--------- But we have spent the last handful of months with an RFP that some people are looking at and some people have said that they will submit a bid to us. We have not received anything yet in the last 90 to 120 days. Um I the gentleman
did stop by earlier today and he did pick up the RFP and I he's talked with Mayor Andy about it for quite a few times here I think. So, I'm pretty much uh assuming that we'll get a court in from from him.
Okay. Main Street Park. Yes. Um at our last meeting, actually it was our May meeting, wasn't it? Um the council was asked or council asked us to look in to the parking regulations on Main Street. I looked at about 11 or 12 different
cities and quite quite honestly it's varies in any community. Um, in fact, a lot of towns don't have like the limited hours of parking on Main Street. They might say 24 hours or 36, but they don't designate a certain time, you know, on
the on the clock. So, I guess my question for you is, do you want us to begin enforcing those? Do you want us to remove the signs? Do you want us to What do you want? Do we feel we have adequate signage to
get the point across that it is only 3 hour parking or parking? I think so. We don't have enough staff. We don't have enough to talk to players. I mean,
I agree with that. Um, could we enforce it like without like lightly enforce it? Just maybe have a conversation with some people say, "Hey, you know, notice your vehicle hasn't moved for a while." without having to go through all the
talking tires and like you think a conversation would help matters. We can put notices on windshields. Um the the problem is that a lot of cars aren't registered to the current addresses. So if you got somebody living
in um the heritage house, they have a address of St. Peter on their on their license. Um, and that's a common problem with rental properties. Um, a lot of the properties don't have um, rental background investigations
completed. And so we don't have that as an option to try to determine where these people live. Um, so at that point it becomes a piece of paper on the windshield. Um, with the 3-hour notice, the
the issue is that I would have to be watching which cars and when they get there, um, chalking tires and stuff like that. That that would be um that would be a big um cost of time.
Yeah, I understand. Do you have any thoughts on what we could do? Um I I think the options are, you know, call in the complaint. Um that was that
was voiced before. Um if there's evidence to support that something has been parked for more than 3 hours, that evidence could be reviewed. Otherwise, it's chalking tires. Um, you know, it's something that a notice could be provided to the rental
property owners, um, to the to the tenants of the business spaces uptown. Um, you know, something a mailer could be sent out saying, "Hey, look, you know, we have these spaces. Um, please abide by city ordinance." Um, or we
could remove the ordinance. Um, you know, I think any way you slice it, there's going to be a difficult conversation somewhere along this path. Um, I believe around town found several spots there. Security cameras like in
alleys and such. Is that a possibility for main street security cameras? But security cameras are common on main street buildings so we can see which cars are there the longest. We do have um a request for a
quote through Bevcom to determine what it would cost to do like a external Wi-Fi. Um that's something that uh the mayor has asked that we look into. Um and I I don't think that's a bad idea. I do think it's going to be expensive. The
external Wi-Fi uh the last time I spoke with Dan MCA, who's no longer our guy, um is that that's that's not a cheap endeavor. Um, so beyond that, um, I believe there's ring cameras and stuff at certain businesses.
That's an option. Um, you know, if somebody were to provide that evidence and you can determine, yep, absolutely, this this is in violation. Um, but then again, we're we're talking about a local ordinance citation, right?
I don't think it take much to get it cleaned up a little bit, though. I mean, I think if a couple a couple conversations were had or a warning, I I think I think that people will start getting the hit and maybe it could get a little better. And we're never going to clean it all
up, right? I think a couple of them did change their behavior when they when they were up here talking the one time. Um, you know, getting everybody to have that same change would be wonderful. Um, I think a a good opportunity would be
maybe to send out a a mailer to the to the business owners and I can work on that. I think that would help and then if something comes in complaint based then deal with the complaint go from there.
as being as mayor this comes up about every four years becomes a traditionally takes about that long to go through it cycle again twice and
that's a big discussion four hours three hours we want to have it all And uh this was last time was geared towards the school area. They're still main street. Um there's a big discussion business owners
give input at that time what they wanted and we changed it to $3 what they came up with for the best in their eyes at the time. Obviously a few years ago. Yes, sir. Yep. I just feel that getting rid of it,
I mean, that's just going to be a free-for-all then. And I don't I personally don't feel that's very good choice, but You enforce business. If you get rid of it, it's hard to keep business going if
your people can't get you a business, right? So, what do we think? Uh, go with the mailer and address it as the complaints come in or let's do the mailer. Um, we'll probably get some questions or
feedback or whatever, but I think that's a good start. You know, first step, you can always ask if you need to. Yeah, the city council has asked staff to enforce the current signs on Main Street. Um, we are going to begin doing
that on whatever whatever date. If you have any questions, please feel free to stop city hall. How's that sound? I just wrote your letter for you, man. Was that a motion or Well, we don't need a motion cuz it's already in the ordinance. Yeah. Right.
