Um here and we're live. >> Okay. Thank you. The time is 6:30. >> Yep. >> Thank you. Um
and with us this evening is our city attorney Gavin Key. Uh Craig Schulty, Brent Peters, William Pelvis, myself, Michael Gary, Mike Roth and Kim Van Beck. Um
is anyone here for open forum this evening? Okay. Are there any uh any changes to the consent agenda, the agenda at large or any questions about bills or anything? Otherwise, a
motion to approve. >> Motion to approve the consent agenda. >> I'll second that. >> All right. I just have one question for North House. Is that just an I was I read it, but it wasn't clear. Is that just an ongoing permit for the year?
>> It's an annual permit. >> Okay. So, I just wasn't sure. All right. Thank you. All right. Um, all in favor for the consent agenda. >> I >> I thank you. Uh, moving on to new
business, we've got department updates. First off from Scott Warner for the wastewater and water treatment and then following that will be Dave Hierig with parks. Good evening everyone. >> So, one of my topics tonight will be on
for the wastewater side of things will be mercury. And so, that's kind of been an interesting uh topic the last few months. Uh just just a little bit of basic background. Uh when we talk about
mercury, we talk about parts per trillion with a t. A lot of times you hear about parts per million, parts per you can hear about hear about parts per billion with a b and then parts per trillion. So parts per trillion is uh a
very small number. And so that's uh with uh mercury, we've got to be looking at because it's it's so toxic, we have to be looking at parts per trillion. Um the the best tests that we have right
now can detect mercury down to about 0.0 five parts per trillion. So that's like 50 parts per quadrillion. So it's a very very tiny number. So little trivia. And
then the uh the way we treat for mercury is we combine it with solids. So the bacteria, so bacteria really don't eat it, but what they do is they grab onto it and they stick it to their outsides,
you know, just like a little kid would have a sticker on their arm or something like that. Uh that's how the bacteria grab onto the mercury and they hold that with them just like they hold on to a lot of the other metals that we're uh
that we that we do test for. And so the mercury don't the the bacteria don't get all of it, but they get most of it. Yeah. 90 plus%. So anyway, so then what happens is is the bacteria grab hold of the mercury and then we settle that mercury out in our clarifiers in our
settling tanks and we do add a chemical that helps in that settling process. And so what we're trying to do is we want to get that mercury and all the other metals into the sludge. Now I in the perfect world we would not have the
metals in the sludge to begin with but uh right now our numbers are well within MPCA limits so that it's not a concern and then uh so we we settle out the s the solids that goes into our our storage tank we thicken the sludge as
best we can and then it goes off to Duth and then Duth WLSSD they process it more and then then it goes onto farm fields for uh as a fertilizer and it grows very nice hay, very nice corn, very nice
beans, alalfa, etc. And then uh this can kind of lead us into uh leech and uh not sure exactly how far we want to take it into the leech, but uh >> everybody knows what's going on here. So,
>> okay. So then uh it's uh we have to be careful because we have a a significant industrial user agreement with G&G. We have to be cautious as to what we're taking in and uh one of the
uh the things that we have to concern ourselves with is Mercury because we have a a variance and that's going to be uh an important topic coming down the pipe. Uh right now we've got an interim limit of 6.2 parts per trillion. And so
in time that is going to go down once once the state decides that our variance is done. We're going to be getting a 1.8 part per trillion limit. So that's a very small number. I do have a one data
point of good news. Uh back in uh last fall, we tested a different chemical. We we used to use aluminum sulfate commonly known as alum to settle our solids. It just really wasn't doing a good job and
we were using like between 30 and 60 gallons a day. So now we switched over to a a different chemical and I'm just going to abbreviate it pack. And so that pack is uh a much more
efficient chemical for settling solids. So, we're using anywhere from 3 to eight gallons a day. The the chemical is more expensive than alum. However, it works significantly better and our effluent water quality is I I can't be more
pleased with how good our effluent looks. Uh, our numbers, we're getting 98% removal. That those were the numbers that I calculated for the the February report I sent to the state. So, 98% is is fantastic.
And so we uh uh we also did take a mercury test in February. We had 38 parts per trillion coming from the town. Uh to the best of my knowledge, it was not under the influence of anything that G&G was
bringing us. And so so 38 parts per trillion from the town. We put out 0.8 parts per trillion. So less than half of our our upcoming limit. And so that was just the one data point.
Um it looks very interesting and we're going to do our best to to keep it that low. And so we're we're real pleased with the number. Uh we're still going to be testing things and making sure that we're operating the plant as efficient as we can, but the the 0.8 is an
exciting number in in our realm. And then uh this also kind of leads us into the sludge where that pack chemical also allows us to settle the sludge better. So we're we can we can concentrate the
sludge better. So last year we were sending roughly between one and a half and 2% solids which is kind of like a thin paint. Um our goal is to aiming for uh three to three and a half So the the thicker so if you if you go from 1% to
2% you cut the volume of water in half. So if we can go from you know high ones to three and a half we've cut the water in half and uh that translates into a
lot less loads hauled. So we we got a savings potential savings that way. uh we really won't see any savings at all through WLSSD because they bill us differently. They bill us for the
how much work the uh the bacteria have to do, how much pounds of solids, and how much phosphorus that we send them. And so it's uh we're we're collecting, you know, instead of sending the phosphorus out to the Lake Superior,
we're collecting it and we're sending it to WLSSD in the sludge. And so the more the more we send them um means that the plant is producing that much better or is is performing that much better.
So it's it's a the tricky the balance is we aren't destroying anything. We're just picking it up, pulling it out, and sending it somewhere else. Be it other communities would take that sludge and it will right to farm fields. And so we
just send ours to WLSSD because that's that's who we take it to. Am I forgetting anything, Mike? >> I doubt it. >> Okay. Okay. >> There's plenty more we could talk about, but I think this is great. background.
>> So, if anybody has any questions, feel free to stop me. >> I was just wondering uh the the just the price for the PAC versus the alum like that. the the pack is uh it's about
six or seven times more expensive, but because we lose or we use about onetenth >> of the new chemical, uh we have a potential of about $1,000 a month savings compared with Allen. So, this is it's a
win-win in this this chemical. Great. >> Thank you. Um otherwise, um I can jump over to the water side of things. Uh we've had a couple of little issues going on. We had an electrical problem uh with one of the
pumps. it uh all of us because of the uh we had a breaker box that is uh powering a pump and it's it was the breaker and the wires were getting corroded and so the pump was drawing more and more amps
and the uh there's an overload on the motor starter that we didn't realize that the wheels had frozen up on it that had just corroded and so the overload wouldn't trip when the amp draws went up too And so we ended up cooking the motor.
