told me the he inette took care of it I can log into her email you want meil justes want to email to me the presentation so no Chief Highland is Cody doing dur1 dur all right calling to order the March 18th 2020 5 meeting of the Long Lake City Council good evening everyone it's 6:30 p.m. all council members are present item two is a Pledge of Allegiance please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge aliance 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 okay item number four I'm sorry three is miror comments thank you Brian Lawn Lake news meeting review and updates I'll just give a few nothing overall happening in the city in a on a grand scale over the last couple weeks since our last meeting I'll just give a couple updates on some meetings I've been to last Wednesday was at the Northwest hpan League of municipalities monthly meeting we had a really good presentation from the henan county assessor talking about the uh upcoming 2024 assessment report for properties in henen County la lake had kind of a typical increase in in property values as compared to neighboring cities uh I think it was in the 2 to 3% range and we had a couple anomalies as far as some commercial properties having some really big increases since the last report that report will be publicly available on the hanb County website later this week for anyone to to see on Thursday I um presented at the YZ West Metro Chamber of Commerce their annual meet the mayor state of the city's leadership luncheon uh I along with the mayors of wetta and Plymouth and minaka gave updates on what's what's going on in our cities and answered Q&A from from the audience so that was a nice event to appreciate the invitation to that really good way for all of our for our four cities to Showcase and we have a lot of you know businesses in our cities of course that are members of uh of that chamber as well as our own Lawn Lake area of Commerce so it was a great event there and then um yesterday I attended a meeting with our state senator an Johnson Stewart she called a meeting of all the Mayors in her Senate District 45 was at the minanga city hall had a great meeting there where we talked about some of the issues that's going down at the capital and and bonding Bill and um status of that a lot of lot of talk about ebikes apparently a lot of communities in the district mostly kind of wetta and Southern Lake minaka communities are having a lot of issues with ebikes so so far we seem to have escaped that uh other good topics there as well so we appreciated the invite to that so besides that that's uh major updates there for the mayor's comments with that we'll move on to item four which is to approve this evening's agenda I'll entertain a motion to do so I'll make a motion to approve tonight's agenda second all right a motion and second any further discussion I'll all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed motion carries unanimously item five consent agenda there's items a through F on the consent agenda this evening any questions for staff regarding items on the consent agenda and if not I'll entertain a motion to approve this evening's consent agenda I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda second thank you Motion in a second any further discussion all right all those in favor I opposed motion carries unanimously all right six open correspondence open correspondence is an item on the agenda agenda during which the public May address the city council no formal action is taken by the city council and comments should be limited to five minutes or less an open correspondence comments may also be emailed to City staff by noon on the date of the meeting anyone wish to approach for open comments or open correspondence all right any submitted open correspondence Scott no all right all right on to item seven regular business 7A receive and accept the 2024 audited financial report good evening mayor and Council I will be announce I'm pleased to announce that we have the completion of the 2024 annual audit and it was conducted by ABDO LLP tonight we are pleased to have Andy Berg the auditing partner with us um to give a com comprehensive overview of this year's audit findings as well as to answer any questions that you may have Andy right welcome Andy thank you so I got the presentation up on the screen I believe you have that in your packets so what I'll cover today is uh audit results we'll look at your general fund number of different uh Financial metrics there over the last three years look at your other governmental funds mainly looking at the change in um fund balance year-over-year and then your Enterprise funds your water sewer storm I'm looking at cash flows from operations and your ending cash balances and then some key performance metrics um compared to other cities in henpen county and throughout the state a similar population so the end result is that we issue an opinion on your financial statements we issued an unmodified opinion or a clean opinion uh so the best opinion you can get as part of that we also issue a report on Minnesota legal compliance testing seven different categories that the state auditor um has his test anywhere from cash and Investments contract and bidding uh debt and outstanding debt there so those are some of the bigger ones uh clean report there so no Minnesota legal compliance findings as part of the audit we don't test your internal controls but we