Moment of silence 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. Thank you everybody.
All right, first thing is the agenda, consent agendas. This is regularly done in the mill stuff every month. No questions. Somebody want to make a motion to approve. >> Someone to second. >> All in favor?
>> I I oppose. Motion carried. Uh community comment. Anybody? Don't look like it. Um Warren Olen is here tonight with us. Thank you for coming. There's my >> You probably got a heck of a tough job.
>> Well, so the thing about it that I like the most is that this district, we all kind of talk common sense on a regular basis. So, kind of appreciate that. Um, this is my yearly walk around the district, stopping at every city council, every county commission, and
every school board in the district just to make sure everyone's got my cell phone number, know how to reach me. Here's the deal. You might have remembered or you might have noticed that I wasn't here last year because at this point in time I was um just about on a plane to Kuwait. I had a deployment
with the United States Army Reserve. I'm a major in the Army and was over there. So I wasn't hiding from you. Was actually hiding from Iranian missiles because they were firing over my head at that time. So you'll excuse the fact that I wasn't there this last year to kind of say hi and make sure that >> I remember we heard that.
>> Yeah. So you probably you probably miss me like where the heck is that? I tried calling you then. >> Yeah, boy. You left me a message. >> Did I? >> Oh, I was over in Iraq. So, yeah, that's why I didn't get your message. >> That's right. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah. So, uh phone coverage in Iraq. Not
great. Northern Syria. Really bad. Really bad. It thought I was in Turkey. Not in Turkey. I was in northern Syria. Kuwait's amazing uh service. The only problem is people call you at 3 in the morning because it's five o'clock their time in the evening. So, I always try to
answer at 3:00 in the morning and hey, what's going on? You know where I met and you know what time it is. So, I thought >> you know what I'm doing. >> I thought that was all sorts of fun. So, uh first I'll talk about what happened this year. Then we got to talk about this water project because we just have
to have a conversation and and see what strategy and which avenue we want to go down because I got a couple ideas. Uh first off, we're going to see $125 million in property tax relief in this state. So that's going to directly affect your consultants. We got $254
million worth of car tab fee reductions that goes into effect next January. All right. So those are two big wins that we thought were were I mean $375 million just about in property tax car fee reductions. That's taxes on our people. It's going down. >> Before you go too far, can I ask where
do you save that money? >> Do you cut to save that amount of money to us? >> No. So, um, the way we did this year, now remember, we were one half of onethird of government. We had the Republicans held one half of the House
of Representatives. Democrats had the other half. It's only happened one time in history other than this. In the 160 years that Minnesota has been a a state, we've only ever had a tie twice, and this was one of them. So, we had a tie in the House. We we were not in the majority in the governor obviously is
the governor. So, uh, the way that we're doing this, two out of $374 million worth of reductions on the the cost of our constituents. It's a game of shifts and gimmicks, okay? Uh, there was a budget surplus. We took part of that surplus and handed it back to the
constituents. So, we're not cutting, nothing got cut. The only thing is that that that money got backfilled for the time being. All right? And so, that's going to depending on how the election goes in November, that'll be the real direction that things go. Um, a tied house meant that we brought forward what we thought was really important, which
was fees and tax reductions. They brought forward what they thought was really important and we argued about it and this is kind of what stuck. So that's only guaranteed for this year and to 2027 with regard to tab fees. Everything else is going to be dependent on the election uh this year. So that
200 $374 million in property tax and car tab fees, it's just a shift in a gimmick from we took too much money. We gave it back as best as we could this year. The equation stays the same. Okay? So after this money goes out, the equation goes
back to the way it was. So word to the wise, if you need to buy a new car, wait until 2027 because if you buy it in 2027, the fee will be based off of 2022 mathematics for that year only. That's
the only guarantee. All right? So if if the Democrats win in November, buy a new car next year because it'll automatically I mean a $60,000 car according to the current evaluation is almost $1,000 tab fee and it takes three
years before you see a dramatic decrease in the cost. So >> three years before that $1,000 starts dropping off. >> Yeah. You only It's ridiculous. In three years the depreciation according to the state's valuation is 10% three years. We all know that a car depreciates far
greater than third than 10% in three years, but the state only depreciates it by 10 year or by 10% in the first three years. And it's the MSRP. It is not what you paid for it. So like the truck that I purchased was $10,000 off the MSRP and I have to pay t fees on the MSRP which
is $10,000. So and that's the one point it's 1.5 1.54% of the MSRP is with a depreciation schedule. That's garbage. So, wow. Yeah. Yeah, it is. It's rough. It's really rough. But that's that's two
things that we did this year. Um, I was talking with one of my superintendents before session started and I always ask my superintendents the same thing. And I should probably start asking like city councils the same thing. Give me one sentence that I can take up to St. Paul and use to advocate for education. This is because I was talking to the
superintendent. Same thing would apply to a city council. One sentence that I can take up to to advocate on your behalf. Kind of an idea. We were having coffee uh in January. He told me Vern, he says, "We my one sentence is just give us a chance to catch our breath."
That was it. He said, "Don't throw anything else at us." Like at this point, we don't have any excitement that you're going to get anything changed like for the better. We don't think you're going to reduce any mandates or reduce any fees. I'm not going to ask for that. I'm going to ask you to give us a deep breath. Let us catch our breath as we're running this marathon
trying to catch up. And I think we that's what we did. I think that out of anything, we didn't increase any taxes. We didn't increase any fees. We didn't increase any mandates on the population. Um, we didn't do any of that kind of stuff. The only thing that we did was provide some some reduced taxation fee
reduction. We saved Tenipin County Medical Center, which is was just abysmal, and it was $200 million, which is ridiculous. Um, and the package that it came with had a little bit for our rural crisis uh or critical access hospitals. So Medilia Health, which is
in dire straits right now, is going to get a little bit, but not enough to save them. So we're saving Henipet County Medical Center, this multi-billion dollar establishment, but we're not we're not saving Medelia Health. The state's not saving them. The people of the area, people of Waton County are
going to be asked to save Medelia Health, which I think is a tragedy because an independent healthcare system like Medel Health is a wonderful thing to keep it, but that's that's a different story. That's kind of a side. uh bonding bill this year happened. We had uh a little bit of money for local
government uh towns and bridges. So, you'll see a little bit of money uh into your own personal uh treasury, but when we're talking about what this district got in terms of bonding, we got $800,000.
