e rep this is the February 25th 2025 meeting of the Public Utilities Commission first item on the agenda is the consent agenda I make the motion to approve the minutes of
the consent agenda or there'd be a motion just to approve the consent agenda I make the motion to approve the consent agenda second we have a motion and a second is there any more discussion all in favor say I I opposed
motion carries next item is the employee of the month recognition uh yes uh Commissioners uh the employee of the month for uh January is Janine Allen um Janine is our nominee for employee of the month she's a valuable member of our
team team in the power plant and shows this in many ways her experience and knowledge helped make her an excellent trainer of newer boilerman as they get their footing in the plant uh her abilities to help in the lab or assist the operator when needed are assets also always being on time willing to fill in
when needed and her good attitude make Janine a well-deserving recip recipient of this honor so congratulations to Janine Allen I'll make the motion to recognize Janine alen as employee of the month for
January 2025 second we have a motion and a second all in favor say I I iOS motion passes our next item is the presentation
of the wastewater treatment facilities plan uh yes Commissioners um we have uh Chris Swanson here from Bolton and mink um some of you may have remembered um in November of 22 there was request for proposal that was put out and we wanted
to conduct an infrastructure condition analysis of the wastewater treatment plant um so the purpose of the analysis was really to create um a major component inventory and do a 20-year Capital Improvement um in October of 2023 the report was presented to the
commission and from this report uh the next step is the phase one of a facility plan and so that's what um Chris is going to be um doing a presentation on for you thank you uh commission thank you m
manderfeld uh my name is Chris Swanson uh with Bolton mink we've been working at the Wastewater Plant uh for the City of New Alm and the New Alm utilities for uh a number of years over 20 years and thankful for the relationship that we have with uh utility Council here and and the work that we're able to do a new
Al uh as part of this process of of identifying infrastructure that needed to be improved uh the next step in order to get funding and kind of explore funding was a facility plan that's just a fancy name for report to dive deeper into the uh the components uh that uh
need to be upgraded as as part of this facility plan we did what was C more of a a targeted approach where we looked at some certain things that we were going to go seek funding for uh that were uh shorter term items or higher on this list uh of improvements uh as as part of
this presentation I want to give everybody just a little background on the Wastewater Plant because you can kind of understand um you know where where we've been how it works uh and do that uh in this facility plan though and and required items from the mpca are are uh you know looking at that background
uh looking at alternatives for the improvements uh coming up with the cost how that impact can impact user rates and then a schedule for that and so when we get into the public hearing portion I will touch on some of these mpca required items real quick again uh as we
go through it certainly if you have questions on anything I'm presenting feel free to interrupt uh and be happy to chat more about those uh so as I mentioned the the facility plan uh kind of dove into six targeted uh items uh
that that we wanted to look at uh the courland receiving station uh the main Force main from the 20th Street lift station uh some flow and load Equalization ideas that we had as as part of uh Improvement and optimization for the waste water plant uh blower
improvements control and uh solar project um this was addressing some of the Aging equipment and some of the operational issues that folks were uh the staff was seeing at the treatment plant uh with the goal of going after funding so you're going to hear that
from me uh a few times right because this is part of this is these are expensive items and we need to Target certain funding uh as we go through this and um kind of come up with a phased approach because this is kind of you know the first uh you know 5 to 10 years
worth of work there's larger projects on the back end of of this uh our infrastructure assessment as well so originally constructed in 1972 that puts the plant at 52 years old uh 53 this
year um much of the things that we're identified are surrounding aging infrastructure uh there are uh some limits that are on the Horizon that that caused that price tag as you see to go up to 110 million of potential future improvements uh but the majority of
things that we've addressed in this report are uh aging infrastructure items and things that that need to be upgraded uh on a 50 plus year old facility uh this kind of highlights some of the
