[0:05] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** I'd like to welcome everyone to the regular meeting of Moose Lake City Council for Wednesday, April 14, 2021, and I'd like to start with the pledge of allegiance please. 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. Next item is the agenda. We do have some additions if you go to uh six. [0:53] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Number six on the second page will be the edition. First one will be I, and they'll be library director credit card. Next will be J, lifeguards. [1:20] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** And K, this will—we're going to close the meeting at the end probably after we do announcements. That's just a notice that we're going to close the meeting and it's about some land. Are there any other changes or additions to the agenda? Do I have a motion to accept? [1:40] **Council Member:** So moved. [1:42] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** You got a second? [1:44] **Council Member:** Second. [1:45] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. All right, opposed? Motion carried. Number two, consent agenda. This would be 2a1, the regular city council meeting for March 10, 2021. Do you have any changes or discussion on the minutes? Do I have a motion to accept the minutes? [2:12] **Council Member:** Motion. [2:14] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** For a second? [2:15] **Council Member:** Second. [2:16] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carried. Under 2b, financial reports. Number one, the city council payable for March 2021. The city financial statements from March 2021 and number three, the liquor store profit and loss statement for March 2021. Any questions or discussion on the financial reports? [3:01] **Council Member:** Hearing none, I have a motion to accept. [3:05] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** So have a second? [3:07] **Council Member:** Second. [3:08] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. Opposed? [3:13] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen:** Just a quick question. Do you know when the auditor will get their—? [3:17] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** They were still asking follow-up questions this week, um, so he hasn't said it yet. [3:26] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Um, just for everyone's information, number three, this is public comment. This time is reserved for comments from the public on matters not listed on the agenda. Please keep comments for three minutes. I should make a statement: one of your handouts that you have—this is what we're talking about at the Hillside Terrace. The building that was purchased by, his name is Tory Johnson. That handout is information on what he's requesting from the city, just kind of a confirmation of what that is if anyone didn't know. In case we have no comments from the public, moving on to number four, departmental reports. 4a, the police chief report for March 2021. [4:38] **Police Chief:** Mayor, members of council, in your attachment you should find the police report for March 2021 totaling 190 calls for service. 13 of those calls for service were to MSOP and zero to DOC. I'm thinking by next month, MSOP ones are going to be down as well. The Mayor, Katie, and myself met with MSOP staff both from the metro and here, kind of laid it out where we're at, where things are going to go. I have one more follow-up meeting next week with them along with the Sheriff and we'll have more coming out on that as we get to that point. But that should—right now we're still spending a ton of moving one case with them. One of our guys is working pretty much his full shift on one of their cases. [5:28] **Police Chief:** In this package, self-initiated: we had 22 extra patrol for the month, 41 traffic stops—I think this is our largest—33 community engagement, so that's increasing a lot. We've got 18 assists to other agencies, 73 calls for service, and three medicals, again totaling 190. [5:48] **Police Chief:** We're still running one short. Hopefully, we'll be coming to a resolution where we're going to go with that position. Our full-time and part-time officers, along with the Sheriff's department, really helped out filling in some of our open shifts. From HTC, the position I told you about before that we were going to have—an embedded psychologist/social worker with law enforcement—has started. This position, I met with him earlier this week and we had another conference call today. He's going to probably spend one or two days a week here in Moose Lake. He's also will be assigned to Cloquet Police Department, Carlton County Sheriff's Department, and Fond du Lac. So any type of mental health situations we have, he can reach out to a lot of different areas. I've given them all of our numbers and stats so they have something to go off of. [6:34] **Police Chief:** We're just kind of building a plan now and that's going to probably change as we move through it, but you will see him around here. Maybe he'll be able to come into a meeting or something down the road, but he'll be working out of our department at least one or two days a week. Other than that, um, the ATV stuff has still been moving forward. We're hoping to have more of our routes planned. We know where we want it to go on the backside of the businesses between the Munger Trail and those businesses. Needs some work there. Phil was good about getting us an estimate on some of the work there. I've been in contact with the DNR; they're pretty slow moving. We did find out it is all state land where the trail would be, so they're working on that. The DNR game wardens have also been trying to push that a little bit so we can get this done sooner than later. [7:19] **Police Chief:** To get that in there, we need some culverts and some gravel work down to get that put into place, but we're moving forward with that. We had a meeting, we have another one coming up in May. Some of the things they did publish—our working group—they had an article on city of Moose Lake here and what we're doing with the ATV stuff in a statewide magazine that they think goes nationally to other ATV clubs looking at some of the work that we're doing. So I think it will be looked at more as a model as we move forward from here. It's taking a little bit of time. I know some of the people are going to be thinking that we're already getting calls—"What's the new route?" Well, until we get the okay from the state to start on this, um, it's still kind of, you know, working around it the best we can. But I think the new route along that corridor and down Industrial and stuff, it'll be pretty clean and get people through here. And again, I'll still be working with MnDOT trying to get some kind of an overpass for whose headlight goes into the Moose Horn River to get the ATVs on that shoulder of the road. [8:13] **Council Member:** So I got a question. Yeah, will there be a new map coming out of the Moose Lake at some point? [8:17] **Police Chief:** Yeah, we'll be hopefully getting it in any of the kiosks around and, you know, major parking areas, the hotels, campgrounds. And we've already, you know, we're planning on putting some of the stuff on the website for the city. But there'll be new signage going up, new maps. We just don't want to start printing any of that stuff up until it's finalized if that's going to be the route. But I think it'll work well. We did close up—Phil went posting new signs all along Industrial, marking things a little bit better so when we do direct people. But yeah, we'll keep adding to it. There'll be new maps, new signs, and uh, hopefully a lot of electronic stuff done as well. [8:52] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All right, thank you. And thank you and Phil for working on this. [8:55] **Police Chief:** Yeah, you're welcome. [8:56] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any questions? All right, thank you. Thank you very much. Please pass it on. Well Phil, Public Works Superintendent. [9:12] **Phil Entner (City Superintendent):** Mr. Mayor, members of council, um, things are things are good outside. We like that. It's uh, it's good. Um, we're gonna be busy this summer. I'm not gonna lie. I just sat through our meeting with that new house that's gonna be going online um probably the beginning of next month. Before we meet here probably next time, we'll be really in the middle of that. That's going to be—it's