City Council - Regular Meeting

Monday, August 3, 2026

The Chaska City Council approved the sale of Series 2026B Bonds to finance the new water treatment facility and other water improvement projects. The Economic Development Authority (EDA) also met to call for a public hearing on the establishment of TIF District Number 26 Big Woods Business.

About this meeting

Government Body
City Council
Meeting Type
City Council
Location
Chaska, MN
Meeting Date
August 3, 2026

Transcript

76 sections

3:01Speaker 4

Good evening and welcome to the Chaska City Council meeting for Monday, August 3rd, 2026. I call this meeting to order at 7 o'clock. Would everyone please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

3:11Speaker 1

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

3:24Speaker 7

All right. Elise, would you please call roll? Council Member Hatfield? Here. Council Member Benesch? Council Member Shevlin? Here. Council Member McGraw?

3:32 – 3:52Speaker 4

Here. Mayor Hubbard? Here. All right. That moves us along into the adoption of the agenda. Does anybody have any additions or corrections to the agenda? I know we had an item removed from the agenda that was non-pertinent, so just note of that. But otherwise, I'd entertain a motion for approval.

3:53Speaker 5

Motion to approve agenda.

3:54 – 4:35Speaker 4

All right, we have a motion from Council Member Hatfield. A second from Councilmember Shevlin. Any other discussion? Otherwise, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Agenda is adopted. All right, that moves us along to visitor presentation. Anybody here in the room for visitor presentation that's not on the agenda? I'm thinking not. So we're going to move right along to the next item on our agenda, which is approval of our previous meeting minutes. These meeting minutes were from July 20th, 2026. Does anybody have any addition or corrections to the minutes? Hearing no discussion, I would entertain a motion for approval.

4:37 – 5:40Speaker 4

All right, motion from Council Member Grah. Second. A second from Council Member Hatfield. Any other discussion? Otherwise, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Minutes are approved. And that moves us along to our consent agenda. These are items that receive little to no discussion, although anything can be pulled off the consent agenda and added to the action items. Or if there's any questions on anything, please feel free to speak up now. Hearing no discussion, I would entertain a motion for approval. All right. We have a motion from Council Member Shevlin. And a second from Mayor Hubbard. Any other discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right. Consent is approved. And we are just chugging right along here to the action items. And we have one tonight. And it's 8A. It is Adopt Resolution 2026-69, Ratifying the Sale of Series 2026B Bonds.

5:44 – 6:26Speaker 1

Mayor and Council Member, the item in front of you tonight is in relation to the construction of our new water treatment facility, which has started up in the space at the corner of Hunter Park and Pioneer Trail on some land that we owned and some land that we purchased from Hazeltine. um so to allow that project to move forward we had to go out and and sell revenue bonds for that and we have well we had our sale about a week ago and it went very well and we have noel here to to go through the item and then chris hogan from baker tilley who helped us through that process and they can share what the results were

6:31 – 7:44Speaker 3

thank you matt mayor council members as matt said we completed the sale of the bonds that we previously uh the council previously authorized for issuance in may that sale was completed on july 22nd these are geo water revenue bonds so the The water revenues from the water fund are pledged to help you pay these bonds, and the GEO pledge is also added as a way of providing additional security to the bondholders. So the effective bond rating for this is really a double A. It carries our GEO double A rating from standard units. As Matt indicated, this finances the new water treatment plant, various water improvement projects, the deep wells that we have previously constructed the last two years, as well as some other waterfront-type reconstruction projects. So the results of the sale were very good. I'm going to let Chris Hogan, who is our municipal advisor with the firm of Baker Tilly, review the results of the sale. She was not able to be with us last month when we closed on the EDA lease revenue bonds. That was our Series 2026A bonds. So Chris is going to review the results of the sale and review some highlights.

7:44Speaker 4

Thank you, Noel.

