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Part 1 (Video ID: 44wW3nJCW4A):
- 00:00:01: Meeting Call to Order, Agenda Approval and Consent
- 00:01:43: Opening and Closing the Public Hearing
- 00:04:15: New Business: Seal Coating Project Bid Approval
- 00:08:18: Resolution: Past Due Utilities and Construction Management
- 00:12:36: Fire Department: Rescue Van Chassis Purchase Discussion
- 00:18:43: Old Business: Splash Pad Project Update and Park Feedback
- 00:23:39: Flag Pole Brackets, Flag Installation, Community Recognition
- 00:25:40: Streams Funding Update: State and Federal Grants
- 00:30:51: Committee Updates: EDA, Library, Public Works
- 00:34:10: Committee Updates: Planning Commission, Utilities, Ambulance
- 00:36:03: Committee Updates: Police, Fire Department and Combination
- 00:40:29: Discussion on Cable Commission Grant Proposal
- 00:43:01: Upcoming Work Sessions and Adjournment


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I will call him to order. Let's start with the pledge of allegiance, please. >> I aliance 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

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justice for all. >> Okay. Um, we have an agenda. Does anybody have anything to add? Uh I would like to add one thing to the agenda. It's actually um going to be with the seal coding bids. Um item

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number 5.1. It's the separate sheets of paper that you have from Bargain Incorporated. >> Um we'll talk about it when we get there, but I wanted to add that. >> Okay. Anybody have anything else? >> Nothing. If someone would like to make a

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motion regarding the agenda. I'll make the motion. >> Second. >> All right. >> Third. I didn't even hear. >> I'll I'll give the motion to Ed and you guys can fight over this. >> Oh, I don't care. Go ahead.

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>> All right. Um, all those in favor? >> I say I post same sign. >> All right. I'll try to stay focused. Sorry. Um, the consent agenda has minutes from April financials, sewer forgiveness form, police policy. Anybody have any comments or like to

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move to approve? >> I'll move to approve the consent agenda. >> Okay. Motion. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Motion on the second by Ed. Any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? All those in favor, please say I. I.

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>> Oppos. Same sign. Motion carried. Um public hearing. We would need a motion to open the public hearing. Please move. >> Motion by Ed. Is there a second? >> A second. >> Second by Don. That's also

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Any discussion on opening? All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. All right. >> The only one that has been taken care of is uh 224 North Carver Street for Philip and Lisa Kings. They actually came and

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paid this morning. So, that one can be taken off um the agenda. Um otherwise there's quite a list. Um I think mayor if you just want to ask if anyone would like to speak about one of them we'll >> sure

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>> recognize them and they can come up and speak. >> Anybody like to speak at about anything in the public hearing regarding the properties listed here? Anybody going once,

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going twice? >> Michael, can you just for like background for people, can you can you give us an an idea this a name doesn't just pop up on here because they didn't pay their bill yesterday. Right. >> Right. There's

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>> um you know depending on the situation these are either past to utilities, past due ordinance violations that have not been paid. Um there's been multiple attempts to contact them. We actually gave more time than we normally do. We normally file this in October

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when we do property taxes. There was a few that we felt um uh we had to wait. So, we waited until now, which is almost 6 months past what we normally do, but yes, letters were sent. Um, they give a 30-day notice for

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this public hearing, in fact. Um, and we have not had any other communication except with Philip and Lisa Clink. >> Okay. Um, if there's no other comment on the public hearing, somebody

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like to close the public hearing. >> Motion by Don. Is there a second? >> I'll second it. Second by Jenny. Any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? All those in favor, please say I. >> I oppose the same sign. All right. Um,

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moving on to new business. 5.1 steel coding project. >> Um, so, uh, from time to time, staff puts bids together. Um, we we received two bids back, one from Mr. Paving and

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one from Pearson Brothers. Pearson Brothers uh was cheaper, significantly cheaper, um which would be 20,840 and then Lonnie Cole was 2400. I will tell you that um just because of the

