[0:00] Mayor Wayne Boucher: and um stand for the pledge of allegiance in the chamber pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states against one [0:26] Mayor Wayne Boucher: nelson here peterson here mayor boucher here uh now is the time for council members to make announcements do we have any counselors that wish to make announcements at this time concert nelson no concert peterson no consular house child no thank you uh we have no public hearings mr mulder would you highlight the communications on our agenda [0:55] John Mulder: the first one is just for your information it's regarding minnesota power's duluth loop reliability project they are just starting the process of looking at additional transmission lines in hermantown i don't think it will impact the community the city [1:12] but it may impact the community um somewhat and then the second one is just the sales tax revenue for the last five years [1:25] Mayor Wayne Boucher: thank you uh presentations for department heads tonight we have chief craise for his annual report presentation chief are you ready to go [1:35] Jim Crace: i am uh mr ricklin's gonna run the powerpoint for me here so he's gonna share his screen and um we'll go from there okay um there we go so um we had a long time retiree in the department retire in 2020 luanne [1:57] mcmillan um left us in the winter months uh before the pandemic hit and uh we got her on the front page here because her contributions to the city both in the police department and over in the city hall over the years were very very big and we appreciated her service um one other thing i i guess uh you know just on the front page there i just wanted to note since i don't normally wouldn't think of it is that our our winter parking regulations are i think are doing a a good job for our public works department the new ordinance and and especially since we put the signage up we we've been having a lot of good [2:44] compliance so we'll move on to page two budget um if you look at the upper yearly budget comparison that shows a comparison kind of to from 2019 to 2020 in the dark as the budgeted number and then in a lighter salmon color is the uh the expenditure of the actual um you'll see that uh in 2020 we're a bit over budget i think it was the first time in 10 years that we were actually over we were two and a half percent over 2020 we were six and a half percent or 6.49 percent under and then if you look at just expenses [3:32] in 2019 um and i'm sure sorry 2020 you will see that we were about uh 15 under budget um in the um operating and about 3.8 in personnel moving on to the next page again this is budgeting numbers um this is kind of where our revenue comes from the majority of the the revenue by program comes through police state aid um from the state the fourteen thousand dollars that you see there in purple is police training reimbursement that also comes from the state [4:18] uh the tzd grant that's our extra uh traffic enforcement money last year was just shy of 32 000 from the state and feds and then the um and then the other federal programs uh that would be like our best reimbursements that come from the from there so and if you look down below it kind of breaks it down a little bit more um the training center brought in about eleven hundred dollars um with it being closed that revenues were down there archery permits however were up dog licenses you'll see later are um kind of down and i'll give you an explanation on that forfeitures are down a little bit this [5:03] prosecution number that you see that is money that comes in uh as a portion of forfeitures uh that the city attorney gets but then turns back to us so it gets put into prosecution um and then that might be some some court fines that go in there as well i'm not our court fees i'm not positive on that our fines were about 38 thousand dollars and and then the police services is 77 000. if we move on to the next page we'd be remissed if we didn't talk about colvin and the pandemic and how it affected [5:50] police operations budgets the numbers that i showed you on the budget um were impacted by covid in a large way um and you'll see that our calls for service and some of our other stuff were as well so our department as you know went to a temporary schedule um where we made we compacted the two crews and had less people on duty at a time and made three crews working five days on and ten days after in the early days of the pandemic so we kind of made sure that we could keep everybody healthy you're going to see in this report that a lot of our numbers are down our activity is down from 2020. [6:34] other i guess like i mentioned in the budget portion other cova changes were our training center was closed any outside groups and in fact it just opened back up last week and has been closed for a year um it was used most recently um as a covet testing area for public safety only so um i don't consider that open we didn't charge anything for it it was it was uh public health doing testing another thing that was impacted that we haven't opened back up but we are on the brink of doing that is our fingerprinting services so that that brought a lot less [7:19] people in and and did affect some revenues as well so if we move on to the next slide once again effects of covet our mileage was down close to 20 