[Music] All right, call meeting order. Rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Approval of the agenda. Looks like we have some changes. Uh two items added under the consent agenda and three items deleted from action items.
One added under action items. So if there's any questions on that approval of the agenda motion. So move. Second. Uh all in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. Open forum. there's anybody that would like to just
address the council as a Sure. otherwise we do have a we do I don't know if it's related to the public hearing. Yeah. Um okay. Yeah. Okay. There public hearing you can um speak about that also then. So the open form is just for random
other issues. Nobody. All right. Move on to the consent agenda. Uh, approval of minutes, approval of bills, purchase orders, approval of investments, donation resolution number 202527, donation from the Melrose Area Arts
Council, Streets Parks Supervision Supervisor Step Increase Increase Increase Increase Increase Increase PayP uh 2023 Railroad Avenue Northwest Street utility improvements pay number 7, 2024 Main Street Project Mer Excavating,
uh 2025 Seal Coat Project invoice and a grass cutting notice. Um I only have one quick question if the city engineers here. Dave. Yeah. Um the railroad avenue. Is that pretty? That's all done. And this is the last payoff.
Okay, that's final pay. All right. Anybody have any other questions? What's the grass cutting? I didn't see anything in the packet or I missed it. Yeah, that's an addition. Um so you should have received. So that is 4 I. You want to just say
what? Yeah, I'll just I'll just explain what it is. Uh notice sent to property owner at 134 Country Club Road and 223 4th Street Southwest. Um the lawn's not getting mowed. Oh. So then we send them notices that they need to mow it
otherwise the city will have to go and mow it for them. Gotcha. Um and I can't remember Scott if you want to say something about that. That's then right city charges, right?
Right. Is this not this is not something that needs to go through the courts as a as a we destruction order or whatever. Okay. All right. Any other questions on that? Is it a flat fee? Uh, good question. I think it's time
based. FE schedule. Yeah, time based. So, um, we don't know what the fee is, obviously. That's fine. I don't know. Okay. All right. Any other questions on that? Probably $50 an hour though, I think. Yeah. It's established already, so it's Yeah,
if it's in the fe. Motion to approve the consent agenda. So, move. Uh, second. Um, all in favor say I. I opposed. Motion carried. Uh we have a public hearing. Um public hearing to abate nuisance pursuant to
Melrose City Code section 9321. That is 5A. Um the address of that is 32 Rose Park, Southwest Me, Minnesota. So at 604 we open the public hearing. And if anybody has any Scott's got a little background
on it. Yeah. Just I say a little background information. Uh this is uh a nuisance that's been identified at 32 Rose Park. Uh
again for background of the city's code at chapter 9 93. Uh you know we've got a whole chapter on nuisances and regulating nuisances. uh and that including then procedures
for evading the nuisance and you know one of the items that's been defined as a nuisance we had you know section 9319 is uh it's entitled nuisance parking and storage and and this is addresses uh
inoperable unlicensed vehicles that are being kept on residential properties outside. Um the when these nuisances are found, I should
go on to say the next section 9320 uh authorizes the police department to enforce the nuisance code. And so you tonight we're here. This is a a program that the police department has been
going carrying on now for gosh I think like nine or ten years where in the spring there's they go through the city and and look for problems and notify the uh you know the property owners that you
know of the issue. So the procedure when you know a nuisance is is discovered is that you know written notice is given to the to the owner and they're notified there's a violation and
what they need to do to you know correct the situation and then they're given time to complete that. And u when that's done the police will come back and reinspect when the time is up and
most many cases it's taken care of. If there isn't, they'll get a second written notice saying, "Hey, you've got to correct this." And they're allowed a certain amount more time. If they haven't corrected it
at the end of the time given in the second notice, that's when we go to hear to the council because at that point uh, you know, we, you know, ask for a public hearing and
ask the council to issue an order directing the owner to abate the property, the nuisance. Uh before we do that, we have to serve notice of the hearing on the owner and also post
uh notice of the hearing here at city hall and and that's been done. Uh it was posted on the the 4th, June 4th, and you know, the property owner was served on the 4th. So they've had about two weeks
notice now that this would be happening. Uh with the hearing, you know, the council is sitting as a quasi judicial body. I mean, we're
having a hearing to present you with information. You make a determination based on the information you receive uh as to whether or not Yes. is a nuisance and are you going to issue the order? Um,
you know, and that's what we're here, you know, ultimately is to ask the council to find there's a nuisance in the issue of the baitment order. Um, this specific nuisance, I'll step aside a little and let Chief Mouse describe
situation. Scott. Yes. Scott explained um the yearly inspection that we do. Uh this picture was taken on the 22nd of April and you'll see by the foliage as things change. Uh they were given notice to take care of it. Um and that did not happen. Um a follow-up picture was taken
when things had expired and was sent along with um notices to continue on that. Uh I took a picture this morning to show and prove that it still has not been resolved as well as I ran the license plate in the event that they have purchased cabs online or had them in their house or whatever else and none that has happened yet either. Um, this
vehicle has come within our nuisance inspections for actually several years in a row. Um, they continue to purchase cabs for it. Um, we haven't gotten to this point with this vehicle yet. So um the intent after this hearing if
approved later in the action items is to uh verify that they are either going to bring it into compliance as well as meet all the criteria current registration operational vehicle as well as it has to have insurance so it's road ready. Um some of those other things like I said have not been checked just because they
purchase current cabs for them. Well, we haven't gone beyond that, but if uh abatement is ordered for the for the vehicle and the property, we're going to make sure all those are met. And if they choose to, they can. And if they choose not to, then we'll work through the remainder of the process and see where it goes from that.
It's been I said, I think the letters went out, this photo was taken the 22nd of April. Letters went out the 8th or the 9th. I checked my paperwork for sure, but so it's been roughly 6 weeks to bring this vehicle into compliance. Started with 60. We're down to one, so things are working well. Um, we did
issue some administrative citations this year, 13 of those, and that's the only one left over. So, that seemed to work real well because people called right away and I realized $750 could be coming out of the pocket, right? Now, with the vehicle,
does the notice go to the vehicle owner or to the property that it's sitting on? This one, we went directly to the vehicle owner. Okay. they uh rent the adjacent property and they store several vehicles on this as parcel. Um the
property owner is aware of it, but they didn't receive anything for cuz I can see where this will get sticky because obviously that property owner's not the vehicle owner.
So, it's sitting on that property, but yeah, you can see where that gets a little hairy. Yep. been working. Okay. Communicating with you. Okay. Anybody have any questions for you said
tabs were purchased or not? Have not. That's why I ran a license plate to verify in case by mail. Haven't put them on yet or anything else. And if tabs are put on at this point where it sits, it's fine because it's not on a public road. Is that accurate or not? No, it's not.
