Is that right? an expert practicing all day. The internet was regular city of Quakes council meeting to order for Monday May 12th on 5:30. Roll call, please. Counselors Grant
here. Jar here, here. Mat here. Mayor Scott here. All right. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic
for its one nation under God and the liberty of our moving to the consent agenda. Has anybody had a chance to read through that? any sort of questions, comments, concerns, anything like
that? Um, hearing none, I will ask for a motion to accept the consent agenda as is. So, we have a motion from councelor Chara. Anybody that would like to second or support that support. We have a support from councelor Grams. All those
in favor? Any opposed? Hearing none, the motion carried. U moving on to the guests and citizens forum. Does anybody have anything to say or question? Hi, thank you. My name is Jim Ky. I'm a homeowner here in White Lakes. So, I had
some ideas I wanted to pass on um that would help support local businesses, help us keep the ones we have, maybe bring some new businesses in, also help the revenue issues in this town. Um some of you have seen the ideas. I have many of them. I'll just
focus on two tonight because I know I'm time limited. Uh the first one is that White Lakes could readily easily establish a mountain bike trail. Many small towns in northern Minnesota have created a mountain bike trail. Uh Chisum has, Crosby has, Detroit Lakes is
building one. Cohassid has. Now, if you look online, you can see that Chisum says that their mountain bike trail they've only had for a few years has brought in over a million dollars to local businesses. We could be doing that here in Great Lakes. The good news is it
would not cost the city of White Lakes anything. Zero dollars. I've already mapped out a trail using old access trails, um, old logging trails, and some old crosscountry ski trails that I helped build back in the 1970s. It tells
you how old I am. Um, it could be readily done. All we would need to do is send a letter to Elite asking for permission because most of these trails would be on their property. The property
would be generally between uh the hotel and Steven Chambers. Um this is very easy to do. I've created many trails in the last few years, some of which have been on Elite Property. It takes about four or five minutes to send them an
email. They respond readily. Elite is very eager to be a good community partner and to work with you. There's no problem with that at all. Um, as far as actually doing the trail, I'd be willing to create it myself. Like I say, much of
the trail is already in existence. So, it basically involves some basic ground work, weed eating, some shoveling, stuff like that. I could work on it this summer. We could get it going. The trail I have uh designed right now is about 8
to 10 miles. If it turns out that that is very workable, we could easily expand that. But what I would just need would be your approval to go ahead and somebody in the city to write the letter to Elite. If you have any questions about that, I'll be glad to take them or any
comments. Otherwise, I'll move on to my second point tonight. Is it on um just elite property or is it on city property or county property at all or is it just going through the Almost all of it. If you look on the uh the county um land explorer
website, 90 95% of it on a le property. I mean the rest is on point property. Okay. There's no county property involved. It's not on like the four-wheeler trails or anything. Oh, no. We would say we don't want to get run out. Yeah. No, that's I know like that area. Yeah, I I use that four-wheel
trail myself. No, nothing to do with the snowmobile or the four-wheel trail. And you've got 8 to 10 miles figured out just up there. Yeah. Amazing. And you know, hey, if anyone wants to take a little tour, I have a side by
side. I'd be glad to take anybody um for a tour of the trails. And I think most of you have my contact information. So I'm I'm available to do that. Give me a call, send me an email. Um second point, and this is a
little more complicated, is about the Hoy Lakes Industrial Park. Um I think we are in um a very bad place there. As you know, I'm sure AOR got $9 million to build a state-of-the-art industrial
park. Um, they they will be in a much more advantageous position to attract new businesses into that. They're very aggressive, which I think is a very good thing. My compliments to the city of Aurora. They've been doing a great job the last couple years with that state-of-the-art
park and the fact that their transportation is much better than city of Lakes. If I were them, the first thing I'd do is trying to attract the existing businesses that Ho Lakes has in their industrial park. Well, what can we do about that? It's very simple. Back in the
1970s, not many of you here would remember this. You're not my age. Um, they changed the road from Gilbert into Bobby because of the mining. Um, that road is highway 135, which is a state highway. Original plans
were for that road to go all the way to Aurora to what was then the Holiday Station. It's now a Circle K station. We need to ask the state to go ahead and finally complete that highway. This will make White Lakes competitive. It will mean that we will
not have to drive through two small towns to get to the White Lakes Industrial Park. The former mayor told me that several years ago there was a major manufacturer who was considering locating Lakes Industrial Park, but as it turned out, they did not want to have