Good with that. Moving on. Great. Uh, general fun. Thank you for attending. What's that? Oh, sorry. except uh second quarter donations to
various funds. Yeah, you have a a resolution here tonight that has all of the second quarter donations that we've received. What was the Jaggo one for? Was that for a project? Uh there's a handful of things, some
different ground work. Um gotcha. That's fine. I guess I'll we'll learn more about it here coming up, but No. Um, well, there was there was some for the seating. There was some for the driving range,
not the driving range. There were several. It was a project that's already been completed, right? Yeah, that's Yes. Jacob had mentioned what the donations went towards having small
problem when a donation comes in after the has been completed without our approval. Oh, every quarter we adopt this res. These all came in beginning in March. This is the second quarter. So, we got the
checks from Jagga quite a while ago. And what we do now every quarter is we give you the list of all the donations we got that quarter. I was mission for the month.
Yeah. For the quarter. Motion to approve resolution 2025-12. All in favor? Right. Now we can move to the budget. Yes. So the as we mentioned earlier here, the fire department's draft budget is a 4.7% increase. Mike talked about a
couple items there. Uh the police department's is a 3.6% increase. One item I do want to point out is that the charge for the legal fees at the county attorney's office, those decreased.
In the past handful of years, we were actually paying previous year fees on top of the current fees, but now that little contract and agreement went away. So that that went down by about half um for next year. So that that
saved quite a bit right there. the very bottom line operating or of your equipment, I'm sorry. Um that that is for the scheduled radio replacements that we'll be doing every year. Every year we'll replace a
couple instead of buying a whole bunch all at once. Couple items there for you. Um Steve, can you think of anything else? Uh there was a few things that were cut out. um paper copies of books that we
get online. Um that was like 800 bucks. Few things like that, but no real major changes. Just driven some of the fat on things that weren't necessary and other equipment for 23 or 23500.
You said that's for radios that's different than the other radio or the radios we approved earlier tonight. Same radios. Um pricing changed a little bit. The quote that we were receiving was was for some uh features that
weren't necessary for us. Um I uh checked our quotes against Mano PD DPS quotes and um trimmed some of the stuff that was not necessary. Um, and then the prices did go down. It's all state bid.
So, I mean, you're not going to get a different cold. It's just what you're getting. Um, prices um prices did change. They went up on the 27th. We we ordered the two before that change. Um,
but from the first quote to what we bought for the two, I think it went down oh, 900 bucks or something like that. Yeah. 1,200 bucks. We we cut quite a bit out of it. Um, and then that other equipment is
also um for keeping the body worn cams coming in. Um, one of the one of the things that we went with was the the cheaper models. Um, 500 600 bucks a piece. They're five, six hundred bucks compared to four or five grand for some
of the Axon and the higher higherend ones. Um, with that you get less battery life out of them. They don't batteries don't last as long. It's just not quite as nice of a unit, but we're saving money on it because
it's it's more costefficient. Um, you buy a $40 battery or $100 battery and then it's back to square one. No, overall the budgets look very good. Yes. Thank you. You two. Thanks, Steve.
