she just turned it in just turn on you're good you're very Vigilant uh good evening I'd like to call the regular city council meeting to order for March 10th uh 2025 uh please stand for the Pledge of
Allegiance I pledge ALG to the flag of the United States of America Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liberty and justice for all uh good evening everybody we have a
nice group here tonight and um I would just like to read off our Council protocol the city council members are here to serve the city of peers we expect uh expect respectful conduct at all times slander or inappropriate language will not be tolerated please
speak only when addressed one person at a time each speaker has a five minute limit uh and we thank everybody for their cooperation uh the first item we really have is the approval of the minute for the city council meeting of February 24th uh
20125 I'll make that motion Donnie makes a motion second Gary second a motion all in favor say I I opposed uh motion carried for to approval of city council uh minutes for February 24th uh next I'd
like to go to additions or removals uh to the agenda um I got a couple on here I think that first thing what I'd like to do I was talking to Laura we'd like to move Eric um uh G up to uh SE basically s right after the approval of
the agenda so he's got something going on tonight uh and then um I think we well we for the workshop number seven we want to add the school agreement onto that that and then we have uh under well I think uh we're going to remove a
ranger from the park board updates yep range from the parkboard update okay and then uh Sarah is going to give the claims report and the treasur uh report and I don't if there's any more additions G no good Donnie good good
Sarah I'm good okay so if I could get approval uh of the minutes with those additions and removals I'll make the motion to approve the agenda with the addition and the removals I'll second okay and then Sarah second said all in favor say I opposed
uh motion carried uh so first we would like to move to uh um Eric gfy for for an update so welcome to the hot seat Gary Eric yeah all right good evening Council and
mayor thank you for bumping me up uh just quick update um I mean it ain't been too crazy down there but um we did uh wrap up our solar stuff from last month I don't know if I clarified that with you guys we did the uh commissioning end of it so we put the we
made sure it all works so right now the two that are in town are up and running and going so that's a good deal yep um we've been working on the sweeper we've got in the shop Phil's been grinding away and we got a bunch of holes in the hopper that we're going to be working on so it'll kind of be a week or two yet
before that's ready to go but we're working on that um snow removal so far this year has been pretty good um it's not been crazy and the guys all been doing a good job so um we'll see what it brings here yet this month um we've been
also kind of just gearing up for spring you know cting the potholes and getting ready for Park stuff I've been working on getting some quotes for the Lions Park great thank you so at some point hopefully next week or so I should have all the quotes I can get for it and we
can decide on what we're going to do with that so um I do have PTO I'm going to take next week um if anything happens I'm available I'm just going to be here just got some time I got to burn up so um other than that I didn't that's
really all I have you guys have any questions for me I'm curious what did you think of the solar stuff I'm just I I know a little bit about it but did you oh it's interesting to see how it all works um it's a lot of stuff that goes on a home
um I don't it's one of those things um if it's if you're a believer in that sort of thing and you want that way of power I think it's probably a good thing um I we're going to find out how well I would love to yeah I'd love to find out six months from now yeah to see you know
I think it's going to vary quite a bit come winter and and you know the seasons of the for these people but I don't know you know then also depends on how much power you consume too you know right um so I know we're going to kind of see how that plays out but we do have another
person that applied so I think that'll be three then in town so yeah that's my intake on that our outlook on that oh that's good yeah I'm just that's the I got I know a little bit about it but it's curious to see how it all works yeah it's should work you
know it works it just depends on how it works for them you know it works out yep uh and you guys got questions for Eric Eric good awesome thank you all right thank you for your time appreciate all your uh the next item on the agenda is
our workshop for March 17th at 6 pm. um it's already been approved and it just needs to be finalized the topics we have the emergency fund uh the road project funds meeting uh meeting time and update of our annual designations uh the
committee members uh pay um time cards chicken ordinance Freedom Fest tickets First Response uh Insurance uh the fire department contribution and then uh we'd like to add the uh School agreement on to that that's concerning the golf
course and golf High School Golf and cross country teams um so um if I could get maybe a motion to I'll make the motion to approve the workshop agenda okay dynamic motion to approve the agenda I'll second Al L
second's agreement all in favor say I I opposed a motion carried for that uh the next one is uh er uh Eric had brought up about the solar pre-application approval for uh 115 Vincent Street South I think
everything is in uh is in order for that we got the all the permitting and all the approvals for that so um I just really need a a motion to approve that and got some questions but I don't know I don't have any questions you got questions I'll make the motion D makes a
motion I can second it SAR Sarah second motion all in favor say I I I opposed a motion carried for the prea pre-application approval for 115 Vincent Street South uh next uh we have uh some
Park Board updates from uh the March 3rd meeting and uh either G do you want to do it or do you want me to go ahead okay um the assistant manager start date I know we talked about um starting Mark um around that April 1 or a little
thereafter with looking at the weather um it looks like you know we're going to get on the course hopefully mid April um there's work that needs to be done prior to those guys getting in there um because it's their first season um they're both learning you know what we have here so we think it's pretty
important that we bump up Mark's start date and we would like to do it um next week Monday the 17th with limited hours um he would be going in you know two to three hours in the evening to do some cleaning um making sure he's got um his
ordering in place product here when we start um we know that that is going to be an issue because we're going to have to pay perah um we looked at that amount um we head did some figuring and it looks like the most it would be is right
around that $900 it should be less than that though because again he's putting Limited hours in these first three weeks so we'd be looking at umly approval okay um and then um we talked about this
I know a little bit about the Stagger dates with the the full-time or lead starting so we've got that all taken kind of covered so one can start early and then yep and we don't have that person hired yet um that is out there for um I think it's just on
Facebook right now in terms of people looking it's on our too yep perfect and then we'll leave it up to Parker and Mark in terms of getting that person hired yep okay so otherwi we're looking pretty good as far as there that all goes so yep uh then let's see and the
other part of that was the food license reimbursement Mark did take the class um he did pay for it on his own and it was $185 um we're just looking to see if that can be reimbursed for him I don't think that's a is that I don't think that's a problem I think I think that's