to drive through two small towns, and I would make the same decision if I was in that position. Again, Aurora is in the transportation advantage. Um, we can get into an advantage with transportation if we could get that highway extended. Again, the good news is this would not
cost White Lakes a dime. This would be a state highway. Now, as you probably know, much of that highway already exists in the form of a gravel road. If you keep if you drive to a lower and you keep driving, you go past the gas station, you can keep going on that gravel road. It'd be pretty simple
for the state to do. Of course, they would have to pave it. They would have to uh use an easement on some existing private properties, but it would be a pretty simple thing to do. Um, there might have built highways, have built roads. there really wouldn't be much to
it. Um, again, this would involve writing a letter. I would be more than happy if the city would appoint me as a representative to go and lobby with the state and with the uh Department of Highways for the state of Minnesota. Won't cost you anything. I'm
volunteering to do everything tonight for free. I'm not interested in a a formal job and a full-time job. I'm retired. I like being retired and having my own schedule. Again, I'll do all this for free. Won't cost the city anything. If you have any questions or comments,
again, I won't take up any more time. Um, where was this supposed to come out? I'm sorry. What? Where was it supposed to come out in it was going to go around BIC? You know, in Boic where you turn, you make that sharp left turn, you go into BIC. It
would go straight north straight. You're aware of the fact that uses that area as an arration place for their water their wastewater treatment. Well, we would leave it to the state to work. You spray that telephone that you see running.
Yeah, I don't think they would need to to uh go on that property. Actually, there's just two private landovers owners according to the the county website. Um, so they would have to get easement on those sites, which would not be a problem for the state to do. It's
not something Point Lakes would need to get involved in, which is is kind of nice. Any other questions or comments? Yeah, we have your contact information, but yeah, thank you for Thank you. Thanks. um for guest and citizens forum. Is
there anybody else that would like to stand up there and say anything? Right. Hearing nothing, we'll move on to reports from staff. Um city administrator Wyber uh two report to the resolutions. Um the
big thing we're working on is the R22 replacement project that um for funding that's the next grant that's progressing well. piece of paper and then with that and then project is coming fast and furious
resolution has a couple things on that lot of work in fun. Thank you for staying on top of that. Moving on to public utilities director Baron water plant side may need spiked
up a little bit. This is nothing close to what we saw last September though, so it shouldn't see any issues. But if you do, please let us know so we can address it. We think we have the situation under control and should get better as the month goes on.
Great. Thank you. Um, city attorney. Thanks, Mayor. I don't have anything at this time. Thank you. Moving on to reports from elected officials. Councelor Graham, the I'm a member for the youth in action group which their meeting was cancelled
last week for the second time. So I have yet to attend one of those meetings but eventually I'll I'll get to one when they reschedule. Um I did register to go to the lead of Minnesota cities conference June 25th and 27th in Duth. Um so I will be attending that. I went
it was two years ago and there was some good information. So attending that and then the chamber of commerce, I know we have our canned bins down at Msabi sanitation and at the recycle center. They are getting full and we have plans to get the our trailer emptied and get those cleaned up now
that the weather has got nicer. So the chamber will be working on that and that's it. Thank you, councelor Dera. Uh the other thing I've got is I attended the citizens advisory panel meeting that was held out at Alaskan. It was mostly
involving a tour of the plant was a little different than it was when we went to the fire department years ago. I know Dean was out there. I didn't get much other information that I thought and shared too. Interesting. Yes. It's it was
something to see the changes that occurred back from when fire departments were working just turn down and off. Yeah, that's pretty interesting the way they can do that and that's they don't run
full time just when it's needed. Thank you for attending that. Um, I just would like to thank the citizens that came out and helped with the community cleanup. It looks a lot better. Um, a few of us I know were
there and that's one. All right. Thank you, Counc. Um, other than just uh the hiring committee meeting today, we're working on moving forward with the uh heavy equipment operator positions. So, next steps will be interviews in the next
week. Okay. Thank you. So other than that, I have nothing. Perfect. Thank you. Um yeah, I don't have any major updates uh on my end. Um we have our garden club meeting tomorrow. Um yeah, that's about
it. So moving on, old business, none. Moving on to new business. 11.1 uh recommendation to hire for arts and crafts instructor that um and it looks like um there's a recommendation to hire for
that position. She's had it for the past few years. Um you've been doing a good job at that. Um you adopt it. Mr. Peterson that I have not um but I think he's the one who does the who
