Stand and join us in the pledge of allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. To the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. We'll go through the consent agenda. 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. Uh item A, approval of minutes. Uh city council work session July 15, 2025. City council regular meeting July 15, 2025. Item B, loose line state trail cooperative agreement, Sixth Street
Trail project. Authorize the mayor and city clerk treasurer to execute a loose line state trail cooperative agreement with the state of Minnesota for design services of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources portion of the six street trail project. Item number C,
safety program service agreement, SafeAsure Consultants Incorporated. Authorize the mayor and city clerk treasurer to execute an agreement with Safe Assure Consultants Incorporated to provide a safety program for the city of Winstead in the amount of $3,927.65.
Item D, Resolution R-25-31, 2025 Winstead Night Out and National Night Out Donations. Adopt resolution R-25-31 accepting donations from various donors to be dedicated towards the 2025 Winston
Night Out Event and 2025 National Night Out Event. Item E, resignation. Winstead Volunteer Fire Department accept the voluntary resignation of Mr. William Casey from the Winstead Volunteer Fire Department effective August 15, 2025.
Item F, 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 July 2025. Item G, building permit report, July 2025. Approve the building permit report
for the month of July 2025. Item H, uh, financial report, uh, June 2025. approved the financial report for the month of June 2025. Item I, claims, approve the claims list for August 19th,
2025. Uh, this is the consent agenda. Uh, Mr. Mayor, I'll motion the approval of the consent agenda and I abstain from voting on item F. We have a motion. Is there a second? I'll second.
We have a motion. We have a second. Is there any further uh conversation? All in favor? I I motion is carried. Um there are no public hearings. There are no there is no old business. New
business. Uh item A 2025 cure place pipe uh project award. I consider a motion to award a bid to Hydro Clean LLC in the amount of $97,86.84 84 cents to provide all the materials
and labor necessary to rehabilitate existing existing sanitary sewer with a sanitary sewer cured in place pipe lining project in the city of Winstead. Yeah, I have asked uh Josh from Bolton Mink to
elaborate on that a little bit. Thanks, Neil. Mayor, members of the council. Um so we did receive on August 12th um a quote for the 2025 CIP or cured in place pipe project. The proposed work includes materials labor
to rehabilitate about 2,460 linear feet of pipe. Um just kind of a little anecdotal note there. We have about 12 thou or 12 miles of sanitary sewer pipe within the city of Winstead. So we're touching about a half a mile with this project. So um we do like to kind of
continuously work on um rehabilitating the sewer on an incremental basis every year and this is the next project in that process. Um so we were we are able to rehabilitate this pipe without um excavation. So that's a nice part about
the work. Um there won't be any um delays as far as uh street work. This is able to be done um trenchless trenchless construction. Um so HydroClean did submit a bid of $97,86.84. Their bids um were received and they
were competitive. It's about 41% below the high bid from Insichu form. Uh Hydro Clean has completed successfully completed projects of this uh type in the past for the city of Winstead. um and they have shown themselves to be a
responsive and responsible contractor. Uh based on that, I do recommend award uh Tyro Clean LLC in the amount of $97,86.84. Um one other note is that we did push the completion date of the project out to spring of 26 uh in order to get of
more favorable bids. The timing was a little bit tight for this year. So that was one item that was changed in the contract. What what is the life cycle of the cure? Yep. So when it's uh it goes in as a
flexible resin and then it's steam or water cured and then it's basically a plastic pipe. So a 90 to 100year life life cycle or lifespan and um the thickness of the pipe is such that it doesn't require the existing pipe to be um any give it any support.
So it's a fully supported self-supported pipe when it's done. So whatever that usually it's clay or concrete pipe that we're lining. Um when that fully deteriorates this pipe will it'll um hold up on its own. The last question I have then do we do
we do the the jetting of this stuff? Mhm. So is this the second step of what we do? Do we we coat in the areas that we've jetted or are we going through areas that have roots and whatever? Yeah. So, we're kind of deciding on what
to line on a couple of different bases and a lot of it comes from our jetting, cleaning, and televising work that Chris does annually. Um, so jetting and cleaning is done um a little more of as a maintenance for the sewer system.
