[0:05] Jim Michalski (Mayor): I'd like to welcome everyone to the regular media the moose lake city council for wednesday march 10th 2021 and i'd like to start with a pledge of allegiance please i pledge allegiance to the fight by the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice [0:39] Jim Michalski (Mayor): we have a couple additions to the agenda the first one under five i the library director then under six new business this would be jade that'd be second street do we have any other additions or corrections to the agenda hearing under a motion to accept the agenda [1:25] Council Member: motion. [Music] [1:27] Council Member: second. [1:28] Jim Michalski (Mayor): all in favor say aye [1:30] Council Members: aye aye aye [1:32] Jim Michalski (Mayor): opposed motion carried moving on to number two the consent agenda this would be for minutes the regular city council meeting february 10 2021 number two the special city council meeting february 17 2021. any discussion or questions on the minutes i have a motion to accept the minutes do you have a second [2:12] Council Member: second [2:14] Jim Michalski (Mayor): under 2b financial reports number one we have the city accounts payable for february 2021 under b2 we have the city financial statements for 2021. [2:31] Jim Michalski (Mayor): number three the liquor store profit and loss statement for february twenty twenty one any questions discussion any promotion except the financial reports have a second [2:50] Council Member: i'll second [2:52] Jim Michalski (Mayor): now in favor say aye [2:54] Council Members: aye [2:55] Jim Michalski (Mayor): aye opposed motion carried under 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 nothing tonight let's move on to number four departmental reports police chief department report for february 2021 [3:28] Kelly Lake (Law Enforcement Lead): mayor a number of members of the council as you can see it should have a copy of the march 3rd police report for february totaling 143 calls for service eight of those calls for service were to msop and one to the department of corrections in addition to those calls for service we spent about four hours on msop calls and four hours for department of corrections and that's just continuing to drop some of the things we've been working out with them and i know they didn't get any time for the last meeting but the department of corrections was able to get their own internal staff to handle their ecrc so our department is no longer going to be tied up with those medical calls that msop we're not typically going to be responding to anymore unless we have some kind of a flight risk and they'll notify us of that so that's going to decrease as well so you'll see then into that pie chart that we'll look at here a little bit that some of the things have now been able to shift around a little bit um some of our self-initiated we had 10 extra patrols 31 traffic stops 31 community engagement which was a huge increase from previous months 14 assists to other agencies 49 calls for service eight medicals and again the total 143 calls um some of the other sideline things uh our fingerprints are still moving right along we still get tons of people coming in for that so that's you know some good revenue for the city and we're one of the few still doing it and a lot of places still require the inc versus electronic so we get calls from all over the place some people coming here so we just schedule those by appointments if anybody needs them just set up an appointment make sure they have a mask and it's thirty dollars for the fingerprints um things have been pretty busy um we've executed another search warrant again this week here in the city which was related more of a sex crime that's now spun into some drug crimes and some other things off of that we recovered two stolen vehicles our city cameras were a great help in that they were able to watch the footage and see the person that brought it and um kind of filled you guys in a little bit on where that went but very beneficial having that in the process working with the university of minnesota on upgrading all of our aeds and trauma kits on a grant program to hopefully get all of ours replaced they're all pretty old we have another atv meeting scheduled now starting this year again on march 24th hopefully over at the police department so we start moving forward and phil and i have talked about some of that on the trail system that we can work on here in the city just a reminder on the pedestrian crosswalks we're still getting a lot of cars flying right by when people are standing in the crosswalk and not stopping for them and just to pay attention so when somebody else stops with a crosswalk that you don't rear-end it um i have it set up with cip they're going to come in and repaint all the walls in the police department i told them i'll take care of them letting in the sheetrock part of it and then they're going to come in and do all the labor force so we can get that cleaned up and up to date and another note i met with the owner of the old school now we've got some vandalism in there we've been trying to work out a few things to cure the problem with them it's kind of switched a little bit one of the original owners is still there i think he's really trying to do some good things for that building in the community it's been a great asset and now i have a good relationship with him and he made a donation to the police department of about 25 000 worth of commercial grade physical fitness equipment and now we just have to find a place where we're going to put it so talk to the fire department we'll see you there but this top quality stuff and uh you know initially they were looking at gonna sell it he just said he wants to be a partner with the community and just made the donation to the police department that was craig anderson which is his name so that was very nice [7:34] Council Member: what kind of vandalism at the school were they outside inside [7:38] Kelly Lake (Law Enforcement Lead): inside inside and they're looking at probably now they could have upwards of a million dollars worth of damage i mean every window every door has