This meeting of the International Fall City Council is called to order Tuesday, September 2nd, 5:30 p.m. Please rise. We'll say the pledge. 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. [Music] For the record, all members of council
are present this evening. Next is to approve the agenda as presented unless there is any additions or deletions. I'll move to approve the agenda. Thank you. Councelor Kaylor.
Second. Second by councelor Holden. Is there discussion? Question. I I I I. I'll vote yes. Agenda is approved. 5. Thank you. Next. Approval of minutes.
I would ask after I read them that we would approve in as one. First, minutes of the Monday, August 18th, 2025 canvasing board meeting. Second, minutes of the Monday, August 18th, 2025
regular city council meeting. Third, minutes of the Friday, August 22nd, 2025 special city council meeting. and fourth minutes of the Monday, August 25th, 2025 special city council meeting.
Is there a motion to approve these four sets of minutes? So move. Motion by councelor Waggner. Is there a second? Second. Second by councelor Holden. Is there discussion?
Call the question. I I I I'll vote yes. Minutes of previous meetings are approved. 5-0. Thank you. Next. Payments and claims and approval for payment of accounts payable.
Oh, whoops. Yes, we got to read our stuff. Okay. Pardon me. That's okay. First, we have transfers. City of International Falls transfers $769.73 from the general fund to the lodging tax fund.
Second, accounts payable and claims City of International Falls claims 1,682,712.31. Airport commission claims $461,86287. Airport Major Capital Claims 1,422,991.68. Total accounts payable and claims
3,567,566.86. Councelor Kaylor, you still offering? I'm still offering. Yes. Thank you. Second. Second by councelor Wgner. Is there discussion? Question. I I I
I'll vote yes. The bills are paid unanimously. Thank you. Next on this evening's agenda is our audience open form. Opportunity for anyone to come forward and address the council name and address
for the record in five minutes or less, please. Rhonda Benedicts, 9096 Street. Thank you. This is my complaint against Okay. Is there anyone else who would like to come forward at this time?
Seeing that there is no one that would like to come forward at this time, there will be an opportunity at the end of the meeting. We don't have a public hearing bidlets or old business or a consent agenda this evening. Moving
to new business. The first item, a resolution approving home occupation intern use permit for a home cosmetology salon. Mr. Myers, are there any of these that
you feel the need to um discuss with council? This is just a application for home occupation for cosmetology cosmetology salon. She actually was operating that at one time and we got alerted by the
state that she didn't have proper she didn't have proper zoning clearance from us. So, she needed to have that filled out. Intern use is basically intern use is an application that goes with her. So if she sells the home, it'll no longer be a salon where a traditional CUP
conditional use that would go with the property and go on forever. So thank you. Questions for Okay, thank you. Move to approve. We have a motion on the floor by councelor Buller. Second. Second by councelor Wagner. Is there
discussion? Question. I I I'll vote yes. This is approved unanimously. Thank you. Item two to adopt resolution approving application and permit for a 1 to 4day temporary on
sale liquor license for St. Thomas Acquaintus Church for a fall banquet fundraiser for the St. Thomas school scheduled for Saturday, October 11th, 2025. I'll move. Thank you, Councelor Kaylor.
A second. Second by councelor Buller. Thank you. Discussion question I I I I'll vote yes. Item two is approved unanimously. Thank you. Number three, adopt a resolution approving the St.
Thomas Aquinus School application for exempt permit to sell raffle tickets with the drawing to be held October 11th, 2025 at the St. Thomas Aquinus Hall. I'll make that motion. Thank you, Councelor Holden. Second.
Councelor Wagner. Is there discussion? Question. I I I. I'll vote yes. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Item four, adopt a resolution approving the Friends of the Falls Fire Department application
for exempt permit to sell raffle tickets with the drawing to be held Monday, November 24th, 2025. at the Elks Lodge, 2153rd Street, International Falls.
I'll move to approve. Thank you. Councelor Buller. Second. Councelor Wagner seconds. Discussion. Question. I I I I'll vote yes. Motion is approved
unanimously. Thank you. Item five, approve Andy KDson for the internal posting of the heavy equipment operator position. Is I'll make a motion.
Second. Councelor Holden first, Wagner second. Thank you. councilors is their discussion on this topic and at a minimum I don't know if Cherry's here or not but Betty is this something that you
can I know we talked about this at a previous meeting but I think this is a different position um I'm not following the question I'm sorry I I believe this is the this is replacing Rory Gilos who took Uh,
so this was the Yeah. Yeah. Got it. Any further discussion? Question. I I I I'll vote yes. Item five is approved unanimously. Thank you.
Number six, approve internally posting for the maintenance worker one equipment operator, which is the plow truck position and if no internal interest, authorize advertising
externally. Councelor Kaylor, was this the position we talked about as Rory moved up? Well, this is kind of following the same pattern cuz this is what Andy did
before. So now they're um looking to fill his position internally from somebody already there. But I and I would move to post it internally, but if no one signs up for
it internally, I am not in favor of advertising outside of the city. Okay. That's what I was hoping you would clarify. That was my recollection from the previous meeting. Is that a motion then?
Yes, that was a motion. With an amendment. With an amendment. And would you still second? Thank you, Councelor Wagner. Discussion, question. I I I I'll vote yes. This item carries 50.
