Agendas

Meets 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Brainerd City Hall

1. Call to order

2. Roll call

3. Pledge of Allegiance

4. Consent calendar

A. Approval of the minutes of the planning retreat held Jan. 14, the regular meeting held Feb. 3 and the special meeting held Feb. 4, as distributed.

B. Approval of 2003 licenses -- Recommended by City administrator Vogt

a. Contractor's license -- 1 -- new

b. Contractor's licenses -- 5 -- renewals

C. Department reports

a. Mayor's report of activities distributed to council

b. Police chief's report of activities distributed to mayor and council

c. Finance director's report of activities distributed to mayor and council

D. Transfer of funds -- Recommended by the Personnel and Finance Committee

a. General Fund to Public Safety Fund, $250,000

b. General Fund to Park Fund, $60,000

c. General Fund to Street and Sewer Fund, $28,183

d. General Fund to Airport Fund, $11,817

e. Transfer from Arena Fund No. 232 to Debt Service Fund No. 319 per Resolution No. 12:99, $4,700

f. Transfer from Sanitary Sewer Fund No. 237 to Construction Fund No. 401 for expenses incurred in the following improvements: $43,956.61

Improvement No. 98-4, $23,014.38

Improvement No. 01-12, $20,942.23

E. Second reading -- Proposed Ordinance No. 1169 -- An ordinance providing for the annexation of certain properties located in Oak Lawn Township -- (Byron L. Eliseuson Property -- 2.06 acres) -- City administrator Vogt recommends to dispense with the actual reading

F. Second reading -- Proposed Ordinance No. 1170 -- An ordinance providing for the annexation of certain properties located in Unorganized Territory -- (Ritchie M. Bitz/Brainerd Electric -- 5 Acres) -- City administrator Vogt recommends to dispense with the actual reading

G. Second reading -- Proposed Ordinance No. 1183 -- An ordinance providing for a pole barn moratorium -- City administrator Vogt recommend to dispense with the actual reading

H. Approval of bills -- Recommended by the Personnel and Finance Committee

5. Unfinished business:

A. Second reading -- Proposed Ordinance No. 1178 -- An ordinance providing for the matter of petition of certain majority petitioning persons for annexation -- Riverside Drive area -- 18.22 acres -- City administrator Vogt recommends to dispense with the actual reading

B. Public hearing -- Improvement No. 00-13 -- Hawkins Drive -- Consider adoption of resolution ordering improvement and preparation of plans and specifications

C. Public hearing -- Downtown snow removal assessment district -- Consider termination of the district to amendments of the assessment formula

D. Piehl property purchase -- Update

E. Public facility project

a. N.E. Fire Hall property -- Potlatch transaction

b. Change order request

F. Northwoods League lease -- Discussion of

6. New business:

A. Paddle boat -- Lum Park update -- Harold Rademacher

B. 2004 fire contract calculations -- Approval of

C. Sanitary sewer collection administrative fee

D. Park director boat storage -- Discussion of

E. Crime prevention/public awareness report

7. Public forum. Time allocated for citizens to bring matters not on the agenda to the attention of the council. Time limits may be imposed.

8. Reports

A. Mayor

B. City attorney

C. City administrator

D. City engineer

E. City planner/community development coordinator

F. Police chief

G. Finance director

9. Council committee reports

A. Personnel and Finance Committee

B. Safety and Public Works Committee

C. Other Committees

10. Committee vacancies

A. Cable advisory committee -- three-year term -- 1/1/03-1/1/06.

B. Parking commission -- three-year term -- 1/1/03-1/1/06.

C. Police and Fire Civil Service Commission -- one-year term -- 1/1/03-1/1/04.

D. Transportation committee -- one-year term -- 1/1/03-1/1/04.

11. Adjournment

NOTE: Personnel and Finance Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. Safety and Public Works Committee will meet at 5:30 p.m.

Personnel and Finance Committee

Meets 6:30 p.m. Tuesday

Brainerd City Hall

Conference Room

1. Letter from Sgt. Putzke -- Administrative citations -- Discussion of

2. Proposed 2003 Parks & Recreation Department fee schedule

3. Sanitary sewer collection administrative fee

4. Crow Wing County Historical Society -- Consider request

5. Employee health insurance -- Discussion of

6. Resignation of transit coordinator -- Acceptance of

7. Sale of Dial-A-Ride Bus -- Discussion of

8. Northwoods League lease -- Discussion of

9. Park director boat storage -- Discussion of

10. Extended training leave request -- Sgt. David Holtz

11. Extended leave of absence -- Officer Larry Helsene

12. Fire department budget carryover request -- Discussion of

13. Temporary planner search -- Discussion of

14. 2003 Fire contract calculations -- Approval of

15. Other

Safety and Public Works Committee

Meets 5:30 p.m. Tuesday

City Council Chambers

1. Public hearing -- Hawkins Drive sanitary sewer -- Adoption of resolution ordering improvement and calling for bids

2. Public hearing -- Downtown snow removal district

3. Waste oil station

4. Riverside Drive -- Piehl property (discussion of)

5. Improvement 01-13 -- Assessment methodology (discussion of)

6. Improvement 01-13 -- Possible hearing dates (discussion of)

7. Improvement 02-15 -- Streetscape elements (discussion of)

8. Improvement 02-15 -- Assessment methodology (discussion of)

9. N.E. Brainerd utility master plan (discussion of)

10. Oak Street reconstruction consultant selection

11. Transportation committee

12. Parking commission

A. Request for two-hour parking on North Second Street, adjacent to the south half of Block 114

B. Request for ordinance amendment related to parking in front of private walks

C. City Hall parking lot

D. BN freight depot

13. Planning commission

A. Annexation -- Buffetta

B. CUP -- Uhlman

C. CUP -- Great River Energy

D. Ordinance amendment -- pole barns

Baxter City Council

Meets 5:30 p.m. Tuesday

To discuss local

option sales tax

Meets 7 p.m.

