e e e p 5:30 I'll call the regular council meeting of Monday July 22nd to Scott here guard here here GRS here
right first up on the agenda is the consent agenda is there a motion to approve those items 3 through six motion a motion is there a second second all those in favor I
opposed motion carried now we'll move on to number seven the guest citizens forum is there anyone who'd like to speak at the podium sa your name and address please Jim mully 502 Hampshire Drive and Ken can you give me a hand
with this um I'm representing the her family recognition team we start with this one and I'd like to say thank you to the council the chamber water Carnival committee but if you see the
map right over on the wall Ken had that map and so we had a c up into a b this is going to be on display down at the one of the booths at Water Carnival in the Midway um it sure came out great I don't
know how well you can see it but I'll let you roll it up since you're more still during water Carnival we're going to have people come down everybody in town so let your name neighbors know your friends know somebody that's coming
in to visit but we're going to ask that you fill in a little information card put your name and address and your family name to the right on the platform so everybody will be able to
here and again this if you want to take a look how nice this turned out and what we have found from the surveys that we've been doing some of the h have have five or six different families so we'll
see a cluster it'll look almost like a Italian deployment for some type of battle I'm sure but I just wanted to come down say thank you to everybody supported us and let people know come on
and have some time for this and thank you very much for right thank you yeah if anybody has a question for me fire away otherwise you'll have for or or even come down tomorrow night to the senior center you'll get a little
bit more of an update for that too get us for the first families projects that you're looking to do for the anniversary next year as like a ucation or well um it's it's bigger than just first families but this this gets us in in
time for this year's water Carnival but when you think about white Lakes being carved out literally in the middle of the superior Nation Forest um unique everybody can kind of go back to that first day uh I just found a
photograph of our house we first lived in 112 L and you can see the dirt right next to the foundation going over to orx and next to while where mon Royce at look right now so it's it's and that
that was white Lakes they had boardwalks that's why I met my first friend we were on board but uh yeah come come on now be great to have you especially the people that are newer to White LS oh goodness
you know you're you're part of it so we love to have one and I am on my way and all your volunteers be interesting to see yeah thank you there anyone else who'd like
to uh with election season coming up I'm wondering how many of the town city council people and Mayors would be willing to hold a town meeting so that people can come out and ask you questions and get the answers that
they've been looking for rather than as you pointed out slamming it on Facebook yeah we can certainly talk about that and see if we can schedule something for the before the November elections for the fall or something yeah I mean I
would think you'd want to do it fairly soon after everyone's applications going I believe they end mid mid August you when you stop taking them yeah thank you yeah thank anyone
else right then we'll go on to reports from staff City administrator L um the city of Aurora will be hosting the national leg out um for the EAS police department and qu lak's ambulance on Tuesday August August 6
2024 and then um the Personnel committee and I met regarding interviews for the council position uh I will call out tomorrow with the interview dates and times for those interviews for the empty Council seat Canim we ask how many
have sorry um we had five applicants I believe one of them was not complete and we contacted them to see if they were going to finish it and then they never got back to us so there's four that will be up interviews we have um to director s yeah
I just want to let people know that uh the remainder of the black hopping has taking place down at the water pral Pavilion area uh that got wrapped up last week theyve shouldered it all now and the fencing company showed up today
and started on the fence around the 10s pickle ball skate par area they should be wrapping that up tomorrow um also coule cours got the Hoops in for the basketball court last week so that's wrapped up um we'll be spreading more
top soil after water Carnival um we just would figur we would try and do that prior to all the foot traffic in the parid area so we'll do that afterwards as well as painting some lines on it
Etc that's oh yeah it looks great down there I already heard people talking about kids using the basketball court ready keny do you know has anybody had a conversation with the dollar store yet
yes I I've contacted the general contractor multiple times um I was given the phone number for the sub today who is in charge of the he's not in charge of the final landscape I was sto today but he is in charge of the dirt work
getting it ready for the landscapers um the general has been Hing him over and over he keeps claiming that it's been too wet been too wet when I contacted him today he told me he would be here this
week that her names to be seen but he said once he gets it ready for the landscapers that be follow area Okay than trust I've been hearing the attorney just on the agenda
okay coun crer C B I just wanted to thank the city staff and water committee all volunteers it's a busy week a lot of stuff has been done came up the basketball par so they found time to get those in there uh I
