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Part 1 (Video ID: -37F5kCVbBU):
- 00:00:03: Meeting Called to Order; Pledge and Agenda Approval
- 00:01:39: National Public Works Week Proclamation and Consent Agenda
- 00:05:12: Pulling Police Civil Service Minutes for Discussion
- 00:06:04: Police Department Vacancies and Hiring Process Discussion
- 00:11:35: Wilmer Government Academy Summary and Recap Presentation
- 00:14:21: Public Comments on the Wilmer Government Academy
- 00:15:33: Public Comments on the Wilmer Government Academy (Continued)
- 00:19:57: Public Comments on the Wilmer Government Academy (Continued)
- 00:22:39: Public Hearing Resolution for 2026B Bond Issue
- 00:24:41: Appointment of Interim Planning Director, Chris Frank
- 00:26:10: Discussion and Process for Hiring City Administrator
- 00:33:34: Debate on Timeline and Budget for Hiring Administrator
- 00:37:28: Christopher Corbett's Service Appreciated; Closed Session Motion


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It is 6:30 on Monday, May 18th, and I will call the Wilmer City Council meeting to order and ask our clerk to call the role. >> Mayor Promosque >> here. >> Council member Nelson >> here, >> Gilbertson >> here, >> Gardner >> here, >> Baggerly

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>> here, >> Davis >> here, Butterfield >> here, >> and Sheld >> here. >> Eight uh here, one absent. >> Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. ledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which

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it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Any additions or deletions to our agenda tonight? Council, >> make a motion to approve the agenda. >> Second. >> Is there any discussion?

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Roll call. >> Council member Nelson. >> I. >> Gardner. >> I. >> Vaggerly. >> Hi. >> Davis. >> Hi. >> Gilbertson. >> Hi. >> Uh, Butterfield. >> Hi. >> And shoulders. >> Hi.

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>> See eyes. Seven eyes. Zero nos. I'll vote I and make it eight. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Council member or Mayor Prom ask. >> Motion passes. Uh, Mayor Ree has asked me to read this proclamation in his absence tonight. Whereas public work

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professionals focus on infrastructure, facilities, and services that are vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and to public health, high quality of life, and well-being of the people of the city of Wilmer. And whereas these infrastructure, facilities, and services could not be

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provided without the dedicated efforts, public works professionals who are managers and employees at all levels of government who are responsible for rebuilding, improving, and protecting our nation's transportation, parks, waste treatment, and public buildings and other structures and facilities

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essential for our citizens. And whereas it is in the public interest for the citizens, civic leaders, and children in the city of Wilmer to gain knowledge of and maintain an ongoing interest in understanding of the importance of public works and public works programs in the respective communities. And

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whereas the year 2026 marks the 66th annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works Association, it now resolved that Mayor Doug Ree does hereby designate the week of May 17th through the 23rd, 2026 as National

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Public Works Week. He urges all citizens to join with representation representatives of the American Public Works Association and government agencies in activities, events, and ceremonies designated to pay tribute to our public works professionals, engineers, managers, and employees, and

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to recognize the substantial contributions they make to protecting our national health, safety, and advancing their quality of life for all. And this is signed by Mayor Ree on the 18th day of May. Clerk Larson, would you present the

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consent agenda? >> Mayor Protempos, council members, today for your approval, I have the city council minutes of May 4th, 2026. The city council works workshop session CIP tour minutes of April 21st, 2026.

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The city council work session minutes of May 11th, 2026. The planning commission minutes of May 6th, 2026 is a draft. The Police Civil Service Commission minutes of April 2nd, 2026 as a draft. The Human Rights Commission minutes of April 29th,

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2026 as a draft. The Wimmer Municipal Utilities Commission minutes of May 11th, 2026 is a draft. The Wimmer Municipal Utilities Commission application consideration to reallocate funds and purchase waste receptacles for downtown. Lakeland Drive path project

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advanced construction agreement. Approve the Mandot Highway 40 turn lane construction agreement. Change order for number one. Change order number one for project 2601-f Wilmer Connect. The agriculture land

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lease hay ground. The Wilmer West Central Ducks Unlimited lawful gambling application. Consideration of the state 1 to 4day temporary onale liquor license permit for Intuition Brewing LLC. Consideration of the state 1 to 4-day

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temporary onale liquor license permit for the VFW 1639. Consideration of the state temporary liquor permits for the Wilmer Lakes Rotary Club. The accounts payable report from 4:30 of 2026 to 514 of 2026.

