City Council

MANTORVILLE CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 6:30 PM 1. Call to Order – Mayor Bradford called the meeting to order at 6:30 pm. Members Present: Chuck Bradford, Henry Blair, Will Lambert, Ryan Christensen and Don Hofstad. Others Present: Carlisa Craft, Max Craft, Todd Craft, Jeremiah Johnson, Colleen Johnson, Gretta Becay, DCSO - Scott Prins, Dan Trapp, Jim Potter, Joe Adams, and Patti Chilson. 2. Pledge of Allegiance - Done 3. Additions/Deletions to Agenda – Council Member Lambert asked to add 2017 Marigold Days Committee Request. 4. Consent Agenda – Motion made by Member Blair, second by Member Christensen to approve the consent agenda as follows: a) City Council Meeting Minute’s April 24, 2017 b) Warrant List May 8, 2017 c) Park Board Meeting Minutes April 25, 2017 d) Dodge County Commissioners Meeting Agenda May 9, 2017 e) Dodge County Sheriffs Call Report for Mantorville April 2017 f) SMRPST Center Open House Notice g) MPCA Information Letter Motion passed unanimously. 5. Public Concerns - None 6. Public Hearing - None 7. Old Business/New Business a) Max Craft Eagle Project Proposal Max Craft presented his Eagle Scout Project for Agility Equipment for the K-M Dog Park. He handed out pamphlets to the Council Members. Max discussed 3 different packages to choose from. The Silver Package for $6,114, includes all of the equipment with a Non-slip coating and a life time warranty. The Canine Courtyard Package for $3,386 and a 10% discount. The smallest is the Bronze Package for $2,354. He would receive a 5% discount overall and another 5% discount for it being an Eagle Scout Project. To raise the funds he plans on going to family and friends, neighbors and possibly a Go-Fund- Me-Page. For even more funds he will get creative with a bake sale to raise more money. The City would be the beneficiary. Max is asking permission to start the project. His goal is to get enough money for the Silver package. Max has already discussed this with the Park Board. The City will budget for the bark to be under the park to make it easier for maintenance. Member Lambert made a motion to authorize Max Craft to make the Agility course in the Mantorville Dog Park, second by Member Hofstad. Motion passed unanimously. b) Jeremiah Johnson Vacation Request Jeremiah Johnson is proposing building one single family home on his property (Blocks 28 south of the City Shop) and keeping the rest as acreage. The house itself does not land in the alley, but he is possibly thinking of building an outbuilding and where that would lay would be on the alley. It would also be close to 10th street and he is looking at vacating the alley way and possibly part of 10th street to be able to shift the whole property. If he could vacate 10th street they could shift it to get on some flatter land. Anything below that should be private, it would tie into the same sewer, and Johnson’s would be responsible.  The Council’s concern is down the road that someone splits it off, Johnsons having access with no easements. Jeremiah is not asking for the whole thing, all he would really need is the end where the house is located. Jeremiah would like to go as far as lots 4,5,6,7. Mayor Bradford would like to run this by our Attorney and City Engineer, hopefully we can get an answer back from them pretty quickly. c) Park Board Member Approval The Park Board recommended approval of a new member pending City Council approval, Bill Kinney. Member Hofstad made a motion, Member Lambert second that. Motion passes. d) Mantor Field Drain Tile Project Joe Adams talked with Hutton about getting a bid on Mantor Field, The Joint Ventures approved $15,000 toward the project, but requested that we tile the end field. With that, Joe added on the North end saying it is very wet and their struggle with it mowing year round. The total bid came in at $16,876.15. The Joint Ventures will pay $15,000 of it and the City would pay the difference. Joe noted that it would be really nice to get the field dried up and it would also dry the ditch up from 7th to 8th. They would be able to start this fall or late summer. We will need to adjust the budget but can do it through the CIP. Member Blair motion to approve the $1,876.15 for additional drain pipe at Mantor Field also approving the installation of the whole $16,876.15 project. Second by Member Lambert. Hutton Drainage will do the work. Motion passes. e) Riverside Park Cliff Signs Joe Adams discussed the quotes for the Cliff signs. The pricing