e Tak you ready to record at least you're not covered and Stu all right we're live do you need a minute
sure I had that problem too I got a new laptop the other day all right it's a little after 7:30 let's call the meeting to order we'll start with the pledge I PL Al to the flag of the United States of America to the repblic for it
stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right pretty simple agenda today um Carrie I guess would you mind doing a roll call for us please Mr
Steinberg Mrs roic here Mr White here Mr Winnington here mayor Norton here thank you Carrie um first item today under new business reviewing options for a Citywide cleanup for water damage debris due to recent flooding
events I do we have some info yes yay thank you mayor and city council for U meeting this morning early I appreciate it I know the residents appreciate it too we've had um just a number of calls um and emails at City Hall asking if the city uh would consider doing some sort
of a debris disposal for residents so um I just uh reached out to a couple haulers recently and I'll uh put together a memo and I'll just Briefly summarize that um after last week's Heavy Rain events um unfortunately many residents experienced flooded basements and now have carpet and other flood
damage debris to dispose of um an announcement was made recently uh by Blue Earth County that Blue Earth County residents with flood damaged uh debris um could be disposed of at the Ponderosa landfill um the caveat with that is at disposal cost rate still applies so it's
not a free service um but it is open to um any residents in Blue Earth County um that is uh the landfill is open Monday through Friday 8:00 to 4:30 p.m. and then Saturday from 8:00 to noon um and then again the purpose of today's Mee is to talk about does the
city council wish to offer um an additional debris disposal option to Eagle Lake residents only so um following my conversation with mayor Norton um over the weekend uh we talked about contacting local haulers to see what we could do for Eagle Lake
community members and um after talking with Mr Stephen with the Blue Earth County Ponderosa landfill um he said two options that he would recommend considering would be uh utilizing a licensed hauler um whether it be ljp another hauler that could place rolloff
containers um at a specific drop off location here in Eagle Lake um or another option might be where the city could issue vouchers to Residents and they could bring bring the debris um directly to the landfill however he said that might get a little tricky because um they wouldn't be able to um
necessarily say the vouchers are just for like carpet and Furniture he said it could end up being if somebody abused it we'd have electronics and he said you could quickly have a high bill so he said out of the two options his recommendation would be to try to work with a huler do it in Eagle Lake um and
uh and provide that service to Residents that way then talking to our holler ljp um he said be more than happy to try to help us out um he again he uh discouraged us from doing U multiple drop sites he said just try to pick one
drop site location um he could bring in about 4 to five 30 yard rolloff dumpsters um and he said if possible I'm not sure if public works right now they're overwhelmed with just in backlog now after this recent rain event um and subsequent um issues to deal with but if
they could help because some of that uh carpet and other is water logged and heavy and so he was thinking maybe you could use like a skid loader or something to load it into those rollof containers and and maybe then we could do at the public Workshop because I don't know that City Hall is necessarily an easy spot for people to turn around
um and then I and um I guess in my mind I was kind of thinking well could we do something um you know like on the Southeast portion of the city hall but then we're kind of interfering with the police garages and um I don't want to block their access but anyway so he he
recommended four to five 30 yard rolloff dumpsters um and then he said that the cost of hul each dumpster would be about $200 and the landfill disposal fee would be $70 per ton which it seems pretty reasonable I think so um I'll turn it over to the council and um let you guys
decide which option factoring in uh Public Works availability to help and and whatever um ideas they might have but definitely just want to reiterate again residents have been calling it's something that's really important to them and so thank you mayor Norton for
um asking that we look into this no I'm glad you were able to get all this info together and quickly I know everyone wants it immediately and um it's not that simple we still have open hours and um I this is just
considering what's going on with everybody I'm surprised we've even have all this information to look at so thank you um I would like to hear from Andrew what you think if it's equipment and time for you guys really what's the best situation we'll make it
work where would you like it is what you're gonna ask well I was just going to say these roll offs typically have doors on so I don't know just have the doors open for work hours and then shut them when your when work hours are done I I mean a SK sounds like a good idea
