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We'll call the meeting of the Wilmer city council to order. Roll call. >> Mayor Reese here. >> Council member Osk >> here. >> Nelson >> here. >> Gilbertson >> here. >> Gardner [clears throat] >> here. >> Baggerly >> here. >> Davis

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>> here. >> Butterfield >> here. >> And >> here. >> Nine present, zero absent. >> Please stand for the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic

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for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all >> proposed additions or deletions to the agenda. >> Mr. Mayor, I would make a motion to approve an amended agenda adding um in

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front of 9A. So, this would be the new 9A. Just a quick sewer issue update from city staff. >> Second. >> We got a motion and a second. Any discussion? >> Roll call.

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>> Council member Butterfield. >> I. >> Nelson. >> I. >> Davis. >> I. >> Gilbertson. >> Hi. >> Gardner. >> Hi. >> Os. >> Hi. >> Shoulders. >> Hi. >> And Faggerley. >> Hi. >> Eight eyes. Zero nos.

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>> That motion passes. Next is the consent items to call on city clerk Verne Larson. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Council members, tonight for your approval, I have the city council minutes of July 20th, 2026. The Wilmer Municipal Utilities

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Commission minutes of July 27th, 2026 is a draft. The Human Rights Commission minutes of July 28th, 2026 is a draft. The Penock Lions Club lawful gambling application. the Candy Ohio County Feeasants Forever Lawful Gambling Application. Consideration to approve a

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two-year lease and advertising agreement with the Wilmer Warhawks for facility and ice usage at the Wilmer Civic Center. The airport snow removal equipment acceptance of federal grants and the accounts payable report of July 16th, 2026 through July 29th, 2026.

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>> Motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Second. Got a motion and a second. Discussion. Roll call. >> Council member Butterfield. >> I. >> Baggerly. >> Hi. >> Gardner. >> Hi.

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>> Gilbertson. >> Hi. >> Nelson. >> Hi. >> Davis. >> Hi. >> Shoulders. >> Hi. >> And Osk. >> I. >> Eight eyes's zero nos. >> Motion carries. >> Next is the open forum. And uh you get

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three minutes. and you need to state your name and address when you come up and speak into the mic. And next, first is Jill Benson. Hello.

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Wilmer is being blindsided again by the presence of a flock camera in town. Who ordered this? And where is it located? It is not a safeguard despite what they'll say uh in two weeks. But

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instead, it is a dystopian allseeing eye modering of people who are icearyy to their bones. Here flock could be used for immigration purposes

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and so uh a way I could find anyone anywhere whether they are correct or not. We need to eliminate our flock system. >> Thank you Jill. Next is Mary Joe Milner.

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Is that right? >> Yes. I'm bringing my support staff. Hi, my name is Mary Joe Molner. I live at 924th Street Southwest here in Wilmer. Um, and I have with me two of my neighbors. They've asked me to do the

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speaking. Mary Denbach and has wrote this um and feels uncomfortable reading. Sorry. Um, we're here to address the sewer backing up into our homes. This past week, on Friday, July 31st, around 3:30 in the morning, sewage began backing up

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into the basement, coming through the floor drain, shower, and toilet. At 3:00 a.m., I Mary had checked my sumps, and they were both dry. At 3:30, my alarm for the sump pumps went off. Water was pouring out of all three places. This

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continued till around 8:30 or 9:00 a.m. I ran three transfer pumps and both my sump pumps were running the entire time and still had standing sewer water. Not just water, sewer water. Um over half of my basement. Now I am

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removing carpet, drywall, studs, and more to be able to return my home to a livable space. I am here to make sure the city is aware of the issues and to ask what steps are being taken to resolve this problem as I'm currently being asked to pay about $9,000 for the

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fourth street improvements. For for that amount of money, I would like to know if these improvements will prevent future issues. If not, what is the city's plan? 5 in of rain in over seven hours should not create the issue like this. I am not

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alone in this street. Multiple homes on Fourth Street are dealing with the same problem. Many of them did not discover the water till much later and had even more damage to them. There's approximately 20 plus houses that had sewer 4 to 12 in

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>> sewer water in their basement. So, we'd like to know what your thoughts are. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next. Uh, Kore. >> Good evening, council. My name is Kore

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and I'm the community development officer with Southwest Initiative Foundation. Uh, this evening you have a room that is a little bit more full because we have a cohort here learning. Uh, they're here to observe on how uh, local government happens. And so I just

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wanted to make that aware that we are in the room sharing the space with you all. Thank you for having us. >> Thank you Kar >> Ian Berg. Okay. [sighs] Thank you, council. Uh my name is Ian Berg. Uh 2205 Fth Avenue.