do gain an understanding of them there are two internal control findings which are really the same as last year and and really very common in small to medium-size organizations um from a council standpoint I think it's important to be aware of these pay close attention to the financial information throughout the year and then as a a city review your policies and procedures on an annual basis so the first one there is a preparation of financial statements so we're doing a at and preparing your financial statements the city does uh review the draft of those statements before we assume to final and then that's what's being brought to council tonight and then the limited segregation of Duties uh really with um Amanda doing the the majority of all the the accounting functions that's reported there there are controls in place such as approval of the claims like you had on your um agenda tonight um department heads approving invoices and other um monitoring controls in place so now jumping into the general fund here we give you a five-year comparison or foure comparison comparison of your ending unrestricted fund balance which is that yellow line there we compare that to your next year's budget which is uh the Orange Line you'll see that budget has increase each of the the five years presented uh the 2025 budget is about 1.8 million if we compare your ending unrestricted fund balance in the general fund you're at about 52% which is right around that minimum fund balance policy so the black line there is your policy you can see all the years there you were above policy that um big decrease from 21 to 22 really was a transfer into the your Capital fund we talked about that um in previous years probably the last year we'll have to see that because that'll fall off um next year this this trend but we'll also see that when we um look at your Capital funds do you think there's any danger of that crossing over and being under 50% then or next year or that I guess there's always that possibility depending on how the the budget actual comes in um compared to your you know the budget results in 2025 so that that's a possibility that that could happen and you definitely want to monitor that through your um reporting that you're receiving throughout the year but based on the 25 budget it's you usually are fairly close to the what the budget is and um as long as you're the budget was um you know comes in fairly close I don't see that you know a huge danger there but always something to be a pay attention to can you transfer unrestricted funds back from the capital Improvement I mean could you switch some funds Capital funds back to the general fund to cover yeah if there was ever a a deficit you know below that you could transfer from your Capital funds um back into the general fund too correct so if we look at the the budget actual here and that gets back into you know what what would this look like in 2025 so here your total fund balance did increase 11,000 um up to just over uh 1 million so that ending total fund balance revenues came in over budget by about 164,000 total revenues at 1.8 million expenditures at just under the 1.8 million over budget by about 170,000 with the bulk of that being in the the public safety function so revenues over expenditures by 18,000 you transferred out 7,300 to other City funds again that all equates about 11,000 increase in your general fund balance and then we look at the revenue and expenditure Trends um over the a three-year period the 22s in Orange 2023 is in yellow 2024 is in Black the graph on the left is your revenues you'll see your main Revenue source is your property taxes which increase each of the three years there just like we saw in your the annual expenditure budget um again this shows the importance of maintaining that 50% because your property taxes come in two times year so you have to have cash flow for basically 6 months which would equal 50% of your budget so that's where your fund balance policy comes from uh charges for services those have decreased each of the three years the the higher number back in 22 was Dev development related and then your other um fairly consistent with a little bit of a drop in 20124 what is other so that that is everything else that falls um outside of that so the the biggest piece of that is interest income why why aren't we earning good interest in 24 I thought it would be pretty high well there's some other components in in the other two would that also include um building permits no that would be that would be under under uh charge for services charge for services charge for services we had a pretty high year in 2024 for interest um yeah well it was showing low though there I know I'm trying to think though in the other years what else would have been in other than so we Pro I don't know if you can see this up there but the the interest income was um lower year-over-year the total interest income uh may not have been because there was interest I mean your Capital fund is pretty big with over 3 million and with that fund balance decreasing it it makes sense that there might not have been as much allocated to the general fund but then some of the other miscellaneous stuff as contributions and donations refunds and reimbursements and then just other types of Revenue that come in John if you remember um interest is allocated by the balance that's within the account so when we brought the balance down in the