this conference will now be recorded okay I'll call the June 10th city council meeting to order um we have a quorum um and the city administrator Tony is absent and Heather is here in his place Pledge of
Allegiance Al to the FL of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation God indivisible withy andice for all um before we move to approve the
agenda I have two items um I had a couple residents call me and ask to um talk about the signage down at the Legion Field not well I haven't seen the signs but apparently not permitting golf
carts down there and then um talk a little bit about the grass ordinance the length of grass so we can add one and two under new business anyone else have anything um we need to add swimming lessons under a new
business y okay you may did you tell me that before okay what's five blocks back to my house probably forgot okay so we have three new items under um three items under new business go to approve the agenda with
additions okay a motion in a second any more discussion all in favor I motion passes consent agenda items we have a motion I'll make a motion accept the consent agenda items okay no a
second okay we have motion on second any more discussion all in favor I motion passes any public comments ordinance and resolutions ordinance number 205.000 office of the city administrator
annual audit first reading do you want to read this or do you want me to we don't I thought we've always read them in the past okay Office of the city administrator annual audit there is
hereby established the position of City administrator the offices of city clerk and City Treasurer are hereby combined pursuant to ms42 591 sub two as it may be amended from time to time the city administrator is
hereby appointed to be the clerk treasurer for the city and shall exercise all the duties and responsibilities of a city clerk and a city treasurer as specified in Ms chapter 14 412 and elsewhere in the laws
of the state in this code as they may be amended from time to time the city administrator shall also be the City Zoning administrator and shall execute all of the duties and responsibilities given this position by state law and this code AS may be amended from time to
time an annual audit of the city's financial affairs shall be conducted Hereafter by the state auditor or a public accountant in accordance with minimum procedures prescribed by the state auditor the auditor shall be appointed by the city
council okay thank you do we have a motion um I've got a I've got a comment about uh City administrator shall also be the City Zoning administrator we have a Planning and Zoning Board now aren't
they still relevant to I'm pretty sure they are well yeah but then if he's going to be the zoning administrator why have a Planning and Zoning because well we need we need him to give us stuff to vote on or look at and stuff like that because well he does that job as administrator right but we
don't look at it anyway I can't say we don't look at it but we don't have it at our fingertips that's the reason I think it's there well plus they also make recommendations kind of like the Eda does but you like it's just so he's
overseeing what the Planning and Zoning does because the council will make the final decision right we approve or disapprove anything made by the Z yep but I just think that I still think whoever your head of
your Planning and Zoning Board your chairman or whatever should be the you know the Top Dog in that and then reports to us and then maybe but anyway it's just that's the only question I had was
it about that okay I had one with the last it says the audit auditor shall be appointed by the city council is there a time frame that they're appointed in a length of time it doesn't say it here an annual
audit we do it every year Jason right but has that been appointed and who are they you know now is it um M People ab ab okay and their length of appointment will be till the audit is finalized we
have to one every year M okay that's fine ke do we have a motion to approve first reading of the ordinance I'll make a motion to we approve it second motion and a second any more discussion yeah when it said
first reading is there going to be a second or is there going to be an actual approval of it of the whole ordinance we have to have a public hearing on it okay okay thank you okay another stupid question I had
was now if we have an administrator shouldn't her position be as assistant City administrator because we don't have a city clerk anymore yet correct it just a title I mean I
mean what is your T assistant assistant City administrator city clerk assistant city clerk okay now I printed off this this statute this uh 4125 by1 has nothing says nothing about the city administrator just says that the clerk
and treasur duties may be combined and we are the just maybe her her position should be assistant City administrator that's just my two cents because I wasn't here last last
meeting anyway well Tony will be back by the second meeting we do this again then we can ask him specific questions okay we have a motion and a second on the floor who have any more questions
all in favor I I motion passes um Department report ambulance is written anyone have any questions regarding the report we have to do an approval is it first
