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Christina, are we good to go? Okay. >> All right. Good evening, everyone. I'm Mayor Shelley Carlson. The Morehead City Council welcomes public input on issues listed on the agenda or of general community interest, time, and council permitting. Speakers will be limited to

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three minutes each. If you would like to address the council during the meeting, please fill out a form provided by the city clerk and we will call you up during the citizens to address council on the agenda. Please state your name and if you're a morid resident. If comments were submitted to the clerk prior to the meeting via email or phone,

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those comments will be entered into the record. For more information on participation, please visit the council meetings page on the city of Morhead website at morheadmn.gov. We the Morhead City Council collectively with gratitude acknowledge the sacred land the city of Mort is built upon. We

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acknowledge the people who have resided here for generations and recognize that the spirit of the Dakota Ojiway Mati and all the indigenous communities permeate this land. With that, could I get a roll call for our June 22nd, 2026 council meeting? Ryan Nelson,

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>> Nicole Matson >> here, >> Heather Nissmeer here, Emily Moore >> here, >> Deb White here, >> Lisa Borggan here, >> Sebastian McDougall >> here, >> Chuck Hendrickson >> present, >> Mayor Shelley Carlson >> here. And for those who are able, please rise for the pledge of allegiance

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to the flag of the United States of America to the stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. [clears throat] >> We have veterans in the audience and

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that was a wonderful robust pledge of allegiance. Thank you. Uh do we have any agenda amendments? >> We have no amendments to the agenda today, mayor. >> Right. Thank you. Moving on to the consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> So move Nissa Meyer. >> Second, Manson. motion and a second. Any

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discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Any opposed? That motion carries. So, moving on to recognitions and presentations. Our first is our more heart recognition. And I will turn this over to >> test.

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>> All right, our testing is good. Um, move this turn this over to Lisa Bod. Good evening, members of the city council. Um, I'm asking that the mayor and council recognize the first congregational United Church of Christ

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congregation this evening for their efforts to provide services and make connections with the homeless community in Morehead. Uh, the nominator for this particular award was CAP LP uh, Lakes and Prairie's Community Action Homeless

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Outreach. um which I think is especially meaningful for some people that do that work professionally to recognize the volunteers and and call out this congregation for doing what they do. Um the they wrote in that nomination that

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this is a small but mighty crew showing everyone around them that we can all lend a hand to our neighbors in need. The UCCC has continually made efforts to ensure the homeless community in Morehead is served and has connections within the city. These efforts include

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donating food from their community garden, working with service providers in the community, and providing compassion through their fellowship. Through these efforts, the United uh excuse me, United Church of Christ stands out as a beacon of hope

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throughout Morehead. So with that, um, Mayor Carlson, if you would like to present the award for this wonderful group for their dedication and making sure all residents have caring support. >> Yes. [applause] So, thank you very much for this award.

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Um, like was said, we were just talking now and we figure maybe 45 people regularly come to church and our food cart is about 6 foot square, two or three feet deep. It gets filled every day and every day all the food is taken.

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Uh, we rely quite a bit on just folks from church uh using their own money to buy the groceries as well as giving hearts day. We've been really fortunate the last few days, so do remember us when it comes to Giving Hearts Day. We also partner with the Great Plains Food

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Bank and have a food distribution at our church once a month. We work closely with the shelter and bringing food there. Um Charlie, the fellow that had the great justice part of the pledge, wanted me to uh make sure that I mentioned about

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humanity. And one thing that all of us have noticed in doing this our food cart's been going on now it's eighth year is today when I was there the fellow that I helped thank you sir God bless you sir um I think all of us have

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experienced that a lot and another thing many of us have experienced is so often we hear without the food card I'd die. So, we feel really good about the opportunity to help. And again, thank you so much for this award.

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[applause] Well, thank you guys so much for being that beacon of hope and that uh humanity for people in our community. Uh it means a lot obviously to a lot of people and we are very very grateful to have you in our in our city. Thank you.