Televising is done for that proactive look at how the what the condition of the pipe looks like. Um, and so we use that televising data to kind of say, okay, what do we want to do next as far as um, lining so we don't get into a situation where we have a pipe failure
and then we have to dig it and back up. Sure. Yep. Thank you. Can this be done in the winter time or Yep. It can it can come out in the winter and in fact it's done quite a bit in the winter. Yeah.
How many How long do you anticipate it to take? A week, two weeks? Yeah, they'll be in town about a week to finish this work. Residents get notified of this and then they're and do we shut water off? Well, it's taking so people can't
Yep. There's there's a couple of different notifications in timed out. So, they get one like 7 days in advance and then they get one 2 days in advance and they will have um a few hour window when they can't use their sewer for that day. We try to give them two different notices and then for the one day when
they're curing it out, they can't use their sewer. Then there's robotically um cut out the services are and it's reinstated pretty quick, but there is some outage. Entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to award a bid to
Hydro Clean LLC in the amount of $97,86.84 84 cents to provide all the materials and labor necessary to rehabilitate existing sanitary sewer with sanitary sewer cured in place pipe lining project in the city of Winston.
We have a motion. Is there a second? We'll second. We have a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? All in favor? I I carries. Um thank you. Uh item number B,
vehicle replacement, Winston Volunteer Fire Department. Consider a motion to authorize a city administrator and fire chief to take actions necessary to facilitate the purchase of a 2009 Chevrolet 3500 pickup from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for a
cost not to exceed $30,000. uh declare a 1988 Chevrolet pickup as surplus equipment and eligible for sale as recommended by the fire chief and authorize a C administrator to determine the process and best method for the sale of the vehicle.
Neil, yes. at a um recent fire where we or support call. Our current truck that we used to pull our trailer um or one of the current trucks that we use to pull our trailer had uh problems with it
after it was diagnosed. It became a much more expensive fix that we were going to need a new engine for this particular um for this particular vehicle. Uh the fire chief reached out and asked if he
could investigate into a ENR program that allows rehabilitation of uh these type of vehicles for a lesser cost for fire departments. And he was able to find and secure one. And um what we're
asking is for your approval in order to uh get that vehicle ready to help with rescue and fire. Any questions? No, sir. So, we did discuss this at our planning
uh uh session and uh the only thing we would ask is that you bring it to the chief's attention about the various uh avenues to sell the uh old equipment and uh that it is as a collector should have
some fairly significant value. Would that be uh fair enough? Uh, Councilman Cavern, is that um uh so with that, I'd entertain a motion. Um, I'll consider a motion uh to authorize city administrator and fire
chief to take actions necessary to facilitate the purchase of a 2009 Chevrolet 3500 pickup from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for a cost not to exceed 30,000 and declare a 1988 Chevrolet pickup as surplus
equipment and eligible for sale as recommended by the fire chief and authorize the city administrator to determine the process best method for sale of the vehicle. We have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Have a motion and a second. Is there any
further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries. Item C, Winstead brush site, brush site and wastewater treatment facility gate installation. Um, consider a motion to authorize a city administrator to execute a quote
from Computer Integration Technologies for the purchase and installation of an access control solution, cellular gateway, and related equipment for gated access at the Winstead Brush Site and Wastewater treatment facility for an
amount not to exceed $5,890. you know. So, as you guys know, this was a a project that we had on for last year, and I was hoping to have it done by uh this spring when we had to uh try to research our connectivity out at the
waste water treatment facility. Um it was suggested that we keep those two things separate as far as not uh having us hook up to their Wi-Fi and their internet system. So this gateway is
going to um obviously provide us internet and then rest of it is how we are able to eventually be able to sell the cards and have people have that um
more access to our brush site. Any uh any questions? Does Swany have to learn anything? Old dog, new tricks. You know, that's not not something we're going to have. I'm curious. So, we opened up the brush
site kind of continuously after the storm. Uh, has anybody abused that? It's very busy. Your knowledge according to Mr. um according to Swany, it's very busy. Oh, it is very busy, but I mean, he hasn't been there all the while. I was just curious.