7:48 – 9:04Speaker 6

Thank you, Mayor and members of the council. I'm Chris Hogan from Baker Telly. I do work for the city and serve the city as their municipal advisor. And I'm here to just talk about the sale results of the city's 27.5 million general obligation utility revenue funds that did sell on July 22nd. So the proceeds of these bonds, my colleague talked about, were used for various water utility improvements, construction of the north water treatment plant, and cost of insurance. Additionally, there was premium receipt that allowed the city to finance a portion of the Jonathan Watermead reconstruction project. three payment turnover overall for the bonds is 25 meters with a level debt service the security of course the bonds are general obligation pledge of the city but are expected to pay be paid with the city's water utility revenues with no cost our rare bond sale pricing um it did result in a winning bid that had a premium 266 570. thousand and like i said that money was put towards financing the um jonathan watergate project so they were able to finance the bond courses through 23 960 of that project

9:07Speaker 4

Can you pause there for just a second? I want to ask a question to you. That is PV, right? Over by Crown Extrusions? Yep.

9:14 – 9:39Speaker 1

So it's actually behind Apex. So we have a section of water main that's in there that has been terrible. We have more holes in that street from us digging up than anywhere else probably in town. So like Chris said, we're going to use the premium from this to basically help pay the cost of replacing that pipe. Which is a huge benefit to, there's a couple of those businesses out there.

9:39 – 9:53Speaker 4

Yeah, I just wanted to make sure that that was noted and what we were talking about with that. And I'm sure that those industries are going to be highly appreciative because it has been very cumbersome. Thank you. I'm sorry. Please proceed, Chris.

9:53 – 13:41Speaker 6

I might also note, just in comparison, because like I said, the city was in the market on the 2026 day and we threw out new bonds that sold mid-June. And that was a 29-year term, and that rating was at 4.399. So this bond issue is just a few years shorter. It is rated one notch higher, and it reached the 4.311, which is about a difference of 10 basis points. Okay. which you would expect if the market stayed about the same, which it has, and that would account for the one notch higher rating, which you get for general allocation. Again, the rating process, we started this in conjunction with the 2026 day of these revenue funds. And it was an opportunity that the city had to host SMP analysts. They came here and we toured the city. We had a great day looking at exploring the city and seeing all the great things, the building, and so that was a fun opportunity, a great opportunity when the city's been in the market. There's some fairly large bond issues, so that was great. You know, the S&P provided, well, these bonds ended up with a rating of AA, which is what the city has had on their general obligation pledge bonds, and then the lease revenue was one notch lower. So a bond sale provides, a rating provides investment, investors' independent analysis of the city's ability to, their financial strength and ability to repay the bonds. So that's why not only is the process of going through the rating and receiving a rating is really important, it also directly impacts what the rating, what you'll get for bids and the rates that you receive. Some of the credit highlights, I'm going to step back and look at this. This is from the credit rating report. So they always provide highlights, and this is just a summary because they go into a lot of detail there. And they always also provide a factor which could lead to an upgrade as well as a factor that could lead to a downgrade. So I just highlighted, pulled out a few things from the report, the highlights that they had in there. The rating reflects S&P's view of the city's robust economy and the growing tax base. The city has considerable revenue flexibility. proactive fiscal management and commitment to increase reserves while managing substantial new debt is positive. The city has increased its general fund balance more than the last five years. They're operating surpluses and budget annual addition of 300,000. And the financial management is characterized by realistic budgeting, informed by historical trends, by your operating forecast, and a rolling by your capital improvement plan. Factors that could lead to an upgrade would be sustained improvement in available reserves coupled with a significant moderation in overall debt. And then they note that factors that could lead to a downgrade, if financial performance were to weaken, available reserves would decline or negative balance and non-general fund account pressure overall would pressure overall liquidity. or the city's debt burden would increase materially more than the current projections. And I was just going to note one thing that I missed that I kind of want to talk about is the market, because being the city's been in the bond, in the market recently for two bond sales, I just wanted to note that the market that we're running on, Series 2026E,

13:44 – 14:58Speaker 4

all right thank you um chris for your um program um and explanation uh does anybody have any questions at all i know we've done this once or twice um but i always appreciate the explanation especially kind of where things are at um you know what can improve us what could hurt us i think those are all really good informational points that are very helpful for the general public uh so with that being said i'm grateful to the work noel that you put in towards this and i'm excited that not only we are going to support the next phase for water treatment we are also supporting some water main construction in an industrial area that desperately needs it so with that i would entertain a motion for uh approval Does anybody want to make that? So motion? Correct. Good question. I had two that Matt, I had asked Matt earlier in regards to. One of them was on page 12, locality media Inc. Um, well, the other business, uh, council member grow, why don't you kick it off since you led the meeting last time?