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Um, the next is a presentation and I believe Sean Brandenburgg is going to do this one. >> Thank you, Mayor and Council. Uh, I would like to recognize and thank the VFW for their generous support of youth initiatives in Morehead. Uh,

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partnerships like this make a meaningful difference in what we're able to offer the community. Because of their commitment, Morhead Parks can continue creating positive, healthy, and memorable experiences for all of our young people. The VFW's recent donation

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to Matson Field helped fund important upgrades and made possible the naming uh of the home team's third base tugout, a lasting contribution that will be appreciated by players and families for years to come. Beyond baseball, the VFW

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consistently supports activities throughout the community, and we are grateful for their ongoing involvement and dedication. On behalf of the city of Morehead, thank you to the VFW for investing in our youth, our parks, and

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the future of our community. Thank you. [applause] >> I will. >> You're not shy. >> Yeah, it it's our privilege and and we do this throughout the whole year. We either uh sponsor youth activities or we

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do veterans things. Uh the members behind me, we visit the hospital about once a month. We visit with the patients. We play blackjack with them. And for some reason, they always beat us or they always win. So we always leave our money there. But uh it's our privilege to do these things. That's

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what we're that's our existence. So thank you for uh recognizing us. [applause] Take one. Okay. tomorrow. Yes. [laughter] again. Thank you. Um, as we continue to

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make improvements to Matson Field, we have phase one done and that's where the ribbon cutting photos were and and I know that they're already starting to do some fundraising for phase two. And when you have contributions like that, it really makes a difference. And um, just appreciate people who've already given

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um, so much serving our country and now they're continuing to serve as as they are retired. So, thank you. Um, next we will move on to our 2025 annual comprehensive financial report and audit. And I will turn this over to

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Megan Zeradna. There you are. [clears throat] Uh, good evening, mayor and council members. My name is Megan Zaratka and I am the assistant finance director here at the city of Morehead. I'm pleased to share that the finance department has

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completed our 2025 audit and prepared the 2025 annual comprehensive financial report which we call an acter because that's a long one. Uh this report provides a complete overview of the financial activity for all the city's funds and accounts. This evening we are

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requesting that the mayor and council formally receive and file the 2025 acter. Once again this year we worked with ID Bailey to complete the annual audit. I would like to extend my appreciation to both the ID Bailey audit team and our city finance staff. Um

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their dedication and collaboration are what make this project go get done. Um I'm incredibly proud of our team's work in bringing this project to completion. Joining us remotely tonight is Paul Kaine and he's a partner with ID Bailey who'll be presenting an executive summary of the audit results. And with

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that I'll turn it over to you Paul. >> All right. And I think we got the testing done, so it should work. [laughter] >> I did not know I was I was unmuted. I apologize for that. >> Can I get the ability to share my screen on the slides or

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>> Yes, we can make that happen. >> Thank you so much. >> [snorts] >> a lot of good information in charts and I'd like everyone to be able to see them. Here we go. I have it now. All right.

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Fantastic. [clears throat] I'm assuming y'all can see that. You can hear me. I tested that out apparently in the middle of the last presentation. It's an audit. >> Yep, we can hear you and see the presentation. >> Perfect. I was going to say an audit's not like a food card. People aren't

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going to die without one and we're our names are not on an a dugout, but but it is on your audit report and I'm going to I'm here to talk about that today. Um, appreciate you having me. My name is Paul Kaine. Um, I'm an auditor. I'm an audit partner with I Bailey. I've been

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in our firm for 23 years. It's my first year working with the city. Um I am actually in our Denver office. So very very happy to be here today. Made my first trip ever to Morehead back in April. Um really enjoyed myself down there. I'm going to start with really a

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clear highle picture of the city's financial results and condition. This is pres This is designed to summarize the audited financial statements in a format that's easier to follow than this big acford that Megan talked about and it's mostly through charts and trends information. So, it's not just like this

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year's numbers, but also how the city's been performing over time. So, we have a lot of charts and graphs and some things to show you guys. This is going to help fill the gap that the audit report doesn't really address. It's a point in time document. It is 12:3125. Here's where you stand. Here's where you are. I think some of these slides will really

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show you how well things have been going. Um that contact without I guess we started just timing a little bit. So we started planning the audit in December. We came out to the field in April. Work through open items in May. We got this issued last week um last Tuesday. And we're here to present the

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final signed report to you all today. So that I'm going to begin with the audit results. First up in front is the audit opinion. [clears throat] The headline here is is a positive one. The city received a clean audit which is also called an unmodified opinion [clears throat]