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And for your information, the human rights commission applicant, the director's reports, and the financial report through 4:30 2026. Council, the consent agenda is before you, >> mayor. Pretend I'd like to pull item

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number 6E and talk about that. >> That's the Police Commission Police Civil Service Commission minutes of April 2nd, 2026. >> Thank you. Anyone else want to pull something? And I'm looking for a motion to approve the remainder of the consent agenda.

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>> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call. Council member Nelson, >> I >> Butterfield, >> I >> Gilbertson, >> I >> Davis, >> I >> Gardner, >> I >> Faggerly, >> I

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>> and Sheld >> I. >> Eight eyes's zero nos. >> The consent agenda is approved. Council member Gardner, item 6E. >> Yeah, I don't know who if uh Chief Holm should answer some my questions or who should answer them.

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>> All right. Um I have a few. Um, how many vacancies do we currently have on the in the police department? >> Currently, right now, we have 31 full-time officers. One or one CSO is considered in that, so that's 32. So, we have three openings. Um, we're currently

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doing a background or um we have a conditional offer out for one right now. He's just finishing the final and we have two candidates that are in the background process right now. And um have we ever been 100% full? >> The last time we were full was around um

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January, end of January 20122. And then you kind of take the politics that have came into George Floyd and loss of officers. So that's kind of where we've been at. >> Yep. Okay. Um what is the time frame to

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fill our vacancies? general time on the last one who just started on um May 11th, his application was a was February 2nd. So approximately 90 days. >> Is there I mean how does that compare to

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other law enforcement agencies? >> Well, we we know >> I don't know on others, but I mean we've we've kind of made things where we're when we're going to job fairs um trying to do recruitment and stuff on officers trying to get them to apply early before they're done. So that way the system can

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go in place where we can start the background um getting things going before they're completely completed and then we do a revised short part to make sure they're grades are approved. Um that's that's kind of how >> you're talking about that's for new

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officers though, right? That's not for officers that might be transferring from other departments. >> Yeah, correct. >> So it's 90 days typically. >> 90 days is what our last one took. >> Okay. All right. Um, can you I mean we see lots of things about background checks, things like that. What's the

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general process for how a police officer gets hired? Or should I be asking this to the police commission? >> Um, well, once it goes through, they put the application in, then we go through the application once they're approved for um an interview, then they would do

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the interview process. And if it goes into that part, it goes uh Um you know this is a current we would basically after we get there that part then we would go if it it approves we would get a um go forward by

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the police commission saying that we can go forward with a background check on them. Then we go through the background check on that officer. Once it comes to that point um where they're through then it would come into a conditional offer. Um and once we have the conditional offer in place then it comes into the

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psychological the physical um the different tests for um that portion and if they make it through all them steps then an offer is made. So does a person does an applicant get interviewed in front of the entire commission or just one of the commissioners

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>> for the interview part? Right. Um it goes on we always have one >> um police commissioner on the interview. >> So two of the three people that are have the ultimate hiring decision never

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actually ever talked to most of the applicants. >> Rephrase that again. Sorry. Two of the three people on the commission that are responsible for hiring police officers never actually talk to an applicant or interview an applicant. >> We we always have one on the interview

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panel, not >> Right. Right. But there's three commissioners. >> Correct. >> And so two of the three who have to vote never actually ever talk to a police candidate. >> Correct. >> Seems odd, doesn't it? >> That's the the practice of how it's

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been. So, I think I know why you do it. Or not you, but I know I think I know why they do it. >> Mr. Gardner, can I intercept on that one? >> If all three commissioners were present, it would be an open meeting. >> I understand that. That's what I'm getting to. >> Okay. That's why all three of them

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cannot be in the interview process because it's an >> But doesn't isn't the interview part of an open meeting? >> Isn't the interview considered to be a reason to have an open meeting? Not at this stage. Not at the very This

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is at the very beginning of their their >> So never in the hiring process. >> They could have one after they decide to to they could have an open meeting after they have gone through the process.

