Wyoming, Minnesota, May 6, 2025. Let the record reflect we do have a quorum. Member Luger, member Anstad, member Schilling, Member Joerger, and Mayor Iverson are present. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. 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. All right, we have open forum next. Open forum is an opportunity for members of the public to address the city council
on items that are either on or may not be on the current agenda. Items requiring council action may be deferred to staff or boards and commissions for research and future council agendas if appropriate. You will be limited to three minutes and we ask that you
conduct yourself in a professional, courteous manner and refrain from the use of profanity. Failure to abide by this policy may result in the loss of your privilege to speak. Do we have anybody here tonight that would like to speak in open
forum? Seeing none, we'll move on to number one. Consider approving uh the minutes of the regular meeting of the Minnesota of the Wyoming Minnesota City Council for April 15, 2025. Are there any questions or comments? If not, we need a motion to
approve. We have a motion by member Lucer. Do we have a second? Second by member Anstad. All in favor? I opposed. So approved. Number two. Consider approving the minutes of the work session of the Wyoming Minnesota City
Council for April 15, 2025. If there are no questions or comments, we need a motion to approve. So moved. We have a motion to approve by member Schilling. Do we have a second? Second. Second by member Onstead. All in favor? I opposed.
So approved. Schedule public hearing. Um number Oh, do we have I have to open that up, don't I? Not not yet. Mayor, you can start off and then we can we can have let Mr. Ericson give his presentation to the council and then we can open it up from there. Sounds great.
Thank you, Madam Mayor, members of council. This meeting This evening is the public hearing for the 202 meeting. A number of property audience here. There we go. So again, this is the
location on the screen here. court. Next slide. I don't need to go through all of this in a lot of detail because you've heard it twice already. No, but we're certainly aware of the efforts and how we arrived at projects. This is really
property owners that we have pretty good moving forward and we do street ratings for years road tours. We do public engineering road tours and we get a lot of feedback from the public and so we ultimately develop
capital that's how we arrive at the following are just a series of photos showing the condition of the road a lot of the distresses that we see that we want to address before deeper potholes where it really impacts the base course as well so we're able to
take that top layer of pavement off what's called And so we're going to overlay that. You can see in the top photo there, you can see it's removing the top layer of that asphalt. That's where we're seeing a lot of those distresses mentioned. The
second photo is really following back up with the first or I guess the final layer of asphalt, replacing what you um have installed or what you had removed. Um and so there will be some spot curbon gutter and major minor drainage improvements within that area. There's
some standing water in a couple of the curb lines that we want to address. There's some damaged curb that we'll replace as well. And then we're also proposing to replace uh the trail in its entirety and that needs to be built to state a I'm sorry, well, state aid and
ADA standards. And so we'll we'll want to add pedestrian curb ramps and things of that nature that currently don't exist there either, but we'll replace the pavement as well. At this time, this is really the proposed improvements. As you can see, we're
going to mill the top two inches of pavement off and replace it with 2 in. And then on the right, uh this is the the portion along 256. It does have a trail along that section. So, we'll replace um that that trail section as well with the
project. Um this is the section for all of the culde-sacs. You can see there's no trail on those. And so, very similar improvement, just removing that top layer of asphalt and replacing it. Um, as far as funding, uh, 20% is
proposed to be assessed per our city assessment policy. It does not include the trail. We only assess for the street and the drainage improvements. Um, the assessment calculation is based on a unit and so we look at the total number of units uh,
within the product area and determine if there are any subdividable parcels. And so we are not seeing any of those with this project. And so 80% assessed uh for the street and drainage and all remaining funds would be paid for uh with city costs, city
funding. Uh in the figure shown there, those are all of the parcels that are proposed to be assessed. There are a couple along uh last year's project uh that are not being assessed because their driveways access those roadways and they're only assessed for the for
the roadway in which their driveway has access. And so you can see the total uh assessment amount again just for the street and ser uh street and drainage improvements is $442,700. We take 20% of that and we end
up with $88,540 being assessed over 52 parcels resulting in approximately $1,73. We do expect um you know bids are coming in really good. We've uh reflected that in our estimates. We hope
they come in good by the time we bid as well. Um, and then there's some some variables, right? We know that there may be some underlying payment that needs to be repaired as well. So, they'll, you know, that number may fluctuate a little bit, but I certainly would think it'd be under the $2,000 mark. Um, assessment process, we do
follow state statute for that. It's state statute chapter 429. This is one of the required meetings. We do have multiple meetings uh typically uh above and beyond what is required. Uh we find property owners appreciate that and they're certainly more engaged and we
get a better product uh out of that. Um, property owners uh do have certain rights within that process and one is the right to appeal and so they can provide in writing either before or at the assessment hearing and uh uh with
with the ability really to or the statements to appeal that and within 30 days they would be required to file that with Chicago courts. As far as interest rate uh that is set at the time of assessment certification. Next slide.
