit has been issued for the work. The contractor was from out of state. Mr. Hoeppner stated he has been Council Minutes (Regular) September 21, 2009 Page 3 working with the City Planner for the past two years on other issues at this address regarding trucks running all night. Staff will research the issue and respond. Ms. Kay Hoeppner, 27 Walnut Street, stated as a witness she wanted to tell Council the kind of noise the machine made. You have seen these trucks on the freeway picking up stones before they seal it with oil and blacktop. It was picking up stones, but it was the noise from the truck that was so loud. You could not be outside it was just deafening. Noise like that is not good for one's ears. They had to go inside and close all the storm windows and you could still hear it. By noon she had a headache from the noise. Mr. Hoeppner wanted to call the police on Saturday, but she told him to wait. If Councilmembers had that truck next to their house, they would also call the police. It was terrible. She could not believe they were back on Sunday. The police officer said he would not put up with that. Ms. Hoeppner felt the City needs a noise ordinance. She noted from 2000 there is a disturbing the peace ordinance. She felt Council should recognize the residents. Residents are just as important as the commercial. We shop here. The police have been helping with some of the noise from the building. The noise on Saturday was a deafening sound. Ms. Beve Preece, 300 Spruce Street, President of Dakota Valley Arts Council, noted with the cooperation of the Parks and Recreation department, they are trying to repair some of the art in the Depot Way Arts Parks. She thanked the Parks and Recreation department for their cooperation. They will be replacing the wood on the walls in the center of the park, and they are copying some of the artwork from the May Art Show at the Middle School and will be replacing some of the artwork in the park. They are trying to make things better in the park and get it back to what it should be. They hoped everyone will appreciate it and help them keep it that way. Mr. David Pritzlaff, 20255 Akin Road, commended Councilmember May for trying to take care of an issue that was not voted on, but by the rules of the Council a motion was made and not seconded. The rest of the Council should show Councilmember May some respect as the CEEF issue has been brought to Council 4-5 times, action was somewhat taken with a motion and no second. Two Councilmembers were not present. He stated staff should have all the information before it is brought to Council. This is an ongoing issue and now Mayor Larson says there is additional information. He felt it should be a dead issue and removed from the agenda. Council has dealt with this three times. How many times will things come back to the Council because one or two Councilmembers are not present? You need to take care of business as it comes up. If Councilmembers are not present, that is their decision. If one or two Councilmembers are not present and a vote doesn't go a certain way, it should not come back. Hopefully this is the last time it will be on the agenda. The perception is that Council is spinning their wheels and not getting anything done on this issue. Regarding the budget, Mr. Pritzlaff stated at the last meeting when he gave his opinion as a taxpayer in Farmington, Finance Director Roland gave a response. Mr. Pritzlaff did not say anything bad about staff; we have a good staff. When he sat down, Finance Director Roland praised staff as if someone had been dishing staff. He did not do that. His opinion was as a taxpayer and it should be left at that. He was addressing Council, not staff. He had urged Council to set a levy amount that they will support and if you need to Council Minutes (Regular) September 21, 2009 Page 4 cut people or whatever, except for services. He noted in the past we have not filled vacant positions and cut positions. In the last few years, there is one area Council has not touched and that is management team. Maybe that needs to be the situation we look at. 7. CONSENT AGENDA MOTION by Fogarty, second by May to approve the Consent Agenda as follows: C) School and Conference - Engineering d) School and Conference - Fire Department e) Acknowledged Resignation Fire Department - Human Resources f) Acknowledged Retirement Fire Department - Human Resources APIF, MOTION CARRIED. a) Council Minutes (9/8/09 Regular) MOTION by Wilson, second by May to approve Council Minutes (9/8/09 Regular). Voting for: Larson, May, Wilson. Abstain: Donnelly, Fogarty. MOTION CARRIED. b) August 2009 Financial Report - Finance Councilmember May noted the expenditures look very good. The only number that is a little high is City Hall, but it is not out of line. She asked if staff anticipates meeting the budget number for property taxes. Finance Director Roland replied yes because that number has been adjusted for the removal of the market value homestead credit. City Administrator Herlofsky noted the graph shows how the cash situation of the City has improved due to the good work of the department heads managing their budgets. Finance Director Roland noted regarding the fines revenue, the Police Chief is reviewing whether they will be able to meet those numbers. There are other areas where the revenues will exceed budget and offset any loss. As of today, we have achieved 99% of the building permit revenues and there are four building