Are we live? I don't like it. All right. Thanks for trying. Thank you. [Music] computer. Oh, okay. All right. It is past 5:30, but I will call the regular city council
um meeting for Monday, April 28th um at 5:48 to order. Mayor Scott here. Grara here. Councelor Eman here. and [Music] comfort. All right, moving on to the
pledge of allegiance. Please stand alsisible with liberty and justice for all. Moving on to the consent agenda. Has everybody had a chance to read through that? Um, any questions, comments regarding that before I ask for a
motion? Hearing none, I'll ask for a motion to accept the consent agenda as is. We have a motion from councelor Jarville, second from councelor Grahams. All those in favor? I. Any opposed?
Hearing none. Motion carried. Um, moving on to the guests and citizens forum. Um, does anybody have anything to say to that? Hearing nothing. Moving on to reports from staff, city administrator
wider. Um before I think the biggest thing we've been working on this week for the arena project working short that's kind of the big focus this
week is getting updated with state 2024 has been inspect probably inspect so we look at articles out release. All I have for today anybody
have any questions. Sounds good. Thank you for that. Recreation director Peterson. Uh off the golf course. Uh we're still dealing with a frozen water line that goes from city here out to the golf course and
hopefully with this rain should be water any day. open. Um, before that happens, I know we're having at the clubhouse has to uh get a health inspector to look at
everything water and watch the toilets who can have a tough time that so we're kind of at the mercy of the weather here. Like I said, I think this rain is going to help out a lot. So, I think we're definitely going to know something by this week. My goal is to open by Friday, I
hope. Is it a water mane that's frozen? It's just an underground like black pipe 2 in thick plastic line that goes to the golf course that's dug underground. I can speak to that as well. So in 1999 we
or excuse me in 2001 we put a city water line out to the golf course. It's a 2-in black plastic line berry roughly 2 ft deep but it does follow the contour out the ground. So you do get low spots where water, even though we winterize it, we blow it out in the fall, you can
still get water that collects and fills the pipe. And if it is in the frost line, which it is, we just dug two graves at the cemetery on Friday and there is still frost in the ground 2 ft deep. So hence the water was running
off, correct? Yep. Yeah. water. The ground's not taking water right now, but it it's the the frost is soft, you know, if you will. So, like I think we're close to pencil straight through there. How
long is it? That's almost a mile and a half from the end. Yeah. Of two in. So, to blow it all, it takes almost a day. And then we generally put RB anifreeze in and blow it through. And generally speaking, when you see an come out the other end, you'd like to think that all
water is vacated from the line. But as we like this year, it's gone. I've been blown out for the last four years, and I've done it the same. And I can't tell you why it's happening right now. But we also, you know, there there were years where we'd always harp on
everybody, you know, not till May 1st, not till May 1st. And this year we try turning the water on April 20th as people are trying a bit of camp and when people force us to do things early, we end up with things that are still frozen
or still free. Saturday morning. I I was the campground wanted water last week and Saturday morning when I woke up it was 25 degrees and we turned on water. I would have had broken things this week. It is. You don't think it's wrong water?
No. Because we're not getting any. We We turn the water on. We're getting nothing to the other end. The line is building pressure but it's not coming out. So physically walking through the woods and it's not coming out. So it's definitely not broken by
I always wish it was a problem. This is a good thing. And that pipe is very resilient. We had it in other places and we've had it freeze before and it it doesn't seem to affect it. It's not like other pipe that
bursts unfortunately. Yeah. something my uh by the end of this for sure. Then the ways I've started mowing a little bit and TE's and everything good. We got the mage worked
on about a month ago before I got this job hoping that I was going to get it and regardless that the equipment was going to be up and running and but yeah, I think we're sitting pretty good over there.