So, Martin County, Martin County got $300,000 because they had a veterans their veteran office needs to be revamped. And then Fairbo County got a half million dollars and that's because they're working with the city of Blue Earth to build a road that they're going
to uh increase the size of their industrial park. So with that being said, $800,000 is a far cry away from 10.5 million. Um when the newspaper showed that Martin County got $300,000, I got a phone call from the the mayor of
of Grenada and he says, "Why didn't you give us that $300,000?" I said, "Well, because you guys are asking for $4 million, I didn't think 300,000 was going to be a far I mean, that's a far cry away from $4 million bucks." Um, and he says, "Well, the project that we
really, really need is 1.8 million, and 300,000 off of 1.8 is six substantial money." I was like, "Well, great. I wish you would have told me that sooner because that would have weighed heavily on my evaluation of where we're going to put this money." Um, and so my
conversation with you today needs to lean on the idea that 10.5 is not an insurmountable amount. Um, I'm well on my way to one of the most senior Republicans in the legislature this year. I'll be about assuming I get
reelected, I'll be the 18th or the 19th most senior member, which means we can lean heavy, but 10.5 is a lot of money. and the so the conversation can continue being I'm asking for 10.5 but we need to
start being realistic on what we can get and what's the bare minimum that I can ask for in order to make the project happen and what's the timeline on it because um and then also can we just play a game of shifts and gimmicks as well going to be one of the I'm going to
be one of the absolute most senior members of the transportation committee I've been on that committee now for six years what That means is that if we're in the majority, I could maybe even be the chairman of the transportation committee, which means that the city of
Good Thunder could easily find a million bucks in the multi-billion dollar transportation bill, you know, for a road or for a bridge. These are all games that we can play and how we want to do it. We just need to think about it and be ready for it. Like I told the commissioners in Martin County, I said,
I need puzzle pieces that depending on how things move, which way the levers move in St. Paul, I can put in and see if it sticks. Right? So, I felt like I only had one big puzzle piece from you guys and it was a $10.5 million ask for that's a big puzzle piece and I couldn't
get it to fit. But if I've got an idea on the next road you guys are looking at building or fixing or something down the road. Um if you're, you know, if you're looking at one of your roads and saying this is going to be this is going to be a problem for us five years from now. If
I can fund it next year, great. If it takes me three years to fund, great. You know, you you don't need it's not in the plan until five years from now. If I can money for it, wonderful, right? If that puzzle piece sticks, then we hunt it down and we put that puzzle piece in. If I can get to 10 and a half million, we
put that puzzle piece in. But I need to know what the smallest level of that puzzle piece is to try and get it to stick. And these are all things that that the more the more options I have from your city and the more flexibility I have from your city, the greater your
odds of getting some. If that makes sense to you all because um I talked with the county commission in Martin County and they they said, "Hey, if you get a bunch of money, here's a road. Hey, if you get a little bit of money, here's a small office building that needs to be
revamped. And so when we got a small amount of money, they got an office building that that they got refurbished. So that's that's kind of the idea. That's what we got to think about. And I don't So here's here's another thing. Representative Olsson, as he's been a representative of this district, he's
directly I I' I've been able to get you money indirectly through things like, you know, property tax reduction or local local road aid. like um I had a bill my first year that was for $18.5 million for local roads and so I'm not
I'm not trying to say that I haven't gotten anything for Good Thunder and I haven't gotten anything for Blue Earth County because I I inadvertently have but nothing there hasn't been a single piece of legislation that's been turned into law that says you know Blue County or something in Blue Earth County direct
appropriation and that's what I'm hunting down that's what needs to happen because I've got winds for Fable County direct appropriation ations to Fairbo County, direct appropriations to Martin County to then Martin County. Sherburn's gotten $4 million and direct
appropriations to Watan County. The only thing that I don't have is Blue Earth County. I don't have all the checks on my, you know, I don't have all the numbers on my bingo card filled out yet where I can look at you all and say, "Look here, I've been able to do this." And so, if Good Thunder gives me these
puzzle pieces, I'm able to do that. And so, and I know Mapleton's talking about a road. They're providing me with some of information on a road that they need, but it's like $3.2 million, which is kind of a big ass, too. So, the more we can play ball, I'm hunting for Blue Earth County, and I can't seem to get
something for you. >> Blue Earth County isn't up there fighting for the Rapidan Dam Bridge. >> So, the Rapidan Dam Bridge was in the bonding bill as per the governor's recommendation. So the governor's recommendation was $10 million for the
rapid dam and then uh partway so because it was his re like the agencies they put that in and then for some reason it got taken out by the DNR. So that's that's the issue. And I talked with Josh with the county and he said that FEMA's
finally starting to talk with them. And so I think that there was some someone went around the conversation that I was having with the bonding committee. And so I don't know the end result in that. But that was a big question that I had. I talked to the chair of the bonding committee. I said, "Hey, Rapid Dan Dam's
in there, right? Governor's the governor is saying $10 million that's in it." I talk with Luke Frederick there. He's the representative from from Mano and he's one he's the vice chair of the bonding committee and he's like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got we we're good on Rapid and
Dam." And then all of a sudden the last the last couple days when we finally see what this thing looks like, Rabbit and Dam's not in it. And I'm like, what is going on here? And there were conversations either above me or around me that said that that was no longer
something that needed to be on the table. We don't have an answer to it. >> That's kind of sad. >> Yeah, because I think that and like what Josh told me, he said, you know, the administrator, the county administrator, he said uh that FEMA's finally talking with them. So, I don't know if it the
federal government is now playing ball better, so the state of Minnesota doesn't need to play ball. I don't know the answer, but something has to happen with the dam. >> Well, get a bridge first and worry about the dam second. >> Yeah. >> Oh, man. I can't imagine being where you
guys are trying to get around that thing. >> Well, it's Well, there's a lot of commerce that came from the west there to the Rabidan elevator. >> Yeah. >> Wow. >> You got You can't get across that river without driving like 8 miles, 10 miles out of the way >> at least.