the the main uh areas of the treatment plant uh with a main lift station uh pre-treatment where you remove sand and grit and garbage from the Wastewater uh clarifiers where you settle some of the the heavier solids or waste uh initially
and and take that into biosolids processing then uh secondary treatment uh where we uh create ideal conditions for biology to grow and eat the Wastewater uh sounds gross but that's what these little bugs and bacteria do and it works really well for cleaning up
the waste water uh clarifiers where we settle out these bugs so we can return them back into the stream to eat some more uh taking the the solids that come off some of the clarifiers and treating them separately and those are used as uh
fertilizers uh on agricultural Fields uh and then disinfection uh where we disinfect the Wastewater before it is uh discharged uh to the Cottonwood in Minnesota River uh the thing for a commissioner to notice on this list is
the 1972 items 54 years old uh typically we don't anticipate concrete to last more than 75 years and these are all large basins that are 1972 items that will need to be replaced likely in the next 20 years and that's where you start
to get into that $ 110 million price tag uh so we've looked at some of this uh as part of our infrastructure condition assessment is areas where we need to build new basins so we could go back in rip out old basins and put in new basins and so you kind of got to get to this little spot where you're flipping back
and forth and you need some green space uh to do so some of this the last item on that list was the courland receiving station and that Courtland receiving station was built in 1995 uh it receives raw Wastewater uh from the city of courland and it and it
screens it uh takes out garbage and and removes um grit things that can't be treated in the in the treatment plant raw Wastewater is highly corrosive uh Wastewater it tends to break things down and so the the life expectancy of these
this type of equipment is 20 years um pretty typical uh if you do the math quick in your head you can see that this one's at 30 years uh old and so there's some there's some needs for uh you know painting uh replacing some piping uh
replacing equipment there uh the alternatives to to doing nothing is a is a failure we would anticipate with this and you'd end up doing some emergency Replacements and that next 5 years this is a pretty common rehab for Wastewater plants uh to take a look at these receiving
stations uh newm utilities is is continually upgrading their 20th Street lift station because that is also receiving raw waste water and that that equipment uh breaks down more regularly than uh once you kind of start to treat it uh it's less corrosive uh on the
stuff and so we're able to get that to last longer the second item we looked at in this facility plan was the 20th Street Force main so the there's The Pump Station uh on 20th Street that receives the raw Wastewater uh screens out garbage uh there's some pumps then that
pump it uh to the wastewater treatment facility uh that that's through a single pipe right now um got to be careful I don't work off memory too much because otherwise I'll give you bad information that that was also installed
in 1972 uh being a single Force that's used all the time uh it's unable to be properly checked out we know the length of pipes or the the longevity of pipe is typically you know 50 to 70 years and so we anticipate this needing to be
replaced uh in in the short term um the idea here would be to build a a secondary pipeline that would take to the Wastewater Plant and then you would have dual uh pipelines uh in the future so you could check out the old one one
perhaps line it or do some maintenance on that while you use the new one and then in the future you can be able to flip back and forth maintain the two pipelines and kind of have a long-term solution with with two routes on that the third item is is controls uh
and what's known as the supervisory control control and data acquisition uh it's kind of the brains of the facility um as far as running all the equipment and uh making things operate properly uh utilizing uh programmable logic
controllers uh this has exceeded its useful life uh in need of replacement is actually a project that uh we included in this to get uh some better cost data and uh determine if the utility was going to move forward with this uh as part of funding or or through a
budgetary item and the utility is moving forward as part of their regular budget item and and are proceeding with the control upgrades uh out there uh I I think it's always interesting uh as you look at some of this equipment that you know electrical equipment that's been installed in you know' 7s the '90s and
then you pull out your phone that maybe's only a year or two old and and no one would ever imagine you know using a a phone from the from the 1990s but some of the most critical infrastructure in cities are are that or older and so keeping a close eye on electrical and and controls is is always an important