Uh, do we have anything else? Nope. Motion to adjurnn. All in favor at 812. Part: 2
7:00. will call the meeting to order and stand alsible with liberty and justice for all. Uh first thing tonight will be the 2024 audit report. All right. Well, thank you. Uh I'm Tom
Mullinger. I'm the governmental service partner that's uh worked with Jamesville for several years now. So, I'll kind of go through the uh audit uh results um which should be in front of you, but uh we'll kind of kind of talk through that and if there's any questions that do come up, uh please feel free to to ask
as we kind of go. Um I'll go through just our overall opinion and responsibility. We'll talk a little bit about the general fund and the other governmental funds and then we'll uh do the enterprise funds and then just kind of some uh overall metrics uh and trends
uh for the for the city. Uh the overall audit results we uh did have an unmodified opinion which means uh that we had a a clean opinion. Um this year we did have to um there's Gazsb is kind of the standard that we we follow for
our reporting uh purposes and we did implement uh Gazby 101 uh which is related to compensated absences. So it's a little bit of a change on how we were recording compensated absences. So that was implemented this year and it was part of the report uh which really kind
of just took into consideration what is expected to be paid in for sick uh sick leave uh versus what is actually going to be paid uh for sick sick leave going forward. So so we kind of do some
estimates related to that. Um as part of our audit we do uh do uh Minnesota legal compliance. So we go through a series of checklists that uh follow state statute uh with such items as deposits and investments, conflict of interest, debt,
tax increment, uh miscellaneous items and stuff like that. So we do sample testing on that. We obviously don't test every single transaction related to that, but we'll do a sample on that and and make sure that uh the city is following uh state statute and there were no instances of non-compliance
related to that. A couple of items that we did have which have been similar uh in previous years were um the overall preparation of financial statements which um that's been out there. I think the idea is is that it's easier for us to prepare the
financial statements especially like with the Gazsby standards and stuff like that uh that we're familiar with it. But we do go through manage through the report with management in detail and kind of go through that just to make sure everything looks right as we kind of follow there. Um uh we did do note
that there's limit limited segregation of duties even though there are um some controls in place which are certainly good. I think um to have complete segregation of duties you would need to add additional staff to to do that. So I think the thing to point out there is the importance as far as reviewing uh
reviewing reports um that they provide for financial statement reports uh you know looking through check registers approval of check registers that's certainly an important piece um you know of of the overall uh control process there. So kind of keep that in mind when
you go through and do those approvals that that is uh a piece of that uh that control. Um we did have a few uh material audit adjustments uh you know kind of taking a taking a look at that usually some uh capital items that we have to record and then also uh related
to some special assessments that we did to make sure they're getting in there getting in the right funds. So we'll continue to work on staff of you know making those entries and you know kind of continue to to build off of that to make sure that the year-end entry closes is is correct.
getting into the financial information uh uh which would be the next slide here. Um on the general fund um taking a look at the overall general fund uh your fund balance policy is at the 40%. Um we're uh the city's just under that at 36 which was a little bit
of an uptick in percentage there. The thing that I'd point out here is that the reason for that uptick wasn't necessarily an increase in fund balance, but just a decrease in next year's overall general fund expenditures. I know there was there's been kind of a push to move some of the capital items
out of the general fund and have it in the improvement fund. So, we're kind of seeing some of those expenditures come down. Um but I will note that just the trend that I've seen you know even for this year and kind of going forward is costs have been going up and generally
speaking it makes it diff more more difficult to have that you know keeping those expenditures flat uh year-over-year in the general fund. So the really the thing to point out there is if the budgeting expenditures are continuing to go up in order for us to
keep that fund balance kind of right around that 40% we will also have to add to that 40% too. So as you kind of move forward think about how can we add to their reserves um to to make sure we're keeping within that fund balance policy
um there. So I think uh that is something to definitely watch and gets a little bit uh trickier as expenditures uh expenditures go up um across the board there. Um couple items to point out on the
general fund budget to act actual um revenues did uh come under budget but uh so did uh the expenditures come out under budget really to kind of balance things uh out. Um you know I think um most of the departments did come under
budget with the general general fund. So the budgeted expenditures did come down and then there was just some uh budgeted items for uh miscellaneous and then also just uh some charges on there that uh came in under budget the result of that. But overall as I had kind of talked
about earlier really the fund balance stayed pretty flat pretty flat. We just had a small decrease uh for this last year, but really kind of right in line with where the budget uh budget was. Taking a look at the general fund
revenues by type, um taxes did uh did go up slightly. I think um you you kind of see that trend over the three years there. We had a decrease in that in that overall um taxes from 22 to 23. And
that's a that's as a result of shifting it out of the general fund, some of the capital and actually leving that levying for your capital improvements in the other funds versus the general fund. So that was the initial decrease, but you know, we did see that uh that trend go
up a little bit with taxes and this is something really common what what are we seeing in cities on there just because inflationary costs and various things. Um it was nice. You did have a little uptick in your LGA uh for this last year which over which helped in the process.