chose the instructor the summer. Um so that's his recommendation. Um would anybody like to make a motion to um Joe Eman? Is there anybody that'd like to
second or support that? I'll support that. We have a support from counc all those in favor. Any opposed? Hearing none motion carry 11.2. Every year there's some helpers that help out with the arts and crafts
instructor and it looks like they recommend hiring Alexi as the arts and crafts helper. Um so is there anybody that would like to make that motion to her? I'll make that motion. We have a motion from councelor Gr. Anybody that like to
second or support that we have a second from councelor Matson. All in favor? I opposed hearing none. Motion carried and the general roll stand. Moving on to 11.3 recommendation
to hire summer signal positions in the public works, public utilities, recreation and golf course. Um recommendation to hire all the following people for those um positions. I won't go through all of these just in the interest of time. Um
anything on your end, the utilities part or We're asking for two this year. Reason being is that one of them uh is interested in getting into possibly public utilities work with water waste water. So we always like to take someone
like that. They could be a future employee one day. Then the other person we're taking I'm going to split that one with Kenny's crew. So most of the time he's going to be working for public works. keeping within the budget for staffing versus last
year. So basically sounds do they have unlimited hours period they call them kids. So they do a good job. We usually turn them loose at about 3. Um, so they'll be
there 7 to 3 and then do the work, get out, and then if they have sports or something, we work with them on that to the most part every five days a week for long. Uh, usually about August, they start to peel off mid August, end August, depending on what they have for
like summer sports and hard kids. Yeah, I know. little budget years ago some line item is that still a thing because I remember in the past we've been able to have if they had like a long vacation over the winter they've been able to come in and do some
cleaning for a day or something if we had the money in the budget we can lean on that but I want to say it's like $300 or $200 it's just a max it's not that little there used to be a lot more kids interested so you had to give everyone
80 hours so everyone could could get a little piece of the pie It's not really like that anymore. Any other comments or questions? There's not taking motion to hire um all the the folks listed in here
for those positions. Motion motion council Matson, second by councelor Ja. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carried. Moving on to 11.4. Um there's a recommendation higher
way west as golf course assistant greenskeeper. Anybody that'd like to make a motion to hire Wade. I'll make that motion. We have a motion from councelor Grams. Anybody that'd like to second or split that second? We have a second from
councelor Matson. All those in favor? I hear none. Motion carried. Moving on to 11.5. 11.5 application to conduct excluded bingo by the water on July 26
and 7, 20 at the community building. Why is it called excluded? because we are a 501c organization, but we are we don't hold a family license with the state of Minnesota. So, nonprofits can apply um four times a
year to do excluded events without having a a year-long gambling license. If the chamber holds a license, so we can do any kind of gambling any time on our precis But if you don't have assist, you have to ask the state permission.
Looks pretty standard. Looks like the usual ones we get whenever we have those cuts. So I'll take a motion to um to accept or approve this application for so we have a motion from councelor Ja. Anybody that like to second and support
that second counc I any hearing? None. Great. Moving on to 11.6 um bingo at the VFW um July 19th, November 15th,
November 22nd of 2025. That's kind of the same thing. The VFW does hold their own gas license, but they said the auxiliary doing it. So, we have to apply for a separate permit because we're not the licensed organization. again that's familiar to ones we've had
in the past. So I'll ask for a motion to approve this application for VFW with a couple dates. We have a motion from councelor Matton. Anybody that like a second support that we have a second from councelor
Ecman. All those in favor I opposed to 11.7 Iron Range Historical Society update and maintenance request approval per memorandum of understanding. Um so the Iron Range Historical Society provided an update of
plan work for 2025 to include um brushing the trail into the site, replacing rotten boards, paint, stain, and add a map of St. Louis County to the PAS. Um they're requesting approval to perform maintenance at the ler drill site with further memorandum of
understanding between the IRS and the city of clear lakes. The plan is to install the cable railing on one side of the ridge and repair/replace the timber at the top of the tripod. This will be at no cost for city and then provided supplemental
information provided that memorandum of understanding um and then a letter from the the start of society. Um, any sort of comments or questions on this? I think it's great, right? Yeah, I think
it's great. Um, yeah, no cost to the city. Having some folks just kind of make that area look a little nicer and make some repairs. Um, I think that'd be very kind of them to do. So, is there anybody that'd like to make a motion to approve the um this request? I'll make a motion.