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price of oil and um the amount of steel coating that we normally do, we did drastically reduce that this year. Um otherwise, our normal bid would have been about $45,000. Um, so we did about half of what we normally do from year-to-year basis. The

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one that we want to add actually is to address um, 8th Street. If you haven't drove down 8th Street lately, 8th Street has a lot of cracking and settling that's happened along the street. Um, and what we're proposing is that we

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correct that this year. Um, so we we received a quote um from this company that will come and actually put a one-inch wide crack and dig out uh where it is cracking and then refill it in uh

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which is uh more effective obviously than a seal coating would uh be. Um the approximate area and work zones will be down on 8th Street. I think there was six or seven different cracks on that

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street. Um the total amount would be $7,200. Um so with the reduction of the seal coating, um we're asking that we add the $7,200 um to this, we budgeted around $45,000 for seal coating this year. So it's

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still within that normal budget that city council approved with a little bit of clearance just in case prices go up. Um I will tell you that um this year specifically when we sent out bid price u both companies reached out

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to us almost two weeks later and said hey there's going to be an increase because of the oil prices continuing to go up. So um I I expect that there'll be a small increase to seal coating and to the the bargain bid. So, um, but just

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for both of council's considerations, um, it'll be about 30,000 $31,000 for both projects to be done, >> which would still be 15,000. >> It's about 15,000 budgeted >> of savings. Yep.

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>> All right. Council, what are your wishes? Anybody care to make a motion? >> I think we need to get it done. So, I'll make a motion. Okay. Motion to approve it by Jenny. Is there a second? >> Second.

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>> Second by Ed. Any discussion? >> Can we I um Can we with that 15,000? Um can we use that for something else that's that we might not have enough money for or >> Yeah. So, there'll be some other street

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projects that we're actually working on. Um, specifically the park has some maintenance issues in the the actual parking lot. Um, that will probably presenting to council soon. Okay. >> We just haven't gotten the bids back yet.

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>> Okay. So, that can be used. >> Yep. Yeah, we can. >> It's not like if we don't use it, it's gone. >> No. No. >> Okay. Yeah, that's a good question. >> That's all I have. >> Any other discussion? I'll call the motion. All those in favor

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of the seal coding projects, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carried. >> 5.2. The resolution assessment of past due utilities and fines which we just addressed during public hearing. >> Motion.

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>> Yeah, we need a motion. >> Jenny, is that a motion? Yep. Okay. Is there a second? I'll second it. Second by Don. Any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? All those in

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favor of resolution 2026 010 assessment capacity utilities uh please say I >> opposed. Motion carried. All right. >> 5.3 construction management.

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>> Um so kind of we're kind of at the point with the fire ambulance barn where Uh we need to start engaging some kind of construction management company. Um we're asking council to approve an at risk um manager this time. So they'll

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bid on the project um and estimate the cost and then they basically lock that cost in. Um and they're responsible for the overages um for most of it unless there's a change order.

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I I think there's also some like other management things that they need to start controlling like surveying and uh title work and you know the building on the far west side of the property needs to come down. We're more than willing on

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public work side to start working on that but we need to have some direction on you know where to haul it and that kind of stuff. So, um, that's what this would do is that it doesn't authorize us to do the project. It would just say,

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"Hey contractors, who wants to be the management company that handles this going forward?" You know, we already have the architectural and the construction documents underway, but it's someone to actually do the work and find the subcontractors,

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electricians, cement, all that stuff. And this is kind of a necessary step to tell us how much the project would actually >> it would lock in the price. Yeah. >> So, it sounds like it's kind of a done deal that we're like continuing.

