start me by saying the pledge of allegiance please 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
call order roll call starting on my right council person John Sherman council person Brett Byer mayor Jimmy John King council person Craig Anderson council person Jeremiah all right all here accounted for looking for approval of tonight's agenda anything else from
staff any additions or deletions here don't want to take nothing off i got Well I want to take everything off yeah of course looking for a motion to approve tonight's agenda i'll make a motion to approve second so second all in favor say I i
oppose okay approval of council meeting minutes of the April 8th 2025 meeting regular meeting i'll make a motion to approve the minutes there's a motion do we have a second second questions or
discussion we're off races hearing none all in favor say I i oppos that carries uh next will be minutes of the street tour of April 8th of 2025 move to approve move motion to
approved do we have a second second questions for discussion hearing none all in favor say I i i that'll carry takes finance and budget we've got the accounts payable listing with the additional listing there and if we have
any questions direct them to our finance lady Kelly she really wants to fill a whole bunch of questions in like week one and a half just testing her i'll make a motion to approve we have a
motion to approve do we have a second second any questions or discussion on that hearing none all in favor say I i opposed motion carried it's going to take us to motions and general business and first item under motion of general
business tonight is the 2024 year end audit presentation we've been anxiously awaiting this since beginning of 24 andrew from Smith Schaefer Associates will present 2024 year end financial
statements and audit reports results all right over thank you thanks for having me Mayor and Council um tonight we will walk through this PowerPoint as we have done in the past uh we have sat down I guess I will show you the cover that was chosen for this
year's audit so nice little picture of the American flag in the city hall up there so that is your cover that will be submitted uh with the GFOA or the uh NER annual comprehensive financial
report as we have done in the past so as we go through this PowerPoint if there are questions that do come up please feel free to stop with that said we'll kind of get into the second page there our audit opinion is a clean unmodified opinion that means we believe everything is fairly stated according to if you
want to turn the podium a little so you don't strain your neck we can uh our own opinion is a clean and modified opinion which means we believe everything is fairly stand accordance with GAP is the highest level assurance you can receive on a financial statement um our opinion is reasonable not
absolute assurance that the financials are free material with statement as we do not look at every single transaction that occurred throughout the year uh but we take a risk based approach and make selections based off those perceived risk and anything that we did uh test for uh select for testing what did have
adequate supporting documentation uh and support for so the city's accounting records throughout the year were in good standing also included in our audit we have to provide the opinion on Minnesota legal compliance there's about seven different areas of testing uh conflict
of interest collater collateral for public funds contract and bid law uh among others we did not note any uh exceptions in any of our testing so we did had a clean opinion regarding that as well um we did sit down with members of the finance committee and management
on April 10th and went through the whole actual audit and financial statement in more line by line detail uh with uh so tonight we'll take the highlights from that meeting and kind of put them into this PowerPoint as we have done in the past um at that meeting reviewed the financial statement uh the internal
control letter uh GFOA uh certificate response to findings um since so the city does submit to the GFOA for the certificate of ex certificate of excellence in financial reporting um it is done by an independent third party
goes through the financial statement as part of the GFOA um and there was a couple comments on improvements of the financial statement uh there's more comments on it mostly was related to expanding some wording on why uh revenues are up and down so it was a lot
more just documentation there was nothing major in any of those findings so we have made those adjustments in this financial statement um as we uh submitted the report this year uh single audit uh this year there was not a single audit required as there was not federal dollars greater than 750,000
expended in the current year and then as I mentioned the GFOA certificate of excellence in financial reporting the city has received those each of the last 17 years um so that just goes to show the commitment that the city does have to their financial reporting and uh being transparent with all the financial
numbers with that and again we will help uh the city apply for that in 2024 with the financial statements if needed with that said the governmental funds uh the main first one there is the general fund there's four different types of funds general fund uh is the
