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From YouTube: City Council Meeting - 9/21/20
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City of Austin, Minnesota
A
D
F
E
G
A
H
A
E
E
The
preliminary
budgets
proposed
at
this
point
in
time,
total
36
million
four
hundred
and
sixty
one
thousand
six
hundred
and
sixty
one
dollars
within
those
budgets
will
be
a
reduction
net
reduction
of
full-time
staff.
I
believe
of
4.5
individuals,
primarily
through
the
vacancies
that
are
exist
out
there.
E
E
This
is
our
opportunity,
your
only
opportunity
to
have
a
tax
levy
short
of
a
special
counsel
meeting
by
september
30th,
because
this
is
a
tax
levy
that
will
have
to
be
presented
to
or
sent
over
to
the
county
for
truth
and
taxation
hearing.
So
the
tax
levy
cannot
be
increased
after
any
action.
You've
done
tonight,
unless
you
hold
a
special
counsel
meeting
by
september
30th.
A
G
I
A
J
J
J
So
I'm
speaking
tonight
regarding
the
nature
ridge
sidewalk
proposal,
as
presented
by
mr
lang,
it
was
discussed
and
voted
on
at
the
work
session
meeting
on
tuesday,
9
8.
and
I
do
have.
As
I
said,
I
have
some
thoughts
I'd
like
to
share.
I
have
I
do
have
some
email
correspondence
with
councilman
member
baskin
and
we
also
had
a
phone
conversation
and
council
member
baskin.
You
mentioned
that
you
would
probably
visit
with
other
council
members.
J
J
J
J
J
So
I'm
asking
the
council
members
who
voted
against
the
nature
ridge
sidewalk
on
september
8th,
please
reconsider
your
decision.
Look
at
that
plan
that
has
been
proposed
and
think
of
the
betterment
of
the
nature,
rich
neighborhood
and
the
community
as
a
whole.
Thank
you
very
much
for
your
consideration.
K
D
K
K
I
guess
I'm
not
sure
what
we
have
to
lose
by
bringing
it
back
before
the
council
when
it
is
closer
to
becoming
a
reality.
I'm
in
favor
of
the
sidewalk
I
spoke
to
that
at
the
meeting.
My
biggest
concern
is
that
I
don't
think
you
build
a
sidewalk
for
today's
traffic.
You
build
it
for
20
and
30
years
down.
The
road
and
the
city
worked
hard
to
get
the
complete
streets
designation
and
we
rely
on
it
for
some
of
our
funding.
K
L
Yeah,
I
guess
I
I
voted
to
not
do
the
sidewalk
at
the
work
session,
but
in
thinking
about
it
since
then
we
did
implement
the
complete
streets
policy
and
it
seems
like
we
pick
and
choose
when
we
want
to
use
that
policy,
and
I
don't
think
that
should
be
our
option.
I
think
we
have
that
policy
and
we
should
follow
it
and
while
I
empathize
with
the
the
one
homeowner
one
property
owner
in
this
development,
it
will
be
negatively
impacted
because
of
some
landscaping
and
things
they've
done.
L
A
Have
the
time?
Thank
you
jeffrey.
I
just
like
to
say
I
didn't
say
too
much
about
this
last
time,
because
after
listening
to
everybody,
I
was
pretty
sure
that
the
sidewalk
was
going
to
go
as
planned,
but
then
the
vote
went
a
little
differently.
I've
listened
to
the
governor
one
time
and
he
said
when
they
put
in
the
highway
14
court
or
apparently
they
did
it
section
by
section,
and
he
said
they
just
riddled
us
because
we
put
in
some
intersection
and
everybody
called
it
the
bridge
to
nowhere.
He
said
that
was
seven.
A
Eight
years
ago
he
said,
look
at
it
now,
it's
not
the
bridge
to
nowhere
anymore.
It's
part
of
an
integrated
system
that
we
had
planned
years
ago
when
we
followed
through
on
so
I
guess
you
know
we
do
have
the
complete
streets.
I'd
like
to
see
this.
Let's
go
back
to
the
original
plan
myself.
If
we
don't,
you
know
what
we
would
would
we're
voting
on
removing
this
from
the
plan.
So
if
we
don't
remove
it
from
the
plan,
it
just
stays
the
same.
