City Council - Regular Meeting

Mayor Hoopa is actually out of town for a family event. I think it's the first meeting. I think he's missed since in the 10 years I've known him here. So we'll miss him tonight. But Ruth Grendel, I'm the mayor pro tem. So with that, if we will all stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance, please.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation,

For any of the members of the audience who have signed up to speak, when your name is called, I don't think I see anybody. Christina, anybody signed up?

No acting there.

I don't think I saw anybody in the audience. So the first item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda. Tom, do we have any changes tonight?

Acting mayor and council, good evening. No, we have no changes to tonight's agenda.

We'd like to hear that. Do we have a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Second. First, a motion by Council Member Bergman, second by Council Member Hebert. With that, all those in favor?

Aye.

Aye. Next item is approval of the consent agenda, and these items are considered routine and will be enacted with a single motion, unless a council member or a citizen wants to pull an item. Are there any items that anybody would like to pull? Seeing none, is there a motion for the consent agenda? Second. A motion by Council Member Malander and second by Council Member Hebert. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. With that, we'll move to the regular agenda, and the first item is a great, fun agenda, and it's music in Kelly Park. And with us tonight, we have Mayor, well, Mayor Mary, Council.

Commissioner Mary.

It doesn't have the same ring to it. And Nicole, so if you'd come on up and.

Madam Mayor Pro Tem and Council Members, it's an honor to be here this evening. It's an honor to be with our esteemed City Administrator Tom Lowell and our Police Chief and our Fire Chief. We are very fortunate to have the complement of wonderful professionals that are in this community and we thank you for all the work that you've done all these years, Madam Mayor Pro Tem and Council. I'm Mary Heyman Rowland and I am co-president of the Apple Valley Arts Foundation. I'm Nicole Junker, co-president of the Apple Valley Arts Foundation. And we are happy to tell you that we're going to have music in Kelly Park this year. but it's gonna be different. It is going to be different. You know, normally, Nicole, we usually have music in Kelly Park at Kelly Park, right? Well, we are fortunate to have citizens who passed a bond referendum who are helping us to be able to recreate and reconstruct Kelly Park and a beautiful amphitheater. And we want to say a special thank you to someone that we work very closely with. Eric Carlson, we are so happy to have someone in the city that works with us the way you do. Thank you, Eric. We appreciate that so much. So it's going to be the same, but it's going to be different. We are going to be having our first concert at?

Bogarts.

At Bogarts Entertainment Center. So while we, oops. You want to do it? While we normally have it in Kelly Park this year because of the construction, we will be at Bogart's Entertainment Center. The times will be the same, 630 to...

8.30.

And it will continue to be Friday nights. And it's going to be free, always free. And should I try to do it? Okay, all right. But we will be having June 19th through 31st concerts at Bogart's Entertainment Center. And we are grateful to Bogart's Entertainment Center for allowing us to be able to do that. June 19th, which is Juneteenth, Apple Valley High School R&B and Continuing Education, which is really lots of fun. Continuing Education is also all of the wonderful artists that are part of our school district that are also teachers and administrators, and they've come together to form this group called Continuing Education that is put together by David Scalise. So we will have that, again, 6.30 to 8.30. Just to remind people, that's the time. On June the 26th, we have Salsa del Sol.

They're always a great band that brings in a large crowd from all over the Twin Cities.

Lots of dancing. It is. Lots of dancing. And on June 19th, Dakota Electric is sponsoring that. Salsa Del Sol is being sponsored by... Oh, shoot, shoot, shoot. Now I forgot. Okay, I do know. Salsa Del Sol is being sponsored by our platinum sponsor, ThinkBank. So we're very grateful to them. So on July the 10th, we have Riverside Hitmen. And on July 17th,

Alex Rossi Band.

And July 24th, which is a fan favorite, Michael Monroe. And July 31st.

We have the Lonesome Losers. They are a yacht rock band.

And they are really great.

So fabulous.

The keyboardist. I have known him since he was five. And his dad was in a band with Bonnie Raitt. So the talk about the artistry that we have, the capabilities are amazing. You want to move the next slide? All right. So now remember, I said from the 19th of June to the 31st of July, we're at Bogarts Entertainment Center. Then Splash Valley welcomes us at the water park for Friday, August the 7th, Power of 10. Phenomenal band. Time. Yeah. What's the time?

Six to eight. Six to eight. So a little earlier because of the lighting and safety issues with Splash Valley. So we've moved that one up a little.