Um, I see I have on here a 15-year period. My apologies. We talked for this project probably more in line with a five to 10 year assessment, and we don't need to determine that now. Um, but being it's under $2,000, we certainly would expect it would be at most 10 and
maybe even more likely five year. And so, we'll address that at a future meeting. Interest rates have varied um in recent years from that four to five and a quarter% that we've charged for that. Um, as far as assessments, property owners do have the right to pre
prepay in advance of um, having to pay interest over a period of time such five or 10 years that we discussed. Um, and if they do not prepay, which is certainly okay, um, they would be applied to their property taxes. We would certify those assessments with the
county and they would be placed on your property tax statements. Next slide. Um this is really just kind of a graphic that shows that public improvement process um with you know either a petition project and the authorization to prepare a
feasibility study public hearing kind of walks through um the process and so we're relatively early on in that process and I can maybe show that in the next slide with a little bit more detail specific to the timelines and schedules for this project.
Um you can see the top three items, the feasibility study ordered, uh the received the feasibility study, we've had a publicformational meeting. Those have already been completed. We're at this May 6th meeting, the public hearing. If you're inclined to order the improvements this evening, um we would
uh approve the plans and specifications and order the advertisement for bids at that May 20th meeting and then we would be able to receive bids at the June 19th time frame. and then award a contract at our first meeting in July and then um
begin construction sometime in July or August and have that project completed yet this fall. So pretty short duration project. So that I'll stand for any questions and you open that up to public comments. Yeah. So Mr. Ericson, I'm going to start. Um for all the residents
that might be watching that just had the road completed or what's going on now, it's a big difference in numbers, right? Yes. Can you explain maybe just really high level the difference between the two? Yes. So the project that is currently under construction is a full
depth pavement replacement. Um there's full uh addition of concrete curb and gutter on a large portion of that project. Um there's also drainage improvements more significant than what we have with this project. And then uh when we compare that to this project,
it's simply removing the top layer of asphalt. And so the assessment number is less. The longevity of the improvements will also be less. And so there's a trade-off, but um we certainly feel this is the right fix for the right uh right sizing the project um based on its
condition and available resources. So we think it's a a great opportunity to fix this become before it becomes more expensive for the city and for the residents. Perfect. Thank you. Questions? Questions from council member Luger? Uh no questions. Member Anstead? No questions. Member Schilly. I have no
questions. Member Joerger. No questions. All right. So, um, we need a motion to go into the public hearing. So moved. Motion by member Schilly. Do we have a second? We have a second by member Anstad. All in favor? Opposed. All
right. Is there anybody here wishing to um talk some more about the road this road project that would like to come up? None. Seeing none, we need a motion to go out of the public hearing to close it. We have a motion by um member Luger.
Do we have a second? Second by member Onstead. All in favor? I opposed. So approved. We are now back into our meeting. Number three, to consider resolution 25533, a resolution ordering the project and authorizing the preparation of plans and
specifications for the 2025 street improvement project. If there are no further questions, we need a motion to approve. So moved. Motion to approve by member Anstead. Do we have a second? Second. Second by member Lucer. All in favor? I opposed. So approved. Consent
agenda. Items under the consent agenda will be adopted with one motion. However, council members may request individual items be pulled from the consent agenda for discussion and action if they choose. Consent agenda number four,
five, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. I'll pull 13 and 14. Any others need to be pulled? All right. Do we need a motion to approve? Again, four, five, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10, 11, and 12, and 15, sorry, and 15. Do we have a motion to approve? So moved. We have a motion by member Anstead. Do we have a second? Second. Second by member Luger. All in favor? I. Number 13. I pulled that one because I just wanted to say congratulations to
Jake Coral for the Wyoming Fire Department chief. So that was just a a congratulations to him. Um we're excited that he was able to be in that position. Yes. Thank you. All right. And then number 14 is to consider the retirement
retirement of Sergeant Beardsley. police department. So, um I'm just going to say we'd like to thank him for his years of service and um are we planning something maybe down the road? We'll do it closer to his retirement date. Yes. Okay. We just needed to get it approved tonight and then we'll do something at a council
meeting down the road. Yes. Sounds great. Well, um Sergeant Beasley will be will be very missed. So, thank you. I'll pass that along. Yeah. And then, um that's all we have. So, I will move to approve 13 and Can I do that? 13 and 14,
right? Or do I have to do them separate? Separate. One at a time. Okay. I move to approve number 13 to consider the resation of Oh, I got that wrong, didn't I? Says the resation of Jes. Sorry. Yeah, we're all good.
Okay. So, I move to approve the res resignation of Jack Bro from the Wyoming Fire Department. Uh, do we have a second? Second. Second. All in favor? I I uh opposed. So approved. Sorry Jake, we will miss you on the fire department. Let's just
say that. All right. Number 14 to consider the retirement retirement of Sergeant Lads Beardsley for the Wyoming Police Department. Do I'll make the motion to approve. Do we have a second? Second. Second um by member onstead. All in favor?