>> It's crazy. It's ridiculous how that bridge is just >> And Blueorth County isn't up there rallying rallying at all to try to >> Well, so I've talked with the commissioners a number of times. They came up for transportation day on the
hill or the transportation alliance. Vance was up there. Um Kevin Path talked with him a number of times. Talked with the the county administrator. Had these conversations with them. The whole conversation was damn the dam. We need the dam. Got the dam. Great. And then
all of a sudden the dam fell off. And I don't know how it fell off but it fell off the last week of session. And I don't have a good answer. The last thing I had a conversation I guess with Josh was FEMA started to talk with us. So I don't know I don't know how that played
into it. I lit I asked I said hey to the to the uh the chair of the capital investment committee the bonding committee. I said hey what are we doing with this dam? And they said oh they gave me something about how it was not going to need to be in the bill anymore.
And I said I don't think that's correct. The county has been telling me they need money for this dam. The governor's recommendation is 10 million, but Luke Frederick is on the count on the he's the the vice chair of the capital investment committee. So, the commissioners of Blue Earth County are
talking to him as much as they're talking to me, if not more, with regard to capital investment and bond. So, I truly don't have a good answer on the rapid and dam or what happened because it wasn't it wasn't in the bill. >> Sound a joke. >> Yeah.
Well, with the leadership up there, that's not a surprise. >> Yeah. Well, where with the governor, it's in the governor's recommendation. >> Exactly. And then it's removed. >> He promised. >> Yeah. We were there. We were all there. The day he showed up and he's like, >> "We're going to do something." How many
years has it been now? >> And we haven't done nothing years. Haven't done that. >> So, yeah. That's poor leadership. Yeah. >> It's frustrating. It's frustrating. >> Yes, it is. So, but um I'll rally like I've got a meeting with the Blue Earth
County Commissioners coming up here. Like I said, June June through August is kind of my run around meet with all the commissioners, meet with all the city council, the school boards, and we'll figure out what the heck happened with that because usually when people don't get what they want and they thought they were going to
get it, they call me and they yell at me and do this and that. No one from Louis County has called me and yelled at me about the dam being removed. So I I didn't have a good like I only I found out about it Saturday and then we ended on Sunday. So at that point
there's almost no chance of getting anything because I talked with them earlier in the week. Rapid dand we're good. Yep. $10 million governor's Rex. Perfect. We're all good. Saturday night >> not in there. >> So are they teaching that or using that on two different entities? The bridge
compared to the dam. >> Yeah, I believe they are. Yeah, the bridge and the dam. If the dam doesn't get touched, I guess that's not the end of the world yet. But were they going to get a bridge done? >> Dam's not going nowhere. What river is already channel around >> it? Yeah.
>> Why? >> Well, and so the dam is the disaster part. I don't know how much disaster funding is going to come from the bridge. There's going to be some there's always some local bridge fund money that you can access as a as a community as a
company, but that bridge is going to be county money. So, even though >> I think they want the dam out of the way before they build the bridge because then it could be a straighter shot. >> Yeah. I don't know what the counties I like I said. So, you I've been to Martin
County. I went to Martin County on Tuesday morning last week. my first the first meeting and you are now my third meeting on the trip around the district. Medilia was just now and I drove from Medilia to here. So if it says if it says anything about how much I like
Medilia and Good Thunder first and second city councils I've been to since session ended from I didn't even stop at I don't want to I think that's recording but I don't really want to go to Fairmont City. They are a disaster. They are a disaster. So,
and that's where and I live there. So, >> anyways, yeah. Um, I'd love to get So, the problem is is that we have these conversations in June and then we have six months to forget what we talked about. So, I want us to talk closer to next session. All right. So, let's get
after the election. Let's get something maybe in December. Maybe your city council meeting in December. Maybe it's just a couple of us putting something together with Eli about what we're doing uh city maintenance plantwise. just get me what I get me everything that I possibly can have. I mean, for heaven's
sake, even if it's $2,000 for your your library here, you know, like anything that I can find in book places. There's I'm on the legacy committee, so there's legacy fund from your state sales tax money that goes to designated funds for cultural heritage, things like that.