part EMR training she ask me for that right time she doesn't have a c does the ambulance pay for that there's no cost what's the difference I I don't want to say difference but because we
pay for EMT training is that correct is we're going to pay for EMR training that's same they're two different levels two different things right still usually the refresher is 16 hours and what 15200 bucks or something em means refresher
this is the refresher right here though approval for them to complete their refresher emergency medical responder I know three all refer but she asking for approval of them tonight looks like it yeah
I had make a motion to approve Jordan Jeff and Shelby to uh go through with their EMR refresher course I'll second okay Motion in a second any more discussion all in
favor motion passes okay um is there a motion to approve for report I uh excuse me I talked to um shennon Young on the fire department and he said they approved a
$5,000 payment to the ambulance so they could get their Old Lucas and have it correct right yes that's correct that was so maybe instead of trading in it's like on the quote that she has down at the end of the inste
that $5,000 trade in they're just going to keep fire department's going to give the it should technically be amended that it was approved last Thursday to right have it it make more sense because they probably asked for $5,000 donation why not just give them the five and have another Lucas because when they're not
in service that we have that's exactly yeah at least the second Lucas or if that one something there's a hiccup on the new one the backup or there's two down we got two so that's right so yes you're correct it has been approved to um give the ambulance 5,000 for build
one the traded amount that they were going to get anyways okay so sure if this report was done afterwards but so you asking that to be added to this or you just questioning No it should be noted or maybe amended until next meeting right and
have addressed in next I mean I think they want no I don't think there's anything to change just just to be known that's the only difference okay yeah you want to add that Heather or the next one yeah
yeah yeah because the fire department didn't put that in their report so and they probably should have under additional information we that's okay so we have a change to the ambulance
report it is possible that we approved it but maybe next meeting they'd actually make the request because I can't remember where the funds were going to come so they would maybe fire would still have to technically make a request to make it
official so maybe everything as it stands is really correct till maybe next meeting and kind of eyes are dotted on the arrangements between the two departments yeah I think we leave the ambulance report as it is and wait till the next to approve the L till the first
meeting in July that's when we'll get the next ambulance and fire report okay do we have a motion to approve the ambulance report no no no okay I'll make a motion to approve the ambulance report okay thank you we have
a second okay Motion in a second any more discussion all in favor motion passes okay fire department is report is also in writing okay pump training is that is that for every
fireman yeah we go down to Seventh Street and fill up the dunk tank and everyone tries to cycle through on how to start the pumper up from like you arrived on scene what to do what levers to press and shut her
down all right is that proc okay do we have a motion to approve the fire department report motion then a second do we have any more discussion all in favor I motion is approved Police Department
report we've had 156 calls for service for the month of May um total calls for this here is 1,28 um information grass clippings you can't blow them on the street friendly
reminder noted please um driving Hazard and it causes issues with water and sewer plugging up those drains and that's a big issue um feel like I had already told you guys this but officer dad attended and
completed Firearms instruction Course St Cloud y um we had one interview on May 24th his background has been sent and we had another interview last week early last week um
and he will be picking up his background packet tomorrow I think so those usually take anywhere from two to two weeks to two months to come back just depending on their their attention to
detail um the computer and the amount for 260 has been ordered it's already arrived so just have to implement that um the new radar has also come in um and
that's been plugged in and up and running for the last week I think since since Tuesday last week um and I think that's it okay body cam up and running to body
cams are up and running too um technically officer discretion but every call they are running if it's just a simple question they don't toly turn them on
but any other calls they stops anything they're up and running okay I see you you talked about the background packet for you know the interviews are you suggesting that or
are you determining that you want to hire them before you give that packet to them or is it wait until it's done and then offer them if they pass the lad but you're also expecting those two to be hired if their background passes you