And the admission is free, and the doors will open at 5.30. And you know at Splash Valley, normally the admission is not free. But for this night, we are partnering together with the city, so this works out great. Please don't bring your pets, and please don't bring glass containers, because that's part of the regulation at the pool. And then... And then we're gonna have this amazing, we've worked on this, well you all, we've worked on this, having an amphitheater in Kelly Park for years and years and years. And we really want to thank our community for passing the bond referendum because of them. We're able to bring you urban classics, the music of earth, wind and fire and this is a tribute band and it's really exciting and they will fill our park, guaranteed. It's gonna be a wonderful night. Do you wanna tell us the date?

September 26th.

Do you remember the 26th night of September? Remember, it's the 26th because it's a Saturday, a Saturday, not a Friday, a Saturday. And it's from 6 to 730. Yes. And afterwards, we're going to have fireworks or thrones or something. We're going to it will be surprised. And there'll be food trucks, food trucks. That's right. That's right.

So it's kind of a community festival, opening the amphitheater, music from the Arts Foundation, and help from the city.

Absolutely, help from the city, help from the city council, help from our residents for passing a bond referendum, and help from Eric, because Eric has done such a great job of helping us to be able to achieve that. It was... It wasn't a small task for this year. So we thank you for this. Next slide. We want to make sure that we thank our sponsors. Our platinum sponsors are ThinkBank. They were our platinum sponsor from the very beginning, even before they opened their doors. They were a platinum sponsor for us, and they continue to be sustaining. And Bogarts has done a wonderful job of allowing us to be able to use their facility, and so they're platinum sponsors as well. Our gold sponsors. Next slide. Our GF, which you all know as Upinor, GF, and Apple Valley Post 1776, both sustaining partners. We're very happy. And our silver sponsors. Do you want to do your silver? And then I'll talk about you.

Sure. Wings Credit Union, Valley Bike and Ski, Dakota Electric, 3S Design, which is a local web design company. And of course, U-Haul has been very generous to us over the years. Great.

And Nicole Junker, Keller Williams Realty. So she's with a new realty now and we're really happy that she continues to be not only a co-president but also a sponsor. All right. We also have others that help us. And we want to acknowledge the city of Apple Valley for being a very strong partner with us. The Apple Valley Chamber that puts it out every Friday night so that everybody knows who is going to be performing. The Dakota County Tribune who has publicized our concert series and will continue to do that. Our great partnership with District 196. Our wonderful partnership with Apple Valley Rotary, Speed Pro, and Ellickson Photo. And if you see some of those great photos that are on our website, those are Ellickson Photo. And do you want to quickly talk about our website?

Sure. We launched a new website at the end of last year, which is just gorgeous. 3S Design created that for us. pro bono, and so that was a really special gift that we got. And so many great photos on there from Alex in Photo. All of our event calendar is current. The sponsorship information is on there. So lots of questions can be answered on our website, avartsfoundation.com. Perfect.

Yes, avartsfoundation.org, yes, .org. And it really is a great website, and so that sponsorship from 3S Design was, it was wonderful, so. So we're asking you to come be a part of the celebration, our festivities, and I think, Mayor, you have a proclamation.

I do. But first of all, I'd like to thank the two of you and the Arts Foundation. And what year was it founded? I mean, I was on it the first year. 28 years ago. 28 years ago. Mayor, 28 years ago. Can you believe that? But you brought it to ladies and the foundation is just phenomenal. And it's going to be a little different this summer, but I'm telling people it's going to be worth the wait. It really is. People are asking, when's my park going to be done? Everywhere I go, and it's like, we know they're missing their parks and they're using them. And so it's good. Anyway, thank you. Council Member Bergman.

To you two ladies, thanks forever.

Thank you, thanks for everything I guess Mary I guess you've been in the business of this for about 28 years You know, there's one thing I especially on this screen right now that you're looking at that you like It was nice to see this now a question I have because I think it demonstrates to the community what arts what music and plays and all that kind of stuff are there and Is this not the same? Or do you change the schematics of the character of that?

Yeah, our logo is different. Our logo is different now, although we had a beautiful one.

Beautiful one, yeah.

