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I didn't look with you in the finance. Resolution 722, authorizing a five year agreement with visit Duluth. Item number four, resolution 194, authorizing a contract with Hanover Insurance Company for property insurance at the cost not to exceed $350,000. Item number five, resolution 1955, authorizing an agreement with the Duluth Airport Authority to ensure certain Duluth Airport Authority property and equipment under the city's property and boiler insurance policies. Thank you, Councillor Kennedy, reading it for Councillor Forzaun. In the queue, Councillor Randolph. Thank you so much, President Tumonic. I have a question that I know we have a couple speakers here coming to talk about visit Duluth. Turn or Mr. Staling, this is a five year agreement with visit Duluth. My question is on item three. We've been doing three year agreements. I know we did one for the special service district for downtown Duluth to align it with the term of this office. Is there a reason this one isn't a three year to do that same cadence? Council President Tamanik, Councilor Randolph, I was not part of the negotiations when this agreement was formed, so I would have to defer to either our city attorney or perhaps Lynn Williams here or Miss Pionk. Also, but I don't know specifically the reason for the five-year term. Sounds good. Do you want to follow me? I see. I see people deciding who's going to speak. Okay. Good evening. Good evening, everyone. Nice to see you. I believe the response. Do you want to state your name please? I'm sorry. Lynn Williams, and I'm currently the board chair of Visitor Luth. Thank you. Yes. So Councillor Randolph, President Tom, Tom and I. I think the reason that we were talking about that was stability. And that goes back to the conversation we'd had previously. So this idea that we want to give the organization a long enough time to get the foundation rolling and to not necessarily change with administrations so that there is some stability there for the organization that doesn't always fluctuate when things fluctuate in City Hall. And then I have to follow up with a minute. Go ahead. And then my follow up question for you, Lynn Williams, is we had talked about a funding gap that you currently have. That's an important gap that we need to fill. And we talked about that during the visit to lose presentation a couple months ago. Could you talk a little bit more about where that is at and where the talks are? Because this is only a portion of that funding. Tell us how much that other piece is and again how close we are and what those talks look like. Yeah, Councillor Randolph, thanks for the question. So where we landed was consistent funding for the sales and the visitor center portion of the contract. However, for the question. So where we landed was consistent funding for the sales and the visitor center portion of the contract. However, for this year, however, the contract has a 2% annual increase, so that also gives us some stability in knowing that there will be some adjustments over time, as well as a portion of the contract that allows for us to go back to the city and make a case if there was a special project or a special funding request, we could go back and make a case for how that might work. In addition, as the contract rolls out, so there's year one, which is very similar to where we were at last year with Madden as the marketing firm, year two, where there will be some tourism allocation balances for us as a city, and for you all to have some influence in terms of what that looks like for the allocations and Madden has the marketing contract. Year three the marketing contract is over and I don't want to get to that right now because we don't know where the Organization will be in year two in year three, but the contract lays out sort of a progression if you look at the terms of the allocation that really aligns with what we had discussed and what I think is best for the organization to grow and to provide stability for these next two years as we rebuild the destination marketing organization. Does that help? It does and did you have a dollar figure that the goal to be able to fill that gap that we talked about in December? Yeah, Councillor Endorf. So the costs were the cost of the search for the executive director, which I believe is around 30,000-ish. As well as the destination master plan, there will be a cost for us to conduct that work. You know, that may or may not be something we pull from the balances or come back to the city and talk about what that looks like. We would want to be engaging the city in that process as well as many other stakeholders. And then there's the opportunity for us with in visit Duluth and we worked this out with Dave Montgomery before he left. We were able to shift some funding, about 30,000, 40,000 dollars, might have been up to 50 or 60, of meeting and convention marketing money that was in the city's 650. we shifted that over to Madden and Madden was very Generous and taking that on so we freed up some funds