##VIDEO ID:Yk2IrNoGD3g## good evening and welcome to the February 3rd city council meeting um before I have you join us in a moment silence I do want to ask those uh if you when we have a moment of silence if you'd offer a prayer for lieutenant Jason Jensen who's a Lakeville PD who was injured coaching hockey on Friday and remains hospitalized so if you could add him and his family to your Purge tonight join me m my silence plge alance to the FL of the United States of America and to the Republic which it stands one nation God indivisible andice for all okay uh M rovski roll call please Michelle vul here Luke keier here John burmel here Dan Walter here Joshua Lee here okay uh we'll now move on to item number three citizens comments There's an opportunity for anybody to address the council for up to three minutes okay uh moving on uh any additional agenda information Mr Miller nothing tonight mayor okay move on to item number five which is the first is uh item a the Metropolitan mosquito control uh Alex Carlson is going to tell us about how we're not going to have mosquitoes in Lakeville this summer guarantee I see yeah thank you mayor and council members thank you for having me today my name is Alex Carlson I'm the public affairs manager with the Metropolitan mosquito control district I know February 3rd mosquitoes aren't top of mind but they're always top of mind for us and so I've been going around to cities to do these presentations for one uh to put a face to the organization so you know who to contact when you get those inevitable calls from citizens saying what are the helicopters doing and what's all this going on with the mosquitoes in our community so um you can know who to contact but also just have some more information about what we do and all the the precautions that we take to make sure that we're being safe and environmentally friendly and uh the steps that we take to ensure we're eliminating vectors and uh concerning pests and things from our community so do I have control over the slides there oh there we go that worked um so just a background on us we've been around since 1958 um established by an act of state congress um we serve the Seven Counties in the metro area and our governance is the County Commissioners so we work with the Dakota County Commissioners um and they serve on our board and they determine our budget and our operations and things like that um we're funded by property taxes from residents so the median home in the Twin Cities pays about $10.8 per year for mosquito control so we think that's a pretty good deal um with all the services that we provide which are comprehensive mosquito control we do mosquito born disease suppression that's really our main operations um is to make sure that people aren't getting sick from mosquitoes and ticks um we do tickborne disease surveillance public education go out to schools and events to talk about um mosquitoes and controls that people can take um and we also do black fly or biting Knack control so anybody who lives near rivers or streams and sees those annoying biting gats that come out in the springtime um that's something we've added to our program in the past couple of decades but just an overview about mosquitoes in Minnesota there's over 3,000 species in the world but if you zoom into Minnesota we have 52 species here and about half of those are what we consider a human pest meaning they bite humans um or mammals um the other half don't bother with people at all so what half the mosquitoes that we have exclusively feed on frogs or on birds or on other non-mammal species so we really just focus our program in on the half or so the 20 or so species that are going be a human health concern um the mosquito life cycles up there on the on the board it's the the egg then the eggs hatch and they become larvae they're the larvae stage for about four to 5 days and then they become the pupa for about 1 to two days and then they come out of the water as the adult mosquitoes that everybody knows so well um but the whole cycle from egg to adult emergence is about a week so as you're following the weather in the summer anytime we get those big rain events about an inch of rain or so uh it's about a week later you're going to see that mosquito population Peak um so we're really active whenever we have you know about four or five days to really get our materials into the water to have the most impact um so we have a very tight window mosquito habitat looks like this when we think of mosquito habitat we think about water U because water every single species depends on water in order for their eggs to hatch um and so there's permanent water sources you know those shallow ponds and stagnant water and marshes and stuff like that that are existing even in drier years um they're always going to be there and then we have the flood water areas that are designed to you know retain water after a rainfall they tend to flood up hold water the longest uh you know for a couple days after a rain and then they dry down um and then man-made habitats this is a big part of our public education is anything that can hold standing water can become mosquito habitat so removing waste tires removing you know buckets or anything that's sitting in your yard that can hold some water um clearing your gutters filling tree holes um anything that can hold water can become mosquito habitat we found it in a bottle cap we found mosquito larvae um so that's just a big thing that people can do because we can't be in everybody's backyard so anything that people can do to you know not leave that kids pool holding water for more than a couple of days um really helps us out um we do what's called we practi what's called integrated Pest Management or IPM um it's basically the