This transcription includes speaker identifications based on the provided list of officials and the context of the dialogue. [0:00] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Yeah, thinking enough trying to pull it out and both of the meeting like to welcome everyone to the regular meeting we like city council for Wednesday January 9th 2018 I like to start with a pledge allegiance place I pledge allegiance to the United States of America for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice as well. [0:47] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: By the first item I should have said we're opening for that organizational meeting which we'll do first and and close and then open for the regular Moose Lake City Council meeting. First thing is an agenda. Are there any changes to the agenda? Because really should be adding just changes. Very good. There is no consent agenda and as far as public comment, would this be on matters—your idea matters on the appointments? Yeah. If somebody wanted to speak to the annual appointments they could. No, we'll keep the comments to three minutes. Hearing none, really there are no department reports for this or previously discussed business so that will go down to number six: the new business which is the committee and board appointments. [2:19] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Now if you look on the next page page two, three and four, you'll see that all the different committees appointments we have to make. This one is the city attorney. I think I'll go down to the official city newspaper and then we'll do a motion and then we're going into the different committees. The city attorney: Flattery and Hood. Now the city engineer—are going to continue this until we do a process. So right now the city engineer just pulled Steve... Bolten & Menk. I think Steve is retired so we'll just put Bolten & Menk for now. City financial advisor: Northland Securities. Bond counsel: Kennedy and Craven. Chartered City Auditor: CliftonLarsonAllen. City funds depository: First National Bank of Moose Lake. Official City newspaper: Star Gazette. Any discussion, question by the council, or a motion? [3:04] **Council Member Kris Huso**: So move that we accept appointments as read. [3:04] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: I'll second. [3:04] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. All right, opposed? Motion carries. Planning Commission... myself, got none. There was an opening from 12/31—well that's when it would close 2019, correct? So they're open right now for discussion under the Planning Commission would be the City Council position. [3:51] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: The open position although we don't have any applicants and Joanne Unzen she did respond that she was still interested in being on the Planning Commission. The open spot has been a Water and Light Commissioner. Neither of the two current commissioners had stated that they wanted to be on there so yes, technically we have an open position but there are three spots that you guys can discuss. Correct—one City Council member and the Mayor, which the Mayor is listed in the listing ordinance that the Mayor will sit on that committee. [4:40] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Mr.—or I should say Councillor Juntunen—would you like to stay on the Planning Commission? [4:40] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: Sure. [4:40] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Very good. Well then a City Council member... so mayor... there is... is that a problem or just have to... [4:40] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: It's not that it's a problem. I will have to post that we will technically have a quorum of the City Council so that the planning commission meetings are already... do you open tonight? I can go on there with you yeah, or you can definitely take my spot if you'd like to be on it but that's fine. I think too, you know, as long as we can swing it that's great because you have a lot of good input. [5:26] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: But song thank you. We advertise? We didn't get... [5:26] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: We did not advertise it only because the spot—is that particular spot is only open yes to a Commissioner. The other option is that you all can tell me that you want to publish it outside of the Water and Light commissioners. I imagine the Commission did not discuss that. [5:26] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: We did and there's right now it's just—well it's just actually two of us right now and Curt wasn't interested so if there's the last resort I'll go on it. [6:13] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: But I thought only one city councilman... have a quorum... so they would post it as a meeting. It shouldn't be an issue right? Yes, but there are two different things happening. One is a City Council spot, one is a Water and Light Commissioner spot. [6:13] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Well let's just do the City Council one first and then the Water and Light one. So far needs to be a Water and Light Commissioner but you could also tell me not to have it be a Water and Light Commissioner. So let's just do the City Council one first, maybe even do Joanne Unzen second and then we can talk about the open one. Okay, you have a motion to slate Councillor Juntunen to the Planning Commission and Joanne Unzen? [7:01] **Council Member Walter Lower III**: I so move. [7:01] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: I'll second. [7:01] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any discussion, questions? All in favor say aye. I am opposed, motion carries. That brings us to the commissioners position. [7:01] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Yeah, yes. Would it be okay with everyone just to leave it open? Because we're looking at getting a new person on the board and possibly they would be interested in that position and you can have it complete that next council meeting. [7:48] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: That would be just fine. That consensus with anyone? Good. Moving on to the Economic Development Authority. Council... the general council good sorry I'll move on... Skelton, Bukowski and Steve Olsen. So we just appointed all these last month I think at the first meeting, second meeting, something like that. [8:36] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: I might ask the three—Ivonne, Tia and Steve—to stagger those. We also didn't technically pass the bylaws, that's something that the Economic Development Authority will do which will then be brought here. So the three years that's listed there is not set in stone, maybe it's just kind of an idea of a placeholder for now. [8:36] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Very good. They can work that out within the committee and bring it back and we've already pointed the two council members so we should be fine. No approval—I don't think we need approval. Let's just do it since we're in the organizational meeting and so move that the five that are on the committee right now are reappointed. [8:36] **Council Member Kris Huso**: A second. [8:36] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: In the questions, discussion? All in favor say aye. All right, proposed, motion carries. Zoning Administrator: Jim Pederson. Civil Administrator... [9:23] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: So move. [9:23] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: I'll second it. [9:23] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carried. Housing and Redevelopment Authority... both would like to continue to sit on the HRA board: Kathryn Lexif and Joanne Morrissey. We need a motion on those. [9:23] **Council Member Kris Huso**: To make that motion. [9:23] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: Got a second. [9:23] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. All right, motion carries. Parks and Recreation Board... we're sure in all 2017 that's because there's no term for the Parks and Rec—there's not one year or two years right? So just really looking at times even when they're no longer on the committee, take him up. Yep. [10:12] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Is that Becky though? Yes. Veronica is no longer on... idea there. So you guys probably... Becky, Ruth Custer, binding, Hollis going away no ribbon... and I also go to it down there. You have two openings: Todd you and Veronica. One new member that we approved it was Veronica... so it was a young gentleman, Mr. Stewart—Ross Stewart. [11:02] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Yes, Ross Stewart. He was approved on the committee. So then if we replaced Veronica... if we include you on this list and we replace one of these with Ross Stewart, right? Then we're at seven. So I probably would not suggest adding another person. All right, so you need to approve you and Greg being on the committee, then Ross Stewart. Greg Sarlo, the counselor. [11:02] **Council Member Kris Huso**: Make that motion. [11:02] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Second. [11:52] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. All right, opposed, motion carried. The library board... and you have two that are up: Bill Lundgren from Moose Lake Township, Eleanor S. Crew from Moose Lake. And I'm sorry, I know that Gail wanted to... yet Eleanor, I want to be on there too right? [11:52] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Steve, don't believe so? Yes. Okay, sorry. I'm pretty sure and you guys already voted on that one last night so they'll be next year. [12:41] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Okay, so after the motion... Gary and Eleanor so... [12:41] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: I do move to reappoint Gail and her to the library board. [12:41] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Got a second. [12:41] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carries. The cemetery board: we do have one opening and we do have a letter of interest. [12:41] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Nope, thought that one got was rescinded. She—nobody responded to sit on the cemetery board. [12:41] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Jim Mackey interesting. When did I get that? [12:41] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: On Monday. That's really not that long ago. [12:41] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Accept Jim Mackey's letter for the cemetery board. [13:29] **Council Member Kris Huso**: Seconded. [13:29] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carried. Public Utilities Commission: we have an opening. They do have a letter from Mr. Keith Carlson and that is the only one. [13:47] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: I'll make a motion we accept Keith Carlson for the open position on the Public Utilities Commission. [13:47] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Second. [13:47] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carries. Fire District Board... I'm honored, I'd like to stay on it. [13:47] **Council Member Walter Lower III**: Unless as somebody who wants to... I move that we reappoint Mayor Michalski on the fire district board. [13:47] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: Second. [13:47] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carries. The next day—I'll read through the city officers and officials for the next page and then we'll do that at one time. Mayor Pro-Tem: Kris Huso. Kris, I think somebody else might want to step out for you. [14:33] **Council Member Kris Huso**: Yeah, you did such a great job last year then. Yes, one more year of your leadership will be helpful for me. [14:33] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Sure. Like we both agreed. Open yeah, it was one of the more efficient meetings that took—nice work. [15:20] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: So I move that we reappoint Kris as the mayor pro-tem. [15:20] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Second that. [15:20] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carries. Now