and the families of the victims of the recent targeted shootings of Minnesota legislature legislators are in our thoughts. The loss of Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark is mourned and a recovery is hoped for for state senator John Huffman and his wife Yevette who
happens to be uh council member Ole's sister. The courageous work of law enforcement in responding to these attacks is appreciated. This tragic event underscores the importance of protecting public servants and upholding the values of democracy. So when we stand for the pledge of allegiance, if
we could take a couple of seconds just to um maybe say a prayer or keep them in your thoughts and then I'll start the uh pledge. So if we could stand, have a moment of silence. I pledge allegiance 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. Uh we will go through the cons consent agenda. Items listed below are considered routine and non-controversial
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. City Council work session June
3rd, 2025. City Council regular meeting June 3rd, 2025. Item B, resolution R-25-26. Winstead Volunteer Fire Department donation. Adopt resolution R-25-26
accepting a donation from Mr. and Mrs. James Brooks to be dedicated towards the capital improvement fund for the purchase of equipment for the Winstead Volunteer Fire Department. Item C, resolution R-25-27, Winstead Listbury Police Department
donation. Uh, adopt resolution R-25-27 accepting a donation from Mr. and Mrs. James Brooks to be dedicated toward the capital equipment fund for the purchase of equipment for the Winstead Lebury Police Department. Item D, city council
goal setting June 26, 2025. Schedule a city council goal setting session beginning at 9:00 a.m. on June 26, 2025 in the city council chambers at Winstead City Hall. Item E, Security Bank and Trust Company pledge securities. Approve
the pledge securities that Security Bank and Trust Company has purchased for the city of Winstead for the month of May 2025. Item F, financial report, April 2025. Approve the financial report for the month of April 2025.
Uh, item G, claims, approve the claims list for June 17, 2025. Uh, that is the consent agenda. I would uh uh entertain a motion. Mr. Mayor, a motion to approve the consent agenda as
presented and I abstain from voting on item E. Have a motion. Is there a second? I'll second, please. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? I I. Motion carries. Um
there are no public hearings tonight. There's no old business. We have new business. Item A, tree tree removal for Street North. So, as part of our U Thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council. As part of our sidewalk improvement plan, we're looking
to start at U First Street North and kind of picking at it to do the worst parts. As a part of that, we need to remove some trees, many of which are ash, which are likely to come down anyway. I have sent out an email and
spoken with um the residents where it's the the trees are located in their boulevard and and so far I've been met with kind words of encouragement of finishing the sidewalk. So understanding that the trees need to come down in order to to
do that and the trees are the root of the issue. I didn't. Yeah. No, I didn't catch that. I got to start listening. Yeah, I would think so. So, just looking for a motion um from Sober
Tree Services who we use quite often in the city and has done excellent work for us in the past um to take down those trees which would likely be mid July and looking to finish a sidewalk project end of end of July.
Anybody care to make that motion? I'll make a motion to uh execute uh a quote from Slovic Tree Service for $4,650 to remove 10 trees on First Street North as part of a sidewalk repair project. A motion. Is there a
second? I'll second. Have a second. Is there any discussion? All in favor? I I motion carries. Item B, Winston City Hall air conditioner. Last week we had a small fire in our air
conditioner. More smoke than fire thankfully, but it did knock out our um condensing unit for the upstairs air conditioner. Uh unfortunately, there's nothing salvageable in it. It is an insurance claim and we're looking at
getting quotes from our current provider of Schwickerts. We did receive one quote from them for approximately $49,000 and need to get another quote to satisfy insurance purposes. So at worst case
we're at $49,000 for that fix. Um and then insurance has that they will cover. So today just looking for approval and able to go through that insurance process without waiting to the next agenda.
and entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to authorize the city administrator to proceed with the order of equipment to replace city hall air conditioner equipment in conjunction with an insurance claim with the League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust. We have a motion. Is there a second?