know it wasn't there's plenty of other stuff to do to get ready for the big water tal and i' see you guys take the time to get those Hoops in a lot people B about it I'd also like to thank the ladies D le they had a uccessful events the other weekend um a lot of people in
town a lot of developers I think they raised a lot of money for a good cause nice to see our T events like that to people right stot no I was just going to say at Water Carnival we're doing some last minute
wrap up things but it should be a good event as usual I'm sure there'll be rain one day as there always is but it'ss like a good weekend um and along with the first fames Booth The eie Mining Company committee um will'll have their books for sale again they'll have an informational booth I believe just Thursday but they'll be um right next to
the first family Booth so a lot of history for our residents to look at see what the groups have done that's it for me nothing under old business so on to new business
11.1 we range your ETB S Club invoice in the amount of 18440 630 s tra so this item and the following item we have passed throughs for these Grand dolls so we have the fisal agent for
them and so we just look to approve them and then we get reimbursed through the gr looks like one of them is complete 11.2 it's 100% yes that project yeah so so splits it off in the different
projects um so we'll have another one coming in for about $30,000 for the same project um we also have the final estimate from Jola and soft um they're going back and forth J and soft contractors going back and forth with the engineering as to the final amount which is why why it's indicated as
pending on your color sheet there um so the next meeting you should be able to see all those additional Ines okay anything to add from the ATV perspective um that section of Trail should know be open from the
um what you call it the ski trail head thing at the edge of town um all the way up to the the bird Lake ski Trail end the SC Road there so nice to see more Trail getting at it that will be remain a SE
Trail in the winters as well so it will be pretty nice Trail for them to maintain in the winter that was part of that project and then there's also still some remaining dirt still there that's for the next section that runs along the sky road to dedicate
a home the trail along there to get it farther down for the trail so that will be used as this next section gets started thank you uh is there a motion to pay the first invoice in the amount of 1844
630 I I'll second that all those in favor opposed motion carried and then 11.2 is in the amount of, 1400 to for the seven viers Trail as well
second second and support all VES in favor I oppose motion okay 113 we have the government approval to accept
gambling funds from Lakes Chamber of Commerce and that is to buy the um bicycle event that's coming August 14th starting in white lakes and they stay overnight and then move on and ride the massab trail the Chamber of Commerce wants to provide them with a nice nylon
backpack full of lakes goodies and information when they come into town for that um so we donated money to the city to order those with the city will go on them so that's what that is for and is there a motion to accept those
funds and a motion is there a second second second all in favor oppos Mo car 11.4 request from Dan Dar to transfer his liquor license to the
Midway Shelter on August 14th for the bicycle um event they'll Camp there there'll be a food trucks beer garden they did hire some kind of live entertainment to have for a couple hours so waterr will be running the bar on
behalf of Dan under his is there any questions or a motion to approve his request that motion is there a second all in favor motion Carri 11.5 Garden Club
request for the waiver of fees for the fisherman's Point shelter anything on that Becky or um yeah I guess I can speak to that um we had our garden club meeting the beginning of July and they
were talking about doing a um summer barbecue um done at the point on August 21st um I think officially that would be at P shelter one I have hope to get um they seemingly done this every year um
and I just think it's a nice way to thank them for her birthday they put in through all the year so they were just wanting that and a and traditionally you do W that I make motion W like to thank other
for them for all their work that they do keep the [Music] pl things so is there a second I would second that and with you that I mean they do a great job making the city look
good and I appreciate all their hard work the motion and have support all those in favor I oppos motion carried next so they can keep it
up 11.6 resolution to for the Grant application the national Volunteer Fire Council for turnout here you have any other information on that just speak
[Music] no 500 applicant I wanted to get it on [Music] agenda late okay it looks like $10,000 say no more than $110,000 to the
gr right I there any other questions or discussion on it how are we sitting for turn well2 will start expiring again can yeah good see you guys looking up for St
help possible so thank you for that I would make motion to support the Grant appliation I would second that all right there a motion and a second all those in favor motion
carried to 11.7 contract at the range Credit Bureau for collections of pass du account um so the city was old quite a bit of money for garbage bags from mutters Market um we were owed
$8,999 73 cents worth of bags and we have received $5,000 worth of payments on those bags um the last time they were current was November of 2023 so the current balance due is $13,999 73 I've been in contact with them