main operations of the city the six special revenue funds that are listed there there's three different types of debt service funds and then two types of capital projects fund the city cap project funds and the tiff funds included in that city cap project fund there's about 30 different funds that make up that city capital project funds
that are keeping track of individual projects on next we kind of start off with the tax capacity for the city of Steuartville so total tax tax capacity about 7,250,000 up about 620,000 from the
prior year or about 9% uh going back to 2015 there it's almost doubled in the 10 years so the city has grown significantly in the property values have increased as well within those 10 years kind of mirroring that same chart then is the property taxes collected on
slide five uh so total property tax collected uh 4,789,000 up about 356,000 from prior year 8% increase uh property taxes collected represent about 52% of the total governmental revenues that come in
this city so last year you're at about 49% of the total governmental revenue so a little bit more relying on property taxes uh for funding the governmental operations in the current year uh governmental revenues is going to be anything coming into the city other than your water sewer and storm
next we look at your tax increment revenue so there's two active tiff districts right now the geotech so in 2022 was the geotech addition and we saw the revenue increase in 2022 and then the property or geotech was revalued in
2023 and for the full year in 2024 so that's come down slightly um down about 3,000 but bring in about 95,000 on slide seven then we get in local government aid and market value credit so local government aid is another major funding source for the city uh in the
current year brought in a million315,000 uh first year in many years that you actually saw a significant increase of about 200,000 in revenues coming in from the state um represents about 14% of the governmental
revenues 12% in the prior year and then oh I should say in 2025 it is increasing to million317,000 so they're giving you 2,000 more after they gave you 200,000 more in the prior year so not a significant increase in funding coming
from the state in 2025 this year governmental fund revenues uh looking at the main sources that we just talked there property taxes in the gold color there uh blue is going to be your local government aid that we did see the jump with additional 200,000 coming in
as we look at the far right U grouping uh the group second column there is going to be kind of in that lighter blue gray color you can see there's a significant increase in 204 and that's going to be your um investment income was up about 380,000
so you did receive about a little over uh 600,000 in investment income this year so the city was able to increase uh their fund reserves by just having their money in interestbearing accounts in the current total revenues uh were up about
152,000 from the prior year uh mostly due to that increase in property taxes and then the prior year also had a larger uh funding coming in through the state for some of their road projects next we get into your expenditures so general governmental
expenditures on slide 10 this is the salary and benefits professional services supplies telephone insurance deduce uh travel and printing costs for the administrative um and finance department and council as well uh total uh spent on general government about a
million 667,000 up about 150,000 from the prior year the majority of that increase is related to the increase in salary and wages uh was up about 160,000 and then engineering is also about 8,000 in the current year so total general government
expenditures this year equals about 25% of the total governmental expenditures um next slide then we look at public safety expenditures total public can I just remember there's two positions that we brought on too that we didn't you know
um Sandra's position now is a full-time thing and then with Dylan coming on so even though it fell under that category it was due to two new additional people so second uh public safety expenditure then on
slide 11 is going to be the law enforcement contract fire protection and street lighting the main categories in this one uh total of about a,370,000 uh most significant governmental expenditures it is expensive to provide those services for the citizens of Steuartville uh
representing about 31 and a half% of the governmental expenditures so up about 60,000 in operating expenditures in the current year sheriff's contract was up about 35,000 and then the fire pension pass through what you get revenue coming in from the state that you just passed
through through to the fire relief uh was up about 15,000 so that was the majority of the decrease in the current staying on public safety we just part of those expenditures that I just talked about uh law enforcement contract as you can see about 860,000 up about
35,000 from the prior year fire protection and first responders in the second grouping was pretty flat down about 2,000 spending about 500 or 357,000 and then street lighting was also flat at about 126,000 uh so the fire protection costs were funded by
property taxes of about 144,000 which was up about 15,000 from the prior year township contracts of 114,000 of about 9,000 then as I mentioned that state fire aid that has passed through to the fire relief of about 15,000 public works is the next category
that we'll touch on here so again uh a lot of this is a salary and benefits improvements parking lot improvements fuel and supplies uh spent a total of about 613,000 up about 136,000 from the prior year represents about 14% of the
