City Council - Regular Meeting

Se declara abierta la reunión del Consejo Municipal de la Ciudad de Cannon Falls, martes 15 de septiembre de 2026. Podría pasar lista, por favor. Diane Johnson.

Present.

Zimmerman. Chad Johnson.

Present.

Gibson. Novak Kronenberger, ausente. Ausente. Montgomery. Present. Por favor, pónganse de pie para el juramento de la bandera. Puro lealtad a la bandera de los Estados Unidos de América.

Y a la república que representa. a nation under God, indivisible, with freedom and justice for all.

En contra. Quedo probado. Eso nos lleva a la participación del público. La participación del público tiene como fin ofrecer a la ciudadanía la oportunidad de expresar sus preocupaciones a un municipal. La participación del público no durará más de 30 minutos en total y cada orador tendrá un máximo de 3 minutos para hablar. Los oradores pueden abordar temas relevantes para el gobierno de la ciudad. Los oradores deben registrarse con antelación y proporcionar su nombre, dirección y el tema que pretenden tratar. The comments must be relevant, respectful, related to the issues of the city and comply with the privacy standards of applicable data. Any speaker who violates these rules must take a seat. If the speaker refuses to comply, he will be removed from the meeting. Speakers must not address issues that are the object of a public hearing. All comments must be made without a public hearing. The Municipal Council will generally not act on the issues raised by the public, but may opt to schedule their consideration in a future agenda. To begin tonight, we have Tim Diemer.

Thank you for inviting the public or thank you all for being here. Only maybe I should start by showing this good find in one of the garage sales in the city. But I have read these posters that they keep telling me or tell anyone who reads them that it is good to ask for help and this type of.

It ends with what fits.

It's on, it's just that I'm not doing enough. I'm sorry.

But it's...

So it's okay to know everything. It's okay to make mistakes. It's okay to be yourself. To have difficult days and it's okay to ask for help. I'm just... I'm continuously... It's like I'm fighting. I'm... I'm... It's like there's no way to even get a... A response from the people. I just don't get it, neither from the library board nor from the municipal council. What I just read about the municipal council or the library board generally, no. that I thought I had read it before, where it said no, probably not. But you generally, that is, generally, in most cases, then in some cases they do not even act on a public problem. So, what is public opinion for if they are not going to act? You do not, in most cases, generally, that is, usually, usually they do not act. I am not going to make mistakes. Even for the police department, they comment, but they say that they are always right. Look at any presentation card they give you with their name. They are always right. How is that humanly possible?

Thank you, Jim. Next, Jim Hoffman wants to talk about letreros.

Cerebre es solo que el letrero de Don Menzing, todos esos letreros, los letreros se ven increíbles en la ciudad. Están destacados y solo espero que sigamos adelante con eso. Realmente nos vendría bien uno para el estacionamiento de transbordo en esa área también. Realmente hace que la ciudad se vea un poco más elegante. Todo ese letrero, toda esa señalización es buena. Usualmente vengo aquí con algo malo que decir, así que creo que es un buen trabajo. Bien hecho.

Gracias. That brings us to tonight's consent agenda. The points of the consent agenda can be adopted under a single motion, as presented, or can be withdrawn for discussion and resolution as such. Tonight, point A, just and correct claims for the accounting period that ends on September 10, 2026. Point B, act of the meeting, work session of the Municipal Council on September 1, 2026. Point C, act of the meeting, meeting of the Municipal Council on September 1, 2026. Point D, resolution 293, authorizing fund closures for the end of the year 2025 audit of Cannon Falls. Point e, segunda lectura y adopción de la ordenanza 416, una ordenanza que modifique el capítulo 152 del Código Municipal relacionado con la arquitectura. Punto f, aprobar moto niveladora de obras públicas como equipo excedente. Punto g, aprobar equipo excedente de obras públicas. Punto h, aprobar la aceptación del proyecto de apartamentos Cannon Ball. Resolution 2894 that adopts the preliminary fiscal agreement and the budget charged in 2027 and establishes a date for the public meeting. Resolution 2885 that approves the elimination of parcels of the districts of financing of fiscal increase numbers 2 to 6 and 2 to 8 within the District of Municipal Development 2 in the city of Cannon Falls. Resolution 2896 that approves a variation for the minimum of refueling in the high density residential district R4. ¿Hay algo que el consejo desee retirar para tratar como asunto de dos?

Uh, no tengo nada que quiera retirar, pero le pediría a John que hable sobre el punto primer en su turno de palabra. Creo que hay mucha información buena ahí.

