follow me in order stand for the pledge of your AI pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America to the repblic for it stands one nation under God
indivisible with Justice for All call roll call Star right please council person Jos council person bre fire M Jimmy John King council person Craig Anderson council person Jeremiah all right
before we move any further into it we've got a presentation tonight we've got Carla has come back receive another award it will be uh from the government Finance Officers Association which you receive this every year you were here
and I believe this is the 17th or 18th year we've received this overall and it's certificate of achievement for excellence and financial reporting by the gfoa it's uh for States and small cities to go above and beyond in their financial reporting which Carl has
always done and it's a quite an achievement to get it once or twice but we've got it all these years in a row so we've been very fortunate that very happy that car came back this again she's done excellent work here and I'm sure where she's at now they're going to
appreciate this as much but it's uh only two buttons on this one because the other plaque up there is plum full already so we had to start a new plaque black smile Jimmy you're looking a little grumpy [Music]
there what we color quoted tonight is what she said no this is It's a for those out in the general public that doesn't know this this is quite an award it's quite an achievement it's uh takes some very high Financial standards and uh reporting to even
meet the possibility of getting this which Smith schaer's always been quite impressed with our finance directors they're quite impressed with you and we thank you very much once again for gting us again so thank you Carl thanks for coming back [Music]
know she doesn't [Music] have all right we're looking for approval of tonight's agenda anything from the table I don't believe we' got anything anything from your guys I make a motion to approve AGA second we got a
motion in a second all in favor say I oppos that car we're looking for approval of the regular meeting minutes of January 14th 2025 BR the minutes if there's something you see or question now the
time I'll make a motion to approve those minutes we have a motion to approve do we have a second second all in favor say I I oppose that also carries that'll take us to finance and budget you have the accounts payable and the additional accounts payable in front of you if we
have any questions on any of that we'll ask Bill about it I'll make a motion to approve we have a motion to approve we have a second I'll second that questions or discussion on any of it hearing none all in favor say I I I
oppos that car that's going to take us into motions to General business the first item under motions to General business tonight is approving plans and ordering bids for the 2025 CIP project which will be 11th Avenue Northwest city engineer Jenna has
completed the plans of specs for the 2025 CIP project the plans are based upon the decisions made by City staff including the city administrator shimel Public Works director hail and civil technici with advertising advisement from city engineer over and
staff at se the project purpose is to realign 11th Avenue Northwest at 10th Street Northwest to eliminate the existing offset of intersection for Traffic Safety improvements as well as improve upon the township gravel roadway to upgrade it to an urban roadway
connected to the urban neighborhood of barricade Estates plans include the elimination of one of bar cave gravel parking lot entrances due to its close proximity to the intersection a new parking lot entrance will be provided off 11th
Avenue roadway alignment there will be a 10ft wide MTA use pinous trail that will run along the east side of the new alignment connecting the existing trail system at bar cave Park to Bar cave Estates in order to make these improvements the roadway will be a
minimum width of 26 ft and existing double box cver will need to be extended to provide for both the roadway and Trail Crossing storm sewer ction system will be added two retaining bases will meet to meet storm water management requirements there's also been an
alternate bid included in the project to get pricing to pave the remainder of 11th Avenue Northwest going south from the project end point to the roads current limits that will be evaluated and at the cost of the buding property owners bids will be accepted and open on
March 4th 2025 any questions for city engineer Jenner or that otherwise the action requested tonight will be to approve the 2025 CIP plans ins specs and to advertise for bids so the road's going to go South 11th Avenue
across 10th Street straight into the new 11th Avenue which will then kind of shut back over right so how far south of 10th Street will the new entrance be to get into that they must have to go so far south before you can turn into the parking new
parking lot or the old parking lot yeah so I mean it seems weird like it feels like you'd be right on that angle and that's where the turn would be I don't know well um in actually the preliminary Park plans it it was in that curvature
that you would be entering into some of the into that parking lot but um it was decided not to go with that um and we're actually using where the tree current tree clearings are instead so we had
cleared some of the trees um I to put in the water M where the current where the proposed alignment was for 11 and then there we had also cleared trees to put the sanitary sewer in to extend out for
BARC Estates and also extending out to the West so that where the sanitary sewer is that will be where the um connection is into the Softball Field parking lot area um and
then where the Tre tree clearing is where our water we went in that's basically the alignment where the streets going cool um so that's not exactly how it's going to look that's an older right envisioning um but
