This transcript features the **Moose Lake (ML) City Council Reorganization and Regular Meeting**. Based on the context provided, here is the speaker-identified transcript. [0:03] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Okay, I call the or call to order the reorganization meeting of the ML city council. Is there approval of the agenda? [0:15] **Council Member:** So move. [0:17] **Council Member:** Second. [0:18] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [0:19] **Council Members:** Aye. [0:20] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Opposed? Carried. New business annual appointments. We're going to leave them all the same that we had wise. We're going to do city attorney. We can do all these at once, can't we? City attorney Flattery and Hood. City engineer Matt Bolf, Short Elliott Hendrickson. [0:42] City financial advisor Northland Security, bond council Kennedy & Graven, City Auditor Westberg Eischens, City Funds Depository First National Bank, and the official city newspaper, the Star Gazette. [1:01] Is there a motion to approve those? [1:03] **Council Member:** So moved. [1:04] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Is there a second? [1:06] **Council Member:** Second. [1:07] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [1:08] **Council Members:** Aye. [1:10] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Carried. Planning commission—do I have to read all these? [1:15] **Ellissa Owens:** Yep. [1:18] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Mayor Jim Michalski, Lou Ohly, Doug Skelton, Joan [unintelligible], Jan Ashmore. Economic Development Authority: Doug Juntunen and Jim Michalski, Yvonne Skelton, Terry Byrne, Steve Olsen. Zoning Administrator: Ellissa Owens. Housing Redevelopment Authority: Lou Ohly, Katherine Wex, Kurt York, Barb Isaacson, Joanne Morsy. Parks and Recreation: Lou Ohly, Walt Lower, Samantha Venden, Ross Stewart, Barney Hollis, Graden Al, Keith Carlson. Library board: Walt Lower, Kris Huso, Karen Johnson, Anne Sawyer, there's a [2:04] vacancy and Dave Manisco. Cemetery Board: Lou Ohly, Kris Huso, Mike Peterson, June Mackey, Graden Al, and Natalie Forup. Public Utilities Commission: Doug Juntunen and Doug Skelton, Kurt York. And the Fire District: Walt Lower and Jon Lund. [2:29] Is there a motion to approve those? [2:32] **Council Member:** So moved. [2:33] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Is there a second? [2:34] **Council Member:** Second. [2:35] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [2:36] **Council Members:** Aye. [2:37] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Carried. City officials: Mayor Pro Tem Doug Juntunen, weed and tree inspector Jim Michalski, safety officer Phil Entner, waste management director Phil Entner, building official Andrew Sharp at Township and Range, Animal Control Carlton County Sheriff's Office, Board of Health Gateway Family Physicians, Emergency Preparedness Jim Michalski, the cable television Rory Buckwitz and Ryan McKeon. [3:13] Municipal liquor store Doug Juntunen, Lou Ohly. Law Enforcement Liaison Kris Huso. Administrative Committee Kris Huso and Doug Juntunen. Cable Television Committee Jim Michalski. Chamber of Commerce Jim Michalski and Walt Lower. [3:30] Department of Corrections Advisory Committee Jim Michalski, Doug Juntunen. Active Living Coalition Jim Michalski, Doug Juntunen. Safety committee Jim Michalski, Phil Entner, Ellissa Owens, Kelly Lake, and Ryan McKeon. Tree committee Jim Michalski, Lou Ohly, Phil Entner, Ellissa Owens, and Raenee Bennett. [3:57] City administration: City Administrator Ellissa Owens, Deputy Clerk Taylor Hansberry, Financial Director Ryan McKeon, Electronic Fund Transaction Designee Ryan McKeon, City Superintendent Phil Entner, Privacy Act Officer Ryan McKeon, Municipal Liquor Store Supervisor Mari Voss, Library Director Laura Hellwig, the motor vehicle deputy register Karen Delene. Is there a motion for all those? [4:30] **Council Member:** So move. [4:34] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Is there a second? And then we got to do the fee schedule. [4:40] **Council Member:** Second. [4:42] **Ellissa Owens:** Also, I believe so... it is. Um, didn't everybody have a chance to go over the fee schedule? [4:54] There are a couple of new additions from the last time council has seen the fee schedule. Those are highlighted in yellow in the council packet and are related to as the Office of Cannabis Management continues to evolve and new processes are established. Um, they've added a few categories of applications and licensing categories, and one of them is the lower potency hemp edibles and/or beverages. And so we made sure now that all of the different categorizations available for license applications are now covered on our fee schedule, even though we haven't had requests for all the different types. [5:42] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any other questions or motions to approve the fee schedule? [5:46] **Council Member:** Are these fees, the cannabis ones, in line with Carlton County or where did we get these figures from? [6:00] **Ellissa Owens:** So state statute dictates what the maximums can be and so there's been a lot of consistency across the board based on the state statutes