idea that our program is going to take the most environmentally safe methods to control mosquitoes to make sure that we're just targeting the specific insects that we want want to eliminate without causing what we call our non-target impacts so we want to make sure that we're not doing anything to harm bees or butterflies or all the beneficial insects that we want as well as obviously human health mammals other animals as well but really focus on other insects so our program has really evolved um over the many decades that we've been in operations to really be effective and targeted and we're reviewed every year by a technical Advisory Board um so it's a panel of scientists that views um all of our data all of our uh materials that we use everything every year and makes Rec commendations to make sure that we're being as effective as possible it all starts with surveillance so usually when you see mmcd trucks out we're doing Wetland surveillance so that's our favorite tool there in the video it's called a long-handled Dipper um you you go around in a wetland and you skim along the surface and you look for larvae um so we send out you know we have about 180 seasonal staff throughout the entire metro and so every day we have people going out and checking Wetlands to see where the Lara is developing um because surveillance is our best tool um we We Gather a lot of this data helps you know keep trends of where mosquitoes are developing and when um uh we also use traps as you can see in that picture for adult mosquito surveillance um so that's a CO2 trap it has a small amount of dry ice in it um which gives off a small amount of CO2 mosquitoes are attracted to so that's one of the ways that they find us is our our breathing um they find us from our CO2 so that trap acts like a human um they come come close to it and there's a little fan there that blows them into the net and then we grab those Nets bring them back to our entomology lab in St Paul and they count up how many mosquitoes separate them by species and can give a good picture um of what the mosquito population is in that given week we also publish these maps on our website so if you ever curious what that week in mosquitoes looks like you can go to our website and find the nearest trap to you and what the mosquito count was for that week um we also do because traps aren't the only way to collect mosquitoes we also do some human collections which is one of the fun things I get to do every summer every Monday night in the summer I get to stand in my front yard and wait for the mosquitoes to come to me and then I have a little net and I collect them for about two minutes and then I wrap them up put them in my freezer and then the next morning I bring them to the lab um so it's just another way that we gather data U and we have a full service entomology lab in St Paul so we have three full-time entomologists um oh do I need to hit ignore oh so we have three full-time year round entomologists um and then in the summer we bring on seasonal staff of the college students or or people who just work for the summer to help with identifying insects and doing taxonomy um so they identifying the the larval samples that come back so when we go to the wetlands we collect those larvae um they're looking at those samples under microscope and determining if they're one of those 20 or so human biting species and we'll only going to Target them if they are um if the most mosquitoes we're finding are the human biting species um and then for the adult collections they're identifying to determine if they're one of the disease vectors that we have in Minnesota because we do have about a dozen species that are capable of transmitting disease and so those are really our main focus so we want to find out where those ones are showing up so we can send notices out to County Public Health um organizations and then also do any additional control work that we can to um make sure that we're getting ahead of diseases before they come out um and then we are able to test some species on site so some spe we actually have a vector ecologist who can test mosquitoes on site for West Nile Virus so we usually are well ahead of um disease outbreaks because we've identified mosquito samples that are carrying the disease before they get out in the community or before they get too active when it comes to controlling I mentioned our helicopters but that's one of the big ways that people know us um the way that we're able to do wide uh spread control is through helicopter treatments and large Wetlands um so we mainly consider ourselves a larel control agency you can see in that um table there um we do significantly more Acres of laral control than we do adult control so larel control is controlling them when they're in the water um so last year actually this is from 2023 um we had did about 144,000 Acres of laral control significantly more in 2024 because it was a lot more rainy um and I'll talk about that in a second um we do some adult control mainly to uh mitigate disease potentials so if we find like a big pocket of West Nile positive mosquitoes that's when we'll respond with some adult control and this is what it looks like when we're doing lar larel control we apply it via helicopter on the ground with a backpack uh we have started using drones so uh and we actually our our Rosemount facility which is the one that serves Lakeville just got their first drone this year so residents might start seeing drones over some Wetlands this this coming year uh when they haven't in the past um but anything that we're doing to apply materials it's those dry granules that are pictured there um and the main ingredient we use is called bti basilis thuringensis israelensis um it's used all it's fun to