total governmental expenditures uh the increase in this year was due to uh street maintenance and steel street patching seal coating and crack repairs main increase library expenditures on the next slide there i guess I should
mention this the blue collar on the bottom is kind of what we consider your operating expenditures the gold on top is with capital outlay um so we're kind of focused on operating expenditures most of that increase in the current year was related to salaries and benefits of being up about 30,000 total
expenditures just over 400,000 up about 43,000 from the prior year represents just over 9% of your governmental expenditures uh this is funded through primarily funded through property taxes about 377,000 which is up about 80,000 from the prior year and then county
contribution of about 60,000 which was comparable to the prior year uh recreation expenditures on slide 15 so this is the civic center swimming pool summer programs adults softball grounds and parks and then we
also added the historical society this year as that was brought on as a new uh uh function that the city is maintaining in 2024 and so total expenditure is about 775,000 uh down about 121,000 from the prior
year uh most of the decrease is related to uh some savings in the civic center and then also the pool salary and wages were also down from the prior year uh the capital outlay in the 2024 is related to finishing up some of the
skate park and then also the pool has uh the capital outlay in 23 was the majority of that was the skate park again we break down your park and recreation expenditures uh between the park pool and adult softball um so the park uh does have some revenues that are
coming in on the left in the blue lighter blue color bluish gray color about 16,000 for different park charges uh spend about 389,000 in operating expenditures and about 22,000 to finish up the skate park lights the pool brings
in about 26,000 their operating expenditures of 275,000 spent about 25,000 on capital on the camera lily pads um so you're actually down in the operating expenditures in the pool about 30,000 down in supply 7,000 salary and wages
down about 23,000 um and then this adult softball pretty much operates on the break even as well economic development expenditures is the revolving loans tiff expenditures professional services and then salaries of the current year uh with a switch
from the CEDA contract to bringing that in-house uh so total expenditures uh down about 43,000 from the prior year so major expenditures is going to be the salaries and wages about 81,000 um this is uh down about 17,000 when you compare
it to the CEDA contract so there's some savings on there about 90,000 in tiff payments and about 20,000 in tax payments uh looking at the governmental fund expenditures that we just talked about here so let's see the largest category is going to be the second from the right there which is the public
safety uh slight increase there related to some of the sheriff's contract uh general government is the second uh same same as the prior year um public safety general government recreation public works library economic development are
the same uh order of expenditures as it was in the prior year i'm just kind of giving you uh comparing them side by side to see where the city's dollars are uh next we look at your general fund budget to actual expenditures so the blue column is going to be your general
or blue column is going to be your budgeted expenditures the gold is going to be your actual expenditures um so first category there on the far left is your general government so over budget about 140,000 salaries and benefits were overbudget about 84,000 and then engineering was
over about 73,000 public safety pretty much right on budget public uh works was uh over budget about 84,000 to the street maintenance but you do a street maintenance project every other year and you can do a consistent budget so last year you're under budget in that category this year you're over budget
you just budget that a consistent amount every other every year and you have that expenditure every other year and then recreation is under about 52 total general fund expenditures are over budget by about 180,000 general fund revenues were over budget 175,000 so
pretty close to where the city anticipated the budget within $5,000 where they thought they would be with their change in fund balance from year to year uh we also have the five other uh funds that do have budget to actual
schedules uh this time the budget expenditure is in the gray color actual expenditures in the green so the revolving loan had no expenditures as there's no new loans in the current year uh libraries under budget about 18,000 volunteer fire in the middle about under
budget about 10,000 civic center under budget 7 and economic development under 44,000 so all special revenue funds under budget as well that gets us into the fund reserves so on slide 22 uh we look at your uh general fund reserves
one metric that is used to determine the health of the city's fund balance is you take your unassigned and committed fund balance and you divide it by your total current year expenditures to get a percentage of how much your reserves are on hand uh so the city did use a little or is that about 60% did decrease the percentage a little bit but the city is
still in a healthy position as they have funds set aside for capital projects uh that are needed um the total unassigned and committed funds were actually up about 17,000 in the first uh first column of those so uh did have positive change in the fund balance in the
