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touch it yeah it was like a mute microphone thing that I could click okay hopefully I've never seen that side glowing red before when I've been sitting here so all right from the top um thank you for for fixing
that um City attorney thank um reports from elected officials councelor gram um nothing too much to report I was going to um just let Public Works director sensinger know that we took
care of the can bin at the recycle center that was the chamber has two Canon collections one over by um the the East M sanitation building and one at the recycle center over the winter they tend to get full and they both were overflowing and then it gets windy the
cans go around so we've taken care of now to bring your aluminum cans which we just used to give donations to different groups through the county and the city sorry so yeah that has been taken care of the recycling center is cleaned up
again all right thank you to them and you for that councelor J okay I covered the B school already was there any other questions anybody had on that the Zoning for that parcel I don't know what the zoning currently is right now and that
that can be changed by the council at a later Point next thing I had was that the uh Planning Commission meeting the other night uh they were talking about the tree for ordinance and the mobile home ordinance Planning Commission is
upset that the ordinances that are set up right now for the mobile homes are not currently being followed that when they moved those trailers into the park that were moved up here from mming toown back in the 90s whatever it was they should never been allowed in town and yet they were and some of them
have sat the way they were brought in town they would like some teeth in the ordinance to make sure the city ordinances followed they are still kind of adamant about the 15-year plan um to if they get that age pulled up they are
willing to work with somebody if they said they might be willing to get a uh extansion program set up that if the mobile homes are in decent enough shape and livable they will be willing to Grant an extension it was talk about a one year or fiveyear plan but they
they'd kind of be willing to do that but I walked away from the meeting really they seem to impress that they're upset because the ordinances are not currently being followed that those trailers that are out there should be gone the the the junk things the thing they talked about
was the um lots that were sold back about three four years ago off of leavs bordering leads and um the the front lots are bordering leads and back lots are bordering Melbourne um Matt our zoning officer said there's a guy out
there and uh he's from Kon Rapids he bought the one on leads and the back lck and he's got a pile lers stacked up on leads right now and it looks like an ous I drove by the lot looks like an ous on the lot and another small shed and Matt
said he's talking about building a tiny home or a hunting Shack and I don't know if it's a case of an individual coming up from the cities thinking that okay he's in the country he's going to be able to set up shooting range and start Target practicing next was hunting what
mat said that the uh tiny homes are not allow in town but they're concerned along with others of the purchase of the backlots that they bought that were off of Mel and Tammy was kind enough to give me a print out of the certificate of
survey map that the half of those lots they sold because City attorney lui's name was on it I took it upon myself called Joel very helpful on the phone gave me some information of what had transpired the if I remember correctly
the individual that was with Benchmark left the company and was involved with the flatting all the layout of this stuff with theic kind of survey and then he was with WTH Joel told me I was actually in the process of looking up
the phone number for WTH and Joel called me back he said he called them talk to the guy and they were out here because I I first called the county and found out that there was nothing being done on it on the county and nothing was recorded or anything and WTH told the attorney
that they had been here was it last week you said yeah I'm not sure you spoke with the count they had signed an R remember yeah they they had nothing done yet um no's been recorded yet but that doesn't mean anything had been done no
that's what I mean in internally with the county as far as recording with the Auditors and then they told him that they had to come back out here check the corners on it and so hopefully that's in process they'll be able to get the registered land survey turned in and
approved has got to go to the County Surveyor for approval and then the Auditors will put it in place so then these people can get the Deeds for the back Lots they bought and it kind of bothered me in a way that it was basically helping somebody that's looking to do something that he really
can't do in town but at least they'll get those lots transferred and the owners will be able to claim them and have what they have and see what happens for development in that area in the future then um
East Range water board uh been attending the meetings with Jake him and I are on the where the ex official members of officially joined the engineering as Jake said needs to start by June and that's so that the funding can be applied for during the next year it the
funding doesn't happen overnight it's it's a process and the Aurora City administrator has volunteered to come here and explain so everybody can get a better understanding of what I can give on the financing along with the guys
from Bol and mink they said the fourth lift on the kons is completed for the where they're dropping that raw water tank in there they're running into Boulders which they have to break out which is causing some problems um the pipeline of white Lakes they changed
that in the design process from an 8 in to a 12 in and they've redirected that instead of running down to the holiday and straight it's going to go off the back of the Auto Value where the food shelf is and pass Lu church and then
pass the trailer park apparently short in the distance but that's not going to be a cost for O Lakes apparently we're just going to have to pay from where it hits one 10 comes over here it's all I got that's all you
got s yes you're busy thank you for all the um I just have something about the trailer part so my husband is the assistant chief on the fire department and he was contacted by the owner of the trailer par and he said they are removing 19 of