We had a very beautiful one. The artist was from Canada. This artist is a member of our arts foundation. So thank you for... It is a cool, isn't it? It's vibrant and fun and... Thank you for recognizing that. And Council Member Bergman, thank you for a beautiful tribute to your mother today. Thank you. I was able to be there, and I was at the Mayor Pro Tem also being there, and also Council Member Hebert, and it was special. You really, she knew everything. community and that's i think what's the basis of what the apple valley arts foundation is all about so thank you for helping us to continue to build community thank you with that i'll read the proclamation whereas the city of apple valley is proud to provide cultural experiences for its residents

And whereas the Apple Valley Arts Foundation has offered to provide a music series on the evenings of June 19th and 26th and July 10th, 17th, 24th, and 31st, 2026, from 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. at Bogarts Entertainment Center, August 7th, 2026 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Splash Valley Water Park, and September 26th, 2026 from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. at Kelly Park. And whereas the Apple Valley Arts Foundation, residents, civic organizations, business community, and the Parks and Recreation Department have joined together to develop this free music celebration. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the City Council of Apple Valley, Dakota County, Minnesota, and said dates in June, July, August, and September 2026 are hereby proclaimed to be music in Kelly Park. The council further declares his music series a community festival and encourages the citizens of Apple Valley to support and attend these music events proclaimed this 28th day of May 2026. Is there a motion for the... So moved.

Second.

Motion by Council Member Hebert, second by Council Member Bergman. All those in favor? Aye.

Aye.

Aye. I don't think we have to encourage people to attend they come I know people that won't miss it I mean Ruth is it raining out is it going to be we're going to have it as going Bogarts so anyway people love it so thank you Thank you so much We don't have to worry about rain this year because it will be at Bogarts

From June the 19th to July the 31st. August 7th is Splash Valley and then September the 26th is a Saturday. Everybody, it's a Saturday. So please just go to our website and make sure that you know. And also the city will have it on the website too. So we thank everybody. We thank Charles for taking care of that and even everybody. So thank you so much. Always good to see you. Great to see you as well. Thank you.

Now we'll move on to the regular agenda B the Apple Valley Community Center and Senior Center and Eric Carlson will take these and I guess I had a few of my questions answered beforehand but I'd still if you could just touch on it being a public process the way this works these big projects

