:0 p.m. if you could please join me in pledging allegiance to the flag pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation
under God in indivisible liberty and justice for all thank you everybody uh please note that uh councelor Boulder is absent and he he's not expected to be at the next meeting either he is uh taking a little
vacation with his family um we'll go to the agenda we have a couple of additions that came out of land use and legislation earlier today uh the first is a um cigarette uh
license for Midwest dabin cabin the second would be a uh idate uh license for uh the Twisted tacos food truck second third one would be to allow the Twisted
tacos food truck to be set up in Smokey Bear park for June 14th through the 22nd and the last is for a uh food truck license for On the Hook Fish and Chips
the chair would entertain a motion to approve the agenda with those additions so Mo we have a motion byner second have a second by councelor Holden discussion hearing none call the
question hi hi hi and all vote Yes motion carries 40 go to the minutes of May 20th a regular city council meeting chair would entertain a motion to approve those I'll make a motion we have a motion by councelor Holden do we have a second
second second by councelor Wagner any discussion hearing none call the question hi hi I I'll vote Yes motion carries 40 and the minutes of the May 24th
2024 uh special city council meeting chair would entertain a motion to approve those minutes I'll move we have a motion by councelor Kaylor second second by councelor Wagner discussion hearing none the question I I
I I'll vote Yes motion carries 40 next we go to the uh resolution approving the transfers and payments of claims we have International Falls uh transfers going to the 101 general fund in the amount of
$372 199 uh that's coming from the 812 lodging tax fund we have accounts payable International fall Falls claims of $279,800
airport commission claims of $ 35,2 3797 and Airport major Capital project claims of $2,825 for a total of accounts payable of $397,900 I'll make that motion we have a motion
by councelor Holden do we have a second I'll second o jeez I'm going to get coun quite all right all right we have I don't have to do none of that I'm on there twice I'm good you guys carry on you know what maybe this time just because we have
some people missing let's just do the roll call this way so we have a motion and a second call the question I I I and all vote Yes motion carries 4 Z go to audience is there anyone in the audience that would like to bring something
forward that's not on the agenda you'll have an opportunity later at the meeting as well we'll go down to new business Independent School District 361 referendum information Jessica
Crosby School Board director hello thank you for having me um I'm J Crosby you want to come up and then just speak and then that way everyone can hear you and if you want take it off of there if you're going to move about you sure can oh my gosh is it on the light there we go I'm all over
this yeah there's a PowerPoint behind you um so I'm on the school district uh 361 Board of Education and I wanted to come here today to inform about the upcoming referendum in August so we're going to talk a little bit about how we
got here what our 10-year facility plan is the community engagement that we did board action and the questions there we go so kind of how we got here so this started way back in February of 22 even before I was on the school board
uh they engaged with a facilities consultant through a competitive process so they had uh the Consultants kind of did a bid process even though it wasn't really a bid financially but they went through a competitive process they picked the facilities uh Consultants which is
called Nexus it's out of the Twin Cities and then in March uh 2022 to February 2023 that company came up and did a comprehensive analysis meaning they went through everything they went into closets they went under the stairs they went in the basement they went
everywhere so um that happened over the course of a year they had to get different Specialists up here to do that um then in June of 2022 we surveyed the staff on facility needs so all the teachers janitors the cooks everybody that works in the school kind of what do
you need what are we lacking and then in February 2023 uh they reviewed the audit findings with the administration that's when I first started on the school board and then we reviewed can you oh I can stand behind you we reviewed the audit they reviewed
the audit findings with the board and then in April of 2023 we formed a community facilities task force and surveyed the community so you might all remember getting that survey in the mail about you know here's what we're kind of proposing and you know prioritize this from your perspective in the community
of what you would like to see at the school in July of 2023 we got that uh those survey results back um I work for a company where anything less than 100% participation is considered failure but we did get um what they
consider to be a great response on this type of a survey um it was about 18% which I thought we could have done better but about 18% of the community responded uh then we did a task force review of survey results so that task
force the community task force reviewed all the survey results from the community and they formed a recommendation and then finally the task force came and presented to the school board and talked about what the recommendations were what the priorities were from their perspective and from the
community's perspective so really what we did was a 10-year facilities plan and this book right here is what Nexus gave us this is a $40 million 10year facilities plan for all the facilities in school district