and so we are aligned with that. [6:08] **Council Member:** Perfect. Thank you. [6:10] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any other questions? [6:12] **Council Member:** Motion to approve. [6:14] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Is there a second? [6:15] **Council Member:** Second. [6:16] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [6:17] **Council Members:** Aye. [6:18] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Okay. Opposed? Carried. And we have a motion to adjourn the reorganizational meeting. [6:24] **Council Member:** So move. [6:26] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Is there a second? [6:27] **Council Member:** Second. [6:28] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [6:29] **Council Members:** Aye. [6:30] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Opposed? Carried. I'll call the regular city council meeting for January 14th, 2026 to order. We'll start with the pledge of allegiance. [6:44] **Council/Staff:** 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. [7:07] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Can I get a motion to approve the agenda? [7:10] **Council Member:** So move. [7:11] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Is there a second? [7:12] **Council Member:** Second. [7:13] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [7:14] **Council Members:** Aye. [7:15] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Post carried. Consent agenda. We have the regular city council meeting minutes from December 10th. Financial reports: [7:28] City accounts available December 2025, financial statement December 2025, and liquor store profit and loss statement December 2025. Are there any questions on any of them? [7:45] If not, is there a motion to approve? [7:48] **Council Member:** Motion. [7:49] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Is there a second? [7:50] **Council Member:** Second. [7:51] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [7:52] **Council Members:** Aye. [7:54] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Opposed? Carried. Public comment. This time is reserved for comments from the public on matters not listed on the agenda. Please keep comments to two minutes. [8:09] Seeing none, we'll move on to department reports. Carlton County Sheriff—um, just apologize, Kelly wasn't able to make it. Apparently, you guys got the packet though. If there's any questions on it, I might be able to answer. [8:28] Uh, looks like there was 54 initial or extra patrols and details. 35 traffic stops, 29 business checks, two community engagements, six on-view public assists, 11 paper services. Um, looks like four medical calls and then 58 other calls for response. So a total about 199 calls. [8:53] Um, any questions on those at all? [8:55] **Council Member:** Oh, good job. [8:57] **Ellissa Owens:** Thank you. Like I said, Kelly apologized. She wasn't able to make it. [9:05] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Thank you. City Superintendent Phil Entner. [9:10] **Phil Entner:** Mayor, members of council, Ms. Owens. Um, excuse me. Water department started there like they always do. 3.820 million gallons of drinking water in the month of December was transmitted to the distribution system. Still on that par for November—if you remember that number, 3.4—almost cut that number in half with these water breaks just up the hill here end of October. So we're still moving in a good direction there. We do currently have a water break right now that we are going to be addressing here in the next week, week and a half. It's in a really tricky spot where we're going to have to shut down some bigger businesses and some other entities. So we're trying to work around that. It's not an emergency, but it's definitely something we need to [9:55] get fixed. Sewer department collection system collected 9.3 million gallons of waste water in the month of December. Treatment facility, it's pretty much wrapped up for the winter. I'm still looking for some other training opportunities to try to get out to go take a look at some of the additional ways to cut down our capacity. It's kind of where the bug program came from, where the lining program came from, the whole works. Street department right away: snow and ice removal has been underway. Um, there hasn't been a whole lot for complaints. [10:42] Obviously road patching, bituminous, concrete repairs, all that kind of thing shut down for the year. Equipment so far, as of right now, everything seems to be working fine. Cemeteries are shut down for the winter, although burials are still happening. Campground is indeed shut down for the winter. [11:14] The arena, that's going good. I mean, it's a little short staff, but we're doing what we got to do. Um, storm sewer, nothing to report for right now. Gardening department, nothing there as well. Recycling center's running as usual. One thing, we will be burning the city brush pile here as soon as we get enough snow coverage. We'll also be burning a couple piles at the gravel pit site, which will be all reported to dispatch, the county, and fire department. So other than that, that's all I have for right now. Anyone have any questions? [11:48] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Thank