Based on the context provided and the internal clues within the transcript (such as names mentioned by the Mayor and roles described), I have added speaker names to your transcript. **Note on City Administrator:** While your provided list identifies Ellissa Owens as the City Administrator, the 2017 transcript explicitly addresses the Administrator as "Tim" (Tim Peterson). I have used the name **Ellissa Owens** per your "Context" instructions, but remained faithful to the dialogue where people are addressed by name. *** **[00:00:00] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Like to welcome everyone to the regular City Council meeting for March 8th, 2017. The first item is a Pledge of Allegiance. **[00:00:10] All:** 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. **[00:00:25] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Welcome all our guests here tonight. The first item is the agenda. Do we have any corrections, additions to the agenda? Before we pass it, once we get through some of the business through four, I'll jump ahead and put K&L, the Sunday liquor sales, and also the Amendment to ordinance 10 allowing outdoor sales. I moved them up so we can take care of the business and you can leave. John, do you have specific stuff that you wanted to discuss? Okay. Is it? 6A. 6A. Well, sorry, we can't do any better than that for you. I would have moved you up. All right. Hearing none, do I have a motion to accept the agenda? **[00:01:05] Council Member:** So moved. **[00:01:06] Council Member:** Do I have a second? **[00:01:07] Council Member:** Second. **[00:01:08] Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. **[00:01:09] All:** Aye. **[00:01:10] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Opposed? Motion carried. Number two, consent agenda. 2A1, this is a February 8th, 2017, City Council meeting minutes and 2A2 February 13, 2017 Joint City Council and Utility Commission meeting minutes. Do I have any comments? Discussion? **[00:01:25] Council Member:** I so move we accept them as written. **[00:01:27] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Do I have a second? **[00:01:28] Council Member:** Second. **[00:01:29] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any further questions? All in favor say aye. **[00:01:31] All:** Aye. **[00:01:32] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Opposed? Motion carried. Under 2B, financial reports. 2B1 is the city accounts payable for March 2017. Number two is a city financial statements for February 2017. 2B3 is the liquor store profit loss statement for February 2017. Any comments, questions? **[00:01:50] Council Member:** Page 2, item 041980, garbage hauling $11,150. That is two years worth of bills for all departments. How did we get there? **[00:02:00] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** They did not bill us for two years. **[00:02:02] Council Member:** That was nice. Can you negotiate a little bit? **[00:02:05] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** There was a... I can't remember the percentage, but there was a credit included with it, so this is the reduced rate. **[00:02:10] Council Member:** I'd like to pull that one and have some discussion on it. Unless you've done something with it. Have you researched it? **[00:02:15] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Other than the fact that I know that we didn't pay for the last two years. I haven't been billed for two years. **[00:02:20] Council Member:** Because I've seen something in there with the summertime billing... there is all of our ongoing monthly payments? **[00:02:25] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** No, we have not been billed for them. It must have been some specialty events or special events or something like that. **[00:02:30] Council Member:** Fourth of July? **[00:02:31] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Yes, I've seen those for them, and those ones we may have, but these are our monthly each departmental: the shop, the City Hall, all of those. **[00:02:40] Council Member:** None of those are for parks, correct? **[00:02:42] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** So, if you want, we can call and see if there's anything else. I don't have a problem with that. The only thing that I can say is that we have not paid any of these bills. **[00:02:50] Council Member:** Okay. Well, I guess what I'd like to do is see if we can break it out quarterly or prorate it somehow, where all of a sudden we're not paying $11,150.30 just in one chunk. **[00:03:00] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Okay. **[00:03:01] Council Member:** I also, Mr. Mayor, I had a question on 041986, Quality Control Flow System repaired due to lightning strike. I don't know if Phil could maybe get me up to speed on that. **[00:03:10] City Superintendent Phil Entner:** I haven't seen the bill for it yet, but this was an insurance claim through our insurance for that lightning event that we had. We received the funds from our insurance company prior to paying the bill, except for our deductible. **[00:03:25] Council Member:** The last thing I had was just a food for thought. We're paying $152 for 16 hours worth of cleaning Moose Tracks and we're paying $1,600 to have our hall cleaned. Is that an option that we could use maybe more of Moose Tracks to... or is that just... I don't know about Moose Travel. **[00:03:40] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** We can have that conversation and see if there