This transcript features Mayor Jim Michalski, City Administrator Tim Peterson (noted as "Tim" in the dialogue, though your list mentions Ellissa Owens, Tim was the administrator during this 2018–2019 period), Police Chief Bryce Munger, Public Works Superintendent Phil Entner, and Council Member Walter Lower III. [0:00] Mayor Jim Michalski: departmental reports 4a is the police chief department report december 10th 2018 through january 7th 2019. [0:08] Chief Bryce Munger: mayor councillor i also want to welcome walt and congratulate him thank you just grew up with walt and known him all my life and appreciate your input so thank you um seemed like it was three months ago that we did shop with to cut with a cop but i gotta tell you it was absolutely wonderful uh occasion uh we raised over two thousand dollars and were able to help 11 kids and uh the smiles and uh the hugs that they gave us were absolutely heartwarming one little girl came and gave kathy a [0:45] hug and said this is the best day of my life so it was really really a neat occasion and um some would like to continue on in the future so um our new squad car is uh in operation here we uh got all the bugs worked out of it and and the guys really seem to like it uh um it's real roomy and uh just a really good vehicle so far so we did sell the charger like i mentioned last meeting and moved the truck as the spare squad car and i'm driving the tahoe now we did compile just kind of an end of the year report like we do every year [1:30] server 2000 calls 2136 calls for service a big number we had 40 felony cases which is is a lot of felony cases for a small town um one one good thing is is our drug cases have gone down i think the uh the effort that we have put into those in the past has really paid off again if we hear of a a problem location or somebody selling drugs in town we hear about it right away so we're able to work on those very quickly and and those numbers have gone down which is great so [2:20] mileage on the squads the ram pickup has 131 000. the tahoe has 79 000 and the ford explorer just has about 1200 miles on it um [2:37] did charge out a homicide case uh first homicide we've had in many many years in town and that is a drug overdose dose death that we were able to file for prosecution on so 19 gross misdemeanor calls are cases 106 petty misdemeanor and misdemeanor cases 11 juvenile misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor cases 17 search warrants uh again which is which is a lot uh for a small department and i tell you what the the officers work very hard for for the citizens um not only just like the calls that we have we just do a lot more you know we're really here to help people and to problem solve and to build relationships [3:24] with the community and i tell you today is police appreciation day and first national bank brought a big banner down to the police department with 12 of their staff everybody wrote a little thank you note on the banner um and then brought a bunch of traits down and just just was just very happy with uh having a police department and just the job that we do we work hand in hand with many businesses to to try and make the community safer and i i think it shows uh in addition to that we had several people stop down to the police department today and just just to say thank you and i tell you what in this day and age in law enforcement that's very heartfelt to hear that because many times it is a very [4:09] thankless job so um i think that's about all i have on my report if there's any questions i'd like to read these two notes that were in here if you don't mind [4:26] Mayor Jim Michalski: oh please yes [4:28] Chief Bryce Munger: this is a moose lake police department facebook messenger 12 17 2018. [4:34] i want to send a message of thank you all in the town for the shop with the cop program this year our oldest michael signed the family up for it on his own and i was shocked when the school called about it i was further shocked when our family was included the department has made a very rough time a year special for once and i greatly appreciate that bobby also told me about the gift card to marketplace which is given to her by sergeant mcnulty i find this especially heartwarming concerning her situation i wish i could have been there this afternoon but you all know how sleep deprivation and the night shift work i know our family has not been the perfect model residents of our community but sarah and i thank you all andrew [5:21] smuda and there is one more thank you card and i can't read the name on the bottom but it says i want to send out a great big thank you for all the hard work and dedication that you all do on december 17th shop with a cop was amazing you protected while you gave your amazing foster our amazing foster children an even better christmas this will be their first real christmas in many years merry christmas on behalf of the and i don't know what family that is but can we can't read the bottom they wish not to be so [6:01] Mayor Jim Michalski: okay so very nice and uh thank you bryce and please pass it on to the whole crew it's a great job this year thank you thank you appreciate it much [6:13] public works superintendent report [6:16] Phil Entner: mr mayor members of the council walt welcome thank you congratulations um it started here the water department uh distributed 3.1 million gallons drinking water in the month of december it's uh it's water main break season and it's starting it started uh yesterday so we're in the swing of that um we'll touch on a couple things to do with that here in a minute um sewer department we collected 11 million gallons of wastewater in the month of december we did have a december discharge of 24 million gallons of wastewater uh flow meters are scheduled to be calibrated i believe next week uh both the mag meter at the lift station and the uh open channel flow meter at the windermere [7:00] flow flow station street department everybody knows no ice it's here nobody's happy trust me the plow drivers aren't happy either everybody i know everyone's driving gets plowed in and i'm sorry but that's kind of the way it works um it's it's it's not any more fun for us as it is for anybody else so i apologize for any inconveniences we may have caused anyone but that is part of clearing the streets and making them safe for everybody a couple other things i want to touch on uh the work at the shop we're moving right along sheetrock is completed taping and painting is completed electrical has started the heat is expected to go in next week the couple items we purchased at the end of last year the uh pickup room uh that [7:46] is on order the skid sprayer that is on order that actually uh that got delivered to duluth today so i'll be going to pick that up here in the next day or so and then i'm like a broken record up here but frozen water and sewer lines please look up our policy online if you don't have access to it looking it up online get a hold of me get a hold of city hall we will get you a copy of it like i said before we don't like this any more than anybody else so please let's all be proactive at that and it's it's easier to catch it up front than it is to try to play catch up so um we are seeing frost steps of over 30 inches on the road and i did have a frozen water service today actually so it is starting so please look into that any questions please call please do we [8:32] will try to steer you in the right direction like i said no one likes this anymore than we do either so um one thing and i think you tim and i we talked about um with this ice the last couple days we got a lot of phone calls for sanding business lots we didn't get any for driveways but a lot for business slots and a lot of areas that we don't normally send it was kind of just a decision to go do it as we had ambulances going all over the place and people falling all over the place and trying to make it safe i don't expect anything tonight but i think in the future we need to look at some sort of policy whether we do that or we don't it doesn't matter to me one bit whether we do or we don't but i think it is something we should have in place if we [9:18] do this is how we do it and i think we need to find a way to recover some of that costs um the day of the event here just this last week i mean we used 125 tons of material and that's crazy that's a lot of dump trucks and it costs a lot of money and if it's a service that we want to provide that's great that's fine if we if we don't and we want to charge for that that's great too but i think we need to have something in writing so we have something to fall back on um [9:45] Mayor Jim Michalski: it's probably a lot to dig i'm glad that you did what you did and went ahead and gave that service to the community and that's something we will have to look at yes [9:55] City Administrator: i i think that's something that's happened over the years is when we get especially these these more ice events [10:03] that um sometimes they can they're hard to deal with for businesses and and residents and so the public