February 24, chapter of city council meeting. Please 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. Welcome. Item three, approve agenda, additions, or corrections. Looking for a motion to approve. So moved. Motion by Paul. Looking for a second. Second. Second by Pam. Any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Perfect. Item four, the consent agenda. Looking for a motion to approve.
So moved. Second. By Dave. Second by Paul. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I'll take that. I'll take that. Yeah. We sponsor. K. We have a, b, c, and d, Mill Creek banner improvements. Looking for a motion to approve the additional size and price increase as recommended. So moved. Motion by John. Second. Second by Dave. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Okay. Opposed? Item b, resolution 20 2025 dash O8, authorizing liability insurance coverage option. Motion to approve as recommended by the EDA.
So moved. Motion by Paul. Looking for a second. Second. Second by Pam. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Perfect. I can see public works two thousand twenty five crack filling plan. Motion to approve as submitted by staff and the public works committee. Looking for a motion to approve. So make a motion to both of them, can we? You you sure could. I have them in two separate line items, so maybe two separate. I'll make a motion for both of them. Okay. We'll do a motion for Crack healing plan and the chip healing plan. C and d,
the chips in the plan also. Motion by Paul. Looking for a second. Second. Second by Josh. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. The votes? Perfect. Community reports. Public services, Matt. We heard from Shane Fox about, the police cars and the work that needs to be done, and that's about it. And what are we doing? Fixing them. Can I pull up? Both home motors being replaced in one and The other one, I think he said that you're hoping by get a new engine. No. But didn't he say by Friday? Well, maybe. Yeah. Maybe I'm making that up.
It might be. That's under underway. They are trying to see if there's a possibility of getting that under warranty. They're thinking maybe the catalytic converter failed so much to the degree that it caused the engine to go as well. Any update on the new spot? No. We talked about that in public services, and I asked Shane to please call up to fire safety. Let them know we need to have this car in service and try to find out what's going on. Okay. So do we have so we don't know right now whether it's gonna be a warranty
or not under warranty. On the engine? No. We don't. The catalytic converter was on that other car was under warranty. The water pump was not, but we're waiting to see on the we don't know yet on the motor. What year is the one with the motor? Do you know? I I'm not off the top of my head. Sorry. The one that's getting the one that's the retiring one. So every year it is a couple years older. So probably a 16, 17, something like that. Yeah. I just was gonna look in the see if they had any service bulletins on them. A lot of times, those things won't go under. If you have constant things,
they won't cover it under warranty. But if they have if they have service bulletins that have been posted for it, you can usually back channel that and get, you know, at least half for the cost or whatever. So I was just curious. I guess I would I'd like to know more information as far as if Shane can find out if it's gonna be covered or not covered. Because otherwise, I mean, if we're gonna be putting $10.12 grand into a vehicle that we're gonna turn around and sell in two months or
three months with the new thing going in service. I don't know if that's the wisest investment of money. I think his concern is just having the one car right now since we don't know when the new car will be in service. And if something goes bad with that one, then we're back to just having the chief's car, and that's why he was moving forward with they've got an engine ordered, put it in. I mean, I you're not wrong. So we've talked a little bit about actually trying to move forward maybe replacing that chief's car this year because that's 11 old.
And then look at replacing the other squad next year and get us back into a rotate regular rotation. Anything else on that? We had our committee of the whole, went over our strategic planning on things that we've done good and more things that we need to work on, trying to get more citizens involved with stuff with our committees and went over budgeting stuff a little bit that we're in good shape. And who knows to Michelle and and Kaye getting that stuff and everybody else in the front office getting stuff approved that
way. So on that note, you guys can all see that on the website too. So on the mayor's report, I wanna say a big congratulations to our wrestlers going to the state tournament this weekend, both as a team and nine individuals, I believe, who are going. That was 10. I think that's a Sheffield record. But the girls don't forget to get 10. 10. Old. 10. Yep. And and the girl. Emily or no? Ellie? Ellie? Ellie. In fairness, so that was a couple weeks ago that her that they wrestled. So Congratulations to her on making it anyway.
So, on that note, I don't really have anything else. So we'll go down to Michelle. Perfect. I do have one item, would be the pedestrian bridge. I did put it out there on the website and on the League of Minnesota City's website. Let's see. That's a little better. Yeah. We did get the one bid, $8,000. And I I guess my question to you, in my opinion, that wasn't high enough. I think we would keep it and find a a use for it at that point. I don't I don't have a lot of experience with public surplus if that was something you thought. Maybe we should try to,
sort sort of an online auction with obviously a minimum bid price. I'm not sure. So I thought I'd see what what direction you guys would like. Tom, was he a DNR guy or no? Have we we scratched the DNR idea? Or I I I reached out to him and and actually, somebody within DNR office actually forwarded it on to a few different counties as well, which I thought was great. I did get a couple of inquiries, but at the end of the day, no bid. So just looking for direction. I think you could probably, you know, go that route, and then we also have feelers out with,
you know, with people. Just get it out. I'm wondering though, do we have to, is there something we can put a cap where you don't have to bring back it and use in your discretion or somethings? We don't I mean, because if we get an $8,000 bid and that, you know, $12,000 bid and it's gonna go on the agenda every single No. It won't. Okay. No. Got it. I think maybe that's something personnel and budget could talk about. Oh, yeah. If that was or I guess it's up to you guys. What do you think? Dave, Pam? Personnel budget can talk about that.
Do we want do you do should we have a motion to approve personnel budget committee to approve of a minimum price? Or what do you think? For the reserve? Right. So that we talk about it in committee. We set it. We don't have to bring it back to council. So we have a acceptable. Yeah. That's fine. They're the next ones up to me. I mean and get it, I mean, get it moving, you know, as fast as we possibly can. I think everybody's under the assumption that we wanna get it moved, but Mhmm. Not for $8,000,
obviously. So, I mean, I'll make that motion that goes to personnel and budget, and they can set the bid minimum for it. Second. Second by Dave. Any Any further discussion? All right. All those in favor? Aye. And then close? Perfect. Okay. We are working very hard on I'm gonna bring forward a job description for deputy clerk position next week. So we're looking at everyone's job duties and, working with Beth to help make sure maybe we realign some of the duties in the admin office. And then I think the other thing on my mind, we've got all kinds of meetings this week,
but Allison and I will also be going up to Capitol Day on the Hill next Thursday, see what's happening at the legislature and get a feel. We'll we'd still like to maybe do another one another trip up if you're available, if any council members would like to go with and just meet with our representatives individually on a different day. So That's what I got. That's it. That's it. Going round table, Beth. Nothing. Thanks. Hey. Okay. Hey. Doing good. Paul? Good. Mike? Congratulations to wrestlers again. Great accomplishment. And then everything for their expenses has already been I assume through CCTV is all
covered. Okay. Good. Yeah. Other than that, I did. Josh? Good. And for the motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. By Mike. Second by Pam. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Rules?