--------- This is Safety and Public Works Committee Brainard Council Chambers 7 p.m. We got four items on our agenda. The first of which is construction testing proposals improvement 255. This is the Southeast Brainer reconstruction project and public works director Sandy.
>> Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, in front of you tonight is two proposals uh that um staff solicited for u materials testing services um for a project that will be happening in Southeast Brainard. Um the bid award is uh further down the agenda
tonight. So this is uh setting up for um the project construction which we're anticipating to start sometime around the beginning of June um if everything goes through tonight. Uh we did solicit for two proposals from the two firms that uh typically perform these services for the city, Bronn Intertech and ITT.
Um before Jesse had left, he had um submitted these uh requests out to these two consultants and um using the uh state aid for local transportation schedule materials control. That was the basis for which they were to provide estimates for the materials testing for
both of these projects. You can kind of see in some of the write up here, the two costs are substantially different. Um we run into this quite often with these service or these materials testing contracts. It's a lot of it is based on what the consultant is assuming for work
production by contractors. How many concrete tests, how many compaction tests, how many trips do you have to make to the site. Um and just your testing fee in general. Um there's quite a substantial difference between the two proposals. Um you can see that ITT came in at $20,915
and then uh Braraw Inter came in right around 70,000. And um we've used both these firms in the past. They do both do a great job. Um we have had uh really good success with Brun Intertech on some of our more complex state aid and federal projects because this is a local
project. Um the materials testing doesn't have to meet the uh rigorous requirements that a state aid or federal project would have to meet. Um and you know the amount of tests that staff authorizes in the field. That's all we pay for. So these are just estimates
based on what the consultant thinks um should be done in the field. But we are recommending ITT for this work um at that 20,915. Um we don't um see a ton of additional value in spending an additional $50,000 to bring in Brun for a project like this.
>> All right. Thank you, Paul. Uh comments, questions, Councilman Jagger. >> Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah. So, I can I I don't disagree with you, you know, your recommendation here, Paul, but it does because I've seen some others uh similar uh RFP or request for proposals like this and it I'm beginning
to wonder if we're if we should just be writing the proposal a little bit differently so that we don't have to weed through >> and the estimate for because the the cost difference here isn't necessarily so much the testing, it's how much they're anticipating the timeline to be.
So, which is not really what we are trying to extract out. We're trying to extract out what's the best number for the testing, >> the best value, right? >> The best value for the testing because >> the time the it should be analogous between the two assuming the time frame is the same. So, I'm just wondering is if if there's a way that we can in the
future just write these a little cleaner and ask for a number on slump, ask for a number on compaction, ask for a number on whatever and then make it way easier on us to actually extract the best uh you know testing company. But that's probably just
>> I think that'll be Thank you for that comment. I think that'll be one of the benefits of using our pool services that were set up last time is um the city will be kind of in the driver's seat driving the scope of projects and the schedule more from the other consultant like not testing services. But really
the scope of these is we're going to have task orders that are generated which means all the qualification stuff that they put into these proposals and and the stuff that is kind of fluffy in general. it get takes away from what is your scope, what is your fee, and when can you deliver it by. And that's um
really the purpose of the pool. And I think you're 100% right. Um really we're trying to extract what the unit price is for each test and we can compare those. It's a lot like our contract towing bids. >> We don't know what the total is going to be at the end of the day, but um we can
make a pretty general determination on who's going to be the lower bid at the end of the day based on just unit pricing for tests. >> Yep. Okay, that's all. Thank you. Paul, how much of the difference would you attribute to, you know, one of these is local, the other one's non-local, so to speak? >> Yeah. So, Braun, their nearest office is
in St. Cloud. Um, and it does have a local office here. So, it's it's a significant portion because every every test that they do, you know, say a contractor's calling them in four times in a week, right? That's four trips that they're making that has a substantial impact on cost. Um, like I said, they do
do a very good job. Brun does on our more complex testing projects like our state aid and our federal projects where there's a lot of additional documentation that has to come. Um but for a project like a local project like this um the value just isn't there to spend another $50,000 to do it.
>> Sure. All right. Thanks Paul. Any other comments or questions? Hearing none. Be looking for a motion on this item. >> I'll move to approve staff's recommendation, Mr. Chair. >> I'll second, Mr. Chair. >> All right. Thank you. Motion in a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, those in favor signify by saying
I. >> I. >> I. Those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Our second item then is a resolution requesting advanced municipal state aid funds. And public works director Sandy again. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, so you guys uh
saw this resolution uh here at the beginning of this year. Um the original resolution did not include an advance request for reimbursing ourselves uh for the work that has already occurred on right street. Uh what this um advanced resolution does is it adds um an
additional 630 600 around 630,000 for uh state aid project 108-131-002 which is our right street project. Um, this advancement means that, you know, while we're going more in the negative in our state aid account, we are able to
reimburse ourselves um for that $627,000 um before our account goes back positive again. So, it's basically taking out a loan against our state aid account um to reimburse ourselves for project expenses before our posit our our balance in our state account goes back positive. So,
this resolution is just kind of it's a correction that Jesse wanted to do before he left. um that is basically adding the right street project reimbursement onto this resolution. This was something he was working on with Connie uh to just ensure that we um get some cash flow into our construction
fund while we're in the uh 2026 construction season. >> All right. Thank you, Paul. Comments or questions? I got uh two. So, Paul, the the list in the resolution, the only one that's different from the one we previous one is that bottom or that last
SAP, the 627. >> Correct. >> Okay. that just added that one to it. >> Yeah. >> And then um just more broadly speaking, do we have a like a long-term plan to get out ahead of this um advanced status
so we can stop having to draw down on that? Um I think you've touched on that in the past. Can you briefly touch on that? >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, in general terms, um our next five years of capital projects don't have really any state aid involved with them. They're mostly on
local streets and so we get about $850,000 a year in allocation. So if we don't do any projects in that year, now we want to a lot of these advance requests are for so how state aid works is at the beginning of a project when you get bids back you can go and request
95% of the bid costs of your of your state aid eligible items on the front end and get that cash into your account so you can pay contractors. So then usually that on every project there's two state aid pay requests. One is the 95% pay
request. The last one is to just basically final the project and balance the books with the project and state aid. A lot of these are just finalizing older projects. So the 48,000 for 137001 the 47,000 for 104012. These are some of
the historical projects that I think have happened in the last two to three years. Uh Garfield safe routes to school. Low safe routes to school. Uh or not Garfield, um Harrison safe routes to school. They're just finalizing the project. So, they're getting them off our books. Um but our capital
improvement plan is not heavily loaded with state aid projects here in the next 5 years. And so, we'll start seeing this number decline at a pretty steady rate um and start getting more into the black on our state aid account balance. um there is benefit to advancing projects
especially if there is a need um just because it's like a zero dollar loan um on future allocations. So there is some it's a zero interest loan I should say. Um so there is benefit um they there are benefits also to having a lower balance. Um state aid penalizes you for having a
high balance in your state aid account and so um keeping it either um around zero or slightly in the negative or slightly in the black is a great place to be as a city. Great. Thanks, Paul. Jeff or Counc. >> Yeah, Mr. Chairman, I I I appreciate
this conversation because I don't know if it was last year, but I had been questioning this as well, and I think finance uh Chair Johnson gave a very good explanation similar what Mr. Sandy did that gave me an understanding I never thought of about, you know, there's no interest. Um, it doesn't
hurt. It's um it to Paul's point, I I I was kind of questioning this from day one when I got on here and I and I see the rationale to it's different than say you borrow against something, you're paying interest back and all that. So that's that's why I'm not having any
trouble with this. Anyways, that's all I got. >> Sounds good. >> I'd move to approve then if Mr. Jagger is okay with that. >> Certainly am. And I will second. >> Thank you. Motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Those in favor signify by saying I. >> I.