are some additional duties that they can do. One of the biggest issues that we are having right now is we have one janitorial staff that usually comes in much more that's having some health issues. So right now it's kind of an issue no matter what. I will say that considering what they, what it sounds like they had to clean this weekend, that's a steal. **[00:04:00] Council Member:** Okay. You don't get the same quality? Wondering just because one bill is 1600 and we're looking at 16 hours at 152. **[00:04:10] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Yeah. And I think usually we end up with three or four cleaning professionals coming in here doing more of a deep clean once a week. It's something that we could look into. I don't know that it would be more of an expansion with Moose Tracks so much as maybe just a different provider as a whole, but it just popped up. **[00:04:25] Council Member:** I mean, that's all I had. **[00:04:27] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any other items? Do you want further discussion on that agenda item, or are you going to meet with them on the garbage? **[00:04:33] Council Member:** I would just, I guess, like to have him take a look at it and see if we could prorate it somehow. **[00:04:38] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Why don't we just pull that one entirely for right now? If you say we waited two years already, I guess we could do it another month. **[00:04:45] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Very good. **[00:04:46] Council Member:** So I'd make a motion to accept the bills with that one bill pulled. **[00:04:50] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Do I have a second? **[00:04:51] Council Member:** Second. **[00:04:52] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any further discussion, questions? All in favor say aye. **[00:04:55] All:** Aye. **[00:04:56] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Opposed? Motion carried. Number three, public comment. This time is reserved for comments from the public on matters not listed on the agenda. Please keep comments to three minutes. I believe we have a gentleman from Ideal Homes. Did you want to speak at this time? Come up to the podium and state your name and business. **[00:05:15] Tom Rice:** My name is Tom Rice from Ideal Homes at Barnum. The reason I'm here tonight is I'm trying to get some clarification on sewer and water services on some property we own on Kenwood Avenue. I've got some little packets here... I know we've only got three minutes, but I'd like to put these in your hands. Thank you, sir. **[00:05:35] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Are you in Kenwood South or North? **[00:05:37] Tom Rice:** North, on the west side, and in the township. Okay, we've talked about this before. I stopped in... thank you... on the south side of 73. Yeah. So, yes, what's going on up there? If you're all familiar with Kenwood Avenue, it's pretty well developed. It looks to be like an average building site was probably 100 feet of frontage. Houses built up and down Kenwood Avenue that are serviced with sewer and water. We bought—or I should say I bought—a couple lots there years ago and at the time I did my due diligence, researched sewer/water services. Yes, they were there. It seemed like the sites were buildable, so I went ahead and bought them. Now getting a little closer to doing the project there, we have a buyer interested in building on one of those lots and we're still unclear on the sewer water service. I believe the sewer is handled by the township and the water I believe is the City of Moose Lake. However, the property that we're wanting to build on is in Carlton County, not within the city limits of Moose Lake, and you can kind of see that on a little map there. So I'm mostly here, number one, to get clarification on who specifically to talk to about these services and how to access them, and then also to ask the city council support in developing these two building sites so we can move forward and get some new homes in the area. If we could find out who to talk to, maybe some names specifically, then I'll go ahead and do that. **[00:07:00] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Well, for water, it's definitely starting with the City Administrator, and Phil is our Water/Street Department Supervisor. So you definitely start with them. **[00:07:10] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** If I might hop in. The problem here is that the lots are in Moose Lake Township. Currently, the City of Moose Lake does not extend utility services into the township. That's what you and I talked about, or someone from your office. The issue is the way that the City of Moose Lake has handled this in the past—unless they're willing to change their ways, which I guess my suggestion would not be—but would be to have properties like this be annexed into the City of Moose Lake. So, a request from the property owner, yourself, to the City of Moose Lake to annex the properties into the city so that we could extend utility services. One of the things that we also talked about is lots 16, 17, 18 and what is listed as 525 are all owned by Arthur Lamy, which I believe you're familiar with. I think those properties, at least some of them, he has some interest in selling. One of the things that the city and the township have tried to do in the past is work together a little bit in order to not just pull one parcel or even in this case two parcels over, but perhaps