e e e e e e last the radio council meeting of Monday June 24th for order may have roll call St
here here and first up on the agenda we have the consent agenda it's been reviewed by councilors is there a motion to approve those items I'll make that motion second off the
board second by board all those in favor iOS motion carries next up we have the guests and citizens Forum would anybody like to come to the podium and speak if you're not on the agenda being none I will go on to the
number eight reports from staff City administrator L uh the one thing I wanted to highlight tonight is there are resources for homeowners who were had damage in the storm that happened last week um unfortunately female grants are only for the uninsured or underinsured
but St Louis County does have some other resources for help and the Emergency Management Department can be reached at 218 625 3960 for anyone wishing to reach their assistance right other works director set there uh well I'm sure everybody's
aware of the storm we had last Tuesday night um by far it's the worst storm I've seen since uh July 4th of 99 um I think the you know I have heard a few reports of water basements and
whatnot but the city survived it fairly well um we did have some wash outs we do have a couple more collapsed storm drains that are rearing their heads for those of you unaware the city was built with corrugated metal pipe for storm
drains over the last 70 years that uh product is is rusting and deteriorating uh now compared to a piece of Swiss cheese down there it's full of holes and whatnot um what happens when we get water like that it washes a lot
of dirt the holes in you'll see SLE so if anybody's aware of any that we don't know about um you know we've addressed the ones that uh we know about we're working on repairing them on Wednesday Jake and I are going to meet with uh an
engineer to discuss the block of West over between the restaurant and Kensington uh right now we have 80 ft of curb that's collapsed right on top of stor drain uh we back fill it I don't well it'll pull up you know if we were
to have a storm like this magnitude again that piece of pipe is the main hope for this lower end of town uh from and Kennedy all the way to shop Center area it all goes off the ditch by the city garage and that by being possibly
collapse we don't know you know how it'll how it'll work um I have a plan for a temporary repair I'm going to discuss it with that engineer on Wednesday along with the contractor who is capable of replacing that e Fe but
again it'll be value um you know I think we need to look at possibly a street project to replace that throughout pip as well as other places in town um none of the other places in town that have
that problem are of the magnitude this one is because it serves such a large you know area for drainage you know if we have one storm dur collapse on a corner of a fourway intersection there's still possibly three others that little
big but this is the main artery even know for this so um other than that uh I'm sure you noticed uh you know the water levels are up and down HBY dock is HBY lake is all over the map right now
up and down it's receding at this time but if we get more rain and change again we pull it do just because it's not feasible to keep moving it every we tried keeping it in so people who needed to get their boats pontoons docks
whatever out the lake so they have a chance to do that but it's all in Lowry for a few more days probably um down at the Midway Shelter that project is coming along all right uh black topping took place last week that lower building parking lot as well
as the Midway Pavilion self repid um the top soil has been spread and we're expected to receive a delivery of sod on Wednesday so that'll be take a place and getting put down uh at the same time the basketball court area over here on
Andover and West over was paid so when Public Works getes a chance will be reinstalling the basketball hoops from the court at that location other than that uh we I've let the guys from snow know who are dealing
with a lot of watchs as well that will be available to help them fix anything they need um I also have been in touch a lot with over the last week since the storm there was an engineer at the last counil meeting Eric Bal from put State L
County he had advised that the Kensington or County Road 665 project was going to be uh taking place in 2027 not 25 like they plan however After the Storm they received some damage as well
they reassess the project and are hopeful to put it back on the burner for 2025 so it may not be the road all the way out to new Range coer nickel it may only be the portion in town from Lucky 7
to the CER road but I'll take I miss it but mway the tennis court area is that completed or no they did not get the black hopping done on the tennis court skate park or the bike trail going down to the beach but they're optimistic
they'll be back within a couple of weeks during that storm they had a bunch of damage on a project that working on ATA Campground uh with this nice weather I know they black up in there today so they should get that project wrapped up and hopefully be back to finish the rest
of the project when that area is completed the paving uh then K F company will be coming in them to install things okay thank you right thank you Kenny um the fuity director bar all right we'll start with
a quick one first just want to remind everyone if you receiv your card everyone got them referring to the L service sign inventory if your home was bued after 1985 you have nothing to worry about and if you already turned in a picture you're probably good to go