Um, that's one portion of it to bring in compliance and that's been what we've kind of deemed as that's good enough. Actually can't get tabs without insurance, right? Right. Yeah. Insurance can very well be removed right away. Yeah. True. So, um, and that'll be some of the issue too. And as well as
operational, we have folks around town that have project cars or, you know, the starter went out and I'm going to fix that and then I'm going to fix it two years later. I'm going to fix it two years later. That's what my kid and the kid now doesn't live at home anymore. So those are the projects or the things that become this way. It's it's good intention, but things
happen. Just forget about them. I just can't get anything else. Any other questions? Otherwise, public hearing. No, it's Oh, go ahead, Scott. Just Yeah. If there would be anybody else that want would want to speak to the
council before the public hearing, you know, before you close it, we want to give them the opportunity to do that. Just so the council, you know, is aware that, you know, if you do issue the order, the next step is that, you know,
that order will be served again on the owner, allowing them time to comply with your order. If you if they don't comply, the next
step would be to file the the order with the court and ask the court for an order confirming that yes, this is a nuisance. And the order would again
the court would give them so much time to correct it. The difference is is that the court's order would include language that says and if you don't the city of Melrose is authorized to go onto the
property and abate it the nuisance and you will have to pay the costs of the of the city's abatement. So those would be the the next steps
and we haven't had to go that far for a few years right yet. But ultimately that's what's you know behind the order right would we name the actual land property owner also in that court
order or not? I think we would just just the vehicle vehicle. Okay. Could the owner trailer it to another location? Is it in compliance out of the city limits? If it was out of the city limits, if
they rented a storage shed and parked it in there. Okay. So, was it sitting out in the open in a residential area? Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you. Did you want to
speak about anything or anybody? This is public hearing now. So now the public gets to speak about this topic. If you had anything to say, not this one. What's that about getting heart of hearing signs quilt?
Oh. Oh, that should have been right. I was Yeah, we can jump back up there temporarily if there's no Okay. Yeah. All right. So, if there's no public comment and no other input, we'll
close this public hearing at 6:15 and we're going to jump up to real quick to back up to the open forum so you can have a chance to speak. So, if you'd like to stand up and talk. So, I live on Main Street. I have a 2
and a half yearear-old little girl and she is hard of hearing and I'm here to ask the city to be to put out um couple heart of hearing signs. Um Main Street people go so fast on that
street and we all know that little towers go fast. Okay. What's your address? 4 East Main Street. four east. Okay. Typically during open form, we don't really comment on that,
but we do take things into consideration. So, um, you know, we'll we'll we'll we'll think about that. Maybe somebody will be in touch with you. Um, if you want to leave your Yeah, I can grab your Yeah, you want to grab your number so we don't have to put it
on camera. All right. We are going to move on to we'll address the uh abatement order later action item um public hearings we got that done reports H director
Barry Heg I have pictures I'll bring up I'm the executive director at uh supposed to be and just wanted to pretty much give some updates on. Okay, there we go. That's us.
So, you know, there's been a lot of changes in the last year and a half, and I just wanted to make sure that folks knew what we had to offer and and some of the changes that they've all been very well received, and uh I I got to say, I've got a great board. Um they've
been very good working with me and stuff. Um so, it's it's been a treat. It really has. Um as you can see, we've got some new landscaping. We've got some new benches, new chairs, new lighting. This is some of the exterior things. The lighting is also in the back of the
building where we have some parking spots. Um the lighting was done locally and we went with something that shined down so we weren't impacting the building or the neighbors. It's really brightened up nice. It's it's helped
quite a bit. There were times when I have cameras, security cameras outside and there were times when you'd see people sitting out here that weren't residents and that has stopped. Not that that was a problem. It just made some of the tenants a little uneasy. They didn't
know who they were. So, we've also been open since 1971. That's when we took residents in. So, 54 years they we've been serving the community. It's been a really good relationship. the city, the
county, and the state do not contribute to us financially. We do not take any taxes or levies. Um, folks, I think have some misconceptions on that, but I definitely wanted to make sure people understood that. Everything we get is from HUD. We are a public housing
facility. And so, we're we're federal and as the government's changing, so is our funding. We're hanging on for the ride. So, things going great and every administration changes. So, if you've done it long enough, you've seen the
changes. Couple of the things that had happened recently is um we had wallpaper. It's some gated flooring and whatnot. All of the wallpaper has been removed
and painted. We have put in all new all new carpet in the in the uh common area and also known as vinyl planking. HUD is big on no soft surfaces and we're very fortunate because we don't have the issues other facilities have. The reason
they do that is they don't want contamination with fentanyl or meth. So the soft the soft surfaces makes for quite a bit more. So it's it's gone very very well. The Let's see what the next one is.
There you go. Another view of it. Oh, I also just did a brand new one. So, this doesn't Oh, it does. This does show the new cap uh drip cap, which is the same color as the audience. As you can see, normally there's a fair amount of people sitting out there quite often in the
afternoons and into the evenings. So, it's it's nice to get the feedback. We got a couple roses. We got a couple tenants that are in love with roses. So, we put them in. It seems to fit with the One on the right, one on the left. This is an old kitchen. So, as we as tenants
move out, I flip the units. I renovate. We remodel the kitchen. As you can see, it's the older style carpet, the older style tile. There's this island here, excuse me, this wall here. And then what you don't see is a little 20-in stove.
The 20-in stove makes it really difficult for the full size sheet. So, As people transition out, whether they move on, nursing home, whatever the case may be, we flip it. This is an example
of one that's been flipped. So, we've got the new flooring, we've got the full size stove, we cut the wall back, and obviously everything's been painted. This has been a hit. So, it's been a lot of fun to see people get excited about this. We're getting a lot of cookies, a
lot of cookies. And we're also getting a lot of fulls size cookies, which didn't happen before. This shows it from a different angle. That was the cabinet that was next to the 20 in. We put it on wheels. Some people use it, some don't. Kind of
becomes the junk drawer. Whatever they want to have on it. But nice thing is they can move it around wherever they want. New lighting has gone in. We've got What you don't see in this picture is we've got ceiling fans with lights in the living room as well as in the bedrooms.