a good deal yeah I do too uh you good do you that's all I got okay do anybody got any questions for Lynn at all no um so if I could get a motion for the start date I think you were saying
March 17th right um for Mark and then um the food license reimbursement for Mark as well for $185 I'll make that motion SAR makes a motion second n Gary seconds a motion all in favor say I I I opposed a motion
carried that was for both right the food license and the start date yep that is for the assistant manager start date of April 17th Mark I'm sorry March 17th and then uh the food license reimbursement uh for Mark hoisel as well for
$185 okay so the next item we have on on the docket is a sourcewell ordinance opportunity now so this kind of came up with Jim gerwing couple weeks ago he had stated that uh there was one thing that was one of his goals when he was on on
the permitting thing is to kind of get something going and he always he kind of felt frustrated because we never had anything uh actually set in that and uh you know I think that he made a really good point so Laura and I were at the mayor's meeting last week and um we got
a chance to talk to sorwell and they've done it for the city of Royalton they've done it for a number of cities that are were there and uh uh Laura looked into it and they charge UH 60 $60 an hour which I think is really reasonable for
other than have instead of having our lawyer do it and they do it for everybody so they got kind of a cut and cut and past probably kind of deal um and they'll do land use and subdivision ordinances is that right Laura MH um so
we would like to move forward with it and then take them uh take them on um to do that for us to kind of clean up some of our ordinances that are kind of lacking if that's all right with you guys um um so I I would just need a
motion uh for that I'll make that motion to have sarell help with the land use and subdivision zoning ordinances at $60 an hour okay Lynn makes the motion a second Gary seconds a motion all in favor say I I opposed uh motion carried
to to work with Source well for at $60 hour to help us clean up our land use and subdivision ordinances okay so uh next um this usually gets a little confusing for me but I think I got to figure it out the K
is K isn't here tonight but we got Sarah that is going to do our claims report and also our treasurers report so take it take it away for claims this month we have 468,000 balance on February 28th
was 3 million 32772 38 and before we do the mo all these motions I just I I'm really kind of a stickler for uh for budgets and money
and I just I'm really proud of what the the council the council has done because uh at it was about a year ago or a year and a half ago I think we actually we under a million dollars on this on this report and we and we we've been able to work
everything out get all of our and what was suffering were dedicated funds so just as a clarification that doesn't mean we have that money sit in the bank it's lot 99% of it's dedicated to funds whether it's the fire fund or the police
fund or the golf course you name it we got funds all over the place but we've actually brought it up enough that we've actually got got have our departments I would think Laura for the most part all funded yes yeah so to have a turnaround
like that I think is uh uh I'm really really proud um of everybody on the council that uh that was uh that got us up to up to that amount so anyway if you get a motion to approve that I'll make the motion to approve the treasurer's
report alen makes a motion second that Gary second a motion all in favor say I I opposed U motion carried so the next thing we have uh we have the fire chief update with we have
scoop yeah with his uh bag of tricks I don't you never put this in I did not that's actually easier to appreciate thank you thanks so we'll just kind of go through this
again and highlight a few things um this year we had a new assistant chief Scott moved up uh Nate Atman took over training officer safety officer and everybody else stayed the same
um first page there just kind of gives what we cover um Township cities and and stuff uh last year calls were up 98 calls we had which I don't know why or what but kind of compares to the co year
maybe but um we had a few more Mutual Aid calls on average 11 little bit dry in the fall so we had a few more gra uh grass fires and stuff but uh the if you see the total value and this is just an estimate of course is 1.4 million and I'm trying to see
here for 23 it was 2.6 million so I don't know if we're doing a better job or if it was just smaller fires but that's quite a bit of quite a bit of money or uh you know property we save so kudos to the boys for that
um and then we can just go to Pi a city of uh I guess uh I don't I should have asked Dustin but he has false alarm and then there's alarm so I'm not quite sure what that meant but usually we're around five for that so that's a little better maybe people are watching their systems
a little better um few more medical assists we got the Lucas device you know on on our 508 so a lot of that stuff uh other than that really nothing too too exciting um and then this
year I guess I'll get to it but just kind of some of the overview we replaced uh the 514 which is our pickup truck uh we got rid of the Yukon replaced that with that new truck and which is very very helpful uh we can bring our
hoses back from a fire we don't have to have them sit in the back 508 and you know cuz they're all full of that junk and carcinogen so that's that's a huge plus and it's a very good uh equipment hauler you can pull our uh side or side by side better so that was a huge uh
Improvement uh last year we got a grant from Pioneer seat again uh for 5,000 and we were always lacking some rope equipment rope uh rescue I Ian we're not really really fully rope train but I mean we can if we have to we can get through and we got a Stokes basket
so we could uh you know have them ready ready to extricate or move out if if we have to wait for another department um we got new Rescue airbags our other ones were really really old I don't even know they were there when I got on back in
98 so it was time um we got a grant from one I can never pronounce this on okay or one ochre so that was 5,000 so that was a huge plus again um for that uh we got a grant from LAX count or Max uh uh
Casino again for a th000 and we got a new uh transfer pump for our second tanker so that was good and then also we got 5,000 from sourcewell and that was used um for new pagers which are getting
outdated then this year we added uh just kind of a projections I guess just so you guys kind of know where we're at I mean this isn't in stone but it just kind of gives you guys a little bit of a heads up kind of where we're at um of
course the ma major cost you know will be the pumper but that's let's see here where's 502 502 that'll be in 2029 so I mean that's a little ways and that of course have to be exactly that year but as you know everything's up so
that's probably a half a million that's pretty big investment but um everything else is pretty we're pretty well equipped and the other thing that I guess the first thing that we're going to be looking at is scbas they're going to be coming up
in two years um that they're expired an NFPA standard that's huge you know that's our major Life Source going into a fire so that's definitely one thing we're going to have have to invest in and as you can see I kind of about fell over to was 150,000 just for those which
is it's like 10,000 a unit which is crazy but it is what it is so our plan is right now you can't apply for Grants they'll never give you one if it's before 10 years so at 10 years we're going to apply you know uh for
FEMA hopefully maybe well you've had them for eight years right yep so we're at eight so two more years we'll have to wait and then uh we'll apply then if we can't get it then we'll have to plan for it and move forward you know with funds
so that's about it really scoop can you just you know for people like watching and just the lay person just real briefly explain what the SCBA is it's called it's a cinnamon for self-contained breathing apparatus so when there's a house fire you go into a