but it's not that good of an idea so was a motor that's different but a Skitty and those buckets aren't big enough and I mean would it help yes but um I I just think if we have the doors open through the day and let people throw throw stuff
in there and then throw stff in there and think we should be fine yeah it just depend on how close we have them all too so it's like down at the shop we don't have room to space out you know five dumpsters with the doors
open either what about maybe I could talk to ljp and just see if they could bring a couple initially and see how fast they fill up and then maybe that's the way too and maybe that's what he was thinking too maybe I um explained it incorrectly because you're right there's not enough room to put put that down
there I was kind of thinking that too by R is could you talk to the legion and if they don't have events in the Pavilion could it go into that back parking lot where they can be spaced out they can pull in but still go out I mean would they be willing to be a partner in ask them yeah even like the park parking lot
down by the um hockey rink I think if there's stuff that's too heavy or if they get too full where they have to shut the doors and throw over then that's when a
skid steer or something would be needed I like the idea of the part because then we have cameras too I'm just you know if we see somebody rolling in there with 18 television sets might have questions right but um I like the
Ponder Ro idea too but at the same time if you've ever gone to Ponderosa on a weekend if you weren't in line by 7:30 you're waiting for hours my husband was there Saturday morning because we had just stuff from remodeling that we were getting rid of and the line was atrocious and the guy said it's going to
be like this CU everybody's going there you know um I don't know I I like the dumpster idea a lot yeah I think if you do the you know have them bring two or something and see
how quickly they go I don't know Garrett what do you think I think I think doing two dumpsters at the park would be the best option I think that once you I think when you get the other places involved I mean I think it's a good sentiment to maybe ask the school or the legion they
have bigger parking lots but I think that we're too busy right now to do that and we have a parking lot at the park that's ample but yeah two dumpsters and just fill them fast and see what happens okay anyone want to make a motion can I ask a quick question about
that what is the time frame on that do you guys um and I should ask public works too do you want to start next week or how do we I think as quick as we can get them right okay yeah okay sounds good I we I would say that if you can get them here ASAP would be the better
thing I think okay you know I think I think some people might already start getting rid of some stuff and then you know that might mold in their house I don't know yeah it's good point do do we also want to say up to five dumpsters for the next couple weeks you know kind of put some time boxes around it yeah
that's probably a good idea I cleared back out before Tater days absolutely so I think I would say the dumpsters could stay there up until that Friday before Tater days and then they're gone and that gives people two weekends right um because if you leave them there too long
people that don't need them for storm water damage are just going to start utilizing them for their own personal and and that's exactly the concern that people are going to be dumping Electronics so we'll have to try to put as much information about not doing that I don't want to assume but I would think that most
people probably have gotten a lot of the stuff out of the flood areas in their houses you know um and so I think you could even just say let's have the dumpsters there for a week and that's I was going to say a week cuz people aren't going to leave wet stuff in house no they're going to spend the weekend
now that they know they're there they're going to spend the weekend doing a big thing so if we said A week it's going to push people to do it and then get them back out of the way my son pump flooded and I had everything out and in a dump trailer in 12 hours and well something like you know but that that's a different situation but you want to get that out you know maybe we just say if
there's extenda circumstances contact City Hall I'm just saying if there's one elderly person whose son can't get here for a week you know what I mean me oror I'm glad you brought that up because in talking with with uh Jesse with ljp he did mention that like if there's somebody who's got um like
a a disability or or an elderly person I think that we if they call City Hall we could make arrangements to pick it up great you know at their property I think it would also be helpful because the next piece is going to say well great Eagle Lake is doing this but I don't have means to get it there which we're
at least bringing it one step closer than having them go sit in line so if there's residents that um are willing to help not even volunteer like they can pay or whatever because we're saving the resident time from having to go down there can we have a list of people that
can be contacted or do people just post it online or and I don't it might just be a poll saying if you're willing to help put your contact here for people to reach out I don't think that's a bad idea at all we could we could certainly keep a list don't you think Carrie at City Hall not that we can promise we can help you but if we hear people willing