14:58Speaker 2

Uh, uh, actually don't have anything. Okay.

15:02Speaker 2

I was out of the country and came back and still catching my bearings, but you were here. I'm here.

15:08Speaker 4

All right. Council Member Shetland, got anything?

15:13 – 16:07Speaker 8

It was really nice to be at River City Days and the booth and meet a bunch of the residents and I got the pleasure of working with Elise's daughter at the booth, and she's a wealth of knowledge around the construction we're going out here and what people want in the library, so it was fun to get to hear other excited people talk about the city besides just us. Tabitha Snots. Tabitha, yes, yes. And my dog was our mascot, Huxie Cames, so that was kind of fun because everybody stopped to pet Huxie and talk to Tabitha. Lisa and I kind of stood there in the background. It was very fun. But it was nice to meet people, and I think that there's a genuine excitement about the library. Almost everybody we talked to, whether the ideas were new or not, had ideas for the library and was excited about that. So that was kind of fun to see, and a good turnout, I think, overall. I remember city days when I was there, it was busy. And I think we got rid of all the yo-yos, so that was also a good thing.

16:08 – 16:25Speaker 4

I gave Mayor Mark a very hard time because those yo-yos were under his watch. And I had picked the chip clips, which are very popular. Which are amazing. There's one on my fridge now. And Mayor Mark proceeded to throw things at me in retaliation. So I'm just putting that on the record.

16:26Speaker 5

Well, I will say that I handed a yo-yo to someone and it immediately fell apart. And not once did I have a chip that fell apart. There you go.

16:32 – 17:17Speaker 8

I appreciate that. I also wanted to give a quick shout out to the Southwest Transit for that day. We rode the bus down there with the dog. And it was lovely. They let the dog ride on. I don't know if it's because I was in it. They did let him ride. And the kids and the strollers and all the things we had with us. So that was very nice. And very easy. So great job to Southwest. and then just a shout out to public works they were in my neighborhood today taking down two big trees and it was completely clean you would never know they were there when they left and when i left at noon to go out i was thinking that it would look like a war zone so great job cleaning up after themselves yeah they do a really wonderful job yep great oh all right uh council member hatfield yeah turn

17:18 – 20:05Speaker 5

River City Days was fantastic. Congrats again on 50 years. That was really amazing. I really liked the parade on Thursday night. That was a lot of fun. It felt like a lot of people were there. I don't know if it was so nice out or what, but there was a lot more people at the parade, so that was awesome. I wish I would have worked a Friday shift because Saturday was a little hot. So it was Sunday. But it was, like, still so many people came out. And I'm always amazed at how many people come out from other communities to that event. It's always really incredible. Got to talk about so many things. Stoplights, different roads, parking, parks, all sorts of things. So it was really fun to just, like, hear ideas. That idea box is always fun because people write things down and put it in there and... So a lot of good conversation. I don't think I stopped talking for most of my two-hour shift, so that was great. A few businesses have been celebrating birthdays, but I just wanted to congratulate Southern Social. They're celebrating one year this week, so I thought that was pretty exciting. They've been a great addition to Chaska. I was downtown this past weekend and it was bustling and I just want to remind people that sometimes what you read on the internet is not what's actually happening because every time I go downtown, there are people walking around, especially on the weekends, People walking around, people eating, people sitting in the park, literally everywhere. So I think sometimes the more you say, oh, it's traffic and big trucks and construction, of which there's none, that's what you think is happening, and it's not. And it was just really amazing to just be literally had to find parking, had to drive around the block to get parking, which is great. That's a good problem because there were so many people on 2nd specifically at the different shops and walking over to Hayloft and then sitting in the parking lot. So La Hermosa's patio was busy, size looked busy, so it was fantastic. Some things coming up. The Farmer's Market this week, the Chaska Middle School Garage Bands are playing in the park, and I'm very excited about that. So it's a good week to go to the Farmer's Market if you haven't checked it out yet. And then the Carver County Fair is coming up the 12th through the 16th, which is exciting. I'll be entering my chocolate chip cookies in to see if I can win. So I'm doing that in the state fair too. I'm pretty excited. Good for you. uh southwest transit speaking of is celebrating 40 years this year so if you haven't seen the 40-year bus it's driving around and then also the winners of our contests our art contests there are three buses driving around with um Art by two students and then one of the Southwest transit employees. So those will be around I can't remember when our next Southwest transit meeting is But you want to see the buses?