I will try to do that as part of my presentation. Thank you acting mayor members of the council We're here the night to ask the council to consider approving a contract for the Apple Valley Community Center project This is our fifth of our five signature projects So it's our last big project that we're pursuing that we told residents about as part of the referendum So I'm just gonna walk through a slide set that you've seen before but the community hasn't necessarily seen before and and so that everyone knows what's being considered and if it's approved, what's gonna happen once construction is over. So really the vision for this project is to preserve and improve the existing community center slash senior center. Everything that we're doing within the project is trying to make sure that we're operating the facility as cost efficiently as possible. And we're focusing on the future trends of how it gets used. The seniors use the facility about 40 hours a week and the public really uses the facility about 50 to 60 hours a week. And so we're wanting to make sure that we get full use out of the entire facility. So from a big picture perspective, we're hoping to start construction here in June of 26, which is just right around the corner. We expect construction to be completed sometime in the fall of 27. From a high level perspective, we're looking at creating a central entrance to the facility after we connect the two buildings. There'll be an indoor playground. There'll be a small fitness space geared towards seniors. There will be an improved and enlarged senior coffee lounge right behind the front desk, which is right at the new front door, if you will. There will be some additional programming space created by changing a current storage room into this programming space. We're updating the mechanicals to the existing community center, which is 40 plus years old, including roofing, etc. And we're trying to just make the whole campus feel like a campus with some of the work that we're doing. We are replacing earlier on the consent agenda you approved a monument sign contract for five parks in town Redwood, I'm sorry four parks in town Redwood, Kelly, Johnny Cake East and West and Hayes Park actually you didn't do the Redwood one yet. But at Hayes Park, we're going to have this sign out on Hayes Road. And so it's Hayes Park, which all of these facilities are inside of. And so it'll list the community center, Wings Arena, Voyage's indoor playground, the youth athletic complex, and then the senior center itself. So that'll get installed here sometime in the next 60 to 90 days, roughly. This is just an overview of the concept of what the campus will look like once we're done with all of the projects. Last year we started the youth baseball softball complex project, which is kind of the green space around. We had that great partnership with the Independent School District 196 where we're utilizing parts of the Westview Elementary School property to create the four-field youth baseball softball complex in the top of the screen there, kind of in the back of the community center project. And then we're regrading and irrigating the entire site so that we have a higher quality of turf, safer playing conditions for all of the different sports that are using the facility. So that's baseball, softball, football, soccer, lacrosse. We expanded parking on the site to accommodate the different uses that will happen here. And we're very excited about how this is all gonna turn out when we're all done with construction after about three years of eating dust every day, just about. All right, so this is an image of what the front door and the connection of the two buildings are going to look like. The tall glass that you see on the left is the indoor playground, and then the glass in the kind of a little bit more to the right is the front door, if you will. On the tip-up panels that will be installed for the addition portion of the facility, you can kind of see some lines there, and those are topography lines from the neighborhood, and they're going to be imprinted into the tip-up panels so they're just not boring concrete, if you will. And that concrete will have an earth-tone color to it. The overall complex will be named the Apple Valley Community Center to try to keep the name short and sweet if you will And the current community center uses national parks as a naming convention for some of its rooms So we were just we are just going to continue using that naming convention for all of the rooms in the combined facility once construction is over and this is how the naming of the different rooms in the facility will be named again after national parks From a colors perspective, we're going with some earth tones and light textures. And then there'll be a variety of flooring throughout the facility, everything from concrete to carpeting and anything in between there. And this is just an image of some of the different materials that will be used to help construct the facility on the inside as far as finishes are concerned. This is a site plan, if you will, of the facility once constructed, once completed, if I get my mouse here. So the purple area here is the indoor playground. There's two party rooms that will be off of there that people can use for birthday parties and whatnot if they're using the indoor playground. This is the park and rec office space. The Valley Athletic Association will have storage there. You may recall that they used to have a building on the property that they used. And to make this entire project work, we needed to remove that building. We promised to replace their space so that they could continue to store their equipment, and this is the space that they will have for that. Here is the new coffee lounge. Here's the front desk area. These are the existing Yellowstone rooms. We're moving the kitchen on the south end to the north end, which is where the current senior center office space is. Here you see the fitness space, which is the current coffee lounge. Here is the storage that's getting converted into some programming space. So there'll be a nice patio on the back. There'll be doors here. So if you're parked here and you need to get back to the youth baseball softball complex, 99 times out of 100, the building will be open when you're using the baseball softball fields in the back. You can walk through the front door, walk out the back and get to the fields, or you can walk around. It's your choice. But there are multiple ways that you can get there. We expect a lot of people to be parking at Westview Elementary as well when they're using the fields that are behind the community center. From a parking perspective we are adding parking and in working with seniors we are adding some ADA and some senior designated parking stalls on the site just to make it easier for them to access the building but then when typically they're not there and the evenings are on the weekends those spaces will be free for anyone to park in. Again, I mentioned the centralized front entrance. It's positioned roughly in the middle of the building. This red area is generally where the heated sidewalk will be. So in the wintertime, we will be reducing slip and falls as you enter the building. We'll also be tracking in a lot less snow and ice and dirt because of the heated sidewalks. So we're looking forward to that. I know our maintenance staff is definitely looking forward to that. The front doors will be automatic openers kind of like what you see at the grocery store And there will be a small awning out front the front of the front door as well And these are just images of what the new lobby and front desk area will be once constructed This view is looking out south towards the gym to the left is the entrance into the indoor playground and again the senior coffee area loaded located right behind the front desk it's about eight hundred fifty square feet slightly larger than the existing uh... coffee lounge the lab large windows for park views and out a nice outdoor patio again that people can use this will be used by seniors for the most part during the day during the week but it can be used by the public uh... or private uses uh... after after in the evening or on the weekends uh... for small parties, think of graduation parties, think of bridal showers, things like that. And this is an image of what that space will look like, as is this one. Then we have the small fitness room being referred to as design room. It's located on the first floor in the current coffee lounge. It's gonna be very small, again, geared towards seniors so that they can come and have access to some cardio equipment, some lightweight equipment and whatnot so that they can stay physically healthy. They're already being mentally healthy by coming to the facility and interacting with seniors and whatnot, so we wanted to give them a chance to be physically healthy as well. And a little image of what that might look like. Then the senior executive club has an office in the current senior center office space, but that's going to get moved upstairs in the Denali room. And then we are again repurposing the existing senior center office space into the warming kitchen. And that's what this will look like. We'll have seniors wanted a lock. Currently, the seniors have lockable cabinets, which aren't all that lockable. Honestly, they get broken into quite a bit from other users. And so they