361 um obviously we have recommendations for the most critical needs and so we we broke it down into you know critical need next three years and then medium need in the next 5 years 5 to seven years and then the the late needs of 7
to 10 years so it's all broken down in the book uh the most critical needs that we thought should be addressed and the recommendation from the community where're building infrastructure technology safety security and um Americans with Disabilities Act interior finishment finishes site improvements
and educational adequacy so what that means is what the the community uh engagement task force kind of came forward and they said you know this is what they did they they looked at the education it
education nowadays is different from when you and I went to school and I mean I it wasn't that long ago that I was in school but um it's completely different like we were focused on teacher based learning teachers lectured we took notes we studied for the test you took the test and you went now education is based
more on group learning they do group projects that students are learning from each other um they're volunteering more you know it's more group-based learning so that's kind of what we're we're talking about with 21st century education so they went through the facilities as well the community uh
group did they took the teacher and staff facility reports like we said before and then they recommended that plan to the school board going to go to the next one all right so what are our top priorities our top priorities are and
this is again based on community input major building systems safety and security at the elementary school update the classrooms labs and Technical education and then the building exterior and site work those are our top four priorities now the other thing we asked
on the survey was what is the tax tolerance because we all know that people in our community are pretty much taxed out so what is the tolerance in the community can we do a $40 million referendum probably not so what is the tolerance the tolerance was determined
based on the responses from the survey to be at about 15 million so if you want to switch to the next one so key improvements at the high school and I'm just going to pick out a couple here so big things at the high
school the kitchen it's all the uh facilities all the appliances are old and outdated some of them don't work they've been taped together with duct tape some of them and also the flow of the kitchen it's not like when we went to school and how they serve meals they
do it completely different now now so one of the biggest things is to totally revamp that kitchen also at the high school you know when you walk through the front doors and the concession stand is right there and it gets real congested in the front area there so what they're going to do is the wall
between the cafeteria and the hallway that glass wall is going to be removed and it'll become more of a common area and then with the redo of the kitchen they're going to put the new concession stand back in the kitchen so that it won't be so Ed when you come in another
thing is the bathrooms all need to be redone the bathrooms will get redone at the high school data cabling they redid the data cabling seven years ago it's already outdated I mean you guys know that it goes fast um and I'll show you on these grid
on these layout boards in a little bit but you can kind of see here this is the elementary school so at the high school here's that area Commons area kitchen's going to be all redone expanded Commons right here this wall
will be removed um and then the bathrooms purple is heavy remodeling so and then another huge project that they're going to do at the high school is which I think is kind of exciting is in technical education so back here where we've got the Sho rooms having them interconnected in the
back with a huge Bay that spans across all these classrooms so they can do projects together so you'll have well building will work on part of a project the woods you know would work on another project drafting would draft it up and then they'd have this huge Bay in the back where they could all work on it
together so that's kind of exciting at the high school go to the next one at the elementary school there's a few bigger things that need to be done in terms of Americans with Disabilities Act I bet you didn't know that there is not an elevator in Falls Elementary we
need to get an elevator in Falls Elementary for the last however many years to comply with Ada they have had one grade level classroom on the first floor and other ones up above so there's always going to be a first second third fourth fifth grade classroom one
classroom on the first floor for a child that can't maybe make the stairs and then all the other ones upstairs having an elevator would enable the classrooms to be together and the teachers to work together another huge Improvement at Falls Elementary I don't know if you've been there lately but where the
preschool and the kindergarten rooms are the walls don't go all the way to the ceiling they're 3/4 literally they're 3/4 walls so there's a lot of disruption where you can hear and also the special education classrooms are down there and
when they have any kind of disruption in the spe special education classroom that carries over to the preschool and the kindergarten rooms so that's a huge thing we're going to do the biggest thing though at Falls Elementary because Falls Elementary is really not secure the do are locked but if you get let in
the front door of Falls Elementary you do not have to go to the office okay so if you get in the door and somebody just flips the button and doesn't look somebody could get into Falls Elementary and just walk around the school so the proposal is at the front