been sprung spray painting throwing cans of paint everywhere busting things they've got some flooding issues in there bill came in with me we took a look at it to make sure the water was shut off it's things that have backed up inside the drainage for it so then it throws the pipes inside it's just pouring in there so it made a walk through um and yeah there's just a lot of damage so we've made sure that they secured it the person that was in charge of it before said that they made these steps to secure these places because we knew where they were entering and didn't do it um and they kept getting in and it's just a lot more of what we see like the teenage tight people doing so we did catch a couple of them and sent him in for charges so we're just trying to button up some of those things and craig is working really hard to make sure that they can secure and we came up with things up hollow where we know they're getting in so those things are going to get changed he came up here this week and he's going to be coming up again with the crew and locking that building down so if anybody the neighbors that are around there they see any lights inside especially at night we're going to be because there's no electricity in there report it if you see cars around them in the daytime report it so that we can try and catch them while they're in there because there's a lot of damage and they want to you know bring some you know good you know things here but it's hard to get investors when they see all that damage i offered the thing out there to have whoever's and looking at it to come talk to me at the police department because that isn't indicative of the crime in whose lake is relatively low we don't have vandalisms and burglaries and that that other places do so i threw that out for him and but yeah he's been good to work with him it's a really nice donation so that's all i've got [9:36] Jim Michalski (Mayor): thank you very much i appreciate it good job thank you phil that's of course [9:42] Phil Entner (City Superintendent): mr barry members of the council um we're moving right along and i want to say spring is here want to say that but i think we all know better so um yeah anyway water department um distributed 4.1 million gallons of drinking water um in the month of february while house is still slowly but it's really coming along very slowly but it is coming along we are hitting uh in a few walls but we're we're we're moving along so we'll get there um before we know it it'll be warm and it'll that building in the online will be finished it'll be just moving right away we do currently have six water services running to prevent from freezing so i know the weather is wonderful one month today but yesterday it was just gorgeous and people you know i mean it's don't take that false sense of security thinking that the frost is coming out of the ground because it's not it's in there and it's gonna be in there for a long time so frost is still down there if your water service is set to run leave it to run i know about it if you have any questions concerning the water frozen sewer water combine policy please get a hold of me i've sat here for six months now talking about this and i will see it again next month too um call the public works department call city hall they'll get you in touch with me whatever we got to do just to stay on top of that so it's like i said it's much better to be proactive than reactive so sewer department collected 8.8 million gallons of waste water in month of february once again that number is down considerably from where it was a year ago in february so that's another proving point that this lightning stuff we are doing is a is a very good thing for us the treatment facility that's pretty much still winterized for the year um street department um yes i know we have bottles we are going to get going on them on monday so yes we we have them we're going to be filming we have a lot of them you'll see us out there doing our thing so um right now current frost steps in the road are still down around four to five feet i was in a couple manholes last week and it's it's down there so it's uh lacrosse is not going away winter is not over the new plow you guys approved the january meeting is in installed it's working great thank you guys very much for that um that'll be that'll be a huge asset to us to our apartment as far as i know every storm storms through a catch basin pipe network anything that we have that collects water is open and running and flowing so with this rain tonight tomorrow the snow should be all right anybody sees anything give us a call we're set up to take care of anything we need but as far as i'm aware everything i've seen that i know of is all taken care of ready to go um we did i did order our salt for the 20 for the 2022 winter season we have pre-ordered that ahead a year in advance through the state bid contract and uh this year we were we're going to be a little bit low on our usage which is fine we're gary we're guaranteed up to 120 of what i commit to the year before so this year here i ordered uh 75 ton of salt for the 22 winter season um hopefully you won't use it all but you never know so cemeteries there's nothing to report as of right now that will be i'm sure going um in full swing here by next month other than that i think that is all i have unless you have any questions [13:02] Jim Michalski (Mayor): are you going to add the countdown to your list cemeteries campground park there [13:06] Phil Entner (City Superintendent): it's all one column just really quickly i didn't put it as an agenda item but uh we got the campground reservation system live i think we've had like 40 reservations in the last i don't know six days so that's cool because i didn't have to talk to them i listened enough talked to them they did it themselves they paid for it it's all working really well really slick we're figuring it out as we go um but we're figuring it out so it's working really well good news [13:41] Council Member: do we get the transformer in for the well house [13:45] Phil Entner (City Superintendent): not that i know of yet not yet [13:47] Council Member: do we get a