10-03-2022 City Council Meeting Minutes

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City Council Minutes October 3, 2022 Page 5 of 10 9.2. Equipment Sale Update Rich Spiczka said the equipment that was sold brought in money to make it possible to buy a sweeper which is a piece off equipment that would be more useful to city staff. He said the sweeper does have a vac on it and that enables it to be used in water and sewer applications especially cleaning out storm sewers. Mr. Spiczka said they sold the mower with the deck on it and that was not part of the original ask on the asset exchange in June, but the street sweeper is. COUNCIL MEMBER RONNING MOVED TO APPROVE TO ALLOCATE$5,500 FROM THE SALE OF THE JOHN DEERE MOWER TO THE EQUIPMENT CARRYOVER FUND. COUNCIL MEMBER SEILS SECONDED THE MOTION. MOTION CARRIED 5-0. COUNCIL MEMBER SEILS MOVED TO APPROVE TO THE PURCHASE OF THE 2009 STREET SWEEPER AT$64,000 WITH THE FUNDS FROM THE SALE OF EQUIPMENT APPROVED AT THE JUNE 2022 COUNCIL MEETING. COUNCIL MEMBER CLEMENT SECONDED THE MOTION. MOTION CARRIED 5-0. 9.3 Approval of Maintenance Worker Hire Richard Spiczka stated Dalton Engholm submitted his resignation on September 13, 2022. He requested to hire Tayler Richardson at Grade 10, Step 2 to fill the vacancy. COUNCIL MEMBER RONNING MOVED TO APPROVE TO HIRE TAYLER RICHARDSON FOR FULL-TIME MAINTENACE WORKER AT GRADE 10, STEP 2. COUNCIL MEMBER CLEMENT SECONDED THE MOTION. MOTION CARRIED 5-0. 9.4. Patriot Ave Test Section Discussion Mr. Spiczka said staff is looking for some feedback from Council about the test section and what a permanent solution may look like. Mr. Houle said the intent of the test section was to get feedback and asked the Council if there is an initial direction that they would like to go. Council Member Ronning said the feedback he received started out negative and people didn't understand it was just a test. He said after he explained what they were trying to do by slowing traffic down and creating more parking spots he did not hear much feedback after that was explained. He said he hear that parking was too small and short and they were happy to hear that it was to help slow traffic down to make it safer. Mayor Gardner agreed and added that he did here complaints about the furthest north portion being confusing and people drive through the turn lane. He suggested moving all traffic to west side and parking diagonal on the park side. Council Member Sells stated that people were confused about whether they could park there or not. Discussion ensued about potential changes to test area and an estimate of costs. Discussion ensued on where the money will come from.