this one I'm up for anybody who wants to volunteer: Weed Inspector. [15:20] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: The City Administrator writes to see that thanks for stepping up. [15:20] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: The City Administrator... is that the dog catcher too? Did we... Animal Control? [15:20] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: That got passed back to Safety Officer... Emergency Management Director: Jim Pederson. Building official inspector: Duane Grace. Bruce Lowry. Animal control officer: Friends of Animals contingent on Jim Pederson taking their job... is that what you wanted? Yeah. [16:07] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Board of Health: Gateway Clinic physicians and Nancy. Preparedness: myself. Cable television public access coordinator: Steve Devine-Jelinski. Any discussion of questions from the council? [16:07] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Yes, building official. Have we—I know we had had some interests for others? [16:07] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: We have. I guess my thought was that we would finish up the engineering stuff first but if you would like to do them both at the same time we can try. [16:52] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: What does that mean? [16:52] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: We have that engineering RFP open and my thought was that we would finish that one up. [16:52] **Council Member Kris Huso**: If I may, I think last year what we did or was the year before that, we went month by month until we thought that we were stable and then made a motion for the rest of the year on that position. So maybe we could pull that one out and going on that one second table that. [16:52] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Make sure... or just do it for a month. Yeah, approve all of them for the year and the question of the building official month by month. Okay. [17:43] **Council Member Kris Huso**: And again, that's my motion. [17:43] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: I'll second that. [17:43] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any further questions? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carries. Who seconded it? [17:43] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: I did. [17:43] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Next: City Council committees. Read down through all of them and we will do them all at once and as I go through them if somebody wants to try to ask for a change please speak up. The first one right away: Personnel... [17:43] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Okay, I've spoken with a counselor... and she's allowed... sorry, take that position. [18:30] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Very good. Mr. Juntunen and Greg Sarlo. Public Works: Jim Pederson, Douglas Juntunen. Any changes? [18:30] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: No problem with me. [18:30] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Someone else? Protection: Kris Huso and myself. I would stay on that. Okay. And then Store Committee: Kris Huso and myself. I'd like to stay on that. That's right with everybody? Yeah. Okay, now we'll move on. Chamber of Commerce... well I skipped one. Cable Television Commission and Communications Tech Committee? Hearing none, move on. Chamber of Commerce... I kind of like that. Department of Corrections Advisory Committee: Kris, kind of natural for you with your job. Very good. Have a motion to accept those committees for the City Council? [19:15] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: So moved. [19:15] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: Second. [19:15] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carries. City administration and department directors. City Administrator/Clerk: Ellissa Owens. City Clerk Treasurer: Jim Pederson. Deputy Clerk/Financial Director: Ryan McKeon. Public Works Superintendent: Phil Entner. Chief of Police: Kelly Lake. Liquor store manager: Mark Skelton. Library director: Steve Devine-Jelinski. Motor vehicle deputy registrar: Katie Boone. Have a motion? We're going to vote on those ones. [20:01] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: You don't contractor service—there was something with the deputy clerk finance director because of the laws, we are required to have a city clerk which is me. You guys even vote on them if you want. [20:01] **Council Member Kris Huso**: I'll make a motion we accept these city administration and department directors. [20:51] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Thank you. Second. [20:51] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carried. Thank you administrator. Let's see... back to agenda. Oh I'm sorry, you will need to adjourn that meeting. I think we're down to everything. The motion to adjourn organizational meeting? [20:51] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: So moved. [20:51] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Have a second. [20:51] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carries. Second one: now I'd like to call to order the regular meeting Moose Lake City Council, Wednesday January 9th 2018 at 6:49 PM. [21:43] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: First item will be to approve the agenda. Any changes, corrections to the agenda? None for me from the council. Motion to accept? [21:43] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: I'll second it. [21:43] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carries. Under consent agenda: December 13 2017 City Council meeting minutes. Any discussion or questions? This was Ryan’s first time doing this one so maybe go through with a fine-tooth comb. [22:26] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: Wow looks excellent to me. I know it's an excellent job myself. Raise the bar. [22:26] **Council Member Kris Huso**: Motion to accept. [22:26] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: I'll second. [22:26] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carried. Under financial: Number 1, city accounts payable for December 2017 and January 2018. Number 2, the city financial statements for December 2017. Number 3, the liquor store profit loss statement for December 2017. [23:16] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: I do have a question on check number 43232: Sukhoi Construction. 