uh bes issue obviously but uh the arena park I did talk to uh youth hockey I did get a so we're trying to get new rubber mats in front of the uh where all the players come on and off the ice and stuff like that I got a coach from those last year and that was around like 6900
bucks I did get uh when I talked talking the other day they uh promised me up to $7,000 for mats so an additional $1,500 for Um so uh otherwise the construction
part a lot more. Thank you. Moving on to public work. Yeah. Like Bucky had said, the Aita project is actually ahead of schedule, so everything is going well over there. Um the new front doors are installed. We
are going to touch base with them tomorrow. Bucky and I have a construction meeting tomorrow at 11. We'll touch base. Um the side glass panels haven't been installed yet, and I believe there's like window glazers coming in after that to finish the trim
and the ceiling on. So we'll see when they come. you know, everything will be complete on that end. Otherwise, the rest of the project inside is going as planned. Um, as you said, the golf course water line, um, we're just at the
mercy of mother nature there. And then I wanted to touch base and let the residents know and all of you as well. um the girls in the office, myself down at public works being we're we're getting a lot of feedback from residents
about all the work that's going on in town right now. We have a substantial amount of contractor uh stuff going on in town. For instance, Minnesota Energy, the gas company, has a contractor boring in new gas lines in
all the easements of the county roads before the county road project start. Um, Minnesota Power, the power company, you've probably seen outfits going in your backyard, trimming trees and hauling the brush out to the curb, etc. Um, a lot of people are under the
misunderstanding that these are city projects, and if they're unhappy, they're calling us about their displeasure with the contractor, what they're doing in their yard, and why haven't we been notified, or why isn't the city cleaning up better, or this or
that. I just wanted to say none of these are city projects. there, you know, Minnesota energy project or a Minnesota power project or a frontier, there's a company installing new fiber optic throughout all boring in lines and why
aren't you going again all these projects are private contractors being done within the utilities and which they have the right to do and again so we we don't mind in fact Tammy put together a letter today to give to people with the
customer service numbers for all these companies in question who are doing the work in your yard. But again, it's not the city that's doing. So, just wanted residents to be aware that for the most part, all the contractor work going on in town
right now has nothing to do with the city. So, that's about it. All right. Thank you for that. Um, city attorney. Uh, thanks, Mayor. I don't have anything. All right. Thank you. Moving on to reports from elected officials.
Councelor Graham, nothing to report tonight. Thank you, Councelor Gara. Um, we have a meeting for the East Ranch PD tomorrow to choose a new uh chairman of the board because of the
death of the road city council Dan and Luke was talking that he wanted to see Richard H. Chelsea apparently. He's the most senior member of the vice chair. So,
But uh then I've got a meeting with the cap citizens action panel I think it is. I'm attending that as an excuse and I feel like great thank you. Um councelor
um on Thursday there's a retirement party for six hours at the library. It's from 3 to 6. So good time to go and say goodbye and have a retirement tour. And that's about it. All right. Thank you. Councelor Matson is not here and I have nothing um to
report tonight. Um nothing for old business. So moving on to 11.1 new business. Um we have Sean from North North consultant um with the East Board
um who's providing an update. Hello, I'm uh Sean Haney with Northspan. Uh we are a 501c4 nonprofit that does community and economic development. We're on contract with the strange joint powers board uh
as their economic developer. And uh the East Joint Powers Board is unique as a joint powers board. There's I I would say they're common around a particular building or utility, but more broadly around all of economic development uh as
common uh certainly in our area and so this is something that started back in ' 84. So we're we're ahead of our time uh in terms of collaboration. Uh and I can tell you as someone that works in economic development across the arrowhead, the East Range joint powers
board really does stand out in terms of collaboration and is something that helps kind of lift up a lot of the things on the East Range that are going exceptionally well and clear models for other places. Um which is kind of a cool
thing to hear about. Um so we are focused on economic development. Our overall goal is the the common betterment and economic development of our communities. And so really focusing on what can we do
together? What can we do to work together to draw in people, draw in, you know, resources, whatever it might be to really get get the ball rolling with economic development. Um, we went
through, uh, well, back up a little bit. So, uh, Kurt Anel was the I guess you say the point person until about 2019 when he retired and then that's when Northban took over. Uh, so we're actually a company based out of Duth.