permits in process. We will achieve the building permit number and exceed it before year end. This is one potential offset for fines revenue. Revenues for licenses are received in the fourth quarter. Councilmember May asked what miscellaneous contains and noted there is a large number in August. Finance Director Roland replied in August the City received the first portion of the ALF payout. In 2010 the City will receive the balance of approximately $30,000. Staff did not put this amount in the 2010 budget, as they were not sure when it would be received. It can be added to revenues for 2010 if Council would like. Other items in miscellaneous include reimbursements, various fees, etc. Councilmember May asked about intergovernmental revenue. Finance Director Roland explained it includes money received from the State for MSA maintenance on roads, fire payment received from the State in October and the police aid received in October, anything received from Dakota County, and federal grants. Staff anticipates meeting those revenue numbers. Councilmember Wilson asked what construction is occurring that has brought in the 99% revenue. Staff replied it is residential construction. MOTION by Wilson, second by Fogarty to approve the August 2009 Financial Report. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. Council Minutes (Regular) September 21, 2009 Page 5 g) Approve CDBG Sub recipient Agreement with Dakota County CDA - Economic Development Councilmember May asked for clarification on the issue. City Administrator Herlofsky explained there is $100,000 in CDBG funds. Of that, $44,000 is credited to Farmington and managed through the CDA. This is for people who want to make improvements to their home. The other $65,000 is for the HV AC system at the new Rambling River Center. The CDA is working with HUD to determine if they still want to run the program in the same manner. Until they make a decision we can continue the program as we have been. MOTION by Fogarty, second by Wilson to approve the CDBG Subrecipient Agreement with Dakota County CDA. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. h) Approve Bills Councilmember May asked about payment to Castle Rock Bank for $15,000 for land. Financi: Director Roland explained this was for the Ash Street project. City Attorney Jamnik stated there was a negotiated settlement on the pond area constructed. The bank gave the City right of entry and the price was approved by the Council four years ago. One item agreed on with the bank is that we would collectively plat the property and make the conveyance of the outlots simpler. The problem is the land had been assembled by the bank by metes and bounds from several parcels and there was a gap. We were delayed with clearing title until the seller was back in the City in April. It was two years to resolve one property dispute. The $15,000 represents a negotiated settlement. The ponds are now owned by the City. Funds had been set aside for this settlement. Councilmember May asked about a payment to Dakota County Financial Services for contractual services. Finance Director Roland replied those are the fees for the 800 mghz radios paid monthly because of the DCC project. There are the DCC fees and fees for the radio licensing use. This is budgeted for in the police and fire departments under DCC contractual services. MOTION by Fogarty, second by Donnelly to approve the bills. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. 8. PUBLIC HEARINGS a) Adopt Resolution - Approve Assessment Delinquent Municipal Services. - Finance Residents have until October 21, 2009 to pay delinquent bills to the City. After this date they will be certified to the property taxes as a one-year special assessment. All property owners were notified of delinquent bills the first week in August. There were over 1,000 notices sent to property owners and renters. There is $5,739 in bills for mowing and snow plowing. Currently there is $1,500 in delinquent bills for services. The utility bills amount to $363,871.99. Currently the delinquent amount is $303,706. Staff anticipates within the next 30 days the amount will be approximately $250,000. Last year the amount was $234,000 and covered 446 properties. Some people actually choose to pay their utility bills in this manner. MOTION by Wilson, second by Fogarty to close the public hearing. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. MOTION by Fogarty, second by May to adopt RESOLUTION R41-09 certifying the delinquent accounts as Council Minutes (Regular) September 21, 2009 Page 6 special assessments to the 2010 taxes of the appropriate properties. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. 9. A WARD OF CONTRACT 10. PETITIONS, REQUESTS AND COMMUNICATIONS a) Approve Agreement Room Naming Rights Rambling River Center - Parks and Recreation As part of the fundraising program for the new Rambling River Center the Nicolai Family has agreed to pay for naming rights for the Nicolai Board Room. They will pay $5,000 in payments of $2,000 in 2009 and $1,000 each year in 2011- 2013. The naming rights program has now raised $24,500. The fundraising goal is to raise $90,000 within five years. Currently the fundraising total is $43,552.30. MOTION by Wilson, second by Donnelly to approve the Agreement with the Nicolai Family to rename the Board Room to the Nicolai Board Room in the new Rambling River Center building. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. b) Approve Change Order #1 2009 Trunk Utility Improvement Project- Engineering City Engineer Schorzman explained the items included in change order #1. One of the items involved a utility conflict which Frontier felt would not be affected by the project. Therefore, Frontier has agreed to pay $8,305 due to having to re- route the storm sewer around their vault and duct. The total amount of change order #1 is $16,215. However the budget impact will be $7,910 due to the Frontier reimbursement. MOTION by Fogarty, second by Wilson to approve Change Order #1 for the 2009 Trunk Utility Improvement Project in the amount of$16,215.00. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. 11. UNFINISHED BUSINESS a) CEEF Events - Mayor Larson Mayor Larson put this item back on the agenda. Mr. Jeff Thelen, Treasurer of CEEF was in attendance and had informed the Mayor he now has the list of bills that are due from Dew Days. Council received this list in their Council agenda packets. Mr. Thelen stated the list of bills is all inclusive, including scholarship payments that cannot be made until the end of the first semester which amounts to $2700. This money is in a savings account designated for the scholarships awarded at the Miss Farmington Pageant. The total accounts payable is $23,271.38. This is excluding any requests for finance charges. Mr. Thelen stated he took over as Treasurer 60 days ago. He called all the businesses owed and most were very understanding, knowing there is a group of people committed to CEEF and to keeping it going. As time goes on, these people provided their services in good faith, and some are getting anxious. Mayor Larson understood the way CEEF was established, if CEEF were to go away, that the City and townships were responsible to pick up the debt. He asked if that was correct. City Administrator Council Minutes (Regular) September 21, 2009 Page 7 Herlofsky replied, excluding the legal answer, CEEF is represented by the townships, the school district and the City. Many of the vendors in good faith worked with representatives of CEEF or in some cases City employees working with CEEF to accomplish a task. There is a responsibility to deal with it. Even if there is no legal responsibility, there is an ethical responsibility if CEEF goes away. The idea would be to develop a loan and a financial plan over the next two years. If other CEEF activities are to continue, including Dew Days, the issue could be that any services would request cash in advance. The City, school district and townships need to meet to find a way to resolve this in the short term and the long term would be to try to get this paid back. Councilmember May asked about the legal opinion. City Attorney Jamnik stated the legal opinion is there probably is no direct legal responsibility assuming that a successful creditor is not able to pierce the corporate veil and say the City, townships, and school formed CEEF and therefore they should be responsible as forming entities. It is separately legally constituted, but the amount of money would be eaten up in any litigation. As a practical matter, even if the City was able to win the dispute, there would be a price to pay with future activities of CEEF and Dew Days. The result would be no confidence of going forward with future activities. It is a legal question you may not want to litigate until you have a firm answer. It is structured separately. There is no guarantee implicit in the formation of that entity by the forming jurisdictions even though they represent to cooperatively undertake activities to the benefit of all. Mayor Larson stated he brought this back so Council could have an understanding as to exactly what was owed to who. He had thought the City, school, and townships would be legally responsible for the debt. Councilmember Wilson noted Mr. Pritzlaff brought up a valid point that this has been discussed by Council for several weeks. It is a perfect topic for a workshop to sort out the details and then come to a Council meeting to make a decision. He had a number of questions. He had been frustrated there was no accurate list and now Council has that. Until recently, it seemed the only option the City had was to make a payment. There are different fiduciary structures he would be interested in looking at going forward. Councilmember Fogarty recalled Empire had agreed to pay a portion and asked if that was deducted from the list of bills. Mr. Thelen stated no, these are the total bills payable and Empire has offered to pay their share based on population which is approximately 10%. Councilmember Fogarty felt we are getting closer to $18,000 rather than $27,000. Mr. Thelen stated the number will get the bills paid and leave a zero balance for CEEF for any future projects. If Council takes this on and loans CEEF the money to get back on solid financial footing, it will still put us in the same position if we have a zero balance and have zero to work with for the Easter Egg Hunt, the Halloween Walk, and the Haunted House. We will need a little seed money left for minor ongoing expenses. CEEF needs an idea of where the Council will be going forward in 2010 for Dew Days activities as far as what the structure will be and how much participation the City will have. City Administrator Herlofsky noted on the list there is a $5,000 check being held for Council Minutes (Regular) September 21, 2009 Page 8 the Fairgrounds that is not added into the total. Mr. Thelen confirmed