7420? [23:16] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Small sounds long part of the Small Cities Development Program. Okay state money yes where we get reimbursed for all of it. [23:16] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: Okay thank you. [23:16] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any other questions? Okay now may I have a motion to accept the financial reports? [24:02] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: So moved. [24:02] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: Have a second. [24:02] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carries. Clearly on the minnow. Through public comment: this time is reserved for comments from the public on matters not listed on the agenda. Please keep comments to three minutes. Hearing none, we'll move on to number four: departmental reports. For police chief, the department report for December 7th through January 7th 2018. [24:50] **Chief of Police**: Dear Council, gets me here on the holidays when the clouds snap it was actually pretty quiet but when I warmed up this week it got busy again. So we only need seven candidates for the new police officer position and we're currently backgrounding an individual. Hopefully I get that wrapped up in the next three weeks to a month. Hopefully get him on board. Seemed like a real nice young man, college educated, some law enforcement experience and he's very excited about the community, would love to get involved with coaching. So we're really happy to get such qualified candidates to apply for the city. If you look on page 35 and 36, we did an annual report. Just over 2,000 calls for the year and we'll look at it, 23 felony cases. For a smaller city, you see that that is a lot—it's a lot of felony cases. Some came from the state institutions but the majority of them were from our officers. They did a great job. 19 gross misdemeanor cases and 10 petty misdemeanor cases, 10 juvenile cases, 61 medical assists. And squad car assist with the car locked out... five walk arrests. Our squad car, the Tahoe, it's just hit about 52,000. The Ram truck has 123,000 and the Charger has 115,000. So that's kind of a glance at our year. Again, a very very busy year for the police department. [26:23] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Any questions? Yes, um, I see that you have a couple that are pretty high mileage. Generally you don't get over a hundred thousand on squads. When are you looking in your budget at another squad? [27:09] **Chief of Police**: We try and turn over every three years and then I'll take the old squad car—then my mine to be the spare. So I guess hoping God willing next year in the budget for new squad car. [27:09] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Thank you. So total calls 2118 for the year? Yes. That's a lot. Good job. [27:09] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Thank you yeah please pass it on to the staff. [27:56] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Do you want to talk about the police officer recruitment tonight? Yeah I think it'd be a good idea. So one of the things that the chief and I talked about was conditionally approving the police officer so long as he passes his background, psych eval, physical and all of those things. If we could have approval tonight, conditions of all of those conditions are met then he would be able to start a little bit sooner than the next city council meeting. [27:56] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: I think that would be fine. Council? I have no problem. Be great. Hopefully next council meeting I can bring them here and introduce them to the public and the rest of y'all. I would say we will probably do a swearing in and all that but a motion you made pending... [28:42] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: The motion that we have a conditional offer to travel a bit and make it—I can't say that I see—pending the background and physical and psychological testing. [28:42] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: I have a second. [28:42] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. All right, now opposed, motion carried. Thank you. Very good thank you Chief. Have the City Superintendent report. [29:37] **Phil Entner**: Mr. Mayor, members of the Council. Had a kind of really really nice relaxed month this month. It was kind of nice to just get caught up on shop work and just some routine maintenance stuff that we've kicked off to the side all the rest of the summer. Pumped 3.6 million gallons of drinking water, collected 10.5 million gallons wastewater. The NPDES permit, which is the sewer permit which expires the end of 2018 is completed and sent out tomorrow. Good. Not a lot of snow out there so we're finding other stuff to keep us busy. We're gonna start clearing here right away, probably in the end of this month beginning of February if it continues to be slow. [30:23] **Phil Entner**: That's all I got. The only thing I want to mention to the public and everybody in the city: with the colder temps and lack of snow cover we're looking at some real deep frost steps already. We're already down four to five feet in Frosts. So water means you'll need eight feet around. So on the city's website there's a link to the city Moose Lake frozen water and sewer line policy. I suggest everyone go and look at that, just familiarize yourself with that. Go down the guidelines, check your water temperature. If you have any questions at all please call Public Works Department. We don't like having frozen sewer lines or water lines any more than anybody else does. We would like them preventative. If we can help anybody who needs a learning how to do this or if they have questions, it's really not that hard. But if you have questions please call because we like to be preventative