and how wide is the road on the north side of 10th Street on the North side I believe it's not like I super much care trust it's a 42 44 um and on the north end of this newer section that we're putting in we are adding putting turn
Lanes so it will be wider at the actual intersection as we go south though and we get to where the um where we will have the entrance into the Park we narrowing down one we're dealing with
some Wetlands two we wanted to mostly keep it to the existing Road bed um to it's a road that doesn't really go much further um it's not proposed anytime in
the near future to extend very far um so we kept it to the 26 ft scen Jen has done a good job of laying out that um what'll be Park extension
area and maybe a trail head area on the west side of this new Street and then today we started discussions on how the two parking lots uh could look and Ingress egress points so you might see some changes as time goes by there as we adapt to what will be good for the park
and accessibility with the project we will be putting in two ponds um and with the ponds and the material we also will be doing our mass balance and creating a spot for a potential future trail head
um that's shown in that um we aren't going to be putting gravel in or Paving or doing anything but you will see grading work that would show the a future location for that um taking care of that now cuz we have we have to put
the material somewhere and just kind of take care of that situation now I'll move that we approve and go forward we have a motion to approve the CIP plan suspects and advertise for bids do we have a second second any other
questions how many other owners are there for that second is there like three or two two just two okay the 31 has just a very small roadway so he's not
okay all right we have a motion in a second any other questions or discussion hearing none all in favor say I I opposed that also carries next under motions General business will be off sale liquor license in December the council approved an
onsale liquor license for nolc Incorporated River viw Greens Golf Course and Event Center they have now submitted an application for an offsale liquor license to be held in combination with their onsale license so the action requested would be
to approve an off sale license for nol Incorporated doing business as Adam adamson's Tavern on the greens subject to proper application any questions or discussion on this hearing none we're looking for a
motion to approve an offsale license I move to approve do we have a second second all in favor say I I oppose that will carry next item 2025 maintenance agreement with Home State
County T you'll find the annual maintenance agreement is submitted by hestad County this agreement covers County Road 106 from Highway 63 to South of the Point Drive Southeast 84s of a mile and County Road 35 from County Road
8 East to the I90 Bridge 4.42 t0 of a mile the city is reimbursed by alate county in the amount of $745 62 which is up from last year's amount of 66 6,625 and
24 Public Works director hail is recommending approval of the contract so the council action requested approve the agreement is submitted by All State govern questions or discussion on this I'll make a motion to
approve we have a motion to approve do we have a second second all in favor say I I opposed that carries Public Works the next one under motions General business John Deere M
replacement John Deere z997 Zurn more is up for rotation for trade in Bodin is offered us a$ 10,000 for trading towards uh 2025 z997 more at State contract price of 2,286
and4 making our purchase price 15,28 and4 uh so the council action requested would be approve trading the 2020 John Deere z997 poins power and equipment for a
2025 John Deere z997 for a total cost of $1,286 4 questions or discussion hearing none we're looking for a motion I'll make a motion to approve we have a
second second second all in favor say I oppos that'll also carry we just ran out of motions in general business and now take us to Mayor staff consultant reports tonight on the mayor's
[Music] report is kind of different we've only got one family this time for send simpath these to which is kind of a thankful thing if we've only got one but we'll send there syes to the families of canoe Jorgenson and don't forget that winter
fence Winterfest it's sponsored by the chamber it runs February 4th through February 8th have a great time fall in love with sternfield daor there going to be lots of fun plan for everyone and who knows we might even have a little snow on the
ground by but it's still Winter Fest as though pogs fun night parents are graduating seniors at Sportsman's Club that's this Saturday evening February 1st you haven't got a ticket you might
be able to find some yet from one of the parents it's always a good time and it's always turns out to be a great night for our seniors later on Ducks Unlimited Bingo is February 88th at the Sportsman's Club and don't forget sign up for code
red that's our STL alert system for when it does snow and it will snow before this year's done so please sign up cu no fun to wake up in the morning and find that kick it out
there that's all I have for this evening Bill City Engineers report just a short report this time obviously we're working on the developments up in the U Schuman business park so those um continue to
roll on in a good way and then um uh working with derland power and people's energy as they continue their review work of a hopeful substation that they'd like in our area because it'll help be a secondary a source of power um to
minimize outages and so we'll keep working with them on that and then I visited with one of you already but just a reminder that as this new year comes by if you see trainings uh either by the league of cities or ones that um are
City related or Council related be sure to let us know and we'll get you signed up registered and those kind of things throughout the whole year so have you got any uh workshop dates in mind or you waiting for traditionally we've done that end of
