All right. Good afternoon. I'll call to order the public utilities commission meeting for Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. Uh the first item on our agenda is our oath of office uh for commissioners Visser and Williams. have you to stand
and raise your right hand and read the oath. >> I s do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution in states of Minnesota and faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office of commissioner of the utilities commission
city of new in the county of brown state of Minnesota the best of my judgment and ability. So help me God. for another term. >> All right, the uh second item on our agenda is our election of offers
officers. We've got uh president and vice president. Um >> I would nominate Seth Fisher as president. >> Okay. >> Second. >> And then do we do them both at the same time or
>> uh one each one separate and then um you have to call um >> call the roll. the role. >> Um, no. Um, >> call for nominations. >> Call for nominations three times. Okay. Additional nomination and then you can make the vote if there are no other nominations. >> Okay. So, I have a motion in a second for Seth Vister as president. Um, is
there any other nominations? I'll call it again. Is there any other nominations for president? And a third time. Is there any other nominations for president? If not, all in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries. Um, next up is uh, vice
president. >> I would nominate Mary Alan Shaughness for vice president of the public utilities commission. >> Second. >> All right, I have a motion, a second. Is there any other nominations for vice president? And one more two more times. Is there any other nominations for vice
president? And lastly, is there any other nominations for vice president? If not, uh, we have a, uh, first motion and second. Um, all in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carries.
Uh, now we get up to our consent agenda. Is there anything any discussion on our consent agenda? If not, I will entertain a motion on that. >> I'll make a motion to accept the consent agenda. >> Second. >> All right. I have a motion, a second. Is
there any other discussion? Not. All in favor say I. >> I. I. Motion carries. Now on to new business. Uh server for disaster recovery. >> Uh good afternoon commissioners. Before you today is the uh approval for the purchase of a disaster recovery server from CDWG. Uh the current disaster
recovery server is uh just due to be replaced due to age as well as it no longer has enough resources to uh be able to run the critical day-to-day servers in the event it was ever needed. Um, two disaster recovery quotes were received with CDWG having the low quote
in the amount of $76,74161. Uh, this was included in the 2026 budget in the amount of 80,000. So, the quote does come in under budget. >> Excellent. >> Make a motion to approve the purchase of a disaster recovery server from CDW-G in
the amount of $76,74161. Second. >> All right, we have a motion and a second. Is there any uh further discussion? If not, all in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed? >> Motion carries. Uh, next item is our energy acquisition adjust adjustment.
>> Okay, commissioners. Um, the adjuster is actually going down this year. You I'm sure you've read the action item. Uh, the net effect will be about $2.50 50 cents for the average
residential bill. The main thing that we reason for it going down is you will recall in 2022 we re we're working to recover that from that gas spike when we were generating about $1.5 million. It was set to go through 2025. Well, we
have collected that money. So, we are repealing that or taking that off, however we'd properly term that. So, it is a savings to the customer. Excellent. It's always good to hear.
>> I'll make the motion to approve the proposed EAA energy acquisition adjustment of 002753 to be effective February 1st, 2026. >> Second. >> All right, we have a motion in a second. Um, is there any further discussion? If
not, all in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. Um, next up in our agenda 4.3 is our uh natural gas ska system. >> Okay. Um, the natural gas department has
elected to update it SCADA system and we'll be using PSSE to assist in this effort. We will be using the um ACS system that electric currently uses. benefits of going to this is obviously it'll go into the control room. We'll
have somebody 24/7 watching it and yes, the gas department will also have the terminal to look at it too, but they'll obviously that's not 24/7, but we will be adding a couple more town border stations. >> So, is this new for the gas department
or is it just a a change? >> We had another vendor. They weren't completely happy with everything. We are making an upgrade to this and we found that ACS can do both electric and gas
together and it just works well. We got one vendor. We got a service agreement with engineering and all that with ACS above and beyond this. >> So it's a good fit. It is. >> So do you save on the service agreement then? >> I think we will save a little bit. Yes, >> that'll be good.
>> Where we'll get kind of preferred pricing maybe is a better way to put >> there since there's two systems. Good. >> Okay. I'll take a motion on that. >> I'll make the motion to authorize the city manager to accept the proposal from power system engineering incorporated
PSSE to integrate the natural gas supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA system into the advanced control system ACS SCADA system in the amount of $42,000. >> I'll second. >> All right. All right, we have a motion
and a second. Um, is there any further discussion on this? If not, all in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. Uh, next up is some parts for steam meters. >> Good afternoon, commissioners. before
you is a uh just a quote um to order uh some more steam meter uh parts as we did last month, same as we did last month. Um this we're we're taking advantage of the 2025 pricing by doing it this way.
