this conference will now be recorded call the New Richland City Council meeting for April 14th to order roll call everyone is here pledge allegiance algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic
for which it stands one nation indivisible liberty and justice for all all right Tony did we have to add yep i got one addition uh it's going to be
uh just the uh EDA uh business improvement grant that was approved by the EDA you're putting that under new business move to approve the agenda with additions
second that all in favor consent agenda items i'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda items i'll second it all in favor i All right this will be time for public comment if anybody wishes
to speak it's on um they can come forward now anybody if not we'll move on your request and presentations corey
all right good evening Madame Mayor members of the council um so we'll have uh two requests for consideration tonight both in regards to resolutions related to the 2025 project i think this might be the wrong
one yep there it is there it is perfect i appreciate it so first will be um both are related to the chapter chapter 429 process and are both
affiliated with the assessment process so we are um at the beginning of our our second uh hearing process and and directly both actions are directly related to the special assessment so kind of always feel it's a little powerful capture timeline a little repetitive in this but we're showing
progress here each council meeting um and we've had kind of a frequency here of almost a monthly um touch on this 2025 project so um at our last meeting we approved plans and specs approved the authorization to bid um we were successful in opening bids last week um
April 10th so we had eight biders um on the project we had a a parent responsible low bid um so that information allowed us to um apply the the updated project costs and and be in position tonight to declare cost to be assessed and order that assessment
hearing um so that is the action tonight um and then setting the framework for then that conducting of that assessment hearing at that May um city council meeting and uh the the the consent agenda tonight um set the the official time for that which will also do via
resolution you don't mind Tony so the assessment process um it's it's consistent in the properties that are directly adjacent are the ones that are going to be assessed um it is noted that the bids received were less than the engineers estimates so we anticipate the assessments will decrease then as a
result of that um our project cost decrease so we have a total project cost now estimated based on that low bid be that 2.9 million and then the breakdown of the the cost that is applicable to the city is a a little over that 2.5 million then that total assessment
amount that that 458,000 i have a question on that do we have to take the low bid um the lowest responsible bid so city does have uh discretion in the review of those bids um we are in the process here of evaluating the bids so you know there's
a a bid submitt there's some uh supporting documentation that's required to be submitted acknowledgement addendums that sort we vetted that already um there's a bid bond that's required we can um vet make sure that that's um that's uh proper and legit um there's a bidder qualification so we're
in the process of considering it um the the use of public dollars does require the low bid the the lowest responsible bid and so um there would be you know we would have to have good and and uh and uh you know justified reason to not
accept a low bid as read do in that process do they look at the history of that bidder on whether they completed good project we're in the process of doing that so through the contract we have a bit of a qual qualifications form um we would request that of the low bidder in this case I I sent that today
had a conversation with that low bidder on Friday they're excited um it's JJD Companies um it's a local company um so I mean right now we have no reason to believe to not consider them uh to be qualified and competent but we're in the process of adding that i thought 50% was
pretty much you know a big decrease every pretty much every project that's coming back right now is 15 to 20% under engineers estimate okay and that's from what I understand from talking with other administrators in the area there's so much volatility
in the federal contracting market right now that everybody's bidding local projects okay thanks okay thank you and just so council's aware so we will consider those bids formally that at that's at the May meeting so I'll cover
that timeline here but so assessment role in in application of property consistent to how we've been uh previously presenting it it's the amount that here is decreased which is a benefit don't mind Tony so then schedule next steps i covered that we open bids
on April 10th um tonight we are in that process of uh consider two actions related to that assessment the first is to declare the cost to be assessed and order that rule um we have two noticing requirements that associate with um an assessment first is um a mailed mail
notice in regards to a specific mailing to those properties to be assessed in this case it's going to be those adjacent benefiting properties within that mailing is the amount that is intended to be assessed based on that role um we do list that by the dollar amount we also have to provide notice in
the official city paper um obviously we are familiar with that's the SAR ego we've done another number of notices related to the project so we have to do one of those and then hold our assessment hearing um closure of that assessment area council has consideration then to adopt that final assessment role and then uh the the