February first part of March you know rough time frame so we can do um doodle pool they call it doodle survey Council schedu see we can come together you all seem to like that half day kind
of thing for a few hours in the morning so add some thought and we'll try that again all right any other questions for Bill all right thank you Bill you going to do the finance director's report or um so far so good we're in the in
between LS a big thing U big things obviously the auditing work will be the next big um item in that category so to work with them thank you Public Works director Sean uh report in there
one thing I just wanted to go over we've been spending quite a bit of time on Cut and buffler and it's a controversial deal because it's leaving a whole bunch of dead Timber down there and we have discussed some other possibilities of doing some equipment uh basically a drum
multure looking at something like that to help out there otherwise the goats are doing a good job but some of our buck have been there so long it's big enough that the goats aren't going to get that we're going to have to get out there and mulch that stuff down and let the goats keep eating the fresh stuff
that come up with a new seat afterwards so I'm getting some pricing on some stuff to come to you in the near future to see if what you guys want to do with that I just hate to see us waste all the money of the goats and we still have a problem we're done so it's something that I think we need to look at I was out there today
with Sean taking a tour through what they have done so far the amount of work that they and uh I think each one of you get the opportunity to go out with Sean I myself was 100% behind getting a brush cutter so we can get that cleaned up out
there right now my own personal opinion it looks worse now than it did before they started cutting stuff down and it's all big Brushy stuff I think we've been very fortunate the amount of time the guys put a lot of hard work into it that somebody hasn't lost an eye or got hurt
in that mess it's just kind of a Jung but uh you each need to take a tour with Sean the issue with leing it also is that wood is suspended and it's dry and it does not break down and rot because it's suspended so if you go out there with the drum Mulcher you can mulch up everything we did and get it
laying flat on the ground chopped up so that it holds moisture and eventually breaks down and it's not a fire hazard cuz right now especially with the California issues going on that would be kind of a fire hazard as much brush is just laying there it just got so far behind over so
much everything they wanted it going in into these really dense areas and cut we've been doing it with what we have and the guys have been doing it by hand behind but a drum muler would be the best way to do it and we would use
it for future stuff too that attaches to the Bob cab yeah you need to go look at it guys really I tell you what one thing that really struck me is when you head me back there the trails we got a couple benches people have had place there and they're really great places to look at the river but all you can see is Buck
for as high as a ceiling or piles of now piled up you can't even see the river I mean it's it's going to look pretty bare when they get done for a little bit it'll all fill back in better than it was before so I but you each need to get oldan and
get the SE for Buckthorn and stay active for up to 5 years so if that's laying on the ground for 5 years you're going to have new growth coming in Buckthorn so you're going to have to and the goats will eat that new growth but if you don't get rid of the stuff droping the seeds we're never going to get ahead
anything else oh you guys got any questions for you get a second me give you a right around thank you Sean all right city engineer report Jenna you got anything for us um well thank you for allowing us to
advertise for the CIP project we do continue work for legacy um getting those plans going we're about 30% completed her design there um
and looks like we're going to have at least six construction projects going this summer in town for roadways only great keep you
busy or Dylan any questions for Jenna any of the projects or all right thank you Jenna let's see no fires Chiefs report no pool director report and now for the
report we haven't heard for quite a while Library director Nate uh well you um things are going okay it's our adult winner reading program just started um uh folks have a
chance to read three or more books over the between January 21st and March 21st um I've got two in so far so I try to do a blackout at the bingo card every year so I got Stone blind and Farewell My Lovely knocked off um and I'm uh
bleeding edge Thomas Pinchin now um really rolling through there um and uh this Saturday is going to be our first ever Saturday story time we're going to try and do at least one of those a month going forward um Sarah's going to be
going that doing that one um and um and we could yeah we just really have a lot of things cooking um I hope you don't mind me including the calendar and my director's report of the stuff we got going on I think you know uh February and March are going to be pretty busy
months so um I thought I'd throw that out your way and boy really been doing a lot of stuff but mostly boring boss in a J in a desk behind a computer I Horizon Evergreen
question yes sir so Horizon currently is the company that handles all your circulation is that right so so I assume there's there's a handful of them out there and from the way that it was worded Horizon seems to be a little bit out wildly outdated as you put it yeah I
and switching to Evergreen then what is all the training that takes place cuz in my mind I'm looking at it like you're just getting rid of all these books sponsored by or provided by them and you're bringing in all these books provided by them you just got to figure out where they go yeah so um uh the the
main things that we're going to need to uh need training on our um circulation you know checking books in checking books out is just slightly different um uh Evergreen is also web- based so one of the cool things about Evergreen is so