>> I. Those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Brings us to our third item. This is ordinance discussion. Uh, special events and, uh, community director Kravick. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, so SA staff recently had an issue with an organization that did not want to apply for a special event in Gregory Park. I
was notified today that they did submit a special event application and it should be on the next park board agenda. U, so that may have been cleared up. Uh after review, staff realized the special event process is not uh codified in our city code, which makes it difficult uh for staff to require and enforce a
special event application, especially in a park. Uh the proposed ordinance defines uh special event and requires those holding special events to apply and have a special event uh permit prior to holding the event. Uh the community development department uh is currently working with the police department.
police department's working with uh both the prosecutor and our uh civil attorney on potential enforcement options and we'll present it at the next safety and public works meeting uh if city council does want to move forward and have staff continue to work on this. Uh staff recommend uh codifying the requirements for special events and continuing to
reine or refine policies over the next year uh within the public services department as we get somebody on board with that. I provided a couple examples what that looks like when insurance may be required when bathrooms may be required. All that could be in policy. Um, but I did recommend language in here that said essentially um within this
ordinance you have to follow the special event policy so that could be made at a later time. Uh, so staff does uh recommend the safety and public works committee review the proposed language that is in front of you tonight and direct staff to bring a final draft ordinance to the next meeting and to further discuss potential enforcement
options. >> All right. Thank you, James. Comments or questions on this item? >> Yeah, I just if I could. Yes, please. >> Um, so James, um, I I'm not necessarily talking about this specific organization
you said didn't want to participate, but have there been others beside this particular organization you mentioned that have not wanted to fill this? >> Not to not to my knowledge. I'm not heavily involved in the special event application process, but uh, yeah.
>> All right, that's all I got, Mr. Chair. >> All right. Thanks. And then James, you said they did submit a application. knowledge. Um, one was submitted. >> Um, also a question I had did not did we hire a consultant to codify our codes or did that not
>> we are working through that. So any code that we um do add to our city code right now we'd end up forwarding to them and and they right now they're working through that process. So it would be added to what we're working on right now. >> Okay. Great. because last meeting we had the cell tower which was a similar
situation um in some respects and then now this. So thank you. Um if >> I'd move to approve, Mr. Chair, the staff's recommendation on bringing this back. >> I'll second. >> All right. Thank you. Motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing
none. Those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. Those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. >> All right. This our last item, direction on active code enforcement and community development director. I got that wrong last time. James, >> thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, so staff are
bringing one property before the committee for review and is looking for direction from the council on how to proceed with the case. Attaches case file for 1718 Pine Street with a significant amount of junk and debris uh both in the sideyard and the front yard. Uh, property has received three citations and has not uh reached out to
staff regarding the issue. Uh this is a repeat offender for the same offense. Uh so with that, staff recommends a motion to abate the junk and debris at 1718 Pine Street. >> All right. Thanks, James. Um questions or comments on this one. >> Second. >> Sorry.
>> No, no, no problem. Thanks for the motion and the second. Um further discussion. I did have a comment on this one. I'll support the motion, but I guess I just had a question. I mean, looking at these photos, I mean, there is junk. There's bags of garbage and
there's debris. It certainly doesn't look good, but a lot of it is. I mean, there's a picture of a trailer that's overflowing, but it's in a trailer. Behind that, there's a fish house or something that's covered. Um, another photo has something else that's covered.
I mean, so I guess at what line, where is the line? I mean, there can be some, again, I'm going to support it. I think there's a lot of junk there, but some of it is covered. >> Yeah. So, we would not take everything out of here. Um, I did speak with our code enforcement uh officer. I I probably would have gone down the route
of outdoor storage on this one, and that's how we'll um do it next time. So, with this, we could probably take 75% of the items that are there. There's a lot of garbage bags, leftover um kind of construction debris. Certainly, a lot of uh the stuff that's in the trailer we would take as well. That would be
considered junk as well. So, I I again, I think we'd probably take 75% of what's what's here, but we would have to leave some of the items. >> All right. Thank you. Uh so we do have a motion and a second. Um any further discussion hearing? None. Those in favor signify by saying I. >> I.
>> I. Those opposed same sign. And of course motion carries. And that brings us to the end of the meeting and we'll adjourn. Part: 2
All right, let's call to order Brainer City Council. It's Monday, May 18th, 2026, 7:30 p.m. in council chambers. Tony, please call the role. >> Chzach, >> here. >> Johnson, >> here. >> Stunn here. >> Jagger, >> yes. >> Erikson, >> here. >> Beans, >> here. >> OD here. >> Mau >> here. >> Will you stand for the pledge of
allegiance? >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Next up, we have approval of
the agenda. I believe we have an amendment to the agenda. Um >> Johnson, you want to add that? >> Uh yeah, I wanted to add a resignation and backfilling to the uh consent calendar, please. >> Resignation backfilling. We'll put that on as >> move to approve with change.
>> Put that on as J. We have a motion by Chzok, second by Stunic. Any discussion? See none. Let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Against. Same sign. We have an agenda. Next up, we have the consent calendar. This is a notice of public that all
matters listed are considered routine by the council and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless good cause is shown prior to the time the council votes on the motion to be adopted by roll call. We have a motion to approve the consent calendar.
>> Motion by Beans, second by Chzach. Any discussion? Tony, please call the role. >> Chzach, yes. >> Johnson, yes. >> Stunic, yep. >> Jagger, yes. >> Erikson, yes. >> Bevans, >> yes. Odin, >> yes. >> That motion carries. Next up, number
six, we have public forum. This is time allocated for citizens to bring matters not on the agenda to the account attention of the council. Time limits may be imposed. So, if you are here and you would like to address the council on anything that's not on the agenda, please come forward now. If you're
online, press star three. Yep. Come on forward, sir. Just name and address first. >> Good evening. Denny Bolleg, uh 101 Anbeck Street, Brainard. Uh I guess it was a month ago after uh this is about
the water uh discharge, storm water discharge in my backyard or our neighbors backyard, all of us. Uh the last council meeting from staff, uh there was four recommendations. Uh the last recommendation was to do nothing.