works crew can can resolve some of those issues so there's there's two basic ways that i i think that we can think about this and and one is that a lot of these places are where most of our community is going whether it's gas stations grocery stores the post office i mean they're very very public locations where i mean we we don't want to see people slipping and falling the second way to think about this however is that we don't we don't do this for residents we don't have the staff or the equipment or anything like that to go salt [10:49] everyone's driveways it's not something that anybody is paying us to do however these are businesses which are for-profit and make money and are able to pay people to maintain their lots so i think it's it's kind of a tricky situation i i would say that i would probably agree with phil in that i think probably the best way to move forward is to try to just pick a dollar amount for that service it doesn't have to be huge but i i guess i have a hard time thinking that we are providing a service to businesses that are for-profit that we cannot um [11:35] and would not offer to residents even if it is for a good reason [11:40] Phil Entner: basically i'm just looking for some protection here for the city for my department for everything um i think we had 18 sites we hit that were i mean on top of the sidewalks and the roads these were other these are 18 other calls to to do this and ted like you mentioned yeah i mean i think it was to the point where we just had to do something because we had people falling and accidents and people doing whatever um but but we had a situation like this last year as well where it was just solid ice and it was dangerous for everybody and like i said it doesn't matter to me which way we decide but i would like a little bit of a little bit of backbone here a little bit of direction as well [12:23] whether we do or we don't or we do but it's it costs this or whatever just so we're all protected as a city and a department [12:30] Mayor Jim Michalski: have you uh mr administrator met have you two met and discussed this at all as far as price oh as far as price price price because i think that it would be nice to because we have a fee schedule for other things yeah add that and then that's it and that's what we were talking about and didn't you talk about price [12:44] City Administrator: yes i i think it's it's hard to it one of the things that happens is it depends on what they're doing so sometimes they just drive through like the drive into the lot drive through where people walk drive right back out not a big deal if you get to like a church or something [13:10] like that you might be doing a parking lot um if you get to a bigger gas station it might be something larger i i think you know like the clinic in the hospital i think think of them right away the county actually takes care of they did that yes they do they they and they always do okay good good that's the other thing that we talked about is that this is something that counties do for for residents is plow and and sand and they they charge for it um they do it for for residents and you you have to sign up to to be on the list and it's a way to recoup some of the cost um even and they have the understanding that these people would not be able to get this done without their help it's just at the same time it's it it's not free to run out and and do [13:57] that for everybody [14:02] Council Member Walter Lower III: uh i was gonna have uh in new business that's coming up in the meeting here is going to be covering some things about sidewalks and stuff like that which is kind of relates to this as part of that was wondering is there sand available to the citizens uh say like the citizens could get like a five gallon bucket once a year or something like that for their own residential sidewalks and things like that uh i know other cities do have a program where each residence is allowed to get like one five gallon bucket of sand from the city to use on their sidewalks and uh areas that are slippery i was wondering if if moose lake would be you know interested in doing a program like that [14:44] or if there's a large cost to that you know obviously none of that is free but uh if some of the uh residents had their access to that they could sit you know sand their own sidewalks in their in their own areas like that and it wouldn't be such of uh uh you know you guys wouldn't be going out of your way to to do the work yourself maybe you could find the residents to do some of that work for us like like they should be doing anyways uh i don't know if there is sand available like for that or not [15:23] Phil Entner: all our material is stored at the state garage at the state garage so it's all under that you don't have your own personals okay correct yeah it's not it's not financially feasible for the city to have assault shed yeah [15:32] Mayor Jim Michalski: okay are you looking for something tonight on this are you looking more for direction till we do [15:39] City Administrator: i think for tonight um it would just be something to think about i whether or not you guys make a decision if we get a ton of ice we'll probably continue doing the same thing that's right we continue supporting the community until we i have a time to make a decision as a council i do think that in the future we should consider charging something for it [16:03] Mayor Jim Michalski: i agree all right so i'll be something we'll have to look at perfect for you you two will have to meet now that there is no sense i should bring that up too [16:19] we're gonna have to meet if we can do that [16:21] Phil Entner: okay that's all i have thank you thank you [16:24] Mayor Jim Michalski: thank you and thank your crew i know you guys been super busy absolutely a lot of snow plowing things moving on to 4c technology slash library report [16:38] City Administrator: uh nothing new at this time very good the position is supposed to bid yep and i would certainly suggest anybody listening if you know anybody or if you are interested um please apply soon for the library director position correct [16:58] Mayor Jim Michalski: where all is it posted um [17:01] City Administrator: arrowhead library system they send it out to all the library systems that are it's like the league of minnesota cities but for libraries and like the liquor association that i can never remember the name of but for libraries [17:15] Mayor Jim Michalski: okay thank you very good when does that close just so you mention it [17:21] City Administrator: i think it's next friday [17:22] Mayor Jim Michalski: okay any questions discussion on technology and library port [17:34] City Administrator: again just for technology that position which is what are we calling that the public access coordinator coordinator which is which we will be advertising [18:01] Mayor Jim Michalski: all right 4d city engineer [18:06] City Engineer (SEH): there's a few things that i'm going to talk about elsewhere in the agenda so i'll just talk about one on here which is the capital improvement it's listed as project that's the the road capital improvement list they came with maps with ratings based on their pavement that they did with phil and then they also came with utility maps so there's a map for water that determines whether the size is correct water breaks all of those things and then another one for sewer did they have one for storm no but we talked about uh storm as well [18:49] and trying to include all of those things in the cip so we are moving along with that and we'll have it done shortly [19:03] Mayor Jim Michalski: not done they were going to bring it here for the council's review and input prior to having it done correct so we will probably extend that all right thank you any questions on uh an engineer's report hearing none moving on 4e chamber of commerce updates thank you lois [19:37] Lois Johnson (Chamber): as it was mentioned uh we have our chamber meeting tomorrow and we'd like to welcome well ted isn't officially elected to the board yet but his name is on the list of of uh prospective directors and walt will be welcoming you just to be a representative of the city and uh saturday evening at the sioux line event center at six o'clock is the annual meeting and dinner for the chamber it should be a fun event there's always lots of prizes last year i think there was only one person that didn't walk home with a prize and our next event is the ice bocce on [20:23] february 9th at the city park starts at 10 o'clock at the saturday so i'd like to invite everybody to come and it's been reported that's a pretty fun event i don't go there and get out on the ice and and uh but they uh it's like a curling on the ice and they have a good time any questions [21:03] Mayor Jim Michalski: thank you thank you the city council could put together a team no yeah yeah i am not a city councilor unfortunately we invite you to join in [21:10] moving on to number five previously discussed business 5a the 2018 flood is that correct [21:19] City Administrator: yeah um that one we are