bman M will be coming out in the next week or so to start inspecting the L service lines or service lines in homes so if you have in picture you're probably going to get a visit to call on to the storm so our waste water
plant with all the new improvements and stuff is only rated to take about 680,000 gallons a day um we knew the storm was coming we made some preparation and we were able to push through and this is all credited to Josh roughly 1.2
million gallons through that facility so that's way more than that facility is able to handle and they made it through now we also filled our Equalization tank it's a big tank we have specifically for these storm events
to take extra water to we have time to treat it that's half million gallons that got pilled up real quick um matter of four or five hours once the storm hit at one point the storm dumped two Ines of Rain On Us in an hour that's so hard
was coming down we still had to buy M I know everyone see the science um the two weeks is a guideline I don't have specific details from the npca on how long I have to have that order sell for
so I just had advisor for two weeks avoid contact with the water and white water lake we do have to put notification that we did the bypass and the lake may be impaired to bypass uh where we bypass so we have everything
cranked up on the waste water plant we have just about every pain in that facility overflowing we had to choose where we want to overflow in the facility possibly damage equipment or or the equalization Basin so we sent it out
the equalization Basin so water came off over on the ground and eventually so had some protection there so with that that also messed up our water supply like first problem we
had we checked Lake on Wednesday and water was creeping up but it wasn't quite there yet when we got the work Thursday morning um that was all the way up and D near took out her all on Bo
so we got with the City Garage here thank you to Kenny scw we got every sandbag Kenny had up in front of that door hped up the building had a couple loads of dirt up there to help keep water out of the building so we were able to protect our
raw water pumps but L passed up so my guys are putting in a lot of time trying to produce drinkable water over that facility right now it's just it is what it is so we're doing jar test and everything we can do to get that
out um things I'd like the public to ask themselves is what we're doing storm events like this where you charging to uh death charging into the city sanitary sewers um really impacts us at the
Wastewater Plant especially when we have entire blocks pumping water into the sewer system and sending it down to us for treatment you think about how much water pumps must have out that night the npca is already on buts saying we need
to do another some pump inspection I'm trying to hold them off but eventually I'm not going to have a choice and then the other thing when we get a major storm event like that ask yourself how much water you're setting out the drain do you need to wash
clothes right in there can you wait till the storm's over anything you can do to help us out there will help stop us from having a p as we anyone have any questions regarding as far as water quality that's
just from erosion and the lake yeah well you had a lot of increased flow from the surroundi water Bas into that lake so that carries a lot of Organics and other materials from the shoreline into that Lake it also stir up
everything inside that Lake they can put it into turn over when you get high event like that plus with the winds and then it's just it's hard to treat after test and make sure we have the right chemical dosage and that can change real
quick when it's finally starting to settle down so similar to the L turnover that happens twice a year that you guys doing oh it's worse a lot worse we've been at this uh the plant water's been going downhill since about Friday we
tried twen the chemicals then walk and the weekend was just it was Rob so and I'll ask on behalf the public but there's no contamination of waste water going into where we get our drinking water not told no white water is
completely separate and the way the currents flow you're probably talking Back Bay and out towards the discharge there it's not making it out to the so thank you yeah thank
[Music] you yeah violation you talking yes okay yeah so we receiv that there's a couple of 30-day items on that um basically what had been going on is for a while now
mpca wasn't coming out in fact and certain things weren't being done appropriately Water waste water uh this has been going on since even before I got LED on here so we've been slowly trying to correct it and all the npca is finally staff where they can
come out and do this inspections so I talked to Josh about it we have a few 30-day items we need to get back to the npca on which is basically a statement this is what we're doing with this what we're doing with that and then we have a few 60-day items
which with everything going on we haven't really had time to De too deep into that so but we have time once we get those items um we'll see what they decide to do with that once we turn all that into
the state but U I talked the compliance officer McKenzie about that she said hopefully everything will just once everything's complet they see we've been making improvements over the years they'll be like okay don't let it happen again we keep their eye on us for a few
years has a lot of it already been addressed yeah we started addressing it he was in and then uh from there Josh took over and he's been making a lot of directions for us so I have him fully in charge of our bio solids right now