going to be huge for the city of Moose Lake, it really is. It's a lot of money we spent. It's uh, it's improvements that had to happen for a long time. So it's going to be a very, very busy summer along with the other things that we have planned for the rest of the year. [9:54] **Phil Entner:** Um, so having said that, we'll start in the water department. Distributed 4.7 million gallons of drinking water in the month of March. The well house is coming along. It's really taking shape, but all the finishing touches are going on now. We're waiting on controls, we're waiting on some SCADA stuff. Um, but for the most part, it's really going to start moving right along here in the next couple of weeks. You'll start seeing a lot of things happen there. Um, currently still have two water services running to prevent from freezing. Uh, those will be off probably by the end of next week, I would assume. [10:23] **Phil Entner:** So we did make it through the year without anybody freezing—nobody completely freezing—so that was awesome. That's only the first or second time that's happened since I've been here. So uh, sewer department collected 13.7 million gallons of wastewater in the month of March as well. Treatment facility: we are starting our spring discharge, uh, possibly later next week, if not by the end of the month we'll be starting on that. That'll be up over 40 million gallons there as well. Um, spoke with PCA here two weeks ago, I'm just going over some stuff before we get going with our wastewater discharging, and they're happy and they like the numbers we're putting out there. They like what the city is doing. They really like you guys' decision to start lining some of these sewer mains and upgrading some of this. They were here, they like that. [11:10] **Phil Entner:** Um, they did ask me to go down and present again at their conference, what I was supposed to do last year. We might get to that, we might not. We'll have to see if that conference actually happens or not. The flow meter for Windermere was calibrated yesterday for spring calibration. We are on the list as well to have that done again in October—our two-time-a-year deal there. Street department: hole filling will continue on a monthly basis all summer long like it has. Um, so far the last two months this spring, frost is out of the ground. Summer work is going to start here anytime. I think all my part-timers are coming back on Monday—yes, all of them are coming back on Monday—and we will start cleanup, restoring anything that got damaged with winter, all that good stuff. [11:58] **Phil Entner:** So salt usage for 2020-2021, that salt debt we call that because we owe MnDOT for our salt and our sand that we used for ice removal on the roads. Figured to be 150 yards of wash sand, which was delivered on Monday the 12th. We trucked it in, and then I did order 40.5 ton of untreated road salt, which meets our 80% liability that we have to purchase through the state bid. So we got off very cheap this last year. It was very good. So that's all taken care of for the year, which is good. Some of these things are stuff we don't get done until usually June or July, but we have a very, very heavy workload coming up here in the next month or so. So we're trying to get some of those things up. Um, our new guy Nick Peterson, he started on the fifth. He's working out very well. If you see us out running around, stop and say hi, introduce yourself. I'll introduce you to him. He's a very likeable guy and he's gonna work out and benefit us a lot. [12:55] **Phil Entner:** Um, blacktop patching will start as soon as the hot mix plants open up, and that will be when the road restrictions go off. They're hoping for the end of April or beginning of May. And we have a lot of patching this year. Not only pothole patching—which we have a lot of that to do too—but big patches. We're gonna go after a lot more of them this year. We are saving crazy, crazy money by doing this. We're gonna see where that goes. Um, we just did a little small test last year and we saved local money. So uh, cemeteries, parks, and campground. Campground will be fired up um probably by the end of the month as far as utilities go and lift stations, water services, water tests, all that stuff. That should be up and running by the end of the month. Um, park and the cemeteries will start spring cleanup like I mentioned on Monday when all the part-timers come back. The burials at the cemeteries—they are happening. We did one uh two weeks ago, a week and a half ago. Went very well. Um, got a chance to meet the family. That was a very, very nice, humbling experience, it really was. They were so appreciative of what we did. [14:16] **Phil Entner:** It worked out really well. We will have to make some equipment changes down the road with some of that stuff, but that'll be stuff that we possibly build into our budget for next year. And we'll have conversation about that as well across the whole council here and everybody else, but we will address them later. Um, got another burial this Friday and then um, I think that's it. Actually, any questions? [14:42] **Council Member:** I have one. Yes, when they turn the new pumps on to the wells, where are we pumping that? Because we'll go through a number of weeks or months of testing the wells, right, for recovery rate and flow? [14:52] **Phil Entner:** And that's all been done. Recovery rate and flow is already—it's all good. That's all good. So the next step will be switching over and actually using them. [15:00] **Council Member:** Correct. [15:01] **Phil Entner:** Okay. Yep. And we're in that meeting I was in, which was a very—it was yes, the meeting I was in was was very difficult um but it was fine. Um, we haven't narrowed it down yet. I'm hoping only a four-hour outage for one water customer. Other than that, I don't know if anybody's even going to experience anything. And I shouldn't even have said that right now because I probably just jinxed us and the city as a whole, but that's what we're going with because I think we can do it. So any questions? No. [15:35] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Thank you. Definitely appreciate it. Moving on to 4c, Technology/Library report. [15:50] **Council Member Walter Lower III:** Um, you have the library minutes from the March meeting. Um, the big thing that it's not really listed in here at all, but they are doing the book sale in conjunction with the Depot Fest—is that what it's called? Um, with Depot Fest. I think it's the first week in June. Okay, so they're gonna have—so they're doing it the first Friday and Saturday, whatever. I think it's the fourth and the fifth. Yep. Um, so that was probably the biggest topic of discussion, kind of how to make that work. So the fourth and the fifth. [16:29] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Just out of curiosity, do you remember like how many, uh, transactions were made in that annual report? [16:37] **Walter Lower III:** I don't. Like 20,000? I don't know. I can ask her for it. [16:40] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Just just curious. [16:42] **Walter Lower III:** Yep, that's a good question. Anyone have any questions? I got a little bit on the cable stuff. [16:59] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Yes. [17:01] **Walter Lower III:** The Cable Cast system is pretty much up and running minus getting a website, and I know I've emailed Katie and Ted there a couple times. Um, we've got to get kind of the website page up there so that—I've got people that are interested in submitting content, but the files are too big to put in an email, especially if you get into, you know, like video clips from phones and stuff. So um, I'm hoping because I get into my busy season, but if I've got a place where they can send that stuff in so that I can grab that stuff. I've got it set up at the school already. Uh, we're using like a Google Docs kind of thing, but it was that kind of a school-initiated that for like their board meetings and things like that. [17:46] **Walter Lower III:** But um, there's a lot of people that take pictures and little videos on their phone. And and uh, if we can get set up um, you know, a web page. And I know I kind of requested that if I can kind of put the content—because for me to tell what has to be on there would get kind of involved—so if I was able to put... I mean we want to have the links from both state, both both channels. We want to kind of put a description of what it's what it's all