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But do they >> that you'll have the commission is that's their >> police chief just said they don't >> they have probably not. >> Okay, that's all my questions. >> Any other questions on the minutes from

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the police commission April 2nd? Otherwise, council member Gardner, would you make a motion to >> Motion to approve? Second. >> Roll call. Council member Schultz. >> Hi, >> Osc. >> Hi, >> Baggerly.

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>> Hi, >> Davis. >> Hi. >> Nelson, >> I >> Gardner. >> Hi, >> Butterfield. >> Hi. >> And Gilbertson, >> hi. >> Eight eyes's, zero nos. >> All right, that is approved. Um, Madame

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Clerk, is there anyone to speak for the open form? >> No, we didn't have anyone sign up today. and we will move into the regular business section of the agenda. And I would call on Mr. Box to present on the Wilmer Government Academy. >> Good evening, council. Thank you, Mayor

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Prom. Uh, tonight we wanted to take an opportunity to uh summarize and recap the experience uh that we had for the first Wilmer Government Academy. But first, I would be remissed if I didn't bring up Alli Pollson, our administrative assistant, uh, who really, uh, spearheaded and led this

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effort uh, from really the ground up, was the day-to-day contact. She did a lot of the planning or all of the planning uh, for each of our weeks and was the main point of contact with all of our applications. And I I believe she has a few words that she'd just like to kind of go over with all of you. So, I'll bring up Ally.

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>> Thanks, Ally. Well, good evening, Mayor Pro Tam and Council. Tonight, I have an information only item regarding the 2026 Wilmer Government Academy. Last Tuesday, we successfully concluded the first ever Wilmer Government Academy, which was a

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7-week program designed to give community members an inside look at how the city of Wilmer operates and delivers services to our residents. The primary goals of the academy were to strengthen transparency, build build relationships between residents and city staff, and

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encourage greater civic involvement within our community. The the academy welcomed 18 participants who engaged directly with city staff from every department. Throughout the program, participants gained firsthand knowledge of municipal operations, city services, and the decision-making processes that

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guide our work. They also had the opportunity to ask questions, learn about departmental responsibilities, and better understand the day-to-day efforts involved in serving the community. As part of the experience, participants toured several city facilities, including the police department, fire

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department, civic center, and the wastewater treatment facility. These tours provided valuable insight into public safety operations, essential city services, and the infra infrastructure systems that support our community every day. We believe that the Wilmer

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Government Academy was a meaningful and impactful experience for those who participated and we are hopeful that this program will continue for many years to come. Since this was our first ever academy, we have distributed a survey to participants to gather feedback and identify opportunities for

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improvements as we plan future programs. We also had a few participants volunteer to share their experiences with the academy this evening. Joining us are Sarah Cretchman, Eric Griger, and Abdi Welli Yusf. Thank you for your continued support of the Wilmer Government Academy

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and for your commitment to strengthening comm community engagement within our city. Good evening everyone. My name is Sarah Cretchman and I am here because I was a part of the Wilmer Government Academy and I first just wanted to say thank you

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to all of you for supporting this initiative. It was truly impactful for me and as someone who has worked in communications and community engagement throughout my career. This was a really impressive example of that in our

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community and it gave me the opportunity to meet wonderful other leaders. many of whom are here and get to know our fellow community members better, get to know all of the departments better, understand what is happening at the city

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level and in it gave me the confidence to run for city council myself in Ward 4. So I am so grateful for this opportunity and I hope it does continue. Thank you for your time. Uh, good evening, Mayor Prom, council

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members, and city staff. My name is Eric Griger. Recently had the opportunity to participate in the very first of the city of Wilmer government academy program. I just wanted to take a couple of minutes tonight to thank the city of Wilmer for creating such an outstanding program and I hope it encourages others

