City of Woodbury Council Meeting

And now we're there. All right. Well, welcome um everyone for tonight's city council meeting uh May 27th, 2026, 7:30 here at Woodbury City Hall. Um, this event is taking place virtually and at city hall and council chambers and the meetings are being recorded by True Lens Community Media um and broadcast live and can also be replayed on uh cable channel 799 as well as uh located on the city's wood uh YouTube channel. Um members of the public may attend in person which we do have some people here which we always love when people are here in person as well as joining uh virtually using your computer, tablet or smartphone. Um and you can go online to our website and then there's a link to join the live meeting. Uh public comments will be accepted during the meeting both in person and virtually. So you can click on the link if you are online and there's a Q&A feature uh to submit questions.

Um also if you want to um submit questions sort of outside of meetings, you can do so by calling uh the city hall between 8 and 4:30 or certainly emailing uh council atwoodbury councsilwoodmn.gov. Um, with that, which is our normal tradition, will everyone please stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance 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.

Wonderful. Ashley, will you do the roll call, please? Council member Morris, here. Council member Wilson here, council member Stafford here, here, Mayor Prom Santini here, here, and Mayor Bird is absent. Thank you. Well, you know, Okay, got it. Thanks. Uh, tonight we have actually two special orders of business and the first is really exciting. Uh, so we have um in our audience and we're going to invite them up to speak for a little bit um and hopefully also show their work. But we have two uh Woodbury residents who have earned first place titles in what is the Congressional Art Competition. And so we're going to recognize these residents and again have them come up and speak about their pieces a little bit. So every year Minnesota's eight congressional district offices participate in the annual congressional art competition which is sponsored by the Congressional Institute. The competition is open to high school students in each district.

One winner will have their work art um their artwork displayed at the US Capitol during uh the building for one year. This year, the city of Woodbury has two residents that were selected as first place winners. Alyssa Wang of Woodbury was selected as a first place winner in the fourth congressional district held by Congresswoman McCullum. Um Alyssa attends Eastridge High School and won for her graphite piece entitled Color Me Happy. And then Woodbury resident Will Kungara previously attended Eastridge, although is going to be going back. um but was uh just finished up or possibly is still finishing up at Perpich uh Center for the Arts Education and Will was selected as the first place winner in the fifth congressional district held by Congresswoman uh Omar for his piece entitled Bowl of Unity. Congratulations to both of you. This is really exciting and the fact that again that we have two residents um that uh have received these uh honors.

So, um, if both of you, if you'd like to come together or one at a time, would come to the podium and we just, as I mentioned, if we were able to share just a little bit about your artwork, maybe what inspired you, also the medium that you used while you were doing your piece would be wonderful. Um, and then we'll do a, um, a group photo as well. So, um, I would like to invite Alyssa first to come forward. Um, I think we have your piece up on the screen now. So, yes, you can. Yep. Um Okay. Um and you can if you want to just speak into the microphone a little bit and people behind you can hear you. All right. Uh do I just like talk about like my piece? Sure. Okay. Um I'm Melissa Wong. I'm a junior at East High School and uh the medium I used was graphite. Uh normally I use graphite.

Sometimes I also like dabble in like acrylics or like watercolor, but I really like graphite. Um I think it's like really easy to like cover up any mistakes or like if I notice something's wrong, like it's really easy to erase. Um uh the thing with graphite uh I guess wait that was for like I use sorry I use like uh like pencil a lot which is easy to erase. I think for graphite it really challenged me cuz a lot of like really dark strokes you cannot erase them. Sure.

So uh for this one it was this photo was taken by my mom and it was when I was volunteering at a uh Chinese spring festival and this girl she like really caught my attention cuz she was so excited. She's like jumping around all over the place. The moment she sat down for me to start painting her face, she like got quiet. She like didn't make a single move and I really wanted to capture that because I really thought uh I really liked her excitement, but also was like really nice to see her like just sit there quietly while waiting for me to finish and then afterwards she saw the like she saw like the face paint I did for her and she like started jumping around again. Yeah. So, and so that is from a photo that you wonderful. And do you normally um create art, you know, from a photo or do you do some things just, you know?

I think yeah, a lot of times uh I like take photographs of like things people like architecture and I like see what I like. maybe like I like the how like. I like maybe like I like the how the people look or like the message it sends and I like uh I try to like copy it down either like through like graphite or like even like acrylic. Um, other times I like gather a bunch of different reference materials and like I piece them all together into one, but that's like a little bit harder. So, I think my preferred method is like having a big reference photo and being able to like uh copy down the elements in it. Sure. Wonderful. Well, thank you. Wonderful. Where's your artwork now? Uh, I think they're shipping it to like Washington DC. Oh, really? Because we're we're going

Uh I think we're going in like late June. Oh, okay. Oh, wonderful. Yeah. Great. Thank you. Will will you come up and speak a little bit about your uh piece? Uh, hello. I'm Will Kong Dara and this is my piece bowl of unity. Um, I did this digitally. I actually did this for the admissions for Per Pitch Arts High School when I was applying and then my teacher kind of just approached me and she was like, "Hey, do you have anything to submit for this one art show?" And I was like, "Um, I think I do." So, I submitted this piece. I wasn't expecting to win at all. Um, but basically what this is about is how food kind of like brings my family together because usually in my house like we're all pretty busy and we have our different tasks that we do every day. And I feel like whenever we're like hungry is when we all see each other.