Well, that doesn't set. I think I talked to Tad and he said that he thought during the discussions that um that they were going to clean up, the city was going to clean up uh the
downfall and stuff and and I think part of that report there was two two feet of sediment is existing when they did their soil samples that should be removed. Uh so that's the first thing is I'd like to
move forward with something uh in regard to the easement um a step forward. And the other thing I'm here for is a request for reimbursement of storm water uh storm water re fees that we're paying
right now. Storm water collection fees. Now Paul sent me a letter I think in January or whatever it was emailing a letter uh describing you know the storm waters basically for everybody in the city. You
drive on all city streets. I understand all that but I feel my our situation is a little different. We're paying the city to have the city dump water unauthorized in our backyard against our wishes. And uh I think one of the things
that would move this forward is to reimburse those rates and no longer charge for them as long as the city is discharging storm water in our backyard. And one other point would be I wasn't able to talk at that last
meeting. Uh, unfortunately I had discussions with Jesse that uh I was going to be able to meet with the the P the company that was going to do the storm water study and that didn't happen. I had a couple of suggestions
that weren't looked at and I'd like the council to direct staff to, you know, at least look look at these other options that I brought up. Uh, one of them being a French drain. Another one is extending the the drain to the to the uh holding
pond uh next to the college football field which is only a couple blocks away. Don't have to cross any roads. I don't know if the elevations are right. I don't know what the numbers are, but I can assure you they were a lot cheaper than the numbers that the the uh
engineering firm came up. You know, I think that high number was 2.2 2 million to change uh to change that uh you know to get this easement out of our backyard. So that's the two points that um uh unfortunately the way this whole
thing started was earlier this year I talked to Jesse new engineer. He did an on-site. I asked him for a couple of things. Bowling out the the getting rid of the sediment, cleaning it up. bowling it, bowling it
out a little bit more and uh putting some type of silt fence up to keep all the debris out of my yard. And so right now I could probably add on to that damages. I've lost 12 trees in my yard. Uh
Kevin's been there, Kevin's been there, Kelly's been there. Every time we get a heavy rainfall, all this stuff that's in the unimproved yard, I have a my yard's completely, you know, you got grass, well, I had grass, but every time that
happens, I get leaves, sticks, twigs up to the wherever the water line went. And as the water recedes, all that garbage is left in my yard. I have to spend 2, three hours every time that happens cleaning it up. Like I say, I've lost 12
12 trees. All my jack pines uh which isn't a great loss, but uh all the popples I got two dead poppples and one that's probably die this year cuz they can't take the water. Uh the water sits in the sometimes 2 three days
before it completely filtrates into the ground. It kills all the grass in the affected area, all the trees. not all of them, the trees that are susceptible for to water. So that's the two things that
that I'd ask the council to consider. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Bully. Is there anybody else here that would like to address the council? Anything that is not on the agenda? If you're online, press star three. That'll raise
your hand. I ask one more time if there's anybody else here that would like to address the council, please do so now. That we will close public forum. It is 7:37. We have no presentations tonight. So, moving on to number eight, uh, council
committee reports. First up, we have personnel and finance committee chairman Gabe Johnson. >> Thank you, Mr. President. We had and still do one item on our agenda tonight and it's an MOA with IBW31
for Mitch Latch Black's 2026 step movement and the motion is to approve the attached MOA between the city of Brainard and IBW local 31 Brainard Public Utilities Union allowing Mitch Lacel to move to step seven effective April 8th 2026 and ISO move. >> Second
>> motion by Johnson second by Stunic Johnson. So, this was a situation where Mitch uh took a promotion to be the electric lead, decided that wasn't the right fit for him, and then took the demotion back to a line worker. Having looked at his service record as a line
worker, he would have been eligible for a movement to step seven. But because the employee policy manu manual says you have to be in that position for three consecutive years, of which he hasn't been backed down for three consecutive years yet, >> we think it's fair to offer him that
step seven to encourage our employees to take that next step up in their career. And if it doesn't work out, we still want to retain them and not punish them for taking that risk. >> Agreed. Any more discussion on that, Mr. Chzac? >> Just curious, how long was he at that
supervisory level? How many months? Does anybody know that? >> Yeah, maybe a year. >> Okay, thanks. >> Any more? >> And he's been with BPU since 2017. So, he's been around for doing the line work for a long time. >> Any further discussion?
>> Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Against. Same sign. >> That motion carries. Chairman Johnson. >> End of report. >> Thank you, Chairman Johnson. Moving on to seven or 8B, Safety and Public Works Committee Chairman Tad Ericson. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. President,
we've got four items on our agenda. Uh the first of which is construction testing proposals for improvement 255 Southeast Brainer Reconstruction Project. And the motion that came out of committee is to award the construction materials testing proposal from IT uh to
ITT in the estimated amount of 20,915. And I so move >> second. >> Motion by Ericson, second by Chzach. Ericson, anything to add? Yeah, just that this is, you know, our standard materials testing that we um contract out for staff put out for two proposals. We received one from Braraw Intertech
and then the other from ITT. Um there's quite a difference between the dollar amounts. ITT was the lower amount. Um and uh I you know I talked to staff, we had some discussion committee, a large or a significant portion of the difference is um attributed to um some
of the transportation. uh ITT is a local company and Braun is uh a little farther out. Um so that that and then there's a few other items that resulted in the significant difference between the two proposals. >> Thank you, Chairman Ericson. Any more discussion? Mr. Beaven.
>> Thank you, Mr. Chair. A question will uh itt be for Mr. Sandy or or for our chair. Will these people test subs soils? I mean, we just spent a quarter of a million dollars to test dirt that I knew
was mushy. >> We did get a geotechnical report for this specific project before the design took place. >> Is that part of this? >> Yes, they do compaction testing and soil test, >> but we didn't do this. >> We didn't do the geotechnical report at the beginning of the project where they
go and take soil borings, right? analyze the soils and look for maximum density, compaction requirements, trench back fill, and that kind of thing if the soil is suitable for that. This is for construction materials testing, which happens when the contractors out there
>> like concrete and car and that. Well, it just seems like that subsoil testing anywhere we do in Southeast Brainard is money well spent. Especially since we've done like Highway 18 or Oak Street five times since I've been on the council and
two weeks after we do it, the roads like this where the where we drive because there's the dirt underneath isn't dirt, it's mud. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Beans. Any further discussion? Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All
those in favor say I. >> I. Against. Same sign. Motion carries. Chairman Ericson. >> Thank you. Our second item is a resolution requesting advanced municipal state aid funds. A motion coming out of committee is to approve the resolution requesting those advanced municipal
state aid uh construction funds. And I so move. >> Second. >> Motion by Ericson, second by Chzach. Chairman Ericson. So we had uh previously uh this year we had approved a similar request advancing municipal state aid uh construction funds. Uh staff is revising that. They've added if
you can see the list that's provided there the last dollar amount there that SAP dollar amount for 627,735. Um this other everything else in this list was previously approved and so we're just adding that one item um in pertains to the right street um intense
uh right intent street project. Um so just adding that one item uh to that resolution. >> Thank you Chairman Ericson. Any discussion further discussion? >> Seeing none. Let's go to a vote. >> Oh
>> oh resolution. >> Oh yeah. Resol the resolution. >> Guys, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Stunick, y >> Jagger, >> yes. >> Erikson, >> yes. >> Beans, >> yes. >> Odicate, >> yes. >> That resolution carries. Chairman Ericson, >> thank you. Our third item, uh, this is a
discussion on ordinance uh, for special events. Motion coming out of committee is to direct staff uh, to bring a final draft ordinance to the next meeting. And I will move. >> Second. >> Motion by Ericson, second by Chazak. Ericson. >> Yeah. So staff h had an organization uh
reach out um about a special event but they did not want to go through the special events um permitting process uh that we have in place. Uh I my understanding is that they since have applied for the uh the permit but uh this brought up uh essentially that we
don't have an ordinance um that directly deals with uh special events. And so hence the motion, the recommendation coming out of committee is to direct staff to draft such an ordinance that would address special events. >> Thank you. Chairman Ericson, did you guys speak about the definition of a
special event? I mean, obviously there's special events like smaller birthday parties and then there's big weddings and and festivals and all kinds of different sizes. Are is that something that we want to discuss as this gets brought back to us or is that something you guys already discussed? >> This is 50 people or more?