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>> No, we have to go through the RFP first. Um and then once they come back with a final estimate, um you know, council might say, you know, this is just not possible. it's not financially feasible. Um,

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we also still have some analytic with the soil samples that were taken. We haven't gotten response back from them yet. So, it is not a done deal, but it's time for someone to start taking responsibility on cost estimates and

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>> and normally ISG, our civil engineer, is the one that is doing that for us. they wrap it in their price at an extreme cost. But um it's just it's time for someone else to start managing that other than the committee. >> Well, and at the point where we've gone

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out for construction documents, we we have to follow these steps if we hope to look into any kind of grant funding or any of those things too. So they're kind of necessary steps to take in the process where whether we approve it or

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not. So, are there companies that are willing to do this? I would assume. I hope. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Lots. >> All of them. >> There's lots of general contractors out there that'll do it.

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>> All right. Somebody like to uh make a motion. >> So, moved. Motion by Don. Is there a second? >> I'll second it. >> Second by Jenny. >> Any more discussion? Any questions or discussion about that?

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So, I'll call the motion. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carried. >> Okay. 5.4, the resolution regarding the fire department request for chassis purchase for the van, rescue van. Um, I apologize, Adam, the uh fire chief

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could not be here tonight uh just with conflict schedules. So, I'll kind of walk through the project. Um, I haven't been too involved, but so um, Custom Fire was brought out, their uh, fire department apparatus

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company um, and they looked at a rescue truck. They gave us estimates on replacing the chassis and then refurbing the actual box. The um total estimates

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uh for all of that work is close to half a million dollars. $437,737 to be exact. Um the chassis uh and that's what uh we're asking for right now is a total

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purchase price of 136. How they came to this conclusion was by committee. Um the fire department puts together a a equipment committee and says what's our best uh avenue and route. um they feel like the um so like

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a brand brand new fire rescue the type that we have um is close to $1.2 million. Um Brton just refurbished their fire rescue and got it back. I want to say like two months ago they spent um 620 I

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believe. Don't quote me on that. I think it was a little over half a million. Um they are estimating that the chassis price bump will happen soon. Um and that bump would be between 20 and 30,000

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uh 20 and $30,000. Um and that's just coming from custom fire. They're giving us that information. Um so the townships have been put on notice. We let them know that you know that we were doing this. We've kind of given them some options the last two

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years. Winthre would pay half and then the townships and uh would pay the other half. Um so that's kind of the project as a whole. Right now all we're asking for is the purchase price of the chassis, but really you have to be aware

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that this is also a large commitment of the city to do a large purchase for a fire apparatus. So, we're talking about refurbing old equipment. What's the expected lifespan

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of a refurbished piece of equipment? >> I don't know specifically. Um, I will tell you that, you know, replacing the entire chassis, which is, you know, that engine, entire part of it, um, you know, would give it more life, maybe another

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20 years. Um, the actual box itself is in good shape. Um, they're refurbing some of the side compartments to make them a little bit more modern. They do have to replace all the lighting on it, which is kind of expensive.

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Um, but I don't know what the full lifespan would be. Adam probably could have answered that a little bit better than me. Okay. Purchasing the chassis now eliminates or

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we don't have to worry about the 2027 emissions change. >> Yes. >> Correct. >> Yeah. >> Which will have cost implications.

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I mean, you could always kick this back to the fire department and say, you know, I want to plan for the entire thing. You know, what is the cost breakdown for the 437? I think that's appropriate. I don't have

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that for you tonight, but >> I mean I I don't want it to sound like I'm secondguessing the fire department committee because I think they do a lot of good work and I think they're their goal is to do things cost effectively,

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but $437 is not a small price tag either. >> Smaller than 3/4. Well, true. Anybody have a want to make a motion? Do we Somebody

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want to move ahead with this? Do you want to ask Do we want to put on the next agenda and ask for more details? I would like us to put it on next month and Adam could be here to >> explain. I think I think that might be

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just good to get more information. >> Maybe he can come to the uh work session that we have coming up. >> I think that's their fire meeting. >> You don't need >> We can't actually We can't >> Well, we can't make any decisions, but

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we can talk about it. So, >> well, yeah. Yeah. >> So, we have the details. It's the only thing I'm thinking of. >> I know. If Jenny needs a second, I'll second that. motion to just table it until next meeting. Okay. So, we have a motion and a second.