There's all sorts of things that we can throw. There's little pieces, big pieces, and at the end of the day, it's all your tax dollars anyways. So, we should get some of it back to us. Uh, and and I'm hunting for LH County. So, we'll go we'll have something we'll have something small all the way to something
big. Come up with a couple ideas for me and I'll see what I can get to fit. Right? If it's a if it's an $800,000 portion of a road, if it's a million half dollars for some water infrastructure, whatever it is, let me take let me have a big bite. Let me have a small bite. We'll see how much we can
eat. Right? So that's kind of my hope and and we can get back together. If you can send an email out in as we get closer to to session and we can have that conversation, we can hit the ground running hard for you guys next year. Be
good. Any other any questions of me before I I got this dumb st I got to go up to St. Paul today or tomorrow morning. I got to be there early for this. the governor wants to make a big deal of this veterans package that we passed the veterans bill and it's a good
it's a decent veterans bill and he so he wants to do this big ceremony trying to say oh yeah we love our veterans look at me sign this piece of legislation and I don't want to go because it's like really every one of those bills that turned into law three of three of the
six were mine I chief authored them so it's like it's like okay >> he's taking the credit for it >> I'm not going to let him take the credit That's why otherwise I'd be like, "Forget about it." But if you're just going to make a big to-do and people get to speak and talk, I'm going to remind them that half
of those bills were authored by me personally and the other half were my Republican colleagues. >> Well, thank God it's staying in the state, not leaving the country. >> Yeah. Yeah. Because can you ask him then too why there's no money for out here, but we can spend $15 million on George
Floyd Square in Minneapolis? to believe. >> What a joke. >> Can you I'm I'm not here to get too political. This is >> No, I just >> But Memorial Day 2026, he's at George Floyd Square, >> not Fort Snelling Center.
>> Not at Fort Snelling. >> Yeah, >> I agree. I'm a veteran, too. >> Yeah. >> Anyways, >> what a waste of $15 million. >> You're right. But you all probably have more important things to do. So, thank you all for your time. Like I said,
let's get it done. Let's get some conversations happening. Let me see what I can do for you guys. >> Great. >> Thank you very much. >> That guy's got all them numbers right here. >> Wow. Impressive. >> He's into his All righty. Uh street
update, Eli. >> So, yeah, I'll just cruise through this quick. Cars got uh all the trees out and they're working on the stumps yet. uh restriping. I talked to Jean from Peter's Striping today. He will be here tomorrow morning to do that. Um concrete
down at the dump. I did haul good chunk of the concrete out of there. Um there's still quite a bit back into the woods, but once it dries up again and I have time, we'll continue with that. >> Did you just all that to Pete or where did that go? >> There's a I don't want to I don't want to put it out there because it's not a
>> pit that's open to the public, but a a local pit that Yeah, it's close. And and the guys and Yep. They that bucket that we got last year that sits all the dirt out, that's >> making it. So, they're like, "Yep, keep
bringing that." So, >> um yeah. Yep. But the the pit's not open to the public and it's not really fit for, you know, uh >> Okay. >> people coming in and out of there. >> I was just curious where it went if we paid to get rid of it or how Nope. We're getting rid of it for free and it's low,
so it's a good deal. >> Nice. >> Um, June 14th, there will be stuff going on down at the Thunder Valley Park. St. John's Church will have stuff down there. There's also a bicycle ride coming through town. They'll be up here for a short pit stop. Um,
uh, both DOT inspections were completed today. Uh, there's some repairs done. Nothing too crazy. Um, we did spot spray around the city. Um, got pretty much everything I think for the first round. There's some sidewalks and stuff around
the fire station yet, but um, ran the disc mower through. Uh we did have um you can read the write up there, but uh LawnPro spray parks for dandelions because it' been like six years and uh
they did pretty good job in the two parks and they're going to be back here with this. Um as far as approvals for stuff, uh the dust control, they're lined up for this week, weather permitting, which it looks like
it'll cooperate. So, just to reapply Hiller and Milky and then uh we got enough uh quartz yet that they'll spread. The quartz that we got stockpiled is 5831.
>> This is the same people we used last year. >> Yes. Yep. But we'll get it done now and then we'll make sure we get stuff down to get it to tag up and not stay >> pretty compatible to what it was last year. >> Yeah. And that that went on the
limestone a lot better than it did over the top of the old stuff. I thought that >> better. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> But I think we'd have been better off to go with the red rock right away. Or I mean the recycled black top right away. >> Yeah.
Because once you did that, it really binded in there then. >> It did. Yeah. >> Yep. Yep. >> Yep. And and all the places that the only places we're having problems this year were the places we tried to patch in last time around. So, I think we're
just going to have to patch them again and and kind of keep going and uh see what happens. But uh I I think I need approval for that one. 583118 for environmental death control.
>> Do we need to put lawnfill on there because they already been here and paid already, right? >> They were under the >> They were under the threshold. >> Yeah. >> The what? >> They were under the threat. They were at $960. So, yeah. There's >> Yeah, we had that in the budget, so we just did it as a maintenance item.
>> So, would they be back in the fall or one treatment in the middle of the summer, then the fall? >> Yeah. So he his his and that kind of lines up with everything I'm kind of believing too is you hit it in the fall and like those dandelions and stuff take that down to the roots and then they
don't come back next year. So you might still have some dandelions throughout the year popping up but they get you kill them in the fall and then so it's kind of the best bang for the buck is that fall spray. So we have their
insurance on file now then since they taking the liability for the parks and that >> I am working with um gosh what's her name the lady over there to get all that information. Yep. >> Okay. >> So are we doing that again this fall then? >> Yeah. So then now that we got that initial then we'll once a fall.