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Um, okay. I Please let me uh draw a clear line here. I'm here to talk about flock and our uh flock cameras that are popping up everywhere in Wilmer. Um, privacy and hiding is not the same

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thing. They are not the same thing. Hiding requires a seeker. Um, flock cameras and automated license plate readers force every citizen into a state of being sought. cameras that automatically capture, catalog, and store this analyze data without cause is

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literally a Fourth Amendment violation, no matter how much the Flock CEO, Garrett Langley, says it's not. I'm here to formally request that you cancel the Flock contracts, ban future ALPR expansions, and restore our privacy because we are not hiding. Um, we are

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free and to restore the human judgment of our police force that it desperately needs. um what we as citizens need from you, the council, to know, is crime really going down? If that's the goal of

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these flat cameras, um a Forbes article from last year says it's not. In Dayton, Ohio, and Austin, Texas, and many other cities, uh Flock likes to claim that

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they uh that they decrease crime. in Dayton, Ohio. Flock has been saying that between 2018 and 2020, it has decreased crime by 43%. When Flock cameras didn't even get installed in Dayton, Ohio until March of 2020. Okay. Um, so that means

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the trend in Dayton was already going down. Flock does not get to take credit for that. Okay. Um, after that, Dayton decided to spend $830,000 on upgrading its current flock system.

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Okay. Uh that is an obnoxious spending of money for not knowing any actual hard data of evidence of what is appropriately feasible from these flock cameras, right? From these ALPR cameras.

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Uh so we need to know where our money is going. We need to know where these contracts are coming from and who is paying for it. I have not yet gotten my um I have not yet gotten my public records request yet back. Um, so I'll probably be back here next meeting with

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more information on that. Um, when it comes to police misuse, I have nothing to blame for our police department, but I have national stories of anywhere and everywhere police misusing Flock cameras, even though again Flock states

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that there are no unauthorized users or their users are not available. Um, okay. There's an EFF investigation for um for these flock cameras. Um EFF has investigated

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um abuse of flock cameras by police departments, by people who just happen to get access to a flock camera because there's also um there's also internetf facing flock cameras that don't even

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have passwords on them or encryption of any kind. So, >> I'm sorry your three minutes are up. >> Okay. So, with all of this, I'll make a final statement then. With all of this, there is AI in these block cameras,

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there is very high potential for police or anyone using these flot cameras to misuse them. And um and it is a fourth amendment violation that is well documented in the court documents. and I

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have a giant document to with links to prove it. So, please come and talk to me afterwards. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Ian. That's the last one in the open forum.

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Next is uh regular business. And Justin, you want to? >> Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Having visited with some members of the public earlier today, I I just would like um city staff to make a quick comment. Um Mr. box if you'd be up for doing that just so folks in Wilmer kind of know

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where things are at, what's happening. Um the city certainly heard the the complaints that from the sewer water and um just want the opportunity for the public to be aware. >> Sure. Thank you, Council Member Os. Thank you, mayor. Thank you, council. Um so, we're all aware that Wilmer

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experienced a heavy rain event uh Friday morning uh July 31st. Um what we're asking for uh individuals right now, property owners right now is to please give us your information. Um there's a couple of staff members in the room if you would want to raise your hand and

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before you leave this evening, make sure you uh get your contact information to us uh so we can follow up with you directly uh if you have already. uh what uh has been happening now is staff have been taking that information and it is being processed through our insurance

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carrier uh for you know through the claims process that way. So uh this is still being investigated. Um I there's some obvious things but we still want to go through forward with the investigation but we want to make sure we have your information so it can be filed and um processed the correct way

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through the insurance uh through our insurance uh company. Uh so before you do leave tonight, if you haven't already contacted the city, uh director Stefonic is in the back corner. Uh public works director. Make sure you uh connect with him or another staff member and and make sure you provide us with your contact

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information. >> Thank you, Mr. Bucks. >> All right. Next is the uh consideration of approval of ISP master services agreement. call operations director Kyle

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Box and Jonah [clears throat] Johnson, our information technology. Good evening, mayor. Good evening, council. [snorts] Uh before you this evening is a request to approve an internet service provider

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master services agreement uh with broadband MN, Zuma Internet, and Intellipop. Uh this agreement is one of the foundational operating documents for Wilmer Connect uh because it establishes the term under which each internet service provider may use the city-owned

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fiber network to provide retail service to resident residents and businesses. Wilwork Connect is structured as an open access network so that under that model the city owns the physical fiber infrastructure while multiple private internet providers compete for customers

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using that same network. The agreement is non-exclusive. It requires the city to provide qualified providers equal access without preferential treatment. The agreement also clearly separates responsibilities between the city, its network manager, and each ISP.