date [13:48] Phil Entner (City Superintendent): i think the end of this month okay that's the last i heard good so they were able to paint them you know that was the big hold up we were waiting on painting inside the warmer temperature outside they left the doors open for a couple of days it warmed up considerably in there got got it up to the minimum to have qualification they needed for that paint stick and cure and they were in their painting monday and tuesday i think they wrapped up late tuesday it's good i did not make it in there today but it wasn't there on monday it was good [14:26] Jim Michalski (Mayor): so thank you yep good job appreciate it thank you [14:31] Kelly Lake (Law Enforcement Lead): i forgot to thank phil too he's been really helpful getting we've got some issues over at the police department with some of the drainage and stuff in there and some other issues and they're working pretty close but he's taking care of us and it's been great so we're all in here together [14:48] Jim Michalski (Mayor): thank you technology and library porch um i don't have anything for either of those do you have anything [14:55] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): no okay [14:57] Jim Michalski (Mayor): see the engineer [14:59] City Engineer (SEH): um just a few things most of everything that we've been working on for longer term projects are thankfully coming to a close which is good but i will touch on a couple of things the trunk highway 73 phase one i'm sorry um phase one will be hopefully in the packet in april or may they're at like the 90 percent design point right now so mndot's approving it carlton county is making sure it's all up to their standards and then we should be good to go with that we have to get a couple of easements so i've been working with hoffman's along county road 10 and then also we need to get an easement from i think it's bill carl will carlson he owns a bunch of properties along lakeshore anyways i have to get a couple easements um trout is going to be sealing the old city wells so there's going to be a change order that you'll see probably at the next meeting for ceiling of the old wells and then we'll also see a change order from lakehead for when they found the old basement to the superintendent's house on that property where the well house is so we're going to see a couple change orders coming the wells should be more significant in price than the foundation i don't anticipate it blowing the budget or anything um the lrip grant was submitted um a week ago so that's good to go we should know i think the timeline was right around may we should find out if we got that or not and then there is a minnesota department of health wellhead protection grant that we are looking at applying for to line the map what is it the lift station yeah the lift station at the campground um so we're looking at um doing that we don't know if it will be beneficial for us to do it this year or next year it's an annual thing so if we don't do it this year we will do it next year and then the ini ordinance that we talked about either last month or the month before is the engineers are reviewing it but our engineer decided to go on vacation so hopefully next month we'll have that [17:34] Jim Michalski (Mayor): any questions from the council hearing now we're good thank you moving on to uh 4e chamber of commerce updates [17:42] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): chamber of commerce we had a meeting in person the first one for a really long time today um things seem to be going well with them we're going to be working with the chamber pretty closely with getting some sponsorships for the fireworks i'm going to try and reach out to some businesses in town here to see if they're willing to help um keep the cost to a minimum for us um so i'm working with the chamber because they've got a lot more experience doing fundraising than i do so they're going ahead with planning all their events but very carefully they you know nothing has changed for the at the state level yet opening up so they're looking at other cities what they're doing and not doing um still planning events i have no idea if we'll do the stampede probably not unless there's big changes they are going to plan to do the event in the arena they're trying to figure out how to have accounts so it's close to that 250 at a time so they're trying to understand how they can do that and looking at that old process there's some events in duluth that have been going on and they've been successful and one of the chamber people was mentioning an event they have that's coming up in the big wedding wedding thing yeah so they're so events can be done and done under the covered rules so they're trying to figure that out and try to keep the events going as best they can and uh we're still planning our fireworks i don't know how we'll do the parade but they talked about the parade fourth of july we'll just have to see how that works and uh maybe in june there may be a drop dead date for oh looks like we can't do it because nothing opened up like we thought so we'll just have to see but as of right now we're gonna continue planning to hold events and do the best we can [19:48] Council Member: where did they have the meeting then [19:50] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): [Music] they said they're going back to it was the first it was the first uh meeting in person since last march i think they're gonna gear it more towards spaces that have a little bit more space for them [20:10] Council Member: do you know where the next week where the next meeting [20:13] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): no i don't know okay [20:15] Council Member: it was some time to yeah they have to go back to the same place where there's just a lot of room well or i thought maybe campers i don't know maybe that might have enough room [20:25] Jim Michalski (Mayor): any questions anyone no thank you number five previously discussed business 5a the sioux line trail price adjustment [20:34] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): okay so you guys previously approved uh northland constructors to