current year uh reason for the decrease in expenditures is we did have a little bit higher expenditures uh they're up about 238,000 at about 3.5 million in the current year so kind of right in the middle where we've been uh back from 2015 to um kind of right in the average
median of where you've been up down to 52 up to 74 so you're kind of right in the middle of where the city has historically been at further fun so still in a very healthy position library fund um so this is funded through property taxes about
377,000 up about 80,000 from the prior year in property taxes uh total fund balance there about 505,000 up about 35,000 from the prior year um so in 2022 that increase was related to some of the ARBA funds there was the American Rescue
Plan Act of 200,000 that was put into this fund um that will need to be transferred into the CIP project uh now that they have their own capital project fund for the library that into the capital projects fund
civic Center fund balance uh had positive operations in the year of about 8,000 uh total fund balance in the civic center fund about 60,000 of that 8,500 funded through property tax revenues of about 54,000 which was down about 7,000 from the prior year expenditures were
down 18,000 related to salaries and repairs fire fund and first responders fund balance so back in 2016 is when we transferred the 240,000 out of this fund and put it into their own separate capital project fund in uh the fire capital equipment which is part of city
capital projects fund uh had positive operations of about 25,000 as they're continuing to work their way out of the deficit uh that was back in 2021 um so they are making progress with uh increase in property taxes coming into
this lobby loan fund now new loans that were issued in 2024 about 372,000 that are available for future loans about 86,000 outstanding in loans that uh are being collected economic development fund uh
positive operations again about 314,000 um up from the prior year about uh 45,000 so positive operations uh the city did discontinue the contract for CW 20 to 24 and brought it in internal uh staffing for the
EDA so that fund is still operating well city capital projects funds so so uh this year we did break out the library capital project fund is becoming a significant chunk um so you have to combine the city cap projects fund and
the library capital projects brings you to that 3,273,000 um so the blue is just going to be your city capital project funds so you can see that we added about 520,000 to your tip regular city capital projects funds
which are funds set aside for future capital future street projects future clerk capital uh future um just needs of the city and then the gold is the library capital this year up about a million dollars as they were um we have a slide on the next slide to break that
out so total major capital expenditure improvements in 2024 uh the 2023 projects finishing that up the 2024 project bought a plow truck and three different vehicles so the next slide then on slide 29 is just the library projects fund so
about a,175,000 set aside for the future library capital projects fund funded with property taxes about 263,000 interest earnings of 580,000 donations of 171,000 that expenditures of about
31,000 that gets us into the debt service fund so there's three uh special assessment bonds that are being currently paid through special assessments um 2016 is paid off in 2026 it's got 510,000 the 2017's got about 80
or 79,000 left on this paid off in 2027 2019's paid off in 2030 at about 27 so it is the lowest outstanding debt that the city has had in the last 10 years that we presented here there's also some general obligation bonds so these are ones being just funded through property
taxes and referendum levies uh swimming pool had about 260,000 left on it paid off in 2026 the 2021A tax abatement uh 239,000 paid off in 2038 and then the 2021A uh recounting for paid off in
2033 so all these bonds are being paid timely and have adequate reserves general obligation utility revenue so the water and sewer also paid a portion of some outstanding bonds on slide 33 uh this 2026 A or 2016 A excuse me is paid
off in 2025 2019 A is paid off in 2030 again all these are being paid timely the nursing home assisted living paid off in 2026 so almost done with some of these bonds and then there is a fire truck loan as well on page 35 paid off in
2026 with that said what we really get down to here on slide 36 is your future 5-year debt service requirements um so you can see your principal and interest requirements about 1.1 million in 2025 some of those bonds are paid off in 2025
drops to about 900,000 in 2026 and then more of them drop off so you're about 240,000 for the next three years so city is in a healthy position there with the obligations outstanding next slide is the net pension liability uh slide 37 um so this
is an actuarial determined number since the city participates in a public multi-employer p pension plan that is underfunded pra which city employees are a part of uh there's an actuary report that that determines each city's portion
of their underfunding or any entity that pays into um so it's not a number that you have any control over but it is a number that is recorded on your books liability for about 620,000 that is recorded on the city's books and then the opposite way the net