about. I mean if you do like uh, like Hibbing... if you do a Google search for Hibbing public access television, that's kind of what I'm after. So that if somebody uh can do the same thing for Moose Lake, just put on Google "Moose Lake Public Access Television" and come to the part where they're able to find all the information. [18:34] **Walter Lower III:** Right now we've got just a little page from 15 years ago probably that just—it's not even talking about what we've got available now with our uh, with the public access and having everything online. So I mean people are able to view the stuff online too, but nobody knows it because the addresses for the channels are like a slew of numbers. I mean it's something that you're not gonna, you know, know to push in there. So if we if we're able to uh, get that set up, that's kind of the last component. And we're paying for all that, so it'd be nice to be able to get all that stuff up and up and going. But I definitely need that uh, need that web page uh, so that people are able to go on there and link on, and especially to be able to put the content and stuff. Because I can say I made a bunch of contacts, but I've been waiting to say where they can where they can send it to. Because I can say that you know, just having an email doesn't doesn't do it. I mean if it's a picture or two, but any bigger picture formats too don't don't really work. But especially with the video stuff, even smaller videos uh, we'd be able to load on there and I'd be able to just take that and be able to push it onto uh, onto our public access. [19:42] **Walter Lower III:** I had time to look at Hibbing's yesterday and I don't know that we need to discuss it here, but I do have some just a couple of like follow-up questions just based on what I saw on there. Um, so I'll just—I just wanted to bring it here so that we kind of maybe can get council support because it's kind of been sitting there, you know, since February kind of. So on, you know, it's like if we can't get it soon, then it's not going to happen for me until like like next fall. And it's you know, I'd like to follow up with people because I think we could get content for this summer on there with that. But I can't uh, you know—and I say I'm willing to... I run the website for the Holy Angels Church and also for Buckwheat's Family Farm with all our beef orders and stuff, so I'm somewhat familiar that if we if we had a page where I could get the stuff set up, I think would be the quickest way to do it. [20:44] **Walter Lower III:** So and then no no fail, come Easter time we had a little bit of issues with Mediacom or Christmas, Easter, every season. I think the week of Easter, which is when you want all the stuff working for the churches, we had a couple glitches, but we were able to get that all fixed up. And just as of last week just got into the same kind of system that that Hope Lutheran has now, so they're streaming their services. So we're able to grab that stream, put that on the broadcast, so we're not having to use modulators uh at those churches. Well, Holy Angels too for that matter. So um, because the the modulator boxes are becoming kind of uh, obsolete uh type of product. So we're gonna kind of work with them too. And actually, we're pushing to get uh, high def channels for our local channels. They're right now standard definition and they're—again, Hibbing, which is one of their bigger markets, has been pushing them for longer than I have and they finally I think are working on getting one of their channels. So hopefully if we can get HD, because now the quality that we're able to push out is is pretty high, but it's still getting kicked back down to just standard def because that's all we can do with... it sounds like they gotta—they would have to change stuff in their lines and things. [22:15] **Walter Lower III:** So I gotta just kind of keep going and— [22:19] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Give you any dates on when they can do it? [22:21] **Walter Lower III:** No. But now I've started talking to some of the people who are uh, higher up, you know, with with the stuff, and it's kind of—it seems like it's you gotta start bugging them. You know, I like to say we're a little bit smaller market, but on the other token, now that we made the investment in the equipment to be able to push it out, um, I think that contractor is supposed to give us that. [22:42] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Well yeah, and that's the thing. [22:44] **Walter Lower III:** It's yeah, and in that contract, the one thing that's changing in this world now is that with the streaming stuff. So so we're getting paid—we're getting paid for people that are having a television service, but there's a lot of them that are just going with the internet. And I don't know how that contract has it there, but the thing is they're they're still using the same wiring and stuff. So I don't know, I think we do have to revisit that contract because um, I think they are losing television customers, but people now are able to uh, pull what we've got by just having internet through Mediacom also. So I mean we're we're still getting—in fact more and more people are doing that now with the streaming of stuff. So I think we do—we should revisit that contract um, to see where some of that stuff because I think as as we're changing now into the streaming part, so that we're not stuck in a contract that's, you know, just based on—they probably won't negotiate us with us anyway. [23:44] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Now it's something that the state will do is see what happens with that. [23:51] **Walter Lower III:** Right, and I and I should talk to them too and see because I mean they they're again they're uh, they're kind of on top of stuff and they've got a pretty sophisticated system that they've got going up there. So I'm sure they've been kind of fighting that battle already uh somewhat too to you know kind of keep uh... but yeah, that's what Mediacom said is that they think you know, they're not looking at the individual contracts anymore, that they're just doing a a broad, yeah, overall kind of thing. So they're supposed to give us the updates. [24:26] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All right guys, what do you need to get this page created? [24:30] **Walter Lower III:** Well, I don't know uh, if if Katie could just get you know something. You know, I'd like to hook it on to the city webpage because that would just you know, that that that would make make the most sense. Because I mean otherwise I can just get a page out there and and link it in. But uh, um, I'm not sure what it'll take. [24:44] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** I yeah, I have some I guess some follow-up questions just again based on what I saw with the Hibbing um one. And I don't know how like technical we want to get here tonight with this— [24:54] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Let's not. Let's you two yeah, probably talk after. [24:58] **Walter Lower III:** Oh yeah, I'll shoot give you a call and we'll go over some of the things that I saw and the things that I know how to do with our system. Because I know like we're already set up, like our two channels are are online now. So you're going to you'd see exactly what's what's happening. Um, uh, so it's a matter of kind of pushing that out there, you know, I mean uh, so that you know the effort we're putting to put content here now is available everywhere. But that that's where with the contracting, I'm hoping that we can still get a piece of it even if people are looking on it—have Mediacom for internet and are watching it from the stream versus having the local channels. Because like I say, in talking to Mediacom, I know people are are starting to drop off television and just going with streaming services for everything, you know. So as long as they got internet through there, we're still we're still getting a piece of the podcast. [26:08] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** That's becoming more common. Yeah, that's the way it's going to read. A goal is streaming for all the television. Thank you. Moving on to 4d, the City Engineer. Katie? [26:16] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Lots of engineering stuff. Um, the Trunk Highway 73 trail is will likely be in the—I feel like I've been saying this for months—but will be in the May uh packet to go out for bid, get approval to go for