reconstruct the sioux line trail for 186 thousand eight hundred dollars that was for a 2020 project the price increased for a 2021 project by 10 950 you guys can see the breakdown here um and the engineers are recommending that we just take this because it's going to cost more than that to re-bid it if we want to if we think we're going to get it for less than that and and just a couple notes we do have 150 000 from the dnr we have to pay 50 000 so this falls right in that [21:30] Jim Michalski (Mayor): discussion by the council or a motion [21:33] Council Member: motion to approve it [21:35] Jim Michalski (Mayor): have a second [21:36] Council Member: second [21:38] Jim Michalski (Mayor): all in favor say aye [21:40] Council Members: aye [21:41] Jim Michalski (Mayor): opposed motion carried just one other item we heard today that that uh that large bike-a-thon ms-150 that normally comes through the city um will not come through this year they're going to start down in the city somewhere and up to hinkley instead of i think it was in duluth going the other way so we don't have to worry about that huge influx of bikes in case this sew line trail isn't completed because if it wasn't they were going to have to go right down arrowhead so right now we have more time than we thought [22:25] Council Member: is this something that's permanent that they're going to have to raise that just because you've been over here did i ask for a vote [22:33] Jim Michalski (Mayor): yep no yes i'll see you last night right there on the school line okay moving on to 5b water tower the rehab advertisement [22:51] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): so i included i don't know nine or so pages of this 256 page document if anyone wants to take this home and read it let me know um essentially it's it's we're going out for bid for the water tower painting on the inside and outside [23:11] Jim Michalski (Mayor): do you need a motion on this [23:13] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): i do need a motion on this to advertise [23:15] Council Member: some moves [23:17] Jim Michalski (Mayor): have a second [23:18] Council Member: second [23:20] Jim Michalski (Mayor): any questions comments all in favor say aye [23:25] Council Members: aye [23:26] Jim Michalski (Mayor): oppose motion carried moving on to five c skilled laborer one uh that's a handle right [23:36] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): yep so we interviewed for the skilled labor one position there were three qualified applicants i think there were 10 or 12 total applicants 12 12 total applicants three of them at the minimum requirements we interviewed all three of them the recommendation is to hire nicholas peterson with the wage and benefits provided [24:02] Jim Michalski (Mayor): so we need a motion to accept this recommendation by the committee [24:07] Council Member: yes someone [24:09] Jim Michalski (Mayor): you have a second [24:11] Council Member: [Unidentified] [24:12] Jim Michalski (Mayor): any questions discussion all in favor say aye [24:18] Council Members: aye [24:19] Jim Michalski (Mayor): opposed motion carried [24:22] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): i should say that his start date is going to be whatever the first full week of april is the fourth or fifth somewhere else [24:34] Jim Michalski (Mayor): very good thank you moving on to 5d the moose lake power outage update the electric company got all of the equipment that they needed it was installed we are now running off of uh we're off of the generators now completely so it's just i don't know how you get to say it generated power versus no not yeah we're back on the line yeah back on the line yeah so everything's fixed one thing we did find out though we do need to update our emergency response book and we talked about that quite a bit at each of the emergency meetings we held that during that week and the next week so um as soon as i talked to katie when she thinks she's ready i want to call a meeting with all the emergency response personnel and start going through that book and updating it and get get all the good stuff in there that we came across and maybe simplify what we do have already it's a good time to go through it [25:44] Council Member: yep [25:45] Jim Michalski (Mayor): so hopefully within that we'll let you decide that camera will be talking to you it works for you moving on to 5e the local board of appeals equalization meeting april 28th at 10 am right here need any more on that katie [26:14] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): that's it just a friendly reminder [26:17] Douglas Juntunen (Council Member): doug and i have the training [26:18] Jim Michalski (Mayor): yes we do need corn too so everyone else that can make it would be appreciated [26:27] Douglas Juntunen (Council Member): quick [26:30] Jim Michalski (Mayor): could somebody go pick greg up on their way just make sure under 5 f 2019 and 2020 ml wssd overage bill i just got an email today from brad white i haven't had time have you had time to look at it [26:54] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): neither one we just got it this morning um so i'd like to table this for next month [27:07] Jim Michalski (Mayor): um moving on to 5g the mlwssd rate adjustment you want to wait on that also all right 5h performance evaluation conclusion michael mcnulty and i have to read a summary of that conclusion this is opening statement on january 28 2021 the city council in a special meeting evaluated the performance of michael mcnulty as a city employee in accordance with the minnesota open meeting law the city council is required to summarize the conclusions of the evaluation of the performance of mr mcnulty reached by the city council at the january 28 2021 meeting at its next opening meeting conclusion this should state um this evaluation of performance of city moose like employee pursuant to minnesota statute section 13d o5 subdivision 380 conclusion a summary of the conclusions regarding the evaluation reached by the city council are as follows the city council approved a motion that michael mcnult mcnulty's be approved for a