So we'll all be in the kitchen or doing something and a lot of the time we'll do like food prep before we cook. So um that's another thing cuz my grandma, she really likes to like put us to work and like work together. So that is a time when we all are working together and seeing each other and that is kind of like what it's about for me. May I ask? So how is this created? Is this um Oh, this is a digital drawing. I find it um way more easier for me because it's more efficient and I have like all the tools that I need instead of having to like constantly like clean brushes for like painting or like drawing where you have to constantly erase. I just find it more easy. Um and yeah, that's pretty much

Sure. Would you mind telling people um I mentioned that I had hadn't heard about Perpich uh Center for the Arts Education, but just for anybody else who maybe hasn't about the school? Yeah, it's I'd say it's a really good experience to become independent. Um they had at the time they had a free like offer if you live 25 miles away you get free dorms. So I lived in the dorms. Um it was nice. I like the community. All the teachers were really nice and helpful and I feel like more more than a public school. They were really invested in your future because they would ask you like why do you like the things you like and stuff like that. um compared to like when I'm in public school, I feel like it's more different. Like they they're not as invested and they're like, "Well, here's like here's homework for this." But it's like when you're in art school, they're like, "How could you make this better?

What could you do to improve yourself? What will make your art more interesting and that's something that I've thought about a lot more than I have when I was in public school." And it's only for 11th and 12th graders, correct? Yes. So, well, wonderful. Well, would you be guys be willing to take photos with us? Yes. Okay. Can we go down and take photos? Whatever you want to do. You're in charge. Okay.

All right. Big smiles you guys on the count of three. One, two, three. Do a couple more. All right. And then our next special order of business, um I'm going to invite um Luke Fischer up um and I think your colleague Evan as well. And this is going to be a

Recognition of um from the League of Minnesota Cities um for uh city administrator Jeff Dah's service to the League of Minnesota Cities board. So, welcome. Thank you so much uh Madame Mayor, members of the council. I'm Luke Fischer, executive director at the League of Minnesota Cities, and I'm the most relieved person in the council chambers tonight. When you said we have a special guest and they're going to show us their work, I was like, I don't know what we're going to do. But no, that art was fantastic and what a neat thing to celebrate. That's uh we're really happy to be here to see that. As you mentioned, I'm joined by my colleague Evan Vogle. He is the second vice president uh at the League of Minnesota Cities and the Cambridge City Administrator. Um and I think that that's an important thing for you to know when you think about who the league is and what the league is.

You know us well. You interact with us all the time. Uh but your city administrator just had a really big impact with us. And so we want to tell you about who we are and about the impact that he is able to have um on the league. So, as an organization, we represent 842 of the state's 856 cities. Our largest city is Minneapolis. 425,000 people live there. And our smallest city, do you guys remember from the last time I was here? We're terrible at trivia. Oh, no. Come on, Council Never Morris. We're counting on you. Less than 100. It's less than 100, that's for sure. Now then, what's that? Now then? Is it the city of Now then? No, it's not. No, no, it's actually the city of Barry. And they have a population of just 18 people. Now Barry is located in western Minnesota by Wheaten. And when I say that, people say, "Where is Weaten?"

And I say it's by Morris and they say, "Where is Morris?" And then it's the bump on the western. We do that a lot around here. Where's Morris? Right. Here we go. I'm not talking about you, uh, my friend. Absolutely not. But as an organization, we get to interact with elected and appointed officials from across the state. And we do that in a myriad of ways, but one of the ways that you have contributed to us consistently is through our legislative advocacy. Um, as you may know, we have about 175 legislative policies that impact everything that cities do from housing and land use to chicken ordinances to public safety to human resources, you name it. We've got uh legislative policies around all of that. and they're all centered on the idea that local officials know what's best for their community and you know how to make the right decisions for the people that live in Woodbury.

Every year we have about 250 of our members from across the state that come together to craft and shape those policies and really dial them in and make sure that they're in the place that they need to be. We don't just advocate though at the state legislature. We also work on your behalf with at the national level with the National League of Cities. We have important partners too that do this work with us like the municipal legislative commission which you're part of and metro cities which Jeff was the president of uh this past year and by virtue of uh being in that role served on our board. Um so Jeff did kind of two lifts on behalf of the metro area and on behalf of the state and on behalf of your city this past year which I think is really remarkable and commendable. Now our board is made up of 19 people from across the state.

Evans from Cambridge, but we've got folks from all over the place that come together and care deeply about the work that you do every day. They make sure that as an organization, we're pointed in the right place and providing the services that you need. So, you don't have to worry when you got a question about something that comes up. I always like to tell people, we've got about 215 people that work at the league that wake up every single morning thinking about you. And if we're doing our job right, you wake up every morning and don't think about us, right? Because you usually call us when you're not sure or when something bad happens. and we're here for that. Um, but it really has been an honor for us to have the opportunity to work with Jeff. I hope you know that he's a leader not only like in the statewide community uh at the league, but also he's one of those really respected people at the city management level.

Um, and so it's been great for us to have him on our board. He's been a real contributor all the way through. So Jeeoff, thank you for your service on behalf of our staff. I'm going to turn it over to Evan to talk a little bit about the board. Uh, thank you Mayor Prom and council members. Uh, thank you for having us. As Luke said, my name is Evan Vogel. I'm the city administrator in Cambridge, which is about an hour, hour and 15 minutes north of here. Um, and I'm also the second vice president for the League of Minnesota Cities Board of Directors. Uh, it's been an honor, or it is an honor to be here to recognize city administrator Jeff Dah. I've gotten to work with him over the last year, and it has been an honor and a privilege, uh, to see how he works and to be able to serve Minnesota cities alongside him.

