[Music] all right um we'll call the meeting to order and start with open public body here who would like to speak Brian did you want to say anything about Second Street sure I
speak good evening I'm Brian petzel with I she um just a quick update I guess on on progress well as you can see that they can make pretty good progress when the weather is cooperative so hopefully we get a St good weather here um as you probably see in the newsletter they're
hoping that after this holiday week they can mobilize that second through to start the storm sore um so they'd be starting at the uh East End and then continuing to work towards Redwood Street so kind of the plan is they want to get basically everything up to Redwood Street kind of before hopping the street
or at least be able to get henen Street open because they have to as I mentioned the before they have to keep at least one north south access open so they want to be able to hop back um get storm sewer and get water M um brought through so that they can open up an the street eventually and then Co red with then um
they think they'll make pretty quick progress especially on the west end of uh the project just because it's shallower utilities and things like that um one thing just kind of to give you a maybe a little heads up so obviously the weather hasn't been super Cooperative this this summer um we we've kind of
reconciled uh the rain days and and um so the way the contract works with um this it's a state aid project so it follows minda specifications there there allowed so many days per month um of expected weather days well we've already
and then it's cumulative so if they use if they only use three of their five days or something in um June but then they use more you know you know what I mean like kind of for the whole project so we we did did did the reconciliation they they're actually three days over what they allowed under the contract for
the whole season and we're only on July 1 so it just heads up you'll probably be seeing eventually a some kind of change re Quest coming through for extend of the um substantial completion day which is September 15th um you know again we're July 1st we'll kind of see how it
goes but um but that's also part of the reason why we do set that substantial completion date in September just to get ourselves a little bit of room so um generally binous plants they don't shut down until you know mid November somewhere in that time frame so so hopefully thanks the weather cooperates
from here here on alt you still get things paved I guess this year but um but time will tell too so yeah that's that's that's really all I have is there any any questions for me as long as I'm here good thanks congratulations on your oh thank you yeah you know
why no okay anybody else to see for the open public forum all right we will move on to approval the agenda do anybody have anything they would like to add Michael you have anything no okay
Jenny nope did not Ed no okay um someone like to move approval of the current agenda second motion by Ed second by Jenny any discussion any discussion all those in favor say I iose
same sign Carri um consent agenda there is another sewer adjustment we had um a person left there hose on out side so we're reducing their bill by reducing their suit order so
that's standard one time okay anybody want to make a motion regarding consent agenda so move second motion by Wanda second by Don any discussion any discussion any discussion all those in favor say I I
oppose same sign motion carries public hearing vacating the public Alleyway um yep sorry I'm trying to pull up the picture Okay um so as Council knows um
from your your packet we are trying to vacate an old um we believe it was an Alleyway in the middle of a block um what will happen is we'll vacate it we'll record it at um SI County and then
we will have surveyors comeing in and put new pins in the property the property will not go to one parcel they're going to split it um I've talked to both neighbors um also everyone in the vicinity within 50 feet received a public notice about the hearing tonight
no one has contacted me and uh I don't see anyone in the in the public that wanted to speak against it um so basically anything left or west of the driveway that's kind of in the middle of the screen um will go to the property at
206 West fth Street and then the driveway to the east will go to 108 West Street and of course we'll have that professionally surveyed and recorded at 34 office it'll cost about $600 dollars
to do um there's really no use for this property we did not find significant utilities um we think that it was you know just one of those things that happened that we didn't abandon so did you guys want to speak to it or have any questions we have to come back to get a
fence we or what do we have to do with that um nope that would just be a fence permit yeah we definitely want a fence not any higher than six feet oh so I still have to go that far if anything higher than six feet then it has to be engineered got it yeah what's
the set line uh it's at least two feet from the line that we created all right so we can close the public all right you need a motion to CL yeah I was GNA say I'll make a motion
okay second Motion in a second any discussion any discussion all in favor say I I oppose same sign motion carried all right moving on to new business Empire pipe repair services yeah so um our um thanks guys