bid. Things that we're working on kind of behind the scenes are some easement stuff, working on requesting an extension for the DNR grant because as it sits right now, we have to spend all of the 150,000 we got by June 30th and we're not set to hit that mark. So um, working on that. Working on finishing some design stuff. There's been—it's it's this has been a really, really big project, so I'm glad to see that we're nearing the bidding stage. [27:14] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Some other things: as Phil said, the well project is going full steam ahead. Um, I think we're going to see a lot of progress made in the next couple of weeks there. Uh, Sioux Line trail, I have not um received a date that they're going to start. As soon as I I do receive that date, I will let everybody know so that we're all aware of when they're going to be beginning the construction on that. Lining project we'll talk about later. Um, I think that's pretty much everything. The I&I ordinance—the engineer just hasn't had time to review it, but it is uh on his to-do list. So we'll get that hopefully in the next couple of months here. Um, but yeah, we're we're making progress. It seems like some all the work that we've been doing is some action is finally happening. So that's good. [28:16] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** What a good thing we don't have to buy any more wetlands. We're able to use the credits that we bought for the—that I think was 2008, the pond—that big sewer pond job. And we bought like about 12-13 acres. And I don't know if everybody remembers that—probably Kris does. We could not use it for our expansion of my Quick Trip or up at the corner um where the motel is for whatever reason. I think it's because it couldn't be new development; it can't be used for new development if I remember correctly. But somehow we can use it for the trail. [29:10] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Yes. So we're we have all those credits and we're able to save money by using them because they're expensive. [29:16] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** And they've been moved also. Maybe you can explain that—how they've been moved so we can access them in the future. [29:23] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** So I don't fully understand how the wetland credits work to be completely honest, but from what I understand they were just in like somebody's name, somebody's personal like name. What we did was we um—and it's like a thousand dollars of a transfer—but to me, best thousand dollars we spent. It gets put into a bank and the Minnesota, oh God, the DNR then like lets us know. So then if if Ted and I and Phil are no longer here, these credits aren't just like poof gone, nobody knows about them. They're in a bank um, and we'll get statements by the state and people know where they're at. [30:03] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Yeah, and they can be usable. [30:05] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Yeah. So we we did that transfer just so then there's a little bit more accountability on what we have and where they are. [30:09] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any questions, anyone? No? Thank you. Moving on to 4e, Chamber of Commerce updates. Let me just speak there. The Chamber is continuing to schedule events um for this summer—in other words, the Fourth of July parade. There was a meeting today at noon. Agate Days, the triathlon, [Music] other stuff. And and they're having a hard time with it because they don't know what level the state will be at with the COVID uh, pandemic, you know, where how many people wants to spread. But all the dues and notes... but we encourage them to continue to plan, just as we are with the Fourth of July events in the park as far as we possibly can into the summer until we realize that, okay, it's impossible to do them and just cancel. And I think all the communities in in the state are trying to do the same thing. Duluth is still scheduling a lot of events. I'm trying to watch to see what other cities are doing, and even the smaller cities are trying to schedule their events the best they can. Nobody knows what's going to happen. Um, even the police at some time, you do that Community Mugs and Hugs? [31:39] **Police Chief:** Yeah, Mugs and Hugs. Somewhere at some point. Oh, and National Night Out. [31:43] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** National Night Out. Yeah, all these are—we'd like everyone to continue planning for them, but what actually happens may change as we get along this summer if it doesn't open up more. Because it's still tied to 200, 250 people at an event. I don't know how you control them and have a parade. You know, we have a couple thousand spread throughout the city unless each block has their own their own parade, their own parade. The parade may come through. There you go, that's an idea. [32:26] **Walter Lower III:** Each—you will have to take a block. No, I'll take later. [32:32] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** So anyway, we're going to keep trying to plan, and the Chamber is as much as they can as long as they can until it's either dropped in or... the same with Larry with the Fly-In, but that's everywhere in the aviation world. I don't think any place in the state is trying to schedule fly-ins right now. I know Duluth has mentioned their large—instead of Fly-In with their air show—and that's been... they're planning the same way as long as they can to see how it changes. And I don't know what they'll do if it doesn't. So they'll handle that. But imagine a lot of things will be rescheduled or cancelled if it doesn't open up more. But that's it with the Chamber. They're still very busy trying to do as much as as they can. A very active group. It's it's a good group. Did you get anything else I missed? Walter was at the meeting. [33:30] **Walter Lower III:** Not really. I wonder, you know, what their 250 is. Is that more for just like enclosed area? You know, with the with the parade, I should think that there would be different guidelines on something like that. You know, something that's outside like that is stretched out over a whole whole area. You know, I think that the 250 is more for smaller... [33:55] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Some of those in Duluth, they would uh, have one entrance and one exit and they were trying to count and radio ahead to the person that... in other words, at the exit would call the person at the entrance. Would that was that building or was that outside, do you know? An event? Oh, it was something in one of their parks. I can't remember what— [34:14] **Walter Lower III:** This one was a winter—I'm sure you're doing a winter carnival type. [34:18] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Yeah, it was a success, but they had to keep that number all day long. You know, they had to have a lot of volunteers—more than normal. I'm sure every town is wondering about the Fourth of July. Maybe the governor will address something like that in the future or something. We'll just have to wait and see what happens, I guess. [34:42] **Council Member:** Yeah. Yeah, are you at 75% now? [34:46] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** We're good, we're at 50, 50, 50. Okay. But there's just no theater, movies, there's just no—that's a problem in this size of a town. You have to have a hundred percent of the people willing to come, and if you have the whole hundred, you'll be able to get enough to have business. But when you have just 20, 30 percent of the population unwilling to still go out, it's really hard to make a profit in the size of a town. Yeah, keep up with everything, I guess. [35:35] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Moving on to number five, previously discussed business. 