pension asset so the city is a sponsor for the fire department relief pension plan they are overfunded so there's an asset of about 377,000 again then there are the three enterprise funds so on slide 40
uh the first grouping there in the uh dark blue color is going to be your revenues the expenditures in the gold color the non-operating income in expenses in the green and then the net income in the far right in the black color there dark green so total revenues
were actually down about 103,000 so usage was down if there was a small rate increase uh the main change there was the 76,000 in whack charges that came in in 2023 that did not come in in 2024 so that is the main driver of the revenues
being down uh the expenditures were up about 77,000 most of this is due to some pre preventative maintenance on wealth three spent about 64,000 on that um even then this water fund did have positive operations of about 290,000 um so they
are sitting in a good position when we look at your cash and debt outstanding on slide 41 the green is going to be the cash of 4.2 in the water fund up above 207,000 from the prior year and then bonds outstanding above
277,000 so uh positive operations positive cash flow in the water fund uh this does include a $400,000 transfer that came out of the water funds with $320,000 of it going to the CIP for future projects and an $81,000 uh transfer to the general fund as a
payment in the taxes as it's done in the past so still added to their cash reserves and are paying down their own debt sewer fund again the same first category or first column is going to be the revenues the operating expenditures in the gold nonoperating in the green
net income of transfers on the far right again there was a decrease in revenues of about 76,000 again the rates were slightly increased but usage was down main change for the decrease in revenues was that 76,000 in the sack charge uh sewer expenses were actually down about
13,000 so they had positive operations about 417,000 from the prior year down slightly from the prior year just with a little less revenue sewer fund same story uh cash in the green positive cash so the
million 470,000 in cash and investments at year end up 433,000 from the prior year uh they transferred about 380,000 out of this fund or 280,000 out of this fund as well with 80,000 going to the general fund
200,000 going to the CIP funds and then the storm water fund on the last slide here a cash fund balance of a million237 so they continue uh to add uh cash balance for their storm water for the future pond management and
expenses related to that then just a brief summary here the general fund unassigned and committed fund balance of 2,117,000 represents about 60% of the uh 2024 general fund expenditures the general tax levy generated 52% of total
revenues while LGA can contribute about 14% of the governmental revenues fire department has deficit reserves of about 20,000 but they did improve that about 25,000 throughout the year and this is separate from the city capital projects fund of um that's for fire capital that
has 652,000 set aside revolving loan fund has outstanding loans about 86,000 with 372,000 available for future economic development loans total citycap project fund reserves of 3,273,000
um including the fire capital of 652 and the library edition of a,175,000 total debt outstanding decreased about 827,000 water sewer and storm water funds are generating sufficient cash flow to fund capital needed service debt
and build reserves for future infrastructure and I just want to thank the city again for maintaining accurate records of all the city funds and having accurate supporting documentations for our makes our lives easier and appreciate her help with the
transition and being able to solve information timely so we appreciate that so I went through a lot of numbers maybe not quick enough for Craig but anyone else have any questions
questions for Andrew anything to add just comments just saying being reciprocal obviously we didn't believe any as much this year but they've offered their help as we go through a transition but a few things we did have again their staff comes back
and helps us immediately so it's much appreciated as we're going through project situations thank you thank you Andrew have a good night see you next year next under motions and general
business partnership agreement traffic signal MINDOT partnership agreement city staff has been collaborating with MDOT district 6 partnership agreement which has been attached along this agreement outlines the commitments and guidance for both short-term long-term
improvements of Highway 63 Schuman Drive intersection as you are aware the city has been actively planning and working with local businesses and the community to achieve improved access to Highway 63 city engineer has prepared the LLP
funding grant requesting $997,000 from the state total project cost is $1,376,257 with city commitment of 379,287 it's important to be noted that if the project is not awarded all the state
funding asked from LLP or if the project is more expensive the cost will be on the city so the council action requested would be to authorize Mayor King and city administrator Shimble to enter into the Mindot partnership agreement for the
above project discussion yeah glad to see it moving forward and two points to bring up um while we have to state that if it doesn't come through we'd be on the hook but if some of you remember a couple of