say but it's used worldwide U because it's very specifically targeted to control mosquito larvae it disrupts the gut of a mosquito larvae um and so it basically it kills them when they're in the larval stage but the specific strain of bacteria that's on BT only targets mosquito larvae so other animals can encounter it people can handle it and there's no harm it's only if you have the gut enzymes of a mosquito larvae will cause an impact and then um other materials we use include methoprene and Spinosa as well which work similarly um they just have a little bit of longer uh transmission period they they'll stay in the water a little longer than bti which lasts you know a day or two mosquito born diseases um I've mentioned West Nile that's the most common disease that we have um but we also have Jamestown Canyon lacrosse and cytis Triple E Eastern ecin and sephtis and dog heartworm good reminder that mosquitoes don't just cause those itchy bites they can also cause illness um and so that's another reason for people to take precautions it's one of our big um missions is during drier years because some of the mosquitoes that are the most harmful actually thrive in hot dry conditions so sometimes when there's not a lot of nuisance mosquitoes out there still could be mosquitos out that can cause diseases so it's still important for people to put on the bug spray and take those precautions even when there's not a lot of rain looking back at last season so we had a lot of rain last season above average rainfall um but we didn't have as many mosquitoes as we would have predicted and part of that is because we came off of three consecutive years of drought so the previous three years the mosquito populations had really dwindled and so even though we did get a lot of rain last summer we stayed below the 10e average for most of the year um our main nuisance mosquitoes which are the80s vexans and the Cattail mosquito or the caia perturbans um they just weren't as present as they normally are um last year you probably all remember last winter the winter that wasn't um we actually found our first deer tick February 5th so you know two days from now last year is when we found our first deer tick um and then our first mosquito larvae at the end of February February 26th I don't think that's going to happen this year um the forecast is saying it's going to stay cold for a while so it's going to be more towards you know April before we find our first yeah what's the Y AIS uh on this chart uh that is the number of the total the average number of mosquitoes per trap um per week so we set out so this is this covers the whole Metro so this isn't location specific so we set out about 150 traps every week um so this is an average of all 150 of those and then we do yeah once per week so you can see the the dates on the x-axis there thanks and the gray line is the 10e average so you can see typically we peak in July but we haven't had that peak in a couple of years this is specific to the City of Lake Lakeville so I just brought in 2023 as a comparison um to look for uh last year versus this year obviously a lot more inspections had to happen because there was a lot more rain we're most active with inspections is after an inch of rainfalls that's when we're most out in an area so we did um over 2,000 inspections and treated about 100 more Acres last year than we did the year before um the number of treatments varies uh it depends on rain but it also depends on there's a lot of sites that we call our permanent water sites um that we're going to likely treat every year even when it'ser because they're retaining water and holding mosquito larvae what what's a typical resident call what do they call about that's a good question um so it's 95% of our calls are for what we call our annoyance calls so people just saying mosquitoes are bad come and help um another reason people could call is for disease concerns um our second biggest call that we get is for tire collections so that's one thing I I think I have another slide to mention but we do uh have a free tire recycling program so people can call us um and we will come to their residents and pick up tires that are off the rims for free um up to about 40 per resident um so it's just good thing for people to know that we offer as a service because tires are a big mosquito habitat um so we also work with cities if cities do their own collection days where they're already collecting tires we can work with you and we'll come pick them up once you've collected them so something just to consider um but yeah the by far the most calls we get are for annoyance for just general mosquito population or high tick High blackfly populations um and then you can just see some of the other numbers here we did have to do more adult treater uh treatments last year just because there were more mosquitoes in general and more disease caring mosquitoes um we did remove remove fewer tires last year U but we typically you know it depends on the year sometimes it's over 100 sometimes it's not as much um and then I just put on we do events so we do public events and we did the Lakeville Earth Day celebration and Watershed cleanup we had a table out there um providing tick information as well as some just General mosquito information um and we'll also be at the we'll be at that again this year hopefully and at the Dakota County Fair as well 2025 um so I mentioned drones already that's kind of one of our big uh initiatives this year is we've been kind of rolling it out we had three facilities using it last year of our six field facilities three of them were using drones last year and this year all six will be um utilizing drones uh basically they're a very safe effective way to treat kind of those medium-sized