you. Liquor store? [12:01] **Mari Voss:** This is the council, Mayor Michalski, Administrator Owens. Uh, liquor store: we installed the new dishwasher, seems to be working fantastically. Um, let's see—we filled out and turned in our low potency cannabis retailer application for the city. You'll see that later on in the document here. I handed out some calendars to give you kind of a sneak peek of what we're looking at for the next few months there. And then uh we did our inventory on New Year's Day which went well and those are scanned in and sent out to the auditors. So yeah, things are going well. Any questions? [12:39] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any questions? Thank you. Motor vehicle department. [12:50] **Karen Delene:** Good afternoon everybody. Hi. Um, not too much to report. Um, let's see. We've been really busy. Um, the DVS sent out renewals very early this year, the beginning of December. So that means all their miscellaneous registrations such as trucks, trailers, motorcycles, all those are coming in. We're also getting construction companies with stacks of renewals. [13:36] As of March 1st, the TSA is going to be charging customers $45 extra if they don't have a real ID when they go try to get on an airplane. So, a lot of people we've got in a rush with that also. [14:22] And let's see, our DVS regional supervisor was here the other day doing our sticker and plate audit. [14:41] If something is not accounted for, we have to pay for that sticker or that plate if it's missing. So, that's what we did. Got a gold star. [14:56] We've had a lot of changes—CDL drivers have to bring in proof of residency and proof of citizenship with every renewal. DVS said they were going to send out letters to all the CDL drivers and haven't. So, they end up coming back a second or a third time. [15:55] Um, we used to do medical certificates for free for years. Now the doctor's offices are doing it, but customers are still coming in with them. We always check their records to be sure it's gotten updated. We've had one so far that didn't get updated and he was going to lose his license. [16:43] We also received our no-fee transaction payment from the DVS last month. It was $1,200 for a two-month period. Our next one will be for three months. So, it's nice to get that compensation for the no-fee stuff that we do. [16:53] And, um, we also hired a new employee in the middle of December. Um, we hired Jodie Pennis and she's from Willow River. [17:00] She has a lot of experience working with the public and she's eager to learn. Her background check finally came back in on last Friday. Um, she's done her fraud training and now she can do standard driver's license and real IDs. [17:38] She's also completed the administrating proctor exam. So, it's a lot of step-by-step, but we'll get there. Anybody have any questions? [18:00] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Thank you. That's fantastic. Okay. Library department? [18:20] **Kris Huso:** Do you want me to talk about the library a little bit? I was at their last meeting. Uh, so the next summer reading program is called "Plant a Seed to Read." She's really excited about that. The book fair is June 16th through the 20th. She's looking at different things to draw in more people to the library, like the zoo mobile, magicians, stuff like that. She's also moving a lot of bookcases around, making things a little more functional in there. Any questions about any of that? [19:22] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Nope. Good. IT department. [19:25] **Ryan McKeon:** Let's see. Uh, some things going on down at First National Bank Arena. Today we have a tech down there taking a look and cleaning and recalibrating some city cameras. Friday we have TCI coming in taking a look at the speaker system. Um, there's been some troubles with it cutting out. Uh, working with Rory, we've been having some power issues with this cablecast system. Um, and then Phil and Taylor have some workstation replacements coming in tomorrow. I probably want to set up an additional meeting with council as far as city cameras as a whole. [20:24] **Council Member:** Have we had any interest from people putting up ads on the screen down there? [20:28] **Ryan McKeon:** Uh, we've had a couple, not a lot. We do have one ad on there. So, if you want space on there, call the city office. [20:48] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any other questions? Thank you. Financial department. [20:53] **Ryan McKeon:** Finance department. Minnesota Paid Leave—I did give another handout so you guys can see kind of what it covers. [21:35] Just for reference, the city council, you guys paid in together $1,342 into the paid leave program. The team members, it was about 200 bucks. Throughout the year, we'll be close to about $10,000 between the council and the team members. [22:05] 2025 audit discussion: Taylor and I have started uploading some things and they will be here May 26th through the 28th. [22:23] And one other thing—liquor store update. 