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The city through its designated network manager, Hometown Fiber, will be responsible for operating maintaining the physical fiber infrastructure. This includes the network operations center, fiber facilities, network monitoring, maintenance and repairs, customer connections and disconnections, and

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network documentation. The ISP will be responsible for the retail customer relationship. This includes setting their service plans and retailing price, providing internet connectivity, billing customers, uh responding to customer questions, providing technical support, and

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maintaining any ISP owned equipment located beyond the city's established point of demarcation. Providers must be capable of offering service packages with a minimum speed of at least 100x 100 uh megabits per second for download and upload. Uh each

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provider must also work with the uh yettobe established broadband commission to offer an affordable service option or another approved program intended to serve lower income households. Uh the agreement establishes service fees that will be paid by the ISP rather

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than being directly build by the city to individual customers. Um, additionally, charges may apply when an ISP requests services such as additional fiber rack space, wholesale internet capacity, static IP addresses, remote technical

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assistance, any dark fiber leases, splicing, or other network work. The agreement provides that fees are applied uniformly to all providers. The council retains the authority to adjust fees annually uh generally subject to a 10% annual limitation in at least 90 days

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advanced notice uh for the ISPs to make adjustments. A significant part of the agreement is exhibit A which establishes minimum customer service standards for every ISP operating on Wilmer Connect. These standards are intended to ensure that customer service receives

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reasonable and consistent levels of service regardless of which provider they select. Among the principal standards, an ISP must provide customer support, a customer support contact center available 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Offer telephone, email,

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and online support. Uh respond to emergency services within two hours. Complete standard installations within 10 business day when no special con construction is required and maintain at least a 99.5% service availability.

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The providers must also give advanced notice of scheduled maintenance, price changes, service plan changes, and potential disconnection for non-payment. They must provide payment methods, multiple payment methods, um, accurate bill accurately bill their customers,

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publish service and pricing information, protect customer information, and submit quarterly reports to the city and its network manager. The city uh will have the ability to monitor compliance through performance reports, customer complaints, uh audits, service testing,

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and other appropriate measures. Repeated failure to meet the standards may result in corrective action requirements. Financial penalties, suspension of new customer additions, or termination of the agreement. Any penalty imposed through the broadband commission may be appealed to the city council by the ISP.

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Uh the all the agreement also contains protections for the city's infrastructure and financial interest. An ISP may not alter or connect equipment to the network without prior approval. Uh each ISP must maintain the required insurance indemnity. Uh indemnify the city for claims arising

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from its operation. Um protect the network against leans, comply with cyber security and privacy requirements, and remain responsible for its employees, contractors, equipment, and customer services. Importantly, the agreement contains customer transition protections. Shall an ISP leave the

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network or have its agreement terminated, the city may assist affected customers in moving from uh moving to another participating provider. The departing ISP must cooperate with the transition so customers are not unnecessarily left without internet

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service. So, in summary, this agreement accomplishes four primary objectives. It establishes equal and non-exclusive access to the city's network. It clearly assigns operational and customer service responsibilities, creates a uniform fee structure, and provides enforceable

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service and consumer protection standards. Staff are recommending approval of this agreement uh with a motion to approve the Wilmer Connect ISP master service agreement and incorporated exhibits for broadband MN Zuma internet and Intellipop subject to the completion of the ISP specific

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information and any non-material administrative or legal corrections and authorize execution by the appropriate city officials. Mr. Mayor, I'll pause and stand for any questions. >> Any questions from anybody? >> [cough]

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>> I have some questions. Um, [clears throat] but I'll move to accept this before. >> Okay. >> Second. >> Motion and a second. Discussion. Go ahead, Tom. >> Um, a [clears throat] couple of items as I was uh looking through this. Uh, the

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first happened to be the um the terms and the length of term that uh each uh company or ISP uh has. Is there a reason why we have uh three-month quarterly terms rather than two, three, four, five years as this is a long-term piece of

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infrastructure? >> Yes, thank you, Council Member Gilbertson. Um the answer for that is um the tax exempt status with our bonds. Bond council had incorporated that language uh to ensure our bonds stays taxexempt. So in order to accomplish that, you um there cannot be I believe

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it's a 100 day maximum on contracts. Um so this is a way for us to ensure our bond stay tax exempt while ensuring um the long-term service uh with our ISPs. Um yes, it does give the city the authority to end the contract every 90

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days, but we all full well know that um inconsistency would not be a successful network. Uh so there is no intention to annually or quarterly review each of these contracts unless there is a specific reason to.