But we have seen those taxes go up on the on the inflationary side. Um which is pretty common and and probably what you kind of see going forward just to make sure that we're we're covering those costs. Um the inter intergo intergovernmental did increase and as I
had mentioned earlier I think that is the big part of that is that LGA increase that uh was from 23 to 24 uh in there too and then also um uh there was two years of fire aid in there just on the timing of of getting the state aid
for the fire relief the the timing of that. So there was 2 years and 24 versus uh 23. Um taking a look at the general fund expenditures by type for the last 3 years. Um you know I think we uh you know we did have a little bit of
decrease from the previous year but uh you know most of the major ones general government public safety uh streets and highways and culture and wreck we've seen that increase uh going up. Um, once again, that's been a trend we've seen across the across the board for those
expenditures and and by department. Um, as I mentioned earlier, we've seen that capital outlay going down. Um, so we're really kind of shifting some of those expenditures into uh your capital improvement uh funds or your revolving
funds on there, too. So, I continue to to push. You know, I think, you know, ultimately it would be nice to get to the point where, you know, the capital is is truly all in the capital improvement funds where the the general fund is just operational side of things. So, you know, I think that's something
we're trending in the right direction on on doing that, but that's something we can kind of consider going forward on future budgets. Capital project funds. Um so one of your major funds is the cap uh fire capital reserve which did have a decrease uh for
this year of about 450,000 which was uh directly related to the fire truck that was purchased for this last year. And then the 2020 and 22 street improvement funds um did uh did close this year. those projects were
wrapped up and closed and um those excess dollars went into the debt service to help future levies uh for that. Uh let's see the special special revenue funds. Um uh taking a look at that, we did have uh
probably the biggest uh change was with public safety aid and that was just the timing of when that was spent um for this last year. So, we did uh received some of the public safety aid at the end of uh of 2023 and then the majority of
that was spent in 24 uh reducing that fund balance. Um so those were restricted dollars as they came in in 20 uh three and then were spent down. uh the debt service funds. Um taking a look at that, we did have one
debt service fund mature um which is the 2012 AGO refunding bonds. Um you know, I think we certainly uh with cash investments, we have about a million dollars in there to uh to pay for the debt that's out there. Then the total
assets is uh is at about 1.7 million. the difference for between the the total assets and the cash are your special assessments that'll be collected on the bonds. So you have about 700,000 that really kind of follow the bond maturities and and will be collected
from the county uh going forward there. So we we'll see those uh being reduced there. You know, I think that certainly the trend taking a look at that is um uh on the graph below between 25 uh 2025 and 2034.
Um we are seeing you know quite a few years where that debt service principle and interest is is pretty flat and comparable. Um so you know I think you know we want to continue to take a look at that and see how we can piece in any new debt issues as streeten projects
come in. Um because like any new debt that does come on that is levy based um uh certainly can and we can talk a little bit about the storm water too but um uh anything that's levy based you know will have an impact on that overall
overall debt levy as they as they come on uh the the water fund um you know I think kind of taking a look at that we did have a slight increase in the water fund from uh to about 600 21,000. Um the
one thing I'll point out there is uh the yellow line up above, we kind of see some of the operating uh expenditures and cash outflows have been increasing a little bit and and just kind of the overall margin of the water. Also seen in the water that down a little bit this
year across the board. I think there just the water usage was certainly down just because of um you know the the wet wet uh summer that we had last year. So that was it. But overall we had about 600,000 in cash. Um you know taking a
look at the you know the 215,000 which is just kind of the minimum target balance just for overall operations really that gap between there of about 400,000 is for capital reserves or rate stabilization on how you want to do it but um but those that is uh above the
operation side. Uh the sewer fund uh did have a slight decrease in cash of about $30,000. Um really uh you know taking a look at overall costs and debt service have stayed pretty consistent from the
previous year. Um you know we uh which is there but I think the decrease for this last year there was additional 100,000 that was paid out of reserves for for capital uh improvements within the sewer fund. So that did spend down a little bit of that dollars uh there for
the sewer fund. Um but kind of taking a look at that you have about about 300,000 in those reserves for capital the storm sewer fund. Um you know taking a look at that we are building up some reserves in there. We have about
400,000. Um you know I think uh the you know that has been gradually increasing. I think this is certainly something to take a look at on, you know, are there future capital needs that can be paid out of those reserves going forward or
as we we're kind of moving forward too any new debt issue there to to include that storm uh storm sewer portion being paid out of the storm sewer revenues. Um so we can kind of um you know use use that to help with some of any future debt that that might be there. But um
you know certainly we're generating some dollars in the storm sewer and that is to certainly help uh the overall tax levy uh burden on street projects. Uh the light and power um we'll kind of notice that uh we did add some debt for
this year uh related to uh kind of the uh transformer project. Um so we taking a look at that the overall cash ended up being about uh 1 uh or additional 1.8 million. So that yellow piece on there
um you know you see the spike in the cash that is really just temporary because that is the bond proceeds that came in that is committed to to help pay for some of the construction costs that will carry into 2025. So, so really if you're kind of taking a look at the
overall operations, you're you're comparing the 1.47 to the about the 1.6. We did have a little bit of those overall operational cash uh increase from the from the previous year. So, next year we'll see, you know, pretty much most of that
yellow line being spent down from the project. Overall on the on the nursing home side, uh cash stayed pretty consistent uh uh year-over-year. So, we we have about uh 1.12
uh million in cash there uh compared to about uh a little over a million uh million from the previous year. So, um we did have a cash increase, but that that has stayed pretty the same pretty much the same. you know, taking a look at the overall targeted fund balance,
you know, I think with anything, we kind of see those costs going up. Um, you know, and making sure that, uh, you know, those are in line with, uh, the overall charges and rates, and we kind of see those costs with the yellow line in 2024 going up to
the golf course. Um this year we did have a a slight decrease in the in the overall golf course cash of about uh about $12,000. Uh the main reason for that is really the cash from operations broke even uh on on the golf course for
this year. We did, as you can kind of see, the operational cost did increase uh for this year or at least cash outflow related to that. Um, but there was also some additional debt uh future debt payments that resulted in that decrease. So, as of right now, we're not
uh the operations aren't quite covering those debt payments. Um, like I said, it was a decrease of $12,000. I think not a huge deal, but I would monitor that as we don't want to have that creep down and have that that cut into the cash uh
going forward, too. Um take taking a look at the overall taxes as as we kind of see the the tax rate has uh decreased um uh over the last several years to get to the 61.5 for 2024.
