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Maybe I All right. Call the regular school council meeting for Tuesday, July 14th to order. Roll call, please. Councelors Gr, >> Jerbala >> here, Ecman >> here, >> Mat >> here, Mayor Scott >> here. >> All right, please stand for the pledge

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of allegiance. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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No, the phrase is one nation under God. There's no comma after nation. >> Sounds good. Thank you. Um, moving on to the consent agenda. Has everybody had a chance to read through that. Any comments or questions?

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Hearing none, I will ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> So move. >> Motion from councelor Java. Is there a second? >> A second. >> Second from councelor Ecman. All those in favor? >> I I Any opposed? >> Hearing? None. Motion carried. Moving

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along to the guests and citizens forum. Is there anybody that wishes to speak at all? Hearing no one, we'll move ahead into reports. Um, yeah. Could you please stand at the podium, please? >> What? >> Could you please stand at the podium

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just so folks can can hear you? The >> microphone will work. >> Yep. Make sure it's on. >> Yep. >> Uh I'm Greg Canudson. I wanted to check I got a citation for my lawn

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>> before your last meeting about 30 minutes before I finished mowing my field. And I've mowed it three times since. I was going to mow it Monday, but it was really hot. And today when I stepped

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into my car, it's at 106. >> And then it got down to 98 by the time I got back from the post office. >> Sure. >> Anyway, uh I need I need an update on that. >> So it sounded like you were given some

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sort of warning to mow your lawn and then it sounded like you mowed it. >> Yep. >> So it sounds like it's it's taken care of, but um yeah, we can make sure to touch base with >> you. one guy riding on a bic looks great. >> Okay. >> Um yeah, we can make sure to check in with the blight officer about it, but

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yeah, thank you for for taking care of that. So, yeah, if you mowed it since then, then it sounds like it's all taken care of. So, >> three times. >> Perfect. All right. >> Or exactly two, >> right? Yeah. Hopefully, >> today was supposed to be the third one, but >> the heat wave was extended 90

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>> 90 some degrees. Thank you. >> Um yeah, thanks for for the update. Um, yeah, we can make sure to pass it along. Um, yeah, with it being >> probably could lift my lawnmower into the car. I had my neighbor help me. >> Sure.

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>> And it took a little longer to get it back because the repairman hurt his knee and he was gone for about a week. I was supposed to pick it up on a Tuesday and ended up picking up or on a

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Wednesday and picked up the next Wednesday which happened to be the 23rd. >> Sure. >> But that was only the warning you got for her, right? It wasn't a ticket. >> I didn't see any dollar amount on it. >> Yeah, probably. >> That's just the initial warning then. So, >> yeah, >> like Brennan said, you're in you're in

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the clear. >> Yeah. >> All right. >> Hopefully I'll be good next year. I'm I'm planning on buying a walkbehind more >> with no power wheels. >> Sure.

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>> So I can lift it into my car and out of >> And I know the blight officer was working on like some volunteers or some assistance for people who can't do some of that stuff. So if you ever >> No, your lawn mower is broken down or it's too hot for you, let us know. >> Trouble getting my lawn mower out of the

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car. >> Yeah, we can help if you need it, though. >> Just remember that. Okay. Yeah. >> All right. Any other questions? >> I have one more problem. >> Yeah, go for it. >> And I would like you all to help me.

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Frontier. Uh, actually, I got hacked on my internet, the the new Wi-Fi. >> So, I have no internet and no phone >> since December 9th. >> Oh, wow. I'm still waiting for a

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repairman to come from Rontier. >> One did show up for 10 minutes in January on the 30th, but uh he left before I even had time to get

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out of bed at 8:00 and get dressed, >> answer the door. I did see his car tracks. I did see his tracks around my house, but I've contacted them many times and all they do is they send me a postcard,

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call us. >> What I'd like to do is go to their main dolphins and say, "Okay, let me try something and pull out my 4B hammer and pound pound and wipe out their cell phone and their regular phone and say,

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"Okay, call me. you have 30 seconds to comply, >> right? Um >> because all they care about in Ver or Frontier, which is a Verizon company, is electronics, electronic electronic communication.

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>> Mhm. >> So you could call the number 1 800 921 8105 once a day or once a week for the next three weeks.