And so we're in the process, the breaker box has been replaced and we're in the process of uh figuring out what we need to do to replace the pump. We can still we can still treat 320 gallons a minute of water uh with with the two pumps that
we have. And so it's not a dire situation. And thankfully we had both those pumps rebuilt last year. So, we can in theory can go a long time before we have to uh concern ourselves with uh uh pump issues for the two that we just
rebuilt. And that's that information will be coming. I trying to get get a big project set up with that. uh the water system controls. Uh I have
been going through and updating the uh the water plant the water plant uh control system. Uh we've got a a number of issues with it. The most important being is that
uh back in 2021 when that system was put in, the programmer programmed it. He chose the wrong set point. in one of the boxes of how you set up that PLC. And so the only way to access that PLC program
was with the original program on a laptop. That original program has been lost and we never got a copy of it. And so the PLC's is not programmable anymore. And so
>> so we are evaluating how much we need to spend to uh to uh get everything up and running and fixable because there are some bugs in that program that you know could be a legitimate problems. And so
to to eliminate as many of the problems as I can, I have been going through and if I can take a a pump status or something like that and I can put it to a relay that uh when we
lose that pump status that it triggers an alarm that we bypass the the control system and go right to our auto dialer. the auto dialer calls us out when there is an alarm. And so I know how to do that on on a lot of the things and like for power fails. We didn't have an alarm
when there was a power fail. And so now we have an alarm for a power fail. Um if we lose the uh 120 volt power to that control cabinet, we'll get an alarm there. If we lose the the 24volt power,
uh we'll get an alarm there. So, I've been adding a bunch of alarms that make us respond better to conditions and I spent uh a good portion of last week working with the uh the twin
reservoirs by the hospital and we've been running on one pump uh for from what I've been told about three and a half years if not more than that. And so I was able to troubleshoot it, troubleshoot it, play, and I got it so that we can run on both pumps and they
both alternate, which is exactly how the system was supposed to have been set up. And it's supposed to have been running. So it is now running, alternating. Uh we could we get the status back to the water plant. And so I'm real happy with how that turned out. Uh we were getting
a number of communications alarms. um the communications alarms, uh there's a little modem that talks to the cellular towers and for some reason, unbeknownst to me, every now and then we drop
communication. And so what I did was I installed a special kind of relay that it's in one phase for as long as we want it to be and then it's in another phase for as long as we want it to be. So in the
first phase, the relay is on and the the cellular dialer or the cellular modem is is talking. And in the second phase, it's off for 10 seconds to reboot it. So right now, I've got it so that it reboots once a day. So that we're in the
happiest time of that cellular modem. I mean, I I use this term flippantly. It's almost like it has a Windows operating system that needs to be rebooted every once a day or once a week or something like that. But uh uh but now that we've got the rebooting
that's been active for uh about a week and we haven't had an alarm for about a week. So it's way too soon to tell if if I was successful, but at least we're going to be more successful than what we were. And so if we can eliminate a lot
of nuisance call outs, um it saves us an in overtime. And the the relays were 40 50 bucks a piece. So they're not expensive. It just takes to know how to to put them in and and to make them do what we want them to do. So I'm real happy with how that
turned out. Uh let's see here. Um I worked with the uh the engineers doing the water plant assessment. Um, I got a draft copy, a very preliminary draft copy. I went through and I made a whole bunch of
changes and then I I sent it back to the engineer and I want to talk to him about it so that way we can so he knows what my chicken scratchings mean and then that way we can make a better more accurate document and then excuse me uh we haven't had the uh structural
engineers report back yet and once we get that then uh the the report will be nearly complete and then Mike and I will be working together to make sure we've a thorough document and then it'll get presented. Um, right now we have a
tenative schedule of uh presenting it on or before June 30th and we've been working with the state um for getting that timeline established and then we want to put together a tenative project
and that would have costs and timelines and all that type of thing with it. uh that needs to be done roughly the end of the year and then uh tenatively we're going to be putting the water plant stuff on the Minnesota
state project priority list. Uh that would be next spring, the end of March or middle of March. And at that point in time, then we're going to be waiting for funding from from the state to be able to do the project that we are going to
suggest that we do. And a lot of this is just basic information. Uh the the project will uh I'm not even going to venture guess as to how much it's it could be. Um that's for the engineers to kind of guide us along. Um, they do have
some in the draft they do have some definite recommendations that we do, but there's there's no cost estimates or anything like that with that document yet. So, there's there's a lot of things that are are going to be coming. Uh,
we're fairly confident that it's all going to stay in that building. Um there's going to be some parts that are going to need to be worked on inside the building, but uh in a more of a worst case unanticipated or or not projected
situation, uh it could be, you know, we'd have to do another building alongside the water plant. That is not um in the cards at this point in time. And so that's uh that we don't want to to to go that
route unless we absolutely have to. Um I don't foresee that needing to be, but like I said, we haven't seen their structural report yet from the engineers. >> Um that would be really probably the only hangup >> barring any other things that the state
could throw at us. When Scott says presented, you know, step one, it will be presented. We'll be presenting it to the utilities commission first. Like that's the they're going to do the deep dive into it >> and make decisions about how to move
forward on it. >> So, that's pretty much what I've got. Anybody have any questions? >> I don't, but I sure am grateful for you. Uh I mean it sounds like you're just troubleshooting like a madman and and uh
and it's Yeah, I'm just glad we have you. >> Yeah, I've been I was fortunate enough to work with uh some real good programmers over the years and real good electricians and control specialists over the years and I've learned a lot
with from them. And so I just I mean I can I can look at the problem and logically think through it and okay how can I how can I do this this and this with what I got here and it's it's been a fun project to to be able to do stuff
and and it's really gratifying when you get it. Yeah, we're fortunate. You know, everyone starts a new job and they bring the tools that they had from their old job and that's the thing they work on and it's just a great fit for us
>> that that's the some of the stuff that Scott brought with because we have good need for it. >> Thought it was nice to go visually see some of those places again so we start making these comments now it's a little bit easier to >> understand where you're at a little bit.
>> Yeah. whenever you'd like to come back. >> When we do those tours, particularly at the water plant, you know, because there wasn't a large project to evaluate and now it looks like there may be. >> We'll talk about the reports, but we'll also go look at this stuff.