to help I think that's a great idea yeah and oh yep yep sounds good I think there'll be people that want to help and have the means to help they just I've seen posts already of people that are already doing it
so keep the kind of slowing on you guys these ideas dump it I think this this would help the vast majority as a one and done but yeah we can certainly work through outliers as we need to um okay thoughts questions comments
motions I'll make a motion to get the rolloff dumpsters up to 5 down at the city park for uh removal along with having a list of volunteers that are that was discussed like what you said on the
website for for some help um and to have those dumpsters placed there as early as possible for up to a week I'll second that all right we have a motion on a
second any further discussion all in favor say I I anyone opposed motion carries I will get that information out as soon as I get back to my desk well first of all get a hold of ljp just confirm when he can get it to us and
then get that out to Residence so took the words right out of my mouth I'm like I know I don't even need to ask them assuming you'll get this all out into the app and the email and all that yes I will I'll do it before we leave town thank you all right next item under new business generator rental for the Well
site all right timing is everything yes right uh mayor and city council um as you know uh Public Work Director Hartman I have been um concerned about not having a generator at the Well site um and so we have been working since the
council gave permission to or authorization to go ahead and order a generator um but unfortunately we can't do anything about getting that generator here so I know Andrew has been very diligent and following up and I've been checking into and as of our latest uh check-in we have um about 3 weeks out
that they're going to be um bring us that generator and Andrew's working on getting some things coordinated with concrete work so that when the generator arrives it can just get in there right away so I appreciate that but anyways um I guess just given recent events you know just being concerned about um
severe weather events and what we just went through with um and Public Work Director Hartman his Department having to get emergency bypass pumps you know for the lift station just got to thinking of um some different scenarios that we feel that we're vulnerable and so um reached out to
minmor who assists uh water and wastewater um departments across the state um when there's emergencies and they were able to um Locate a generator for us in Eagle Lake but the the catch with that is that once the uh emergency
event is over then you have to return the equipment so and talking to um some of those folks they said if you're looking for something till you get your permanent solution you probably want to go the renting route with um and they've recommended um I contact Ziggler cat and so that's who Andrew and I are working
with and um so we basically would have um a standby generator it' be wired to the Well site and we'd be able to have that for um the amount of time it takes to get the permanent generator installed but that way if there were a loss of power um and Andrew can explain it more
better than I can but and you know we'd have a loss of pressure we wouldn't be another situation we'd have to have a boil order I just can't imagine our public works department having to deal with that after everything else they're dealing with so the cost of it there is a cost but um I think it's small when you think about if we did have an
incident so um it'd be the standby in the materials I have are from Zigler cat and um he the salesperson quoted us uh the standby rate so if it doesn't run it would be 640 per week um and then he showed if up to 40 hours of run time
would be 855 per week and then there's a cable and you know the shipping it and all that but um uh Andrew's got a good working relationship with an electrician and he has already said he's going to meet on site today and get it connected
so um one thing we do want to do is notify our insurance to make sure we have coverage since it is a portable generator and Andrew and and the electrician will hopefully try to find a way to deter anybody from getting it to be able to move off site but well we would want it to roll into one of those
dumpsters either yeah yeah so anyways with that I know I'm throwing a lot of information at you but we're City staff we're just asking um to approve the um rental of a stand a portable generator until the permanent one is installed and if you have any specific
questions Andrew is the person to ask I'm just giving you kind of the high level um information right now when you uh contacted me about about you know do you think this is a good idea I couldn't have been more relieved to think this is where our staff's brain is at worrying
about what could come not what's happened already but uh I think it was what 600 homes over because of the dam that electrical outage they've got everyone in the world from excels over there if there's anything that goes wrong I can't even imagine how long it's
going to be to get power restored when you think of everything they've already got on their plates at Excel well I I should mention I did contact our contact with Excel it's Anna thil believe and she did say that they didn't think there was going to be any concerns with the dam and loss part but she said we can't