>> We can try to get back on top of it. >> Yep. >> Yeah. It's been like six years I think. Uh yeah, it was three city guys ago. >> And again, you know, this doesn't really alleviate the city from responsibility
because if somebody got something from it, well, the city allowed them to do it. So, you know, we we aren't 100% off the board. >> No, we just hope >> something happened. We have to take care of >> Yeah. We hope common sense comes in somewhere. >> We got to take care of the parts cuz
they were kind of out of control. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. So yeah, they were >> uh this oh the second one was uh that gravel extension. I did have a company stop in and get me a price. Actually today they were able to get me numbers
over Peterson's was uh roughly 60% of theirs. So with that 11,485 they were like 19 was the second number I got. So yeah. Um, >> do you have a copy of what you gave out to the
>> um the spec isn't the spec sheet? >> Yeah, not with me, but I can get it to you. Yeah. >> Um, I I was it was brought to my attention that on there it was it was in a range. >> Yeah. >> It was like you're going to take out four to eight inches of dirt. you're going to put down. And again, they ask
it's got to be more specific because you're going to have one guy bidding the 4 in and the other guy's going to bid the 8 in and your numbers aren't going to be the same. >> Yeah. >> So, I'm I was surprised that's what the engineer came with. >> Well, without I mean,
>> I think it depends on if they only need to It's going to be cheaper if they don't need to go the full eight. if it states that in their bid. But how do you put a bid out to somebody that says four to eight inches? One guy's bidding taking out four inches, the other guy's bidding six to eight inches. Your bid's
not going to be the same. >> Well, they should bid a range, too. Then if you're given a range, you should bid every >> I guess the only way to get around that would be is if we actually had the engineers come out and shoot every, you know, shoot to or whatever. I'm just trying to make it simpler for us down
the road, not to have all these questions. >> Um, we can get them to >> give us more of a >> a form or a guideline to go by and we won't have to I mean, we've talked about this for two and a half months. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. >> All right. Anything else on Eli? >> Uh, the rest of it I can cover under Brian's or I can do it now if you want. I guess the only other thing uh under Brian's that needs to be approved is there's a transfer pump that uh we did a little troubleshooting on before we
called it quality flow, but there's a sensor in the transfer pump where if the seal goes out and you get moisture in there, then it uh trips. So, that had failed. Um ended up pulling the pump, taking it up there, checking it out, and
they said it's hashed out. So, uh 9960 was the um over that >> uh that's going just whether it matters or not, but that's going from one pond to the other. So, the lift station has
the four big pumps >> gets everything from town into the ponds. This is after he >> once it's kind of halfway done and you transfer and finish it. Yep. That's what this pump's doing. So, we only have two of them. Uh, there's one running now doing the transferring and we can run on
one for a while, but if anything were to happen with that, >> we wouldn't have it. Um, about how old is this pump? Is that from when they were built? >> That one wasn't Yeah, that one was an old one because the cord was Yeah. Yeah, it was a Yeah, >> they only get used Well, this year they
probably get used twice this year, you know, because of >> Yeah, >> when we had all that and I they were getting used transferring all the time. >> Yeah. He did his second discharge, so he's on Yeah. >> Okay. >> Bash number two. But yeah, >> you need a motion on that 11485, too,
right? >> Yes. Yeah. All three of these. >> Pardon? >> On all three of these. Yeah. >> Yeah. Somebody might want to make a motion then for all three. >> I'll make a motion for the quality flow flow for the 9900 Peterson 11,000 and pest control for the
58. >> Some second. All in favor? I oppose. Period. >> Got down here part-time help. >> Oh, yeah. Yep. So, uh that was just a request for uh Kell's been doing the
mowing. Um just having somebody else around to that's familiar with equipment that can run equipment. If I'm gone or if I need a hand doing stuff, then uh then um I can call them up and or them up and they
can give me a hand with stuff. But um just start out just seasonal for the summer and kind of see what comes from there. >> Far as um I guess well time wise it's kind of hard to say. It depends on what comes up. How many hours are you
thinking? >> Uh I would say less than five a week for average for sure. And there's probably quite a few weeks where it'd be nothing. Um you know like things like patching the patching the roads. It's nice to have somebody in the tractor and then
somebody in front of the, you know, guide them to where they need to be and pull the rock down. Just stuff like that. There might be, you know, half a day there. >> And then if you have any mechanically stuff you want somebody to help you with that? >> Yeah. Yep. If I'm bleeding brakes or something, then, you know, they come in
and do that. >> Kellen willing to help or does he just want to do the lawn? >> Uh, right now Kell's got his hands full with the lawn mowing. Yeah. Yeah. Pat Kellen does a lot of trips throughout the year hunting hunting and fishing.
>> Yeah, it's like once a month it seems like he's heading out somewhere. >> Is this something you have someone in mind or you've already talked to or >> I have someone in mind and we're working on that if there, you know, if it's seasonal whether we have to do the full
interviews and recruitment process or if we can do more. >> We don't have any money in the budget for a temporary employee for streets. The only money for temporary employees we have is parks.
Just council's aware. >> I'm doubtful. Sorry. >> No, that's okay. >> Because right now we're at 42. No, we're at >> Don't we have extra money in there for like extra snow plowing in the winter
time for M road maintenance? Well, I'm just looking at the line item for temporary employees and there isn't zero for streets. >> Oh, yeah. >> So, >> Oklahoma will be streets. What would that >> street and highways? Yeah.
>> And that's Yeah. Highway, streets, and roads and there is nothing in there >> because I think we always had a little bit in there in case we needed to hire extra help over the years. >> Proof the budget. Um I don't know. That's right. Now, I'm just telling you what it says. >> Well, we better make a note then. So, we put that in there in case we get a bad
winter and we need extra help. >> Yeah. What What is our uh budget for parks? Where is that at? >> You're looking at the wrong one. You got to look at expenditure. >> This one here. This one.