20:05Speaker 1

I think we're gonna have all four buses there I think I saw one coming off the highway because it looked really yeah, they're driving. They're out.

20:12 – 20:50Speaker 5

Yeah, you notice it They've been wrapped but I think at our next meeting for Southwest transit We're gonna have all four buses at East Creek to get some pictures or we're supposed to so um that's kind of fun that we're celebrating 40 years i don't know if i mentioned it so i thought it would um and then some other things coming up the public safety open house on september 14th that's very exciting i remember when it did everyone first moved into it i was like why aren't we doing one now They needed to get it. I know, but I'm so excited for people to see it and get to experience it. So that's happening the 14th. And then Touch a Truck, August 20th at Chaska High School, 5 to 7. That's always a lot of fun.

20:51Speaker 4

Nope, Chaska High School, not community center. I said Chaska High School. I know, that's what I'm saying.

20:56Speaker 5

Note that it's not going to be at the community center. I thought you said nope.

21:01Speaker 4

No, note. Be aware. It's not going to be at the community center.

21:06 – 21:30Speaker 5

So that's all the things coming up, at least that I had on my list. And then I had a question for Matt. So in the biweekly, you mentioned the Autumn Woods Park is being worked on. When we went through the process for that new neighborhood, several residents had brought up the kind of walkability along Autumn Woods because there's no sidewalks. As a part of that park, I don't know if you've heard that from the neighbors, do we have a plan to make that feel safer at least?

21:30 – 22:02Speaker 1

Yeah, well, I can tell you that I... I don't know if it's come up at, they've only had one meeting so far, so I don't know if it's come up at the meetings, but it's definitely on our radar from the meetings that we had when that neighborhood was approved. We actually, back at that point in time, right after it got approved and sort of that area for the park got cleared out, had come up with sort of a plan for how we were going to approach that and stuff. So the intent would be to implement that as part of the park.

22:02Speaker 5

Okay, that's what I was thinking. I just wanted to make sure it didn't fall off somewhere. So there's still that intent, and we'll see that happen. Because I know I was just driving along there the other day, and people really jump out of your way.

22:12Speaker 4

And I was like, I'm only going 10 miles an hour.

22:14 – 22:28Speaker 5

So then I was like, the electric sound in my vehicle scared them because they didn't hear me coming or what. But it does feel a little iffy there. So I think it'll be good to have something, whatever it is, traffic calming or whatever. I think there were several ideas at the time.

22:28Speaker 1

There's actually some type of trail sidewalk.

22:30Speaker 5

Okay, that'll be even better. That'll be fantastic. Okay, cool. It just made me think of it, so I thought I'd ask. And that is it. That's all I have.

