Call the meeting to order. I'll rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. Roll call. Council member Leech is absent. Approval of the agenda. Is there any changes? Council have any okay with hearing? Nothing. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda as
presented? Motion to approve. Motion by Joe. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Brad. Call the question. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Four in favor. None against. Approval of the minutes of the
April 16th, 2025 regular meeting. You all received them in your packet. Is there any questions or corrections needed within that set of minutes? Hearing nothing. Do I have a
motion to approve the minutes of the April 16th meeting? Motion to approve. Motion by Scott. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Joe. Call the question. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I opposed.
Motion carries. Four in favor, none against. This brings us to our public open forum. Is there anyone here that would like to speak to the council? Come up to the podium and state your name and address. And uh you have
three minutes. Good evening. I am Scott Whit. I re represent tonight the Suck River Wershed District. I'm actually from Albony, but like I said, I'm I'm from the S River Wershed District. Um, I just want to say I I'm here to in response to last
month's moratorium decision on the uh shoreline uh work here and in the city on Sock Lake and I want to say I support that and I look forward to working with the city and the DNR to come up with a common course of action. I've only been in this position as permit manager for for less than a year but uh I'm just as
concerned as anyone else about the uh work be just being done without a permit because that's you know part of my job is to deal with permitting. So I want to say uh you know thank you for the moratorium and uh I look forward to working with the appropriate uh partners to find a common course of action. Okay.
Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else that would like to speak to the council? Call a third time. Is there anyone else that would like to speak to the council? Seeing no one, our public open forum is now closed. We have no public
hearings. We'll move on to our reports and presentations. Park board report. So, the park board met last night, Tuesday, May 6th, in regular session. They did receive the resignation from Brandon Schindler and also the public works report. Uh they
reviewed the progress of the camper cabins. They discussed the trail project process or progress and how that's coming along. They do recommend the excavation project at the Civic Arena Fields which is by the TriCap building as well as the purchase of the replacement lawnmower and the sale of
the land pride flex mower. So those are items that are all in your packet tonight. And then also they selected dates for the movie and the park night which will be June 9th or 16th with the 23rd as a rain date. So for the park board you'll have uh three action items that are requested later on on the
agenda. Okay, any questions? concerns and we will move on to the EDA report. So, the EDA met today in regular session. Uh, one of the couple items of discussion, they discussed potential
participation in the development of Cana Avenue, which is off of 12th Street and it goes south toward that 42 acre parcel next to Walmart and to see if there's something they can participate to try to further that along. And they also reviewed a potential small city development application for assistance
to upgrade heating and add accessible restrooms to an existing business. And also they reviewed the author's progress author's addition. There's three homes currently under construction. If you go out there, you'll see that the footings are being dug and there's actually dirt being moved around. So those three houses will be in this year and I think
the fourth one is working on their permit. So we'll have some activity out there this year. Okay. Any questions or concerns with that? Okay, then we will move on to the 2025
birch and pine update. Keith, good evening, Mayor and Council. Project is going very well out there. Um, at this point, uh, all of the sewer and water and services are in on the two blocks of Fifth Street from Ash to Pine.
And perhaps by the end of the meeting, everything the same will be done on Bert Street between fifth and sixth. They're kind of do it in sort of chunks, doing all the utilities, if you will, and then sort of moving to another chunk. Um they're actually going to drop back and
start on Storm Sewer on Bert Street, you know, from Fifth and heading south. And that'll sort of be then ready to start with the final grading and street improvements and those kinds of things in those areas. So that's what's being worked on. Everything is going well. We really haven't experienced anything out
of not, you know, expected. It's old stuff, old old sewer and water manes. And sometimes we find things that are un unexpected, but nothing overly out outlandish. Uh, one interesting thing of note, we found on Fifth Street between
Ash and Birch, the water man was actually threaded steel pipe, which I've never seen in 38 years of this uh doing this work. So, um, so that's not normal, but it's and it was leaking like a sib. So, hopefully we'll stop some of the
extraneous water loss that the utility has unfortunately. So, that'll at least help with that done. So, um, so that was unique, but we're we're chugging through those things and getting services kind of where they're supposed to be and those kinds of things that's going on. Um, I know the mayor, you asked about
um, Centerpoint Energy and doing some contacting residents regarding uh, some sewer televising of their sewer services and I did contact them and they are doing that. Um, and it's when they directional drill things in, they look
and make sure that they didn't actually drill through somebody's service. So, that's the purpose for doing it. So, it's not um something they may be doing everywhere, but where they're doing that type of work, they'll come back in and look and make sure because they've had some issues in other communities uh over