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in our community to take part in future programs if they continue. Uh over seven weeks, our group was given behind the-scenes look at the Wilmer city government and how it operates. And I'm not just saying this, but I can honestly say that it gave me a whole look and appreciation for the amount of work,

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planning, teamwork, and especially the dedication uh that goes on into serving the city of Wilmer residents every day. Each session gave us a valuable insight into different departments and the people who keep our city moving forward. And I'd be remissed if I didn't mention that there was delicious food served

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each night. Thanks, Ally, for that. uh which was great because it highlighted some of Wilmer's finest food offerings, some things that we never maybe never have tried before. Uh things all started on March 31st. We learned about administration in the city clerk's office. I felt that was very interesting to see how much coordination and

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organization happens behind the scenes to keep our city operations moving smoothly. On April 7th, we learned about planning and development and community growth. It was exciting to hear about future opportunities and the vision and optimism for continued growth in the city of Wilmer. We also took part in a

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small exercise which really showed us the often difficult decisions that have to be made within planning and development uh in that department. Uh just a small glimpse of that. April 14th focused on the Wilmer Fire Department seeing their professionalism and learning about the training that they go through uh the commitment of our

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firefighters that we have here in Wilmer. That was incredibly impressive. uh from the chief all the way down to the rookies. It is a very dedicated group of people. We should all be proud of that. April 21st, we visited the Wilmer Police Department. Uh they gave us a better understanding of the challenges that officers face and many

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ways that they work to serve and protect our community. I think many of us really enjoyed the technology that's out there. Uh the devices that the officers use to keep them safe. Uh we also learned that the city of Wilmer really prioritiz prioritizes having a progressive police department to keep our community safe.

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April 28th we took a tour of the wastewater treatment facility and the public works department. Honestly, this may have been one of the biggest eye openeners for myself personally. Many of us probably don't realize how much work goes into maintaining our city infrastructure and of course the very

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essential service that we use every day. Uh and like I said, it's just not every day you get to tour a wastewater treatment facility. That was pretty impressive. Our community should be uh feel very proud of that. On May 5th, we learned about finance, human resources, and rack TV. It highlighted how

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important strong internal operations are to keeping the city functioning efficiently and fiscally strong. Uh many of us were quite entertained with what I would like to call the Rudy Vehill Comedy Show. Uh it was a lot of fun. It was a true pleasure hearing Rudy's many

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stories about the history of Rack TV. Uh that was kind of a highlight. Uh and finally, May 12th, we wrapped up with the parks and recck department and the community center as well as the IT department. We met at the civic center. Uh it was great to learn about the impact that all of these programs and facilities have on our quality of life

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for families and residents uh throughout Wilmer. Uh also very interesting to learn about the complexity of it right here in the city of Wilmer. And uh I think we were kind of shocked. It's kind of a one-man crew, which was amazing in the IT department. I truly believe this

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program is one of the best ways for any of residents to become informed, engaged, and connected with the city of Wilmer. Uh creates understanding, builds relationships, and helps people uh see the incredible amount of work being done every day by city staff and leadership. I would definitely highly encourage anyone that's listening or uh hears this

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uh if you're interested in learning about how the city operates and if you're looking to get more involved with uh the city government, this is a great way to do that with the uh government academy session. Uh, thank you again to the city council for offering this. Ally, thank you for organizing everything and to everyone that was

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involved in putting the program together. Uh, and once again, council, thank you for the opportunity to let me speak tonight. Hello everybody. Um, thank you for inviting me today. It was uh honored to be here, but I was kind of busy with the

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little kids I have, but I made it to the day. Well, thank you for those who uh worked hard for us to invite us this program. It was amazing. I first thing when I applied, I thought I was not going to make it, but you know,

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definitely got a message at the end of the day and said, "Oh, you're invited to be part of this, you know, part of this team." And it was a great opportunity to see it and I always want to be the first person always to be one of those kind of opportunities to come over to take it. Um it was honored to learn how our

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government works behind the scenes and all you know something that Eric was talking about all of them. Um you know I couldn't imagine you know learning this all stuff will be like you know was blind for my side but you know it was good thing to learn how a government