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on the financial statements. In plain English, this means that the financial statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States and based on our audit work are fairly presented in all material respects. This opinion, the four-page document, it's about 20 pages into the report. Um, we

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also gave a clean opinion on the single audit, which I'll touch on in a moment. One point I always like to reinforce the distinction between management's role and the auditor's role which is spelled out in more detail in the report. But management is really responsible for preparing the financial statements and for the underlying accounting records

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and making sure that these statements are in accordance with GAAP and free material misstatement. Our responsibility as auditors is to independently test and evaluate that information and express this opinion on the results of that work. It's also important to remember that the audit

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provides reasonable assurance. It's not absolute assurance. We don't test every transaction. Instead, we use a riskbased approach. We gain an understanding of controls. We use that understanding to really um design our procedures and we perform procedures on a test basis. So,

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when we say clean opinion, the takeaway is really the audit results support the city's statements are materially accurate. They are fairly presented and that's really the result that you want. And so moving on to the federal awards, turning to this federal awards slide.

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Entities that now spend more than a million dollars in federal dollars are required to obtain an annual federal audit. And we also do that in conjunction with a financial statement audit. So together that's known as a single audit. Testing the federal dollars with your financial statements in one single audit. The

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purpose of the audit is really to not look only at the federal reporting, but also compliance and rules and requirements that are attached to your major federal program. So, you're getting all these federal grants and along with that money comes a lot of compliance requirements that you're you're really held to. And as you spend that money, you need to make sure you're

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complying with all those rules. The federal government tells you what those are and they tell us what we need to audit. And so, we really go through this process of determining which programs are major through this riskbased process. And this year you spent $10.3

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million in federal awards. Um we tested two programs. We tested highway planning and construction which was $4.3 million and we tested outdoor recreation acquisition development and planning. Um that was almost $3 million. So we tested seven

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over over $7 million worth of dollars of your of your federal spending. Way more than we required to test. I think the requirement is a lowrisisk audit is 25%. So we got to almost 70%. And we did give you an unmodified opinion on compliance as well for that

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major federal audit. So we give you an opinion on compliance and we give you an opinion on the material accuracy of your financial statements. So next findings I'm going to talk about. This slide's very uneventful.

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This is a great result. There are no findings reported in either the fire statements, the federal awards or Minnesota legal compliance. So I sometimes point out here it's entirely possible to receive a clean audit opinion and still have internal control or compliance findings. You're not one

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and the same. That actually happens fairly often. So the fact that the city did receive a clean opinion and had no findings, it's worth noting is a super strong overall outcome for the audit. From there going to shift to cash and

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investments. Um maybe before I do is it I'll take questions at the end. Um so starting with cash and investments this chart really presents the city's cash and investment balances over the the last 10 years. It excludes capital

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project funds because those can fluctuate with bond dollars and things like that. They really come in for for specific projects. So this slide really demonstrates the stable and adequate level of liquid assets the city has had

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over the last 10 years. So um green is governmental, blue is business type and you can see that you've been very very stable and you're sitting at over over $und00 million I

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think at the end of the day between these two fund types. >> [clears throat] >> Let's see. That's all I wanted to say on that. Moving forward, the general fund. So, I'm going to focus specifically on general fund. That's really the fund that most people look at when evaluating

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the core operating health of a government. This is really the operating fund of any government is its general fund. And this slide highlights a few of the more notable budget tax variances within the general fund. So, within your acter, this is broken down into much more detailed line items. This kind of

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summarizes it into one picture that we could present to you in one one slide. So one of the bigger you see overall revenues um sold 30 million budget 29.2 almost a million dollars favorable.

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Looking through I think the biggest component of that increase is interest um investment income higher interest rates during the year. The city really seems to take a very conservative approach with budgeting investment income. So, this other income line, $581,000

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of that $460,000 is related to investment income. Other notable variances, $161,000 related to refunds and reimbursements, um, which aren't typically budgeted. And in addition, charges for services were favorable by about $114,000

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due to engineering services activity based on the percentage of cost assessed from complete infrastructure projects. So those are kind of the three biggest changes in this $800,000 expenses. Um about a million under budget. So both go in the right

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direction. Um and the biggest component of that is police $750,000 under budget which I think looking back is consistent with historical information here. Um pretty much seems to be numerous open full-time positions in the police department. Although there were some