>> 50 or more? Yep. Okay. >> Sorry. >> That's a pretty simple answer. I like it. >> Yeah. Means busking is still allowed. >> Busking is still allowed. >> Yeah. Uh Chazak, >> um I didn't ask this, but uh the special events application, I guess, for Mr.
Cranic, there there is no charge for that. Is that correct? >> I believe there's no charge for that. Um at times there are insurance requirements, especially from I believe the park board. I I'm not sure Paul might be able to answer when insurance is required on on some of these events.
>> I don't really recall what the insurance requirements are. Maybe Tony, you'll deal with some of them. >> They're required to have insurance on almost all of the events that we hold in our city parking lots in our on the streets um and in the parks as well.
some of those like family reunions and things. No. But if they're going to be using our facilities, yes. >> Thank you. Tony, is this another question I have? Is this something that we're going to bring through the park board for any input that they have on
additional comments to the ordinance? James? >> Yeah. So, my my thoughts on that are to get an ordinance in place that would require the application that we already have in place. And then I did include language in there that essentially have to follow a special event policy. And that's what could be worked on in the
next 6 months, 8 months once we get somebody on board in the public services department. You'd have to follow that policy. That policy could be drafted and worked on to to really refine things even more for the parks department and the the public uh services department. >> Okay. Thank you, >> Mr. Mayor. >> Yeah, this is something that the park
board has spoken on regularly. So, they have their own internal beliefs and policies. So they are on board with this and uh through the process they can easily speak up along the way. So >> all right thank you. More discussion.
Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. >> Against. Same sign. >> Motion carries. Chairman Ericson. >> All right. Thank you. This is our last item. Direction on active code enforcement. Uh the motion coming out of committee is to abate the junk and debris at 1718 Pine Street. And I move
>> second. >> Motion by Ericson. second by Chzac. Chairman Ericson. >> Yeah, just that you know, as you can see from the photos, um this is a property that's uh essentially been a repeat offender. They they have received the three citations and um no actions been
taken. So, you can see the condition and the debris that's there and this be abating it. >> Thank you, Chairman Ericson. Any more discussion? Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Against. Same sign. >> Motion carries. Chairman Ericson.
>> End of report. >> Thank you, Chairman. Moving on to number nine. This is unfinished business. First up, 9A is a call for applicants. We have the honorable Mayor Bedau. >> Yes, we do. The following boards and commissions have openings on them. Charter Commission, two terms expiring
2029, two terms expiring 2026. Economic Development Authority, one term expiring 2028, one term expiring 2031. Library Board, one term expiring 2027. Public Utilities Commission, one term expiring 2026. Transportation Advisory Committee,
two terms expiring 2027. That's it. >> As council president, there's one term open expiring 2028 in uh the airport commission, one term on the planning commission expiring 2028, and two terms on the water tower committee still
remain open. I would like to make a couple of small changes uh in liaison positions. Um for the rest of the year, we will have Mr. Mr. Joerger as liaison for the park board and Mr. Chzach for the H
Tony I did email that to you too. So that is it for the call for applicants. >> Mr. President, >> Mr. Chza, >> um could you just note that Mr. Joerger is leaving the H board as liaison then and then also Mayor Bedau is
>> Yep. Well, >> we only have one liaison on each but yes uh Mr. Mr. Redau will be off uh as leazison for park board and uh Jagger will be basically switching from the H to park board as you fill his position. All right. 9B. We have a final reading
of ordinance602, an ordinance amending section 705 of the water system. And this is Mr. Sandy. >> Thank you, Mr. President, members of the council. So, back in uh late 2023, the public utilities commission uh directed staff to uh look at a full
repeal and replace of section 705 of the city code. Um that was uh being looked at to basically update um operational practices, maintenance standards, uh installation standards for um our uh domestic water distribution system. Uh
we've included both the existing section 705 and the proposed section 705. Uh the first reading um of this ordinance was held at the last council meeting. Uh the public utilities commission went through um uh two meeting review on this document uh submitted questions and
answers um to the uh staff to uh respond and make changes to the document and um they did approve this document back at their uh April April commission meeting. Um staff is recommending that the council uh hold the public hearing um
conduct the final reading of uh ordinance 16002 and dispense with the actual reading and then adopt ordinance 1602 and uh adopt the resolution and which provides for the summary publication of the ordinance 16002. >> All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Sanders. Anybody have questions for
staff before we move on to public hearing? Mr. Trezac? >> Yes. Um, Mr. Sandy, on the wording of this, and I believe it was in the Q&A that the uh,
commission participated with regarding the properties that pay a double fee right now for their water andor sewer service. How will this affect this this ordinance? How will that change anything
for those customers right now? If this passes, >> that fee is set in uh the rate schedule uh that BPU publishes annually. That is not covered in um this code of ordinances that's in the rate schedule that's referenced. >> Okay. Did I not Okay. Did I not read
this correctly where it indicated that um properties that are outside the city that receive water pay a 200%. Is that not in here? >> I don't believe so. because the question was asked, does this affect the airport?
And the answer was yes. >> Yeah, that was in the Q&A. You had asked that question in the Q&A and we responded that there is language on the website and within the fee schedule that properties outside of the city limits pay 200% uh for water service if they are outside city limits.
>> Okay. But this ordinance does not address that then >> that that's addressed in the in the fee schedule. >> Okay. Thank you. That's all I have. Mr. >> Thank you, Mr. Chzac. Any more questions for staff before we move on to public hearing? Look like none. So with that, it is
7:51. We will open the public hearing. If you would like to address the council on this ordinance, please come forward. And if you're online, you'd like to address the council on this, press star three. ask again if there's anybody that wants
to address the council, please come forward or press star three online. Looks like we have no takers. So, it is 7:52. We will close the public hearing. Next up, we're looking for a
motion to conduct the final reading of ordinance 16002 and dispense with the actual reading. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Bevans, second by Johnson. Any discussion on that motion? Just a note that a motion to dispense with the actual reading must be
unanimous. With that, do we need a roll call, Tony? >> No. >> Okay, let's go to a vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. Against. Same sign. >> That motion carries. Next up, we're looking for a motion to adopt
ordinance6002. So move. Motion by Bevans, second by Johnson. >> Any discussion? Seeing none, Tony, please call the RO. >> Chzach, yes. >> Johnson, yes. >> Stunic, yep. >> Jagger, yes. >> Ericson, >> yes. >> Beven, >> I. >> OD,
>> yes. That ordinance passes. Now, we're just looking for a motion to adopt to uh resolution providing for the summary of publication of ordinance. We have a motion by Bevans and a second by Johnson. >> Any discussion? >> Yeah, please. >> Tony, call the role.