Um and we did have just with a slight increase in the overall taxes per capita uh for that for that year. general trend. We're seeing that tra taxes per capita uh increase up just because of general fund costs, additional debt service costs across the city. We're
seeing that though that that taxes per capita. You might ask the question, why do the tax rates go down? Um you know, mainly because of the increase in market value within the community. You know what I would warn on that is that is that new market value versus just you
know overall uh you know kind of uh uh just the normal market value of individuals. So, you know, I think if you were to take a look at that, if there is new market value, new construction, new uh then you have the opportunity to not have that impact on
the citizens with that with that tax rate and and increasing uh the taxes on that point too. So, I think it's just important to be aware of where that market value is coming from. Um the overall debt um we did have an
increase in there. we kind of we're kind of uh following that same trend of, you know, just every couple years uh you know, having additional debt and putting that back into the infrastructure. You know, I think this is important because you want to keep the projects, you know,
keep the improvements coming in so that you're not all of a sudden hit with some big projects uh coming down the road. Um the debt service expenditures for this year did have a decrease um uh for this last year. um you know but I think that
kind of is a year behind trend of where the debt debt per capita follows um with that um last slide here is the overall current expenditures. We did see just a slight modest increase in uh the overall
uh current expenditures per capita which is uh at about 851 which is um really kind of right in line with where Wasika County is in class uh class 4 cities are and actually really trending trending below um you know we didn't have the
data for for 23 and 24 but what I've seen in the cities across the state and what we've worked with is that there has been that in constant increase in in overall current expenditures year-over-year. So, um you know, I think you're really tracking tracking on that.
Um you know, capital expenditures, you know, what I really take a look at that is is I think year-over-year you want to keep investing in that. So, you know, if you have a series of years where, you know, those that capital items are not being spent, it's kind of used, you
know, for other other things there, I think that can catch up to you. So I think kind of looking at that trend and you've been reinvesting um you know annually on that and uh you know the 2022 the street project portion of that that did reinvest into into that. So
with that I'd certainly open it up to any questions the council might have. Best best page there is worth the end. The end. Big review. So overall it's looking pretty good.
Yeah. you know, I I think probably um you know, the the two pieces that just watching the trend. I don't think it's anything anything serious there is going back to the general fund, making sure that you know those operational costs are not going to go away. Just making
sure you're kind of keeping in line with what those increase increased costs might be going forward um on there. And then just just, you know, kind of continue to monitor the golf course. It was just small decrease in cash but just just to make sure that um you know we
keep trending at at least kind of a break even uh working through there. Anybody have any questions? Very good. Okay. Thank you. All right. Well, thank you. Uh motion to approve the 2024 report.
