Call the council session to order to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, and justice for all. Uh we'll start out with the uh consent
agenda. Thank you very much. Uh items listed below are considered routine and non-controversial by the city. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless requested by a council member, staff, or citizen. If removed, the item will be discussed at the end of the regular
agenda. Item A, approval of minutes. Approve the minutes of the city council regular meeting October 7th, 2025. Item B, Winston Municipal Airport snow removal equipment delivery. Authorize a payment on delivery in the amount of
$371,746.33 for the for the delivery of a John Deere 544P loader for the Winston Municipal Airport on October 22nd, 2025 to be reimbursed according to the state grant agreement for snow removal equipment uh
acquisition with the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Office of Aeronautics. Item C, performance review. City administrator, schedule a special closed city council meeting for Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
at 5:00 p.m. in the Lewis room at Winstead City Hall to conduct an annual performance review for Mr. Neil Schlaggel, city administrator. Item D, resolution R-25-40, Winstead List Prairie Police Department
donation. Adopt a resolution R-25-40 accepting a donation from Prize Financial on behalf of Ivonne Kramer to be dedicated to the Winstead Leester Prairie Police Department fund. Item E, resolution R-25-41,
Winstead Volunteer Fire Department donation. Adopt resolution R-25-41 accepting a donation from Amer Prize Financial on behalf of Ivon Kramer to be dedicated to the Winstead Volunteer Fire Department Capital Improvement Fund.
Item F, resolution R-25-42, Winstead Volunteer Fire Department donation. Adopt resolution R-25-42 accepting donations from various donors to be dedicated to the Winstead Volunteer Fire Department capital
improvement plan uh fund. Um item G, grant award, Compier Financial Emergency Response Equipment Regional Collaboration Grant. accept a grant award from Compure Financial Fund for
Rural America in the amount of $9,571 to be dedicated toward the capital improvement fund to support the activities of the Winston Volunteer Fire Department and Mloud County Technical Rescue Unit as outlined in the submitted grant application.
Item H, health insurance renewal, Southwest Central Service Cooperative. Authorize the city administrator uh to initiate the renewal process with the Southwest Central Service Cooperative and Medicica to provide health insurance
coverage for uh the city of Winstead employees for the policy beginning January 1, 2026. Item I, ancilliary insurance renewal. The Hartford uh authorizes the city to administrator to initiate the renewal process with the
Hartford to provide ancillary easy for me to say insurance coverage excluding short-term disability coverage for uh for city of Winston employees for the policy beginning January 1, 2026. Uh paid family medical leave and silary
insurance coverage. The Hartford should have it down by the end of this. Uh, authorize a city administrator to initiate a policy with the Hartford to provide paid family medical leave and sillerary insurance coverage for City of Winston employees for a policy beginning
January 1, 2026. Um, item K, Security Bank and Trust Company pledge securities. Approve the pledge securities that security bank and trust company has purchased for the city of Winston for the month of September 2025.
Item I, uh, building permit report, uh, pardon me. Item L, building permit report September 2025. Approve the building permit report for the month of September 2025. Item M, financial report, August 2025.
approve the financial report for the month of August 2025. Item N, claims, approve the claims list for October uh 21st, 2025. And then item O, uh, economic development authority
resignation, Jacob Schlaggel, accept the resignation of Jacob Schlaggel from the Economic Development Authority effective October 20th, 2025. That's the consent agenda. Uh, I would entertain a motion. >> You want to rest?
>> I'll take a deep breath. >> Motion from voting on item. >> We have a motion. Is there a second? >> I'll second. Any further discussion? >> That's probably a good thing. >> All in favor? >> I.
>> Motion carries. No public hearings. Uh, no. No old business. Uh, new business. Item A, emergency tree services. Silverberg Tree Service and Broy Farms.
>> Thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council. Um, I can't even remember when the storms were. I guess July 28th, the week of July 28th. And um, we had a bunch of trees go down in town. So, some extra services that we needed uh including in
our parks and boulevard trees. So, we just got these bills now and uh I'm going to ask Chris to come up and talk about everything else. So, I'll have him talk on this as well. Mr. Bar, I should say.
Thanks, Neil. Neil, uh, mayor and the council. So, the week of this, uh, the storms when they came in, we had Zach Zelberg did, uh, a bunch of trimming for us. We had a lot of tree branches broke off that were hanging. Uh, boulevard trees. We had a bunch of park trees that
were also taken out in the storm. And then we also had uh um Craig Broie uh do the stump grinding of the stumps, ground them up. Uh and then we will we uh filled them all in and seated them.
That was for that storm. >> How about the stump grinding along the sidewalks that have been replaced or repaired? >> That was going to be done last week. Last week we were flushing hydrants. So this week, uh we got black dirt
yesterday. So we'll get that addressed this week. >> Okay. Um, is there a motion for this? >> A motion to authorize a payment of to Soulberg Tree Service for an amount not
to exceed $10,200 for emergency tree services related to storm damage sustained in the city of Winstead during the week of July 28th, 2025. Then you want to make it one motion. >> One one motion.
>> Okay. And then I'll motion to authorize a payment to Broy Farms for an amount not to exceed $450 for emergency tree services related to storm damage sustained in the city of Winstead during the week of July 28th,
2025. >> We have a motion. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> We have a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? All in favor? I >> I motion carries. Uh item B, plan service agreement and HVAC Tracker
Schwicker Hecta America LLC. And >> I can just defer to Chris right away on this one. >> Uh so for that on the the maintenance on the filters, there were there were two different filters to put in. Um >> one, >> huh?
