This transcript features **Mayor Jim Michalski** presiding over the meeting, with **City Administrator Ellissa Owens** providing the majority of the department updates and financial explanations. **Phil Entner** (Public Works) and **Chief Kelly Lake** (Law Enforcement) also provide specific reports. [0:00] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: ...the flag of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [0:17] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: First item is that preview of agenda. we do have one edition under number six new business this would be the letter P and it's a city building inspector. Does anyone else have any changes or additions to agenda? **Council Member**: Yeah, council start time. I think we should try to look at a different time under new business Q. This would be Q: City Council start time. [1:05] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: I was saved just out of time and that big of a month. Well, we can have that open discussion. I'm just locating that starting at a couple hours earlier. Okay, any other changes? And then do you have a motion to accept the agenda? **Council Member**: So moved. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Opposed? Motion carried. And a member to a consent agenda this would be to eight minutes then b1 is a January 9th 2018 City Council organizational minutes [1:51] and number two the January 9th 2018 City Council regular meeting minutes. Any discussion there? Questions? [2:08] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Remember your motion to accept the minutes. **Council Member**: So moved. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Opposed? Motion carried. Under 2b financial reports we have number one city accounts payable December 2017 in February 2018 number two see financial statements January 2018 and number three the liquor store profit loss statement for January 2018. Any questions discussion? **Council Member**: I have a question on page 9. Check for 33444, fourth-quarter inspections of almost $15,000. What is... [2:56] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Those are the two commercial properties. That's the reason that those are so... plan review fees are higher on commercial buildings. Okay, those are the two new—the two—I mean those are the biggest portion of that payment but I mean there are other things in there but just commercial buildings come with much, much higher fees. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any other questions? Hearing none, we have a motion to accept consent agenda financial reports. **Council Member**: So moved. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Opposed? Motion carried. [3:41] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: And the public comment. This time is reserved for comments from the public. If not listed on the agenda, please keep comments to three minutes. None. We'll move on to number four department reports. The Chief isn't here right now but we do have his report in the packet. Let's get to the page where it starts. The third paragraph there has information about [4:26] burglaries involving the laundromats. They are—looks like they arrested the person—but that was that did—one of them at least took place in Moose Lake. It's amazing how quick that they can break into those things. It takes like less than 15 seconds to break into those so I'm glad—certainly glad—that they got that one. A lot of investigations with drugs and all of that stuff going on so that is kind of an ongoing thing that will pretty much be going on forever. Looks like they had a good stops here, I appreciate [5:13] their hard work. Yeah looks like it's been three hours at MSOP and four hours at DLC and I don't know if you want to read about the arrests but no... **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: The Chief will be here in about 10-15 minutes to do the 4b portion of his department report and just a quick notice they had a hundred and fifty three calls for the month so another very busy month. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any questions for this part? And if Chief does show up if he has time to—sounds like he will—and questions can be passed on to [5:59] him and he'll take care of number B. **Public Works Superintendent Phil Entner**: For 4b, the Public Works superintendent report. January was a very slow, slow month for us. We got a lot of shop work done and a lot of stuff done in the office as well. On that February first came around and it just went crazy. We have had frozen waters and sewer services every day from the 1st of February. 11 million gallons of wastewater. Was able to finish [6:47] the MPARS permit for the Department of Natural Resources, which is a permit that explains to them—whichever year we have to do the same thing—but I'm expensive, you know, how many water service connections we have, any hydrants, so on and so forth. It's very similar to the survey that we do for the wastewater that is for the outer side. Along with that comes our payment to the DNR for taking water out of the road. So that's all completed for the year. That went well. This week we had—we actually have two water breaks already this week. One on Monday and then one yesterday. And it's been—so he's a big game trying to figure out how to manage them the best you can, the cheapest, the fastest, that kind of thing, and that's best for everybody on the city. So we're moving along with that. [7:33] **Phil Entner**: One rather frozen—I'm sorry—frozen water service this week and it was just up on the hill over here. But sewer services have been really bad lately. We've had—I think like I mentioned really—we had one on at least one every day since the first of February. So the frost is definitely going down. Things are starting to freeze. I mentioned in the January meeting that for the residents as well please go on our website, look at the frozen water and sewer line policy, look it over. If you have questions please call. I have no problem walking people through whatever it takes to avoid this. Nobody wants to go through this. It's not a fun situation for anybody. There wasn't more of us—we don't like it any more than the residents do. At the [8:20] street department, snow's been obviously pretty slow and part of our filling and right of way clearing—that's what we've been up to. [8:37] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Under 4c Technology / Library report. The report is in there if you have any questions. We can have Steve come out, but otherwise we have a new firewall that's been ordered with a couple workstations that are being replaced that have been ordered as well. The voice over IP phones—the liquor store now has fiber into it so we will get them on our phone system once NextEra is able to come out. Security cameras—I checked the last month, all of them work except for the one that keeps getting knocked out of focus. And then now that the holiday lights—I saw Water and Light was taking them down earlier [9:24] in the week—so now that that one is cleared up we should get the last one plugged in there. Other than that no other real major items that are on there. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: So this website visits page review—this is for number four, seventeen hundred and three thousand? **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Yes, so seventeen hundred visits, three thousand page views. So the seventeen hundred people that came there when they went to multiple pages. **Council Member**: I have a question about the camera at the arena and the warming area. Are these kids purposely hitting this with their hockey sticks? Has anyone ruined [10:10] damaged it other than it gets knocked out of focus? **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Not really, no. **Council Member**: Are they purposefully... maybe some of them who knows? They do a lot of stuff down there. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Okay, any other questions for technology? Hearing none, thank you. Item 4e, Chamber of Commerce updates. [11:02] **Chamber Representative**: Well, there's two events coming up pretty quick. One is the Mooselake Brewery fishing contest this Saturday. I'm not sure the time, but anyway I'm sure there's been ads in the paper and Chamber of Commerce website. And then April 21st is the Business Expo at the arena from 9:00 to 1:00 p.m. There's spaces available yet so call the Chamber office if you want a table. And at our last meeting on February 8th we elected the officers for the chamber. They remain the same: Tiara Koski is president, Cassie Zimmer's vice president, Larry Peterson is treasurer and myself as [11:49] secretary. Are there any questions? **Council Member**: How did the event go this last weekend? **Chamber Representative**: No loss. I was down there just when it was ending around noon and there were a few people there. They're real hopeful—there was the Ice Bocce—you know they're real hopeful that'll grow over the years. They had some nice lanes plowed there and they had wooden blocks that be used like a curling block that they'd throw. I didn't see him do that I just stopped in and got some pictures right before they end. But they were all bundled up, it was a nice day, a little bit of wind, but it looked like they were having fun. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Great, thank [12:34] you. Number five previously discussed business. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: 5a is arena project updates. All projects are done. We submitted for reimbursement and received the funds. So the Mighty Ducks stuff is all taken care of, so we could erase that from the agenda after today. 5b, sales tax update. I have good news and bad news. The good news is that our monthly deposit has gone from 5,000 to 8,000 to 12,000. So the amount is growing that is coming in. The bad news is that we won't receive any of that. There's a [13:21] Department of Revenue startup cost that's listed for $17,637.87, which is insane. So I called them and said what is this? And they were very, very nice in pointing out that the agreement that we signed with them stated that we would pay them start-up costs. It didn't say the startup cost would be seventeen thousand dollars but we sure did sign that we would pay for the start-up costs. So it'll probably be another month before we start receiving our sales tax again. **Council Member**: But what if we would have said no? Then we would have to collect it on our own which we couldn't do, which would cost us more. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Yeah, so we did make [14:08] the right choice. So I'm just gonna be unhappy about this and then move on with my day. **Council Member**: Well is that a percentage or is that just some random... **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: It's the cost of what they said was mailing out notices, updating their website, GIS mapping to identify the area—whatever one-time costs. **Council Member**: It sounds like it. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Yeah, okay. This third to last column has the Department of Revenue costs deducted. That's a monthly fee that comes out of there and that's minimal. That's okay, not a big deal. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Good. Questions by anyone? No. 6a, the RFP. [15:02] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: We received six proposals for engineering services. In the next week or so I'll be looking at setting up meetings with I believe Councillor Juntunen and Councillor Ohly and Phil and myself are I believe the ones that are interviewing engineers. I think we decided that a couple months ago. I don't know the times yet but I'll schedule them with you guys as it comes. If you have trouble where somebody can't make it you can call me. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Sure. [15:50] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: 6b, our local Board of Appeals and Equalization meeting. As it says here, it will be April 5th 2018. We will be sending out or submitting to the newspaper the notices that are in here. We do have one person that completed the training. It's none of you—not to point out names—but it's none of you. No, you're not either. But we are in compliance. It would be nice to have more than one person have it completed but we may have to send Phil to help [16:36] the individual make it here that day. Maybe one of you could complete the training. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Okay, 15 minutes at most is what it takes. Just in case. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Thank you. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: 6c, Lawful Gambling, Knights of Columbus. Knights of Columbus would like to do bingo. Do I have a motion? **Council Member**: So moved. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Opposed? Motion carried. 6d, Lawful Gambling, Hope Lutheran [17:23] Church. Same thing. Motion to accept? **Council Member**: So moved. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Discussion? All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Opposed? Motion carried. 6e, Planning Commission appointment, Keith Carlson. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: The Utility Commission met and discussed the planning position that generally comes from them and they appointed or are suggesting to appoint Keith Carlson. We will need to accept that. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: We have a motion to accept Keith? **Council Member**: So moved. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Discussion? Questions? All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Opposed? Motion carried. [18:12] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Under 6f, skid steer trailer state bid capital budget. We budgeted to purchase a skid steer trailer. Phil would now like to purchase it. This came off the state bid. And the theme of today is that Phil went over budget. So this one—the budget that we have is $10,000 and the total for this is $10,034. So we're gonna shake him upside down—did you get $34? You came out of the sewers when you cleaned him! Oh yeah, see... alright. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Need a motion? **Council Member**: Yes, on the swivel motion. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any discussion? [19:02] Questions? All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Opposed? Motion carried. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: 6g, camera lift station pump replacement estimate. We have two of these in a row but just to start with the campground. When we budgeted we went with Bolding Mink had put together a capital improvement list and both of these were listed at $10,000. Both of them came over. This one is $13,332. So yes, it is over budget but it is certainly something that we need to do to keep on pace and we do have the funds for it. **Council Member**: Motion to accept. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any questions? Discussion? All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Opposed? Motion carried. [19:52] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Under 6h, Kenwood lift station pump—I imagine that's the same thing. It is, except that Phil was nice enough to point out that it is Norwood, not Kenwood. So this is the Norwood lift station. And yes this one was budgeted for $10,000 as well. I still would suggest that we complete this one and we do have the funds for it. **Council Member**: Where's this pump at? **Phil Entner**: Just past that guy that couldn't get water service. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Okay, alright at the end of that road. Okay, it's the only way that I can describe that road from there. I mean I get it. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: [20:40] This one was $11,840. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Motion on your discussion by the council. **Council Member**: Motion to accept. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: In the discussion? All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Proposed? Motion carried. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Under 6i, plasma cutter quotes. This one got out of order so page 58 is the plasma cutter. [21:28] and 59 there's two quotes there. We budgeted for a number of tools. This is one of the tools that they budgeted or wanted to purchase within that budget. So I would recommend purchasing the one from Airgas. **Council Member**: I'll make a motion we accept the bid from Airgas for the plasma cutter. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Phil, are you happy with that one? **Phil Entner**: It's fine. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any other questions? All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Opposed? Motion carried. [22:14] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Under 6j, holiday decorations replacement estimate. This one is back up to page 55 and 56. We budgeted $6,000 for this. This does not include shipping and I honestly I don't know how much it's gonna cost to ship until I actually order it. So I don't know if you want to make a motion for this purchase price plus whatever shipping is. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: So the total cost as of right now is 5,000 or...? **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: The total cost is—there's a discount—$4,600 and we budgeted for 6000 so... **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Okay. **Council Member**: I'll make a motion we accept the quote for the Christmas decorations plus any [23:03] shipping costs that are involved. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Thank you. Any other questions? Discussion? All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Opposed? Motion carried. [23:14] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Under 6k, contract for main lift station generator. I should say just to go back to the last one: the reason why there's only one quote in there is they're the only companies that sell those specific shapes which match the other ones that we have. On the next one: the service contract for the main lift station. This year is $1,522.15. What I would like to do is [24:04] get approval to just have this as our maintenance agreement. It's an extremely expensive piece of equipment and I think it would be a good idea to maintain that the best that we can. So for this it's really only spending $1,500 this year, but if possible I would just like approval to go through year by year like it states here. **Council Member**: Our first council understands the five year...? **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Yeah. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Discussion? Motion by the council. **Council Member**: Budget for this? **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: You know, I don't think that we did budget for this, no. But this year's is only $1,522. **Council Member**: $100 for the following? **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Yeah, right. I think that we can certainly make that work and I do think that it's important that we do it. **Council Member**: Alright, I'll make a motion that we do the five-year service agreement as indicated on the document here. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any further questions? Discussion? All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Opposed? Motion carried. [25:41] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Do you want to go back to...? **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Only finish these or this one will get kind of long... **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Yeah, why don't we just go back so that they can... alright. Continue to make this city safe. Please, Chief, report. Do you have that thing that Kathy sent? [26:19] **Sheriff Kelly Lake (Chief)**: Mayor, council members, sorry I'm late. Been a very busy month. The officers have been working very hard, a lot of investigations. The officers conducted a traffic stop, got three pounds of marijuana and a quarter pound of meth off of an individual. The individual also had a gun, just got out of prison. Another one of our officers assisted a stop in Moose Lake and recovered a pound of methamphetamine hidden in a vehicle. Our officers are working very hard. We're just really lucky to have such dedicated, professional police officers in this town. They really do a good job and there is a lot of crime in this area. It still is the [27:07] safest town by far in the region and I think a lot of that is because of the good work our officers do. I know Jamie Jungers has been just very diligent working several investigations and it's really making a lot of progress and so I just want to thank all the officers and staff for the good work that they do. **Sheriff Kelly Lake (Chief)**: So Travis Maja's started yesterday with us. I'm really excited to have him. He's going to be doing some job shadowing, field training with the officers. He is an experienced officer; he worked the [27:52] City of Crookston for a year and a half. And the nice thing is—he knows the computer software, the new system that we're getting. They have it and they've had it for just 3-5 months now. So I'm looking for a day he'll teach us a thing or two on how to use it. That still is moving forward though. JOKER program hopefully we'll be starting the first part of April, so we'll have training set up with the county and the circuit trainers here in the next month and a half to get up to speed on how we use it. And we're looking forward to it. So that's about all I have. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Sounds pretty busy. 153 calls? **Sheriff Kelly Lake (Chief)**: It has been, yes. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Yeah, sure. So Travis if you could step forward here. [28:59] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Kind of facing the camera... I'll swear you in and I'll just have you say just a little bit about yourself, what your goals are, your experience. So raise your right hand, repeat after me. I, state your name... **Officer Travis Maja's**: I, Travis Maja's... **Mayor Jim Michalski**: ...do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm... **Officer Travis Maja's**: ...do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm... **Mayor Jim Michalski**: ...that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of police officer... **Officer Travis Maja's**: ...that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of police officer... **Mayor Jim Michalski**: ...with fairness, integrity, [29:44] diligence and impartiality... **Officer Travis Maja's**: ...with fairness, integrity, diligence and impartiality. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: I promise that I will uphold the Constitution of the United States... **Officer Travis Maja's**: I promise I will uphold the Constitution of the United States... **Mayor Jim Michalski**: ...the statutes of Minnesota... **Officer Travis Maja's**: ...the statutes of Minnesota... **Mayor Jim Michalski**: ...and the ordinances of Moose Lake... **Officer Travis Maja's**: ...and the ordinances of Moose Lake... **Mayor Jim Michalski**: ...and that I will uphold fundamental human rights and the cordial respect to all people according to law. **Officer Travis Maja's**: ...and that I will uphold fundamental human rights and the cordial respect to all people according to law. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: I'll turn them around for the picture. [30:36] **Officer Travis Maja's**: Fantastic. Like Chief said, I'm Travis Maja's. I'm originally from Duluth, Minnesota, so it's very nice to kind of get back to our original home town. My outside lives here in Carlton County, my dad's side is from between Cloquet. So my chief said I worked as a police officer over in Crookston for about a year and a half. So being able to kind of get back to where my family was basically everyone who's from was really near and dear to me. So it really is a privilege and an honor to be able to work in a fantastic community. Chief did a background on me to make sure I'm fit for this position; likewise I did a little background on him at his department. I know a couple of my buddies, close friends, that work in certain agencies had nothing but fantastic things to say about the PD and the community. [31:23] It makes me more excited to be a part of it and I can't wait to get started. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Are you having a lot of fun? **Officer Travis Maja's**: I'm truly blessed and very fortunate to work here and I can't wait to serve the citizens of Moose Lake. So thank you, appreciate it. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Thank you so much and good luck. We'll just be calling you Travis. Thank you. [32:31] Thanks for the report, Chief. Good job. Please pass it on to the crew. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Moving on to the next line and back to 6l, which is a Minnesota Municipal Clerk Institute. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: This is a training that Katie is going to attend. It is a three-year program. I attended this—it was excellent. It teaches you many of the parts to this job: there's finance, HR, planning, all kinds of different trainings. So it really is a great training. There's grants for it that she has applied for as well, but I think it's great that she's [33:18] going to go through this. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Okay, how long is this? **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: It's a week-long for three years. One week in St. Cloud. Very close. Great. And I'll be coming up in May just for information. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Sure, let's do a motion for this one. **Council Member**: I'll make a motion to approve that Katie attends the 2018 Institute for Minnesota Municipal Clerks. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any discussion? Questions? Hearing none, motion carried. [34:06] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: 6m, Minnesota Municipal Clerks and Finance Officers Association annual conference. This is one that I would like to go to. I kind of need to go because they're giving me my certificate for the thing that Katie is going to during this week, so I need to be down there anyways. But this is another week-long training. I printed out the itinerary. I'm not sure which ones I'm going to go to—there's three or four different trainings in the morning and three or four different ones in the afternoon every single day. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Yeah, and then looks like coming up in March. **Council Member**: Motion to approve. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any questions? Opposed? Motion carried. [34:53] **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: 6n, City-Township Consolidation Tax Study. This is the final draft of the tax study. It's still listed as a draft because after tonight I'm going to send it to the Township. The Township will be able to read through it before the public hearing just the same as I'm hoping that you all read through it before the public hearing. If there's anything that you see in there that you'd like to change or update prior to a public hearing, let me know. Likewise, the Township didn't provide [35:38] any information so that we could complete the study, so there are clarifiers or qualifiers in here that state basically that we didn't receive any information from the Township. So if they would like to submit some different information we would be happy to include that in the study as well. But basically this is just informational—that this is the study to date. And the next one is that I'd like to set a public hearing to present it to the public and receive questions from the public. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any comments or council questions? Very good. Then we're going to which is that talks for the public [36:24] which you have April 11th at 6 p.m.? **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Yes, so I talked with Tammy Dahl, who is the one that put this study together. I think it would be best if this was presented by Northland, not by me. I think more of just the basic information will be presented by her. Any of the questions that come up from the presentation she can respond to, we can respond to, I can respond to. But I think at the very least it would be a wise idea to have somebody else present this information fairly to all parties. [37:12] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Very good. Now just to remember later for the next item here about council starting time—it may change depending on what the council does. So this may be after a council meeting. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Why don't we do this? Why don't we talk about the next item and then this will add into that discussion on the time. Or we could just—you can improve on a public hearing for April 11th 2018 and I'll put the time down based on the start time for the council meeting. We could request that it be done at 6:30. Let's just talk about Q and then let's come back to this one. How about that? [38:20] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Moving on to 6p, City Building Inspector. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: I met with someone today who shared some sentiments that were pretty familiar to a lot of people. Basically the way that the inspector services are being done right now are such that they are now unwilling to develop or just property or do anything at all in Moose Lake. I think everyone is pretty familiar with [39:05] Weidendorf, who also has shared those sentiments. The two of them, it sounds like, sat down and talked for about six hours about the same thing. I think we all are pretty familiar with the fact that the list of people is growing and growing that are unwilling to do business in Moose Lake until something changes. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: What I would like to request is out of the norm and I understand that. I would like to be given the authority if possible to meet with building inspectors and hire a new building inspector, if nothing else at least temporarily. I called our city [39:54] attorney to find out: do we need to publish an RFP, do we need to go through a whole process? The answer is no. For professional services we can just select somebody. The cities of Carlton and Wrenshall just went through this process very similar to us and have selected somebody for a need that is fairly similar to ours. For the most part we have a little bit more commercial development than those communities do right now, but a pretty similar set up where they don't need a full-time building inspector. My thought initially was to just look at—I've already met with this [40:41] person in the past, I've never worked with them—but seeing if we could work out a contract that is similar to what we have now with our building inspector price-wise but perhaps just a different level of service. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: You're looking for a motion for authority to interview and hire? **Council Member**: I will make that motion. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any questions? Discussion? All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. [41:26] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Going on to 6q, City Council start time. I put in a date in case the council decides to do something different, so open that up for discussion by the council. **Council Member**: We just had discussion I guess prior to starting. It was brought up that it might be more beneficial to have it right after the work day. Four o'clock. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Four o'clock, yes. Not for everyone; some people could come in earlier. That was offered. I think the general rules of city councils, of [42:11] commissions, things like that are that you meet at a time when the public could be generally expected to make it to a meeting. I think if you were to put it on a Sunday morning or something like that that would not meet that. Meeting in the afternoon—four o'clock, five o'clock—those would certainly meet that requirement. We talked about how the County meets at 8:30 I think for their meetings. There are lots of different examples of when we could meet. I think if we were to meet at, say, four o'clock that would be fine if that worked for all of you. The only issue that we might have is public comment. We might [43:01] need to be a little bit more flexible with maybe taking people that walk in towards the end if they don't get off till 4:30 or 5:00. But for the most part I don't really see why this would be any issue to move it to four o'clock. **Council Member**: That was my only question—was guest speakers. If the engineer group or whatever. I would like—like we've had guest speakers in the past—that's my other question. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: And I think that's similar to right now. We have set public hearings to be prior to our City Council meeting. I don't see any reason why we couldn't set a public hearing to be after our City Council meeting or in the middle of our City Council meeting. [43:48] Public hearings are more a guideline of "we are not going to start discussion until such a time." There's nothing that says that you can't do it sometime shortly thereafter or have this meeting end and wait until that next public hearing time should start. **Council Member**: I would support that for four o'clock. What about motion? **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Works fine. It's already like ingrained in my head. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: You sure? 'Cause this is gonna be like your one chance to move this... [44:55] **Council Member**: Okay, I'll make the motion that we change our City Council start time to 4:00 p.m. on the second Wednesday of every month. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Any further questions? Discussion? All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Opposed? Motion carried. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: What we will do is we will publish that in the paper for probably a couple of weeks. We'll put it on public access, we'll put it on Facebook, we'll post it on all of our stuff. Kind of [45:40] treat it as a special meeting for a couple months to try and get the word out there. Not that a ton of people come each month, but there are usually a number of people that show up. **Council Member**: One thing we could do for the community also—I mean it's recorded now—we could have it broadcast on Wednesday at the normal start time, 6:30, or 7:00, so it could be broadcast to the community. Do we play this, Steve? **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: We put—replay it over the course of the week. It's also on YouTube isn't it? Okay. So I think for people that are interested in seeing it, we do replay it a number of times. It's also on YouTube. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: I think that we should select—and that's something me and Steve could work out—select a time and the date when it is rerun and we could publish that so people know when it will be on. Because not everybody is going to sit there and look through channel 7 or 18 and wait for it to come on. If we know that it's gonna be on every month at this time, this date after our meeting, then the public would know [47:08] that. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Okay, when we post on Facebook and public access and all that stuff that we are changing the meeting, perhaps we can do that at the same time as well. Thank you. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Very good. I have nothing in number seven reports. **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Oh, I'm sorry. We have to go back to 6o, which was the tax study public hearing for April 11th. So how about I contact her, see if she can come at 4:00. If she can, I will set it at 4:00. Otherwise is it okay if we leave the public hearing for April 11, 2018 at [47:55] 4 o'clock or 6 o'clock and I will publish the correct one? **Mayor Jim Michalski**: I'm fine with that. Very good, consensus made. Well actually I think you need to make a motion to set a public hearing. **Council Member**: Motion that we accept the tax study public hearing on April 11, 2018 at either 4:00 o'clock or 6:00 o'clock, whichever works for the person presenting it. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Opposed? Motion carried. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Item number seven. I have nothing. Correspondence? **City Administrator Ellissa Owens**: Nothing. [48:45] **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Under 8 committee and board meeting minutes. I have a Parks and Recreation meeting minutes for January 8th 2018, Parks Recreation meeting for February 5th 2018, and 8c is the Moose Lake Fire District meeting minutes for January 9th 2018. Do we have any questions or discussion on Board minutes? I think just a quick note on that Fire District: they had 43 calls in January; 26 in the City of Moose Lake, 11 in the Moose Lake Township, three in Windermere and three out of [49:33] the area. So very busy months for the Fire District also. They did a great job. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: Moving on to announcements. Regular Moose Lake City Council meeting, Wednesday March 14th... 6:30... well, that will be at 4:00. I guess you can't blame me for that! Next one—Water and Light Commission regular meeting Wednesday February 28th, 4:00 p.m. in the conference room. Moose Lake Housing Redevelopment Monday March 12th, 11 a.m. hillside Manor office. Moose Lake Fire District Tuesday March 13th at 6:30 p.m. [51:07] Moose Lake Technology Committee Thursday March 1st at 9 a.m. in the conference room. Anything from the council before we adjourn? **Council Member**: Motion to adjourn. **Council Member**: Second. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: All in favor say aye. **Council**: Aye. **Mayor Jim Michalski**: We're adjourned, thank you.