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>> Roll call starting on my right. >> Council person Josh. >> Council person Brad P. >> Mayor Jimmy John. Council person Craig Anderson. Council person Jeremiah >> looking for approval of tonight's agenda. Any additions or deletions from table? >> We should be good. >> Anything here to approve?
>> It's a motion in a second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. That'll carry. That takes us to the approval of the regular meeting minutes of March 10th, 2026. >> I'll make a motion to approve those minutes.
>> Motion. Do we have a second? >> I'll second. Questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. That'll carry. Takes us to finance and budget. We have the accounts payable with the additional listing there. If you have any questions, you
can direct them to finance officer Kelly. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> We have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Questions? Hearing? None. All in favor say I. >> I oppos. That take us into motions and
general business. Tonight under motions and general business is a resolution approving application to the Minnesota Public Facilities Authority. Prepared by Cassandra Jefferson. Lead service line replacement application.
City staff is seeking authorization to apply to the Minnesota Public Facilities Authority for funding assistance related to a a lead service line replacement project through the drinking water state revolving fund. Approval of this
resolution confirms the city's intent to apply for the loan andor grant and affirms that the city has the legal, financial, technical, and managerial capacity to complete the project and maintain it for its design life. And we forward on the grant that Angelie and
Jacob had got us on the last meeting and talked about the engineering. This is just a resolution to send to the state that says we are we have the capability to do this. Correct? >> Questions or discussion?
Hearing none. I'll move for a motion to approve resolution 2026-6A, resolution authorizing application to the Minnesota Public Facilities Authority for funding for a lead service line replacement project. >> I'll make that motion. >> Second. >> Second.
>> No questions or discussion. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. That carries. That takes us out of motions and general business. Takes us to mayor staff and consultant reports. Tonight on the mayor's report and city would like to send their sympathies to the family of Leslie Keki.
And let's not forget coming right up sisterville area community foundation toast and taste event. It's coming up on April 11th. If you need tickets you can stop in the city hall or other chamber members around town have them too. Don't they out? You bet. Be a good time again. March 30th is Dirtville Morning Lions
meal with the peel their baked potato supper. That's a big hit every year. That's coming up from 4:30 to 6:30 on the 30th of March at the United Methodist Church. Let's send out a great big way to go girls at a girls. Congratulations on second place to our
girls basketball team and state. They did a another fantastic job this year. Turned into a real dynasty. >> Yep. >> Yep. It is, isn't it, Josh? >> Oh, yeah. It's fun up there. >> All right, that's all I've got for tonight. That takes us to city administrators report.
Um, yep. Reports in your packet. Just two items. Um, I'll keep you posted if we still need to do the special meeting, which would now be on Friday over the noon hour. Um, we got um all the bids in. And get this, out of 300 invitations they sent out to all the different
various aspects of the project. 120 responses came in. Now, remember, it's broke down by electricians and plumbers and heaters and everything. And so the full project has been bid out. We're now
sorting out what would be in kind items, what would be things that were phased maybe in year two or year three. So we're just getting that set up for you, but it looks like we're darn close to what we estimated the budget would be. So I'll have to just keep you posted
over the next day or two if we can do the Friday meeting. Um, >> make up for what I forgot. Bill, >> what's that? >> Make up for what I forgot. >> Yeah. And now, um, just as important to
us is our new hire. And I want to informally introduce to you for those that don't know him, Adam Gailing. And, uh, he's our new community development coordinator. Got anything you want to say, Adam? >> No, I'm excited. First couple weeks or I guess week and a half has been good.
just looking forward to helping grow too even better place to live. So, >> all right. Hometown boy, homegrown and so should be a great commuter community >> communicator and promoter of our
community. >> Thank you. Bill, >> that first item, are you going to >> give us a little more information, the council input on the street light deal, what's going to cost, how many we're going to have, what we're going to do.
>> Yeah. What? Um, >> or is that already been taken care of? Is that already done over? Do we have no more? >> Nope. Nope. Um, and that's why I put in here. I want you to think about it because we're going to bring it up more formally at the workshop. But as you know, the initial thoughts
were to end our decorative lighting at either Old National Bank or St. John's Church, and then the rest of the street becomes just more residential in nature. Um, we've since found out that to convert the decorative lighting to meet
more of Mandox's required lumens, it would probably mean adapting each of our poles with about a 12 $1,300 retrofitting the poles we have for the proper lighting to reach to get the lumens to the center. >> So the least those least poles we keep
that the cheaper for us, right? >> Say that again. >> The least if we can get the number of our retrofitted down saving stuff and let them put the cobras up on the corners and stuff. >> Yeah. So basically the thinking is we'll just go to MDOT's Cobra type lighting
for the most part >> and that's paid for by Mindot and we don't have any >> we don't have to pay for any redesign costs of lighting and then obviously the reinstall the lights are going to get pulled as part of the construction but then we'd have to pay for those getting
put back. So, a second thought that came across is, do we just pull them all on First Street and then just deal with the decoratives on on Broadway, Main Street, and not have them here at all? We think
something should be here at city hall at least. So then one option is do you go with maybe some ballards like you see over in the logger uh park or do we go with some um keeping a couple of these uh here only they'd be put back up into
our yard. Um or as you know Geotech has offered us um up to 20 lights of the samples they make to be used around the community. So we're for surely going to use some of those at the library. um
revamped parking lot, but that's an option. And then if there'd be any kind of option that we're working on a piece park over here, we could blend that in. So those are things to think about. Um um which direction to go. So that's
>> if they go in the right way, we have to meet the lumens at center point of the road. So then that changes. They they tell us what we got to have to do. >> We use a couple for decorative around. Then they don't have bank and re then they'd be out of the project. They would be engineered as part of the project. >> Right.