leave of absence without pay from january 20th 2021 through april 19 2021 subject to any components determined by city administration and that is the conclusion we don't need anything else [29:16] Council Member: motion [29:17] Jim Michalski (Mayor): moving on to 5i library director [29:21] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): um the library board walt and karen johnson and i interviewed the three applicants for the library directory position and the recommendation from the library board is to go ahead and hire laura hellwig as the part-time library director just a reminder that currently we're seeing some lower numbers than normal and we will be reevaluating the library board we'll be reevaluating whether they recommend this position to be part-time or full-time when those numbers come back up but for now it will be a part-time position until further so [30:03] Jim Michalski (Mayor): so should be permanent third time permanent [30:17] Council Member: another [30:18] Jim Michalski (Mayor): second any questions all in favor say aye [30:25] Council Members: aye [30:26] Jim Michalski (Mayor): opposed kerry moving on to uh new business number six six eight 2021 sanitary lining project [30:38] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): so if you look at that the map that's on page 64. um there is mine's black and white but there is a what color line is it [30:52] City Engineer (SEH): it's an orange yeah [30:54] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): is that the one okay there's an orange line uh that is what this this will cover there is an ad alternate to see what the cost of adding that that other manhole is so this is um a request for approval for advertisement the plan is to advertise at the end of end of march beginning of april but this is the last time that i'll see you before then [31:26] Jim Michalski (Mayor): so that promotion [31:29] Council Member: someone [31:31] Jim Michalski (Mayor): you have a second [31:33] Council Member: one second [31:35] Jim Michalski (Mayor): any questions for the council [31:37] Council Member: do you have a rough estimate on this section that's a lot smaller than last year [31:42] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): i think it was 105 i think it was right around right around 105. it was the engineer estimate [31:51] Jim Michalski (Mayor): okay thank you all in favor say aye [31:55] Council Members: hi [31:57] Jim Michalski (Mayor): suppose carry 6b telecom engineering agreement [32:03] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): so this agreement that you guys are seeing is going to be if approved in addition to our general engineering agreement that we currently have with seh and it will cover things like if a carrier ever wants to put equipment on our water tower it will also cover when we repaint making sure that the equipment is put on there appropriately so as to not ruin the warranty on the paint job so essentially the intent of it is you'll see the fee schedule on page 66 the intent of it is to be a through so we will pay the initial fees but then go around and charge whoever um eighteen hundred dollars to do documentation review or whatever the charges are they will then get billed to right now genesis so that's the intent of this um additional agreement and if we don't use it we don't get charged for anything [33:14] Jim Michalski (Mayor): very good you're looking for a motion right [33:17] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): yes [33:18] Jim Michalski (Mayor): there's a motion of the telecommute or the telecom engineering agreement [33:28] Council Member: any questions or comments so people that we're going to pass it on to are they aware this is coming [33:38] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): there's only one that we would be passing it along too and i believe they've been um talked to by seh already they've already begun discussions with them uh because they genesis needs to know that we are painting our water tower um so and i don't know the details of how all that stuff is taken down so it doesn't i mean they have to move [34:04] Phil Entner (City Superintendent): no they yep they'll have to remove it prior to and then put it back up afterwards [34:09] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): and i i guess there's a very small window of error um where if they scratch that paint it's null and void that warranty is null and void so i guess i want to protect our investment [34:21] Jim Michalski (Mayor): there were this initial agreement with them this was discussed with them years ago and and they have other agreements also in water towers where they under the same let's say agreement or restrictions they know if they cause damage they have to pay for it [34:39] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): well in addition to that genesis um agreement is actually currently expired with us so we can have seh help us renegotiate that agreement because it is expired i just noticed that it was expired like last month so um now that we have that passed i can ask them to help us because i don't know anything about antennas so they've got a whole department that knows all that stuff [35:27] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): tree clearing this is a 73 iowa 73 trail um so there's a map in your guys's pack and i'm starting on page 73 i guess page 74 and 75 are better maps we have to have some trees cleared and we have to have it cleared by the end of this month so we quickly went and got three bids i will read i can read the bids and the bid amounts one from rick's tree and stump removal for six thousand three hundred sixty four dollars and sixty three cents one from global excavating for eight thousand eight sixty five and one from valhalla tree care for eight thousand um [36:09] Council Member: why does the one say no problem yeah [36:16] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): the uh one from rick's queens it was called a spec for not to be dropped i believe katie [36:26] Taylor Hansberry (Deputy Clerk): yeah i think so too [36:28] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): yeah