This transcript features **Mayor Wayne Boucher** presiding over the meeting, with **Councilors John Geissler** and **Grant Hauschild** (phonetically transcribed as "house child," "hashtag," and "hofstra") present. City Administrator **John Mulder**, Public Works Director **Paul Senst**, and City Clerk **Alissa McClure** also speak. [0:00] **Wayne Boucher**: 30 let's call the meeting to order and 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. Roll call please. [0:35] **Wayne Boucher**: Announcements. Do any counselors have announcements this evening? Not tonight? I don't think so. I have two. I'd just like to let everyone know that we have two counselors that couldn't be here tonight due to weather; they were out of town but had planned to be here and couldn't be back. Also, our Proctor-Hermantown Mirage girls are playing at one o'clock tomorrow in the Xcel Energy Center for the first game of what hopefully is a fruitful high school hockey tournament for them. They did win the championship last year and it would be nice to see them repeat. Um, we have no public hearings tonight. Communications—Mr. Mulder, we don't have anything specific in our—to address? [1:21] **John Mulder**: No. If there's anything on the list that you would like copies of, just let us know. [1:25] **Wayne Boucher**: Thank you. Presentations: we have none this evening. Now is the time for public discussion. There will be also time for discussion if someone from the public wants to talk during an individual motion, but this is the time to discuss any item not on the agenda. If anyone has any discussion for the City Council, please state your name and address for the record. [2:01] **Wayne Boucher**: Is there anyone that wishes to address the council this evening about items that are not on the agenda? [2:13] **Wayne Boucher**: Hearing no public discussion, we will move on to the consent agenda. I see two of you will be busy making motions and seconds tonight. Do we have a motion for the consent agenda? [2:22] **Grant Hauschild**: So moved. [2:23] **John Geissler**: I'll second. [2:24] **Wayne Boucher**: Motion by Councilor Hauschild, second by Councilor Geissler. Roll call please. [2:28] **Alissa McClure**: Councilor Hauschild? **Grant Hauschild**: Aye. **Alissa McClure**: Councilor Geissler? **John Geissler**: Aye. [2:32] **Wayne Boucher**: Motion to approve or deny the following: On-sale intoxicating liquor license change to Skyline Lounge. We are changing from David Colquest to Corey Colquist. Anything else, Mr. Mulder? [2:47] **John Mulder**: That's it. [2:48] **Wayne Boucher**: That's it. Do we have a motion? [2:50] **John Geissler**: Motion to approve. [2:51] **Grant Hauschild**: Second. [2:52] **Wayne Boucher**: Motion by Councilor Geissler, second by Councilor Hauschild. Any discussion amongst councilors? No. Is there anyone from the public that wishes to address this matter? If so, please state your name and address for the record. [3:20] **Wayne Boucher**: Is there any public input on the liquor license name change for Skyline Lounge ownership? Hearing none, roll call please. [3:28] **Alissa McClure**: Councilor Geissler? **John Geissler**: Aye. **Alissa McClure**: Councilor Hauschild? **Grant Hauschild**: Aye. **Alissa McClure**: Mayor Boucher? **Wayne Boucher**: Aye. [3:35] **Wayne Boucher**: Ordinance 2022-01. This is a second reading of an ordinance amending Section 220, City Administrator, of this Hermantown City Code by modifying the City Administrator's ability to sign for purchase orders and set limits. Do we have a motion? [3:53] **Grant Hauschild**: So moved. [3:54] **John Geissler**: I'll second. [3:55] **Wayne Boucher**: Motion by Councilor Hauschild, second by Councilor Geissler. Mr. Mulder? [3:59] **John Mulder**: This is consistent with the purchasing policy that was previously approved by the City Council. It just increases the ability of the City Administrator to sign from $10,000 to $25,000. [4:06] **Wayne Boucher**: Thank you. Any discussion from Council? No. Is there any public input on the second reading of Ordinance 2022-01? If anyone wishes to comment on this ordinance, please state your name and address for the record. [4:42] **Wayne Boucher**: Hearing no public input, I would ask for a roll call. [4:46] **Alissa McClure**: Councilor Hauschild? **Grant Hauschild**: Aye. **Alissa McClure**: Councilor Geissler? **John Geissler**: Aye. **Alissa McClure**: Mayor Boucher? **Wayne Boucher**: Aye. [4:51] **Wayne Boucher**: Next is Ordinance 2022-02, an ordinance of the City of Hermantown, Minnesota, amending the City Code Section 210, Council, to increase the salaries of the Mayor and City Council members. Do we have a motion relating to this? [5:10] **John Geissler**: I'll motion to table. And I'd like to also—after reading what we were talking about earlier—I'd like to just remind us, I also remembered the $35 stipend for internet and what have you. Maybe when we do discuss it with the rest of the Council, let's talk about that as well. But motion to table. [5:27] **Wayne Boucher**: Motion to table. Do we have a second for that? [5:28] **Grant Hauschild**: Second. [5:29] **Wayne Boucher**: All in favor say aye. (Council: Aye). Opposed, same sign. We will bring this up at our next meeting. Resolutions: Resolution 2022-26, resolution to approve shared sanitary sewer relocation costs between the City of Hermantown and Minnesota Department of Transportation associated with construction along and adjacent to Highway 53 and 194 under State Project Number 6916-113, Trunk Highway 53. Do we have a motion? [6:06] **Grant Hauschild**: So moved. [6:07] **John Geissler**: On a second. [6:08] **Wayne Boucher**: Motion by Councilor Hauschild, second by Councilor Geissler. Mr. Mulder? [6:12] **John Mulder**: So MnDOT will be redoing the intersection of Highway 53 and 194 and we need to relocate some of our sanitary sewer and just make some adjustments there. Paul Senst can speak to it more if you have any questions. [6:28] **Wayne Boucher**: Thank you. Paul? [6:29] **Paul Senst**: Yeah, thank you. There's four manholes that need to be adjusted in height as part of this project. With an agreement that's with MnDOT going back to the last time work was done, we're on the hook here for some costs for this. But it's just the adjustment of four manholes—sanitary manholes. The pipes will stay in the location that they are. Height and manhole will change up or down depending on the geometry that's changed for this project. [6:59] **Wayne Boucher**: Thank you. Do you have any questions or comments from Council? Is there any public input relating to this resolution? If so, please state your name and address for the record. Is there any public input for Resolution 2022-26? Close the public input and have a roll call please. [7:23] **Alissa McClure**: Councilor Geissler? **John Geissler**: Aye. **Alissa McClure**: Councilor Hauschild? **Grant Hauschild**: Aye. **Alissa McClure**: Mayor Boucher? **Wayne Boucher**: Aye. [7:28] **Wayne Boucher**: Resolution 2022-27, resolution approving a request for proposals for purchase of an advanced metering infrastructure for water meters. Do we have a motion? [7:41] **Grant Hauschild**: So moved. [7:42] **John Geissler**: Second. [7:43] **Wayne Boucher**: Motion by Councilor Hauschild, second by Councilor Geissler. Mr. Mulder, should we have Mr. Senst address this? [7:49] **John Mulder**: Yes, Paul. [7:50] **Paul Senst**: As part of our 2022 and 2023 Capital Improvement Plan within the Public Works, we've put in provisions to switch our existing water meter radios over to this AMI system. It's the newest, latest-gen technology for our type of meters that we use. It'll give us water usage data on each individual place rapidly in the event that we need it. It will minimize the amount of time that we spend each month reading all of our water meters. It will give us better data in the event there's a high usage out of a residence; we have the data to back it up. Our existing radios are at the end of their useful life and we need to start replacing these now in order to get them all replaced by the time that our reader will no longer be supported and not have the technology in order to actually read the water meters. [8:48] **Wayne Boucher**: Thank you. Do you have any questions or comments from Council? I think it's a great step forward. Is there any public input on this matter? If so, please state your name and address for the record. Public input on Resolution 2022-27? With no public input, could we have a roll call? [9:12] **Alissa McClure**: Councilor Hauschild? **Grant Hauschild**: Aye. **Alissa McClure**: Councilor Geissler? **John Geissler**: Aye. **Alissa McClure**: Mayor Boucher? **Wayne Boucher**: Aye. [9:17] **Wayne Boucher**: Resolution 2022-28, resolution approving pay request number 16 and change order number nine for Sewer Improvement District number 448 to Utility Systems Incorporated in the amount of $25,688. Do we have a motion? [9:37] **John Geissler**: Motion to approve. [9:38] **Grant Hauschild**: Second. [9:39] **Wayne Boucher**: Motion by Councilor Geissler, second by Councilor Hauschild. Mr. Mulder? [9:43] **John Mulder**: This is a pay request for some blasting that had not been included in the final payout, so we are just requesting that we pay that blasting work. [9:51] **Wayne Boucher**: Thank you. Any questions or comments from Council? With none, is there any public input on Resolution 2022-28? If there is any public input on this resolution, please state your name and address for the record. Roll call please. [10:11] **Alissa McClure**: Councilor Geissler? **John Geissler**: Aye. **Alissa McClure**: Councilor Hauschild? **Grant Hauschild**: Aye. **Alissa McClure**: Mayor Boucher? **Wayne Boucher**: Aye. [10:16] **Wayne Boucher**: Next we have a very important item on our agenda: a motion to recess. So, your turn. [10:23] **Grant Hauschild**: Motion by Councilor... [10:24] **Wayne Boucher**: Motion by Councilor Hauschild, second by Councilor Geissler. All in favor? (Council: Aye). Opposed, same sign. Does anybody want to stay? No.