5a, the water tower rehabilitation contract award. [35:45] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** So we opened bids last week for the water tower rehabilitation, which includes painting the interior, exterior. I don't know, there's probably a whole bunch of other miscellaneous things. The base bid um, low low bid is Central Tank Coatings. Um, that that ad alternate is to increase the warranty from a three-year to a five-year. And I have a whole list of things that that warranty includes with a note from the project manager stating that the additional cost is well worth the investment. Essentially, they'll come prior to that five years—they'll come and inspect the water tower, the inside and the outside, and repair any any bubbling or cracking, rusting, et cetera, et cetera. My thought is if we can push that out a little ways, I think that's worth it. Um, so all that to say, low bid is Central—Central Tank Coatings uh, at 194.5. Um, came in well below the engineer's estimate, so another good thing. [37:13] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** So even the alternative added on to it, it's still lower than what they estimated the base. Very good. Do you have a second? [37:21] **Council Member:** Second. [37:23] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any discussion or questions? All in favor say aye. All right, say no? Motion carried. Thank you. Moving on to 5b, local Board of Appeals and Equalization meeting April 28th at 10:00 a.m. We do need a quorum there, and Doug and I at least since you've seen the training. So anyone else that can make it? Greg, could you remind me—so we have to set the police card—Aaron, put that on your schedule. [38:03] **Police Chief:** Okay. [38:04] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Thank you. Anything else on that, Katie? [38:06] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** No. [38:07] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Okay. 5c, 2019 and 2020 MLWSSD overage bills. [38:15] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Okay, so the last time we talked about this, you guys suggested contacting Brad to determine if he could manually give us an estimate on what the overage charges would have been had those couple of mistakes during calibration not happened. He did the best he could, but he expressed to me that these were merely estimates and he couldn't necessarily stand by the numbers. They were just essentially averages of an average on a table that is provided by this calibration um, the flume company. So he just wanted me to mention that. Um, something that I mistakenly I guess looked over was adjusting their like monthly billing in conjunction with the overage bill. I was just looking at this as like an overage—the overage bill, they've already paid the monthly. So what Darla did was on page 57 um, took what Brad adjusted and then the total flow number two and then calculated what they overpaid on a monthly basis. [39:35] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** So all that to say, to clear everything up, uh, they would pay us $1,361.77. The other part of their letter was that um, they will agree to this if we do not use the 2019 or 2020 flow numbers as any type of valid data, which I'm not going to suggest we do, um, because these are the best estimates that we have. Now do I think they're 100% accurate? No, but they're the closest that we have. So I don't know if you want to add anything else on that. [40:17] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** I think we have to keep that data. It's it's permanent data and I think we have to keep it by state ordinance. We have to have it's actually documented. [40:26] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** I think they just don't want us to reference it in any any discussions that we have with them in the future. They essentially want like 2019 and 2020 to have not happened, I think, um, which I'm not going to suggest that we... so in my letter, in my response back to them, I would probably say that we we—while you guys can do what you guys want with that data, we will keep that data and reference it when we need to because it's the closest information that we have. Not only that, but in 2017, 2018 maybe being the outlier year, but in 2017 we didn't own that flume for the entire year so we—I don't know that it was correct because we didn't own it. [41:17] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** So what would we need that data for? Unless you would have to have been uh, for another problem that could happen, I would guess. Any type of if they want to negotiate contracts or we want to negotiate contracts. [41:31] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** So in a normal year we wouldn't even look at it anyway? [41:34] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Probably not. Okay. I would suggest that we pay the number—well, they pay the $1,361.77. [41:45] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** That would clear all the books that we yeah, yes. And then I just say we have to keep those records. [41:51] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Yep. Yes. So are we looking for... [41:56] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** I think we should have a motion. [42:00] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Motion that we would suggest this recommendation. [42:11] **Council Member:** Have a second. [42:12] **Council Member:** Second. [42:13] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any discussion or questions? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. That only took two years. [42:25] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Case—it's not over yet. [42:27] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Well, I think you realize we have to keep that down, and that's the way it is. 5d, the rate adjustment for the Moose Lake Windermere Sewer District. [42:58] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Um, so we've also talked about this pretty briefly a couple months ago, but they have not seen a rate increase since January of 2017. I gave three options there of a two, five, and a ten percent. I also took their total um, like annual billing that we send them, or they they send us, and I rounded. So it's not exact numbers, but it's between 60 and 80 thousand from 2020 to 2018. I would say increasing their rates 10 percent may be a little steep in one year. Um, more of a realistic rate increase would be a five or a two percent. Um, but those are just my thoughts. Then we have to uh, give in this rate before April 1st—no, May 1st. [43:56] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** April 1st—it was May 1st, it used to be. [43:59] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** It was 12 cents—I don't know what percentage that was, but it was 12 cents per thousand gallons. [44:06] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen:** Considering that we just hopefully balanced the books for two years, I would say yes, two percent for this year um, and look at... so next year—I'm not opposed to that. I just think that in the future, whatever rate increases we give our own residents, I think that needs to be consistent with what they are. So like if we increase rates three percent or four percent for our residents, that needs to also go to them. But they're always going to be a year behind because of this contract, right? So um, if we did— [45:03] **Council Member:** Did you have more? Yeah, put them ahead. Give them five. [45:08] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** No, that would they stay ahead of what residents—have been slightly. They'd be five percent behind still. They're ten percent behind right now. [45:21] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** But it's based on—it's also based on the percentage of flow that they use. Like the state is 60, I think we are... are we 25? I've... they are the smallest percent, like uh—I'm trying to think—15 to 60 percent of the total flow belongs to them. So it would—the the way that we increase in the past is based on if the pipes or or any of the pumps or or pond work that they used, that was a percentage that they paid. Same with the state. If the work was done in the lower part of the town here where the state or the township, you know, none of their flow comes through, they were not charged. [46:13] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** So ours would be different than theirs. [46:16] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** I agree with that in in theory. Yeah, we we don't have 16 percent of a pond or a sewer system for them to use; we have 100 percent of the system for that. [46:25] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Right. So any work done to the pond between the city and the state and us, that was done by percentage. I completely understand that. [46:33] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** I'm I'm more of the mindset of five percent, and then we can see where we're at next year if there's a need to do anymore or not. But as it stands right now, they're