this and the checking account reflects that. Councilmember Donnelly noted the $2700 for scholarships is included in the amount in the savings and it is also on the list of bills. Mr. Thelen stated the CEEF Board has allocated money to the scholarships. After the financial situation was discovered after Dew Days, that is the only money set aside as that is in a different category than the rest of the bills. Council agreed to discuss this in a workshop prior to the October 5 Council meeting. Mr. David Pritzlaff, 20255 Akin Road, stated we are talking about $23,271.38 minus what Empire will pay. If this is discussed in a workshop some questions he felt should be answered are: - Who runs this afterwards? You cannot leave it in the same hands. This should be determined before the loan. - What is the interest rate of the loan? There will be no collateral. What is the length of time on the loan? - Can the people that made the decisions to get us to this point be held responsible so the taxpayers are not paying the loan? - Going forward, we need to look at future events for 2010. It is not too early to look at those. We cannot wait until January to make organizational changes. Councilmember Wilson felt there had to be some legal standing with regards to decisions made by one or two individuals on behalf of the entire organization and their liability or lack thereof. City Attorney Jamnik has not reviewed that as far as CEEF. As a City we have bonds and protocols established to limit that. If the individual is authorized by the CEEF Board to undertake certain activities and in good faith contracts with them and the deals fall through, there may not be any personal liability. He would have to do detailed research of what contracts were issued, and what authorization or oversight was provided. Councilmember May commented that what bothers her is the whole process. We have been through this before. Nothing new has been brought to the table. We knew approximately this was the amount of money. She did not know how many times she had to sit here as not only a taxpayer/resident, but as a Councilmember feeling bad because she had said many times she gives total credit to those who attempted to put this event together. The City Administrator mentioned the ethical responsibility. To her that is to the taxpayer. The taxpayer is not a bank. She was sorry it happened the way it happened. There are many instances where the word "precedent" has come up. For Skip Moench we cannot set a precedent for $250, but here we are talking about $25,000. There are other 501 c3 organizations in this community. It is not our responsibility to make them function and make them whole if their events do not work out. She thought we had this behind us and could move on to discuss the budget. Now we are talking about a two hour workshop. There are many votes that have not gone the way she Council Minutes (Regular) September 21, 2009 Page 9 would have liked, but she is not bringing it back over and over. We are talking about two more meetings on this. The people did not show up and now we want them to pay. The taxpayers are not a bank. Councilmember Donnelly stated we have reviewed this a few times. He apologized for his absence from the last meeting. We have not taken any action on anything. We have received data and we have the final numbers. He watched the last Council meeting. He understood the precedent. CEEF is not the church, or the Cub Scouts, it's sole purpose is to promote the community of Farmington. It is not for one group or another; it is the whole community. If these bills are not paid, people will not be mad at CCEF, they will be mad at the City of Farmington. Dew Days is the City of Farmington even though CEEF is the organization put in place to put on the events. There was a CEEF Board in place that oversaw these decisions. You cannot blame it on one person. It was the whole board that oversaw thismd agreed to this. We were given the events that would take place, where and when. We could have objected at the time. Last year it did not work out so good, so this year we tried something different and apparently that turned out worse. If he was a business looking for a place to locate and he hears about this and that the City is not willing to stick up for their community event, what kind of a message does that give? What we are talking about is not any cost to the taxpayers. It is a loan with interest that will be paid back over time. It will not cost the taxpayers any money and will put Farmington in a good light. Without it the Halloween Walk and Haunted House will not happen and Dew Days will be gone forever. We can decide what direction we want that to take, if it all. In order to avoid a black eye on the City of Farmington we have to consider this. Councilmember Fogarty agreed with Councilmember Donnelly. She will not apologize for not being at the last Council meeting. We all make priorities and her family is just as important as the City of Farmington. One meeting is no more important than any other meeting; every meeting is important. She tries to make everyone of them. It was put into the last packet as a verbal update. She had no idea there would be any action taken on it. We have had several updates. We have not yet been asked for a recommended action or options for action. This is the first piece of paper that has been incorporated into the Council packet. This is the first time she looked at a Council packet