requested a locked pantry. So we've made sure that there's a locked pantry that they can store their belongings in this space. It'll be much more secure than what they currently have. Then upstairs, we wanted to be able to protect the ping pong and billiards tables that the seniors have upstairs because again, we're gonna be inviting the public in to use this facility much more than we have in the past. And so we're creating a little wall at the top of the stairs so we can lock that space down and it doesn't get tampered with. And that's what this space will look like. Then the bonus room, the Acadia room, again, currently storage, but we'll be finishing it off and using it for different programs, both during the day and in the evening and on the weekends. Then the indoor playground, referred to as Voyager's Playground, the only national park in Minnesota. It's towards the front of the building. Again, it has the two attached party rooms here and here. The sound, for the most part, will stay in the room. And it should be a great opportunity to hold private birthday parties and whatnot so that we will be charging fees to use the facility. And if you want to host a private birthday party, we'll be charging fees as well. So there's a chance for us to recoup some revenues to help cover some of our operational costs that we will experience with the facility. Again, this is where the indoor playground is here. And this is an image of what that's going to look like. A few months ago, the council approved the purchase of this playground, so this is on order, and it will arrive in time for installation once we got the project to that point. Another image of the indoor playground. You can see we're trying to use natural daylight to help light up the space. And this is just an image of one of the party rooms. We've got the park and rec offices located in this general area. There'll be some cubicles. There'll be some private offices. There'll be a meeting room for staff meetings, but it'll also be lockable so that if the public wants to use it after hours and on the weekends, they could rent out that room if they needed to or wanted to. Of course, we'll have an IT closet, a maintenance workroom, and some storage in this office space as well. a little image of what that's going to look like. The image is a little deceiving. We will not have glass walls. There will be sheetrock walls, and that was a cost-saving measure. Again, Valley Athletic Association, about 1,900 square feet to store their things, basically replacing the space we took away when we removed their building. And then the locker rooms that are in the building don't get used as locker rooms. We're going to keep the bathrooms. We're going to keep a shower. But the rest of the space, we're going to turn into storage. You can never have enough storage in a public facility like this. So I know our staff is looking forward to having some more storage. so again construction begins in june of twenty six the community center will be closed starting in mid june through about uh... the end of the year the senior center then will be closed starting in january through about june of twenty seven uh... more hoping to open up the entire facility uh... sometime in the fall of twenty seven of course all of this is subject to change based on whether based on construction schedules except except uh... will try to do our very best to make sure that everyone's aware of what's happening what's open what's closed There will be obviously some parking impacts. There's going to be noise and dirt and all the kinds of things you would expect during a construction project. But we will make the best out of it. This image just kind of shows that the red areas will be kind of off limits during construction. There'll be construction fences to protect what's happening inside of these areas. And this is just a closeup of the senior center front door. We'll still be able to access the front door until the construction of that part of the facility starts in January of 27. So back when we were investigating what we might want to include in a parks referendum, one of the projects was the Apple Valley Community Center Senior Center. And in August of 22, we developed the concept that you see on the screen. And from this concept, we developed what you basically just saw. And back in August of 22, we made some assumptions that it would be about a $10.6 million project, about 8.5 of that would be actual construction costs. Things have changed. So again, project highlights. The facility will be known as the Apple Valley Community Center. It's going to have a centralized front entrance with automatic sliding doors and a heated sidewalk. Voyager's indoor playground. The senior kitchen moves from the south end to the north end. There'll be a small fitness space geared towards seniors. There's going to be an enclosed seniors game room upstairs. And storage area is being converted into some programming space. We are enlarging the coffee lounge for seniors and placing it right behind the front desk so it's close to the folks that are working at the front desk. We're updating the park and recreation office space, providing some VAA storage area. We are reconfiguring the locker room space, making some improvements to the parking lot. So there's mechanical roofing improvements, and we'll be air conditioning both gymnasiums as a part of the numbers that you're hopefully about to approve. We will be having two EV charging stations as a part of this project, and the roof above the playground will be solar ready, but there will not be any solar panels on it at this point in time. So tonight the project cost, we're asking the council to consider a guaranteed maximum price contract with Terra Construction for $10,528,253. The city also has some costs outside of that contract with Terra for the professional services that we're using on the project for FF&E and things like that. Our costs are about $3.2 million, so the total project is 13 point, I'm going to call it $8 million. There is one outstanding issue that yet has to be rectified, and that's we have to put a transformer as a part of this project, and we're still working with the electrical engineer and Dakota Electric to size that properly. So as a part of that $13.8 million, we, the city, have an additional 5% contingency or about $450,000 that's a part of that $13.8 million number to cover what we think that electrical transformer might be. So at some point in the near future, we'll be coming back to the council to make an amendment to the contract to include that transformer. But the costs, we believe, are covered in that extra contingency that we have. So this project is a little bit different than maybe one of our engineering department's street projects in that we, the city, decided to hire Tara, in this case, to act as a construction manager at risk. And under that form of delivering a project, the construction manager is the ones that are coordinating contracts with all of the different contractors that it takes to do this project, the steel, the concrete, the insulation, masonry, and all those types of projects. So they go out and bid the projects, they gather all the numbers, they put together the package, and then ultimately they add costs such as building permits. As a part of the $10 million number, they have to pay the city building permits of about $109,000. So that money's coming back to the city through this project. There's insurance, there's bonding. They have their own contingency built into this. And then they have a 1.75% fee that we agreed to when we signed our contract with them. So again, they put all of this together. It is public information. I mean, we have access to the information. It's just a different way of delivering the projects compared to how we might do a street project. There's one other item that we're hoping the City Council will approve as well, and that's we have a professional services agreement with JLG Architects. We signed that contract roughly early 2024 after the referendum passed for $637,000, and that was based on 7.5% of what we assumed the construction was going to be of $8.5 million back in August of 22. well since that time uh... a lot has happened to our project we we know more about it and there's been different stages that we've gone through at the concept construction stage back in august it was an eight and a half million dollar project then we we got we started to work on plans and we got to a schematic design and that was a ten point two million dollar estimate then we got to design development that was eleven point two million dollar project their purple uh... jlg's proposal at the design development stage their final fee would be calculated on what the design development estimate was at the time. And so that is a $201,000 increase. So we're asking the council to approve a contract amendment with JLG for $201,543 bringing their total contract to 839,034 based on the design development cost estimate that was in their proposal. So there's two motions, hopefully, that the council will consider and approve. The first one is to approve a guaranteed maximum price amendment to an AIA agreement with Terra General Contractors doing business as Terra Construction for construction manager at risk services for the community center project of $10,528,253. And I'll stand and answer any questions before I move on to the next motion.