still 10 percent less than our own residents. Well, and I don't think that I would have a problem arguing... So the other part of this that I didn't include in here is that I have to provide essentially rationale why we're increasing their rates. So um, I think I can argue two or five. I think 10 would be a stretch for me to argue—I could certainly dig some things up and and figure out a reason. But um, two or five would be... [47:19] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Yeah, it's based on any maintenance improvements um, cost of running the shop. [47:25] **Phil Entner:** Yeah, well, last year the producer's broken and that was $27,000. Done. Equipment costs, what things that affect the whole sewer thing—that we can use those things as justification. And the state will ask the same things also, and that's just the way it is with it. With any increase we should be doing an annual review, so it's fair for them and fair for us. Any other questions or comments or emotions? [48:07] **Council Member:** I'm still—both feel confident, I'll say that. [48:11] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All right, we have a motion and a second. And I'm just—Katie, you have to make sure you and Phil will have to show the justification because that will be the first thing they ask. [48:22] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** That's fine. [48:23] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carried. Moving on to 5e, 2021 sanitary lining project contract award. [48:43] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Another contract award. So we received four bids, opened them again on on the 8th. The low bid base bid is—it's about 500 feet of sanitary sewer—um, is... how do you say this contractor's name? Visu-Sewer? Yep, in CG form at 84,870.20. Um, that ad alternate—that's about 250 feet, it's to that next manhole—it's 117,501.50. Um, if you guys really want to do that to that next manhole, I mean we could uh, but last year I think we—the bid was a little over a hundred thousand dollars and we budget a hundred thousand dollars. So Phil and I talked about it, and we'd be okay with just doing the base bid this year since it did go over budget last year. [49:46] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** How many feet is this though? [49:48] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Uh, the 84 is 500 feet. With the alternate, it's about 750 feet. [49:55] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Okay. Council questions, discussion? Is this the same contractor? [50:01] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** I don't know. We had Granite Inliner last year. [50:04] **Council Member:** You did budget—excuse me, go ahead. [50:07] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen:** I was just going to ask Phil, is this an area that we believe that there's a high amount of I&I? [50:13] **Phil Entner:** Yeah, so this area um, this essentially—this is essentially starting where we left off last year. And I would recommend we continue just to chase that all the way down the line. It's the biggest interceptor we have, and it's one of the biggest sections of I&I, one of the worst areas of I&I that we have. The next one—we fixed the one last year, but we're just going to continue to chase that problem. And that extra 250—do we have any video evidence that that section isn't warning or not, or...? [50:47] **Phil Entner:** It's it's all—it's in—it's in—it's pulling. [50:52] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen:** And then my question would be, Katie, if this isn't going to break the bank at 17,000, if we did the extra 250 because there is a cost savings to the citizens if we do the alternate. [51:06] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** We budgeted 100,000. [51:14] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** So what we save on blacktopping? There you go. Oh, I think we're saving on a lot just in treatment alone. We cut down over a discharge in the corridor last year from what we lined the year before. I think any any decision either way we're going to win either way. It's just a matter if you want to run that budget number over because we're gonna—if we go with that alternate, or with the estimated engineering fees between the two of us, we're gonna be right at that budgeted number. That's sort of wrap. [51:49] **Council Member:** Another question comes to mind. Last year we did a hundred—a little over a hundred thousand—was that also 750? [51:55] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** That was about 618 or 620. [51:58] **Council Member:** Okay. [51:59] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Location plays a big difference. And I believe that was like a hundred—the bid came in at like 105. [52:10] **Phil Entner:** We had the manhole extra amount, I think so. Yeah, yeah. For some reason 105 sticks out for my brain. There was some—there was some state permits, while there's still state permits involved. This was on... I can't remember why that difference was. [52:28] **Council Member:** I don't care. But can I ask you how you came up with that number 613 feet? Is that just a question...? [52:35] **Phil Entner:** So we have to have an open starting spot from that moment and then... and that kind of type next point. If we did this uh, base bid, the extra, you would start saving you know, money sooner than if you waited to put that off. If we did the larger project, we'd start saving the water loss earlier. And it didn't take long either, dudes, like couple weeks and you're done. [53:01] **Phil Entner:** I don't need the project this week. There was a week of setting up, but the entire process from starting—from starting the lining process to complete a lining process—was 20 hours. But there was setup and cleaning and televising and bypass pumping and, yeah, traffic control. There's a bunch of other stuff to it. But the actual process itself, it's one long day. It was a 20—already checked those more than the work, oh by far. [53:40] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** 117,501.50. All in favor say aye. Aye. All right, opposed? Motion carried. Someone—that's good. On to 5f, For Extreme Stump Removal pay application. [53:59] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Um, you guys approved this uh, contractor. I just need you to approve cutting the check. Balance of $6,364.63. It's all done. Um, the DNR uh, permit was—is all completed. Engineers suggest paying it. [54:19] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Council make a motion to pay For Extreme Stump Removal almost six thousand three hundred sixty four dollars and sixty three cents. [54:27] **Council Member:** So move. [54:28] **Council Member:** A second. [54:29] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. All right, opposed? True business number six. 6a, the Arbor Day proclamation. Now this is something we've done every year for I don't know many, many years. It's just in a celebration of Arbor Day, which is on April 30th, 2021. So just for your knowledge and information, unless Katie wants to read that uh... [55:29] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** She hasn't had the pleasure of speaking yet. All right. [55:34] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Moving on to 6b, Liquid Constructions Incorporated pay application number five. [55:40] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** So through the end of March, $54,625. [55:46] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Have a motion to accept. [55:49] **Council Member:** Motion. [55:51] **Council Member:** Have a second. [55:52] **Council Member:** Second. [55:53] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carried. Under 6c, motor vehicle checking account transfer. [56:16] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Okay, so I'm going to try and explain this in the least confusing way possible. We have two checking accounts: one with our general fund um, so like all of our money, everything—and then the DMV has their own separate checking account. Um, how it looks right now on our books is that the DMV is negative in our general fund checking account because that's where their paychecks and all those other things—insurance, all those things—come out. They have uh, at the end of December of 2020, they have $723,000 in their—I should give you the exact dollar amount—seven hundred twenty-three thousand five hundred sixty-one dollars and fifty cents in their DMV checking account. I am requesting approval to transfer that 723,000 into our general fund checking account just because this balance is—is getting higher. Um, I talked to the auditors about it, they don't have a problem with it as long as you guys are okay with it. They actually suggested doing this on an annual basis, so maybe in February of every year we do this transfer. So they thought it was a good idea just so that this balance doesn't creep up and then we look like we have negative however much in our general fund checking. Um, so I don't know if that's confusing or not. [57:43] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** It sounds very confusing. How about... [57:47] **Council Member:** It's earmarked for them. [57:49] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Yes. Yep. It's staying in the DMV, it's just moving checking accounts. [57:55] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** I need a motion. [57:57] **Council Member:** I do, you have a motion. [57:58] **Council Member:** So moved. [58:00] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Have a second? [58:02] **Council Member:** One second. [58:04] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. All right. Opposed? 