22:37 – 26:20Speaker 4

Great. Awesome. All right, Elise. Lieutenant. all right matt i'm out next week so she's the boss all right stuff's gonna get done party time okay i've got a little laundry list here but i'll make it as quick as possible recap river city days they did an excellent job thank you a lot of people think river city days is facilitated by the city it is not it is a group of passionate people that want to put that event on to help support nonprofit organizations, and they do an excellent job of planning and facilitating that event. I know we support as a city with our public works and public safety the event, but they do a really excellent job. So shout out to them on a really great event. I could not believe when I saw pictures, I unfortunately tapped out early on Saturday just from the heat and being out there. I did not get to stick around for the headlining band and drone show but man that was really really well received and very very cool and I think really well done so and then discussions in the booth just like everybody else up here that was able to spend time in there a lot of really positive discussions a lot of excitement building especially in our downtown area people are seeing the changes they're seeing the progress and they're just very very excited so thank you um to all staff and staff for helping out and like putting together the informational boards a lot of people wanted to talk about city square west which was like very surprising in like a positive way because people are very excited they just they're very on board with everything going on um So that was wonderful. Recapping some other things. The Chaska Cubs beat Watertown Red Devils last night. They are in the playoffs. It was an excellent game, 11 to 1. It was a really fun night. The fire department played a tournament, softball tournament, and they won. And I guess this is like the first time in 20 years maybe that they have won. So congratulations to our fire department. That sounded like a really great time out there. And then also, speaking of the fire department, there was, I think, a good recap of, I have a thank you letter from the city of St. Louis Park expressing their gratitude for providing mutual aid to that really large fire at the Helix Apartments on the 17th of July. I know that they showed up and worked tirelessly with a lot of other agencies. And I'm thankful that nobody lost their lives. There was a few fire department personnel from other departments, not ours, that got hurt or had heat exhaustion, like had some health things. But even though there's significant damage, I'm just glad there's not loss of life. So thank you to St. Louis Park for the recognition, but also just thank you to our fire department for being there and being helpful. Heating to the call and speaking of that there was a fire yesterday in a residential neighborhood and I think it's good to touch on it because we have changed over to the 24 hour duty crew model and because of that our response time has quickened by more than five minutes I know and that because of that from that fire that had happened yesterday They were able to limit the spread of that fire to just the storage unit, and those people are still able to reside inside their home, and there's no damage to neighbor homes either, or they're able to reside in their homes too. And so I think that just really showcases the need that we put forward for the station, and then the response that has come from that already with having them transition to that.

26:20 – 26:41Speaker 2

Personally, I know those individuals who came with them, and they're very thankful for the response of neighbors as well yep you know neighbors jumped into action and everything like that uh so yeah thank you for bringing that up was it late was it in the night no it was like yesterday morning i mean i could hear the sirens as i was sitting outside and then about two hours later i got a call from the chief and

26:42 – 26:53Speaker 1

Yeah, and it was a response from almost every city around us because you can always tell when a fire is bad because everybody's siren sounds a little bit different. And when you start hearing different sirens, you're like, that's not good.

26:53 – 27:31Speaker 4

Yeah, I was having a hard time pinpointing where in 212 they were going. But yeah, I guess Carver and Chanhassen helped assist in that. So thank you to our great relationships with other communities as well. You touched on it, Council Member Hatfield, the farmer market is just being so successful. Thank you to all the hard work that staff puts in every single week facilitating that. We grow vendors every single week and you see the busyness happen with it. I happened to pop in towards the end in the 6 o'clock hour and it was still really bustling. And the band was going and it just, like you said, lots of people downtown, lots of things happening.

27:32 – 27:58Speaker 1

I talked with a business that I frequent that had their booth down there for the first time last week. And I asked him, I said, how did it go for you? And he said, oh, it went good. They sold stuff there, but he said, even more important, we actually had people come in the next day into the business that hadn't been there before. Like a precursor. Now they knew that they were there. So they were really happy to be a part of it.

27:59 – 28:14Speaker 5

It was really fun, too, this last week. Like, it's fun to see some of the other businesses from outside of downtown. So you have, like, your vendors that are normal farmer's market vendors. You have some downtown businesses. But seeing, like, Willie McCoy's and Southern Social bring free food. Like, I didn't have to buy dinner that night.

28:14 – 28:27Speaker 4

I know. I was really bummed. I got there too late, and they were literally tearing down their booth. I was like, no! It was just fun to have like got a pizza from Red Bench. It was so good.

28:27Speaker 5

It's just like when you see businesses coming from other areas of town, they want to get in on it. That's like, yes. What is it, Lisa? Is it 47 now? Yeah, so last...

28:41 – 28:53Speaker 7

Last week, I think we had 46 booths. I think it ended up being about 42 or 43 different vendors who were there. I don't know what this week's numbers are, but they're trending very much the same.