Opposed? So approved sadly. All right. um acknowledge receipts um of reports of officer boards, commissions, and department heads um number 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20. Do we have anybody who wishes to pull an item from the
reports? Seeing none, we'll move on to communications number 21, Wyoming Police Department by annual body camera audit. Chief Bower. Yes, that's me. Uh, Mayor Iverson, members of council, as you may remember, every two years we are
required to have an external uh company come in and do an audit of our bodywn camera um system. We contracted with Rampart Auto audit LLC um and we did our previous audit two years ago. Um overall
we had really good success with with our body warn camera program. Um the audit found that we were substantially compliant with related statutes. Um we did the public notice prior to implementing the body warn camera program that was done um four year over
four years ago at this point. Uh we have a policy that was just updated with our Lexapole policy transition and it reflects any of the changes that were made in 2023 with the legislature. Um we're currently using ax on body 4. uh
all of the data is stored on the cloud and is stored securely with Axon. Um we have been categorizing and it's retaining the different types of video by statute and um and our preservation is being done properly. Um we I do
audits on a monthly basis just to do I pull 10 different cases and make sure that they're being used properly. Um, and it's a great way for me to have a kind of a peak into the awesome work that's being done. I I'm writing a lot of complimentary notes by watching these
and and and it's a great way for me to see the work that's being done. Um, some recommendations they had. There are some possible future uh wishes by the legislature, but they're not in law yet. Um, and I did uh have some conversation
with the auditors to say that I'm happy to implement them once they're actually passed through the legislature once they're in law, but until then, um, you know, I'd like to see where that goes, but we'll make any changes that are required at that point. Um, I'll throw in, this wasn't necessary in the audit, but Cali Resnney does all of our body
warn camera maintenance and all other evidence and her processing. Um, and does a phenomenal job of keeping up on this. It's a huge undertaking, especially when we have body cam requests for data requests for it from the public or attorneys or anybody else.
So, she does a really fantastic job and um overall we had a really good audit and really pretty painless along the way. So, um it's really being the cops are doing a great job categorizing things. We stay on top of it and um overall is a really good audit. So, I'll
stand for any questions any might have. Perfect. So, we'll start with member onstead. No questions. Member Schilling. Uh, no questions. Member Jerger. No questions. Member Luger. No questions. I have no questions. I just want to say congratulations. You guys have worked really hard to put all of this in place.
Yeah. And um it just shows the dedication that our Wyoming Police Department has what they do. Thank you. Yep. Uh number 22, Wyoming Fire Department performance measures quarter one. I'm thinking that's Chief. It's also me. Uh let's see. So, as you may
remember from a work session at the end of it or might have been the beginning of this year, I don't remember off the top of my head. Um, we started doing looking at doing some performance measures uh within the fire department just to really have a get a better sense of um where areas we might need to improve, what areas are we're really
doing well in. Um and even that when we've gone through the data over the last the first quarter of the year um we possibly will make some changes throughout the year just as we start seeing oh this also would be a good thing to track. So um this is our first version that we'll put out. Um but as
you can see incident volume uh 70 calls in the first quarter a lot of them are medical related um but we did have quite a few fire responses as well. Um, as far as the response performance, the response calculations
that we're using, um, as I anticipated, are 100% of the time we're making it within the calculation. Um, that still isn't the the desired goal that I'm hoping for, even though it is 100%. Because we're still not able to access arrival times of separate
apparatus or separate vehicles through Shazak County Dispatch. um only the first arriving vehicles being logged as a time and that usually would be a chief vehicle. So on like a structure fire, what we want to know is when is the first arriving apparatus or truck that can
that can do take action. That's what we need to know and we currently don't have that ability. So we're working through some manual ways to do that. Um so we hope to have better data in there and then you'll see some fluctuation of response goals at that point. But um you know again overall doing really well in
that area. Incident commander on scene um we're at 100% for most calls, 83% for medicals. They're not even really required on medicals. Um but it as you can see I I started we tracked it just as a 83% of the time that's we have an
officer or a command level person from the fire department responding. Um our responder numbers overall we're doing really well in those areas. your alarms and medicals. Um fire calls with that benchmark that was set with Chief Milligan who was we're at
about 28% of the time we're having 10 firefighters from Wyoming on scene. So um that's you know we'll continue to monitor that and see again that's you know when we have 23 24 active firefighters and we're looking for 10 on a fire that's a that's a high number considering the number of firefighters
we have. Um mutual aid we're providing more mutual aid than we're receiving. Um we had four during that quarter where we provide mutual aid to other communities in our area. Uh we didn't have any public education outreach events in the first quarter. It's generally a slower
time but still we'd like to um you know have be a little more proactive in that area to try and do some community engagement. Uh recruitment and staffing. Uh this was a really good quarter for recruiting overall. Um three firefighter applications and seven seven EMS
responder applications. As you saw earlier in the council meeting, we did have uh three that three EMS responders that were moving forward in the process, which is a fantastic next step for us. Um overall with that 28 goal for having active firefighters or EMS responders,
we're in that 23 to 24. Um working on looking at uh response numbers, just making sure that the firefighters we do have are making are meeting the minimum call volumes that that we have that is set by policy. So, we'll continue to work through that. uh eight incidents with
recorded property loss. We don't have a dollar value. That's a difficult, you know, we don't have the dollar value attached to that. So any property damage is categorized there. Uh as far as our equipment goes, everything is within its expected service life. Ladder truck has reached 100% of its intended lifespan. One
things that did change and you'll notice when we work through budget session this year um some of the requirements for you know using a firetruck for 30 years really is just not uh recommended anymore. Um they're looking at 15 doing
re refurbs on them um and then max of 25 years. So we have that reflected um in there and we'll continue to monitor what that looks like as well. Um we haven't done any fire inspections. That's we know that's something we need to work on. Um we'll address that possibly through the budget workshop or budget
session this year. And then health and wellness, we've uh we've met on that. Um I worked on it over the last couple weeks and we've got some good next steps we'll take a look at, but um those benchmarks are still being or those performance measures still being addressed. So um that's just a quick
summary. If there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. I'm curious I'm curious about the 12 structural fires in March. Is that usual to see more of an uptick in early early spring? So that
could be anything you know when you look at structure fire, wildland fire, that could be anything that's on fire gets categorized as that way. So um you know realistically that could be a grass fire um you know along the side of the freeway and that would categorize as that. But as we you know it's been very
dry as well all those type of things come into play. So yeah. Okay. Thank you. Uh, member Schilling, questions. Uh, no questions. Member Joerger, no questions. Member Luger, no questions. Member, no questions. All right. Thank you for that update. We appreciate that.