we do um you know an Outreach event at the school or um you know like a farmers market or something like that as long as we have an internet connection we can check books in and check books out and make people's library cards right there uh that's something we can't do with
Horizon because Wi-Fi didn't exist when uh Horizon was updated yeah yeah right and so um uh that's a big change um you know how books are cataloged as in um
how magazines are done um yeah just kind of like the backend stuff there's just a lot of training and stuff like it's not I've worked with I think this will be my fifth different uh circulation software that we're switching over to um and so
it's like not a big deal to me but to uh a lot of the folks in celco um uh this is their first time they've only known Horizon so it's like the of books that you get titles that you get to choose from it's virtually the same
it's just how it's all categorized and and uh it'll be uh because it's such old uh the the the background of this is so old um um there's when you do a search
on stuff um you'll actually this is a great example you'll actually kind of like um I looked up the Batman graphic novel The Killing Joke you now which is like yeah and and I did a search on a title search Under The Killing Joke and
the top three things that came out in Horizon uh this summer uh right while we were looking to replace it the first one was the right thing the graphic novel the second one was um a uh um the film
adaptation of the killing joke and the third thing was a juvenile biography of Joe Biden like like it's just like had to switch [Music] you know it is broken and you know people are getting bad results on
searches um so like the Precision and accuracy that people will have with their searches is going to just it's it's such a Quantum Leap Forward to 19 or to 2018 uh from
1996 so going to be done by May 1st uh it's going to go live on May 1st uh we're probably going to be um unable to check books in and check books out in the traditional manner for about a week before then well and then
yeah we should be good to go like we've uh we're just kind of like knocking off little benchmarks along the way and we're totally on Pace great thanks mate all right that'll take us into committee commission board reports Chamber of Commerce you got the
Winterfest events there's a listing in there of all the things that are going on they got a pretty full schedule for those four days Ed we just had our January meeting has to be in there and uh the housing program is already taking
off for you l applications on that they were talking about uh setting up a couple of the programs which will be discussed in the February meeting Finance right now just audit
Library we don't meet for a few weeks yet right Park Board last couple weeks ago minutes or Personnel um we've started the recruitment process for the finance officer position hopefully it's um when
we get to the interview stage most if not all of you can work with staff on when we do that so we'll keep you posted on that and we'd like you to participate since that's more of a supervisory position so no I was waiting to hear that PL
onlyon front page of the paper today get the update on the business park but other no nothing new there you go public safety U my yearly calls for service was in the last one um if you guys have any
questions I can answer anything about that uh we had 54 5,425 which was up from 5,32 last year so 123 calls extra which is not I would say that that's pretty I
actually thought once you got a boarded drop I don't know if you got involved in it or not but like Sean had mentioned that the cameras caught the kids on at the Wastewater that's and I I saw in there that it uh it just said parents agreed to pay for it so I'm guessing there was a work
out with no charges or whatnot but were you able I assume that you look to see if they were tied into whatever else has been going on around here do you have any luck on any of that yeah so I've know of them how old are they 12 oh they're really young okay so that's
that's why the agreement is is there because they're not of page well that's better than charges anyhow you're not going to get anything but were they tied into the other shenanigans that you had going on at your at the other shop I
presume I would presume also I don't know what I should say to that I mean we know well their kids can't say their nam I know so well either way good work through I mean just looking at all the numbers
from past years in the last three years we've over doubled our traffic stops here and I think that that has to do with obviously getting or having another ni down here uh having a little bit more time to focus on roadway
safety oh was uh any injuries this morning uh not that I know I think it was just a accident blocking cuz it was was it a FedEx truck uh no it wasn't it was a box truck similar but I don't think it was a FedEx I don't know I I
started at noon today so I don't even know all right any other questions for officer Justin thanks Justin you need do it this week ready uh biggest thing we're trying to work together on
is helping each other with housing options housing possibilities encouraging developers to look at all of our R City communities for hopeful um housing that we can expand to too obviously the commercial side's been
going great for us and Industrial side so now hopefully we can balance that out over time with um Hing roll uh this last meeting we just met last week and that was the start of the year the new uh folks on board and
uh just laying out some of the tack items for the coming season here no Transit advisory committee tonight or did you have anything on that though um nothing yet our last meeting has gotten postponed and so they meet
quarterly so we'll probably be coming up here in mercher no Communications in the packet um final motion of the evening to Jour move second a motion in a second to adjourn all in favor say I iOS