28:54Speaker 4

So it is definitely a really cool vibe. So check it out if you have not been down to the farmer's market on Thursday.

29:00 – 29:13Speaker 8

There's somebody that makes baked scones. There's a bunch of bakers. You can buy eight loaves of sourdough. Go there and check it out. It's horrible. I had it last year. And they're really good. They were delicious, but I can't remember whose they were.

29:14Speaker 4

No, it's good. So just hats off to everybody that's helping out with that.

29:19Speaker 5

It's such a success.

29:21 – 31:34Speaker 4

Our police department had two really cool things happen. Officer Martine facilitated him with... Officer Rodriguez did the teen academy that was like six or five or six sessions. It was kind of the month of July. And they had their graduation, so there were about a handful of kids that graduated through. They have an interest in a future career in law enforcement. And they built some really great relationships. It was really fun to interact with those kids at the end. I was there while they were trying out the police simulator. um and trying out the drones and like understanding from officer panty and about the drones you know program and everything that we run and so it was really a really great learning opportunity for myself and also for the youth that are interested um and then he also put on the first annual youth fishing contest and they had over like they had 60 participants and that was huge and lots of really cool prizes and there were people that came for it specifically, and then there were people that happened to be at Fireman's Park to play, and because of the relationships that he had brought in, they were able to get a free rod to use, and bait, and get free hot dogs from the chamber, and all this sort of stuff that was just such a great experience for them. So I just thank you for that. I just think that really showcases the importance of the kind of community policing that we're putting forward to build those relationships and see that be utilized effectively. National Night Out is tomorrow. So there's some neighborhood parties happening. If your neighbor's having a party, go there, join your friends, and get to know your neighbors and all that fun stuff. But there's also a food competition, and I'm putting this out there. I think we should put this on our website. But we have a specific QR code. If you would like to donate money to our local food shelf, Bountiful Basket, because we are in competition with Carver. chan hassan and victoria and we cannot let them beat us we let carver beat us last year that cannot happen if you cannot drop off actual physical donations to the food shelf um this week Go use the QR code, go donate. They can spread that dollar far and buy lots of different necessary food to fill their food shelves and spread that dollar farther and buy more, have more purchase power with that. And it's always a very fun neighborhood rivalry too.

31:35Speaker 4

And I think the winning neighborhood gets, yeah, they get the Jersey Mike's.

31:38 – 32:02Speaker 8

Jersey Mike's, I guess, last year. Yeah. every single year in chasket east creek is second to edelwood it has been like that for the last three years so and edelwood has five times the houses we do so we just said that's cheating but um you know what it's really fun to just come together and do something nice with your neighbors yeah a little competition yep always fun so join in on a party donate to the food shelf if you're not going to attend a party let's beat the pants off these other cities sorry ladies

32:03Speaker 5

And if you live in another community and you want to just scan the Chaska code. We will gladly accept that as well.

32:09 – 33:26Speaker 4

So I will be putting that out on my social media tonight with just the Chaska code. I would say that we need to put that on our city website loud and proud for tomorrow. It just needs to be the giant thing on the front of the website. We cannot let Carver beat us again. Okay, so one other thing to note. Well, I got a couple things. You talked about thank you to Public Works. There was a thanks that was sent to me for Public Works to clean up some glass that was in the Clover Ridge neighborhood. They did it very quickly and effectively, so thank you for that. And then also primaries are August 11th. There's some obviously higher level office primary that are... Party aligned you know ballot wise but locally the sheriff's there's you know five Candidates running for sheriff. I think it's really important that you know get out there vote in the primary especially towards that particular election and That is on Tuesday, August 11th. You can find your precinct information online as well and We also got a grant for the Southwest Park, it sounds like. So it's not, the number hasn't quite shook out yet, but it's somewhere around $3 million range.

33:26Speaker 1

Yeah, it's a little over $3 million.

33:27Speaker 4

Oh, but a splash pad's coming.

33:28Speaker 1

Yeah, what's that?

33:29Speaker 8

A splash pad's coming. This is great, this is great. Sorry. August 16th is coming.

