this conference will now be recorded okay you're good to go okay mute call the regular meeting June 24th meeting to order roll call we have States of America to the stand Nation
indivisible liy andice for all all right I have a couple changes um if you can remove number one from requests and presentations Lane was not available tonight so he will not be here um you can add number three
to resolution 24-14 uh Declaration of local emergency and then you can add number six to new business uh 2023 final
audit have anything else you want to add okay motion to approve the agenda Chang motion second okay we motion second any other discussion all in
favor motion pass consent agenda item two items here to approve consent agenda second okay motion the second any other discussion all in favor motion is passed public
comments yes I would like to say congratulations to the maintenance crew and the water individuals they did a fabulous job this past weekend greatly appreciate what they did and hopefully the rest of the city will
do the same thing and that they will follow instructions of stuff that is put out by the city for helping manage water well some people haven't figured that out a lot of shouldn't be I just wanted to say that that it's on record that
there are individuals that greatly appreciate their work thank you put in we thank you for that okay down to public hearings ordinance 205- you open that at 6:33 you can leave it open ask if
anybody has anything to say and then you can just leave it open we come back to it okay any other comments or questions about it okay keep it open till the of the meeting ordinances and resolution first one is resolution
2413 okay 2413 is a resolution just updating our current uh fee schedule um long story short uh got a bill from lokan for some of our stuff and happened to be looking at um what our charges
were and they were charging us way more than we were charging for our stuff and so I started going through looking through our stuff and uh just currently updated everything so long story short the rental property updates are cost to
our building inspector plus a little bit of extra money to cover our our admin costs for uh mailing and and notification and that kind of stuff um NSF check fee went up that's just the maximum allowed to charge by
law um mowing snow sidewalk and we added weed control to the thing basically these fees are there to try to get people did not want us to do that for them and we're not trying to make money we're trying to I think it's a Ste
discour that's actually on the very low end compared to all the all the area uh and that I looked at for around us so so this would be the first time in the season 125 the second time 150 and then anytime after that'd be $200 each time
that it had to be happen honestly usually one or two times a season we end up charging somebody for mowings so um and then weed control we've never charged weed control before we should start charging railro for the Jung they
got well we they we've that's why we added it because there are places that we can address weed controls so um skid steer we replaced because we don't have a tractor anymore so that's on there and then the dump truck uh is basically
matching what contractors are charging for their stuff and then our employee labor charge got changed so so those are the changes that were made okay motion have second second okay any
more discussions questions for Tony all in favor [Music] pass ordinance 20.01 uh you can skip that till we're done with the uh public hearing you can move on to resolution
2414 244 so 2414 is basically just a extension of the mayor's emergency resolution from June 22nd um and it basically allows that to stay open for 30 days in case we have additional damages due to additional
Reigns or anything like that I did uh touch base with Emergency Management director Denise Wright and just asked her since our flood waters had receded if if we should just maintain what what the mayor had and she recommended that we did at least adopt it one time with
the council to give us 30 days to come up with any damages or anything like that so um I would recommend the council adopt that resolution a motion yeah okay second motion for resolution 24 a motion in a
second okay all in favor oppos motion passes Department report Center yes sir evening everybody so I would also like to parir that comment made by
the can't remember your name sir Larry Larry uh I was here on Saturday night uh checked on our nursing home and kind of the water levels were at and I thought they were all
I I did try to help little bit I said sh if you need to go do something I can I can stand here and tell people not to play in the water I didn't have to talk to anybody thank Tony came even me um so operation wise at the nursing
home you see there are average tenses in the month of May was uh per day per month um our current census is no longer 36 it is actually 37 and by the end of the week we should be at possibly back at 37 we'll get two
more people tomorrow but I think we get a couple more people moving home we did we had 30 referrals in the month of May um eight accepted five admitted three others uh either went somewhere else or