aspect of making sure these facilities run well one of the one of the ideas that was also had was looking at the EQ an EQ Basin uh for uh equalizing some of the heavy loads that come from industry uh as part of this and that would help
optimize the plant this also had an added benefit of of uh providing some expansion for biosolids with some of the heavier loads and so we kind of looked at a at a combined idea of uh expanding uh the the atad or the biosolid system
that uh the biosolid so they're safe to be discharged on agricultural land uh and uh equalizing some of the heavy loads that come at different times from industry uh this was the kind of the most expensive portion of this project that I'll get to at the end but a couple
things have drove us to uh place this uh project on hold uh one was uh there's some new regulations that you may have heard of coming out with uh P Faz uh these forever chemicals that are out there um there's EPA and MPC Minnesota
Pollution Control agency has has identified these as uh possible health concerns um starting to look at potential limits on how we place these uh biosolids on uh agricultural land and
uh from that uh myself and the utility said it it'd be good to to wait and see how this plays out before we uh put more money uh into a biosolid system that could be obsolete uh should agricultural uh spreading of biosolids be limited
additionally uh one of the heavy industrial users craft was uh had some I don't know if they have unknown ones but with with regards to utility there was some um unknown nature as to how how heavy their loads were going to be long term uh and uh since this could be a
significant infrastructure investment into into that uh industry uh there needed to be some time again given that would maybe make that more clear as to what direction uh we would head with that in the future uh good project uh
expensive uh but needed more information that time will allow uh for that to move forward another item on this is the blowers so I mentioned the biosolids or I'm sorry not the biosolids but the biology that eats the waste uh we give
it food from the sewage and the and the waste that comes through uh it needs oxygen these bugs need oxygen uh to eat this waste as well and these blowers uh provide that oxygen that they need just like we do uh to breathe uh we need food
we need oxygen uh so do these bacteria and so the blowers uh there's a couple different blowers uh that uh the facility uses uh one are some older uh blowers uh that are huge 900 horsepower
uh energy Hogs uh from 1972 those right now are backup blowers uh at the facility um more recently in the last uh 10 or 15 years uh you've installed some high efficiency turbo blowers those work very well they've
saved uh the utility uh a lot of money over the years uh on electrical bills there's two of those blowers uh the trouble with those is that they are becoming or have the potential to be obsolete in the near future there is a
very limited amount of staff uh that Services these blowers and uh the utility and and myself have identified this as a a weak area uh for redundancy and potential for uh should these the gentleman Who services these no longer
service them it could be a hole that would need an emergency replacement and so we tried to come up with uh some ideas on on different types of blowers that we could add in smaller blowers higher efficiency than these large 900 horsepower but give the operating staff
some Flex ability uh for bringing on smaller blowers with one of these turbo blowers if a turbo blowers goes down we could have two or three blowers that would come on and and uh provide the air needs of the facility to properly treat the Wastewater this is really a
redundancy item on a on a the most critical piece of infrastructure uh at the Wastewater Plant and then the final item that that we evaluate as part of this and this again go kind of goes back to you know potential funding opportunities with
some solar options uh at the facility um this always sounds good uh it can produce uh electricity there is a cost associated with this and and the you know the simple payback for the amount of solar that we could get out here and use at the Wastewater Plant was about 25
years so now you throw in a little funding and you're hoping to get it down to 10 or less and it it only comes comes down to about 15 to 17 years and the the lifespan of these solar panels are 15 to 20 years so it just it doesn't make sense in this case based off the amount
of land and availability to put up solar panels here that this this works out for new Al at this time based off uh kind of some of the federal uh tax incentives and things that are available uh but uh we wanted to go through that and dig into that a little detail so uh this was
also uh shell due to lack of payback and also Limited space so I mentioned we need space for future expansion as well and so we want to be careful that we're not placing a solar panels all over the ground that need to be ripped up when we need to put up uh new basins and so we
tried to limit it to buildings uh that were already out there and so that also limited how much area of solar panels we were able to obtain there's a lot questions comments concerns right now and I'll otherwise I'll finish up