a section of an area to be developed. In this case, seeing parcels 16, 17, 18, and what's labeled as 500, 520, and 525 for instance, all being developed is entirely different than just two homes going in. That's not to say that you can't make your annexation request for those two parcels. It's just to say I think that in the past the council and the township have been more interested in larger tracts of land going at once rather than... **[00:08:40] Tom Rice:** I would assume that they would be. However, we do have water service going to these other properties to the adjacent neighbors. Across the road in the City of Moose Lake on both sides, and 560 and 440 have water service. West side of the Kenwood, the water is city water. **[00:08:55] City Superintendent Phil Entner:** Yeah, thank you. It's already there. **[00:08:58] Tom Rice:** Yeah. So basically, just to clarify, what we would be doing is simply running private water service from the municipal main into the new home. It's kind of a simple deal. And so I don't know about the annexation process, how complicated that is. I mean, we're willing to give it a try, but I mean we've already got properties here on our street that have that service. **[00:09:15] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Don't take this the wrong way, you're seeing... yes, Phil, do those lines go across or under the road to the land, or is there a line on the north or west side of Kenwood? **[00:09:25] City Superintendent Phil Entner:** The main is on the east right-of-way. So it's on our east side road. **[00:09:32] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** I guess from my position I would need to request from the City Council that they do something other than what is in the City Ordinance. I understand that. **[00:09:40] Tom Rice:** Okay, so I'm in the right place for the water. Just see how that rolls out. And as far as the sewer is concerned, then, we've made a couple trips down to the township sewer department and I haven't caught anybody there. Is there a contact person there? **[00:09:55] Council Member:** Darla. **[00:09:56] Tom Rice:** There we go. **[00:09:57] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** She's here, is it Wednesday morning? She's available for everyone in the sewer district. **[00:10:02] Tom Rice:** Okay. I know her first name is Darla. **[00:10:04] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Darla Hall, I believe. Okay, good. We should have a contact phone number if you call in tomorrow to the city office, and Jean will be able to get that number for you. **[00:10:15] Tom Rice:** Okay. All right, well, we're going to keep moving forward on this. We do have a buyer who wants to obtain a lot and build a new home. I included a photo of what we think the house will look like. It'd be a nice addition to the neighborhood, bring some economic activity, and provide a new home, which is always good. **[00:10:30] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** We are here Wednesday from 8:30 to 2:30. **[00:10:33] Tom Rice:** Okay, perfect. Okay, that's all I have. Do you have any other questions for me? **[00:10:38] Council Member:** No, I'm just wondering... the street that Kenwood North, is that the total responsibility of the city or does the township split? **[00:10:45] City Superintendent Phil Entner:** It's split. There is a sewer line that goes behind there. The main line is taken on the east side but on the west side some of those homes up on the highway are connected to the sewer line down here. **[00:11:00] Mayor Jim Michalski:** All right. Thanks for your help. Item four is department reports. 4A is the Police Chief. **[00:11:10] Police Chief Bryce:** Mr. Mayor, Council. Well, a loaded turnout for "Mugs and Hugs" and that was at Marketplace Foods on the 25th of last month. Masonic Lodge partnered with us and did the Operation ID to do ID kits for kids. That includes DNA buccal swabs, fingerprints, voice recording, height, weight, and a video recording. We wrap it up in a nice package and give it to the parents for safekeeping. It was 44 kids that we did this year and that was up quite a bit from last year. We got a ton of really nice compliments about the PD just from the public. I really want to thank Solomon's Masonic Lodge for helping out. Next thing is there's a program that's kind of going around the region called Shield 616 and I put a pamphlet in there. This is a non-profit organization started by a police officer in Colorado. He found that responding officers don't have the proper equipment for active shooters. We all have bullet-resistant vests but they only stop handgun rounds; they're not rated to stop rifle rounds. So this non-profit is trying to buy armor-resistant vests, helmets, and medical kits. Pretty much they just ask the public to sponsor an officer. I had the mom and dad of this officer from Colorado—they live up in Eveleth and they started the Arrowhead chapter of Shield 616. I invited them to come talk to the Kiwanis about a month ago. Sheriff Lake wants to try and get this rolling countywide and is going to be working on that. Any questions on that? The next thing: for the last several years our region has been looking at updating our RMS system (records management system). The system we have right now is not user-friendly. They put out an RFP and the system they chose is called Zuercher. Zuercher is a well-known business; 60% of the state departments use this system. It'll integrate the computer-aided dispatch and records