instead of trying to catch everything by the tail when it's all happening and nobody can keep up. [31:09] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Okay, very good. Thank you. [31:55] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: And one quick thing: the sewer permit that he brushed over real quick... what was the bill for that going to be? [31:55] **Phil Entner**: 1,200? No, the bill from Bolten & Menk was like 5,200 bucks or something. [31:55] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: So we went from a bill of about 5,200 bucks and by having Phil do it—which is a ton of work—it went down to 1,240. That's additional to Bolten & Menk. That's our cost to the PCA. So I think we're at 500% for a cost for engineering via last year of our budget. So that would have to do with road projects and flood stuff. It's bringing it up. I think you went above and beyond doing something that we don't normally ask of you and actually took it on yourself and did a really good job. [31:55] **Phil Entner**: Thank you. Well thank you very much. [32:47] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Technology library port: Steve Devine-Jelinski has... I think he was just gonna leave this in here for your review unless he wants to come up. [32:47] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: No I think we will be looking at putting in a technology report so that the council is updated on some of the goings on. There's a lot of different projects that are being worked on and as things come up we'll try and keep the council aware of everything going on. [33:34] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: Well number three talks about security cameras and I think that we kind of talked about that last month. Letter A says that cameras in town are all functional except for the intersection camera highway 73 and Elm. Are all these cameras, Chief, are all those at the police department? If they're functioning, should they not be up on your screen at the police department or am I incorrect on that? [34:22] **Chief of Police**: All laugh Wendy... so they're functional but not working. [34:22] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: Okay all right. So that's really not correct I guess as what I'm stating. I guess if we could please verify that for next meeting? Sure great. [34:34] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any other questions or comments? Thank you Councillor. We're not there yet. Well excuse me sir. Very good thank you. Again, Steve has retired. I did—they did reach out to ask if they should send somebody. I told them no, there is no update to be had so I thought we'll just save the trip. [35:21] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Chamber of Commerce update. [35:21] **Chamber Representative**: Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, thanks for having me. Just a few things as a reminder: we have our annual meeting on Saturday the 13th up at the Sea Lion Event Center. Believe we're starting at 6 o'clock. Everyone is welcome. We try not to make it too formal and too boring so we try to have some fun. We give prizes away and talk very little and enjoy company very much. So if you'd like to come we'd sure enjoy having you. [36:06] **Chamber Representative**: Another thing that I wanted to bring to your attention: you did see our strategic plan process that we put together. We did set a date for an area community leaders meeting which is March 5th. I think some have been notified. We certainly would like to have a representative from the council attend that. The location is to be determined yet. We're trying to figure out what would be the best time and place for that to happen. My hope with that meeting is that we can all use each other as far as different events that are happening. I like to use the example that if I'm going to Fleet Farm in Brainerd, I'm pretty sure Baxter doesn't care that I say Brainerd. So I think that applies in this area as well and I think if we all really communicate well together that we could really grow as an area. So that's coming up on the fifth. [37:39] **Chamber Representative**: Also that just as a reminder we have the Business Expo coming up this spring in April. Just have that you know top of mind. That's down at the arena. Last year was an extraordinarily successful event—April 21st, 9 to 1. Thank you so much. It really showcased the businesses in the area. We had everything from a couple of Fortune 500 companies down to somebody just a few people just starting out their businesses. And then last but certainly not least is Ice Bocce coming up on February 10th. The idea behind ice bocce is similar to bocce ball in the summertime. You have a puck you place it and then you throw your pucks but we're sliding them on the ice rather than throwing balls. It is co-ed and you have to have a minimum of two women on your team. Registration will begin at 10 o'clock. The main goal is to have fun to bring people together to have an event in the wintertime that can draw people to this area. It is a Chamber event but the proceeds are going to the area post-prom. There will be a cash prize for the winning team and we hope that this is something that would grow throughout the years so it's going to be happening up at the park February 10th ten o'clock four-person teams. [39:58] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any questions? [40:24] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: We also have another guest here tonight: a temporary beer shell request for February 17th. [40:24] **Brewery Representative**: Thank you. Page 49 in your packet has letters in there as well. What we're looking at trying to do—and I did just find out also that we would like to add February 10th to this for the Ice Bocce. On March 17th we would like to do like a fundraiser PR thing with the fire department and what we were planning on doing is a beanbag tournament like we did for the Oktoberfest. We would take half of those entry fees, we would raise the dollar place on our beers one dollar, we would match that as a company and we present the fire department with a check. The second one is for our