##VIDEO ID:AXyp60GuQos## first off we have um representative Drake dill and also representative Mike Holden so if you would both raise your right hand and repeat after me I Mike Holden I Mike Holden do solemnly swear you Solly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and of the state of Minnesota and of the state of Minnesota and faithfully and to the best of my ability faithfully and to the best of my ability discharge the duties of commissioner discharge the duties of commissioner for the International Falls Economic Development Authority for the International Falls Economic Development Authority in and for the city of International Falls during my continuous in office in and for the city of International Falls during my continuance in office I further understand that service on this board I further understand the service on this board may result in my receipt of confidential information may result in my receipt of confidential information and agree that such information shall not be disclosed and agree that such information will not be dis followed except as otherwise authorized except as otherwise congratulations thank you I Drake d i Drake D do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the state of Minnesota I will support the Constitution of the United States and the state Minnesota and faithfully and to the best of my ability and Faithfully to the best of my ability discharge the duties of commissioner for the International Falls Economic Development Authority discharg the duties of commissioner for the International Falls Economic Development Authority in and for the city of International Falls during my continuance in office and and for the city of International Falls during my continu in office I further understand further understand that service on this board may result in my receipt of confidential information service on this board may result in my receipt of confidential information and agree that such information shall not be disclosed except as otherwise authorized and agree that such information shall not be disclosed except as otherwise authorized congratulations thank you and then if I can everybody you got to clap for everything up thank you m you could sign yours [Music] perfect we are going to find out right now I was we can't not know yeah exactly no yeah exactly [Applause] so then uh mayor since we don't have any specific duties as assigned as of yet I'll have you open the meeting and then we'll be assigning election of officers a little bit further down in the agenda please and thank you okay we'll call this meeting of the International Falls Economic Development Authority to order Tuesday January 21st 2025 7:12 p.m. can be noted that all members are present first item on the agenda would be the approval of the minutes from the October 21st 2024 meeting I'll move second proper motions by councelor Kaylor and Wagner is there any discussion seeing no further discussion question I I I I I'll vote Yes minutes are approved thank you next on the agenda audience um seeing that Lois you're the only one here um and do have an agenda item later on would you like to wait I would okay item six accounts payable Financial reports a approve accounts payable as presented what you have in front of you is a detailed Ledger of the accounts payable for the third quarter of 2024 um Eda minute or Eda meetings are held quarterly and so therefore you're looking at the the expenditures for the previous quarter and we have been working with Bolton and mink on a housing project and in fact we have another meeting Thursday this week moving along with um two different projects with them actually so um coming together that's what those expenses are [Applause] for naturally I have a million questions for several people but I won't uh for the sake of time probably be better ass downstairs than here tonight door's always open come on in do we have a motion to approve the accounts pamel I'll make that motion motion by councelor Wagner second by councelor Buller discussion question hi hi I I I'll vote Yes out payables approved 5 z b none un audited Financial reports will be prepared after these payables are posted yep so what we do the first uh month and a half in to the new year we are still paying 20204 payables posting um expenses into 2024 which is a very common practice in financials so instead of of giving you those right now for the end of the year which are going to change they'll will just be available at the next um the next meeting that we have okay number seven reports a election of officers now we're getting to the meat and potatoes did did we talk about this at for Council committee appointments I thought on the Eda board yeah no we did not we didn't nope this board selects their own and that's why I put in there the bylaws of the the group as well for to help you understand you know the different positions um who can hold those positions um as you move forward through this process right now well would anyone like to fill a specific position on our Economic Development Authority board I'm assuming that the roles of treasur assistant Treasurer and secretary are probably not carried out by the person assuming the role most of the time no I have served as president of the Eda before but I would be willing to serve as vice president um I did a year as president and I enjoyed it we had a lot of different things going on we had the multimodal during that time we had the U what's the name of that outfit where they build the wood stoves