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works how everybody works and to learn and you know a lot of you know the great thing that we have the water resource and all the you know police department that are working hard behind scene for us to keep our community safe. um and all the fire departments that are, you

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know, working. But the good thing that I was always asking for was like, you know, hey, can I help? Can I peep out of it? But I don't want to shave my beer. So, and I was like, and I couldn't get that opportunity, you know, but I always want to keep my beard since I'm getting bold and I just so I just it's my joke

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that I was saying that. But I would like to be part of that community to be part of the the fire department so I can help them out, you know, to save our community and be part of that. Um but thanks the good food that they brought every time they would bring the good food and having all of us you know make

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friends at the same time for the you know our government part departments and showing us how everything that works but it was I hope this opportunity that goes forward and and it works for our community and you know to learn what's

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the different of our community is and all that you know and I hope that you know a lot of folks like me that will participate in this program that we have and I hope it doesn't end this way and but you know it goes grows you know and to bring not

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only elders but to bring some of our young generations to learn behind the scene what's our community is and what's our government you know how it runs and everything. Well, thank you guys for and for inviting me to be here today and you guys doing a good job. So, thanks for

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bringing me over here today. Well, thank you um for especially for those three of you that spoke, but I just want to say thank you to everyone that participated um in this first round. Uh thank you for your curiosity about what's taking place um here at the city of Wilmer, for your commitment to

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our community and for your willingness to make Wilmer a better place. And uh Miss Pollson Ally, uh it was a tremendous success. Thank you so much. I know you put a lot of time and effort into it and it would not have been the success that it was without you. So, thank you for your hard work.

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um questions or comments about the academy. All right. Uh we'll move on then. Uh Director Odin's uh you're here for a public hearing. >> Good evening, Mr. Mayor Prom and members of the council. Tom Odin, finance

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director for the city. Uh tonight for your consideration is a resolution calling for the public hearing for our proposed 2026b bond issue for the improvement projects as identified in our capital improvement plan. Included in your packet is an ordinance

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authorizing the issuance of the bonds in an amount not to exceed $8.6 million to fund these proposed projects. Uh just a quick timeline, June 15th is uh slated to be the public hearing. July 20th would be the bond sale, the award of the bids. August 13th would be the estimated

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receipt of proceeds and also included in your packet is the full schedule of events along with the proposed distribution list. At this time, staff would be happy to answer any questions. Council members >> propose a motion to set a public hearing

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on ordinance authorizing the issuance of general obligation approvement of bait utility bond series 2026B for Monday June 15 2026. >> Second have a motion and a second. Any further conversation? >> Roll call.

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>> Council member Butterfield. Hi >> Osc. >> Hi >> Faggerly. >> Hi >> Sheldis. >> Hi >> Gardner. >> Hi >> Nelson. >> Hi >> Gilbertson. >> Hi >> and Davis. >> I. >> Eight eyes's zero nos.

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>> The motion passes and that public hearing is set. Administrator Valiant interim planning director. >> Good evening council. Tonight, um, I'd like to, uh, offer Chris Frank, our city planner, as to be our interim planning

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director, uh, effective June 1st, the day that Christopher Corbett will be, uh, officially redone with the city of, uh, Wilmer here. So, in during this time, Mr. Frank has been with us for two and a half years and has been learning the department and has participated with

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the Wilmer comp with Wilmer comprehensive plan the bike and pedestrian trail plan safe streets for all and his experience and familiarity with the whole department I believe will continue providing us uh stable leadership and maintaining the

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continuing can you can't even say it tonight during the transition period >> understood Council members, >> make a motion to uh appoint city planner Chris Frank as the interim planning director.

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>> Second, >> any conversations? >> Roll call. >> Council member Butterfield. >> I >> Gardner. >> I >> should. >> Hi. >> O. >> Hi. >> Gilbertson. >> Hi. >> Davis. >> Hi. >> Beerly. >> Hi.