percent 19 and a half percent or 36 000 miles that is due to officers um responding to calls by phone quite frankly during the pandemic we were we were not um going to folk to to see folks in person as much we in the really early days we told officers we didn't want them to do any proactive um traffic stops and those types of [8:05] things that would expose them to have have given a possible exposure so that just led to us being very reactive in 2020. um that has changed obviously as we learn more about the pandemic and and how you can contract covid19 we loosened that up but uh though the long effects did last uh or these effects did last throughout much of 2020. on the next slide i wanted to just kind of talk a little bit um we did talk a little bit about uh luanne macmillan uh leaving our agency in the bottom you'll see um that we did hire three new people [8:51] we on the in clerical we hired samantha knapp she's a long-term hermantown resident grew up here she is are doing a great job in our clerical um section we hired uh john strassek on the bee crew he is just got off of his fto and is today is actually his first day patrolling the streets without having a partner or a trainer and then we hired olivia gotcha um she is still on her her field training um uh but should be done within this this month uh their hires were were in response to uh gary kanizle leaving our department [9:37] so in in august and we hired them in november so we're happy to have them they're doing a great job um and uh the the first tire was to replace him the second hire was our um our additional officer that was built into the budget so uh next year you'll see two officers in the detective bureau instead of one so this a crew will not have five people on it'll have four and the detective bureau will have uh two officers and plainclothes doing investigations we go to staffing this is a little bit of a boring slide there's not all those nice pictures but you'll see that officer knighzel with was with us for about three years [10:22] and luanne mcmillan was with the police department for 16 and i guess i'm sorry but i don't know how long she was with the city but i i think it was several years so um so moving on 25. yeah moving on from there um community involvement was tough for us in in oh excuse me in 2020 it was really hard to um to get out and see people we uh we had to do a lot of dr drive-by stuff um both people stopping here here and us stopping at other people's houses excuse me i got hiccups [11:09] um you'll see that many nice gifts were delivered to us and and we delivered gifts to others um the bottom picture is our shop with a cop instead of actually shopping with the kit with the kids uh erica johnson our school resource officer set up a um drive-through uh situa situation excuse me i gotta get a water a drive-through situation where um the kids got their gift cards in a drive-through um moving on to the next slide joe please our school resource officer last year um was started erica johnson [11:56] she's in her second year uh during 2019 and 20 um she did teach two classes of dare so um it was quite the undertaking and we did both the fifth and sixth graders and the reason for that is they switched what grades it was going to be offered at so she had to do um she had to do it to both uh grades she's doing a great job up there again it was a tough situation with the school being closed she was kind of split between the office and and trying to do outreach with the kids throughout the year some of the kids having some you know trouble with learning from home and that kind of stuff so it wasn't her [12:41] traditional in the school kind of duties but the partnership continues with the school if we move on to the next slide you will see what our our canine team did in 2020 we had i'm not going to go through each one but you can see they were used extensively um on different searches and and um high-risk situations i want i did want to highlight on the next slide a few of the more prominent calls that they they were on again i'm not going to read each one but i'm sure most of you have already read this report but these i [13:27] i just asked to highlight four kind of more significant issues so that i could let you kind of visualize and see the kind of stuff that they participate in and and the value that they bring both to our department and our partner agencies um the canine canine teams are part of the northland canine foundation and as part of that it's it's um we kind of share resources um the so one day our officers might be in duluth helping out on a call if they don't have a dog on and if we don't have a dog team on duty duluth might be here or in proctor or in the county and and it's [14:12] it's a good situation that we can share those services so both of these dogs are in that six and seven year old range so they probably have about three to four years left and then we will have to replace them if you remember we do as part of the foundation i may have told you before the foundation pays for our replacement dogs um and several years ago or a couple of years ago we we were named in somebody's will um and that helps to fund uh some of their operations and training and that kind of stuff as well so we'll move on to the the next um the next page the investigative division [14:59] we did have uh a third degree murder um case that we uh worked on for about four weeks that was a third degree murder via drug overdose so we go after the dealer and um that like i said that case took about four weeks straight of our investigators time so understand if they're working four weeks on a case these cases just continue to come in and build and build and build and there becomes a backlog so um we had a burglary and stolen property ring that took about three weeks and i'm just not for in the essence of time i'm not going to go through each one of these but you can see the kind of time that it takes [15:45] the officers were the detective was assigned less cases in 2020 than in past years as you can see and part of that is again kind of the covid19 um effect um but you could see kind of the percent the the cases that were closed and um what was the sign there if you go on to the next page this just kind of breaks down what types of cases uh we're following up on to no surprise um you know we we do a lot of social services stuff as well and and then our theft cases are some of the higher numbers that we take care of so in our city [16:30] moving on to the next slide uh training again i i feel like i'm just saying the same thing over and over and over but covet 19 we really did um kind of halt a lot of our training we did the mandatory training and that was about it um that that we still went out and did our firearms four times during the year we still did our use of force training we still did lots of osha training act actually in ppe because of the pandemic and then a lot of online type training um and and one of tho that was one of those line items in the police budget that was way way way under budget was training and travel because they um they affect each other if we trap [17:18] we'll go to training and travel dollars get spent as well so moving on to the next slide this is our call volume we had the lowest call volume since uh 2012. you can see in the top slide we we've been hovering around that 10 000 mark for several years five year average is 10 029 calls and we were down 23 from 2019 our calls for service meaning our calls from dispatch were down about 18 and then our self-initiated calls meaning traffic stops um community outreach [18:04] um business checks that kind of stuff where we're outwardly working and trying to have contact with the county our community were down 33 that was by design to protect our employees and their health and safety and quite frankly there just really wasn't anybody out i mean there was times after 9 00 pm where it was absolute ghost town out there so the officers didn't have a lot of traffic enforcement to do if they if they wanted to so um next page um one of our one of our things that we've been working on for several years is to work on our response time okay um it's a little bit uh [18:49] suspect because of the pandemic but our uh our priority one calls were down almost a minute um that's something i'm i'm very proud of we we we are getting to these calls quicker okay um one of the things that that i haven't really been able to figure out quite yet is why our our priority two calls were longer and our priority three calls were even longer some of that might be because we had less officers on the street at a time for a period of time there where we were working that special schedule and part of that may be because of the way that they put the [19:36] information into cad if they were making a phone call back that cad doesn't always get updated at the time like it does if they're in their car and they push the button in their computer in their squad that they're on scene so these numbers are a little bit suspect i trust the priority one call situation much better that that part because those calls are the types of calls that the officers were actually out responding in person to no matter what moving on to arrests our arrests were also down about 37 percent it kind of spiked in 2019 we're down [20:22] from from what our average would be here um and and i think we're gonna probably see that rebound where average was five year average is about 482 and we were at 429 that can be good news or bad news depends on on how you look at it we look at it or i look at it as if if they're out doing their job arrests should be happening but when the calls for service were down um it's clear why the arrests are down because less people were calling us so less response less crimes being committed so moving on to the next page um this one's a really busy slide um but it's basically you see in our [21:07] part one crimes it's a good thing to have in a community but most of ours is property crimes it's thefts okay with our business district the way it is ninety percent of our part one crimes are thefts moving down to um part two crimes a little less serious type crimes vandalism rates high fraud narcotics dui and assaults moving on to the next slide this slide is really busy but you can kind of see a trend with our with our larcenies which is a theft call it's a federal term for theft um they're pretty [21:53] steadily around that 400 range in 19 we had a spike which would also um answer the question why our arrests were up in 19 there was a spike in arrests as well if you look at our um our rapes robberies aggravated assaults there