Um, let's see where we at. Number 22. Why? Let's see. We got that 23. Um, Arbor Day event 2025. And I believe that's Mr. That's me. Yeah. Uh, honorable mayor and members of the city council, um, the city did hold its annual Arbor Day tree
planting event on Saturday, April 26th, uh, from 11 to 1. We had roughly 25 volunteers out there, all made up from local, um, scout packs. You actually met 57731, the troop, um, they were the ones to do the last little library here. So,
um, they're out all day. They helped us plant six rather large trees out at Comfort Park. Um, and so I know that the kids got a lot of work done for sure, especially as the soil changed from kind of lomy to uh, you know, everything that we have here sand and then we got to
clay eventually too. So, but no, it was great. There's now six new trees out at uh, Comfort Park. Did they play disc golf, too, while they were at there? No, we did watch some people come and throw some uh, some frisbees. So, all right, that's awesome. We'll start with Member Joerger with any
questions. No questions. Uh, member Luger, also no questions. Member Anstad, I was going to ask about the disc golf, too, but other than that, no questions. Member Shilly. Uh, no questions. I love this. All right. Um, and then number 24, Wyoming Touch a Truck. I believe that's
again, Mr. McFarland. Yep. From one event that did happen to one that's going to happen. We'll do our Touch Truck again this year on Saturday, June 7th from 10 to noon out at Good View Park. Again, um, we're currently in the process of reaching out to different vendors. We've confirmed a few such as
uh Rosenbower, Wyman PD and fire, uh Fairview EMS, the county sheriff, uh and we're still reaching out to more as well. I'm expecting about the same number, if not more than last year, of trucks out there. Um overall, I think it's one of the most fun events that I get to go to each year. Um so definitely looking forward to doing that again this
year. And it's at Good View Park, right? Yep. At Good View again. All right, questions from council. Um let's see. We are Member Luger, no questions. Member Anstad, no questions. Member Schilling, no questions. Member Joerger, no questions. And I have no further
questions. Good job. Uh, number 25, Arrowhead Transit Phase three. I believe that's Mr. Lynwood. Yes. Thank you, Mayor, members of council. This is an update. Um, Arrowhead Transit has been busy working on a redesigned transit system, and they'll have a kickoff uh
public input um I guess celebration initiative on June 2nd, 2025. uh Cambridge as part of their rides smart in 2025. They have a new redesigned website along with um what they believe and I think so as well will have um e
easier usability and end user um as far as their website and trying to figure out how their routes are structured and where you can go on them. So I think there's I think they um there's now 12 new routes. Um they have new dialer ride boundaries and then some more consistent
loop timing in regards to how you can get on and get off. So, I think upgrades to the system is they continue to see a growth in ridership on that. Um, if you go on their website, they do have um some docs that identify a little more on what the different times are and things
like that. But, um, a few more route opportunities now in Wyoming as well through this writership. So, just something to let the public know about. And I think we'll the city will make a point to try to get this on our social media pages to let people that utilize it or want to utilize it more that there
is new routes and new uh accessibility to hopefully understand those routes better. Okay. Will we be able to have a link on our web page? Certainly. Yeah, we certainly I think that would be very helpful. Um okay, so questions. Did I start with you? Who did I start with? I
wasn't paying attention. Let's go with I have no questions. Member Schilling, no questions. Member Joerger, no questions. Member Luger, no questions. All right, so we'll move on to new business number 26 to consider and prove
and approve the 2024 city of Wyoming audit um presentation. And Mr. Lynwood, are you starting with that first? I I can start. Uh Mr. Mr. Arend Doll is here from Bergen BKV and he will uh be doing the presentation on our 20204 audit uh
summation overview for the council and then allowed to ask any questions at the end of that. Thanks Rob. Thanks Mayor. Thanks Col. Um I'm Aaron Dal audit manager with Bergen KDB. Uh I appreciate the opportunity to present here tonight and the opportunity to serve as your city's auditors again
this year. So we'll start kind of with the financial financial communications. Uh starting uh kind of basing on the responsibilities. So management is responsible for the financial statements. Uh we as auditors
are responsible to express an opinion on the financial statements. Uh for the year ended December 31st 2024, we did issue an unmodified opinion which is the best opinion uh we can give as auditors. So a great job by the finance team and city staff and accomplishing that again
this year. Uh with that opinion, it provides assurance that the financial statements are fairly presented in all material respects. We also issue a report on the government auditing standards and happy to report no audit findings this year. And then the last report relates to the Minnesota legal
compliance. So we take a look at things like bed testing, conflicts of interest, uh collateral, things of that nature. Uh happy to report no legal compliance findings. Next, we'll kind of jump into some of the financial analysis. So, that's contained in the communications letter.