passed away we did deny 22 and as I told the Advisory Board we denied 22 we had uh people with drug abuse problems alcoholism violent tendencies uh things that we can't have
in the nuring home it's not good for our population and then we also had a few uh not so many things that we in the past I used to report that uh the acity was too high we can't take care of them because
the nursing staff has has gotten some more or gotten education on those things that we thought in the past we couldn't and they're doing very well um we've got we've had a couple of people with IV Therapy nursing staff has done a bang
out with that we've got people with the skin issues and get or have had people with the skin integrity and they have done a great job so the nursing staff at the Care Center had learned some new things
or relearned some things that they probably learned in ning school and now it's part of their daily rep so that's very good for them um we did discharge six people uh three went home and three passed away in the month of
May uh financially uh we're looking at income of oper income from operations of $2,477 mon May that is down slightly from April simply because toward the end of the month we didn't need near as many
agency staff that trims that a little bit um June July and August and I'm hoping that as I see it with the college students and our high school students being able to work more
consistently uh that is in our favor probably 30 35,000 so it will be an improvement for that um I I'm really happy to have the number
of people that we have come back from colleges and and our high school students like with six new nurse AIDS and not all tested out yet but they are right on the cost becoming certified and um um we had six new hes in the
month of June which makes us feel really good report wow we went for months with nobody then month of June F add that to the five we had in May and
we're we're catching up start cat um May celebrations uh we had Nursing Home Week in second week of May uh celeb by staff and residents uh Golden Age radio was
this year they always have a theme not a guy like me that sets this up obviously but they have a theme and we had a group and they put together theme days for our people we had uh Big Bang
music playing one day country music playing another day um won po music playing and then course and Friday they had kind of go back to the 50s thing so we not only did the music and the games
you know Name That Tune and all those kind of things but we feed people that's what we do best we feed people take care of and get them fast enough uh we had ice cream we had floats we had cheeseburgers and fries on Friday
just like you would back at the mall shop but people were really excited about um resid been to enjo some Buck rides and the Traw I want to mention the tra
because the Traw we got two years ago almost two years ago now last summer was the first summer that we got to use it this summer we have got to use it a lot already the Traw weather pending
will be in the parade with residents on it so we're looking forward to that kind excited uh that was uh purchased with by use of a grant is that right so yeah we're really looking
forward to that um but like I said in the in my notes it's a great way for the residents to get out go for some of the guys you want to go on activities no gun smok
do you think they will come out and go for it's really cool so um also planning a family picnic for August 2nd the families of residents and staff will be able to enjoy the music of Todd up do at
3M and a meal that will be served by or made and served by red Cafe uh at 5:00 uh ny's I think is going to make a dessert sure what she make it U trying to do everything locally but it's one of
those things where you feel bad when you say we're going to invite all these people in kitchen crew you need make food everybody else going to be out celebrating you're going to be cooking so we have somebody else to do and we can manage that do very well
when's August 2nd it's a Friday yep and we have kind of has to do it on Friday so we got PL people there to um so looking forward to music we're trying to have some outdoor games so
that kids can maintain occupied and keep them out of trouble can't unless of course we still have Lake Shore property uh let's see um we'll also be doing a silent auction that day uh um
things that uh each department is going to build either a basket or make a donation to so that we can raise money for a new flag po ours is not in condition residents have been on me
since last year so I need to get that um Staffing as always certified NES AR LPN every shift every day all day please if you know somebody refer
them no we we actually had two housekeepers H this month yeah so that's really great anything else questions how many veterans do you have you know about you have a couple I think I've got because I I could talk to our Legion we we might
be able to help you with that okay and Brian mentioned Legion here too so I more I could ask the legion inor any thought you're more than willing to