It
depends
on
whether
or
not
the
removal
goes
through
or
not.
H
So
one
thing
you
know,
as
mr
kim
noted,
I
had
a
really
good
conversation
with
him,
had
a
good
conversation
with
property
owners
as
well
as
a
few
other
folks,
and
I
think,
there's
a
compromise
here
that
can
get
us
where
we
want
to
go
on
both
sides.
So
what
my
proposal
would
be
is
to
I
think,
right
now,
it's
scheduled
in
the
cip
for
2022.
H
What
my
proposal
would
be
is:
let's
take
it
off
the
five-year
cip,
but
put
a
note
into
the
cip
that
we
will
be
building
the
sidewalk
as
the
neighborhood
continues
to
develop,
because
in
reality
I
think
the
complete
streets
policy
is
important.
I
think
that
if
you
look
at
this
over
a
50-year,
you
know
time
frame,
the
sidewalk
makes
a
ton
of
sense.
You
know,
I
think
the
objection
from
the
property
owners
is
more
hey.
H
We've
got
three
houses
being
impacted
for
a
couple
of
blocks,
but
you
know,
as
this
neighborhood
continues
to
develop.
This
seems
to
make
a
lot
of
sense,
and
so
I
think
that
you
know
similar
to
what
we
do
with
airport
funding,
where
we
say:
hey
we're
going
to
do
this
as
long
as
we
get
matching
funding.
M
M
Go
one
step
further
jason
and
think:
maybe
we
just
we
leave
it
on
and
every
all
the
cip
stuff
doesn't
have
to
be
done.
We
can
it's
a
fluid
document,
so
if
we
just
leave
it
on,
it
gives
the
property
owners
a
couple
years
for
sure
to
maybe
move
a
sprinkler
head
or
two.
They
might
have
to
do
and
move
some
move
some
landscaping
around
so
that
we're
not
tearing
it
up
and
they
got
to
double
back
their
efforts.
M
A
You're,
both
speaking
for
consoles
in
the
future,
you
don't
know
if
you're
going
to
be
on
them,
you
don't
know
who
the
council
people
are
going
to
be.
We
have
to
make
decisions
as
a
council
today
and
not
say
we're
going
to
do
this
in
two
years
from
now,
because
you
don't
know
what
the
council
is
going
to
look
like.
I
think
right
now
we
either
remove
it
from
the
you
know.
We
either
pass
the
removal
of
it
or
just
don't
pass
it,
and
then
it
goes
back
to
the
original.
I'm
not.
M
E
Yes,
the
cip,
when
we
pass
that
in
december,
the
only
thing
it
locks
in
is
the
very
next
year
so
in
december,
of
2020
you'll
be
passing
a
capital
improvement
plan
for
2021
through
2025..
The
only
item
locked
in
is
the
2021
project.
So
if
this
is
scheduled
in
2022,
it's
not
locked
in
it's
for
planning
purposes
only
and
then
stephen
and
his
staff
will
go
through
their
sections,
which
includes
the
sidewalk
I'd
assume
during
the
2021
season
and
in
december
of
22.
E
We'll
decide
is
that
in
the
plan
for
2022
and
beyond
or
not
like,
mr
king
said,
we've
had
many
projects
that
show
up
in
there
in
the
next
five
years
and
actually
get
eliminated
at
some
point
in
time
or
just
keep
getting
pushed
back
to
the
year
five
year
five
year.
Five.
So
again,
the
only
thing
you're
locking
in
in
the
cip
is
the
next
year's
project,
which
this
would
not
be
in
there.
It'd
just
be
it'd,
be
in
the
cip,
but
not
as
a
firm
cement.
We're
gonna.
Do
it
type
thing.
A
K
A
M
A
G
M
A
E
E
A
A
I
I
I
We've
talked
about
that
signal
light
before
when
we
were
talking
about
christmas
lights
and
looking
at
incorporating
christmas
lights
into
the
new
signal,
light
design.
Well
that
signal
light
is
planned
for
2021,
and
this
proposal
is
from
whks
to
do
some
intersection
evaluation
of
that
signal
at
north
main
street
and
second
avenue
in
planning
for
the
2021
construction
season.
I
A
A
F
F
F
She
proposes
to
add
a
six-foot
vinyl
privacy
fence
which
will
replace
her
existing
side,
slash
backyard
fence,
which
is
on
a
corner
lot.
