I'd like to call to order the March 24 of the Jackfield City Council meeting. Join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. Good evening, everybody. Item three. Michelle was guessing. I do. I'm sorry. I have four additions for tonight, and they could all go under the consent agenda if if you're okay with that. The first one would be to approve a pay increase for Desiree Schlickter from grade six to step grade six,
step one. The second one would be, accepting a resignation and posting a position for the water aerobics instructor. The third one would be, the removal of Mikaela Anderson from the EDA board and then also posting for that position on that board. And then the final one would be the spring citywide residential cleanup for Monday, May 5. Staff recommendation to move that to the consent agenda looking for a motion to approve. So agenda. Okay. Looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda. So moved. Motion by Paul. Seconded by Dave. Any further discussion? All those in favor?
Aye. Opposed? Perfect. Now item five, department report. Come on, see. Mayor and council, help with our new wastewater permit. We have some updating to do of some plans. The first on the agenda, which is the one we have here tonight, is the phosphorus management plan. So we're updating this from, the previous plan that we had submitted, probably around, five years ago. Nothing really new in this plan. Kinda shows, what our phosphorus levels are coming into our facility, what the levels are going out of the facility. Just identifying if we can take any actions at any point sources in town and
any operational changes that we can do at the facility to try and reduce the levels of phosphorus. I have all that information in this report. Is there any questions on the report? Or I guess, otherwise, I'm looking at approval to be able to submit this to the MPCA. Is there a staff recommendation looking for a motion to approve? So moved. Motion by Josh. Looking for a second. Second. Second by Dave. Any further discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Thank you. Steve? Hold on. Get too comfortable. This is a certificate of commendation. This wastewater treatment facility
operational orders presented to Chatfield Wastewater Treatment Facility and its staff in recognitions of the excess exceptional compliance with its Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. NPDES slash SDS wastewater permit for the 02/2024 review period. Your dedication to protecting Minnesota's waters is duly recognized and appreciated by the state of Minnesota's signed by Catherine Kessler. Appreciate it, guys. Good job. Thank you. Okay. Continued business. Item a, ordinance four seventy eight, immediate comm franchise agreement.
This is a second reading. Motion to approve as presented. So moved. Motion by call. Looking for a second. Second. Second by Josh. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Looking for a motion to approve publication. So moved. Second. Motion by Josh. Second by Paul. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Perfect. Item seven, new business. Looking for a motion to approve, posting the position for the, departing Julie Elders, definitely deputy clerk position looking for a motion. So moved. Motion by Paul. Looking for a second.
Second. Second by Dave. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Perfect. I'm gonna be a comprehensive plan update. Logan, you wanna come up? Sure. Mayor, counsel, Logan Joseph from WITSAFE. Craig would have been here tonight as well, but he had a, another a prior commitment for Dodge Center. So he asked that I sit in here tonight. Makes sense since I'm also the the planner here for the city of Chatfield. But, really, just, you know, there's been a lot of discussion, a lot of talk that has led up to this point. We've had the strategic planning sessions. Two of those, we've had some, joint meetings with the planning commission and the EDA.
So I'm excited to finally get to this point so we can start working some things out and getting some things done. So we're really just looking for, approval for the update on the comprehensive plan. You're not your staff recommendation, looking for a motion to approve. I got one one quick question. So I get our at our meeting, this 15,000, and we had talked about we're gonna attempt to start to revisit just very small facets, you know, to continuously updating. Right? I'm assuming if we do go that route and we do get to that part
that, I mean, the costs are gonna be way less than that if we're just coming back to, like Yeah. That's where the the 15,000 honestly, that's about half the cost of an update. Correct. So there's two things, you know, we identified, I think, the six or seven things that I have in the proposal that we've talked about Yep. Planning commission. And then with the addition of Allison as staff, she's gonna be the boots on the ground to get things done. So I'm hoping that we can accomplish the update that we need through that process. Right. But I would I was yes. Yeah. So we identified those six or seven.
But then when we kinda go back to our meeting, I mean, maybe I was understanding this just a a little bit wrong. But if we once every year or every other year, we're gonna just maybe let's just say we pick one thing to maybe, like, it just let's use solar, for example. Right? You know how it it could it grows so fast. We can't keep up to what we're updating or whatever. Yep. I was just making sure, like, that's not in any of this stuff. Right? And that I was just making sure to get that out there that if if if we do need you or whatever the case that the proposal is,
obviously, gonna be less than that. So Yeah. Just wanted to make sure. So moved. Second. Second by Paul. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Holds? Alright. Great. Thank you. On the committee reports, public services and parking lot. Public services. We just, looked over the info from Rocky about getting the DEF fluid in bulk. No action or anything to do there. And then we oops. I lost it. Looked over the body camera policy that'll be coming back in the future too. That was it on that committee.
Yes, sir. On the panel, did not take that one. Yes. Park and rec. We just had a preliminary discussion about there's a possibility that the, school may be moving the tennis courts on the sub city property, and we just identified some properties that are some places that we thought that would make sense, and that's all we had for today. Thank you. On On the mayor's report, I really don't have anything. Weather's hopefully gonna start scraping out a little bit better. But other than that, I don't have nothing. Alright. Go over with Michelle. Perfect. Happy to say Allison applied for a grant through the Chatfield Community Foundation for to
help cover the cost of the flower baskets and hangers, and she was granted those dollars. So super great news. So thank you for that. Another thing I wanted to bring forward, Steven and I had met, and we were discussing the su how we bill for sewer in town. And then had a brief conversation with Beth today. And we'd like to take a look at that here over the next couple weeks and bring something back to council. But I think our our recommendation is gonna be to change the way we're doing the billing right now. So more to come on that, that piece. And then I think just I was gonna let you know that we're Allison and
I are busy working on ways to help spur development or encourage more development in town. So that's what we're working on. That's it. Perfect. And roundtable. Roundtable. Last week, I got to attend the MCFOA conference, and I just wanted to thank council for allowing employees to to go to trainings and stuff. So Damn? Citywide rummage sales are coming up on Saturday, May 3 with, cleanup to follow. But, if you wanna get an ad in the paper, just gotta let me know. Dave? I have nothing. Paul? Yep.
Mike? Congratulations to Mitch and Steven for that award. I'm good. Josh? Good. Brad? Good. Looking for a motion to adjourn. No. No. Motion to adjourn. Second. Looking for a second. Hang on with a second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Alright. Good night, everybody.