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<br />1) City Council Work Session dated January 23, 2024 <br />2) City Council Regular dated January 23, 2024 <br />5.04: Approve Business Licenses <br />5.05: Approve Landscape for Central Park Main Parking Lot Reconstruction, Improvement <br />Project #23-02 <br />5.06: Authorize Preparation of Plans and Specifications and Advertisements for Bids for The <br />Waterfront - Trails and Trees <br />5.07: Authorization to Hire a Mechanic in the Public Works Department <br />5.08: Adopt Resolution #24-056 Approving Cash Disbursements Made and Authorizing <br />Payment of Accounts Payable Invoicing Received During the Period of January 18, 2024 <br />through February 7, 2024. <br />5.09: Adopt Resolution #23-039 Approving Preliminary Plat and Final Plat for Lightbridge <br />Academy <br />5:10: Adopt Resolution #24-046 Approving Plans and Authorizing Advertisements for Bids for <br />Improvement Project #23-19, COR Infrastructure Improvements <br />5:11: Adopt Resolution #23-058 Approving Refund of Earnest Money to COR Trust Bank N.A. <br />5:12: Adopt Resolution #24-059 Approving Change Order #1 for Improvement Project #21-09, <br />Centralized Water Treatment Plant <br /> <br />Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Kuzma, Councilmembers Woestehoff, Musgrove, Howell, <br />Olson, Riley, and Specht. Voting No: None. <br />6. PUBLIC HEARING <br /> <br />None. <br />7. COUNCIL BUSINESS <br />7.01: Introduce Ordinance #24-02: Rezone a Portion of the Ramsey Landfill from I-1 to <br />CL Northwest of Sunwood Drive and Sunfish Lake Blvd. NW (Connexus Energy). <br /> <br />Planning Manager Larson reviewed the Staff report in regard to the request to rezone a portion of <br />the landfill. <br /> <br />Tessa Haagenson, Director of Power Supply and Business Development at Connexus Energy, <br />came forward and shared that this is not Connexus Energy’s first experiment with solar <br />development, and they have other long-term power purchase agreements in place for 20 megawatts <br />of solar spread across four sights in their service territory. <br /> <br />Councilmember Musgrove asked how many acres are needed for one megawatt. <br /> <br />Ms. Haagenson shared one megawatt typically needs five to six acres and they are looking at a <br />total of 23 acres at this site for potential solar development. <br /> <br />Councilmember Musgrove asked how many homes one megawatt would serve. <br /> <br />City Council /February 13, 2024 <br />Page 4 of 7 <br /> <br /> <br />