here where you do walk in now today adding a whole Administration Wing so that you would have to come into Falls Elementary be in the office get checked in and then be allowed into the school and then where the current
offices are make it into a stem steam area to promote that kind of education with the elementary school students so that's some huge at at Falls Elementary there's probably the most inside work to be done so there's two questions going to
be on the ballot okay question two is contingent on question one if you say no to question one you're basically saying no to question two if you say yes to question one you can still say no to question to but if you say yes to them
both that's what we'd be happy with so this is exactly how it's going to read um and this one is related to the it's going to be actually 14.2 million to provide funds to better the school and the facilities and this all includes as well the outside work that needs to
be done at the high school if you pull up to the high school or the elementary school today it looks looks pretty good I mean the brick work looks pretty good if you get close enough you can see the grow between the bricks it's called pin tucking I've learned a lot through this whole process that's all going to be fixed the pool area they need different
better ventilation that's why the building gets white in the winter time because all that chlorine seeps out because they don't have the right ventilation so we're going to fix all that so this is the first question and then question two question two is related to some
improvements that we want to make at the arena and at the stadium historic Bronco Stadium we want to see this preserved right there are some fixes that need to be done some preservation type things that need to be
done to the front of bronos stadium also have you ever gone to the bathroom when you're at a football game yeah it's a little horrifying so the bathrooms are on the Slate as well as the locker rooms now there are Locker rooms underneath the
bleachers they're not technically locker rooms they really just have benches running around there's no showers or lockers or anything there's also no ventilation so you can only imagine especially in August when they have football games how stifling it is down there so getting the right ventilation
down there getting them some actual locker rooms at the arena kind of exciting um The Proposition is to on the west side of the Arena so if you're looking at the arena from the Falls High School parking lot it would be the side to your right so where the practice
football field is to expand out and add in Varsity and junior varsity locker rooms for the Bronco girls and Bronco Boys Hockey Teams now this will will not only serve the hockey teams because we're also going to have a huge storage
area in the side here for all the football equipment for the guys when they practice out in that football field uh track softball baseball all of them would have section in this area to store so it would be right there instead of having all these random little buildings
all over so that's question two and again you can say no to question two it's another 4 million um but you can still say yes to question one or you can say yes to them both now how much is this going to cost that's what everybody
wants to know so they did again a survey and the average cost of a home in International Falls right now is $ 161 ,000 $161,200 kind of an odd amount but that's what it is so if you answer yes to question one
and you have a home worth about $160,000 it's going to cost you $8 a month on your taxes for question one yes you said 160,000 for International Falls yes don't you mean for the school district well it would be
within the school district yes okay because that's why because our average is only about 90,000 in International Falls okay well they did a yeah we thought it was high too yeah that's including the Lake Properties that's the school district I just want to make sure that's clear because we're considerably
less here in town yeah that's a good point if you say yes to question two it's only going to add $3 a month if you have a home worth about $160,000 so $1 a month is a fancy
coffee if you think of it that way and it's an investment in our children um I know a lot of people say why don't you just build a new school it costs about $400 million to build a new
school so to do 14 million of improvements on what we have when what we have is can be improved um I think that's the right personally think that's the right way to go if you want to go to the next one so that's all I have did you guys
have any questions and I'm here just to inform we're trying to get the word out I know a lot of people don't understand exactly what the referendum is for they think we're just asking for money operating expenses that's not what it's for this is for the kids you can see there are
going to be significant improvements in classrooms and class uh you know updates in the athletic fields we need to do that I can also tell you we've applied for Grants we received a solar Grant from the um Minnesota Power so we are putting in a solar panel field
in the back of the high school which is pretty exciting our investment is only about $1,000 and we'll make that back within three years just out of curiosity why wouldn't that go on the roof some something with the way the roof is built I don't I asked the same question I'm like doesn't that go on the
roof but no it doesn't so put in that terms I can understand yeah to do with the roof something to do with the roof I don't know I don't know the technical part of it but yes so if this passed how long would it take before good question so if this
passes the reason we chose to have the a ballot have it on the ballot in August rather than November is because if we get it on the ballot in August we can get all the specs done get all the bids in get all the people hired to start the spring of 2025 yeah how many surveys did you send