thank you our um contract with Empire is to inspect and then put quotes together to repair broken sewer lines um in your packet you'll see kind of the tears and settlement that happen inside the sewer
line some of these will be lined some of them will be actually dug up and repaired it kind of just depends um you see the quote there an estimated cost of about $50,000 the sinking fund for sewer I will tell you is limited um but we do
have room enough to get this put through this year and so we can get on the list on getting some of the stuff fixed so um you know Renville Street hennipin and the 11th Street those are pretty minor repairs they just cost a lot to line and
fix um and if you don't fix them obviously they create inii they create bumps clogs um kind of like where former counselor Schmidt lives that bump that's in there that just it'll just continue
to happen things will get stuck and then it starts to smell the other option that Council has is um we could delay it um until the spring but I would assume that their estimates are going to go on so if we go
ahead with it now but weather prevents them from there cleaning it will they be able to finish it in the spring but not of us more correct yep as soon as we contract the price that's the price that
they're that they're stuck at and more than likely this will all happen at one time I would I would think that they would depending on what the repair is most of it will happen in a so it's time
um so anybody to that we repair our contract with to necessary I will second motion bya second by Jenny any discussion any discussion any further discussion all
those in favor signify by saying I oppose same sign Mo K yeah I think we need to get that done quickly as we can moving on to resolution 2024 number 27
to vacate the city designated Street uh this is just what we talked about we're just vacating that um that street we did put it in the newspaper we sent out notices we will be responsible for the fees to repord and we will be
responsible to survey so a second second Jenny by second by Jenny um any discussion any discussion all in favor say I post same side motion Carri tree
budget oh boy um so after this last storm we did have a few trees split um they kind of became emergencies we did have seler come up out um from ruts up to take them down we are way over budget we still have I think three applications
I think a fourth one just came in to remove a couple Boulevard trees you know it's just my recommendation to council that you know we hold them over till next year and plan accordingly um I know that they want to move them but unfortunately that budget is probably
double what we actually budgeted for at this point um you know things happen we some of the trades were legitimate concerns for Public Safety so we took them down um but the remaining applications that's staff's opinion to Lele them until next year and you never
know we could have a big storm in August and have more trees that we absolutely have to deal with so yeah yeah I think it might be a good idea and we'll let those residents know so would they be first on the L AC yeah we would put them first on the list for next
year's and if we have de with an emergency Stu we'll figure it out yeah so one so right now the the syncing fund the sit funds are the ones that are paying for the overage uh you know it's 10,000 15,000 here isn't that much but
when we do it in every category it really starts adding out right um so we just want to be really mindful of that budget when we set it but of course we do have contingency funds that will cover it it an emergency Happ so that's just an informational item you
don't need us to act on it or I don't need you to act on it just dire then we can move on to the financial audit results woohoo order two yeah um so we finally received our financials um I am not going to go
over the entire book with you but I did want to cover um just a just a few things um so first you have this blue binder this is the actual Financial audit one through whatever it is that give you um all the information that you
need um I'm going to go through kind of the highlights of the audit um so um I I think number one this was probably the most thorough and complete audit that we've had since I've been here um I think Heather and
her uh abilities uh really helped with this audit to give us the most fair and accurate numbers and I will tell you this is the first time since since 2017 where all of our utility accounts actually went forward and made money so that's a good thing um our
balance and cash liabilities in general fund um some over Bond Reserve accounts and other governmental funds currently sits at $3.6 million so that's how much we have in the bank you might ask yourself okay so what does the state
require us to have so on our total budget that we budget is is 1.7 million we should have at least half of that or what they would call six months in reserves at all time so some of our A+ credit rating that we received this past year um the reason that we received that
is because of our ability to save and uh use those funds appropriately um this this is our Revenue um so our total revenue for the city this last year according to the audit was 2.3
million and this is on page your page five um so at the top there we give property tax our franchise fees special assessments our charges for services find and fores all that stuff right um
so that total revenue came to 2 339 million and then are dispersement so this is you know the stuff we spend on government buildings and employees and streets and all the stuff right um our