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>> Okay. Keep going. >> Sure. Okay. Uh the next one is um the cyber security incident reporting. Um [cough and clears throat] there's no specific time time frame outside of what the statute says. And so I was curious if uh uh you're looking at adding in a

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certain time requirement of when they need to report any type of uh cyber security incident. >> Yes. So specifically um as part of the agreement, the ISP acknowledges that ISP by virtue of this agreement is subject to the requirements of Minnesota statute

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that for reporting to cyber security incidents impacting the city. Um I think what there's an opportunity for us to u instill in our ISPs on the you know the necessary requirements not only reporting to the state but um that comes with our monitoring as well. I mean

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we'll we'll have eyes on um from a network standpoint not like a residential or business standpoint but we'll be able to see traffic on the network itself. Um, I don't know, Director Johnson, if there's anything that you want to add to that on the cyber security standpoint, but um, we'll make sure to have that in-depth

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conversation with all of our ISPs. >> Okay. On the, uh, timeliness of reporting. Um, and under the, uh, network vulnerability section [clears throat] 5.2 two of the

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appendix or the uh exhibit A. Um serving on the uh as the liaison for the Wilmer Municipal Utilities, they strive to have 59s, which is 99.999% >> power uh to all of the residents here in

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Wilmer. Um, looking at the network availability of 99.5, I guess I I'd like to see that higher if that's possible. Uh, because I know when I turn on my lights, I like to see my lights turn on. Um, which I think many people take for granted. U, but I also

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want to see when I um am connected to the internet that it is there and available as well. >> Yeah, absolutely. Uh, it's very important for us to ensure that the network is available. Again, as the document states, 99.5% of the time, um, excluding, you know, any unforeseen

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events, um, scheduled maintenance and stuff like anything along those lines. Uh, when it comes to maybe industry standards, I might have to lean more on technical staff, uh, to see what industry standards are, but these are numbers that the ISPs and the city is comfortable with at this point. Um,

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again, we'll continue to monitor this and um as part of the broadband commission's duties and um make any adjustments that we need to be nice to get a report to see how close to that 99.999% [clears throat]

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we can get to. So, knowing perfection is very difficult. We we'll strive for it. Absolutely. >> Um I think that was it. >> Thank you. Anybody else? Rick, >> thanks, Mr. Mayor. So, we have three

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ISPs that are ready to sign this >> correct. >> Okay. If there's additional ones, do do we add an addendum then to this contract or >> Council Member Fagerly, thank you for the question. Um, each ISP will receive the same contract. Um, so they are again

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non-exclusive. They're all treated the same uh same prices no matter what they want to bring in. So, with the three that are in the agenda tonight, we've uh or that are being requested for approval tonight. Uh we do have this contract out with other providers that are interested in looking. Um so, we'd be bringing back

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those actions if they choose choose to um be a part of the city's network. This would be a similar action in the future to approve those contracts. >> Thank you. >> Just to help the class that's here, internet service provider, ISP.

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>> Yeah. Sorry. >> So, um any further discussion? Steve? >> Uh thanks, Mr. Mayor. Director Box, uh inside the master service agreement, uh on paragraph 5.22,

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I believe it's in exhibit A. Um it requires the ISPs to maintain 75% of their listed bandwidth. Mhm. >> It seems like if most of us delivered threequarters of what we promise or what we sell to our customers, we'd fall

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short. Is that an industry standard or can you talk more about that? >> From what we have, thank you for the question, Council Member Gardner. Um, from other similar structured uh fiber networks, that is a number that we've seen in in a number of places. Uh, it does a couple of

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different things and again I I may rely on technical staff to correct me. Um, but it also prevents uh over uh putting in higherend equipment or higher speed equipment. Let's say you're going to sell uh a half a gigabit plan, but

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you're buying equipment for one gigabit. So, it's you're overloading our network. So, we want to make sure that there isn't that we can buy and prepare for the amount of information and switches that are coming in. Um but from a customer standpoint, yes, I I absolutely

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don't uh resignate and um don't disagree with you. Um you know, if that's a number we can look at changing, I'd be open to have absolutely open to have that conversation. I don't know if Jonah or uh Mr. Morhead from Hometown Fiber is here as well. Um if you if

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there's a comment you want to make on the network um or the bandwidth capacity. >> Yeah. So, um, the way I would look at it, uh, council is, uh,