2025 revenue un-audited for the liquor store is at just under 2 million, 1.9 million. In 2024 we were just over 2 million. So about $145,000 short. But we did have that error with the deposit slip—you add in that $31,000 back in and we're about $114,000 short of last year. But hold on, we spent less this year than we did last year. About $134,000 less. So we did make up the ground. [23:28] This year un-audited, we'll be just under $200,000 profit. [23:50] The city auditors say that you should have 6 to 9 months of reserve in your unrestricted balance. [24:10] We'll have about $735,000 somewhere in that ballpark area. If you look at July through December operating expenses, it's about $950,000. So essentially what I'm saying is we're still a little shy of what the auditors are recommending for having in reserve before you start transferring monies around. [24:59] **Council Member:** Is the 900,000 at the high end? Is that the 9-month or is that the 6-month? [25:05] **Ryan McKeon:** That's the 6-month. July through December. [25:16] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any other questions? Thank you. City engineer. [25:21] **Matt Bolf (SEH):** Yes. So, there's actually a handful of items on the regular city council agenda this particular month. City staff relevant to our new GIS mapping system received training. Now we have a functioning GIS program in-house. We're still working on a zoning layer. [26:02] It's going to be an excellent tool for all of us to utilize. [26:49] In addition, I wanted to inform council that city staff is engaging with the city engineers on a DNR outdoor recreation grant. The city will be putting in an application for a new city playground at the city park. Taylor and the city engineers will be working really closely with that. Um, it is due in March. [27:34] **Council Member:** Do we know the amount of the grant? [27:36] **Matt Bolf (SEH):** So the max award is $500,000. However, there is a 50% match. [28:20] We're working through some things like that. [28:36] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Thank you. Any other questions? Chamber update? [28:56] **Ellissa Owens:** Yes, city staff was unable to attend the chamber meeting today. However, there is going to be an annual dinner taking place on Saturday, January 17th at 5:00 p.m. at the depot. All of their events are on their website and they're looking for volunteers. [29:22] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Previously discussed business: Ordinance update. [29:51] **Taylor Hansberry:** Good evening council, mayor, Ms. Owens. City staff met—it was Ryan and I met with the Sheriff's Office and the County Attorney's Office. They gave us some good feedback on the modifications that we made to our ordinances. [30:38] They let us know that they work with submissions of ordinances to the state court system all the time and offered to help us with that process. The turnaround time is usually pretty short, two to three weeks. [31:10] Our next three ordinances have been requested for review: ATVs, traffic, and our zoning ordinance. I have sent the zoning ordinance over to them already. [31:31] The majority that we can get done in the office prior to engaging the city attorneys, that's our goal. [32:03] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Thank you. A Street road vacancy. [32:10] **Ellissa Owens:** Yes. City council received some information in the packet regarding the A Street road vacation. It is now back up on the docket. One thing the attorneys did ask for council to review again is the potential to incorporate utility easements within the vacation. Essentially, does the city want to maintain utility easements that would allow for utilities to be able to go through those particular areas moving forward if the road is then vacated? [33:11] Looking to initiate a discussion with council. [33:43] **Council Member:** So for future development, they're talking about this area here that's the big like kind of triangle on the map? [33:50] **Ellissa Owens:** Yes. There's actually two parcels. [34:18] **Council Member:** It's my understanding that this area hasn't been developed in the past because of the shift of rock in the ground there. [34:34] **Ellissa Owens:** That's my understanding as well. [34:54] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Phil, do you have any? [35:03] **Phil Entner:** No, I don't have any recommendation. I mean, if they were going to be developed, let's be honest with you, they'd be developed. [35:14] As far as the utility easement thing goes, it would be an easier way to loop utilities—whether that would be water, sewer, gas, power, fiber. But I also think what if this thing stays and nothing ever happens? It wouldn't be impossible, it would just be a little more financial. I don't know. [36:06] **Council Member:** What is the cost if we decided we wanted to keep the utilities in there? [36:12] **Ellissa Owens:** No, it's just how they would draft the easement. Correct. [36:48] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Kris, how did this building ever get put in in the middle of the road? [36:58] **Kris Huso:** I was asked that same question today and that is not one that I can answer. [37:21] **Council Member:** Has Water and Light been asked the same question about utilities? [37:31] **Ellissa Owens:** Our first stop was city council based on water and sewer. This can absolutely be brought forward to them. [38:02] **Council Member:** I have no problem with it, but