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and call frontier may have a 25m minute wait cuz the uh problem is like [clears throat] Erie used to have too many chiefs not enough Indians and the call center is in India uh because it takes 25 minutes to get to

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the call center and five minutes to talk to a supervisor. Um, yeah. I guess are the folks able to come down here to like the library to use phones if needed? >> Be able to try at the library. I was wondering this. >> I'd like each one of you to do it

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three times. Once this week, once next week, and once a week after. >> Right. I don't know if we can guarantee that, but um yeah, the the library has phones. So if you if you do need a phone to get a hold of anybody, whether it be Frontier or somebody else, >> I tried you I tried calling one of their

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other offices and it took three hours. It failed five times because the router was broken. >> Sure. And that's the big problem. Nobody wants to come and fix the router. >> Yeah. I don't I've I've heard some folks

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have issues with with Frontier um is >> and this is the first time I've had any problem with Frontier and we've had >> a phone since 1957. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. I mean it sounds like you've tried to do your due diligence and and

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reaching out to the the phone company with Frontier. So I don't know if if trying them maybe one more time and then if they don't answer maybe taking your business elsewhere. >> I tried one more time at least five times. >> Right. Yeah. I know it sounds sounds frustrating. >> Here's a postcard. Call our number, >> right? Yeah, that sounds Yeah,

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frustrating. Um, but yeah, I guess that's what my recommendation would would be is come down to city hall if you need a phone to use and you can use a phone down here. >> I've been banned from using the uh uh library phone because the call took 3

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hours with nothing happened. >> Okay. and they are understandably upset. >> So, >> sure, >> it's time to change. I I've I myself have had problems with Frontier

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>> and I didn't like their service. We ended up having the landline taken out. We got that frustrated with it. You couldn't make a call. You couldn't get a call. It was static on the line and everything and we just switched to cell phones. >> Yeah.

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But on the positive side, I haven't had a junk call since December. >> Right there. [laughter] >> I haven't had a junk email since December. So, >> right. >> Anyway, thank you. >> Yeah, thank you.

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>> All right, moving ahead to reports from staff director Peterson. Anything from you tonight? >> Um, I do I try to get the agenda, but This is a little fun going on. Uh

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recently recently at the golf course, uh probably in the last two months, I've had problems with my irrigation system. It's a problem is within the VFD. It's a It's a pretty much a modem that tells my

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motors what RPMs to spin and how many gallons per minute to actually uh [clears throat] run each sprinkler head. So, I've been going down there every single night that I have to run it at about 9:30 and reset everything and make

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sure uh everything operates smoothly and starts up. Uh I put a couple quotes in there cuz I did MTI come there and they gave me a quote on a new VFD. I think it was 8200

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and then another quote just to upgrade the system entirely. They said a lot of the parts in there are becoming obsolete. Um I had a Minnesota Power come there today and just make sure uh the amount of power that's

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driving the pumps and everything's good. And so far that seems all right. There's still a couple of avenues I want to take just a you didn't really believe exactly what they said that I needed a VFD in these upgrades that I they recommend. So, I'm still trying to get a hold of a

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couple other people to see if I can uh fix this without spending that kind of money. But right now, I I I'm kind of looking for approval at least to go forward with ordering this VFD and hopefully I can actually kind of figure out the problem myself with a couple

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other vendors. But, uh right now, if I don't order this, it's the VFD is about five weeks out. So, I'd at least like to get it on order. Um, >> are you talking just the

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$6,400 charge or are you talking the $8,200? >> The 8,200. >> That looks like it's for a pump motor. >> Yeah, it's Yeah, it's that VFD. Yeah, >> it's pretty much like a hard drive.

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Okay. Is the money in your budget for this >> negative? It's just one of those [clears throat and cough] things that you don't plan for. You know what I mean? I mean, I'm not asking for the whole 28,000. At least if I upgrade to this

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VFD right here, um I can try to budget for the rest of the upgrades for next year, you know, but right now he said he could retrofit this VFD with the relays and everything I have in my current system

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>> without it. What will happen? >> Uh right now I'm scared that it's not going to work. all of a sudden it's just gonna stop and then I'm up I'm pretty much in big trouble

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um with this not being budgeted for and then it not being in the agenda. Joel, do you recommend making a action next meeting or a special council meeting or can we do something? >> Add it to the I you could add it to the agenda as an addition and take it up on

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the agenda, but you didn't have an additions or deletions section. So, you can add it on. I think you had it at the heed it out at the start. So, you could add the the item and then vote on it. >> Okay. So, yeah, we can add this on to

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the agenda. agenda as an addition. Um, but it sounds like, yeah, you're needing this and if it fails, then we pretty much don't have water at the golf course. >> Yep. That pretty much >> that shuts down the entire irrigation system out there without it.