help we just had a meeting last Monday so we won't have another meeting till middle of July okay I'd be grateful I get an answer for you sure um yeah I think we got four
now at one point when I first got here I think we had 11 really quite a a big community of veterans and the the Legion Riders I think they're from Albert Le but they cover the whole area come in
every uh Veterans Day and it's really give everybody a coin two now okay any questions for motion to approve motion to
approve okay motion second all in favor motion is approved thank you all right as part of the part of kind of sort of care as Bob's report the Care Center Advisory Board wanted to address you guys uh regarding Bob and I
spoke to him before the meeting and he's comfortable with with uh this process so um Brian was going to address you guys but he had another commitment so he provided me with some information to address for you so this is from Brian to the city council um first thank you to
all who serve in the government it's a daunting task nowadays second here to speak on behalf of Advisory Board we are all new I I am just now reaching first year except for Don we are all new number three we are wanting more clarification on the process of how the council wishes for us to conduct the
evaluations leading to the recommendations of salary increases for the care center administrator however I asked to meet with the Council on a future date to discuss that situation to the best of our ability considering the short time most board members have been on the council using a combination of our own observations
going back through past records administrator performances the measurable drop in complaints from residents employees families and residents and the recommendations of pass board members we have developed suggested pay increase we feel is fair and is already overdue staff were given two 3% pay increases as well as other in
incentives in the years since I have been on the board in the future after developing standard upon standard agreed upon procedures there will be more thorough measures for our recommendations in Lou of said paper trail with no quarterly or semi semiannual reviews to consider we believe that two 3% raises should also
be awarded to the current administrator we are not requesting them be made retroactive our recommendation is a 6% raise now uh in the interest of retention of a valuable employee we believe the changes he has made in streamlining an increase of profitability will be more than more the
pay will be profitability will be more the pay for the increase so that's the recommendation from the Care Center board um I did look into it and as you know that uh Bob's position does fall on the city of New Richland's Pace scale so uh from where
he currently is if he moves to step six would be a 2.8% increase and if you moveed to step seven it' be a 5.9% increase which would be kind of in line with what the Care Center Advisory Board would suggest um it's ultimately up to the city council
what they choose to do do they want AC like that uh I think they're looking to com to a award him for his successful performance review yes Bob when the state gave all that money for staff that was for anyone that made less than $30
or less than hour right correct so you didn't receive any Finance person didn't no okay yep so yep so the if step six is 5288 step 7 is
5447 and step six would be 2.8% and step seven would be 5.9% so what was six so 5.9 will put us right there a motion Ive to
increase step seven 5447 discuss all in favor motion passes good job thank you thanks Bob yep thanks okay
SE okay sleeping huh almost okay let's just start in May uh we uh I discharged a few times in may we had some bad days um made it through it it was
fine um the only thing that's going on is that the chlorinator pump blew up this pump is a $24,000 pump that they got in 1992 I tore it apart there's a plastic piece in there is what needs to be
replaced it's plastic so I'm on the hunt for the plastic piece it's out there but otherwise no one tears them apart it's just a little piece of plaster and I will find because why would we buy another
one for $24,000 so I have a a made up setup thing it's working work in so isn't there a shop around here that could contract out somebody to 3D print that plastic piece I have no idea
well it's detonated right now so as long as you can go find it the size on it but I don't and I don't know the plastic either so but that is a great idea I'll remember that one maybe once I get it I
can have them make it a second one to have so I'm working on that but I have my own set up more compliance so that's I'm worri about um the effluent sampler that is what keeps it's like little outdoor refrigerator to keep the samples
cold does not refrigerate but they're $8 to $10,000 so right now I fill I buy two big bag eyes put them in a big garbage bag I wrap them around the container it's a 24hour sampler so it has to run
for 24 hours and it has to be below um below four four it can't go in at six degrees C so I'm keeping it at 5 so but every Wednesday it's getting to be a little much so I'd like to ask to get a