um um protect trees from falling down online so you're absolutely right you know and they've so yeah uh even in the best of times we should have one hence why we have decided to buy one um the timing is epic of course but I will go
back to quoting my lady father of an ounce of prevention is a pound of cure uh let's make sure we don't have to boil water that's my two sons well I'll make a motion to approve the rental of the portable generator until the new
generator is installed I'll second thank you any further discussion all in favor of renting the generator and getting that installed say I I I anyone opposed motion carries um
um we have no other items on the agenda any questions comments thoughts anything else I have a couple updates if that's okay to share first of all I just want to mention um um with last week's events um I just can't tell you how impressed I am with our city staff right away Public
Works um swoops into action and they we I didn't hear of one single sewer backup in our town which is amazing I got a call from the league they were calling to check with um you know if any any issues and just like thankfully these guys worked around the clock and um I also want to
thank Carrie she jumped right in when um she's been through different emergencies here in Eagle Lake and right away she goes and grabs the binders exactly what she was instructed to do at our trainings and she you know it's just it was really a good feeling um you hate to see these things happen but when there
are things that we can manage and it's just little exercises to go through and and and talking with public works department we're going to have a meeting um next week and kind of review how everything what we can do better and so I just really appreciate staff you did a great job tell your department that and Carrie thank you so much um always and
in the council too mayor Norton you get you came down here without being asked we're out there for hours filling sandbags we had off-duty Law Enforcement Officers firefighters and all of you guys I know have helped other people too I know I have I probably have one of best fans in
my basement right now I just can't tell you how I was so impressed with this community just working at City Hall in all the people I saw reaching out going out way to help people it was just incredible so I know don't mean to sound sappy but I was really proud of our community it no it really was really
proud I Echo everything you just said but I showed up here I had taken the day off to work on the house so like what can I do to help we've got it we're good Sand's already on its way they've already got the new pump coming they're I mean the amount of time you guys spent
and the overnights and coming in checking to make sure that our water is still flowing I don't think people grasp just how epic that could have been had you not been doing that cuz didn't one of them get clogged and you had to clear it out in
the middle of the night and everything yeah one of the pumps got um those flushable wipes that aren't so flushable stuck in it so we had to have um Minnesota pump come pull our pump down at the main LIF station and clear that
debris out of there so one person's flushable wipe could have been the UND doing of how many basements in this community can we make a poster about that I know we talked about that getting more education out I mean that's just horrible but no and that's the thing and
um I know people say well that's your job you're supposed to do all this stuff yes we know that but but these guys really care about our community and Carrie Carrie stopped in on Saturday morning to go I didn't ask her to do it she went to go check on the pump in in the city hall office and so I just I I
know I sound really mushy gushy here but I'm just really proud of everybody in the council and our community and just good it's refreshing to see yeah so okay I have a question about that thing because we're sitting here so um Deputy Grassman came over from North mano to
help sandbag on his day off and he was in here helping us empty this thing out okay chief Deputy Brennan was here helping load sandbags it was incredible but why are what is going on with that pump in there it's all good no surprisingly we walked in we wouldn't
have even you wouldn't have even had any idea if I hadn't taken pictures that that had been completely wet it was all dried out we had fans running and okay I was going to say I feel like I've known about this happening but is it something that needs to get done
differently or I think that's what is is but no we literally sucked up water like we that's a 16g shot back I think we had water sucked within 2 minutes and we kept over and over it was the best part was Jennifer taking it out to the parking lot in the middle of flooding
right going I don't if I should pour this here like well I think it's going to wash away in the next 4 Ines of rain that come tonight but okay well then I have one other thing that not such a positive um update so um I'm still
trying to process process it all myself here and it's with regret that I I got two notices of resignation yesterday um and it's not on the special uh agenda because we have to specifically notice the meeting for the purpose for what the meeting is being held so this will be on