Thank you. Item seven, approve removal of emergency medical technicians from the active roster of the International Falls Ambulance Service due to inactivity.
Chief Manasa, being that this is routine, is this something you find worthy of presentation or would you like us to proceed? I can explain quickly. Thank you. Uh, thank you, mayor. So, from time to time, roughly once a year, we go through our roster and kind of take a look at
who's been active and who hasn't. Uh, and today we are presenting three names for removal of the active roster. And again just for different various reasons people become inactive and uh not a knock on their character or anything
like that just it's something that happens naturally through the eb and flow of lure and certification and stuff like that. So these are the three being presented tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Is there a motion to acknowledge
or to approve the removal of these EMTs from the active roster? I'll make that motion. Second. Thank you, councilors Buller and Wgner. Discussion. Question. I I I vote yes. Item seven carries
unanimously. Thank you. Item eight, appoint members to a committee to work with International Falls Recreation Hockey board members and other stakeholders for the future of Kerry Park Arena.
Was there going to be some discussion on well the with the uh last meeting we met with rec hockey members and we weren't in session where you could appoint a committee and the the group uh decided on creating a committee similar to the one you have for the ambulance and um
just so you could meet in a smaller group with the wreck hockey folks to understand the the magnitude of the arena the deficiencies and working together with them to come up with um plans and ideas to to help facilitate
getting that facility in good working order. Thank you. Is uh there's five of us and probably two people who would like to volunteer. I I will.
Thank you, counselor. I can. Thank you, counselor. Councilors Kaylor and Wagner have agreed to be members on a committee to discuss Kerry Park Arena
with Rack Hockey in which they can discuss they can appoint their own or all of them. Is there a motion to approve this I would say informal committee at this point? I'll make a motion. Second. Thank you, councilors Holden and
Buller. Is there any more discussion? Just that, you know, I think the one thing both we as a city and council and Rak Hockey understand that there has to be some type of serious plans made with
the future of the maintenance that needs to be done there and hopefully we'll be able to come up with some ideas. Question. I I I I I'll vote yes. Item eight carries unanimously. Thank you.
Nine. Shape the future of Cooching County. Attend the countywide forum. Councelor Kaylor, the floor is yours. Is mine. Yes. Uh about a year and a half ago, the some members of the uh
min of the extension um office in town here, the group the board uh asked me to be part of a survey that they did and there's bunch of community members involved stakeholders
and we sent out surveys to everybody to the county and actually reached out to some that we could think of that may be interested but don't generally get involved with local issues and politics
and ideas. So after the study, we got it all together and the survey and we decided we're going to try and uh move forward with some ideas and it's about shaping the future of uh the county as a whole and the Minnesota Extension wanted
to find out is there anything they could do to help assist the county and that's part of that. So there's a group of us now and we are going to be holding a forum on Thursday September 11th from 6 to 8 at
Bakus and it's going to be people to form talking groups and just to come up with some ideas of you know the surveys were the normal things right healthc care employment all those things
so discuss that one of the things we're going to try and focus on the to begin with just there's some smaller things that you can get some momentum going with but this is the first meeting to see if people want to get involved and share their thoughts and ideas. If you
remember about 10 years ago probably a little longer now it was called the voyage forward after the paper machines closed. like a lot of things that kind of fizzled out for different reasons, but and the county has been supportive
this the county board uh with some financial help and extension. So, we're going to see how it works out, see how much interest we get. And like I said, it's not focused and it's very purposely countywide. I mean, went out of our way
to make sure we got people from all parts of the county involved. So if you're interested, Thursday, September 11th, 6 day at Bakus. Thank you, counselor. Yes. And I hope you get a good turnout.
Yeah. Thank you. Item 10, discuss International Falls Ambulance Service. As we have gone along, we've been giving updates. I would
ask for a motion at this point to stop having the special city council meetings, which I believe is one at the end of the month in week four of the month because we have two regular city council meetings and a committee of the whole
and where we have things now is in the county and Reineers's um hands as they formally and informally discuss um different options. I'll make that motion.
Thank you, councelor. Second. Thank you, councelor. So, councelor Wgner and Buller, any discussion? And that's a motion. Please go ahead. Finish. I wanted to clarify that you you're not going to have a special meeting on the
night of committee of the whole either. Correct. Okay. Would you well would you be amendable to that? Yes. Thank you counselors. Thank you for the clarification question. I I I I vote yes. It is approved 5. Thank you.
Is there any other business to come before the council report from our administrator is enclosed in our packet. And at this time we will move back to audience open forum. If there is anyone again that
would like to come forward now would be that opportunity. Good evening. Good evening. I'm Bobby Bernath. I live at 19006th Avenue. Um
the number eight, I just would like to give my opinion on this. Um Kerry Park, I think that the city should maybe try to sell Kerry Park to the wreck
and then they can take care of the maintenance and things like that. And if they don't have the money to do that, then they can fund raise to keep the building open. That's just my opinion. Thank you. Thank you.
We will move on at this time to reminders. First, there's a special Economic Development Authority meeting Monday, September 8th at 5:00 pm. a special city council meeting Monday,
September 8th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. Now for clarification that we just cancelled that. That is correct. Thank you. So disregard. And item three, next regular city council meeting is September 15th at 5:30 p.m. I hope to
see you there. Yeah, this meeting is adjourned.