The Eagan City Council held its regular meeting on November 18, 2025, at 6:30 PM at the Eagan Municipal Center. The meeting included a public comment period moved to the beginning for the group Communities United Against Police Brutality, who spoke about the death of Kingsley Bimpong during an encounter with Eagan police. The council listened but did not respond due to ongoing litigation. Following public comments, the council conducted a swearing-in ceremony for two new firefighters, approved a consent agenda with numerous routine items, considered old business on a bond sale, and addressed three new business items: a preliminary subdivision, a comprehensive guide plan amendment for a residential treatment facility, and a conditional use permit for truck parking.
The mayor concluded the public comment period, noting the council could not respond due to litigation but appreciated the comments.
The council approved the consent agenda with one change: moving visitors to be heard to the beginning. Items approved included:
Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. I want to welcome everybody to the November eighteenth regular meeting of the Egan City Council. This is our second and final meeting of the month of November. We have a um substantive but I think fairly efficient uh agenda tonight. My understanding is that we have a group here from uh the communities united against police brutality, and uh uh my understanding is that group has asked to uh make comments at the end of the meeting uh as opposed to at the beginning of the meeting, or is that changed since I was lost updated? No? Okay. Uh so uh opportunity was to um move comments up to the beginning of the meeting. Uh apparently that group would rather wait until uh visitors be heard later on in the meeting, so uh in the meantime, uh we'll look forward to that, and I'll probably make a few comments uh preceding that listening such or that uh public comment period. Uh with that, we have a uh swearing in of a firefighter tonight, uh some other uh land use business, and then we'll get to the uh communities united against police brutality. Uh with that, uh Ms. Miller. Are there any any other changes to tonight's agenda? No, Mr. Mayor. Uh council, same question. Councilman Bachard. Move to adopt the agenda as presented. Second. That's moved and seconded. Okay. Okay. Um you want to draw your motion? Um well, let's pass the motion, but move visitors to be heard up to in front of the book. Yep. Okay, so let's add public input uh right before recognitions and presentations or after. Uh before recognition presentation. That'd be great. Okay, that's the motion. That's moved and seconded. Uh just to explain, we've adopted uh we've uh moved to adopt an agenda that that adds a public comment period right after our adoption of the agenda. Uh that's the place we'll hear from the communities united against police brutality. Uh and then we'll go on with the rest of the meeting after that. Uh with that, uh motion is made and seconded. Any further discussion on the motion? All in favor is going to say aye. And opposed nay, that motion carries. Uh and we have an agenda. Uh with that, um, I'll move right into the newly added public comment period. Um, I'll uh um I can't hear. Uh just uh uh remind folks that uh the uh uh uh participation in public comment is important to uh the city of Egan. Uh we appreciate uh having you here tonight. Um the city of Egan uh fully uh respects the community's right to express its views uh and we're committed to providing a safe and respectful environment for everyone uh to do that. Uh because this topic involves ongoing litigation. The city cannot provide additional comment at this time. The council will be more than happy to listen and take your comments, but will not engage in back and forth discussion. Um ask that we try to uh conduct our uh public comments in the same way we do our public hearings, uh, and that each speaker um uh had to try to limit their comments to uh between four and five minutes uh so we can get out of here uh as quickly as possible, but having as many people as possible express their facts. Uh with that, uh, the council's tradition is usually uh not to uh answer questions or make comments uh during uh public comment periods like this one. Uh and because this one involves litigation, uh, we'll continue that as well. So uh with that, uh the microphones are open.