general fund the the interest that's allocated to the general fund that would go down as well oh it's not that we got less interest it's just that the general fund itself it's based on the cash balance in each fund so as that we're still getting the interest on the other still yeah we had a very large year last year but it would have been it would you would have seen that then in the capital okay and then on the expenditure side um Public Safety is the the highest area spending increase in 23 and 24 really related to the the legal fees and related to the fire department General government fairly consistent increasing a little bit Public Works did decrease over the three years the the higher number in 22 was also related to that development related activity offset with those charges for service we saw on the revenue side and then here the other really the biggest piece there is that transfer out so you'll see in 22 that's a 1 Point some million transfer your Capital fund all right any other questions on the general fund before we move on to the special Revenue funds we good all right the city has um four special Revenue funds total Landing fund balance of 271,000 increase of 37,000 from 2023 the bulk of this is um committed as you can see the down in the graph there internally committed by the city there is a restricted component of it too mainly in that charitable donations collection of about 28,000 and that's restricted for specific purposes and then we do give a budget to actual the the fire department there we saw that fund balance um increasing up to about 160,000 total revenues at just under they're just over 1 million over budget by about 75,000 expenditures over budget by about 67,000 so total revenue of expenditure is about 34,000 ending at uh 160,000 as we saw in the previous slide so we we under ran right for the year yes and the Auditors actually accounted for an expenditure in 201 24 to um for the Surplus that we had to refund so the I believe that the expense of $11 million does include the money that we had to refund to the other cities for coming in under we made sure that that was allocated in 2024 and has that but that has been paid yet or we um deducted it off of the second quarter Billings which is actually going out today right because I at our fire Advisory board meeting they that question was asked to them do you want a check or you want just to just you know reduce your next uh payment and they said just take it off the next payment I did yeah we reduce it the checks are the invoices are going out today so that that is factored into the the expenditure line item is about 999,000 close to 100,000 that's additional expenses so that really accounts for the bulk of that over the expenditures okay and then you have six Capital funds um with the total ending fund balance about 5.2 million increase about 618,000 um the biggest fund there is your your main capital fund at about 3.6 million you have your Tiff 1-6 with about 945 th000 that's all restricted under that Tiff plan have your pavement management Improvement fund that increased about 326,000 ending at 398,000 and then you have some smaller funds there your Tiff 1-9 which is restricted your fire Capital fund um 157,000 and then your Park fund about 93,000 you can see in the graph there the bulk of it's internally assigned by the city for specific purposes with the bulk of that like I mentioned in your Capital project fund did the fire Capital fund uh drop because we paid for the uh engine that we bought is that what that was yes so that's engine minus minus interest give or take all right and then you do have two uh bonds outstanding issued uh Fair number years ago in 2016 and 2017 so total principal of sanding your governmental funds about 481 th000 maturing in 2027 and 2033 you can see the principal and interest requirements over the next 10 years when the 2016 a bond drops off you can see that the principal and interest also drops in 20128 again with The Debt Service funds It's always important to monitor the cash flows your meet and year principal and interest payments then we get into the Enterprise funds like I mentioned we'll look at the cash flow from operations which is a top graph and then also the cash balance um over the last four years so if you look at the top the orange bars your operating receipts coming in so that did increase over 2023 um it also covered your operating cost the yellow bar plus your debt Service uh principal and interest so a portion of those two bonds we looked at on the previous side are allocated between your Enterprise funds too so with that cash flow you were able to generate cash flow from operations you did have some Capital expenditures in 24 which did decrease the total cash balance but still significant balance there of uh just under 1.2 million and then there's about 96,000 that's restricted under the the bond proceeds that have not been spent yet the next slide which I'll skip over is really a a table of the similar information so we'll go to the the sewer fund here um again cash flow generated from operations looking at the the top there the 24 columns uh there was an increase in rates in the sewer fund um which did help increase that cash in 2024 so positive 286,000 of unrestricted cash really good improvement over the last four years you were at a deficit of 182,000 so good progress in the the sewer fund great and then your surface water fund again