the trailers and bringing new ones in um so he asked the fire department if there was a way they could use some of the trailers as training or if they could burn them so they were looking into that so that's just some information I got from the tra but that's
not all right thank you councelor nothing really to go off I'm still just kind of getting my feet wet in this position so I want to thank Tammy and the staff for kind of picking up a lot of slack that's been uh going
on throwing a lot on top of you recently with the changes that are coming so um but it doesn't feel like anything to ski the beat so you guys are doing an awesome job so that's yes thank you coun mat um and then I do just want to acknowledge staff's hard
work um especially to Tammy um Betsy and Joel I spent a lot of time talking with them over the past couple of weeks um just to figure out next steps and making sure everything's getting done so I'm very impressed with their hard work and all the the information that they've
been able to share so thank you to them yeah if you have time run them thank them too um uh the Garden Club side of things um their first meeting is coming up second Tuesday in April um so you're at all
ined in that please come down um to the BFW I don't know the exact time I think it was 6 was it 6 um so yeah they'll be having their um first meeting um at the BFW in a couple weeks and they're
looking for some new folks um to join them um and then um the C the administrator side of things um our new interim is going to be starting tomorrow um so you kind of get him familiar with with everything um and then yeah within
the coming weeks feel free to come down introduce yourselves um so that's kind of next steps there but other than that that's all I've got so do we have a name on the Mr yeah his name is Dean
Wyber um he's from the area has lots of um experience with HR type things leadership type roles and a variety of different um Industries like mine and things like that so I think they're all pretty impressed with his um with his
resume so we're excited to um have him join the city so moving on um old business uh 10.1 ordinance 247 newly revised flood plane um so as kind of discussed earlier um we just need to
adopt a um flood plan ordinance so that folks in town um have flood um plan insurance or flood insurance um Tammy and I have done a lot of talking with the DNR um with this ordinance um they
they read through it um and kind of gave me okay with everything looking good um so on the DNR side of things they said said looks good um so we don't need to really make any revisions the beyond the the suggestions we made last council
meeting so' be just looking at um passing this tonight and then um furthermore just kind of The Next Step um so I will take a motion to adopt this ordinance and then um direct staff
to follow through with um the other steps that go on with that like posting in the paper reaching up to the just confirming that have it um in the books so that they can tell FEMA that we're in compliance with that and that books can have their FL insurance so is there
anybody that would like to make a motion on that I'll make that motion motion from councilor grams anybody that would like to Second support that I'll second we have a second coun maton all those in favor I any opposed hearing n motion
period moving on to new business 11.1 discuss of Need for City representation at meetings in term City administrator L can speak a little bit to this um she
I do a calendar every month who's going through what meetings and when so we know if someone's G A vation if they're at a meeting would reach out to to contact on that and Becky had had me add three meetings to the March calendar um that she wasn't going to be able to attend and then Dave
saw on the um calendar itself and brought it up that he was wanting to discuss if there are other meetings that she's attending or would be attending that now or not being by everybody we're kind of seeing meetings as they come through her email right now
because that's both getting that but at this point with Dean starting know if we want just slowly transition into the that yeah I I would suppose like if could make it and if we needed somebody there either some staff cityall wise
[Music] or we'll be kind of alerting for a while yeah get all I you guys are all on your commissions not that but we'll kind of be catching them as they come through I
know the first two listed the iron R economic Alliance and the mind Vision partnership um are through the East po aard the norb um corporation that we use they go to each of those meetings they have a representative at both and we have a joint poers meeting tomorrow and
they do provide an update of what what happened at the last meeting and when the next one will be so I can make sure to forward that nor span report which I know Brandon and Dave got a copy of it I emailed that to you guys on Sunday actually so that's um in there too that
those reports from those two committies are in that noran report that you got but we'll see if there's any update at the meeting tomorrow any further discussion with that I think we've got got that all cover any folks joining on board and
then we can thr the gaps all right thanks for bringing that up moving on to 11.2 mayor's Proclamation regarding Sexual Assault Awareness Month um sexual assault program reach out last just asking us to
um discuss and then provide that talk of this being seual Awareness Month um through my work as a social worker work with the sexual assault program many times they do a lot of great work with
um victims of sexual assault up here just with the limited resources we have with just about everything be related to mental health sexual so um they do a lot of great work so just want to acknowledge them so is there anybody
that would like make a motion to approve um the mayor's Proclamation regarding Sexual Assault Awareness Month I'll make motion motion from councelor emman seconded by councelor D all those in
favor opposed hearing n motion carried moving on to 11.3 resolution .58 accepting donation from the Lakes Chamber of Commerce for the garden like the chamber so you want to say
anything to that sh we had a representative and I forgot his name Doug thank you I'm like I know should know it he came to our last chamber meeting um to let us know that he's been working hard and the rest of the group they looking for new members and the Chamber normally donates money to the
Garden Club every year so we donated $22,000 so they can get a started on planting and beautifying our city all thank you to the chamber for that um is there anybody that would like to um approve that resolution accepting