It's about 3 months uh out to get these parts. So like to get them ordered and and get them coming our way so we can work on the meters then in the summertime when they're not in use. I'll make a motion to receive an order
filed the estimate from Flow Measurement Group for steam meter replacement parts in the amount of $24,976.70. >> I'll second. >> All right, we have a motion and a second. Um, is there any further discussion? If not, all in favor say I. >> I. I.
>> Opposed. Motion carries. Uh, next up is our Junior Park uh, Junior Pioneer Park uh, water main design. >> Yeah, this is the continuation of the feasibility study that you approved last
May 27th. We just recently got the results back and the soil borings and all that. It will work to bore underneath the park to go from uh right behind Target there all the way across the old Target building, forgive
me, to basically one Shells Road. So, we'll tie that chunk together. So, they'll have a loop system. Um this is phase one and phase two they could do at a later time go from that point across Cottonwood River and have a second feed
into that Cottonwood area. We currently only have one pipe going across that river and up that hill. And this would be the full detail design be assisting with bidding and some questions. City engineering will be doing this
project as part of their summer project list. Okay. Any questions? I can help with >> I'll take a motion if there's no questions. >> I'll make the motion to authorize the
city manager to accept the proposal from detailed design engineering services for water main crossing Junior Pioneer Park in the amount of $65,500. >> I'll second that. >> All right, we've got a motion and a
second. Is there any further discussion? If not, all in favor say I. >> I. opposed. Motion carries. Uh, next up is a Courtland Courtland lift station replacement. >> Yeah, this would just be replacing equipment only. Okay.
>> Ordering. Um, they have a long list of items here. The this station was built in '98. It has had minimal updates since then, so everything is just wearing out, aging out, however we want to put that.
Um there will be a bid coming before you for installation and maybe some electrical work later on but like I say this is just the equipment. This was all identified in our study um the condition assessment of the
wastewater plant and we feel by doing it this way we will be able to come in hopefully significantly cheaper than the 2 million that was called out for in that study. >> We're trying to do some of this self-perform. That'd be great. That would be really good.
>> We never spent any in 2025, right? >> No, we'll be carrying this over. We >> This is 2025. >> Waiting for bids and stuff was a little slow. So, this >> Yeah, >> we would have liked to brought it a month or two ago, but we now have our two pump two bids. >> Was the intention for the 2295 budget to
buy this equipment? >> Yeah. Could basically have the equipment here and maybe start some preliminary construction. Then, you'll see we got another 500,000 this year in it. That would be the install cuz if I remember right, it's uh 26 to 28 weeks out. So, we're going to wait 6 months before
it'll show how >> that's how long the >> some of the lead times. >> Lead times are supposed to do anything till you get it all >> right. You know, >> it's nice to have it all sitting in the warehouse. I take her down, place it, and bring it back to >> All right. Okay. I'll make a motion to
authorize the city manager to accept the bid from Vesco Incorporated for the Courtland lift station equipment replacement project in the amount of $380,000. 380,280. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. Uh
is there any further discussion? If not, all in favor say I. I. I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. Uh next item is uh geotechnical engineering review. Yeah, this is in conjunction with um the
force main replacement project that we did I guess was approved originally in 23. Basically, we're getting the project to be shovel ready, hoping to get it submitted in fair government funding. They did not select us in the last
round, but we are still working on getting our permits for the railroad. Takes an extended period of time. This is required by the railroad. They only allow certain vendors and this is the vendor that the railroad allows in this area to do this type of work. So it is a
professional service and limited approved vendors and limited options. That's why you see only one quote on this project. >> What do you think our likelihood of of approval or from state of state funding is this year? >> This is going for federal
>> or federal funding. Uh, I think it'll be a year out, but we're going to get it all ready and keep trying. And >> I don't know have any idea what the winds are with politically with some of this stuff. So, >> and anything we do will carry over,
right? >> Right. And the one that the only thing is at some point >> we want to make sure we keep the rail apprised of what we're doing so the permit doesn't lag. You know, we're doing all this to get that permit. But talking to our consultants and stuff, they have that done that before where
they do get the funding. We'd like to reference permit whatever from 2026 and the railroad's been good about it. >> Good. >> So, this is not a wasted effort. >> All right. I'll entertain a motion on that. I'll make the motion to authorize the
city manager to accept the propo proposal from Clow Harbor and Associates LLP CHA for geotechnical engineering re review services in the amount of $13,000. >> Second.
>> All right, we have a motion in a second. Um, is there any further discussion? If not, all in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed or motion carries. Uh, last item is our report of claims. >> I'll make the motion to accept the list
of claims paid in the amount of 4,143,71383. >> Second. >> All right, we have a motion and a second. Um, is there any further discussion? If not, all in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? And the motion carries. Last item. Do we have any additional comments
from our commissioners? If not, um, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you everybody.