>> Thanks, Scott. >> All right. Thank you. >> Very much. >> Thank you. >> Your turn. Good evening. >> Hey, Dave. >> Hi, Dave. >> Thanks for having me. >> Well, everyone's got my memo. We got a map. We'll talk about what the parks
department has been up to. Uh, so we got a big grant late last fall. I'm sure everyone's aware. The regional significance status of the park is something we've been working on for several years. We did our master plan in 2324 and then we did a nice application to
the parks and trails commission last summer and we asked for just over a million dollars and in November we were announced that we had been awarded that money. That's part of a larger project. We call it phase one of the master plan.
There's the illustration of that for you to look over on a map. Uh but essentially it's new signage, right? We sort of took the top priorities from the master plan based on our public engagement process. And one of the biggest pieces we heard was signage and
not only a new entrance sign along Highway 61, but interpretive and wayfinding and historic signage throughout the park. And so you can see some of those smaller kiosks identified as uh the phase one wayfinding item
three. Um the the biggest item of course is the bath house, the new bath house. This will be replacing our oldest bath house. We call it number two. It's a little wooden structure that sits just southeast of the park office building. Um it's easily over 50 years old. It's
not accessible by any means. It's sort of a like a partition bath house as well. The utility closet is on one side on the men's side and there's really no access to the ladies side. oftentimes we're like wheeling mop buckets through the rain to get to the ladies side. So,
um, no question this was our most needy bath house. We talked to our maintenance staff. We talked to our cleaners in particular, and this one is the one we struggle with. Um, it's a smaller bath house. The new bath house being planned is bigger. It's more proportional to what is our bath house number four, the
one out west under the ball field. Um, we still call that one the new bath house, although it's approaching, I think, 30 years old, maybe 25, opened in the 2004 season. So, I started in 2006. That bath house was quite new and it's
it's done good for us, but it's very busy. It's in the busy overnight section of the park. The tenters as well as the group campers use it. And so the new bath house is positioned to be to the east of that down at the end of 8th Avenue. On this map, you see it
occupying like four campsites on the north side of group camping. Uh we've had some time to look at this and think this over a little closer and it might be best suited on the south side of the road on that group camping corner. Right. We have a group camping two which
is out to the west of the ball field area. It's a little more popular with the groups because it's not right on the bay. It's not always cold and windy. So, group one, it's a it's a it's an open corner. It's an open space right now. There's some pine trees
there, but it might be the best space for this new bath house. We'll talk about that at the parkware level over the next few meetings. But, as we get ready for this grant, we have that time to decide final location, final design. Those were sort of two of the variables
that were in play when we were planning. We used LHB for the design plan grant submission process. They were great. Michael Fiser um has been great all along. Asked a lot of great questions and has been
developing this as a moving target more or less for location and final design. The grant was based on a prefab bath house. This was from the direction of the Greater Minnesota Regional Parks and Trails folks. They were really looking for bang for the buck with the grant
monies. They had over $20 million of requests and only $1 million to spend. So once they sort of knew that, they came back to us in September. Our initial request was for the customu bath house. And you can see it cost a bit
more, about $100,000 more. And so they were more keen on a what can you do, you know, minimally to provide a bath house. I think they're also used to funding prefab bath houses for other regionally significant parks. They gave me some
contacts and we did some follow-up work and found a good company out of Wisconsin. Um, Huffcut is a concrete company. They do prefab bathous. They developed this plan uh with this price tag and we submitted that. It was the
difference I think in getting the funding. They were able to fund another project because of this value engineering. So, we still have the chance to build a custom. We would just have to increase our match dollars. As you can see here, we're already putting
up significant match dollars, 200 or 358,000. So, LHB ran their custom bill plan through the MGOF project managers that built this building and they gave us a pretty good price. It was less than the
initial estimate from LHB. You know, we trust McGoff. They built for us twice now, actually. They did the public works. So, it was encouraging to see that we can build a better bath house, a prettier bath house, if you will. The prefabs are just that. They're
they're concrete. They're modular. There's very little style or elegance to them. There's no overhangs. They're durable. They're all concrete. They're easy to clean. And so they do have their advantages, but for such a prominent location on Lake Superior in downtown
Grammaray, we're kind of leaning towards that custom build. Again, it's at the park board level for discussion and final decision. We don't have a contract with the DNR yet. Technically, the monies aren't available till after July 1st. It's the soonest we would start to
talk about a contract. The the million dollars plus flows through the DNR. So, we have experience working with the DNR, especially on the boat launch. Um, I met their grant administrators in St. Cloud in January. They talked us through this
punch list of pre-contract deliverables. It's what I'm working on now. These are standard check boxes for state grant funding. Everything has to be reviewed. There's
windows of one to three month review processes for a lot of these submissions. Uh we've already submitted our plans to the department of health. The shipo piece is probably the biggest one. That's this historic and uh
archaeological investigation of the site. You know, is there anything historically significant on that site? Um we feel like we have an in there through Ron Shurmer. I believe has already been working with the city on the idea of historic study of the bay
and so we met Ron and I'm still hoping to get him on board for this shipo review process. He's must be out of the country or something. He hasn't been returning my emails but >> no he is he's contacted us. He's ready to to have a date for us to do the open house. >> Oh, that's great.
>> So he's here. I mean, not literally here, >> but yeah, that's been the one piece that usually takes the longest in these pre-contract deliverables is the ship overview. The others are simply like put in a request for the biological survey,
and we don't believe there's any significant species of concern in our construction zone. We know this from our boat launch project. The DNR studied that area already. There was some um species, but they were on the rocks like
south of this area. There was like a rare plant. Um wetlands, water permits, we don't feel like we're going to be having any issues there as well. So, and then the EAS is just kind of a general checklist summary of the rest of the of
these permits and these processes. So, yeah, we're working on it. We hope to have these things in order by July, at which point we'll start the contract negotiation and signing with the DNR. Funds will be released after the contracts signed. So that's probably
late summer is the realistic timeline for monies becoming available. At that point, we really start to ramp up the design process with LHB, make some final decisions on location and design and do the cost estimating and,
you know, plan submissions that we put out for bid. Uh, realistically, we'd like to get those out in the construction window of the winter for, you know, winter bids to start the spring of 27. This bath house is is or
could be built while we're open, right? We're not shutting down a bath house. In this case, number two will remain open. So, we can kind of do business as usual next summer and or 2028 is another advantage
to this location. It'll be busy, but it's not like we can't operate while we're constructing this. >> We, you know, know the construction season around here can be difficult. So, Um, yeah, realistically this could or should be done by fall of 28
is kind of a best case scenario. The grant monies are available for three years. So, until June of 2029 is kind of the deadline for spending this money, I don't believe we'll have any problems there.
