The Sustainable Eagan Advisory Commission (SEAC) met on October 14, 2025, at 6:30 PM at the Eagan Municipal Center. The meeting included public comments on local air quality and chicken-keeping limits, presentations on the city's sustainability communications and community engagement, and a vote to approve a definition of "clean energy."
Welcome everyone to the October 14th meeting of the sustainable Eagle Advisory Commission. Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under liberty. All right, moving to the agenda. We have one commissioner absent, Commissioner Nikolai. Next item on the agenda is approval of the agenda. Do we have a motion to approve? So moved. And a second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed. Next item on the agenda. The approval of the minutes. We have approval of our last meetings' minutes. Do we have a motion to approve? So moved. And a second. Second. All in favor. Aye. Opposed. All right. Next item on the agenda: visitors to be heard, and I will read a statement regarding the visitors to be heard. Per the city of Egan's meeting guidelines, we have a total of 10 minutes for speakers tonight. Each person may speak once for up to four minutes and must begin by stating their name and address for the record. Please address all remarks to the chair. I know that no action will be taken tonight, and items brought forward during this portion of the meeting. Are there visitors to be heard? Please come forward. Thank you. I'm from 546 77th Street West in Egan. The reason why I'm here today is because our neighborhood has been in uh one of the zones, actually the only zone in Minnesota that's been in non-attainment for toxic emissions since 2010. 2001, St. Paul was in non-attainment, but Egan, and specifically Northwestern Dakota County in the area surrounding Gopher emissions, has been in non-attainment since 2010 and is still in non-attainment. We were notified this last September of a lawsuit against Gopher um recycling, and um the lawsuit was a 30 million dollar settlement from gopher. We got notified basically with very little information, and the lawsuit had already been settled. Then after we got notification of the lawsuit, you had to opt out to be able to try to get out of this class action settlement if you were in if you were in the area. Um we were notified in July of this year that from January through March of this year, our neighborhood was subject to excessive levels of toxic emissions. And we we were lied to about whether or not we could have been told about it. Nothing was done. Egan has an ordinance that specifically prohibits toxic emissions, and I've been told by the by the Egan City Council attorney they won't try to enforce it because it's subject to the MPCA guidelines, which CO2 emissions are subject to the MPC guidelines. A lot of emissions that we are trying to stop are subject to those guidelines. Some with a group called Egan Neighbors for Clean Air. And what we're trying to do is at least try to get some hold on the gopher emissions. Unfortunately, for the neighbors in our neighborhood, many of us have had bone-led testings. And the bone-led testing results have been horrible. Up to five times normal levels.