still waiting to be reimbursed for the class five material um and other than that we're kind of on hold till spring [21:30] Mayor Jim Michalski: council questions none 5b historical society financial statements and proof of insurance [21:40] City Administrator: yep uh the last meeting we talked about uh just receiving a financial statement from the historical society and ensuring that they do have coverage um up at uh the depot uh so in the packet on page 39 it's 42 is the insurance yep 39 through 42 is that [21:56] information [21:58] Mayor Jim Michalski: very good questions by the council none moving on to 5c arrowhead transit rider information [22:08] City Administrator: this was another thing that we had talked about at the last meeting was just trying to find out some information about ridership with arrowhead transit it is more than i thought and if i guess i'm glad that we got this report if i would have known that it was this many people i probably would have pushed um even harder i mean i'm glad that we approved it at the last meeting but it is that's a lot of people yeah just for november 82 for the month [22:42] yeah i mean 875 people use this last year that's [22:55] Council Member Walter Lower III: yeah that was a lot i have a lot of people uh recommend to me that we keep that when i was out campaigning there's quite a few people that said that they do use that yeah great it's nice [23:09] Mayor Jim Michalski: thank you any other questions comments none 5d detective appointment um [23:18] City Administrator: so we posted we had we had passed the mou for the uh detective position or detective appointment um previously uh it was posted at the police department um we had one applicant for that appointment and just to be clear [23:28] i do not want you guys to approve the the person this is going to be an appointment by the police chief according to the mou and the reason that we are doing this is because in the future we are not saying that we that this is an ongoing have to have position within the police department jamie jungers was the the applicant and is absolutely the person who should fulfill that role should he no longer be with the police department you know we might we might revisit that that appointment so this is for the chief to appoint as a part of his [24:15] management duties what do you need from the council at this [24:19] Mayor Jim Michalski: just to be aware that informational and not to step on your toes but i'm assuming you are or have appointed jamie to be the detective [24:32] Chief Bryce Munger: yes there we go so it's been done so you guys congratulations to jamie jungers thank you [24:40] Mayor Jim Michalski: and again this is not a new position right filling your duty that right right okay thank you any questions by the council you know moving on to number six new business 6a moose lake power request for electric [25:01] fast charger location and i think that's on yep page 44 i think yeah forty four three forty eight forty four [25:14] City Administrator: oh there is two yeah there's uh excuse me you're correct she left the the power company has for about a year now been looking at purchasing and installing a fast charger for electric cars we we have a few of the slower chargers just the normal rate where i think i think it takes like say four or six hours to fully charge a vehicle these would do it much much faster um one of the locations [25:49] or the location that they are asking our opinion on right now um is kind of laid out in this map here that's the the muni parking lot um and off to the side that that entrance where uh the electric car charger box is located that look that entrance is no longer there so basically it wouldn't be in the way of anybody trying to drive out see so it's it's a a fine location as far as i would say traffic um the only thing that i guess i am i would say that we would be concerned about is that because it's on our [26:34] property we would want to make sure that insurance is all all taken care of and make sure that there's um some sort of safety feature of not driving through what amounts to be a very very very expensive piece of equipment um i i would also i i have suggested to them um that they pave spots for this um i'm not sure kind of how that would go but uh basically they are looking for feedback from the city council on that location [27:10] Mayor Jim Michalski: i don't have a problem with that location i know that uh that's normally normally no one parks there yeah you should think it would be sitting there it's fine most [27:20] of the time just that you have to put enough snow removal is the only thing that we'd have to make sure moved over which you seem to do anyway so consensus yes [27:36] City Administrator: so the other the only other location that that we had really gone a little bit further down the path of was um the the trail head for the monger where there's the parking and the um kind of the kiosk over on industrial you guys know what i'm talking about yes behind arts on the other side of the ditch from arts um i know it's just just right behind there it's in this picture as well um which i guess we own that parcel as well would you guys have [28:06] any issues with with that location i'm not sure why they they may have already dropped that one off but that was kind of another one that we had suggested as well [28:16] Council Member: well are we doing this for anybody driving through for the purpose of being able to are we doing it for the purpose of our citizens [28:24] City Administrator: we are not doing anything to be clear we are not doing anything um the the purpose of this is mostly for people driving through so when you put a fast charger into your community you get uh put onto these maps that people with electric cars have it's kind of a big deal to be able to go from the cities to duluth it used to be kind of touch and go whether you could make it or not and as [28:52] more of these get along the way it makes it easier to travel farther obviously so this kind of puts us on that map for people traveling that along the i-35 corridor they can stop into moose lake the nice thing about putting it in the muni parking lot is that we get the side benefit of if you park your car there you're you're i might just step inside the muni and um shop at our our store um on the other side uh you might you might not do that but um we had kind of wanted to get it we didn't necessarily want it on right on the off ramp um with the thought being that that would lead to people not really traveling into the community and the economic development authority [29:39] had kind of talked about this as well as try to bring people into the downtown rather than just on the off ramp so um both of those locations would would suit that [29:54] Mayor Jim Michalski: there's restaurants close by too so that would be nice if you're getting sales tax and things like that yep yeah so we're good with either location any comments back to them or recommendations or anything like that i think the main street are coming off arrowhead is the most beneficial okay probably easiest to find also okay very good thank you moving on to 6b liquor store part-time [30:25] employees um [30:28] City Administrator: my note is in here that that doesn't really help but um at um at the liquor store we have talked for a while about hiring um some additional part-time staff um in my conversations with elaine and um kind of putting putting her in that interim role she would like to hire a few part-time employees to fill in shifts um nothing you know nothing that was that many hours so um the difference being is that uh we we do have a couple a couple roles within the city where we allow [31:12] uh managers to hire uh very part-time or fill in roles and that's kind of what i'm requesting here is that we allow allow her to hire a few fill in and very part-time employees i think we see we also have a letter farther in where someone is resigning from their position at the correct liquor store [31:42] yeah i don't i don't know that she's looking to fill fill that for sure quite yet with just one one person necessarily just you know why one of the reasons she's asking i guess [31:54] Mayor Jim Michalski: council i guess for me i think at the moment for until we get completely situated on how the liquor store is going to end up running and everything i think it's a good idea for her to be able to make sure that the liquor store runs smoothly until that time very good counselor um walter [32:19] Council Member Walter Lower III: no no no no okay um my my thinking on this would be that it would be an emergency hire or hires [32:28] i'd use that verbiage because when we know who the liquor store manager is whether that would be her or somebody else they may have difference in opinions of the the hiring process i guess i would use it as emergency higher it's a verbiage but i think it's applicable to where we're at [32:51] Mayor Jim Michalski: sounds good very good thank you moving on to 6c safe routes to school application um [33:04] City Administrator: on page 46 is