We have a motion from councelor Eman. Anybody that'd like to second and support that. So move. We have a second by councelor Jarlock. All those in favor. Any opposed? Hear none. Motion carries. Moving on to 11. Horizon
cell. Um would you like to speak to this information? So they're looking to put a cell tower another additional cell tower from Verizon. Correct. And it's a
freestanding nos in a closer location where the existing mill is now or alternative location within a three mile radius of downtown. Correct. Not quite. I my name first of all my name is Rick Adams. I'm a longtime
telecom consultant. Been doing that for about 32 years. I worked with the city many years ago putting together the other cell tower out there like Minnesota towers built that for AT&T. Right now that cell tower is owned
by American Tower Verizon tried for two years to get on that tower and they weren't able to work out satisfactory. So they hired me to look for another spot um in the city.
Originally, um, I told Dean some wrong information. I reviewed it today. They want to be on the east side of town. Oh, mile, preferably a mile and a half from the city center, only on the east
side. They have multiple sites on the west side by Aurora and stuff. So, they want to concentrate more on the east side of town. So that uh so what they're proposing is a 250 foot south support
tower. It's a little bit different than the one that's out there as a guide tower. So the south support towers they take up less ground space. They want to release about 100 foot by 100 foot area where the guide towers typically that size guide tower. We're
releasing about 550 foot by 500t area to include all the guy wires. So, um, I went out, looked at the area, looked at the zoning that the city had, and appears that on that side of town,
the only property that's zoned appropriate for communication towers that is owned by the city. And uh, you know, a lot of cities would prefer to get the ramp off of these communication towers rather than
have a private party get that. grant. The other private party out there that has a lot of land is Minnesota Power. Minnesota power probably has enough money as it is. But uh I I've negotiated leases of the Minnesota power in the
past. But um so I did look at what I thought was appropriate spot on the 40 acres that um your your recycling centers at. And I thought an ideal spot there would be
just before the gate. do it. Um the gate there for the recycling center. We put a driveway off to the uh left side and there's a kind of a high spot there to at
least area. It's in the woods wood right now. That way it' be pretty far away from your your gravel pit operation that you have out there and there wouldn't be any conflict trying to get in the gates or
out of the gates. The driveway just be the gates. There are other sites out there on the south side of the road that you know would be closer to existing guide tower that would be
acceptable. But um we thought it would be best kind of keep it on a separate parcel, but that's up to the city to decide which space there any space at all. Um obviously if
you got a Verizon cell phone, which I have, there's very few bars and your phones probably work better on the west side of town than the site. The
other thing is um you know with the new 5G services that are being deployed which 5G is just there's no magical word. It's just fifth generation
um radios for cell phones. They work at about 100 times faster than the 4G system. They carry a lot more data, but because of the speed and because of the spectrums that were licensed, they're
they they got more spectrum width than the traditional cell phone spectrums. Typically, when when cell phones were first licensed, they got about 30 megahertz of bandwidth, right around 850
MHz. Um and those that frequency is still used by the carriers but a lot of 5G services for that's meant to carry data um is um in a 3.5 GHz range and so that
signal is a lot weaker. The the higher your R frequency the weaker the signal. the weaker the signal less coverage you're going to have obviously but it's safer for the community too. Um so that's pretty much
what the proposal is. They want to ramp up except 100 ft. Um the uh they're looking at have a lease rate of $500 per month with the 2% per year escalator. I've been doing this a long
time. So you have any basic questions on this proposal or in general? Well, look at the sites from the private zoning issue. Yeah. See, you only have out there
um this commercial zoning zing on 80 acres out there and and the city owns both of those. Obviously, we went somewhere else. There's so property we'd have to
be in here to try to resign another for you. But we thought we'd start out trying to work with TC because the the service has meant to service your your constituents. Verizon doesn't have any business without
customers. The customers are your constituents. Could you show us like on the map where I'm just a visual person, so I kind of want to see
Yeah. I don't know that I can see right now. Here's there's the 24. This is the studio. Oh, that's the engage here.