total dispersements was 3.4 million now you might want to say wait a minute that doesn't make sense so we made strategic moves to take Capital Improvement dollars and buy like for instance the police department and then to renovate the police department we also paid a
significant portion of funds for second straight right we paid almost half a million dollars in engineering and construction documents that came out of that 1.1 million so if you're wondering where all that kind of came from um during this audit that's where those funds came from is that 1.1 million so
we did overspend but it was strategic and it was to get council's priorities done in 2023 and again as Shannon would say sometimes that's necessary in order to get projects done Second Street was a you know
necessity um so our total cash ending balances you'll see it kind of bolded on the bottom there that's what they want Council to know is currently we have at the end of 2023 we have $3.2 million just in our general fund that does not
include our Enterprise fund cool this um page and I apologize I don't know which one it is but this is the proprietary funds otherwise known as the Enterprise funds this is water sewer garbage and electric next year you're
going to see a fifth ategory and that will be storm sewer um so we on dda's recommendations to put storm sewer as an Enterprise fund um we are doing so it's already in process you guys should see financials
now coming from Storm sewer So currently our net cash position is about $1.8 million I will tell you that's not accurate into 2024 because a lot of those funds went to pay for Second Street so these Enterprise funds funds
paid the general fund back for that $1.1 million so um there's a lot less in water in sewer as you can imagine because we paid the general fund back with those funds electric has about a million um some people would say well
that seems really excessive um so one regulator and a substation we would have to go get a loan and so that's a real reality when we own our own electric is if that substation goes out you know that $3 to5 million worth
of repairs um Transformers you know we try to stay ahead as much as we possibly can on ordering Transformers those are very expensive our three phase are between 30 and $50,000 now um so electric you know
it has a healthy balance but it's it's for a reason if we're going to take our um above lines and go below um we got some quotes on that it's pretty expensive to the $ two and a half a million dollars so we are so we are very mindful that we have to
be really um conservative when it comes to our funds H I didn't want to go over that one I don't really care about that one it is uh your page 29 is what we're going to flip to
so this one is actually our revenues and expenses and nut change for our what they call proprietary funds we call Enterprise funds so you'll see water SE were garbage and electric I just wanted to go down to the um really the change
in net position is what we look at so you'll notice that garbage had 166 uh net change out that is because we were that's storm sewer so we took it out of that fund and put it in storm so you'll see that reflective next
year however water actually made money this year at $64,000 we finally had a net positive um sewer came out at 156 and electric for the first time since 2015 made money at $176,000 the total net change for
Enterprise funds was $230,000 and Enterprise sits at about 3.3 million right now again that's a little bit inflated because we we spent some money out of that I wasn't going to go over quarter financials but we certainly can I can
tell you that [Music] um most of our budgets are really in line we actually totaled all of the expenses that we have paid out this year and we're about halfway so um that tells me that we're actually sitting pretty
good we always have more expenses at the beginning of the year than we do at the end so I really do feel like um financially we're going to actually come under budget this year um we've been holding back quite a bit because we know that Second Street is going to be
significant and things are going to happen so um we've been trying to play it really close to the cuff um and make sure that we're making good Financial choices when it comes to our position so there's a lot more obviously in the
financial data and we can always have a work session on it but I just wanted to get that information out to you um most of our funding right now is in our 4M fund um and our 4M fund holds
almost $4 million worth of our cash and it makes about $144,000 worth of interest every single month which in the long run honestly just helps lower the levy every year so it's a good thing any questions or anything you want
me to prepare look it over and if you want to do a work session on it we can certainly have Carlon come down um they do charge for that service and they're a little bit busy right now um but we can certainly have them come down if if you guys
wish having um looked at these over the years this it is really nice to see the numbers where they are and I think it does speak a lot to yours and Heather's management of money and I think this is I think the new
Financial system made a huge difference I mean it gave us visibility that we just didn't have before um and it's it's really helped us make smart choices I will tell you that from this report we will be having a work session at some point when it talks about utility rates