and back thank you all right thank you Jak City attorney nothing for me just all right to elected official myself I just want to say that
we have a very busy June between hail damage storm damage and it's just nice to see all the residents and employees and volunteers with working together to really help each other out and take care of the situation and make the best of it and we got hit of a lot less than some
is did so we're pretty lucky and hopefully we just continue to work together and take care of our neighbors and get past it al bar thanks uh I'd like to thank our former mayor Dave zims mayor Zim Zim served
this community for many years his historical knowledge and past discussions will be greatly missed on the council here I'd personally like to thank him for the time he spent welcomeing welcoming me to the council and encouraging me to step out of my comfort zone to make the most of my role
here many people say being on the council is to take this job and it can be at times there are many difficult decisions that must be made that tend to leave citizens and employees torn in either support or discontent those of us who choose to serve the community on the council
will'll get the occasional comment support on the community but it's personal attack that seem to stay with us it's sad to see mayor in step down by first will'll miss seeing him in the council meetings uh thank you mayor Z for all your years of service toit
LS i' also like to take him moment to acknowledge the fire department there have been a number of events recently that have required firefighters to step up and I'm grateful to have a community have community members that are willing to serve as an emergency respond additionally I would like to thank all the employees of the city the
city is a machine that requires all the pieces to run the city of lakes is grateful to have dedic employees at all levels it is work and dedication from All City departments that get us through uh weather events like the flooding last week and the Windstorm last year While
most of us are seeking shelter during the storm we have Public Works Public Utilities police fire and EMS employees out in the elements serving our community thank you for all your continued service and dedication here jnes finally I would like to thank the
EAS R PE the Minnesota UNR and the city staff and all the ranger solv ATV club members that helped make the youth ATV training happen this weekend 23 kids completed the train and I look forward to seeing them enjoy the support as
possibly and that's all I have thank you Scott um yeah just wanted to take time um like coun board did uh to thank Jake Kenny Fire Department police department other staff members um
and anybody else helping their neighbors during like both were busy all right moving on to number 10.1 facilities use agreement with the ranger ATV some fund everyone received a copy of the um
facilities use agreement that the ranger Club saw and then at the desk in front of you was n's comment on that facility use agreement in red and may or I give a just kind of update
on the final edits uh with the use of the paral for the training so we've added some partial IDs here um so that's CL find language and recy paragraph a so it's not necessarily just a former
tool building site some additional PS that are add in um so that's clarify that and then the final changes I made made um on page four in the end of section six on page four I there was a little bit of a
discrepancy because I know the agreement is that um for the club's use of the facilities language added in section three uh that the club used to pay all electrical natural gas propane and any
other utilities as well as any property taxes old for the subject property and then when I reviewed section six the very end of section six and there was a little bit of a discrepancy there and that it
talked about the city providing standard Utility Services water sewer and sanitation to the club and no charge to the club so there was a discrepancy between six of three so that's where I added the language that if we're going
to be consistent with section three that we're used to paying any other utilities that would include City utility servicing the buildings that's why I added uh that at the end of section six
now I just did that so it's consistent whatever you decide whatever the club you and the club decide as far as you know the basic City Utilities that are provided to the building if it's the intent C is going to provide
that at no charge to the club uh and the club is going to mainly pay for the other types of utilities which are basically the electric control P I'm fine with that I just want the language in to be consistent all and and so basically then if you
were if it was not the intent based upon the discussions between the club and City staff that they would pay for the city utili to the site then what you would do is you would simply SE yeah well at section six you would
simply um I think you just basically um you can just delete my language we just need to we just need to make assist so section three could be added to say and any other non City
util excluding City so again I didn't know what the intent was whatever you decided to cil's fine in that regard I just want to make sure it's the city on building right it's not not building city building if it is a city own building and uh and and the
