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The Blaine City Council met on September 9, 2026, at 7:07 PM at Blaine City Hall, 10801 Town Square Drive NE, Blaine, MN. Mayor Tim Sanders presided, and all seven councilmembers were present. The Council approved the consent calendar, conducted first readings on two zoning ordinances, and approved four administrative items.
Good evening, everyone. Thanks for being here. We're going to call this council meeting for September 9th, two thousand twenty-six to order, please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. Council members Fleming here. Ford. Larson? Here. Here. Newland. Robertson. Here. Mayor Sanders. Here. All right. Thanks for joining us this evening. We do not have any organizational business or awards this evening, so we'll jump right into the open forum, which is an opportunity for the public to share comments, concerns, or input on other items while the open forum is not intended to provide responses or discussion during the meeting. City staff will contact the speaker after the meeting if follow-up is needed. Each speaker is limited to no more than three minutes with a maximum of fifteen minutes set aside for the open forum. Uh respectful dialogue that it does not denigrate one of our colleagues uh during the open forum. All right, Mr. Mantha, let's keep the comments to what your points are. My point is very clear, uh, Mr. Sanders as Mayor Sanders is as the mayor, you're supposed to control and have act over the council body when a person wants to threaten to push a citizen, handicapped citizen out on the road because they approach him in the open forum or write emails. How would you want me to approach that except for asking? Where's that apology? I've been asking for you know you guys know about it. I I wasn't there. So I can't, I can't I can't do anything for that. You can deal with him individually. I wasn't there, haven't heard it from anyone else. Okay, with that said, I'd still like to move forward into Eric's uh email in regards to well, why don't you get together with uh engineer Sanders and myself regarding and because um the Anoka County did meet the criteria for the OSHA or AISTL, I said that wrong standards. But what Eric neglected in there was the discussion about how when Dan was here and he did not even acknowledge, or he acknowledged he did not understand the part about public endangerment in the 82.9 code. And with that said, Eric Larson, he wants to write a report copied off Dan's for the most part, along with Eric, but you guys all neglect any of the stuff afterwards. But Eric did show in his pictures, and if you look at the picture in the mail, I or I got from Eric, it shows in there the 60 foot, and I on site showed Eric information on this on the different standards. I pulled out the paperwork and I show you. And Dan wants to go by old year books, the green books. Okay, now let's take a look at Eric Attorney Eric's uh email you sent me. Look at that one picture that shows the 60 foot. That is talked about after the point of endanger public safety, where the engineer does not have any rights. Now, this bogus talk about well, if you drive around the city and you'll see these big green boxes are in away. Well, the thing was Eric was or Dan was approached about this five times before it even got put into place. He knew about it, he was aware of it, but he took no actions to properly vet it. Okay, this falls back on our engineer, director of engineer, improperly, not reading the city's own codes and standards. With that said, I'll move forward towards this thought that he has about oh