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some overtime charges and things like that, still substantial net savings there from what was budgeted. Net net revenues over expenditures were $2 million for the general fund. So this slide really gets to an

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important concept just fund balance and and why a strong fund balance really matters. So, increasing your fund balance, increasing your your your net income grows your fund balance over time. Um, and so a positive fund balance, I think this breaks it down super well. It contributes to what a

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favorable bond rating, helps generate investment income, and really provides a source of working capital to meet cash flow needs during the year. So, if you've been growing, your fund balance, you can see your cash balances have been growing, your liquidity has been growing, and most importantly, really gives you a cushion for unexpected things to happen. So, like a specific

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example would be unplanned facility repair or storm storm damage or in Colorado wildfires, things like that. You never know what's going to happen. Um, so it's great to, you know, build this fund balance of unassigned stuff for like a rainy day fund for the

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future, which we'll get to in a couple minutes. But first, talking about what is fund balance, it's really in your financial state. It's broken down in the fund level between five different categories, and those are these. So this slide really breaks down what those categories are and this is just general

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governmental accounting moving from this within Gazsby definition of these things. So non-spendable is the least flexible unassigned is the most flexible. So at one end non-spendable represents amounts that cannot be spent. They're not in spendable form. Inventory, prepaid expenses, things like

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that. They're on your balance sheet as an asset but you can't spend them. restricted is the next most inflexible um type of type of fund balance and that is an outside party or a legal requirement dictates how the money can

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be used. It's not your own restriction. It's restricted by a law or an outside party. Beyond that becomes committed and this is a this is stuff that's been set aside by formal action of the council. um things like that. And then followed by

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assigned, which represents amounts intended for a specific purpose, but there's really no formal restriction at all. And then unassigned is the most flexible. It's often what you think of like as a rainy day fund. This is what we can use in the future. We haven't

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assigned this. We have no no specific plans for this yet. That really explains how how available general fund balance really is for future use. Speaking on that, here's a general fund's fund balance. So leading in, this is over the last 10 years. And this

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shows general fund over the last 10 years and which is really a long-term indicator of the general fund's operating results because net income in the general fund gross fund balance. It's basically the equity of the of the of the general fund. So looking ahead looking at this, you can see you're

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unassigned 10 years ago was 13 million and it's up to 23 million this year. So really nice steady growth of not just things that are restricted which you'll sometimes see massive spikes in fund balance of like new bond proceeds come

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in. They really grow that but it's all restricted for future capital growth or things like that. So so this is a really great trend to see your unassigned fund balance growing along with everything else. So everything else is actually pretty stable. Um but you are growing that unassigned component of it.

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And what should these answers be? what should the fund balances be? Um, we put a slide together of really like recommendations from various sources of experts out there. So, the state of Minnesota office of the state auditor

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um maintains that general fund fund unrestricted fund balance should be in the range of 35 to 50% of operating expenditures roughly no less than like five months of operating expenditures depending on the fund type. The GFOA, the Government Finance Officers of Association,

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has a broader recommendation of at least 5 to 15% of operating expenditures. And your own city's fund balance policy is definitely more conservative. The goal is to maintain a minimum unrestricted general fund balance of 60%.

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The general fund's next year's operating budget, excluding restricted accounts. And the policy also states that a minimum threshold that at least 40% um of unassigned is the 40%. 60% when you combine committed assigned and

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unassigned should be at least 60%. So when we dig into what that looks like for you, the unrestricted or unassigned fund balances as a percentage of future budget expenditures for the last 10 years, you've been right in that window um right between that 40 to 60%. and you

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stayed right there this year. So, um I think you know that's great that you're staying within those policy levels. And I mean this is probably better than almost every other client I have. So you stated in another way the city essentially could operate as is for

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six months with no additional revenue which is a super strong liquidity and fund balance position for any local government. And from there I'm going to brief briefly move into other funds. So for debt service funds to start with

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a positive fund balance indicates that revenue from property tax levies are set aside to cover future debt service. So you can see like over time this was growing. In 2021 there was a spike proceeds were used

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there to pay down a bunch of old debt. Um, and in the current year, there's really no significant changes. I think the overall position remains consistent with with history and what you'd expect to see in a stable debt service environment. So, you know, plenty of assets, plenty of fund balance there to

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cover future debt service. Um, the next four slides I'm going to group together. They're utility fund slides. Um, and the story is really very consistent across all four of them. So, um, we're going to show a 10-year trend for electric, water, wastewater, and

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storm water. And these four funds are the utilities within the city. Um, the main big ones. And what you'll notice as I click through each of these is that operating revenues have been sufficient to cover operating expenses.