So yeah, pretty big deal because the location it's front and center from the beach, the boat launch, the picnic pavilion, the future walking trail, the all the sites that are out west near Bath House 4. You know, we feel like people will be able to see the new bath
house. It's obviously going to be very popular structure, so we want to build it right. We want to build it big enough. It'll have, you know, full accessibility, barrier free access, a family room if we do the custom build, some features we don't currently have in most of our bath
houses. So, it really elevates our camping experience as well as our day using experience. Pretty big deal. Any questions on the legacy grant and the phase one? No, it seems like and the
park board have done a really nice job with Thank you. It's been a long process. I know that they all right. >> Well, and like it's only phase one, >> but the big pieces, the bath house, the signage, it's top top priority. The and you know, speaking of signage, that'll be a creative process, I believe, with
the park board and the community as to, you know, the creation of the content on some of these kiosks and wayfinding signage. None of that's been done yet. Still a lot of opportunity for input. Uh, we want to include the tribe. You know, we want to do a good job with
welcoming folks into the park, giving them not just a map, but a sense of place, give them history and geology, all that good stuff. We're fortunate to have such a great location, it's easy to interpret, or should be.
The challenge would be what to leave in and what to cut out. But, >> you know, we've had luck with the landing, the community connection corner and our our, you know, Morrison piece and the interpretive piece that's there already. I think sets the tone for
what's to come. >> So, that's that's the arts and crafts part. That'll be fun. Uh, so the business of camping and boating, I thought we'd talk a little bit about how we're standing on this coming season. The 2026 season is shaping up. We're on a six-month
priority arrival date rolling date. So, right now it's March. Six months from now is September. We're booking midepptember. Uh bit of a surprise from the station from the WTIP. There'll be no radio waves this fall. So, what's typically
the weekend after Labor Day will not be radio waves and we've had to react and guess as well are surprised and hopefully still going to book. It had been a bit of a lull for us after Labor Day weekend before radio waves came was
softer, but now September's really picked up. Fall colors, the weather, everything is in our favor. We'll remain full. But um yeah, it looked good. When I ran the numbers last week, just sort of a year-to-date comparison of total reservations this year versus last year
versus 2024. You can see the numbers were up a good amount over last year, 18% or so. The software we use also can translate these reservations into revenue. And so again, that's a really positive number. We we can note last
year's flat trend. Even in these numbers, you saw it wasn't a good start to the booking season compared to 2024 and we ended the year quite flat, maybe up less than 1%.
Luckily, we raised our rates. Park does a good job being proactive on rate adjustments and so even though occupancy was down last year, rates were up so revenue was stable. We have that same strategy every year. Uh this year's
rates are 3% more than last year's. So where certain years we really gain is both occupancy up and rate being up. And I think we've seen that on our revenue growth chart over the years. there's some real jumps, but that's when we've had really
hot hot weather down south. Up north, you know, just like farming, camping, and golfing is really weather driven. Boating as well. So, we hope for a hot, dry summer, spring and fall, and especially spring
and fall. Honestly, like those are the growth seasons, >> you know, July and August, we know we're a summer town. We know we're busy. even though I've run some composite occupancy and we're not always full. Even in August, it's 86%. So, we got some tent sites and some
marginally smaller sites that, you know, tend to sit open on a weekday or a rainy day. But, uh, June, September, those two months really have grown over the years. Now, we would really love to see growth in May and October. And October has been gaining a
lot of traction with the weather being nicer later falls, more revenue. So, those are all looking good. Any questions on that? And then lastly, I just thought we'd update you on some recent parkboard topics. Our last parkboard meeting was a
long one. Uh we had Paul Jones on the screen proposing 2026 raids up at Gunland Hills. He takes the same approach as we do with campsites and boat slips. Marginal rate increases about 3% up. It's kind of the conclusion of this year's Gunfund Hills rates.
We'll continue to offer the 15% off discount for city residents. We really hope that's a token of appreciation for tax dollar support. Um and when we look at our memberships at the course, there's way more county members than
city. I mean like let's say we have 60 single members. I bet over 50 of them are from the county. So it's not nearly enough city members. So we want to keep pushing that. We love the members. We love to give them a discount from the city because their taxes are supporting
the course. Um Paul also has equipment needs. As you can see, we have a recommendation to purchase a set of used grinders in a trailer. these would be a value as new ones are approximately $90,000.
So, we felt this was a even though a bigger number that wasn't programmed, um it's essential for keeping the mowing reels sharp and within spec and the equipment that's been proposed is in great shape. It comes with its own trailer which gives us a space to work
and grinding is a dirty job. So, I'm sure we'll have that on a future agenda soon for eventual purchase. Uh, the other piece pieces of equipment Paul's needing are newer golf carts over the years. Paul's been there about six or seven years now, and he's really got a
keen eye for what it takes to make the course great, not only with the turf, but with the carts and the guest experience. And so, we have in the past three years purchased new carts. They've been very successful. Our fleet is such
that there's some really old ones out there, mid 90s, I think, and they're really end of life, not reliable, and those need to be replaced. We also have a fleet of electric nine electric carts. We did get new batteries for those, but they don't last multiple rounds of play. So, once they go out for
the day, they usually come back and have to be charged. So, Paul's got a colleague at another course. They've got some great used carts. And last we spoke on the park board. He was still they had about 12 of them for sale, but he didn't know how many would be available once
they were offered to like the members and the community of that course. We're still waiting to hear from Paul on how many of those used carts will be available. And we sort of gave them a blanket approval to spend up to $20,000 on upgrading carts. We hope we can get
most of those used carts for that. Eight would be great. They were $2,500. So, new carts are over 6,000. They've definitely gone up. >> When we purchased new two years ago, they're about 4,000.
>> So, it's an intense capital intense operation. Um, but I think as we all celebrated last year's success with record revenue, really shot the moon on we projected 169, we finished at 192.
So hats off to his crew and word of mouth play has really been important. We know we struggle with advertising like that's our focus if we're to continue to grow those numbers. It's not just through rate is through more play. And so with the transitionary nature of
Superior National, we also feel like that's an opportunity to capture more local crowds. I think that's what played in our favor last season. Superior had a rough start, right? They had irrigation issues right away and not the best conditions and we didn't we were great
right away. So, we kept that we kept that pace. So, yeah, we really appreciate Paul. That said, he's not going to be around forever. One of our department goals of this season is to start to talk about secession planning
and what happens when Paul retires because we were at this point seven years ago when our previous superintendent retired and did a pretty good job search and had several interviews and yet still came up empty.