6d, part-time gardener. And that's—we do have a handout with that also. [58:24] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** We do. Um, so a few months ago, Clarissa um, I think we even accepted her resignation—that she—this was going to be her last year as the like head gardener. So she kind of put some feelers out to see if anyone would be interested in working with her this year, learning the ropes, and then taking over next year. I met with Renee—is that how you say her name?—last week, two weeks ago maybe. Um, and she seems to, I mean, be a good fit personality-wise. And so we're going to give her a shot at the wage, and she's—she'll just be a seasonal employee for the summer months. And she will—she has the desire to get her master gardener certificate or whatever that is. And I think she said she's on a waiting list for that. [59:14] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** So is there a timeline generally that someone has to get that, like we've done with Phil and the other departments for them to get their licensures? Or was that recommended or not recommended? [59:28] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** I wasn't here when Clarissa was hired, so I don't know if Clarissa came in with that certificate or she... so yeah, I think I don't know that we've set that like precedence um, of a timeline necessarily. We could certainly give her a timeline. I guess I would just say that it's with the understanding that she obtains it as—as soon as it's feasible to do so. [59:58] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Correct. Yep. I think what the hang-up is um, everything's online and she would rather do it in person. Sure. So once things start opening up a little bit... the COVID thing closed it and shifted it all online. And Clarissa would come back home I think part-time. I think Clarissa wants to like flop roles—she wants to be the super part-time one and not this person be the head gardener. So which would be great because Clarissa knows the city pretty well and and what our needs are. [1:00:39] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Looking for a motion to accept her name? [1:00:43] **Council Member:** Correct, so we'll do. [1:00:44] **Council Member:** So we have a second? [1:00:46] **Council Member:** Second. [1:00:47] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carried. Moving on to 6e, this is a 73 engineer contract amendment number two. [1:01:00] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Um, so you guys passed a contract amendment uh, for SEH a couple of months ago. Um, since then they submitted the um, the plans and the designs to the state, and the state had them change a fairly large—um, I say large, expensive—part of the trail by the um, around the... [1:01:31] **Council Member:** Boat? No, not the roundabout. [1:01:33] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Nope, the lights. Oh yes. So they had to redesign um, essentially then crossing at the lights on 61. Um, which— [1:01:42] **Council Member:** The south side of it instead of the north? [1:01:44] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Yeah, yeah. Switch it to the south side so they only cross once, otherwise on the north you would cross and then cross again. So they want to go... so they had to design additional like drainage and um, probably another with a light in that size. Yeah, yeah. So they are requesting an amendment to their contract in the amount of $33,600, which they will likely bill us for shortly, and then we can submit that to be reimbursed by the DNR. Just so you guys know. [1:02:27] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Motion? [1:02:28] **Council Member:** Motion. [1:02:29] **Council Member:** Second. [1:02:30] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any discussion? [1:02:39] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen:** Just a quick question. That change you're doing up at the roundabout, was that march changed? I remember us talking about it, but I can't remember if it was—it must not have been that significant, but it was nothing we have to... [1:02:54] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Everybody okay? Moving on to 6f, capital asset policy update. [1:02:59] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Uh, so our audit was—was it just last week? Two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, okay. Um, they they also presented the our capital asset policy, which our current one is what you guys have in your packet. They suggested us increasing the minimum to ten thousand dollars. This has been the same since 2004 and, logically speaking, there's not much that we can buy for five thousand dollars that's really worth depreciating. So I would suggest that we increase that threshold to ten thousand dollars. And what that does is if we buy a computer or whatever, we don't have to depreciate that because that's silly. It would just increase the value to anything above 10,000 we capitalize. [1:03:55] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** So we need a motion to change this? [1:03:57] **Council Member:** We do. Okay. [1:04:00] **Council Member:** Have a second. [1:04:01] **Council Member:** Second. [1:04:02] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. Okay, opposed? Motion carried. Moving on to 6g, MCFOA Clerks Institute May 3rd through the 7th. [1:04:16] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** So they're putting on the Clerks Institute this year. They're doing it all virtually. Um, I will probably attend this virtually at my house because otherwise I'll get distracted here. Um, it's like constant classes from 8:00 to 4:30 every single day, so I just want you guys to be aware of it. [1:04:36] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Very good. Any questions about the council? 6h, lodging tax update, Moose Lake Chamber. [1:04:59] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** I asked the Chamber, and I will ask them every single year, but I asked them to present us the revenue they collected, the expenses that they made, so that you guys know where the lodging tax dollars that we collect are going. So a large part of the lodging tax last year was used for a new website for them. They upgraded their website and it's working great for that. So just so you guys know, so you have some answers if anyone asks you. Informational only. [1:05:39] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Any questions? Moving on to uh, 6i, the library director credit card. [1:05:44] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** So our—every library director has had a credit card to purchase whatever miscellaneous supplies, stamps, whatever they need. Um, they must have recently just changed this, but they're requiring council approval now. So I have to submit our minutes in order to actually get her a card, which I've never had to do before. So need approval. [1:06:15] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** So you have a second? [1:06:17] **Council Member:** Second. [1:06:18] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. Aye. Under 6j, lifeguards. [1:06:32] **Council Member Walter Lower III:** Oh yeah, the Park Board asked me... I brought up to the