The bedrooms never had a light on a switch and a switch outlet. Real common in the 70s. A lot of houses had it with with this now they can just hit the switch. And it's a double switch so they can have the fan on and and the light
and control independently. This shows our upstairs community room. We redid the carpet here and the vital planking. This is a little smaller, more of a intimate setting. So that the apartments are small. So when the tenants have family and this is used
every single Wednesday for a card game with one of our tenants, they come in in the afternoon, they bring in their treats and they hang out. Off that door to the right is an upstairs deck. And we've also got that bench that you see on the left is now on the deck. It
wasn't before picture. This room gets used a lot. This is the community. I love having my office across the hall from it because I hear a whole lot of people laughing and it's used every single day. They're playing bunko. They
don't gamble. At least if they do, I don't know about it, but uh it's it's used quite a bit. It's here again. We had new carpeting put in new vinyl planking. The kitchen is in the process of getting new faucets. Just make little
upgrades as we can. This shows the kitchen area and we do potlucks in here. We do um Jean Herman is with LSS and she's famous for cream.
So we always have one or two of those and nobody misses it. I mean if they're working then they're going to miss it but otherwise they're there. It's really and this allows us to do that. And and here again, they can tenants can reserve
this and they don't have to rent it. They can reserve it and then they can have their family events. On Wednesdays during the school year, St. Mary's Church will come in at least once a month and have an event. Sometimes they have it upstairs, sometimes they have it
down here. More often than not, they have it down here. Baking cookies, making cards, engaging with the residents. It's it really goes very well and I'm done with that part. So, let me
go back to some notes. So, the the average age of my tenants are 77. We are an 18 plus facility. So, what happens there is we give purpose to elderly and disabled. Most people that are over 18
don't gravitate to the smaller the personel that these tenants we have there. They're a little more free. They're they're not when you're moving in, people are taking notice. So, it's kind of like having their grandparents watching them. It's natural selection
that way. We do have three people that are one's 90, one's 94, one's 95. They've been there a long time. We are seeing a younger demographic, and by that I mean more in the 40s. Um, and it's, as I mentioned, we also, you know,
preferences for dis for disabilities. So, that that gets you get you in the door. As far as upgrades on the inside of the building, as I mentioned, we did the carpet and whatnot. Um, we also did new interior lights. So, the whole upstairs
has had new fixtures. We had the old fixtures retrofitted, made much brighter, but we went with LEDs, so it's saving us money. Uh, we've also got, as I mentioned in the in the apartments, new lighting in there. It's been a big
year. We've flipped 14 units since I've been there. And And when did it get there? Two years. Yeah. Yeah. Further on. So, it's been it's been busy, but it's also really been good. I mean, that's what
we're looking to do. We want to flip them as soon as possible when people move out. And one thing I also do is as as I get a unit flipped, I let folks in the building who are current tenants, they want to move into that unit. They can. And that allows me to flip another
one. And I've had two that have done that. They love it. They, you know, some of one of them had been in her unit for 18 years and now she went to a brand new unit. So it was a really nice refresh for her. Let's see. The other thing that I wanted
to mention is LSS. We've got them in the We've got them in the building. They're seven days a week. They're 8 to 4 itself. The individuals are paying for it themselves. We don't uh cover anything along those lines. We provide them
office space. That that allows folks to age. And it's not just more body coverage. They are incredible people. It's Cindy Deval, Cindy Shy, and Gene. You know, they treat everybody like they
would family. And I I can't tell you what a treat is for me. I hear about things that are happening in the building through them because they're the point of contact and they have been there 20 plus years. So, it's it's
really a really a great setup for that. The other thing about that too is it gives a lot of the families peace of mind. They know that the most common thing I see is as people are aging, medication becomes a huge
deal. Happened with my mom. She took her morning meds at night. She took her night meds in the morning and she might take them three times in one day. So LSS goes in, monitors that, gives them their medications, and everybody's doing
better as a result of that. It's it's really nice to have that as a as a perk. It's made my job easier. It certainly has made it a lot nicer for the only other thing I'd like to add is um
the city crew has been amazing. Every I shouldn't say everybody. We have a lot of people that require public transportation whether it's Triap. The snow removal was so nice because we have folks that have mobility issues and they do the city crew does an awesome
job of keeping that street clean and keeping our entrances clean. We maintain our entrances, but it's those piles that we get. Somebody pulls in trying to get a door open in a walker. That gets to be a little times. That's really about it. Short and sweet.
If anybody's got any questions, I will be happy to answer that. If anybody wants to swing by and take a look, please do. The front doors are always unlocked. They do lock at night as you know. And um you know, it works out really well. We uh I haven't got the
security cameras on the back side of the building yet. That's coming. But uh it's a very secure building. It's very safe. My whole philosophy is I've done this for a long time. My whole philosophy is I want the building to be my and it's
worked out. Any questions? Got to give you a big compliment. I mean, you're doing a great job there by the sounds of it. It's looks very nice and it's a pleasure. Yeah, I would probably send my parents there. So, yeah, it's it really is. It's a really
good job and uh I really like it. I'm going to be there till I retire. So, that's my plan. Please let me know if that changes. I don't think it's going to. So far everybody's everything's going really well and uh it's it's just one of those
things that when I drive by I smile when I see the folks enjoying what's going on outside and stuff. And the other thing I will add in closing is the community of tenants really takes care of each other.
It is amazing how many times people will come downstairs from the upstairs around the main floor and say, "Hey, I haven't seen so and so. Can we check it out?" you know, um people will go away, visit family, they'll let us know so that they don't create this anxiety for other
tenants. Uh it's it's really wonderful community and in many cases it's it's given those folks so much more social interaction and if you sit in your room and stare at the TV, it does not bode well. You get out, you get engaged,
you're going to have a happier quality. Thank you very much. Awesome. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Okay. Reports. President of Centric Care Melrose. Jen, thanks for coming. You're welcome.