At the end of the day, we were like really did everything we could to get a great superintendent in there and it didn't play out in the traditional job search model. And then just when we thought all was lost, Paul appeared
like an angel. So I feel like we've already used that. But uh yeah, definitely more topic there of there isn't a assistant superintendent position currently. So there isn't a way to really groom this position or offer to like a you know
someone who's already up there, but who who knows? It's a big it's a big piece of the staffing puzzle. >> Yeah. Uh what else did we talk about last week? Oh, the pump track, right? This has been in the headlines, too. I love
this because it's a fun one. The the Superior Cycling Association, right? They got a grant. They got big modular pieces of wood and plastic and it's a skills course and a pump track and it lived inside the hockey arena last
summer because of the seasonality of things. When they wrote the grant, county was a partner. The location was a hockey rink and the intent was to like take it apart and put it together every spring and fall or fall and spring. Well, last fall when they went to take it apart, it was a big job, right? They
had great volunteers. Took him three days though and heavy equipment for McMillan and quickly sort of realized this is not a sustainable model. The the parts themselves are big and heavy and awkward. They don't want to break them. They want a semi-permanent location for
this now. So Shane Steel J coup came to the park board had a good presentation of is there room in the park and really a the right attitude of like we only want it down there if if we feel it's a good idea and so at the parkour meeting
it was more or less that sort of discussion is this a good idea is this a good location for it I don't think it was universally you know celebrated like there were questions by the parkboard of congestion
and noise and safety and general will it fit, could it fit? The proposed location is down in this same spot we want to build the bath house. >> Not quite, but in the G, you can picture that open space to the west of the boat
launch where the old public utilities used to house their buildings. >> Yeah. >> You mean where the construction trailer and the lay down spot's going to go when the bath house is being built? >> That's that's the thing here. It's it's an open space right now, but it's not going to be for long. At least in that
proximity to the one corner, but it's about a 10,000 square foot footprint. And there's hundreds of thousands of square feet down in that area. There's the potential to position it further south and to the west, like more so where the shop was,
>> less so right off that corner of group one. Again, it wasn't like, "Yep, this is a great idea. let's do it. It was let's talk about this next month. Let's kind of, you know, take this back to the staff. Shane and I will work on a more
definitive map of like, yeah, we take the feedback that it's not best right next to that bath house construction zone, but would it be okay a little farther south and to the west? And we'll see. That's kind of the process playing out, right? We don't
just say yes to anything. The Parker does a great job of like vetting requests for use of space. This is a good example of that. It's a local group. We like it. We want to support it, but we're not sure it's the best use of space or the best fit. Uh we pretty
well said the community center is the best space because it's got the skate park and the playgrounds and the tennis courts and the ball field and it's already a youthbased outdoor recreation space. And so if there was a spot is
kind of the new challenge of you know Shane talked to the community center director. Apparently there wasn't a that same we'll take it. We'll put it here. It was like there's no space. >> So it's a challenge
and if you guys feel one way or another I'd be happy to know about that. >> Did do you happen to know if they had one other like they have several kind of priority like this doesn't work we maybe don't think this. No maybe you don't know that. >> I do know it was you look at a map of
town and it's there's not a lot of open public space. Yeah, it really came down that's I think why it came to us was like we've got the spot theoretically because there is no other aside from the school they were asked they said no.
So if anyone has a great idea on this we're happy to hear. >> Yeah because it's a neat amenity. I believe it was funded through legacy money. >> Yeah. And there's rules and conditions governing that, isn't there?
>> Sort of needs to be fenced in. >> Who owns it? >> The SCA, I believe, or the county. That's a great question. >> County. But the county owns it. >> County had to partner on the grant. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. >> County. >> Does it need to be fenced? We don't I didn't know this >> because I think it does need to be fenced and that's why it was put inside the hockey arena. >> Yeah. >> Well, they talked about fencing it in when they did their presentation and I
found that >> they wouldn't. >> Well, I kind of wondered that. >> Okay. You're fencing it in. >> For safety reasons or because you have to either >> I thought it was a requirement, but I'm not sure. >> Yeah. So then that means, you know, like if
you're looking at a temporary type of place to put it, um I'm not so sure. They're looking for a temporary place. I think they're looking for a the longer range place. >> Yeah. Semi-permanent. The idea was like three to five years. >> Yeah.
>> With Sachi Bluffs eventually becoming the permanent home. Well, I think, you know, I mean, there's pl probably plenty of options down there, but, you know, crossing Highway 61 with a bunch of kids
ripping down ETH, you know, and and disrupt. I mean, they're not going to confine themselves simply to the park. They're going to be ripping all through. >> They already do. >> Yeah. Right. >> Right. >> More. >> Yes. And that's true, Ben. You're right.
because kids on bikes, great, outdoor, exercise, all that. But there's come there's some traffic concerns. There's on our roads in particular, that's narrow roads, tightly packed. We already suffer from like sort of a kids on bikes. >> That's right.
>> You know, scare guests are >> a lot of older people >> frequently commenting to us about kids and they didn't stop, they didn't look, and someone's going to get hurt. and we we're already aware of the congestion and the safety of kids on bikes and
scooters in the park and so we we wouldn't want to exacerbate that. I kind of got the read that this might have that might have that potential. >> Yeah. Right. >> So the other piece of last week's meeting was the Arrowhead AED group.
This is a newly formed local nonprofit, Chris Smith, Rich Furlong. They came to the meeting. um they've been wildly successful raising funds for outdoor AED units, automatic external defibrillators, right? And so they would
like to have one downtown kind of front and center. Harbor Park has been suggested. Uh it was a last minute add-on to the agenda and so I feel like there wasn't a lot of material to be presented. The group had like a brochure from the
vendor of what the AED stands look like there. It's it's a brightly colored branded because of their donations pedestal with a medical device that's in a insulated or a heated and cooled
cabinet. It's very sophisticated system. $10,000 pedestal. The device itself is cellular connected. It's kind of always broadcasting. It has a camera to like if you steal it, it'll capture your image. It'll call the people down in the Twin
Cities and they'll call us and we'll go and chase you down. But there's lots of issues with this in terms of use of space and Harbor Park. And so I think the park board once again did a good job of hoing, you know, slowing it down,
asking the right questions about liability, long-term maintenance, and aesthetic concerns of Harbor Park is meant to be like natural and scenic. And so you wouldn't really want this front and center like emergency.