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>> I would have to try to hand water somehow, you know, but >> at least at least try to save greens and tease, you know, fairways. It would just die right now. But that's it's looking that way anyway with the weather that we got. I'm only

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allotted around 4 million gallons of water and right now I'm sitting at about 2.5 million that I've used this year. >> You're talking river water? >> Excuse me. >> River water. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Like I said, I I I hope I can get to the bottom of it. Like I said, they just

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[clears throat] Minnesota Power came today. So, at least that's one part that I kind of cleared up. And I'd like to call NTI again and have maybe come take a look at it once more. But >> I'd make a motion we table it till the

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next meeting, get it on the agenda. >> Sounds like we can add it tonight. >> Add it on there >> without without a motion. That works. Yeah. Um, >> do we know where that the funds would come from for this >> since it's not

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>> I did I did budget 10,000 in case we uh went forward with these uh golf cart paths and I could take it out of that part that's actually budgeted for and not do those additional things that I wanted to

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if [clears throat] guard paths. Where are you at with the with the paths right now? Wasn't that a New Range thing or >> kind of it it's one of those things where New Range wanted to pay for half of it. So, and I still waiting on two

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more quotes. Users gave me one and uh trying to get one from Sabi Bit and KGM right now. So, I still have to go through those three and still try to get some sort of grant from the RB to at least get the matching funds on the other half. And even though none of that would come

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out of our pocket, it just I know that that's something we have to do. It's kind of we have to get the three coals even if it's come out of our pocket or not. >> So being that we're already into July, is it if you had to pick one right now, are you feeling this is more important than

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fixing the car >> path? Yeah, I mean I would have I mean to fix a green and we're talking probably$25 [clears throat] $30,000 a green. Well, if they die, if the greens were to die out because of the Yeah. >> Yeah. I would suggest if we want to hold

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off on the cart path path project and maybe approve this expense and then buy us a little more time to try to find the funding. >> I'd still go forward with the cart path project, but I I the additional things that I can probably, you know, do with help with Kenyan public works and try to

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do it. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Well, some of the renovations I wanted to do with the 10,000 for the sand trap >> can wait. [clears throat] >> Um, so mayor, my recommendations to add

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that as 10.5 under new business >> and then take that uh in order and you can add the packet >> at that point. >> And I'm still going to work on it. Like I I don't want to spend this money if I don't have to, but I'll make a couple of calls tomorrow

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to it again. >> Yeah, it's been an ongoing thing. >> And then if you want to do that, you should get a a motion and second to add that as an item. >> Okay. >> Y >> is that everything for now? We can get to it later on also in the agenda. >> Absolutely.

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>> Is there anything else that you have updates for that you wanted to chat about or >> uh really not as of right now. I guess we're uh I guess at the arena we still had some uh with Max Graves trying to get in touch with SE. We had some uh

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after they put that new rift roof on on top of that Zambon cover both lock rooms back there. We had some more leaks than we had before. So they're going to rip off the siding and kind of get to the bottom of it and hopefully try to fix that part. But right now we're waiting.

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Probably won't find anything out with these till next week. what exactly what that contractor wants to do in the fix that's going to happen there. But yeah, at least we're getting closer on closing that thing out. I can't wait. >> Right. >> No, otherwise everything's going pretty

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good. >> Sounds good. Thank you. Um before moving on, I'll ask for a motion to approve the addition of 10.5 regarding the golf course um purchase >> um to make that addition. >> Yeah, that's what I was motioning

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earlier. Same thing. So moved. >> Motion from councelor Java. Is there a second? I'll >> second. >> Second from councelor Grahams. All those in favor. >> Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carried. Uh moving along to public works director Snitzinger. Anything from you tonight?

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>> Uh yeah. So we've been uh at public works, we've been starting to do some behind the scenes prep work for water carnival. Uh it's I think we're about 10 days out from it right now. Um as well as uh some stuff around town. this past

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week. Last week, we uh did some brushing along the bike trails out to the campground and back through Back Bay Loop. I wanted to get that area opened up. It was getting kind of overgrown with the 5K race as part of Water Carnival. I chose to do that area first.