agreement gives the the ranger Club what's called non-exclusive use meaning that they really are going to be the primary users of the building for their various activities but the city will have the right if needed if we need to store some equipment there if there's
space to do so and and we need to store some equipment there used space uh for some purpose we would be able to do that even though they need the primary user would that be similar to like the Senior Citizen Center or they primarily
use it but it can be used for other things city city water yeah they don't City pleas that and that was the discussion that was had they the City Utilities correct so when we applied for the grant
that was and that is the agreement that was brought up at the and approved so this would have to go back to the club if it doesn't get changed but personally I'd like to see a change remove that word and maybe update section three to specifically exclude
the City Utilities that's just if that was the intent in the Grant and the intent you know when speaking with the club I don't see why we do it different if that's how we do it for other City own buildings so
I anyone else have any feelings on it you make those changes so you can you can approve it tonight authoriz signature subject to most CL we don't have I think everybody understand changes are sub amendments we
can make fin changes changes a motion and support all those in favor I any opposed all right motion is carried 10.2 virtu terce card upd the City previously discussed the
trail report and the possibility of purchasing that from the current owner it is currently for sale um he's anticipating the cost for that would be between $375,000 $400,000 per purchase um the city uh
previously asked me to go back and discuss some financing options and prior to that um you the city has several Avenues to finance that type of project it can issue General obligation bonds which is the most secure type Bond with the
lowest interest meaning that we will raise property taxes to pay for that Bond or revenue bonds which are less secure but higher interest um that means that any revenues from that Park would be committed to the bond repayment but also if you
didn't have enough Revenue you would have to increase taxes to cover regardless so if you would like to purchase the park what we would need for more information as far as interest rates payment payment uh schedules that
kind of thing is if you just wanted me to look at the 375 to $400,000 or if you'd like me to look at a larger project which was previously discussed like redoing the water sewer
and storm in the in ground and the road which all needs to be redone it is all failing um as well as possibly you know making improvements if you wanted it to be a permanent Campground type situation if you want to put a bath house in there with a shelter any type of project like
that you wanted to ball Target 5 million1 million project I can get those numbers for you as well um but the owner is looking to close sale of it prior to win so I would just need some direction from the council is if you want to
pursue just straight purchase if you want to pursue a larger project with the purchase or if you want to not pursue any of the options do we have a number of current residents I do not have the number of
current residents um it is a uh there are specific eviction processes you'd have to go through if you were to purchase it um as far as if you wanted to remove the park and make it into something else you have to follow a
specific eviction process to do so I don't have yes I know um in Aurora they've been purchasing property in their trailer park to try to you know clean that up and make it available for housing which is a need for the whole
area so I you know I wouldn't mind giving the chance to now that it's here to purchase and then maybe think of you know was looking at the purchase price as as far as Revenue funding for that and then in the future think of a way we
can make it into something whether it's Campground something not supposed to be got a turn here you're going to do something that's going to raise people's taxes in this town you should have a public meeting in in Forum before you do it this is just
discussion right but I'm saying I'm saying before you have that discussion and make a vote you owe a responsibility to the we're not if we get to that point definitely we would have a meeting we would talk about it right now we're just talking
what if we should look into how much it would cost what the interest rate would be and how we would secure those thought and once we have that information then we can make a more informed decision what we want to do but I wouldn't mind getting the information on just the 400,000 without the improvements and
just see where that has been sitting and I don't want to make like that's you know too much back but I would like to see um like a bigger scope project because I think if we're going to purchase that property we do need to have it be in work
condition you know need be the other thing you would need to consider is um if you do end up purchasing a property you will need to hire a property manager that is not something city staff so you mean for the people who are
Curr and to go through process I think that is not something this but I can definitely for [Music] sure and the infrastructure there you guys know a little bit about it um it's
not in any wor shape necessarily than the rest of the town it's all roughly the same age it all kind ofs wor I I think I can speak for Jake and I the the the trouble we see out there more than anything is the trouble with the service