Um, but we service uh for our programs. Uh, Tank County is a little bit larger than the Arrowhead. And uh these are programs that are funded by partners in community and economic development, ITR,
Minnesota Power, those types of places so that we're able to help provide services to people in the community, often entrepreneurs, business owners, um working with communities in um you know, like Hello Range, trying to
make it a welcoming place for visitors, which The state has data showing that someone visiting our area makes them 46% more likely to bring their business here. So the entire state has geared
their business attraction uh around visitor attraction. And so, um, I would say a lot of our efforts are focused, well, the the four areas of the strategic plan break down into essentially
collaboration, um, communication, resources, and finances. Um, this is part of the communication coming out talking to you. When I was looking through things, I think it was uh about 20 23 when Miriam
came out to the council last time a couple years ago. Miriam was the person who preceded me in this position. Um, [Music] and actually now that Dean's in his
position, we're going to have him in on a quarterly admins meeting where we get the admins of the different communities together to talk about what's going on. Um, and can be a useful time to just really, you know, kind of talk shop with other people who are doing the same
thing. Um, but finding out that communication between communities about projects and what's going on um can can be a big part of figuring out what's going on per area and how to lift that up.
um the collaboration um housing and the daycare have been kind of the two of those areas where we've tried to focus resources because
we found in economic development that now it's not just do you have jobs it's do you have jobs do you have a house that I can live in and do you have a place for my kids to cificate. Um, and it's interesting because in the realm of
things with Northspan, I do commercial economic development in addition to what I do here. And it it really is like people looking at bringing industrial manufacturing or you know large job providers. It's like what's the electrical hookup? What's the ceiling
height? And darn near question number three is when I start asking about housing and neighboring stuff. Um so there is a joint committee of uh that has representation for each of the communities focused on housing. Uh they
went through MHP's housing institute uh which is uh kind of guidance from the state on how to uh organize your community around housing, some of the best practices around it. We're in conversation with different developers.
Um, and so there are developers that are interested in building on Strange. Um, right now Aurora seems to be the place where they are looking the most, but I would also say a large piece of that is
because they are the most ready. uh in terms of having an identified space that is um has utility hookups, you know, is platted out and is essentially ready to build on.
Um [Music] and so for Hoy Lakes, one of my I guess challenges to you is to think about where that is or where that could be. I know there's been discussion anyway about after school comes down to the
potential site for development. Um, but once a developer is in the area, it's a lot easier to get them to drive a few miles down the road and build a few more houses if you're ready for it. Um, and we're we're starting to get
where we're getting developers in the area. And that's a big deal for us because uh it's a lot easier for them to make money in the larger metropolitan areas. And so we really haven't
had availability or builders that were interested in building in our area for the most part. But now we're actually in discussion with a few different ones that are interested. Um so uh that has been gaining some
traction. Um there's also the marketing committee which um there's two of us that are actually on the discover the range board as well. Uh which is great because then the east range has representation on discover the
range which is the direct marketing organization for um essentially the iron range range and uh it's paid for by a portion of the lodging taxes but then all of that money goes towards marketing
our so trying to bring in people here for uh tourism you know Giants ridge We're, you know, using our trails, using our lakes, whatever kind of highlighting the the community amenities that we
have. And right now, the the market activities, uh, working on a series of three videos to kind of highlight the assets of our our community. I mean, we've got some uh when you look at the East Range as a whole, we've got some of
the top state ranks golf courses, you know, we've got some great fishing. We've got um actually some really good mountain biking at Giants Ridge and doing what we can to play up those
amenities, but also we're taking a look at when people are here, what can we do to get them to spend more money in the community. So, one of the benefits of having um like these networking or symbiotic relationships with us being connected
with discover the range uh we were able to get some information from the University of Minnesota extension through their Placer AI. Um, it's it's kind of cool, kind of creepy software that tracks people across geography and
across different things, but uh it's neat to be able to tell like when people go places and where they're going and those types of things. And so we had them look at the east range and kind of do like an annual graph to so that we
could figure out which events the most people were going to so that we knew where we'd be the most effective in targeting out of town people. And the water carnival was, you know, assumed to be one of the biggest ones, but the big