immediate action then after that would be to consider that that award of that low bid that that responsible or qualified low bid um contractually we have a begin construction date of June 2nd that's very strongly tied and directly tied to the school um the
school year uh last day of school is the the the Friday before um Tony and I and and Eric did have a chance to meet with the school district kind of a pre-construction we met with them once we had a lot of information to gain that first time we were able to meet with them again and kind of just reinforce a big topic of conversation was the
schedule to make sure we got that captured correctly um not only is it significant on the completion of the school but then it's applicable to the resumption of the school year then this fall and so we have a a really structured date to ensure that we have bus traffic um suitable and then a a
construction substantial completion there that that October date um and then the way that we're intending this to work is we'll be considering assessments we'll be adopting them kind of formally acknowledging what that amount is to be due but then recognizing that there's still work to be completed with the project so those assessments would be
then due this fall um with no interest and the first payment um in lie of a prepayment would then be in 2026 so there's a a kind of a delay to be that assessment being actually due so hopefully that's understood that'll be clear in the communication that we
provide the properties as well as the paper mind Tony so then in summary in considerations of the of this first action um you know 429 the special assessments has been identified as a as a critical funding for the feasibility and affordability of this project um we
are following chapter 429 process this is a required step here um this consideration of this resolution um and that's to declare assessment to those but ab budding and benefiting properties um and the assessment amount is to propose to be consistent with that February resolution 20% of the street
sanitary and water improvements um happy to entertain any questions that council may have but um the request for action then is the uh adoption of that resolution R20 R25-013 how long do residents get to uh for
their exception to 10 years we're we're we're planning for 20 on this yep and 20 is the maximum that you can go 20 years okay most cities go between 10 and 12 okay so we need a motion correct you want for
both of them or just We're going to take one at a time consideration right now is resolution 25-1 all right i'll make a motion to adopt resolution 25 uh-13 a resolution declaring cost to be
assessed in order in preparation of proposals assessments for 2025 street utility improvement project i'll second all in favor hi so then the second required step in regards to the a special assessment and
again consistent with chapter 429 is the ordering of the assessment hearing so you may recall there are two required hearings as part of a a chapter 429 delivery process the first was that improvement hearing the second now is the assessment hearing um so following
the provisions of that um we declared cost to be assessed we ordered that role in the previous hearing that role has been prepared it's on file at the at city hall here um that's uh based on the project cost as well as that 20% assessment rate so we've got that role prepared um as part of that then there
is communication of that role and then a hearing to be able for the council to consider and hear um any any comments objections related to that assessment so that hearing is that formal process for that this this considered action is to set that hearing um I covered tonight
already the noticing requirements so once we set a hearing date we have to notice via mail via the paper um and then the assessment is uh uh identified to be that 6 pm on May 12th so that'd be um be before the city council meeting
the consent agenda acknowledge an hour or half hour late start on that assessment so we'll conduct the hearing at 6 PM and then the council would have consideration of adoption of that role that would be at the regular city council and then following that would be
the consideration to award the project so hearing as I alluded to our second required hearing that'll be 6 pm Monday May 12th um held here at city hall um and and as I alluded to kind of beating a dead horse here that here notice will be uh published in the paper and uh and
provided um to the property owners um consistent with the the the advanced notice of requirements of chapter 429 so the second uh I guess requested action provided council doesn't have any questions would be um to adopt resolution R25 uh-14 ordering that
assessment hearing i move to adopt resolution 25-14 second all in favor i thank you thank you okay ordinance and resolutions ordinance 25-01
get back to it maybe this is for the parking on Ash isn't it we'll get to it uh so this is an amendment to our current ordinances this is came out of our Cory and Eric and I's discussion with the school uh this is part of that
the project so this will be amending the ordinance for South Avenue uh restrictions so this will be from 4th Street Southwest to Highway 30 so this will be no parking no standing no stopping on the east side of Ash
Avenue from 7:30 a.m to 3:30 p.m while school is in session so that will not allow anybody to park or stop on that side of the road any homeowner who does have a home on that side of the road will be allowed to give get a permit from the city so that they're allowed to
park their personal property or vehicles in front of their own residences so that they're not taken out of this but basically it eliminates any parking issues on those sides of the road there will be another follow-up um ordinance modification to the west