so all these prices were reflecting and growing [36:31] Phil Entner (City Superintendent): yeah they were all given the same [36:34] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): yeah they were all given the same package with the same maps and everything the only thing that changed part way through was that um there is a sentence in here that is not in the original um bid form that they were given basically stating that they have to pay prevailing wages because it's a it's a state-funded project so [37:04] Jim Michalski (Mayor): we're looking at a motion to take the lowest bidder out of the mansion you've worked with rick's before they did some work for us at the new wellhouse site here in this mall where are they at [37:25] Council Member: duluth [37:26] Jim Michalski (Mayor): any further questions all in favor say aye [37:34] Council Members: aye [37:35] Jim Michalski (Mayor): opposed motion carriage under 6d farmer's market and edward's permit fee amendment um kathy port um it took over for bruce and roxy schmidt at the farmers market and requested that we lower the price of our farmer's market fee and then also add in an option for a daily and a monthly so what i did was i always want to match the peddler's permit with the farmer's market fee whatever it may be so i put i guess i'm recommending that we change both of them to 75 for an annual 45 dollars for a monthly and twenty dollars for a daily peddlers and or farmers market fee [38:29] Council Member: did they give a reason why they wanted to work [38:32] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): i think they want to get more people in [38:34] Council Member: okay people actually come and get a peddler's permit less than five a year yeah [38:41] Jim Michalski (Mayor): not really emotion [38:44] Council Member: i'll make that motion [38:45] Jim Michalski (Mayor): have a second [38:47] Council Member: second [38:49] Jim Michalski (Mayor): any questions counselor i think it's a trivial trivial moment but yeah all in favor say hi [39:03] Council Members: hi [39:05] Jim Michalski (Mayor): opposed nine run opposed moving on to 6c lakehead constructors pay application number four [39:23] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): okay the amount due for pay application number four is through the month of february is 97 hundred and seventy five dollars [39:35] Jim Michalski (Mayor): you have a motion have a second [39:48] Council Member: listen [39:50] Jim Michalski (Mayor): july 4th 2021 fireworks you actually mentioned this what's up we actually mentioned this earlier [40:02] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): there are two quotes for fireworks um the first one from pyrotechnic display of 10 000. the other one for here's 14. the other one from precocious pyrotechnics for 14 06250 i the only thing that i know about either one of these companies is that the precocious pyrotechnics is where we used to buy our fireworks from but we've never paid anybody to shoot them up so i don't know anything about i guess the quality of of the show um [40:41] Council Member: higher technique decided to lose we've been doing it all over the area for years [40:49] Jim Michalski (Mayor): which one [40:50] Council Member: the pyrotechnic display [40:53] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): they're out of clear lake they must have an office but you can see i mean the third page in yeah there's this is all of their clients so and i don't see where there or there's a comparison of what we're getting from the first one is there so what what precocious pyrotechnics did was they took our what we would typically purchase from them and essentially how much then they would charge to shoot them off themselves sure whereas pyrotechnics just this is what they typically do for a shelf so i think the pyrotechnic display the first one is he said between a 10 to 15 minute maybe a little bit longer than 15 minutes but after that people start getting bored of fireworks so i don't know how long we our firework show normally is [41:55] Council Member: here's two and a half hours [42:00] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): it's because it's these are probably more professional than off versus there's some walls in the action yes i guess and i would guess these guys have like a button that they press [42:15] Council Member: that's what i yeah i would assume i guess the we could try one and if we don't like it then we get a different company in the next year [42:27] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): but i mean this four thousand dollars [42:36] Council Member: probably not the day of like next year you mean [42:40] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): i'm sure i'm they're going to charge you but to normally spend about 7 000 for fireworks and katie talked to the chamber today and that's what she was mentioning earlier about putting out fund or looking for funds throughout the community and putting out cans or jars for donations and also to the businesses so we kind of talked about a goal of 4 000 which would be a thousand over the 10. if that does happen and we give them enough advanced notice possibly we could have more [43:24] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): well and another idea for fundraising is that actually tia grikovsky and i were just talking the buttons well cassie said that but that which is a fine idea but um if we can plan it out in advance and if kobe cooperates we could do some sort of like a purse bingo fundraiser at the arena to cover this i mean she told me what they make for kiwanis and we could do like two purse bingos and cover all of this yeah so it's too late now i i wish i would have thought of it earlier and this is probably not the year to do it but for next year um i think that would be a cool community event and people love it i mean it's packed everywhere i've gone to do it it's packed so the more we think about this i think we can save some money but or make some money i guess so i guess i don't have a preference on company um i think we just pick one and see how they do [44:50] Jim Michalski (Mayor): council