just confirmation that we submitted our safe routes to school application that is for 300 000 which would match with the six hundred and ten thousand dollar grant that we [33:14] have already received um it uh states in here that um hopefully by late february they should be letting applicants know the results of that funding [33:28] Mayor Jim Michalski: very good thank you questions by council what was the total that you put in for the grant again i'm sorry [33:38] City Administrator: uh it's up to 300 000 and we requested 300 000. [33:43] Mayor Jim Michalski: thank you very good thank you moving on to 6d primary and special election [33:53] City Administrator: senator lourey has been [Music] appointed to serve as the commissioner of health and human services for the [34:00] state of minnesota congratulations to him that leaves an opening for that senate seat for district 11. the we will have to have a primary for the democratic democrat candidate the republicans uh selected theirs today so there will not be a primary for the republican candidate but we will still have to have a primary on tuesday january 22nd and then a special election on tuesday february 5th and we will need to pay for it and it will be here and we are very excited about that [34:46] it was january 22nd he said for the primary mm-hmm [34:52] Mayor Jim Michalski: okay do you need any uh kind of motion or anything is this just informational [34:58] City Administrator: no legally we have to have it you have to have it so it's for informational for the community and for the council [35:05] Mayor Jim Michalski: any questions by the council hearing none 6e chamber of commerce ice bocce request [35:15] City Administrator: on page 50 is an email from uh the chamber president uh tia the first actually the only real thing that we need to talk about is is point one here which is [35:33] would phil be able to plow lanes on the lake for ice bocce this year with the bobcat thing um would he be yeah he's really good with the bobcat thing um however i think it was you last year that had that had brought up the concerns with plowing lanes out there was it kris was it kris yeah because of of what happened years ago so i told dusty had come to uh to speak with me about this and then i also talked to tia about this very thing and i told both of them i i don't know what direction you guys want to go so you need to decide if you are okay putting [36:18] uh lanes not not don't worry about the fill aspect of it but are we okay with putting uh plowing lanes on the lake last year when they did this it didn't end up being that big a deal because we didn't have the snow like we have right now i can't remember if we just didn't have snow or if it was just frozen out there but now there would there would be considerable um snow removal i guess or or plowing or what have you so i i don't know what you guys want to do i also don't know what happens if we don't allow them to i don't i don't know how to play ice bocce [37:02] Phil Entner: that's kind of what i took it as as well i don't have a problem with us doing it [37:05] i know what happened many many years ago the chamber i think got sued because they used to do the ice fishing contest and the snowmobile on the lake hit one of their windrows and i guess the outcome was they got sued um because of that so i would say this this is this is for sure not our event we are not ensuring this event um we do require that people in the community that have events have insurance and the chamber does have insurance [Music] i i don't know that we would be held accountable i just don't know how you guys want to move forward with it do you think there's any way that we [37:51] could put a bunch of snow back [37:53] Phil Entner: where are the lanes if if you move it it's going to be at the end where the the big pile is right unless we diverted the file to a different location [38:05] City Administrator: i'm sure what i'm wondering is spread it [38:08] Phil Entner: regardless i think getting the snow off of there is not a big deal but i'm wondering is is there any way to put it back i don't see the problem with it once it's gone you wouldn't have to put it i don't see the reason to put it back are we just good with it if you push it towards the shoreline like you were saying i think then that's a moot point about putting it back yeah other than someone going down a little bit you're not going to have the big banks yeah [38:36] you could try marking it some somehow with flags or with reflectors or something along that lines [38:43] City Administrator: so i i wanted i do want to be very clear about one thing i don't want us to mark anything if we get in into marking it i kind of feel like we're starting to take responsibility of this i want when we get to the second aspect of this i i would not suggest that we have phil go do this if you guys want to have wanna want to do it [39:10] Mayor Jim Michalski: can we do it yeah i guarantee you it would take a half hour and it would probably be done i don't i don't know that we want to do that i don't have a promise with with us [39:22] supporting the chamber in their event i think phil knows what he's doing and can do it appropriately how much ice is out there moving the snow towards the bank makes sense because it's already there's already a bank there i'm gonna be mad and i guess that's and i don't have a problem with doing it either but and i don't have a problem with how we perform out there i have a problem of what happens that's the only thing right and because of the past that's why i directed yeah i think we're just clearing it it is their event and their insurance so we're good with with the event we're good with having children council council [40:07] Council Member Walter Lower III: i'll do it i think that if the chamber is paying us to do that or pay and phil has to do with the city to do that then they're responsible for what happens afterwards they're not paying them they're not paying there yeah well i'd like to see as many events in this town as we could possibly have as long as they're safe you know if if they were to do that i would would like to see them mark it somehow the problem is is during the day when you're going across the white snow like that you can't see that bank up there and that's what happened to that guy that was killed out there so if you know it should be marked some somehow that is right where the main snowmobile comes trail comes onto the lake too so i should think that there would be a lot of snowmobile traffic [40:54] there in that area [40:56] Mayor Jim Michalski: and they're talking about putting it in the same area as they did last year i think so yes what a brewery i thought it was i would like to see our town have have wintertime events it's there's not much going on during the winter [41:13] City Administrator: okay okay and i would not be in huge favor of us doing it i think that i'm all for us they're asking for an increase i'm all for us doing something different but i don't want this once we open that box we are liable i think there's plenty of business owners that have a pickup that could do the job that is i would actually feel more comfortable donating to this event i [41:39] would too that's what i'm saying in order to have some [41:43] Mayor Jim Michalski: yeah so that's our service if they want to use it for plowing then they should use it for plowing i like that idea yeah that will work too that keeps us out of it [41:53] City Administrator: the event is coming up close soon now right lois [41:57] Lois Johnson (Chamber): you gave the doctor i did i did tell her that i was uncomfortable with us being the ones to do it and she thought that they could figure it out february 9th at 10 a.m [42:13] Mayor Jim Michalski: yeah so then we should make a motion that we would pay for the plowing is that what we're doing a donation i didn't make a donation did they ask us for money for that [42:21] City Administrator: yes but it is not in there for the the plowing well no but they're asking for an increase from eight hundred dollars for the eight events to one [42:25] thousand dollars um why don't we do why don't we do those those conversations separately i would say we we would be okay i can't imagine that it's gonna cost if somebody even charges them that it would cost that much to plow this thing off so why don't you guys make a motion that you are okay with them doing this and that you are okay with us offering to pay for the plowing up a to bucks or up to 50 [43:00] Mayor Jim Michalski: but how much is it going to cost to plow off some lanes 200 bucks or you can ask you one thing are we saying we approve them having it on the lake because that's dnr approval [43:12] the city has nothing to do with that [43:14] Council Member: okay so then we don't we don't do anything with approving uh the event that that's totally so then we would just contribute money to the blowing money to the plowing yeah okay well then don't do anything with this right now and let's just move on [43:30] Mayor Jim Michalski: very good okay 6f chamber of commerce 