lines that are feeding the trailers or the Lots you know I mean that as far as the water lanes and Sewer M and storm sewer Etc in the around it's all the same ages what we currently have same materials although as I stated earlier I
mean some of our infrastructures is starting to fail but it's no worse than but then from the main to the Lots those those uh service lines feeding each lot is where we seem to have leaks and we've not had much success with them keeping
on top of it those are their responsibility again we are responsible up to the curb stop nine times out of 10 we can turn a curb stop off and fix the lead but then the home with all water it's then that the property manager all
their whatever doesn't address the situation sorry and I'm not going to tell you that the infrastructure there isn't they we're having the same problems but it's no worse
then worst case scenario we be purchasing this and we could turn around and resell but after we fix the EIT issues so we can get in there and file we can fix the things like that as we need to we're not some third party have
do say we owned it and made the improvements and then sold it to someone to rent it out as it is now at least reine the easement so we have access to go in there and fix these BL when they break we're not relying on some landlord to come in and fix it and
shut off everybody's water we can be a little more sful about it fix it the way or the next property owner the problems that are there and addresses them instead of sticking our head in s and pretend is
that some kind of agreement we could have I say you don't the new property whatever something discuss what's going you could establish a legal easement but right now there is no legal
easement and so it's not our property and it's not our responsibility to fix or PL um and that was the O device from City I will say it is in the city's best interest to know how they plan on repairing it because it does direct
water supp structure system and they're Unix still running water with 3 water and can cost the whole city yes I'd like to see us doing it so get done quickly
[Music] and if we weren't going to purchase it would it be wise to maybe get these legal is eement issues address with the current owner or wait for a new owner to purchase it and work with the new
owner yeah I mean I know I the current owner at least you have somewh of non quantity individual that work with and I would try to the current ping
hands whoever the buyer may be you never know who that entity or individual is whether somebody City so there's e or access issues that have to be addressed would be good to have that discussion the ground and see if those issues get
resolv by closing on sale there's also multiple owners were dealing with and easement issues because the road and all the utilities cross Minnesota Power property before they get to the private property and there's no easement for any
so you know will be getting power to accept or you know draft an easement as well as the the current property owner I would assume and I don't know that Minnesota Power has to Grant E's then for the private property owners stuffed
across their property or or all that I do know there's you know two Parcels there with two different owners with the same utilities that road etcr correct and easement usually also the
cost so the city would okay to I mean City can CL prescriptive eement you know sure they've been there for a long time so the P the city May automatically acquire e by
pass the time you still have that question yeah you pay yeah there's been feelings both ways there's been people surprised and you know that we don't service that area is plowing and and service lines and then
it also comes with the cost so there is some some things to consider and discuss before any decision would be made but yes another take is it possible to get is that perfect worth it is that the
general going rate of this or is it a deal by any means or I'm not really sure what trailer par s so you have some fun with resarch but it's something around 23
Acres or something like that correct yeah so just the property has value Y and then I'm assuming based on if you can find out the number renters and the revenue is there I would assume if we took it over we would start charging individual Lots
their utility be instead of to the entire youn some of those yeah are R they are interesting to know how many lived in there you're not really sure if they're this is going to turn into
another GL School where you just don't take care of it well that's what would happen if we don't yeah if some other private party it then we have no control over it it's whatever they we apparently we have no control over the B school that's been in city and county h on and off many years
we've never City's never well when you talk to the county they say we're going to wait till we hear what the city wants to do it when you talk to City they wa and apparently we don't sit down in the room and talk
we just talk about having a meeting well on this um agenda item we I think aded our questions maybe we can get more information and then and then revisit it and see where we're sitting once we know some more
detail the table until I gets we don't need a second to all right that's the new business 11.1 Northern Northern Natural Gas Company requests to access city property to maintain and repair natural gas
speaking of easements um norn natural gas is a contractor of Minnesota energy resources they requested to both cross and um utilize city property to access maintain and repair their natural gas land within the city I do recommend you charge them a fee for
