call IM me to order ask you to join us Pledge of Allegiance I pled Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for
all tonight's consent agenda consists of the following items item a approve the minutes of the city council work session April 2nd city council regular meeting April 2nd Item B oper authorized the mayor to execute the annual letter of
adjustment with an increase of 4.1% to the operation and maintenance agreement with people Service Incorporated effect of May 1st 2024 for the operations and maintenance at the wastewater treatment facility item C authorized the city administrator to execute an agreement
with solberg's tree service and trimming for trimming and brush removal in the City of Winston for an amount not to exceed $144,000 item D authorized a mayor to execute a land lease with barnick Farm LLC to farm approximately 5.33 acres of
land at adjacent to the Waste Water treatment facility the amount of 1,66 $1,066 and expiring December 31st 2024 item e approve a 1 to 4 day temporary on sale liquor license for the
Church of the Holy Trinity windstock Country Music Festival scheduled for June 13 14 15 and 16 at the windstock ground rounds at 230 Street 230th Street winesday item F declare a Poseidon
Compressor model number p135 as Surplus equipment and eligible for sale or donation as recommended by the fire chief and authorized the city administrator to determine the process and best method for sale or donation of the of the equipment item G appoint Mr
Kent Landon to the position of seasonal parttime breast site monitor for the period of April 17th this year through October 17th of this year item H approve the pledge Securities that Security Bank and Trust company has purchased for the city of Winstead for the month of March
2024 item I approved the building permit report for the month of March 2024 item J approves the financial report for the month of February 2024 item K approved the claims list for April 16th 2024 I
L authorized the mayor and City administrator to execute a development agreement with winad leasing housing LLC where developer installed improvements and securities relating to Grass Lake Farm Third Edition in Winston Minnesota item M authorized the mayor and city
clerk treasury to to execute a settlement agreements relating to a lift station failure in the city of Winstead item n authorize the city administrator to execute a quotation from quality flow systems to the purchase and installation of worldwide Motors 25 horsepower motor
at the wastewater treatment facility for an amount not to exceed $ 5,489 item o adopt resolution d-24 D13 accepting the resignation and declaring a council member vacancy effective April 16 2024 that's the uh consent agenda
looking for a motion Mr Mayor a motion the consent agenda approved as presented and I abstain from voting on item 8 we have a motion do we have a second a second motion a second all in favor I
opposed meeting meeting I did have I had one question on one of the items the the tree trimming are we trimming a lot more trees this year that seems to be from recollection a lot higher than last year yeah it is it's uh th higher and yes is
the answer we are trimming more trees correct trimming slash cutting down completely so each year we can expect honestly for that to go up a little bit because of ash trees ash
trees yeah so that's coming in part of that with that we'll move on to the current adjusta it's the Winston municipal airport andd no removal equipment um bid results and award recommendations new he thank you
uh yes this is something that's been working on since I've started here I guess and now we're finally getting closer to fruition here we were able to Chris and I were able to uh visit the bid opening and the two bids that we expected to come in came in they came in
at the the budgeted that we had on and I'm going to turn it over to Josh from Bolton mink to talk a little bit more in the details thanks uh Mr Mayor members of the council we did receive uh one quote um for each of
the selected alternatives for the snow removal acquisition uh project the bid alternate number one for the wheel loader and Wing plow um the quote was or bid was received from RDO Equipment
Company um in the amount of $371,000 74633 bit alternate number two for the snow blower attachment uh that was received by McQueen equipment LLC for the amount of $210,300
we did review uh the proposals that were submitted and what mathematical errors were encountered um we do consider both quotes responsive and responsible um this project is largely funded through FAA uh Federal entitle
entitlement funds um with respect to just the two quotes um the fa is picking up 90% of the Cost U mad is picking up 5% of the cost and the local share is an additional 5% um so the local share of
just the equipment cost is $29,100 44 um kind of next steps in this process we'll be working with the both suppliers to um to get their type 3 waiver um for the bamerican um information that we have to received from them you recall we
had a little bit of an issue with that process uh the last go around so we're going to try that again um and see if we can get that to to go through this time and then once we receive that waiver U we'll submit the FAA Grant application
and kind of keep moving the the process forward um so with that we do recommend that the city accept bid alternate number one from Rdio equipment company and bid alternate number two from mqueen equipment company um for the snow
removal acquisition uh project in the total amount of $82,400 any questions is a reason for more optimism this time around more optimism I would
say that's correct yeah you want to know what the reason was um partially there have been other cities that have been successful in this with getting this particular machine um
and with a A change in maybe FAA leadership and and different pieces that we do have a a different or better chance of getting it this time but there is the optimism I did want to add in there that we will be most likely selling our current snowblower then
which will offset that local share by about $20,000 is the remainder of the airport have funding available for that the airport itself does yeah okay so we're not taking it from general or anything like that no we should be good
there any other questions if not I'm looking for a motion and make a motion to approve a bid for the purchase of snow removal equipment contingent upon final execution of Federal Aviation Administration and Minnesota Department of Transport ation office of Aeronautics