side of the road um we've given that to the school to decide how they want to manage that side of the road because we don't know what they want to do um but I want to codify that into the ordinance so that they have control over what they
want to do for parking restrictions on that side of the road for what works best for the school um so we're just waiting for them to get back to us on that but we wanted to get this started now because it does take two readings and a public hearing in order to get this started for the project so this is the first part of that um so what we're
looking for is to uh set the public hearing for uh 7:05 p.m at the next council meeting um for that part so the permit that'll be free no charge no if if you want to come get two
permits for the vehicles in front of your house come to city hall you get permits you can park your stuff in front of your house for no charge it just so that it eliminates people from parking their cars to pick up their children but it still doesn't put him out of having his property in front of his house what kind of permit are we doing is it going
to be like a tab that goes on their license plate like just to hang in his rear view that he's got something to prove that he can work there so i see this ordinance is 251 but the last one is 2513 or 14 no those are resolutions
okay yeah so all I'm looking for is a motion to set public hearing for May 12th and 7:00 so moved
i'll second that all in favor i all right department reports ambulance report sarah um I did have an application but the background hasn't came back so I'm not going to worry about that until the next hearing comes in
um Laura Beckman did not I made a mistake when I sent all it in her I gave the Tony the copies of it all of what she actually had for her her refresher as a paramedic when we shorted her
to 212 i see you changed it up there tony can't cover tax huh can't cover tax oh okay so yeah I'd like to get approval to get the rest of the refresher paid for her of $200 and then
um we still struggle with daytime hours um Jenna is back we did have virtual training last virtual reality training last month and everybody enjoyed that i gave you some information about the equipment i'm going to actually do some more research onto it and have meetings
with the crew so they can all look at it and decide what we want to go for it so everybody can see it um we got been working on the new billing company um our old billing company has not built the whole month much month of
March i don't know if you looked into that i'm working on it when was the end of their contract april 1 we go live with the new building company tomorrow good okay good because we live yeah well I've I I've saw today
now I guess Wnebago was switched over to a new building company because now I found out that Expert is actually facing some lawsuits now too well if they don't build these then we can go after them for breaking so I'm Yeah we're I'm digging into it i I gotta try to figure
out if they just stopped billing because they stopped billing or if there was an error or something we did have some issues with some Medicare issues that we just got fixed at the middle of March so I don't know if they weren't billing because there was a Medicare issue so um
but it's hard to it's been hard to get answers from them because I think that once we notified them that they weren't going to be working for us they really kind of sort of put us on the back burner with stuff so um we'll try to get as much information the new company is very easy to work with they've been
really awesome and we've been having weekly meetings with them so I would venture to guess that if we asked them to help us back bill some of that stuff I would very venture to guess they probably would be I did venture to Beth one day when she called me on my lunch break and she was like "Well that's
something you can talk." I would venture to guess that they'd be willing to help us back bill with that but from what I from what I see with them I think it's going to be night and day they they set us up with with things that expert hasn't had even heard of uh when I asked
them for for our contract information for various companies that that the new company had asked us for they were like "We've never heard of that or we weren't using that or so i I think that the billing is going to be night and day
between the two organizations so could we possibly get an aging report you know just the ones from March but are there any other outstanding we will get I will get uh I will get an outstanding report of of anything that hasn't been built or what's currently built and then um they
are actually talking with Expert and they actually set up a a file transfer um site for Expert to to to for them to send what they had over to them um and we me and Heather and Sarah all have access to that to view those reports and
then with this new company we hopefully have a dashboard where we can actually see live data real time data of stuff and we should be able to actually provide billing reports on a pretty regular basis to the council that actually show me what's actually coming
in on a pretty regular basis pretty easy so it'll be nice yeah but like I said they're they're their start date is tomorrow and they're back billing to the first because we had some issues getting everything caught up because of how unsuccessful the expert was with what
they were doing so okay but yeah um I did find out a lot of the people's pagers which is the one that pages us out when we get a call the batteries are not charging so I did get a hold of Gary i know it's not on there but I got a
hold of Gary and um it's $32 per battery and there we have 10 pagers and they've never been changed since we got them so I'd like to get approval to buy 10 batteries it'd be a total of $320 then and then the approval
