Votes at a glance: River Falls council actions including rezoning, right-of-way items, event permits and design services

At its meeting the River Falls City Council recorded votes on several ordinance and resolution items. Key outcomes: 1) Ordinance 2025-02 (second reading) to rezone 807 West Locust Street from R-2 to SC: approved by roll call. 2) Resolution authorizing release of easement over a portion of a vacated right-of-way in the Andrews and Winchesters addition: approved by roll call. 3) Resolution approving vacation and discontinuance of an unpaved alley right-of-way in the Andrews and Winchesters addition: approved by roll call. 4) Consent approvals for River Falls Business Leaders event requests (street closures, open-container exemption, noise-control exemption, city assistance) for three downtown events including a St. Patrick's Day potato-soup crawl, "Tastier Falls," and Ladies Night Out: approved as part of the consent agenda. 5) Resolution approving engineering design services for the West Locust Street extension: approved after being pulled from consent; roll-call vote recorded one no (Bjork).

Roll-call tallies were recorded on the transcript for each item. Where the transcript named votes, council members recorded yes votes for the rezoning and right-of-way resolutions (Bierstead; Bjork; Caro/Carroll; Downey; Morissette; Miller; O'Dean). Engineering design services passed with a single recorded no vote by Bjork and yes votes from Miller, Downing, Bierstead, O'Dean, Morissette and Caroll. The consent items 3–6 were approved together; item 7 (engineering design services) was pulled and approved separately. Several other routine consent items were approved on the consent agenda without separate discussion.

All votes recorded in the audio transcript were reflected in the council minutes as approved actions.