he received is for a 24 x 30 at $41.97 and a 30 x 36 at $66.33 plus freight charge. He is suggesting 3 signs – two along County Rd 12 and one by the South parking lot. The only sign currently there is by the dam that says no swimming. Member Blair made motion for $300 to cover signage. The reason we are really doing it is because of the submerged rock. Replace “no lifeguard” with “submerged rock”. The sign will say, “Danger, no trespassing, submerged rock”, with the guy jumping, replace no lifeguard on duty with submerge rock. Member Hofstad second. Motion passes. f) EDA Commissioner Resignation Commissioner Olive submitted a letter of resignation from the EDA. The EDA is recommending acceptance. Member Blair motion to accept the resignation from Jane Olive from the EDA. Second Member Hofstad. Motion passes. g) Marigold Days Request Member Lambert requested the following street closures for Marigold Days:  4th Street from Hwy. 57 to West Street, Friday thru Sunday.  5th Street from Hwy 57 to West Street  Clay Street from 3rd Street to 6th Street for that same period. We never block the alleys, we encourage people to use the alley and certainly the driveways we try to keep clear. Everyone posts their own no parking signs on the entrance to their drives. Member Blair motion to approve the street closures as presented, motion to close the streets, the time will be Friday noon thru 6 pm on Sunday evening. Member Christensen second that. Motion passes. Fireworks: When Cami is back I will get the request and submit it. We will bring that forward once Member Lambert has the permission before we can hire the pyro technician. We will table that for now. 8. TBD a) Public Works Report – Joe reported on:  All the sludge is out for spring - all completed.  Andy is helping us mow, nonstop mowing.  Mantor Park is complete.   The rest of the Bergman and Slingerland mulch was hauled we just need to get some people together to get it all raked out.  Water shut off was repaired on 7th Street. b) City Clerk Report – None c) Consultant Report – None d) Committee Report  EDA - Mayor Bradford discussed Jane’s resignation. Our opportunity works persons contract was up a couple Mondays ago. Char hasn’t been working with Jane since then. We have a temporary stop gap that allows that tourism subcommittee and the EDA to go ahead and dole out a contract on a project bases until the rest of the EDA can come back and put together a job description for an actual position and really decide what direction we want to go with that. They discussed the price point for he logo clothing; closer to $39 a sweatshirt. The businesses actually suggested the city would keep the inventory cost and as they sell items they would pay for what they have sold and that means using some type of tracking mechanism.  Fire Department – Member Hofstad reported that they had training last Wednesday night with MN search and rescue. Pretty quiet no grass fires. e) Council Member Report  Member Hofstad reported that a lot of people have commented that they are glad that we are starting to work on some of the streets. The Stagecoach Road is closed down now for a month. Spring is coming and to watch out for children playing in the streets, bicycles and kids playing. Member Hofstad discussed if there is anything we can do with that big tree limb on the dam. Member Hofstad will help Joe get it out of there.  Member Lambert reported that there is a benefit going on for the Coy family this coming Saturday in Kasson at Veterans Park; Brunch at 9. Member Lambert will be doing the Spring Fling Garden exchange again this year. It’s on Saturday the 20th at 2 pm at the Greek Revival House. f) Mayor Report – Mayor Bradford had the opportunity to sit down with Secretary of State Steve Simon. He handed out a report specifically for southern MN that was compiled from data from the Secretary of State’s office. This is a service that the EDA can leverage and do customized searches to pull up what type of businesses there are in our community and our zip code and really try to be proactive in seeing what the businesses focus is. They also had an opportunity to talk about what the City of Mantorville did about our Branding and he was very interested in how it has been perceived, what we went through, and how long it took. They also talked about infrastructure and housing needs. 9. Executive Session - None 10. Adjourn – Motion made by Member Blair, second by Member Lambert to adjourn at 7:30 pm. Motion passed unanimously.