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The Eagan City Council met on October 20, 2026, at 6:30 PM at the Eagan Municipal Center. The meeting included consent agenda actions, public hearings on six final assessment projects for road improvements, a major planned development amendment for Ecolab's $500 million expansion, and a brief Economic Development Authority meeting. Key decisions included unanimous approval of the consent agenda, adoption of final assessments totaling $4.8 million in project costs with $1.6 million in special assessments, and approval of the Ecolab amendment.
Pledge allegiance to the fly of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God. Indivisible liberty and justice for all. Before we uh get into adopting the agenda and uh our items tonight, I want to turn it over to uh Chief Omari uh to recognize the death of a former police officer uh Rich Evans and to say a few words. Chief, thanks for joining you. Uh thank you, Mayor, members of council for allowing just a brief moment to recognize Sergeant Rich Evans, who was forced to retire last year due to declining health. I started at the Egan Police Department shortly after he retired. So I never met him in person. But I recently spoke with him on the phone. And I found a man who was strong in his faith, who loved his family, including his wife, his sons, his granddaughter, and his parents, and a man who was proud to be an Egan police officer, one who loved this community, one who loved the city, and one who loved this department. I've spoken to many of his current and past partners, and I learned about a career defined by service, compassion, empathy, and courage. Stories about complete strangers who were made better because of Rich. As you guys know, I tell our new officers to think about how they want to be remembered when they retire. And to start writing that story when they start their careers. Chief, thank you. Um and uh you'll uh let uh the council uh and the community know when there is a uh celebration of Ridge's life. Yes, Mr. Mayor. Uh thanks appreciate it. And uh please share your thoughts, share our thoughts uh with uh the members of your force who I'm sure are uh feeling his life as well. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Um with that, uh I'm gonna move to our agenda tonight. I'm gonna note that um uh this is a first for me tonight. Uh we are uh down uh not just a city administrator, um, but an assistant assistant administrity administrator. So uh in uh Diane and Sarah's steed. Uh I'll be trying to run the show here tonight uh and uh moving things along. So um uh Diane says she has confidence in me, so uh I feel better about that. I do want to report that the reason why Diane isn't here, um, because she doesn't take not being here uh lightly uh is that she uh was hoping to attend what might have been her daughter's final soccer game of her high school career. Um Diane has a lot of explaining to do when she comes back because as it turns out, um Egan beat Rosemau tonight. Uh and uh we want to uh extend our congratulations to the uh Egan soccer team. Uh and uh and uh hopefully uh their next game won't be on a Tuesday night and Diane will be back here. So uh with that um uh council, are there any changes agenda tonight? No, sir.