Well, thank you, Rick. You've answered all my questions that I had earlier, so I should have known you would have covered them all. Any questions from any council members? Council Member Bergman?

I guess a couple questions I have is, number one, now this is locked in, this price is locked in, so we can't come back and say, oh, by the way, we need X amount, a million more. And the other question would be... Is there, I guess when we look at this overall entire project for the city, we still have money left to do other things that we have to down the road. So I guess those are the questions too I have.

Yeah, so I'll answer. Your first question is, During the project, I fully expect there to be change orders. There's always going to be change orders. We have 5% on the city side for construction contingencies. So we have $450,000 in construction contingency that's in the $13,800,000 number to address any... Change orders that might happen during the project. So let's just say that that there's a twenty thousand dollar change order that comes in Then we would add twenty thousand dollars to ten million five hundred twenty eight thousand two hundred fifty three dollars But we have contingencies built in for this project to handle issues as they arise the second part of your question is uh... so you saw this table back in february the numbers were a little bit different back in february everyone will recall that we had a seventy three million dollar parks referendum uh... back in february we were showing that we had anticipated costs of closer to eighty two or eighty three million dollars right now i believe it's about eighty million dollars uh... and if i go to my next slide we have about eighty million dollars to cover that so In February, I was nervous about where we were at. We were actually in the hole in February. Right now, we are good. I'm feeling pretty good about where we're at financially, and then we'll be able to accomplish the projects we set out to accomplish as a part of the referendum.

Very good, thanks.

I'll go backwards. Thank you. Tim, can you go backwards for me? so you can see that the community center project right here is you know the thirteen i'm i've i've rounded these numbers the thirteen point eight that you're hopefully going to approve tonight now all these other projects are rounded to you know the closest hundred thousand dollars I believe we're in pretty good shape. Again, this is the last big project that we have. After this, we only have three more years of park projects, and those are a lot less expensive, if you will, a lot easier to estimate, and I'm feeling pretty comfortable.

Thank you.

So Tim, can you go back two more slides, please? Couple more, I guess. Keep going. One more. So this is the slide that we left on.