Yep. All in favor? I I uh next thing on the agenda, joint fireboard meeting this up. Try to make it a little bigger. Maybe
hold that. Um, could everyone please uh present your name so we can get you in the minutes here? Jump Township
Township Anderson Township. All right. Thank you. All right. So for our July meeting, uh we have the minutes from February 10th. We can if she had a chance to review that. Um if we can make a motion to approve those. Make
a motion to approve. Second. All in favor. I. All right. Item number two here tonight at our city council meeting. The city council is going to be looking at public safety budgets. So, you're going to spend some
time looking at the draft budget for police and fire. I just want to tell everybody here in the group, Mike and I sat down, we went over it pretty thoroughly. Um the the draft budget is a 4.7% increase from last year. So, we are
in a very very good spot with that. Um, as you know, when we adopt our preliminary levy by the end of September, that levy is the maximum levy we can have. So, we technically by here, you know, we have until December to keep
reviewing the budget. So, uh, Mike, did you have anything you want or you wanted to do later? I don't care. Yeah. changes otherwise we didn't we don't have the expense of
Mhm. Congress. Mike, uh I know you've got a couple of new firefighters on. How many new fire fighters do you have in the last year? Last year we hired two. We had one rookie from last year resign
and then heard two and out of those two one can train trans and the gear that the guy equipped very well. So, yeah.
And then the the cost of the equipment to get them suited up. That was all he took over the guy who resigned. They're virtually same size. So, but otherwise is there
there's a little cost there for some stuff. Oh, yeah. small cost but not certainly not 4,000 that we normally pass away. We still uh budget three sets a year is what we're budgeting for. So we can we
don't get hit with everybody's turn of age the same year and you get 26 * 4 chunk all and are you currently fully staffed? We're currently fully staffed right now. We have one on military leave. It'll be
back September 15th. 26 technically over staff, but we're allowed to go 26. We have somebody on military leave. Just somebody resigns, we place them back 25. Any discussion on the budget?
I I just have a couple of questions. Um, and I apologize. I should probably already know the answer to this. Uh, but with your $69,000 offer payment, how many years are left on that? Four.
Four or five. I think four. Yeah. So, we last summer we made a payment as well. Yeah. And then we just made our this year's payment we just made the other day. So
then another question I have um what uh what kind of what kind of impact is it having on your budget for the fire department when you added in those three extra sections
out there? To be honest with you, I don't see a whole lot. We have been responding to those sections as usually anyway. So, I really don't see any increase and there's not a lot of
housing in that area. So, it's more than I don't see affecting. Uh, another question is what what is the what is the routine or what is the
practice if a township wants to shift sections in their township from one source of fire coverage to another. So in the case of Le Township, if we wanted to take a few sections and move
into Jainsville end of it, you know, obviously it'll be the west end of your east end of our township. What's what's the routine that we look at? What's the proper procedure to get on something like that?
Well, I suppose to make the request, we would probably want to visit with the township board, you know, your monthly meeting. Um then we can crunch numbers almost immediately just to figure out you know cost. Obviously the perception goes down.
Yep. For everybody but there's not necessarily looking for my No, I understand maxed out maxed out. Thank you. You know, and just just as a
a general observation, um and I'm not speaking for the other townships, I'm just speaking for the township. Um we've been very happy with uh the way he's uh the chief has been
operating the fire department. uh the close eye he's kept on budget and uh controlling expenses and expenditures and we appreciate the fact that the city council has has worked in that same vein
to keep the increase in the fire budget down to a palable level um that I think is pretty easy and transparent to to justify whereas that maybe wasn't always the case in the ask. So we do appreciate
that. Any other discussion on the budget? Go ahead. Just on your map here, just mark in the three sections. I do want to point out that years ago, we had a staff member put this map
together. He did an awesome job. I am completely clueless of how he did it. So, I'm going to try to figure out how to draw back. Yeah. Section 31, 32, and 33. Yep. Take the old fashioned red marker. Go.
Who makes the judgment as far as if somebody adds in township the distance involved that makes it feasible to change department years ago
but then how far you are away from your responding fire department is how your insurance rates are set. So home insurance way 3 years after that I hear stories about that wasn't
involved that distance from fire department is part of the way they set home your eyes for our town size it's based
training equipment, water supply, hydrants, hydrants and all that stuff. Yeah. four six which the lower number better for a town our size four
and above most and having our town we have which also helps cuz now two departments are first respond Um or we can get around the second part that
I'm sorry, you know, we don't want to be going 10 miles out closer to the closest 80%. Anything else on the budget run report?