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>> Okay. Um, any further discussion on that? Any discussion? Discussion. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Opposed. All right. We will discuss that at our next meeting. Uh, moving on then to old business. Um,

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splash pad update. >> Yeah, I just wanted to give a few updates about the splash pad. So, um, this has not been an easy project to get along, but we finally are kind of at the final stages. Um,

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the circuit boards that were sent with it shorted out, so they just sent us new ones. They are downstairs. Uh, the Minnesota Department of Health is planning to actually um test it this week. So, there's two

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filters. One's a UV filter. um that is required. Um and then the sand filter uh is in the recycler in the in the dome pack and all of that will be tested by MDH obviously before we can

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um you know begin anything. So before they can install the rest of the switches, it has to be tested and they're looking for things like is the water clarity appropriate? Are the the filters doing their job and killing bacteria, etc., etc.

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um bathrooms. So, we are still waiting for fixtures on some of the bathroom items um and some installation. So, in order to have a splash pad, we had to have a drinking fountain that is being installed by B&R. Um we're still waiting

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on some stuff for that. Um they are repainting the bathrooms before we open the splash pads. So, you'll see the summer workers adding some new paint um and some new flooring. Um and then

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obviously the the toilets are getting renewed. Those were already purchased. Um some new signage and cameras are coming out. So, uh RS Fiber was contacted today. We're trying to get a

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new line ran to the back side of the the bathroom unit um because that's where we ran all the the coax cable to run the cameras. Uh so eight new cameras will be put up. I will tell you that just in the short time where it got nice out. Um the

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bathrooms were again the locks were damaged, kids were kicking. >> So the new cameras will be better. Um they're fully cloud-based. They have 30 days of recording. um they're just better than what we're using right now. Those are already here. We just have to install them. When they installed the

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the light poles down there, they actually ran the cable at the same time. It's just an Ethernet cable. So, um we're hoping to get those up uh this week, beginning of next. The other splash pad update is that um the grass and the rest of the shrubs we've kind of held off on with the

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freeze thaw warnings. Um we're hoping though to plant some grass upcoming. So, um, this next week, if not sooner. >> Excellent. >> Any other questions about the splash pad or >> Not about the splash pad, but I'd like

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to um comment about Ford men in the park last week telling me that um when I was at softball game, they were playing Frisbee. >> Oh, yeah. Frisbee home. how beautiful our park is and to pass it on to whoever I need to pass it on to. They said they

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love coming to this park to play prison golf. >> That's so nice. >> And I had no idea where they were from. I I was hustling to the and they had a wait, but they said they were talking about it and then I pointed out the splash pad and they said it's beautiful park. It's

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>> great. I'm always surprised by how many people I see. >> Oh, it's busy. Golf. It's busy. Yeah. Yeah. So, >> yeah. >> Anyway, >> it's nice to hear those random positive things. >> There's been a lot of work put into it. >> Yes, I agree. >> And they are um you know, the one thing

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that we're getting a lot of feedback is that some of the playground equipment is getting loose or um I don't know, there's brackets down or whatever. So, the kids are actually creating a checklist this um this next week so that they can continue to check those things on a monthly basis. I will tell you that

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the climbing wall is probably near the end of its life. The bolts just keep they're just getting so, you know, um what like stripped >> that, you know, we've we've tried bigger bolts and now those are also breaking. So anyway, at some point we'll probably have to retire some of that equipment,

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but they they did fix and they painted a heck of a lot of the equipment this last year. Caitlyn did a really good job. >> It looks really it looks fresh and clean. And you know, you'd be s I was surprised when I thought about how old that equipment is. It looks pretty good this spring. >> Yeah, they're working on it. So, but

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they are making a checklist just to start checking that stuff even like you know wasp nests and stuff like that like where are they normally occurring and how do we take care of that? So, um they're going to work on that this week. >> Good.