technician to come out and see what's wrong with the refrigeration instead of going go buy another because it could be maybe it just need is that something anybody can do or
um usually it's yeah any any Plumbing person if I needed a part I'd have to go through like tellco or something like that but if they could diagnose it yeah so then that's so if you could find a refrigerator electrical
person maybe it's just the wire in there the sensor and there are a couple hundred compared to a new sampers so if you guys can find someone that would be
great or if you want me to find someone is there a number on the refrigerator of like the company oh yeah I talk to them all the time and with them it's about 56s so I don't know what you want me to do well just it's got to be
done find yeah t can do it it's about 5 600 bucks to come out not parts so for it so that doesn't seem like a lot of money does for what call with someone that knows the machine
is better than yes okay the basement the basement is very humid there is a house humidifier that has been in there for years the pipes are
rusting um a high dry like well we have in the water treatment plant is the about the kind that you need in there I don't know if any of you been in that basement the how much are they I don't
know know it's through John Schmid yeah from 25 to 5 just depending on your space but it it you need your pipes are not going to make it forever with the human coming in so something we should
do well I think about I put on the budget for I mean I wouldn't wait five years or anything but I would definitely get on it could we get estimates so that we can were you saying 2500 to
5,000 on what you me this is in a basement I mean I have fans running and stuff but it's pipes are get yeah I just get some estimates okay you what you guys were or you want me to
you can um otherwise yeah I had another 2hour bypass on May 24th and then June 1st I had a 2.9 Million um bypass on June 1st for a couple
days and then me and Eric went opened all the manholes on division most of that water was coming from Broadway to um Ash is where we found it but it was too heavy so we couldn't get the camera in there to
check it out so there is something going on there on that street we just don't know what but it was a lot of water so we just track it backwards till we found it so as soon as it settles down I'll have mrwa come out we'll camera up see
what's in it maybe there's just something broke or whatever and then this last weekend I want to thank everyone for everything it was it was a long weekend but we did good I mean everybody helped so it was it was
perfect I want to thank Janda Janda was there almost all day Saturday helping shelle with everything it was way more than she needed to do and it was awesome so thank you Janda you're welcome anyway to help I mean she did really good she
was my wake up call every hour yeah 45 minutes to an hour for the wake up to put gas on the [Music] pumps yeah I just stayed at she slept in the
TRU it was the it was honestly it was the first time that we've had people who have been very unhappy with us come up and thank us for the work that we've done um during this type of situation so it was actually we feel like we did a good good job this time so I mean we
even had County Commissioner there Doug kristopherson was there helping us I mean it was it was it was yeah it was it was good and we had a storm right during it all you know it it was yeah it was it
went very well very smooth yeah so and today I went um this afternoon I checked that man hle on Broadway and 30 it was it was just fine but it was running very heavy we still have a lot of water it's coming in about 1,200 gallons a minute
out of the plant which is a lot that's a lot so but yeah 4.1 million gallons since Friday and 650,000 from that manhole and I'm still bypassing so but
yeah it's all I can tell you when you're bypassing where does it go huh when you're bypassing where does it go to the CB to the yeah and it goes that way correct M goes all the way to St Clair and then up to the Minnesota
River which blue is meeting in what that yeah so all of our water goes straight up there yeah which isn't good for them no but we're not the only town that was
by a either and I took all the samples called it in I did all the right stuff yeah and I probably won't shut it off so I'll I tested it today and it wouldn't work so it was too much water
so I'll try it again tomorrow and see you in tomorrow afternoon and we'll just play it right ear the compliance officer knows I talked to her again today so she knows we're trying everything so yeah any questions about anything
good job than thank you great have motion motion to approve the people service report second okay any more discussion all in favor passes thank you thank
sh closer hello you want me to make that bigger for you what's that make that bigger for you don't look here olon came in and did the second Bell everything went wonderful and it
was right after that when you and I started checking um Street science City don't I think are helping I hope um it was uh thank you
for letting us open that all up so it really looks well couldn't imagine if we didn't have it opened up now so um uh UL uh they should be done no and they were still working when