Yeah, I just want to show the we're averaging just over 18 calls a month. So, this is through May. Oh, there. Okay. slightly last year but not that much. pretty close in there. You see our wave over there a little
higher than some other department because we call anybody else. We call it cancer. Item number four. Yeah, you have the two different levels
of the different funds um as of July 1. That was not reflect, right? projected upcoming equipment needs. Um, two major things that we're looking at air packs and compressor is a big
expense now,000 piece right now for air to the not parts for them anymore. Couldn't tell you how parts we still get parts and get them fixed, but it's getting harder to get done. So,
they're telling me are 20 years old. So that's not that our second home tanker is a 923
something like that. That's nice vehicle replaced out too many expenses that we have coming out of our this year historically. Do you and does Jamesville
fire department uh do much mutual aid with fire department? Yes. Do a year maybe. Yeah. depends. It's a lot of time out in the around the lake area we
normally do on the lake city up there in the city. Only concerns I have is um
the Minnesota DNR redid the public landing on Mass Lake on the east side of the lake down in park down there. And prior to that
remodeling of the access there, there was a a dryer for the fire department. Thanks for the full launch. So we could bring bumper trucks in there and just suck water in and give some firefighters
in there remodel and I don't know why um we got to do to get that back. I had to talk to make it
something very often about just to go around the man or go to get the water 5 miles long and you got 8 of water right there. We've been spend a lot of money on signage to try and cut down on the
number of you know, private vehicles and boat trailers and things that get parked on that access road, guarantee access to that. And then they're not they take it away. And it almost looked like when they
repaved that too, they even left that strip along the side of it to access that, but I didn't notice it was gone. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was really optimistic when they came in there and started work on it cuz I thought they were going to actually expand it, make
it bigger, but they took a whole bunch of trees out, did a whole bunch of storm water runoff control, but I think if we started looking at some land s on it, there probably less parking there now than there was before. They spent all that
money, they probably spent half a million dollars on it, Yeah, we may be in a situation where we may approach uh the gel work to sign on to
the letter that we draft uh to the DNR uh questioning the judgment behind or moving that rationale what their plans are. They took it out. I I don't think you guys are we should have favor
and so I honestly think that needs to be replaced and unfortunately will move pretty slowly houses. Do you guys have the ability to just draw water back on the access?
It's not full of sand. Yeah. Contracts guy. We just kind of talked about it earlier. I was just going to mention that we have to change the map and the invoices that were sent out last uh winter were the correct
the correct rates with the added sections. So that's all I really had for that. Anything else? We have one more meeting again this year or when you're going to have Yeah, towards the end of the year
or no in February. Two a year. What's the contract say now? February and July. Yeah. If we have nothing else, all motion to return. So all in favor? Hi.
Hi. Uh, meeting close at 7:40. All righty. Thank you. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Um, are there any additions or corrections to the agenda?
All in favor? I consent agenda. Yeah, you have a couple sets of payables. You have the minutes from our last council meeting. I was just going to point out in the payables, we did have a couple debt service payments for previous street projects.
And you'll also see that Joel purchased a new pump for the main lift station. That was a little over $40,000. That's in that's in the payables as well. Do you have anything Sarah Joel? Okay.
Motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. All in favor? Public forum. we have anybody here that wish to speak through public forum? I'm just here to find out what turned
out for you. Yep. We'll be getting to that here in a in a little bit. Okay. It's on the agenda. So, uh public forum. Moving on. Notices and communications. I
don't have any council reports. Um, we're going to talk about what we did last time here in a little bit or a lot of it was kind of on the 109, I guess. And
we've had uh music in the park or songs in the park, whatever it is. And uh we've had five vendors or the last time we had five vendors to the farmers market. Numbers are probably down a little bit so far in attendance, but
there's still over 100 people, 150 there. So it's doing a lot of signage I seen up for it that there is. So Paul is doing an amazing job collecting grants or dollars to
cover everything so there's no noise sort of sitting on this on this project. He did a good job performing too. What's that? He did a good job performing too. Yeah. Yeah. And that was the first time they they have ever performed in public.
Otherwise, they're just playing in the basement on weekends when they're together. So, got to hand it to him and his family for everything they've been doing. Um that
we did talk about uh the Moond Dog. I know when we left the EA meeting button was going to work on that. The old works is downtown. The Moond Dog game. Yep. Um didn't quite go over as well as it did the last two years.
No. And then my kid called at the last minute. I'm going to be home tonight. So I couldn't go to the game. You got a ticket in one. I don't I didn't I only one ticket. As far as Park Road, I thought they were working down there and apparently they
just have guys up there examining it and that's why all the flags and ropes are around the top of the building. They're trying to give us an estimate on what? So, I was wrong on that one again. So,
um we wanted to put imported windows. We're having trouble getting the money from um uh H. It's in our account under our name, but they said we don't need 40 windows.
There's only like 16 of them that are in need of replacement. So, we try to uh explain to them that they're all the same age and it's cheaper to replace them all at once than it is to do five or six every year.