>> Chzach, >> yes. Johnson. Yep. >> Stunic. Yep. >> Jagger. >> Yes. >> Ericson. >> Yes. >> Evans. >> Hi. >> Oay. >> Yes. >> That motion carries as well. Moving on to 9C. This is a resolution awarding the sale of general obligation bonds series
2026A. Uh fixing their form and speculation, directing their execution and delivery, and providing for their payment. This one is uh finance director Connie Hillman. Yes, we actually have uh Miss Chris Hogan from Baker Tilly online to present the results.
>> Good evening. Can you hear me? Okay, >> we can hear you, Chris. >> Uh thank you, Mr. President and members of the council. Um I see that uh Can you see the presentation? I think I can see it up there. Um so I'm here tonight to um I'm Chris Hogan. I work at uh Baker
Tilly. I am a director of Baker Tilly and I work with the city as a municipal adviser. So, I'm here to present the results of the sale that the city had earlier this morning. The city sold general obligation bond series 2026A.
If you want to move to the next slide. Uh so, we we sold uh the city sold 13,35,000 general obligation bonds series 2026A. The proceeds of those bonds are going to be used to finance remodeling and expansion of the fire station 1. uh
finance very accessible pro public improvements related water sanitary sewer and storm sewer utility improvements and pay the cost of issuance on the bonds. The bonds have a repayment term various repayment source
um sources to pay the pay the bonds. Um the fire station project is going to get repaid over 20 years. Accessible improvements have a repayment of 10 years and the utility related projects have various terms from 10 to 20 years. The bonds are going to be repaid with a
combination of general obligation tax levies, special assessments, and revenues from the city's water sanitary sewer and storm sewer utility funds. And the bonds have optional redemption of February 1, 2035, meaning they can call
the bonds early in in 10 years. you go to the next slide. So, um this is just a indicator of where we thought the bonds were going to price. In early April, when we kind of started doing the bond structure and putting the the
information together for the bond sale, we were looking at um the market was showing a true interest cost of 4.108. Uh we updated rates based on the market uh conditions last week. So, we had an estimate of um 4
23 and the actual winning bid result today was 4.0259 and to note that bonds are awarded on the true lowest true interest cost. So next slide so this is this slide
shows there was three biders uh we had bear TD financial products and fidelity capital markets uh the winning bidder the top one is Robert Ward that which had the 4.0259 0259. And then uh the next one, the cover was
4.11 with Fidelity Fidelity Capital Markets at 4.19. Next slide. And this is just a snapshot of what the pricing looked like. So you have your coupons and your yields and your maturities. Um the coupons when they're higher than the yields generate
a premium. And in this case, the premium was $454,813. uh that premium is like bond proceeds and it was used to reduce the par amount of the bonds. Next slide please. So part of a market
bond sale is is to have the bonds rating and we went through the rating process as we do with every bond issue. Uh S&P assigned a rating of W double A minus to this bond issue. Um there's a number of reasons where bonds why we get bonds
rated and and really the the main reasons we're doing so it's it provides a measure of the city's financial strength and their ability to pay the debt service on the bonds. It serves as an independent third-party assessment. It supplements the investors due
diligence and of course the stronger the rating uh the lower the interest cost. So, with with the rating, we S&P will provide a rating report. Um, and I'm just kind of took a few snippets from
that report. Um, they have a list of credit highlights and I kind of pulled out some of those just so you get a a feel for how um how double A minus is a really strong credit. So some of the credit highlights they identified was healthy fund balance with a conservative
management practices and stable finances. Um the city has lower economic indicators as compared to their similly rate of peers. So lower income and higher long-term debt liabilities but they noted that these are somewhat offset by the credit strengths of the
city. Management policies and practices have realistic budget assumptions and comprehensive monthly budget to actual reporting to council. The city has a history of matching future debt issuance with expiring amortization of a
previously issued debt. And they always provide a factor for that could lead to an upgrade. They provide a factor that could potentially lead to a downgrade. They noted that uh a factor to get an upgrade would be if the city's core economic metrics were to improve to
levels of comparable to those of higher rated peers. Uh factors that could potentially lead to a downgrade is if the serious if the city were to experience sustained financial deterioration leading to weakening reserves or if the debt were to hample
hamper financial flexibility. So with all that information, um I would recommend that the city approve the resolution awarding 13,35,000 general obligation bond series 2026A to Robert W. Baron and Company Inc. with
their true interest cost of 4.025993. And I'm happy to take any questions. >> All right. Thank you, Chris. And just hang on there for a minute. Uh Mr. Chzn, go ahead. Yes, thank you. Um, what is the city uh the amount uh we are allowed
to bond in any given say one-year time period? Is there a limit? >> There isn't specifically a limit, but there is a debt limit of 3% of the um taxable market value, but that debt limit is for tax supported debt only. So
if you have debt that's paid by enterprise, by sales tax, by anything other than tax levy dollars, that does not get counted towards that 3%. >> Okay. Um and then um
so we if if something came up of an emergency need of sorts this year, yeah, we could still bond again this year if we had to. >> Yeah, you the city has quite a bit of capacity. Yes. Okay. And then there's probably no way to determine like the
actual interest on the uh taxpayer side of this bond issuance. Is there I mean to just a rough estimate over the course of the because there's so many different um payment or repayment sources and uh terms. >> Um that's an excellent question. So the
bonds are structured like I said they have different repayment terms exactly like you said and different repayment sources. But you get um the city has provided a debt amortization for each of those purposes. So there is a levy schedule. There's a debt um for payable
from sewer, a debt schedule payable from water. So we they are provided a a dis a separate amortization for all the different purposes and the payment sources. >> Okay. And and did we get that document? If it's what we got, I it's hard for me
to discern. That's all. Would that be included in the document we received? Does anybody know? >> Are you talking about this presentation that we just saw? >> What what I got sent to me today? Is that those? >> It's >> Go ahead. >> It's not my presentation. It's the post
sale and I don't know what it's all in the >> Okay. >> Um packets, but the you know, Connie will receive that post sale detailed schedules of the bond issue >> and I can email that out. >> Okay. Um, thank you very much.
>> You're welcome. >> Thank you, Mr. Shazach. Anybody else have questions? >> I just kind of wanted to add to what Miss Hogan said. Um, the fire station levy or the fire station debt will count towards that debt limit, but we do have
plenty of capacity that we're not even close to our maximum amount. And we are looking at issuing debt again this fall to pay for the 2026 construction projects which will be more of the assessment bonds and utility revenue bonds. >> Thank you Connie.