house that's what the guys you see they put the mask on the air tanks on the back and you can go in a fight you know active fire smoke whatever and put the fire out so it's really a life-saving device that it that we need so so the reason why I had scoop to explain it was
that uh even though these things are only eight years old we're having all kinds of problems with them I right off the bat we did so of course the company went yeah yeah the company's gone so uh we discussed at the praa meetings that
um the the firemen are doing their best to keep these things they're constantly working on them sending them in keeping them up yeah they are junk so we're they're good they're nice enough yeah to to get these to 10 years what the requirement is um we're hoping that it
will be 2027 it could be 2026 um that we have to get them but we're we're there there was pressure or people from prefering well let's just buy them now and they're they're nice enough they understand our situation at the city that if the firemen were saying we can make
it two years we can get this thing pushed out for two years so I'm really actually grateful for that but if there is an emergency and we have to do something um actually this kind of ties into what I just was talking about we if we have to do something I want to be in the I want to be in the position of the
city to be able to if an emergency comes up that we can cover something without having to take out any kind of a loan or anything like that but so I just wanted to touch on that real quick to y that sounds good um I guess that's about it
um anybody got any questions on your pagers are you looking at replacing them all well slowly you know as we're doing like batches of Y five whatever we got in the budget and if we can get a grant I think sorc is
well a huge fund and I think we can get another Grant this year for him so you know get five six as we need them so and I don't know Eric if you've dealt with it but granic Electronics is new owners and stuff so I don't we might go
to a different company for them but they're getting kind of slow down there but anyhow want her to research it yeah and find out you know even cost difference what right yep Todd Vance he was at at
uh Granite but he moved to something out in Fergus Falls or something okay so I was going to follow up with him once and see yeah cuz they do wear out their original ones I don't even know when we went to anymore when we went to uh Meer or
800 you know that's when we had to switch it's been a long time so a long it's time yeah but that's just a small small deal so anything else on that report okay well
um Steve of course everybody knows he had had a medical issue so he can't make it Jeff's out of town so they wanted me to bring up the uh where we're at with the relief and kind of fill you guys in where we're at with all that so last
year at the start of this year 2025 we were at 1,468 230 um and these here are all estimated of course the city and Township's contribution of of uh 550 is
3,250 so that gets us to a, 498 480 um estimated return 5% that can always vary but that gives us another 74924 so that puts us at 1, 57344 and then the 2% state aid that's
always given in like October that this year will be 80,000 $136 so estimated assets at the end of this year 2025 will be 1,653 540 so looking at that last year we were
at 3,100 a year so with that estimated assets against our liabilities right now of 1, 37771 that puts us at 100% 120% funded and it must have been 5 years ago maybe 5 six we we started with par mcnight our
new investment firm and they always said you should be at least 10% over fully funded so if we do if we go to 110% funded which would get us at 1,492 531 that would we would increase it to
3200 a year so that's where that would be at it's a lot of numbers but it is big numbers that I'm not used to but John you're used to them but well I used
to be that's much your checkbook so that's that I guess um it says here we've received the contribution from the townships already so 29 at 550 so so do you guys vote on that I
don't know yeah so what I here's what I I guess my thought is and that and I would and I know we have Phil that's going to be coming up in uh and he's got something he'd like to address us with and I typically we would we do have to vote on it but um just so we kind of get our numbers kind of figured out exactly
where we want to be at and I hope I'm speaking for the whole Council if somebody else wants to take this by all means you can but uh we let's let's hold we do need a vote on it okay and then I and and somebody need to make a motion but I'd like to have Phil come up here
and talk first before y well we also say that it's going to be addressed on the 17th on the workshop this fire department contribution oh well there you go well that takes care of that then do you want what do we want to do you guys tell me if if we're doing it at the workshop and going through it because that's what's listed on the on that is
it says fire department contribution I wondering why it was on there it's on there I guess I missed it um you read it off I know it well you know how that goes so uh do do you guys just are you okay if we wait uh wait and talk about it at the workshop and then move forward
or do you need when do you need when do you need it by scope well the sooner the better I suppose but I don't you do not a set date correct it's not a set date but of course we lose money I'd prefer to discuss it at the workshop okay let's do that if it's okay with you we'll
discuss it the workshop and then we'll just in two weeks we'll have do you have those numbers out written down Dan I do I can print it off yeah if you can get it to Lura so we have it for that night okay well that makes makes things a little easier okay all right and then
you want Phil yes okay that's okay Phil would like to make up statement and then we can ask them question I know it was kind of a concern with Lynn and Donnie on this here so well I think the whole Council right good evening Phil good
evening Council um here tonight um to address some concerns of my residents C City pece um there's been some rumors going around that I moved out of town um some of those statements are not true um am I in the process of trying to
buy a house out of town yes has that plan gone to what we expecting it has not um we were contacted about buying a place um through a family about a year
ago and it's taken forever to get done and it's still not done so yeah yes I still live in town I'm still an active member of Department I want to be here but I have no idea when that end dat is going to be for the purchase of this new home so you do you do not live in the
other residents no I have my I have supporting documents with me well I know you I mean you homestad the house I understand that piece that license with my address on it well anybody can do that Phil you know that yeah I mean you don't have to change your license just because you moved you know what I mean you should I
have I have I have things that this their house sure but no I mean it's no different than having a cabin you stay in there seven nights a week no okay I mean you you call that your primary residence here in town yes
yes no different than having a cabin I can go there on the weekends absolutely I don't I don't disagree with that I just I mean it's been brought to our attention and some of it's because of things that you guys have personally posted um Facebook and other things mhm
that you've moved you've moved your wife's business yep um so she commutes okay I have my my business equipment out there because it's close to a little Falls that's what a lot of my businesses I mean I hope you're being
honest if that's the the case then I I mean I can't dispute it um on my end of the world it would be the first week of February you would have been on vacation on a cruise mhm I was on vacation too woohoo