All right. Good evening everyone. I am here just to kind of give some updates on what's happening up at Centric Care and then also take any questions that anybody has. So, uh, projects, we'll start with projects. Um, for those of you that have
ever, um, visited our emergency room, um, we have, um, the first room that's closest to the lobby, um, we received a grant um to turn that into a safe room. And, um, we currently, that's our
behavioral health room. We have a gate in there and we've got some some functionality, but we will be starting some construction in August um that will turn that room into um a safe room where um a patient instead of needing to be a onetoone
um can be in that room and they're safe by themselves. Um staff are right outside the door. If we need to have a staff member in there, we can. Um so we're super excited about that. And then the other project that we'll be kicking off here um sometime this summer is um and I've gotten lots of questions about
this, but nuclear medicine. Um currently what's happening right now is uh there is a mobile truck um that you might see parked outside of um our facility. Um that truck goes to Payneesville, Melrose Sex Center, and Long Prairie. Um each of
the sites have it one day a week. Um the FDA no longer approves a mobile camera. So the mobile trucks will be going away. Um and so we will be starting July 1st um that truck will be um stationed just
in Melrose um two days a week, Tuesdays and Fridays. Um and we can fluctuate that schedule to meet patients needs if we need to. Um but in our old hospital um the emergency room that was in our old hospital will be remodeled and
converted to an um where a new nuclear med camera will be installed. And so we will go away from the truck which will be great especially in the weather that we have for Minnesota whether it's snow or rain um it'll all be in house. So we
are hopeful for a go live um later this fall. So, those are the two projects um that will be happening and of course it's a loss to our our our communities next to us. Um but we're hoping to um continue to keep that volume um in
Melrose um and make it more so a service so patients don't have to drive to St. Cloud or Wilmer. So, any questions on that? Okay. Um the last time I wasn't at a formal council meeting, but we had talked about equipment and how that has
changed um over time with um how we purchase our our equipment. And so um we've been working uh with um Colleen and the um ambulance coordinator on an IV pump lease. Um I believe in the past
the ambulance had purchased pumps um because we have to have separate equipment um just with all the updates and how we share within centric care. And so they were able to return those pumps and since then I've been working with our legal team on how do we come up
with a lease and so um I have the documents. Um Colleen gave those to me tonight. We're hoping our new fiscal year starts July 1st. Um so we're hoping to have this go live by then. What'll happen is that each of the ambulances will have an IV pump. Um, it'll be a
yearly lease and then if they bring a patient in on the pump, we will keep that and they will take a different one from us and vice versa. If we have a patient on the pump, they'll take ours and they'll give us theirs. Um, that way they will have the board, the chip they
call it, that has all of the medication and dosages in there for them to use as well. And if we have updates, um, which we do routinely and routine maintenance on the pumps, um, we'll just partner with the ambulance to bring them up. So, we're hopeful. Right now, they're using
ours. It's working. We just need to have something formal in writing. And so, I think this is a really good um, connection and the agreement, I think, um, will work out. So, um, any questions with that?
All right. Um, recruitment. I always get asked about that. Have you found any more docs? Because that's always a question. Um and you know when when I say this some people will be like oh that's a really long time away but that's this is how it works right. So a lot of the times um doctors interview in
their second year of residency. Um and so I am super excited to say that we have a new doctor um Dr. Kendra Hollandbeck who will be joining us in September late September early October of 2026. So, a year and three months yet, but we
are still super excited about that. Um, we'll continue to um we would love if we could get two or three more docs um in our community. It's really hard to find um doctors that want to do everything and so um changing how we look at things.
Um let's see. Communitywise, um we are again partnering with uh farmers market um this year and providing the um doing a donation from Centric Care for the POP tokens. So that's the power of produce. It's exciting for us. Um we've doubled
our amount and I'm thinking that double amount is probably not even going to get us halfway through, but we'll continue to look through that. And then the biggest thing and I'm sure you know the city is having conversations with this as well with all the different changes that are happening. Um but Centric Care is really
focused on what's called our journey ahead. We have a lot of um changes coming forward. A lot of financial headwinds. Um reimbursement uh rates are definitely decreased and 70% of our um patients that we see are now on either
um PMAP, Medicaid or Medicare. And so um of that we get a 1% reimbursement when the cost to charge is anywhere from five to nine percent. So we will be doing a lot of work within the next probably six months as we enter into our new fiscal
year on what changes we need to make um to adjust to those headwinds that are coming. So that's my work for probably the next six months um looking ahead. Wow. Did you say 79% of your patients? 70 70 70% of the patients you see
completely have. Yep. A year ago it was or two years ago um it was between 30 and 40. Um but just the average you know um from one from um April to May um we had a shift in and
just in like our Melrose finances we had a huge shift into Medicare advantage and you know that's just your population and and to to budget for that or prepare for that is really hard because you don't know how many will be listed um with us
in Melrose or as as the system as a whole. Oh, okay. So, patient visits, right? Correct. Okay. So, say 70% of your whole patient, you couldn't possibly whole patient population. It's just the visits. The visits, correct? Yep. A lot of the older
generation probably visit a little more. Yeah. We have a aging population and we're just not seeing a lot of younger um patients. you know, there's there's just a mishap there and and you know, following the the pandemic, um, a lot of the, as you guys know, right, rates
didn't come down. Um, you know, supply rates are high. We want to be competitive with wages. And so, it just forms this gap like like this. And so, how do you continue to maneuver that? So, um, lots of discussions taking place. Yeah. While trying to keep the
services that we have to provide care close to home. So Tony kind of got what I got. So we were thinking alike, so it worked out. Yeah. Yeah. There might be a disconnect there somewhere. Yeah, that was it. Number
visits. Yeah. Hey, any other questions? Any other questions for me? I don't. Well, thanks for coming, giving us update. Thanks for working with the 5 pump thing and absolutely. Hopefully we'll have that done by July 1st. So you Thanks.