management. Right now when somebody calls 911, dispatch pretty much emails us the call on our laptop computers. This is a much better system. We're kind of stuck; we pretty much have to go with what the county does because they dispatch for us. After some negotiation, we got the price down to $18,532. They are allowing us to split it up over a couple of years. I did call the sheriff of Itasca County; they went to Zuercher two or three years ago and said he wouldn't hesitate one bit with going with them. **[00:14:40] Council Member:** So every year we have a five percent increase for user fees? **[00:14:45] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Not to exceed five percent. But with the county changing price, the county is carrying the bulk of the weight with the servers. We are looking at right now maybe a budget item for next year? Yes. We were able to move some of the line into stuff. They want $5,000 upon signing of the contract and then the rest next year is my understanding. **[00:15:10] Police Chief Bryce:** The entire agreement is in the council packet. Page 67 lays out the payment. Once approved by the council we will sign and submit this with a payment of five thousand dollars. With January 1st, 2018 another payment being due. **[00:15:25] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** This is a way to spread the costs out. Through a couple of items coming under budget, like the skid steer, the capital improvement fund will be able to cover the expense for this year, and next year we will need to budget for the remainder. **[00:15:40] Council Member:** Are we paying anything on the current system we use? **[00:15:43] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Yes, right now we pay $3,800 for ongoing maintenance. This will have an annual maintenance fee of $3,417. That's a wash. **[00:15:55] Council Member:** I don't see any reason why we wouldn't approve this if every other department in the county is going to have this. **[00:16:00] Police Chief Bryce:** We did review the equipment. This is not an extravagant list. We didn't get all the bells and whistles, just what we need to get started. **[00:16:10] Council Member Mike:** I'll make a motion that way. **[00:16:13] Council Member Greg:** I'll second that. **[00:16:15] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any further questions? All in favor say aye. **[00:16:17] All:** Aye. **[00:16:18] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Opposed? Motion carried. **[00:16:20] Police Chief Bryce:** That's all I have. Thanks. **[00:16:25] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Thanks, Bryce. Public Works. **[00:16:30] City Superintendent Phil Entner:** Mr. Mayor, members of the council. We had a busy month of February. We had eight snow and ice removal dates. Potholes are everywhere and the roads are terrible. Everyone knows there was a list emailed to the county transportation to come fill potholes. Domestic drinking water: we pumped 3.5 million gallons of water in the month of February. The water distribution system telemetry was replaced the week of the 13th and is working very well. The sanitary sewer system: we collected 11.2 million gallons of waste water. That telemetry is also working very well. The sanitary sewer system cleaning project we're going to work on downtown is going to take place April and May. Other than that, that's about all I have. **[00:17:30] Council Member:** I believe that we received something from the League of Minnesota Cities regarding a fee that could be placed on the DMV for money for our streets. We were asked to send out an email to our legislators. Did you see that? **[00:17:45] City Superintendent Phil Entner:** Yes, I did that as well. It looked like the City of Moose Lake could get thirty-some thousand dollars a year if that's approved. **[00:17:55] Mayor Jim Michalski:** It's in that whole big package that maybe by the end of April will be passed. Thank you, Phil. City Engineer. **[00:18:10] Steve (SEH Engineer):** Mr. Mayor, members of the council. I was going to tell you winter is over but it isn't quite over. We still have the work on 73 to do in front of what MnDOT is going to do. MnDOT's project letting date is March 24th for Highway 73. It's a federal project so they'll be awarding it probably towards the end of April. I'll contact Mr. Goble and we'll get him out there to do the work prior to them getting started. The LRIP project: we're 95% done with Kenwood and we're not that far along with Third Street. We're still missing some of the survey. Ben was out to survey and he got snowed out a couple times. I set up a meeting with Phil for 9 o'clock Tuesday morning to walk Kenwood. We're putting in new culverts, some valley gutter, fixing some low spots. After that, it does need state aid approval. That takes about three weeks. So we are looking at coming back to council at the April meeting to approve the plans and set the bidding date. The schedule has May 5th to open bids and then we would award it May 10th. Given that this work will be done in June, July and August, I think the schedule we're on is just fine. **[00:19:40] Mayor Jim Michalski:** So you're timing this with the state project, so possibly we might be looking at the same contractor or not? **[00:19:47] Steve (SEH Engineer):** It's a large enough project—remember, we were looking at $900,000-plus in construction. I can't remember what the 73 project was... six million? So that will be contractors like Hard Drives. If you remember, Hard Drives came