this hits the uh six projects uh and and the costs associated uh with that and so so what what came of this was was a recommended uh critical infrastructure project that includes uh the the blower improvements and The Courtland receiving
station for about a 8 to10 million project that we wanted to Target uh Minnesota pollution control and public facilities Authority funding state uh revolving fund funding uh that uh the utility in the city is is used before uh
to fund these type of improvements uh we looked at the 20th Street Force main and identified that as a good one uh to go after some federal earmarks with and so that we were going to uh proceed and ask uh for federal money regarding that 20th Street uh Force main uh as I mentioned
the control systems are moving forward as a budgeted item and at this time the EQ base and atad expans is on hold and the and the solar energy uh was shelv due to due to lack of payback uh on stuff so the facility plan is a
requirement of the Minnesota Pollution Control agency one of the items on on the tasks or your agenda here today is to have a public hearing and and approve that and then we can submit this to the mpca and the public facilities Authority so the mpca is the regulatory agency the
public facilities Authority is the bank if you will that gives out the money and so with the process here today we're able to get this in and request These funds for The Courtland receiving station and the blow improvements the advantage of this funding source is uh
low interest loans so they're they're typically well below market rate on the loans uh and then there also is uh potential uh for some Grant uh through the point source implementation Grant uh items that we would Target I don't I
wouldn't promise that at this point I think that that uh is always a com highly competitive process but uh some of the blower improvements could qualify uh for some of that uh work looking at an 8 to10 million
project uh you run some simple math and number of connections and how much it it cost to pay back million that's a impact of about a little over $8 per month per user but uh my understanding is the
utility has been budgeting for these items and intends to to pay for that as part of the existing rate structure uh the other advantage of a a 20year loan rate is you don't have to come up with9 million today but you're spreading that cost over uh and and have time to uh you
know do regular rate increases and and budget through this uh as other loans and and stuff come off uh the books as well schedule wise uh the state revolving fund uh follows the same schedule every year uh facility plans
are due at the beginning of March uh so uh we look for these approvals and public hearings in February uh from yourselves uh we submit it and then uh typically uh around the fall uh September October they come out with their lists the uh project priority list
and the intended use plan uh in order for this project to be funded the state legislature does need to pass a bonding Bill and uh we'll see how that goes but we're going to uh do uh our part here in New Alm to uh get in line for the money
correctly and so uh with that then it would follow through uh you know a design process uh construction of these and and uh you know startup of them hopefully in the next couple years so with that I certainly would entertain any
questions it's necessary right it is we don't want any breakdowns yeah it's it's kind of the least fun piece of infrastructure cities have unfortunately right cuz everybody keeps flushing their toilets and they don't care where it goes but you know cities and part of the clean
water and enjoying rivers and lakes it's about it's about cleaning up the waste water yep well it sounds like we could rehab but that's it's a little scary to do that and and you know the operation staff continues to rehab does a lot of
Maintenance out there and it just you know as you continue to age things have to be replaced and you end up with some of these larger Capital Improvements projects and and certainly I wish this was it right and you wouldn't see me for 20 years but that's that won't be the case right so we go through this and by
27 28 you know I'm afraid I'll be standing back up here talking about the you know the next big things that need to get done so I mean it's good to stay on top of all these things progress through them and kind of just get used to regular regular projects at at at this infrastructure just like you see
road projects every year this is kind of one of those that stuff gets done uh at treatment plants every couple years so the plan is not to do a rate increase for this it's part of the current rate schedule well I think um part of it is going to
be in the current plan for you know what the rates will do part of it will be um funded through what we have now sure you know but um we'll do I believe we have a um a rate study that actually is going to be done this year to so this will be