Yes. Would no one been in there? Right. Right. Right. Could use a little gravel back there. I know. I uh it got quite muddy a couple of times. Yep. Falling stuff back there. So, that was ordered, right? I remember us talking about that.
That was part of the highway uh the county road 5. Um is that what we're still waiting on or No. Uh we're still waiting on the contractor that we hired to do it. Okay. All right. Um
consider a motion for this. Mr. Mero motion to authorize the city administrator to execute a quote from computer integration technologies for the purchase and installation of an access control solution cellular gateway
and related equipment for gated access to the Winstead Brush site and wastewater treatment facility for an amount not to exceed $5,890. We have a motion. Is there a second? I'll second
a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? All in favor? I motion is carried. Um I do have I do have one question. So just uh west of that
west of that gate, I assume that uh where it's just black dirt, that's where the construction company was going to use if it hadn't been. We're going to put that back into weed seed or what what's going to be done with that? Any idea? Uh
um right to the You're saying directly to the west of it? To the west of our brush site. Yeah, I mean we'll just have to seat it, I guess. Okay. And I was joking about Yeah, I haven't looked out there. It's just a black dirt field is kind of
what it looks like to me. So, uh there I threw you a curve. I don't do that. You did? If uh you want to buy that lot, then we could get something out there. Even better. Uh organizational report. Do we have an organization? We do not have an organ
organiza or organizational report tonight. Uh open forum uh is uh to provide uh residents an opportunity uh to address the council on an issue that uh might not be on our agenda. It would appear that we don't have it would
appear that we have a a citizen that would like to come forward. Not only a citizen, an employee. Mr. Mayor, members of the council. Thank you. I just wanted to note um I know there's been a lot of communication going out, but if people are donating um for the recent uh fire victims here in town, um
go through a reputable reputable source. Um you know, there is the Red Cross. Um just to ensure that your goodwill goes to where it should go. So just want to say that thank you and and I understand that if uh if someone wants to contact
us, we will steer them in the right direction. Um uh us being the city uh staff. Um and we do our hearts do go out for those people that lost their homes and and we're hope that they're uh we hope that they're able to be made whole
quickly. Um city administrator updates and announcements. Uh, city hall will be closed on Labor Day. Uh, we have the tax and levy talks coming up quite a bit. Uh, just touching
back on the fire piece, it was pretty impressive the way our city staff, the firefighters, and Justin and his team uh, really took control of the scene and really everybody that um, came to help all the other departments. It was uh
impressive to see them in action and see what they could do. So kudos to them for making a bad situation better or or at the minimum keeping it from getting correct. Y any other items on your end?
That's all I have. Okay. Tom, do you have anything? I do. Okay. Um I wonder if the administrator could give us an update on the apartments and their progress. So, uh, actually I drove by there today. They are putting the roof on
on the first one. On the first one. It looks to be that they did complete the final layer on the street and they were supposed to do that today. So, um, looks like that might be done. Yes, Josh. Yep. So, uh, they're
moving and they're trying to play catch-up now from all the rain and wet days that they missed out on. And then they had another one. Maybe it's for Josh. A well update. Yeah. Water line. They're working on drilling. Well,
how far do they get every day? 10 feet, six feet. I mean, but yeah. Okay. But they you the thought was they'd have to go down about 550 ft.
Their deadline is a month and a half or they're going to take that long to to get down that deep. Oh, really? So, it's a rather slow process. Wow. Basketball hoops are up at Wineback now. So, we're getting Oh, yeah. a little bit closer.
Yeah, there's kids playing on them today. Was there Tom? Did you have That's supposed to be happening, but I did. And I had mentioned in the workshop to the mayor and the administrator that earlier we've talked
about doing air hanger inspections at the airport just to make sure that everything is up to code. There is an individual that would know those codes and would be willing to do that work for the city.
That's it. Okay, Matt, did you have any? Nope, I'm good. Jesse, no, sir. And I don't have anything either. So, uh, I would entertain a motion to adjurnn. A motion to adjurnn. Do we have a second? We'll second. All
in favor? We are ajourned.