and assumed there would be some kind of action. For it to be said we have dealt with this; not in an official capacity. Had she thought there would be action at the last meeting on this issue, she would have requested it be pulled. If any other Councilmembers are going to be gone and ask for an item to be pulled, she will respect that wish. She did not know action would be taken and thought there was some new information. She did not find out until the next day there was action taken. Mayor Larson stated it is no fault of anyone. The information was changing constantly. We would receive a report and then two days later, something else was discovered. Mr. Thelen has worked very hard to finally nail down every penny. Previously the information was not accurate and it was no one's fault. Council set the workshop for October 5, at 5:30 p.m. and then put it on the October 5 meeting agenda to instruct staff to enter into an agreement for a set Council Minutes (Regular) September 21, 2009 Page 10 dollar amount and bring it back to Council for actual agreement. Staff could move forward with contract terms, etc. so the vendors could be paid. 12. NEW BUSINESS 13. COUNCIL ROUNDTABLE a) Budget Workshop Schedule -Administration Council set October 5 at 5:30 p.m. as a Town Hall meeting for residents to provide comments on the budget and 7:00 p.m. as a Council Budget Workshop. b) Dushane Parkway Update - Engineering The watermain has been installed. The sanitary sewer is complete except for one stub. The grading for the trail along CSAH 50 is close to being done. Staff will bring a change order to the next meeting to add in a scaled down version of the sidewalk near McDonald's to change it to a plain concrete cap for the medians. It will also include relocating two light poles near Spruce Street. Councilmember Donnelly: He attended the first football game at the new high school. He encouraged everyone to attend the Homecoming game on Friday. He attended the dedication ceremony for the high school on Sunday. Councilmember Wilson: Congratulated the school district on the new high school. He attended the dedication of the new high school. Councilmember Fogarty: The new football field feels like you are at a professional game. The new high school is amazing. Her only concern with Homecoming is the parking and suggested people carpool. There was only grass parking available for the first game. Mayor Larson noted there were 200 parking spaces designated in the grass for overflow parking. Councilmember May: The Town Hall meeting on October 12 will give Council an opportunity to hear the residents and get some feedback. She hoped we fill the room. She asked if there was a date for the opening of 195th Street. City Engineer Schorzman stated they intend to open the road Wednesday morning. He encouraged residents to check the website Tuesday evening for a notice as to when it will open. Councilmember May noted the traffic on 195th Street will change with the road opening. There have been some e-mails concerning the speed limit and safety issues. She asked that staff stay on top of it to address those issues. There are some homes at 195th Street and Embers Avenue that are very concerned. Currently the speed limit will be 55 mph up to Akin Road. Staff noted the road will not be posted. MnDOT will do a speed study and give us their recommendation for the speed limit. Councilmember Fogarty noted the road is very wide and asked if there was the potential for a turn lane in the middle. City Engineer Schorzman noted that was one of the options and the County will be adding some turn lanes in the next year or two. City Administrator Herlofsky: The Vermillion River Crossing project should be completed this fall. There is no additional development, we are just working on the road. Council Minutes (Regular) September 21, 2009 Page 11 There have been a number of projects completed this year including the 195th Street bridge, Vermillion River Crossing, Flagstaff Avenue, the sea1coat along Akin Road, and the utility project downtown. The Ice Arena had some concerns with the floor and not holding ice. It has been corrected, but we will have to look very seriously during the budget process at a long- term solution. Anything we do to fix something is very short term on a 30-year old building. We will have to address this for the 2010-2011 hockey season. Councilmember Fogarty thanked City Administrator Herlofsky for the good communication on the ice arena. She has been able to contact the hockey association with the correct information. City Administrator Herlofsky thanked the employees at the arena for their work on fixing the ice. Mayor Larson: Encouraged residents to support the Farmington businesses whenever possible. If we want more business we have to support the businesses we have. Residents should check out the specials at the Farmington Liquor Store. Tuesday, September 22, 2009, there is an open house for the Twin Ponds townhomes. There will also be a Warrior to Citizen 15t Anniversary celebration on September 22, 2009. He thanked Dr. Meeks and the school board for inviting him to speak at the high school dedication ceremony. There were 200 people in attendance. He asked for an update on the status of Nixie at the next Council meeting. 14. ADJOURN MOTION by Fogarty, second by Wilson to adjourn at 9:07 p.m. APIF, MOTION CARRIED. Respectfully submitted, {l,~?" ?-2-; ~?" ./'/7 . ~ t..<. -e.---v c?/ Cynthia Muller Executive Assistant