Jeff joined the board uh in June of 2025 as the current metro cities representative. Uh right around the same time he began here in Woodbury. So talk about drinking from a firehouse. Uh he did that and he did it really well. It's been a pleasure to get to know him and to serve alongside of him. Although his tenure on the board is short, uh he made a meaningful impact through his engagement, his collaboration, and his thoughtful participation. Jeff always has a really unique and grounded perspective. He he brings a really uh earnest sense of what cities need and doesn't try and speak for everybody. He speaks for what he knows and for Woodbury, which is something that's really valuable on a board me to represent the the whole state. Uh Jeffoff has been especially helpful in continuing the strong partnership between Metro Cities and the league, helping to ensure that cities work together effectively to address the issues facing communities not only here but across the state as Cambridge isn't the same as Woodbury, but we both have commonalities and we both have uh things that we want to work on together.

We're grateful for his leadership uh his perspective and uh the the kind of humor and and thoughtfulness he brought to the board. Jeff, thank you for your service. It's been a pleasure. Appreciate it. Well, thank you. Yes. Do you you Can we get a picture with him? But we should clap for Jeff, too. Right. We were going to learn about how everybody thought about it. Thank Thanks, Luke and Evan. And just real quick, I just want to uh appreciate the work you guys do. It was really a privilege to serve on the board and I really appreciate the patience and um the willingness to to hire me despite being on I mean that there was a lot and you know I had to prioritize. So, um I I think I did that reasonably well, but it was an honor uh to serve not only with a bunch of other board members that were so committed yet offered so such a diverse perspective on both their communities and what, you know, their their personal kind of perspectives were, but also serve and support their staff.

Uh because as you know, Luke, um your staff is one of a kind, right up there with our City of Woodbury staff. Um, so it was a pleasure to to serve and and support uh alongside just a a great team. And there it was for for one year it seemed like maybe three because there was a lot of stuff and a lot of difficult issues that we discussed and and advocated for. And it just goes to show that um being on those boards, you know, whether it's, you know, some of our other department heads or other departments that serve on on other uh boards that are related to their their field, we get a lot of great ideas that we can take back and they can learn from us as well because we're doing a lot of great things here. So, thank you. No, well, thank you. And I do appreciate whenever you guys come out um for different reasons just because I do think it is important for our residents to understand some of these other organizations that help advocate for us as a city um for different issues.

And I think Evan you you said it perfectly which is there are differences and that's something we say often is that you know particularly on some issues you know not it's not a one-sizefits-all but there are sometimes that there are these issues within across cities where it allows us to be able to maximize those resources together um for for a common issue that we're trying to to deal with. So, thanks. Should we get a picture? Do we need a picture? for sure. We need a picture. All right. We're getting steps in. They're getting steps in. Yes. We're down there again. Come on. I feel I always feel weird sometimes up here. Like I can see when we have all the police officers cuz I'm too short. Well, that's See, I would think he would do two and two.

I'm standing here. Let's go. One, two, three. One more. One, two, three. Great. Thank you. It was good to see you. Thank you for coming. Okay. And now we're going to get on to business. You know, when the league does their annual meeting, we have a great space here in Woodbury that would hold is true. hold a fantastic amount of people right here in the Twin Cities. You should think about that. Love that idea. As long as you've got about a thousand hotel rooms. Jen's got a finished basement. There's five. I think we do. I think we've got some some uh lodging. We got thousands in the council office. Let's go. All right. We are moving on to the open forum portion of the meeting. Um this is where we will have um a maximum well we did talk about this last time um although right now I only have one green sheet so I don't think we necessarily need to specify but just in case somebody oh see there is another one um which is we were going to do a maximum of three persons per topic um that are allowed to address the council on subjects but are not part of the meeting agenda um so Daniel I do know we have your green sheet but we'll address that for your item uh later in the agenda.

Uh people wishing to speak uh must complete a signup sheet prior to the start of the meeting, give them to staff. Um and then you also might uh may submit a question or comment virtually via the Q&A chat feature on the right hand of the live event screen. Uh you just need to provide your name and city of no address anymore. So city of residence with your question for the official record. Uh speakers will be limited to three minutes each and then uh council will listen attentively to the comments but in most instances we will not respond at the meeting and your uh replies to concerns will be made via letter or phone call within a week. So we will go in order which is um Justin Roella um and then we'll have Marne. Thank you. Hi everyone. Uh my name is Justin Roella and I am a resident of Woodbury. Um I'm here because our community remains caught in a cycle of a lack of governance around uh the resolution regarding ICE presence and violence in Woodbury.

Um we have heard the mayor say some objectively false things uh like uh quote operation metro surge has gone away end quote when we still have over 230% more than the pre-surge number of border patrol agents in the Twin Cities terrorizing our citizens. Uh she also said, quote, "Uh," you're asking for this city to do something that no other cities have done. End quote. Despite there being formal ordinances and local protections put in place in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Richfield, Modota Heights, Chicago, Boston, Portland, San Jose, and other communities. Objectively false. Um, there is a blueprint for this and the council has a responsibility to the citizens of Woodbury to take action when we demand protections from these egregious federal actions now and in the future. Uh, in addition to these false statements, we've heard justification in defense of the current proclamation. Uh, however, we do have to be clear about what that proclamation actually is, which is nothing.