I don't know if you remember this but during Second Street DDA said we are really going to have to look at rates and um I completely agree but you know even talking with Shannon again uh recently you know telling them like hey we actually made money we actually paid our expenses and we made money so
maybe those won't need to be as steep as we once thought um so um that'll come back after we kind of review the audit and go after the rates that we are going to propose to change any more questions anything from
remind great thank you very much um we can move on then to the next resolution number 28 B property at 514 North Carver Street uh Logan can speak to this a
little bit more we've been working with this property for quite a while um 514 North Harbor myself and Logan um have personally made appearances at the property asking them to clean it up um um I did send out new photos to
council this afternoon um you know the tel grass overgrown weeds it's just um it's a constant problem at this property um and they will give just arations like it's a special weed or a special Bush
um what we're asking for today is just an abatement of the property I will tell you that there are some additional code enforcement issues on the property our code enforcement off off Darren is going to look at um he kind of self- constructed a lean to or a shed um It's
not finished doesn't have sighting and there's no is it this one yep it's that one in the top left um it it just has some major structural issues um the building firm it actually expired they're only good for one year according
to our city code so we're going to ask Darren to kind of get involved in that and give us some guidance it's not over 200 square feet according to my very rough estimates and when it hits 200 square F feet it has to have
footings um and this one doesn't uh so Minnesota gets really weird but it's attached to something that is 200 square feet I just say What's it attached to their garage or something yeah it's like another small utility shed I would say um so with council's permission what
would happen on this one is um our summer staff and our police force would go over we would mow take down weeds get it back into compliance and uh move forward are we removing you said
removing the some of the property too um on this one I don't think we are actually removing anything the tags and stuff were on all those Vehicles they were all good they're licensed they're licensed
all right also what are your wishes Mak a motion to go ahead with the abatement yes I'll make a motion to go ahead with the abatement okay I'll second motion by Jenny second by Don any discussion any discussion any discussion
thank you for the you know putting this together it really does help to have the picture so that yeah we can see I appreciate that all right uh all those in favor of said motion please say iose same sign motion
carried um resolution number 26 WR in voting approval so this is actually a Statewide thing basically what it's saying is if the least vote getter had 20 votes and there was only 10
writings the county would then not count the right ends because there wouldn't be enough to overtake the minimum vote if we don't pass it then the county has to count all the handwritten votes why the state just didn't do this I
don't know but the county is asking us to pass this so that they don't have to count the votes however if the rins are above the most minimum voted for person then they will automatically count the votes that are
writings so before when you used to tally like write in and all the names would be incorrect which would be really fun um those those won't really show on ours anymore just because they're not significant so for all the times that
when I was an election judge and we counted we have three votes from theous yes yes 100% I think this is a very good idea personally so go ahead with the resolution for the
right in voting approval motion by one there a second I'll second second by Jenny any discussion any discussion no more Mickey Mouse all in favor please say I oppose same sign motion Carri
shipping containers I did not you know usually I know what's coming on the agenda sort of this one I looked at like what yeah so for a lot of reasons so this is really come up quite a bit recently especially um with some of our residents I will tell you that the
uniform building code that we currently have in the state does not allow these containers on properties especially Residential Properties they are for shipping so a lot of the times the the paint that is actually on the containers is lead because they're in the sea so
they have lead paint sent from a country where we don't know they where they're assembled we don't know the welding components um so they're not really the state doesn't have an ordinance for it because they're not allowed anyway they don't conform to any of the building
codes however our building code enforcement officer has had this problem in many cities in many many cities have passed um actual city ordinances amending our code to specifically call out that metal shipping containers are not allowed on
properties there's a lot to this um there's a lot of different codes so like for instance we have one at the fireb right now on a commercial a lot holding equipment and storage things until we can get into our new building
right so if you look at Colorado they're like the leader in this because they had a lot of problems with storage and shipping containers shipping container houses were a thing there for a while and then people were getting sick because they're made of lead um lead welding lead paint they're just not good