Thank you. That was one of my questions, too. If we see this price goes up, are other parks going to get slighted because of the construction environment? And it does not look like that will happen.

Very good.

Council Member Hebert?

Yes, thank you. I appreciate that you are really keeping a close eye on this. And I think one of the things that's important to note here is, you know, from the parks bond referendum when it was approved to moving as quickly as you and the staff and and the parks and rec advisory committee everybody's moved very quickly which i think is has been helpful because the longer it takes the it's just going to get more and more expensive so um you know kudos to that and thank you for i i know that you also have done a lot of work with the community especially around the senior center and community center and trying to get everything that people have asked for and and you're doing that you've got a lot of that covered it's not all the bells and whistles that I think everybody really really wanted but it's it's got everything it's got all the key elements of it so I know that was a lot of work and so again kudos and thanks for making this happen appreciate it

A lot of staff involved that aren't here tonight that, you know, deserve the kudos as well, and I'll make sure I share it with them.

Thank you. So the first item is to approve the guaranteed maximum price amendment to an AIA agreement with Terra General Contractors, doing business at Terra Construction for construction management at risk services for Project 2024-186, community center and senior center connection and renovation associated with the 2023 Parks Bond Referendum. Is there a motion? So moved. There's a motion by Council Member Malander and a second by Council Member Hebert. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. and the second item is to approve change order number number one to professional services agreement with johnson lawson kelloway architects doing business as jlg architects for project 2024 dash 186 community center and senior center connect connection and renovation associated with 2023 parks bond referendum is there a motion so moved Second. Motion by Council Member Berkman and second by Council Member Hebert. All those in favor? Aye.

Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Eric. Appreciate it.

The next item is staff and council communications. And the first thing, Commissioner Heyman-Roland didn't quite say that John's mother had passed away and the funeral is today, so condolences from all of us, John.

Thank you.

I appreciate it. Any staff communications?

Acting Mayor Grendel, yes, we do have our police chief that would like to come up and talk about an event that's coming up related to bike safety. Oh, boy.

Good evening, acting mayor and members of the council. We spoke, I think it was just the last council meeting, about bike safety, about bike regulations, and we are following up with a event that we have been planning for a little while, presented by our police department that's gonna combine everything every kid loves, which is food, riding bikes, and police officers. And so on June 11th, from noon to two, we will be over at Greenleaf Park in the tennis courts, and uh... will be engaging our biking community there we've got a bunch of stations that will be set up uh... will be a safety like a riding course a safety course uh... equipment safety check uh... kids and adults can register their bikes uh... it's something that is barely uh... very rarely taken advantage of in apple valley but we do have a bike registration program and that's not to put license plates on the back of the bikes that's to register who owns the bike Every year we get dozens and dozens and dozens of bikes throughout our community that are abandoned, that are lost, that are stolen, that end up in a park or on a sidewalk that nobody knows who it is. We end up taking them. They go to auction. Very few of them are registered with us. And those that are, the officer can look on there and say, hey, this has your registration sticker. And just like a lost dog, we can return that bike back to the owner, which we love to do. The bike registration is something that we've had for a very long time, but it's underutilized. We also have a helmet giveaway station, so people that show up that aren't equipped with the right safety equipment, we've got them covered. We can get them set up and fitted and walk away with helmets. We have a new hot dog stand that we got through a partnership with the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Foundation that we will have up and running that you will see throughout the summer. and the fall at many of our public engagement opportunities. And so this event on June 11th will be the first time we have that hot dog stand out. So everyone attending will get a meal with it, because it is kind of right around the lunchtime. So there is registration ahead of time. So we invite folks to register. It's on our Facebook. I know it's been sent out to anyone that has registered with the city's email service to get kind of the civic alerts. So we welcomed everybody to come out on June 11th. If any of you are available and around town during the day, swing by and check us out. But we're happy to host this event all in the name of safety and just community engagement.

Thank you, Chief. Thank you. It's always exciting with all the things you're doing in the department. Thank you.

Yep, we love it. Thanks.

Council of Communications?

I have two things. First, we had Memorial Day, and it feels like summer out there. I'm just kind of curious as to just announcing the opening of Splash Valley and the community Redwood pool. I know people are getting really excited about that, and as you're making your way up here, Nate, I just also wanted to say... I really do love the octopus, the new logo for the Redwood pool. So again, kudos. It looks fantastic.