Uh, it is a feel-good document. Uh, it is unable to establish a single binding piece of policy. So, it doesn't actually do anything. Um, we've also heard the council's concerns about legal risk and enforcability. If you believe the resolution uh that's been proposed is not appropriately enforceable uh as it is as as written, uh then workshop it. You have these workshops. Workshop it. Adjust the language. Uh every day you decline to do this is a day that you choose to leave our public spaces unprotected and our residents vulnerable. Avoiding a vote on the record is not a strategy for risk management. It is an avoidance of responsibility. It is an absence of leadership. And I'm asking you to stop hiding and avoiding this topic. Uh bring the resolution to an agenda. If your position is to allow Border Patrol agents to utilize our parks, community centers, and city-owned property, then state that position clearly and put your vote on a record.

We deserve a council that leads with conviction rather than one that cowers in the face of controversy. And my neighbors and I are tired of this delay. We are asking for a policy that creates a predictable, safe environment for every residents uh for every resident. Uh so please do the work to make this enforceable and let the public see exactly where you stand. Thank you. and Marne. Hello, I'm Marne. I'm a Woodbury resident. Um, I first of all want to thank Justin for getting up here and continuously pushing this subject. Um, I know it might not seem like it from what you see behind you in these meetings, but this is a big issue in Woodbury and I do urge you to take it seriously. Um, taking that a step further, uh, just the reaction from this council or more accurately the lack thereof response. Um, I am concerned about uh, ICE and 287G agreements.

So, I am asking the city, are we cooperating with ICE? Do does the city of Woodbury does Woodbury PD have 287G agreements in place? Um, part of what sparked this for me and got me to come up here and raise my fear of public speaking is the new um the new public safety center that is being put in. I saw that real and I saw something that said with ample space for our law enforcement partners. Um, so the question arose in my mind, does that mean ICE? Um, so I am formally asking the city, do we have agreements? I look forward to your response. I understand that's not going to happen right now. Um, but however you can get in touch with I think it's really important again just like Justin said to know where the council stands on this issue. Correct. If you So would you um I'll give this back to you and if you wanted to put whatever best way you wanted to be contacted and then yes, we'll have staff follow up.

Great. Thank you. And then Ashley, is there anyone online? I did not see anyone. Okay. All right. So, with that, uh, we'll move on to the consent agenda. Um, all items. Mayor Promini, can I just I I know nobody is going to want me to do this up here, here, but I I do want to say something, and this is only speaking from me and not for council, okay? I know that it feels like you guys are every resident in Woodbury, but there are people out there who do feel the opposite. And it is up to council to make sure that everybody is heard, not just one group. As far as I know, we do not have 287G, neither does the Washington County Sheriff's Department. So, as much as I like to say you're the only group of people and you are the most important group of people, there are other people in the city who feel differently and they have contacted us.

So, with consent agenda items, these are considered routine by the city and will be enacted by one motion and an affirmative vote by roll call all of the majority of members present. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a council member or resident uh so requests in which event the items would be removed from the consent agenda and considered a separate uh subject of discussion by the council. Is there anybody that wishes to pull anything from consent agenda? We should just clarify that our minutes for the last week's meeting are coming at our next council meeting with a delay in description. And so any members of the public, we haven't received a green sheet on this. Anybody online? And then no council members. So I will seek a motion. I'll move to approve. I will move to approve consent agenda items A through H. Second. I have a first and a second.

Any further discussion? Although we don't have discussion. So Ashley, will you do the roll call, please? Council member Morris. Hi. Council member Wilson. I council member Stafford I I mayor promanti I I so consent agenda items are approved and now we will get into the public hearings which all three are relatively related which are essentially liquor license approvals Steve's favorite looking at me um and Ashley I'm assuming you are going to be handling all of these that's correct all right well so we'll take 7A the um consider approval for Third Act Brewery. Um, do I really have to read all of this? Basically doing an intox on sale intoxicating wine and beer liquor license. Um, and so 7A, I will open the hearing. Thank you, Mayor Prom and members of the council. Uh, so you are correct. Third Act Brewery, um, LLC doing business as Third Act Brewery has submitted an application for three separate liquor licenses.

Um, so they've applied for an on-sale intoxicating wine and beer license, including Sunday and patio sales, as well as a manufacturer's intoxicating liquor brew pub license and a brew pub offsale intoxicating liquor license. Uh, Third Act is located at 4120 Radio Drive. Uh, there's a map on the screen um for your reference. So, they're just off radio, just south of Bailey. Uh, there are two owners of Third Act, Steven and Deborah Long. Um, Third Act has operated in Woodbury since 2018. Um, and you may recall that Third Act is currently operating with a micro brewer license, a tap room on Sunday license, and a brewer offsale license. Um, the reason for the new applications this evening is that the owners intend to sell uh wine and hard cider at the brewery in addition to the beer that is brewed there. And that requires application for three new license types. So, those license types um again are listed there.

Um per our usual process, the applicant has um paid all necessary fees. Um our city attorney has reviewed the application materials and has has deemed them acceptable and then we did mail out public hearing notices ahead of this evening. So with that, the staff recommendation is on the screen and if you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. And I don't Are um Steve and Deborah here? I don't see I didn't see them. Right. Okay. Um, so I'll make a motion to close the hearing. Is there anybody else that wants to talk have anything for it? Okay. Second. First and second. All in favor? Say I. Any opposed? All right. So, any discussion? I will seek a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the on-sale intoxicating wine and beer liquor license including Sunday and patio sales, the manufacturer's intoxicating liquor brew pub license, and the brew pub offsale intoxicating liquor license to Third Act Brewery DBA Third Act Brewery located at 4120 Radio Drive.