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Um after Water Carnival, we'll continue down the golf course bike walking bike trail and then we'll uh be doing some work on city streets as well. Every year we have to cut low hanging branches over the sidewalks and road rightways and stuff. So, we'll be going around doing

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that. Uh, public utilities had a company in town this past uh well, he's still in town now, but for the past week um exercising our water valves. It's something we have them do every year. They do certain parts of town and they

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give me a list of any that have failed or need repairs. Um, so currently we're sitting at four valves that are inoperable. Um, so a again after water carnival when we have time we'll start uh digging and repairing those to get

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those operational before winter. Um, as well as a fire hydrant out at Alaskan. There's a fire hydrant out there. It's operable, but when they use it, it does leak. So they, you know, try not or use

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it sparingly. But, uh, we'll be digging and replacing that hydrant as well at the same time. >> I think that's about it. >> All right. Thank you. >> I got a question for you, Ken. I had an individual talked to me this past week about the two yield signs on Westover

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and Andover, wondering if he he said they are partly obscured by the leaves in the trees. He's wondering if you can have a crew go out there and cut back so that they are visible from >> all sides. He would appreciate that. that that'll you know we'll we'll catch

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those right away if they're interfering with the sign. It's not bad, but it's there's some occlusion depending >> there. There's a few others around town I've noticed as well. So, I'm kind of compiling a list and that'll if not be done right away as part of what we clear all the road right, you know. So, yep.

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We'll get you that on West. >> WT over and and over that right that intersection by the apartment building. >> Yep. Yep. >> Right there. Both both yield signs. If you go from both ways, you can see that there's a point where the leaves are blocking them. Yep.

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>> If they could just get in there like they normally clear, >> you'd be >> Oh, one other thing I'll add is that uh some I've had some questions people out in the Lake View edition um along Viking Drive. If you noticed uh flags and

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markings in your yard, a company called NPL is in town replacing gas service lines. They kind of showed up unannounced to me. Um, we've had several people reaching out wondering why there's paint markings all over in their yard and actually today they showed up

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and started digging. So, unannounced to me, they are in town replacing gas service lines in that area. Apparently, there were several homes that were built out there that are what's like a teed off line where one line splits into two

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to feed two homes and that doesn't fall into their compliance. So they are now digging them up, replacing, putting individual lines to every house. So that is what's going on out there. Any residents in that area who might have markings in your yard, you're probably

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getting a new gasoline. >> All right, thanks for the updates. Moving on to city attorney Liki. Anything from you tonight? [cough] [clears throat] >> No update tonight. >> All right, thank you. U moving ahead to reports from elected officials. Councelor Grahams. >> Um not much to report. I checked on a

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couple committees that I'm the leazison for uh the youth in action and then the Brownsfield committee. Neither one of those organizations have met yet this year. So I reached out to them to ask am I not getting notices or neither one has met. So they [clears throat] did make sure I'm on the mailing list for those

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to when they do meet to get an update and stay in touch with what they're doing. Uh the chamber continues to donate to all the local organizations and school groups. I think in our end of our fiscal year for May 31st in the month of May, we gave out $50,000. So we

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for our tax breaks, but it all went to good causes and that went out to the community. So hopefully that'll help all the different groups. >> All right. Thank you. Uh councelor Jarba, bear with me. Um I've had conversations with a few individuals of

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late. One was a representative from New Range >> inquiring about the possibility of maybe a data center being built out near the mine. People in this area are used to lights, noise, and power draw. And they

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complain about the power draw in some of these areas, but when you look at these electric shovels they've got out in the mines right now, it's got to outstrip what the usage of a data center would be. They'd be far out. And I I also learned something there

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that they've got laws that work against building any other businesses on the mines that would possibly exclude the mineral rights or the use of the mine for mining other things. And it it was just one of those things that thinking of tax base which would help everybody

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in town. The other thing that I I've been looking into and I've talked to somebody from RB the initial conversation seemed well. There's a bunch of counties around the state and even in this area that are doing biochar

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right now which is again tax based for industry. We've got a whole industry around here uh that puts out a lot of waste what that they're using in these biochar plants to create uh fertilizer um carbon capture that gets buried in

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the ground. It's good for the ground as other industries use it also. just looking into it and if anybody's got any ideas, any concepts, rattle my chain on it. I' I'd like to hear on what people are thinking. It's

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and I go back to my what I said, my statement about tax base. You increase the tax base with different businesses, you're looking at jobs and lower taxes for everybody else. That's all I got. >> Sure. All right. Sounds good. Thank you. Uh, councelor Ecman.