within the organization Essentially being able to work all of those additional costs out at least for the next couple years as we make some adjustments Any follow Okay, and I saw director Carlson you were Poss possibly wanting to speak. Did you have anything to add? And Ms. Piant, did you have anything you wanted to add? Great. We have a question here. Councillor Mayo. I thank you, President Smannick and thank you, Ms. Williams. I had a follow-up question on the executive director if that budget for the new position is factored in. And if there's any changes in the overall staffing model of visit to Louth, if that's accounted for within this continuous budget and the 2% increase. Yeah, Councillor Meilal. So we have not had any staffing changes and there's no current plans for staffing changes. There was a staff member who was a part time staff member who recently resigned. So we have some salary savings there. We're also looking at our sales travel and convention budget and making some adjustments there. So I don't have a complete answer of where it will land, especially once an executive director is on board, which right now hopefully will be like a May 1, or May 15, ish timelines, or about two months out there. But right now we have not changed staffing and other than the person who decided to leave on their have a lot of things to do with the other people. We have a lot of things to do with the other people. We have a lot of things to do with the other people. We have a lot of things to do with the other people. We have a lot of things to do with the other people., thank you, President Tumannick. Item number six, resolution 153, authorizing the purchase in installation of sanding body equipment from Bert's truck equipment of more head incorporated in the amount of $232,274. Item number seven, Resolution 154, authorizing the purchase and installation of sanding body equipment from Birch's truck equipment, with more head, incorporated, the amount of $173,494. Number eight, 155 resolution, authorizing the purchase and installation of sanding body equipment from Berth's truck equipment more head incorporated in the amount of $173,494. Item number 9, Resolution 188 authorizing one-year renewal of an agreement with SFM risk solutions incorporated for professional services for the third-party administration of workers' compensation insurance for a total amount of $72,312. Number, resolution 189, approving the transfer of the on-sale liquor license of T-bones, bar, and grill. Item number 11, resolution 190, approving the issuance of temporary expansions of the designated serving area for various licenses. item number 12, resolution 191, approving the issuance of temporary on sale intoxicating liquor licenses for various licensees. Item number 13, resolution 192, approving the issuance of various on sale on sale intoxicating liquor licenses. Item 14, Resolution 193 approving the applications for lawful gambling. Thank you, Councillor Derracher. Any questions on item 6 to 14? Seeing none, we'll move on to personnel. please, Councillor Randolph, will you read in for Councillor Aul? Sure can, thank you, President Monik. Reading in for Councillor Aul, item 15, resolution 161. Is a resolution confirming the appointment of Chiamaca anymore to the Duluth Economic Development Authority? Item 16, resolution 162 is a resolution confirming the appointment of Ann Bailey to the Duluth Economic Development Authority. Item 16, Resolution 162 is a resolution confirming the appointment of Ann Bailey to the Duluth Economic Development Authority. Thank you, Councillor Randolph. Questions on items 15 to 16. Seeing none. Will you read in a Vice President nephew? Will you read in planning an economic development? Item 17 resolution 158, resolution approving data resolution 25D-13 authorizing a First Amendment to a professional services agreement with eyelers and associated ink to increase the contract amount by 75,000 for a new total amount not to exceed 300,000. Item 18 resolution 159, approving data resolution 25D-12, authorizing data to expend up to 252,000, 200 for phase two of a two phase building demolition for amount not to exceed 252,200. Item 19 19, resolution 163, authorizing the third amendment to the organizational endowment of the Duluth Legacy Endowment Fund. Thank you, Vice President Neffu. Any questions on item 17 to 19? Seeing none, we'll move on. Councilor Mayo, please, public works and utilities. Oh, excuse me just a minute. Did you have a question? Councillor Dure-Walker. I'm sure I'm just wondering if there's anyone in the room that can give a little more context of the Duluth legacy endowment fund. We'll welcome Director Van Tassel. President Tamanik, Councilor Derroctor, yes, I can give a brief overview. The Duluth Legacy Endowment Fund was established by City Council in 2004 and actually started the following year. And so at the time, those were very tough budget years for the city of Duluth. And at the time, it was a way to raise private funds to help further community goals. And the vision back then was to continue to