the the operating receipts went up just like the other Enterprise funds um generating cash flow from operations and covering your debt service and the cash increasing up to about 200,000 for the unrestricted portion of that cash then your recycling fund um again here showing some good improvements the previous three years you were at a cash deficit um that deficit is eliminated and you have a positive um $14,000 in the recycling fund so good to see um some Financial improvements in this fund too this graph give you gives you a threeyear picture of your total cash and Investments by all those different fund types that we talked about so in total the city as a whole has about 8.8 million of cash and Investments at the end of 2024 up from about 7.9 million in23 um fairly close in 2022 the yellow portion of the bar is those Capital funds that we looked at and that's where the bulk of when we're talking about the interest allocation earned on the Investments that's where the bulk of it gets allocated to those funds on its proportionate share and then the last piece is looking at some of the the kpis the oranges is other cities in the fourth class throughout the state of Minnesota and then the yellow is the cities in hpen county and then the city of Long Lake is indicated by the black line so two tax ones here the one on the left is your tax rate you'll see very consistent over the last four years for the city of Long Lake um under both those peer groups for comparison and then the taxes per capita has increased each of the the last four years uh right in with similar Trends to the peer group there is just two years of peer group data um the we don't have the information from the state outter yet for the 23 but um that will be included in next year's report uh a couple debt indicators here like we mentioned you haven't issued debt in quite a while so that the long-term debt per capita has decrease each of the four years uh presented as you're paying down the the principle on those bonds and and then looking at The Debt Service expenditures as a percent of current expenditures so your principal and interest payments that's also decreasing in a fair amount below the peer groups presented there and then the last two are looking at your expenditures in your governmental funds to your general funds special revenue and capital projects your current expenditures per capita um increase each of the the four years presented there similar to what the the general fund budget is where the majority of those expenditures are um consistent Trend being a little bit higher than the the peer group presented and then your Capital expenditures per capita that's going to vary depend on the the type of projects and items you you purchase there so you see that was a little bit higher in 23 um drop down some in 24 and you know that can fluctuate with that peer Group by really below the peer group that's presented there I was curious about that one and so why like in the capital expenditures per capita why is are so much lower compared to the other class 4 cities like what do we what are they what are examples of what their Capital expenditures are that ours that we don't have or any any simple answer to that or not necessarily um the simple answer is that really when you bring them all together and average it out that average over a period of years kind of stays the same but if you went into each individual City it's going to vary depending on the if they have a street project going on or not um some cities growing cities will have more Street projects on a consistent basis some that are ex you know just doing Redevelopment on some of them um that's it's not going to happen as consistent over time so it really depends on the type of city are the growth that's going on but comparing to that that peer group it it's really gets averaged out with some cities having some in one year and others in the next and that's why that comparing to that that KP stays more consistent than an individual City would okay thanks so with that I'd be happy to take any further questions that you have great other questions for Andy cons sense well I think I talked to Tyler about this for our last audit but is there like the slides are great and there's there's a lot of data in the slides but did um I didn't look at every nook and cranny of the report is is some of the like the debt per capita and those kind of some of those figures are in the slides and they make their way into the actual report as well this year do you think or any you remember any actual financial statements right yeah the the the peer group's not going to be in the actual financial statements but all those numbers tie back into the financial state they're calculated from the numbers that are within actual financial statements okay all right great any other questions for Andy all right staff anything you want to mention any follow up to what Andy said or I don't think so I think I would think it went great yeah good work with the water getting the water fund balances up or the sewer and that sort of thing we're seeing some positive improvements based on all the all the work everybody's been putting into our rate structures and everything so it's good to see some positives out of that and MH great all right well thanks Andy all right thank you appreciate it okay move on to item 7B 20124 lond Lake Fire Department annual report and you're in review Chief Farley is