So, right off the road there. Yeah, right off this. Yeah. Yes. You could tell me something. I just have to see it. The other thing I have is not the exact
plan, but it's a The height's not quite how big are they very smart. So they're not 100 foot by 100 foot area in a smaller area
space. And as soon as you mention you mentioned 18 what I said is they uh negoti ated with the Mar tower for a couple years terms. Okay. And would this only be Verizon to get on
this tower or be No, actually Verizon would start out negotiating with Brownies, but at some point they turn it over to independent tower company. Probably Burke Bridge is the company they're working with this year. and then
vertical bridge would have designed this to hold more tariffs and advertisers. Um, one one thing that happens that happened when we designed and I designed that existing tower. I wasn't anticipating these these design loads
that we're put on a tower today. Back then, back when we're doing two and a half and 3G, we're hanging 20 pounds. Maybe I I you know size the tower hold 48 antennas
that's usually four 12 antennas per carrier four carriers four different levels but those antennas are only 20 pounds well now antenna the 4G antennas are weigh 100 pounds a piece and then they got two 75
lb radios intact so where we had 20 pounds playing for now we're put 250 50 lb. So 50 lbs have a bad spot. So what's happened is we don't put in buildings anymore because all the radios are top of the tower. The radios used to be in
the buildings. So the only thing in the cabinets is the equipment to convert um AC to DC because these radios were negative 48 DC volts.
and and with the radios on top of a tower. There's actually less um trips to a site. Typically a site tong only come up to a site once every 3 months now.
Back when we had the radios in the building, the tech once a month service radios, but these radios are non serviceable at this point on top of the tower. there's no adjustments
adjustments to be made or anything. So, it's completely different technology than even 10 years ago. But it's a lot more data, a lot higher speed. And what's really going to
be pushing a lot of this is I don't know if you folks saw I've seen ads from both AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, all three of them. a lot of them are are doing um offering unlimited high-speed
data for $25 a month. So right now the data I'm getting the high speed data I'm getting from my house from TBS is 125 and it probably is the same with a
lot of your cable carriers and develop telephone carriers but once there's enough capacity in an area you're um and people are going more to streaming uh TV apps like YouTube TV and and Hood,
they're going to be using these services a lot more because they can give the same quality of signal as they could from a a fire line to their house, but
at a fraction of the cost, like $25 a month. And so it's going to help the people in your community come up with less expensive communication. And of course, it's going to really help your businesses in the in the area because
most businesses need high speed data. I run a very small business called Red Air. I need high speed data because I'm I'm constantly transmitting or emailing documents with pictures and I'm
le plans and all that stuff wouldn't be possible about high speed data. The only problem is my highspeed deck cost me like $725 a month instead um instead of a cheaper amount. If I had
once Verizon and AT&T get more antennas deploying on existing towers in my area, then they'll sell me high speed data. But right now I'm re my area is restricted. There's just not enough capacity.
um uh internet service. Um the uh one of the carriers told me that one internet service is like servicing 15 of these cell phones. Of course,
these take a lot more data than it used to. These are just made computers at this point. So data is the whole thing. um the voice her traditional voice still carry over 4G system 5G systems just for
data. So that's a little bit of background on where we are in the technology. So like I said, Verizon wants to upgrade their service in Hoy Lakes and they would really like to negotiate, you
know, these terms with the city for this this spot. How far away from because it's like on our corner, how far away from the road will this tower be? Well, that has been determined yet. We can adjust it, you know,
um back to my placement. You know, if you want it 100, we be 100. If you want 150, we at 150. The one thing about a self support tower is a little bit different than a guide tower. Guide tower in the fall zone radio
radius. It's fixed pretty much at half half the tower. So you got a 300T tower, but you fall over 150 ft. Now with this tower like this, we can engineer a fall zone of 50
ft or 75 ft 100 ft. So we would put in a safe place. So in in the unlikely event that they do fail, they would typically just bend over. They would but the engineers like
to get fancy. They had to give us pause letters and they said, "Well, if the thing bent over and separated somehow, you know, the fall zone would be 75 ft door, we can entert So we'll be relatively close. How tall is that tower
that's right outside of town right now? Do you know 400 ft? So that falls on radius is about 200. So that's why I didn't really pick a spot yet because you know it is a negotiation between Verizon and the city
of what you would like to see. I've been on many different committees over the last four or five years about broad broadband and accessibility social media and the internet for everyone. And I think this would fill one of those needs. I've heard a lot of people asking about who