yep I was in Florida my wife was a social butterfly and as we're sitting at the airport waiting to fly home my wife starts talking to this couple and they're going back and forth and the couple says where are you from and Linda
says we're from Piers Minnesota and your Uncle Don stated huh my nephew Phil used to live there he moved out 6 months ago and he lives over by Randall and that's when I went you've got family members that are
out there saying you no longer live here that you live in Randall that's you last time I talked to an individual well he said he was supposed to go on the cruise with you but they had something else going on so they didn't go that's what he told I haven't spoken to him since December
23 don't know that was on the cruise with him he said he's done cruises with you before and he said he was supposed to go on this one but they had something going on I anyway he's the one that brought up and said 6 months ago my my nephew and his family moved out of town
they no longer live here and that was the intention so but like I said things have not gone according to plan as for what the situation is so we were approached in April of 24
to buy this house um they wanted it done before the end of the year because they wanted to rent it out if we weren't going to move that fast and we're still haven't got any paperwork for it so are you renting it from them or they're just letting you live in there for nothing we're not living there well you go there
on the weekends to do your work or she's got her business there and if we're there we're there working on the house and if we get to to late at night then we'll stay there for the night when you got air mattresses living out of boxes it's not fun so do you I mean I hate to cut you off so you you said you live in
apartment here then in town right now to from you okay yeah I know that's I mean I haven't seen see you there much but anyway um I just wanted to say Phil that you know the council we view you as a dedicated City employee and then and also you very valuable in the fire
department so and my view is this really has doesn't have anything to do with you as an employee it has any nothing to do with you as a fireman other than uh we had some questions and uh you know how it is it's small town everybody gets in everybody's business and I just felt
that it was it was time to bring every everything out it' been great if this was handled a different way but that's the way it works you know and I understand that but nobody has asked me nobody on this Council has come to my door and knocked and asked that question why are we here tonight doing
this I'm very upset because of that right so and then you've you you're all kept up with all your credits and uh education in the fire department you absolutely I'm a full-time firefighter I mean everything is up to oh got it
okay um so and I have been upfront with Mr rushell on everything has been transpired had I known this would have gone as long as it had have been I wouldn't have stepped down as being assistant chief for the Department it's been a frustration on my
end for almost a year now now as far as the council you know everything is hindsight's always 2020 but as far as the council when we're looking at this it's the chief's job to do this and try
to bring this forward and do this it undermines our chief if one of us comes to you and starts giving you questions just like if we have something going on at the golf course and it's outside we go to Zach we don't go to the
employee and and he's been frustrated with this too he's been back and forth between here and myself and and you guys like I said this really doesn't have to do with it doesn't have to do with anything right now other than what his residence says right so let's just I mean personally for me let's just keep
it on on Phil's if he's if he resides here I mean I guess I I person don't have a problem with it but I I would I got to make the Assumption he's telling us the truth but and then if you guys don't I totally understand if but you guys are asking good questions I don't
know but if if if truly I mean that's the situation Phil and I hope you're being honest I mean I'm I'm going to take you for your word that you're being honest about this re be Dison about well I hope not because like I said you you have to understand why we're seeing these things I'm getting questioned about it yeah you
know because other people see the same thing I do that's the problem we have Phil the problem we have is we have people coming to us so and I have people come to me too and you know 90% of it you can talk your way out of it but my problem is when you when you get when we do we could Contin continue people
asking us for me I thought at some point he would wash out but it didn't wash out it so that's kind of why I got involved and with the help with scoop I appreciate the scoop stepping up and and helping helping me out so I I think that he did what he should have did and I
think it worked out for the better that at least we're getting down to it and and I do I and I appreciate everything Donnie had had great valid points ly's got really good points too and I don't know where Gary with this but this way we can flush it all out and we we we
have to we have to trust you because like I said you're a great employee you're a great fireman I am your neighbor and uh just because I don't see all the time when I walk by it doesn't mean anything but um you know I I'm next door to you so if I if you're not there I'll probably know you're not there you
know so that's how it works around here but uh so I don't know I I don't know if you guys have any other I don't think it comes down to you as a person I think it's just accountability of the city's tax dollars is what people are in policies and that's what people are looking at and and I think Donnie would
agree with me with the statement I didn't join the department for retirement I joined it to serve my Community Serve my town that I lived in and that's where on my side I'm very frustrated I don't think anybody's joined in the fire department to make a
million bucks I tell you how much I you guys put your lives on the line become mayor to make a million dollars yep so I don't I understand where you're coming from and and it was a very hard decision for me to even go try to make this move
because I will not get my 20 years in right and that's something that I want to do because I leave without 20 I'm not an honorary member right I'm just a firefighter right yep okay so um I don't
know if you guys has really good sitting Gary on your part so thank you and Donnie I I don't want to do you have any other no I you're okay with it I would agree we have to go along with what yeah where he's at thank you how about you Lyn yep and I want to thank you for coming and explaining yeah I do too you
should have gotten this far no you're right it shouldn't have no but thank you for coming and explaining it and you know now it's all out in the open yeah it shouldn't be a a question yep Sarah um I I kind of live under a rock I vaguely heard about you living in
Randall but it didn't really process and so yeah thank thank you for coming and explaining it I mean yeah yeah so that is really good and and obviously you know uh if it ever comes a situation where you do buy the whole thing and everything you're going to I mean I
would assume yeah okay then I we'll work with scoop on that then right scoop yeah got it okay well he's got to let me know huh yeah oh I know I understand it's a it's a it's a process yeah it's a
process all of your you know fire department members would do that right I mean you're sign when you get the policy it says it right in there just follow it yeah make your life easy right I mean yeah so because other people have had to leave and you know that yep I'm aware
the policy yeah so and I said I've been forthcoming with Mr Rush a little about my situation and what my intentions are yep that's good and it and it like once again I appreciate coming in here because it was it was really hard on scoop and it was really hard on me and it was hard on you and it was hard on