The
fence
is
set
back
four
and
a
half
feet
from
the
property
line.
Eight
feet
less
than
the
twelve
and
a
half
feet
required
the
area
where
she
is
proposing
to
add
the
fence.
Well,
the
fence:
that's
existing.
There
has
been
there
for
approximately
20
years
and
she's
not
planning
on
expanding
the
area
to
at
the
fence.
F
M
A
F
So
our
ordinance
does
allow
a
change
of
non-conforming
use,
so
a
non-conforming
use
is
one
that
is
not
currently
allowed
in
the
zoning
district
where
the
property
is
located.
In
this
instance,
this
is
an
r1
residential
district.
There
are
two
primary
residences
located
on
one
lot:
it's
complicated
in
a
number
of
ways.
F
So
the
proposal,
the
the
petitioners
did
come
up
with
a
a
survey
showing
how
they
would
propose
the
lot
be
split.
This
creates
two
small
small
lots.
Even
considering
our
minimum
is
six
thousand
square
feet,
but
that
said,
the
existing
lot
was
still
under
the
six
thousand
square
feet,
so
not
in
conformity
either.
F
F
The
planning
commission
recommendation
includes
the
finding
that
the
proposed
use
is
equally
or
more
appropriate
to
the
district
than
the
existing
non-conforming
use
and
consider
the
existing
neighborhood
issues
with
marketability
of
the
property.
As
noted,
I
did
get
a
call
from
council
member
heli.
She
had
gotten
some
feedback
from
some
of
the
neighbors
just
kind
of
wondering
what
the
proposal
was.
Our
notices
don't
explain
in
detail,
and
then
I
didn't
get
any
other
comments
from
the.
H
F
F
You
know
with
a
fence
or
something
like
that
and
having
you
know
so
right
now.
It
would
be
right
now
it's
used
as
two
rental
properties
which
works,
but
it
would
have
to
be.
You
know
if
somebody
bought
just
that
parcel,
as
is
you
know,
it
would
have
to
be
them
living
in
one
parcel
and
renting
the
other
or
having
a
family
member,
maybe
living
in
any
other
parcel
but
yeah.
K
K
C
K
A
A
G
C
G
A
C
C
So
the
city
of
austin
is
going
to
receive
seventy
seven
and
thirty
six
cents
and
we're
going
to
use
that
money
put
towards
our
polling,
place,
location,
rental,
those
plexiglas
barriers,
we've
purchased
social,
distancing
things,
we've
purchased
and
then
also
staff
support
for
the
county
for
the
increase
for
absentee
voting.
Don't
you
have
any.
G
A
L
E
A
I
So,
in
order
to
get
this
program
up
and
going
making
sure
that
we
start
off
on
the
right
foot,
we
are
looking
to
work
with
a
consultant
wsb
to
help
us
with
that
process.
Make
sure
we
get
started
correctly
and
then
our
our
new
gis
staff
person
would
have
a
resource
to
bounce
ideas
off
them
and
also
be
able
to
take
it
from
there
after
we
get
things
started
up
correctly.
So
with
that,
we
would
request
approving
this
proposal
of
7
500
with
wsb,
with
funding
coming
out
of
our
stormwater
and
wastewater
treatment.
Plant
funds.
A
A
B
Will
be
a
partnership
with
the
hormel
historic
home,
austin
friendly
autism,
friendly
austin
they've
offered
to
partner
with
us,
the
fire
department
and
the
sheriff's
department
to
provide
some
tracking
services
for
those
on
the
autism
spectrum?
Should
they
be
separated
from
their
caregivers?
There
are
some
costs
associated
with
this.
Approximately
you
know
six
to
seven
thousand
dollars
worth
initially
for
sure
our
commitment
would
be
three
officers
and
three
firefighters
to
become
trackers
within
the
program.
B
Hhh
would
support
those
costs
for
us
to
get
us
registered
and
make
us
members.
They
have
some
families
who
are
interested
in
the
service
they
would
handle
all
of
that
type
of
screening.
We
just
need
to
provide
the
staff
to
ultimately
operate
the
tracking
equipment
and
provide
them
via
our
overtime
budget.
Should
they
need
to
be
called
out.
We
would
also
pay
for
them
to
be
trained.