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Okay. Any other questions about the splash pad? Nope. >> All right. Moving on to 6.2 two flash flag flag pole brackets. >> So, the flag poles brackets were made locally. Um, they'll be installed soon. Um, and then the flags are here for down

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Second Street. Uh, so we hope to have those up by Memorial Day and they'll be up for Fourth of July and so forth. The one question that we had is we've spent about $3,200 of the budget, which is a little bit over. It's also 250th anniversary this year. So, do we want to get those

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special 250 flags, too, or skip it or >> I think we can skip it. >> Okay. >> Yeah, I think we have nice >> nice >> looking American flags that we can use for the next >> Yeah. And we did make enough brackets to go in the park as well. So, there'll be

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flags in the park as well. >> Great. Um, >> and this is a little bit off subject, but just speaking of flags, I wanted to shout out to everybody that turned out for the Captain Diane processional. It was >> Yeah, very moving.

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>> It was great. >> Yeah. And I had a friend who was coming home from the Twin Cities and um she texted me, she she lives west of here. She said, "With hands down the best representation all the way." >> Wow.

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>> Yeah. So I thought that was >> that was the honor guard and you know everything. >> I've heard that a couple of people that went through better than most people. >> Yeah. Wow. >> Good. >> That was impressive. Kudos to our community.

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Um anything else about flag poles? Nope. >> Looked like you were going to say something. >> I was but >> Okay. >> We stayed two hours late. two hours long or two. >> You know, >> be good. >> It was kind of It was kind of just a huge blog party.

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>> I know. And people were just visiting and >> Yeah. >> Okay. Moving on to 6.3 streams funding sources. >> Um you know these this project is a marathon, not a sprint. And I will tell you that um some

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good news. So if you haven't been on Facebook or reading emails, we have two bills. ones authored in the House by Representative Harter and then in the Senate by um Senator Gunhagen. And I will tell you that they were heard on

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the state capital. I think it's great. Um so that's moving forward, but we also heard from Clolobashar's office at the federal level and we did make it to the second round of um um funding. So, you

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know, there's usually about 700 requests in the state of Minnesota. Only 3 to 400 get through. We were one of them. Okay. >> Now, we have to get through the subcommittee. So, not a lot we can do after we get them to that point. You know, they kick around the the ball and

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we'll see what happens. But, um, on, you know, bigger things for streams, our goal is, um, you know, to get on the PPL list, which we we did. Um, but we really need construction documents now. Um, we

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already know that the project is feasible. We already know that it will support economic development and the the towns that it will serve. Um, what we really really need now is construction documents and that that funding source from both the state and the federal

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level will cover that. And um, a lot of people have been asking like why aren't we going for other additional funding sources? Well, we would, but we need construction documents. It's like every other grant, you know. Um, so before we can go to the facility uh grants or

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facility loans, we have to have a certain level of construction documents and feasibility. So that um hopefully will happen this fall. Um Clolobishar's office said, you know, we'll know as soon as maybe this summer or as late as this fall. And the house is kind of the

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same way um at the state level. So we uh we are still marching along. We're still working on the project. Um it's just kind of we're at a weird standill. Um but uh SE has been working in the background. They so for the for the for

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any other grants we have to prove affordability. So for instance, we know that not everyone's bill can go up 400%. Right? Innesota Minnesota has grants available for affordability and that is based on individual

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facility plans. So Lafayette had to have one. We had to have one. Um the city of New Auburn had to have their own facility plan. So that is being prepared right now. Anticipating that we'll have to go for those PPL grants and the