2019 event sponsorship request [43:40] City Administrator: so they this is as just as we did last year they're they're submitting kind of their list of events um for the year i [43:57] i don't necessarily agree that we need to up the amount that we are donating to these events i think that i think that they make money off of these events i think that the chamber is doing well we would like to see the chamber do well i i'm not i'm not saying that i want to stop contributing i just don't think that we need to contribute even more to these events now there is one caveat and that is that the fourth of july and agate days stampede we are now paying for garbage which was how much so if anybody would like to consider giving [44:43] them more money i would say we are we already upped our contribution to these events by thousands because we paid for the entirety of that [45:01] Council Member Douglas Juntunen: i agree and that's why last year i was i think the council approved that we say we said give us the amount of the budget and we'll budget for it because we we don't need to spend each month going a hundred dollars here a hundred dollars there and i think they they're asking us to up that but i think you've made a good point that we spent over a thousand dollars last year on the garbage for that event as well [45:30] City Administrator: so katie and i had talked last year um when we found out about the garbage we found out about the garbage a little bit late and and to be clear they are still donating uh uh half so they're they're not they're still giving to this event so just just so that is is known um [45:51] but we had talked about maybe maybe as a as a contribution to this event splitting the cost of garbage or something along those lines i i don't know what how i haven't brought that up to the chamber but that is a that is a lot of money that we are suddenly contributing to that event um [46:17] Mayor Jim Michalski: we've always been doing that uh no the garbage was free they did it for free for free forever [46:26] City Administrator: a change [46:27] Mayor Jim Michalski: okay so that is a change that we ran into last year and and uh have we transmitted that to the chamber last year [46:39] City Administrator: yeah i i told the chamber that it happened um but i also i didn't think that it was fair to necessarily just push that bill onto the chamber we paid for it last year um i'm okay i'm okay with that um but again they're they're asking us for a thousand dollars i mean we pay we pay more than that just for just for a good days right and although and also these events though do [47:13] bring in thousands of people so i mean it is a tremendous advertisement for the whole city also um so kind of changes on i'm not so concerned if they have to pay for someone to plow those lanes how many lanes do they do like five or six do you remember last year how many you did a couple yeah i mean to be clear they make money off of off of these events though so [47:50] Mayor Jim Michalski: we're looking for a motion for what we have here in this letter or something else but yeah if if somebody wants to make a motion on on that yeah we should be approving it council [48:08] Council Member Walter Lower III: i guess i would make the motion on separately on the ice bocce event that we give 200 up to 200 for plowing for a donation [48:22] Mayor Jim Michalski: okay are we doing that separately are you doing the whole thing i think i'd do that separately i guess all right do we have a second second all in favor say aye hi hi oppose motion carried um do we have a motion for the rest of the request from the chamber on all the events which i like that idea that you brought that up doug a couple years ago and i think it was a good idea instead of every month or every two [48:54] months they would come back i to me at first i questioned that but i think it's a really good idea do it for the year [49:09] Council Member Walter Lower III: i guess i would make another motion that we continue to give eight hundred dollars to cover the eight events and with the understanding that the uh city will pick up again for this next year not guaranteed further but that will pick up the garbage costs was it for age days and the fourth [49:33] City Administrator: can i think of july can i make one thing clear there they they took some event off i don't know what it is so do you corndish [49:43] Mayor Jim Michalski: okay so there's only seven events do you wanna just give eight hundred dollars or do you wanna give a hundred dollars per event or what i'd just give eight hundred dollars okay do i have a second is that good do you have any questions [49:54] discussion hearing none all in favor say aye aye aye aye aye i oppose welcome carried [50:08] Council Member: can i ask one thing you did say that we pay for the entirety of the garbage i did for this year only not i'm not trying to set a precedence here okay is there a way that we could look in the future trying to get that cost down anyway you know i mean oh that cost is way down yeah that cost is half of the actual cost of it yeah okay yeah he just recharged charging so he what he does for events like that is how many how many cans how many dumpsters how many pickups how many all of that stuff and he gave us all of it [50:40] and then very clearly wrote you know divided by two [50:43] Mayor Jim Michalski: okay on the next page on page 54 all the events through the year that the chamber supports in the area just for everyone's information that's a lot then moving on to 6g moose lake [51:12] there's a little note there says in in years past we've we've given 300 to this event we have to make that motion that we give 300 to post prom moose like i'll second that any question discussion all in favor say aye aye aye opposed motion carried 6h no wood feasibility report and i believe that now is due in february next month [51:50] City Administrator: yep so i what i'm what i put this on here for is i'm going to send i already have the feasibility report i'm going to send it to you all tomorrow so that you have time to read it over the next month [51:59] matt from seh is going to come in february to present it and i i guess what i would ask is that within the feasibility report is a list of options of how to pay for this the first being that the entirety of it is assessed which would take a petition the second one is that we basically combine to to pay it with the city and the residents coming together to pay for it um and the third option being uh not to do the project the way that it's estimated in here just to directionally bore a water line [52:46] which would be cheaper but would kind of go against the plan for capital improvements in the city so we we probably won't even do anything in february but you will have it for an entire month to review it and try to put together maybe some questions or something like that for matt in the meantime [53:11] Mayor Jim Michalski: very good thank you questions by the very council nope thank you moving on to 6i standards for small cell wireless facilities [53:23] City Administrator: yep our our attorneys one of the things that we pay our attorneys to do is to make us aware of changing [53:33] legislature that affects us so they will send out emails and notifications to all of the cities that they have um that they are the attorneys for um and this is one of them is that if we do not set this policy by and it doesn't matter very soon i think it's january 14th um then we lose the ability to set standards uh for aesthetics on small cell so the first thing to note is that this is a policy not an ordinance which means that it's easier to change in the future the second thing to note is that this is like the bare minimum this is not there's nothing in this policy that [54:18] should really make anybody uncomfortable other than the fact that it basically gets us in before the deadline so if we want to review this make changes to it we can certainly do that at any time but we now have the ability to do that if we did not do it somebody could simply turn in an application put up whatever they wanted and do whatever they want and we would have no say in that so this just kind of gets us our foot in the door says that we have some control over it and that we can we can amend it later on if we so choose [54:55] Mayor Jim Michalski: thank you council [54:58] Council Member: so instead of if i'm understanding you correctly we'd be implementing [55:04] city code policy 147 [55:07] City Administrator: or just just city policy ordinance 147 is our right-of-way ordinance okay so our policy refers to our right-of-way ordinance um and this doesn't take the place of it it just refers back to it so there are some guidelines that already exist in our right-of-way ordinance that this this refers back to but this is just a policy on small wireless facility design guidelines [55:36] Council Member Walter Lower III: i make a motion that we uh adopt the policy for these small wireless facilities design guidelines for the city of moose lake [55:49] just a second it's not good