follow me in order to stand for the pledge of 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 the roll starting on my right council person council person Bren council person Craig Anderson council person Jere looking for approval of tonight's agenda Uh
here's something there. First, second. All in favor say I. I opposed carries. Approval of council meeting minutes. The last time we met June 24th, 2025.
Make a motion to approve. There's a motion to have a second. Second. Any discussion or questions about any of it? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. That'll also carry. That'll
take us to finance and budget. Council payable is in there. Any questions? Ask our finance officer through Kelly. I'll make a motion to approve. Motion. Do we have a second?
I'll second. Questions or discussion on any of it? Hearing none say I opposed that carries the motions general business. One item under motion general business tonight. It's a public hearing on our property cleanup.
Where are you? There it is. It came up. Public hearing nuisance violation property clean up. City has received complaints regarding the condition of the property owned by Steven and Trista Dert 611 Fifth Avenue Southeast. The pictures are attached. Notice of the
public hearing sent on June 23rd, 2025. Close this meeting. Go to public hearing. We're now in the public hearing. Any written oral? Uh Trista did call today. Tell me that they have started the clean up. Um, looks like I got rid of that car that
was all like laying. No, it's the car. Can you move it? The car is just the trucks in front of it. Oh, really? I just drove by and it looked like it's like I could see like a boat. I drove by about 2:00. You had a boat with a bunch of stuff all over it and I I just saw a
truck in the boat, but maybe I missed it. I don't know. I drove by. She started and and was planning to come, but obviously is a tears. We thought they'd be here, but we have um a better pursuit. City code section 6610. City council consider a public
scribed nuisance. This public hearing is your opportunity to be heard on this matter and to present any evidence or arguments with the city council to consider regarding the ordinance violations. So they're not here now. We have hydro by at noon. You went by now just been
by. They have made some movement. The same thing every one of the ones we did last year made some movement and then stopped. That's the hard part. Has she been uh Sounds like she's been communicative with you just today? Just today. This is This did not happen
overnight. This disaster. I hate to put it that way, but you see the pictures. Yeah. The neighbors block a very nice neighborhood. It's almost And they've been patient. It'd be very disrespectful to the neighbors if we don't
this property because I I just have a bad feeling that what little bit they did today will be the end of it. Well, right. But if we if we move forward and approve abatement of it, we they still will have an option to get on their horse here and get we give them another Yeah. Just like we did with the two that
were last week, but nothing they didn't um when Ryan Sack was here, he he didn't do anything. So yesterday Justin issued them a ticket and we'll go in next week and start cleaning that out the same with Uber. So that's the way it works then is you
wait like a week to see what happens. He sends an ordinance violation or and then after that we move in. I see no reason not to move forward. No, there's no reason not to move forward because we don't end with what they did now. That's the way they all
seem to do it. So, if they're not here to say, do you have no written or oral? I'll close the public here regular meeting. Um, based on the following finding of facts, the council here orders the abatement of the nuance and
will enter the property remove the offending items. Should I go through the list of finding facts? Um, you can just as presented finding facts is they're presented here. Do we uh clean up like all the tall weeds and all that stuff too when we go
in there or do we just remove like the junk m get rid of all that? Okay. Yeah. Y got that one. Yeah. Drive by 817 Bird the corner up there past you. Well, the fence is the fence taken care of? Yep.
Oh, I also missed that today. Very nice. Yeah, we hired Mike Somerfield to do that. Are they rebuilding or just tearing it down? She won't. She was home. We called. We knocked on the door. No, no response. Okay. Okay. It shall also be the responsibility when we do this abatement
of the property owner to pay for the cost of set abatements including attorney's fees and administrative costs which may be assessed to the property be paid for property tax. So the council action requested would be to order the payment of the nuance. I'll make that motion. I second it.