I think that we need to have the right to the utilities and forward it to the Water and Light. Have them vote on it and then send it back to us. [38:48] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** I think we have a consensus on that. Public safety budget savings discussion. [39:07] **Ellissa Owens:** Yes. As we discussed last month, there was an expenditure savings of right around $150,000 un-audited for the year 2025. Just wanted to bring the dialogue forward to see if council has any direction for staff on utilization of those savings. [40:24] **Council Member Walter Lower III:** I guess I'd like to see some of the money go towards road projects. I know that Kris, you brought up the playground last time. I'm not against that, but we don't know yet whether or not we'll be getting that grant. [40:48] There's also a need for the water tower. We're looking at $90,000 a year and that clock has already started. [41:22] **Kris Huso:** Well, and we also got to look at this—two of the officers didn't have full years. We did budget for 2026 the full law enforcement budget, but this is just excess funds. I still would like to keep some of it reserved for that. [43:33] Maybe 40 to 50 is what I'd like to see, or the $49,000. [44:03] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Are we okay with where we're at with the gravel pit with the funds that we have? [44:11] **Ellissa Owens:** Right now we are. We have confirmed we have what we needed to engage in the initial mining and crushing. [44:48] **Kris Huso:** Well, could the $49,000 or whatever be earmarked for law enforcement, but kind of in an emergency fund? [45:36] **Ellissa Owens:** That could always be an option. We can present something back to council in February. [46:25] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** New business: Moose Lake Area Hockey Association spring MOU. [46:31] **Ellissa Owens:** Yes. This will be the second time we're engaging in the extended contract time frame to accommodate the hockey association's ability to generate a little bit of revenue with ice time to then help pay for the compressors. [47:20] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** How did that work last time for you? [47:24] **Hockey Association Representative:** First of all, thanks from the hockey association for extending it for us both times. [47:55] The late season we ended up having power skating. We ended up having six sessions and 45 kids show up. [48:12] We also had 25 open skates. It made a huge difference in this season. [48:57] Our plans for this fall season is we're going to try to do more games. I don't feel like it's worth it to go to April 30th, that's why I narrowed it down to April 15th. [50:47] **Council Member:** I'll make a motion that we sign the MOU with the hockey association for the extension from March 1st through April 13th. [51:03] **Council Member:** Second. [51:04] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [51:05] **Council Members:** Aye. [51:07] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Opposed? Carried. Employee parking discussion. [51:18] **Ellissa Owens:** Yes. City staff can no longer park in the lot adjacent to City Hall. Right now, city staff is parking out on Fourth Street and in the library parking lot. There is an opportunity for a city parking lot across Douglas from the Members parking lot. [53:32] We calculated the maximum amount to be 12 to 15 spaces needed. [53:45] **Council Member Kris Huso:** This parking lot, if you created one across from the other parking lot, how many spaces could you put in there? [53:52] **Matt Bolf (SEH):** You'll get your 15 in there for sure. [54:12] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** What's the situation with the Water and Light parking lot? [54:25] **Ellissa Owens:** We did engage with Water and Light. There isn't 15 additional spots within that parking lot. [55:10] **Council Member:** If we were to make this new parking lot, would we be able to use it for other things like Agate Days? [55:18] **Ellissa Owens:** Absolutely. [55:26] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** That lot has sat vacant forever. A parking lot would be one use. Does the city own where the old water tower was? [56:19] **Ellissa Owens:** That is the lot we're talking about here. [58:25] **Ellissa Owens:** One thing for council to consider is this is not in the 2026 budget. With council's consensus, we would move forward then with the planning to see if we could get an estimated cost. [59:01] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Do we have consensus? [59:15] **Council Members:** Yes. [59:23] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Subsurface treatment system request. [59:25] **Ellissa Owens:** The city received an inquiry regarding whether or not the city will engage in approval of mound systems within the city limits. We have some concerns about having mound systems in that particular location based on our aquifer. We're going to get MDH involved because they are the ones constructing our wellhead protection plan. [1:01:13] Phil, can you explain the image to council? [1:01:21] **Phil Entner:** You mean this horrible one that I did? Precisesly. [1:02:00] To reach that farthest lot would be over a 700-foot sewer main