the years, and it's kind of a a loss protection, if you will, for them to to look at those kinds of things. So, that's what's going on with those. So there probably will be some of that that'll be happening. Um it's not related to us directly, sort of
indirectly, but not us directly. So um you do have a pay request for Keley later on the agenda. And you might note that it's a fairly large amount. Uh the vast majority of it is actually materials on hand. So all of the pipe, everything that's already on site is
kind of what we're what we're paying for. um once they get it on site, we they they can request for that kind of compensation. So that's what that's for. Okay. Any questions for me? I just I'm sorry. Go ahead. I just one question. Um
would do what percentage do you think is is complete based on the overall project basis from what we're going to get done in this year? And I'll probably ask that every month because I'm just in my mind I'm curious to see how we stay on track compared to what we anticipated where we
would be throughout the summer to see where we get done by the end of the year. It'd be I would say about an eighth at this point is complete. Fair. So uh and that would only be the utility side. So once they start the street portions that'll sort of be a concurrent
activities, you know, so that we'll see how that progresses. But the street really other than removals the street the new street improvements haven't started yet. So, but um based on what I would my projections they I would say
they are on track. Okay. Um to get um unless we come into something that's really unknown, really slows us down. Um, I think they will get it done or at least the the certainly the vast majority of it would get done if if
there's a a block or two left that I would almost see that as kind of almost our worst case scenario for what I see at this this particular juncture. So, yeah. So, I think it's going going really well and we are some of the folks who have some old retaining walls are
saying, "Hey, let's just take them down and and grade the yards and that." So, we'll be doing some of that. So we'll get rid of some of those old some some that are sort of in bad shape and and make things look I think a little bit nicer as well. So yeah, so that's
happening as well. Okay. Just to refer back to what Keith had talked about with Centerpoint doing the televising. I had talked to Glenn Bower down at Water and Light because everyone I talked to had never known anything that Centerpoint subcontracted anybody
to do sewer lines. And according to Glenn, he it's a mandated thing from what I understand ever since they had that explosion downtown St. Cloud where somebody bored a line through a sewer line and it caused a
leak and caused some major problems. So I think from what he could tell me it sounded like a mandate that came through that anytime they're putting lines through when they have an issue that they go and televise to find out that
they didn't do something wrong. So to me it was something that we should probably should have known about before they did it even though it's their business. But, you know, I had one resident call me and I was at their residence when they went and did the televising today just to ask
questions. So, Okay. It was It went smooth. They didn't even take a half hour. Yeah. And I can't personally say whether it's something that's mandated that they do. I'm sure it's a a new at least policy that they do for for their risk risk protection, I would think. But
uh I I don't know whether it's something that's required by the utilities commission or or not at this state. Yeah, I'm not certain. I think it's at the state level it's mandated because even in the in the voicemail call that I listened to it
said mandated. Okay. So but otherwise is there any questions other for Keith? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. We'll now move on to action items 7A. Approve resolution
2025-35 calling for hearing on capital improvement bond. So, a portion of the bond that we expect to be issued to pay for the city improvement projects. The portion funded by capital improvement bond issue requires that a public hearing be held to allow for public comment. Uh there the resolution is
attached calling for the public hearing to be held on June 4th. This portion of the bond covers the costs associated with city hall and the library improvements. That portion of the bond is uh $720,000. And so what we're looking tonight is simply to call the public hearing. That's resolution
2025-35 calling for a public hearing on the intention to issue general obligation capital improvement plan bonds and proposal to adopt a capital improvement plan because we have to have a plan attached to that. So this is simply calling the hearing to be held at the June 4th regular city council
meeting. questions, concerns otherwise. Do I have a motion to approve resolution 2025-35? So motion by Brad. Do I have a second? Second. Second by
Joe. Any other discussion? Call the question. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposions. Motion carries. Four in favor, none against. 7B, approve resolution
2025-36 calling for hearing on property tax abatements. What this is is the portion of that same bond that's going to pay for the improvements for the arena and the senior center. And this is actually what's called an abatement bond. You have different authorities on
how we can borrow money. And so this is called an abatement bond. And that also requires a public hearing. So, we'll have that public hearing that same night on June 4th. We'll just have the two one right after the other. So, what we are looking to do is adopt resolution 2025-36 calling for the public hearing
on the proposed property tax abatement. The portion, this bond portion is 455,000 and that takes care of all the improvements, the arena rough, all of those improvements and the senior center rough. Questions, concerns?