>> Perfect. All right. Something to think about then. >> Is that all Bill? >> That's it. >> All right. Questions for administrator hearing? None. And let's go to finance officer Kelly. You got any report tonight? >> No report.
>> All right. Anybody want to ask her why she has no report? All right. Public works director John, you got a report. >> It is. It's in there. And the only thing I'm going to add real quick is we didn't start sweeping. Spring is here. I saw you.
>> So they today was the first day they got out and started sweeping the streets. So good. >> We will be out for the next two three weeks. Constantly sweeping every day. >> That big snow that big that last big snowfall. It was nice to have them out early to open up the streets too. >> Yeah, that help.
>> We needed it. That was a lot of snow. But we were afraid if we didn't we'd be hard to push. >> Oh, no. Exactly. 15 in at one time. It's easier to do a couple passes with it. So, >> so you started over here on the pocket park over here today, too. >> They did awesome on my culde-sac. I
loved it. I was scared cuz they just had that just like a strip the day before. And then so I went out and snowed and I went way out into the culde-sac like six feet and I just tried to avoid the big wind thing like whatever. And they did a good job. They took the time to make
sure they closed stuff out everybody's ways. >> They told me they were going to bury you if you got >> I was waiting I was waiting for you. He's got time to do it. >> I had you on speed dial the night before cuz I was waiting for it the next morning. >> Anything else?
>> No, I should do a great job on all of it. Thanks a lot. Tell the guys work again. >> All right, city engineer note report tonight or we got a library director's report. Nate, you got something for us? Um, above and beyond within my report. Um,
>> you didn't even get creative on there this time. You didn't give the whole bunch of paragraphs. >> No, no, I was really short and sweet. I just got back from vacation and uh um I hung out with my 15-month-old niece who's in daycare, so obviously I'm sick now.
So, um I just kind of gave it uh bare bones. So, um, but yeah, um, we're looking forward to our open house about the expansion in April, our book sale. Um, and,
uh, our Celco board repold is, um, being term limited out. Um, so, uh, we are in the process of trying to find a replacement to get appointed by council for that. Um, so you know what a library
lover who uh loves meetings too. Um, send them my way. >> All right, you're retired. >> There we go. >> I'm busy that day. >> Question for the director. >> All right, Nate. Thanks. And get
yourself better. No chief's report, no pool director report. fix in commission boards, chamber of commerce. Uh I know they got some Easter egg stuff coming up. 102 days till
Summerfest. Just got that today. So they got stuff coming going. PDA H. I was not at the last meeting, but the minutes are in there March 17th. It >> was busy. We had a lot of people to talk to. >> Okay. A lot of projects to get on. All
right. finance. I guess we have nothing. Don't we have the auditors coming around for a report pretty soon? >> Yep. They probably will meet with us in early April and we'll do preliminary and then I think they hope to present at the second meeting in April.
>> We're always waiting. We're always anxious for a great library. Uh nothing parkour. Uh we did have a meeting last night. Um there uh it's a Steuart Bill football club that's
forming which football means soccer. Um and they wanted to meet with the park board and just get a formal um blessing to be able to uh use the the
soccer fields out there cave. And so they're working with SYA on coordinating striping of the fields and schedules and all that other stuff. So it's another um option for you to play soccer more competitive there
>> um in the in the um in in town without having to go up to Rochester. So >> keep our youth busy. >> Yep. >> All right. Uh personnel Nothing.
>> Nothing. Flying zoning. >> Nothing. >> Public safety. >> I have nothing. >> We're all safe then. I take it. >> We're all safe. >> Public works. >> Nothing. >> Ready? >> Nothing. >> Roco, >> nothing.
>> Transit advisory committee? >> Nothing. >> Nothing under communications tonight. And that will take us to the open mic. Uh, city council welcomes and encourages participation from community members. Please keep in mind that your comments must be forwarded to city business. Must
adhere to the data privacy rules, which means no employees name may be used. Please do not expect action from the council this evening regarding your concerns. We also request that your comments be limited to four minutes. Speakers will be recognized only once. At this time, we'd ask anyone who would like to address the city council to please step up to the podium, state your
name and address, and we we might give you five minutes, too. So, >> yeah. Nice. I don't know.