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Home My WebLink About2020 08-10 CCM Regular SessionMINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER IN THE COUNTY OF HENNEPIN AND THE STATE OF MINNESOTA REGULAR SESSION AUGUST 10, 2020 1. INFORMAL OPEN FORUM WITH CITY COUNCIL CALL TO ORDER INFORMAL OPEN FORUM The Brooklyn Center City Council met in Informal Open Forum called to order by Mayor Mike Elliott at 6:45 p.m. The meeting was conducted via Webex. ROLL CALL Mayor Mike Elliott and Councilmembers Marquita Butler, April Graves, Kris Lawrence - Anderson, and Dan Ryan. Also present were City Manager Curt Boganey, Deputy City Manager Reggie Edwards, City Clerk Barb Suciu, and City Attorney Troy Gilchrist. Mayor Mike Elliott opened the meeting for the purpose of Informal Open Forum. Joy Anderson, a Brooklyn Center resident, read a letter that she prepared for the City Council. "I spoke a few weeks ago at a City Council meeting about Wi-Fi in the City's parks and the planned pilot in one of the parks. My strong objection is not being heeded. 1 am very scared about the plans to move forward with Wi-Fi. You call it a pilot in one of the parks, but I believe you are not being honest with your plans. What is the pilot for? We currently have public Wi-Fi in locations, and I suspect the plan is for citywide Wi- Fi, and you are not being honest and forthright. I realize this plan is not coming fiom our elected City Officials but rather from the City Manager and Deputy City Manager. We cannot make this harmful decision arbitrarily. Our elected officials are not involved in the decision and neither are the citizens that live here. Injecting harmful, artificial energy 24/7 will adversely affect people, `nature and animals. It affects the cells of our body and our nervous system. If you inject this energy into the parks, you will remove the beneficial natural energy of nature that heals and restores us. For me personally, you will remove my ability to enjoy the parks. I suspect you do have a bigger plan to have City-wide Wi-Fi, and if that is so, people that are more sensitive and exposed to it 24/7 will become very ill. For me personally, if there were to be City-wide Wi-Fi, I would literally constantly be suffering. I am not alone in this. This is very serious, and I am very scared, and I asked you to stop what you are doing. There are other solutions for internet. I plead with elected officials to take over the Wi- Fi issue and stop it, and to my fellow residents to come forward and talk about this." Mayor Elliott thanked Ms. Anderson for her comments. 08/10/20 -1- Mayor Elliott requested additional discussion on this issue and asked that City Staff come up with a hands-on approach for the City Council to address the issue of Wi-Fi in the parks and in the City. He asked that this issue be added to tonight's Work Session agenda. Mr. Boganey asked Ms. Anderson whether she can refer him to any sources of information supporting the concept that Wi-Fi is harmful to people's health. Ms. Anderson stated there is a lot of information on the Internet. She added, from personal experience, she knows what Wi-Fi does to her nervous system and her body. She added she is a living example of that. Mr. Boganey thanked Ms. Anderson. Councilmember Ryan moved and Councilmember Graves seconded to close the Informal Open Forum at 6:58 p.m. Motion passed unanimously. 2. INVOCATION Councilmember Ryan read a quote attributed to John Adams in March 1770 during a trial of British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre. John Adams defended the British soldiers in the interests of the defense of justice. "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." 3. CALL TO ORDER REGULAR BUSINESS MEETING The Brooklyn Center City Council met in Regular Session called to order by Mayor Mike Elliott at 7:00 p.m. 4. ROLL CALL Mayor Mike Elliott and Councilmembers Marquita Butler, April Graves, Kris Lawrence - Anderson, and Dan Ryan. Also present were City Manager Curt Boganey, Deputy City Manager Reggie Edwards, City Cleric Barb Suciu, and City Attorney Troy Gilchrist. 5. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 6. APPROVAL OF AGENDA AND CONSENT AGENDA 08/10/20 -2- Councilmember Ryan moved and Councilmember Lawrence -Anderson seconded to approve the Agenda and Consent Agenda, and the following consent items were approved: 6a. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. July 20, 2020 — Work Session with Financial Commission 2, July 22, 2020 — Work Session 3, July 27, 2020 - Study Session 2. July 27, 2020 — Regular Session 6b. LICENSES Entertainment License Earle Brown Heritage Center 6155 Earle Brown Drive Brooklyn Center, 55430 Hospitality Accommodations License Country Inn & Suites 2550 Freeway Blvd Brooklyn Center, 55430 Mechanical Licenses Aquarius Water Conditioning 3180 County 5 Little Canada, 5117 Comfort Matters 18071 Territorial Rd Maple Grove, 55369 Farr Plumbing 2525 Nevada Ave N Golden Valley, 55427 Master Mechanical 1027 Gemini Rd Eagan, 55121 Van Kirk Heating & Air 4505 Crosstown Blvd Ham Lake, 55304 Intoxicating and Sunday Liquor License Irie Vybz Jamaican Restaurant 6056 Shingle Creek Pkwy Brooklyn Center 55430 RENTAL INITIAL (TYPE II —two year° license) 2403 54th Ave N Bri tney Lundeen 6019 Colfax Ave N Alice Teamah Cooper RENEWAL (TYPE III —one year license) 6018 Camden Ave N Crystal Brummer / Brummer Realty 3007 Ohenry Rd I113 Property Illinois RENEWAL (TYPE II —two year license) 3612 Commodore Ave N IH3 Property Illinois LP -missing cpted 08/10/20 -3- RENEWAL (TYPE I — three year License) 3307 63rd Ave N Rosemond Coleman - met requirements 2107 70th Ave N Xiong Lin / Infinite Property 1112 Emerson La 6349 Halifax Dr 6012 Kyle Ave N 6900 Newton Ave N 7024 Newton Ave N 5712 Northport Dr 5836 York Ave N 5918 Zenith Ave N Mark Ronea / Bodhi Tree - met requirements Qiang Fang James Hager FYR SFR Borrower - met requirements Troy Phingsten Cindy & Raymond Scherbing Courtney Thao Tran Traci Austin & Dylan DeMarais 6c. RESOLUTION NO. 2020-XX DECLARING A PUBLIC NUISANCE AND ORDERING THE REMOVAL OF DEAD TREES AT CERTAIN PROPERTIES IN BROOKLYN CENTER, MN Motion passed unanimously. 7. PRESENTATIONS/PROCLAMATIONS/RECOGNITIONS/DONATIONS -None. 8. PUBLIC HEARINGS -None. 9. PLANNING COMMISSION ITEMS -None. 10. COUNCIL CONSIDERATION ITEMS -None. 11. COUNCIL REPORT -None. 12. ADJOURNMENT Councilmember Graves moved and Councilmember Ryan seconded adjournment of the City Council meeting at 7:04 p.m. Motion passed unanimously. STATE OF MINNESOTA) 08/10/20 -4- COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) ss. Certification of Minutes CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER) The undersigned, being the only qualified and appointed City Clerk of the City of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, certifies: 1. That attached hereto is a fiill, true, and complete transcript of the minutes of the City Council fi•om the City of Brooklyn Center Regular session held on August 10, 2020. 2. That said meeting was held ptu•suant to due call and notice thereof and was duly held at Brooklyn Center City Hall. 3. That the City Council adopted said minutes at its August 24, 2020, Regular Session. City Clerk Mayor 08/10/20 -5-