Do I have a motion to approve resolution 2025-36? Motion to approve. Motion by Scott. Do I have a second? I'll second. Second by Brad. Any other discussion? Call the question. All those in favor signify by saying I. I.
Opposed. Motion carries. Four in favor. None against. 7 C. We approve resolution 2025-37 accepting bid for street reclamation project. So at the meeting on April 2nd, the council authorized the advertisement for
bids for the 2025 street reclamation. This was Park Lane, Park View Drive and a part of Hendrick Street. Uh bids were opened on Thursday, May 1st at 11:00 a.m. and we had seven biders. The low bidder was markedly excavating at 189200. The bids went all the way up to
28493850. So we had quite a widespread but uh we did all the tabulation and everything looks to be in order for the low bidder of Markley excavating for 1892. I do have resolution 2025-37 awarding the bid to him. I do want to say that we had an estimate or
an estimate of 175 when we came to the council and it did come in at 1892 too which is a little higher than we expected but then we did have um the trail the trail one that came in way lower than we expected so the two of them will balance each other out quite
nicely. questions, concerns. Do we feel there's anything specific that maybe causes us to come in a little higher? Just they're further into the season that maybe busier or something that actually the asphalt cost was bid per ton a little bit higher on this project.
Do they have a timeline? They have not given us a timeline. We have to give them a timeline. So when we do the contract, that's when we'll give them the timeline. Okay. Any other questions? Otherwise, do I have a motion to approve resolution
2025-37? Motion to approve. Motion by Joe. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Scott. Any other last minute discussion? Call the question. All those
in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Four in favor, none against. 7D approve resolution 2025-38 authorizing quotes for lawnmower. So in 2012 the city purchased a 2012
fair uh diesel lawn mower. It's a zeroturn style lawnmowers. It's well beyond its useful life. We're recommending that it be traded or sold and that a new similar mower be purchased from the lowest bidder. The purchase of a replacement motor is in the capital improvement plan. It is in the 2025 parks budget. So, we're
requesting that staff be allowed to sol solicit quotes for similar mowers and those quotes would be brought before the city council at a future date. And so, the action is resolution 2025-38 authorizing the solicitation of quotes for a park mower. Okay, questions. Do we have an estimated
cost on what we think that's going to be? We had in the budget I think we have 25. Yeah, it's not going to be that high. Okay. Any other questions? Do I have a motion to approve
resolution 2025-38? So move. Motion by Brad. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Joel. Call the question. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Four in favor. Sorry.
None against. That's okay. 7E. approved resolution 2025-39 authorizing excavation project arena. So this in in 2021 the city entered into an agreement with Triricap whereby TriCap would donate property to
the city for expansion of the ballpark at the civic arena and the city would cover the cost of excavating for leveling behind their existing building that would allow for their future expansion and then we get to keep the removed fill to put up onto our property to level that area. Uh the project was
to be completed with one year within one year but was delayed. The delayed plans for the field delayed the project. Uh once the work is complete, the batting cages will be located on the portion of property until a future date when it's needed for the field reconfiguration. We do have $19,000 was set aside in the
sinking fund for park land. Uh we do have an updated quote from Elgen Excavating to complete the work for 20,55240. So this is an obligation that we have with Triricap to complete this work and so that is why we brought it forward for forward to kind of get that taken care
of and that's resolution 2025-39 authorizing the completion of the ballfield excavation project questions concerns yeah I understand that it's a commitment that we made with dry cap when we took
the property over but you know and it's really nobody's fault, I guess, that the baseball association didn't come through with their part. Um, so I guess we really, in my opinion, have no choice but at least take care of
that. But I would like to see nothing get put on that until we get an actual plan on what's going to happen up there and money involved. So, I don't want to put spend money on a batting cage for no
reason. So, with that said, do I have a motion to approve resolution 2025-39? So, motion by Brad. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Scott. Any other
discussion? Call the question. And all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. I'm going to abstain. I'm on the B association board. Sorry about that. Three in favor, none against, one abstension. 7F, approve resolution
2025-40 authorizing sale of jet ski. So with the purchase of the one vote rescue vote for the fire department, the current Sidu jet ski and trailer are no longer needed. They've been offered for sale through the state of Minnesota online bidding. Accepted bids till today at 11:35. Did get a high ber a high
bidder for 11,226 and I do have that resolution uh finalized to sell it for that amount. Um we do have what might be a snafu in the online bidding process. So it might end up going to the second bidder depending
on how this all works out which is $50 less. So, at at this point, I'd like to authorize the sale of the equipment for the 11,226 to this buyer. We may come back to you and amend that at the next meeting.