for Laura also that's 520 total you got 320 for the batteries 200 for me that's 520 yep and then for the third gear row we got another certificate excellent
good job i make a motion we approve $520 uh as per Sarah's request second all in favor i thank you all right
make a motion to accept the invoice i'll second it all in favor i fire department let's see uh you have one is there any time limit on that ambulance money that we by the end of the year okay yeah she's working on the
I saw some of these prices and I'm like whoop yeah we had a conversation earlier so okay um no calls for the month they did some air pack training there is a purchase request for some gear um turnout gear yep so turnout
turnout gear uh helmets helmet fronts uh $15,722 um that is the entirety of their turnout budget um but uh actually it's a little over that but there is some ESF funds that
still they have available so I'm fine with it plus they've donated well over $100,000 to city so there's plenty of money there to take care of it so I will need a motion for that and then for the report i'll make a motion we accept the $15,722 i'll second all in favor i
I'll make a motion to accept the fire department report i'll second it all in favor i police department um we had 148 calls for the month of April um totaling 376 for the
year obviously lower than March of last year because last year we were making each um directive patrol an individual call for service as opposed to one call for service and then logging them with timestamps um I don't have a whole lot
um working through a background on a potential new hire for the part-time position um we purchased the storage drawer like I talked about at the last meeting and then a mobile computer using the emergency service funds and 260
got it i'll make a motion to accept the police report do you need a motion no no everything else is good okay I'll second it all in favor i Thanks Denise
nice all right care center bob that almost touched Bob you're welcome thanks h care center report so looking back at operations in the month of
March our average census was 35.5 december through February we had an average of 36.5 our current census is 34 uh we've been up and down with the census uh
since I guess December and some of the reason for that is we are finding it more the the people that we are getting referrals for are younger um they
have some behavioral issues that we currently are not prepared to deal with they have uh you know issues with alcohol drugs that type of thing but they still need help so and I'll explain this in a little bit
but we are looking at getting the appropriate uh behavior management and uh that type of training so that we can bring on some of these maybe more difficult cases uh something that would
fill our building so uh looking at that um in quality we are looking at reviewing hospitalizations within 30 days of admission and trying to reduce the number of readmissions to a hospital because that is part of our quality that
drives a part of our quality score and that part of our quality score is been quite low uh sometimes you can you can kind of work with those numbers sometimes you can't uh but we're hoping that we can
make a difference uh trying to do more of a virtual physician type of thing with Mayo Clinic versus sending them directly to urgent care or the ER doc can you talk to me now i got the
patient right here let's talk right here and that way it doesn't count as going back to the hospital or the emergency room so we're kind of working on that uh behavior reduction again that training um and a better understanding if the
action by the resident is a behavioral issue that we need to document or if it is a resident preference and some of it is you know uh things get documented as a
behavior i'm Well we'll use Janda would say "Shut the light off." And I might say "Shut the damn light off." Oh I was having a behavioral moment not really that's just the way I talk
so we need to better understand our residents as we begin to get the lower the younger end of the boomers and the generation X starts coming in and the language the language changes we are no longer dealing with
the greatest generation who were the most wonderful people ever ever swore grand square now we say it out loud you ever been to a veterans home good point very good point
uh so we're dealing with some of those things and again improving the quality of life of the residents helping people get more engaged in their home in our community um financials this is from February because we're now meeting on the 10th of the month correct um we did
lose $11,000 in February because we had a very moderate census soft census of about 35 uh we had a short month over two days short and we were
seven residents keep that in mind seven residents short of my budget that's $70,000 short so that was a lot uh we had a moderately high agency use which contributed to operational loss but part
of that also went into extra training because we had in February and March we were hiring our own nurses uh so agency nurse use will be less in March and April uh and we'll have our own more of
our own nurses which is good but it took extra time to train them um CNAs is another thing right staffing we have some openings our director of nursing resigned about 10 days ago
um I currently have a contract nurse in there that is doing a fabulous job and she's working with our current staff building them back up to confidence levels that I think are
you know have been lacking for a little while and uh looking at rebuilding the structure of not just one position but multiple positions over a period of at least 10
years maybe 15 uh the director of nursing position has been whittleled away and taken apart and tried to put back together again because oh gosh I don't like doing this you can do this part i really don't like doing this you can do this part so they