included in that to kind of see where we're at so no immediate rate changes but potentially from the study y exactly I'll make the motion to receive an order file the presentation from Chris Chris Swanson of
Bolton and mink Incorporated on the wastewater treatment facilities plan I'll second that we've got a motion and a second there any more questions everyone in favor say I I iOS motion
passes our next item is a public hearing on the wastewater treatment facilities plan and improvements within this is a public hearing anybody has any questions if I may commissioner uh as
part of the public hearing uh the MPC requires uh a couple of things to be touched on in the public hearing and I'd just like to uh quickly uh touch on those for uh utility uh as you can see uh the the Wastewater Plant is located at three
Tower Road uh in New Alm uh this is a picture of the location of that uh facility uh as I've mentioned to you uh what a facility plan consists of are a number of items that include going through alternative coming up with project costs uh
potential user impacts and and schedules uh I've touched on uh the background uh The Courtland receiving station the blower improvements um and other projects uh that uh have either been uh preceded
with or um placed uh on hold right now uh from those Alternatives uh we came up with the recommended critical infra infrastructure project uh that included Courtland receiving station uh Rehabilitation and blower improvements
uh to add uh efficiency and uh operational flexibility uh to the facility uh this project is estimated to cost between 8 and10 million and has a impact on user rates of uh little over
$8 uh per month uh as you uh divide out uh the cost overall users uh planning to submit uh uh this facility plan upon approval uh and uh find out regarding funding in the fall of this year uh and then proceed with uh
design and construction uh through 26 uh and completing in 2027 thank you we need a resolution I'll offer the resolution closing the public hearing receiving an
acceptance of the wastewater treatment facilities plan as prepared by Bolton and mink Incorporated and directs the submittal of said plan to the Minnesota Pollution Control agency mpca I'll
second we've out a motion in a second on the resolution is there any more discussion councelor skillings yes councelor Williams yes councelor bugler yes president shaas yes resolution passes
thank you next business is email archiving Appliance uh yes Commissioners this is a uh to update and replace our archiving uh Appliance through the IT department
um this is a budgeted item for 2025 make a to authorize the city manager to approve the quote provided by inadine for a 2 TB archiving Appliance with a three-year support in the amount of $1
16,31 188.50 a second we have a motion in a second all in favor say I iOS motion passes next item is request for managed
managed GIS Services yes um the attached document uh to this agenda item is uh a proposal for managed Services agreement um to our GIS infrastructure uh basically the goal of this is to ensure that our system is
running efficiently up to- dat and is aligned with our organizational goals um through this process we expect to have over s it proactive support regular maintenance integration of GIS tools and applications so we've developed this into three phases the first phase being
the assessment and the planning phase um here they'll um the individual will go individuals will go in they'll evaluate um our current GIS system identify any improvements that are needed or any specific service requirements or customization needs and then at that
point develop a transition plan um phase two then would de velop monitoring tools it would integrate any um data systems that are needed or work through any compatibility issues and phase three basically would be a continuous um
monitoring and support of our GIS um that particular item would be a um annual service agreement with um the organization that is chose um this system would use be used for all five of our utilities um and it would also
integrate to our work order system it would integrate to the city GIS and then also to our billing software um it was a 20125 um budgeted item and as I said before phase three then would be a continuous line item going
forward I'll make a motion to authorize the staff to request proposals for a managed service agreement for geographic information system Gis for the new home Public Utilities I'll second we have a motion in a
second everyone in favor say I I I opposed motion carries next item is an HDR engineering General Engineering Services yes Commissioners um this is a proposal it's from HDR engineering um
it's for General Engineering Services and this is a very common practice um to have um Engineers electrical engineers uh gas Engineers uh whatever it may be um on hand for General engineering questions um should we um should a
situation ever develop into a project at that point then that um those Engineering Services would be built towards the project rather than this General Services agreement um this is a bu hour and not to exceed proposal so um we'll get charge for the questions that