>> On the boiler and the track or that one first? >> Oh, for the maintenance kit. Yep. For the addendum to the contract. Yeah, that's fine. >> Yeah. Um on both those boilers in the years past service, we had we had a
maintenance kit. They they just provided it when the unit went down. They never had it on hand. So then we'd be down a boiler for 2 three days for them to come out and then buy the maintenance kit and have them install it. So it was a at least a three-day process for them to do
that. with the maintenance kit that they want to provide just every year they'll have it. They'll come out, they'll change it, so you're never will never be down down a boiler. Um so they'll put a new flame rod in a new sensor. Um
there's another heat thing they're going to put in heat sensor. So that was part of the the maintenance kit that they they're going to provide >> and that needs to be done annually. It's recommended annually. That way it's
running at its peak performance. >> And this is in addition to the service agreement we have already. >> Yes. >> Okay. What's that cost? I didn't see it in >> 1737 I think.
>> 1700. >> $1,800. Okay. >> I guess my only question is why didn't they put this in as part of the package before? And I think that's a that's a fair question because that's the same one that I had. I don't know if they just
missed it or or if we did discuss it and decided not to for some reason. I don't remember that. >> I don't Yeah. Okay. >> So, it's $1,730 per kit. >> Okay. Once a year.
>> Once a year. Yep. >> And what was Do you remember what our initial like savings going to these guys were again? >> Oh, it was roughly um close to 10 grand. >> All right. Uh would anyone like to make a motion?
I'll make a motion to authorize the city administrator to execute an addendum to the planned service agreement and HVAC tracker with Schwicker's Tecta America LLC to provide two Fulton boiler maintenance kits, one for each Fulton boiler on site at city hall. Have a
motion. Is there a second? >> A second. >> I have a second. Is there any other discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Motion carries. Item C, filters. Swicker Techa America LLC. >> All right. Now, the filters.
>> Now we're on filters. Yeah. >> I feel like we've already talked about >> the filters. >> Yeah. >> There were two different filters. Um, with the I the MV ratings, which which is taking out the the bad air and giving
the good air. Uh, the one filter was just your basic standard filter was I think it was $1,000 and the other better filter, the super whatever it was called >> Superflow. >> Superflow was $1,300.
Um, that filter is got a two to three year lifespan if not a little longer. Where your basic filter they recommend on that one, it's they've been changing them out every year. So, with this better one, it's going to last. It'll last, you know, you'll get double, if
not triple the life expectancy out of it. And it'll make the And they say it'll make the boiler run more efficient with the air flow is how we explained it. >> So, it should pay for itself. >> Correct.
>> It will pay. I mean, yes. So, real quick before we uh go to a vote on this, a couple things on the air system right now and what we have found out since they've explored and we've had that one that was down that were not running at full capacity for our air conditioning
system and never have. So, there's some piping that's missing and wiring and things that if we want it to run like the system was designed, we'll have to put in a little bit more work. I don't have that quote yet or did you get that one yet?
>> No. Um, Thursday Chris is going to come out and sit down and go over that. >> Um, >> is that going to change these filters? >> No. >> No. >> No, it won't change these filters, but I just wanted you to be aware of the
ongoing saga of our air conditioning/ boiler unit here at this building. >> Did that cause the old unit to burn out because it was working harder than it needed to? >> It could have. Yeah. I don't know that it it did that, but what they're saying is it's really pushing our units. Well,
part of that is right, we've had one down at a time, so it's trying to cool almost the whole building, but the other piece is it like the the wiring or not basically the way it was explained to me, which I don't know, not an expert,
but we're not recycling the air like we should be. So, it's making the unit work harder. >> Yeah. And we're, you know, it's we're not getting our capacity out of what we're how we're running the units. It's Yeah. Just not reaching full
capacity. >> I don't know. Anytime I was in the building this summer, it seemed fine. >> Yeah. Sure. Is that why you never came? >> Uh um anything else on that, Neil? Uh >> no. No. Sorry to hijack that.
>> Um entertain a motion for that. So before we vote on this, 100% they're not going to have to change some filtration system on this after doing that work. >> Well, as far as I know,
>> doing that work, if if they if the council if we decide to change that piping size to make it run to its original thing, no, nothing we'll have to change with the filter system. >> I just wouldn't want to spend the $2,600 if they're going to be after that, >> right?
>> Okay. All right. Um, I'll make the motion then uh consider a motion to authorize city administrator to execute quotations to replace the bag filters for carrier AHU1 and 2 with superflow v dual headers for
a cost not to exceed 2660. >> Have a motion. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Any additional discussion? All in favor? I >> motion carries. Um come to the open forum part of our meeting. Is there we
have a citizen that would like to >> Mr. Mayor, members of council, I know I mentioned this last meeting, but I just want to mention again because November 1st is coming. Uh there is no parking on the city streets between 2 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. Uh starting November 1st, we do allow permission to park on the streets.
Um you know, granted there's not a snowstorm. We just ask you call the police department at 320485260 and it's not an issue. Um we just ask for your cooperation so the the streets can be plowed. Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Thanks. >> Uh city administrator update and
announcement. >> No, just city staff's continuing work on budgeting and uh we'll have the truth and taxation hearing on December 2nd. >> Thank you. Uh Tom, do you have anything? >> Um I have a question. When we get
donations like to the fire department and police department, do we send thank yous? >> Troy does, I believe. >> Oh, does the police department? >> You have. Okay, good. That's it, >> Matt. >> Nope. Nothing.
>> Jesse, no, sir. >> I will have one more. I guess the um Winston Chamber Halloween event will be coming up on Friday. So, is it this Friday? This Friday. >> Yeah, this Friday. It's Friday. So, >> what do you dress? >> Lots of kids around and
>> plus size model. >> All right. Um, entertaining a a motion to adjurnn. >> I'll make a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. Yeah. All >> in favor? I We're adjourned.
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