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And that revenues are primarily charges for services. Um expenses include things like purchase power, personnel, depreciation, repair and maintenance, insurance, and other costs. But for the far far and away, you'll see that revenues exceed expenses and

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operating income is positive every year um for the last 10 years. So this is electric. Here's your water fund. Um now, pretty consistent here, your wastewater fund. And it's it's pretty

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stable over all 10 years. Things are growing a little bit as rates go up and as expenses and costs go up, but your net income lines, very consistent, and last is storm water. Um probably the closest to breaking even. But across all these major utility fund

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types, the overall message really is that they've been operating in a self-supporting manner. They exist. Government doesn't have to, you know, subsidize these programs within the city. they're able to keep themselves going on their own. Um, and they even have some have some excess funds that

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pass back for other things, which is awesome. And know one other reminder on this is that the electric and water funds are also included in in the MPS audit, which is audited in a separate I engagement um the more public service audit and they're still reported

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here as funds of the city as well. So um just to point that out year end net position of enterprise funds. So this slide looks at year end net position across the enterprise funds. We look at general fund basically the main operating fund of the city. Um all the

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other special revenue funds and stuff. I didn't mention those too much but they all exist for specific purposes. A government financial state in itself is essentially a giant um consolidation of a lot of different businesses is how I've always looked at it. So general funds main operating you set up all

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these different special revenue funds for specific purposes. And so they're they're they exist for a specific revenue stream or specific expenditure type item and they you know revenues are assigned to those funds for those specific purposes. So hitting on those really is just digging into all those

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little components of the city beyond the general operating fund of the city which is why we focus on general fund. we hit these businesses these business type funds and that's what I think most important thing for you all to hear about today. So this uh this slide looks at the net position across all the

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enterprise funds in general positive position here indicates like revenues from the operations have exceeded the expenses and you're able to fund themselves like I just talked about major changes in net position versus falls so electric fund increased by 4.2

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2 million this year. That's its net income. Water 2.3 million, wastewater 1.7 million, and storm water decreased by a little bit, $17,000 among the non- major utility funds. So, this last bucket,

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sanitation, pest control, forestry, street lights, golf court, and golf course, and airport are all in there as well. So, all of those pretty consistent um from prior years. and they have a positive positive net

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position as well. Um, next slide is cash and cash equivalents in these enterprise funds. So, this looks at unrestricted cash and cash equivalents across all these funds. Same thing, healthy cash balance important because it supports ongoing operations that doesn't have to borrow

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money from the government itself. um based on 25 all enterprise funds had enough cash and investments to cover their debt service and some future operating expenses. So I mean points adequate very strong liquidity across these enterprise funds as well.

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And that covers what we wanted to highlight for you tonight. Happy to answer any questions that you have. So who's got the first one? >> Awesome. Thank you so much Paul. This is um such excellent news and I think it really showcases our finance department

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and the rock stars that we have um with Jennica and Megan and the rest of their team. Um just so incredibly proud and appreciative of of all of your guys' hard work. Uh do council members have any questions or comments? Council member White.

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>> Thank you, Mayor. Uh I wanted to just go back to a point that was made under the budget to actuals and the um expenditures for police. And of course that's one of those things that we you know will likely change because um we hadn't been ex spending as much as we

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had budgeted because as was pointed out we were hadn't been able to fill positions. But now we finally are getting up to where we should be on our staffing levels. Um, I don't see it as an area of concern because I I'll chime in with the mayor that we our finance

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staff does a great job of being very conservative in terms of their estimations of our expenditures and revenue. So, you can see even though we can see that was the, you know, the the largest discrepancy between our budget and actuals, but even without that, we

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would still come out in really good shape. So, um, again, kudos to our staff and and I also, you know, made me think about right now the economy is not good. Uh, and everybody's feeling that, including cities, and we can see other cities that are really struggling and