Second. That's a first and a second. Any further discussion? Roll call. Council member Wilson. I. Council member Stafford I. Council member Morris. Hi. Mayor Prom Santini. I that it passes and I appreciate the longs. They've been great. Um I know during co they really stuck it stuck through with it and so it's great to see. All right, we'll go on to item 7B, approval of LTF club operations company, uh DBA Lifetime. Yes, thank you, Mayor Prom, members of the council. So, Lifetime, um I'm sorry, that's the the business name. Um LTF Club Operations Company Incorporated is the BIS is the um corporation doing business as Lifetime. Um has applied for an on-sale intoxicating wine and beer license, including Sunday sales. Uh they are located at 675 Commons Drive. So, the map there on the screen, um they're just east of Radio, uh just north of Tamarack Road, um in Woodbury. Uh LTF club operations company is um a cor a corporation.

So there's no owner that has more than 5% interest in the business. Um Lifetime intends to sell beer and wine um on site at their facility which requires um an application for an on- sale intoxicating uh wine and beer license. Um and they intend to sell on Sundays as well. So requiring the Sunday sales. Um and then as per usual um all the necessary fees were submitted. Our city attorney has reviewed the application. Um we did complete a background check for the on-site manager. Um and there were no findings found there. And then public hearing notices were mailed out um ahead of this evening as well. And with that, the staff recommendation is on the screen for you and I'm happy to answer any questions. And the hearing is open. I just assume that that would be evident, but um and so uh anybody in the audience have anything about this item? as anybody representative from lifetime.

No. Oh, would you like to speak at all? Um, I haven't prepared anything. You don't have to if you want to come. There's a five slide PowerPoint minimum. I have questions for him actually. So, okay. Yeah, bring it on. So, thank you for having me. Um, basically our intention is to elevate our like member experiences by offering beer and wine sales. Sure. Throughout the week really is to just enhance our events that we do like workouts. We like regularly like monthly special events throughout the summer and stuff like that. So wonderful. And would you just state your name for the record? My name is Jeremy Sando. I would be the on-site manager. Wonderful. Uh, Council Member Morris apparently has a question for you. Do you? Uh, not in the hearing, not in the open hearing. No. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Okay. Uh, thank you.

We might have some question. So, do you have I was going to say he might have some questions for you. Um, and then Ashley, is there anybody online? I don't see anyone. Okay. Um then I would make a motion to close the hearing. Second. All in favor? Any I? Hearing's closed. Okay. Now I have questions. So is this this is the first time for lifetime with this application. This is the first. You don't need to come up to the microphone. Sorry. Yeah. I told you it was a five slide minimum. I told it is a first for our Woodbury Club, but it's not first for all the lifetimes. There's quite a few across the metro that have already established liquor license. Interesting. I have a quick question. Is this something that the patrons are looking for?

Um, we've had some like comments from our patrons who would enjoy it, but it's not like a wide whether they're against it or for it type of situation. So I maybe from clarity of some people it's because you have some low lifetime locations that have sort of some co-oping co-working spaces and a little bit more of a come spend some time and yes and so I think that's where this some of these read go to the gym. Yeah. So, I guess you could say in the last couple years we've kind of expanded in more of like a country club style aesthetic and so expanding into, you know, like work spaces or cabanas, like pool decks, that kind of stuff. Social aspects that are really just kind of opening it up to spend more time in the club, spend more money in our individual departments. You're a business. We get it. We're a business. Yes. Protein.

I also have wine after yoga sometimes. I've heard. Yeah. Really? Uhhuh. So, so I guess I have some some either zoning andor um use questions. So, I'm looking at our city attorney and staff here. You sit down. Yeah. Sorry. You can sit down. Um, so this is not is there a zoning difference between when we zones for something for hospitality and this use and the currently zoned use? This is the permit is allowed. So my question is is the permit is allowed with the zoning within that zoning element that it's currently under. You wouldn't have brought it to us if it wasn't, but Right. And I I don't think that we differentiate uh I was going to say in our commercial districts that specifically where for hospitality hospitality versus nonhospity in the business districts. So if Amazon wanted to come and put and apply for a license at Amazon the new facility that just opened up Amazon could apply for a license.

I think that's probably true. And it depends. I'm not sure if Amazon is licensed industrial versus commercial and that might make a difference but I think our general business districts I don't think we specify because this is commercial for public not which industrial is generally not allowed the public can't generally be inside inside right right and I'm pretty sure Amazon wouldn't put alcohol in their well I get it from Amazon um just yeah just for a hypothetical so my other my question and and I'm trying to think through this on the fly here, but from a a public safety standpoint from because we're doing onsite for this. We're not doing the packet anymore, the protect your license packet from 1944 whenever we had that, right? We're not doing that. So from a state liquor license requirement, are they required to my question is this is a non-standard business element for they're in fitness. They're not in hospitality, right?

This isn't their core business. And so from a public safety standpoint, I want to ensure that what do we have in place because we don't we no longer even though we're licensing it, we're not giving them the packet of info. What what confidence do we have from a carding standpoint, from a public safety stand, from a compliance standpoint? Because this again, this isn't the core business. We would uh thank you for the question, Council Member Morris. We would still be conducting compliance checks at this business like we would any other business that's licensed for for alcohol sales. And then just by virtue of getting the license, they're required to comply with the law. And it's not our job to educate them on the law. We just check if they're they check our boxes to qualify for a license, but it's not our job to train every business in town. It's our job to ensure they're compliant by doing compliance checks.