the donation from the Chamber of Commerce to further Services move from counselor motion by jar is there anybody second to support that I'll second we have a second counc mat all those in favor I any
oppos hearing none motion be carried um 11.4 update the 2025 committee assignment by adding F Point Campground uh and appointing a me an counselor for that and then adding the strange
water um so through past um motion when we talked about water board um like comfor d had said he and um public utility director Baron part of that and then I'm the alterate
um then in regards to the fisherman's Point Campground we're just looking to see um if there's anybody that would be willing to be um point of contact for the whole correct um they have questions or
need I didn't want to assign anyone to that um going into this meeting um not knowing how busy folks are feeling um so is there anybody that would like feel that they have enough time to be that um that point of contact for folks down at
Fisherman's Point um would be the managers um so the HS um I wouldn't expect it to be a too super big time consumer um not like a monthly meeting or weekly meeting or anything just someone that they can um
reach out to if they is basically it some like they did this in the past with having a counselor assigned to to that main stuff Works ma um is there anybody that would like to be an alternate just in case if
um mat isn't [Music] available e has the alternate and again we added the range water to assign agenda um so is there anybody
that like make a through that we had just discussed anybody that would like to Second and support that I'll second we have a second from councelor GRS all those in favor I any opposed caring none motion carried
um moving on to 11.5 summer seal employing um would you mind to speak little that sure I realized that it was time to start thinking about summer hearing already and to be able to try to line it up with your next council meeting for hopefully recommendations for hiring to
be able to get some of the kids on um if thought we try to get the arts and craft instructor um all the hiring is going to start if you guys but on the 14th of April I'll probably stuff may be already on website um application is due to the
arts and craft instructed by April 25 so we can kind of get a start on them and then for the rest of the summer HS most of them are summer students um Recreation would need two ball field maintenance workers like normal Public
Works would be looking for three more operators and then for general labor summer students Public Utilities one general labor who's a summer student Golf Course looking for a couple of more operators and one assistant greens keeper that position is more like anel
position seasonal parttime and then one assistant for the Arts and Crafts program would also be a student and then I plan on Advertising Easter shes on the city website City sign the bulletin board here at City Hall and also on
Facebook and by having closing data on these s should should be plent of time someone interested they can just get like appliation onl back in this is what we do every year with of
employees and certain yeah I double check if everybody in the all ask for the same number again anybody have questions or comments regarding this piece of it all right hearing none I will take a motion um to approve the advertising for
these positions and then going see what that that process have a motion from C driot is there anybody that like to second or support that I'll second we have a second by councelor emman all those in favor I any
opposed hearing none motion carried um moving on to 11.6 um aced Fe Ops um expanded at Fisherman's Point Campground um a little brief overview of yeah we
were hoping to make a change on that um the past few years when we first went online reservations only on the campground um it was where you had to pay even when you checked in with the credit card and the managers there had kind have made comments not comments but
they had said that you know there are many people who just show up and just have cash and then they don't they don't have a credit card with me to pay it was making a little bit harder for them to check people in we always used to accept cash and check as a payment on there and
we Betsy and I have talked and talked with j h to and we' like to go back we feel it's more than option for people a lot of people have and do have cash I also think it might help upselling for j h too if she's standing there people are
checking in they have cash she's got off water wood anything just be able to use cash with everything we just and to be able to add that option kind of feel like we took that away from people
and there's some some concern if like wifire well you went down down there then you kind of all of BL trying to figure to to pay and make reservations and then part of the security to what's going online was also
being able to make sure that all the camping was being um managed correctly and it's all in the system and by people still making their reservations online it will still be trapped in the system but it's just another option for when to show up to I know we've had issues you know we
took away the cash aspect um when we had former managers that were keeping the cash and not pay for campsites um so that was an issue and I know when we had audits um for a couple years after that it was requested that you know we stay away from cash as much as we can just so
we don't run into these issues of not being able to account for the money and not being able to account for the campers but I think that has gotten under control and you know with the online registration we can kind of track who's camping and when so I think yeah
bringing back cash I'm not concerned about security issues um with the current managers she said she will sell even if people don't have if they just stop by and coming through town and I just want to camp all of a sudden and they don't have an account set up or anything she'll still
help them set all that up so all the reservations will still be tracked it's just another option for so we double check that a good because of original problem and then talking with you and Betsy today there is a bit of auditing
that does with money coming so if things are being kept should be kept then do yeah that's you said the report she gets off of this new system it's pretty obvious she's getting them every day that if and and she's camping out there