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>> Um, so Dave and I went to the ERPD board earlier today. Um, we have a new officer that's starting and he's cleared everything. Good to go. Um, and then

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just arts and crafts. We're getting ready for the parade and for water. [clears throat] We've seen the city crew down there working hard. Bring up the truck. >> Oh, yes. And then um the ERPD sold Zuler's truck to the city of Aurora

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because they needed a public utilities truck. He said city of White Lakes was approached and didn't want it. So it went to the city of Aurora. >> All right. Thanks for the updates, Councelor Mat. Um, I guess the only thing I'll say it

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kind of has to do with one of our uh, agenda points coming up here, but I was called and talked to this week or last week about the fact that a resignation letter came to the council and because a couple council members were gone, we had

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to table it due to our nepotism and whatever policy. And I think that is unreal that a resignation letter would fall under that thing to the point where I feel like the last administration got

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what they wanted with the anti-epatism policy. Um everything got completed there and I think that's something that in the future we might just need to relook at if as a small town we really need that. Um, if it gets to the point where somebody's trying to resign their

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from their services and we can't approve it at a council meeting because of that, I think that's absolutely ridiculous. But that's just my thought and I think it's something maybe for the future to discuss again. Um Dave, along your lines of talking about the data center, the phone call, I think just of one thing

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that I was told of um at a TAP meeting a while back when we talked about data centers was the electricity that they pull is actually a very positive thing because they get charged so much and they have to pay so

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much per month that it'll actually cause local residents around it to go down because they overpay to make sure that they never go that they never underpay themselves. So they the from Minnesota Power they actually said that you see residents around data centers

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>> their their power bills go down. >> A lot of the anti-statements out there from people claim their power bills went up because of the data center. And that was straight from Minnesota Power at one of those meetings was that where they're seeing them in Minnesota that that

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Minnesota Power makes them pay so much towards their power that they always overpay and it causes everybody's to go down >> and that I mean that stands to reason and like I said the [clears throat] infrastructure we have here on the Iron Range to get electricity into the mines

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is absolutely phenomenal. Mhm. >> If if you look at the draw, like I said, of just one shovel, >> right, >> out at Mint or something compared to what a data center is pulling in. >> So anyway, I just wanted to throw that out there, too. >> Thank you. >> Those are that's all I have to say.

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>> Sounds good. Thank you. And I don't have any big updates on my end. So we will move ahead with old business. So 9.1 EMT resignation. [cough] Um [clears throat] so yeah, this had been tabled last meeting. Um we talked about it last meeting. um looks typical to the types

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of resignation letters we typically get. Uh is there any other further discussion or questions regarding this resignation letter? >> Nope. I missed that meeting when it was first on two. So I wondered why it was tabled as well. So in our policy, we can't accept resignation letters even.

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>> No, I think I I'd be happy to speak to that. It doesn't have anything to do with >> that meeting. >> Yeah, it doesn't have anything to do with the nepatism policy. Uh it's that the the number of counselors that were here, two of them are on that department. >> Okay.

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>> And so they're they weren't able to vote on that resignation cuz that >> a conflict. >> It's a conflict. Yes. Yeah. >> So even resignation letters fall under conflict. I mean, >> so and yeah, without getting too into it, yeah, >> if people are are resigning, it may

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create more work for people that are on that department. So, it it can be selfserving. It's unlikely, but it's a protection for you guys as counselors uh and the votes that you cast that it not be impacted by potential conflicts

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for other things that you do. >> Understandable. >> So, yeah, if there's less people, then Jill Jill or I could work more and then we make more money. But >> we I don't I don't want to work, >> mayor. When you put it like [laughter] that, it does sound absurd, >> right? I mean, yeah. when you I don't

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think Jill or I would ever make any sort of decision regarding the EMS department just for our gain, but just like Joel >> again I I completely understand when it comes to wages and >> right no >> shift something or anything along those lines, but another employees resignation