Okay. Well, then can I ask a question? Do you have a training for the people that would be serving the beer and wine? Yes, we follow all state laws and we work through SER safe through all of our like food like regulations as well as alcohol. So all of our staff would be trained in that and anybody that would be running any events that had alcohol involved. I presume given that there's multiple locations that are already doing this and lifetime large corporation wants to stay in good standing and not have any of their clubs lose a liquor license because that probably puts other liquor license in jeopardy because one of the questions we ask on the application form is have you ever had a liquor license revoked or suspended in any other jurisdiction? No. Okay. So, I'm assuming then that I'm sorry that there will be a specific designated spot for the alcohol to be consumed.

Correct. Yeah. Um, we applied for seating in our cafe and our workspace that's located right next to the cafe. But I can't grab a beer and just walk around. They would not be able to in Okay. alcohol allowed on the workout floor. Correct. Probably for multiple reasons. I was going to sign up, but now I don't know. Okay. All right. I'm good.

I I think actually one last question just because I feel like it's been a while since we talked about this, which is if um facility like this uh THC beverages, then that would then require the low potency hemp registration. Okay. Just checking. Okay. You should do that, too. Performance-enhancing Performance-enhancing more money. All right. I will make a motion to approve the on sale intoxicating wine and beer liquor license including Sunday sales to LTF club operations company uh Inc. Doing business as Lifetime located at 675 Commons Drive. I'll second. Have a first and a second. Any further discussions? Ashley, can we do the roll call, please? Council member Stafford, I. Council member Morris, hi.

Hi. Council member Wilson, hi. Mayor Prom Santini, I. That is approved. Thank you and thanks for expanding your business. Yes, we appreciate it. Good luck with it. Thank you. We would love a bigger lifetime. All right. Next and last item on the public hearings um will be the approval for the main event entertainment uh incorporated doing business as main event uh also for on sale intoxicating liquor license including Sunday sales. I will now open the hearing. Prom. All right. Thank you, Mayor Prom and members of the council. Uh Main Event Entertainment Incorporated doing business as main event has applied for an on sale intoxicating liquor license including Sunday sales. Uh Main Event is located at 540 Beelenberg Drive. Um this image which was pulled from Google shows their their future location um which is currently under construction in this photo, but they are located just north of Topgolf. Um, Main Event Entertainment Incorporated is owned by a corporation with no owner having 5% or more interest in the business.

Uh, the business intends to sell alcohol on the property, which requires application for an on-sale intoxicating liquor license, including Sunday sales. Um, as my standard spiel here, um, all necessary fees have been submitted. The city attorneys reviewed the application and deemed it acceptable. We did conduct a background check um on the on-site manager with no findings that were found. Um and then public hearing notices were mailed to surrounding properties. Um I do understand that we have a representative from main event here this evening. So um if they could be recognized and answer any questions, but otherwise the staff recommendation is on the screen there and happy to answer any questions you have for staff. Perfect. Uh is it Mr. Christians? It is. Would you like to come up and say anything? Thank you, Mayor Prom, and members of the council. Uh, Daniel Christians, legal counsel for main event. Really here just to answer any questions council members may have.

Um, on behalf of the business, they're very excited to be a part of the community, especially up in that growing area. Uh, it's the first main event in Minnesota. They have over 60 nationwide. Um, and they're excited to to get open and running and construction's well underway. I drove by it on the way here and that looks great. So, happy to answer any questions council may have. Perfect. Do you have an anticipated opening date? There is anticipated open date. I knew you were going to ask that. August August 3rd. Um, and they're looking to uh begin training employees, hiring employees June 15th and then begin training on July 20th. Then they're looking approximately 110 to 120 employees. Okay. So, Gotcha. Wonderful. Nice. Um, the hearing is still open. Anybody else in the audience have anything on this item? Ashley, anything online? Then I will make a motion to close the hearing. Motion in a second. All in favor say I. Am I the only one?

No. Hi. Yes. Mr. The hearing is closed. Any uh questions or comments from council? No. All right. I'll make a motion to approve the sale on sale intoxicating liquor license cleaning Sunday sales to Main Event Entertainment Inc. for their business located at 540 Beenburg Drive. Second. First and a second. Any further discussion? Roll call. Ashley. Council member Morris. Council member Wilson. Hi. Council member Stafford. Hi. Mayor Prom Santini. Hi. And that also passes. Wonderful. Well, and thank you also for uh coming into Woodbury. And yes, I think you have a lot of people. I was going to say I think you'll have a lot of people excited. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. We have no discussion items and so we're on to staff reports and Chris is going to give us an update about how to get around. Is there anything going on, Chris? Yeah, a few things. Good luck getting around.

That's all I got to say. That's a little on the nose. Yeah. You know, I got to say I feel like uh both Woodberry, Cottage Grove, and Newport have conspired against me to get my kids to school on time and get to work on time. So, welcome. Yeah, it's my own fault. Um, so, uh, projects, uh, actively under construction include the water treatment plant pipeline projects, Valley Creek Road Trail project, the Bailey Road and Fairway Drive traffic signal, uh, the 2026 road rehab, Woodlane Drive pavement rehab, the Bailey Road and Settlers Ridge Parkway intersection improvement, and the Bailey Road and Manning Avenue intersection improvement. So currently with the water treatment plant pipelines, if you look at the top half of the map, um westbound Valley Creek Road east of Woodbury Drive remains reduced to one lane and that'll be through the end of June. Westbound Valley Creek Road is closed from Woodbury Drive to Interlock and Parkway with phased reopening throughout the summer.