Well, thank you, Mayor and Council Members. So, yes, Splash Valley Water Park, it's our second year for that. It will be opening up on June 5th. And then same with our brand-new Redwood Pool. So that will also open up on June 5th. To the public there, that will be at 11 o'clock opening on the Redwood one. I know a lot of people are anticipating with the Splash Valley one, but Redwood being brand-new, we think that one's going to be a little bit bigger line there. The octopus that you mentioned looks amazing. You drive down 42 and you can't miss it. Like it's so big, it's so huge. With that too, that's going to open up later this, you know, anticipate right now end of August, beginning of September. Fingers crossed it'll come out a little bit sooner on here. With Splash Valley too though, jumping back there, note we do have early bird season passes and that ends this Sunday at midnight. So if you want to have a little bit of a price reduction on there, feel free to jump on our website, stop by our community center and grab those ahead of time.

and then the regular fees will begin on the 1st I was at a restaurant and they were all wondering what that was and somebody said I finally figured out it's an octopus

Any other questions on any of the pools?

No, thank you.

Thanks, Nate. Nate, hang on a second. So I got the opportunity. I like to go cruise around the city and see what goes on. And there was construction workers there. I knew they were getting ready to go home. I saw the gate was open into the Redwood pool area. And there was a construction worker. And I asked the gentleman. I says, I'm here. I identified who I was. I said, I didn't want to go any farther than this. I'll wait till the octopus gets fully built and I said to him I said so how many semis trailers did it take to load to build this and he goes well we're on semi number seven and there's 14 trailers that are going to be used to build that octopus and I was like oh wow this is going to be cool so I'm a new kid again so thanks.

The exciting part on that, you know, working with Flagship and LSI Landscape Structures, it is a one-of-one. So we are going to be the only ones in the United States and the world that has that exact playground. I'm sure people are going to like it and try and steal it from us, but we'll be the first, and it'll be one-of-one to start with. Beautiful.

That's great.

Cool.

Thanks, Nate.

Thank you.

Go ahead. Okay, my second one. I just also wanted to give a shout-out. Last Thursday, we had the State of the City address that was hosted and coordinated with the Apple Valley Chamber at Valleywood, and it was really well done, so a shout-out to the chamber for another great event, and Mayor Hoopa did a great job of highlighting a lot of the accomplishments over the past year. And for those of you who weren't able to attend, there is this 2025 community report, which is a great document that really highlights a lot of things that have happened in the city, programs, services, things like that. Really great to know what's what's been happening the last year in the city of Apple Valley, lots of great accomplishments. And then there was also a great video that the city put together, again, highlighting a lot of the accomplishments this past year, as well as the video, I believe, of the entire state of the city. So encouraging people to go onto the website and check out some of these great resources and see all the continued progress in Apple Valley. So again, thank you.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor Hoopa and the staff. It was phenomenal. When you see everything come together, it's like, oh, my gosh, did everybody accomplish that? I mean, we're part of it, and you're like, anyway, thank you, everyone. Anything else? Council Member Brigham?

Guess I'd like to one of the comments I have is for the Memorial Day at the Legion I think again as long as I've been on this Council I've been there every year and I think it's still one of the better best programs around I truly the the community gets involved in and really appreciates What these men and women have done and sacrificed for our for our community and for the United States. So I again to the Legion for hosting it this year was inside I think it's their second year that we've had it inside otherwise it's outside but it was packed and to the choir that sang and to Clint's little speech that he gave again was exceptional so again thanks to the community for participating And it's emotional when you see the young people that we've lost in our schools Oh yeah, that was brutal The program at the VFW was

The music was terrific. There was one piece, all give some, some give all, that was just heart-wrenching. It was terrific. And Jay, the original, the welcoming remarks, I asked for a copy, actually. I hate to say profound, but it was really terrific. It's more than just the get together, wave the flag kind of thing. Memorial Day is something that's beyond just another picnic. They do just a super job putting on a program every year.

Thank you. The next City Council informal meeting is Thursday, June 11th at 5.30 p.m. And the next City Council regular meeting is Thursday, June 11th at 7 p.m. Can we approve the calendar of upcoming events? Is there a motion? So moved. Second. A member from Council Member Bergman is seconded by Council Member Hebert. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Is there a motion to adjourn? So moved.

Second.

Just like Council Member Hebert and Council Member Bergman second?

No, Council Member Melander gave it.

All those in favor? Aye. Thank you, everyone.