whittle down things that they didn't want to do and then oh I don't know who does that i guess it's not me somebody else must and we're trying to put those things back together to get the person the new person trained in appropriately so that the director of nursing piece
when the new person steps in is created it's functional and it works well um as well as the nurse managers potential assistant director of nursing and infection prevention we're trying to recreate a a culture and a work culture
in the nursing department to give people a little bit more voice more confidence and overall just a better working knowledge um see she's stealing thunder again i know
uh always looking for certified nurse aids full and part-time positions on evenings overnights every other weekend and holiday rns and LPNs full-time part-time positions on evenings and overnights every other holiday weekend and holiday um
benefits wonderfully competitive pay and it will be going up i got a plan for that you do get shift differentials uh healthcare insurance or pay in lie of that benefit for full-time people
um uniform allowance life insurance policy public employees retirement account with a 7.5% match fabulous match please don't forget to tell people that and the newly found
Nationwide thank you Tony you know two years later but thank you now we had a very good meeting with Nationwide uh last week we had uh seven or eight people interested they are looking into it so we are expanding and
that's buff 10% of our staff marcus tanks a good time to buy exactly okay um last thing I have is and she can't compete with this the Easter egg hunt on Saturday April 19th at 10 o'clock i hope you can all be there
thank you thanks Bob bob I have a question yes sir um wouldn't the cost of hiring some specialized folks you know to handle some of these behavioral problems and mental health or whatever wouldn't that offset the It would allow
you to have more residents correct so wouldn't that offset the cost of hiring them um if you Yeah if I if I could if your budgeted for 42 and your current is 34 you're gonna be running a deficit again you have to have those people 24 hours a day though right oh they can't
be like part-time no that's got to be a 24 it's 24 hours a day because typically the uh the behaviors are in what we consider the slow times from 4:00 in the afternoon until about 2
in the morning okay yeah and to be able to have somebody to cover that time frame is very difficult um it most of it is just teaching our people how to deal appropriately with it
um not necessarily oh they're just having behaviors and we need to leave them right you know leave them alone um no we need to learn how to talk with them you know if it's dementia that they have going on we need to be able to live
in their moment you know my mother had I know Jody's talking about 1948 man it's 1948 yeah chicago you know independent i'm trying to come up with ideas on how you can get you know how you can increase your
census to so we can make some money right right yeah good idea to be able to have someone like that on staff is well not necessarily but that there's other you know finding people to work is difficult you
know that that goes without saying yeah the ones that we have are doing a fabulous job uh they're learning they've they've come along the way they learn to work together uh accepting one another's strengths and weaknesses I
think that's pretty pretty amazing Um we've got a pretty good management team we do have Lenel Aman she is going to be retiring i don't know if I said that last meeting May 2nd she will retire
we've got a couple applicants for that well Bob you've done a phenomenal job taking us from where we were and bringing us to where we are today so I appreciate that yeah good group of people thank you there you go thanks M make a motion to
accept the care center report i'll second that all in favor i I People Service report you're up what are we right now nice comment
first off we didn't get the 2024 Minnesota award again very good doing my job the right way so it's pretty happy to see it i will be land
applying in the next couple weeks um hopefully in the next week depends on weather and I'm ready to go so that'll be nice the Trappers Bowling Alley
manhole um I'm asking for a new manhole cover this one has about 10 holes drilled in it all the water runs into this manhole and into the sewer so and
there is a pump in it that I want removed that should not be in there is it our pump no so but the manhole cover I might have one that might fit it um but I I think
it's too deep of one that's a special certain one that's very shallow so I'll get a quote for that before I get it and I'll ask around maybe somebody It's an older one so maybe somebody's got one laying around out back somewhere you know you never
know i've got three of them out back so it's just not the one that I need so I will ask around before I buy one um the diaphragm pump this pump was put in in 1989 it's air driven it's a
great pump it only It's sole purpose is to pump scum out of tanks i have one scum tank that will only pump with that pump and that pump is not working now the parts have only been replaced once
it's a very simple machine it's just a diaphragm and some solenoids and check balls um I've went six check balls have been used since 1989 they they fluctuate up and down with the suction and
discharge well if they get a nick in them they don't work anymore and I've used all six and I just keep pulling them pushing them back in and it's just not working and the diaphragm um has some sort of tear and
it will not discharge so this gumpit will only use this pump they're good pumps one day they will be they will be no longer they're dangerous but um one day in the future you guys will