we we had that going on um and we actually helped fix a roof at the Museum during that term I did a one-year term and uh we had we had some good stuff that happened um but I'd be willing to do I just put it out there I'd be willing to be vice president so thank you councelor Holden we have a nomination just as as a point um mayor in the past um and this is just they've done it in the past the president proem has been the of the council has been the president on the Eda board um but that is entirely up to you folks um but that you know has been um uh practice would you like to change your role to president councelor Holden um I realize they've done that in the past but I'd really like to do a good job as mayor proam and so uh I know there'll be times when the mayor will be gone and I'd like to be focused on on that making sure that's taken care of when you're on vacation or whatever um I think any you know any one of these three i''d be good at president Nomine councelor Kaylor for president I'll accept you accept Okay councelor Wagner of the remaining three positions which would you like to fill well I was Treasurer so it don't matter to me okay I can't do anymore I will nominate self as the assistant treasur if there is such a thing and councelor Buller would you accept the nomination as secretary have to take notes I got your back formality I'll bring you something okay okay no brides no now seeing that there is only five officers and only five positions I do not believe we would even have to have a white ballot election so with that being said the chairman would entertain a motion to approve the election of officers with the president being Pete Kaylor the vice president Mike Holden Treasurer Tim Wagner assistant Treasurer Drake Dill secretary Walt Buller I'll move a second motion councelor Kaylor a second by councelor Buller any discussion question I I I I I five zero we have officers which point yeah this crowd look at look at the and I just like Dad you ever need some assistant being an assistant treasur please don't be afraid to call all right now we'll move on to number eight then now that we got the officers elected and we have uh no no director secretary's report I do not believe today old Business Review revolving load fund policy Betty councelor caylor if I may would it be be a problem if we bumped um since Lois is with us could we bump her up and then we can move to that one has been on continuing and I just got a few things on it but with her in the audience I'm okay if we ask her to come forward if you're okay with that I'm okay with that or she doesn't mind missing out on that riveting discussion about the revolving fund okay okay we all have got the letter I believe uh it's to consider a funding request from back for failing equipment for kcctv Lois go ahead we had you know we had last spring we had a few bumps and with your help we were able to get the new equipment in and the pricing came in much less than what we were anticipating we are so very grateful the equipment is functioning as designed and it's doing exactly what it needed to be doing um a couple of months ago we started receiving some complaints from people who were watching on channel 7 saying they were having a difficult time hearing so we started doing some research we did a lot of trial and error testing um we worked with um we worked with Frontier and cablecast to rule out everything that we could um Darcy Sullivan Jeff mccaran Jake kchelski worked on the testing I watched they unplug plug and then they do all their testing they finally isolated the issue um that we have a transmitter that failed that transmitter is more than 7 years old um no no I'm sorry it was purchased in 2017 before 17 um so we immediately re ordered a replacement so that we can get that keep that equipment up and operational and we can restore the sound for our customers um we all know how there are a lot of people out in our community who are listening on channel 7 um we are taking care of the labor um and the replacement all the testing and all the incidental costs um the bill for the new for the new um gosh I just lost it the new transmitter was $1,375 so I come to you today to see if there is any funding that you could help us with that with that cost either in part or in whole if you can it just was an expenditure we weren't expecting we have um done some other microphones and camera equipment and other equipment updates and those we expect um but this one was a little larger than we expected so I'm just I'll ask well any I will take a motion just get some discussion going on I'll make a motion we I have a motion to ahead to H second okay we have a motion by councelor Holden and a second by mayor Dill to move ahead with uh Finance requests is there any discussion on this go ahead have you gone to the county yet no I have not I would consider you go there first okay I think we footed a pretty good bill the last time for this without any help there I don't think this is too much to ask from the county that's just my opinion and if they don't then you come back to us okay and maybe then we we'll give you some money but that's just my feeling it's up to you guys I have a question just being green with KCC these City County issues with with the TV who does that serve which households does that go to locally it would go to the cable consumers the people who subscribe to cable through Frontier MH um kcctv also publishes its works out on social media their pieces are available on our website and