surprise and what was actually the biggest was Msabi Beast's Nordic Steve Invitational. uh it is the biggest in the state and uh you know I think they've got something like 900 competitors but then they've got all the parents and all the people
that come with them. Uh and so it was interesting just to kind of open our eyes as to how we view visitors or how we're trying to get visitors and the the different ways that that uh can happen. Um but also when they're here like okay
how do we get those parents out to places in the community spending money um those buy local stickers are a very small piece of that you know it's kind of the the physical representation of that but the idea is you know um especially for us as locals but you know
also when we can get visitors to spend money in our local community money spent in the local community circulates eight times more than you know like online, it's gone right away and it's not even in the we don't ever see
that. Um, but you know, the the local businesses on Main Street, the ones in the the strip mall, um, those are kind of the the ones that make up a backbone of the town. And so,
um, if there is anything that we can do to help, let us know. um we are here as a capacity to help add a resource to each of the different cities. So we're we're not just not a entity off doing
our own separate thing but are here to try to coordinate what's going on and get everybody talking to each other. Um but also you know when and where we can to help add capacity. Um, and if it exceeds whatever the
contract uh for the yeast range might be, then when we can we can tell you, you know, like if you need a specific grant, riff or something like that, whatever that could be because uh Northspan has a lot of different economic consulting services with
underwriting funds and um economic development funds and we have one for the East Ranch Powersport um that we are going to start uh business uh they're called business retention and expansion interviews. So essentially connecting
with businesses in the community to find out as businesses what kind of resources do they need? Um you know do they need help with business plan or cash flow analysis? Do they need access to capital? Those kinds of things. Uh and
then trying to connect them with whatever those resources are. Um, one of the capital resources that we have available through the joint powers is our revolving loan fund. So, we've got a companion loan fund uh to help u
essentially make projects bigger. It's doesn't have a firm cap, but it's, you know, I'd say a soft cap around $50,000, but they've got 140 to land out. Um, and uh,
Doug, I would say right now the the main thing is that it's got to be a secondary loan. So, if they're getting a primary, um, but there's no stipulations to primary. So, you can go to your local bank, get a $5,000 loan, then come to the East Range from the power board and
probably get a better interest rate for the rest of you. Um, you know, obviously depends upon the project. It's got to be a good project. Um but it is there as a resource um for the ones that are and um
uh with daycare. So Masabi East there's two ways that they regionally excel and that we really try to lift up what they do. One is with their farm to school program and the programming that they do with the greenhouse. Uh the other is actually with the daycare that they
provide to the school and uh they're unique because there's lots of schools that will provide the before and after care but very few schools provide during the daycare and the Msabi Beach goes down to 30 months.
Um technically it's not daycare. Technically, it's community ed because of bureaucracy and logistics and all this, but we don't have uh any institutional and very limited inh home capacity for infants in the
community. And Jeff, the superintendent has essentially said that space is available for darn near three. If a provider wants to come in and use that space to provide daycare, we can help find money to pay for the renovations
that are necessary to change it from, you know, essentially school to daycare and from public to private provider. Um, we got an estimate it's probably about 60,000. We probably have grants to cover most of that. Um, but we're looking for a daycare provider that's interested in
potentially doing that and doing from infants all the way up so that we could have a a full range daycare provider on the east range because right now you'd be looking at probably one over in Virginia. Um, unless you knew a you know
knew a person who wasn't necessarily an official daycare. Um, in terms of options, there there really isn't. And that would be at the school. At the school. So, they've got space that they're using right now. Um, and they're
using Paris to staff the program. Um, and Jeff has even said that there's essentially another classroom next to it that potentially could also go to that use depending upon what they wanted their overall capacity to be. How is
that being like advertised or like put out to the public or things like that? Because I work at Okay, so that's interesting. Uh we've sent it out through the East Strange newsletter. Um you know, the East
Strange app um as I'm out talking to different groups. Um, but I guess I haven't had talk with Jeff about advertising it internally in the school. Um, to be honest, I don't know that necessarily occurred to me to look
inside the school or someone who would be interested in that. Um, but it does make sense that there would be some level of communication with the school. Um, well, just to spread word like, hey. Yeah. Right. because that's part of it
is you want as many people to know so that the right person finds out you know wherever they are. Um, so I will circle back to that. Um, one of the things that the East Range Marketing Committee came up with
to try to like highlight uh different activities is our series of signature events, which is like the if you're going to do one thing in a month, you know, go and the water carnival is obviously on there.