are you the presenter on this all right well that might that might I can do it I got it yeah won't last we'll see you later see you bye Andy by thank you yeah Council thanks for having me the chief was a little under the weather today so I asked if I would fill in for him happy to do so of course uh so yeah our annual review um this year of 2024 for the Long Lake Fire Department um and it was as always a busy one uh never a shortage of things happening and uh items to take care of so leadership team Remains the Same as it has been well as it was last year um we have three lieutenants there got Jeff crawl Matt Smiley and Ben Vach two Lieutenant two captains Ted week and Ryan Hoster our chief of training Scott Spinx chief of administration Ryan gonzer our battalion chief John pitz myself assistant chief Cody Farley and all under the leadership of Mike Highland um currently we're sitting at 38 members uh minimum minimum sort of ification levels of firefighter 2 either EMS EMT or EMR that's the personals personal decision on the firefighter how much time they want to dedicate to their training in that aspect and then hazardous materials Uh current breakdown we have six probationary firefighters who will likely come off probation in 2025 here and 10 responders at Station 2 and 28 responders at station one uh and as a point of reference our full Staffing would be 50 members with 30 members at station one and 20 members at Station 2 so we'll be doing uh a fair amount of recruiting um over the 2025 years to try to build up our numbers there's a breakdown of years of service um which actually looks pretty favorable um to have over a quarter of our membership with 10 or more years of experience is a really great thing and over half of our membership of five or more years of experience so a pretty good uh breath of knowledge and ability there so 2024 and the way it broke down so we responded to as a department 466 calls um which is a a drop from last year but only because of the split in call area and if you take the entire call area into account we beat last last last year's record uh which was which exceeded the previous year's record so we're on about a three or four year Sprint of increasing call volume so the high runners in terms of activity are the category 300 which is medical calls that year-over-year is the the big winner in terms of number of responses we have um and typically followed with uh cancellations or situations where there was not actually um an emergency situation so canceled or we arrived on scene to discover that there was not actually anything that needed taken care of and third behind that is um alarms things like nuisance burn dinner things like that so those are typically the heavy hitting categories and 2024 was no exception for them Long Lake last year came out with 84 calls and that was 18% of our total call volume Orno was in the lead with 291 calls and that was 62% of our call volume and then minaka Beach at 8% Madina with 6% and mutual Aid with five any questions about how things broke down in terms of calls we responded to I guess not okay um yeah like I said so it was an increase in Callum volume over previous years and here you can see that we have we're in about a really a 5-year period of increasing call volume and prior to that it was fairly steady hovering around 400 to 440 calls per year but uh every year since we've had a pretty good uptick um and a little bit of increase in certain categories and the larger increases in those the two top running categories so the category 300 which again is Medicals and 600 which is uh nothing found so we were called into service but there wasn't in fact a situation to be taken care of so those are the groups that are increasing faster than the rest um and the top line so we have 2024 uh which is calls that Long Lake Fire responded to and then the 2024 E I took into account all of the calls that both Long Lake and Oro fire departments responded to which would make the comparison equal to previous years so you can see there that the a top curve uh would have been our entire call area for 2024 which again increases year-over-year so h uh we do interact a lot with our neighbors so 25 times we were interacting with them on calls uh they're broken into Auto Aid and mutual Aid here automatic Aid is a pre-existing Arrangement where when we would be called into service our neighbor would be called into service at the same time or vice versa they would be called into service and we would be called into service at the same time to help them so that's automatic Aid versus Mutual Aid where we would get onto a scene and then specifically request the aid of our neighboring departments that would be mutual Aid um so we were out helping our neighbors 15 times and then we called our neighbors in to help us 10 times last year so great long-standing Partnerships with our neighbors in that regard and we put that all into use just last week with that large house fire up on Homestead I believe we had five or six neighboring departments helping us out on that one and some of them were automatic Aid and some of them were mutual Aid so how we respond last year um overall it's very much right on par with what we'd expect uh year-over-year we're right around 8 minutes um Long Lake was a little bit of a shining star here 6 minutes and 44 seconds and on the opposite of the spectrum minaka Beach so um I would attribute the minaka beach