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not everybody hits the internet full at the same time. Like you're not downloading a gig, everybody at the same time. So, the ISPs will stagger that out sometimes 100 to one, a thousand to one, depending on how much bandwidth they're

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bringing into town. um and depends on what customers they have and what their customer needs are. What we were saying or trying to put a frame on is that we don't want you to sell at 100 to one and a,000 to one, right? We want to make sure that you're

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at least bringing in 75% of what you're selling. So you can get the multiplier without it being too too extreme. So that that was kind of where that came in. But as uh Mr. Fox said u it also helps you uh plan for your

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infrastructure to know that hey they're going to be selling these services and so our back end needs to look at least to these capacities so we can optimize the the cost of building it out and still get the services to the public.

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>> Thank you. >> Uh one more question director box. Did I hear you correctly? If you said if any of these, let's say um pick one uh they they we they're rejected from their service agreement or they back out of their service agreement or it's not

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renewed or whatever. >> Did I hear you say that it's going to the city is going to take on the responsibility of relocating customers to another ISP? >> Assisting with that process. Yeah. So what it could look like um is uh the ISP would be responsible for providing us

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basic contact information, name and address. Um that can be communicated to those residents or those users um that here's your other in this case if there's two other options for us to be able to provide them uh information on

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selecting a new internet package. Technically, do we have the ability to make that switch for them? Yes. But we would not we would want to make sure the billing and the customer relationship between the ISP and the customer is is established. The only part we want to be

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able to ex or be able to uh we just want to be able to assist with that step but it would still be a private transaction from customer to business and then from business to customer from that from that point. >> Thank you >> Justin. >> Thank you Mr. Mayor. Uh Mr. Mr. Box, I

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think the we've been spending some time looking at that service quality standard section of the agreement. Can what are the consequences for failing to meet that? >> Yeah, so that is spelled out in the MSA and

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let me get to the starting point. >> Which section? >> Article six. >> Article six. All right. So in article six is the quality and performance and oversight. [snorts] Um so an ISP shall meet or exceed the customer service standards that are detailed in exhibit A to this

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agreement. These standards establish a minimum performance bench benchmark that all ISPs on the network must maintain to ensure the end user receives consistent highquality support regardless of which ISP they choose. um that describes which

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key elements are part of exhibit A. Um you know the city reserves the right as I had mentioned earlier to uh review and monitor ISB compliance within the customer service standards. Uh so if if we continue to fail on that side or if there's enough uh issue to bring up to

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the broadband commission, the broadband commission may impose penalties uh to the for the city to impose uh for failure to meet those performance standards uh and those customer service standards set forth in exhibit A. Uh so within the first occurrence would be a

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written warning. The second occurrence is a $1,000 penalty and a mandatory meeting with the city representatives. And a third occurrence would be a $5,000 penalty and potential suspension of new customer additions. Uh then it goes into dispute resolution. If our resolves uh

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if the issues cannot be resolved um dispute resolution to see if something mutually can be agreed to then I suppose at that point um we would be looking for legal counsel to help us beyond that. But there are initial steps built in. Okay.

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>> Anybody else? Roll call. >> Council member Gardner. >> Hi. >> Gilbertson. >> Hi. >> Butterfield. >> Hi. >> Davis. >> Hi. >> Baggerly. >> Hi. >> Sheld. >> Hi. >> Osk. >> Hi.

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>> And Nelson. >> Hi. >> Eight [clears throat] eyes. Zero nos. >> Motion carries. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, councel. >> All right. Uh, next is a public works salt shed roof and I'll call on public

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works director Shane Stefanic. Good evening, mayor and council. Um, here to talk to you guys about the public works salt shed roof. On June 28th, the storm passed through with wind gusts over 60 m an hour which caused a complete tear in the public works salt

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shed roof. um basically from end to end exposing our salt within the shed. Um we received a source well state contract from Greystone Construction in the amount of $37,350 and um we would like to um ask the

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council to accept this quote. Okay, >> we have a motion or Okay, we second. Motion and a second. Discussion. >> Rick. >> Thanks, Mr. Mayor. So, where is the money coming from then?

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>> Um Oh, yeah. My apologies. Um, it's coming from the insurance deductible line item, >> Tom. Oh, I'm sorry. >> I think he's done. [clears throat] >> When was this roof this roof put on place?

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>> 2013. Okay. Cuz we did something with them not too long ago, too. So, I just didn't know what roof it was. >> Um, yes. In uh 2022, I believe the back wall was replaced. >> Anybody else?