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have had to make drastic decisions, uh, to fix their budgets and have had their bond rating, um, in jeopardy. And it's so great to be at a place where you know um again because of the very sound fis

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fiscal stewardship that um we are weathering that. So thanks. >> Any other comments or questions from other council members? >> Say mayor could I make one comment on that? Um related to the police department? Yes, we have been um we have discussed that as a team um planned for

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that in our 26 budget and a and how um to communicate and prepare for that in the 27 budget as we kick off negotiations. And I'll just say to great work on the behalf of the team and then just want to also thank the council and the trusted influence that is there between the council members and our

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leadership team to get this work done. >> And I would only say that I appreciated that you said that that was your first trip, meaning that there will be more trips to Morehead. And I'm sure that you are going to continue to find clean audits with our finance team at the helm

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of doing such great work. Um why don't we if there's no more questions or comments, why don't we skip to 18A. Um and I would entertain a motion to approve um or a resolution to approve and receive the 2024 um annual

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comprehensive finance report. So move Deb White 2025 annual >> 2025. Thank you. >> Sorry. Second, Nissa Mayor. >> I think there were a couple. >> Sorry. >> You'll figure it out. Christina, thank you. So, um motion and a second. Any

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other comments or discussion? See none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Any opposed? That motion carries. So, thank you, Paul. Um look forward to having you again in Morehead. And thank you to Jennica and Megan and the rest of

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your team. is so incredibly grateful and appreciative of the hard work that you guys do. All right. All right. Moving on to the approval of the June 8th, 2026 meeting minutes. Do I have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second.

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>> Motion and a second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Any opposed? That motion carries. Do we have any citizens who wish to address the council at this time? and any citizens who wish to address the council.

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Right? Seeing none, moving on to mayor and council reports. Um council members, any reports from boards or commissions? Council member Nissmeer. >> You madame mayor. [clears throat] Boy, I've got a great list. But um I would

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like to start by thanking the members of VFW Post 1223 um and the members of the UCC for bringing a great deal of joy and opportunity for us tonight. Seeing the continued uh dedication of many many

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groups throughout the city is um inspiring to those of us who um may not know how best to um impact our community. But tonight there were some really great ideas of how to participate and so I wanted to appreciate them for coming tonight and the presentations we

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had. Um, Pollinator Week is this week. Happy Pollinator Week everybody. Um, we've got some great um, uh, co-sponsored programs, uh, particularly Flutterfest, which is this Tuesday, tomorrow, um, from 5 to 8:00 PM at MB Johnson Park. It is a co-sponsored event

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from the city of Morehead. Thank you to our staff who helped make that possible. The University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardener Program as well as several other local sponsors to make the evening full of um activities, face painting, tours, um and a great deal of

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fun, including Buckets of Doom, which will be um uh shared with folks uh for free, first come, first serve. Buckets of doom, for those who may not know, are uh natural ways to um prohibit, inhibit, and restrict mosquitoes um in your yard.

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And so, if you would like a bucket of doom or to learn more about how you can impact um pollinators, please join us for the second annual Flutterfest tomorrow at MB Johnson Park. Also, as part of Pollinator Week, um the uh University of Minnesota Master Gardeners

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um from from Klay County um are welcoming Doug Talmé for a presentation, Nature's Best Hope, and it is at 700 p.m. at MSUM in Lang Seth Hall. They do ask that people register just so they know you're coming, but it is a completely free event. And so you are in

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uh encouraged to bring yourself, your friends, and your neighbors to um learn more about the homegrown national park and impacts that you can have as a resident of Morehead. Uh the University of Minnesota Extension Committee met on Wednesday, June 10th, and some updates

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for you. Uh we have uh one vegetable, one community uh plant this year is pumpkin. So, if you would like some free pumpkin seeds, um there's also a giant pumpkin growing contest currently that's going on, um you can find those seeds at our local Morehead Public Library as

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well as at the Family Resource Center up north in Morehead. Also from Klay County Extension Committee, we have the Klay County Fair coming July 9th through the 12th. If you are interested in fair food, rides, exhibits, and more. It is a

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wonderful familyfriendly event. If you are interested in being a volunteer, they are still looking for volunteers for the 4 achievement extravaganza. And so, please feel free. There's a form um that you can find online to volunteer with 4 as a volunteer. But also, I'm