you veterans um at one point in time the EDA had committed 350,000 to just put in traffic lights so they were prepared to pay a big chunk of this and now if we get the uh state monies really our commitment then is
just 25,000 roughly more than what the council or EDA had committed several years ago the other thing we've all done with engineering staff ourselves and MINDOT they've come to meet with us personally and so the district engineer
was in on that those meetings that's the head of our district um and some of their staff people and we've been given every indication from them that this 977 that Jim has helped us with uh looks to be a pretty safe commitment from them
so it says in the agreement that they want to get moving on the lights by August of 2026 and then from the time of the signed agreement you're supposed to move on to the longer range plan of the traffic control which is only eight
years who does that fall on so that is going to depend on well that will be mid and the city but so they then have only eight years to get it done themselves i mean it's to save that money to put in the roundabout there's going to be a double two-lane roundabout and it it
could happen earlier if development on the east side of 63 happens and there's a lot of activity out there it's to get it programmed not to get it built to get it just to have it designed you mean programmed what does that mean so the
state has a 10-year budget that they lay out and county doesn't take on a chunk of that either it's just it's all state for that because it's 63 highway 63 is a state and then the only legs would be us
so it we are the two partners there however we have been talking about different things with Rog um to look at in this area but I can't make any promises but when they push forward and they do this roundabout
which I'm assuming by then it's going to be like a $6 million project or more or something are we on the hook for the roundabout feeding into Schuman and on the east side i mean we we end up paying a certain amount I would expect right
um we would be cost participating in that project um cost participate however that type of a project is more is applicable for a lot of different types of grants and that is really what
we're looking at is giving our a timeline to be applying for the funding whether it be federal funding different grant applications not the city or the state funding it out of their their usual funds but to get that
those extra monies there to pay for that um instead um so and that would be a cooperative of both the city and the state looking at those alleys because there are some grants that the city can
apply for that the state cannot um and then apply it to state right away um it gets a little complicated with some of the funding sources but that is really and that's so once you are
given or awarded funding it's usually for 5 years out so if we say it's plan programmed in 8 years that's still five more years before likely we're getting the money to build it if we're talking some federal
dollars here so it the look is actually and then to actually start it and complete it 15 years out was the thought wow um now if things go faster with development um say the
east side starts developing and we will we get our outlet mall you mean in the hotel we need to make a connection faster and everything we need to be very conscientious of how we're working with
those development agreements because we need to be able to accommodate for safety impacts at that intersection if we don't have the funding right away so are the lights
when you're coming south into town right before you hit the bridge and it's got the whole traffic maybe backed up is that all in is that part of this traffic light thing already have you seen that oh that's for that 52 the detour 5290 detour oh it is so I I saw I read in there too though that they're all
apparently in and the the state guys that I've talked to and some of our meetings I like the safe road meetings I have to attend through work and whatnot they're some of them are all just super bent about putting a light in there still because they seem to think it's going to cause all these rear end accidents i mean it very well could I
guess but so a signal system is known especially on a high speed area known to create more accidents until traffic gets used to it um but then you also have out of town
drivers um but we will be putting in the the warning lights that you know before you see the traffic light or in that time it would take you to get to that traffic light if you're going the speed limit um it knows that hey you're going to have a red light so
be prepared to stop right um so that for warning will be installed with this the for warning that you get at 20th actually the state will be taking that out and said "Yeah I saw that." Correct because they assume that you're already paying attention now because you've already had slow down for the first
already be paying attention and when this signal is replaced this short-term signal is replaced with a roundabout well then again you're already slowed down and you're paying attention um
fall over anyway so how does it make you think you're going to slow like you're paying attention cuz there's a roundabout coming up you know how many people are going to drive right over that thing soon but they got to do something because the all those trucks coming out of there
it's insane so they agree that there is a need for an improvement and this is the compromise we came to for a short-term solution since neither entity had $4 million to just put into it