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>> Roll call. >> Council member Faggerly. >> Hi. >> Gilbertson. >> Hi. >> Nelson. >> Hi. [clears throat] >> O. >> Hi. >> Shelz. >> Hi. Davis. >> Hi. >> Butterfield. >> Hi. >> And Gardner. >> Hi. >> Eight eyes's zero nos.

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>> That carries. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Shane. Next is project number 2601A, change order number one. Call on city engineer Jared Vogi. Good evening, Mayor Council. Closing your packet this evening. as the mayor

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indicated is change order num number one for the fourth street improvement project. Uh this is a request that has been submitted to us from the Wilmer Municipal Utilities. Uh based on based on the configuration of their system near Wilmer Avenue and some of the

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struggles that they've been having with that system. Ultimately uh the project did not intend to enter Wilmer Avenue um but stopped the project limit short. They have requested that we replace some valving and piping within that intersection. So that is what is before

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you this evening. Um pricing was obtained from the contractor and the change order being presented to you this evening is in the amount of $57,588 and we are seeking council approval for that so that it can be incorporated into the project.

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>> Motion to approve change order number one. >> Second. >> We got a motion and a second. discussion. >> Uh, will will this result in any assessment increases for our neighbors on Fourth Street? >> No. >> Thank you.

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>> Um, will the utilities be paying any portion of this? >> They'll be paying 100%. >> Steve, >> thanks, Mr. Mayor. Uh, Mr. Vogi. Um, there's a couple lumpsum items in here. One of them is $10,000 for traffic

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control. Is that industry standard? >> Yes. As we're aware, the uh Wilmer Avenue is a highly traveled roadway and there's a significant amount of traffic control required for that. So, we did review all the pricing uh with the utility and we are in agreement with the

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pricing submitted. Thank you. >> Anybody else? >> Roll call. Council member Osk. >> Hi, >> Schultz. >> Hi, >> Davis. >> Hi, >> Gilbertson. >> Hi, >> Nelson. >> Hi, >> Gardner. >> I

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>> Waterfield >> I. >> And Faggerly, >> I. >> Eight eyes, zero nos. >> Motion carries. Thank you, J. >> Thanks, Mayor Councel. >> Next is Venson Avenue and Fifth Street Southwest Sanitary Sewer Repair Project.

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Call on public works director Shane Stefani. Short break. >> What's that? >> Give you a short break. >> Yeah, I appreciate that. That's good. Uh, good evening. Um, so between Benson Avenue and Lichfield Avenue on Fifth

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Street downtown, staff discovered a sanitary sewer line passing through a storm sewer. um while performing smoke testing. There was a break in the sanitary sewer line within the manhole resulting in sewage leaking into our storm water. Um a temporary repair has

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been since completed by sta by staff and the line is no longer leaking. A part of the permanent repair as part of the permanent repair, the sanitary um sewer line will be relocated so it no longer passes through or interfuse

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interferes with the storm sewer manhole. improving both reliability and the sanitary system, sewer system, and the integrity of the storm sewer infrastructure. We received two quotes for the project. One from Crow River

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Construction in the amount of $54,775 and Hoffman Construction in the amount of $37,279.50. Uh we recommend that we move forward with Hoffman Construction and the repairs will be paid for from the wastewater collections operating budget.

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And attached you can see a map of the um repair proposed repair. >> We have a motion. So move >> second. We got a motion and a second. Discussion. Roll call.

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Council member Gardner. >> Hi >> Nelson. >> Hi >> Shelz. >> Hi >> Osk. >> Hi >> Baggerly. >> Hi >> Davis. >> Hi >> Gilbertson. >> Hi. >> And Butterfield. >> Hi. >> Eight eyes's zero nos. >> That motion carries.

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Next is airport apron security lighting mindot capital funding award. I call on Shane Stefanica. >> Thank you. Um so operations at the airport are increasing particularly during early morning and evening for

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corporate travel. Additional security lighting on the apron is required to allow for safe fueling and access to the terminal building. The city requested funding from the mindot office of aeronautics and after the review of annual capital requests municipal airport was awarded $21,700

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for this project. The total estimated amount for this project would be 31,000 and Midot's contribution would cover 70% and the city would need to contribute 9,300 to cover the other 30%. Um,

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this is just a formality notifying the state of Minnesota that we're wanting to proceed with the project and I was hoping that we could pass this. What was the two amounts? >> Oh, um, so for the Mind Dots portion, it

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would be $21,700 and for the city's portion, it would be 9,300. >> Okay, we have a motion. >> Move to approve. >> Second.