Any more qu questions for Chris? >> Thank you Chris. >> Appreciate the presentation. >> Absolutely. >> All right. So we are looking at adopting a resolution awarding the sale of general obligation bonds
uh series 226A and the original aggregate principal amount of I have a blank >> 13 million 35,000 >> move to approve adoption >> fixing their form and specification directing the execution and delivery and providing for their payment we have a
motion by Chzach second by >> all right any discussion on that motion Seeing none. Tony, please call the role. >> Chzac, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> no. >> Stunic, >> yes. >> Jagger, >> yes. >> Ericson, >> yes. >> Beans, >> I. >> OD,
>> yes. That resolution carries. >> All right, moving on to number 10, new business. 10A is a public hearing and resolution for improvement 25-06, order improvement, accept bids, and award contract. And I believe this is
Paul Sandy. >> Thank you, Mr. President, members of the council. Uh mailed notices and published uh within the Brainer Dispatch uh for the rescheduled public hearing was sent out for the 2026 resurfacing projects. Um you'll recall from the original notice on April 6th that the public
hearing was not noticed in the paper and thus we had to recommend to council to hold a rescheduled public hearing at that time. Um following that rescheduling of the public hearing, we did open bids for the project and those were opened on May 14th. Uh attached um
is the bid results from the public bid opening that was held. Again, this uh resurfacing project is for resurfacing of uh Spruce Drive, Graden Avenue, Hillrest Drive, Pine Street, Delmare Drive, Delmare Circle, and South 11 Street. The engineers estimate for these
improvements was uh $837,697. The apparent low bidder uh from the bid opening was Knife River Corporation North Central with total bid of 696,94510. Uh we did receive two bids for the project. Um Knife River was at apparent low bidder. That bid cost represents a
cost of about 140,000 under engineers estimate or about 16.8%. Um and staff is uh recommending that the council hold the uh public hearing to hear testimony for or against said
improvements and then um have a motion to adopt the attached red resolution which orders the improvements, accepts bids and awards the contract to Knife River Corporation North Central in the total amount of $696,94510 and to authorize signatures on the
agreement with Knife River North Central. >> Thank you, Mr. Sandy. Anybody have questions for staff? >> Mr. Chzot, >> um when we sent out notices of this um to people that there's a public hearing,
do they get an indication what their estimated assessments are going to be? >> Yes, that is a requirement of statute, Mr. Ch, that they get a preliminary estimate >> based on the engineers estimate being 16% higher. Can we we will expect those assessments to be lowered based on what they received, right?
Yeah, that would be the likely outcome in that circumstance. We would recalculate um all the assessments once the project is completed or at least substantially complete. But given the significant uh lower bid costs and engineers estimate um I would anticipate that the assessment totals are going to
be less. >> Thank you, Mr. President. >> Thank you, Mr. Chzach. Anybody else have questions? >> Nothing over here. No questions over here. All right. We will now hold the public hearing
uh and hear testimony for or against said improvements. So, it is 8:06. If you're here to speak on this or these projects, please come forward. If you're online, press star three. If any of the
four people here are here to talk about this, please come forward now. And if Eric Sharpentier would like to speak on this online, please press star three. Look like we have nobody. So it is 8:07.
We will close the public hearing. Now, we're just looking for a motion to adopt adopt the attached resolution which orders the improvement, accepts the bids and awards the contract to Knife River Corporation North Central and the total contract amount of $696,94510 and authorized proper signatures on the
agreement documents. >> Move to adopt. >> Motion by Ericson. >> Second, >> second by Jagger. Any discussion on that motion? Seeing none. >> Tony, please call the role. >> Chuck, >> yes. >> Johnson,
>> yes. >> Stern, >> yes. >> Jagger, >> yes. >> Ericson, >> yes. >> Evans, >> yes. >> OD, >> yes. That resolution carries. That does it for 10 A. Moving on to 10B, we have a resolution for improvement 25-05,
Southeast Brainard Reconstruction Project, accepting bids. Again, this is public works director Paul Sandy. >> Thank you, Mr. President and members of the council. Uh bids for the southeast Southeast Brainer reconstruction project were opened on May 5th, 2026. This is
for the reconstruction and utility replacement on 17th Street, Southeast, 18th Street, 19th Street, Norwood Street, Maple Street, and Laurel Street, all in that kind of corner of Southeast Brainard, uh bound by 17th Street, and Oak Street. Um we did receive seven bids
for this project. Uh that bid summary is attached Uh the engineer's estimate for the improvements uh was $3,477,08. The low bidder uh the apparent low bidder for the work was Ryan Contracting with a total bid amount of 2,995,49.25.
That bid uh represents about $480,000 under engineers estimate or 14% under the engineers estimate. Um what we're recommending tonight is the council adopt the attached resolution which accept the bids and awards the contract to Ryan Contracting um for the
total contract amount of $2,995,4925 and to authorize a signature on the agreement. Um with those seven bids, it was important to note that the engineer's estimate was kind of dead center between the seven bids, which is a good sign um that everyone was interpreting the plans well. Um, you
know, we see a significant uh significantly lower apparent low bidder in this circumstance. Um, Brian Contract has been in the area um up working up in Crosby here the last two years. Um, we're very comfortable um, working with the Bolton and Bank team and Ryan on
this project moving forward. Um, we've seen very favorable bid results this year, which is a a good trend to be on right now as far as market conditions are concerned. So, um, looking forward to hopefully getting this project underway in beginning of June.
>> Thank you, Mr. Sandy. Anybody have questions for staff? Mr. Johnson? >> Yeah, I I appreciate Paul's explaining that we trust the contractor, but I'm still going to question it. I I like seeing the bids come in 14% under, but this is down in Southeast Brainard, 17th Street, Laurel
Street, really low, really poor soils. Did you double check their Ryan Contracting's bids on what they're going to need for material they're going to bring in? How much it's going to cost them to dewater? I remember eight years ago was it Paul D. Shantel
couldn't couldn't pump enough water out of there that same little >> neighborhood. Like does Ryan have all of the proper stuff in their bid that they're going to be able to keep it dry and reconstruct it properly? >> I'm pretty confident Brian Drown is here tonight too if we have more specific
questions. But um we're confident in what Ryan Contracting has done in other cities um and you know the the documentation as far as the geotechnical report that shows the soil conditions in this area, the groundwater elevations, um the things that contractors need to
submit a bid on projects like this. And given um you know some of our local contractors were very close in pricing um the bids were kind of sequential from that $3 million mark to about 4.5 million. It's garnered a lot of interest and so um we do feel that all the
contractors were looking at this project the same way. They understand the conditions of the soils based on the geotechnical investigations that were done and that the project should proceed um as designed in that area. I I don't see any problems with this. >> Thank you.
>> Thank you, Chairman Johnson. Any other questions for staff? Seeing none, we are looking for that motion to adopt the attached resolution which accepts the bids and awards the contract to Ryan Contracting in the total contract amount of $2,995,4925
and authorized proper signatures on the agreement documents. >> So move >> motion by Stunic. >> Second by Johnson. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none. Tony, >> please call the role.