For regular meeting

City hall

1. Call meeting to order

2. Roll call

3. Pledge of Allegiance

4. Consent agenda

A. Approval of council minutes of Feb. 4 and joint council/utilities commission minutes of Feb. 5

B. Payment of bills and approval of finance report

C. Accept utilities commission minutes of Feb. 5

a. Approve paying LTP Well Drilling Enterprises, Inc. $16,224.50 for the Baxter test well on the Forestview School property.

b. Approve the preliminary plat of Jasper Heights with conditions.

c. Approve WSN developing a concept plan at an estimated amount of $3,750 for the area that encompasses Kimberlee Drive North to Whipple Lake and north of Clearwater Road to the north city limits.

D. Accept Long Range Planning Commission minutes of Feb. 6

E. Accept Planning and Zoning Commission minutes of Feb. 11

F. Accept Personnel and Police Commission minutes of Feb. 12

1. Approve appointing Pete Olson to the Parks and Recreation Commission

2. Approve appointing Andy Larson to the Planning and Zoning Commission

3. Approve appointing Jeremy Vacinek as deputy clerk to sign documents when the city clerk is not available

4. Approve hiring Mary Haugen as the administrative assistant at Grade 3 as posted

G. Accept Parks and Recreation Commission minutes of Feb. 13

a. Approve the amendment to Section 11-1-7-7 of the Baxter City Code with the estimate to be $4 per square foot (as determined to be the fair market value in 2003) for commercial and $3 per square foot for industrial and office (fair market value in 2003)

5. Pulled agenda items

6. Other business

A. Public hearing for Bisanz Hi-View road right-of-way vacation -- 7:30 p.m.

B. Hearing to revoke food license

C. BLADC contract -- Sheila Haverkamp

D. Used oil collection facility -- John Maattala

E. Local option sales tax

F. Capital improvement map

G. Clearwater Road East road condemnation

H. Set workshop for council/department heads to set city administrator criteria

I. Planning and zoning actions

a. Approve the ordinance amendment to section 10-3C-2 by changing the minimum PUD size from 10 acres to 2.5 acres in R-1 zoning.

b. Approve the preliminary plat of Cypress South for Navillus Land Co. with conditions.

7. Public comments

8. Communications

9. Council comments

A. Mark Cross -- Industrial and economic development and other comments

B. Rosemary Franzen -- Parks and recreation and other comments

C. Gary Muehlhausen -- Utilities, personnel and police and other mayoral comments

D. Darrel Olson -- Planning and zoning and other comments

E. Barb Wells -- Long range planning and other comments

10. City attorney

11. Staff reports

12. Adjournment

Cass County Board

Meets 9 a.m. Tuesday

Commissioners' Board Room

Cass County Courthouse

Walker

1. 9 a.m. -- Call to order.

A. Pledge of Allegiance

B. Approval of agenda

2. 9:05 a.m. Robert Yochum, administrator

A. Consent agenda

B. Personnel Committee report

C. Economic development financing options

3. 9:30 a.m. Sue Dahlhauser -- Minnesota Counties Insurance Trust, member report

4. 9:45 a.m. Joan Helms, Melanie Wolfe -- Health, Human and Veterans Services

A. Child placement cost for January 2003 in the amount of $195,487

5. 10 a.m. Steve Kuha, assessor

A. Abatements

B. Assessor workload update

6. 10:15 a.m. Dave Enblom, highway engineer

A. Authorization to advertise for bids for 2003 construction projects

B. Resolutions requesting advance for 2003 construction projects

C. Authorize, letter of support and county participation in city of Cass Lake federal transportation demonstration project

7. 10:45 a.m. Tim Schmidt, Region 5 Development Commission

A. Update on hazardous mitigation planning

8. 11 a.m. public hearing -- Ordinance No. 2002-03 -- land use ordinance amendments

9. 11:30 a.m. request to be heard -- city of Bemidji, local option sales tax

10. 11:45 a.m. request to be heard -- Duane Mayer, timber trespass

11. Noon -- Adjourn for lunch

12. 1 p.m. -- Request to be heard -- James Gammello, recording real estate documents

13. 1:15 p.m. Earl Maus -- county attorney, grade rating request for chief assistant attorney

14. 1:30 p.m. Confirm upcoming meeting schedule

A. Establish Board of Equalization meeting 9 a.m. June 16, courthouse, Walker

B. Establish special meeting 9 a.m. March 25, Dorothy Opheim performance evaluation, Pine River Community Center, Pine River

15. 1:45 p.m. Adjourn

Crow Wing County meetings

Monday -- Presidents Day, county offices closed.

Tuesday -- 7 p.m., Human Rights Commission, Commissioners' Room, courthouse.

Wednesday -- 8:30 a.m., Central Minnesota Community Corrections Executive Committee, Central Minnesota Community Corrections Administration Office.

Thursday -- 2 p.m., open bids, cleaning service for county complex offices, Commissioners' Room; 5:15 p.m., Board of Adjustment, Welton Hall in Elks Club building.

Friday -- 9 a.m., Mississippi Headwaters Board, Walker; 5 p.m., haulers meeting to discuss landfill operations and other solid waste issues, Brainerd Public Library.