Uh, starting with the general fund revenue. So, we have the past five years presented here. Overall for 2024, revenue did increase by about 82,000 or 1.7% compared to the prior year. Uh, revenue from taxes and assessments
increase by about 499,000 with an increase in the tax levy allocation for the general fund. The largest decrease was in the intergovernmental revenue category which decreased by about 450,000 um due to greater public safety aid and then um American Rescue Plan Act revenue
in 2023. So some of those federal ARPA funds were used up in the prior year. Uh licenses and permits increased by about 74,000 uh due to greater building activity in 2024 compared to 2023. Next we have the expenditures for the
general fund over the past five years. Um overall here expenditures increased by about 226,000 or 5.6% compared to the prior year. Uh public safety expenditures increased by about 184,000 uh with additional spending of that public
safety aid received in 2023 um along with some higher expenditures related to salaries and benefits based on the number of employees and program hours for the program. General government expenditures increased by about 60,000 uh due in part to increases in professional service and
supply costs. Uh and these increases were partially offset by a decrease in culture and recreation expenditures of about 48,000 with lesser repair and maintenance needs for the year. And the other categories were relatively in line uh with the previous
year. Next we have the general fund revenues kind of broken out by percentage here. So, um, the biggest increase, um, from 2023 to 2024 was in that taxes and special assessments category, which increased from about 76% up to about
85%. Uh, licenses and permits also saw a slight increase from three and a half um, up to 4.9%. Uh, and the main offset there was in the intergovernmental revenue category, which dropped from about 14% uh, down to 4.8% again related to that
public safety aid and the ARPA funding. Similar charts here on the expenditure side. Uh so public safety continues to um have the majority with 55.2% which was up from 53.8 in the prior year. Uh general government had a
slight uptick from 16.7 to 17.2. Uh and the offsets here were public works which dropped from 23.9 down to 22.4 and Culture Interact which dropped from 5.4 down to a flat 4%. Next we have the general fund budget to
actual results. So uh the council did approve a budget that called for about 4.7 million in both revenues and expenditures for the year. Actual revenues came in about 260,000 over budget while the actual expenditures were about 417,000 under budget. Uh the
net net other financing uses uh totaled 538,000. All that was driven by transfers out of the general fund based on some of that surplus. Uh even with that the variances allowed fund balance to increase by about 139,000 for the year. Um taking a
look at the revenue side uh actual revenues of about 4.9 million came about 5.5% over budgeted revenues of 4.7 million. Uh miscellaneous revenues were 179,000 over budget uh due in large part to investment income and reimbursements
exceeding the budgeted amounts. Licenses and permits was about 89,000 over budget with again that greater building permit activity they anticipated. while the other categories were relatively um in line with the budget amounts. On the
expenditure side, actual expenditures of 4.3 million were under budgeted expenditures of 4.7 million by about 8.9%. Largest variance here was in the public safety expenditures which were 294,000 under budget uh due in part to
expenditures related to salaries, benefits, insurance costs, and maintenance costs coming in less than anticipated. Culture and recreation was about 84,000 under budget uh with some salaries and benefit and the repair and maintenance costs coming in less than budgeted while
the other categories were again relatively in line uh with the budget. All right, next we have the general fund fund balance for the past five years. So the unrestricted fund balance at the end of 2024 of about 3.3 million represented about eight months
or 65.8% 8% of 2024 expenditures. Uh the city's fund balance policy uh does target um an amount not less than 55% of the subse subsequent year's budgeted expenditures. Um and happy to report at
the end of 2024 it did represent about 66.4. So a nice little wiggle room there uh for the general fund fund balance. Next, we have tax capacity, tax capacity rate, and the tax levy for the five years presented here. So, um, breaking
that down, kind of taking a look at the five-year trend, that tax capacity has increased by about 5.1 million or 55.2% over that fiveyear trend. Over that same time frame, the tax levy has increased by about 1.2 million or 28.7%.