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letter that we're like and and obviously it didn't affect her any she's still not working. She's just waiting for it to get approved. But still, I'm just like the fact that I got a phone call about it, I'm like that's interesting, >> right? Yeah, it seems seems pretty silly, but just want to make sure we're doing things correctly. But yeah, thanks

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for Yeah. bringing it up and so we can at least chat about it. So, >> I'll make a the motion to approve. >> All right, perfect. >> Oh, Dave, we'll give it to Sher. Dave's done enough talking tonight. I'm just kidding. Um, so motion from councelor

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Matson, second from councelor Grahams. All those in favor? Any opposed? Hearing? None. Motion carried. And then Jill and I will >> we abain. >> All right. Moving ahead to new business 10.1 fisherman's point 20 202 27

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seasonal site rates. Um I think Tammy talked with Betsy a little bit today. So do you mind just giving a little bit of information on that? >> Sure. It's that time of year again. Um, we need to decide on the rates for the 2027 seasonal sites out at the campground because we are going to start

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advertising very soon and getting the packet together and starting to advertise. So, it's kind of like we have to make this decision before for seasonal sites before we make the decision for how much the regular daily reservations would be. Um, so just on

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the list that Betsy made, just the seasonal part of it is the part that we actually have to look for fees on tonight. So, lake access, non-lake access, application fee, appliance fee, or pet fees. So, that's for the seasonals. And then

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they're also um asking about the possibility of bringing back three sites for monthly reservations. Jen has had several requests for them. again. Um, at this point, we're not necessarily looking for you to come up with pricing for it, but just if you're interested in doing it again and then we could do our

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research and bring it back to you at another point, like reservation timelines, um, what sites they would use, refund or cancellation policies, that type of stuff. So, it's kind of a two-part seasonal site pricing, and then are you guys interested in us doing some

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monthly sites again next season? And if I remember right, did we increase the Lakeshore LA last year when we did this? >> So last year going into this year, it looks like it went up a 100 bucks and then the year before that it went up 200. So it was 200 then into this year

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was 100. So now >> both lakes shore and non lakes shore. >> No. So non-lakes shore a couple years ago went up 200 and then um last year into this year that that part stayed the same. >> Okay. How has the occupancy rates for this

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been >> for the seasonals or for the >> for the se both lake and off lake? >> I don't think we filled all the seasonals this year, but Betsy said that Jen is confident we will for next year that there's been a lot more interest for different people that have been

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asking what sites will be available next [clears throat] year and when they will be able >> if they're not filled they're able to rent them out for weekend and night. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we do it early enough. We generally have the drawing in middle middle September and then so Dustin can

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go in who does the manages the website and he can block out all the seasonals and start working on all the other ones for daily camps. Daily camping. Yeah. >> Has camping mentality all >> kind of getting over this co thing where everybody's

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>> Yeah. That was so huge for a while. Yeah. Yeah, Betsy said the numbers are down from that, but those were kind of crazy numbers, >> right, >> to begin with. >> Yeah, we seem to have a cycle and let's like right now golfing is up. We have a lot more there and camping kind of going

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down. >> Um, so what are folks feeling on the the seasonal rates? So, lake access and then non-lake access. I think if things have been down potentially just leaving it as is. But >> how do we compare to [clears throat]

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other campgrounds in the area? Anybody look at that at all? >> Uh I think Betsy said that >> pretty comparable. >> Yeah. Comparable and comparable to ones that have water and sewer, >> right? They have I think more than we have. >> Yeah.

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>> So yeah, considering we don't have Yeah. sewer hook up in those different types of >> best campground. >> We have better sights with the trees and everything. >> Yeah. Y >> the only campground probably in Minnesota has that seclusion

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even though you might be 40 ft from someone you can't even see the camp. >> Yeah, I've camped where your popup campers are literally [clears throat] >> a couple feet and you can hear the guy snoring in the popup next to you. So, I mean our campsites are very nice and secluded. Yeah,

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>> I don't know. That's >> Yeah, I don't have any recommendation to in increase the lakes shore or non-lake shore. I think we've increased Lakeshore the last two years. I'm >> fine with leaving it how it is now that we have other fees as far as like the

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appliance fee. I know especially during CO in a couple years after everyone brought freezers, hot tubs, fridges out there and plugged them in. It was fun. It was great. But I get where that's an extra expense. So now that we have some to offset some of those, I don't feel like we need to raise the