grow the fund, do a lot of active fundraising. And this advisory board was, and advisory board was started to oversee that work. Over the years, most of the fundraising for that board has gone away. It's raised very little over the last decade or so. And remains a fund and this resolution does not change that each year an amount of interest is spun off and that has been given as grants to help further city projects and so what this resolution does is it eliminates the advisory board that their primary purpose over the last several years has been to grant out three to four small, three to four projects, smaller amounts. There's about 15 to $20,000 of interest each year. So projects amounted from 2500 to 5000 somewhere in there. And so that the city will still receive the interest. When we receive that, it will still come to council. And what this action does is actually it eliminates the board which due to their not having as much of an active role in fundraising and simply focusing on the grant giving has not we haven't been utilizing their their services in what they were originally created for. It's up to an 18-member board so it was a lot of work to administer oversee that commission as well as the application process with the In collaboration with the Duluth Superior Community Foundation and so given that we we will still fund local projects We will still report to the council on what those are and how much funding we get each year just simplifying the kind of the administrative application process. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. And before I go to councilor Mayor, I would like to ask one question. Can you tell us why then keep that fund separate? Why not roll it into the general fund? And if it's kept separate, does it add to increased accounting procedures? Thank you for the question, President Tamanik. We will soon hit my ceiling of financial knowledge, but in short, the, when a fund endowment fund is set up and donations were received, the intent that those donations were received from needs to remain intact. So in order dissolving a trust in that way is my understanding a very lengthy and complicated process. And we're not definitely not recommending that at this time. So this is the next kind of simplest way to still have the fund, still put it towards important projects, but streamline the process a bit. Thank you, that's helpful. Councillor Mayo. Thank you, President Tumonik. Mine's on a different resolution, item 18 resolution 159 regarding the phase two of the demolition. I believe that's a cozy building and I see Ms. Hobbes coming up. I'm just curious if you can kind of detail what that phase two of demolition will look like, what the public can expect if there's any traffic impacts in that area. Type of thing. President Tumannick, Councillor Mayo, thank you for're correct, it is for the former pastor at Terraceight. We will be having a pre-construction meeting coming up next week, I believe, and we will be talking more about what those schedules look like. I can answer the fact that we are engaging the Clayton Jackson McGee Memorial folks to make sure that access is, as it should be, and we keep all of that in mind as we think through schedules and any impediments to street access or sidewalks and things like that. But to talk more about the scope of that contract, it will be the phase two of this process and so that will include hauling away any debris that is currently on site and stabilizing the site. So any leveling that needs to happen, clean up and repair, and then we'll put some seating down to just get it in a good spot until it's ready for redevelopment. Awesome. Thank you, and I'm glad to hear CJ. I'm glad consulted in that process too. Thanks. Thanks, Councillor Mayo. Councillor Kennedy. Thank you, President. My question is back on the endowment. If I may. My questions would be about what type of projects have been used and what would qualify today? President, the fund is both pretty, I would say it gives a lot of breadth in the type of projects, but the important distinction is that they are city projects. So most of the applications were coming from city departments. Some of the projects that I remember over the years are like specific library materials that they would purchase with a project. Specific maybe some parks and wreck equipment. There was some, it's different projects like that but the important distinction is that they are city-led projects and they further city-purpose. But the overall they need to meet a public benefit. And so, yeah, over the years it's been all sorts of projects from community arts to facilities and equipment here at the city. One more question. Go ahead. So does it come through planning as far as a request? As a go to finance? How do you present to my? How does department request? Present to Monet, Councillor Kennedy. The process was a partnership between the Duluth Spirit Area Community Foundation. They helped oversee an annual application process and this advisory board helped to review applications and score and recommend