Side streets north of Valley Creek Road along that closed section will be closed intermittently as they go across with crossings, but they'll still remain open most the time uh for traffic going eastbound and then northbound. Kobby Lake Drive is closed north of Valley Creek Road to Courtland Road through late June. If you look on the south end of the map or the the bottom half since our last transportation update, you'll notice Bailey Road has been reopened to traffic on Friday, May 15th. Southbound Pioneer Drive is closed from Bailey Road to Hargus Parkway and is anticipated to reopen to traffic in the next week. Radio Drive is currently closed between Bailey Road in Cobblestone Ashford through early June. Work on Hargus Parkway is scheduled to start on June 8th after the school year ends and be completed prior to school starting in the fall. Work is split into two phases to maintain access to East Ridge High School driveways starting on the east half and ending on the west half of the road. And all that construction has been coordinated with the contractor around the 4th of July celebration at the sports center.

So immediately uh behind the water pipeline construction on Valley Creek Road, a new trail is being constructed on the north side of Valley Creek Road from an existing trail located east of Dancing Waters Parkway to the Kobby Lake Park underpass. This has been in our CIP for almost seven years running and so we're really happy to coordinate this project with this work and and be able to accomplish this important connection. The Bailey Road and Fairway Drive traffic signal, uh, utility work, lane modifications, and paving are complete. The signal mast and signal mast arms will be installed over the next month, and the signal is anticipated to be operational in July. For the 2026 road rehab, phase 2, noted in blue, is progressing with utility installation and service connections continuing into mid June. In early July, phase two is anticipated to be complete and phases one and three are anticipated to begin. So phases one is yellow and phase three is pink.

This is an image showing trench excavation to install sanitary sewer along Rimbley Road. This is the portion that we were correcting to get outside of that was outside the roadway. We're now putting it back in the roadway. Woodlane Drive. The project began on May 26th between Wooddale Drive and Courtley Road. Starting June 8th after the school year ends, construction along Woodlane Drive from Courtley Road to Bailey Road will begin. This work will be completed before school starts in the fall. One-way traffic will be maintained along Woodlane Drive. A detour route will be established in coordination with each phase and project phasing is coordinated with the water treatment plant pipeline projects, Woodbury High School and Woodbury days. Construction on the parade route will be completed prior to Woodbury days. And we are monitoring traffic along that section of road to see if people are cutting through on Queens. And we have those portable signs and um that for speed um uh the portable speed limit signs.

Chris, can I just ask a question? Yep. So I think when will the Radio Drive Bailey intersection open up? that is coming up, but um that's going to be open here in the next week. Okay. Mid part of June,

Next two weeks. And then Bailey Road and Settler's Ridge Parkway intersection improvement. A new roundabout is under construction at the intersection of Bailey Road and Settler's Ridge Parkway and Cottage Grove Drive. This is a Washington County project, so you can sign up for project updates at washingtonountm.gov/county8 gov/county18 gov/county18 and you click on notify me and on the east end of Bailey Road uh it's the Bailey Road man avenue intersection project and this is a mindot project and they're constructing a new roundabout at that intersection um yesterday construction began in the bypass to the east of the existing intersection so if you see a little blue line going around they're allowing continuous traffic if you're going on Manning Avenue north and southbound however uh Bailey Road will be closed to traffic uh in mid June um for the duration of that roundabout construction. So you're talking October uh at the very earliest. Residents can sign up to receive project updates on the project web page.

And as far as roadway and trail closures maps throughout construction, residents can view current road closures, trail closures, and detour routes on the water treatment plant project web page at woodburymn.govwatertreatment. and uh not quite as active in changes as last year, but still a lot going on with phasing depending on weather, uh how fast the contractor is moving, other types of m material availability. So, if you really want the most up-to-date, um don't wait for the once a month councily council transportation updates, go on this website and you'll get all of that current information. It's always up to date. And of course, uh, sign up for all of our projects through InTouch and you can receive updates directly emailed to you about any of the projects as shown on the screen. With that, do you have any questions? Rejuvenation projects. Uh, I'm not sure when those are beginning. Okay. I just want to make sure that that was the rejuvenation project.

Were the is it year two or year after? It's a year after and then five years after. Okay. So, this is the first year we're going back with some cycling some pretty large roadway projects. So, we have a pretty big rejuvenation project. Yeah, Yeah, we can send you the latest uh on Friday

Because that because it's it's we didn't do it in um Royal Oaks is the Is this the year for Royal Oaks rejuvenation? Uh that hasn't been done yet, but it will be done. That's that's just they're currently working on punch list items in Royal Oaks fixing concrete and other types of items. Okay. But we think it'll be this year, I believe. So, yeah, you can follow up. Great. Yep. I'll follow up. So, so we have two different crews going. One um Woodlane is not the same reason radio and Bailey are shut down. So, is there going to be a coordination between that? Because the detour route is radio and Bailey. That's correct. There's a lot of coordination going between all the different projects and you're in charge of that. My team is in charge of that. I'll be clear. But you're saying also radio and Bailey should be open mid June, late June. So, radio is going to be open I think uh probably the second week in June.