i think this is a good idea right now before that deadline because some of the stuff that i've seen when when the gentleman was here and talking about this looking at it there had been some real disasters um putting towers in in the blocks of communities yes so i think this is a good idea and like tim said we can go back and amend if we need to but that being said any other discussion all in favor say aye aye opposed motion carried 6j liquor store employee resignation marie webber and that is on page not in here not in [56:37] here [56:38] City Administrator: just need to she resigned uh yesterday she's going to go back to school so i just need to accept that and you have the letter [56:52] Mayor Jim Michalski: i do yes somewhere very good i showed you yes thank you i am very happy do we have a motion to accept the resignation of marie weber so moved have a second second questions none all in favor say aye aye opposed motion carried 6k publishing city budget mr administrator what did you want to talk about that one [57:23] Council Member Walter Lower III: yeah uh the budget always used to be published in the paper and i think one reason why it's not being published anymore is that we had two newspapers in town here and then their publishers passed away around the same time and it just never ever was published after that we've had some new city administrators in over that time period too and i'd like to see the budget at least as much of it as we could fit into the newspaper published for one reason it's the residents right to know that that i realize that they can go up to city hall and that and get it but it's just difficult to do that they could probably look up some of it online but not everybody knows how to do that and i guess if the city is going to be asking us to [58:09] to vote on you know issues that are hard not like taxes whether to raise them or not to raise them i'd like the residents to have the information so they can see why we make these difficult decisions so they can see what's going on in the city where the money's being spent how much all those basic questions and i think it would just help out the people understand why we do certain things to know how much money the city does have to uh know why we would like to raise taxes for at certain times say to fix certain things infrastructure be whatever it is i just think it's a good a good policy to have for uh [58:56] to see that it's in the paper and i would like to see that done i don't know if anybody else has any feelings on the matter or not [59:12] Mayor Jim Michalski: questions by the council other than how many pages are are you suggesting uh that we put in the paper [59:22] Council Member Walter Lower III: it would have to be discussed with the newspaper i imagine to see how many pages they'd like to dedicate it before i used to work with skip hanson and had the job of putting it in the paper it could be quite lengthy they always broke down the words to small print you know you'd almost have to really look at it hard to read some of it but uh you know i don't know if they would be able to be willing to put in the whole budget but i'd like to see how much they [59:42] would be willing to put in and try to get in you know the most pertinent information the most serious stuff that's on there [59:52] Mayor Jim Michalski: yeah i guess i i can see us putting in some of those major slides that you have of what departments and what those costs are increases slides that give the whole [1:00:08] City Administrator: i i used to i used to do like a like a one or two page one that that was put in the paper um in proctor also there there are some [Music] we have to do financial reports to the state that are i think they're two pages long i think this summary like financial report for year end is is right around two pages long so there's some examples that kind of break it out um [1:00:28] you know something by like department or or something like that i think our our budget if we get much longer than that you end up line by line and it um it doesn't make it doesn't make a ton of sense and it would it would cost a lot of money so those kinds of line by line things anybody would be more than more than welcome to come to city hall but i think more of like a one to two page summary of our budget summary of maybe some tax rate uh information and and things like that would be would be good [1:00:58] Mayor Jim Michalski: well we do this when we have why don't you bring example of that to the next council meeting perfect and in the [1:01:13] meantime if you know the example that you bring an estimate from the newspaper well first if it's if they will do it and the cost and then we can present it and see if that's adequate okay very good thank you moving on to 6l public sidewalk snow removal i know we have an ordinance asking that the residents do remove the snow [1:01:51] Council Member Walter Lower III: yes page 70 is the start of the ordinance and the pertinent information is on page 71 [1:02:00] uh it's number one at the top of the page all snow and ice not removed from public sidewalks 12 hours after the snow or other precipitation causing the condition has ceased to fall and that's under the section 3 which is a public nuisance affecting peace and safety i guess i brought this up because i'd like to see you know moose lake is uh to be a year year-round walkable handicapped accessible town which it is in in many ways but uh there are quite a few businesses downtown and businesses and other areas that uh do not shovel their snow on a timely manner this this year it has improved some i did bring it up in the [1:02:46] paper uh once when i was running and i have talked to a few other people around town here about shoveling their sidewalks but some of the businesses when you go in and you talk to them about showing the sidewalk they just say well it's not my job so i'm not going to do it but it it needs to be somebody's job and it needs to be up to the property owner or the landlord to see that these sidewalks are being shoveled especially in the public areas the businesses it says here to be shoveled in in 12 hours but i would think for businesses it would be common sense to shuttle the snow as soon as you go in there in the morning and throughout the day at the theater sometimes we do shovel the snow three four times a day [1:03:33] a lot of uh the apartment complexes in town uh haven't been shoveling there's snow sometimes you'll go talk to them and they'll say well i have a renter that's supposed to be shoveling that snow and sometimes that renter isn't like physically capable of doing it for whatever ev whatever reason or they're just not not doing it we we can't have people you know walking around downtown here and especially with all this ice that we have that's it that's another issue you know uh snow is one thing ice is all different different thing uh let's see here uh you know and and fire hydrants should be shoveled out too actually for the [1:04:18] residentials i think it would be a lot easier to get the public businesses to show their sidewalks but there is pushback on some of the residents if you go around town and you look generally most of the areas are are shoveled and there are some very long sidewalks that people do shovel or snow blow but then you go to other areas and uh it's not shoveled off you know and i've talked to some of these residents and some of them are just straight dead set against doing it for for whatever reason but it is their responsibility it is a liability if somebody does fall on their sidewalk they are responsible for that and it should be they should be shoveled they should be should be assaulted there should be an effort made at it [1:05:06] to do a better job in some of these areas like uh if you go down lakeshore drive there's long sections there that aren't shoveled and that's one of the main places where people like to walk down is the all nature drive and when you drive down there now you see people out in the middle of the street and that just simply isn't isn't safe and that may be a liability to this to the city too if somebody gets run over and the city hasn't been enforcing the snow ordinance i'm not sure but the city could be reliable for that too which would mean the taxpayers but uh i would like to see this this ordinance enforced a little more uh especially in the public areas and and handy handicapped [1:05:54] spots and handicapped ramps and things like that [Music] some cities they have an inspector that goes and inspects the business districts after the snow and then they leave the residential areas to complain if somebody was to call up and complain about a certain sidewalk then then the city uh inspects that sidewalk determines whether or not it is a hazard and then it's up up to them to inform the owner to to remove that snow and that and that ice i should think that if the city uh went around at the start of the year [1:06:40] and informed these people that you would see most people comply and you might have some hard cases and that you might have to uh force them to start