1. Call to Order
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Approval of the Agenda
4. Approval of Minutes
a. Approval of the minutes from (1) Work Session meeting from November 12, 2025, (2) Regular City Council meeting from November 12, 2025, and (3) Special Meeting from November 15, 2025.
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Decision: Approval of Minutes
5. Open Forum
Participants can share their comments in person, by voicemail, or email, and may also request to participate virtually. For more information on submitting comments, refer to the Council Agenda and Minutes page on richfieldmn.gov/citycouncil
6. Proclamations and Presentations
a. Advisory Board of Health Annual Report
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Decision: Proclamations and Presentations
7. Consent Calendar
Consent Calendar contains several separate items, which are acted upon by the City Council in one motion. Once the Consent Calendar has been approved, the individual items and recommended actions have also been approved. No further Council action on these items is necessary. However, any Council Member may request that an item be removed from the Consent Calendar and placed on the regular agenda for Council discussion and action. All items listed on the Consent Calendar are recommended for approval.
a. Approve Disbursements/Claims
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Decision: Consent Calendar
b. Consider approval to set a public hearing to be held on December 09, 2025, to consider the renewal of a Pawnbroker license for 2026 for Metro Pawn and Gun, Inc.
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Decision: Consent Calendar
c. Consider approval of a resolution granting a one-year time extension for Aster Commons.
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Decision: Consent Calendar
d. Consider approval of the Sentencing to Service Program Services Agreement between Richfield and Hennepin County for calendar years 2026 and 2027.
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Decision: Consent Calendar
e. Consider approval to forgive two internal Ice Arena loans totaling $472,170 with a transfer from long-term capital reserves.
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Decision: Consent Calendar
f. Direct staff to adjust the 2025 Revised Budget and transfer $1,800,000 from the Elections Fund to the Long-term Capital Reserve Fund and designate the fund balance for future government building capital projects.
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Decision: Consent Calendar
8. Consideration of Items, if Any Removed From Consent Calendar
9. Public Hearings
a. Public hearing regarding an Amendment to the 2022 Spending Plan for unobligated tax increment.
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Decision: Public Hearings
b. Public hearing and consider the approval of new On-Sale Wine and 3.2 Percent Malt Liquor licenses for Brim 2, LLC, dba Brim Restaurant, located at 2910 66th Street West.
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Decision: Public Hearings
10. Proposed Ordinances
11. Resolutions
a. Consideration of a resolution authorizing the decertification of Tax Increment Financing District No. 2020-2.
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Decision: Resolutions
b. Consider resolutions approving the decertification of the Lyndale Gateway / Interchange West and Urban Village Tax Increment Financing Districts.
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Decision: Resolutions
12. Other Business
a. Consider Approval of Preliminary Design Layouts for 2026 Sidewalk Projects.
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Decision: Other Business
b. Consider the appointments of commissioners to city advisory boards and commissions.
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Decision: Other Business
c. Consider adoption of a resolution awarding the sale of $6,160,000 General Obligation Sales Tax Revenue Bonds, Series 2025A.
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Decision: Other Business
13. City Manager’s Report
14. Council Discussion
a. Hats off to Hometown Hits
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Decision: Council Discussion
b. Liaison Reports
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Decision: Council Discussion
15. Adjournment