I was just trying to figure out what kind of amount we should be. >> So it's on page three three4 of the way down. 45200 >> 4500 >> in the bottom. Yep. >> And how much are we using? >> No, there's 40 right now. There's 4290
was the budget for 2026. So far this year, we have used year to date $78. So there's about 30 left. Oh, you're
>> just in temporary employees for parks. All right. I'm going to make a note that we need to adjust just that account. Even though there's quite a bit in there that could use that
I suppose for this year. Kell will probably use 95% of that >> if not All right. I mean, I'm sure there's something in here we can move over. We can move um
over time. >> Yeah. Well, even the bell tower has got $5,000 budgeted to it. that as of right now we're not doing anything with that needs work too. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. That's just the time to
>> I mean, can you transfer money out of the the parks into road maintenance for say >> Yeah. >> for say like the example Eli gave, you know, if you took 1,500 out of that
because uh what wage would the part-time >> Yeah. >> the same as Kel >> Kellen, >> which I'm not even sure what that is, but >> I don't even know. Do you want to know when he was off? >> Like >> 16. I'm going off of what your thing
was. I just did a little math. >> Yeah. >> 1660 is >> Yeah. That sounds about right. Something 16. >> So if you took 1,500, you got 100 hours worth, right? >> Yeah. And that's that's no >> 900, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> That's
>> 100 hours worth, you know, 10 hours would be 150. So Yeah. >> Yeah. That's >> you transferred a little money out there. John, what do you think of that? >> That'll give Eli some money for that individual. >> It's going to use it though. So, you can't take it out of the temporary
employees out of parks. >> No, not out of parks. >> You can't take it out of parks. >> You said you would do. >> But you can't take it out of the temporary employee out of there. >> We can look at it and then we can bring >> Yeah. >> um a suggestion to the next council meeting
instead of sitting here dealing with it. Um, perfect. >> Sounds like a deal. >> Yeah, we'll move ahead with it as you see fit for right now. And >> anything else any or you got her all covered? >> I believe I got it all.
>> A motion for that or you get >> probably bring back what you probably >> till July. Okay. I hit them. >> Yeah. All right. Um, park treasure update.
>> Um, what was it? Does it really matter where we start? Um, the fuel cards I had talked to Mitch Freighic and talking about fuel cards for the fire department and his company has they're called Voyager cards from US
Bank. There is no fee for them right now. We're paying $32 a month for the cards that we have. The WEX cards >> per card or one card >> per card. >> Per card today. So, they have like seven, six or seven cards. So, it's well, it's $32 a month that we're paying just for the cards. And there has been a
time or two this summer or this year that they haven't used any fuel, but we're paying that 32 bucks. So, I just I have met with um the US Bank. I've met with them. I have their application. Um every there's no fee. There's no fee for
the cards. There's no fee for statements. They will send me an email that says the statement is ready. I log into my I'll log into the account. I can set up the payment. So if council's interested in that, if they want more information, I can get it. Otherwise, if I can get a motion, then I will go ahead and get those
started. And once I have them, then I can cancel the wax cards. >> Is better. >> If you could fuel, you know, and I know when you come in at night, fire night, you fuel them up. But during the daytime, we could just start under charge account. So you wouldn't have to
do all that, you know. >> Correct. But however, if they end up on another call and they need something, this will also we can >> if they need to say they're in Vernon center, >> yeah, they'd have a card, >> they would have the card >> um and they can use you can set the limit is they can't buy oil, they can't
buy windshield washer fluid or they can do those things. So, I mean it's I don't know. I think right now is it just fuel? >> Can you guys >> I don't think you can buy anything else. Yeah. Sorry, I have to go. Maybe I got over early. All righty. >> Good luck with the rest of it, guys.
>> Yep. Thank you. >> Sorry. >> I think that's a great idea myself. >> Do you want a motion? >> Yes, please. >> Make a motion to switch over to US Bank for a Zeb and WE is kind of difficult to deal with anyway, isn't it? >> Well, you can't set up auto payments
because that's not the type of account we have. So, you have to just I just log in every time I get the statement and I go in to set it to pay by the due date. But they're just not as user friendly. No. >> Um I mean I've been talking to this lady a couple different times and got emails
and stuff and yeah. So >> John made a motion. Someone second. >> I'll second it. All >> in favor? Motion carried. >> The other one is um last month I asked for a personnel meeting. Um so far I have not gotten that. I'm hoping maybe today the personnel committee can set a
date for that. With all the health issues that have been going on, we have all talked about it and it is in the process of being scheduled. >> Do you have a timeline? >> Not 100%.
>> This week's kind of or kind of out. We can do sometime next week if you're open. >> Your your your schedule's a little more >> less flexible than mine. just either right away in the morning or afternoon late afternoon.
>> Next week, Tuesday. Oh, not Tuesday. >> Monday. >> Hold on. Cuz I do have a follow-up appointment next week. 15. Monday. No. >> Wednesday.
>> Yep. >> Wednesday's what day? >> June 17th. At what time? >> 8:00. Too early. >> No, looks for me. Thank you. >> The next one I have is
our attorney has requested that we have a special meeting June 22nd. Um, attorney client litigation. choose reflection at 5:30 if that works for council. >> We just need a motion and then I'll post it. >> Makes from today. >> Yep.
>> June 22nd. Yep. >> Make a motion to set that. >> Is that I think >> what is it for? >> Attorney client litigation. >> That's for the >> privilege. Attorney client privilege. So it's a close This will be a closed meeting. >> Close. Yes.
>> Yes. >> What day is that? >> Monday. at two weeks away >> at 5:30. >> At 5:30, >> correct? >> I got a upcoming radiation treatment I haven't heard back from. I was on a
video this morning. So, all I can do is see what happens. >> Okay. And if we have to reschedu that it's >> well that's if we reschedu she the request was so that we have it before I think the 24th
>> because I'm I'm meeting with her on the 24th. >> Yes. And that is this is why this meeting needs to have she would really like this meeting to happen prior to and this is when she's going to be down here. So if we can get enough we need we need a quorum. So, >> well, just tell him to skip that day.
>> Do you want to see if she would have something sooner so that >> No, that's what she wanted cuz she'll be down here anyway. >> So, >> we're off for No, leave it at that day. And >> Perfect. Um,
>> that is pretty much all I had. Unless we want to go into the unfinished business. Um, >> yeah, keep going. >> With John covering while I was out, he had 70.9 hours.