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>> Here we have motion and a second. discussion, >> Rick. >> Who's going to be doing the work? You have to get bids. >> Yeah. Yes. This is just >> to get the funding. >> Mhm. This is just acknowledging to the state that we are still interested in

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pursuing this project. >> Steve, thanks, Mr. Mayor. Uh, Director Stanic, I don't know that it mentioned what's the funding source for this, and I'm going to I'll ask the same thing for FNG. So, >> Oh, >> what's the funding source of our portion for this project? >> Yep. So, um, we would be allocating that

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into the airport's budget. Correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Box. >> Um, Council Member Gardner, these would be capital improvements. Uh, this particular project has not yet been identified in our CIP. Um, we were not anticipating being so fortunate to get two out of the or three out of three

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grants with MDOT. Um, the opportunities in front of us, I think would be advantageous for the city to pursue it. uh whether it's through additional CIP levy dollars or um fund balance that the airport has as well. >> I appreciate it. Thank you.

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>> Any other questions? >> Roll call. >> Council member Gilbertson. >> Hi. >> Gardner. >> Hi. >> O. >> Hi. >> Shoulders. >> I [clears throat] >> Nelson. >> I >> Davis. >> I >> Baggerly. >> Hi.

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>> And Butterfield. I >> eight eyes, zero nos. [snorts] >> That motion carries. Next is the airport building water well sump or pump replacement MDOT capital

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funding award. >> Shane, you tell me what's going on there. >> I will. [laughter] So, the existing water well pump for the terminal building was originally installed in 2005 and is in need of replacement. This project will install a

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new pump to adequately maintain pressure to service the terminal building. The city requested funding from the mindot office and in their request, our request was approved for $18,200. Um the total estimated cost of the

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project is 26,000. So the 70% is the 18,200 from MDOT and the 30% will be 7,800 for or $7,800 for city and I believe this was in the 2027 CIP. [clears throat]

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>> We have a motion >> to approve. >> Second. [snorts] >> We got a motion and a second. Discussion. >> Rick. >> Thanks, Mr. Mayor. So, does the pressure tank need to be replaced too or just the pump? >> Uh, I believe it's just the pump.

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>> Thank you. >> Anybody else? Um, >> how much is in the CIP for it? Is it the full amount or just the 7,800 that was we were budgeting for in the future? >> Oh, um, I think Mr. Box is pulling that

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up. >> It's real close to this number. If not, we budget maybe just a hair more. 78 or the >> the local share only is what we would have budgeted for. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> We can verify that with you, Council Member Gilbert.

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>> Any other questions? >> Roll call. >> Council member Davis. >> Hi, >> Butterfield. >> Hi, >> Baggerly. >> Hi, >> Gardner. >> Hi, >> Schiz. >> Hi, >> Nelson.

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>> Hi, >> Os. >> Hi, [clears throat] >> and Gilbertson. I >> eight eyes, zero nos. >> That motion carries. Next, airport hanger access road construction mendot capital funding award. Shane.

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>> All right. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The airport now has four commercial hangers located off the main apron. Two of these hangers were constructed in the past 5 years. The existing parking lot does not extend far enough to serve the employees and the customers of the two new

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commercial hangers. This project would construct an access road to the hangers to allow the hangar owners to then construct private parking lots off of the road. The city requ the city's requested the funding from the mind office of aeronautics and in their

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annual review approved us for $21,950 which is a 70% match for a project total of $288,500. and the city will need to contribute $86,550 to meet the 30% match.

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Um, this is also scheduled in the 2027 CIP. I cannot confirm the total. >> Do we have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> We got a motion and a second. Discussion, Rick.

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>> So, we've had a lot of water issues out that way. Is this road going to be built up high enough and tiling so different flood? >> Can't confirm the tiling, but it will it will solve the water issue for the roadway. >> Okay. Just for that.

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>> Yep. Just that portion. >> Okay. >> Any further discussion? Roll call. >> Council member Schelers. >> Hi. >> Baggerly. >> Hi. >> Davis. >> Hi.

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>> Gardner. I >> Osc >> I >> Nelson >> I >> Gilbertson >> I >> and Butterfield >> I >> eight I's zero nos. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you Shane. >> Thank you.

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>> Next is uh need to set a budget work session. I'll call on Kyle. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh we are in the midst of our 2027 budget. staff are requesting um the council to schedule a

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budget work session Monday, August 31st, 6:30 p.m. located at the Rice Home Medical Building, 1,331 19th Avenue Southwest. And this would be an opportunity for staff to present the entire council uh

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with the uh potential or the um ahead of the preliminary budget on September 8th. >> So moved. >> Second. Got a motion and a second. Discussion. >> Roll call. >> Council member O. >> I.