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affordability grants for the state of Minnesota. And um just on our PPL grant alone, that's about $33 million. Um and then the affordability grant is even more for rural communities. So um that's why it's really important that we're, you know, following this process and

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we're making sure that we're um dotting our eyes crossing our tees before we get into that stage where we go for the grants. Uh it just takes a lot of time. So >> the um bills sponsored by Harter and Grunhagen are those are just regular bills, not bonding bills or

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>> Yeah, we're actually on both. We're both >> um because we didn't want to chance it. So if they both pass, we only get one. Don't give us extra money. Um but we're we >> there is a very high likelihood that the bonding bill will not go through this year. And so our the other bill is

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separate from the bonding bill. >> Okay. Um it was authored by um um the senator representatives offices. So we we put it in there because we really don't think that a bonding bill will happen this year which really puts

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a lot of public projects on hold and there you know they didn't pass a bonding bill two years ago which put a majority of large projects on hold in the state. Um the same thing will happen with this. Um, it's even impacting like

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the Highway 19 reconstruction. You know, first when I first came here, it was 2028, then it was 2029. Now we're not getting reconstructed until 2030. And that is I mean, if they don't pass a bombing bill this year, it'll get pushed out another two years. So, I don't know if you've been on 19 from

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>> Gaylord to Henderson, but it's pretty bad. >> Um, and so when we don't pass those bond bills, that's what happens. Those projects just get put on hold. So, um, we have both at the state level. We have a bonding bill request and we have the authored bill.

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>> Okay. Does anybody have any more questions on both streams? Then we can move on to committees. Um, admin and EDA. Michael, what do you have? >> Uh, EDA has not met. Uh, but I will tell you that um,

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Gunners is open. So, that's great. Um, you know, in this next bill, we actually are doing a support local campaign. So, uh, we hope to have that done. We are also working with MDOT on getting some signage on our Highway 19 corridor, some actual street signs that point to the

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downtown. Um, I'm working with MDOT because obviously there's regulations about what you can and can't have. Um, I'm asking for some leniency on how big our signs can get on our corners. Um the EDA will meet this month uh and talk

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about some more of those things. Um we also have been really busy writing grants. I this is grant writing season. So the fire department ambulance I think we have submitted you know for fire it was $250,000 for a new slip-on for the

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uh tanker. for ambulance. I think we've submitted $60,000 for equipment equipment reimbursement for the Lucas and some other equipment. And then Sibly County is getting So, it's just grant writing season. That's what we're working on. We're also working on the

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DNL DNR ash um ash board grant for all the ash trees in town. Um that is not done yet, but we're getting closer. Um so that's kind of what we've been working on on the administrative side. Okay. Any questions for Michael about

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EDA or Adam? Um, just going down the list. Fire, Adam's not here. We touched on that. We'll address that next week, next month. Um, library Martha. >> We met on April 20th. Uh, we had a regular board meeting.

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Uh we talked a lot about the future of you know what's going to happen with the cuts and the libraries and the financials and so more to come on that but it's a

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little discouraging but um we are still having activities every month at least one a month I think today they were painting book bags downstairs and there's a Father's Day sale. I think you

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pick up your flowers this Thursday and we're going to have a big book sale again library friend. So although the friend supports the library and our next meeting is

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next month. >> Yes. Okay. Um any questions about that or we move on public works? Troy's not here. Do you have any >> um just hydrant flushing is happening and street sweeping is happening uh the next couple weeks. So if your water gets

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rusty, run your tub, let it pour out. Um it's a normal process. So that'll be happening this month. >> And do we have staff summer help lined up or >> uh we haven't um other than Brody and Caitlyn who we've kind of had on and off again um we have not hired anyone.

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>> We're actually analyzing the budget to see where that pans out. >> All right. uh planning commission. >> They did meet um they recently uh denied a conditional use permit for a used car lot um and a lot that was just too

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small. Um I will tell you that the owner of that is working on some other stuff um to get a larger lot. Um so that that that will go through. Um other than that, the planning commission will start meeting regularly to work on um some new

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zoning requests and requirements and uh so that's what they'll be working on in the future. >> Okay. Um RS Viber has not met utilities. >> Back to you, Michael.