and did Lakeshore Drive for us. I hope so, that would be really nice to have the same contractor. **[00:20:15] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any other questions? Thanks, Steve. We'll move on to new business. We'll go to 6K and then 6L. 6K is the Sunday liquor sales. **[00:20:30] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Just so everyone is aware, the Governor has now signed into legislation that Sunday liquor sales are now allowed. It is a part of the statute that cities still have the ability to regulate Sunday liquor sales individually. Basically, we are allowed to have an ordinance that says that you cannot sell liquor on Sundays, which we currently do have. So we would need to amend our ordinance and have a reading twice to do so. I need direction if that is an area that you are interested in proposing. **[00:21:05] Council Member:** I'd like to have you look into that and come forth with an ordinance that doesn't prohibit us from doing so. **[00:21:10] Council Member Mike:** I'll second that motion. **[00:21:15] Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. **[00:21:16] All:** Aye. **[00:21:17] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Opposed? Moving on to L, Amendment of Ordinance 110, allowing outdoor sales first reading. **[00:21:25] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** This was taken from an example in St. Cloud. The brewery has expressed interest in allowing people to go out on what they would kind of consider a back patio area and be able to consume alcohol. People right now can walk out; they just can't bring their beverage with them. This ordinance would amend our ordinance to allow people seasonally to go outdoors. It would begin April 1st and end November 10th. The hours of operation would be 10 a.m. to midnight in the outdoor areas. One of the other aspects to this is that passage is controlled. There would need to be some sort of railing or fence that separates the two areas. This is the first reading. If this is approved, we will publish this in the newspaper. **[00:22:30] Council Member:** I'll make a motion that we go forward with the amendment to ordinance 110. **[00:22:35] Council Member:** Second. **[00:22:36] Council Member:** Will this affect the liquor store? **[00:22:38] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** If they had an alternate area they could do the same thing. The problem with the liquor store is that I'm not sure how we enclose an outdoor alcohol consumption area in that alley. **[00:22:50] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Bryce, any statements? **[00:22:52] Police Chief Bryce:** We haven't had a single complaint on there yet. They run a real tight ship and it's not a real rowdy clientele. **[00:23:05] Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. **[00:23:06] All:** Aye. **[00:23:07] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Motion carried. **[00:23:10] Brewery Representative:** Just wanted to say we've had a great time down there, and thank you guys for all the help. Our grand opening, we did about 800 pints of beer that day to people from all over—South Dakota, Duluth, Wisconsin, Brainerd. A lot of the community recognized maybe one in ten people that were there, so it really did draw real nicely. **[00:23:45] Mayor Jim Michalski:** If you're going to have an event, just know that we are certainly willing to help all the businesses down there by having some of the overflow parking in the arena parking lot. All right, we have a newly elected board member to the Moose Lake Community Hospital District. **[00:24:00] John (Hospital Board Rep):** My name is John. I'd like to thank my predecessor, Patricia Grace Probst. personally, I'm honored to represent the citizens of Moose Lake on the hospital board. Mercy is offering state-of-the-art 3-D mammography. Mercy is one of the first providers in the region to offer this service. Researchers have found it detects 41% more invasive breast cancers and reduces false positive recalls. If you're like me, the biggest item is the tax levy. When evaluating the need for the tax levy, the hospital board is using industry standards: Operating margin, capitalization ratio, debt cover ratio, and cash on hand. These indicators are what the hospital's independent financial auditors have identified as best indicators. Are there any questions that you have for me? **[00:25:20] Council Member:** When do you guys meet? **[00:25:22] John (Hospital Board Rep):** It's the fourth Monday each month at 5:30 at the boardroom in the hospital. **[00:25:30] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** If I might, the Mayor and I recently met with Michael Delfs. One of the issues that I guess we have is with police coming to the hospital as often as needed. With the hospital not paying property taxes as a nonprofit organization, police services are a large expense for the city. If there's any way that you could bring back to the board that the city of Moose Lake would be interested in partnering with the hospital... **[00:26:00] John (Hospital Board Rep):** Yes, I'll certainly bring that up. Thank you. **[00:26:10] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Back on the agenda, 5A is a FEMA flood update. We submitted a long list of items to hopefully clean up and finish our 2012 flood. They responded by saying that they would get back to us in May. 5B, MLWSSD contract negotiations. Nothing new. 5C, Local Board of Appeals. Just a reminder, it will be April 13th at 11 a.m. here. 