that in front of you is there like general contract and so if you make your motion to approve with a fee I can definitely that signing over to them and give us a check a general cost it's typical
usually when I process easements I calculate the value of the land like when I did for Minnesota Power I calculate the value of land and I charge them that this they're Crossing multiple spots there's not really a great number I would recommend $1,000 I know that is normal when they
went through my former property they had to pay me to clear a path um and pay me the value of all the trees they were cutting down it is a normal normal thing for them to to compensate for that are there risks associated with it
like if something were happen while they're working on it but uh no they're required to provide us with a certificate of insurance and all that how many motion is there a second for that motion second motion and support all in favor I
I oppos motion Carri do you just add that to the res just 11.2 resolution governing the counting of right in votes for local
elective offices um Minal State Statute regarding elections recently changed um so to count individually count written writed for City elections I would recommend that the city council passes
the resolution in front of them um counting rins takes up a significant amount of time on Election night for judges that have already been there for 14 hours and so um requiring anyone interested in completing write in vote
tallies uh requiring that they file with the city clk's office prior to that will greatly reduce the amount of work for that the ballot machine does not separate in Rance so especially on presidential election night when you have you know over a thousand ballots to
go through and see if people wrote them in and wrote them in correctly and then tally all of those for City elections that's a significant for election of is um it's not a an additional process other than they would have to fill out the request for write in votes and they
would also have to fill in the app of candidacy which is required by the Min of the Secretary of St so it' be the normal paperwork that any other candidate would be required for help in addition this reest and the request that um is due seven days prior to election
typically R don't know their running last so this is days before the election they would have to for yep and that's what St there any discussion on the form AC resol
resol I'll second that motion all those in favor I I anyos all right motion carried 113 resolution appointing election judges for 2024 primary and general election
had a couple election judges not be able to make a presidential nomination primary and so we added a couple judges we did emergency train them um and they did work and so this is just officially Hing them for the next
how long is their training been for once two years okay so there's no extra training this is just add additional yeah so we have enough to runs a motion is there a second
second all those in favor oppos motion carried 11.4 appointing fulfilled vacancy in the mayor position so we received one application s Sherry grams for the mayor's position um and I just wanted to
note as to State Statute um if mayor grams is motion and seconded to fill the position she will be unable to vote on that I'll make a motion to accept the application and appoint coun Grant to
decision I'll support there's a motion and a second all those in favor I any oppos motion carried thank you I'll try to continue to work for for the city and
try to work together tell Steve hard to believe that he become the first gentleman of apprciate that joke yeah tell tell well congratulations to you and congratulations to me too
thanks uh 11.5 resolution accepting resignation and declaring a vacancy on the ho Lake City C uh so this is to accept Sher gr's resignation from the position of city council uh we will call for um applications to fill her empty
Council seat that will be on the special election for this November so the person who fills that seat will fill the seat through that election if it's the same person they'll just continue to fill it if it's a different person they would take the seat
then we typically have the applications come in and the Personnel committee interviews the candidates and then repeats for appointment for counselor like we do all positions so we have two four years positions for election and be a
special like regard build special election seat yep and so um Council Bard seat will be up for four year councel primer seat will be up for four year and then former counselor gr seat will be for two-ear elction in addition to the
twoe then personal comme would be interviewing cor correct and that would be councelor Kramer mayor gr um and this isn't calling um these are concerns that have been brought up to me
concerns I guess that I have too um with like the city administrator interviewing like a city council person you're essentially like hiring or interviewing like your boss or supervisor there just concerns with that
are you familiar with 360 interviews so 3 60 interviews are where people both above and below hired into a position the county does them for supervisory positions there are people who sit on that team who then interview the supervisor for that team uh in
addition the appointment would be subject to consider is there any other discussion on the feeling the declaring the vacancy on the council to support motion support all right motion and a second
all those in favor opposed motion carried and that brings us to the end of the meeting then regular conf meeting Monday July 8 at [Music] 5:30 is motion