I left this afternoon so they should get close I got a question on ash the center of the street wasn't ripped up and they not going to be no cuz that's going to take more no just full size yeah that's where
starting to Rod off is right where the the churches are even more people are turning in and out I didn't know that so um and then uh June 26 that'll be tomorrow no two days now um they're
going to wash out the tower the inside not the outside I think that's next year but I think when we do that we might want to talk about um changing color yeah I think painting is two years from now I
think they wash what I think they wash and then the next year they paint I think I think so um so then I was gone vacation two and a half two weeks ago um and they ripped out the railroad
tracks on there it's all gone looks nice uh I think next year I think we can get a bid on um repaving it and making it smooth so um got a lot uh got got a lot going on
for next week before Farm Ste days um did we hear anything on the raft and the ropes and stuff um we're just waiting for testing to come back should here tomorrow maybe
okay uh through the storm um we have two trees that I feel are more important as of right now um the one in the park is uh out of our hands I feel it's too big
it's um sorry that's not on here no no um and then the one by J Johnson's that's uh by the Wagner Foods parking lot Corner that if you look up at at the top it's all rotten it's right going right
towards the house so I got a I had mcons come in last night um and he will take care of both of them and uh remove the stumps for $800 both yeah that's a very good deal
I was I was shocked when he said that yeah so I need we'll need a motion on that oh I'll make a motion to have MCL remove the two trees for $800 second okay any more discussion all
in favor of the motion motion passes and like I said did have this on on here CU it was just yesterday um he also started talking about the the and uh he said there is companies
own that do it for about $150 a tree but you have to do it twice in two years so that might be something might I don't know what not a treat it's a spray treatment oh theay spray treatment got it no I think they drill a hole yeah but
it's a it's a yeah yeah yeah so might be something we might be interested in do we have any that are affected right now that know I don't believe he didn't think there's anything he was looking at them he didn't feel but he said it might be worth how many trees do
we have you know I might have to talk to Matt $150 a pop that absolutely but if you can put it in a budget to save some money for future that would be [Music] so thank you yeah thank you it's her not
me yeah it sh it sh just show nobody else motion to accept report second motion and a second any more discussion all in favor motion passes thank thank you thank
you okay on to new business may you should have that in front of you I I had to print it off CU W ready anyone have any questions for Tomy labor that's Le that's Union news okay okay we have a motion to approve
the main check register I make the motion to approve the main Che register second okay Motion in a second any questions for Tony all in favor all motion passes now the
M financials I feel like C way through the year we're at 36% that's pretty pretty good yeah you found all the things you couldn't find and everything is yeah well so we still have a little bit of it
so I'm we're finding out quickly that the new system may not be exactly as any better than the old old system for finding stuff it's still making weird deposits like PSN is so but we'll figure it out it's just a matter of trying to
figure out how things go once we once we found out how to get to the place where we could find out where stuff was then it's a little bit easier so um but yeah so this this this month was still half PSN half P so it was still kind of a
little bit of a challenge but next month will be the first full month where we have just the new utility software so should be much easier but you'll let us know where the if you find where it's coming from where it's not balancing right you
said it's not balancing no everything's balancing no everything's good hey do we have a motion to approve the main financials I'll make that motion in a second any more questions any question for Tony favor
okay last Z yeah that's just like we've talked about that many many times that's just a calculation error that if there's nothing there to divide by or there should be anything in that yeah correct
y okay any other questions all in favor of the motion passes Okay purchase of a Lucas device for the ambulance um so as you know we received that 53 781 from the emergency service
funding for the council they wish to split it between the fire ambulance and police departments works out to be $ 17927 per Department ambulance would like to use this money towards purchase of a new L Lucas the Lucas cost is 19 21575 leaving approximately
12887 uh believe that'll be offset with some money donated by the fire department towards the ambulance um but regardless of what happens there is that money available in the ambulance's budget for equipment so good
