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City Council Minutes September 20, 2021 Page 8 October 31 to make significant progress and as long as Mr. John continues to make significant progress and understands this cannot go on for months and months, it will put us in a better position if we need to go to court. Mr. Baumgartner noted working with Mr. John is the best option if Mr. John is agreeable. He will draft an agreement outlining the process and expectations. Mr. John was agreeable to this option. Rebecca Reichard, Central MN Mental Health Center, indicated Mr. John recently signed a release allowing her team access to his information and to assist him. She indicated it would be helpful for her team to meet staff on the property to see exactly what needs to be completed so they can monitor and support Mr. John. Mr. Trebesch indicated he would contact Ms. Reichard tomorrow to schedule a time. Attorney Beck questioned if it makes sense to allow Mr. John the option to enter into an Assessment Agreement during this timeframe allowing the city to abate the property and assess the costs if it gets to be too much for Mr. John. Mr. Baumgartner explained the agreement he intends to draft varies a little from a consent decree. He explained a Consent Decree essentially gives a deadline and if the work is not complete by that date the city abates the property but, in this case, he prefers any future action to come back through the City Council by way of resolution before moving forward to the court system. Council consensus was to have Attorney Baumgartner draft an agreement allowing Mr. John until October 31 to make substantial progress towards cleaning up his property and to continue if Mr. John is making continuous progress with the understanding if Mr. John fails to make continuous progress, this item will come back before the City Council for approval to seek statutory authority to clean the property up. The Council also agreed to allow Mr. John the option of entering into an Assessment Agreement during this timeframe allowing the city to at any time if he feels the work is too much. 9.2 Liquor Fund Reserve Balance Ms. Ziemer presented the staff report. She indicated the Mayor had at one point suggested transferring out $750,000 to the General Fund in addition to the $250,000 to the Park Fund. She explained transferring out almost $1 million would put us almost even every year for liquor profits. It was noted there is still a $5 million balance. Councilmember Christianson believes even by transferring $750,000 to the General Fund it would take a long time to dwindle the $5 million Liquor Fund balance down. He questioned what other items that normally drive the General Fund up can be offset by this fund. t I I E A f i 11 NATURE