Second. We have a motion. We have a second. Is there any additional discussion? All in favor? I. Motion carries. Uh now we've come to the exciting uh part of the night, our organizational report. Um and we welcome the executive director
from Mloud County Food Shelf. Thank you. Thank you. For you that didn't hear earlier, my name is Carrie Opim. I am the executive director of Mloud Food Shelf. I want to start by thanking you guys for inviting us to come share some of the hard work that our citizens, businesses, faith communities, and organizations have been supporting since
1983. I wanted to start by sharing our mission statement with you. Mloud Food Shelf works to eliminate hunger and food insecurity as well as improve the health and well-being of our community through equitable access to healthy and nutrit nutritious foods, community education,
and advocacy. So what that very lengthy mission statement means is we work very hard to nurture relationships throughout Mloud County here to make sure that we're meeting our clients with a holistic approach not just for their needs for uh food and security but any other needs that we encounter throughout
those conversations as well. Um today MFS is in their 41 years of serving this community proudly. Um, just to give you a little background, this work began back in 1983 with a group of concerned citizens who realized that they had some neighbors in need. So, it was our county
commissioners that had given some space down in the courthouse for us to operate out of. Um, over the last few years, we've broken kind of service numbers since the beginning of the pandemic. So, we're one of those essential services that's really needed more than ever in today's economy. Um, today we are happy
to be hosting our services out of a space that we own in Gleno. thanks to a legacy donation. We also have a rental space in Hutchinson where we serve a majority of our about 50% of our clients and then the remainder we serve off of our mobile outreach unit which is a
little bus that goes around to seven of the eight cities here in Mloud County bringing that services right to the people. About 50% of the clients that we serve off that mobile outreach unit are seniors above the age of 65. So really trying to meet those needs and reduce some of those barriers for the people in
our community. Um, like I said, since 2020, our we watched our service increase about 84%. So, we're really just trying to eb and flow with those changes in the economy and making some smart choices. We actually May 1st did a little bit of a shopping
model change. We're still a super shelf. We still allow client choice. Um, but instead of having our volunteers individually bring uh clients around, we're allowing shoppers to self-s serve much like you or I would going to our local grocery store as well. So again, just trying to bring more of that
dignity back to that shopping experience and creating a welcoming environment at our shelves. Um, as I mentioned earlier, we do have that mobile outreach program. Um, we ran into some struggles this spring with our mobile outreach bus and as Jeff knows, we were a little worried
whether we would be be able to get back on the road. Thankfully, we were able to fix those issues. Um, it was kind of startling for staff though. We had that little psychology of shopping where when we weren't available, I think everybody, you know, hit a little bit of a panic mode. So, that next week when we got the bus out, we were seeing double traffic
on our bus. So, um, it was actually the first day that we had hired a new staff member. So, we really got her hit the ground running there for her first week of service on that mobile bus. Um, some of the questions I'm often asked is what do people need to do to come visit the food shelf? You don't need to do
anything. There's no appointments needed, no proofs or paperwork that folks need to bring with them. They can just visit us at any of our locations, Gleno, Hutchinson, or any of those cities that we're visiting on the bus, and they'd be welcome to shop our shelves. We are a TFAP food shelf. TFAP stands for the Emergency Food Assistance
Program. that's a federal uh commodities program. So, we get like our milk and our onions and things like that through them. So, they do set some income guidelines that they ask people to be under, but even if folks find themselves outside of those guidelines, they still will get service at Mloud Food Shelf. Um, one of the other questions I'm asked
a lot is how people can join our mission. Well, I'm proud to say for 41 years, we've had people supporting us in many ways, either by donating, volunteering their time. Every year we usually average 10 to 12,000 hours of volunteer time. So truly a
communitydriven organization. Um so the volunteering that time, donating, hosting events. We have the Hutchinson area youth that as Jeff knows every Halloween that Wednesday before Halloween goes out and does like a trick-or-treating event for food
essentially to help us fill our shelves. We run a cap couple of campaigns throughout the year. We have our March campaign um which was a very successful I think it was our most successful year in our history this year. So that was very encouraging for us just in the current state of economy to see those kind of numbers come through. And then
coming up July 1st, we'll be having our second campaign of the year. Um it's our July summer cash campaign. We are very lucky that this year that Glen Co Regional Health is going to be a matching sponsor for us for the first $5,000 um donated. They're going to do a 50 cents on the dollar match for us. So
those are some of the ways that we see support from this community. Um, supporting your f local food shelf is crucial for several reasons. Food's insecurity affects millions of Americans. Um, last here month here at Mloud Food Shelf, we supported nearly 2,000 individuals in our community who