deal I'll make a motion that we run with the purchase of the Lucas machine for7 I'll second it motion is second all in favor motion passes ambulance pay
discussion uh jod asked us to be on the agenda and I believe uh director sunby provided you guys all with information via email um and then I also I de started my out with recruiting
and reden we could get increase for them I like recomendations [Music] onot please state it upping to $35 per call and uping the on call time three
for week day and I believe four for weekend that's how I read that correct um I wouldn't mind adding for either debate or discussion on that do take a bunch of hours maybe that incentive that there's
something in place over 60 hours that was a thought as like a bonus maybe that's coming from other cities too but maybe to ask for debate discussion two items one of them maybe being members that pick up 60 plus
because you're mandatory right now is 4 48 about increasing that so I did put together a survey for the ambulance members and asked s send it to them because in the
past the am members have not been happy when they haven't been a part of the discussion and in the past people have been mad when we've added money to runtime people have been mad when we've added money mad when we've added money to call time we've tried to fix this many different ways and it's never
really been fixed so I just wanted to get kind of an idea of where they feel what would help so this is just kind of what we've 12 responses of what you got so pretty much everybody says call time compensation is what's important to them
for the most part more than run pay um they feel most of them feel run pay should be a flat amount as opposed to an hour hourly rate uh most of them feel like taking
more for call time than run pay is more important um looks like the majority of people feel $4 to5 dollar an hour is what they feel is an acceptable rate to be on call during the
week some said 10 some said three but most of them said between four and5 an hour um on the weekends it's anywhere from 5 to 7 to 10 5 to 7 it's kind of the
average and then for the most part everybody felt like the current weekend holiday bonus are acceptable that they're being paid um the flat rate most people said 35 to 40 is kind
of the mean number I guess for the most part then I just asked if if there if you decided you wanted to go to an allate what would be fair most of them said 20 to 25 bucks an hour so that's your responses from the crew Just For Thoughts
what are your thoughts I feel that it is that we need to do something because for people to stay on we're doing a great service for us in our community that we need to I believe we have it should be able to be workable in our budget that we have
right now I feel it would be a thing to do to keep everybody and the recommendations that Sarah had put in there that would be great you know this what is your guys thought for can you figure out subie pencil
saying if you did this rate on whatever you said what if it cost a year she has a cop of it yeah with the new rate the new R which you figured at what5 yeah I know I don't have it with
me you have it on hand with you I'm sorry um three three and four is kind of where it was at and then um weekends was a little bit different as well you know soek what we were looking at what she's used so far this year there's PL you
know what she's already used and what we still have left budgeted increasing it even a certain amount we would be fine even if we didn't have to increase um like we have the Medicare charge amount you know that we bill out we wouldn't have to increase in it we'd
still be fine with what we have budgeted um we kind of talk different Avenues with things what did you discuss with the Run mod um little mix with the survey I thought
they more well we had talked when Sarah and I got together we were talk kind of throwing ideas for everything out thank you mine's at home under bu of water um so week day was three weekend was four and then the 35 for run is what we had
calculated um so we had figured out see here this is a current and this is this was current right yeah these two here yeah this whole this whole
R that's going up so right now weekday about 1437 weekend is 1692 holiday 144 so a total of 3273 going up to the 3 and four and the
35 for runs we're looking at 25550 for weekday so it is an increase it's about a $1,300 difference between what we are now and bumping it up up to the three and four
good 1300 over a certain period time this is yes this is week Weekly right mon monthly monthly that's hard to gauge right I mean run but going back
history yeah this was going off of this was maze correct yes so Tony did you put any math to this well you're only I mean right now you're sitting
at ambulance wages are at 41% of what's budgeted right now at at the end of May so you have seven months left of the year so if you go up there's a chance you
could be over dep depends on us you've got that $445,000 sitting in insurance right Austin budget I don't think we didn't spend it last year and I think you're probably correct but that's one of those things where you we don't