funding. So, and planning and economic development department staff did provide support to this group? That changes then. You don't have the board, so but Deluspray Area Community Foundation who's looking at the applicants? Correct. The Deluspray Area Community Foundation will continue to manage the fund. Anually, they will advise the city on how much is available this year, and from there, the city will oversee a process on how the funds will be distributed. I would still expect our city departments to look at the fund as how they can further their project and what we would prioritize. Like I could see us setting priorities on a year to year basis or setting up a fund or setting up a way to distribute it to the different departments. Some sort of requests. So you still have to formulate that logistically in how? And as part of our actions, we would bring that to the council and also send a report each year to the foundation of how it spent and how we met up with benefit. Would that be a report that we could get as well since we've taken out that advisory team members? Yep, I think that would be our recommendation to continue letting you know how much funds and what they were spent on each year. I'd appreciate that, thank you. Great, thank you, Councillor Kennedy. Any other questions on items 17 to 19? Seeing none, next, Councillor Meil, public works. Thank you, President Tumon. Item 20 resolution 134 is awarding a contract to Mincom for construction of the 2025 gas blanket project for mains and services in various locations in the amount of $110,000 or $110,895. Item 21, Resolution 151 is awarding a contract in Northland constructors of Duluth Inc. for the Northwest Passage Repairs and Restoration Bridge, number 69509, over I-35 in the amount of $284,200. Item 22, Resolution 164, accepting a permanent easement for street and utility purposes from Daniel Schwartz and Tamar Resnick over under and across the real property in the Duluth Heights neighborhood at no cost to the city. Item 23, Resolution 165, accepting a permanent easement for street and utility purposes from one roof community housing, under and across certain real property in the Duluth Heights neighborhood at No Cross to the city. Item 24, resolution 166, accepting and permitting Eastman for street and utility purposes. From Nancy J. Collina, Lori M.K. Christian, FKA, Lori M. Collina and Benjamin C. Christian over under and across real, certain real property in the Duluth Heights neighborhood at no cost to the city. Item 25 Resolution 167 is accepting a permanent easement for street and utility purposes from Horace E. Calba and Loretta H. Calba over under and across certain real property in the Duluth Heights neighborhood at no cost to the city. Item 26 Resolution 168 accepting a permanent easement for street and utility purposes from Allen F. Preston and Nancy Preston over under and across certain real property in the Duluth Heights neighborhood at no cost of the city. Item 27, Resolution 169, accepting a permanent easement for street and utility purposes from Matthew Poddress, Sec over under and across certain real property in the Duluth Heights neighborhood at no cost of the city. Item 28 Resolution 170 accepting a permanent easement for street utility purposes from Deborah K. James, under and across certain real property in the Duluth Heights neighborhood at no cost to the city. Item 29 Resolution 171 accepting a permanent easement for street utility purposes from Christine, Jean Ford and Sean Henry Ford over under and across certain real property in the Duluth Heights neighborhood at no cost cost to the city. Item 30, Resolution 172, accepting a permanent easement for street and utility purposes from Dan L. Bowman and Donna Bowman over under and across certain real property in the Dluthite neighborhood at no cost to the city. Item 31, Resolution 178, amending contract L30735 with short Elliott Hendricks and it's incorporated to provide additional professional engineering services for the West Superior Street reconstruction project to increase the amount by 498,551 dollars for a new total of $2,909,551. Item 32 resolution 179 awarding a contract to Hanco Utilities Incorporated for the 2025 Lead Water Service Replacement and Lincoln Park Neighborhood for a total amount, not to exceed $9,545,940.50. Item 33, Resolution 183, to rescind prior parking resolutions for West Superior Street from Carlton Street to West Michigan Street. Establish no parking zones on West Superior Street from Carlton Street to West Michigan Street and restrict all parking to parallel parking on West Superior Street from 22nd Avenue West to 19th Avenue West effective upon installation of proper signs. And finally, item 34184 is a resolution authorizing a contract with Surr lines a lot in LLC for Skyline Parkway safety improvements for a total not to exceed $92,919. Thank you, Councillor Mayo. And if I may. Yes, go ahead. President Smonic, I had just a couple questions. The first obviously we have several resolutions in here about utility easements and I'm just curious. I'm seeing as