have to decide what you're going to do to replace that pump but for now for only being the second time it's needed parts since ' 89 that's pretty darn good 36 years they're very simple $4,48527
the your main part are those check balls those are the most expensive they're like 8 10 lb lead rubber coated balls so and I do tear this pump apart at least
three to four times a year to clean just for routine mhm to clean up and what where does this catch everything after all the screeners and everything yep this is right before or right after the final clarifiers
down there so it's taking all of that scum and then that's what that also goes to my digtor so without it it just wrecks everything going to the creek so I worked all this hard to get the water clear and then if that overflows it
erects it so I start all over again so I make a motion we approve purchase of the uh parts for the diaphragm $4,485 27 second that all in favor i
Thank you very much we'll get it to last another 20 36 years 40 years you come back to check it um rainfall we had a that rain that we had brought
in 350,000 gallons each day of those few days that we had so I had almost 2 million gallons that came in and we only used 71,000 at the well in one day so one day 71,000 the city used and I
brought in 350,000 so I think once we get those streets covered you know the new ones I think it'll will definitely help and then I'm I was wondering about the dehumidifier for the basement i know we
talked about it last year but I haven't heard anything huh 2500 we probably should just get approval on it it needs to be done i've got the heat on right now trying to be moisture yeah it's got to
be They're rusting but up to 3,000 you think we cover it make a motion to approve 3,000 to cover a demin are you guys getting them from Alden from Schmansky or
I'll second it all in favor i thank you and I don't know i think that's about it for my stuff do you guys have any questions
i have a question about the pump that's in this manhole are you are we sending a letter to Okay they already know okay yeah I handled that one okay just wanted to make sure there it's it's
a weird It's like a deadend manhole so it's right on his south door i don't know why it was put in there i have no idea but his line comes in off ash so it's coming in off ash that it goes to the building but then there's
this dead end manhole as a cleanout but there's check valve down there well something's not working right because it's filling up with debris so something is that whole thing is not right so if that fills up with water
that goes right into his basement into his lines so there I just don't understand the whole thinking of this cleanout that they got going on there but it was put in a long time ago where does that come pump it to
a place where I don't want it to pump to but I guess it was done what do you say 30 years ago so it's been doing this for a while and I just didn't didn't know that till I went investigated so there's a few manholes
in town that have um holes in them that were the manhole lids were made that way but I've been capping them putting plugs in them but this one it was purposely drilled years ago so but I'll look for the manhood cover
through other plants but if not I'm going to have to order something to stick it in there otherwise it's just taking on rain water okay all right i was just curious i just want to make sure that they're aware not to Oh yeah have another one put in or anything like that okay
anything else no no make a motion to accept the people service thanks guys second all in favor thanks thank you hi Eric hi Eric yeah uh
10 blue carts this month um finish uh sweeping streets we'll go again in a month or so um got a meeting and lots of meetings this month um uh Brad and I painted the bathrooms at
the Legion Field and we're going to uh do it out at the lake too also uh next month i suppose we had some batteries go out in the generator so we had to have those replaced um Waldorf Welding came and put
in that stair staircase looks amazing looks amazing um and then uh Chad Nitel did come in and put that window in i know that's in the the rounds section but had to get moved
up but that got put in last Friday um either this week or next week I think we're going to flush hydrants i'm seeing some debris in certain places in town um also JNR exercise is here in
town um he pulled in today and uh he I think he's going to start tomorrow and he's here for how many days again three i mean 13 next so those are for the water valves right
more questions i got a question yep chico stoping you showed me two bottles of water that were really nasty yep do you know why we're working on it right now so I went over there and I flushed his hydrant up there
and then I went to his house afterwards and I got a another uh bottle and it was crystal crystal clear i haven't used my water for a couple days we'll look at mine today there's there's a there's a number of things that could be going on
could be the frost yet it could be um I have Guy Leblanc helping me out on it and we're trying to used a bunch of water today a bunch of stuffed a lot
okay thanks um now to uh uh street repair um I did get the other uh on the bottom i know why that's
but uh waiting for bed uh through I got it through WW that's the difference between WW and new ones that just showed up
um Friday okay this is for the overlay that's where the overlay across the river and the UN's overlay is that the same bid for the same exact project i don't know did you have all the
Yeah do you want a motion it is it is real close but I did hear that you lens is going to do in front of the school at Fourth Street for the project so that's the street repair what it looks like