We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. That carries. That takes us out of the public hearing and or I mean excuse me out of motion general business takes us to mayor staff
consultant report mayor's report tonight we'll send our sympathies as a city to the family of Bobby Jones Wenda Meyer and Bonnie Pot but we'll send out a happy 90th birthday
to Pat Hurley. Hip hip beret for Pat. And if you haven't been reading the paper, you need to pick one up. There's some very nice stories in there this time. Very interesting stories. Yeah. Congratulations to Matthew Waters. He's a Minnesota National Finalist for the American Legion Samson scholarship. If
you haven't met him or his brother or his sister, talk about a bunch of go get them kids and with some real talent. He earned second place nationally for the academic excellence. Matthew was also the boy scout behind the design of the time capsule that they put at the BFW
memorial. A very nice time capsule. Be sure to check out the great article that is in the star. It is a very nice article highlighting all his accomplishments. And for a young man, he has quite a few accomplishments already. Congratulations also to Adam Wright and
his staff at Helcon for their Historia collection line which was designed by a team in Sterfield. won Neocon's best in competition and there was over 216 entries that they beat. There's also a very great story in the Stirville Star
about that. We're very proud that Hilcon is a huge community supporter and they are part of our community of Stville. Thank you for all that that they do. We're going to send a big thank you out to Eagle Rock for their generous $10,000 donation to Tiger Charge.
As you remember, they're recipient recipient of the mayor's award. Tiger Charge continues to make a very huge meaningful impact through your dedication to supporting the students and families in Sturville. They are a big deal and it's getting bigger all the time. We're grateful to have such a
strong community partner. Summerfest has come and gone. It doesn't seem like it should have been here already and gone already. A huge thank you to the Chamber of Commerce and the many, many great volunteers that it takes to put on this Summerfest. It was Craig and I and all of us were talking
about before. Everything seemed to be it was fantastic. You know, it huge crowds everywhere. The parade was unbelievable from I've talked to people from all over who got a hold of me. They just they can't believe the parade. What was it about 2 hours long? I mean,
it was 103 units for sure. They There has been the fireworks. I've got relatives up from South Carolina, Florida. and they just couldn't believe they couldn't believe the fireworks or the parade. They really couldn't. They were big towns like Charleston and stuff like that.
Don't forget Stewie Cruisers are having their car shows every Friday. Bill was judging the contest out here during the Summerfest. His brother won first place. Imagine that. But they had a great show over the weekend, too. It's not pouring rain,
they're going to be there. Don't forget tomorrow night will be band concert tomorrow night. Yes. Yep. It's on. It's on the weather. Is it rain? Is it raining forecast? It looks like tomorrow and Thursday. It's one of Tammy's favorites. So, she's had this one marked in the calendar in
the field. Yep. So, don't forget to stop out for that. It's a free show. And don't forget the farmers market at the United Methodist Church every Wednesday through September. Uh I believe that's all I got. And one more congratulations to
Sandra. Oh, that's right. Actually, I should do two more now while you say that. Congratulations to Sandra. By uh this time next week, she'll be going by a different last name. Mrs. Jefferson. Mrs. Jefferson. Yep. Moving on.
Moving on up. Her wedding is this weekend with over the best. We hope the weather holds that. And I probably really should a week ago today. My wife for 49 years retired from the clinic of working there 50 years. She put in her 50 years. She
finally call it quits. She's wants to spend more time with me. She can't believe how long she So in the basement took her 50 years to figure that. That's why she worked 50 years. Most
people only go 30 or 40. That's all I've got. It's been It has been a great celebration. Everything was topnotch. It was just they did you have a pro buyer floating the parade? No. Really? He did.
He would though. It was two years ago. Yep. That's all I've got. We're going to go to the city administrator's report. Uh just a short report. Obviously, it's the holiday weekend and um helping the chamber out and things. Um we're good to go for this round and so that's there for you.
All right. Thank you, Bill. Uh, Kelly, does a finance officer have a report tonight? No report. Smartest finance officer. Let's see. Sean Hail, public works director. Do you have a report? Compliments Kelly every time for not
doing a report. So, I quit. I'm guessing you've been a little bit busy the last couple weeks anyhow. Well, Thursday was the third the day I normally do the report and Friday we were off. So, I didn't have her. something. I think we can excuse the way everything is topnotch. You guys are a great job
with all the help you have put in there, too. A lot of times we forget about the amount of help that our public works does put into that summer class every year. They do go above and beyond for us. Thank you for that. No city engineer tonight, but we got a fire chief tonight. Chief, what do you got for us?
