2022-06-08 CC Minutes - Approved

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City of Centerville Council Meeting Minutes June 8, 2022 The only exceptions family to family transactions or refinancing. If you sell to a non-family member you are required to connect to city water at the time of sale. He stated that it’s working well around town and added several to water system. In downtown area where we have mixed use district and trying to encourage redevelopment the question becomes is it good for City to force water hook up to a building that would like to redevelop. For example: people who are buying buildings as in investment for a future redevelopment of that building (tear down and build new) and ordinance says it needs to be connected. If someone buys and immediately tears down and can demonstrate to us that immediate intent, we can work around this and they are obviously going to hook into city water with a new building. He stated we have already given two exceptions to this in the ordinance in the downtown area and issued some multi-year(s) agreements, because people bought them and says they like to redevelop them but not right away maybe in a year or two. The city allowed this and deferred option to connect to water until they redevelopment. This has been done twice and have 2 existing agreements in place. A third situation came up and sometimes when exception becomes rule maybe we should change rule. If this going to happen often in the downtown area, maybe we need to look at whether or not this should apply in the downtown area. In general terms, in an area where you are trying to redevelop properties the more you invest in property the harder it is to redevelop. In this case, a blighted building and sale pending and do not see compelling to make this building hook up to city water because this was purchase for redevelopment. A lengthy discussion ensued. Mayor Love stated that Administrator Statz is looking for a motion from council with direction. Administrator Statz stated it seems like his proposal was the most middle ground and continue on what we are doing and extend those agreements and perhaps we should bring back a policy because do not have a clear policy on what these agreements look like. Maybe we can memorialize what we have already done for those property owners and bring that back as policy and say here’s our policy, if home sell put up an escrow – you could have up to five years to development or not and everyone has this same agreement. Council Member King stated he likes the shorter time limit. He stated if they buy it shouldn’t take any more than 2 years. Administrator Statz explained that timing is everything. If the market crashes, 2 years will go fast and 5 years won’t seem like enough time. But in the case that is coming to us now, it’s a matter of property assembly and the name of the game of redevelopment is property assembly and two years not much time to do meaningful development (piece by piece). The only redevelopment that is going to happen is that we reassembled property. Mayor Love requested that staff come back with policy and fits where council wants to go. No motion needed at this time. 7. Moving June 20 Council Meeting to June 21, 2022 Administrator Statz stated they moved the June 22 meeting because there are 3 that will be at a conference at the League to June 20 and found out that June 20 was a holiday (Juneteenth – State holiday not necessary a Federal holiday) so they moved the Council Meeting to June 21, 2022. Attorney Glaser explained that they cannot have City Council meeting on a holiday (State or Federal holiday). He explained that Juneteenth is a recognized MN State day and has been since 1996 and the Governor proclaimed it last year a Freedom Holiday which is not a real holiday. He stated tons of schools and cities have claim it a Federal holiday and to move their meetings. Council Page 6 of 9