and how you guys want to attack it well we've used both companies before correct yep yep i had no problems either way no I don't that one was 27 yeah that was 27 so just
a shade higher than one yeah that's very close isn't it you need seal coating and crack filling and overlay no um the only other one I don't have on the other one of them would be at uh I
got two spots I got to do in front of second street um by Tony's that's where we had to we had a water blow out two years ago i think we're going to patch that up again
so you prefer Pearson's bar ends than you want them they are probably cuz they're the lowest ones right motion that wasn't budgeted as part of Capital Street for this year it was what were we budgeted up to
76 75 so right there but we did talk about spending down a little bit if we had to Jody of that 200 from last year so if we go over a little bit it's not terrible and I think based on the draft audit from this year
we'reund we're going to carry like 150,000 over from last year too so we're fine okay i'll make a motion to accept a bid from Pearson's Bones we'll second all in favor i
thank you all right thank you move to accept the maintenance report all in favor i business 2025 check register yeah i was going to say
yeah stuck out a lot of Amazon stuff a lot of that was to when we were when I was auditing stuff for the audit i realized we hadn't purchased the stuff for the grand for the new dishes for city hall so I needed to quickly purchase them so a lot of that is that
stuff open up a restaurant now I'd like to have a You're a chef i'd like to have a kitchen or You went to college i'd really like to have a commercial kitchen in there and then we could really rent out that space i think the the initial quotes that you
got on that was about 35 to 40,000 to make that work all commercial appliances yeah but over a long run make a motion to accept the check register i'll second all in favor i
20 March financials no look like we got some is that LGA uh yes so there so for the year for this year the state legislature passed the law saying that 9% of your first chunk
comes in March for this year only so we got 9% of our first allocation oh gosh why did they make that who knows that's weird they have to keep us on our toes so that when Heather and I looked at the checkbook and went where did that
come from Google why we got it i was looking at that but it's only for this year so unless they do continue to do it again spend the rest of it before they do it i'll make a motion accept March
financials i'll second all in favor i Okay and then I have a request um Heather and I have had lots of problems with the mail um particularly on a lot of our our normal payments um most recently we sent
a bill on the 11th of March and on the 4th of April it still had not arrived to the payment location which caused a late fee for two of our um for two of our regular payments so I'm asking the council to allow Heather and I to set up
a payments for just our normal stuff so electric phone copier cell phone health insurance supplemental benefits and natural gashes those payments we make every month that are normal that don't change just so that those payments can arrive on time every month without us having to I'm fighting all the time for
late fees because even if it's stated ridiculous it's taking four to six weeks for a stupid check to Yeah that was some of my payments too so but the normal things like we do with charge accounts or anything like that we will still send out checks to so that we can review i
mean everything will still get reviewed but the the normal stuff where we actually have charge accounts and stuff we will still review those and send checks like we do on a normal bas it's just that those electric all those normal things that we pay we just want to get there in a timely fashion and you guys still review everything anyway so it's not like it's not being reviewed
it's just that we don't think we should be paying fees or fighting waste time there's no costage yeah postage and checks well yeah it's
going to save but I do need I'll make a motion to move autogention items i'll second that all in favor i sense yeah um the next one is just a just a information for you guys
in case you have questions we were made aware um for the storm sewer district when Bandon set it up for us it was charged on a per meter basis um we were notified that there's a couple of duplexes and triplexes where they were getting $15 a month for per the property
instead of like it was supposed to be $5 for the property so we've now changed that in the system so the the properties are being charged a third of the fee or half of the fee instead of So we're working on refunding those people the way they should it might take a month or two to get it all figured out but it's
it'll be taken care of so if you have questions on that that's taken care of um yeah so that's that petition to detach uh we've received a petition to detach from Lynn and Lane
Walks uh they own the agricultural land on the very south east chunk of the city of New Richland um it is it's not I don't have a picture of it so it's Yeah it's a very wet spot there
where you can see the very wet spot there yeah cypress it is in city limits um they feel that they don't get any benefit from paying city taxes they would like it turned over to the
township um so they're requesting a petition to detach um I did run it past the EDA today the EDA does not feel that they are interested in um developing that area um so they are not interested
in in developing it um so they are fine with the council uh referring it as planning and zoning to uh have a hearing on on that so I'm looking for a motion to def to uh to refer that to planning and zoning for the 17th at 6:30 and then
to set up a hearing for 512 at 7:10 p.m so move second all in favor hi all right petition to separate parcel uh