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>> the rate right this year anyway. >> I like the 30 sites still >> if we didn't fill them. I mean, I don't know if the raise in price would have had anything to do with that, but >> I got 10 years in a row and if I just kept going up so much

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unless I was actually >> live out there also. Yeah. I don't I I agree with Sherry. I don't think there's any need to raise them at this point. >> How about the uh three additional sites? Is is there any harm to adding if she

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thinks she can fill them? And if they don't get filled, well, they go up for rental. >> Great. That's kind of what I was thinking. I don't think I would go off of what they recommend to be honest. I mean, they're the ones down there knowing >> if she thinks if she thinks she can rent them out and if they go, we're a step

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ahead. If they don't, they'll just go back. They still can be rented that. Yeah, >> I know people that really enjoyed that one month. >> I did too. I've been approached by I mean a handful of people who well how come I can't get a monthly site anymore? I love that. So I have I've even heard feedback that they want the monthly

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option and if it doesn't get filled it just goes in the rotation. So >> use that too, you know, kids in hockey and baseball in the summer. Now you got that August. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I'm fine for adding those. So, it sounds like you you folks in city

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hall have gotten a little bit of direction on the monthly site. So, if you guys want to look into that further and then suggest pricing and >> Okay. >> those different types of things. And then are are you guys okay with keeping the rates the same too for the seasonal? >> I don't have a problem with that.

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>> What was the monthly rate before Tammy? >> Um, it was kind of based off of how many days were in that month. Yeah, >> it was like a discounted. >> Yeah, I think it was almost like the six get the seventh free kind of thing, I think, is what it ended up

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>> which we got back now. >> But it's just nice to have a the same campsite for a month straight rather than trying to book it for two weeks and then >> and you can get it for the if you know if you're able to you can get it for the next month so you can be in there. It's not like you have to get out. The only

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problems we did have were some people were >> if it if they're done in the middle of the week and they're working, they would have to >> take their camper out early when they had paid for extra days or they might have to pay for daily rates to get to the next weekend. But beyond that, it's

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kind of part of it when you take it, >> right? >> So that Yeah. Um, so yeah, it sounds like we're interested in the monthly sites and then keeping the rates the same for um, seasonals. So maybe I'll take two different motions for that. So um, I'll

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ask for a motion to uh, approve the fisherman's point 2027 seasonal site rates. >> I'll make a motion. >> Motion from councelor Ecman. Is there a second? Second from councelor Jara. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carried. And then a motion to direct

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city hall staff to look at making those additions um for the the monthly sites and our next um um booklet or for our um rates. So is there a motion for that? >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion from councelor Grahams. Is there a second? >> I'll second.

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>> Second from councelor Ecman. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carried. All right. Moving on to 10.2. Um so we're looking at a couple of recommendations to hire for um two MT

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position EMT positions and then for one EMT position only and then one firefighter EMT um position. Um so these also look similar to the um recommendations we've gotten previously. Um so the fire department and EMS

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department, they do their their interviews and then they make recommendations based on those um interviews. So, um, any comments or questions regarding that? All right. So, we'll start with 10.2A. So, uh, I'll ask for a motion to approve

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the hiring of Lauren Profit for the firefighter EMP position just pending any sort of, um, background check and those different types of things. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion councelor Graham, second from councelor Java. All those in favor? I.

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>> Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carried. And [clears throat] then 10.2B. Um, is there a motion to approve Abby Larson for the EMT only position? >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion from Councelor Mat. Is there a

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second? >> I'll second. >> Second from Councelor Grahams. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Hearing? None. The motion carried. >> All right. We've gotten a lot of resignation letters, but now we got two two hires. So, that's good to see the numbers increasing. And then a couple

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more people to take money away from Jill and I. So, [laughter] >> no. So, we we'll abstain from that also. So, um moving on to 10 10.3 um resignation letter um from Lisa G from the EMS department. Um again, this

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looks similar to the other one we got. Um any comments or questions regarding that? Hearing none, I'll ask for a motion to approve that resignation letter. >> So moved. >> Motion from councelor Java. Is there a second? >> I'll second.

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>> Second from councelor Matson. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Hearing? None. Motion carried. And then Jill and I will abstain. Uh and then lastly for the agenda 10.4 August 11th council meeting day change um due to primary election.