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>> Uh not a lot with utilities. Uh they are working on um some information for you during our work session about the electrical um especially when it comes to on hands of transformers and

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line and rope and all that stuff. I will tell you that um their MMU MMUA training for electrical has been going really really well. >> Okay. Um I'm some of them are on book four and so

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they're they're definitely racking up experience points and um hopefully get to that stage where they can be full journeyman. So >> excellent. >> All right. Um jump in on questions

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anytime if you have them. Um ambulance >> uh we had two successfully passed registry. I saw that >> since we met last. So >> that's excellent. >> We're adding members. So >> I would say hats off to the individuals for sure, but also the ambulance

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community because I think there was a whole lot of support there. >> A lot of help went into that. So >> that's really says a lot about everybody. >> Nice to hear. >> Yeah. And that's all I know about. So

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>> Okay. Uh police Logan's not here either. I mean we so we uploaded the trial line video to our YouTube page. >> Um so if community wants to watch that work session it's online. >> Yeah. >> Um I know that uh Chief Anderson has

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been working a lot with the other police chiefs getting information and gathering items um for city council's more in-depth review. Logan was asked to go to Gaylord City Council, I think this upcoming week. Um, just to go over the

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plans again. So, he'll meet Charlie over there. Um, but, you know, the more and more we talk about combining the police department, the more and more we talk about combining fire departments and ambulance, um, it's kind of a natural

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progression. Um, you know, everyone has heard the the horror stories of fire equipment and apparatus. And if we would look to our friends in the Twin Cities area, they have all started combining and fallen

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onto each other's. Um, you know, just look at Gaylord and their new equipment. I mean, it was $1.2 million for a new pumper. We we can't continue that trend. We all don't need two pumpers in our stations. So, we're we're still working

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um through some of those conversations. Um you know, we're really starting with police because there's a lot of regulation around police and we also have full-time staff in the police departments and what that will look like. Um but I will tell you that, you know, the

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towns are open to communicating and figuring out how this works. almost every single structure fire and Jenny can attest to this usually pages out mutual aid when it comes to structure fires anyway and um you know the lesser

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calls we don't need everyone but it would be nice to just buy less equipment um uh and have to do it less often and so I think you know even you know ambulance we could provide ambulance service together far cheaper but there's

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going to have to be some much needed ed full-time personnel then um and what that means to the staffing of both towns and whether you know Gibbon now has an ambulance in it we don't know so a lot of conversations happening with the ESMRB

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um a fire chief from the Twin Cities is actually coming down to meet with Adam and the rest of the fire chiefs to actually just talk about how their transition went. You know, they have more calls but way less service area than us. We're the opposite. we have less calls and a ton of service area.

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>> Um, but you know, just to get some advice on how they did it, you know, they had three relief associations just like we do and they have three different ways of doing stuff and they kind of how they overcame some of that. Um, but at a cost savings of, you know, especially in

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the future, millions of dollars will be saved by combining and we just got to start thinking outside the box. Well, and I've said so many times, I think the thing that impressed me the most about the fire the police proposal was that it

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the idea kind of developed from the police departments, you know, they they started working together and they said, "Hey, this is smart." And they, you know, got they talked to their city administrators and it was it wasn't a top- down thing. It wasn't like somebody saying, "Well, you should do this." It

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was people who were actually doing the job saying, "We could do this better and more efficiently." Mhm. >> So, I think that says a lot about our >> combined police department. >> We actually looked at our mutual aid agreement with Gaylord and I don't I didn't realize this, but we're almost on 3 years.

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>> I was thinking it's been a while. Yeah. >> So, you know, sometimes Gaylord covers us and vice versa. Um I I didn't realize that it had been that long, but they've been doing it for almost three years now. >> Yeah. It's gone. So, there'll be exciting discussions coming up.