um so with council's approval what we'll do is we'll put it on planning and zoning agenda and then Planning and Zoning can look at some ordinances and recommend the changes to council we already have in our midst
multiple homes inside the city of winr that believe that storage containers are okay I was just gonna ask that do we have yes and we're already going through that process you'll get some of that on your agenda next month okay so some of them are actually over 200 square feet
which by building code must have footings and or some kind of foundation the real concern that we have about these containers is they are actually relatively light so think about a tornado coming through and that thing
becomes a bullet going out to hling Corn products and hits a tank oh it becomes a real thing they're much lighter than cars are um so it it becomes a real concern it becomes a concern with neighborhoods um and in just in en the
it just does not fit any of the codes then people try to put electric to it you know Electric in a metal container usually not the best idea and not grounded correctly can cause many issues um so with council's approval that will get me to Planning and Zoning which we
already have the meeting set up for next Monday to kind of get ahead of this because it's becoming more of and more of an issue we get more and more questions about it because it's a legit thing um people are selling them on the open market and they see seem like a really good solution unfortunately um they're not and they're
really hard to get rid of too because a lot of the recycling places won't take them because of the lead pain I saw one it somewhere when we were going up to the lake it I mean people are building it as a house and you can see it's just shipping containers there's a lot
of so there are residentials that hav so as as storage sheds I would assume or I think as storage sheds any if you break our city code down we do have accessory uses um that allows us to have sheds and
garages and small things like that yeah um tennis courts pools like we have a list of things that are okay for and so if we're going to go by code then um those things like garages and sheds well if you go to the uniform building code
garages and sheds must have footings and they must have some type of foundation and depending on the size it will depend on the side of the footing and Foundation the frost lines and all that stuff but you know that's how we've kind of combed that is like we already have that spelled out um but to make it
easier for residents for them to understand the code we want to just spell it out and it's easier for Darren to say no City Council in 2024 passed this ordinance that no longer allows shipping containers in the city unless you're a commercial or an industrial property for temporary
use all right um would someone like to make a motion sending that to PL and Zoning don't move motion by Don second second second by Ed any further discussion any discussion
favor please say I same sign motion carried all right final resolution number 29 Hing our new officer how do you say your last name Nick oh
you well since I said Nick It's ik So Think Like Mike and and then your shin bone makes it easy after he said that to me the first time never gone out of my head almost every time I say his name oh yeah Mike
night it's also German and fanatic um can I make a recommendation that we pass the resolution and then he be spored yes all right on any discussion any discussion all in favor please say I all iose same
sign motion carried all right I Nick a yes right answer I Nick do solemnly swear and affirm do solemnly swear and affirm to support the Constitution of
the United States to support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the state of Minnesota the constitution of the state of Minnesota and to discharge faithfully and to discharge Faithfully the duties of a police officer for the city of winr
the duties of a police officer for the city of winr to the best of my judgment and ability to the pass my judgment and ability so help me God so help me God and then we'll ask Megan to come up and
do the uh badge pinning on your one time to stabing I showed her how there's at least one em here welcome that my favorite part of the whole meeting so
me me undoubtedly all right committee notices updates um Michael what do you have for us anything not on the agenda yeah I have a list of things okay um we
received word today that we did not receive the DNR Grant they received over $15 million worth of funding requests and only had like four and a half million to give out uh we'll move forward we're going to have a parks meeting soon we're trying to do it after
the 4th of July and after Farm City FunFest just to give you an idea streams um so the water reuse facility meets tomorrow from 11: to 1 it's going to be a very long meeting I already had a pre- meeting today for three hours um we're
really getting into the nuts and bolts um to form a Wastewater District you know we have we've really employed a really great legal team from vatan Hood um and we're just really taking our time and due diligence on how we want to form this thing tomorrow with all the
partners with DFA Heartland corn products and the four cities uh we're going to make some kind of preliminary decisions that will come back to city council okay um so we're making making Headway election filing so for those that are running for election um our