doing that somehow but i think a warning if people were given warnings i just don't want to go out and start handing out you know fines or builds or whatever citations to the to these people because some of them have legitimate reasons why they can't shovel their snow but it still is their their responsibility to be to be doing that [1:07:19] if you uh look at arrowhead lane here scott just did a beautiful job removing all the snow from there and that's like two miles of freeway uh oh for god's sakes [Music] [1:07:37] Mayor Jim Michalski: well we can open that up for discussion that's no problem yeah opened up for a discussion by the council and administrator any ideas [1:07:49] Council Member: well i would say that it's covered under and on page 72 section 5 the duties of the city officers and then if there is a violation and mr lowers brought that up uh councillor lauer there's a notice of violation there's a speed a written notice [1:08:06] so i think it's more about people being aware and people being aware of being aware of it i think that phil's gone out and given people notice as far as hey when it's water water pipes freeze and things of that nature maybe we could send out a condensed version of this with with a bill possibly once a year maybe at the beginning of the year and say this is an ordinance and giving notice as you stated is is a great idea publishing it in the in the news to publish it yeah there's there's start of the winner but we do have we do have this already and reinventing the wheel to me doesn't no i'm not asking make that much sense but i think that doing what you're saying giving notice and [1:08:53] i'm just asking for us to uh you know enforce what we have enforce the ordinance that we already have in in a in in a manner that you know is that we don't you know it anger too many people and explain it to them in a way that they know that it has to be done and it's also you know there's something about if when you're living in town and you have an elderly person or somebody that's handicapped living next to you it is the neighborly thing to do to go out and help them so you know and that does happen a lot in this town there are a lot of people that go out and help the elderly or in the handicapped with their driveways and i'd like to see people get [1:09:38] to continue to do that and if there are people in in need of help you know we need we need to talk to them and try to figure out some way that's feasible to help them and and and to be able to get this information out to the business owners too uh i'd say i'm a little more concerned about the public businesses but i am concerned about the residences in in places too the sewer hill that doesn't get shoveled too often but it you know when you have a plow that goes by and puts three four feet of snow on your on your sidewalk that is a lot to do but then phil goes around at times and will plow off uh the sidewalks in certain areas of the [1:10:24] ones that he can but sometimes that might take three four days for them to get to that and they don't always plow i don't know what your rules are on what you plow for you know like if there's four inches or less or something that you don't plow or or like that but sometimes the plow does not always go around and some of these businesses and apartment complexes are just just wait for that to happen and that might be quite a while and it can be rather difficult for people to walk around town at times and of course i realize that sometimes you get hit with double snowstorms and stuff like that right right in a row and it can be very very difficult and people also have to have keep in mind when they do shovel off the [1:11:10] sidewalks that you're not shoveling it into areas that make phil have to go and remove that snow you know you don't want to be put putting snow back out onto the street or putting it into somebody else's sidewalk or when you plow your parking lots for businesses a lot of the a few of those businesses are plowing that snow up onto the city sidewalks along arrowhead there and that's just more work for the city to go and and remove all that that snow and and like i said you know uh the the city on arrowhead there they removed the snow from there yesterday they did a very nice job i'm greatly appreciative of that [1:11:55] but it's also up to the businesses along there that after the city comes and does the majority of the work they need to sometimes go out there and do a little bit of finishing work and go out there and remove some of the snow that the city crews haven't been able to get because we can't expect them to get it to get it all it's it's not their job to get to get all that they're actually doing a favor for these business owners by by plowing all that and uh it is actually up to them to go there and make sure that those sidewalks the business owners and property owners to make sure that those sidewalks are safe i mean there is a lot of foot traffic down down arrowhead lane nowadays you do see a lot of people walking from the grocery store but back home with with groceries to to the manor and [1:12:42] places like that and i just like to make sure that those people have have safe travel and i just i just wanted to bring bring these issues up so the people of town are aware that there is a ordinance on this i know in the past we have put articles in the paper in the winter asking the people to remove their snow [1:13:02] Mayor Jim Michalski: sometimes it's just a matter of reminding but it goes beyond that i know that's something um i think tim and bryce and scott can talk about [1:13:20] City Administrator: phil and the team [1:13:30] um could be some advertisement not that we did put something in the paper well we do we put it on facebook or did we put it in the paper [1:13:42] Mayor Jim Michalski: i think before steve left he was showing me how to do website stuff i think we put it [1:13:50] last year we posted it but we certainly can do more i guess a reminder maybe even a monthly reminder um it it could be put in there right monthly during the writer [1:14:04] Council Member Walter Lower III: and of course not everybody right receives the newspaper and that and that might be you know if somebody had to go around at the start of the year and talk to some of these people i think once you spoke to them once most of them would comply i think [1:14:24] City Administrator: we made it a chamber agenda item also and we spoke about it at the chamber and asked them to put it out to all the businesses that are members and and they did that we can request that again [1:14:36] that's a good idea the bills too they'll go to everybody [1:14:43] Council Member Walter Lower III: yeah there's one one other thing that i wanted to mention that i forgot there is that if it snows on a friday afternoon downtown here there you go into the weekend and there still are five or six businesses open downtown here on the weekend and on sunday there are three but if it snows friday afternoon the downtown sidewalks don't get shoveled until monday morning and being in the business downtown here there's many times i've had to go out and shovel the sidewalks down downtown here just to take it out do it take it and do it myself and uh you know it's even the responsibility of the [1:15:22] businesses that are up for sale that are vacant and the houses around town that are for sale they need to be shoveled too that should be up to the realtor or the the owner of the property to fig to figure that out but weekends can be difficult downtown here if we get a lot of snow so i mean it's actually 24 7 that this uh is supposed to be enforced uh and i i would like to see an effort by some of these other businesses to remove snow on saturdays and sundays [1:16:00] Mayor Jim Michalski: very good any more comments by the council nothing for all of you [1:16:08] Council Member: i think my thought is that i think that most of [1:16:11] it is this goes back to the point of people being educated on what is what um i mean you talk to some people and you get the attitude well it's an act of nature so it active nature will get rid of it i mean that you know it's a little bit on the right wrong way of looking at it but [1:16:34] Council Member Walter Lower III: right right thank you thank you councillor thank you thank you moving on to 6 m vehicle removal on public streets for snow plowing something else that i that i had put on here uh i realize that phil does go around and tells some of these vehicles [1:16:53] to move uh downtown here there can be sometimes dependent upon how many renters are in the apartments sometimes you can have four or five vehicles that are on the street i take it upon myself sometimes that some of them to move but i'm not sure where i should tell them to move to in that and they'll just go move and and then leave their car there for three four days or something like that at a time uh which the reason why i bring this up is because phil has already has a very difficult job here to remove all this snow i realized that and if it's another issue of informing these people