All right. Please, Chief Craig. Good evening. May enter traffic area 29 citations, 72 verbal warnings, five written warnings. Uh last month we had, excuse me, May 25, we had 281 calls, requests for service and uh May 24 was
315. Uh we ended last year on 1409 in May and this year is 1403. So we're hovering in the same area. Uh 14 agency assist. Those numbers continue continue to stay um consistent. So that's good to see. Uh some areas I want to highlight. uh golf cart ATVs with the weather
turning people are bringing those back out of storage or using them more again. Uh permits are required for all of those. The ATVs, the permit is free, but it's required under state law to have one as long as you have a DNR sticker. And then the golf carts, the permits are good for three years for a $50 fee. And there's some restrictions on things here
and there. And we've had some people that are they've been pulling things offline, convenience, whatever else, and they're not always catching the restricted roads and those sort of things. So we're catching up with them periodically on roads they're not supposed to be traveling completely on. Crossing obviously is possible but not complete driving. So just getting people
back on the right page where things are supposed to be at. But otherwise things go really well with those. Uh parking's been a area of concern that we're addressing more of this year. A lot of people are bringing home boats and campers and those sorts of things and then it's home for the summer and it doesn't leave the street besides maybe two three weekends a year. So we've been
working on that um especially in month of May and it's been going really well. Most people are a little frustrated because they have lesser places to store them on the property, but it's uh convenience isn't always something that uh is the best option for the neighborhood or for for the area. So,
we're trying to work through some of those, but it's been going well. Um squad car is in the same position it's at months ago, months ago. So, we won't make this parade. You know, Travis had asked me at the beginning of the month, and the hope was there, but it's not going to happen for graphics or a vehicle. So, winter parade reset. All
right. We won't say which one, but we'll say winter parade. But, um, stuck at the convenience of, uh, transportation. Uh, area of highlight. So, Mr. Host, who you guys approved on a conditional job offer last month, uh, has passed their post-licicensing. Everything else is
done. So, it's now just I talked with him before the meeting. He's going to check his schedule and we're going to get a start date and we're going to start training. And hopefully by early fall or late summer, we're back to full staff for the first time in currently 18 months. So yeah, questions. If you ever
had an opening when your staff is mostly there being I'm the newest member, I would like to meet your staff. Just I haven't had a chance to do that yet. Yeah. Uh we actually towards the end of a day we're having a train in July. That might be a good option. Um I don't know part-time staff
might not be there, but fulltime will be. I think we're starting at 4. A good start at least. Yeah, that might not be an option. I'll uh I'll check in for sure what time we're doing our training that night and I'll just send out an email to the whole council. All right. Thank you. If nothing else can tour the police department and uh see what we do have for current squad cars, you know,
and what we're waiting on. That would be cool cuz that's one thing I haven't done either. So, yeah. And then be good at the end of the workday kind of thing, too, so you don't have to break up a day. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Nice work. State Attorney Scott Demick. Last report
as far as I know, unless you decide to pick up some side jobs, no plans. Yeah. My my report, I've got three items noted. The the e billboard lease and the fire escrow program and the nuisance
abatement. And I don't know how much more you want to hear about nuisance abatement. I think we've covered that and the e billboard and the fire escrow are coming up later in the agenda but you know so these are some topics that
the council will be discussing later so on that I don't have much to add I guess do I just let him go this questions do you guys have any big like tough questions for him I want to hack I
just got nothing. Well, I will go back to my seat then. Okay. Appreciate it. Hang on. Afternoon. Okay. I don't even have an attorney joke. I got a couple to here. Oh, did I say something?
Well, I I I only remember one attorney joke. They kind of fallen out of fashion, but for some reason I Remember this one? It's uh you know what's what's brown and black and looks good on an attorney.
A Doberman. I like it coming from an attorney. That's good. All right. Community development director Sheila. So, it has been a busy summer. Uh we don't see as many large construction projects this summer, but
there's a lot of conversations taking place behind the scenes on next steps and future developments. Um Some Like It Hot, the new coffee wine bar next door here at Riverside Flats, is going to open next week. Uh Woods and Irons, the new golf simulator business, which is
going in 406 Main Street, hopes to have a certificate of occupancy by August 1st. Um they're painting right now and you're going to see the steel siding going up on the outside pretty soon. Uh Sterns Electric is putting up signage and pouring concrete for their parking
lots. They hope open hope to be open ready for their members by mid August. And I had a conversation this week with the bakery owners. They said soon. So hopefully end of the month or for sure during the month of July. So then the bakery would be back open. Um we have
started some discussions mATA the school district and some large employers around the city about daycare challenges and the availability of daycare. Uh recently a home daycare closed and there's just a lot of concern about just a lack of options. Um we all know about the
regulations that the state was putting on home daycarees and making it a challenge. So, we're going to convene sort of a task force in July of people really interested in this issue to talk about what maybe the city can do to help. Um, the city up in Little Falls,
the city in Alexandria, they've come up with some really creative solutions. Um, city of county of uh down by Glenwood, the city and the county down there. And so we want to have those conversations as well because uh it really is a business retention and expansion issue.
When uh the school district is trying to hire teachers, one of the questions they have is can we have daycare for our kids in town employers as well. So that's an issue we're going to start tackling. And then also uh hopefully Jolene doesn't mind for the chamber, but we want to welcome everybody to Riverfest next
week. Uh events will be in the Sock River Park. We are excited. We're going to try a shuttle bus. So on Saturday from 3 until 10:00, you can take a shuttle bus from St. Mary's Church down to the park. Hoping that takes care of some of the parking challenges that we have. And then also I want to invite you
to save the date for night to nightite on Wednesday, August 6th. Um it's a regular farmers market night, but it's kind of farmers market plus. The city will be your hosts. uh fire department, ambulance, um just lots of really fun things. A
meeting of neighbors and cultures, and that's our goal for that night. Yeah. And I have some more agenda items later. Thank you. Dave BL, city engineer. All right. Good evening. Mostly good good news for the council tonight. Um as you can see, Main Street's coming along.
That striking makes it looks like it's almost done. The lawns are green next to it. As far as I know, if people aren't happy, they're at least somewhat satisfied with how things are going. So, I'm going to take that as a win. Uh, we got the parking issue at the bowling alley rectified, taken care of.
Contractor ended up replacing the curb dime and we paid for the concrete behind it. So, a fair solution. So, good. Otherwise, uh, Railroad Avenue, we close that out tonight. That one's all done. Um, look for final payment on Highlands.
Maybe at the next meeting they owe me four sections of curb to replace because it's holding water. After they do that, we'll put on the final lift and pay them all. So hopefully come next meeting we'll only have um our new project on the on the books that we started in about a week and a half here. So
progress is being made. Yay. Thanks for taking care of that. Thank you. You guys been over there? Yeah. Way better. It's a better situation. Thank you. As far as I know, Craig's happy. So thank you. Yeah. And they make sure I'll be happy. That's pretty good.
