Called To Order at 3:00 PM
President Carlsrud called the meeting to order at 3:00 PM.
Roll Call
Members present: President Carlsrud, Commissioner Magnuson, Commissioner Bishop, Commissioner Erickson, and Commissioner Gulmon.
Others present: City Administrator Crawford, City Attorney Martineck, Finance Director Richter, Deputy Auditor Klein, PW Accountant/Manager Jacobson, Fire Chief Magnuson, Police Chief Hatcher, Chad Petersen from KLJ
Department Reports
Fire Chief Magnuson – There were 19 calls for the month of August.
Census update – The rural homeowners that have had two or three addresses have all gotten census information. The County numbers may not be going up because those addresses are not being fulfilled, waiting on clarification.
Waiting on a cylinder dryer and a tester that should be in the end of the week. Within two to three weeks we should be able to start testing and filling extinguishers.
Gloria Swart –Closed this Saturday at the Transfer Station. Clean up week is September 14-18. Please separate your materials into piles. TVs are taken with no extra charge. Tires are accepted at the Transfer Station with an extra charge depending on size, but will not be picked up on the blvd. Appliances can go to Valley Recycling. We will not pick up metal.
Review Monthly Bills/Reports
City Auditor Richter reported we only spent $1.4 million in August. Looking at some of the construction reports there was just about $300,000 infrastructure and PFP and there weren’t really any other large charges.
Discuss Agenda for the NDLC virtual conference
City Administrator Crawford feels this training is important and to avoid interruption during the training we should move it offsite.
Discuss Advertising for bids the sale of vacant lot at 14th St SQ, Parcel 63-0880017.
City Commissioner Bishop stated he didn’t think we should sell it as it’s not costing us anything. Services can’t come from the bottom up but they can come from the back. It could be sold as a buildable lot someday.
Will leave on the Commission meeting agenda making a motion to not put it up for sale.
Discuss lease agreement.
City Administrator Crawford stated she had requested if anyone knew of any verbal agreements or any agreements that were expiring to bring them forward. This lease has expired. They were getting if for $25 and I have listed what the average prices are going for right now.
Public Works Manager said he spoke with Jeff and the land is tillable. There was a deal worked out in the past.
City Commissioner requesting putting the land up for bids.
City Attorney Martineck stated typically use of any government property can only be for a maximum of two years. It has to be for fair market value.
Discuss URD Wire Bid for all URD projects for 2020.
President Carlsrud the need for the underground is to finish the University and 5th Ave. project. Marshall recommends that we move forward with Resco.
Eide Bailly presentation of the 2019 Audit Report.
Luke Evenson from Eide Bailly presented the 2019 Audit findings. The city received a “clean” audit opinion.
Update on CLOMR
Chad Petersen from KLJ, Mike Opat and Adam Neiss from Houston Engineering presented some of the impacts with PFP and concepts identified for mitigation.
Discuss City Engineer
City Attorney Martineck stated we discussed our one and only candidate and came to the conclusion that the way we have the job description set up right now he may not be the best fit. We could work with him if we wanted to go that direction but he does not have any building inspection experience which could end up being a good portion of that position. Before we move forward with an offer we would like to present some other options.
City Administrator Crawford stated she went through what was wanted, what the City’s needs are and what the candidate said he could do. On the list of pros and cons there were very few pros. If there were building inspection experience that would add more to the pros. Other options may be doing RFQ for a City Engineer that would not do any projects.
Will add this to the Special Commission meeting that was scheduled for Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 7:00 AM.
Adjourn The meeting was adjourned at 4:15 PM.