if we could just get the information out to them that they that they need to move their vehicles so the [1:17:40] snowplow drivers can you know go about their job in a quicker faster way and not to have to come back and redo things once or twice or three times or whatever it takes but uh you know for some of the apartment complexes maybe if a person was to drop off you know a letter at the apartment complexes and and tell them what the actual rules are in the areas where they could move to if if they just want them to rotate them sometimes they will rotate them but they'll they'll move it the first time but then they won't rotate it back and that just makes another uh problem for the street street crews so if if we could get these people to uh [1:18:27] move their vehicles if if i could get you know information where where i should tell these people to move but you know as as i would like to see a city employee that hasn't the authority to to tell them this uh as a business owner when i was doing it at the theater sometimes they just say well who are you to tell me where to park and i think it's just once again informing these people and if you did it at the start of the year they would move their vehicles and then snow plowing from from then on would would be hopefully would be easier and i do realize that that you do take your time to tell and communicate with some of these people but some of them just have haven't listened or they just don't don't know [1:19:14] yet so i'd like to see some information given to the people of the town and the businesses on removing their vehicles from the street [1:19:24] Mayor Jim Michalski: i could see where where phil and bryce working together to take care of that i would think if you know a serious attempt should be by the police to tell them to move if they're not um i can understand why you have phil at times but if it i would say go directly to police if it has to be a second time or it becomes a problem for problem issues yeah so [1:19:54] Phil Entner: sometimes in the past some like spencer used to put signs in the stomach [1:19:59] Council Member Walter Lower III: sometimes my problem is i don't like if i was going to remove the the cars from downtown here which i'm just trying to help you sometimes they don't know when you're going to be plowing so sometimes i have i've asked him to move and then doesn't get get plowed because you're too busy or you got got things to do i'm not complaining in any in any way here yeah but these people just need just need to move their vehicles if if i can [1:20:23] City Administrator: the vehicle issue i think phil and the police department do do a pretty good job including climbing into other people's vehicles and moving them for them [Music] [1:20:41] Phil Entner: i would say if you if you see that the plow has gone by move your vehicle [1:20:45] to add to that we come by multiple files layers and layers yeah the first time we take 95 percent off but we come back and we come again and again and it is a routine thing it's a routine being city wide county wide state light it's that it's how stumbling works and i mean i understand it's nice we have the complaints too we come by and we fill someone's driveway in and guess what we come back again during this last storm three guys [1:21:31] [Music] [1:21:40] we're going to come by a lot more so the easiest thanks for bringing that up and explaining that the easiest example of the the vehicle thing was literally outside of our window i think that car was parked there six days after the first snowfall and it's it's very simple day one if you see the plow went by it's not even a matter of where just literally park your car anywhere that the par the the plow's gone by move to the other side of the street i don't care move it up the street two parking spots that's fine just anywhere that the plow has gone by move it will be good i think we've talked about it a little bit you know everybody gets everybody gets a warning a fair shake and i think there's a number of people that that talk to [1:22:25] phil a little bit more regularly about hey i'm gonna run outside move my car if you want to swing by phil comes by cleans it up no big deal if it happens second time yeah you're probably getting towed and so be it so [1:22:42] Council Member Walter Lower III: there are times when there are more cars downtown right right now there isn't some of the apartments are vacant so that there's not as many vehicles on right now and i don't think the old carolyn has anybody i don't even know if there's anybody living up there i think there's one there sure is it may not have a vehicle yeah [1:23:03] Mayor Jim Michalski: good points thank you it's appreciated yeah and thank you phil for doing a good job [1:23:11] very good council members anything to add thank you moving on to 6n gambling permit that is one of the items on your table sturgeon lake lions would like to have a raffle this is a part of ice bocce isn't it all for the fishing tournament [1:23:44] City Administrator: okay so anyways sturgeon lake lions would like to to host a raffle [1:23:50] Mayor Jim Michalski: very good to have a motion by the council [1:23:57] Council Member: motion to approve [1:24:01] Mayor Jim Michalski: do i have a second second there you go do you have any questions or discussion i lost my place on here look on number six on the main agenda here went too far i think you've got to fart where it's right over here i got too many pieces of paper here i think look here there we go now now i'm back you know this is an addition and probably is a gambling permit and there'll be one more below that oh which is a police department printer yeah so you just fill those in we don't know yeah i i did on my other papers paper [1:24:43] okay okay did we have a second yes um all in favor say aye aye aye oppose motion carried um 6-0 is police department printer [1:25:05] City Administrator: this would be a color printer for the police department so that she can stop driving over to city hall to print things out in color this is in uh their capital improvement uh section of their budget um although they spent like 70 dollars too much that comes out of somewhere is this the one you're talking about yeah okay yeah [1:25:30] [1:25:32] Mayor Jim Michalski: so council we have motion to approve it's all made we have a second [1:25:47] moving on number seven reports and correspondence i think we've already read the letters that we received so and i'm there moving on to number eight which is committee and board meeting minutes uh eight days the moose lake power regular meeting minutes from november 20th that should be in your packet we also have the moose lake power special meeting minutes for november 20th we have number six the moose lake economic development authority minutes for december 12th i'm going to do those three and then talk about the fire district so any questions or on whether we don't need a motion for those but um eight a b or c on the minutes [1:26:36] no questions discussion going very good moving on to uh 8d the fire district in your handout is the fire one report the first page is the the number of calls for just december they had 23 calls for the month and if you turn to the next page is the annual report and for the year of 2018 the fire department responded or they had 412 calls and it gives a breakdown of all the different events that happened on as you can see there's quite a few events that uh they responded to [1:27:22] if you go down halfway through the first page it kind of gives a breakdown of the area the city of moose lake had 186. moose lake township had 84. silver township had 15. windermere township had 90 and out of the area 37 those are the responses that the fire department did so a lot of stuff for the year and there's more information on the back of total hours there's 2 598 hours response time so a lot of a lot of calls and they did a great job and thank you to the fire department [Applause] [1:28:08] moving on to number nine announcements regular moose lake city council meeting wednesday february 13th 4 pm right here moose lake economic development authority wednesday february 13th 12 p.m at the city conference room moose lake water light commission regular meeting tuesday january 15th at 3 p.m water and late office moose lake housing redevelopment authority board january 14th 11 am hillside manor office moose lake fire district tuesday january 15th now this has already happened it would be february 12th yeah that'd be [1:28:53] the next one for you february 12th at 6 30 at the emergency response center moose lake park board meeting monday february 4th actually we have one next monday we rescheduled the one from this last monday and it'll be uh the weather yes so that what is that monday is the 14th january 14th 6 30 right here library board meeting january 14th 1pm city conference room and that's all i have do i have a motion to adjourn it's a move have a second second all in favor say aye aye aye [1:29:39] we're adjourned thank you very much [1:29:46] [Applause] actually we made two meetings