City Commission - Regular Meeting

We're still gonna be always your fishing trip at like the woods Okay, I mean we ate fish three nights People up there They're too big to keep but they're not big enough for the trophy. And they know the life through 60 noise too.

It'd be nice to control it.

I mean, if you've been in the house, it's very, very small, like bedrooms are nine and a half by 11. That's a small bedroom.

I'll bet somebody pays a little less and they tear the whole thing down.

There's a lot in the back you can deal with.

Everything you get so far to the west side, that's all swamped down there. You can't do anything. You can expand.

I've been mowing it for the last year and a half. I know. Oh, have you? Yeah.

he died that long ago she died last year yeah and she wasn't she was sick and i found out about it well the person usually helps herself well he was sick too so i just said i'd go along well i've been continuing to mow the lawn and they have the household locks and so the lawnmower so apparently i'm only going to tell the new water takes over

Okay, we're going to call the meeting to order.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Okay, are there any additions or corrections to the consent calendar?

Second. I'll second.

Okay. Call roll. Commissioners Garbers. Aye. Peterson. Aye. York. Aye. Carlson.

Aye.

Mayor Lundstrom.

Aye. Are there any visitors to be heard tonight on anything that is not on the agenda? Nope.

Okay.

So we'll move on to old business. The Code of Ethics Ordinance. We had the first reading was done on July 20th for an ordinance to enact Chapter 37 for the City Commission Code of Ethics. If the second reading is approved, it will be published on August 13th and be effective on September 2nd. And a motion is required to approve this second reading.

Motion. Second.

Okay.

Commissioner Peterson. Aye. York. Aye. Carlson. Aye. Garbers. Aye. Mayor Lundstrom.

Aye. Okay. New business. We have a raffle request from the Canton Chamber and Celebrate Canton committees. The Canton Car Show for Generations submitted a raffle request and tickets are sold on Fridays and until the Ace of Hearts is drawn. Right? Yes. Our last pot went out rather quick. What? The last pot went out rather quick on us, so. Oh. So the tickets can be purchased for $5 each or five for $20. And they would like for this to start on August 7th. And there's a 10% payout weekly if the Ace of Hearts is not drawn and a large pot to winner. Car show committee? Yep. Okay.

Did you do Ace of Hearts last time?

Yes.

THAT'S THE PROBLEM. IT'S EASY TO THROW.

OKAY. I GUESS I WANT TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THIS REQUEST. I'LL SECOND. OKAY. I'M GOING TO CALL ROLL.

COMMISSIONER YORK. AYE. CARLSON. AYE. GARBERS. AYE. PETERSON. AYE. MAYOR LUNSTROP.

AYE. NEXT IS THE 2025 AUDIT REPORT. WE RECEIVED THE ELO CPA'S AND ADVISOR'S AUDIT REPORT FOR 2025. The motion is required to accept the report. Do you have anything to add about that?

No, but then we have an unqualified opinion, which is the best one you can get.

Motion. Motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. Okay.

Next on the agenda is on the AMB printer service.

Johnny Noel from AMB Business Solutions has submitted a lease agreement, maintenance agreement, and addendum for printer-copier machines within the city of Canton. The total is 635.76 per month. Is this by one year or three years? Five. Five year?

Okay. We have individual leases with us, the PD, and the library. They're all individual leases, so we're all combining them all together and getting a better rate. Okay. Okay.

So a motion and a second is needed to approve this agreement.

So this is better than last year? Motion.

Okay. Call the roll.

Commissioners Garbers. Aye. Peterson. Aye. York. Aye. Carlson. Aye. Lundstrom.

Aye. So that's all we had on the agenda for tonight. We will go into executive session after Commissioner Dylon. Chris, do you have anything?