Park Board and they wanted me to bring it up to uh, the council. As you all know, it's difficult to get lifeguards, but I'd still like to have us try this year. I have talked to one 20-year-old—my nephew Spencer, actually. I went over to his house to try to force him to, but he agreed to it. We call it recommend, yeah, but he agreed to do it right away. So he's interested and he's 20 years old. So that takes care—one of them has to be at least 18 and the other person can be the under. [1:07:12] **Walter Lower III:** But what my questioning is now is if he will have enough time to take the American Red Cross training classes. And I don't really have a lot of information on that. I don't know how long the classes take, but uh, I would like to try to—to work on it and get some possibly some information from Katie about who I could contact about that to see how long it takes and exactly everything that they need. I I do know from what Katie gave me that they need American Red Cross lifeguard training, American Red Cross waterfront lifeguard non-surface open water training, and then CPR and first aid. And it says on your program it's available for getting certification—I just don't know how long that is and how difficult that is. But if I could get Spencer to agree to do it, he would agree to do it for two years. But then it's just a matter of trying to find somebody else, which might not be that easy. But I I'd still like to see the city trying to see it if they—advertise, advertise, okay. [1:08:26] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Another resource is Barney Hollis, who did this for the Park Board for years. He would probably have the most information on where he goes trying to find and where the training was. [1:08:42] **Walter Lower III:** Yeah, unfortunately I haven't talked to him since being on the Park Board. But yeah, I could definitely get a hold of him. [1:08:48] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** And I know Katie has spent a lot of time on this over the years and I appreciate that and I know it's not all that easy to do. I I think there's more requirements than say back when—like in the past in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. But I guess I'm just looking for approval for the city council to sell... [1:09:11] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** And there are a couple of things. I wouldn't want your nephew to spend his time doing the lifeguard training and we can't get a second. We can't just have one lifeguard always—they always have to work in groups of two, whether one is 18 or one is 30 or however old. They always have to work in groups of two. So if we can't get a minimum of two, then we can't have any. My other thought is some concerns that come to mind, I guess, problems that we would have to solve is who supervises them. Because right now we don't have somebody working down in the campground like Joe was working, so we don't have that supervision. And some problems that I ran into the first year that I was here were the kids just sat on their phones, they didn't really watch the water. So I had to go down and talk to them multiple times. Um, I don't... I wish I could sit down there and make sure that they're not on their phones all summer, but I don't—I don't think you guys would want me to do that. Um, so that... not that I don't want to do it, I think it's—I think it's a cool thing that a community can offer. I just haven't had any interest in it in the last two years and I need at least two people to be interested in it. [1:10:48] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** And I can't remember super vividly, but I feel like it was—the training was in early May every year. I think yeah, a couple... is it Sandstone? I think Hinckley, Sandstone. Then also Cloquet at their pool and Duluth—do they still do that training? I don't know if their pool is like up and running, I don't know. So I know that the two, Cloquet and Hinckley, did have the training available, and that's where we were advertising a lot too to try to get kids. And also at the Y and at the universities. Of course, if we're going to advertise, we're doing the normal. I just—I remember like working really hard on trying to get lifeguards and it's—I was telling Walt it's just discouraging after, you know, two-three years of getting literally zero people interested. Um, putting a lot of time into it, I don't know, it's just discouraging. [1:12:05] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** So I don't think we need a motion, but we have consensus on trying to find—chase it. So I think we can go ahead and help. [1:12:15] **Walter Lower III:** So maybe what I'll do is instead of putting it in the newspaper, I will put it—I will send it to the schools and then have the schools email it to all the kids—well, maybe 10th grade and up, or 11th grade and up—um, instead. Because I I just I don't think there are many kids that read the newspaper. [1:12:43] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** We had to go up to Duluth to get that 18 age group too, that—I think at the colleges—to see summer jobs, kids that are over 18. [1:12:51] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** I never did—I never did that part. [1:12:53] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Or the YMCA. Um, because of the training they do up there too, you may get the older kids—18 or older—also. [1:13:02] **Walter Lower III:** Okay, I'll put something together. [1:13:05] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Very good, thank you. Thank you. Moving on to 6k, in your handout you can see we're going to close—go to a closed session at the end of our meeting after I do the announcements. And this is over some land that we want to discuss with the council. Katie, do you have anything else? [1:13:28] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** I don't display on that, I don't. But when you get to the announcements, I forgot to update them, so oops. Okay, just say no, all those dates are wrong. [1:13:47] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All right, we'll go into uh, committees. Number eight—excuse me, seven. Reports and correspondence. I show nothing under it. Number eight, committee and board meeting minutes. 8a is the Moose Lake Area Fire Protection District for March 11, 2021. 8b is the Moose Lake Economic Development Authority, March 17, 2021. 8c is the Moose Lake Parks and Recreation for April 2021. Any other minutes that have been in there? That's it. [1:14:26] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Moving on to announcements. Regular Moose Lake City Council meeting, Wednesday, May—14th or 12th? [1:14:34] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** Sorry, May 12th, yep. [1:14:36] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** That'll be right here at 4:00 p.m. Economic Development Authority, Wednesday, April 21st, 2021, at 12:00 p.m., the city conference room. Moose Lake Water Lake Commission regular meeting, Tuesday, April 20th—and that changed to one o'clock, correct? Yeah, 1:00 p.m. Yes, they're showing at the water and my office. Yeah, they've been doing it here. Moose Lake Housing and Redevelopment Authority Board, Monday, May 10th... no, April 10th... May— [1:15:15] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens:** May 10th? May 20th? [1:15:21] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** Yep, 11:00 a.m. at the Hillside Manor office. Moose Lake Area Fire District, Tuesday, May 11th at 6:30 p.m. at the Emergency Response Center. The Moose Lake Park Board meeting... oh gosh, can't read my writing... May 3rd, 6:30 p.m. here. So at this time, read the statement that looks like this—excuse me. [1:16:07] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** The City Council of the City of Moose Lake will meet in closed session pursuant to Minnesota Statute Section 13.05 Subdivision 3 C to have a discussion regarding purchasing of land at 413 Birch Avenue. The meeting will take place in the council chambers of the community center at 313 Elm Avenue. Following the closed session, council reconvene in open session pursuant to the posted agenda for that date and time, and during such open sessions summarize its conclusion and make any motion. I think we have to do a motion to— [1:16:56] **Council Member:** So move. [1:16:58] **Council Member:** Second. [1:16:59] **Mayor Jim Michalski:** All in favor say aye. Opposed? [Meeting concludes for closed session]