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5 items as recorded in the packet and minutes.

1Call to Order / Pledge / Roll Call / Approve Agenda

Call to Order; Pledge of Allegiance; Roll Call; Approve Agenda

Agenda approved as amended to add Resolution 2025-68 as Item 3B.

agenda approval
reimbursement bonds

Approved

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2Public Hearing for Proposed Assessment 2025 Overlay Road Project

Public Hearing for Proposed Assessment 2025 Overlay Road Project

The public hearing was held; residents spoke for and against aspects of the proposed project and assessment, but no separate assessment-adoption motion appears in the minutes.

2025 Overlay Road Project
road assessments

Discussion only

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3aResolution accepting bid and awarding contract for 2025 Overlay Project

Approval of Resolution 2025-XX Accepting bid and Awarding Contract for 2025 Overlay Project.

The minutes identify the resolution as Resolution 2025-67, while the agenda and packet used the placeholder 2025-XX.

2025 Overlay Road Project
North Valley contract

Approved

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3bResolution 2025-68 reimbursement from improvement bonds

Resolution 2025-68 declaring official intent to reimburse certain expenditures from improvement bonds.

This item was added when the agenda was approved as amended.

reimbursement bonds
2025 Overlay Road Project

Approved

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4Adjourn

Adjourn

The minutes record a motion to adjourn and that the meeting adjourned at 7:01 p.m.; no vote tally is shown for adjournment.

adjournment

Approved

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Issues addressed

What this meeting did about specific topics, organized by issue rather than by document.

2025 Overlay Road Project and proposed assessments

The Council held the required assessment hearing for the 2025 Overlay Road Project, heard the engineer's explanation of the road conditions, estimated costs, bid results, and assessment process, and heard several residents object that portions of the roads—especially 189th Lane and Krypton Street—did not yet need a full overlay or that assessment costs should be spread differently. After discussion, the Council approved Resolution 2025-67 accepting the low bid and awarding the overlay contract.

Agenda: 2, 3a. Motions: M2. Speakers: Engineer Nelson, Attorney Ruppe, Dave Ross, Bob Swanson, Kevin Bookie, Steve Seitz, Steve Anderson, Chad Hayft, Ken Hansen, Mayor Hybben, Council Member Rainville, Council Member Swenson.

Improvement bond reimbursement resolution

The Council amended the agenda to add Resolution 2025-68 as Item 3B, then approved that resolution declaring the City's official intent to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of improvement bonds to be issued by the City.

Agenda: 1, 3b. Motions: M1, M3. Speakers: Mayor Hybben, Council Member Breyen, Council Member Rainville.

Adjournment

After completing the overlay project and bond-reimbursement business, the Council moved to adjourn, and the meeting ended at 7:01 p.m.

Agenda: 4. Motions: M4. Speakers: Council Member Breyen, Council Member Rainville.

Motions and votes

4 motions on the record. Split votes are highlighted.

M1MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER BREYEN, SECONDED BY MAYOR HYBBEN TO APPROVE AGENDA AS AMENDED WITH THE ADDITION OF RESOLUTION 2025-68 DECLARING THE OFFICIAL INTENT OF THE CITY OF NOWTHEN TO REIMBURSE CERTAIN EXPENDITURES FROM THE PROCEEDS OF IMPROVEMENT BONDS TO BE ISSUED BY THE CITY AS ITEM 3B.

moved by Council Member Breyen, seconded by Mayor Hybben

Passed

YMayor Hybben
YCouncil Member Breyen
YCouncil Member Glaser
YCouncil Member Rainville
ACouncil Member Swenson

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M2MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE, SECONDED BY MAYOR HYBBEN TO APPROVE RESOLUTION 2025-67 ACCEPTING THE BID AND AWARDING THE CONTRACT FOR THE 2025 OVERLAY PROJECT.

moved by Council Member Rainville, seconded by Mayor Hybben

Passed

YMayor Hybben
YCouncil Member Breyen
YCouncil Member Glaser
YCouncil Member Rainville
ACouncil Member Swenson