I have things all in regards to the storm that we had. Shout out to multiple Obviously, I want to start with the water department. So I left my house because I couldn't handle sitting there. My family was gone. And I was like, I'm going out. And I took off. And I ran into multiple downed power lines, realizing how dark it was. And I was traveling like three to five miles an hour. I've been here since 2013. And I was telling folks, I think this is the second worst I've seen it. first being that derecho. It was awful. Trees down everywhere, power lines down everywhere. And then I worked my way up Grant and that area running into the fire department and that sort of thing. But I happened to see Bill at the water tower and I stopped thinking about trees and pulled over and talked to him and Corey. So shout out to Bill and Corey for I don't think people understand what it takes to run the water in this town. They had no power. So when you lose power, we lose water. So we always talk about EMTs and that sort of thing on a national level. some people do. I just want folks to realize that they had to put in a very long night to keep us from not going to a boiling order or anything of that sort. So hats off to them guys. I then told them to keep in touch with me as I was probably going to be up all night. And I ran into the fire department as I went through Park Lane and Christmas Lake and just kind of teamed up with them and went through and cleaned out streets, right? Then I ran into Bill and Dalton and those guys literally with the payloader cleaning stuff up. Seeing the amount of debris, I knew that we were going to need to open the Rebel site. So reaching out to Andrew immediately and saying, hey, I know that it's going to be Sunday, but we need to do something. which kind of brings me to another issue where maybe we need to look at a, a brush and tree location that we've talked to that's 24 seven. So we don't have to pay somebody, but that's just, just something I was thinking of. Um, and then, uh, the following day, obviously Sunday, um, I want to say it was Sunday, uh, Laurel law block. put together a volunteer team. And I mean, those I know Laurel knows that we've lost 500 plus ash trees in this community. You're now removing those trees and you're leaving a whole bunch of pockets that your maple trees, your spruce trees and such have not felt wind before. that all of a sudden are feeling wind for the first time in 50 years, I think that might have something to do with it. Seeing this, I mean, not has nothing to do with 90 mile an hour winds. I'm saying the amount of trees that are hitting the ground possibly wouldn't have hit the ground had they had a 60 foot ash tree next to them. Okay. So I'm saying that with these 500 trees that we've been losing over the last six, seven years, you're going to see even More, I call it the Lewis and Clark Prairie where there's nothing, no trees left because the wind keeps coming through and knocking these trees out. So that's enough for the wind storm. The other thing I happen to see is folks talking on Facebook of the e-bikes and that group that you guys put together. It seems like there's a really good conversation going on about the e-bike solution. I spent a lot of time in Harrisburg. I spent a lot of time in Brandon. E bikes are not just a problem for us, but it's interesting to see people talking about what other communities are doing and things are everywhere and. I wrote on him in Chicago when I went to Chicago at the last meeting I missed. I was in Chicago and. They have a bike lane. And they're still. We even in and out of traffic. So it was really interesting to be on an e-bike in the third largest city in America and, and have your own lane and still be passed cars. You know, it was like, this is insane, but here we are in little podunk, South Dakota, trying to put together a possible rule of how to run these e-bikes. And I don't know, it's just, it's, and that's where we're at is the technology that is in front of us with these bikes. We have to do something, but I'm also an advocate for safety. Yes. But I'm concerned how much you're putting on the police department. I don't know how they're going to enforce it. So every single thing I read and everybody's ideas, I don't know how you're going to enforce any of them because of what Corbin's crew is going to have to. Well, there's one, there's one, there's one. None of them are wearing helmets. None of them are abiding by the laws. How do you keep them off the sidewalks? Do you put them on the sidewalks? I don't know what the answer is. And I don't know what everybody's thoughts are in the committee, but.

Yeah, they're still working on it. So.

We had our first meeting. We're looking to recruit some, one or two more members to the task force.

Teresa had gathered a four hour time difference when the storm came through and my dogs got out and bunch of people rallied together to catch my dogs and get them back in and just appreciative of that because it was so difficult with the time difference you know it's 2 a.m here but we're up and then when we're asleep then people are up here and we're trying to get things together but everybody was so helpful and made a really stressful situation much easier on us so uh The whole police department came together. I think I communicated with every officer in the department about my dogs running loose. So I sincerely appreciate every officer that was out because I'm pretty sure the whole pit and caboodle were out. And then also my neighbors and friends and everybody. Again, I came back and I wouldn't even know there was a windstorm like this. It's so clean like everybody's picked up. Everybody helped pick up like. I think it's great. I think it was impressive and I thank you and all the people so.

Done.

It covered it. Again, I appreciate I was out of town also.

on sunday just on sunday yeah another 150 on monday um well over a thousand cents yeah i ran into chris on one of his patrols on sunday so i got pretty much downloaded on all of it yes i appreciate everybody that went above and beyond and helped everybody else out in the middle of the night i was outside my neighbors lost a big tree our street was blocked Well, they tread black. Fire department was there several times. We lost several lines and trees in just our core neighborhood. So it was kind of a mess and I appreciate everybody that worked together to clean this mess up. And yes, we've gotten a lot of wind. So do you have anything?

Yes. The carnival is started to arrive. They have, some of their rides are being staged at the high school parking lot. Carnival operators are starting to, I think they'll start to be into the campground tonight. We've communicated with, after prohibition voted at least once to stay dry. under kind of the traditional system if you will where the commissioner council just interviews applicants in this and the department of revenue issues liquor license to those applicants Canton said no to that system through public votes and only allowed alcohol to be sold again after prohibition by putting the city in control of the issuance of liquor licenses. And so technically in Canton, liquor licenses are issued to the city and then they are shared with individual businesses operating for a year at a time. And that's trying to just make sure that that initiated measure meshes with all those old laws and how the people first enacted alcohol into this town 70 some years ago.

Okay. Do you have anything? Okay. That's all we have. And so call for an executive session on the codified law 934-19. So. Any other motion? Yes.

Commissioners Peterson York Carlson Garbers.

Thank you for coming.

Thank you.

Yeah, I got