5D, City Attorney. **[00:26:50] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** I prepared a request for proposals for a City Attorney. We have started receiving proposals already. How do you want to handle selecting an attorney? **[00:27:05] Mayor Jim Michalski:** If we can, I'd like to narrow it down to a couple and maybe interview them. **[00:27:10] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Personnel committee? **[00:27:12] Council Member:** I would like to see the applications. I think a special meeting in the conference room would be easy enough. **[00:27:25] Mayor Jim Michalski:** I'd like to look at it as a group and then call for the interviews after that. Very good. Moving on to new business 6B, shade tree ordinance second reading. **[00:27:40] Council Member Mike:** Move that we adopt ordinance 157 as written. **[00:27:45] Council Member Greg:** Second. **[00:27:46] Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. **[00:27:47] All:** Aye. **[00:27:48] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Motion carried. 6C, Deputy Clerk/Treasury position... Finance Director? **[00:28:00] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** I went through with Jean, reviewed her job duties. This is kind of what I'm looking for. We will post this for 30 days starting tomorrow. **[00:28:15] Council Member Mike:** I so moved that we approved the job description for the Deputy Clerk, Finance Director. **[00:28:20] Council Member Greg:** Second. **[00:28:22] Council Member:** Once this has gone out, I think all the council should have input. Bring it down to two or three and bring to the council as a whole. **[00:28:35] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Moving on to 6D, combined administrative services. **[00:28:40] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** As everyone is aware, Jean is retiring. The idea is simple: combining the city and utility administrative departments would be more efficient. I met with the Water and Light Commission last night. While no real explanation of why this is a bad idea is being provided, we are still having the same argument. Commissioner York recently emailed a list of questions. My response is: how can we provide the best service at the lowest cost? Why are we both paying people to do the same job? Why do we both have the same accounting system and pay for it twice? The argument that we should be separate just because makes no sense. I apologize for the long dialogue. **[00:30:15] Council Member Mike:** Mayor, can we comment on that? I appreciate your opinions there, but that's what they are—opinions. We don't want to just go to one meeting and make a decision. We're saving a lot of money for the public because those two are working together so efficiently over there. We haven't seen your time study. **[00:30:45] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Mike, doesn't it say "City of Moose Lake"? Isn't this about Moose Lake citizens? We're all Moose Lake. And until we can sit down and put our pride aside for a second, we're still going to have this problem 10, 20 years down the line. I find it very ironic that the past four city administrators have all found the same thing and you say that's an opinion. **[00:31:10] Council Member Mike:** You're missing the fact that this commission was started for the purpose of separating politics from a business. The city just happens to be one of their customers. **[00:31:25] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Everyone's a customer. The city owns the building you're in. The city owns the trucks you drive. **[00:31:35] Council Member Mike:** That's true, but it can't be run like politics. The commission doesn't have a problem with working with you. It has a matter of where and how. **[00:32:00] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Healthy discussion. Thank you both. Moving on to 6E, neighborhood revitalization program with Carlton County. **[00:32:10] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** We've been working with Connie Christianson on this. It started surrounding the old Moose Lodge—an old building that needs to get torn down. Carlton County has now created a new neighborhood revitalization program. We will be able to bring that forward to Carlton County and have them help revitalize our neighborhoods. **[00:32:45] Mayor Jim Michalski:** 6F, APEX energy report. **[00:32:50] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** We had APEX come in to building to building to take a look at ways that we could improve our energy efficiency. The good news is that the City of Moose Lake has been doing a great job. Our hockey arena is actually pretty efficient. Our street lighting is 68% converted to LED. So again, here's a report that says the city is doing a pretty good job. **[00:33:30] Council Member:** Furnaces and air conditioning units—are they regular basis checked out? **[00:33:35] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Yes. We do annual maintenance. **[00:33:45] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Moving on to 6G, Resolution 17-03-01. **[00:33:55] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** MnDOT needs us to approve the agreement to provide pavement for the city's share of Highway 73. The city's obligation is $61,169.85. My suggestion is that we finance these three projects together. The city is going to need to cover what's left over from the Local Road Improvement funding. **[00:34:30] Council Member Mike:** I'd make a motion that