So, I need a motion to pay how we're going to pay him if we're going to pay him what he the hourly wage he did before when he was before I started, >> which was 2806. And that's three years ago, >> correct?
>> Yeah. No, I would say he should be paid at a current rate doing a current job. >> I would just say up it to 30 and I'm fine. >> Okay. I need a motion. Somebody want to make a motion to
uh pay John for the 70.90 hours worked at the pay rate of $30 per hour. >> I'll make that motion. >> Someone in a second. I'll probably have to second that. >> Yeah, >> I'll second that. All in favor? I opposed. >> John abstained, right? >> I was just going to say we need to make
sure that John abstains. Okay. >> Yeah. So, all righty. Anything else on under unfinished business? >> Nope. I have something there. How are we doing on the sewer behind the locker?
>> You'd have to reach out to the to uh the engineers for that. >> Well, I mean, did they look at Are they pursuing that or >> We're still waiting. I can follow up with Kleman tomorrow on uh um
>> the easement, aren't they? >> Easements. Yeah, we're still waiting to get easements to get the I haven't seen the documents and I don't know if BIC has them if they're trying to get them signed or Yep. But yeah, we still have signed. Yes, it is still in the
works, but we have not got signed east. >> All right. Uh Maple River Chamber of Commerce, >> in your packet, there's some information about that if council wants to join that. Um >> this this guy came in when Sue was out.
U I mean he's just trying to start this up on his own mostly from Mapleton >> from what I remember. That's quite a while ago. >> Yeah, I know Amboy's a part of it. Mapleton is I don't know if Vernon is or not. >> I don't um >> I don't can't remember. It's not that
much money. >> It's $50. >> I don't know >> for the year >> actually benefit we would get. I think it would just be a naming that we're in that chamber, >> right?
>> Probably. You know, I suppose since it's called Maple River, it look bad because we are part of the Maple River School District. >> True. True. >> Are we going to gain much out of it? Don't know if the fee isn't that much. >> I guess they didn't care about us when
they voted for Nap River School. >> So, I guess uh would everybody else feel um Yes. No. Yeah, I can. >> We can table it until the other council are here. I don't care. >> Yeah, we could wait a month and get him. >> It ain't going to hurt nothing. >> Yeah.
>> Do that then. >> All right. Warming house police. >> That's in your pack. That's for review. If you approve it, I will send it on to um the feeasants forever. Are we Is there going to be a fee of
$1,600? I seen that. I read that in there. >> This is they This is whatever um they sent to me that I sent down to our attorney. So, that was in there. Yes. >> And this is pretty much done deal
anyway. or not a done deal, I guess, but been kind of like part of what the city said with them for a long time. >> Correct. Yep. >> I'm perfectly fine with it at the three. >> Anybody else with discussion? If not, somebody make a motion to approve the
lease agreement then with the Minnesota peasants and gold. Go ahead. >> I'll I'll make the motion to approve lease agreement. >> I'll I'll second it. All in favor say I. Motion carried. >> All righty.
M business. So, I've had some um increasing resident complaints regarding loose dogs. To be honest, there really isn't much the city can do if we don't know whose dogs they are. Um I just keep telling them to contact the sheriff's department. Um, we have a lot of new residents that come
into town that are not registering their dogs. I send out letters. There's not much more I can do about it. It isn't a findable offense because we don't have it that way. Um, and it is a free service. I mean, but you can't make
them do it. So, >> just to kind of >> And I don't And so it's not going to take time to chase down. >> No. No. And my understanding is if you find a loose dog and you have it in your possession, they're not going to come pick it up either because it's in your
possession, they're not going to transport. So either you keep it until you find the owner or you let it go again or you bring it to benches or whoever. >> So we're kind of at a it's just not a good place. >> It's kind of like trying to clean up yards.
>> Well, that's a finable offense. This is not >> Well, that that was We used to charge $10 per dog because that way they had to get it vaccinated. You knew it was vaccinated in the city limits. We had a
list of that license number >> that would tell whose owner whose dog owner that was. So you could call them and say, "Hey, here's your dog. Somebody's got your dog." >> Well, now we don't have any of that. Right. >> No, I just said we have that. But we're the residents, new residents that are
coming into town. I know one particular that has at least five and they have received letters and I I'm not going I'm not going to walk up there and hand them and say here please fill this out. I have sent letters >> have five dogs. >> Uh-huh. >> I think you can't even have that many.
>> N >> so >> it's not a noteable offense. >> Can the sheriff do anything about that? >> Nope. >> So just like the junk car deals can't do nothing. >> So I mean we do have I have a list. We have a lot of residents that come in and
get their tags, but maybe 30 tags a year and that's probably stretching it. >> I think it used to be a 100 dogs license in that stone. >> Yeah. >> And you got to buy tags at 100 100 of them at a time for almost 100 bucks or a little over and you get rid of 30 of
them. So, but I told the residents that I would bring it up to council. So, I did my due diligence. >> Yeah. when they call about loose dogs. They don't have a number of the dog. It's just that the dog is running at large.
>> They don't call me when it actually happens. Um I actually had one person in my office stating there's all these dogs running loose. Actually, the term was running a muck. Um what do we do? And I said, "You can call the sheriff. If you know whose dog it is, you can return it.
You can ask them. You know, you can let me know. I'll send a letter that says they need to have it registered. It needs to be on a leash." Um there is some I think there there is still something on our website regarding you know please keep your dogs on a leash um
or fenced yard or whatever but >> it must be more on this end because I haven't seen a loose dog in quite a while. I hear about them up that way and then over that way. So I don't know.