time to file is July 30th through August 13th the primary and general election just so you guys know myself and Heather will be going to that um so Michelle will be the only one in the office but
um I don't Heather really wants to take over as like the head judge because I'm gonna force her to and you said she's gonna take over but I'm no we wanted to be collaborative you know if even we could do path days you
know someone opens in the future and someone closes but this is our first rodeo so we're both going to do it together otherwise um we have some election day training coming up the 17th 19th and then ppad training so there's a lot going on Second Street just road closure so we're trying to get Main
Street back open this week I know that has been significant to the businesses um I spoke to um some of the businesses downtown the grocery store owner it's had a significant impact so I encourage residents to drive the three blocks around the town and still visit those
businesses they really need your help um so Main Street was hopefully open but Redwood right now is our main artery North and South rev so I don't talk about this enough and I apologize uh so rev has
been going really well with Smith and we are we've been invited to apply for a grant for $20,000 to hire an Eda person for all three communities part-time um I there is a 25% match on that between the three
communities uh we have went to oana twice for some really great training on how to make important decisions and how to make the right decision and I'll give you an example like is it right for us
to try to reinvent all of economic development at one time no probably not but can we provide resources on how to get loans on how to get grants on how to get some of that stuff what about Educational Opportunity training so we're working on that stuff um I know
it's only been six months we've met about eight or 10 times we're really working through that process between the three communities I really feel confident in the group that we have I don't lift a finger hardly and they just they all work so well like one note takes and one does this and one
does it's just it's great they're a great group but we are applying for that Grant um as a r participant it was not so much guaranteed but very much guaranteed and suggested that we would receive that and I think that will be really helpful
um what organization will we pick I don't know we're going to actually interview them we chose to interview places like Ceda region N9 um the southern Minnesota initiative Foundation has some people so I'll will'll update you when we make those
decisions that's my last great I left siren ambulance for you all right um fire is up next I see Adam here but I know that um they recently went to a
moon's game collectively kind of socially um I Heard it went really great they wanted to do it again it didn't get rained out it didn't it didn't um but I thought it went really really well so
great all right um Library um there we've been meeting we just met uh summer programming is underway they didn't have enough kids to go to Kom so that was um something and they then
uh the donation was going to be from the Lions for that and they've talked to the Lions about doing something else maybe later to see if they can you know Rec up with another idea um the park one got
moved to Hans because of rainy weather but there were people there and um the little kids were have that um were're there we're having a great time with the musicians and um looks like it you know
that they were enjoying it um we have a float for the parade and that will be happening and there are we're sponsoring the Raptor Center and a program for Farm City FunFest on Saturday morning so they
have a bunch of activities PL for that prade on Sunday and that's kind of where we're at and they've adjusted summer hours so far that seems to be going well um so they're open Thursday nights later and
closing like at noon on Friday to mirror the city office than S okay good um Public Works Troy you got anything for us not much M pretty much covered it pumping water mixing street
lights Second Street project you're not busy at all I will tell you that Troy has been he's spent a significant amount of time on Second Street so thank you Troy and really I I've heard almost no complaints from people about I mean
think other than the inevitable it's it's ugly and it's a mess but it seems like when people have had any interactions with the the people working there it's been it's been good so from the business owner perspective of it they've been really really great
ious for customers if you all the sidewalks covered with stuff and they will either escort them excuse me escort them down the sidewalk or um you know run ahead of them and kind of clear the way for them so they
can uh safely pass the sidewalk and um in either direction so it's it's been good the uh gas people kind of messed us up for a few days but that's half don't I don't know they're done on our alley
that's all I care about yeah they made quite a mess all right um finding commission yes oh can I just say one more sure no just I just want to publicly thank
the staff and Troy and his staff for our outage yes work to get that back up and running so yeah that was remarkable than to find the
problem needle in a Hast stack needle in a hyack they were they able to get it fix the next morning and oh yeah yeah that night back oh they were back up at 2 am 1 I think the Nats just helped he made