isn't really a big rhyme or reason the numbers are so low that um percentage-wise if you have a couple more it throws that number way that percentage way off so i'm not going to try to dissect that for you too much if you look at um the clearance rate for part one crimes we're at about 50 percent just just [22:40] higher than 50 on our larcenies right now i'm really hoping that this additional investigator that we're putting on is gonna is gonna change that clearance rate and make that higher because we'll have more time i think i told you in a former presentation that our our investigator was getting up to 250 cases in a year if you imagine you know you work 50 50 weeks any in a year with vacation and and that you're getting about a case a day and so and then you you think about the cases that take you four weeks you can understand why somebody gets behind and then the information starts to get stale and you just it's harder to clear those cases we'll [23:26] move on to the next slide joe this this is an incredibly busy uh slide it just kind of talks about our our clearance rate on all of our different uh types of calls and um it it really doesn't give you much but it's a slide that we do to try to pull the information out so we're just going to skip past that one um this one's always interesting to me because we get people asking why do you have so many cops on during the day and um i explained to them you know and some some folks might think that well the night time is the busiest time right for police officers we uh we have about 15 percent of our [24:11] calls between midnight and 8 a.m 46 percent over 46 percent were are in the business hours and then the evening hours from four to midnight 38 so that's where we in our staffing plan we build up our staff okay we have less staff on from midnight to eight in the morning then we do eight in the morning to to four in the afternoon and then we and then it tapers off um in the evening as well so our highest staffing numbers are in that 8 to 4 p.m time frame next slide this just talks about um the monthly activity i'm not going to dig into it very [24:57] a whole lot but i'll tell you that the average per month is about 639. if you look at april 326 326 calls for service that's just a crazy low number right um that's because of when the pandemic hit and people weren't moving they just weren't moving and crimes were you know under calls for service were under half of what they normally would be moving on to property lost and found this just talks a little bit about um what gets called in we had 42 cases this year we tried to narrow down why that would [25:43] be i think more people were out taking walks and found things there was ten purses and wallets found three bikes seven phones and two guns one of the guns was um found in a rental vehicle and the other one was found in a gas station bathroom of all places if we move on to uh the next case here or the next slide is casualties our accidents our crashes were down by nearly a hundred again less miles traveled in 2020 it was about a 24 decrease um ironically um suicides we we we thought that we were gonna see [26:29] um an increase in that um we really thought that mental health with with the pandemic was gonna be um tough on people if you look at suicide attempts it was our lowest number in recent time so um that was interesting to us that that um the the pandemic didn't have the effect that we thought it might have on mental health that way if you move on to the next slide this again is just kind of some uh some out information on what what our miscellaneo miscellaneous public calls are the one that kind of i bolded here 94 dog complaints [27:16] again i think um those are down about 15 to 20 percent and i think that that's primarily because people were home and they weren't leaving their dogs out on the uh tied out and we weren't getting as many complaints on it um open car doors were down people weren't driving as much excuse me suspicious vehicles down every all these calls were down with the exception of the co detector uh situation which those those did rise they were over double it's a small number but um we did see more of that ironically if you look at our kid trouble we're about uh 50 of what we were in 2018 so maybe there was more parenting going [28:02] on this past year i don't know moving on to the next slide uh finger fingerprints were down 76 and that's basically uh if you figure it out we did them january february march and 75 of the year we weren't doing them so that number um correlates with that dog licenses they are down i would say the reason that those are down and you're going to continue to see them down and that revenue down is because we started offering lifetime dog licenses so people are buying one-time license and there and they don't have to buy them again moving on to the next slide uh traffic i've talked about traffic [28:48] at length already i'm not going to talk too much more about that i will just say that about 25 of our traffic stops um result in a warning actually it's about 2.5 warnings for every citation issued the reason i always tell you folks about that every year is because we really try to solve the problems with the least amount of enforcement necessary so if uh um we can just have discuss it and have some education alongside