too so if sites are empty or or there's somebody in them but she's not seeing money for them coming through she's like auditing so there is that extra um so yeah I'm just have a discussion regarding that so is there anybody that
would like to make a motion to um work at accepting those payment options expanding those options to cash into check correct is there anybody that would like to make a motion for that I'll we have okay we have a mo from C
maton second by councelor emman all those in favor I any opposed non motion carried um moving on to 11.7 schols Recreation [Music] contract so look like there's spe
contract increases um at a prior board meeting decided that there would be no increase for this year 2.5% increase for next year and then 2.5 again um for
the is there anything else that the council need to was just really that there had been we had attendance at the meetings prior but with the cons employment turn I didn't have minutes from
those I have question um it it very funny when I picked this packet up on Friday to R it Thursday I been approached by some folks regarding the same Miss they live in
town and they pay in through their taxes to the direct fund they've got kids involved in sports and they have asked a question about um financial reporting if there's any way they can find out how the money
is being spent that the city is paying and also the fees that they are paying for their kids to be in sports to school they they apparently have asked about how the monies are spent and where
they go and they're they're wondering I guess I didn't even know this program was in effect so it was it was a eye opener for me to find see it the next day in in the packet I don't know all those Miss but
that's that's the way it is but they're just curious and so am I if it's possible find out anything detail I mean working for the school here do you know if that's something that's available can canas City find out where this money
goes especially the fee money that the parents pay out you can I happen to share an office with Mar we do two separate jobs I don't have anything to do with direct department so I can't speak to what the money get spent on besides you know paying for the coaches
and the equipment but you can U like Tammy could email Dr Burgess back and ask him for um an accounting have separate funds for everything that go on so she could ask for the rec department funds and Report probably do it in a fiscal year rather than a calendar year
because that's how the school operates but I I think it'd be good if nothing else it'll answer these folks's questions because they were concerned that the money they paid in for the fees could be taken out and put into another program that maybe had more kids or more
expenditures and reading and the fal stuff it's like okay when this is set up that you know the the uniforms and all that stuff I don't imagine any of that old equipment is left anymore but I've got a grandchildren that are involved in it and it blew my mind to see little
kids at basketball games with jerseys with their names so I know that's part of the money that's been spent that's when I grew up you got handed an old t-shirt ripped f it you know that was it but so for them to get a new T-shirt with their name on
it that a morale booster and Cas you guys coming back do list on the back portion of the website it tells you like which uh sports are coming up to register for what the fee is for that sport um and I believe it tells you what's include you
know like you get you know two jerseys a home and away and a hat or whatever it isn't I think it lists what you get for that but we can also ask um to give a whole listing for the whole year not if that could be done that would be very much appreciated
something that if nothing else points out that it is public and that their fears could be laed by doing that showing them that okay yeah your Fe for whatever sport or your fees I mean for baseball basketball whatever you're and
I'm going into swimming or whatever I know hockey isn't involved in but and I think the rec fund is One Fund so they do track it between soccer basketball volleyball but it is it is one Rec one that they roll through so I I don't know
if they can break it down by each sport individually or if it's just a r but it is just one yeah one fund and it doesn't get intermingled with school sports Athletics through the school as a separate fund as well goes
out entities way so yeah director G and superintendent Dr ver they can give you all that information that would be wonderful thank you all right any other comments or questions regarding
that um not I'll take a motion to um to support the approval um of this contract for the 2025 to 2027 um Recreation contract and then authorize myself and P to execute that
so anybody that like to make a motion we have a motion from coun m is there anybody that like to Second support that second we have a second from councelor GRS all those in favor any opposed hearing none motion
carried moving on to 11 application for pending receipt of documents you mind speaking for that Tam yes s I've just received the um liqu license
applications for Jenna Hower Al the course club house for this season Once all documentation is received I'm just waiting on the insurance as oned right now before I can send it to the state so once I get that in I'll send it to State and hopefully
within a few weeks we'll have it approved I don't believe she's starting until but I just wanted to get it on the docket to the state so they right yeah warm up and of course clubhous is going to be opened up fairly
soon soon so we want to make sure that we have the liquor license ready for when people start going so um is there anybody that would like to make a motion to approve the 25 2025 liquor license application for Jenna as the golf course
compost ending SE of all documents make that motion a motion from coun grams anybody that would like to second or support that I'll second have a second from councelor emman all those in
favor any oppos hearing n motion carried [Music] UMES [Music] City I believe they call it or used to call it anyway the grand shut up law Insurance liability yeah she actually
takes care thank you right and then we'll move on to adj is there anybody that like to make a to our meeting we have a motion from Dar anybody that second support that second
second from gr all those in favor he none motion car thank [Music] does anybody have anything else on what we talk school before I shut [Music]
did anybody have any other questions regarding what we were talking about at the end of the public warant is there a need to reconvene that