we ask um if we don't have any there'll be no charge um this is this is a proposal that will allow the utility to have um experienced El electrical engineers um available for questions but not necessarily having to have them on
staff sure so I'll make a motion to authorize the city manager to sign the proposal from HDR engineering Incorporated for General Engineering Services for 2025 in the amount of $32,500 I'll second it
we have a motion in a second everyone in favor say I I I opposed motion passes um industrial condensate line replacement yeah this is a uh quote actually to purchase the pipe
to replace the condensate line that it goes down to firage from behind the power plant actually we're replacing from the power plant to the vault just beside the electrical building in 2018 we had replaced the balance of the pipe for from the majority of the rest of it
last October we had a leak dug it up and was hoping to only a small leak it was found that the pipe had failed pretty much completely it we chased it for quite some 40 50 ft before we could find viable pipe to tie into it does not mean
it was good pipe it was just we could tie in and put a temporary patch in and that's why we're looking to do do this project as early as practical in the spring probably a June project we got two quotes on here um Ari
Carlson was the lower quote and they have been our vendor for steam pipe and Cony pipe for quite some time any questions I can't get it up right now but if I if I remember right um wasn't
the the two quots one of them was more piping than the other something right yeah the one that put a expansion Loop in there where we already have an expansion joint so we didn't need that that linear feed of pipe we'll just be using the expansion joint we already have okay so that makes up the
difference for that okay I'll make the motion to authorize the city manager to accept the quote from Ari Carlson for the replacement con denate pipe in the amount of 31,200 I'll second it we have a motion
in a second all in favor say I I I opposed motion passes um water department hoist replacement yeah this is the replace the
Hoist in the water department shop it's a 9,000lb hoist that's um they had figured it was an early '90s hoist we didn't find an exact eight on it you'll see we got a quote to repair it that was 50 called 5,500
bucks a cost of a new 12,000 lb hoist so again it's a 30 G as big as 9,774 we also have attached a letter from the uh repair technician that recommended this this hoist has other issues and some of the pipes are getting
to be obsolete so at this time it's just felt it's it's time to part company with this and get a newer bigger heavier hoist and it is a low profile so it'll fit just fine in our current
facility I'll make I'll make a motion to receive and Order filed the quote from upward hoist installers LLC for the replacement of the water department shop hoist in the amount of $977 I'll second that
we excuse me we have a motion and a second all all in favor say I I opposed motion carries Rehabilitation plan for Wells 20 and 21 um yeah this was a non-budgeted item
as you know last year we had well 23 has failed and we're trying to work our way through the Ines of rebuilding that well do an overshot well permitting and Lead times for getting the technology here to rebuild up well
in place is finding it that it may be timely to rebuild these two Wells to make sure we have the maximum amount of water capacity to serve the residents in new W we're hoping to get well 23 done as soon as possible but this is us being making
sure we have enough capacity and hopefully some extra so nobody has to deal with any future issues it's just being proactive we have found that one of some of the staff that are now with Carlson McCain cars Carlson mcain actually did work in the well
field on Wells 26 which and 27 which are right adjacent to the 23 and 22 in developing them when they were built new in the 90s so really we're using their expertise and their prior knowledge of the hydrogeology out there
to get it done so work has started on 23 right we're working on it but we're working our way through the permitting it hasn't started and we've got not actual physical work we're working through multiple government agencies yeah just had a meeting with um all of
the parties involved uh last Friday to try to get some clarity progress on this so This 20 and 21 would you start that at the same time or no we'd do that as soon as possible to get that devel a
right now and I would like to do one if not both of them at Le summer as soon as soon as pack yeah it'll potentially be over a year probably before 23 will be done if not longer yeah and that's
provided we don't have a flood or anything else that gets in the way okay thank you would those have been scheduled for any Rehabilitation work they're in our cycle yeah and this is we're just pulling it ahead we're trying to get the most we can as quick as we