>> Chzach, >> yes. >> Johnson, yunick, >> Jagger, >> yes. >> Erikson, >> yes. >> Beven, >> hi. >> OD, >> yes. That resolution carries. Next up, we have 10 C. This is another resolution for orderly annexation of Long Lake Township. And this one is for
community development director James Cranic. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh Long Lake Township approached the city of Brainer regarding an orderly annexation of two properties into the city of Brainard owned by Crowing Power. Uh purpose of this request is to eliminate the need to create an additional election precinct
uh for Long Lake Township that has no voters due to judicial redistricting. Uh it has been reviewed by our city attorney. So with that, staff recommends a motion to adopt the attached resolution. >> Thank you, Mr. Kravik. Anybody have questions for staff? Mr. Jagger, >> I have a real quick question. Um this
might be for Connie, but I'm not certain. On page 212, uh, I'm looking at the values on parcel A and it's showing a tax market value of 384,4400, a reference market value of 384,4400, but only an estimated market value of 2,900. Why is that?
>> Um, I would have to look at that because that really doesn't make sense. >> It doesn't. So, that's all. No, if nobody knows, anybody want to raise their hand, take a stab. Okay, never mind. That's all. >> Would this be city owned? >> I don't know. own by >> it would not be city owned. It still be
owned by Crowing Power, but the city would receive taxes for it. >> Okay. >> Be good to figure out that discrepancy, too. >> Okay. Any other questions for staff? >> I think it comes down to county assessor.
>> Oh, yeah. It should. >> I do. >> Any further questions for staff? If not, we're just looking for a motion to adopt the attached resolution. >> Motion by Chzach, second by Bevans.
>> Any discussion on that motion? >> Seeing none, let's go to a vote. Tony, please call the role. >> Chzach, yes. >> Johnson, yunick, yep. >> Jagger, yep. >> Ericson, >> yes. >> Beans, >> hi. >> Oay. >> Yes. That resolution carries. That does it for new business for tonight. Moving
on to staff reports. We'll start off with Tony Gage. >> Nothing here. >> I thought for sure you would tonight. Chief Rundy. >> Uh, nothing further to report. >> Exciting weekend again. >> All good. >> All right. You guys didn't have to fight fires. >> No, we did not. >> All right. Max Hen, anything from CLC?
>> No. >> Teresa Burke, anything at the dispatch? >> James Krabik. >> Thank you, Mr. President. A couple items here. Uh so just want to make uh council aware the orderly annexation agreement for Riverside was delayed again as the county had questions regarding the road maintenance section of the agreement. Uh
city engineer as well as a county engineer had discussed and we believe the issue is resolved. Uh so we did uh send them a revised copy of the orderly annexation agreement with that change and we're waiting for county essentially approval before proceeding for council review. Uh also this uh upcoming
Wednesday we have a busy uh planning commission meeting. We have two IUPs for short-term rental, one a renewal, and then one new on Rice Lake. Also, a proposed 50-unit apartment uh complex on Wright Street on the city owned property. Public hearing for the proposed Shorland ordinance and a uh
first review of a draft ordinance for the floodplane district. >> Thank you, Mr. Cranic. Not at >> all. Attorney Langel. >> Nothing here. Thank you. >> Britney comment. >> Nothing here. Thank you. >> All right. Paul Sandy. >> Thank you, Mr. President. um pleased to announce that this morning I uh got word
that um the city of Brainard was awarded uh $2 million for the um through the bonding bill for the County Lake State Trail, the east segment that would connect the MP center to 28th Street, which is uh great news. Um that's been a project that's um kind of been on the
back burner for a while um when we built the NP Center segment and the west segment of the Cay Trail. Um and uh this will make that connection up to 28th Street and um get the future kind of lake state trail um basically out to our city limits so that whenever they bring
it down from Riverton and they can connect in and we'll be ready to go at that point. So that is really good news. Um we've also received word related to our um phase one uh bioolids project um at BPU. Um, we did submit um our funding
requests uh through Congressman Stabber's office and Senators Tina Smith and Amy Clolobashar's office. We have moved on uh to the next stage to all the appropriations committees for all uh all three um Senator uh Smith and Senator Clolobashar and Congressman Stabber. So,
that $10 million request is moving to the appropriations committee. So, uh it's about the best position we can be in uh to fund a portion of that project cost. Um and uh staff is currently working with Bolton the Bank to potentially um plan a uh trip out to
Washington DC to lobby um for not only this project but also for our uh two larger um infrastructure projects that might be coming down the line here in the next 10 years. That being the phase 2 uh liquid stream um improvements at the wastewater plant and also um our uh
the planning that we're doing for the new water treatment plant right now. So a lot of big things on the agenda. um Bolton Bank uh really stressed the urgency and getting down there and um making a case for Brainer to um be on the front burner to uh ask for these
funds to be allocated to them. So that's all I have. Thanks for the good news, Mr. Sandy. It's always good to hear positive things. Uh let's move on to Mr. Sharpier online. >> Uh nothing this evening, Mr. President. >> All right. Thanks, Eric. and our acting
administrator for tonight, finance director Connie Helman. >> Yes. Uh filings for city offices open tomorrow, May 19th. The open offices are Ward 2, Ward 4 at large. That is currently held by Kevin Jagger and the mayor. Right. Thank you, Connie. Uh next
up, we have the mayor's report. >> Come on down, folks. Welcome all challengers. Uh, first of all, we're going to have a lobbyist group that's going to go out there. You better come up with some clever name, some kind of clever name for that group. I'm not going to say what it is, but it could involve terms
that could be fun. So, you go ahead and figure which out which term you want to use. >> Does it have to deal with your pink shirt? >> I'm I'm conveniently busy that week, day, or whenever. Uh, super fast. Shout out to my granddaughter. I've got a granddaughter
now. I know I don't look like it, but I got a granddaughter now. Went down and saw her this weekend. She got her ears pierced at the Mall of America. I said to my daughter, I'm surprised that you that they still allow you to do things like that for a two-month-old. But they do at the Mall of America, folks. Go on
down there. You can throw some things at a thing. You can get a baby's ear pierced. You can do whatever you want. >> It's great. Well, I didn't say that. I didn't say that. Uh and then Yeah. Whoa. in Shanghai here. Uh, I just
want to say we had a movie in the park and it went great. Jurassic Park went very, very well. And then I wanted to have a little movie called Honey I Shrunk the Kids. And then park staff tried to Shanghai that as well by
putting it up against ET and Ghostbusters. And I thought to myself, 0% chance. I may have to have a mayoral decree saying that we are watching Honey I Shrunk the Kids. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you've seen it or not, but the results are looking
good. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is winning by a landslide and it's probably going to be the next movie in the park. So stay tuned for that. It's a fun fun movie. I I stayed out of it. I stayed out of it. They tried very hard. I said, "I want Honey, I Shrunk the Kids." They
said, "How about we put two of the best movies of all time up against it? see if we can't win. But Rick Morannis will win either way. >> So, and just lastly, uh just condolences and and uh and thoughts and prayers for all the people involved with the fires.