February 17th ice fishing contest that would be out in front of the brewery not far offshore. What we want to do is be able to make a little ice bar out there. I have the Sturgeon Lake Lions Club willing to help us out picking up trash and drilling holes. I'd like to bring up at this time to add a temporary license to do a meat raffle. [42:37] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: Are you looking at offshore parking? [42:37] **Brewery Representative**: I would find out if those tournaments going on, if there's a hockey tournament on a weekend or fill up the whole film in hockey car. [43:23] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: Just so you're aware that that's something—the lake—that would be something similar to that. [43:23] **Brewery Representative**: I personally would come in and I would sell very close to the parking area that would accommodate the amount of cars that would be out there. Right now there's 16 inches of ice which is safe for vehicles. I would watch those ice conditions and I would make arrangements even to cancel if ice conditions became too poor. [44:09] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Where are you saying that you were gonna have the ice bar? [44:09] **Brewery Representative**: The circle is going to be big enough for 150 holes. Beers would be served at that location and the Lions Club has people that would assist us in keeping that area clean and everything picked up. [44:56] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Have you spoke to insurance company about liability? Because we've had... last time you had a fishing contest. That is where the snowmobiles come up off the lake right by your place. That's a concern for me and then how will you be driving the car? Is it going just right from your public access over to that area? [45:41] **Brewery Representative**: I would take care of following that with the plow. I know that tragedies can happen but I would definitely not want that to happen. My plan is to have that basically straight from my property line to the left. [46:55] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: I just think of these things that have come across before. I'm worried about people crossing the road, things like that. [46:55] **Brewery Representative**: I could put cones out doing that and try to flatten it back up the best I can afterwards even if that's something that would help. [47:42] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All right any other questions for the council? So we're looking at permission to sell beer at these three events. [47:42] **Council Member Kris Huso**: So I move that we allow them to sell beer at these events and knowing that you know we're not responsible for the events at all or for content. We're just proving to let them sell there. [48:29] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Do you have a second? [48:29] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: Second. [48:29] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Discussion? One of the things that as a city that we will want as a part of this motion is that we receive liability waivers that cover the specific area. We will want liability coverage that specifically covers where they are going. In the instance of the arena parking lot, we would want our arena covered. For the lake, we would want that area covered. For bocce ball, we will want the park covered. Otherwise those are City locations so that that is something that we would want as a part of this to amend the motion. [50:01] **Council Member Kris Huso**: Amend the motion to add the city to have the insurance waivers in hand before we can give the permits. [50:01] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carries. [50:55] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Is that the meat raffle portion that you're talking about? That's a gambling permit if they're having a raffle. [51:27] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: So if you are all ok with it make it conditional upon Ellissa receiving the form. [51:27] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: I'll make that motion. Seconded. [51:27] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. All right the place motion carried. Moving back to number five, previously discussed business. [51:27] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: No project updates to be put toward. The Olympia ice resurfacer was delivered yesterday looks great it runs extremely quietly. We had Senator Lourey and Representative Sundin come down today for pictures along with the Mayor. So now that we have paid the bills we will be submitting for reimbursement. [53:05] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Moving on to 5B, school property small area planning meeting which is scheduled for January 24th and that'll be here. [53:05] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: 6 p.m. right here in this room. If any more of you are planning on being there please let me know so that I can post it. [53:51] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Clarify what area it is? [53:51] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: It's the land that the school owns over by a shop go and Kwik Trip and all that stuff. [53:51] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: The interestingly six o'clock. [54:37] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Next item on 5C is the sales tax update. We've had initial payments... we collected fourteen thousand three hundred and eighty dollars in November. Multiply that out was roughly a hundred and seventy two thousand dollars per year. I think we will probably see the summer months be a little bit easier but I would say we're off to a good start. [55:25] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Fantastic thank you. Moving on to new business 6A: Moose Lake Post-Prom donation request. page 39. [56:12] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Make a motion to give $300 to the post-prom. [56:12] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: A second. [56:12] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Hi proposed motion carried. 