Uh but again it was kicked back to committee you could say where um since followed up with the group had a staff meeting suggested a private location as a way to sort of circumvent all of this review and
you know like you see it would be donated if it if the park were to approve the use of space. This is the kind of thing that would come back to the city council to accept the donation. And I believe before you do that, you'd have to do quite a bit of due diligence
of the terms and conditions of the donation of the service agreements. So, especially because this is a medical device, liability is something one of our retired physicians on the board had a big question mark about or a big
concern about. And so again, the best and easiest route for this to be downtown available is on a a private business like as a wall-mounted unit
>> on a nearby business. >> Oh, so you wouldn't need that pedestal necessarily if you could attach it and you would need a building to attach it to, >> right? >> Yeah. It needs power and
so it would be better easier to attach to a building but still not easy if it doesn't have power right there. >> But that's even more of a challenge I think in the park that we've got power in the park but not necessarily the kind
you need in the spot you needed. So there's there would be some prep work to do. We're going to keep working with them to it's a really cool idea. So we want to see it succeed. So, we'll keep working with them to find a good spot. >> So, that's a little snapshot of the parks department.
>> Wow. >> Awesome. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, man. >> 18%. That's cool. >> Well, let's hope they don't all cancel because the price of gas is >> a lot. It's >> weather and fuel is a big the two big
factors we can't control. If you looked at this that that little table, you'd think we must have done terrible last year, >> but it was our record year. Like it was only 1% higher than our year before, which was our record year. So yeah, it was flat, but still it's better than
we've ever done. So then you look at those numbers and you'd think, oh, we were way way down. So there's a little bit of uh unpredictability yet. And I think one of the reasons is because of the system we use where it's this six-month look ahead and people make longer
>> reservations now to get to the dates that they want, but then those some of those disappear. >> And so I don't know how much of that is is cooked into these numbers, but just as a snapshot in time, you can see, oh well, this feels pretty good so far. If the weather turns out, it's going to
be a great year. >> Remind me, what was your deposit? $40. >> 40 bucks. That's right. >> A meager $40. And that's for all like a one night reservation pays in full >> just because it's usually like 60ome
dollars. >> But a two week, a three night, they all just put down $40. Okay. >> 10 of that's non-refundable. 30 is refundable. So it was a very generous >> Yeah. >> deposit cancellation policy. >> Yep. >> That is.
>> But again, we don't sit empty, right? If someone cancels >> away, >> we resell that. >> Yeah, >> we capture the $10. It actually adds up. We We make roughly 7500 reservations. Like, so you see this 2160? That's just
getting started. Most of our reservations come in not last minute, but month of based on availability, weather, weather, fuel. >> So, yeah. Yeah. Awesome. Awesome job.
>> Well, thank you. I really appreciate all the support the council and the parkboard has given me over the years. Um, this will be my 20th year, so feel like I got it dialed in, but I've had great help all along. >> You give us a hint for success.
>> Great team. >> Great team. >> Yeah. >> Another 20, right? >> Yeah. >> Just so you know, you're good for another 20. >> Right. I hope so. Maybe 10. >> All right. >> We'll hold you to it. >> Always new fun things to work on,
though. >> Yeah, it's parks and wreck. >> Yeah, >> we sell fun. >> Yeah. >> Well, since you're talking, you might as well finish my report and talk about the marina. >> Oh, the docks in the marina. Yeah, I guess I didn't. So, that's >> This is only good news tonight. Sorry.
>> There's still a big pile of ice though. That's crazy. >> Massive. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. I just saw the newsletter came out today and I took a snap of the docks and the rocks and like so when the blizzard came last month, the east winds, huge amount of storm surge came into the
harbor and East Bay, right? So all this ice off the lake came in and you know filled up the marina basin with ice, displaced our deicers. You know we run these little motors underwater to keep the you know open water and that day of the blizzard those things were getting
forced out of the water by the ice and the docks were you know buckling and undulating and really a bad scene. Really a power of the sea type of scene. But we shut down the DRS. We shut down power to the docks and we just sort of
said this is not good but there's nothing we can do about it. And sure enough, the the power of that ice like forced the docks north, you know, forward towards the sidewalk. And the pipes, the big 4-in metal pilings are
all bent sideways. Some of them are missing in places. And then there's big sleeves that are bolted on to the aluminum superructure. through the dock. So those multiple sleeves are missing, ripped, torn, bent,
a really bad deal. Tens of thousands of dollars of damage, reactivated insurance. The adjusters coming up this coming Tuesday. We'll have a chance to really take a look at things. I've already started to put together repair and replacement costs.
You know, there's where we're 8 9,000 just for new pipes. Whether or not we get new docks versus repaired docks is what I'm into right now. And I will be happy to talk to the appraiser and get their read on that because obviously they're going to want
it repaired right or replaced. So it's commercial hardware. It's great stuff. It's sturdy. It's Shoremaster brand. They're out of Fergus Falls. So it's kind of a mid, you know, Minnesota company that has great support. We've sent them pictures. They've said it doesn't look that bad.
So that's a little bit of hope, but >> yeah, maybe >> there's certain sections of docks that aren't affected. The fuel dock is one of them, which is great because that's kind of the first one we want to put in position and be able to service, you know, fuel for boats that are transiting in May. I don't feel like we'll be
delayed with our marina service in May. But the some of the main like the A do is mostly affected. We're going to get it right on as soon as we can to make repairs, but it's going to take a big crane, qualified aluminum welder, which I reached out to
some locals, and then, you know, time, >> which isn't and you know, good weather, which >> get rid of the ice. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, I think silver lining, we're not total, they're not sunk, they're not mangled, they're just moved, they're
bent, they're broken, but we can rebuild. We can repair. But a real eye openener too for our I don't want this to happen again >> like tomorrow night. >> And that's a little bit of the insurance is kind of waiting till they melt out
and then we're done with the risk because I see we're up for a blizzard warning tomorrow. East winds 50. >> I don't think the ice flows are going to be as impactful. >> Ice is kind of gone a little bit. >> Yeah. might just be right over the horizon though very easily
>> on it way back. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It'll be interesting to see where we're at >> in April. >> At least they're not making any more ice. >> Maybe take the bad stuff out. >> We actually got a few deicers restarted on B do right now. We got some open
water around the B dock is no longer being stressed. But yeah, A do took it worse. It's kind of a weird like ice is magical cuz B do looks pretty straight and here 100 200
feet to the east a dock is mango. It's really bent. >> Wow. >> Yeah. And the northhouse docks are fine. So >> we need a big break wall out front. I'll always say this in any marina harbor
meeting. >> Yeah. is this, you know, >> the gap at the between the lighthouse and the green can is, you know, 500 ft. >> Yeah. >> And that's why we're not a safe harbor. That's why we get big waves in the harbor in the marina. This ice itself, I don't think would
have made its way in, maybe. But yeah, if you want to fix the harbor, >> let's do it. >> Start putting rocks out. >> It's still your thunder, Greg. >> Oh, you're fun. pitching more. >> Thank you very much, Dave.