discussion emotion [44:55] Council Member: i think we should go with the low bid even though we don't know a lot about both of them but right that's uh the taxpayers money and we should go up a little bit until they prove that they're not worthy of having them [45:11] Jim Michalski (Mayor): okay can always be changed next year sure so is that a motion [45:16] Council Member: yes it is [45:18] Jim Michalski (Mayor): wait a second any other questions questions all in favor say aye [45:26] Council Members: aye [45:27] Jim Michalski (Mayor): opposed motion carried 6g community center roof repairs [45:34] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): okay so i have a bid from beaver and a bid from aw kettle um i had phil explain this to me because i don't understand anything about roughs essentially what i got out of this was that the beaver what beaver is proposing to do will be a longer term fix than what aw kettle is proposing on how to repair it [46:11] Phil Entner (City Superintendent): i'm not a roofing contractor but that's what i take out of it as well it looks like there's a better a better solution to a problem here a better fix the problem i should say than what's offered by the other company it seemed like aw kettle was essentially just going to repair the seams where beaver is going to replace the insulation and the roof itself so seems like we're going to get a better product out of what beaver is proposing and get rid of the insulation that's probably all wet right now we don't get rid of that insulation we're gonna fight bigger issues though i think we all can agree on that [46:58] Jim Michalski (Mayor): very good it's a couple slide any other questions any other questions comments all in favor say aye [47:16] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): contractors are given the same bin packet form and the same inspection paperwork from our engineer who looked at both sides with recommendations so they're both given the same paperwork just so that's noted [47:34] Jim Michalski (Mayor): thank you [47:35] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): six eight your arena roof repair so same with the arena we gave them the same paperwork um i think we i went around with bieber you went around with aw kettle we showed them exactly where we needed repairs done they had photos of it and it seems like the better fix is going to be from fever than aw pedal [48:04] Jim Michalski (Mayor): discussion or motion by the council and this is in the the northeast corner of the arena [48:15] Phil Entner (City Superintendent): yeah and then there's screws that are coming loose all over the place that they'll screw back down and i think call over and the engineer also agreed that that was a better fix yes [48:29] Council Member: make a motion let me go with peter roofing [48:33] Jim Michalski (Mayor): have a second [48:35] Council Member: [Unidentified] [48:36] Jim Michalski (Mayor): any questions discussion all in favor say aye [48:42] Council Members: aye [48:43] Jim Michalski (Mayor): opposed motion carried 6i moose lake hockey association gambling beasts [48:56] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): um so the moose like hockey association is wanting to put in tip boards and i'm going to be honest with you i have no idea what that is um it's some type of must be some type of gambling something down at the bar um so we just have to approve that they are amending their gambling at least to add tip boards [49:28] Council Member: i think it might have something to do with football maybe i really have no idea what it is [49:34] Council Member: a paddle wheel [49:41] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): so i don't know what that is but we don't have to me we don't have to manage any of that stuff that's all the hockey association does all that so no way you've had no problems yeah she's one of the products yeah it's on there it's got a checkpoint yeah it's got to be an actual thing so [50:06] Council Member: make a motion [50:08] Jim Michalski (Mayor): have a second [50:10] Council Member: second [50:11] Jim Michalski (Mayor): all in favor say aye close your carriage 6j 2nd street how's it going no [50:23] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): um so the engineers when we were submitting the lrip grant application the engineer matt emailed me and asked if we were wanting to assess for this and i know in previous discussions we had not wanted to um and i have not looked into any numbers i don't know what anything would cost um i'm wondering if you guys want me to spend time looking into that or if i should spend my time elsewhere [51:00] Jim Michalski (Mayor): my question i think i talked to a little bit was as i was going up the road you know we have the municipal we have the uh church and the post office on that street are they all assessed then [51:12] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): so i talked to tim about churches and they do assess churches in cloquet i do not know about i would assume that we could take a transfer from what we would assess essentially ourselves at the liquor store out of the liquor fund and put it into whatever this fund would be for this road um i'm assuming we could do that i do not know about the post office i would have to check on that one [51:42] Council Member: have we assessed other properties in the past when we 100 years ago and we actually did a street well prior to park place sorry too soon [51:55] Council Member: prior to park place i'm not sure of the last time there was a road reconstruct um so i don't know the answer to that [52:05] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): but park place there was there are assessments on park places there hasn't been the only one was it was industrial based or commercial yeah so that's the that's i guess the the precedence that we're setting here i i would hate to not assess this one and then in two years we want to assess first street or whatever other street we're going to do because then we've we've started down the path of not assessing people [52:36] Council Member: well you can also say that keeping in mind when we start a