33:37 – 34:36Speaker 4

you'll hear but no it is uh it's like three it's under 3.1 and it's over three so whatever is in between that yeah no i i didn't want to do the math because it was like plus this minus this percent i was like i'm not gonna do the math i'm just gonna say it's around three million dollars when it all shakes out but that is huge and that will go to support our new um park in this Southwest area of Cheska. So just wanted to mention that great work to staff for Applying and you know going through the meeting and doing the work to particularly Ashley. Yes Yes, Ashley was key on that Construction in our plaza here at City Hall is happening, if you haven't noticed. But just give yourself a few extra minutes if you are down here. And plenty of parking around the block, but just might take you a few extra minutes to actually get in if you're coming into City Hall or the library.

34:36Speaker 8

And you guys both went the wrong way because there were stairs right there. Very exciting things happening with that.

34:41 – 35:45Speaker 4

And then lastly, next meeting is August 17th, but we do have a EDA meeting following this. So does anybody have anything that I did not mention in my long and real list of things that I love to talk about? Because I love talking about JASCA. Now, with that being said, I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Okay. We have a motion from Council Member Hatfield. Second. And a second from Council Member Graw. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? We are adjourned for our council meeting, and we are going to head right into the meeting for the Economic Development Authority Committee. At 737. I don't know if I usually call the time, but I'm going to tonight. I call this meeting to order. So roll call, please. Commissioner Hatfield. Here. Commissioner Benes. Commissioner Shevlin. Here. Commissioner Grah. Here. President Hubbard. Here. All right. Next, we have the adoption of the agenda. Does anybody have any additions or corrections on the agenda?

35:46Speaker 5

Motion to adopt the agenda.

35:47 – 36:49Speaker 4

All right. I have a motion from Commissioner Hatfield. Second. And a second from Commissioner Shetland. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Agenda is adopted. Now we have approval of previous meeting minutes. These meeting minutes were from July 20th, 2026. Does anybody have any additions or corrections to the minutes? All right. Hearing none, I entertain a motion for adoption. I make a motion to adopt the meeting minutes for 7-20-2026. Second. All right. So a motion from Mayor Hubbard and a second from Commissioner Grah. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right. meeting minutes are adopted and that leads us to our one discussion item which is correlated to uh on our consent agenda it's adoption of resolution eda 2026-71 calling for a public hearing on the establishment of tiff district number 26 big woods business

36:50 – 37:08Speaker 1

As mentioned before, this is an identical item that was on the council meeting. It's just calling for a public hearing for establishing TIF district number 26. The council and the EDA have to both actually take all actions on that because it involves both the EDA and the city.

37:09Speaker 4

So silly question, do we have a public meeting just once during the council meeting or do we do it both in the council and in the EDA meeting?

37:17Speaker 1

You do it in both, but the public hearing is just in the council site, isn't it? Okay. Or is it the EDA?

37:22Speaker 7

I think it's actually in both.

37:24 – 37:53Speaker 1

Is it both? Okay. Okay. But in essence... It's weird for us because our EDA are the same people as the council members. In some cities, the EDA is a completely different group. And so then basically the city's giving permission to the EDA to do certain things. It's a little different when you're the same people sitting up here. It's like you're giving yourself permission. So SNAP is recommending it.

37:53 – 38:12Speaker 4

Okay. Yeah, recommendation for approval. And just so people know, the public meeting is for August 31st. But otherwise, any other questions on anything? I know it was on our consent agenda. It's pretty straightforward. So I entertain a motion for adoption.

38:14Speaker 8

Motion to adopt.

38:15 – 38:50Speaker 4

All right, motion from Commissioner Shetland. Second. Second from Commissioner Hatfield. Any other discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion's adopted. The hearing is established. All right, that leads us over to other business. Does anybody have any other business that they want to talk about that's EDA-related? No. Okay. That would then lead us to entertaining a motion to adjourn. Does anybody want to make that? Motion to adjourn. All right. Motion from Commissioner Hatfield. Second. Second from Commissioner Schaaf.

38:50Speaker 5

All those in favor say aye. Aye.

38:52Speaker 4

Opposed? Guess what? We're adjourned. Thank you.

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