So, open pretty soon. They just got to finish with that crossing. Yeah. By road's currently open and you can go northbound on Pioneer Drive. Yep. And so, that'll be open fairly soon and Radio Drive will be back open before a lot of that work occurs. And Woodlane is expected to close then for the detour. Correct. And there's detours around through there. When when is that again? Mid June. First week of June. That's what I'm trying to point out, I guess. So, if we look at the phase one, early June to mid August, you've got the section between Bailey Road all the way up to Lake Road and the detour is south if you go east on Lake Road and then southbound on Radio Drive. So, the section on that you're talking about the closure for Radio Drive is north of Valley Creek Road. Correct. Yeah, it's the Bailey to Radio is closed. Correct. Yeah. And that's the detour route.

Not really. Oh, I today I hit Wood Lane over to Lake over to Pioneer. Pioneer up because it was because everything was closed. That that section is currently open. What? What is the the Pioneer is open? Yeah. Pioneer. We're talking about two two different Oh, Pioneer is radio's not correct. Radio not Yes. Right. And what Kim is saying is that on this that's supposed to start early June is radio down to Bailey is the detour route of if you were to go on Woodlane. And so she's wanted to make sure radio and Bailey isn't going to be open when the wood lane is closed. Correct.

So there will be a different detour route. That's okay. Everybody will have to figure it out. I guess guess I I may I'm confused. Are we closing Woodlane and and Bailey? Are we closing that northbound because you can't get radio? You can't get north on radio to Bailey. So is Ba is that going to reopen before we close Wood Lane is the question. Yes. Radio Drive is open in the first week or two. The first couple of closures, they're going to leave that open for a little bit before they do a full closure. Yeah. Yes. Okay. All of that's been coordinated. Good luck. Exactly. Jeff, city administrators uh update. Uh tough act to follow there.

Well, I'm sweating now. Uh yeah, a couple things. Uh Mayor Pro Tim. Uh first just want to acknowledge a couple events that we recently held or that were recently held here within the community on Monday. Um it was our Memorial Day event and I just want to say thank you all of those that attended especially those who led and participated in the the actual event and the the program. Uh the space was in perfect shape. So shout out to parks and wreck and our public works staff. Uh, and it was all in all such a nice tribute led by so many community members. Uh, to of course honor the legacy of of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country. The tribute included a three round cannon salute, a couple of them, as well as a flyover, which I've never seen before in an event like that. So, that was really special. Under Under the trees, we didn't see it either, but that's fine.

Yeah. Well, you were cool under the trees. Uh, so special thanks to the American Legion, VFW, and the Alliance for hosting. And a great job, Mayor Prom, on your presentation as well. Um, also, uh, before tonight's meetings, there was the, uh, opening day or the the the first kind of first pitch of the Miracle League. Uh, it's the, um, uh, kind of the the showcase of a long and prosperous season that was held at ML Fair Sports Center. staff participated as well as Mayor Prom who uh throughout the first pitch all in honor of the Miracle Field and the East Metro um folks who come from all over the region to play. Uh a lot of uh wonderful athletes there. Great to see all of them with their families and special thanks to our parks and rec team for coordinating that as well as the Rotary who are very involved. They lead the celebration of that and also uh improvements to the actual field itself.

It's the field is really special. It's a uh it's a really a special amenity for the entire region. They flocked to it and that was evident today. Um looking forward two things. The city will again host an educational Juneenth trail walk behind city hall with additional displays also this year at KBY Lake in Ojiway Park. Uh the holiday of course which commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the US was first celebrated in 1865 and became a Minnesota state holiday in 2023. The trail walk will be able uh be available starting June 1st, so starting uh Monday and offers community members to the opportunity to learn more about the holiday as as a relatively new kind of um um um noted or you know recognized holiday. um and all the history that relates to it in June 19th being designated uh a day of rest uh in the state and day to honor uh that holiday.

Uh and a reminder that city offices will be closed uh in that recognition. If residents want to find more on the uh the trail walks uh and maps, go to our website. It's all on there. Lastly, tomorrow we are having a uh weed poll and we are looking for volunteers, last ditch effort of mine to get more volunteers at Hassenbank Park. I can't find the ad, but it starts, I believe, from 9 to noon. And anybody that wants to come out and help pull uh weeds, um buckthornne, garlic mustard, uh we'll take all hands. So, if you have some aggression to let out, come by. What are you looking at me for? Is this like a Is this a community? I know. I was going to say, what is this? Did you just hear about this? Did you make this up? No, this isn't our publication. I don't know. Steve's all over the weed pole.

I got I was reading the assessor. 9:00 a.m. uh tomorrow. We just got a notification of it. That's what we have goats for. We just Okay, so 9:00 a.m. I don't think this has been a long estab. It's not a It's just last minute. It's the the conditions are ripe. The weather is good. So if anybody can come out there and help we'll and this is like a communitywide thing not just council actually just council Steve Morris weedfully I've been supportive of goats previously to do this work all community members are welcome we'll take all the hands I didn't know if it was like a city staff staff yeah bring gloves team building event wow staff will be out there as well okay okay um facilitating the event public works budget is rough Jeez, I know. Okay, it's expansive out there. Well, I didn't didn't think that would be so controversial, but uh thank you. That's it, Mayor Proton.

I will uh move to adjourn the meeting. I aggressively second. All in favor say I. Meetings adjourned. Do I have to gabble?