they're all in Duluth Heights what kind of project were undertaking there. Hello, I'm Duncan Swenson, engineer with the City of Duluth, Council of Tamanic, Council Mayo. These are all in support of the Eclan Avenue Reconstruction Project that we're going to be planning on doing this year. They were necessary because the existing right of way out there is only 50 feet wide, which typically is 66 feet, so we're doing a lot of storm water crossings and things like that. To do them properly, we need more than 50 feet to install the new storm water crossing. And during our design, we also found a couple spots where the road, the existing road actually crossed property lines that we're out there now so we're just kind of cleaning this all up and making sure we kind of dot all our eyes across all our T's so we have the ability to go back in you know with these easements it'll give us the ability to go back in and maintain our infrastructure you know after it's installed. Okay and is this fully comprehensive of that whole corridor on a clind avenue. Did you have any property owners that said no? I don't want any smitten. Oh no! you know after it's installed. Okay. And is this fully comprehensive of that whole corridor on a clind avenue? Did you have any property owners that said no? I don't want any cement. No, no. This is, these are all the permanent easements. I think I got another probably 16 temporary license agreements as well for the temper, you know, to be able to replace people's driveways back a little farther so we could, you know, flatten slopes out a little bit to make it look nicer in the end rather than having the hard 50 foot area to work in. So it's been my experience that the most of the residents in the neighborhood are quite supportive of the project and I haven't had anybody refuse. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you, Councilor Mayo. As a quick follow-up, can you tell us the process of contacting the homeowners, the residents, and explaining this to them? Yeah, there was three public meetings that were held that were kind of explaining the project to the residents and why we needed, what we needed. Letters were sent out to the people asking them if they would be willing to do this explaining the reason why. I did have personal conversations with, I think probably three or four separate residences to explain to them what we were doing and why we were doing it to get them comfortable with that they did want the project to move forward and this was actually a good thing for them to want to have happen in the neighborhood. Great, thank you. Any other questions, Councillor? Oh, Councillor Mayo? Yes, I think. I had a question on a different item. So I don't know if I ever. Thank you. Any other questions, Councillor? Oh, Councillor Mayo? Yeah, thank you. President Smannock, I had a question on a different item, so I don't know if there were other ones on this, but mine is on item 34, resolution 184, with the contract for Skyland Parkway improvements. So from my understanding, I believe there's a public safety meeting and I see Mr. Eurowix is coming up. Coming up pretty soon here meeting for that community input and kind of the next phase of this. Can you explain why the contract for some of these improvements is coming to us now instead of after that next community meeting? Councillor Tomonic, Councillor Mell, there is another meeting coming up. I would not say that it's for a lot of community input. I think we did that last year. What occurred last year with getting guardrail and striping done in time didn't allow us to get the striping done. And so we just wanted to give the community members an update I know there were some concerns with some of the residents that we were just going to stop and then not continue the rest of the one way. But that's what that meeting is for. We did want to make sure that we got this done as soon as humanly possible in the spring and that's why we went out and got quotes for that but because it went over $50,000 we do need to bring that to council for approval. Okay thanks for the context so that meeting is will you still collect some input in case there is something that comes up that flags an issue? Happy to. Okay. I think generally the response we got after the last meeting was almost unanimously supportive. It did get some comments against that but it was mostly for the closure of fifth. Okay. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Mayough. Councillor Drew Wocker. Thank you, President Tamanik. I have a question about a different one. Number 33. Just about the parking. It looks like it is in changing the parking is a result of some construction. Just curious if the parking will go back after the construction is done or will the road permanently change to the point where this will be permanent parking policy. Or excuse me, Council President, Tamanik, Councillor Gerwocker. I know that this is connected with the upcoming road construction, what the actual configuration of the parking will be after construction. I'm not sure, but I can check in with the city engineer's office and have that answer for you before I'm meeting on Monday. Okay thank you. Thank you Mr. Steeling. Councillor Swenson. Thank you President Tamanik. On the same resolution 183 curious if there's been engagement with the businesses that will be potentially impacted with the no parking changes and if there's been any any up on that as well. I'm not sure the extent to which there's been engagement with the businesses around there. I will find that out and get you an answer before meeting on Monday. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Steeling. I'm going to ask the staff to come in and ask the staff to come in and ask the staff to come in and ask the staff to come in and ask the staff to come in and ask the staff engagement with the businesses around their store. I will find that out and get you an answer before meeting on Monday. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Steeling. Councillors, any other questions on items 20 to 34? Seeing none, we'll move on. Councillor Swenson, Recreation, Library, San authorities. Oh, sorry. Yep. I will read him. Resolution or 35 resolution 150 resolution authorizing application to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resource Outdoor Recreation grant program for a grant up to 350,000 to support rehab. I can't say that word tonight. Oh my gosh. Of park infrastructure at Norton Park. 36, resolution 152, resolution authorizing a three year contract with Accurent LLC for the work order software of a total of $44,702.50. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Swanson. Concertte, questions on items 35 and 36. Yes, Councillor Derr-Warckter. Thank you, President Tumannick. I'm wondering if we could just get a little more context about the resolution for the reconstruction of Norton Park. Like, for instance, what is being done. Thank you, Mr. Philly Williams. President Tamanik, Councillor Drew Octor, thank you for the question. The project will include principally four community identified priorities. So construction of a picnic pavilion in place of the dilapidated building replacement of the aged playground. Storm-modern management improvements, including remediation of drainage problems on the multi-use field, and then construction of new accessible sidewalks and pathways around and through the site. What do the specific the pavilion and playground look like depends to some extent on whether this grant is awarded. If it is, we will be able to do a nicer pavilion, a larger playground with a lesser city investment. If the grant is not awarded, we'll still do those things, but it will be a somewhat smaller pavilion and playground with a somewhat higher city expenditure. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Councillor. Dear walker, thank you, Mr. Pavilion Williams. Any other? Counselors, if not, we'll move on to ordinances. Clerk, Danima, are you going to read for us the first ordinance number two? Or, or a councilor nephew? Okay, I think she wants to. Item 37, ordinance 2, an ordinance amending UDC section 50-18, natural resources overlay section 50-20, use specific standards for manufactured home park and recreational vehicle park, section 50-33.2, site design plates, table 50-35-1, procedure summary tables, section 50-37, administrative and procedures for special use permits, subdivision, Plat approval and variances, section 50-38.2, provisions for non-conformities in floodplains and article six definitions. Item 38, ordinance three in ordinance amending UDC section 50-41.16, principal use definition. Thank you, Councilor Nuffy. Councilor Mayo. Thank you, President Semonich. First quick point of order. I think the attachment one for both of these got flipped around. I noticed the one for item 38 was regarding floodplains and the one for 37 had the use table. So just a quick note on that. But then secondly, I just was curious on particularly item 38 with the UDC principle use definition, what the kind of reasoning was maybe behind updating it, if there's anything specific that we're trying to address with this one. Thank you, Director Moses. Yeah, you can call me manager. I don't want to use certbend style. Oh, yeah. I just upgraded you for the evening. Great. Does that come with a pay raise? Good evening, everyone. Thank you, President Tumonic. Councillor Mayue, the changes to the definitions are part of the entire package of floodplain ordinance changes. It was on attorneys advice to simply set that out and put it into a different ordinance because it did impact definitions that impact other areas of the UDC as well. Okay, so it's separating out two things that already existed in City Code. Is that kind of what you're saying? Correct. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you, Councilor Mayo. Thank you, Manager Moses. Any other questions? No. Seeing none, Councillors, any other business? Council, questions or comments for this evening before meeting on Monday? Please note that we start at 5.45 with the personnel committee. All right, then we are done for the evening. Thank you.