Wetlands um our helicopters can do the big areas but on the kind of small medium size we've had to have staff put on the you know hip waiters and crawl into the the Wetland and and distribute manually and we just know we're not getting even distribution and it's not the safest option as well or the fastest so this is a lot faster and more effective um we go through the FAA make sure our Pilots are completely have all the certifications and everything so it's an exciting New Growth for our program um the big question we always get this time of year is are mosquitoes going to be bad this year and it's it's too early to know for sure um what the prediction is going to be so a couple things we look at is the long-term precipitation Outlook uh which we're kind of sandwiched in between a dry area and a wet area so I don't know if we're going to be more on the wet side or the dry side they don't know yet um but the one thing that will be different this year that we can predict with some accuracy is the the July surge uh so I mentioned Cattail mosquitoes they're are very unique species that they actually hatched the the year before in the fall they overwinter as larvae so they're out under the ice right now um waiting for the the snow to melt and the thaw to come so that they can emerge and they usually Peak around the beginning of July they come out once per year usually the end of June is when they come out Peak at the beginning of July and then they they die off they lay their eggs and the cycle starts all over again so based on last year's surveillance data and last year's precipitation our model that our lab put together says that this year is going to be a bad year for um Cattail mosquitoes we're going to see a big surge um this year uh compared to the past three years that have been very low so unfortunately that's that's the one bit of bad news I have to offer but hopefully we'll be able to get ahead of them as much as we can and reduce their numbers um especially in the more populated areas i' like to share resources for residents our website has a ton of good information um people can like there's the maps that I mentioned uh we put out maps with our trap numbers um people we have an interactive map that's just really fun to to play with people can type in their address and see all the wetlands that have been holding mosquitoes for the past I think it goes back about 20 years so they can click around and see what mosquito species were found What treatments were done what material was used a lot of people may not realize you know you got a the pond down to the end of your road has been holding mosquitoes and we've been treating it for 20 some years so good tool for people to know is there uh there's that's what they look like so you can click on you can and I think I took a screenshot of Lakefield for this one too so you can click on anything that's outlined in Orange there and a little window will pop up and you can click site info and get more details and it's also interesting to know cuz a lot of people think you know my pond must be where all the mosquitoes are coming from but not every Pond produces mosquitoes so you might find out your pond you know it's been checked but there's been no mosquitos and that little roadside ditch that you didn't think nothing about has been holding lots and lots of mosquitoes so it's kind of an interesting way to find out where where the mosquitoes are coming from people can sign up for email alerts so if you want to know when we're going to be in your in your neighborhood um we send out alerts alerts uh usually about 24 hours in advance if we have planned treatments for adult control and then we're going to be doing helicopter activity we usually send it out about a week in advance um if we have a good idea um helicopters are hard to pinpoint exactly when we'll be in an area um so we just kind of give a general notice that helicopters will be up that week and then Outreach we do public education we do uh we're out in parades there's our mascot her name is vectoria so you might see her at parades and stuff in the community um we do county fairs we do uh City events but education is an important part of our IPM plan uh because like I said we can't be in everybody's backyard so if everybody just knows to look out for that standing water it's going to make the whole Community a lot safer a lot healthier so um anything we can do to get that information out there is good and with that I will open up for any further questions great thank you so what is the best way to deter mosquito bites other than bug spray bug spray is the gold standard U but then we say long light loose so long sleeves light colors loose fitting um they they're not attracted to light colors as much as they are to Bright or dark colors um so what you wear can help um avoiding their their Peak activity periods they actually tend to slow down their activity the later it gets in the evening so if you go in during sunset and stay in for about an hour and then come back out you're going to encounter fewer mosquitoes than right at Sunset um but bug spray really does work so we recommend it we can't buy a bunch of those traps and just hang them all around my deck so that's people ask us about the traps but they actually do attract mosquitoes so they you might actually to create a bigger problem that way unless you put it really far away from your house so traps are usually not the best way repellents are what you want to go for any other questions just repellent wise do you have any knowledge about Permethrin yes so how can you tell us about that and how effective that is Prine is very effective um it's actually not considered a repellent it's considered an insecticide so it'll control it'll keep all