Even the mammals. Yes. There's a funny story on that, Tony. I told Mike when I was out here, I said, "If those are more than a quarter inch, they're going to pull them up." The contractor never had anybody watch them so close. But when you know the level that's expected, make
the spec, right? That's all I can ask. That's what it says. Yep. So, appreciate that. Yeah. Thank you. All right, city administrator. Um, the lawmakers returned to the capital on June 9th
to finish up their work for for special session and completed their remaining work that they did at least in the session. Of note, uh, taxes. There was the repeal of the electric exemption for data centers, which is something that we
were wa watching very closely. And there's a change to the cannabis gross receipts. Instead of getting a 10% tax, they're going to be taxed at 15%. TIFF. There's an extension on temporary pooling increment authority for one year
from 25 to 26 for projects that create and retain jobs and EMS which is emergency medical services. There will be additional funding for ambulance attendant training and education and we have a webinar coming up on that. They
had talked about um some of the things that we were concerned about with the middle housing. They did some things with that but nothing that really was too impactful for us. And then um the other thing that was of concern is the LGA and they ended up not um doing
anything with LGA as far as cutting it. So that's good. The other thing of mention I want to talk about tonight and there's a letter in um in the mayor's folder for signature. Sterns County established the Sterns County Housing
Trust on January of 2024 to promote the creation and preservation of housing throughout Sterns County. It was designed to encourage production and preservation of housing units. It's managed, the housing trust fund is actually managed by the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of Sterns
County. Um and they released an application for funding of projects owner occupied and rental rehab and new construction as well as infrastructure. Information about the program was
included in the utility bills in May. staff is working with residents to complete applications. And so far, 13 homeowners have expressed interest with um in applying with four, is it four completed applications
forwarded to the housing trust fund. They have a meeting on Monday to go through their first round of applications. So, at the regular mata board meeting on June 12th, the board unanimously authored a letter signed by President
Bon Mayors expressing support for the application submitted to a housing trust fund from the residents of Melrose. A similar letter is included in your packet with a request from a signature from the mayor. So, that is my report for now and then I have some other stuff
later on. Okay. As far as that housing trust fund, do you know how that gets funded? Is that through the county? Yeah. Yeah, it's through the county. County. I mean, I'm just curious because you see these funds come up and it's like, well, where's the money come from? I think
it's pretty much Is there other sources or It was It was from the county and then I think Minnesota Housing. Yeah, Minnesota Housing is the other one. Yeah. Okay. Now, I got to ask a question. Where does Minnesota Housing get the money from? You know, it's one of them things like taxpayers. Yeah. Exactly. So eventually it's it just
follows up to the to the state eventually probably. So anyway, do not ask question. Um that does it for our reports. Thanks for the report. Um on action items council to review and give consideration to the abatement
of nuisance conditions at 32 Rose Park Southwest Mel Rose spoke about this earlier had the uh open hear uh public hearing. Does anybody else else have any other questions about that?
Did the uh car owner show any interest in getting it resolved? Did they have a hardship? I feel just sitting there. Okay. Um, council to consider adopting resolution number 2025-28. Uh, can I get a motion to approve? So
move. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. 7 B through D were deleted. Is 7E. On this one, let's see. There's the fire and city meros. State fire marshall reached out to fire chiefy fire escro
account and she'll have some background. So after a recent fire in the city, the state fire marshall reached out to fire chief footy about a fire escrow account which allows the city to hold a portion of insurance proceeds to ensure action is taken on affected structures. We had
attorney Scott Demick research this and to participate the city needs to adopt a resolution opting into the program to establish the account. After that's done, we notify the Department of Commerce and then we get added to the list of cities who could require insurance proceeds to be escrowed to
recover, repair, and demolition. And um Tom brought this to us, so I'll let him speak. Yes. The like Sheil said, the recent uh structure fire in town here, uh say farm marshall's office must be seeing more
and more of houses not being fixed up. And so he's like, "This is one of the tools in your tool belt that you guys could adopt and use going forward is keeping a percentage of their uh insurance money, putting it, like we
said, in escrow. And then once the house is either back to repair, fixed up, demolished, whatever, and it's to the city standards, then the money would go to the to the homeowners. But it's just a way to keep that intact so that it
doesn't sit. I know we've had some situations in town here where it takes three, four years before they fix up a house that's been hate to have that much control over, but I think it's something for the betterment of the community and for the health and safety of of everybody and
the neighbors around. So looking at that, the only thing I did not see in in uh in this resolution is was there should there be a percentage of what amount that we are going to keep? I know the state fire marshall's office the
document that I received said 25% um of it, but I I feel Scott probably speak to it too. I feel we should have some type of a percentage listed within this on how much we keep until house is fixed up or
just in the statute they call out up to 25%. So I I don't know that we need to recite that in the resolution saying yes, we're going to be part of this program because if we're going to
be in the program, it says it in there. That's that's part of the rules, right? And the tricky part is nobody knows just to put blanket 25% on it. You don't
know what the insurance proceeds are because some people don't have full insurance. Some people might have a lot of insurance, right? So, do you do you need it 20 just a flat 25% or do you take it a case by case basis? Well, you know, to to I mean, in my mind, I go,
well, if they're not doing anything with it, demo expense, right? And that's, you know, how do you how do you judge that? It's a case by case basis, right? And to me, it's just a it's a way to get them, it's like, oh, if they're putting in something in there, it's going to get
them to a little incentive, right, to do something with it. default is there is a fire and the city says hey we want we want funds withheld you know it directs the insurance company
to hold back 25% of the actual cash value of the insured real property at final loss or 25% of the final settlement whichever is less so 25
Yeah. Yeah. I just didn't know if that those two documents smeared into one with ours or how that work. Yeah. I'm just I'm looking at the statute, right? It's a lengthy statute
goes on for four pages. This is the state of Minnesota and kind of a one size fits all. This is the program state office. Are you in or you're out?
Resolution is saying we're in if there's a lean on the house. Who gets the funds first? Then I I'd have to go back talks about a mortgage. The mortgage company has got a claim and how that
gets settled out. we get first or the mortgage company gets first it's addressed in the statute but I didn't I didn't read it that closely it's money gets held back and
how much we actually get of that 25% goes to other folks. So, so we have a so we have a structure obviously that's dis disrepair right now. Now, if it's not a fire and it's disrepair, what do
we do in that case? This is just under exactly. So, in my mind, I'm, you know, to take 25% of somebody's insurance settlement. It seems like a fairly high number.
And now, if the state, right, be It wouldn't apply to the latest fire because we weren't in program. What I am thinking of
is a number of years ago when we had a fire and everybody walked away. I'm assuming the the owner walked the bank I'm guessing got insurance proceeds
and they walked and the place just sat there deteriorating and we ended up going through the process of the hazardous structure and the city to
you We did put an assessment for the costs as part of that process. I don't know how many years of it just put money up front so that we get
something that situation. I suspect that there would be other Nobody would be there. Is it a popular program, Tom, like with other cities? From what uh fire marshall
that we deal with, he said that it's something that been popular since another another tool tool belt, like I said earlier, that helps the city out with getting these things these properties cleaned up. And that only happens really when they don't do
anything about it, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, if they're if they clean it up, then we don't even have it, right? As soon as insurance payout, once your insurance is paid out, it's got to be right from day one because insurance comes and visits your house the day
after a week after the fire and they write you check out, you deposit your bank account, you can't get access to that anymore. Yeah. So this is this is immediately when there's a fire, this goes into effect. Correct. Right. But they just hold it, don't
they? It just goes into a holding account. Estro account until until you do something with your property. Yep. And then if they and then they have so long and then if they if they do something with their property, then that money will go back to them, right? Yeah. And that's and that's what we would we
would probably be the the panel to decide if they're meeting those requirements like if they start gutting it and refurbishing it, do they get that money back to finish the project at that point, you know, because at some point they're going to need the money to fix
it or tear it down, I suppose, or whatever. So need to withhold funds that they're they need to finish the project also. So, but we can we can decide that, right? Yeah. And it's and there is an
opportunity, you know, there's a year on releasing the funds to the owner and you know, if they come to the city and say, "Yes, I fixed it. Here's the bills." And you look at it and we're satisfied or
torn it down. Here's the bills. We're satisfied or even If you wanted to, if they just show a contract, put a hammer on something,
right? I don't know. I think it's I think it would be a good idea. But does it affect how they can borrow for a new mortgage if they're going to rebuild their house? Could they pay off their current debt or now if they have legacy
debt 20% that they can't pay off? Yeah. Could they That's That's where it gets sticky for me. When I started out, I mean, we bought our first house, I paid like 10%, paid the PMI, PIM, whatever is the prime insurance. So, like my house would have burnt down,
I wouldn't have been able to take out another mortgage and plus I've been paying on my current mortgage because the bank doesn't care. That'd be my only concern. You know, at the same time that they're telling us that they're making
progress, they've got to be working with their lender, making the lender progress being access to the lender.