the roadway um and we think that that's gonna solve the problem that's that's where we that's where we end it if we think that we need to issue a citation to solve a [29:34] problem then then we would do that your officers are are not heavy-handed in in their enforcement i guess is the point um the percent of accidents compared to traffic stops has gone up a little bit um and i think part of that is frankly because we were we we weren't doing as much traffic enforcement this year as normal because of the pandemic when we got onto the next page that just breaks down kind of what the typical uh kind of traffic stops were for if you think about warnings um typically if you see this one it says over center line typically that those stops are are typically when you're looking for an [30:21] impaired driver where people are weaving on the road so we rarely ticket on that it's a stop where we stop somebody and and make sure that they're okay to drive and leave them leave them on their way same thing with the signal a failure to signal situation but then if you look at inattentive driving the the the black line is very tall that is because of the new um texting and driving that falls under the inattentive driving statute and um we did take a pretty hard stance on that and and and write quite a few more tickets on that [31:07] so that is it if we move to the next page it's my just my thank you again that's our um before luanne retired we did our every five years we take a department portrait for history sake and that was your staff at the beginning of uh 2020 and we just thank the council and the community for letting us serve and i'll open it up to any questions [31:48] Mayor Wayne Boucher: start with the council uh culture nelson any comments or questions [31:53] Councilor Nelson: uh no thank you very much for the report it was very interesting [31:54] Councilor Joe Peterson: uh jim just with those trends are you seeing [31:53] is that what you're seeing through communities of similar size um just with them be honest i'll be really honest i didn't even ask yeah i just i know some cities have seen the opposite but it i think it's larger cities so i was just curious if you knew of any of those trends it's good to see the numbers where they were but yeah [32:10] Jim Crace: i know i know that as far as the proactive enforcement in our state and our area um you're probably seeing the same trends because um a lot of that proactive enforcement was kind of uh suspended for a while you're going to see that return in 2010 [32:38] Councilor Joe Peterson: no thanks jim it's good information [32:38] Mayor Wayne Boucher: concierge child [32:41] Councilor House Child: thanks jim i don't have any questions but yeah good presentation and i agree good to see the numbers where they're at and obviously some of this will pick up as as we get past the pandemic but nonetheless um it's good results thank you [32:55] Mayor Wayne Boucher: and jim i'd like to say thank you to your you and all the members of your department for everything you do you have garnered and kept public support throughout the community and that's a good thing a good feather in your cap of course i do have one question relating to something near and dear to my heart and that's the dare program are we back to teaching that to fifth graders [33:24] Jim Crace: we are yep and that's why we had to do the sixth and the fifth grade otherwise we to pick [33:26] up next this year's fifth graders we had to do two classes and she is actually doing that in person right um this month um into next month [33:43] Mayor Wayne Boucher: thank you i i think you'll see a better result with fifth graders than sixth i from teaching it myself it was a little more difficult with sixth graders thank you thank you thanks chief um we will move on to the consent agenda do we have a motion for the consent agenda [33:55] Councilor House Child: well moved [33:58] Councilor Joe Peterson: second [34:03] Mayor Wayne Boucher: motioned by councillor host child second by counselor peterson roll call please counselor nelson [34:06] Councilor Nelson: hi [34:08] Councilor Joe Peterson: peterson aye [34:09] Councilor House Child: house child hi [34:11] Mayor Wayne Boucher: mayor boucher aye ordinances this is the first reading for ordinance 2021-01 an ordinance amending chapter 5 alcoholic beverages of the hermanntown city zoning code by amending section 520 license fees first reading would you like to comment on that mr mulder [34:25] John Mulder: sure just a quick um explanation of this this is for our on-sale liquor licenses we eliminated the 500 dance fee for this year and we reduced the fees by 25 percent but it's just for this year and because of the um pandemic [35:00] Mayor Wayne Boucher: thank you and we will move on to ordinance 2021-02 [35:00] another first reading an ordinance amending chapter 3 public property of the hermanntown city code by amending section 350 accepted and open streets and roads mr mulder do you have a comment on that [35:10] John Mulder: yeah so um what we did was we just looked through um our list of uh public roads and streets and updated those based upon um some new additions but also in some cases we changed just a segment description and then a couple cases like for instance carlson road we changed it from gravel to bituminous [35:36] Mayor Wayne Boucher: thank you and i'd like to stop for a moment back up in the agenda to something i missed general public discussion is there anyone present at the online meeting that [35:46] wishes to speak to the council at this time if so please state your name and address [35:56] we will also have an opportunity for public input on each resolution in each vote we will with no public input in general we'll move on to resolution 2021-35 resolution providing for the sale of four million thirty five thousand general obligation improvement and refunding bonds series 2021 a do we have a motion [36:14] Councilor Joe Peterson: motion to approve [36:17] Councilor Nelson: second [36:26] Mayor Wayne Boucher: motioned by councillor peterson second by councillor nelson mr mulder would you like mr orem to explain this one [36:31] John Mulder: sure if you would do that that would be uh helpful kevin [36:34] Kevin Orme: thank you mr mayor members of council uh this resolution will provide [36:42] for the sale um like uh like it says is four million dollars approximately there's two components to it the first component is the 2021 road improvement plan primarily the big junction the second component of it is refinancing the 2012 series b bonds for interest savings if approved tonight this would uh this would enable ellers our our bond company to then uh sell these bonds they would uh be sold around april or were targeting april 19th and about may 6 is when the city would receive the money again to refinance and then to also do some road improvements that we're planning on doing this summer [37:29] Mayor Wayne Boucher: thank you do we have any questions or comments from council councillor nelson [37:34] Councilor Nelson: no comment [37:35] Councilor Joe Peterson: no [37:36] Councilor House Child: and i have no comment [37:39] Mayor Wayne Boucher: is there any member of the public that wishes to comment on this motion with no comments we will move to a roll call counselor peterson [37:57] Councilor Joe Peterson: i [38:00] Councilor House Child: hostchild hi [38:03] Councilor Nelson: nelson i [38:05] Mayor Wayne Boucher: mayor boucher hi move to resolution 2021-36 resolution authorizing and directing or authorizing the director of finance and administration to amend selected 2020 budgets and make [38:16] transfers do we have a motion [38:20] Councilor Nelson: motion to approve [38:22] Councilor House Child: second [38:32] Mayor Wayne Boucher: motion by councillor nelson second by consular house child mr mulder should mr arm address this one again [38:32] John Mulder: yes please kevin [38:35] Kevin Orme: mr mayor members of council thanks again so this is going to amend the budget and approve some transfers done in 2020 two main reasons the first is we have a little bit of surplus and a few of our funds from the 2020 road improvement project and so that's transferring the excess money into the debt service fund the bond fund that is servicing those road improvements the second main reason for these transfers and budget amendments are we're going to take some surplus from 2020 and transfer it into uh specific funds [39:03] that we reduce the 2021 budget by in order to minimize the tax levy increase so this will then put us back on track and those specific funds um to where our financial management plan had us going so we're going to uh that we're going to transfer a little bit of money to help make that those funds fall again for the financial management plan [39:42] Mayor Wayne Boucher: thank you are there any questions or comments from council counselor nelson [39:43] Councilor Nelson: no comment [39:44] Councilor Joe Peterson: no comment [39:45] Councilor House Child: no comments [39:47] Mayor Wayne Boucher: and i have only one comment i'm grateful that we're able to increase some of those funds for 2021 without increasing taxes and i appreciate that [39:50] is there any member of the public that wishes to comment on this if so please state your name and address with no public comment we would have a roll call counselor hostchild [40:02] Councilor House Child: hostchild hi [40:04] Councilor Nelson: nelson hi [40:07] Councilor Joe Peterson: peterson aye [40:09] Mayor Wayne Boucher: mayor boucher aye resolution 2021-37 resolution approving a local road improvement grant application for street improvement on richard avenue and lindgren road in the hermantown marketplace do we have a motion [40:31] Councilor Joe Peterson: motion to approve [40:33] Councilor House Child: second [40:35] Mayor Wayne Boucher: motion by councillor peterson second by councillor house child mr mulder [40:35] John Mulder: this is a grant application to the state [40:36] of minnesota through st louis county for 750 thousand dollars so that we could uh potentially build richard avenue and upgrade lindgren road to a paved road with sidewalks back in 2017 we estimated the cost to be 1.5 million we haven't proceeded at this point because in part just um there wasn't the development pressure on that and we didn't really have a great funding source if we were able to get this grant that would cover about half the cost and then we want to proceed if we were able to get this grant [41:21] Mayor Wayne Boucher: thank you any questions or comments from council councilor nelson [41:40] Councilor Nelson: no no comment [41:41] Councilor Joe Peterson: counselor peterson [41:21] no [41:44] Councilor House Child: no [41:46] Mayor Wayne Boucher: and i have no comment is there any public comment on this resolution if so please state your name and address for the record with no public comment we will have a roll call counselor nelson [41:51] Councilor Nelson: hi [41:53] Councilor Joe Peterson: peterson i [41:54] Councilor House Child: hostchild hi [41:56] Mayor Wayne Boucher: mayor boucher aye resolution 2021-38 resolution approving a local road improvement grant application for street improvement district number 534 sp 202 hugstead road and arrowhead road do we have a motion [42:09] Councilor Nelson: motion to approve [42:10] Councilor Joe Peterson: second [42:12] Mayor Wayne Boucher: motioned by councillor nelson second by councilor peterson mr mulder [42:12] John Mulder: so the city at hermantown is going to be redoing uggstead road from highway 53 to maple grove road and then arrowhead road from fielke circle to hawk circle we have that plan for 2022 and we are starting that project but we also learned recently that we potentially are eligible for the local road improvement grant for that stretch of road and it meets a number of the criteria of the grant if we were successful we'd be able to reduce the amount of municipal state aid we're using on this project and be able to use that for future road projects in the future [42:54] Mayor Wayne Boucher: thank you any questions or comments from [42:54] council councilor nelson [43:08] Councilor Nelson: no comment [43:09] Councilor Joe Peterson: no comment [43:10] Councilor House Child: no [43:11] Mayor Wayne Boucher: and my only question is we were told that we may receive an answer on this in may of this year or may of next year may of this year is there any public comment on this matter if so state your name and address for the record hearing none roll call please counselor peterson [43:13] Councilor Joe Peterson: aye [43:15] Councilor House Child: hoss child hi [43:18] Councilor Nelson: nelson i [43:21] Mayor Wayne Boucher: mayor boucher hi resolution 2021-39 resolution authorizing and directing the mayor and city clerk [43:40] to execute and deliver license for utility to cross public waters from the minnesota department of natural resources and the city of hermantown for relocating water and sewer mains under king creek at morris thomas road do we have a motion [43:44] Councilor Joe Peterson: motion to approve [43:47] Councilor House Child: second [43:55] Mayor Wayne Boucher: motion by councillor peterson second by councillor house child mr mulder [43:55] John Mulder: st louis county will be redoing morris thomas road in 2021 and including in that will be a larger culvert at the king creek location our water and sewer mains were in the way of their culvert so we had to relocate those when we presented that plan to the dnr they said that we should renew our [44:26] license from them to cross public waters so this is that license it's for 50 years for both the water main and the sewer main under king creek [44:48] Mayor Wayne Boucher: thank you any questions or comments from council councilor nelson [44:50] Councilor Nelson: no comment [44:52] Councilor Joe Peterson: no comment [44:54] Councilor House Child: and i have no comment [44:56] Mayor Wayne Boucher: is there any member of the public that wishes to comment on this if so please state your name and address for the record roll call counselor hospital [45:00] Councilor House Child: hi [45:02] Councilor Nelson: hi [45:04] Councilor Joe Peterson: i [45:06] Mayor Wayne Boucher: air boucher hi resolution 2021-40 [45:15] resolution approving a grant application to the western lake superior sanitary district do we have a motion [45:18] Councilor House Child: motion to approve [45:21] Councilor Joe Peterson: second [45:31] Mayor Wayne Boucher: uh that was counselor host child with the motion yes and counselor peterson with the second mr mulder [45:31] John Mulder: so this is a grant application to uh western lakes sanitary district what we want to do here if we're successful is to hire a part-time gis technician to get data points on various um parts of our sewer system including manholes lift stations things like that but also some of our storm water the idea is that if we map that perhaps we can identify where there might be some ini [46:02] and it will just give us a overall better data set in order to manage our system [46:25] Mayor Wayne Boucher: thank you any questions or comments from console counselor nelson [46:33] Councilor Nelson: no [46:35] Councilor Joe Peterson: no [46:37] Councilor House Child: and i have nothing [46:39] Mayor Wayne Boucher: any member of the public that wishes to comment on this please do so by starting with name and address with no public comment we'll have a roll call counselor nelson [46:44] Councilor Nelson: i [46:46] Councilor Joe Peterson: i [46:47] Councilor House Child: hi [46:48] Mayor Wayne Boucher: hi and that ends our business for this evening i'd entertain a motion to recess [46:49] Councilor Joe Peterson: motion [46:51] Councilor Nelson: second [46:53] Mayor Wayne Boucher: okay the motion was councilor peterson and the second was councilor nelson is that right all in favor i i i oppose same sign thank you all have a great evening right everyone you