slower response time just due to the um the situation between Oro and Long Lake and the effect that that has had on station two station two being our Primary Response station for minona Beach um so when station one need to come down and and ultimately be the first responding unit in minaka Beach it just takes us longer because we're further away so that's where that uh increased number came from and we lost some members from Station 2 in the last year or so right Y correct so like that previous slide said you know we're at 10 responding members of Station 2 and we'd like to be at 20 so that definitely has an effect um and it is a metric that we pay attention to is the number of responders per incident of course if we have more people attending a any given incident likely we'll get a truck out the door faster and arrive on scene quicker so we do pay attention to that and broken down here daytime versus nighttime daytime being the uh time when we can expect a lot of payon call Members to be not able to respond they're they're out attending to their normal daytime Jobs versus nighttime we'd expect most paidon call Firefighters to be able to respond so we do see um that breakdown like we'd expect with more responders during the evening versus during the daytime we hope to be minimum 30% um and we'd like to be leaning towards 35 or higher percent for a response for any given incident so that nighttime with a 34% response uh is is pretty good we're feeling pretty good about that one interesting thing that came from looking at uh our responders per uh time of day was also the calls during the time of day so the call volume during time of day and you can see there we have 60% of our calls coming between 6:00 a.m. and 6: p.m. um which is a little bit different uh in then in years past and something to be paying attention to because if you have the majority of your calls coming at a time when you can expect the majority of your firefighters to not be responding it does put you in a situation where you need to start looking at how you're responding to calls so um we've done that in a few different ways you know we we are having the uh voluntary Duty Crew that's uh fully active and really breathing some good life into the department um as well as um just in increasing our our reach in terms of personnel that we are trying to attract to the fire department um those who may have more availability during the day so um and this is pretty typical year-over-year we'll take a a spike in the summertime months people are just out and about and more active so we'll have higher call volume and then also increasing into December um and what do you attribute that to I don't know the stress of end of year stuff in the holidays and then it always takes a drop off in January so that's a fairly typical breakdown there of calls per month so like I said we do have our volunteer Duty uh Duty Crew program which is in full swing um and like I said it's really breathing some awesome energy and life into the department uh just to have people there more often um and of course the the major benefit is that we are out the door faster and we are on scene sooner so it is a voluntary Duty Crew program so we don't require members to sign up for shifts we just invite them to sign up and so our filler rate there you can see is 50% which is actually feeling pretty good uh so 50% of the shifts that we have out there available for folks we are in fact filling and then the way that transpires into our response um you can see our average inservice time there is much faster than our overall inservice time as well as our on scene so the benefits of even a voluntary Duty Crew program are are right there in front of you and um really makes makes our response that much better uh even if if we have one or two vol untary firefighter firefighters on their voluntary Duty shift um and they're only waiting for one additional paidon call firefighter or maybe two additional paidon call Firefighters that as well enhances our response time so good benefits coming from Duty C program there's the breakdown those so we did pay attention to what calls um we responded to when we had a duty crew in place versus not and there's the breakdown per month of calls that we responded to with Duty crews in play all right so 2024 some Milestones that our firefighters uh had we had three retirements Eric Palmer 13 years Paul Balmer with 20 years and of course Tom Aldridge was a big 35 years that was a he was a pillar of our department as you guys all know and he did finally retire last year so sad to see all three of those gentlemen go uh but in their place we did bring in six probationary firefighters like I said and here are those folks and they're all actively working through their classes the firefighter classes and the EMS classes and will likely come off probation here in 2025 and in 24 we did have two probationary members come off of Probation and become full-fledged members so Jesse fou and Lance swear engine our newest members other milestones in 2024 the big ones on top there 21 years of service for Jeff crawl and Ted week uh 15 years of service for Ryan Ganer Ryan kivy and myself Cody Farley 10 years of service for John pas with Matt Smiley and Zack big a more picturesque for and then our annual fund dates uh first one coming up here May 4th the pancake breakfast always a big event we're getting geared up for that right now and then in the