insects off of you so I recommend it for you know people who are big hikers or campers are going to be like in the Deep Woods um spray it on your pants on your shoes on your gear um it'll keep mosquitoes and ticks off so it's very safe and it's really effective and it lasts through depending on the the product um it usually lasts through three or four cycles of laundry um so if you if got your hiking pants that you always use dose them in in for methro at the beginning of the summer and they'll take care of you for a while awesome thank you thank you appreciate it yeah thank you for having me yep all right now we'll move on to uh our Police Department quarterly update and we'll turn it over to our police chief Brad Paulson good evening mayor and Council we appreciate the kind words of support and prayers tonight for lieutenant Jensen we're all rallying behind him so he needs it right now so appreciate that uh our fourth quarter report for 2024 as we always do we start with our mission statement the Lakefield Police Department exists to ensure an excellent quality of life in Lakeville by serving and protecting in a professional and Innovative way so a few hires in quarter 4 uh in the police officer position uh we'll get them in for some in-person introductions down the road here but just a quick snippet on each of them Adam Peterson comes to us with about 10 years of experience with the Carver County Sheriff's Office in the middle a Josh wickner he was out at Mystic Lake Casino for about 12 years in the training and uh security um and supervised that unit for a number of years and also has uh spent time supervising training at the Mall of America so good experience to bring to uh to our community and on the far right is Brandon McCarthy who spent about four years with the fairbow police department so all three started in October November Adam just finished up his field training and is on his own the other two are well on their ways so good to have all three of them on on board uh in December Sergeant Thor H graduated from the Northwestern University School of police staff and command this is a a great opportunity for uh people in our organization that we've taken advantage of in the last several years that's Northwestern University out of Evon Illinois but uh Egan has hosted this class uh the last number of years so it's really convenient for us to have someone that can make the drive up there it is 10 weeks long Monday through Friday so it's a a fair commitment and great leadership program a commitment not only for the individual going through but also for the agency to to backfill that workload so um but great experience uh each person graduating from that kind of has a capit Stone project and Sergeant how uh worked in professional development and has some really good things to bring back to to RPD and uh was recently named as one of our new uh Lieutenant promotions he'll officially start here in April but putting his uh schooling to to good work right away uh update on our uh Cadet Grant through the state's uh Department of Public Safety so uh our first run at this Cadet Nick Novo started schooling last fall uh he'll be wrapping up here uh in the next next couple of months and then moving into field training with our department so it's been kind of fun to see him work through the the process as it's been new to us uh we've been trying to keep him in the loop with some ride alongs and getting him in dur during some off school time to stay connected with the agency um we're excited to get him into training in more in our building here in the next couple of months and then in uh the end of February we start two new ones they'll be starting school at the end of February so uh we get $50,000 in grant money for each of those so $100,000 total there that goes uh to help assist with their salary while they're attending and also their tuition to uh finish up the schooling up at hopen County Technical College another uh Grant a little smaller scale but uh impactful nonetheless we got a grant for $2,500 from the Minnesota Chiefs of police foundation uh for some Community Support or I'm sorry Community Partnership initiative so uh our Support Services liaison position officer Natalie Anderson is the one who goes out with our uh crisis response workers Social Service workers um she had asked for some uh supplies to hand out to both um people in in crisis some activity things as well as uh extended family members that may be uh children and and family members uh that are kind of buying some time while she's out there so um she'll be able to purchase a lot of that stuff that just helps to kind of ease that transition has some things for them to do and some things to pass out on those visits October 26 was National Prescription Drug takeback day so just a little highlight there on our prescription drug drug drop box which is right out in front of our Police Department it's open 24 hours a day easy to access and uh and it's busy so as you can see there uh in 2024 we collected 187 boxes they're Banker style boxes so if you can picture that size which equates to uh just over 2,300 pounds of of drugs so it's a good outlet for people to just get rid of some of those unused narcotics that we don't want to end up in the wrong hands some Community engagement events and initiatives that we tackled in the in the fourth quarter of 2024 I won't list all of them highlighted there on the bullet points but I can talk about a few uh picture in the upper left there is officers Angel and King at the Lakeville Alliance healthare somehow they ended up with a couple of ponies that were dressed up I don't know the the whole story there but you can see them trying to hold back their their laughter uh a good photo that we'll use for for