I
think
it's
a
great
partnership
for
the
community.
B
They
would
enhance
the
community
officers
and
deputies
could
go
outside
the
area
have
called
on.
I
think
it's
a
great
program
and
certainly
that
the
hormel
home
and
autism
from
the
austin
are
willing
to
sponsor
it.
I
think
is
also
well
worth
it
and
I
would
endorse
approving
this
membership
agreement.
B
We
have
a
certain
period
of
time
that
the
austin
autism,
friendly
austin,
would
like
to
have
this
done.
I
do
believe,
since
we
are
going
to
have
10
people,
four
sheriffs,
three
apd,
three
afd-
that
they
would
bring
this
to
us.
Initially,
we
would
have
to
recertify
them
every
two
years.
I
believe
that's
happens
regionally
over
in
rochester.
B
A
N
My
name
is
trisha
ohlinger
and
I
am
a
property
owner
at
605
19th
street
northwest
in
austin.
We
have
since
moved
out
of
town,
we
still
own
our
property.
However,
on
august
18th
we
received
a
letter
from
the
zoning
department
signed
by
brent
johnson,
stating
we
were
opening
a
business
in
a
residential
area
as
we
had
rented
u-haul
u-boxes,
and
at
that
time
we
are
very
baffled
as
to
why
we
received
this.
We
requested
a
freedom
of
information
act
from
the
city
of
austin.
N
N
14
days
after
we
received
the
letter,
I
received
the
letter
it
was
coming
to
city
council
on
the
day
it
was
coming
to
city
council
with
no
date
on
the
letter
specifying
when
I
could
stand
up
for
my
rights
in
that
14
days.
We
also
received
a
violation
of
a
pool
of
which
we
were
not
in
violation
of
both
of
those
violations
were
signed
by
fred
hughes.
Mueller.
Excuse
me
when
we
received
the
email
regarding
the
business
violation
on
august
8th,
we
received
the
emails.
N
Mr
johnson
then
noted
and
replied
that
he
felt
like
we
might
have
been
moving
on
august,
17th,
brent,
johnson,
drove
up
outside
of
our
house
and
took
a
picture
of
our
u-haul
pods,
a
dumpster
and
my
husband's
truck
in
the
yard.
At
that
point,
this
could
have
ended.
Somebody
could
have
knocked
on
our
door.
My
husband
called
and
sent
emails,
stating
if
you
see
u-haul
containers
in
a
residential
yard.
N
What
is
the
first
thing
you
think
of,
and
that
is
that
they're
moving
his
justification
that
he
sent
as
an
email
to
mr
hughes
muller
stated
that
he
assumed
we're
opening
a
business
because
we
had
a
dumpster
in
the
driveway
mr
hughes
muller
said.
Well,
I
don't
believe
that
is
obvious.
Send
them
the
letter
anyway.
N
N
N
N
A
A
N
N
O
The
way
that
it
goes
is
that
the
staff
witnesses
takes
photographs,
reviews
it
internally
and
sends
a
letter,
and
in
the
letter
it
says,
if
you
have
any
concerns
about
this
or
if
you
feel
like
you,
you
have
questions,
you
need
answered
or
problems,
there's
a
phone
number
at
the
bottom,
so
for
those
property
owners
who
feel
that
it's
inappropriate,
they
call
the
number
and
they
offer
the
explanation.
And
then
the
city
staff
says
well.
Thank
you
for
the
explanation
and
then
that's
the
end
of
it
right.
O
No
further
adverse
action
is
taken
and,
as
I
understand
this
particular
case,
which
I'm
not
intimately
familiar
with,
but
I've
seen
a
few
things
on
it.
It
would
appear
that,
that's
precisely
what
happened
is
that
a
letter
went
out
likely
on
a
misunderstanding
based
upon
viewing
pods.
There
were
on
the
premises,
a
dumpster
that
was
on
the
premises.
O
A
conclusion
was
drawn
that
appears
to
be
factually
incorrect
once
this
staff
determined
that
that
was
factually
incorrect,
then
the
matter
didn't
proceed
any
farther
and
there
is
no
adverse
action.
There's
nothing
to
withdraw,
there's
nothing
to
cancel,
there's
no
citation
on
the
property
or
violation
on
the
property.
