City Council Special Session

North Branch City, MN · 2020-01-21 · More North Branch City, MN meetings · More Minnesota meetings

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[1:00] I know.

[1:02] Well we can always reiterate what he has said if you have a problem hearing anything.

[1:08] I know.

[1:10] I know.

[1:12] I know.

[1:14] I know.

[1:16] Well we can always reiterate what he has said if you have a problem hearing anything.

[1:22] I know.

[1:24] I know.

[1:26] But we can always reiterate what he has said if you have a problem hearing it.

[1:30] So we'd be more than happy to do that.

[1:32] Okay.

[1:34] We can hear all of you.

[1:36] That's a speaker on the side of the move.

[1:38] Is the speaker on the bottom side or is it on the back other side?

[1:42] One and messy.

[1:48] The speaker on these, is that on this side?

[1:52] Well because he built structures.

[1:54] Okay.

[1:56] We're going to call this special session together this Tuesday, January 21st at 6.31pm.

[2:06] Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

[2:08] 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.

[2:22] Thank you.

[2:23] Renee, will you take roll call please?

[2:25] Absolutely present this evening.

[2:27] Live and in chambers we have Mayor Swenson, councilmembers Nader McPherson and Bloomquist.

[2:31] Councilmember Voss is attending our special council meeting today, Tuesday, January 21 at 6.30pm via phone and iPad connectivity.

[2:40] Personal to Minnesota Statute 13D.021.

[2:44] Councilmember Voss will be either seen and heard at the meeting via electronic, phone or iPad means and will participate from Panera Bread,

[2:51] 761 Coastal Boulevard, Brooksville, Florida, a location that is open and accessible to the public.

[2:59] Thank you.

[3:01] Renee, would you take up the resolution that we need to talk about?

[3:05] Yes, as you recall at your last regular council meeting, I had asked the council to approve a reapportionment of the special assessments affecting the parcel that we platted as SB fourth edition.

[3:17] I took that plat into the county on Friday and received a phone call from the assistant auditor treasurer who said, oh, by the way, there's two pin numbers for this particular plat.

[3:28] You only apportion the taxes on one of the pin numbers you need to have a resolution apportioning these special assessments on the other pin and they're holding up our plat,

[3:39] which means we're holding up a land sale until we can get this reapportionment, hence the reason for this special meeting this evening.

[3:46] Much like you did last Tuesday, I'm asking that you approve the resolution. In this case, it's resolution 005-20-CC, a resolution that's reapportioning the assessments with regard to a parcel in the interstate business park.

[4:08] Does anybody have anything that they need to discuss or we want to make a motion right away? We pretty much covered this last week. It was just another assessment that we didn't know about.

[4:21] I'll make a motion too for resolution 005-20-CC.

[4:28] Thank you, Council Member Blomquist.

[4:30] I'll second it.

[4:31] Thank you, Council Member McPherson. Any more discussion?

[4:36] All those in favour signify by saying aye?

[4:38] Aye.

[4:39] Opposed? Thank you very much.

[4:44] Kathy, you're up next.

[4:48] Anyway, my memo speaks for itself, unless people have questions.

[4:52] So the question before the council is whether you want to take this up at your regular meeting since this is a request to utilize staff time.

[5:00] Brian, did you hear that?

[5:07] Yes, I did.

[5:11] Any discussion from anybody?

[5:17] In regards to taking this up and as far as making the agenda for the meeting and making the meeting.

[5:25] The only direction from the council is do you want to see this on an agenda for official action?

[5:32] I just want to bring up before this gets brought up that last year I went through this, Kathy, last year this was brought up that another city was supposed to be responsible for setting up the meeting this year.

[5:48] That's what was in there.

[5:50] There was two people that were supposed to set the meeting up from last week. I didn't pull it up tonight.

[5:58] I have always set up the meeting.

[6:00] There was two people's names that were on it and I'm sorry I didn't bring it up tonight.

[6:06] But anyway, how much staff time is this going to take up?

[6:12] You've got the information.

[6:14] What are you thinking?

[6:16] I don't know.

[6:18] You have to get it updated before you can send a notice out because people change.

[6:27] And we've had four city administrators change in the last four years.

[6:31] Pine City, Bram, Princeton, and North Branch.

[6:35] So it always changed.

[6:39] Council Member, bone coast, how many cities are on?

[6:43] There's a total of eight of us.

[6:45] I think there's six cities and two townships.

[6:48] Okay, my feeling is I think we can probably handle this.

[6:53] If it's just a matter of us contacting through e-mail or phone calls I think we can discuss this at the next meeting.

[7:01] I don't have any issues if any of the council members have.

[7:08] If it wants to get, what's your feeling on this, Brian?

[7:13] My feeling is let's bring it up at the next council meeting and talk it up.

[7:18] All right, that's what we're hearing from the council if you want it brought up at our next meeting then for discussion.

[7:25] Then it will be on your agenda for the 28th.

[7:30] If there's nothing else, did you have anything more for anything else, Kathy? Was that it?

[7:41] No, no.

[7:43] Unless another council member wants to take this on.

[7:46] I've been perpetual secretary for Amber, and I'm kind of the white person in every way.

[7:52] I have a question with my phone.

[7:54] Now this might be a little bit more...

[7:57] I don't know how I was going to deal with Sally Hoyt being retired.

[8:02] Your microphone on?

[8:04] Without Sally Hoyt being retired, they have been perpetual's treasure.

[8:10] They were willing to take that on.

[8:12] We changed that in the JPA because before we were rotating it.

[8:16] Every time there was a change, there was a new bank, there were new checks, there was a new bank.

[8:21] That didn't make any sense.

[8:23] Bram is the perpetual treasure on the perpetual secretary.

[8:28] I think Brian Shalene from Pine City is the vice president and Patrick Schifferdecker is the chair.

[8:36] The questions you're asking for us next week is one, does anybody want to take it on?

[8:42] You still have to do what's in the memo.

[8:47] What's in the memo?

[8:49] You have to update the spreadsheet.

[8:53] Part of why I'm looking at this is because I kept all the records.

[8:59] I kept city records in my house.

[9:01] You said you shouldn't be doing that.

[9:03] I had records that went back to the original franchise agreement.

[9:08] Since it's not me that's the secretary in essence, it's the city of North Branch.

[9:15] That's why I felt it should be a city function.

[9:18] I don't think any council members should have city records in their house and be responsible for that.

[9:24] I agree. 100%.

[9:27] If there's nothing else, then we ask for an adjournment.

[9:30] I'll make that motion.

[9:32] Thank you, council member Bursing, have a second.

[9:35] Motion. I'll second that.

[9:37] Thank you, council member Voss.

[9:39] All those in favor, signify by saying aye.

[9:41] Aye. Aye. Aye.

[9:43] Thank you. We're adjourned.