you think quicker and clearer right I I saw the two of them out and they were just yeah it was getting it was getting the fourwheeler stuck that was the the icing on the cake oh my goodness well please pass that on to everybody we appreciate it
very much RS fiber I have nothing we have not met utilities anything um the only thing that we're really working on with utilities um are rates right now we're really concerned about it um not so much next year actually it's the year after
when our Second Street project will be you know the whole Bond will come to fruition so we got some work to do what about that aging report yeah the Aging report um you know 25,000 is really good I mean comparatively to where we used to be you know month to
month we used to have like 60,000 outstanding so I think that between Michelle and Heather um going after those shut offs and you know they're the Dirty Work that no one wants to do I know um we've really remained focused great
good ambulance so I'll cover the uh fire and ambulance building project um first so we've been meeting almost weekly um since well I don't even know since when but we've made very significant progress
in fact last Thursday we met in person up here with um the interior designers for the architectural company and uh the project manager and uh David I don't even know what his job is
overseer and uh so we had uh we picked all of the color pallets for the inside and color pallets for the outside so um he they are currently working on final final preliminary drawings for us
to approve and then um getting us a a budget uh figure so that Michael can then go to State I heard I was supposed to help too but go to the state and uh TR and apply for the bond and that type of thing so
very good progress um the isg has commented that uh we are ahead of where they thought we should be so that's I'm glad for that we won't meet this week because of the fourth but
then we'll meet the following week uh and that's back on Zoom again so um as far as the ambulance itself um I hate to say this out loud but it's it's starting to become more normal uh we went a whole weekend
without a call which was um some of the people that were on call were like well at least I could have you know whatever but uh so call volume is is starting to Norm ize a little bit um we
have uh uh done a little bit of uh Leighton was in yesterday afternoon and he did some work in the barn cleaning it out and just making it look more presentable you know as long as we there we may as well take care of it so
nothing other than that significant um we had one finished class this week and I have not had a chance to contact him and see how he did on the Practical exam but knowing the person I'm certain
that it's he did fine on that so he should be up for the National Registry pretty soon so yeah can I just say too um throughout the state you're gonna you've probably been seeing a lot of Articles referencing ambulance and the
shortfalls that are affecting all the communities um they did a one-time funding that ambulance will get at the end of this year of 62,000 some OD dollars but I think the big change that is
coming is the rule EMS board is going away and it's be kind become a state commissioner position with a board of directors and you know we keep talking about this um this change that EMS is going to
see and I think that when the state really takes over and start giving guidelines out I I really think that that's when they're going to say you have to have paid staff you have to have someone there it can't just be this volunteer show up no and it's not our fault we at
winr are very good at responding even our backup Rigg you know eight minutes I think was the last one we don't have a problem that was from page to transport by the way Page to transport not eight minutes just to get there oh there there
are a lot of street closures um but but there are a lot of places that are getting very long wait times and it's putting their services at risk um so the governor will actually be appointing a commissioner just like they did for Public Safety just like they do with all
deed everyone um and so that takes effect this January and I would assume somewhere this next summer we'll have some additional roll outs and some requirements that we have to meet um so that'll be really interesting
they know that funding is a problem because it's not just us it's everywhere what happens if thought the paid position some of the services can't find yeah well I think it I mean this this is
just my personal thought I feel like the the first paid Position will be more of a paid manager right but I'm talking about you still need to get people right and they can't get people right it doesn't matter if it's paid or yeah
that's that's very true yeah no I totally agree I mean we have they have bagers and they still can't respond because they don't have people yeah yeah yeah to to Michael's comment too about be you know Services being in trouble I
mean you just open up Google one day and search ambulance services or fire services that are closing their doors and there's hundreds of them Nationwide it's it's certainly not a Minnesota problem it's a it's a State national
problem and I think everybody just takes it for granted I mean we've all sort of come of age where you grab your phone and you D 911 and you assume that if you need the ambulance is going to be there really quickly and all of a sudden we're finding out that that's hard to find