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>> And Nelson. >> I. Eight eyes, zero nos. >> The motion passes. And administrator Valiant, you're next on the agenda as well. >> Yes. So, um I had announced my retirement and so uh the mayor had put

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together an ad hoc hiring team and we have met to establish the hiring processes uh for the administration. Um we discussed either recruiting or otherwise doing this in-house. It has the recommendation is to um have this

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process inhouse and through our HR department will be the lead on it and uh applications will be accepted up to about 3 weeks and um open for uh all to apply and the compensation will remain

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the same from 137 to 182 respectfully. And then um um let's see here. That's about it. Job description will remain the same as it was uh in 2021 >> and the timeline is about 6 weeks.

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>> My apologies. Thank you. >> Sorry about that. >> Council, any questions for administrator Valiant or looking for a motion otherwise? >> Make that motion. >> Second. >> Have a motion and a second. further

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conversation. >> When do we anticipate Oh, >> go ahead, Council Member Gardner. >> When do we anticipate posting the position? >> Tomorrow. >> We're going to take six weeks to hire. So, we're going to have two administrators for six weeks. >> Three weeks.

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Three weeks appro three weeks for the advertisement to be out and then at least a week to go through the applications and review them. call then the uh applicants in for for um interviews

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and then more than likely they you know if they have to give notice it could be a month. >> Okay. >> After that after interviews >> how much did we budget for having two

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administrators on it during the course of the year? We didn't budget. >> Okay. We'll have to make that up somewhere. >> I wasn't on the ad hoc committee. So, what did you guys talk about on the ad hoc committee

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as far as timeline for hire and how much overlap there would be? It's at least four months based on that math. So, at $132,000, that's $45ish,000

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we have to come up with in the budget somewhere plus benefits in retirement. I don't know. I'm just asking a question. I mean, it to me it seems like a logical question. Why do I got to be the bad guy to ask questions? I don't want to be the bad guy all the time. Administrator Valiant, had you

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considered the timeline and the concerns voiced by council member Gardner? >> No, because typically you do have an overlap of your city administrator for at least close to six months. >> Six months would be the standard.

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>> Have no further questions. All right. Thank you. >> Six months seems to be a long period of time. I've never heard of that. The city of Wilmer. >> Well, I I can't. >> One more. >> The city administrator. I don't know if

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we've had any city administrator overlap in the city of Wilmer over the last 10 years. >> There's the punch line for the night. >> I mean, I didn't have anybody either in the seat when I started. >> Go ahead, Council. a better feeling. >> So, could we kind of push us in practice

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back maybe before we start advertising? One, two months, get a little bit closer to the start line. >> You certainly can. This is just Yes, you can decide whenever you want to start the hiring process. This would just be

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the layout of the process. I think that would uh help out with their budget a little bit more since we didn't budget for it. I think we still got plenty of time and we got we're only in Maine. So I think you know we started

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looking in July, >> I believe. Go ahead, Council Member Gilbertson. uh just looking at the success rate of uh hiring folks in different positions throughout the the uh community. Um I think it makes a lot

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of sense to start the process earlier, make sure we have good quality candidates coming forward and then we can make that decision on when their start date ultimately is. Uh versus saying, "Hey, we've we've been gifted this uh notice

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by our current uh city administrator at this point in time. So, I would say let's take advantage of it versus uh kick it down the road. So, let's just get let's get going. >> So, I believe we have a motion on the table from council member Gilbertson which would propose the original timeline as outlined in your council

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packet. Correct. >> I don't think I have a time when it was going to be posted. >> Okay. But you were going so >> if if the count if >> through >> it was planning but if you want to delay the posting we can delay the posting. >> Okay.

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>> This is just discussion. >> I'm going to assume that delaying the posting would take an amendment to the motion. >> I don't think there's a motion. >> I don't think there is a motion to make timeline motion to accept this.

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City Attorney Arnison, are you familiar with uh the attachment here that we're discussing? >> I'm I'm not familiar, but if there's a motion, then um you would need to uh either pass the motion and then amend after the fact. >> Okay. Pass or of course deny the motion.

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>> Okay. So, your your legal advice would be to to vote on the motion in question moving forward with what's outlined in the council packet and then have a conversation about timeline. Yes. Okay. All right. Any further conversation about

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the administration uh hiring process? >> Roll call. >> Council member Nelson. >> I. >> Faggerly. >> No. >> Butterfield. >> I. >> Davis. >> Hi. >> Gilbertson. >> Hi.