It
just
sort
of
ended
with
the
determination
that
this
was
not
something
that
we're
going
to
pursue
any
further.
N
I
would
like
us
a
letter
verifying
that
this
is
the
case,
because
I
don't
know
this
is
the
case.
This
is
what
the
letter
says,
and
I
just
would
like
some
follow-up,
and
I
would
like
the
the
community
members
of
this
city
to
feel
like
their.
They
get
due
process
on
august
17,
2020,
the
city
of
austin
planning
and
zoning
department
conducted
investigation
of
your
property.
N
The
following
violations
of
city
code
were
observed
at
this
site
and
needs
to
be
resolved
mayor,
I'm
speaking,
please,
the
city
code
were
observed
at
the
site
and
need
to
be
resolved.
This
states
in
this
letter
that
I
am
indeed
in
violation.
I
would
like
a
letter
staying
stating
that
the
zoning
and
planning
department
made
an
error,
and
I
am
not
in
violation,
can.
C
N
D
D
Mr
byron,
I
think
covered
it.
Well,
I
think,
what's
important
for
council
is
that
I
did
look
into
this,
and
the
actions
taken
by
the
department
were
consistent
with
our
ordinances,
and
you
know,
essentially
a
couple
things
at
play
here
was:
I
think
there
really
wasn't
a
familiarity
with
the
u-haul
units
that
they
had
on
their
property,
their
they.
They
were
new
to
us
as
a
department.
D
D
So
our
letters
make
that
I
guess
preliminary
finding.
If
you
will
and
as
mr
byram
said,
whether
it's
weeds,
what
have
you,
those
notices,
look
very
similar
and
most
are
resolved
either
by
the
constituent,
taking
action
or
through
a
conversation,
and
we
always
try
to
work
with
with
the
homeowners
in
every
instance
that
we
can.
I'm
I'm
sure
that
was
done
in
this
case
as
well.
D
N
Okay,
I
I
would
like
to
say,
and
to
address
mr
clark's
point,
that
those
u-haul
pods
were
there
for
seven
days
when
we
got
the
notification,
and
I
would
also
like
to
state
that
one
simple
sentence
at
the
beginning
of
this
letter
could
really
make
this
tone
of
this
letter
not
so
offensive,
and
all
that
has
to
state
is
that
we
have
observed
this.
Please
call
us
to
address
it,
not
that
we
observe
that
you
were
in
violation,
because
we
were
not
in
violation.
N
A
H
I
just
wanted
to
congratulate
the
human
rights
commission
on
a
really
nice
welcoming
week
last
week.
I
know
they
had
a
number
of
different
events
that
they
had
had
in
partnership
with
riverland
and
some
other
groups,
and
I'm
able
to
attend
a
number
of
them
and
really
well
done
it.
So
I
thought
they
did
a
great
job
of
taking
what
is
normally
a
great
week
and
figuring
out
how
to
do
that
in
a
pandemic
with
some
virtual
tours
and
things
like
that.
H
E
A
K
I
would
like
to
echo
council
member
baskin
and
specifically
say
that
part
of
welcoming
week
was
a
salute
to
immigrant
owned
businesses
and
tienda
guerrero
was
named
the
favorite
immigrant
owned
business
in
austin.
So
congratulations
to
them
and
if
you
have
not
enjoyed
pork
taco
there,
you
should
make
a
point
of
doing
that.
Thanks.
K
D
Yes,
I
just
wanted
to
bring
to
in
a
formal
way
bring
to
council's
attention.
We
did
get
correspondents
from
the
league
on
our
cares.
Funding
allocation,
some
further
clarification
from
department
of
treasury
office
of
inspector
general
we're
looking
into
those
implications.
We've
been
in
contact
with
senator
klobuchar's
office
about
getting
further
clarification.
C
Yes,
I
just
wanted
to
note
about
the
upcoming
election
that
absentee
voting
opened.
Last
friday,
you
are
able
to
come
and
vote
at
city
hall.
If
you
would
like
to
absentee
ballots,
are
currently
being
sent
out
in
the
mail
for
the
city
of
austin.
We
received
around
4
000
absentee
ballot
requests,
so
we
are
getting
those
processed
we're
about
half
done
so
about
half
of
them
are
in
the
mail
and
the
other
half
will
be
out
in
the
next
couple
of
days,
so
be
patient.