So, it's probably a refinance situation. Sure. With the old plus whatever expenses rolled into a new mortgage. You're looking at borrowing
the funds they get from the insurance if they have access to every last dollar and the uh every house fire that I've been on in the last with the investigation piece to it, the insurance investigators are there within
24 48 hours of of the incident happening and then they look at the incident believe they're settled fairly quickly when it comes to it. So just again it's eye opener and it's something that protects the city. I guess it's something that program that I
feel keeps us keeps us protected making sure that fixed up. Yes. Well, yeah. I don't know if you guys want to take this on or you want to table it till
table. I want to look a little more at that until Joe's back. Yeah. I mean, there's no rush. So, should we just table it? We don't need a motion to table. Need a motion. Okay. So, move. Motion to table. Second. All
in favor? I I opposed. Motion carried. Okay. So, we'll readjust that next one. Uh 7F GCRE LLC has completed 73 unit multif family development of,250 at 1250 Railroad Avenue Northwest. It
received certificate of occupancy on December 5th, 2024. Yep. It has provided staff with its final cost including project completed this spring. So the tiff note um has been asking me to ask
to approve the final tiff note and wrap the project up. All right. Anybody have any questions about the tiff note? No. Okay. All right. Uh council consider approving tax increment revenue note. Uh get a motion to so move execute that
second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Uh Gina Edgard is here to explain a few things, give us some updates on the ambulance. It's our meeting night tonight, too.
Yeah. Jump back and forth. Um, so I'm here tonight to um request to add some additional responsibilities to our job descriptions, adjust them a little bit. Um, we also had a secretary that
took notes at our meetings and wanting to add the term of that appointment is over, so wanting to add those responsibilities to the assistant coordinator um, versus having additional people involved and emailing them back and forth. Um, do you want me to read all
these out individually or? Yep, you you would. There's three separate action items. So, the first one is the approving the assistant ambulance coordinator job description. Okay. So, requesting to clarify and update the assistant coordinator job description.
Um uh action the council to give consideration approving the revised assistant coordinator job description be attached. We again added some responsibilities. Okay. Should we just run through all of
these or let Gina kind of explain what's in each one? In each one and then we'll just take action so she can go back to Okay. We have lifelink landing soon so for some training. So um that would be good. So uh again on the assistant
coordinator we added the responsibilities of the secretary and with that the we had like a wage annual wage set aside for that. So we'd add that to the assistant coordinator too. um it does make sense. We the assistant
coordinator does uh help a lot with those minutes already um and preparing them for the meeting. And so again, it just makes sense. Then on the training officer, we in talking with our training
officer, it's a it's a big role and we do need a backup for that training officer because we have a lot of members that work evening and night jobs as well and sometimes aren't able to be at the meetings. And so having a backup for that person and another person to help
set up some of these trainings is very crucial. Right now that's kind of some additional stuff. if our training officer is gone, then it just all lands on my plate. So, having another person available to help with some of those things is is very helpful. Um the training officer, our current training
officer is on board. Again, that term is up now too, which is why we're making these revisions now. So um and then with some of the responsibilities coming off the training officer and going on to the assistant training officer, we uh did a move some of the wage from the training
officer to the assistant coordinator as well. Okay. So that's where the adjustments are coming from. That's where the adjust so it's a zero dollar on our budget. We're just moving um better model going forward where you have the shared training. Yes. share a training and have a official backup
person instead of just you know everything just lands on you know one person and that way too they can work on it together the trainings and work on the training and the information um putting together powerpoints when you have two people working on some of those things it it makes it a little more
easier right so and just so you can get going we'll just jump down to 7J before we actually and that is the um pump lease with Centric Air. You got that all? Yeah. So, the IV pumps um we had
come to the council for approval last fall after being declined a lease agreement on several requests. Uh, and we looked at the pumps. We ordered the pumps. We got the pumps. And then, um,
the centralare was going to program them to help, but they didn't have the centric brain, if you will, in them because they need to be hooked up to their Wi-Fi. So, it's an additional box that had to be purchased. We can't buy that. That's Central Care patent. It's exactly the question I asked. You did? I
did. And we we were told Nope. Well, we we were told Yep. It it was a it was a lot of back and forth, but um we were able to return those pumps, get a full refund, and now Centric Care is open to a lease. Okay, so sounds good. I think
that is a much uh better for our patients, better for our members. We aren't trying to reprogram things. Workflow, safer, safer. We just continue on. This lease agreement allows us to have three pumps in our rigs that we can swap out with Centric Care. Yeah. Um
it'll have their drug library. So in drips that they're starting, we can keep them running. There's no med waste. So it doesn't like, you know, there's 22 mills in those lines that the patients, you know, not getting that antibiotic if if we're switching it on a to a new pump
and new lines. Like it just doesn't make sense. So that was a really good We are very thankful to Centric Care for um Jenna I think put some time into that. So, we are thankful that she did that and was able to get that done for us. So, awesome. That's good. Yeah. And we
got a refund on the pumps that um I mean they work. They're perfectly fine pumps. They just don't have the central care brain, so we can't use them how we wanted to. Yeah. Right. So, good. Any questions? Thanks, Gina. Thank you. We'll um you
can you can bug out if you have to. Thank you. Thank you. Here. Can I have that? Thanks. All right. Uh that was 7G, right? The first one we have to Yes. Go back. Coordinator. Yep. So, the first item that you're
going to have to look at is job description. Mark out. Yep. 7G, please. You have coordinator job description. Yep. Uh motion to approve that one. I'll make a motion. Second. Second. Uh all in favor? Opposed? Motion carried. 7
training. Uh yeah, that was the So, do we have to we have to do G2? What's that? Do we have to do these individual? Yes, we do. G1 and G now G2 H, I think. Okay. Yeah, they're all
individual um called out on the agenda. Y Okay. Ambulance training officer description. Could I get a motion to adopt that? So move. Second. Uh all in favor I opposed the motion carried.