have Crystal Ball but I I I I would I would Echo your statement that yes I don't believe we writing that off and I don't I don't know what I don't know what we actually wrote off uh I will I guess I didn't looking
get the base rate that there are some that are 700 to any 1200 b r so um yeah Wells is like 800 we'll be able to do that next at beginning of the year for budget for the beginning of the year I'll get the those numbers to you so
that way have a what's the comparable to us they're a little bigger I mean the other the other thing too is you could you could you know start this August 1 and then that would you
know or you could even go well August 1 would we rates any time yeah you can raise rates any time we just have to notify billing companies and stuff like that well three or four months and see what it looks like if we
meet the ra with them yeah especially when we looking at the budget and the company that's been billing our charges have been doing an excellent job is what I've been hearing because they things have been getting coded for payments so we've been getting
payments faster correct I think so yeah were we don't have so much thatting out there okay do we have a motion to yes I'll make that motion and we raised
to uh was it 3 four and 35 yep three for weekday four for weekend effective I guess August 1 I don't know do Ju you can do whatever you want to I just I'm so July 1 I'm a little
apprehensive about July 1st with us being at you know close to 50% and we still haven't made it six months yet but it's I mean it's you it's ultimately up to you guys so I see [Music] your mean you you can I mean we can
adjust we can adjust whatever so so you saying August for August second okay Motion in a have a motion in a second any more discussion all in
favor motion passes um you also probably should address Sarah Sun's director's wages as well um that was in the email yeah we were going to address it but I was gone on
vacation so I didn't want to try to address that with though but Jan and I did meet with her and she did have a successful performance review and we are recommending that she get a 3% increase in her salary okay it has been quite a
few years since been done so and that that same similar that won't affect the budget too much terribly either so I'll make that that's effective that's effective immediately we have a motion in a
second second all in favor I motion passes okay Broadway lighting um as you know there are many lights that are down on Broadway um we haven't really been addressing it
because the style of head that was in there at the time is was a very expensive head um it was close to 17 or $18,000 to replace all the stuff that was wrong with all
the lights that were that were on there um I well may it was this was 12 I was thinking of different but the 12,000 initially um Delan was able to find a much less expensive head that uses a screw and LED bulb that actually Eric and bradden are able to replace the
bulbs on themselves and we can actually have spares on hand um the cost to fix all those is $5,000 instead of $122,000 um and Delane said that if you approve that he can have them done by farm and City day so that all the light
is working by that time this doesn't affect the visual look of it does it'll be the same same cover is the same it'll look exactly the same it's just that it's a screw bulb the guts inside will be different than what is there now so and there is there is Bud there is money
in the maintenance and Street budget to take care of it um so it's up to you guys but I think that it definitely needs to be done the lighting is really starting to look bad on Broadway so I'll make a motion that we go with Del
estimate of $5,000 for the street light we have a second Motion in a second any more discussion all in favor motion passes okay the 2023 final audit all right I apologize lane lane called this
afternoon and they were double booked and he was not able to get here to do uh go through the the audit presentation with everyone um he apologizes profusely um so I can just go over this high level um presentation but I do have the each
of you has a copy of the full audit here uh does need to be approved tonight because has to be filed with the auditor's office by July 1 um any findings um no instances of non well I shouldn't say that so obviously we give our normal stuff The Limited
segregation of Duties financial statements uh there were a few issues with sales tax um filings from prior years and and moving on to this years and that's just um just part I forgot one time and now I
have a reminder set so that shouldn't happen again um it just it has to be done on the 20th every every single time and and uh they're the state of Minnesota is not forgiving in any way shape or form so um uh there was some issues with some
absences and then some bank reconciliations and then um the relief Association when when somebody retires they get a check from the state to help pay out their
retirement we have to cut that check back to the relief Association within a certain amount of time well if that check comes in electronically at the first part of the month and we don't do our bank recks until like the 15th or later I don't always see that come