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sure the Klay County Fair Committee would welcome an extra few hands um which uh the fair is happening in two weeks. I'm sure that all volunteers will be welcome. I also want to highlight um the meeting that we have for the Klay

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County nope Cass Clay Food Commission. There we go. On September 9th, we will be highlighting the city of Morehead. And so I appreciate residents continuing to raise up the wonderful things that we are doing for our food systems in the city of Morehead. Um, for those of you

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who've been able to participate in some of our local awesome things, um, MB Johnson, Romky Park, and a variety of others are, um, wonderful aspects of our city of Morehead that I am hoping to highlight, but look for more if you would like to participate. That, uh,

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meeting is 10:30 to noon, September 9th. I know we're planning ahead, but um, mark it in your calendars and join us. We're at the Metro Cog conference room, and I'd love to see Morehead residents there. Thank you. Other council members from boards and commissions. Council member

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White. >> Thank you, mayor. Uh I have a on 6:15 I attended an ad hoc transportation task force meeting that was organized by Justice North and it included um representatives of the

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county, CAPLP um and other organizations looking at how we can better collaborate on public transit and working to address some of the ongoing transportation needs in our area. Um, it was great to see how we

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might use things with Matt Bus, but also reach out to some of the more rural areas to get people here so they could connect with our public public transit. On the 16th, I attended the Morehead Global Market. Um, it was great. It was a slower night than usual. We only had

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97 people come through. It was coordinated with an exhibit opening here in the building. Um, and for those who uh maybe haven't stopped by before or maybe walked through and haven't um stopped and visited the booths, um I encourage you to do it. It's a great way

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of supporting local entrepreneurs and supporting um growth and business in downtown Morehead. Um on the 17th, we had our MAP bus meeting and I just wanted to give a brief update. We had KLG architects come in and talk to us about the GTC, the ground transit

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center, which is our hub in downtown Fargo. And uh for those of you if you don't know, that building has not been able to be to be um used for a number of months because of um issues that were um uh uncovered with about the structural

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integrity. And unfortunately, it looks like um the building will be a total loss. And so we're starting the plans of talking about where where to go now uh with that of uh you know of finding a different location building other

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building a different building or buildings. Um but those discussions will be forthcoming. On the 18th I attended the Churches United community picnic which is a great event at Gooseberry Park. It was great to see the whole community come together to show support for Churches United um for the great

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work that they do. And if you haven't seen it, they are currently doing a community survey where they would like feedback from the community about ways that they can better support ways that they can better uh promote and support the efforts um that they are conducting.

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On the 19th, I briefly got to catch part of Junth, but the weather um made that very limited. So, I just wanted to take a minute to thank the folks. I know that we had um folks, some of our city staff was there. Um, and in particular, I wanted to just thank two of my friends

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and former students, Jared Pigeon and Troy Jackson, for working on planning the event. Um, tomorrow I wanted to mention that Rural Minnesota SEP is having a work ready expo at the library um, from 3:00 to 6. So, if you know folks that are looking for jobs, it's a

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great way to connect with employers. Um, and that's all I have. Thank you. >> Any other council members um, with boards and commissions? Council member um >> Matson. >> Matson. >> Two T's. >> I was thinking more and I'm like that's not right.

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>> No, that's okay. I am would I am honored to be mistaken for council member Moore at any time. Thank you. Um just a quick we uh we were asked to bring back conversations with council members and so July 9th location TBD. We're planning

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8:30 I'm sorry 6:30 to 8. Um more information to follow but we got a request and so we're going to do it again. Okay. Um any any other council members? Right. Uh for mayor updates, um things that I attended on behalf of the city,

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um obviously I think the majority of us were at the Matson Field ribbon cutting. Um, thank you to uh Sean Brandenburgg for doing such a great job in getting folks out there and uh coordinating a really fun ribbon cutting that also was

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interrupted by a little bit of rain only when people were speaking. So that was good that at least the game was able to to go on. Um, for those who have not been able to go out and see the new press box and the new grand stand for people to sit, I encourage you to do it.