grant funding documents we have a motion do we have a second a second we have a motion a second all in favor I opposed motion carried thanks Josh we've come to the organization report tonight and that's
the Winston Lake water shed Association Gary you're up okay an update of what we've been doing uh several months ago uh we had a meeting with uh folks from The Soil and Water Conservation District uh from
McLoud County along with I I believe Josh you were there or somebody from Bolton bank was there and uh and our membership and uh uh there have been many projects going on out in the waters shed by The Soil and Water Conservation
people um you know to mitigate erosion problems uh clean up uh problems with erosion in the uh in the ditch coming into winad Lake uh I think we reviewed the U uh the city improved in a uh
retention Pond up on the North side of town uh so we went through some of that stuff we also discussed uh things that perhaps we could do as an association to uh cooperate with the city and the soil conservation people and whoever to
improve water quality and uh you know other benefits to our Lake which is at the bottom of a watershed uh one of the recommendations that came out of that by the soil conservation people they said you guys should probably put together a comprehensive Lake plan and we have in
the past done studies and uh put together plans fiveyear plans you know we just like everybody we do a fiveyear plan so we are uh going to have a guest speaker at our G June meeting uh fellow by the name of uh Mr Ken Sears from
starlake uh they had uh purched such a plan and he will be down giving his honest opinion to anybody that wants to come uh obviously I think several of you are perhaps members of the Lake Association but it it's open to the
public and so he will uh you know he'll tell us his uh you know because it's it's a fair amount of money to get one of these plans done so after that the uh membership asked me then after Mr Sears gives us his you know neutral opinion I
guess then we will entertain having uh uh Representatives come in from a Bolton M has a limnologist a limnologist is somebody that studies lakes and and has expertise in that uh from Bolton M and
also there's a company out of St Cloud that does it and then we will determine if we're going to proceed uh you know what we're going to do after that but so we're kind of in the fact finding mode with regards to that but I I feel what we will probably do some sort of a plan
upgrade consolidate all the information that has been going on for the last oh four or five decades at least you fish reports from the DNR when they come out and do test nettings uh uh water quality reports things of that nature uh so
that's that's one of the projects we have going on our most current project now that the es out is uh uh Eric Katen Meer from the Department of Natural Resources came out and surveyed Winston Lake for the invasive species called
Curly leaf pondweed and we've got lots of it and uh this winter in particular would have been tough for curly Leaf because there was no very little ice cover uh very little snow cover on the ice and curly Leaf grows over the winter
months kind of the opposite of what our native species do so uh the reports came back and we are going to be working with a uh company to uh treat Our Lake chemically with a with a chemical called
aquathol a if I remember correctly uh we we have to use a uh this chemical specified by the DNR because we have walleye fry in our Lake and the other chemicals which are a lot cheaper you'll you know or harm the fish
so that will be our intent to treat for curly Leaf I'm waiting to get a map back from Eric uh designating the places that he will allow us to treat we have a firm lined up to come and dose the lake with aquathol and so that we'll be doing that
uh this spring hopefully before the end of May because we have to get in and put that chemical in while the water temperatures are low and the uh non-invasive species are still kind of dormant uh good news with regard to the lake this year we had one dead fish that I
know of it's a carp Lane on the uh Spillway out there uh it may have died in natural causes I don't know I some of the members are saying people are out with boats with lights shooting fish but it was a we had a good year for no fish kill which uh because the lake was open
much of the year and we did not run the ariation system either we have as you guys I think know or you folks as know we have an ariation system in our but we didn't turn it on this year we'll see how it goes next year uh we did rebuild
many of the thin ice warning signs and I think they're still in the in the city's possession probably in the maintenance shed we had a crew get together last fall and do that uh other things we have coming up we have a lake cleanup uh the first weekend in May uh where we work
with anybody that wants to come down and you know go around the lake pick up you know clean up the the lake and the public areas around here we usually get good cooperation from the girl and boy scouts and other civic-minded people uh
to do that and uh so that's uh oh and we have a plant sale coming up also I think that's the second weekend in May uh that helps you know we we do various things to raise money uh we have our annual plant sale we have uh we uh participate
in some of the Bingo uh operations you know to raise funds uh people have been very generous uh about uh including the Lake Association in their Estates so we've you know we've been given money by people have passed and want to see the
lake improve and and also I should be political here and thank the council for their cooperation over the last several years decades in trying to improve the lake and make it better so I guess that's a quick uh even though I'm an ex
politician and I like to talk but I mean I'll I'll uh I'll open it up do you have any questions of me um what about the oxygen level in the lake it was good last winter it was 15 which is very good uh typically during and that's why we run the aerators it'll get down to you
know four or five or something like that and at that point you know the fish can't survive so we uh and of course the function of the ariation is to actually open up surface area for the wave action to take the lake but if you remember this year at Christmas time I think the lake was maybe still even open I mean we
could we're usually out there the first week in December putting up the ice thin ice signs and all that stuff and this year we would have got wet you know because it was open most of the year and and also uh while Eric was uh checking for curly Leaf he said this is the uh
