let's call the Farbo City Council for Tuesday April 8th 2025 to order First item on tonight's agenda is the roll call Council member Barnes here Dumba here Ross here Rowan here Vensoo here
Teal here Mayor Spooner here and followed by the pledge of 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 Number three is presentation and introductions We have none tonight Number four is approval of the minutes of March 25th 2025 city council meeting and April 1st 2025 special city council
meeting close session So moved Second We go back to number two Oh number two Can we approve the agenda i make a motion to approve the agenda Second.ed by a motion by The seconded by Ron All those in favor signify by saying
I I I all opposed Uh no presentations no introductions Here we go again Uh number four approval of the minutes I already read it once so I'm not moved Second Motion by Ross second by Duoya All those
in favor of the minutes say I I All opposed Motion passes Uh no request to be heard Number six consent agenda items Hold for discussion Mayor Spooner Yep I make a
motion to approve consent agenda items 6A through 6N Motion by Vancloo second by Barnes to approve 6 through 6N All in favor say I I Opposed Motion passed
No public hearings tonight No items for discussion We have one bid resolution 2025-095 accepting the bid for the water reclamation facility improvements Director Travis Uh thank you Mayor Spooner members of the council
Resolution 2025-096 is seeking to accept the bid for the water reclamation facility improvements Uh bids are received for the project on March 17th which consists of laundry covers uh adding laundry
covers to the uh final clarifiers digtor uh improvements and an alternate to uh replace the primary uh splitter box Uh attempts were made to get multiple biders uh for this project Uh we did have a we hosted a pre-bid meeting where
there were uh two biders present but uh when bids are received there was only one of those biders uh chose to uh submit a bid Just discussions with the consulting engineer there's a possibility of just the amount of work and the type of work that's going on out
there in the climate right now may have uh led to that situation So the bid that was received was from PCI roads in St Michael Minnesota in the amount of $1,619,000 uh that consisted of a base bid of
719,000 and an alternate of $900,000 And you can see on screen there before you that the engineers's estimate was 1,666,000 Uh funding for the project is being provided by the sanitary sewer fund with $530,000 budgeted for the base bid portion uh making up kind of some of
the difference between that and then going with the alternate that we are going to be recommending tonight Uh $175,000 is being provided by a budgeted project that is for roofing that uh staff feels comfortable with doing some in-house uh matter things that can
extend that life cycle that we can get that a couple more years to uh you know place the p you know take advantage of uh doing this alternate right now which uh is is a little more pressing than than that roof and then uh
$1,27,711 from cash reserves uh then would be applied then to use you know make up for the funding gap that we need for that alternate So you can see the total funding of one just over 1.7 million uh with the budget impact for
2025 cost of just slightly over one This is a screenshot before you that just kind of administrator Kinszer provided me with looking at uh some of the cash reserves and that we have on hand and kind of some where we're going
to be going in future years Uh so you can see on the bottom there that's highlighted in green the $1.2 million was what was available for cash for these type of improvements uh the 210,291 that you see there being subtracted from that is for the uh
applying the cost for the jet truck that we recently replaced So leaving the $1,27 or $27,711 on a schedule for the project If we award the contract tonight we'd be looking at a June start for construction
and then looking for final completion of the project sometime in So with that I would recommend the approval of resolution 2025-096 Questions for director Uh thank you Mayor Spooner Um Director
Black any chance of us getting another bid or two in your estimation council member Ross uh in discussions with the consulting engineer Not likely Just there has I'm understand there's a large project that
the other person the other contractor that attended our pre-bid they were awarded which kind of likely led to them just not having the resources kind of being spread out throughout the state Typically in this work uh there's kind of a handful of contractors that do
perform wastewater andor water plant stuff So with those larger projects um I'm not sure if that award was before they did that you know they attended our pre-bid but then that's likely in my opinion what has happened So in looking
at getting another bid it not likely Thank you That's it Here Spooner I'll make a motion to approve resolution 2025-096 Second being none All those in favor
signify by saying I All opposed is I have one item I would like to read tonight City council has conducted a one-year 360 performance review of
Jessica L Kinszer city administrator for the city of Farbol As part of the evaluation process the city council and the leadership team evaluated Jessica in several areas of performance which include leadership and supervision
process reached the following conclusions Jessica L Kinszer's performance has been an average score that is above and exceeding expectations goals objectives and areas of focus that were given to Jessica towards
work As per Jessica's employment agreement with the city of Farable by exceeding expectations she will receive a one-step increase in the wage of grade Vstep 10 under the non-union compensation plan
2025 and receive 4 days of administrative leave This will be effective on her anniversary date of employment April 1st 2025 Thank you All right Uh are there any boards and
commissions announcements i have two actually Um so I'm with the Fairbolt Spoocher class 2025 and we are going to host a fundraiser for the nest which is through the district The nest is a pro a program where they refurbish
um you can use clothing to donate um to school items hygiene items It's it's something that students can utilize in a room in each or are not able to items So our
goal is $10,000 to give to the nest It's called fluff the nest and future um is hosting it You can reach out to me or donate through the Ferbal Foundation Also April 10th April 15th
Godfathers and then Basilios is uh hosting a din in or order out seven Godfathers on the 10th on the 15th And then my second announcement is I noticed um just on an app that comes
through through Google It was uh Farbo made the world atlas 2025 most underrated towns in Minnesota It was an article from April uh 6 2025 and the author was Will Fleon So I
thought that celebrate Thank you Yes Peter Um tonight on the 5:00 news at channel 5 there was a little um segment on farewell mills First they said you know I'm not sure who saw this
but um first they said farewell you know the town where good things happen veterans are recognized and farewell mills And with the trade war going on right now Farwell Mills their uh orders are skyrocketing and people that
normally get their supplies from overseas now try to get them from farmable mills So that was good to hear Yeah just a a few things here Um the Vioideuct Park survey if for those of you who have not done it if you could please do it Um Brad sent out a link uh
and we're hoping to incorporate that into the April 29th retreat Um which April 29th retreat we are right now looking at a 1M start time Um uh Allison's going to be the one to kind of kick that off um with some strategic planning kind of related things So we'll
talk with her about if if she needs to move that back based on other stuff she has going on that day Uh but that's kind of what we're looking at And then the big thing to remind everybody of is the council chat for tomorrow night Um everything you will ever want to know
about nuisances really in an open house style where we'll have um fire and code service staff uh planning and zoning staff um police department and uh parks and uh parks and wreck Paul and and potentially Keith um to talk about uh
nuisance trees and dead and diseased trees and that special assessment option that we have right now So 6 pm at the 3:10 loft and yeah we'll we'll hopefully be able to share a lot of information Thank you Uh our next
meeting is a work session but for second gardens proclamation get together with all the people that have put in pollinator gardens that there's also a ribbon cutting ceremony at
Riverbend for their acquisition of land that day I believe that's also Earth Day So very busy day for city council Anything else i'll take a motion to adjurnn
So moved Second A second by Barnes All those in favor signify by saying Hi we