second thing is uh petition to separate parcel it's going to be 358 and 352 358 352 yes um if you don't know this is the house that was moved in on Cypress it should have been split and it might have been split at that time but there is no formal paperwork that we're
finding on on that parcel actually being split um so it does need to be split and filed with the county um so that this is the official petition for that um so I need motion to send that to planning and zoning and to set a public hearing for
512 at 7:15 p.m make a motion to refer to zoning committee i'll second all in favor i you for studying the public hearing too right and is it public
second second all in favor i Okay um the CEDA EDA uh the last thing on new business um I believe I made made you aware previously that ripson was awarded a $15,000 grant from CEDA um for
uh EDA grant so CEDA has approved the EDA's uh grant for new new Richland business improvement grant new Richland EDA has um put together a grant program it'll be for $1,500 grants for businesses up to
10 grants uh this is the program uh that they've developed uh there is no cost to the EDA no cost to the city of New Roman no cost to the city council uh this is the business document here so the EDA approved it today i'm looking forward to the council to approve it um
applications are due by Friday June 6th the EDA would review those applications and then issue them with the required work to be done within a year um basically no no other requirements basically for
the program so it's yeah business beautifification but this one has no strings attached to it like the current program where you have to put up your own third of the funds this is just basically here's the
money yep $1,500 and it's you know I mean there's 10 grants available so there will be some sort of EDA is going to have to come sort of come together and decide how they're going to distribute the money but there will be 10 grants of $1,500 for distribution
so do we need a motion accepted to approve this to approve the I make a motion we approve the business improvement grant the EDA second all in favor i miscellaneous
uh just a few notes community garage sales Saturday April 26 cleanup day is May 10th and customers should be getting a uh ticket in their utility bill this month for that cleanup day are the fees
the same as last year yeah there nothing changed it's just what the county pay charges us right we don't Yep it's all the same so I just Okay okay all right nothing for administrator report
you don't have any yep i got some okay actually very busy so um well I was hoping lots of work with Corey and his the staff at Wman Bank and and working with Jason uh right away
ADA work street uh school submitted congressional bond requests to Finstead's office for flood mitigation project josh and Jason and I and Eric met with county partners on flood mitigation stuff uh submitted a grant to
request the enrichment foundation for bathroom mediator remodel uh sered completed the annual owner certification on the town homes we were found compliant with no violations completed the annual loss control with League of Minnesota cities that went very well uh working on the
final audit items with ABDO uh when I submitted this we're close to the final draft i actually received the first draft of the audit um there's been multiple aimless onboarding discussions mouth possible company for new document management software looking into that because we're
not completely happy with docu leadership growth group and MCMA committee planning sessions facilitated the bail of sale of the Chevrolet Impala we actually sold for $6,575 good um uh I received the first
draft of our ordinance update that we started Last fall um we received the first 9% of our first half of LGA uh worked with CEDA on this final grant program worked with CEDA and NRHD on a budget simulation grant or activity that we're going to be doing towards the end
of this month we received a $66,900 grant from MPCA to continue with our flood mitigation study efforts um our city attorney Jason helped us return our northwestern lot back to the city that person who was
building there decided that he was no longer willing to do that um we're working to get our building permit completely online uh working on that with our our website provider um Blue Cross Blue Shield our health
insurance now requires some stuff online so I got that taken care of met with Shannon Sweeney about our bond stuff and then I actually have our S&P ratings call bond ratings call next week so Shannon's going to help me out with that um and then got our March sales tax
taken care of so employee anniversary is Heather will be celebrating her one year anniversary here tomorrow so congratulations uh Cody's been here for two years on the 21st and then birthday's coming up Ernie
and Sarah in the month of May so congratulations everyone perfect hey all right i'll make a motion to accept the administrator's report second all in
favor i I anybody have any notes or anything all right so it looks like we are going to be closing the meeting at this time i'm sorry what i was
All right the meeting will be closed at this time pursuant to Minnesota statute section 13D.05 subdivision 3 to value of the performance of the city administrator bye have a great night thank you
thank Okay we're ready to go all right so we are reopening the meeting after evaluating the per performance of the city administrator we um we have to or do we need to approve it first oh we need a motion
don't we need to approve his step his steps yeah you so choose the merit increase for the step increase yes i'll second it okay you need a motion okay and you're
seconding it y all right all in favor i I I make a motion to adjourn the meeting second here i