>> I guess that's something that may be out of our control. >> Just Yeah, I'm just bringing it up because I was asked to. So >> all right. Um, anything else under miscellaneous business? Um the only other thing I have is in the notes I
brought up we talked about this camper that's in the street. Now those are the options um that we can do if the city wants to think about it and or we would just whatever but I know um that's been a topic of discussion. So
>> I just assume figure it out or >> did it say in there somewhere where the police department said that they talked to him and >> Yes. So, >> and he said he doesn't care, doesn't want it. >> He has no interest or in returning to the property. We can do whatever we want with it. We cannot. The gas line's been cut.
>> Y >> um if we get written permission from that individual and the property owner, we can access the property and remove it. However, the fee to do that is pretty expensive to get rid of it. >> Would you say
they come pick up junk cars all the time? Why wouldn't they pick that They'll pick it up. But campers are trash. 90% of it is trash. >> You know, got to gut it. >> So, I talked to one individual. It cost $1,000 to have it going.
>> Geez. >> But, >> but we're also setting a precedence then by doing that. If we remove that, what's to keep somebody else from saying, "Well, if I just sit on it long enough, we'll just say, "Yeah, you can come take it." Well, we're not in the business of removing everybody's garbage. And then you could have other people bringing
another one into town and just leave it sitting in the driveway because they don't have >> or you know and maybe the property owner won't let you on the property, you know, there's that, too. I don't know. >> Oh my, so many slippery slopes. >> So, this is just another thing that >> if they take it out of there for a
thousand, there's there's no way you can put that cost back on their property taxes. >> No. >> Why is that? >> Because they willingly First of all, it's not it's not the it's not the property owner's camper. Why can't we tow it back to the individual who owns it and put it in front of his prop
president property right now? Why can't that be towed over to his present property? >> I don't know. >> Can we find that out from the law? Can we hook on to it and take it back to >> How many law fees do you guys want to spend on this? >> Well, I don't know. I mean, >> I would just like to have a a lawyer.
We've went through these covenants and restrictions three times and all we keep getting is not the right verbiage. not the right verbiage. >> This has nothing to do with verbiage. This is simple fact that the person that owns it doesn't care about it, but we don't know if the
property owner does and it's been there for five, six years now. I mean, >> that's setting precedence. >> Well, we got to do something because we are we're not a little junkyard. And I mean, there's other areas that there's an abandoned bus on the backyard of a
house with no current license plates. There's multiple cars in town with no current license plates. Uh, it just never ends. >> How much is it going to cost to tow it? How much is it going to cost to tow the camper to the person's house?
>> Thousand B. Well, I don't know. See, so I mean, and now this I don't know. I I'm just saying. I mean, now the city has to pay for that. Like I said, a resident could go up there and not for 200 bucks for it, and probably get rid of it,
>> but I will ask the attorney and I will bring it back to the next council meeting. >> All right. Anything else? >> Nope. >> There's another thing listed there. We need to discuss that or not? >> Nope. Uh, one thing I got over here as a
reminder, anything that is brought up in a community comment section will be heard, but there should be no discussion. The information should be taken back to council or staff to investigate, report findings at this meeting. No action should be taken at a community comment, issues, or
statements. If somebody comes here and asks a question, we can't simply answer it now. Then >> if you know it, so as an example, >> where did this come from? >> The league. This is in the league. This
is in stat in statute. So a resident comes in, some of it could be easy. A resident could come in and say, um, can I get a bigger garbage can? Absolutely. We need you bigger garbage can. A resident comes in and says, um, I want
my street moved over. you know, want something more that's going to take more discussion. The whole idea is the three minutes to keep the council meeting moving or we can spend 45 minutes to an hour and we have with one resident or with residents
coming in with a with a question, which is fine. We want residents to come in and ask questions, but we don't necessarily have to give them an answer right away because we have to make sure we know the answer, have the right answer. But that's from the league who represents every city and municipality
in the state of Minnesota. This could apply to Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duth, Rochester where absolutely huge. >> Not little 600 head person Good Thunder where we pretty much know people. >> But sometimes we don't have an answer. >> No, that's true. If it's simple enough,
it should just be acted on. >> It's simple enough. The neighbor the neighbor's lawn needs to be mowed. They haven't mowed it. Okay. Well, we can send we can go out and look. We'll send them a letter. That's something simple. just not putting everything off a month a month a month. >> But we don't want to start giving false information either.
>> So if they were sent a letter like we've done in the past for cleanup and they come and protest, >> we we won't answer any of that. >> If they are asked to get put on the agenda, then yes. >> Okay. So if they have to be on the
agenda, if they come to protest a letter about cleanup property, >> okay, >> we can state why they've got the clean up. mean well it states in there that they why they've got the cleanup letter and if it says they don't need they don't think they need to it would be well Eli will go out he'll check out the property we'll bring it back to council
and council would say no you know what you're right you don't have a nuisance property or yes you do have one because we don't know unless we've actually seen it or I mean when they come in here if Eli hasn't actually gone out and looked because maybe they've
cleaned it up So the nuisance properties got now and the nuisance vehicles we got now. Where are we going to go with that now? >> Well, they start getting letters. 90% of the letters we sent out last year
we got action on. >> Even on unlicensed vehicles. >> Yes. Yes. >> Okay. Well, there's the one down that end of town hasn't had license plates for six years and there's another one that hasn't had
for four years. So, I don't know. Do we just keep sending letters in? >> We'll just start the process when we get a chance. >> Okay. Sounds like a deal to me. All righty. Anybody else with anything miscellaneous? >> If not, so make a motion to adjurnn. I
just one other thing that you did say there was a letter mailed to drummer but no response. >> Nope. >> But I just sent it off on the 27th. So yeah. >> Okay. That's about the only other thing that I I'll make a motion to adjurnn. So a
second. I'll second. All in favor? I mot carried. Thanks everybody.