>> Yeah. Thank you. >> Thanks, Scott. Thanks, Dave. Appreciate your time tonight. >> All right. And with that, um, we can move on to council reports. >> I totally skipped my own report on the agenda, of course. >> Yeah, you did. See, that's what
happened. That's why I put you first so I wouldn't forget. So, we'll put you back on then. >> Well, first, I do remember. I'm totally I'm so ready. >> Okay, let's do it. >> I wanted to just give a few updates. First of all, we'll start with the recent events today. I was down in the
beautiful city of Wasika for Sima's monthly meeting. They did hold an election for the board and the city of Grammar received seven votes >> and the city of Princeton received nine. So, they'll do a great job. Keith
Butcher is the utilities manager for the city of Princeton. He actually used to work for Simpa and he was NY's predecessor as the person that visited us to do energy efficiency work with our customers. So we know Keith really well.
>> It's the guy who came here the other meeting. >> He that's the guy who replaced Nancy. Nancy replaced Keith. So way back. Yeah. So in any case, uh this was the consolation prize is what I heard and
it's great news. >> Simpa will be here in May for their monthly meeting. It's our turn to host. So they'll be in this space uh May I believe the second Wednesday. And so I'm
still going to move forward with the conversation about switching meeting times for the council and the planning commission to make it easier for us to continue participating in simple monthly meetings. So stay tuned for that. And then an update on a couple of projects
we're working on and actually that we're working with MSA on. A reminder, if you'll recall towards the end of last year, there was news that we received a grant, a pretty large grant, $130 some,000 from the MPCA to work on GIS.
Um it's a resiliency project and we'll be working on both wastewater and electric mapping and modeling. And so we've just recently been in conversation with the MPCA about putting the scope of work together and putting the grant
contracts together. So that's going to be coming soon. Uh we had a great project that MSA put together for us with a lot of detail and MSAA's detail is going to be simplified now. the MPCA said that might be too much to put in
this contract in terms of deliverables and scope of work and so maybe we need to just simplify the descriptions of it which I like. Um maybe gives us a touch more flexibility to uh get the things out of it we want and still be responsive but progress being made on
that and it's an exciting project. And then I'm going to join the meeting here. Kim That might be about as big as I can make it. So, I won't pretend to be able to share with you the details of what's on this page. But this is our final draft
set of plans for Third Street. Uh it's ready to go. What's changed since you've last looked at it? We have more detail on the south side of the road in terms of where curb cuts go and where utility connections go. And this is all based on
feedback we received from Steve Dawan for his properties that are adjacent to and could potentially be served by. So, I think at this point we're ready to to deploy and go out and get some bids on
this. Um, there'll still be a need to field verify when we actually do the work that this is where the curb cut actually has to go. And so although we've got these plans and they're based on what we got from Steve, uh we're
still going to make sure when the construction happens that it's actually what is going to work for him and not just hope that this is exactly right because it's tough to read a set of plans and know for sure that's exactly what everybody meant. Um, and then of
course the utility connections would be something that uh he'd have to pay for and that conversation isn't done yet. I think we want to see what the bid numbers are so we can give him a real good price for what it'll cost and then he can decide is that something I want
to do or not. Um, so that's a brief update on that project. And any anything else I should bring up about that, John? Um well, we're hoping to uh and I haven't talked to you about this yet, but we're hoping to start advertising. >> Yeah.
>> Um the end of next week. >> Yeah, I think it's time. >> And then it's a two week minimum. So, um when we get the date, we were I was tenatively thinking that we would have a bid opening on
April 3rd in March. Just what I pencile in that works. >> Is there a curb cut on Dwayne Smith property? Do you know? >> Yes.
>> Because there might I was just thinking there you might probably want one. Yeah, it's directly across from the haze. >> Okay. Sidewalk tenatively a road put in there. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, that's the the whole strategy was we're trying to just match what people are already doing there. >> Yep.
>> Okay. >> April 3rd is a Friday. >> Yeah, that works fine. >> Susan in her office. We'll get that all send you a link. >> Okay. And uh next time I'm going to talk a little bit more about the ETIP project
that Shane and I are continuing to work on, which is the electric utilities um multi-year effort at doing some future planning that we got granting assistance for. and we've been meeting on a weekly basis
to put a scope of work together and we're getting close to that being done and then it'll be time to start actually getting out there and doing the work. So, when that scope of work is prepared and it should be by the time we meet again, I'll share that with utilities commission and then we'll share that with the council as well just to get you
up to speed on that. Another really exciting project that is going to do a lot of good things for us. and I think that's all I'm going to cover. So, I have nothing until sorry. >> It's okay.
I'll circle back anyways. >> Oh, okay. >> You're a day early tomorrow. >> Okay. What's your excuse? >> Uh, no. I've got some stuff. Uh, no, I don't. Yeah, I do. Um we had human
resource meeting uh Monday uh this week. We made a few uh changes um to a job position to um calling it management assistant job for the time being. Is that right?
That's what we're doing. And so we we made some final changes to that >> and I think you're posted it or >> Well, it's it's ready to >> tomorrow. Tomorrow. Yeah. >> Okay. So, we're hopeful uh to get some great candidates for that. Okay. Um
>> yeah, that'd be really exciting. I know the office could use uh the help, right? >> We could use the help. >> We could use it now. >> We could use it a month ago. >> Yeah, >> we could have used it about an hour and a half ago, actually. >> Right. >> Yeah.
>> So, um Yeah. Uh North House tomorrow. I think there is a What else? And then tomorrow night, uh, community leadership, it's community ed. >> It's tomorrow night. >> That is tomorrow night.
>> Yep. >> Oh, yeah. Higher ed. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Okay. Yep. Yep. >> And yeah, other than that, I don't have anything. There's no planning meeting this month. So, >> that's that. What I've got. Um, one thing on the PUC
meeting that you already heard from wastewater treatment, but um, we're doing repair work on engine number one in the remote generator. Is that I had a
question about that. Those repairs, is that on a city or does Simare help in that or >> That's on us. >> That's on us. The repair works on us. Okay. I was concerned about that. Um, we had a generator go down when we
were that really that one cold spell we were running for a while. That's when we find well that's when you find out when you're going to have problems is when everything's running wide open. So >> So we're waiting on the repair of that. >> Um,
what else? I think that's pretty much everything we covered. Yeah, if you're interested in a lot of details about it, check out the last utilities commission meeting where our line workers gave a brief summary, but just a few details about it. >> Yeah,
>> the plant was installed in 2003. >> Yeah, >> the debt is paid off. So, it's probably uh it's lived as much of a life as as we had hoped for it when we built it. Um, we purchased Cumins engines which
they're we're getting into the business of doing this then. That particular model engine one is kind of a unique size and so finding replacement parts is a bit of a challenge. Uh, it was built in England and shipped over here. So, we
are fortunate to have the same vendor that we used back then that worked for Cumins and installed the plant has been out on his own and is the person we've used to do annual maintenance on the plant forever and we still have a good relationship with him. So, he's out
shaking the trees looking for parts. We also have Simpa and their staff out doing that as well, trying to find parts for it. And the strategy is that we'll just be able to bring in parts and fix it in place. Um, >> which will save a lot of money. >> Save a lot of money other than have to
get that thing out of there and put it on a truck and drive it. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> I got a list. >> Wow. You guys are on it anyway, so it's okay.