Uh so kind as a result of that tax capacity increasing at a higher rate than the tax levy, you'll see that tax capacity rate has decreased from about 43.6% in 2020 down to 37.9% at the end of
2024. Next, we'll take a look at the enterprise funds and starting with the water fund operations here. So operating revenues decreased by about 35,000 or 4.8% kind of based on the water usage for the year. Um expenses increased by
about 192,000 or 31.8% for the year based on allocations of salaries, benefits, uh pension expense recognized and then depreciation expense as well. Uh the end result here was an operating loss of about 112,000 uh which includes
that depreciation number. Uh operating income without depreciation uh still had a surplus of about 148,000. We have the net position next for the water fund. Uh for the past five years that did decrease slightly by about
23,000 um in 2024 uh the main driver there net investment in capital assets actually did increase by about 734,000 with the unrestricted side of things decreasing by about 757,000. Next we have the super fund
operations. Uh revenues here decreased by about 14,000 with expenses increasing by about 236,000. Uh some additional expenses again related to the allocation of salaries and benefits uh repairs and maintenance and also some improvement costs for the year. The end result here
was an operating loss of about 380,000 uh including that depreciation figure. And if you take out that depreciation, uh, slight surplus there of about 22,000. The net position for this one, uh, decreased overall by about 197,000. Uh, the unrestricted portion
decreased by about 226,000 with the net investment in capital asset portion increasing by 30,000. Next, we have the surface water fund. Operating revenue here increased by about 5,000. operating expenses increased by
25,000. Uh expenses increased in large part due to greater repair and maintenance needs for the surface water fund. Uh the end result here was operating income of 127,000 which again was positive for the second consecutive year. And then that operating income
without depreciation sat at 183,000. Then lastly, the net position again for the surface water fund. Uh overall that total increased by about 157,000 and the net investment portion decreased by 55,000 with the
unrestricted portion increasing about 213,000. With that, I'll open it up to any questions or comments the council may have. All right. And we will start with member Schilling. Uh I don't have any questions. Thank you for the presentation. Member Joerger. I do have a question about the water and sewer
funds operating at a loss when depreciation is factored in. I mean, why is this happening despite following the rate studies recommendation? Rob, do you want to touch on that one? I can. We do have Jesse Starts here as
well. I think last year we saw some some anomalies within what we believe are anomalies within our enterprise fund. Um, we did have a trunk water mane project that was finished and that was calculated within our rate studies, but it was a larger uh number in regards to that. It was 821,000. So, we utilized
about 450,000 of ARPA funds. Um, we had some um major equipment repairs. We had a number of unanticipated water main breaks. Um, we did have to replace some equipment at well number three. And then the south tower mixer supply install um due to some of that work being moved
into 2024 instead of 2023. Um, we did have the larger sewer upsizing project as well in 2024. Um, and then a number of lift station repairs as well and then an unanticipated sewer lining. So, I think there were some things in um, especially within our capital and just
maintenance items that were uh, a little more than we would usually see in a year, but uh, we will continue to watch our water and sewer and make sure that this isn't a consistent um, theme that is going forward. But um, we'll be already monitoring in 25 and we continue
to do so through through the rest of the year because I mean my concern when I when we did the rate study, you know, the consultant was reassuring that we would finally operate at a profit or
expenses, revenues over expenses. And so to see that, you know, still operating at a loss, do we anticipate continuing to operate at a loss for the duration of the rate study? Well, I think years past we've had we've had operating losses with depreciation. That's been fairly
normal and our net overall our operating has been fine, but we've have had losses with depreciation. So, I think you find that pretty consistent throughout most of our audits. Like I said, this year we did have some unanticipated costs um that we normally don't see. Um we are hopeful based on the rate study, the
rates and the budget that was put in place for 25 and that we'll track a little more appropriately. So, we won't see um as much of that with depreciation uh profit being as low and hopefully that'll be in a better place in 25. But we will continue to monitor that um and
if necessary, we can work with the individuals who did the rate study and um just to make sure that we are in a good place on these funds. We're still in a a very strong net position on both the water and sewer fund, but we will continue to to watch those closely. Okay. Thank you. Right. Member Luger.
Questions? member onstead. No questions. I have um one question to whoever wants to answer this. So, we did have three or four water main bricks this last year. I want to say it's three. In 24 we had one
water man break and two service repairs on our side of the curb. Okay. All right. And um just in general, how often does that normally happen? I mean, is there any way to prevent that? I can't imagine unless you go down and you put a
camera in and look at everything. Am I right on that or I think I'm Mr. Reeves, but I think water mane breaks are kind of a normal. We we've been pretty lucky up in Wyoming, I think, due to a lot of our sandy soils, but soils help a lot. The the some of the ser the service water connections. I think those are
somewhat I don't want to say anomalies, but not as we don't anticipate those as often. And we had some fairly significant costs on a couple of those last year. I don't know, Mr. Reeves, if you wanted to add anything. No, what I've seen has been a short window of time and it's been about one break a
year and I can attribute that to some of the soils like mentioned. Um, our infrastructure is pretty new also. So I think going forward we can anticipate even with taking into account soils as infrastructure ages it will break down.
So that should be but that's a ways down the line. Yeah, that was kind of my question. So, it's pretty hard to plan for them. Although, there is a contingency plan if something like that does happen. Correct. It's kind of built into some of this, right? So, but we
can't We don't have crystal balls. Um, we're at one break for 25. Okay. We did have one in January. Oh, that's right. That's why I was thinking it lined up with it was the coldest weekend of the year. It was actually starting to warm up, which is when you start to see more breaks and it was in an older area town
where the infrastructure So it was pretty pretty dead. Perfect. Thank you. Um Mr. Onstead, Commissioner, Council Member Onstead has a question, an additional question. We also did an extension of the water man
that went underneath the freeway. Uh was that is that included in any of this or We did we did have in the RA study that um that was with within that just a larger project on that essentially. We we utilize some ARPA funds for that. So
it was approximately half of our half it was the project cost on that for the water man was about 825,000 and I think we used 450,000 of ARPA the rest would have been coming out of our water fund proceeds for that capital investment and putting that
water under the freeway. Okay. And well it looks like we're going to eventually see some good things coming out of that. So all right um thank you so much. We appreciate it Mr. D for coming in. Good. Thank you again. Thank you. All right, we need um to approve the
2024 City of Wyoming audit presentation. Do we have a motion to approve? So moved. We have a motion to approve by member Schilling. Do we have a second by member Luger? All right. All in favor? I opposed. So approved. Number 27 to
consider approving an electronic sign policy for the city of Wyoming electric sign, which I am so excited to finally have that. I feel like we're a big city. So, Mr. Lynwood, are you gonna work with us? Mr. McFarland. Mr. McFarland. All
right. Yes. Honorable mayor and members of the city council. Um, as you probably remember, the Wyoming city council approved the purchase for the city electronic sign at their regular meeting on December 17th, 2024. um that sign was purchased using American Rescue uh Plan
Act funds or ARPA funds as well as um through a contribution from the city's economic um development authority or EDA. Um the sign was installed during the week of uh April 21st um and is now up by Railroad Park, just not on yet.