Sí, puedo hacerlo después. ¿Ahorraron el turno de palabra? Al no haber nada que retirar, solicitará una moción para aprobar la agenda de consentimiento de esta noche.

¿Para cuál moción?

Diane fue la primera en pedirlo. Lisa, ¿tú hiciste? Entonces Jeff es el segundo. ¿Alguna otra discusión? Todos a favor.

Por favor.

¿En contra? John nos lleva los informes de esta noche.

Laura no está presente.

John, ¿querrías encargarte de la EDA o...? La EDA se reunió el 3 de septiembre en... El gran anuncio fue que a Tillian le queda un pago de su préstamo de la EDA, así que estamos considerando celebrar la próxima reunión de EDA potencialmente en la cervecería. Let's see if it's concrete or not. But we are proud of them for having continued forward. I think there are people who have been there from the beginning and said, I never thought it would go that far. It's great to see that those loans come to an end, which I think leaves us with two loans pending with Robbe, Eistro and Art Oars. Se anunció que un lote en Harwood Estates se cerró y luego hubo un anuncio sobre una subvención de mejora rural de $25,000 y una de las áreas de enfoque elegibles para la subvención sería el cuidado infantil. Sé que probablemente no es algo de lo que hayamos escuchado o hablado mucho en esta reunión, pero ha sido un tema que la escuela ha planteado y definitivamente es una necesidad para nosotros. Hay un análisis que se realiza cada año por parte de socios que trabajan en la industria del cuidado infantil y la Universidad de Minnesota quienes estudian la evaluación de necesidades para el cuidado infantil. Ciertamente estamos en un área que está, bueno, muy por debajo de la capacidad. Tenemos una alta demanda de cuidado infantil y creo que en el área de Cannon Falls faltan unos cientos de cupos para niños. Así que no estamos solos. en todas partes del estado prácticamente en toda la gran minnesota se enfrentan a un desafío muy similar muy bien la junta de parques y obras públicas también se reunió el 3 de septiembre dos de los temas están en la agenda de consentimiento los artículos excedentes

Y luego el tercer punto que discutimos fue los comentarios que recibimos del DNR y también de la Asociación de Cisnes sobre qué hacer con nuestros polluelos de cisne. Y su recomendación fue dejarlos madurar, eventualmente se irán y se unirán a una bandada cuando pasen por aquí, probablemente esta primavera o a finales de este invierno.

Yes, great. I assume that most of what was discussed yesterday in the planning commission is also in the consent agenda tonight. I have another issue.

One part of the final plan of the data center.

But that will go to the October meeting. I can pass this to...

Yes, I would only add that there is only one issue of the planning commission here tonight, here tonight. The rest are for October 6th, which includes the final plan.

So those who are mostly in the consent agenda are from...

Entonces, o eso fue el qué. Esta noche hay un tema de anoche que necesitaba estar por cuestiones de tiempo. El resto es... Lo habitual para pasar a la siguiente. Un reunión del mes.

Perfecto. Turno de palabra, Jeff.

Um, no puedo creer que esté diciendo esto, pero el 5 de octubre comenzaremos el lavado de hidrantes de otoño. Sí, no puedo creer que ya sea ese momento. Nuestros proyectos están empezando a concluir. Todavía están trabajando, ya sabes, en las carreteras y pavimentarán tan pronto como la base esté lista y traigan al contratista para hacer el bordillo, la cuneta y la pavimentación.

Jefe. Realmente nada. Fuimos muy afortunados de no tener incidentes mayores durante las vacaciones, aunque desafortunadamente tuvimos un ahogamiento. Quiero aprovechar esta oportunidad para agradecer al Consejo por comprar el Aqua Eye. Si recuerdan, tuvimos un ahogamiento. En invierno esa herramienta no estaba disponible para nosotros. Nos tomó varios días localizarla. En este caso, el departamento de bomberos llegó al lugar, entró al agua, comenzó a usar la herramienta y pudimos localizar un objetivo probable a los pocos minutos de... Un desafortunadamente, debido a donde estaba el cuerpo, era demasiado profundo para poder recuperarlo sin ayuda de... Realmente creo que es un recurso invaluable. I want to thank the council for allowing the department of police officers to share the costs to make it a reality. Thank you.