out do you know every mailbox in international fall every registered mailbox in International Falls got one or in our school district okay that's in our school district do do you know how many of that is I think it was probably close to 6,000 okay because I mean that's that
how you got to the eight 18% return yeah you'd have to know what the total Nexus yeah they have they have the exact total I would imagine around 6,000 okay because you had way more than than uh what you guys are looking at doing in
in this bonding are you guys coming up with a game plan of setting money aside to be able to do some of the other work once this this gets finished that's a good question we actually do have money set aside there is specific money for Capital Improvements and we do have some of that like for the solar project our
100,000 was already budgeted and in there for that um and like I said we'll make that back in three years so yes we do get a certain amount of money every year for Capital Improvements that's maintenance like we've kept up the roof of all the buildings and you know that kind of internal we repl the boiler at
the high school and at Falls Elementary so this also includes the air uh air exchangers while we don't need air conditioning in our schools the air exchangers do make it more comfortable and they've only got that in part of the elementary school so it's to complete that project and then do like I said all
that ventilation down by the pool so we just went through a process very similar to this we understand you're you're speaking to we get and I guess one thing I do want to point out too is and and this isn't meant to sound
snarky I guess would be the way to say it but as a school district we could get about $10 million without going to referendum that would still raise the taxes but we decided that that's not how we want to do this we want to do it the right way
we want people's input and we want people to vote so I you know I hate to say that and say it sounds like I said kind of snarky but so it's the reality there is funding out there available available to us to to get without being voted
on and we're choosing not to do it that way corre any other questions I have this book if you guys want to look this picture actually struck me the most this is the sanitary sewer replacement in the high school
have you been talking to Ted broke yeah where is Ted when we need them yeah yeah no yeah well this is down by the tech rooms and there's a lot of cuz that's 60 plus years old a going to make it
no I'm just going to send that right to Tad yeah say that's at the high school I was trying to send him a pickle ball video yesterday but I couldn't get it done yeah and there's lots of pictures in this book so if you want to look at
it after I'll I'll stay and if you want to page through it feel free but thank you for having me oh thank you for coming this is great yes and I'm assuming they're talking about a different type of group learning that I than I used in high school yeah
this is in school that's group oh group learning you slept on a rug didn't you kindergarten yeah group learning yeah all right let's go to item number two a mayoral Proclamation observing the 80th anniversary of The dday Invasion uh
June 6th 2024 uh chair would entertain a motion to approve that I'll make that motion they have a motion by councelor Holden do we have a second second second by councelor Wagner
discussion hearing none call the question I I I and all vote Yes motion carries 4 Z next approve the order of removal or repair in the matter uh the matter of hazardous building located at 308 5th Street City
attorney um so like all the other orders to remover repair um this is just asking for you to sign it and we'll get it served hopefully they take care of it within 60 days if it doesn't happen that way it allows me to bring it into court this building is the apartment building
over this way that got um burnt burnt yep um and the Fire Marshall I know has tried a little bit to work with the owner I made one phone call to try work with the owner we're not really sure if we're going to get push back or compliance um but this is the easiest
way for us to find out and stay on track I ju just uh before we I go to uh a motion second if this building is insured why isn't this just happening naturally that that's the questions I always have on
these buildings as a requirement like from the insurance yeah um you can it can depend on the type of payout you take um so assuming he didn't want the funds to put back into the building to put it back up to market value he similar like when you total a car you
can just get paid a lower amount for your total Car you get to keep it and do whatever you want with it it's just a lower amount and that is probably what happened if he's not looking at fixing it okay so did I understand right that the insurance will cover Hall and all
the debris and all the stuff all right that's what I heard if that's what they to clean it up if the city won't get stuck with no this way it would yeah huh this way the city would yeah that we can't make the insurance pay ah I was
told that the insurance would cover it most likely the way he took out his insurance claim money was not that way oh so this ultimately gets build to the city we put it on their taxes yeah correct so I got it secondhand then not
first first hand information there you go yeah did we learn our lesson today all right so we have a oh chair would entertain a motion to uh move forward I'll make that motion we have a motion by councelor Holden do we have a
second I'll second we have a second by councelor Kaylor any discussion hearing none call the question I I I I'll vote Yes motion carries 4 Z next we we have a request uh from the