Um, so we're excited to use this new uh communication tool just to kind of share about uh prominent things and announcements throughout the the city. Uh, with the installation of that sign and honestly when uh the purchase went through, staff then began working on a uh a electronic sign policy just to
create a guideline to uh assist staff in determining what can go on that message. Uh it's not uncommon, in fact it's pretty common for most cities that have an electronic sign to have a policy like this. It's even more common for cities to receive requests for things to go on the sign from anywhere from a, you know,
a hundred year old's birthday party or just a, you know, an eight-year-old turning eight. Um, but you receive everything, you know, far in between. Um, so staff put together this draft which has been um attached um just to ensure that we're being fair and uh that the sign is using has appropriate use um
as we make those decisions for what goes on. In terms of a a policy overview, um the policy lays out that it'll prioritize content or the sign will prioritize content that is um related to notices for public meetings for governmental agencies. Um events and
updates related to the city of Wyoming, Wyoming Police Department and the fire department. Um as well as notices and events from Forest Lake area schools and specifically we're talking about Wyoming Elementary as that falls within the borders of Wyoming. Um election information for our residents. um events
that are sponsored or co-sponsored by the city um city uh sorry just the city itself law enforcement agencies um or Wyoming elementary uh and then we also have any nonprofit community events uh according uh or that are occurring within the city of Wyoming that would also be partnered with us. For instance,
we have the anonymous Santa food drives. We do a blood drive now. Um it then also states or it lays out the guidelines for um anything that were to go on the sign such as the events um needing to take place within the city of Wyoming. Um the fact that city admin
staff will review all submissions. Um and we reserve the right to approve approve, prioritize, and revise postings as needed. It's through software that we can schedule what goes on the sign and when. So you can change the order of what's occurring and how long that's up there. Um each message will be displayed for no more than seven days. Um, and no
more than one message per entity may be displayed per month for those outside entities. Um, messages from the city of Wyoming are going to take priority over all other content um and may be displayed indefinitely. Uh, postings containing religious content, political campaign information, personal messages
or unrelated business, advertising are not permitted. Um, and lastly, requests for postings can be submitted to and then we just provide the generic Wyoming wyoming.org email. Um, so staff is recommending that city council approve of the electronic sign policy as presented. Mr. McFarland, I think there
is one thing you forgot to put in there, and that was that the mayor could have their picture up there at any time. We've already got it prepped. All right. All right. Questions. Let's start um with member Luger. I have no questions. Member Anstead, about the political, I know that we can't promote for anybody,
but will we put like election information? Yep. So that would state, you know, um pre it could state. We're limited in the space there, but and we'll look into this more, but precinct location, when election dates are, what the election is, very, you know, just baseline information on where to go to vote, those kind of things. Good. Okay.
Member Schilling. No questions. I'm still laughing at um member Joerger. Um the Wyoming library, is it mentioned in the policy? Where does it fall? I don't know if we had um discussed that. administer Lynwood
that would be a a community partner. We would look at the library that as they exist would be like governmental or a nonprofit or um we we pay for a portion of the library. So I would consider it a a partner within the city. So, they would have um maybe not clearly
identified or stated within the policy and we could add that, but they would have the ability to to utilize the sign as well as a a nonprofit or technically they're they're really a government entry because they're they're East Central Regional Library. The the county handles
all the capital. We handle all the maintenance. So, it really is under probably a government nonprofit entity, but they would be allowed Yes. to have That's the bottom line. They would be allowed to post. Absolutely. Okay. Thank you. All right. And when do we think the
first when is it going to be turned on in the first um words to go up? Sure. I'm I'm aware of an electrician going out to site tomorrow to go look at the I guess the whole layout of it and how it's going to work. I don't know for sure if it would be turned on tomorrow. The possibility, but I don't want to state that it's
going to happen if it's not for sure. Mr. Lunwood might know a little bit more. I think I think we're hopeful uh based on the electricians going to do the diligence on it tomorrow as far as the hookups and everything. I can't state I think to Mr. McFarland that'll 100% go on tomorrow. We're hopeful. But uh we will be sure to let everyone know
when it's up. I'm going to be out there. You know that, right? I am going to be standing out there when that goes on. There'll be one there'll be an electrician out there. Better call me tomorrow. Yeah, we'll call everybody in. I don't know. Turns out I did it. If it doesn't, you were talking to them. Yeah. Stuff like that. I you know it's been
most cities have signs and we haven't. So that's very exciting. All right. So um I will make the motion to approve an electric sign policy for the city of Wyoming. Electric sign. Do we have a second? Second. Second by member Luger.