6B: RFP Engineering Services. [56:24] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: I just included the request for proposals for engineering services in there just so that everyone would see that it is there. Closing date is February 14th which is the next council meeting. My question is how we would like to go about interviewing these candidates. A third option that I'd like to throw out is having a city council member, a member of the street committee, and then the Public Works superintendent and myself interview the engineer. [58:02] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: That works for me that's fine everybody else. My question more was is should we move the Valentine Day City Council meeting? That is up to you all. [58:02] **Council Member Kris Huso**: I'm sure you guys would like to take it. The 13th is my anniversary so I get all my Valentines Day out of the way. [58:58] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Can we not do it the week after? The 21st? [58:58] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: What about the 15th? That's a Thursday. [59:45] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: Coaching basketball team... [1:00:36] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: 15th of February? Okay that's consensus. [1:01:08] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Okay so again... Public Works superintendent Phil, myself, a member of the street committee and another one of you and God we could just work it off. [1:01:44] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: You did volunteer? I will. [1:02:38] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: I'll be there unless it's for the engineer talk. All right thanks everyone. Brings us to 6C: the LBAE training. This is the local Board of Appeals and Equalization training. Please please please please somebody take it. [1:03:23] **Council Member Kris Huso**: No, I don't bring a certificate here tonight. The person that we have is me. I'll have it done next time you see me covered. [1:04:57] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Thank you yeah we're not... you do have to have two people to sign. [1:05:49] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Page 46 is a permit for lawful gambling, an application to conduct bingo. [1:05:49] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: I so move to approve the application for bingo. [1:05:49] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Second. [1:05:49] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Opposed. Motion carried. 6E: Firewalls. [1:06:38] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Our firewall is getting up there in age. This is the quote for—it's a must. [1:07:24] **Council Member Kris Huso**: So I move that we purchase a new firewall: three thousand six hundred thirty two dollars. [1:07:24] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Second that motion. [1:07:24] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carried. Except Internet Service Provider. [1:08:12] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: All right, so with the sale of the wireless portion of Moose Tech... we are one of two customers that Moose Tech has. Our bandwidth right now we have twenty. I have a quote from Moose Tech which is for fifty megabytes which would be about seven hundred and fifty dollars per month. The quote from the other company is basically say 20 times more bandwidth for less money. I know that we want to stay local... I am slightly disappointed that our monthly rate with Moose Tech right now is $1,000 and it's only gonna go down to 750 dollars considering we're only getting 50 megabytes. [1:10:31] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Why would we pay more to get less? [1:11:19] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Yeah just to keep it local right? So that's the VPN part... fiber is absolutely more secure. [1:12:04] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Is this something that must be decided tonight? [1:12:04] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: No. [1:12:04] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: I'd like to speak to them myself. We could delay this just a month just to get romance ancestor? What do you mean okay death consensus. [1:14:50] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Moving on to 6I which is a 2018 F-350 purchase statehood. [1:14:50] **Phil Entner**: This was budgeted for through the Public Works Department. This is the state bid for this truck. [1:15:37] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: Tell me the motion we accept the state bid. [1:15:37] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: Second. [1:15:37] **Council Member Kris Huso**: I just want to commend them for getting the extended service contract at seven years seventy five thousand mile bumper-to-bumper. [1:15:37] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, motion carried. 6J: the plow purchase. [1:16:22] **Council Member Douglas Juntunen**: I'll make that motion... Northwoods Hydraulic and Equipment. [1:16:22] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: A second. [1:16:22] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. All right folks motion carried. 6K: the 2017 audit engagement letter. From CliftonLarsonAllen we're looking at 20,000. [1:17:27] **Council Member Kris Huso**: Motion to approve. [1:17:27] **Council Member Lou Ohly**: A second. [1:17:27] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. Aye both motion carries. Number seven: reports and correspondence. Fire District... there was 30 calls and you see the city of Moose Lake at 13. End of year report for 2017 and there is 411 calls total. Maxon job. Moving on to number nine which is the announcements. We had a change: Thursday February 15th at 4:00 p.m. right here. Still got a light Commission regular meeting Wednesday January 17th. [1:22:06] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Do we have a motion to adjourn? [1:22:06] **Council Member Kris Huso**: A second. Check it. [1:22:06] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. I propose adjourned.