>> Um, I had a list sent out today. I don't know if you had time to see it yet, but there is going to be a meeting here next Wednesday by the ARDC and um we just got noticed about it. Um
and Mike and I will be gone and the HA will be with us at down at the legislature. Potentially this the county attorney, right? I mean county administrator >> and the chamber will be down there. So, a lot of the key folks you would expect
to be at this meeting, which we aren't really hosting, but it is here, um, and just had no awareness of it. So, did you have anything to add because you're on the air? >> No. >> It's funny because they we had talked about and they said like, "Yeah, it's coming up. You know, we have to do it
every so many years and it's going to happen this year." But, yeah, I didn't get any like this is when it's going to happen. It was just like, "We do it this year." >> Yeah. >> So, that was Now you know, next Wednesday. >> Now I know. >> So you I sent it to besides making sure
other leaders knew about it, I also sent it to all our main media and town so they could spread the word because local business owners that they're the people perfect audience for this. >> Um and any of you have time next week um or you just want to let people know
about it. So we got that. Um, every once in a while through the League of Minnesota Cities, they haveformational webinars and of course they're all recorded afterwards. If you don't have an account, I would suggest opening one. I went to one for land use
regulation last week and it was really informative because it gets you in the mode of just the B, you know, how does it all work >> and the language and what what can cities do and what is the state grand as threats to, where things going, whatever. And then there's some follow-up ones with zoning. So,
especially for planning and zoning interested people on the council, which might be all of us um >> um >> they're good. >> So, was that just last week you said? >> Yeah, last week. >> So, I can look for the date. >> Yeah. So, um then then they'll record
and it'll be in their library. I don't know what the time is on that, you know, if they post it right away or not, but >> it should be in there. And I did one the one the other year too and it was it's pretty good. >> Yeah. >> On that
um for what I call our Boulder Park planning with our grant from the cities initiative, Great Lakes St. Lawrence City Cities Initiative. We our
next step is to have an open house and um we finally settled. They still need to finalize some help us with some of the presentation materials. And then there were other events and uses for our space here. So we set tenatively April
13th and we'll have an open house. I don't think we quite set the time. I know I put 5 to 7, but whatever. 6 to 8. We'll figure that out and get and Alyssa said she'd help us get the word out. And then we also had a meeting with their group for potential grant funding and
next steps like that. And we let them know that we're really working toward a much bigger project. So we won't want to work on grant funding for this smaller piece. We'll kind of and which bring it into the other thing. >> So that was good and gets that moving
along a little bit more. Um, as I mentioned when Dave asked, which I haven't had a chance, I think I forgot that we need to figure out a date and figure out a date, but the archaeologists from Shipo ask when they
could do an open house. And I said based on calendars and vacation times, we're looking at April. Um, so we we'll set a time with them and they'll come up and do an open house on on their work to present out to us and to the community.
Um and that's all I haven't had any other communications with other to say it's looking that it's going to be midappril. Um because end of March and even in the first week of April is kind of a vacation thing around here. Uh,
I just happened to see, which I wish Shane would let us know more directly, but I saw in his weekly report that he had some more communications with the Army Corps >> on the east side after I sent them the note and they said, "Yes, we could probably do something. I look at it
more. It looks like we might need to do some reapplying on that, but it's not dead in the water." Sorry this um so that's good and now circling back to you.
>> So invited to North House sustainability study or whatever >> and the initial meeting in April to climate issues, emission issues. I'm not really sure. Thought maybe you had more. >> I don't have any insight into that. When
did you when did you hear the I don't know that I got that. >> I don't think you were invited. >> Clearly. >> Yeah. >> Well, >> might have been a reason. >> Have to take a look at that.
>> Have to figure it out. When was that? >> Just within the last couple weeks, right? Week or so. They sent out those. It was like a doodle poll. >> Couple weeks. And I only saw that it was me, Shane, and you that were included in that. >> Oh, I didn't know that. >> Yeah. And so it's next week, right? The date that was picked.
>> No, it's April, isn't it? >> Here we go again. Confusion. Uh, anyways, I Yeah, I looking for a little bit more insight. I mean, that's a hot topic and there's a zillion organizations up and down the shore all worried about the lake and
sustainability and resilience and all of that. If it's April, I don't know why I would have said I'm not available because I'm definitely not busy planned out that far ahead. So, >> okay. Well, >> yeah, we'll have to look at that tomorrow, too. >> Yeah, I
I whatever. >> Okay, maybe I'll be there. >> Um checking my boxes here. Oh, and then you covered the HR committee. And then one of the other things that we're going to do is in a work session um have all
the council see the the current revised job descriptions for everyone that have we well with Roina and Mike's help and then also department heads did a lot of work too to get these ready. >> Is that going to be on the 25th? Well, that I don't know is that we have to
>> We do have one scheduled. >> We um Roina still has a little bit of prep work for us, so she wanted to know the date and make sure she could. >> Yeah, I saw her stuff just, you know, she sent this afternoon. >> Yeah, >> I think we'll be able to confirm by
tomorrow. Uh and my suspicion is yes, it'll be for the 25th. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So, that's on that. So, I think uh that's everything. And then next week, uh, we'll go down to the state capital
>> and there'll be another snowstorm. >> Let's hope. >> Oh, I did have one more thing. What am I thinking? Um, with um our tachinite harbor of things. I had a very good conversation with Margaret Watkins yesterday. Got some good questions
answered and we are definitely on the calendar and we will be moving forth with conversations and meetings. and um she wanted to she's very happy to make the connection and talk about things but I think in a very proper way she said
you know that that will come from the the tribal council the the planning and all of that that's not her role because her role is technical so um those conversations will continue and they will be inviting us so
it's all very good anything else. All right, we're headed home before 8 o'clock. >> Thank you everyone.