multiple times over the past several months to get that account current we have stopped delivering bags to them as they have quite a large balance with us they've said that they would pay $2500 regularly we have not received any
payment after their initial $2,500 payment I've left multiple voicemails I have not received any call backs for that so my recommendation is we go with range credit bureau who also does our collections for the EMS accounts it's
the the contract will be the same terms as we have for our ambulance billing we cannot assess these bags to their property taxes so the only way we will be able to this pass through balance is through questions 45% um so it's The Collection rate is um
if they collect within the first 30 days we pay 10% if they collect within the um thereafter after the 30 days we be 25% if it has to go to court the range credit bureau pays for all of the court
costs the attorney fees everything like that but we PID 45% was any of this car over from previous El no was there some conflicts with tax or something like that the beginning of this um so
initially they reached out to me and asked questions about sales tax we charge sales tax when we bill out bags and so they indicated that they wanted to pay the state directly for that sales tax I did talk to the Minnesota Department of Revenue the Minnesota Department of Revenue said that the city
can operate it in any way the city sees fit we can charge them sales tax as we do that for all of our other businesses and it's streamlines our accounts that's how we moveed forward I did respond to monor Market and tell them that and let them know that they would have to pay their balance in full including that
sales tax even when there was that U conversation going on they did not pay their bills minus sales tax they just didn't pay the bills at all so it's not just the sales tax going it's still was there any reason provided as to why
they weren't able to do that um they indicated to me uh during one of our phone conversations that they utilize the money for other [Music] things I don't know how anybody else in the council feels but we do
offer residents payent plans I believe this has been offered in the past um Mark but I wouldn't mind letting them try one more time if they want to come down and sign some contract
by a certain deadline maybe a week um to try to do this internally before it gets escalated to collection agency and say fail to come by Friday or something like that sign it then they would get S
collections else I see they said you know they agreed to pay us you know 2500 but that was not any kind of sign here that was just a verbal will come down and take care of it and that hasn't worked yet that's i agre s collections is a a big
step in it I think maybe them saying that it came in front of the that it's somewhat serious I wouldn't mind TR work with them again this s figure what are the pay terms would like yeah so are you proposing 2500
bying Elite or just signing an agreement I would like to see some sort of agreement and how you typically do that with the residentials of some sort of incremental pay payback um they so residentials are not owing US $ 13,000
no they're also Mak payment want something $2500 either so um so if you want it to be $2500 do you want it to be Bly payments do you want it to be a monthly payment I mean a monthly payment that's going to take a
significant long time do you want to collect interest while you're the city residents if we have it yes the the sanitation bill will go up if this goes on Dat because $133,000 is
a very large chunk for a sanitation back I guess I'd like to see it closed by January whatever work out some kind pay it by January 1 and we can divide that in some way whether it's a bigger
lump specif yeah we can see what they're if they're willing to work out agreement one and when would you like a sign it's pretty busy weekend I like to see Friday but it's busy weekend I understand we maybe go but I
okay one week and if it's unide by m day you are approving the collections yes I think that would be the next logical step yeah they realize know you don't come sign this and they on it let it goes to collections after that give them a chance to understand
how it works which most business owners should know what happens if you don't P your BS but I'd like to give him a chance to come down and talk about it that's a long motions I think I got make that y
that to do all that stuff all that stuff motion is support of that motion I'll then a motion and support all those in favor I
oppos non motion is period Then you can let us know what the outcome was all right 11.8 request to terminate air gas their contract and issue a request for proposals for the P Lakes EMS Department
oxygen um so we did sign an a term with air gas and then now we're in an annual renewal and uh prices have increased quite a bit with them and so we would be looking to end that annual renewal contract uh next spring and EMS director
Olstead will go out for requests for proposals prior to that contract ending and get the best cost and bring that forward to the council to so this will just be authorizing us to let them know that we're not going to renew the contract with them is this typically always a year
contract we get potentially better pricing if we go further and that's what we did initially and then that that contract Sunset would be entertain um from them also they could Reid it y she typically reaches out to all the companies who would deliver medical
oxygen to them so any other questions about that none I'll a motion to approve that MO is there a second second Mo and
second all those in favor all right that brings us to the end of our agenda our next counil meeting will be Monday August 12th at 5:30 and Monday August 26th at 5:30 I will entertaining to thank you