extension through that ledge rock. [1:03:13] **Council Member:** Is there a road that even goes to these? [1:03:15] **Phil Entner:** No, but there is a dedicated right-of-way. [1:03:29] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** What do you need from us? [1:03:31] **Ellissa Owens:** For your information only. [1:05:45] **Phil Entner:** Typically, mound systems aren't allowed inside city limits unless sanitary sewer is absolutely not available based on gravity. [1:06:50] **Council Member:** Has the property owner done their own research to know what they're getting into as far as the ground? [1:07:08] **Phil Entner:** I'm not sure. I've seen some of these lots trade hands several times. [1:07:28] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Carlton SWCD soil/water storm sewer inventory. [1:07:34] **Ellissa Owens:** We have some exciting news. We were looking at having to put in $8,500 of city funds for a match. We've been working with the Carlton SWCD and they have approved funding our $8,500 portion of our project. So we now have our project fully funded. [1:10:35] Looking for approval of the agreement today. [1:10:45] **Council Member:** Motion. [1:10:47] **Council Member:** Second. [1:10:48] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [1:10:49] **Council Members:** Aye. [1:11:00] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Supplemental letter agreement for the trail project. [1:11:05] **Ellissa Owens:** Yes. There is an overage that has occurred on the trail project for $42,975. Our project ran into significant issues including the bat tree scenario where we had to vet if trees were housing long-eared bats. [1:13:24] **Council Member:** Make a motion we sign the supplement letter agreement for the payment of $42,975. [1:13:35] **Council Member:** Second. [1:13:40] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [1:13:41] **Council Members:** Aye. [1:13:42] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Carried. Public works garage door quotes. [1:13:50] **Ellissa Owens:** Council received two estimates for garage doors. Phil? [1:14:03] **Phil Entner:** They both actually came in under budget. I would recommend we go cheaper. [1:14:18] **Council Member:** It looked like the 19,800 did not address a lift master? [1:14:25] **Phil Entner:** They are full complete units. [1:14:38] **Council Member:** Make a motion for the lower one, which is DC Garage, $17,370. [1:14:50] **Council Member:** Second. [1:14:52] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [1:14:53] **Council Members:** Aye. [1:15:15] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** KJ's Fresh Market low potency hemp edible license. [1:15:20] **Ellissa Owens:** This is our first time receiving these types of applications. We as a municipality don't actually have the authority to turn down this type of license, it happens at the state level. [1:16:11] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Is there a motion to approve? [1:16:20] **Council Member:** Motion. [1:16:28] **Council Member:** Second. [1:16:29] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [1:16:30] **Council Members:** Aye. [1:16:40] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Blue Lake municipal lower potency hemp edible license. [1:16:48] **Ellissa Owens:** This license application is pertinent to the city's municipal liquor store. [1:17:08] **Council Member:** Motion. [1:17:10] **Council Member:** Second. [1:17:15] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [1:17:16] **Council Members:** Aye. [1:17:18] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Arrowhead Transit subscription agreement. [1:17:25] **Ellissa Owens:** This agreement is very similar to years past, $500 per month. [1:17:40] **Council Member:** So move. [1:17:42] **Council Member:** Second. [1:17:44] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [1:17:45] **Council Members:** Aye. [1:17:48] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** City temporary on-sale liquor license, the depot event. [1:17:59] **Ellissa Owens:** This is for the chamber dinner to occur on January 17th. [1:18:17] **Council Member:** Motion to approve. [1:18:20] **Council Member:** Second. [1:18:22] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Carried. Temporary on-sale liquor license for the depot on January 31st. [1:18:32] **Ellissa Owens:** This is for our own municipal liquor store to serve at an event. [1:18:47] **Council Member:** Motion. [1:18:48] **Council Member:** Second. [1:18:50] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [1:18:51] **Council Members:** Aye. [1:19:00] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Lions application for off-site gambling. [1:19:06] **Council Member:** Motion. [1:19:20] **Council Member:** Second. [1:19:25] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? [1:19:26] **Council Members:** Aye. [1:20:07] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Reports of correspondence are listed in the packet. Announcements: Moose Lake regular city council meeting Wednesday, February 11th, 4 p.m. [1:21:01] Is there a motion to adjourn? [1:21:03] **Council Member:** Motion. [1:21:05] **Council Member:** Second. [1:21:08] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor? We are adjourned.