Just want to say that super fast. Uh it it uh it's looking good now that we got some rain going. So, hopefully that stuff will get taken care of. But from the city of Brainard and for everybody involved, we just want to say stay safe and and uh hopefully that stuff can get taken care of as quickly as possible. So, and a report.
>> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Do you have a date on that movie in the park? >> I should have a date on that movie in the park. I believe it is June 5th. That is the correct date. June 5. June 5. >> Thank you. Moving on to council member
reports. Let's start with Mr. Stunning. >> I struggled all weekend for not coming out of retirement. I I didn't go up there though. >> I bet you drove your red truck somewhere close though, didn't you? >> No, I did not. >> Bunch of buckets of water. I spent a lot of time at the Northeast Station to
watch it. >> Yeah, a lot of action up there. >> Is that all for tonight? >> Huh? >> All for tonight then. >> All right. Thank you, Stunic, >> Mr. Chznach. >> Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. I uh just wanted to compliment uh our new police
chief from Mont Rundy on his debut report. It looked good. Thank you. And uh I don't know if everybody got a chance to read that. Um, also I also want to extend my sincere thank you to Commissioner Paul Corine for his statements at the county board meeting
this uh last week on Tuesday regarding our um our sheriff clang and his uh 287g agreement with ICE and the people speaking out against that and I'm very happy to see Mr. Corine expressed his
views very succinctly I might say. Thank you Mr. President. >> Thank you Mr. Chzach, Mr. Bevans >> in the you're not going to believe it category. I went to Lyall Nemier's funeral last week. If you don't know,
Lyall owned Jim and Ly Red owl downtown for a long, long time. >> And uh at the funeral, virtually half the people had flannel shirts, suspenders, and they brought Ly's creams
in in a minnow bucket. I love Brainard. >> Love it. Thank you, Mr. Neans. Mr. Jagger. >> Oh, thank you so much. Uh for our airport ticker tonight, as you may have noticed, I have a BRD manager, Aviator Roach, uh here on hand. So, uh she will
make our uh guest appearance for our uh our our ticker for the airport. So, please, Aviator Roach, >> Mr. Thank you, Mr. >> Mr. President, councel. Um all positives coming from the airport. Uh, as of recent, I've been in the position since
the end of February, and uh, things are are going quite well. Seeing a lot more cars in the parking lot now that we've got our morning flight back and established. Uh, and we're seeing the the results in the employment activity. Uh, every every month we've are continuing to trend up. So, that's
fantastic. Uh, we do have a new business tenant on the airport. Executive Express opened the beginning of May. They're offering uh a car service to and from the Brainer Lakes Regional Airport. And in the Brainer Lakes region, another opportunity for folks to it's a pre-arranged ride, preferably a
pre-arranged uh ride where you go online and you schedule that ahead of time, but another opportunity for folks to catch a ride after they arrive here in Brainard or want a way to get to the airport and not have to leave their car in our parking lot. Um, in recent activity, some folks
already brought up the the fire. I I really want to try and paint a little bit of a picture of what that meant on our airport Saturday afternoon to uh Sunday. Um I don't have uh a full disclosure from the the DNR, right? They're they're working on their
afteraction reports, but I did get a few numbers from Sandy, our our uh Tinkerbased manager, who um who does a great job out there. Um so we generally have three aircraft assigned, three fixed wing aircraft that are assigned at the base along with a couple
helicopters, but uh Saturday we saw uh our one air attack aircraft. That's the one that goes up and flies and manages and directs aircraft as they come on site. We had a total of seven single engine scoopers uh flying in support of the fire on Saturday. So those are
coming from other bases across Minnesota uh besides the two that we have on station. And we had six large air tankers, six lats that brought a total of over uh 51,000 gallons of retardant that was delivered on the fire. Um I
don't have not confirmed yet, but some folks did tell me that uh we basically put every bit of retardant we had available to us on the fire um on Saturday to Sunday to to contain and and uh and quill that. Um, in addition, uh,
an opportunity for our fixed space operator, uh, North Point to do some refueling. They delivered over 18,000 gallons of gas, uh, Saturday to Sunday, which to put that in perspective, our January, February, March numbers, our winter numbers generally run 20 to
22,000 gallons in a month. So, they did a month of winter's work in a in 24 hours. Um, summer numbers can look upwards of 60 to 80. So, you know, essentially a third again that they were able to deliver. We had a CH47, we had
uh a Boeing 747, the four additional uh single engine scoopers and one multi-engine scooper that did request fuel at our airport. Um so, that's great activity for us to be able to support that and those activities to keep our um our community members u safe here in the
Brainer Lakes area. uh really is a a a team effort and that's what I really wanted to get uh the point across this evening to uh you Mr. President and the rest of the council. Any questions for me? >> Wow, I gave a great report. >> Good job, Mr. Jagger. Appreciate that. Thank you.
>> And we may I I had to step out. I apologize. We have we may be seeing a a commercial air divert not being able to make it into Duth this evening. So that may weather. Yeah. Due to weather in Duth coming out of Chicago.
>> Mr. Chzai. Um the um you said a 747. >> It's a it's a 747 size. It's converted for as a large air tanker. Yes. Yes. >> So it's a scooper. >> Uh scoop it. >> I I don't know for sure.
>> Do you know where the jets that scoop are taking the water from? Is there a specific lake? >> No. >> Multiple. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I've heard reports that there were multiple >> Thank you. um lakes that they worked from. >> The planes were using Pelican Lake. The helicopters are used in Rush Lake, which
is right by Cedar Chest. >> Thank you, sir. >> All right. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> But I wasn't involving myself. >> Anything else, Mr. Jagger? >> That's all into my report. Thank you. >> Great report. Good job. Good job. >> All right. Chairman Johnson, >> nothing to add.
>> All right. Thank you, Chairman Johnson. Chairman Ericson. >> Yeah. Thank you. Just excited for the planning commission meeting. James mentioned big meeting coming up and then the following week uh Thursday the 28th is the region 5 development commission meeting and I'll be attending and participating in that as well. >> All right. Thank you chairman Ericson.
Um I'll just reiterate it's we're used to smelling smoke around here and breathing it in almost all summer because Canada can never figure out their fires and uh it's it's crazy to see it this close to home. So, it's um the efforts were
pretty fast and furious. Looks like we had it mostly under control even before this rain. Hopefully, like we were saying earlier, hopefully this rain really does knock it all the way out. Um but I just want to take an opportunity to tell people it's not worth having a fire right now.
It's not worth having a little campfire. We all if you have a tree or two in your yard, we all have a bunch of sticks that we probably want to burn. I know I do. But I don't I wouldn't dare do it right now. Everything's so dry and and the wind hasn't stopped blowing for 2 months straight. So, uh, give it some time.
Just let this be a reminder. We're lucky that we didn't have any loss of life. We're lucky we didn't have any loss of structure either. So, heck of a job done by all. Um, and hopefully we don't have to deal with it again because we'll have to deal with smoke from Canada no matter
what. So, and that'll be it. Now, just looking for a motion to adjurnn. >> So, move. >> Motion by Stunic. >> Second. Second by Bevans. All those in favor say I. I. Against. Same sign. We are journ.