has Verizon up here, what's the service like? and some people say it's not not good service. So I think this would fill the need for the public and then also generate a little income for the city using our land. So we
negotiated similar a little bit shorter. It's about 180 foot tower in Aurora few years ago, three years ago. And then that was self supported built on city property um just on the kind of on the east side
of Aari a little bit south of downtown city. I think in that case they carried the power of the original toner. I'm going to get confused here. That was a chil service for
182. But uh I think they uh bought that site for something like 35 $40,000 instead of doing a monthly payment. But I think a monthly and and
we could work out a lum payment if the city wanted that. I think you're you're basing $6,000 a year probably taking payment like that then say $30,000 that's five years
of bankruptcy. So I guess if I'm reading this correctly today what our goal would be for is just to say yeah we're interested so go ahead and design come up with lease agreement. Is that what everybody else sees from this or are you looking for a No, just just
that you're interested, you're willing to move forward, come up, we'll come up with a suggested design and we'll come up with the lease lease template and start negotiating. Obviously, anywhere along
the point, you have to go on the lease and you have to go on the site. You know, I I selected what I thought was a good site, but it's not the only site, but I think it has some some good attributes. A little bit easier to site
these these self- support takes so much more space and I would be involved in most most of that. I would be doing the sidewalks, work with Dean on on that. I would be doing the permitting and then
be involved with the lease negotiations. So, and I live I live here in northern Minnesota. Well, not this part of northern Minnesota. I live over my home. So, but I've done most of the
towers in northern Minnesota or the other. In fact, when I did this tower here, when I zoned it, I brought that's one involved here and I brought in six towers for the planning board to approve
in one city because it was a huge expansion. And then I looked at this one, they said, "Oh, this isn't our jurisdiction. Oh, we had to get this one done." So, I only got five out of six. Any other questions or comments for Rick?
Um, do we need a motion or just an approval to be asked? I guess I don't actually need the interested work on this.
Um, city would be to make any sort of motions. Soundsational. It's something we should pursue with the city. Oh, sounds good. I think we're interested and then once you have um balancing agreement and designs and all those different tangible things
that bring forward and you can discuss it council but yeah you think that's generally a good spot seems out of out of town and out of the way and you design these way more often than any of us do. I think because they're going to spend quite a bit of
money on engineering the next steps to pay do a 30page report on this site turn into Verizon and then they'll they'll see a good site and they know it's a
good site. Um and then they'll uh they'll want to come out to a sidewalk and start engineering for real. I would be eager for that. and then they do a site sketch and then they always have the land owner
approve the site sketch. So at that point it come back to the city council where site sketch approval once we got the site sketch and then a lot of times I start working on lease language at the same time. I have a
board please that is 14 pages long. So they have in there their protections. You might, you know, have to maybe look see what protections you want. And typically the leases
are long term like 50 years. So if for some reason you weren't able to work out on that parcel, would it be able to be built across the road on that other for you? Yeah. Okay.
I just don't want we just you know don't want to interfere with because I don't know we actually surveyed that lease area that well don't know you know the ins and outs and how to get there and obviously wouldn't want
to lease land that that American Tower has leer across the road in my opinion but on the other side of the road I agree at least every much
protection obviously had to be close to 20 25 years ago. So capture those things. Any other questions or comments for Rick? Um, yeah. Thank you for taking
time to run over here and presentation. Okay. I might just so I don't keep running. I might go to the other side of the road and propose two sides of the horizon. I know. And then we'll see where that
goes. Okay. Rick, do you need this back? Thank you. Thank you. All righty. That wasformational. Moving on to 11.9 resolution 2025010 grant funding systems for the ice system
replacement. Do you mind um take a little bit that um figure? If you look at the the updated resolution stated 06 and this is replacing that
since the chang specific for the R2 replacement the numbers change it's just R2 portion that And that's just the resolution updated
resolution. Thank you for that. Anybody on the council have any sort of question or comments regarding this ice system? It would be nice to finally use the money we were awarded years ago. So
yeah. All right. With that, I'll ask for a motion to approve that resolution just allowing Dean and I to sign for that. So, we have a motion from councelor DVA. Anybody that like to second that second? We have a second from councelor Ecman.