i don't know about that the state had plenty of money they just blew it all there's a lot of fight for that money that there okay any other questions all right council I'll make a motion to move forward with
that we have a motion to authorize Mayor King city administrator to handling Midn Partnership we have a second second any other discussion all in favor say I i opposed that carries on
to massage therapist shing Yang Zang therapist approval city has received an application for approval for massage therapist i just
mentioned for a license and we'll be working at Relax Body and Foot Spa 501 North Main Street homestead County Health Department has approved the application following a favorable outcome from the background check uh council action request would be approved the massage therapist
application subject to a favorable background check this is the old Quick mhm they the county approved this even are they on probation or not they are until the end of the year there's two of them that
are all right but that was part of the thing right is they part of the probation thing they said you need to go out and apply officially apply for these right so it was to be expected motion make a motion to approve second
second that all in favor say I i opposed that carries public works summer public works director has submitted the following names for approval jerry Newower Mark Mcder Jay Clug and Maxim
Milan we will be using three on a regular basis and the other one filling in when needed no we didn't do this will be the same number we had last year these will be fulltime oh I misunderstood you so then we have
one who was the fourth person these four are fulltime these these four will be full-time and we didn't have the other one was part time did you have a fill in yeah we didn't have the fill in one but there's possibilities of other things that we may add if we had one
person asked to come back or whatever we could possibly take him i don't feel any committee came in after these people have been notified so I didn't feel right changing that so you want these approved as these will be the same as what we had last year exactly different
people in different positions but same number i for a motion we'll make a motion to approve second second all in favor say I i
carries now yeah cuz you're really savvy when it comes to computers watch this relax there we are on to mayor staff consulting
reports mayor's report tonight city would like to send our sympathies out to the families of Barbie Coer Randy Fabian and Marilyn Brown but we'd also like to send
our happy birthday wishes to 106year-old Bula Hanken wow she's still if you read the article in the paper she's still living at home still doing her own thing still baking pies still being Ba congratulations Ba
don't forget volunteers are needed to help the Red Cross is sound the alarm campaign check the Stirville Star for more details on that dad's Belgium Waffle Breakfast is next Sunday at the American Legion mama Cheetah spaghetti dinner
will be held the following night on April 28th citywide garage sales will be May 8th through May 10th and then after that we get the community cleanup days and they'll be May 14th and 17th taking a look around town there should
be a lot of people in line again this year it's been they've really taken advantage of it the last couple years but we need to really take full advantage of it we need to really line up please take advantage of this program and let's get these properties cleaned up there's quite a few of them around
and now's your opportunity folks just load her up and get her out there and now a big huge thank you to Eagle Rock Bank for partnering with the school district and the donation for the Eagle Rock Arena thanks them a lot and that's going to help out down there with their some of
their problems so that's all I've got for report takes city administrator report oh I'd like to welcome Kelly Grabwell for fulltime now last time she was just kind of pretend maybe I don't now she's on
board fulltime and she's already hitting the books so thank you Kelly thank you city administrator's report Bill uh reports in your packet and then just as you saw at the again you mentioned it at the last meeting uh with the success of the toast and taste and so I just
highlighted some of the other fundraising that our uh civic groups do but the biggest thank you goes to our citizenry that helps support all of these fundraisers and all of the projects and then as you know that fundraising goes right back to the
community so it's a huge thing or a nice thing to be in a community like ours that supports um projects the groups um the causes so good place to be well it's not either one of us would
also remind the council this Friday we have our workshop 9 to 11:30 correct fire hall correct we're here fire fire hall that takes us to the finance officer report
kelly's got she learns quickly that's how it goes man public works director report uh on the street sweeper will be in at the end of this week maybe the beginning
of next week and then we'll get started on street sweeping it hasn't been an issue the terrible issue that I've noticed any complaints so whatever you were waiting on ended up being favorable for us i you said you were waiting on some ruling or something on that whereas
we might not have been able to use the sweet no that was the sweet this we had ordered last fall and it was we were getting used one of the people that were getting theirs had to wait for the new one so we knew we might be without one for a little bit