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M3MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER BREYEN TO APPROVE RESOLUTION 2025-68 DECLARING THE OFFICIAL INTENT OF THE CITY OF NOWTHEN TO REIMBURSE CERTAIN EXPENDITURES FROM THE PROCEEDS OF IMPROVEMENT BONDS TO BE ISSUED BY THE CITY.

moved by Council Member Rainville, seconded by Council Member Breyen

Passed

YMayor Hybben
YCouncil Member Breyen
YCouncil Member Glaser
YCouncil Member Rainville
ACouncil Member Swenson

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M4MOTION TO ADJOURN BY COUNCIL MEMBER BREYEN, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE.

moved by Council Member Breyen, seconded by Council Member Rainville

Passed

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Money discussed

Each figure links back to the document it came from. When the council voted on the amount, the motion is shown.

North Valley contract for 2025 Overlay Project

North Valley, Inc. was the low bidder and the packet resolution accepted its bid, contingent on contract execution and city attorney approval.

contract · 2025 Overlay Project bids · FY 2025

$322,866.68

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Council voted: MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE, SECONDED BY MAYOR HYBBEN TO APPROVE RESOLUTION 2025-67 ACCEPTING THE BID AND AWARDING THE CONTRACT FOR THE 2025 OVERLAY PROJECT. Passed

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Asphalt Surface Tech. Corp. bid

Bid received from Asphalt Surface Tech. Corp.; not the bid accepted in the packet resolution.

estimate · 2025 Overlay Project bids · FY 2025

$343,423.6

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Council approval status: not yet on record.

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Knife River Corporation bid

Bid received from Knife River Corporation; not the bid accepted in the packet resolution.

estimate · 2025 Overlay Project bids · FY 2025

$344,067.5

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Council approval status: not yet on record.

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Park Construction Company bid

Bid received from Park Construction Company; not the bid accepted in the packet resolution.

estimate · 2025 Overlay Project bids · FY 2025

$345,904.8

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Council approval status: not yet on record.

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OMG Midwest Inc. dba Minnesota Paving and Materials bid

Bid received from OMG Midwest Inc. dba Minnesota Paving and Materials; not the bid accepted in the packet resolution.

estimate · 2025 Overlay Project bids · FY 2025

$361,583

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Council approval status: not yet on record.

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Duininck, Inc. bid

Bid received from Duininck, Inc.; not the bid accepted in the packet resolution.

estimate · 2025 Overlay Project bids · FY 2025

$413,779.5

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Council approval status: not yet on record.

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Estimated total overlay improvement cost

Estimated total overlay improvement cost presented at the assessment hearing.

capital_project · 2025 Overlay Project estimate · FY 2025

$366,080

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Council approval status: not yet on record.

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Proposed assessment per unit

Proposed assessment amount per unit for benefiting properties.

assessment · 2025 Overlay Project assessment · FY 2025

$3,660.8

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Council approval status: not yet on record.

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Estimated patching costs

Estimated patching cost in the engineering presentation.

estimate · 2025 Overlay Project estimate · FY 2025

$37,400

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Council approval status: not yet on record.

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Approximate bid savings compared with estimate

Engineer reported that the low bid came in about this amount under the estimate.

estimate · 2025 Overlay Project bids · FY 2025

$26,000

unknown

Council approval status: not yet on record.

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Memory cues and prior history

When someone tried to remember earlier business, we cross-reference the corpus and write a short related-history note.

Uh, it's essentially a lot of the information that was provided at the the first improvement hearing, uh, the public improvement hearing.

— Engineer Nelson

What this is about
The engineer referred back to the first public improvement hearing and said this meeting was the second public hearing on the overlay project.

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Related history

The records I searched do not contain a prior public improvement hearing or prior decision matching Engineer Nelson’s recollection about the overlay project. The search results returned unrelated packet materials, including plat/legal descriptions, a comprehensive plan/variance item for Viking Estates, and court data services agreement language, but not the first improvement hearing or overlay project hearing materials.

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Uh so this is a second public hearing. The first public hearing was held on March 11th, 2025.

— Engineer Nelson

What this is about
The engineer identified March 11, 2025 as the date of the prior public hearing for this project.