Looking towards the future, November 3 are the general elections. Y sé que parece que falta mucho, pero en realidad está a la vuelta de la esquina. Pero esa es también una noche de reunión regular del Consejo. Necesitamos escrutar los resultados de las elecciones. Así que propongo mover la reunión al 10 de noviembre, el martes siguiente, y solo me aseguro de que eso funcione para la mayoría. Si no, para todos.

Necesitas comentarios del resto del Consejo.

Sí, solo saber si es un sí o un no, y luego me aseguraré de que está en la agenda el próximo mes.

Si pueden asistir el martes 10, asegúrense de que tengamos jueves.

Tenemos que reunirnos, así que tenemos que hacerlo, porque debemos escrutar estos resultados dentro de los 10 días posteriores a la elección. Así que, si eso no funciona, tendremos que buscar otra reunión, pero planearemos eso por ahora. Y luego, continuando con temas electorales, la votación en ausencia se llevará a cabo en el condado de Goodhue. También puede ser por correo si entran al sitio web del secretario de Estado. Y eso comienza el viernes 18 de septiembre. So if you have any questions, anyone in the audience can call the city hall here and we can help you indicate where to go. But all the voting in absence is carried out in the county of Woodhill, in Red Wing, in the government center.

Thank you, John. Well, I have a couple more things that I'll touch on before I get to the budget point. So, Jed and I met with the county yesterday about the recycling containers and the road logs. So, we talked about possible locations. There was discussion about the parking of Grava Park and Ride coming out of 19th. And the county is willing to put them there. We would be willing to do that. The warnings are, we don't have cameras there right now. We wouldn't be investing in cameras right now. They must manage them, place the proper signaling, warning people that if there is garbage, if there are pollutants and things in those loads, the containers could be removed. However, another important element is that it is a snowmobile. When we have excess snow that we remove from the center, we deposit it there in winter. So if we get to the point where there is too much snow and the containers get in the way, they must be moved to another parking lot or removed until we can place them again when the snow disappears. So they have had some discussions about it. They seem to agree on those things, so I just wanted to inform you about this tonight and if there is any kind of yes. No, we are not asking for a vote, but simply if there are concerns or issues, please let us know before we move forward with that plan.

What is the schedule, dear?

I would like to install them before the end of the month. So, another point that emerged in the last two days. Scott Repke from El Sendero came to talk to me. He has a position that is retiring in his administration and he was wondering if there is any possibility that we can, you know, consider incorporating those work functions within the roles in the city. So, in reality, it is something interesting and a good moment for us. We have had some conversations. Habla sobre el personal en la reunión de presupuesto anterior, así que existe la posibilidad de que investiguemos cómo podemos apoyarlos y acomodar eso. Al hacerlo en mi conversación con él, solo quería que sabe hacerle saber que todavía tenemos mucho que hacer para lograr esto. So there would be more to present and certainly the council will have its voice in this matter, but it would be something whose costs they would cover. It is not only that we are contributing that work for them in our role. They are going to pay us for that function. It is a position that they have in their budget. I think it would be a good fit to integrate that, you know, and then we could recover that money. So we would find a way to do it together. Moving on to the budget summary, I thank you for mentioning it and giving me the opportunity to get up again. It changed a bit. I want to say that in the figures, when we did the presentation in the work session, we were in the range of 13% at the end. Some things I shared that we still didn't have all the updated figures. had not yet obtained the figures from the fire department. So when we add them up, we end up with a 14% increase in the collection. Once again, I want to share this message once and again. Preliminary collection is the roof on which the recording may be. It's going to go down. And an important component of this is that if we look at the capital improvement funds for parks, we have almost 300,000 dollars in items that we include in that list. Ahora bien, si el plano final, como parte de las condiciones de aprobación para el centro de datos, se aprueba, recibiríamos una tarifa de dedicación de parques de $494,000. Así que mi propuesta es que, si eso se aprueba y se concreta, esos fondos se utilicen para compensar los costos de mejora de capital de parques que tenemos en este presupuesto para este año y partes del próximo. And that, ultimately, would allow us to reduce our collection by approximately 8%. In that sense, I tried to make the calculations and determine what the average value of our residential housing would be for Dons 2027. It is around $320,000, according to the county's valuation. So, only with that movement, if it happens, and we only talk about that, taxes will be reduced to $115 for that level. de valor de propiedad presidencial promedio. Así que ese es un impacto directo de reducción en los impuestos a la propiedad gracias al centro de datos si se concreta ese proyecto. Solo quería compartir eso con el consejo. Another key element, in what people will see in their taxes, and I want to emphasize this because it can be confusing, is that their valuations are a determining factor, huge, of what will happen with their taxes. So if their taxes increase, it doesn't necessarily mean, hey, everything comes from the city because of our tax increase. That happens because their valuations also changed. So if their valuations went up, which they did in general for many properties in the city, I think the general valuation increase for the whole city was almost 10%. So that will determine to a great extent where things will go. So what we will end up with is our estimation of the tax rate. That is, how much are we really going to collect compared to how much tax capacity our city has. That's only going to go up in the preliminary aspect, it's only going to go up a couple of percentage points compared to the previous year. But once that, if that dedication rate to the park arrives, we make that adjustment, that loan adjustment at the end, which you know, there is capacity to do other things. If you make that adjustment, our tax rate will actually be lower than it was last year, simply because the other value changed. So simple division mathematics already knows that a number has become bigger than the other. So, in that sense, that is already something positive for us. So, if you have one of those houses in our community that did not change much in value, from what it will pay in taxes in 2026 to what it will pay in taxes in 2027, then when that rate goes up, you could see that your taxes decrease slightly. That was one of those things that was emphasized about how the taxes of the property of Minnesota work, and you know, fortunately, hours and hours would pass in it, but No creo que nadie quiera hacer eso esta noche, así que... Quizás no esta noche. Pero hay alguna otra pregunta con respecto a eso o cualquier otra cosa que quiera que mencione.