All in favor? I. No. Passes. Just making sure. All right. Um 28. to consider a pro proclamation declaring National Police Week at May 11th, 2025 to May 17, 2025. Mr. McFarland, are you taking this
one or Mr. Lynwood? Sorry, one sec. Oh, yeah. Honorable mayor and uh members of the uh city council, um this upcoming No, sorry, May 11th to um 17th is uh National Police Week. Um and so with that, I believe we did it last year and
I can't speak to before that, but we have a proclamation here declaring that it's National Police Week then within the city of uh Wyoming. All right. Um questions. Um member Joerger, no questions. Member Schilling, uh no questions. Member Anstad, no questions.
Member Luger, no questions. Um, do we typically, Chief Bower, people bring stuff in, don't they, during that week, like snacks and whatever, or do we do a dinner or lunch or whatever? Um, we have not. Okay.
Um, I can talk to Mr. Lynwood about what that might look like. Yeah. I mean, we do it for public safety or public works, so some funding stuff we got to figure out, but yeah, we can talk about that. Well, you never know. Residents might chip into Okay. Awesome. All right. Uh, so we need
a motion to approve the proclamation declaring National Police Week as May 11th, 2025 to May 17, 2025. Do we have a motion? So moved. Motion by member Anstad. Do we have a second? Second. Second by member Schilling. All in favor? I. Opposed. So approved. Number
29 to consider a proclamation declaring National Public Works Week as May 18, 2025 to May 24th, 2025. Mr. McFarland. I'm back. Uh, yes. May 18th to May 24th uh will be national or is national public works week. Um, we have our city
council meeting on the 20th. So, we just want to get ahead of this. I want to make sure that we had the proclamation before it had already started. Um, this again just honors the public works employees that we have and celebrates them by putting forth a proclamation and getting ready to to celebrate them and all the work that they do. So, perfect.
Thank you. We um wouldn't have good streets and water and all that if it wasn't for you guys. So, um, questions. Member Anstead, no questions. Member Luger, no questions. Member Joerger, no questions. Member Schilling. So, if you see a public works person, will you give
them free lemonade? Can't do beer. No. No questions. Yes. Very good. All right. Did we all have dinner before we got here? Because I'm feeling like that didn't happen. All right. Um, so we need a motion to approve um the proclamation
declaring National Public Works Week as May 18th, 2025 to May 24th, 2025. Do we have a motion? So moved. We have a motion by Member Luger. Do we have a second? Second. Second by member Schilling. All in favor? I opposed. So approved. And the last one on our agenda
number 30 to consider a proclamation of the city of Wyoming Minnesota designating May 4th through the 10th 2025 as small business week in Wyoming, Minnesota. And I hope we don't hear any corny jokes with that. Um, Mr. McFarland. Uh, yeah. The last
proclamation here for us this evening is that proclamation for small business week for May 4th to May 10th. Um I think it's especially important in the city of Wyoming just with the amount of small businesses and the manufacturing we have and so forth that um this proclamation just lays out um small business's role in the United States and you can also
consider how it plays a part in Chicago County and within the city. So this just goes on to celebrate that and proclaim that within the city of Wyoming. Yeah. And I think I do we have over a hundred small businesses. I don't know if Mr. Lewin do you know isn't it about a hundred or something?
12. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. So, that's awesome for our size, right? So, um we love our small businesses. Questions? Um, member Onstead, no questions. Member Schilling, uh, no questions. Member Joerger, no questions. And member Luger, no questions. All right. We need a motion
to approve the PL proclamation of the city of Wyoming, Minnesota, designating May 4th through the 10th, 2025 as small business week in Wyoming, Minnesota. Do we have a motion? So moved. Motion by member Onstead. Second. Second. second by member Schilling. All in favor? I
opposed. So approved. We'll go to um council reports. We will start with member Lucer. I have no reports. Thank you for coming. Member onstead. I attended the uh park board commission meeting last night where we discussed some of the items that were on tonight's
agenda. Nice. All right. Um member Schilling. I have no report. Thank you for those that showed up and uh those watching. Member Joerger. Oh, I attended the planning commission resoning open house and thank you for coming and thank you all for watching. All right, I have kind of a list. I wanted to say
congratulations to the Halbergs for the arts 10th anniversary gayla. Um saw lots of great pictures and we're very happy that um it's a it's just a great amenity here in our city for Halbert for the arts. So congratulations to them. I did
um attend the planning commission, the joint sewer commission. Um also the open house for the planning commission reszoning um map that we had last week. Um also the information meeting for the 2025 um openhouse public information for
our road project. Last but definitely not least, I'd like to um wish Pat Rylander a happy 90th birthday. She's such a huge supporter of our city, of our police and fire, of our public works, and of our council and all staff. So, I wanted to wish her a happy
birthday. All right. So, it is 7:56. Do we have a motion to adjurnn? So, moved. We have a motion to approve. Um, adjourned by member Lucer. Do we have a second? Second. Second by member Schilling. All in favor? I opposed.