City Council Meeting 10/6/26

The Coon Rapids City Council meeting on October 6, 2026, approved its consent agenda, including acceptance of an Anoka County waste-prevention and recycling grant, donations for park benches and city programs, a utility easement from Costco Wholesale Corporation, and a deed for property acquired for the Trunk Highway 610/East River Road interchange. The consent agenda also approved a settlement with Ultra Concrete LLC under which the city will retain approximately $103,000 from two contracts to fund remaining fire station concrete repairs, and approved a change order and final payment of approximately $13,987.49 to New Look Contracting Inc. for the Crooked Lake Trail Reconstruction (Project 26-3). The council also adopted special-assessment resolutions and certified delinquent utility balances for collection through property taxes; these were not procurement actions.

The council approved a $101,592 agreement with One Call Contracting Inc. for demolition work on properties acquired for the interchange project (Project 18-14). It introduced, but did not adopt, proposed 2027 fees, including utility-rate adjustments and changes to business-license fees intended in part to support business attraction. The council also considered ordering a Rosenbauer rescue truck and a Chief One Tahoe, with staff noting the rescue truck’s long build timeline and that the purchases were planned for the 2027 budget; a motion and second are audible, but the provided transcript does not capture the vote. Separately, the council approved election-judge appointments and hourly pay rates of $12 for judges and students, $13 for assistant head judges, and $15 for head judges.