through our checking account and it's so they found out that it didn't get there in a certain amount of time so now I'm checking those more regularly to make sure that it's there um general fund balance is much better off than where it was in the past
and L is coming either to the first meeting or second meeting in July to walk us through all these numbers more in depth than to answer any of your questions that you have so but you needed approved tonight don't you yeah looks like we had about a
$200,000 budget surplus yep this right yeah yeah spend it like the state no uh the only thing we did have was our our sewer fund is our we did I did a really good job bumping up our water fund and
our sewer fund tanked so so um I actually have Jesse putting together a proposal to do a rate study just to see I I can do a pretty good job of trying to navigate that but I'm not an expert
in that so I kind of want to get a second opinion but I also think now after talking I think that Minnesota Valley Council of governments might do that for free so I'm going to reach out to them and see if they'll be willing to help us with that as well basically that'll they'll they'll do like a give us a
fiveyear idea of where we need to set our rates to kind of get our funds back and you know where they need to be so because like right now we could easily lower our water rates and increase our sewer rates and basically our customers would see a not see an increase at all it just lower our water rates and
increase our sewer rates and we just fund the sewer a little bit more than the water and that's obviously because the plant has been I mean we' we've been dumping money into the pl to try to get this you know fixed up and bring back to right so right so lucky lucky enough for the
water plant we've we've been basically living on Ara money to fix all that stuff up so that shouldn't affect that much I mean that's all going to be paid for by arpa funds Cedar Point's doing great uh great fund nursing home is doing very well thank
you um I mean everything's looking pretty good Debt Service is looking good so yeah okay we have a motion to approve the 2023 a okay we Motion in a second any more
questions for Tony all in favor motion passes want close your public hearing close the meeting now and close your public hearing yeah close the public hearing you a motion to do that um no
you can just close it at 7:29 public meeting is now closed 7:30 that we adopted ordinance 2051 [Music] oh wait a second oh you did okay all in
favor okay miscellaneous Tony your report um just reviewed Council on employee activities when I returned uh continue to monitor the emsa package um worked on initial information for the am's pay discussion sub million sales
tax uh Heather attended election judge training while I was gone so she's going to be in charge of that I'm going to go to but um she said it was thrilling did you guys go um we we found out that there is not a lot
of people who read the newsletter for the City of New Richland um we've been for about a week and a half we dealt with about 10 to 15 people a day who yelled at us for not accepting their PSN payments and um they told us they didn't
read the newsletter so um so just a if you don't read the newsletter try to read the newsletter because occasionally we do put stuff out there that is important um for stuff so I note for you guys count pay roll will be Friday all right um there are no
birthdays or anniversaries for this section and that's all I got for you yeah I got I'd like to have some time in the next two or three meetings because he Heather went to the
election judge training and you're going to go to it could we open it up to the public for any questions on anything related to elections what do you mean just having come in here and ask questions about I have some but I don't I am not that needs to go to Tammy because the people that go to the
election judge training that's just to well that's what I ask him have somebody here to do that for us oh we could questions we what what kind of questions all sorts whatever people can think of um you know what do they do when dead
people come in and try to vote or do they clear the roles so that they can't get somebody in that type questions clarifications on who how they all sorts of questions that's my question that you should direct towards Tammy Spooner why can't you come down here and give us
time I can ask her if she would be willing to but I don't think it I don't think it's an appropriate time at a council meeting to do that I think that'd be a separate Time advance public come and say hey you got any questions as far as elections come
in and talk to Tammy on this I can reach out to her and ask if she'd be willing to come down to to do that or if she'd be willing to just have us direct questions to her but yeah to motion second all in favor motion
passes mayor and Council comments anyone okay a motion to adjourn at 7:34 second okay meeting is adjourned thank
you thanks guys oh thank you why didn't you just stop