can well these are two of our bigger Wells okay yeah I think they were on the schedule maybe for next year one of them is on the schedule in the next couple years yes so if I remember 23 was biggest well or
biggest producer it is but uh 20 and 21 are close seconds right behind it we've got four Wells 27 23 20 and 21 that are all between say 550 and 650 gallons a minute so they're all
very close I'll make the motion authorize the city manager to accept the proposal to develop a well Rehabilitation plan for Wells 2021 from Carlson mckain in the amount of $5,500
I'll second we have a motion in a second all in favor say I I opposed motion passes our next item is purchase of a 2025 Polaris Ranger XP yes Commissioners this is used um in
the gas department it's used for leak detection snow removal among other things um it's it gets heavily used um so and it was a budgeted item um in 2025 so it's under
budget I'll make a motion to receive an order filed the quote from parallel egg to purchase a 2025 play Ranger XP in the amount of $ 31,798 for the new Al gas department
I'll second we have a motion in a second all in favor say I I I opposed motion passes 2025 Ford F-150 4x4 super cab XL
pickup um yes this pickup is um replacing a 1996 Chevy on ton um this was has already been declared Surplus and sold on gov deals uh we got two quotes uh got a quote from the state bid but a local um The Local Company um
Chuck spaith was able to beat the state bid price so we're going with him it also was a budgeted item in the 2025 budget I've got a question have you've got State bid but board's price is here no this is their price
this is their price it's a discounted price this is their discounted price so if you see here um Chuck SPI Ford's um amount was 4,435 um if you look on their the the last page of the agenda item is from
Midway and that was 4,547 um Chuck Chuck spai actually um brought their price down from their list price down to 45,000 said State bid that was they're they're comparing to the
state B yeah okay I'll make the motion to authorize the city manager to approve the purchase of a 2025 Ford F150 4x4 Super Crew LX pickup from Chuck SPI Ford in the amount
of $ 4,435 40 I'll second we have a motion in a second all in favor say I I I opposed motion carries next item is Indian Point lift
station complete rehab yeah um back in uh last fall the Wastewater Plant was doing some routine maintenance and they found that um the discharge pipe at the Indian Point lift station has a major leak um so we did do a temporary repair
but um we need to do a full um reconstruct on that um so that was we were able to put that into the 2025 budget um in the amount of 75,000 so um it's under budget so we're just asking to get that work done as soon as
possible I'll make a motion to authorize the city manager to accept the proposal from electric pump Incorporated for pumps and wet well piping and accessories slab replacement and mobilization and installation of the Indian Point lift station complete rehabilitation in the
amount of $ 71,0 I'll second it we have a motion in a second all in favor say I I I opposed motion passes wastewater treatment plant outfalls
repair yes Commissioners um this is a proposal from Bolton and M um our consultant um we have two discharge points um that go into the Minnesota River and the Cottonwood River um they have on a visit they had um observed
significant signs of Riverbank um erosion and and sloughing in both of the outfalls so um this is for the engineering um services to start the design of um prepare plans and specifications and then also do the
permitting with the DNR and Army Corps of Engineers um the entire project is budgeted for uh the amount of $100,000 this is just for the engineering part of that project so do we feel this price kind of Falls in line with the overall project
budget yeah that'll be covered in there make the motion to authorize the city manager to accept the proposal from Bolton and mink for the repair of wastewater treatment plant outfalls in the amount of $223,400
I'll second we have a motion and a second all in favor say I I I motion passes uh year end carryovers for the year ended December 31st 2024 um yes Commissioners this is uh
more of a housekeeping issue uh we do this every year uh when the books are closed for 2024 there's many times um purchase orders that are outstanding there's projects that um have budgeted amounts that have not been expended um
the you can see the list here I won't read through them all but um basically what happens is um by your approval we're able to carry those budget amounts over and then the budget is adjusted um for this amount so that um so that accounts aren't over budget when there's
an open purchase order I'll make the motion to approve the year-end budget carryovers for the year ended December 31st 2024 I'll second we have a motion in a second all in favor say I I
iOS motion passes reports of claims I'll make the motion to accept the list of claims paid in the amount of 3, 885,000 63 I'll second we have a motion in a
second all in favor say I I opposed motion passes uh commissioner comments anyone have anything no meeting is adjourned all right for