Remarks by Mary Supple
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Goofy because the regular clock is all right we're on the air good evening everyone I'm going to call to order this council meeting for the city of Richfield it's October 27th at 7 30 p.m if you're able please rise and join us for the pledge of allegiance Thank you. Approval of the agenda.
It's been moved and seconded to approve the agenda. Is there any discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed? And we have approved the agenda. Next, we'll move on to the approval of the minutes of the October 13th, 2026 City Council work session, the minutes of the October 13th, 2026 City Council regular meeting, and the minutes of the October 20th, 2026 Special City Council meeting.
Second. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, we'll take the vote. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed? And we have approved all three sets of minutes. Next we'll move on to presentations, and I'm pleased to welcome County Commissioner Debbie Gotell. So welcome, Commissioner.
Is the green light on? Excuse me. Is the green light on because we're having trouble hearing you?
Thank you so much, Commissioner Gotell. Is there anybody that has anything they want to bring up? I will say I'm really thrilled with the youth stabilization centers. That has been a need that I've heard about for many, many years, and parents talking about that they would like treatment for their children, but they're having to go to Fargo or someplace that's, Hours and hours away. Yes.
I'm glad we're making this first step because that needs to happen. We just had a work session on Penn Avenue and I was pleased to see in your presentation that you were talking about cost participation. one of the things we did some quick math, some of the staff figured out that if we have to contribute the 7 million from Penn Avenue over the last four County roads, including Penn Avenue, we will have put in 45.5 million in 13 years towards County roads. And I know you've been an advocate for changing the cost participation program. And so we're hoping that maybe that can be implemented…
Well, thank you for that advocacy because I know we've been advocating at the legislature and we're able to make some changes. So I'm hoping it'll be timely so it pays off. We're fine with helping other cities, but it would be nice if it paid off for our taxpayers for Penn Avenue as well. Thank you. Other questions or comments? Council Member Hayford-Aleary.
And it looks like somebody in the audience has a question. Can they talk to you out in the hall?
Okay, and Councilmember Coleman-Woods, go ahead.
So I would also echo the thank you, because I know you do a lot at the county level for health care and food and social services, and these have been tough times for that. And I know you've been working tirelessly to safeguard all of our residents and to make sure that we keep those systems in place. So I just wanted to say thank you.
All right. Well, thank you so much. And I know there's somebody that wants to talk to you after open forum. So if you're willing to hang around.
All right. Thank you so much. Good night. Good night. So we're going to move on to open forum. And I have one person that is asked to speak. And if you would come up to, I'll call you up and you'll, if you could state your name and city of residence and, And then you'll have three minutes to address the council. I'll hold up a yellow card when you have 30 seconds left. And the red card when your time is up. If you ask questions, the city manager will provide answers via email or at the next council meeting. And we appreciate you taking your time to share your thoughts with us. So the person…
So is there anyone else that wishes to speak? We usually don't do a back and forth, but we can reach out to you if we have questions. Yeah.
All right. Thank you for speaking. Is there anyone else who wishes to speak for open forum? All right. Anyone else for open forum? Last call. Commissioner Gotel is kind enough to be waiting in the lobby if anybody wishes to speak with her as well if you have questions. So next we're going to move on with our additional presentations from our commissions. So I would like to welcome Chair Tessa Johansson from the Community Services Commission. Thank you.
Do we have any questions or comments? I just want to say thank you. I was listening as you were listing off all of those things, like the Natural Resources Plan, the Climate Action Plan, the Parks Master Plan. In addition to all the normal business that you have, it just seems like you've done a lot of heavy lifting this year. So thank you so much to you and all the commissioners.
Next, we would like to welcome the chair of the Arts Commission, Eric Paganek.
Thank you so much. Any questions or comments? Council Member Burke.
Thank you, Sharon. And I would say, I just am always excited to see all the things that you're doing. Cause every time I go to a community event, there's the arts commission. So it's been, it's just fun to see you all. I'm very excited about the artist directory. So if somebody is listening and they're an artist, how would they go about becoming part of that directory?
All right, that's fabulous. And you mentioned the Great Pumpkin Giveaway, and so we'll be back at the next meeting giving the winners their prizes for that. We thought since the meeting was delayed tonight, we didn't want to have the kids up too late, but we're going to be doing it in November.
No, we won't tell who won. All right, any other comments or questions? Thank you again.
Next, we'll move on to the consent calendar, and I'll turn it over to City Manager Rodriguez.
Is there a motion to accept these items?
Second. So I move to second it. Is there any discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. All opposed? And we've adopted the items on the consent calendar. Next, we'll be moving on to a public hearing, and I'm going to turn it over to Council Member Coleman-Woods. Thank you, Mayor.
So is there anyone who wishes to speak at the public hearing? I'm not seeing anybody coming forward to speak at the public hearing. So is there a motion to close the public hearing? So moved.
It's been moved and seconded to close the public hearing. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed? The public hearing is closed, so now we'll move on to the second part of the recommended actions. Do we have a motion for that?