police chief to suspend calendar parking for the annual outage of PCA June 14th through the 24th chair would entertain a motion to approve that I'll move we have a motion by councelor Kaylor second second by councelor
wigner any discussion hearing none call the question I I boy you're fast I I motion Carri is 4 Z all right uh next we have approved
volunteer paid on call fire firefighter roster as presented by the fire Civil Service Commission and approve hiring of the top six with an effective date of July 1st 2024 chair would entertain a motion to approve that I'll make that motion we have a motion by councelor Holden do we
have a second I'll second second by councelor Kaylor discussion he none call the question I I hi I I'll vote Yes Mo I already voted I can't do that 4 Z trying to mess up the whole
thing all right uh acknowledge the certificate of clinical Excellence presented to the International Falls ambulance service by the Minnesota emergency services regulatory board uh chair would entertain a motion
to approve that to acknowledge that I'll move we have a motion by councelor Kaylor do we have a second second second by councelor wigner so this is uh this is good stuff guys we
we have such a good ambulance here in our community I know that we talk about how we're struggling with it there's been some uh financials that are going to be coming to the city out of the legislature to try to help with our ambulance but this really goes to show
the good work that uh our ambulance is doing in our community and um I just I just want to say thank you to the Chief and all of his staff that makes this possible thank you yeah I'd like I'd like to agree and that yeah knowing that
they award worthy well I don't believe come to a shock to any of us that they get the recognition and also I just like that I talked to a individual who had personal connection with the accident up by Island View last week and how
impressed he was with the ambulance and the fire department and the whole operation took the jaws of life to get those girls out right that's what I heard awesome awesome
work all right call the question hi hi hi hi motion carries 4 Z all right now we have the couple that uh came up and I don't know what order they're in so we'll just go first come first serve uh we have the on
hook on the Hook Fish and Chips this is a uh mobile food license um it passed the land use and legislation earlier uh the chair would entertain a motion to approve that license I'll move we have a motion by
councelor Kaylor second second by councelor Wagner any discussion call the question I hi hi hi all right motion carries
40 now we'll go to it's just so weird in our world the Midwest dabin cabin a cigarette license uh chair would entertain a motion to approve
that I'll move we have a motion from councelor wigner second by councelor Kaylor um the the one big discussion that we had at uh land use and legislation about this specific one is um they filled out
on their form that they are going to be a smoke shop and the only thing that we we regulate in the city for a smoke shop would be a $25 cigarette license they also have hemp on there and we had a
lengthy discussion about um the ability to be able to sell hemp prod products in the city it brought up a bigger conversation but this license specifically is just for cigarettes the conversation that we have though is we
have other places in our community that sells THC um Beer soda I don't know how you want to and it just it's sold on the Shelf there's no it's not behind the the counter or anything like that and we just we're starting to really have some
questions and the department of cannabis in the state hasn't formed any rules or guidance on any of this and we're we're just kind of Meandering a road so I just wanted to bring that up that that was one of the discussions that we had um I know our city attorney's been keeping up
on uh on all the rules and regulations and we keep it as a permanent uh question on the land use and legislation to be updated on that but this one before us is literally just a cigarette license any questions all right I'll call the
question hi hi hi hi motion carries 4 Z next we have uh first we'll go with the license for this is a uh license for never quit LLC Twisted tacos food truck
um they I believe as of right now do not meet all the requirements but there's something that we have to put a contingency on with this yes we're waiting for approval from the min Department of Health and I did speak with um them today and upon
application they would received that within 2 weeks so uh the chair would entertain a motion to approve this uh on contingent that they get the Minnesota Department of Health license I'm we have a motion by
councelor Kaylor do we have a second do we have a second I'll second we have a second by councelor Wagner discussion so uh tell me that motion again so the the motion is to approve the license and
it will be approved if uh she gets a um followup from the Department of Health saying that he meets all the qualifications for the Department of Health when do you think that followup was going to be um he U Mr head indicated he was sending the application
today and um Jared from the minister Department of Health said it would take one to two weeks to complete that so I would give it the two full weeks okay and he would actually have the actual certificate that the city requires
yeah so then I'm assuming he's just parking in precarious ways in different parking lots and town as of right now he has yes he is not operating in the city he is operating in the county at this
current time that's where I've seen it all in the count yeah he is we have not heard that he is selling food out of that truck in city limits the truck has been in city limits he said he drives it to town to fill it up with the stock it
and things that's what I mean good enough any other clarification or discussion all right hearing none call the question hi I I I and I will vote Yes motion