everybody now I think we kind of got it all washed out that's the way it should be and I think actually um I'm feeling a lot better now than I did before obviously hopefully you do too I don't know but uh anyhow good well um I think that's I think we're good so you can get
out of the Huts thank you very much for your service we do we thank you okay so the next we got you're okay oh you're back again no want me to make a copy of that oh y
I'll make okay so the next item um is Eric where am I Eric Eric Mr henin he doesn't have as big a folder as what no he a little thinner sure Zach go first Mr sure I
have a bunch of stuff to okay Al I see a pile there's a pile oh yeah that's right yeah good evening Council mayor um I guess I'd like to get approval for the grounds crew uh wage is for the year and then I have a few
updates that I can go over um where we're at with the golf course and stuff so you want to go you want to go what do you want to do first SEC I'd like to get approval for this and then I just got an update on where we've been at with working on the reels and where the golf carts are at and I drove around the golf
course to see how everything looks so so uh first I am going to I know you guys didn't talk about at a parkboard meeting but um I want to get your opinions on the wages before I chime in on anything
um is anybody got any discussion on the wages I proove to the wages huh I think the wages are fine the way they are um I didn't look at them real close that night at Park Board and I probably should have Zach um
you know you've got some that are making quite a bit of a jump in terms of last year to this year and then others you know might be 75 cents the next one's you know a dollar there's kind of an inconsistency in terms of it can you kind of explain how you came up with
that part of it's part of it's based on um Quality and kind of what our limits at from what I've understood our limit for our part- timr is around that $16 you know and so some of them have been there a little bit longer so to give
them much more than putting them over 1617 um I've talked with Brad and Jim too as well as well as Laura and so some of these aren't my decisions obviously one of them is my daughter so I understand that two of them are two of them are yes sorry well the one with the
bigger jump is is my daughter um and so it was their decisions too on what you know what they do um she is our uh High School person that we've hired like last year we put out for uh High School help
we never got any we got one person back and that was it um and they just didn't quite fit for what I wanted she's learned everything that I needed when I can send her out there she can do it um and with what wages are out there
nowadays she's um going to be 18 this year so I think she fills in that that spot of needing to get paid that or she's probably going to have to go somewhere somewhere else so um when I she was the one um that caught a at box
wasn't watering system wasn't working properly and she was the one that caught it out of two other adults that were mowing around that debx as well so she she does catch things that need to be done I can send her out there to do the work and I
don't have to watch her so it's just getting her up to where I think she should have been she started off too low um and that's that's basically what it is the other ones were started at those wages some of them because they are older people and so that was based on
what we approved from that so so with uh is Steve uh Stephen fighton not coming back that you don't have a wage there yes that's what that X means okay and do we need to hire more then or
are you good with what you have with what we have I think we are good I mean it's it's all new to me going on running a new nine but with my best judgment I think we have enough people we don't have to put any um advertisement out there for ground
screw so I'm saying that like I said with I'm doing my best judgment this is this is new to me running another nine but I'm I feel very confident this is enough to get us through so here's a I mean I I kind of got a little bit of an issue with um I got a couple issues
actually I have a which I can handle but I have a tough time having you being their dad and them working and I don't care if it's directly under you or if there's somebody in between um it kind of kind of goes against what our our policy really is um that we have an
employee policy uh with that said um I understand the whole I worked with your daughter last year when I was volunteering at the golf course I don't know which one it was but she was really a nice person and she probably cilia she was a hard worker so I I understand that the other the other issue I have is that
um all sudden we approve their wages and I it happened I think last year all you come two months in and you want to give other people raises based off of certain things because they're upset because somebody else got a pay raise and they didn't they didn't get one I want to I
want to have your guarantee that that if we approve this that you're not going to come here two months from now and say well this person wants more money because of this and that and the other but it's going to be because of your daughters um that was two years ago so
last year we when we set our wages I didn't come back and ask other than when we had people hiring in the middle of the Year where we setting that person um but yes this was set now and it's going to be set until next year again that's the plan set you just want to make sure you're not going to I mean if somebody
comes to me and says I want this or I'm leaving and they leave I guess I'm going to bring that to you guys but short of that no I'm not coming to you um based on me asking for it I will this fits within the budget that you have yes
it should fit in within the budget okay so the only other one would be then you have somebody that stayed the same they did not get a raise uh chadad Chad Chad Chad so CH the reason with Chad he started three weeks before we ended the
season okay and so when I hired him I told him this is be your wage going into the following year you remember what we maxed out at what the max we never I don't think we did we did talk about it did we yeah but I can't remember what it was at the top of
my head CL staff was it Clubhouse staff it wasn't for I and I did like nice to know exactly where we stand on grounds um and I thought we going bring that up and then I kind of forgot about at the last parkb meeting as well we should put that on the agenda um because we did that
with club host staff where we we know what the max is yep mhm yep that's good good plan but yes I don't plan on coming back with any wage increases on any of these people well any other questions I don't know if you guys want
to whatever I can't make a motion so make a motion to approve the wages okay Gary makes a motion to approve the wages for the ground screw for 2025 at the golf course I'll second is Sarah second's a motion all in favor say I
post uh motion carried thank you and then I got a phone call today um probably about half the carts will be coming on Thursday um possibly the rest of them Friday he's not sure yet so bring up load takes two loads to bring them all so we'll try and over the
course of this week get some of the other ones changed and I'll try and I think we should be able to fit them all with some adjusting all in that North shelter so they can all be inside still okay um so those will be coming hopefully by the end of this week you guys are working on the other six to get
those for sale yes so we're we haven't started o changing oil on any of those we've been trying to work on the sharpening stuff yet but I anticipate this week if not early next week we're going to start changing some oil um Jim has a few comp hours and stuff to burn
up so I'd like him to burn those up with it being this nice he has something else he likes to do anyways and today's a good this week's a good week to to go do those things outside and use them as comp time so he's not going to be working as much this week but um so sharpening where we're at with that