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It is it is pretty impressive. Um and I know that that's just phase one and they're already starting to do phase two, but it will enable us um as a city to host more tournaments and that helps with our sports tourism in the city. And

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when you have people coming here for sporting events, that means that it helps our our um hotels, it helps our restaurants, it helps all of our retail businesses as well. So, it's something that is synergistic. Speaking of sports, um the FN's Visitors

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Bureau asked myself and um Mayor Mahoney and Mayor Dardris to participate in a sports tourism documentary that will be coming out sometime this fall. Um it's all access um hosted by Andy Garcia and it really highlights the region and the

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sports tourism industry that we have here in the Fargo Morehead West Fargo area. Um, council member White already already mentioned Junth. Unfortunately, the weather didn't cooperate. It was beautiful for a few hours and I know that they had to wrap it up soon because

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of a lot of storming. But when it wasn't storming, the event itself was very, very well attended. And um, it was a really wonderful, great, fun, and uplifting event. Um, from that event, I went over to Concordia for the empowered entrepreneurship retreat for high school

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girl, high school girls. Um, and got to meet some very incredible young women who are doing some really great dreaming and visioning and some of them even already have businesses that they've started. One of those individuals is from the city of Morehead and I think

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she's going to do some great things. So, just a shout out to Olivia. And then also Scanfest was held at the UMCMP Center over this past weekend. And I know that on Friday it was maybe not as busy it normally was, but Saturday it was packed in here and it was a

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beautiful day and there's so many things happening. And again, shout out to Sean and then uh Steve French for working a lot of evenings and weekends to put on these events. I think when we get to come and just enjoy them, we don't understand all the really incredible hard work and the behind the scenes. um

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stuff that goes on into making this seem like it's just smooth and seamless and really easy. Uh so, thank you to uh your incredible team. Um and and specifically Steve because I know he was here a lot of hours last week. Um with that, I will

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turn it over to city manager Damal. >> Thank you, Mayor. Just a couple things speaking of smooth and seamless safe city nights. Um just mark and just a note to for folks to mark their calendars for this series. Um there's the first one um this Wednesday, June 24th at Queens Park uh from 5:30 to 7:30

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and then on Wednesday, July 15th at Romy Park. And just to let everybody know what Safe City Nights is, they are made for fun and community. Um the events bring together the Morhead Police Department, the fire department, the uh police activities um and athletics league, parks and recreation, local

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businesses, organizations, neighbors, all sorts of fun um folks come together um and packed with stuff for kids of all ages. And there's a lot of partners and sponsors and contributors. Folks can have there's free pizza um uh drinks and ice cream, things like that on this

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list. Let's see here. is for just for Wednesday and the other um bike rodeo, bouncy houses, public safety vehicle tours. Helicopters um landing tour, not just one helicopter, too. It looks Sanford's um AirMed and the Minnesota

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State Patrol um plan to visit this year, coloring contest, bike repair, door prizes. Um Shields contributes a bike that's given away. So, hope folks come out for some of that fun. And just wanted to say thanks to everyone that came out for the Madson Field. um hope home opener and ribbon cutting event on

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um on Wednesday, June 10th. Uh that was really something. And I want to invite everybody to the ribbon cutting celebration that's coming up at Romkey Park on Monday, June 29th at noon. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Council Member White. Thank you. I just

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wanted to check because you said the first one. So, did Robert ASP get cancelled last week because of the weather? And if so, is it going to be rescheduled? >> I will have to get back to you. >> Okay. All right. Mhm. I'm hope >> we actually had >> it did. Okay. So, Oh, it did happen. Okay. >> Just got rained. >> I got hope. I was hopeful maybe it got

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res was going to be rescheduled, but yeah. >> Thanks. >> All right. With that, I would entertain a motion to go into closed executive session pursuant to Minnesota statute section 13D.05 at 05 subdivision 3 PN C pin 3 for the purpose of developing or

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considering offers or counter offers for the lease of real property described as lots 1 through 11 block 1 urban renewal first edition 2021 first Avenue North >> so second Matson >> motion and a second any questions right

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uh seeing none all those in favor signify by saying I I any opposed all right we are in executive session See, we got one, two, three, four. Right. All right. We um are back from executive session. Do I have a motion to

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close and exit the executive session? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion and a second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> All right. Any opposed? That motion passes. We do not have any new business. And it is 6:59 and we're adjourned.

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Thanks. Good night.