Um, but if there are other uh events throughout the course of the year that, you know, for whatever reason might not be on my radar, although if it's in the east range chakra, I probably know about it.
Um, which, you know, I know communication on the the range is always a hard thing. Um, but we we are Oh, sorry, that just reminded me.
So the uh discover the range now has uh software that will crawl Facebook events. So if you put your local event on Facebook, it
will end up on Iron Range. Um which is a a big leap forward for us because there's always been a okay, how do we get all the events in one place? way to help people know about them and now they've got a software that
will automatically add it on there. Uh, and actually I talked to Sue at the library and she told me it was working cheap. You know, they had just created a Facebook event for something and then went to add it to the website and it was already um, you know, private events are
obviously still private. Um, so it has to be an event. It has to be on Facebook. It's not websites. Um but it's one of the other you know bit bits of progress that we've made or you know hope to contribute to to uh you know
streamline doing the highlighting the community and um I guess helping people know what's going on. You know part of it is helping people in the community know what's going on and part of it is um helping people when they're coming from outside the area what's going on.
I'll be honest we're still working on it. Um, but we're uh we're the reason why we're getting these videos done is uh to focus on a series of digital marketing campaigns. And we're focusing on digital marketing because then you can measure the response rate. They can
measure like did the person go to your web page? Did they click on it? You know, did they watch the whole video? Whereas with the traditional print media, you know, you don't know if anybody sees it, you don't know if they throw it in the garbage or, you know, what happened to it. So, we're also
trying to use technology so that we get more feedback on the different things that we're trying. Um, that's uh about the gist of, you know, what we've been doing lately. Um, I ran out of copies, but we also put
together a trail map of like the bike, ATV, and other trails for the East Range, uh, which is kind of nice. So, I'll uh see if I can get you some digital cies or maybe I'll get them to share you through the priorities board. I'm pretty sure we have some back at the
office. We have print ones at the BFW and the Haven already too, but they just passed some out this weekend to people that were out there already. That's good. Um any questions about any of the
initiatives or things that we do ideas about off the top of that how do people contact you like like I haven't really heard anything about the joint power board other than just Sherry being on it sure over the
last couple years but like I don't know if a lot of people know power board or span or things like that. Uh you are probably right and that is part of why one of our strategic directions is focused on communication and trying to get that word out. Um I
mean the contact information is available on our website. We do have a website. Um you know I can give you my card actually. I should have done that already. Um but you know Sherry's got my contact information. um we
do when we're going out meeting with businesses in the community, you know, share our contact information. So, um but I do agree that I think kind of generally aware of the joint powers work
or what it does or you know what is that what does it do? Um, so know our mayor has always served on the board and this year Dave Jarvis was the rep, but ever since 1984, our mayor has served on the board of the joint commerce board. So they bring back
information for the never really heard much about the joint commerce board or you know there's people that want to open businesses. It'd be great to have that information and I do provide like a lot of local businesses but I gave them the information you know to contact.