want both of them if their background passes and city council approves it okay but I mean you want both of them preferably yeah just ask yep would this just be fill in or is this part time this is part time okay
yep thank you yep okay thank you I'll make a motion to accept police okay Motion in a second any more questions for tenise all in favor I motion is passed
no unfinished business new business you want to come back up or you want to just talk from there um let let me I just had a couple people call me and ask about um why the signs were put
up there why the city council didn't approve it can the police just put up signs or if City administrator did it I said I don't really know um and one of the persons who called said that really the only way she can get to the
games because of a bad hip Y and riding on the hip and getting over to watch her grandson play or granddaughter I don't recall but anyway it was just kind of an inconvenience and just wondering why it it happened and was it for safety
reasons or whatever so so it's kind of um there's a few reasons why they were put up um one because with all the rain it was getting the grass was getting torn up and they wanted to keep Legion Field nice sure and um they obviously
wanted to keep the grass looking nice and all that stuff sure um two We There was concern there was safety concerns with baseball or football you know whatever the activities are that are happening that
if there's little kids running around somebody backs up a Bel card or razor whatever your ATV UTV m is um they didn't want a they didn't want it to get damaged by a flyball or something of that sort and they didn't
want the possibility of kids getting you know bumped or ran over so does this come from residents or was this from coaches or parents this is from both residents and City Maintenance okay so and then the third the third thing um
was of course with our city ordinances it says ATVs utvs golf carts all of the vehicles um are not not to be driven anywhere except on roadways and parking
lots and what okay so um when maintenance brought it up they had asked me the every Monday morning we have a meeting um and we discussed at the meeting if this was something that could be put up potentially for all those
reasons um and they asked me if it was an issue and I said I don't have a problem with but I don't put the signs up um and so they were like well do we do them do we not do them and then the signs were
ordered and put up okay so we did discuss that if if you do have a physical ailment of some kind totally fine okay it's just those that are able to
walk we prefer okay that that be okay it was brought up at our last meeting that had talk about the signs were going up because of tearing up the grass and also just because of liability see and we I remember him talking about that it was nothing we had
to approve but just that we were aware they were going up okay because of that okay well that's fine it's something to talk down the road about possibly looking for grant funding to see if there's some type of roadway path for ATVs to go there then it would be
legal for anybody to use that um that would be something to look into the future to do for that area it'd be a nice paved pathway too for that but that's okay my
opinion no that's fine that's you know if safety is one of the concerns and tearing up we had over nine inches of rain in 10 days so right I think it was right after that or in the midst of that is when these concerns of tearing up
tearing up the grass it makes perfect sense and there is more and more kids and I've been out there pling and I have seen really close calls really yeah so course kids aren't watching kids watching they're small yeah yeah they're little I almost got hit back C today
when I was pulling away from the post office well and they're quick a golf cart so y wow probably when Jody was driving wrong it didn't have a slow moving vehicle so I know it wasn't
Jo okay all right well thank you tenise now the next one too we can talk a little bit about the grass ordinance just when you guys are driving around you're kind of looking for long grass or stuff that's getting closed yep you send
them a letter yep so we send them a um basically an ordinance compliance form that that says you know the the crappy thing about our ordinances and the process of it is it's a twoe
process so I have to give them two weeks to cut their lawn okay so it's already a foot tall it's it's already a foot tall and um I hadn't done I hadn't been
looking up until I think I told Heather this early last week or the late the week before that I hadn't been looking just because of the amount of rain we were getting makes sense um but the process is we send them a form they have
two weeks to cut their grass they don't do that then I send them a um um City administrative citation okay with a form that says hey this is why you're getting this city admin
citation um you have again two weeks to pay it um do we go and cut the lawn yep and and then the city the bills out for that yep okay okay the two weeks is from when the