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>> Davis. >> I. >> Told. >> Hi. [snorts] >> Butterfield. >> I. >> Baggerly. >> Hi. >> Nelson. >> Hi. >> Gardner. >> I. >> And Gilbertson. >> Hi. >> Eight eyes. Zero nos. >> Motion carries.

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Next is Wilmer Municipal Utilities Capital Facilities Tour. And Kyle, you want to tell us about it? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh for information only. Uh tonight, WU uh Wilmer Municipal Utilities will be conducting their

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annual capital facilities tour to review current and future projects. Uh this meeting is scheduled during one of their reg the commission's regular meetings August Monday August 24th at 11:45 p.m. this is uh wanting to extend that invitation uh to the council and some

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staff members to attend that meeting. So just for information tonight, Mr. Mayor. [cough] [clears throat] >> Yeah. Um, I'm wondering when we met with Wu jointly in this past year, it was discussed that meetings during the day don't work very well for the city

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council and that we had um WMU's commitment to try to make those more city council friendly or have conversations with the council about a time that would work for us. Um, clearly this is something that they're doing with their with the commission and that's part of their regular meeting. I

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so I understand that. Would would staff be willing to offer council members who work during the day an alternative time to go on that tour? Council member OS, I can absolutely uh get have that question answered for you.

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U general manager Smith and I have been um communicating. Uh we meet probably once a month here or twice a month uh just to discuss ongoing uh partnership between the city and the utilities and we are working on scheduling a joint session with the council and the

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utilities and during an evening meeting uh probably middle of this fall uh with some key agenda items that the utilities would like to discuss with the council. So we would be looking forward to a joint meeting um hopefully get that scheduled here in the next month.

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>> Okay. Thank you. That's great to hear. And again, if they could offer an alternative time for some of us, that would be great. >> Right. Thank you. Next, I'll call on city uh human resources director Alyssa

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Gamble for hiring recommendation. >> Thank you, Mayor and Council. Tonight you guys have an opportunity for the follow-up discussion from the Thursday interviews that you conducted for city administrators. So I invite the council

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to have whatever discussion you want to have about who you would like to recommend and then when you are ready uh the motion is there in your packet uh to make that hiring recommendation. What >> are you

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Tom? >> [snorts] >> I'll make a motion to uh have city work done with Kyle Box as being our next uh city administrator. >> Second. >> We got a motion in the second.

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>> Mr. Mayor. >> Yes. Go ahead. >> Thank you. Um I noticed that it asked us to designate um council members to negotiate with the candidate. Is that something that you would be looking for tonight as well? >> So the default would be the same group

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of people that were on that ad hoc committee that developed the hiring process unless the council would like to designate differently. >> That's what I was looking for. That's what I was reading. I didn't >> I had seen it earlier. >> Yeah. Yeah, those same designates unless

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you guys want to change that, which you absolutely can. >> I mean, before you said that, my thought would be um Mayor Reese and Council Member Gilbertson was going to be my suggestion. I don't know if we need quite so many to negotiate the details, but um I'm happy to move forward with

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the the ad hoc group. >> Audrey, >> who is the ad hoc group? >> That is Justin and Tom and Vicki >> and Vicki. >> I sit on I don't

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>> Yep. You just run things. >> Yes, Audrey. >> Do the three of them want to do that? >> Vicki is saying yes. >> Sure. >> I don't think they have a problem. >> Okay, good. Right.

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Yes, Justin. >> Just I just want to um voice my support for um Mr. Box in this position and um just say that the the years that he spent in his current position working with us have been just a tremendous blessing to the to the council, to the

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community. I appreciate your um ongoing professionalism. I appreciate your passion for the work of the city for your um the ways that you really try to I think um to serve the community and uh look forward to working with you into

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the future. I'll I'll echo that very professional and very indepth

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knowledge of especially the uh connect Wilmer. You've done a very good job and I look forward to working with you for the next few months. [laughter] All right. Roll call.

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>> Council member Gilbertson. >> Hi. >> OSK. >> I >> Nelson. >> I >> should >> I >> Butterfield. >> I >> Davis. >> I >> Gardner. >> I >> And Faggerly. >> Hi.

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>> Eight eyes, zero nos. That's >> eight. >> Thank [clears throat] you. Kyle, congratulations. All right, announcements. [snorts]

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Anybody? If not, we need a motion to adjourn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> We are journed.