project each one is going to be on a case-by-case basis and it depends on how much money we have but we do have a city income tax that we should be using for this anyhow that's why we have it i think everyone's put up with these pothole issues long enough i don't know if it's if it's necessary and if we did how much would that be i know i mean what percent are we looking at [53:14] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): i don't have i like i said i literally should look into this at all i think it also depends on if um first of all if we get the grant then we if we don't get the grant we're probably not going to be doing second street if we get the grant i'll probably more focus on 4th street which is the number one project on the cip list but i do if if we do want to do that i would get some of those figures for you um i have i didn't do any of this because the last time we talked about it i got the feeling that we did not want to go down that job but now that we've had a year to think about it i thought i would bring it up again [54:02] Douglas Juntunen (Council Member): uh like i discussed with you in office today you know i thought that tim had brought up a proposal like this before that that was at 30 and i thought you know we had decided not not to go that route at least at that time and for thirty percent i can't exactly remember if there was other percents in that it was i think i think there were different options yeah you know and that's why we went through all the city tax instead of the assessing we would go for the sales tax and also i believe the sales tax head is that only for 10 years as as always so we we might have to revisit this even if we do not assess [54:50] Jim Michalski (Mayor): and i would agree that that's what the sales tax is for and everyone pays for that but yeah we also discussed if there was a real need on one of the streets where it is a large such a large amount that we would look at a city tax city-wide lobby and designated a percent let's say that we um i'll just throw numbers on which doesn't mean anything we went six percent and three the percent was designated for a certain street or avenue um that's kind of what we discussed if if we didn't do uh or didn't have the money to cover some of these larger projects which if we're going to be going into replacing all the infrastructure they're all going to be large they're all going to be that way [55:41] Council Member: demand those fees too that we haven't tackled yet have we not done a natural gas fee or or something [55:48] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): we did the natural gas we did not do the increase to water and lights yes whatever feed they have um because copenhagen [55:58] Jim Michalski (Mayor): yeah and to me if everyone pays their fair share it's not left on just a few people like the 20 some percent of the population that's paying for the taxes right [56:11] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): well i guess that was my thought with with putting an assessment on is if we increase the levy that doesn't affect the churches um or us the municipal uh liquor store and i would think it wouldn't do anything to the post office so for just taking second street as an example um it wouldn't affect those three um i would only bring in about twenty five thousand dollars if we did five percent so five or six percent that's what in the past it's been just a just a yeah i i think it's either at some point it's either going to be that we have to assess properties or increase the tax levy and like you said it's not fair for 30 of the people to pay 100 of all the roads um because really it's going to benefit the people that live on 2nd street the most certainly it's going to benefit us all and our struts and all that but um [57:12] Council Member: well i mean not necessarily because you've got heavy traffic going on to the park and uh you know you're coming into town and that you chose that road because that it was more of a direct road to the park and the boat launching so [57:29] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): so you don't want me to look at it [57:33] Jim Michalski (Mayor): i don't think my personal opinion [57:38] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): okay know what everyone else wants that's my [57:48] Jim Michalski (Mayor): so you got all kinds of time to work on yes [57:53] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): so much extra free time going on vacation [58:00] Jim Michalski (Mayor): vacation no what's going on all right thank you everyone going moving on to number seven reports and correspondence i have nothing katie do you have anything [58:19] Taylor Hansberry (Deputy Clerk): got nothing [58:20] Jim Michalski (Mayor): number eight committee and board meeting minutes we have the moose lake area fire protection district february 9th 2021 b we have the moose lake economic development authority february 17 2021 any questions or comments [58:40] Council Member: um i just have a question yes i see there's been some interest in the shopkins [58:45] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): uh yes but i don't know what their but people are calling about it but i have nothing to tell you it's just nice to hear that [58:55] Council Member: yes more than one person [58:57] Ellissa Owens (City Administrator): yeah i have no idea what their intentions are we haven't got that far yet [59:02] Jim Michalski (Mayor): moving in number nine announcements regular moose lake city council meeting wednesday april 14th 4 p.m right here moose lake economic development authority wednesday march 17th 12 p.m city conference room moose lake water light commission we're going to meeting tuesday march 16th 3 p.m i think that's when we moved up to 2 about 1 pm now which one water there is one pm now moving on moose lake housing and redevelopment authority board monday april 12th 11am hillside manor office loose lake area fire district tuesday april 13th 6 30 pm emergency response center loose lake park board meeting monday april 6 6 30 right here anybody have anything else [1:00:37] Council Member: they told you guys you