years to come in a number of ways I'm sure uh and then on the right and down below there uh is coffee with a cop those are a couple of our senior living facilities uh between our seniors and our youth in schools I think probably our most warm and welcoming audiences we love connecting with those folks they have great questions um just a really good chance for us to sit down and spend some time with those folks and you've seen the projects come through at your level but we've got some outstanding senior living facilities that just really make this accommodating to to come in and uh and hang out with our senior folks in the community and on the lower left there are uh cops and coats uh in November we collected Not By Design but we did get just over 360 coats to donate to 360 communities so a lot of uh new and gently used coats that we got them in time for some Colder Weather and then in December um with the pairing up of the Lakeville Public Safety Foundation uh Shop with a hero which takes place at our Target here in Lakeville we we join up with the Lakefield fire department this is really a big event and a fun event for our staff uh where kids are are um names are submitted through mostly through our school resource officers families that are in need we pair up uh those kids with a first responder or two they come ready to shop with a list for uh Mom Dad siblings grandparents and really that's the focus is to help them shop for someone in their lives that they might not have an opportunity to do so um really nice opportunity for us to connect uh the public safety Foundation does a ton of work to to coordinate the logistical part and of course there's donors out there that really fund the uh the gift buying so and then Santa and blue is a little bit smaller scale and lower key event takes place down at the Heritage Center these are kids that uh our staff have contact with throughout the year during a a time of need or a critical incident that officers nominate those names detective Kelly Coughlin then kind of coordinates all of that and we do a nice event out at the Heritage Center where we bring those kids and their families in and and pass along some gift and gifts and spend time with with those kids as well so couple of big ones over the holidays that help uh brighten their lives just a little bit a few training and development bullet points there uh I'll highlight a couple up in October our defensive tactics instructors attended a vehicle extraction course which they'll then teach our staff uh if you think of you know traffic stops someone that refuses to exit the vehicle there is tactics and strategy to to get people safely out of the vehicle not only to keep the uh uh subject safe that's in the driver's seat but Al also our staff safe when someone's in a a motor veh vehicle that can cause some damage so uh I think one of the underlooked areas that people don't understand we train in some of those specialized situations uh our full Department wide training at the hero Center the hero Center is out in Cottage Grove it's a great facility but uh there's a drive there so uh we're excited with the first center uh starting to uh almost to the point of breaking ground here we'll we'll be happy to have that access right in our community to do those Department wide trainings with a with a good Center that has everything we need right inside and right in town uh and then on the bottom there um you hear a lot about um pit technique during Pursuits um the acronym has spelled out their Precision immobilization technique uh we don't do a lot of Pursuits anymore we have a pretty stringent policy to to keep people safe but we do train all of our new staff in this pit technique which is really tried to use at the outset to to prevent a Chase from happening uh in the first place so again there's some specific tactics and and a way to do that it's not just ramming a car like sometimes it looks like there's uh there's more to the the method there moving on to some of our statistical slides and we've included both fourth quarter numbers and then some year-over-year comparisons uh since it was the the final quarter of 2024 so our case files in the fourth quarter uh were actually down a little bit from 2023 those are actual reports written by our staff and then year over-year uh in 2024 again we're down about uh 400 from from 2023 and in a growing community that that's uh that's good we're happy to be there uh our 911 crisis response unit call transfers we've highlighted this in some other uh of our quarterly reports the these are calls that go into 911 uh that they filter at their level um where there's no need for Public Safety emergencies so no weapons no threats of violence no threats of uh anybody being harmed at the time they push those calls off directly to our crisis response unit at Dakota County who then pick that up and uh and work with those individuals talk them through their situation and try to directly provide resources so uh as you can see there in the fourth quarter 23 of those calls came in from Lakeville uh 78% of those never required any police involvement which is uh I think a pretty good number that 80 80ish percentile is a pretty good Mark for us to look at and then year-over-year with that uh same statistics looking at it we've in 2024 we had 101 calls uh for the entire year and again about uh 81% of those were hire were handled without any uh police involvement reported calls for service uh overall in 2024 um I'm sorry the fourth quarter of 2024 14,284 versus a 135 the year before and these are highlighting again our some of our m mental health related calls so the welfare checks were down down a few crisis calls were up a little bit in the fourth quarter by about 17 and then uh the year as