summertime we'll have our 5K Fun Run and then in the fall fire prevention open house and then finally the annual toy drive with Santa paying a visit to Long Lake Station 1 second Saturday in December nice you guys have any questions great presentation do we know if the cost of syrup if the syrup costs are going to go up for pancake breakfast yet or I think we're sticking with the Goodwill donations so that's up to you that's right okay good good oh great uh great to see all the years of service that's put in there and amongst you and others appreciate that it looks like we're at so if I did the the so the active members that I include the probationary members so that would be 38 plus 6 you know be 44 if you include the probationary members I do that right no they're they're included in that 38th they are active y so once they are accepted by the council we give them a pager and expect them to start responding to calls um and they're doing an appropriate level of effort on any of those given calls so sometimes it's just being observant and watching sometimes it's uh helping us haul tools and things like that but they are actively responding to calls yep MH got it other questions your comments from folks yeah yeah I heard that was a pretty big grass fire last week on Thursday so thanks for all of your the Department's efforts on that and we could have gotten pretty pretty bad if it crossed Conor 24 and thankfully it didn't yes thankfully yeah we figured it burned about 20 acres but uh just grass and trees so that's good how did you guys slow it well lot of lot of hands a lot of water a lot of marching through the through the grasslands there but yeah it's a combin of you know sometimes you can get close enough to spray water on it uh we did have probably five or six ATVs out there so portable water driving actually through the swamp and spraying water where they can uh backpack blowers actually are very effective with grass fires and uh so are rakes and swatters and we have all kinds of different tools that we can employ to put out grass fires in remote areas like that so did you create a barrier yeah we had we had apparatus all the way all the way around it and yep and we slowly all just marched that line and kind of worked our way in to extinguish it and yeah prevented it from jumping any of those roads which is great it would have been a different story had it gotten into Baker park there that could have been a a different kind of battle but yeah thankfully everybody came together and worked hard and got it extinguished really grass fires are uh they're they're the feel-good fires for the fire industry right we get to be out there doing what we do using our tools and our skills um and hopefully knock on wood all that's in danger is is grass so yeah so what happened to the homestead fire I didn't what was the homestead fire oh the so the grass fire was on Homestead Homestead in 24 was the intersection it was the southeast corner from there okay well we yeah we hope the morals continue to go go as good as it can be in the department we know you guys have been through a lot over the last few years like we've been through a lot and we've been um fighting to you know kind of bring a resolution to that and probably been following we've been having really discussions with Oro and their two appointed council members to um along council member D can discussions we've been having about the future fire in our communities and for the rest of the year and and and going forward from there so um we're getting getting close to having I think something to work out there which is which is positive and U I don't know if anybody else was saying about that but um with assistant chief Farley here um no other than I attended uh Orno had a work session last week where uh and I guess I should start um mayor tunheim and Miner and uh uh council members diic and persing have do doing a fantastic job working to uh work with the fire departments both of Orno and of Long Lake which the men and women of both departments are doing a great job serving this entire Community as a whole um and it sounds like uh that you got four of you have been getting together to work on basically uh the next nine months what that's going to look like and then as well as after the contract ends and it sounds like Orno is going to be having some discussions uh next Monday about that but my understanding is that pretty much all revolves around the next nine months us working together more collaboratively and what that's going to look like and then following that N9 months where we're going to get a lot of in input from both cities the citizens councils all the stakeholders in this are going to have an opportunity to see what that looks like going forward but it sounds like for the next 9 months we'll definitely be working in more of a close proximity to one another and working together so Y and the firefighters are definitely looking forward to having a a voice at that table absolutely absolutely bring their experience and and their ideas um to the table when it comes time to talk about our future in the direction that we're ultimately going to go so I think the most important voice at that table for sure the most knowledgeable so yep yeah but uh within the fire department you know we're doing everything we can to keep the best ship that we can and we we did have a lot that we accomplished in the past year you know despite