Wow. Okay. That's crazy. Any discussion, comments? That's quite a bit. Yeah, it was at $4,200 last night. What's that? It was at 4,200 last night. Uh, one question then that we're taking
sock center fire department off of before that goes out the door, right? Yes, that's all being taken off. Okay. All right. I just know the picture still has it on. So, that's why I'm If you actually were on online, you could click the description and it tells you more information about it and that the
stickers to be removed. So, they know that as well. All right. Vicki, I just got to ask. With it being around 4,000 last night and now 11,000 a few hours later, is are we sure there's an errors? No, that's really normal. Everybody waits till the last minute. Everybody waits till the last minute. You bring it
up and watch that last half hour and it's just jumping. Yeah. Okay. They pretty much all do that. Yeah. And you're like, interesting. In this situation, I think that pretty much everybody knows it's close to being new. Well, it's got 69 hours on it. Yeah.
Yeah. So, do I have a motion to approve resolution 2025-40? So moved. Motion by Brad. Do I have a second? I'll second it. Call the question. All those in favor
signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Abstensions. I. Motion carries. Two in favor. None against. Two abstensions. Does that does that actually pass right here? I better ask. Does that actually pass
then? Yeah, because they don't count. I know. But two is two is enough to when you abstain it basically rolls with the major rolls. It goes with the majority anyway of the remaining. All right. That's right. So is it two to zero? Their vote just follows you. For the public's knowledge, it doesn't happen
that often. That's the reason why we have to ask. That's right. Okay. Approve resolution 2025-41 authorizing sale of land pride. So if you remember last fall we purchased that new flex mower in the
fall of 24. At that time the council authorized that the current land pi the current land pride flex mower be offered for sale but they wanted us to wait till spring of 25 to get some better money they felt. So we did accept bids till today at 11:30 and we got $5,275.
So, we'd like to approve resolution 2025-41 authorizing the sale of the land Land Pride Flex Mower to John Wright for $5,275. Questions, concerns. Do I have a motion to approve resolution 2025-41?
Motion to approve. Motion by Joe. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Scott. Last minute discussion. Call the question. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion
carries. Four in favor, none against. 7. Approve pay request number one, Keeley Underground 2025 CIP project. As Keith had uh mentioned earlier, this is our first pay request for the Birch
and Pine project to Keley Underground. Uh the value completed to date was 217,38902 plus materials on hand of 538,46697 meaning a total amount earned of
755855.99 a retained 5% as a retainage leaving a net amount owed of $718,6320. So that's the amount we're asking to approve pay request number one to keep underground questions. Is all that material on hand
or all that material here on site? Yes, it's been piled out there. Very good. All right. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions or concerns? Do I have a motion to approve pay request number one? Motion to approve.
Motion by Scott. Do I have a second? I'll second. Second by Brad. Last minute discussion. Call a question. All those in favor signify by saying I. I I opposed. Motion carries. Four in favor, none
against. Seven. I approve resolution 2025-42 accepting bid for hanger project. So the on April 2nd, the council approved the plans and specs for the construction of a box hanger at the airport. This project will be paid for with AIG, which is airport improvement
grants, and AIP, which is airport improvement funds. These are federal funds allocated to the city of Sock Center and they will cover 95% of the cost. The city's local share of the construction is $25,98.62. Bids were opened on April 30th with the following results. Ever
strong construction was 852,94480 and the high bid was 1,31719618 and the engineers estimate was 1,150,000. So we came in quite a bit under the engineers estimate. Uh they have been reviewed by the city's
consultant at Bolton Bank for accuracy and he is recommending the low bid of Everstrong construction for 85294480 that is resolution 2025-42. Questions and concerns. My question is if it was only 5% that
the city's share was that would be roughly 40ome,000 but we only have our cost at 25. Is that Yeah, you've got we've got a mindot section in between there. They pay a couple percent too. Mind they pay 2 and a half. Okay. So, ours is basically 2 and a half%. Yep. Right. Very good. Thank you.
Okay. Any other questions or concerns? Do I have a motion to approve resolution 2025-42 awarding the bid to Ever Strong? Motion to approve. Motion by Joe. Do we have a second? A second. Second by Brad.
Last minute discussion. Call the question. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Four in favor. None against. 7J. Approve staff step adjustments.
Various city employees are in line for step adjustment according to the union contracts and personnel policy. Uh Joe Jensen to step seven. Matt Mormon to step eight. Preston Otterer to step four. Dustin Vonwaldi to step eight, Austin Kowski to step three, and Nathan Reynolds to step five. Guess we had a
lot of activity in April and May last year. So, we're acknowledge the staff step adjustments as presented. Any questions or concerns? Do I have a motion to acknowledge those staff step adjustments?