we accept resolution 17-03-01. **[00:34:35] Council Member Greg:** Second. **[00:34:38] Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. **[00:34:40] All:** Aye. **[00:34:41] Mayor Jim Michalski:** 6H, Highway 73 Road Improvement website. Just informational. Link is on our city website. Moving on to I... our phone system is still not up and running. J, League of Minnesota City's conference. **[00:35:10] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** I'll be meeting with Representative Sundin and Senator Lourey, talking about the sales tax bill and the property on the north side of 73. Anything else? **[00:35:25] Council Member:** Support for the 73, the 18 miles just south of Cromwell. **[00:35:35] Council Member Mike:** What about that DMV thing? **[00:35:40] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** I'll bring that up. 6M, library board appointments. Polly Purser. **[00:35:50] Council Member Mike:** I'll so move that we appoint Polly Purser to the library board. **[00:35:55] Council Member Greg:** Second. **[00:35:57] Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. **[00:36:00] All:** Aye. **[00:36:02] Mayor Jim Michalski:** 6N, Planning Commission appointment. **[00:36:05] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** The utility commission recommends Steve Jelenksy. **[00:36:10] Council Member Mike:** I so move that we appoint Steve to the Planning Commission board upon his approval. **[00:36:15] Council Member Greg:** I'll second that. **[00:36:18] Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. **[00:36:20] All:** Aye. **[00:36:22] Mayor Jim Michalski:** 6O, procurement standards policy. **[00:36:25] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Auditors state we must have this to follow federal grant guidance. **[00:36:35] Council Member:** Motion to accept resolution 17-03-02. **[00:36:40] Council Member:** Second. **[00:36:41] Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. **[00:36:43] All:** Aye. **[00:36:45] Mayor Jim Michalski:** 6P, small cities grant program expansion. **[00:36:50] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Page 109, email from Ed Zimney. Deed approved expanding target areas for owner-occupied and multifamily rental rehab. **[00:37:05] Council Member:** This is the area we wanted up 73, correct? But not on that one building that's commercial? **[00:37:10] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** That one's multifamily, and yes, it's included now. **[00:37:15] Mayor Jim Michalski:** 6Q, small cities relocation program. **[00:37:20] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** We need to approve this plan because they're going to be audited. Should anybody need to be relocated, we would help cover those costs. **[00:37:35] Council Member Mike:** Motion to approve. **[00:37:38] Council Member Greg:** Second. **[00:37:40] Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. **[00:37:41] All:** Aye. **[00:37:43] Mayor Jim Michalski:** 6R, ferric chloride bids for the sewer ponds. **[00:37:50] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Lowest is Hawkins. Suggestion is we approve Hawkins. **[00:37:55] Council Member:** So moved. **[00:38:00] Council Member:** Second. **[00:38:02] Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. **[00:38:03] All:** Aye. **[00:38:05] Mayor Jim Michalski:** 6S, lawnmower purchase. **[00:38:10] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** We budgeted to purchase a new zero turn. We are going to keep the old mower for the arena. **[00:38:20] Council Member Mike:** I so move that we accept Moose Lake Implement's bid for zero-turn mower for $10,500. **[00:38:25] Council Member Greg:** Second. **[00:38:28] Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. **[00:38:30] All:** Aye. **[00:38:32] Mayor Jim Michalski:** 6T, Chamber of Commerce donation for Easter egg hunt. **[00:38:35] Council Member:** So moved. **[00:38:36] Council Member:** Second. **[00:38:38] Mayor Jim Michalski:** 6U, DMV printer. **[00:38:45] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** The current one is 20 years old and making a ridiculous racket. Suggestion is we purchase the model model 2040DN. **[00:39:00] Council Member Mike:** Motion that we purchase it for $1,106. **[00:39:05] Council Member Greg:** Second. **[00:39:07] Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. **[00:39:08] All:** Aye. **[00:39:10] Mayor Jim Michalski:** 6V, Fire District gambling permit for a raffle. **[00:39:15] Council Member Mike:** So moved. **[00:39:17] Council Member Greg:** Second. **[00:39:18] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Motion carries. 6W, Jean's letter. **[00:39:25] City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** (Reading) "This letter is my official notification that my last day for the City of Moose Lake will be June 9th, 2017. I plan to retire." That's 37 years of excellent service. I don't care what she wants, we will have a party. **[00:39:50] Council Member:** So moved to accept her retirement. **[00:39:52] Council Member Mike:** I'll second it. **[00:39:55] Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. **[00:39:56] All:** Aye. **[00:40:00] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Moving on to number seven, reports. I have nothing. Announcements: Next meeting April 12th. Local Board of Appeals April 13th. Have a motion to adjourn? **[00:40:15] Council Member:** So moved. **[00:40:17] Council Member:** Second. **[00:40:18] Mayor Jim Michalski:** Adjourned. Bye.