Uh, I got my report in late, but it is in there. So, we had six fire calls, 40 EMS calls. Uh items to note. Uh we did get the chassis ordered. It's a 2006 um Ford F550 chassis for our new rescue truck. We waited till the 26s were
available to save a little bit of extra warranty while we're in the wait period for the body to get built. Uh that was ordered through House Auto Group. There was cost savings on going locally through them rather than through the dealership in Sou Falls over near Heyman. um updated the roster for the
Minnesota Board of Firefighter Training and Education for the fiscal year. Um this year we were awarded $9,30. Uh we turned in uh receipts for over $11,000. Every year I submit more than what we're
awarded. Some departments won't do the paperwork and get that funding supplied to them or that reimbursement. So then they'll reallocate funds after everything's paid out. So then we'll we'll get the main distribution, then we'll get whatever's left over. They'll redistribute what's left over to use up
all their state funds. Um and then June 11th, we held uh retirement uh party for Mark Cod or actually they kind of planned it all and we were moved in after the fact, but uh so recognized Mark for his 37 years of service and
retiring from the Sugville Fire Department. Um, we'll have more to follow at our annual Christmas party and awards ceremony uh in December. So, that is all I had for June report. Let's see if any of you have questions for me.
Trucks look nice and pretty. Thank you for doing that. Jimmy, you guys, the engineers report I was going to throw in there quick. Went so fast for the uh 11th Avenue, they plan on doing Kermit Gutter tomorrow. So, that'll be done this week. The black
top will not be until they're done with I90. Uh so they don't have a date solidified on that yet, but I'm guessing it'll be towards the end of July as soon as they could get before they'll be done with 90. They did get the final lift on B. Oh yeah, it's nice. That's nice. Really nice.
And the only reason they got that is because the state won't let them work on 90 on July 3rd because they traffic. Nice work. Nice engineer report. Thank you, Chief. Good report. got a it'll be a pretty big hole to fill
with Mark going out of there. We got you got some young guys coming up or um we're not hiring any this year. Uh or at least we don't plan to unless we see more retirements before the end of the year. Um but yeah, it's tough to say goodbye to 37 years of
dedicated service. All right, thank you for the report. You guys got anything else? All right, pool director is not here tonight. Probably busy with swimming going on down there. So that takes us community commission and board reports. Chamber of Commerce, they're all taking a break and probably
catching up on things they didn't get done for the last two weeks. EDAH, we have a meeting coming right up. Finance, no meetings yet. People will be working on budget. So we'll be having meetings for those coming up. Okay. You got no meetings planned as of yet?
Nope. No meetings planned yet. All right. Thank you. Library. Uh nothing. Nothing. Parkour. Nothing personnel. Nothing yet. No news is good news. Tell us and
zoning. Public safety nothing special. Sunfest went great. We didn't really have any issues that were noteworthy. So dance went well. Forest went well. Dance went well. We didn't have the only
thing was people peeing outside of the the fence. That was that's being done next year. Why did they shut down the two bathrooms? Those two that are behind the stage. Those are small. They're not behind the concessions. The new one.
Well, they shut those. We decided that that wasn't a smart idea to run those open with how many people would be back there and just the damages that could have happened as well as uh that being a totally darkened spot from the public
view. That was Torus didn't want those long ago. We never even had Lake Florence and they had it there. They closed them down at Lake Florence, too. Just people can get in there and can't be seen in the stalls and stuff. Sure. Outside, man. They're going to get more of portaotties next year.
They steal back on portaotties this year. I would choose to be in the woods over a portaotti nine out of nine times. Well, the the parade went great. The parade and last year I thought about retiring.
This year there was no retiring. It went really well. Supposedly a couple cars got through, but I didn't see them, so I don't really care. I heard it was go first from Iowa in the brain or something. I don't want to talk about Iowa. All right. Any other questions?
I've never seen you drive on a walk, too. Thank you. Thanks, Jose. Public works announcing right now. Ready? No report. Roll call. No report. Transit advisory committee. Uh, we did send out a letter of support to them for um alternate bus, but
otherwise no other report. Commissioner Mueller, do you have anything you want to tell us? Not unless you guys have questions for me. Okay. Anybody up here got any questions? All right. Nothing under communications. Anybody want the open mic? Motion to
adjurnn. We got a motion to adjourn. Second favor.