a whole 2024 our welfare checks were down a little bit crisis calls crisis mental health calls stayed stayed pretty steady we look at these um uh for a few different reasons number one we receive a lot of these calls but number two we've invested pretty heavily in trying to um minimize some of these and it get a little challenging to fully understand the impact especially when we are growing as a community in general so call numbers typically grow with more people in population but um holding steady is probably a good place for us to be and we really look at those numbers to to try to determine impacts that we're making with our um embedded resources and our Support Services folks that are working on these calls day after day and then uh more on a traffic related uh snapshot here traffic stops were down in 2024 versus 2023 in the fourth quarter uh traffic stop numbers are impacted by a lot of things um you know really it's an ancillary anciliary role for our staff we do have one dedicated traffic car but um calls for service impact this a lot if officers are tied up on calls they don't have as much time to to stop cars sometimes that can be an impact um weather can be an impact on those things as well so uh property damage accidents were were up a little bit in the fourth quarter and personal injury down by just a handful and and then for the entire year traffic stops uh down just a little bit property damage crashes up and personal injuries uh crashes down actually by about 20% Which is a good number uh again probably a variety of factors that go into reduction in injury crashes uh vehicle design roadway design and Engineering traffic enforcement uh weather conditions but um one easy look is roundabouts we see a lot more of those these days those can sometimes increase the number of crashes especially at the outset as people get used to those but they definitely significantly reduce the number of injury crashes which uh which is good to see and then looking at our uh total calls by jurisdiction in the fourth quarter compared to some of our neighboring agencies you can see there we about uh just shy of 12,000 and then uh for the entire year um second to Egan by uh about 2,000 calls behind them and then uh a couple slides to highlight some of our criminal offense reporting um all of these as you can see in 2024 were down a little bit uh which is a really encouraging sign that the one that um is a little bit misleading is driving Under the Influence DWI or DUIs those are more uh does just because they're down doesn't mean those impaired drivers are not out there it's a little bit hard to gauge how many are out there uh that could be with traffic stop numbers down a little bit those those DUI arrest num numbers could be down as well but the other calls are all reported crimes so those significant significantly being reduced is a is a true uh reflection of uh seeing less of that activity and then year to date uh both 2023 2024 you'll see pretty are pretty consistent with our quarterly look there uh all of them down um some of them fairly significantly which is good to see and then our final slide here I believe is our uh social media again just highlighting some of photos and and the ongoings at the police department the upper left there we lost uh K9 tank he retired as a working dog in 2021 and um those dogs then generally move on to the the Handler's family and is a part of their family part of our family so but tank uh lost his life after 13 good years as a dog uh at the end of 2024 um and then on the lower left you'll see the uh the elf was sworn in as an honorary Lakeville PD member and made the rounds over the holidays uh and on the right uh was our first crack of the youth Citizens Academy in uh took place over a weekend in late October uh about 15 youth it's kind of a very mini and condensed version of our regular Citizens Academy but these are all high school age kids that come in and and get connected with their staff learn a little bit more about the police department uh and as a nice little recruiting tool for us as well to get people interested in a in a law enforcement career with that I'm happy to uh answer any questions or take any comments okay uh so first question are you going to do the youth uh Academy again yes that is in the works again probably in the fall yes fantastic yes other questions coms okay thanks Chief appreciate it you bet all right moving on to item six or consent agenda these are more routine items for the council does anybody item they oh sorry Mr Miller anything you want to highlight sure mayor uh Council just one item 6h is a resolution amending the Fire Relief the Lakeville Fire Relief association bylaws the Fire Relief Association is basically the pension fund for our paid onol volunteer firefighters and this will um shorten their vesting schedule and change the compensation to their board members uh heard the discussion at your work session last week okay very good Council any items you would like to pull for further discussion if not I'll take a motion to approve I move to approve the consent agenda is there a second second any further discussion see none all those in favor say I I post okay consent agenda passes we now move on to item 7A public hearing on the application for takaria Lo comprad for an on sale and Sunday liquor license I don't know if we have an applicant [Music] here um they were supposed to be here okay do we want any do we have any staff reporter fine to go ahead the um the background check was condu conducted and everything was fine okay to go forward so so this is a public hearing I'll open the public hearing is there any seeing n I'll take a motion to close the public hearing so moved s a second all those in favor say I I I post okay uh