Eso estuvo genial.

Solo pensé que era interesante, ya sabe, poder aplicar la matemática real y decir, oye, si estas cosas suceden y esto ocurre, este es realmente el impacto que tendría. Eso es dinero real.

Algo más, Johnny.

Uy, ¿eso era todo lo que tenía? Muy bien. Muchas gracias. Laura.

Estoy bien.

Uh, a couple of upcoming events that I saw in my calendar.

On Saturday, the Educational Foundation has its social event of Poké.

That's a fun event. And then next Saturday, the 26th, the Cannon Falls Bears organize a bingo tournament in the John Birch Park.

And then an LBFW Barazo Asado de Cerdo that night.

Yes, good things. Fun things this year.

Just one question about our test of the active transport plan, along with the John Birch Park. I know it's temporary. We know when it's going to disappear.

Before the snow falls.

That could happen in two years.

Boom.

While it will fall off the ground easily, it will also fall below 50 degrees. Sería difícil para nosotros quitar esa cinta.

Mis instrucciones de lo que nuestro hermano Oemendo te instaló es que es cuando hace frío afuera. Ponga antes de que caiga la nieve.

¿Habrá algún tipo de evaluación formal sobre si valió la pena?

Ellos preguntarán. Tenemos algún seguimiento. ¿Cómo fue? ¿Si gustó o no? Ya sabes. active transportation. Correct. So, and honestly, we wanted our active transportation, we wanted it on the 19th, next to the school. We wanted to put a temporary pedestrian crossing there. Emendot rejected it. And then his idea was to put a bike lane, it was on Minnesota Street. And we said, no, we don't need a bike lane on Minnesota Street. So this was like plan C. It wasn't our optimal idea. It's not what we wanted, but we had the subsidy and that's what they approved. So that's why we went there.

Gracias. Gracias, Diana.

Las ventas de garaje en toda la ciudad fueron el fin de semana pasado y escuché que una de ellas organizó una recaudación de fondos para el Christmas Ever y recaudaron más de $1,400. Así que creo que fue algo genial. Así que solo quería compartirlo con ustedes.

¿Alguna? ¿Qué es Best Christmas?

Hacen como una caridad donde proporcionan regalos de Navidad a familias y esas cosas al final del año.

Es maravilloso. Great. I just have something very quick. Last Friday was the 25th anniversary of September 11, and it was also the veterans' night at John Birch Park for the Cannon Falls football team. And another father spoke to me and asked me, you know, we go to many American football games and you see the welcome home, you see the parents' night, the seniors' night, things like that.

But we can't think of any other team we've faced that does something so unique. So I just want to thank you all.

If you are not familiar with this, each player and manager is paired with a veteran and we honor them for their service. They meet in the center of the field and remain there before the game for the national anthem. It is a really moving event for the community and for all veterans who have served in it. And I think this year was especially important because it coincided with the 25th anniversary of September 11. It is a special event, so if you have the opportunity to go to the American football games at home in the future, please go and support our veterans in that way.

Así que al no haber nada más, solicitaría una moción para levantar la sesión.

Moción de Lisa.

Todos a favor.

En contra. Gracias a todos.