everything else going on um got a laundry list here of accomplishments from from last year so we replaced our engine 11 uh we purchased a fire engine from excels here and we also outfitted it completely with new tools and sold the old engine so that was a a very big much needed step forward good Improvement there can I ask a question what's the number of that one the exceler engine does it have a number number currently yes it's engine 11 okay so that's a that's a funny discussion around the fire department because some not all fire departments operate that way they'll they'll give a new truck a new number but then everybody has to reprogram their brains right when I go to the fire station I get on the first truck out I get on engine 11 but it's not engine 11 anymore so we we try to minimize the additional thought required to do the difficult jobs that we that we have to do so um no sense in giving it a new number let's just keep calling that first out engine engine 11 so it is our only engine 11 now cuz the old one's gone so so who did you guys sell it to um it went to an organization that refurbishes fire trucks and then they resell them they're out of I believe Northwestern Wisconsin we put it up for auction so highest bidder got it uh yeah other things that we did we put all new tires on tanker 11 that's 10 Tires we had a new suspension put on utility 11 which breathed some much needed new life back into that apparatus um all the HVAC systems at station one were gone through and revamped uh the generators we have generators at Station 1 and Station 2 they were both gone through inspected and some long-standing needed improvements were made with those uh there's a furnace that heats the um southern side of station one the extra rooms at the other end of the apparatus Bay that was uh fixed up and taken care of all new parking lot lights went in at station one um and uh yeah so lots of good things came out of last year um you know some some things that were just outstanding and needed to be taken care of and so all those things just helped to to Build a Better Stronger house which feels better to serve in so lots of good things happening I was down Station 2 on Friday with Chief Farley and chief Highland and gave me a tour I hav been in there in three or four years and it uh really looked nice like I think it's Captain White check that's kind of in charge of station two right and he's done a great job with this team who just you know get looks invite warm and inviting and uh and clean and everything so happy absolutely doing some nice work down there and our auxiliary has helped us out in in doing that and up at station one as well they've gone through our Lounge area and help helped us Spruce that up and make it more inviting and comfortable uh for people to just hang out in now that we have people hanging out at the station more often serving serving on duty Crews and things so uh got a new new couch and put a new TV on the wall for us there's a little fireplace in there now so it's uh it's pretty cozy yeah how the numbers for the blood drive turn out oh it was full it's packed yeah yeah you got a little of mine but y the community really stepped up uh for that one which was great you all in honor of uh Weston PTZ who continu to do a great job fighting his fight good awesome all right any other comments or questions for chief Harley nice job great yeah thank you appreciate it okay on to item eight other business going around the day us here Council newcomer uh no you know what I was going to since we're on the same topic of fire the chief presented I guess he had a company come in uh maybe give an offer and looking over all the facilities were we going to readdress that at some point or I can't remember how we ended up on that I thought he was going to report back on what the recommendations were but that's last I heard I don't know if you guys have heard anything yeah so the last it was going to come on a work session um cuz I believe it was like a $10,000 assessment or something and then you wanted to see what the scope was and we want at least um bring it to the city we didn't know if we wanted to bring it to the fire Advisory Board first so who would make the financial decision on that so that's still in place it's still in slay it's probably it's going to want to be needed anyways for our next future talks anyways so I mean it's it's I just want to see where we want to put in front of and who you know wants to support it ET just seemed like a a fairly kind of a a good tool to have well there'll good they'll have results that will come out of that too that um you know should determine what we may need to put more money into into the future so when we're talking about future capital and all that stuff that we have at least a maybe a path forward so no surprises correct exactly anything else all right Feldman I'm good thank you D nothing for me all right uh yeah nothing else for me either nothing for me wow I'm good nothing for me all right Cody anything else last minute all right so our next meeting is Tuesday April 1st I think at least one council member will be absent be out yes okay anybody anybody else plan on being absent all right so we'll have enough for a quorum then so that'll be uh two weeks from today and potentially a work session as well all right well if there is no objection I'll adjourn the meeting hearing none meeting is adjourned at 7:18 p.m. good night