this spring and we asked for extra money selling ours to cover in case we needed to lease one and we decided we didn't salt sand enough to really feel we needed to lease one until we could get this one here and get used so no the April showers were helping clean it up
yeah well that's the bad part of this but there wasn't that much there this year because we didn't really salt sand too terribly they weren't like other years i heard that anything else for Sean any questions or
any i still like the job they got done and what they're doing out the parks out there that's looking great what do you guys think all right city engineer J you got anything for us the CIP project has started um for
clearing and grubbing um looks to be that will be starting more of the road next week um we will be accepting bids for legacy drive next week um and bringing that to
the next council meeting um that one remember we do have the grant from deed for funding um so that will be coming at you also uh we did have a meeting um RPU actually
called a meeting and we are going to start meeting quarterly with RPU um Sean was in on this meeting to be looking at um basically regional effects for water
sources so put that out there they are limiting the usage on the Jordan main which is what most of our water is taking out of so you will not be able to drill into the Jordan main which mean we might have to go into another aquifer in the future at a deeper depth or surface water which a lot of that could change treatment in
the future so we may have to start treating our water instead of just pumping it so we'll say the DNR has limited RPU not to draw to the we do not we are not close to our appropriation yet on what we use and
what we've been Byron and Rochester Byron's been over the last few years so both those guys are aware of this because they've applied for it we haven't been notified because we haven't been close enough that we're applying for any more wells or anything at this point but when it comes time in the future when we do we will need
to probably I'm going to guess drilling would be deeper and see what water chemistry is there and what we're going to have to treat it with so the cost to provide water as we grow could be going
up just something to be aware of um which can affect our licensing also as far as the guys what they're going to be required to carry for license yep um and so just as we expand that's
something we have to be aware of is our water usage and where we're going to get the water from um but like Sean said we aren't near our limits yet so we're sitting good um but as a
regional we are going to be watching closely well I'm already looking forward to Nate's report because I'm sure that'll be a little more cheery this year um other than that yeah we're up for a busy summer all right any questions for city
engineer Jenna all right thank you Jenna that does take us to Nate's the library director's report uh yeah things are good uh are going to miss your council workshop
i've been planning for the last year to go to the NFL draft and so actually I thought I was coming with I plenty bring your air mattress plenty of room at my mom's so I'll tell you what I would even go to a packer and practice rather than
want to go to a workshop i'll tell you that so um so yeah um not a lot of stuff other than what's in my report we're going light on programming in May um as we uh work through the switchover and some
various other things um yeah um I will have a complete report of our complete schedule of our summer activities at at my the May meeting
um and right now we've booked all of our legacy performers which is programs that are perfor paid for through legacy funds um we want to get those done first so that we can kind of sprinkle in the internal stuff um because it's us so you
know we're around so um we're not the jugglers or marionette guy or all those things so we um but there's going to be a lot of fun things is your mom living there yeah yeah what is she doing letting you stay there she should be
renting the house out yeah she's They've been like taking every single property they could possibly get i know but you know she's 80 and just wasn't really ready to deal with Airbnb yeah they could make there's they're making some good money those houses that
are on there yeah we're east side though so it's you know it's a little bit of ways any other questions for Nate all right thank you Nate no fire chief no pool director they'll take us committee commission boards nothing from
the chamber in the packet eda H we had a meeting last week we approved some more housing and renovations it's going along real well finance anything coming up no meetings
do you have planned or anything this was the biggie today so all right library uh nothing park board we met last week um went over budget uh talked about doing a community survey
about the parks and um stuff and um we had a couple of guys from the disc golf um club and um they they provided some suggestions to um improve
the the layout of the of the disc golf out there to um improve safety so people aren't throwing directly at each other um
it personnel no zoning nope public safety nothing nothing special public works nothing ready report broke on uh minutes in there we're starting
the review of the 2050 plan so chapter by chapter transit advisory committee no report no report okay no
communications anyone want the open mic leaves us with the last motion to get a motion do we have a second all in favor say I