a regular city council agenda but um it's with regret that I share that I got a notice of resignation from um Olivia Our Community Development coordinator but I'm as sad as I am to see her go I am so excited for her because she um has an amazing opportunity to pursue her PhD
with a full ride scholarship and we're so proud of her and can't wait to see all the wonderful things she's going to do and um hopefully she will stay in touch and remember Eagle Lake and we'll talk more at the upcoming meeting but um and then um it's also with regret our administrative clerk um uh Mandy orer
has subit her nose resonation she has another uh job opportunity so um couldn't have predicted we have two resonations in the same day it's I like I said I'm still in a bit of shock but uh Carrie and I have been through a turnover before this will be the third time Carrie and I've worked on
together and during her 19 years of being at the city vle Lake she's been through it many times so I have the utmost confidence we're going to get through it we can handle um all of our processes uh what is a little stressful is just um you know the Manpower aspect and keeping up with phone calls and um
just our other day-to-day work but I just want you guys to know we will get through everything um both of I both Carrie and I have handled each of those positions responsibility ities um Carry with utility billing me with Planning and Zoning so we'll get through it but it's not going to be easy but we'll hopefully have a plan of attack to
present you at the July um city council meeting and okay so I haven't had my coffee so my throat's not awake yet but um I am so happy for Olivia just I feel
like we're going to be uh like she used to work here when we see her off doing great things um her future is very bright so um and Mandy will definitely be missed here you know she's been a staple I I can't even imagine the office
without her but you know um that's our that's life right opportunities and sometimes change is the best so this how we deal with it here and I I'm confident we're going to get through it we just have to but it is it isn't going to be easy in the sense that Kier and I both
have our normal day-to-day job so we will I just want you guys to know don't panic we will get through it and hopefully we'll have some good applicants um to be able to help but it does take time the whole hiring process takes time well just keep us surprise if you guys need anything absolutely thank
you I can already imagine coffee a lot of coffee but um you know make sure if we need help in the meantime let us know um and then just to clarify we are scooting the July council meeting to the
8th yes yes I believe there was a u confusion among that some of you mentioned to me that we had previously talked about that and I apologize so I think you are correct I think our meeting was supposed to be July 8th for whatever reason I still had the old calendar and it said July 1st so I believe it's July 8th well yes I was
thinking it was the first to I know but I think there was some confusion uh or some discussion a long time ago because can ever can is is anybody going to be out of town I know Beth you're probably out of town right are you out of town no okay so um so the first works I'm just
I'm not here at least for I think the eighth is fine if it works for everybody else and I know Public Works is um probably very I don't think you are I know you are but I know Andrew probably St he wants to get on the agenda for Street stuff and he needs time probably to be able you haven't been able to do
any of that stuff e okay sounds good at this point whatever you need Andrew and Jennifer I know I know there's lots of time and effort goes into getting packets together I know you've been on slightly busy lately so if we go to the A and
that too for just the community there's probably things that they may be interested in and everyone's very distracted is not the right word but there's a lot going on um so yeah July 8th and we'll be do we need to
repost or just we'll just put a new notice out and thank you guys for being yeah no thank you all right um I feel like I'm rambling should we be done anyone have anything else one thing I'd like to say though is um with regards to
like Mandy and Olivia's job while they're still working here I think we should ask them to help you know write down a lot of the nuances of their jobs I mean because there's so many things that especially in the administrative stuff
that you sometimes we'll have to call them after they're gone you know um I um I know a person that's resigned from her administrative role uh and she's been gone for two years and she still gets phone calls there's just a lot of so
that would be my recommendation I think there's just a lot of knowledge there um even if you guys know the nuances of the job I think it would be I think in this window it would be best to have them help in a sense make a syllabus or
something of training ideas for the future candidates that are going to be in that position but yeah and thank you to Mandy and Olivia for all their hard work and dedication to the city of Eagle Lake all right good ideas um anything else I'll look for a
motion I'll make a motion to adjourn second any further discussion all in favor of adjournment say I hi my e