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Uh, do you have a question, Martha? >> Yes. So, we met um April 15th in Gaylord. Um, there was a an email that went out, I believe, this afternoon to all the city administrators. I'm not

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sure if you got that yet, Michael. um from Wade Warner um who is our I'm not really sure what his um title is, but uh inviting you all to a lunchon to

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kind of talk about what we are allowed to give grants for, what we're allowed to give money for, because I took the proposal um that you had given me last month and that doesn't fit under

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the umbrella of what we can use money for. So, WA wants to invite all of you for a light lunch some I think in June or whenever you're able to to kind of go over what we do, what we're, you know,

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there for and everything. So, so we talked about that a lot. All right. >> Was there a determination on the proposal then? >> Um >> I received zero letter from the cable commission about >> Yep. Because um I thought this email was going to go out a little sooner than it

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did. Um so I asked wait about it today. Um we did table it because it didn't come under the umbrella of what we can spend money on. It's very specific when you go back and look at the

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>> um rules or um >> I can't find the documents. >> Yeah. Um it doesn't fall under the umbrella of what we >> is that established by the local cable commissioner. Is that a

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>> Scott? Can you help me out here? Am I allowed to ask him to help me out here? >> The franchise agreements are defined by statute and the the This criteria that we have to skirt I not skirt but observe is is a better way of saying it is it

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has to involve media creation and distribution that is kind of just the 10,000 foot parameter of what these grant distributions have to have some connection to media creation and distribution.

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>> Yes. Okay. So, well, we'll have to have some Yeah. discussions. All right. Um, last up would be park committee. I think there's been a meeting. Okay. Um, anything else?

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>> I just wanted to remind everyone that we have some work sessions coming up. I put the graphic in there. Um, May 11th, which is next week. >> Uh, we're going to go over our 2026 goals and our comprehensive plan. I just want to update you on kind of what we've

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accomplished in the last three years. Um, honestly for the comprehensive plan in general, um, high level overview, we're almost done with it. Um, >> from 2028, uh, May 18th will be emergency services. Um, we're going to

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talk about police department. We're also going to talk about the ambulance fire building construction. I'm hoping to have more information u back before that time. And then June 24th, which is a Wednesday, just take note of that. It's um the countyy's gonna come over um from

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property and valuations, um we're going to go over taxation and how that works into our budget. And um I just thought it would be a really good because around that time we're going to start talking about budget. It's already here. Um, so I think that as a council just some education on how we get the

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county assessor's office gets valuations and how we it rolls into property taxes would be would be good. >> Will the emergency services work session have any updates with the trial line? >> Yeah. Um, at that time we really um

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what we want to present at that is the updated mutual aid agreement or the joint powers agreement. Okay, good. >> Uh, we are still working on that. I have like seven of the sections done. I believe Minnesota cities has weighed in. >> Uh, we've already got quotes back from

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LMCIT. >> Basically, nothing changes. It's the same amount of payroll or, you know, you're covering the same people >> um when it comes to that stuff. So, we'd actually reduce our risk um because eventually we'll have less squad

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cars that we'd have to pay for. Um and less body cameras from different agencies. We use like three different agencies for body cameras. >> Um but yeah, we plan to have even the personnel policy. Good. um to talk about like how vacation's going to be acred and how we're going to buy into that

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system and what happens when an officer needs discipline and how that's going to be taking place. So, a lot of that will be kind of factored out. We've been other than this Monday, we've been spending every Monday together kind of hammering out those details.

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>> Yeah. Thank you everybody for all that going into that. Okay. So, um have lots of time to spend together coming up in the next few weeks. Um there's nothing else. If somebody would like to move to ajourn,

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>> I'll make a motion to second. I'll second. All those in favor, please say I. I thank you all very much. She never inal