They either reach out to city hall or to the joint powers board and then I pass them on to the small business administration or to Northspan. So we have yeah made a lot of connections over the last few years of people seeking their help in whether it's starting up a business or getting funding. We have
four or five current loans to local businesses right now that they got a couple years ago to do renovations or digital marketing or technology upgrades. So, we have loaned out quite I can't think of the total right now what we loaned out over the last few years,
but there's six current businesses that have loans through us and I intend to be part of that process too. I've been a meeting with this last week. Yeah. So, I'll be ready for you in some way, shape, or do the
minutes get sent out to the city? Um, the packet has always gone to um whoever serves as the rep. So, Dave and then the administrator. So, they could be distributed whether it's in the packet
or just forwarded on the you know, here's the projects you're working on, you know. Sure. Yeah. Because I do often wonder what information works its way back to the the councils. Um, as a part of our
monthly report, we've actually got uh uh it's like a colorcoded uh measurement of the strategic plan that's, you know, it's on track or it's done or in process. Um and then shows, you know, for our force procedure directions kind
of each of the individual line items. Um so we can definitely have that before I think to everybody to, you know, even if you don't want to see it every month, you know, to see it released right now to get a a
snapshot pretty helpful. Brennon, could we have Dave forward it on whenever you guys get the packet every month? Could he just forward? I I miss sharing the information, but I can take I can make sure that Okay,
that' be awesome. I think previously they used to be I mean thinking back to the past Senate agendas, they've always been included in that from I thought they were on some of them. Yeah, I haven't seen it lately, but I thought they Yeah, have been.
We also honestly this is usually an annual visit. Um and because of the transition between Miriam and I um there was kind of an off year there. Um so it has been a little longer since we've specifically gone out and talked to the
communities. Um but you know we'll continue to do that and for that matter if there's a group where you feel like you know who whoever it is should really know about this you know feel free to connect them with us or you know we can
go speak wherever um we're we're very flexible and one of the nice things about Northspan because we are involved in I like say all things economic development we have uh funded programs and for entrepreneur services. So in
addition to what we're able to provide just through these range resources, we have entrepreneurship programs that we can connect them with. Um I I hesitate a little bit just because everything's kind of on and off with the federal government right now.
So we're still figuring things out as a lot of people are, but right now we're keeping the lights on and keeping things going. Um but our scholarship money for some of the the programs got cut, but we do still have educational services. We still have referrals. Um you know, a lot
of things that thank you very much for the feedback on the school. Um and um you know if there are ideas about specific groups that we should reach out to, especially with business retention and expansion interviews, we're going to
be doing those over the next couple of months. So any businesses you can think of that um want to grow. Um you know, those are really the ones we're targeting. You know, we'll talk to anybody, but we're looking for the ones that want to grow. Um but Northspan does
also promote discussion plan. Now, that is one of our fee for service things that we do. Um, but if a business wants to we use that service for the new police chief when we um yes, we're trying to find a way to make sure we got the right
the right fit. We had a lot of meetings with you guys to get new police. Yeah. Outside of economic development, we do a lot of conversation, facilitation, strategic planning. All right. Any other questions for Sean
before we move along with our agenda? All right. Um and then we will keep in contact with the range and get updates and things to them. But yeah, um in that monthly packet there there's updates uh
every month on kind of what we're doing. uh on the first page they've got the highlights. You know, if you're going to read just the one page, read that part there and give you a pretty good idea what's going on. Um and Sher's got my contact information.
So, we'll know how to get a hold of you if you ever have any questions or talk through. Anything else from you before we um get going with our agenda? Um, no thanks. Oh, uh, one last thing, uh, I'm going
to, we're calling it a East Range Summit, uh, June 2nd. It is a Monday from 10 to 1. There's free lunch. Uh, it's at the ridge. We will have speaker Ben Winchester from the U Extension. Uh,
he specializes in rural economic development. Then we're going to have a panel kind of talking about some of the exceptional things that are going on. Be strange. Um,
and get free lunch. So, uh, it's kind of the, uh, small kickoff and start to what was the idea of trying to get all the people, not all people, but as many as we can from the East Range together at the same time to help have a discussion
about what the projects and other communities are, start having collaboration, discussions, um, that are kind of outside of the pockets that they're kind of in, right? When that day kick in? uh June 2nd. Um
and a digital invite with that information will be going out shortly. Maybe at the lodge or a lodge I don't believe in feel free to share my
info and I'm I'm just to meet with people. [Music] [Music] All right. Thank you, Sean. Did your company change anything from North?