first year that he can remember of having the water this clear he was able to see down 6 and 1/2 ft with a device called a Suchi disc which is a round white disc disc with black triangles on it you drop it in and and so uh right now the lake is looking pretty good and
uh either there are a no fish in it or the ones you know we're pretty sure there are fish in there but that they survived so so we we came off of this pretty good but expect and you know unless we plan on treating for example the beach and and several of the onshore
areas because we're expecting a bumper crop of curly leaf pondweed and then that only last so long right yes the curly Leaf like I say is kind of out of phase with the N native species and so it it it grows over the winter months
and yeah if the light gets down there so when the when the ice goes out it takes off and it Peaks probably the first or second week of June then it dies and then it rots and then we get nutrients released into the water and then you get you know algae and stinky weeds and all
that kind of stuff so but uh we and we are only allowed we're only allowed to treat a certain percentage of the lake we're never allowed to spray the whole thing which would be very expensive but I mean you know so it's it's always there and
probably will be any other evasive species uh to our knowledge no I don't know of any mil foil you've all heard of the Eurasian mil foil which we don't have that and I don't think we have have
any of the the snails you know that uh although they're pretty good filter maybe they're in there filtering the water I know but the uh snails the uh that uh you know came in with I think in boat ballast up in Lake Superior or whatever it was and uh they take over
lakes and we are not aware of any of those or uh there is a invasive species of turtle uh I found last spring when I was going for one of my walks Turtle had a red Blaze on it cheek and it was by Len Cochran and I went and looked in the
records and like 10 years earlier they found a turtle that's where they put this it's I think it's from Georgia and uh so it was probably a pet that got released so you know Turtles being kind of easygo slow moving type of gritters that might be the one they found 10
years earlier we don't know but uh I don't I haven't seen any more since then but you know it was up in the up in the trail when I was walking uh the other day I saw posum and and a garter snake that's so that's the did you did you scream a little bit
with the snake I hate snakes I dislike them and you know our snakes aren't bad but uh well we have a classmate uh Tom and I have a classmate Ed H was riding his bike in Arizona he's seen three rattlesnakes and I told him I saw a garter snake you know but his are more
poisonous than ours so it's a oh you mentioned walleye fry so the DNR put yes they do they they stock it we they they are stocking our lake is what they tell us they stock it with you know walleye Bluegill Sunfish you know
you know crappies uh uh Northerns and is that because the environment is conducive to growth well yeah it's you know shallow Lakes are warmer and the fish grow faster as opposed to the northern Minnesota Lakes where they're colder and you know they grow a little slower and years ago quite a few years
ago if those of you that have institutional memory would remember all the ice houses we had out there most of them were spearing Northerns we had lots of big Northerns in the lake who used to feed on you know harp know carp fry and bullheads and uh and also a couple years
ago we had a a firm came in and they netted the lake for buffalo fish and carp and were throwing back any game Fish they're not allowed to take those and then they all them to Chicago and process them
into spam spam whatever I don't know what they do with them but uh so uh so that's but yeah no I didn't see like I say outside of that one dead fish I didn't see any dead ones come up I don't know if anybody else nobody's
reported them to us I saw one by the dam and that was it yeah that's the one I saw we should maybe go back and give it a proper wake and funeral that's true all right I'll maybe ask Justin if he's got any reports of dead carp around yeah
okay oh it's any other questions for Gary thank Youk yep see you guys oh hey you guys going to the chamber meeting down here if they ask an update would somebody tell them what I told you I have to haul your two sisters to the airport
that I'll take them all right thank you than we come to the open Forum section of the meeting if anybody wants to address the council step up to the podium state name and address okay uh then we've come to the uh City administrator update and
announcements Neil I just have a couple we have a uh road closure here for the Post Office rededication that'll be happening on April 24th I'm going to defer adjusting on the time of that do you remember hold until to
okay and then uh as we have had many calls compost will open tomorrow night and then be open on Wednesday nights and Saturdays through until the fall that's all I have yeah Tom do you have anything I do not yep I got a
couple questions is um Landon is that swanie that's Swan he's got a real name landine okay landine okay uh I do have a question about the compost site um could we consider keeping it open longer in the
spring and the fall uh you know maybe the first month of spring and the last month in Fall by longer you mean later or later in the days later in the day on Saturdays oh that way okay uh because Mr
landine seemed to indicate that we budget X and don't nearly pay him that amount so then I was wondering if we could keep it open longer cuz he seemed to be willing to do that well I'm not sure Swan's a department head or has my
budget yet but we will we can work through that I mean he he shared that one Saturday morning when I was dropping leaves off but the point being is it's awfully rushed in the fall of the year we got a three-hour window and uh and that just doesn't that's not adequate in my
opinion yes I will talk to Mr landine and we can we can take a look at that uh the other question I had when is the C cleanup day is that the first or 2 Saturday Saturday April
27th April 27th not in May okay okay thank you get your stuff together and that's at at was management at Waste Management okay thank you Jesse do you have anything uh no then I'll make a
motion tojin the meeting we have a second second a motion a second all in favor I opposed meeting ended