You got to haul in all the all the man lift and everything coverage and volume rates on buying that many windows. So that was the last I heard on that and they meet on Wednesday morning to go
over everything. Uh, and the other thing I did is Clinton uh passed off a guy from the county that was looking for historical information and uh the county is putting together
a program that's going to be similar to what our beautified digital people did with the uh electrical boxes and the vinyl wraps and the booklet that goes with that. And they're going to do that in every community in town. And that'll
be a start of a gathering of information for the county websites and it'll include businesses and schools and churches and the whole gamut of things, but they're going to start with this history program. And they were surprised to see
that we were as far as we were. So, uh, they meet tomorrow at, uh, 1:30. So, if you want to go to that meeting, I can't make that one. That is the pretty much what I've done
so far. Very good. Uh, park court on the 30th. Uh we excuse me we uh talk about you know now the pickle ball is up and running. They
started their own um league and wild be successful it sounds like. Um then we we were talking about Jville Matters and how we can help them how we can integrate better with them as a city how we can help them. Um we threw some
ideas around. I don't think we came to anything solid. No. Um, we're still kind of spitballing on that. Uh, we spoke on the benches, on sponsorship opportunities, um, ideas on how to go about getting it, uh, using
social media to its full effect, um, locking down a price per bench. And, uh, I believe Clinton was going to approach the bank to see if they'd be our first sponsor, just kind of get the ball rolling. And we use them on our post to say, "Hey, the bank's in.
Um, so that's kind of new there. Um, something that's near and dear to Ivan's heart. Uh, we looked into moving the Civil War Memorial uh down the park here. Um, kind of talked a little bit about where to put it, how it would
work, would be feasible. Um, we handed it off to Clint to look for um, is it better just to leave it there and fix it, bring it down, costs. Um, I don't think we've heard anything yet in the building. Not yet. Um, I think everybody's pretty much in agreement that we should move it. Just
consolidated everything down here. Just figuring out where and um, should we get refurbished and everything? And I think a big concern with that is too after heavy rains, I mean, is that going to sink in the in the ground?
Yeah. Do we need a bigger base? Where we put it? We wouldn't want that. um that all women from what American
says that they would be more than happy to convert to the cost of moving it pretty sure. There was a big concern on the there's a number of kids that want to play on the memorial that's here now. Would that
work hold up to having people climbing over it? What would you do about it? Would be nice to see the copper plating on shining. Uh did that did come up when you were looking into that along with cement base
and what it would cost me auction. I have a number I received from St. Temple about a guy that does the stones. I think that came up as looking progress
yesterday. I didn't go yesterday. I did see the balls. An average little better than average. What an average barbecue. I think they have
this guys down there that the former mayor and his table. Um, for me, I have a we have a golf advisory board meeting scheduled on the 30th, so I'll be able to report uh more kind
of a mid-season update. And then it sounds like we will have another um personnel meeting coming up here whenever Yep. we can. And that's about it.
administrator report. All right. Yeah. Task in your packet is the June reconciliation and then the cash balance reports. Uh the police department did order two radios we had budgeted for this year and they came in a little over $12,500, but we did
receive a grant from Centerpoint. So, that kind of helps offset that cost a little bit. That's nice. Uh the first half property taxes came in July 2nd. So, we have that in the funds and we should be getting our local government
aid probably by the end of this week. Uh, Mike just mentioned earlier, there's two members of the fire department. We listed them here, Tanner and Noah. They started at the July 2nd meeting. Uh, the payloader that Joe Simpi ordered
last February is here. And as we discussed last February, we're working with the bank on that for the financing. So, we're doing that. Uh, the Council of Governments is holding a training on Wednesday, August 6th in Mano. Just kind of the basics of
government, city government, things like that. If anybody's interested in attending, let me know. I can sign you up. uh the coalition their weekly brief is in there and I was just going to point out that that last week in July um I will be
in Baiji for their summer conference and then the only other thing I have for you staff has been talking a little bit here the last few days. Mediacom reached out to us if Mediacom is going to install a new line into city hall probably next year. So, they've been asking about the
channel 8 plans. I I think let's see when they are doing that and then maybe we can talk then if that makes sense. We just really haven't had any residents calling us the last
four, five, 6 years that it's not working. I mean, nobody seems to miss it, right? because now we just, you know, we have all the social media, we have the websites, we, you know, we have all that. So
that's all I have for tonight. Motion to approve administrator report. Second. All in favor? Department Steve and Mike are here tonight. We're going to go over their budget here in a few minutes. So,
we'll just take care of it then. Sounds good. Uh, staff reports. Admin 109 Main