people and it's expensive and have to fix it wow just one other thing too I I neglected there we we've been talking about every once in a while I'll bring up the medical cpath um which is a variance that we have to
apply for so that we can provide people with certain medical conditions cpath therapy on the way to the hospital and often times honestly the those medical conditions are are significantly resolved by using a seap well we've been
awarded awarded I guess isn't right where but we have the the variants in place now we've had the training and I believe the uh cpat masks and equipment is downstairs uh ready to be put in the ambulances so uh that'll
go into effect effect immediately um and there's a number of cases in the city that where we'll lose it so progress progress to the state takes
yeah well they're going to mandate things like I therapy and stuff like that I'm guessing so the further along we are the better off we be thank you being
proactive all right anything else um Logan please what you got for us I'm done obviously got Nick hired now so we're super excited about that uh he'll
be with Reed maybe till the middle of this this month um and then we'll see him out and about on his own and whatnot um we're also pretty excited
about the part-timer that expressions or wanting to come and work for us part-time um so he's going through the background process right now um so yeah it's W's getting out there which is nice and they want to come work for wi
through um PDS also nearly done we have the doors delivered for the garage they're not on yet um so the apron out front is good to go to drive on and everything now so we're like 98% there
so so what the hold with the doors they just didn't come in or what I'm honestly not sure they're they're there now they're in our garage just not where they're supposed to be installed yet so I'm hoping this week it gets done and
then I'll be completely you could handcuff the guy and drag him over I will say that the police station is the only building in our entire um well I guess other than the pump down by
sewer but the only one that actually has a working generator now um so when we did have the power outage Verizon was out and thank goodness Reed came to work like three hours early that day because I couldn't get on the internet to let people know what was going
on and then you know as we pressed through that night you know I was just thinking if we need to get the the fire department out right now I it would take a very long time so we've got to rethink this whole generator thing and I looked at
the gener care $77,000 just to open doors that's all we need you know so it's something that we're probably going to bring up and explore again yeah because it's um you know even to get the Public Works doors up that was that was not fun it was not
a great experience and the fire doors are like double that size they're very heavy um ambulance had a page like immediately when the power went out and Ed responded to that one I think thankfully and for whatever reason I I don't know if it was a mistake or if
Troy actually had forethought but when he bought the new garage door opener it has a battery backup on it so we were able to get in the building oh my so just little things like that I didn't mean to take your th no that's I'm
done but that is a good point that and then we did do a test run with the generator as well and everything comes back online and everything immediately almost so and that one's natural gas so the one at the lift station is diesel
which is fine but then you have to remember to fill the thing right you know that dependent on time of year then as far as whether it will start or not I mean and maintenance is is harder on it
I think Kyle often said that what the one with PD it'll as long as there's natural gas get you can do it it'll keep running yeah so so nice but thanks Reed for being there three hours early did you did you get the generator from Kyle then uh no Paul
I don't know where Paul ordered it from but Kyle's the one that installed it and he does all the electric so so maybe we can take something good from that power outage that we can plan and be more prepared for another being a little bit more prepared especially since you know
City Hall is technically a fall shelter yeah and there's no backup power here either and our heat is coming from Electric so I mean there would be no heat here you might want to have some conversations about this we're working on it okay we this building is very
different electrically like we don't know how that would exactly work because the panels are all down in the garage and that generator can't power like the whole building at one time so you have to kind of like pick and choose which
panel and then the heating panels are up here so it's a little bit confusing we're working on it it was interesting how many people I heard made emergency runs to newal
Menard's Hutch wherever generators to they were none in Hutch I talked to somebody looking for stuff to run some pumps so there'll be a lot of people looking for backup battery yeah things and seff some pops as well
okay um any questions for Logan otherwise we're good commission done our meeting got cancelled so we'll have one July okay we have not met since the last meeting I just got more preliminary um
design ideas and cost estimates so we can kind of go through what get done see where okay do we have anything else not somebody like to make a motion to adjourn
so by is there a second was fav