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>> Gardner. >> Hi. >> Shelz. >> Hi. >> Nosk. I. >> Seven eyes, one no. >> All right, that passes. Now, timeline conversation. >> Council member Butterfield is proposing that we delay the posting of the

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position for one month. >> One, two months. You know, council member Gardner brought up, you know, very good point. You know, we didn't budget for this. Where are we going to take it from? We going to take kids? We're going to take it from police department. We're going to take it from fire hall. You know, there's a lot lot

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to doing in this and I think once we get out there and get it posted, there's going to be people applying for for the job, you know, and I don't think it's going to be that hard. I imagine, you know, there's going to be a few local people probably, too. We had a few local people last time that there might

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be some of them reaching back out for it. So, I'm not too concerned we won't find anybody for this position, you know, too much quicker than putting it back two months. It's this is really not kicking the can down the road. We know it's going to happen. We

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know it will take place. >> Member Schultz. I guess I would argue that why not open it right away and then because we've seen it in the past where okay, we go through the process, we make an offer and then they back out. Uh we make an

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offer and they back out and and now it takes 6 months down the you know so let's get the process started. We can we can say a start date as late as we want. Um, so I I guess I would be in favor of

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starting the process tomorrow and then we can work out the start start date later. I agree the the budget is tight. We don't have $45,000 laying around. Uh, right now it's going to have to come from

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somewhere. So, we need to be mindful of that. Um, but I think the sooner we start the process, the better off we're going to be um, in the long run. >> Other conversation. Council member Nelson, >> I I think it's really important that we

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find the right person and so the time frame to me isn't as important as making sure that we find good candidates and that we um, select um, someone that's good for our city. So, Anyone willing to make a motion?

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>> We need a motion. >> I'll make that motion. >> I don't know. I thought he said we needed a motion. >> Maybe we don't need a motion. When when do you want our staff to post the position, though? I think there's enough conversation at the council table that

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if I was the administrator, I would have no idea what I'm supposed to do tomorrow morning. >> Please. That would be nice. >> Council member Nelson. >> I'm sorry, Davis. >> I think if we're not going to pick a day, we don't need a motion, right? >> Correct. The document says the job

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posting will remain open for approximately three weeks of the final application deadline set by the city council. So whatever she needs us to tell her a date so then she can set the final application deadline 3 weeks later. Right.

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>> So I will make a motion that we set the application opening date at June 1st closing on the 21st. >> Second. >> Further conversation. Roll call. Council member Butterfield. >> Hi

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>> Davis. >> Hi. >> Nelson. >> Hi >> Gilbertson. >> Nope. >> Gardner. >> Hi. >> O. >> Hi. >> Baggerly. >> Hi. >> And shoulders. >> Hi.

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>> Seven eyes. One. No. >> Thank you very much. Um, unless there's an objection from the council, I'm going to ask that we do announcements before the close session. Um, and I just wanted to to thank

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Director Corbett. Christopher, thank you for your service to this community. Um, it's been a breath of fresh air to have you on staff. Um, the strategic planning that you have done in the relatively short time that you have been here will be a benefit to this community for for

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decades to come. And so, thank you for all of your hard work. uh is so deeply appreciated. >> You're welcome. And it's been a pleasure. So, I wish the city much success and this isn't an easy decision to make, but I'm leaving a community

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that I fond of and made connections and friends here. Most importantly, the work and I owe it all to the seven members of the department. Thank you, >> council. Other announcements, comments? All right. Um, the following portion of

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the meeting will be closed pursuant to Minnesota statute 13D subsection u section 5 subsection 3C to develop or consider offers or counter offers for the city's purchase or sale of real or personal property. legal basis for this

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for closing the meeting of the city council will be um pursuant to Minnesota statute section 13D5 subsection 3C the council may be asked to take formal action after concluding the discussions in a closed session the following real

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property will be discussed separately in the closed session partial candy county parcel ID 959175510 I will now look for a motion to close the So moved. >> Second. >> Third.

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>> All right.