No. Actually, just take a very quick moment on that. So Don is the overarching program for all of the free services that we provide. Okay. And then uh Norban provides DON and then fee for
services. So um very roughly if you want us to do math that costs us money that's more or less where the line is. you know, we'll give you like free demographic reports and free entrepreneurial assistance, but if you
want a feasibility study or a succession plan, economic impact study, those cost money. Um, so it's brought the word very um I I'm glad that you asked that
question because the rebranding took place in January. Uh, and there's been a lot of internal discussion about it and how effective it is or how much confusion it's creating between Don and Norman. So, um, I appreciate the
question. So, all right. Thank you very much. Yes, thank you. Good one. North span. Moving on to 11.2. Recommendation to approve variance request for 206 drive. Um looks like the planning commission held a public hearing on
April 15, 2025 for variance request at 206. Um in regards to distance from garage road um the committee made the recommendation for the city council to oppose the variance request. Um David did you attend? I was there. I think you
were there too. I was there. Yeah. This is for those that don't know. Uh the address is the store is the house of my cellare that had a second story put on it. and his access to the garage he's
got in the back is only through the oneway street. He's looking to get a variance for distance to put another 30x30 garage in the back there that will be accessed from that same street. He's got the got the room and everything for the garage to be on the lot. It's just
he's looking for the variance from the distance for the road. And they had uh the letter had gone out to 21 surrounding neighbors. Nobody showed up at the meeting or made a comment about so apparently nobody was against it.
Their recommendation was that we approve the variance and with that in mind I would make the motion to do so. Okay, we have a motion from councelor Jarala. Um is there anybody that like to second or or second or support that approval of the recommendation from zoning
commission to approve that variance? Second. You have a second from councelor Ecman. All those in favor? I any opposed hearing? None. Motion carried. Um moving on to 11 203 leading Minnesota city's annual conference in
um looks like registration is now open for the 2025 of Minnesota City annual conference in um from June 25th 27th. Um early bird pricing ends the second. So this is justformational.
Yeah. Anything to adding? I just I don't believe they need a motion that I do plan on attending probably be doing the early bird special for 275 and I won't be saying anything from what I understand it's really good. Yeah, I attended last year
and it was yeah it was some good information, some good speakers. Um I'm considering maybe just going for the date on Thursday. So, I'll let let you guys know before then in case there's more of us that wanted to go,
but I don't know if we can get by the day passes or not. So, I'll look into it. March 5th through this week. Okay. At least it's signed up. And I'm assuming this just um rolls into
the budgeting for training. Yeah, it's it's typically the kind of sounds. Any further discussion or questions regarding um that conference conclude we'll move on to 11:24 the
final piece of our meeting. Um community volunteer cleanup days. Community volunteer cleanup is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 7th. Volunteers can meet at their community building to clean up private areas and places. uh bags will be provided. We ask volunteers
to leave all their bags trashed in one pile in an easily accessible area for pickup the following morning. Um if there's rain, the back update is Wednesday, May 14th at 5:00 p.m. Um this will be posted on opening board at city hall published in East Ranch Times on
the city website and then on Facebook. Just to ensure that people are aware, this is not the current cleanup. um that will be happening in June and that will be advertised at a later date. So community volunteer explaining
um any sort of discussion or questions regarding that. So this sounds like a day for folks to get together and clean up the community. That was 11:24. Anything else to add on that? We just chose to spread out the
public might start putting stuff out on the curb when it's community clean up day and you know curbside pickup just do we have a tenative date for the curb 9th it's Monday Tuesday Wednesday
uh Monday and Tuesday I'll be the the public works days and Wednesday is the day that was sanitation all the garbage where they're not required to use and then just to reiterate that is at a later date.
This is something different just so people are aware. Um any other discussion on that? All right hearing none we'll move on to adjournment. So we have a motion from councelor Jarva. Anybody like a second that second by councelor Graham. All
those in favor? I any opposed hearing none motion and you just took referred this to the 27th Monday it's Tuesday the 27th because Monday the 26th is Tuesday the 27th and one thing about
this I'm not 100% sure we're recording because I've been watching this journey so the next meeting but I think a lot yeah I video% our best effort. [Music]
rain. I hear the big