The Eagan City Council held its second regular meeting of September on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, at 6:30 PM at the Eagan Municipal Center. The meeting featured a brief agenda, approval of the consent agenda, a public comment on assessment projects, recognition of a veterans housing award, and a move into closed session to discuss two ongoing lawsuits.
But you're running. It's all right. And to republicans, one nation under God. Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Each and every one of you to the September sixteenth regular meeting of the Egan City Council. This is our second and final meeting of the month of September. That said, uh, we have a fairly brief agenda tonight. Um we're going to follow up a fairly brief meeting with a closed session as well. And our attorney Bob Bauer will tell us all about that when we get to the end of our content for this meeting. No, Mr. Mayor. Move to adopt the agenda's presented. Second. Moved and second, and any further conversation on the agenda. And opposed nay, that motion carries, and we have an agenda. We have no recognitions and presentations tonight, so I'm going to go right into our consent agenda. Are there any members of the public who are here on an item that appears in the consent agenda? And wanted to say an item address separately or had questions. I got uh two items I would like to discuss on this. I see you guys are gonna uh receive the draft for the final assessment. I just think that the council and the residents shouldn't have to pay for any advanced warning signs that uh McNamara would have charged the council because I was told that this construction zone was a mobile work zone. Mobile work zones don't need advanced warning signs, and so we shouldn't have to pay for them. Also, I think the council should consider reducing the residents portion of it by what they would have had to pay if they would have had to install uh temporary crosswalks for pedestrians and bicyclists and people with handicaps. None was installed in this neighborhood. None was installed along Galaxy Avenue, which is a 45 mile an hour zone. You cannot have these people walking out, traveling out in the lane of traffic. None was provided, and it should have been provided basically by ProAG Pedestrians right of way, accessibility guidelines, uh pedestrians, and the state of Minnesota Department of Engineering and the Minnesota Council of Disability agrees with me that that should have had been done when they started tearing up the corners of the crosswalks, and when you guys actually did the close the sidewalk on that pond that's off of uh just north of Covington on Galaxy. And can I get your name again real quick? What's that? Your name again? My name's Dwayne Boudorak. Dwayne, thank you. Okay, that's all I got. Uh Russ, um, I assume you probably talked to Dwayne already about these concerns. Uh yeah, we've talked uh we've had discussions previously, yeah. Okay. Uh can you respond to that and uh whether or not this final assessment can see can contains those charges and um what if any concerns you have with it? Uh Mr. Mayor and Council members, the uh second, I'll take them in reverse of what should they were stated. So I think the request is for something for getting a reduction of a cost that didn't occur. So I think what is being requested is something that we can't do because there was no payment made for uh what uh Dwayne is stating should have been done, it should have been included as part of the project. So there's there's no cost, though I don't have a bid necessarily uh that references that um so that would be challenging for me to do. Um and then the other part as far as advanced construction signs. Uh I think the you know we have uh a cost for that. Um it's included uh with traffic control, but there's potentially a cost that could be determined or pulled out of that. Um and I think the request that's being made is that it should residents shouldn't be assessed for that portion of the contract costs. That's that's the warning signs portion. Uh and whether or not it was warning signs or that's yeah, that's it's uh traffic control signage. Uh councilbagen. With those advanced warning signs um a change order or deviation from the awarded contract?