we do have a YouTube channel so anyone really worldwide and they do we have reports we have some reporting that shows that we have people over in in um England who have dialed in to see family members and things that are happening here so it serves a lot of people however on the cable channel where the sound piece is primarily noticed it is um local Frontier cable customers um just Tim I just I wanted to share with all of the council as well that we did go to the county for funding in general for Bas and they were very generous with us um they did give us $55,000 for kcctv um but then they were also very generous with Backus as a whole but I certainly can take this to them if that's the direction of the council you're saying Frontier so what about midco is it on midco do so you don't what about the midco subscribers it's on midco it's on midco as well right cable yeah C think in Frontier yes it's on cable okay yep you can get it on the free TV too Min whatever it is now okay any and don't go ahead and maybe I'm dead wrong I just assume that if I look up kcct TV it's online on my phone you are correct but to anybody watching a set top box now I'd have to assume that that's probably dangerous but most of those residents have to live in town thank Y and many of them don't have internet at their home so they rely on they're still residents of the county there still County residents they live in the town but it's still part of the county they are yeah that's right yeah I made the motion to move ahead um I think we need to help her out right away get it going that's my yeah I have a second so any other discussion I I just want you know it's it is funny though cuz we we get beat up all the time just about what we do with our money and how we're spending it and we got to be careful and I say this isn't important but then we got people coming asking for money and the county took didn't give us our 20 whatever the money is for for our Economic Development because of airport issues that ended up not being issues um but that's you know so I just I just want to a little C you know be a little clear on that that that it always and it's just us you know and Ted people can hear and you that I get tight and we don't work it's like having Mr strand up there telling it was suggested and maybe some others suggested that when we talk about a lease with the county that should be the council well we're and we're told we're voted for the people and to make these decisions and I'm just using that as an example the decision we made was to do it the way we did and but then always comes back that it's us not the county and I don't want to get into a County city but I'm just it's always one-sided and it's um I just don't um you know I it just bothers me is what I'm saying and uh that being said I'm not going to give them the satisfaction of you going there cuz we wouldn't do it so there's no more um discussion I will ask a question I I no I I motion carries for Mo thank you thank you um please also under it's really it's important to me that you understand that I'm not going to come to you every time we have a something I I won't the incidentals and all of that we fully expect um support and and we have membership and other means to help support those smaller incidentals but this was rather sudden yep I understand thank you thank you thank you so just for discussion if you could um get us a copy of an invoice or actually bill us I would need an invoice from you okay and it's probably best if we have you know um supporting documentation with that and then um through the next Council of February 3rd we can get that processed I'll get that over to you okay that sounds great awesome thank you everyone anything else before I join adjourn the meeting oh whoops I'm ahead of myself yeah well you were the ones that got me out of order I know I know that's hard enough keeping me in order we we've been talking about this revolving loan policy and application for a few months I'm not going to lie I I did finally get the policy finalized you know just in general terms it's not set in stone by any means and a a Draft application process that you know we definitely need to walk through um it's been a long day I don't expect us to kind of walk sit and walk through all of this right now but um we are we do continue to do our commercial Loan program um which is a different piece of this but um currently in the Eda there isn't a lot of funding I mean it's there's there's not a lot of Revenue in that right now so you know to do a revolving loan there's not a lot there so it's not urgent but it's something that the council had asked to put together to have something in place if somebody comes in and asks for assistance for different um um things that they are going to be doing whether it's a commercial you know wanting to add on improve FR storefront you know something like that this is what would qualify them for that or a special piece of equipment for a certain type of business or something that's you know kind of what this document would you know kind of um lay out the process for so information for you guys to review um we'll put it on the next agenda as well to um dive into it a little deeper and go from there unless you have any other questions of me right now and just CL I think but like I said this would be out of our own Eda funds but kind of based on the the criteria listed in the policy Y correct okay anything else from anybody all right I'll adour the meeting that's [Applause] 7:30 texting