needed our support. Food shelves provide that vital safety net for those who are struggling to make ends meet. Um, by volunteering, hosting, or supporting events, you're really making a difference to those who are visiting our shelves every single day. So, I thank
you again for inviting us and we'll open you guys up to any questions you might have. Um, what is your annual budget? That's a lovely question. It's hard. It's um, you know, the budget isn't just dollars. So, for every pound of food we take in, that that's considered a
dollar, isn't it? So, pound equals a dollar. So, I want to say for 2024, we distributed like 680,000 lbs of food, but to pull the cash out of that for the budget is a little tricky. I could look it up for you, though. Our annual report is on our website, so if you want to see
any of those numbers, that's where you'd find them. And then I think you mentioned it. How many people do you serve in a year? So, we're averaging right now 1,154 um distributions every month between the three shelves, and it's a little over 2,000 families per month that are
receiving those services. Now, do you get food from like grocery stores that Y it's past not past sale time, but they want to donate, right? there's that tricky little window in there, right? Where it's not good for
them to sell at that best quality, but still is salvageable and edible for our guests. So, that's a program called Food Rescue through Feeding America. We actually have eight retailers who support us here in Mloud County and a bunch of volunteers who 5 days a week are going and rescuing that food that makes you know, like can you name any of
those volunteers that do food rescue? Oh, the volunteers that Well, there's one sitting right here, Mr. Mayor. He does our kaborns on Monday mornings. And you know, we're just so grateful to have volunteers like you who support that mission because 72 to 73% of the food
that we're distributing comes directly from those food rescue programs. It it is amazing how much you pick up, right? Coburn's for instance, we have somebody that goes every day of the week, right? I do Mondays and the back of my pickup, both
the box and the back cab is full usually. So good. Um, yeah, it is. That's kind of a dual purpose thing. We're not only feeding the people, but we're reducing global warming that way, too. We're keeping that food out of landfills and getting it in people's tummies. So
um what percent like is the mobile I know I know you said you can 50ish 50-ish or so about 50% of our traffic is going straight out of Hutchinson and then the remainder is between our Gleno and mobile unit and they come they come to Winstead
Lester Prairie um every city in Mloud County except for Bisky except for Bisky. Okay um and they go out twice a month with that bus so that's really nice. You don't know offhand um
how many users you have in Winstead, do you? I do. I knew that this question was going to be asked, so I pulled it just this evening fresh for you guys. So in 2024, we served 321 customers that were coming from Winstead. Okay. For the year. For the year. Yep. Okay. Is that
at Lynenwood or the So where do they You know, our service numbers just come from how many we served off that bus here. We just go to Lynen. Lynenwood apartment. That's the only stop that we have in Winstead. Yes. Okay. You know, she mentioned might add uh so we the the
food shop owns the building in Gleno and it was in large part due to a a legacy gift. Um the bulk of the legacy gift was given by Gary and Ron Shower. Really? Yeah. Uh I I forget which one of them passed away
last, but when the second brother passed Yeah. Um they donated a good share of the cost of that building which um they were very charitable. They were Yeah, they donated to a lot of stuff. You know, it was an amazing
opportunity for the food shelf. So, previous to the building that they're in now. I don't know how many of you had the chance to visit them when they were next to all Slave Meets, but they couldn't do a client choice super shelf shopping model because they just didn't have the space to do it. they had to do
a prepacked model for clients. So giving that space really allowed to me a very dignified shopping experiences for the guests here in Mloud County. Great. And Jeff K on the board
on the board. Um happy to have them. This is my last year on the You can only do six years and this is my last year on the board. So we're looking for new uh board of them. Tim would do it. You know, I was surprised to learn uh how many college students uh take advantage
of support, right? You think, oh, they're going to school, you know, tuition, books, rent, and then what you're starting to see on college campuses. I recently got to go to a regional convening down in Mano, and we were at the food shelf right on campus in the school. And then when I went to
the welcome day for Ridgewater, they also have a warrior pantry at their campus as well. So, it's nice to see that those little supports are popping up. Any other questions? No. Thank you for all the work you do. Thank you guys for inviting us. Thank you for coming. Thank
you very much. Um, city administrator updates and announcements. Well, we should have a little bit busier weekend than usual coming up here with uh Windtock coming up and then uh Mloud
County Road 1, we had our open house last week and looks like mid July is when we will be most impacted, but County Road One through the city will be open or one lane will be open most of the time.
Right. Tom, do you have anything? I do not. Mr. Mayor, Matt, do you have anything? Neither. Kim, do you have anything? No, sir. Okay. Um, then with that, I will uh entertain a motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. We have a motion. Is there a second? I'll
second. All in favor? I we are journed.