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Related history

The records I searched do not contain a prior public hearing on March 11, 2025 matching this recollection. The closest related records are for Palomino Estates in 2026: the Planning Commission held a public hearing on February 24, 2026, and at the March 10, 2026 City Council meeting the Council approved the preliminary plat for Palomino Estates, subject to conditions. The search results also include other 2026 public hearings, but none identify March 11, 2025 as the first hearing for this project.

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I've been there 25 years. I remember when the road was replaced before and it was maybe a short period of time, two or three years, and they cut expansion joints in this brand new road.

— Dave Ross

What this is about
A resident recalled when 189th Lane had previously been replaced and said expansion joints cut afterward caused the present damage.

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Related history

The records searched do not contain a prior decision or project record showing when 189th Lane was previously replaced or when expansion joints were cut into the road. The closest match is the June 17, 2025 signed minutes, where Dave Ross of 6060 189th Lane made the same point during discussion of a proposed road project: he said the road was generally fine except for the expansion joints, which he believed caused the damage, and suggested filling the joints and patching potholes instead of doing a full overlay. Other 189th Lane residents also said the road only needed limited repairs or could last several more years. The excerpt provided does not show a formal vote on the issue.

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Was this shelved? Say underneath the last mayor for election reasons. There's a lot of things that he was had kicked down kicked the can down the road.

— Chad Hayft

What this is about
A resident asked whether the project had previously been shelved under the prior mayor.

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Related history

The records searched do not contain a prior decision showing that this project was formally “shelved” under the prior mayor, or that it was delayed for election-related reasons. The only related record in these search results is the April 14, 2026 meeting packet, which included vendor cost information for security/access work at the Memorial Park pavilion and bathrooms, including a Wright Hennepin option with $4,690 in equipment/labor costs and related lock work. That packet material shows the project was being evaluated in 2026, but it does not document an earlier council vote or decision to pause, cancel, or defer it.

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Um you know and this is just the method that the city of now then has had in place. We've had it in place for uh probably going on 20 years.

— Engineer Nelson

What this is about
The engineer recalled that the City's per-unit assessment method has been in place for many years.

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Related history

The records searched show a current use of special assessments for the 2026 Overlay Road Improvement Project, but they do not document when the City first adopted the per-unit assessment method or confirm that it has been in place for about 20 years. At the April 14, 2026 meeting packet, the proposed resolution declared estimated project costs of $491,400, with $245,700 proposed to be assessed to benefited property owners and $245,700 paid by the City, plus cost overruns and $128,000 in budgeted road repair costs. A later version in the May 12, 2026 packet amended those figures to estimated total project costs of $462,800, with $227,840 proposed to be assessed to benefited property owners and $227,840 paid by the City, plus cost overruns and $81,710 in budgeted road repair costs. These records are a partial match because they show the City using the assessment process for road improvements, but the search results do not contain a prior decision establishing the per-unit method or showing how long that method has been in place.

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as we all I think we voted 50 in the March or April meeting to say we need to move forward with this.

— Mayor Hybben

What this is about
The mayor recalled a prior March or April council vote to move forward with the project.

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Related history

The records show a partial match. The April 14, 2026 council packet lists several development items that had been acted on in March. For Palomino Estates, the packet says the preliminary plat and conditional use permit “were approved by the Council at the March meeting,” and that the final plat and a variance were on the April 14 agenda. The packet also notes other March approvals, including interim use permits for home occupations and Planning Commission review/recommendation of the Paradise cannabis cultivation IUP on March 24, 2026. However, the search results provided do not include the actual March 10 or March 23 council minutes showing the motion, vote count, or exact wording of a “move forward” decision. The April 14, 2026 minutes excerpt shows the council approved the March 10 and March 23 minutes as part of the consent agenda, but it does not show a 5-0 vote on the underlying project in the results available here.

Apr 14, 2026### Development Applications in Review Palomino Estates -- Kyle Roessler - 20930 St. Francis Blvd. · An application for
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May 12, 2026## 2. Public Forum Mayor Hybben opened the Public Forum, however there was no one signed up, and the public forum was pr
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