we're getting finished up with our fairway mower and then we have a trim to go over quick and then our uh groomers on the greens mower those should be fairly quick unless I find something that uh surprises me but the uh Fair Remer we bought last year he said it was
sharpened well once we got it up and looked at it it hasn't been relief ground for probably about 3 years so it's taking us longer per reel to sharpen that than I anticipated but we're getting it there and then going forward it'll be a lot quicker sharpening it from year to year but there's a lot of fine tuning to those
reels getting them perfect if we do it right we don't have to sharpen them until next year again and having to take them off in the middle of the season and it happens every other year I'd say where somebody hits something or rock is thrown up there somebody leaves something behind then you do have to take that one reel off and and sharpen
it but short of that we've been not having to sharpen as long as it's done right in the beginning so I like to take my time make sure it's done right and then put them on the machine and keep an eye it for the year um probably some asking when we think we're going to open
what what those questions are so um give you my best honest um guess on that the earliest we've ever opened was March 27th um and on that year since I've been here anyways obviously it's been before that so 2006 the earliest we've ever
opened since then um and then it got was warm for the weekend and then it pretty much was cold the next week and a half two weeks to where we kind of almost closed down maybe opened up when it was warm enough so how I've always done it in the past
is look for a nice weekend and look with the following you know week forecast I don't like to trust more than a week out sometimes two sometimes you see 10 days out and that's when I base it on you know if we're going to get one day like this week it's going to be warm but
there's the course is not ready yet I drove out today there's a lot of soft spots and wet and water and snow melting yet so obviously we can't and then next week's cooling off again so when the course is in firm shape ready to go then I look at the weather and you know if we have a 70 degree day in the middle of a
week and a Wednesday but next weekend shows 40s we don't open but when I think it's the best I'm going to bring it up to proba Donnie and Lynn and I keep lur in Loop too and go this is my suggestion and you know if you guys have other thoughts on that but that's how I've
done it in the past and I guess I'm open for ideas if we want to try something different but um Bas it's nice to open when you have a goodlook weekend so yeah thank you um I think that's basically yeah we're just we're trying to catch up with all the
maintenance and oil changes and bearings and pin joints and the decks of the Mower and all that you turn on everything um in the clubhouse for those guys I was going to talk to Parker about that tomorrow I can I can do that right now if I want the water I'm going to
look at the forecast I think we should be good with the water um once as long as the clubhouse heated it should keep any of the pipes from freezing even if it get cold at night so probably let it heat up because it takes a little bit with that heater in the front and we
don't have a heater in the back yep so okay but I probably can turn the water on probably Wednesday Thursday if we want I'm going to see what the forecast looks like Again by next week so when Market's in there to start cleaning and doing those kind of things with you that they're ready to go that should
shouldn't be a problem when do we start letting campers into the I mean for when is the campground open up I'm just curious when does it officially open L do you remember what our first one was May 9th is the first okay yeah I mean we've never picked a really official date because nobody's as long as it
firms so they don't go in there and run it all up it's usually that beginning of May is when we have the first campers you know we don't really have anybody before that so it's never been an issue I guess that I was just kind of curious if but yeah if we had somebody that happened to sign up I guess I do have
access to the camp spot so I can keep an eye on that and once Parker starts here he'll know and yeah for some reason somebody did say hey I want to camp you know first week in April or something cuz it's nice we don't turn the water on and tell usually that first week in May
either so they would be they would be informed that there's no bathrooms and no water you know they can use the power and they can camp and give them a higher spot where they're not going to make a run so but yeah that's never been again
never been on my mind it's always when we open the golf course so it's the most important well and if it's nice one day they can go out and golf C camping it's got to be nice for three days for them they want to go and even if it's 70 during the day like it was today they were still saying like 20° tonight well
that's it's kind of chilly in a camper if you don't have the right one so so any other questions for me you good I do not I do good good thank you appreciate it thank you
ex have to see if Parker has anything yeah Parker you want Parker to go first now we're now we're kind of pushing the back didn't think he'd be long I would have took his spot I was kind of thinking the same thing dud perker you got are you do you
have anything to say or no no good good first day I feel like I got a good grip on the software already so looking forward to tomorrow and the rest of the week fabulous to nice thank you Parker thanks Parker thanks Z good evening
everybody um Laura sent you my annual report so if you guys want to put up on the computer you don't have to otherwise I can just go over the review in front of me you don't have to follow cuz I got the same details in front of me if you want me to start I will or if you want go ahead go ahead so uh for
2024 in review we uh the Pierce police department handled 1,5 calls of service that's a 3.5 increase from 2023 that's 2.7 calls per sorry uh did you put in our packet Laura I I may I might be missing something it's not under did is
it under the police chief update should be under police chief update that's okay it is not in there but that's okay no it's okay all right we'll just listen I I can send you copy so it's 2.7 calls per shift when we're working for the city of peers um the one
that I am always very proud of it's we handled 72 medical calls for our area that doesn't include Hilman and or say MLB because that becomes the agency assist and most of the Medicals in today's world Mr rush or s we're always by ourselves just it's the way it is
during the day but it's it's it's something that I take true passion and that we both are certified and that we're there for our citizens citations related this is a pat to Mr Russo um related to about 229 different calls of service that he handled either traffic
and or criminal investigations that he conducted that's a pretty cool thing for one gentleman some of them are Min but majority of them he gets to spend in Patrol unit I'm in the office punching papers so it's just it shines how accountable he is for the city very blessed um the busiest day is Wednesdays
196 calls of service it was the same for 2023 with 197 one more in 2022 was 163 for whatever reason it's always Tuesdays or Wednesdays as long as I as long as I've been here for 13 years it's always been those two days so go figure on the
busiest time of the day is uh 2 o' to 8 to 8 8:00 in the evening with 338 calls um that's been the same in 2022 it was from 10 to to two busiest month this last year was July with 112 calls of service in 2023 was March with uh 94
calls and in 22 it was December with 109 calls so that fluctuates back and forth other information that we we take care of through the year um some of you probably are knoww this lens's going to be that there's 10 ad aeds assigned to our community such as Hartman's Pierce