carries okay now we go to the the last one now this is the the one that gets slightly dicey in my world so this is to allow these uh the Twisted tacos food truck to set up in the park um for the
outage now that's June 14th through the 22nd the reason I have just a little hesitation on this is because there's a possib ability he doesn't have his license before the the date of the um event that was much so um the may please
can I add to that so I just want to explain I did explain to Mr head that if we did not receive it for example by the 14th that he could not open up in the park until we receive the um certificate from the Minal Department of Health okay
uh it makes a little bit easier so um all right so then I guess the I would chair would request that we uh move forward to allow the Twisted tacos food truck to be in Smoky Bear Park June 14th
through the 22nd pending him having all all of the things right and this would cost uh $100 per the um the reservation fees that the city has he he takes and brings it to you
Lisa the certificate certificate yes so you visually see it and I have to have it in my hand okay y all right he won't um the Jared from the Minal Department of Health said he would not have a paper copy to him via mail by the um 14th but
he could have it by email and we would accept an email and I can confirm it with the department help also okay all right so chair would entertain a motion to approve that uh setup in the
park I'll move we have a motion by councelor Kaylor do we have a second go second second by councelor Wagner discussion did I just and that's not telling anybody how to run his business but it sounds like we had a food truck
before we needed knew all what we needed to be able to operate it or already just decided to start doing it in I'm just curious that's so I can explain that to you we have been working with Mr Hy for probably a couple months now he is fully
aware of what is required um just has not completed the timing fashion all right thank you and I just wanted to add one of the other conversations that we had at land use and legislation is this is kind of bizar odd that this is the only person
that has reached out to us to set up for the shutdown this is the last meeting we have before the shutdown we usually have at least two that are set up there and that would never have included this gentleman so it's just it's just kind of
weird I mean we've always had people reach out to us way before now for the shutdown so um in a way I'm really glad that we have one person there for the contractors to be able to go out and get some food from so all right we have a motion in a second I'll call the
question I I I hi motion carries all right we'll go to the reports of administrator attorney department heads City administrator um thank you mayor council I have nothing additional okay City attorney I
don't have anything additional and I'm going to split my son's playing te- ball so ah I'm going to run do you got to get there and Coach Third Base uh I don't coach him I I will help my daughter but not my son yeah he's too much for
me section yes there you go most of the t-ball I watch they miss third and they just kind of go behind the bench and come all the way around this is the one this is the program in the falls for kids that are three and under oh good luck oh you got well I can say I'll do
that is you get what you get make sure you stop buying and get some ice cream afterwards yeah all right uh department heads Chief do you have anything uh reports to the mayor council
committees boards and commissions anybody anybody anybody I just uh really quick I don't think we have had the conversation we did uh we did receive some funding for the ambulance it was somewhere between
$27 and $228,000 the chief and City administrator are waiting for an email to come through um if everybody that was eligible to receive money applies will get the 207 208 in the uh event that
somebody does not uh sign up to receive the money we get more but we have to be those people to sign up and get the money so watch your emails please yeah and I think to be clear the application process closes the end of September yeah they don't even have the application
process H this isn't something that'sit the mailes you watch for it why are you here right now put sticky not put sticky notes on your computer did I look today did I look for it today all right um we're an audience is
there anyone in the audience that would like to bring anything forward all right we'll go to uh correspondant uh in your packet you have Cochin County Commissioners minutes from May 7th uh Cochin County respit care and
hospice tax Force letter May 20th I just want to point out that uh uh the city administrator and myself had been sitting on that uh kind of tag teaming the meetings and um the reason that they were formed is uh Fairview was cutting
um some of their services in our community and a citizen Le group had stepped up to the plate and invited um key key players in our community and they have uh got asena is going to be hiring someone um in our community to
fill those roles for um would that that Fair View is good good news good news so yes add to that too that um for you home health is also opened in our community and filling some of those gaps also not
everything that Fairview did but I was on a call with um or I was on the um drawing a blank of the organization um but they had met with the coordinator there and she explained the program and
for for you home health is also doing some of those um Services also excellent um fantastic uh International Falls reineer riney Lake convention visitors and Bureau uh meeting information uh is in
your packet and uh our next regular city council meeting will be on Monday June 17th at 5:30 this meeting is adjourned