letter was sent that correct not from when they so it I inspect it there's an inspection date at the top and then there's a mailed a mailed date so the inspection date is typically always the day before just because of the way Mail
system work um and so then they have two days or excuse me two weeks from the mail by date or mailed okay mailed St okay perfect
what's the price uh 50 an hour so that's probably more than that's more than the a mowing service to CH yeah yeah that's good and it's more than the city edmin citation too yeah so okay tenise thank you that's great
yeah you're welcome okay um and swimming lessons Okay so it's no secret ex St with St Olaf so we've been trying to brainstorm on what to
do um we contemplated canceling the first session but our first and second session first session we have 31 students signed up the second session is 33 so a lot of kids yeah that's good um so there was no way that we could mix
and match with we unfortunately were only able to obain three lifeguards so um we first spoke with steel County to possibly do lessons out at Bieber Lake but that was just kind of
they were more concerned of people seeing lifeguards out there taking advantage of that that just turning into a whole huge thing so um Tony suggested getting a hold of the city clerk in Geneva to use Geneva
pool um Janelle tuy which I spoke to her on Thursday last week I think um and and she was actually really happy to get the phone call from us because Unfortunately they did not have any lifeguard signed
up but they had multiple kids that wanted to work the concession stands there so they were really bummed because they couldn't do it well we spoke about that and she thought it would be a great idea to completely move all three
sessions to Geneva the Geneva pool open up their concession stands for the 4 hours that it would be open daily with the lifeguards there and do it there um it's a good halfway point we've got a lot of endale people we've got some people from blooming even oana coming to
lessons um the only stipulation with that is she has to bring it up to their council meeting tomorrow so I won't know for sure but we just need an approval from you guys to have the okay if they give us the
go-ahead to just move them to Geneva pool this year um um I know I've heard a lot of people saying St Olaf looks good it doesn't smell I've talked to multiple people I personally I don't know a lot of people are still well I don't know if
I would have my kids still go there this year there there's just a lot of fear over it unfortunately so you know we'd be looking into smaller classes people cancelling I feel like it's just a lot easier fix to move them over to Geneva
no that is a good fix it's not even safe for pets yeah I right and it helps the Geneva Community with the younger kids work in the concession stands as well um they will make it very known this is strictly just for the swimming lessons you know and there's going to be parents
that have four kids lined up boom boom boom that are going to be there all day so it's going to be nice that they do have the concession stand there as well sure so we just need the approval to go with it and I will know for sure tomorrow night if Geneva's good with it okay because
that was the only other thing was we had talked about just doing the first session out there and I was like No it should be all of it because they're not going to want to put out the dock the raft clean it up for one two week session it's either all or none yeah really so so how many how many sessions three three sessions so they start
Monday and it's two weeks and then there's a little break till after July goes till the end of July and then there's one more into August okay no I think that's a great idea to have it over there keeps kids busy too all right well they get have their con it I just had a
meeting with the girls today to go over that and um they said a lot of the kids are really attach like they're attached to them they enjoy the kids they have good relationships with them so yeah it would be kind of a bummer to have to completely cancel it too because the
kids look forward to that so okay I think with the safety of the lake I mean it's probably fine but just it's so close to that three weeks they said three weeks right that clear up why would we put them in possible yeah
Jeopardy has anybody spoken to the parents of these kids at saying that they want to do it still um we move it I have I've only updated the parents in the first session so far just because it's a week away true so I did let them
know on Friday hey we're we're trying our last resort I will let you know midweek um and that was our biggest concern was letting those first you get any feedback from them um yeah some of them they're they're just waiting to hear they think it's a good idea nobody
has said anything bad um they're just they're literally waiting to hear so they can plan around it if they have to so um I have not heard any bad comments about doing that and I've talked to a lot of people about it and the lifeguards are all for it too sure and we don't know if Geneva is going to want
to charge anything for us yes that is one thing we do not know for sure so it's really going to be if they what we find out tomorrow they what would we say as a killer of it then how much cost would we say