Ballroom um the church rooster we go up to the fish house but there's 10 in our area but at that time what the First Responders were sort of in charge of making sure they're maintained I just told myself well as a volunteer first respond they're not getting forgotten about but while I'm working I mark it
down for my annual checklist I go around the the old pads would usually maybe last a year or two now the pads that I purchased are good for two or three years so I go around I make sure the pads are good and then the batteries are also good in each AED there's 12 little lithium batteries to replacing batteries
is 112 bucks so it's just something that I take pride in doing I completed the fifth grade healthy living and choices so something I've done since I've been here at Holy Trinity just going to fifth grade you talk about poor choices you talk about vaping you talk about tobacco it's a big hit March 17th I begin the
same classroom presentations at Pioneer Elementary March 18th postboard audits coming into town they usually only come in to inspect our annual books every five years for whatever reason they're coming back to us within 3 years I have everything there waiting for them anytime they've come two peers I get the
certificate of great compliance so I'm not concerned about it so it's all waiting for their arrival um I received the last funding from sourcewell of the $1,331 in Grants that I wrote this last year to put back into our police budget um and that would bring me to the
end of the year any questions on my annual report I just want to add so everybody knows you do um the pads and the batteries you do submit that back to First Response correct I did uh Kim ke I sent the I sent the bill to Kim and she's going to reimburse me it was like
was between five and 600 bucks reference to the pads the batteries I replaced some but we had the batteries on hand at at the fir Hall so I didn't have to worry about the batteries okay but um L Laura knows to replace the batteries so that's so you guys are aware that first response did pay for those and then I'll
just give you one of these this came in this week otherwise I would have shared it earlier it's probably not going to mean much to you but per state leg ation I have to give you guys each a copy and I have to email if you look in the very back page or second last page I have to
email at so many representatives from the state of Minnesota so what this is is an audit we both wear and our squad cars have the cameras installed into them so every so many years you have to have an independent lady come in or gentleman they come in and make sure that we are
programming our cameras we're downloading evidence to our icrs and that they're being deleted properly so when I went through it if you go through it it'll always say no discrepancies noted no discrepancies noted The only discrepancy that they came out with was
on the very last second to last page under audit requirements it says discrepantly noted all that I screwed up on was I didn't Implement August 1st 2023 when we implemented the policy on our computer or in our in our ordinance we have it in
there now otherwise I meet everything that's required and it was a great audit on behalf of the peer Police Department great so it's just something I see I didn't look but I it looks like it's not included on my copy you have to send it
to I think there's going to be nine or 13 representatives from the state of Minnesota they get to go in and view what we've done per how our government does it which I disagree but it's a rule that we have to follow and my audit came back just fine good do they have the
pedler ordinance in front of them I just emailed it okay apologize so the pedler ordinance is we talked about this for a long time and I believe it's something that we need to move on the ordinance is completed all
we got to do is if you have it I'd ask you all to read it go over it for the first read and then prior to our next meeting we can post it for a public hearing imagine for yeah we can do it during the meeting close the meeting open it up I'm starting to get
used to those and the be question that one of us will have to ask to since we already have part of a PED orance in place do we have to have a public hearing but I believe when we change or add we still have to get the input from the community if there's any concerns the only other hot question that we have
on it is what we're going to charge and uh for example Avon charges $100 for 1 to 21 days so you can you can be in town for one day or 21 it's 100 bucks anandale the fee is one to three
is 50 bucks 4 to 10 days is 100 30 days is 250 bucks and annual is 500 and I believe 1 to 21 what happens if they come in all summer I think an andales is a is a nice way to go where if somebody wants to come in just for one or one or
two days they pay 50 bucks so was anand's again an andel's one to three is 50 bucks one to three days days four to 10 days is $100 okay 30 days is 250 bucks and Annie would be 500 yeah I like that
too yeah I do too um our current one is we have three different ordinances pertaining to this situation transient Merchant is 20 bucks pedler solicitor is 250 and then we also have a vendoring vendor vendoring selling Foods at 250 so I believe with this new update to our
Peddlers we're getting rid of our old antique stuff and bringing in the latest to to benefit everybody Place some of the others all in one ordinance all in one ordinance like so I just ask that you take it home review it if we have questions we can talk about it otherwise then we can go
ahead and have that public hearing so we can get this ordinance taken care of any questions on the Peddlers and then we are also looking at the the firearm bow and arrow one I say the bow that one is completed it's just a matter of I don't want to put them all on top of each other so quick we have a
we have time we have until August so sometime here the summer we'll do that the archery one just so we know and put that out to the public also did you did you want to cover the the camera situation Eric or was that for some other I can I can I'll discuss a little bit Yeah okay thank throw it out there
yeah now this one is just something I want to bring up to everybody at a council not as a workshop just because of the number of complaints we've had over the last couple years is pertaining to golf carts oh no mhm in the city appears we have no authority to really
to be honest with you they're 100% illegal but we turn uh we turn our back to them to allow them in the community and I just think with the direction that we're going and how like tonight when I came into town there was two cruising the streets already with young kids on them with Highway 25 I think it's
something that we got to look into and just ask our community maybe for some input and regulate them at a just so we know who they are and under the rules they'd have to be they'd have to be they'd have to be 16 years to
drive M sorry and okay nowbody go what are you going to charge right what's the costs well I think Piers is going to do it the right way like we have a lot of stuff um chasa is 90 $90 every three years Buffalo's $5 annually and the
policy that I pull this Alban Albany charges $10 annually and i' I'd probably ask that we do it the same time we do our dog licenses because I think if you do it every 3 years they're going to be forgotten about people aren't going to get the information if they moveing into the community so I know $10 is $10 but
it would give us a process of who has them and that we can control that nobody gets hit or gets smuck on Main Street is there a specialized sticker or something we put on that you could see it the sticker the sticker I'm not sure about I did not look into that but I did print off a registration process that if we
move forward I can give it to Dion and she can come up with her registration form in the front desk just so when people come in they can do it and go that route so it's just something that I want to throw towards you I think it' be good feedback here in the next month to figure out which way we want to go and just make sure that we don't have a some