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Um, so I think Tammy had made note of that and suggested we change it because um, I think it's required that we're not supposed to have a council meeting. >> Yeah, no business can be conducted. >> So, so we were just looking for a date to change on that. I think when I had

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spoken to Dean about it, he recommended that Wednesday. Um, so the 12th. So we're just putting out um feelers from the council for what would work for them in their schedule for for that week. So it would be the week of August 10th. So

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the 10th is that Monday and then the 11th is that Tuesday, which is um the primary election day. So is there any days that work or don't work for folks? >> This is fine. I'm glancing quick. Sorry. >> Yeah. >> No, you're good.

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>> There's a possibility I might not be back in town on the 12th in time, but that again I don't know that for sure. So if that's the date that works, that's fine. Let's see. I'm [cough and clears throat] open. Otherwise, >> I work nights that whole week, so I can make it in and have somebody stay for me. So, any day works for me. It doesn't

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matter. >> Any day works for Brent. Any day works for me. Um Dave, is there >> a Wednesday is fine. >> Okay. Does any day work for you? >> Okay. [laughter] Right. How about for you, Jill? >> That works.

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>> Um would you be back for sure Thursday? Sherry? >> Yeah, I'll just be in Virginia at an appointment Wednesday. So, I mean, I could very well be back. I just >> So, you're fine with that or you want to try Thursday or Friday? >> We can try for Wednesday. That's fine. I'll let you know if I'm running late,

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but otherwise I should be able to make it. >> Sounds good. So, if it's okay with everybody, we'll look at changing the date to that Wednesday. Any other further um conversation for that? >> I thought you were changing it because it was my birthday on the 11th. So, [laughter] thank you.

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>> Happy birthday. >> That's what we meant. That's what we meant to say. >> It's for Sherry's birthday. Amber, [laughter] >> you bring it. Okay. >> I will. >> All right. Sounds like we'll do Wednesday. So, I'll ask for a motion to change the council meeting day to um

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August 12th. >> So, moved. >> Motion from councelor Java. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Second from councelor Matson. All those in favor? I >> I. [clears throat] Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carried. Then moving on to adjournment. Is there a motion for that? >> No, hold on. We have 10.5. No,

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>> we got to do that water irrigation. Whoops. >> Yep. I forgot about that. I wrote it down. All right. 10.5 golf course kind of VFD discussion. Is there anything else that you wanted to add for that? Sounded like we need to do it. If we don't do it any fails

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>> right now, I want to plan on >> Right now, I don't plan on ordering it. I'm still going to do it and try not to. >> So, when you're saying that, are you thinking that if you get it order, you said it's like five weeks out. So if you're thinking if you order it but then

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you sit there and do figure out something could you return you're thinking like return it is that kind of your >> restocking fee but it's still going to be >> less than they >> so based off of that I mean would it be that we could just use those funds that you the 10,000 that you have for that

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purchase it with that and then see if you can still replenish that if you do return it type of thing or >> okay >> maybe I can do that even with that IRB helper grant or whatever. maybe some leftover anyway. So, [clears throat]

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>> I mean 10,000 wasn't going to do much anyway, but I thought it was something, >> right? >> You know, all right. Any other um questions for Bucky? >> And what's nice about this VFD, too, so if next this one is

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I can use it for that other upgrade that I would want to do in the future. Like I said, that irrigation system is 20 years old. We're going have to start spending some money on it to be, you know, to put one brand new in. I mean, I don't even know what that would cost, >> but this VIP would integrate into if

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next year or even the following year, you you budget for the whole new rebuild, that still >> Yep. Okay. >> And even Excuse me. >> And that discussion can happen later, too. But even with that new build, which is going to be another, let's say, and that'll be, you know, that's $28,000.

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So, I mean, obviously, it's going to be $8,000 cheaper. You want to ask for another one. [clears throat] >> So, I feel it's needed for our golf course to the grass doesn't die. I would make a motion to go ahead and order it and hopefully you can work your magic on it in the meantime, but I would

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recommend ordering it. >> So, motion from councelor Graham to order that VFD in the amount of $8,271.7. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Second from Councelor Ecman. All those in favor? I >> I >> any opposed hearing none motion carried

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now we'll move on to adjournment is there a motion for that >> I'll make that motion >> motion grand second from councelor Jarvala all those in favor >> any opposed hearing none motion carried thank you