no I don't know I mean all I know is we tried to budget around four lifeguards and we are only able to obtain three so we kind of I think we kind of have that leeway a little since we don't have that fourth lifeguard this year what would what would one lifeguard
cost be for the summer approximately couple thousand no no no no okay I just wonder no but we just approved I was I was trying to think what we just approved three was 12 something an hour was it 1225 12 4 hours a day I think the
head guard gets 1250 and the other ones get 12 yeah right that's what it is so that would be$ 36 an hour for how many hours four hours four hours a day30 10 yeah 10 each time so you're
looking at three sessions so well let's wait and see they may not say anything it's a service to them as well as it is to all of us well and that's kind of what it possibly sounds like she sounded really excited about it and possibly working in the future because they have so many
issues getting lifeguards there they have no problem getting staff for the concessions it's lifeguards out there so I I don't know I sometime down the road it might not be a bad idea to look into just because it is a big district and a
lot of people from all around do it so well let you know we can make that decision when they come back with there yep so yeah but they start on Monday okay so we just need to go ahead from you guys that we can do it if they give
us the go ahead tomorrow okay anyone want to put that in the form of a motion I'll make a motion to go ahead and go forward with Geneva pool um if there's I guess if they're asking for a dollar fee we just have to reach out to
us to yeah let us know what that is 250 a day $36 an hour 250 a day $36 an hour for three students but that's right three and you're just trying to figure out what one costs that was all
all for the whole summer I'll do it again okay but we have a motion do we have a second second okay any more discussion all in favor of the motion I I motion passes and we'll maybe
you want to send out an email tomorrow to all of us just oh no the meetings tomorrow night probably so Wednesday yes okay thank you heather okay any miscellaneous items none administrator's
report any questions on there so audit presentation in two weeks okay when's the last or not last next meeting for anything about that hydrology study and all that stuff do
you know I haven't heard anything different so just this stuff they have about what they're kind of estimating mhm okay we have a motion I move to accept the administrator's report second okay
any more questions all in favor I okay mayor or Council comments I've got a comment Lauren on the uh upcoming labor negotiations with the police okay I believe you guys approv to have Tony
be the since and I'm not a big public sector Union uh fan so since tax money's involved I think the police commissioner should also be involved in those negotiations I mean would
you yeah well if Lauren I believe is the Le on he's a police yeah how have we done it how's it been in the past I we haven't had to do it's been a
few years negotiation since I've been yeah I think it was probably before you well you could look at the person who started it what do you mean I started it oh okay well okay we'll look at you then well I started it because of issues with
council members not wanting to budge on anything ever so I wasn't I wasn't in favor of starting the union locally either but it was beneficial in the long run okay but um
usually a simple list of requests is put together so that's usually what was presented to Tony he'll he usually was a good buffer to not to usually negotiate with me and my representative like yeah might go for that may you know maybe go
a little stronger here weaker here whatever like that so so usually it was good for him to kind of guide all of us and like and then present it usually presented a more easily negotiated proposal versus hears
everything to the council and then everyone picks it apart a little bit or you have too long of a discussion on just yeah everything so usually he was really good at helping trying to make it go make a nice smooth yep between but mean between
budget and other miscellaneous stuff like this is what would work what wouldn't work so okay I'm not against your idea if you if Lauren would want to be if that's still your Forte to be involved but that's how it kind of transpired in the past okay and I think yeah the last
one I was no longer part I don't think much was even brought up because it was kind of in a leg of I think there was a full t Tim but barely and I don't it it was
really I know cuz I was part no and I was part-time and then all of a sudden it was at a council meeting and it's being approved I'm like not I mean I wasn't full-time at that time but it wasn't even presented to me like hey maybe is there anything part-time would want to negotiate so it just happened
last time but I don't fear that'll happen this time well Jody how about if I talk to Tony that's well well yeah and just see see what his recommendation is and what he thinks and um then we can go from there perfect
okay all right thanks y okay we have a motion to adjourn I move to ajour a meeting okay all in favor I motion passes adjourned hey thank you