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The Edina City Council met on July 21, 2026, at 7:00 PM in City Hall Council Chambers. The meeting included public comment, consent agenda items, presentations on the PACS Fund and bag fee policy, and major discussion items including the Wooddale Avenue bike lane project, a sketch plan for 4 townhomes at 5201 Grandview Lane, and a sketch plan for the Macy's Furniture Store site northwest lot. The council adopted a modified bike lane option (option 4) for Wooddale Avenue and approved several routine items.
Well, good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Adina City Council meeting. It is Tuesday, July 21st, 2026. There is no month that goes faster than July, is there? Pass the 4th of July, it's unbelievable. We've got, as uh Director Bennaro said, a full agenda this evening. And we've been doing these meetings on a hybrid sort of basis during the pandemic and post pandemic, so folks may be watching from home, they'll be able to call in and address the council on a couple of different uh matters. I don't know if we yeah, we don't have any public hearings tonight. So if they have a concern uh they want to raise with the council uh with regard to a matter that's not on the agenda this evening or scheduled for a future public hearing, they can do that. Uh and in the audience as well. If there's somebody here that has a concern that they want to address with the council that uh deals with a matter that's not on the agenda or scheduled for a future public hearing, we'll be glad to hear your concerns. And we'll have a few of our residents, I'm sure, that have concerns uh independent of what's on the agenda this evening. Uh so uh there is a number that if you're watching, you can call in. Uh, and then we'll take people in the audience first uh with respect to the uh community comment portion of the agenda. And having provided that information, I'm gonna call the meeting to order and ask our clerk, Clerk Sharon Ellison to call the roll. Councilmember Agnean. Here. Councilmember Jackson here. Councilmember Pierce. Here. Councilmember Ritzer. Here, Mayor Heavlin. Here. Next is the Pledge of Allegiance. A Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands. We've got a form of meeting agenda that's been published both to the general public and to the staff and council members. Uh is there anyone on the council or staff that wants to amend the agenda in any former fashion? Is there a motion to approve the meeting agenda is published? So moved. Member Jackson moves. I second. Member Agnes seconds the adoption of the meeting agenda is published. Any further discussion on that issue? All those in favor of adopting the meeting agenda is published, say aye. Aye, opposed to the remote. Reminder, Mr. Mayor, we are starting roll calls. Oh, even for even for that, we never do the roll call. I see that right here. So we've got a new process we have to employ based on state law, I guess. And uh Americans with Disability Act to comply. All right. And so we'll go down the line. Councilmember Risser, how you vote on the adoption of the meeting agenda? Aye.