I'm sorry. Go ahead. Motion by Brad, second by Joe. Yep. Any other discussion? Call the question. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed. Abstensions. I. Motion carries.
Three in favor. None against, one abstension. 7K. Accept resignation from park board. Uh Brandon Schindler has submitted his resignation from the park board and I did include his uh email that he sent saying he's writing to
formally submit his resignation. Due to increasing demands in his work schedule, he find himself unable to dedicate the time and attention necessary to fulfill his responsibilities. And I won't read the rest of it. You have it all in your packet. But we need to accept the resignation of Brandon Schindler from the park board. Then we would advertise
for someone to fill that position. Questions? Otherwise, I'll look for a motion. Do I accept the resignation of Brandon Schindler? How long was he on? What? Six months. Yeah. He just got on at the beginning of January. Beginning.
Oh, so we just appointed him. No, he was two meetings. His his work switched him up on his hours. So, right. Got it. So, do I have a motion to accept the resignation? So, motion by Brad. Do I have a second? Second. Second by
Scott. Call the question. All those in favor signify by saying I. I opposed. Motion carries. Four in favor, none against. Unfinished business. Building repair projects. Just kind of update a little bit. Um the shingled roof portion
of the city hall was completed last week. Uh the membrane roofing at the arena that and at city hall began this week and also the air handling unit replacement began this week. And so we uh don't have air or heat or anything in the building for this week and next
week. And hopefully by the end of next week, we'll be back online since it's going to be in the 80s because it was 89 in my office yesterday. So, um the control the city hall controlled access is nearing completion. I believe Friday. We're going to go on live with that. Uh the senior center roof will follow the
city hall and arena. The website is under construction. Uh the arena doors, windows, and locker rooms will be completed over the summer months. So when we're closed up there, the library windows will be in the fall in September and then the flooring project bids will be presented to the city council at the
next meeting on May 21st. It's be a potential September October project. So we're going to be pushing through pretty much all of these projects in the near future except for uh the library windows and the flooring projects which will be a fall project.
Questions, concerns? Hopefully they get your air conditioning before it really gets the I think it's supposed to be 85 a week next week. Yeah. Early next week it's supposed to be getting upper 80s. Yeah. Ouch. The next bill will be
fans. Okay. No other questions on that. Uh we have no new business. We'll move on to our consent agenda. We have schedule of claims unpaid claims of $98,99861 paid claims of
$7525 for a total of $99,73.86. We have resolution 2025-43 accepting contributions of $152.50 50 cents from the men's card playing group to be allocated to the senior center. $50 from Winter's
Recreation to be allocated to the ambulance department. $200 from Norma Manning to be allocated to the ambulance department, $100 from an anonymous donor to be allocated to the senior center,
and $200 from Leroy Morates to be allocated to the fire department. And on behalf of the city and the council, I want to thank those people or groups for their contributions. We also have gambling application for event permit request
from the Sock Center Snow Cleat for a raffle on October 8th, 2025 at the Sock Center Snow Cleat Clubhouse. Also a gambling application for exempt permit requests from the Sock Center Lions Club for pull tabs for August 6th through
9th, 2025 and a raffle for August 9th, 2025 at the Sterns County Fairgrounds. Do I have any questions about the or questions about the consent agenda as presented? Hearing nothing. Do I have a
motion to approve the consent calendar as presented? Motion to approve. Motion by Joel. Do I have a second? Second. Seconded by Scott. Last minute discussion. All the question. Those in
favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Four in favor, none against. Informational items. Just have twoformational items. The water fest is tomorrow. Um, this year it is scheduled for Melrose and they haven't had it for
some time because of either weather or construction. It always gets diverted to the arena. It looks like this year it will actually be held in Melrose and that's when we gather up all the fourth graders from all over the country and bring them in. So, and then also we have your franchise notice from Spectrum regarding a name change on one of their
channels. Okay. Any questions or concerns about that? We do have a close session coming up. So with that, we will recess this meeting until we get the council
chambers cleared. Okay. We'll reconvene the regular council meeting. We just came out of close session. During that session, we pro provided our attorney
um direction as far as pending litigation on potential land acquisition of the Heron parcel. And with that, that brings us to the end of our meeting. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? Motion to adjurnn. Motion by Scott. Do I have a
second? Second. Second by Joe. Call the question. All those in favor? Signify by saying I I opposed. Motion carries. Four in favor, none against. Meeting adjourned.