type of accident or fatality because it's getting worse each and every year each and every year it's getting worse and the only reason I was thinking something to put on that whether it's a sticker or whatever is if if you a rush ler out there is all you're doing is you're looking yep at a spot on a golf
cart everybody's got to put it in the same spot I would like to see a sticker be just be and then just go to 15 bucks or something say make sure it covers the cost of the sticker so we got five bucks in the sticker and they got $10 to look at whatever any questions on the golf carts I think they're getting more and
more Reckless too when it comes to that they're getting younger and younger that's a concern it's I truly don't have a problem if you see a mom and dad but when you start seeing some young kids and we' had and we've had parents that believe their two littlest kids should be on the back seat of it and not in the front and right we we hamper them we
send them home but sometimes they don't like to listen so any questions on any of that topic dri Li 16 with a valid driver's license we could probably include this to make uh four-wheelers or or like I've got a side by side that one
you there's there's reads on that to put them together this is strictly golf cart because I think with that one it's going to be too hard because you have too many people that are coming off the Su line to come in and spend money at our local bars so with the ATV we already have the state guidelines that they have to follow reference to ATV registration and
or driver's license so they're regulated already that we have a ruled on where the golf carts to be honest with the golf carts are absolutely under our under our book They're 100% illegal it's just small town we let them do their thing as long as they're peaceful and respectful yep yep perfect any other
questions for me NOP and then the only other thing that I have is um we all know I went through the knee surgery correct M when I was out for the knee surgery I got a bill for to leave a purchase payment where because I went through workman's comp they didn't the
city did not contribute to my um Pera and either did I so I had to cut a check to make sure my months of service continue to run so I had to cut a check for $779 58 cents I spoke to post board they advised me that usually the city or the county handles that expense and that
I should come and request that money be put back into my pocket so I would just it's it's something that came up when I was out for knee surgery and I'm just curious to see if I'll be allowed to retrieve my money from the city I mean I I think you should just for the fact that you heard your for sure because you
hurt your knee actually helping a citizen and peers I mean that should be I just make a motion City peers would pay that back to Chief H second 77958 Gary 77958 thank you all approve yes yes
I'll give that back to you for now just so you see it and it's them out any other questions for me we all know we had a hot season right I won't go into details but there's very good movement on it it's oh is there absolutely so it's just I going to Lowa knows um
several council members know of course but I just won't say it on camera but it's uh the amount of felony crimes that we had in 2024 was staggering for for a small Department it's if you if I showed you what's on my desk right now with what's going on the workload that's sitting there I don't mind doing it but
if somebody asks you why the squad car is sitting by City Hall always idling tell them to come in and see me because there's a lot going on that nobody has a clue I never question it I know you're busy I know you don't but it's it's come to my attention that you know it goes back to community talking it's brought
back to me no one's ever asked me no and then the other thing that is something that I'm going to kindly look into is and if I can come up with grant money is we're going to have an option to do something with cameras in the city we already have them on Pioneer we got great cameras but they're good cameras most of the time but you're not getting
the right data that we we'd like so I'm going to be tending a meeting this week it's called flock cameras where you can you got to buy two at a time but you could put one s side of town and our side of town and it's going to read every license plate that comes into town and within 10 to 15 seconds if that
driver's got a warrant canel IPS revoked or suspended within 15 seconds it sends a message to who whoever's terminals are in peers and or for morison Colony so when somebody comes in such as the bank with a stolen vehicle it's going to be a hit and it's going to go to any any
deputy and or small town in our area it's just something I'm going to look into and see if we can come up with funding or if I have to come to the council and ask for it it's an option but it's just homework that I'm going to do to try and secure the city more than we can I do you have any idea yet you probably don't have any idea what it would cost Grand 6,000 $6,000 annually
though it's yeah it's annually annually y so it's just it's a topic we can it is just on my thought throw up there we can discuss that a future Workshop but it's just something that I think needs to be done because of the crime that's coming through Highway 25 when we budget when we look at the
budgeting that might be something worse or to put a price on safety Absol is agre definitely changes the it definitely changes the tone of or the feel of the Town we're trying to trying to create keep the amount of hours that Eric has put into just this right just
this one incident yeah and if you uh if you guys any of you are Pioneer Lake Mutual members how many are John you know Donnie I'm going to be presenting at the Pioneer Lake Mutual meeting and I'm going to be bringing up five or six of these cases to let anybody know what's going on in this community it's going to be an eye opener because I'm
using a PowerPoint with slides from many of these different crimes that we've had and I'm just going to and most of them are people that are in this community so they can see just give them a reminder to make sure they lock your doors and be secure so when is that Eric I believe it's April 7th I'm not sure I just I think it's the first week of April
sometimes the first Monday in April but if you're not a member you don't get a free meal John well I come with my mom I have to bring my brother that doesn't count you're not still not a member that's why I came last year as our guest still doesn't count still doesn't count any questions for me looking forward to
hearing the results awesome thank you for all your hard work Eric yes thank you okay well I got yeah okay so we're looking pretty good here so I kind of got caught up in in the moment with Eric he heard free food second
P to Laura to Laura okay awesome so if we have do you have any updates laa I just have a small one at the last meeting I had stated that the boards of appeal and Equalization on April 10th only needed two council members and I was incorrect that needs three so Sarah
will be the third person she said that she was able to make that work so April 10th at 1 o' it is Lynn Don and Sarah here and then our audit is complete I'm just waiting to hear when they would like to present and get an update on
that yeah and uh Laura's been really busy she's had a lot going on and it we you know so I thank you for hard work that you do uh Council updates I don't I don't have a whole lot I just Laur and I went to the mayor's
meeting and it's really interesting um getting Insight on on other talents and giving our giving our own insight and things of that stuff like that but um you got anything Gary at all you do not I do not Lynn Sarah I think uh well
Donnie you're up I'll make a motion to adjourn at 711 p D makes a motion to adjourn I'll second that Gary second the motion all in favor say I I I opposed U motion carried J