Uh seven I uh attachment 7 I department policy procedure markup with the adjusted wages. Give you a motion to approve that. So move a second. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried and the
lease agreement between the city of MRO and Cricare for the um IV pumps. So move second. Motion to second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carried.
New business. Nat has been working on with a billboard company interested in a billboard lease on some property that we have. Yes. Uh so MATA has been working on this for several months. There is a billboard company interested in placing a digital or e billboard on the well in
our wellhead protection area. Um there was also some interest in other locations. Um this is where we are on this one. So on May 8th, MATA was reviewing a lease with the company. Uh they provided a word version so attorney Demick could mark it up and make his
suggestions. And it was reviewed by MATA and we're getting kind of close on this, but we also need to come to you, the council, because ultimately it would be signed by you. But we also need to apply for a conditional use permit because the city has to give itself and go through
the process of a conditional use permit notifying the neighbors having a public hearing and all those things. It's the same thing we had to do when we put the restroom in the Sock River Park because it was in a flood plane. So the city has to ask the same thing of itself that it
asks the residents. And so we're here tonight to talk to you about the digital billboard, make sure you're okay with it, and then we would set a public hearing at planning and zoning in July. Okay. Yeah. Digital billboard. Obviously, we have nothing to compare it to other than
whether or not you've driven by one. I think Don St. has one. I don't know where else. Um, Albony. Albany has Alb has one. Albony Chrysler. Oh, yeah. That's what they do. So anyway, um that's 25 year
lease and that's that's a contract. So obviously if somebody doesn't like it, we want to hear from them now because it's a long time to have that digital billboard flashing at everybody. Actually, they don't actually flash, I don't think. Right. No, flashing is not
allowed by our ordinance. Right. Right. So it's transitioning to different ads. And these dim at night, right? They dim at night. Um and also we have not worked out the final terms of the lease yet. Okay. We're just making sure the council is okay with this so we can, you know,
kind of keep going on the process, right? Um there would be constant monitoring, you know, in terms of glare and they have to abide by the requirements of the new the new ordinance. Okay. And then as part of the lease, we would get one ad spot. We're going to get one ad spot and we get a
percentage of the sales. Oh, it's both. Both. Oh, I thought it was one or the other. No, we matted negotiated to both. Okay. And how are we going to know what the actual ad revenue is on it? They'll have to deliver a report to your system. That or we're going to have to contact
one of the people that have rented to know what it cost to know what it's costing them because to me that looks it looks a little low, you know, the what they what they have for projections. But anyway, we'll just have to be sure and follow up on that. So we just needed to hear sort of from
the council to consider and kind of give us direction that we should keep moving forward on this that we go through the whole process and then the council does not want to enter into the lease. Right. There's state rules too, isn't there for being there is MINDOT has rules too about being on the interstate.
And there is a public hearing. There is a public hearing for planning and zoning. It would be at their July meeting. Okay. And how many people that's 300 ft from where it would be placed? 350 ft. Yeah. Around. So those are the people that are notified. Those are the people be notified. It'll also be published in the Star Post. So anybody else who is interested in it. We
recently also had a conditional use permit hearing on a digital billboard which is getting put on blue door. And so that was technically the first digital billboard. This would be the second. Right. Okay. I just want to make sure that because there's probably not
too many people within 300 ft of this place that some people around the area get notified. Mhm. So we do get some type of public input on it. Okay. So somebody within, you know, that lives their house is somewhat can see it from
their house, whatever along the interstate there. If we can those people even though they're outside the 300. Yeah, I can expand it to 500 or just make sure there's Yeah. Yeah, that'd be good. Can do. That should be it with that one, right?
No decision on that one right now. Yep. Okay, sounds good. Thanks, All right. Now, we've got city attorney. Uh, city attorney city attorney hire. So, Scott Demick will be retiring at the
end of this month as city attorney. The city sent out RPs and on Wednesday, June 11th, the council held a special meeting to hear the presentations of city attorney firms that responded to the RP. Joe Krueger with Quinn Living Quinn Leven and Hughes presented his and his
firm's qualifications and stated he would be the primary point of contact for the city. He currently serves as city attorney for several communities including Staples and Long Prairie. In your packet, you would have received the RFP from Quinnland and Hughes and a
sample contract. Um they actually as an attachment tonight there was an uh additional information on the legal services contract. So they did take the rate down a little bit. Um the shareholders still
275 but they brought the associates down to 200 and then they brought the couple of the others down as well. So this is what they want us to sign. Um to me this is a little light. I think that we have to have some additional
language in there for city attorney. And so, but we do need to get somebody hired. So, what I um we're recommending at this time is that you direct myself to negotiate with um a a contract for city attorney services. Certainly happy
to bring it back and have you guys take a look at it again, but I just we need to get this going in case we need a city attorney after after June. So, um I think it's close. I just think there's, you know, where's our indemnification?
Where's our protections? Um, having just gotten this, I didn't get a chance to put that together. And the good news is is because Scott was our city attorney for selling, we have some really good examples of language that can go in there that I think is going to work well for this. So, I bet he would look at
this for us and tell us. Yep. He will. I'm sure I'd be happy to. There's no conflict. So, yeah. Do we have to include Scott's name in the agreement saying? Sure. Yeah. If you
want myself and Scott to negotiate. All right. So, we need an uh uh director city administrator winner to negotiate contract with Quinn Living and Hughes for city attorney services and consult with Mr. Damick. Absolutely. Motion.
Second. Second. All in favor say I. I opposed. Uh motion carried. On toformational items. Utilities commission meeting uh minutes. Uh June 1925, streets and parks worker Bill Reland will complete 25 years of
service. You receive a 25-y year recognition award of $100 is outlined in the city personnel policy. Thanks uh Bill for your dedication. 10 C. The following is a list of schools and conferences. Uh, civic symposium September 10th to 12th. Finance director
Jackie Neos and accounting clerk Stacy Funk will be attending. That does it for the agenda. Uh, anything else we got to cover? I don't think so. Motion to adjurnn. So, second. Second. Favor. I opposed. Motion carried. Thanks for
coming to that long meeting tonight. [Music]