All those in favor? Any opposed? Hearing none motion carry. Um, moving on to 11.10 10 for um PSH 110 and CR665 utility um reconstruction bid
of $860,7771 to Northland Constructors. Hello everybody. Good to see you guys again. Uh so yes, so on Tuesday, April 17th, the county received bids for the CASA 110 and the county road 665 projects. Uh this is about a
quarter sorry about a half a mile of water man and then a roughly thousand feet of sanitary sewer along along uh 665 and 110. So this is this would be the city's portion that be allocated. So overall the whole bare of the project
was north constructors Minnesota their base bid was approximately 14.37% of the only engineers estimate with the lowest next lowest bid being 8.07% 07% below the estimate. We saw other other estimates were within about
5%. So overall, we thought the engineers estimate was pretty good and it looks like Northland has provided a very good bid to the city of Quakes where uh components that are going to be owned by the city. So based on past performance of similar projects in previous years, it's our opinion that North Lake
Constructors is qualified to perform this work under this the county's contract. If deemed financially feasible, we hereby recommend that concurrence your notification be provided to the county that Northland Constructors be awarded the contract based on the overall build contract
amount of $5.4 million with a city obligation of $860,771. So overall, your portion would be 16% of the overall project that's happening in White Lakes. What determs over responsibility?
Oh, as in for this contract. Yeah. So, your obligation would just be the the utilities that were defined in the plan sets provided to the county during the bidding period. So, that's going to be sections of uh sanitary sewer and water main along 665 and then select water
main and gate valves in 110. So this money is materials cost only rather or is it materials and materials and labor finance? Yep. I did include in the in the in the packet here of this report. You can
actually see the bid breakdown across all the uh all four firm or all four contractors that bid it along with the different breakdown between the county portion and city portion. So overall on the city components the in
general the contractors were less in the city components and they were a little bit higher on the county. So now is the time to replace it once they got it off. Correct. The county will be doing paving excavation along with storm sewer. So your only obligation would
just be the other utilities remaining. So, and on RJ's end, um, you're kind of pro that happening just with the road being, you're never going to see prices this cheap for something like this. I mean, you think of the project we did out here just on Andover and stuff over
there. That was over $2 million doing that. And we're going through here, we're knocking this up. That's a pretty good stretch to get new utilities. Theoretically, we shouldn't have to dig that again. At least in my career here, you know,
like I said, you're going to end up with new hydrants and stuff. And then the funding piece of it, um, both mainst about that or Sure. So, at this point in time, um, we did have a conversation with Dean and and Jake and
Kenny the other day. Your best avenue would be looking at bonding this project currently. Uh, there is some other options in the near future between looking at direct appropriations. Obviously with the legislator that's been up and down to be determined, but on June it's June 13th there is uh you
can ask for appropriations that is technically for 2026. Uh other options could be I RB looking at ask for RB and I'd say your back fall would be looking at bonding the project. So that's honestly
best reach out to Shannb some different grant programs usually open in August or August October. Is there any that you qualify for in the next cycle that I haven't got that far. This just came
out right and so like July 17th is actually when that the new period for RB 17th and so there could be something there to be some discussion with R. Yeah, look at those revenue sources the
law state appropriations and then flying back on their considering the road being a good idea. Any other comments or questions for anyone? I just want to say this whole project
got moved up on us is what's going to happen a year or two out. And with the storms we had last year, it prompted the county to come in and do this or prioritize this project. So that's why it's kind of flying at us. So just so
people are aware. And then the last thing I want to bring up too is this is tied to the West over reconstruction in some way, shape, or form because we are we're actually about 90% done with the designs. I met with Jake uh and Dean and we went over some of where those are at, we should be
able to turn that over and if that's a project that you also want to proceed with, it's a nice basis to have our good bids already in this area to proceed with that project as well. So more to I'll bring more to come here when I submit those final plans. Anything else from
anybody hearing? Nothing. I'll ask for a motion to accept that $860,71 completed that work. I'll make that motion. Motion from councelor Grant. Is there anybody that second to support that? We have a second from council. All
those in favor. Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carried. Thank you. Um and then moving on to the last agenda item 111 resation from EMS
department turn in her resation from the EMS department. Um, um, is there anybody that would like to make a motion to accept that regulation? I'll make a motion from anybody that like a second
that we have a second from councelor Madison. All those in favor? Any opposed? Hearing? None. Motion carried. And then moving on to adjournment. Is there anybody that would like to end the meeting?
We have a motion councor Jar. All those in favor