RECEIVED UPDATE ON XCEL, MN SIGNATURE CARE
The Slayton City Council met on Monday, August 1st. Absent were Mayor Miron Carney and Blake Heronimus. The agenda was approved with additions. The minutes from the July 18th meeting were reviewed and approved, as were the claims.
Pending items included an update from Josh Malchow, City Administrator - he met with Xcel last week. Two big things were discussed, one being the response time, reliability, lack of communication and current infrastructure.
The other half was the need for Xcel to provide the information that was requested for infrastructure costs minus depreciation better than what was given “somewhere between $3 and $20 million.” Malchow feels they were very blunt with them and want the information as soon as possible. The city is currently doing their own independent feasibility study to help decide what the best option is for the City Residents.
MN Signature Care is still working on moving forward with the project. They are trying to revamp the design to help cut costs and get the project moving. They are “still hopeful to break ground in 2022.”
Moving on to new business, the first item was to approve the election judge list resolution for the primary election on August 9th. They then approved the request from the county to split the lots at the old VIP location on Maple Avenue into two lots.
The next item was an old rehab loan from 1983 for the Conway property. The current programs forgive the loans over a period of time. This loan didn’t have that stipulation, but the city can choose to forgive the loan. It was approved to forgive the outstanding $5,700 to the city.
The next item was the Hungerford water bill, which was extremely high with use of 115,000 gallons of water. This was looked into and corrected as there was a toilet that was running in the basement. Past practice has been to not forgive these items but to set up payment plans and waive fees. The council discussed this and felt that it best to follow past practice and leave the bill as is.
The last item to discuss was the task order for the design and bidding for the Airport project for next year. The project is for the fuel pump upgrade. The cost is $51,000, which the city is responsible for 30% of this project. The Council approved this.
With no other business, the meeting was adjourned.