with that I don't have any discussion I believe this is a mtop business correct uh okay yeah any discussion about the license or would anybody like to make a motion John I move to Grant an on sale and Sunday liquor license for Te caros Compadres located at 11276 210 Street West Unit 102 second any further discussion see none roll call please bulk i helier i fmal i Walter I Lee I all right if you're watching home good luck uh moving on to Item B public hearing for vacation of drainage and utility EAS and consider a preliminary plat and conditional use permit for the planet antlers Ridge Second Edition that's a mouthful um Mr willenbring are you gonna give us an update or okay hi I'm Dale willenbring uh address is 1536 Beach comr Boulevard in wone Minnesota I'm the owner of Tamar Land Development um we're here to uh seek a preliminary plat approval for the second phase of our project at antlers Ridge which is over uh by Merck's Towing and I'm here to answer any questions you may have okay very good I think we have a staff report this a good road good evening good evening mayor members of the council um yes so um this evening we have the plinary plant um and the conditional use permit for the Shoreland impact and a public brief public hearing will be needed for the vacation of easement um the property is north of Kenfield Trail East of Kendrick Avenue the property is Zone r st2 which allows single and two family residential comprehensive plan guides this um property as medium and high density residential and again um the applicant is requesting a preliminary plat um the first um preliminary plat for the entire development was approved for 54 units so that includes the areas that's um more in the the shadowed area um this is the revised ponary plot because there's an additional six units so back in 2023 the original plary plat was approved and the first phase final plat for the first 50 34 Town Homes Twin Homes was approved July 24 and now we're just doing a small amendment to this plary plot for this section because there's an additional six Twin Homes um so the street was um made a little bit straighter um moved some things around in terms of lot size to accommodate some additional lots and they've also been working with with mer tonin um and provided a ghost plat for how that property could develop and then ultimately that connection to Kenrick in the meant time there will be and you can see it on this drain a call to sack half called to sack provided here to provide the adequate turnaround um for vehicles especially um police and fire and these homes will not be built until that extension can be made there is a very minor um or small dnu easement um that requires vacation this will be replaced back with the final plot that you'll probably see in a couple of weeks that portion tonight does require a public hearing as we weren't able to time that with the public hearing at the Planning Commission meeting um the upper slide um has a picture of the grading plan and then the Landscaping plan again um trees provided along the street in front of the Lots um there is also um Shoreland um that we had to deal with so through the Shoreland ordinance a conditional use permit is required when there's impact to the Shoreland or basically whenever you have developing property within the Shoreland so this is the property in question the area that actually is repairing or abuts the water is within an outlaw that's already been deeded to the city so we're not dealing with that but we did have to ensure that it conforms to the standards of the Shoreland ordinance basically requiring that the total improvy of surface is under 25% and they've been able to demonstrate that the Planning Commission did hold a public hearing at their last meeting on January 23rd and unanimously recommended approval and again a public hearing is required for the easement vacation and I'd stand for any questions okay any questions Joshua I didn't think of this until you were talking about the roundabout but the access then to uh Kenrick is is not going to happen uh probably for some time correct um I was thinking that there because you can see right into the property from Kenrick right now I was thinking that was going to be the access point but that's a a roundabout yep okay well I wouldn't necessarily roundabout it's more of a half circle so there is a turnaround gotcha yeah but that extension isn't happening until that property sells sure okay thank you so I'll open the public hearing is there anybody here to comment about the e seeing none I'll take a motion to close a public hearing so moved there second second all those in favor say I I opposed okay public hearing is closed without any further discussion if not I will take a motion Dan uh I move to approve one a resolution approving the preliminary plat of antlers Ridge second edition to a conditional use permit approving a sh impact plan and Adoption of the findings of fact and three a resolution vacating drainage and utility easements okay is there a second second very good any further discussion about the motion you see on roll call please burn i wter i lee I bulk I helier I passes 5 Z congratulations I'm sure this is long overdue for you I know this has been a kind of a stalled project so yeah good luck uh moving on to unfinished and new business seeing none uh announcements of next regular city council meeting is Tuesday February 18th here that's because of President's Day the next work session is Monday February 24th here at City Hall uh this Saturday is the ice fishing kids contest at casperson Park at 11:00 a.m. and February 15th is Ritter Fest at Ritter Park and with that I'll take a motion to adjourn I'll moved is there a second all those in favor say I I post we're adjourned