2-5-09 Minutes Summary

The regular city council meeting was called to order by Mayor Schabert at 7pm on February 5, 2009 in the

council chambers in the Courtland Community Center.. All council members were present.

Poehler made a motion to approve the agenda as written. Retka seconded the motion. The motion carried with all in favor.

Bents made a motion to approve the written minutes of the regular meeting held on January 8, 2009. Poehler seconded the motion. The motion carried with all in favor.

Kollmann made a motion to approve the bills from January 2009. Poehler seconded the motion. The motion carried with all in favor.

Gulden was not in attendance to give a report for the utility. The mayor stated that the utility workers kept close watch on the water tower during this extreme cold weather and have determined that the water level should be higher so there would be more motion in the water to keep the water from freezing up. Also they had to have some welding done on the water filter.

The mayor gave a report on the meetings that he attended on behalf of the city in the month of January. He attended 14 meetings including some of the following: met with Joe Duncan on the stimulus package, Highway 14 meeting, Tri-cities board meeting, Region nine wind meeting, fireman’s budget meeting and other miscellaneous meetings.

The clerk stated that the auditor will be in on Monday to finish the audit and we will probably have the auditor at our March council meeting to give us our report. The clerk asked permission to attend the annual MCFOA conference in St. Cloud. The council stated that the clerk has a training budget and so gave permission.

Jonathan Rewitzer approached the council for permission to run a raffle in conjunction with the annual street dance in August. Kollmann made a motion to approve Resolution 09-103 for the Fireman’s Raffle. Bents seconded the motion. The motion carried with all in favor

Hugh Nierengarten informed the council of the process that his office has gone through up to this point to codify our ordinances. He said there was a total of 53 ordinances and of these we could not find signed copies of nine of them, but it appears that they were adopted according to the minutes. He stated that he brought along copies for all of the members of the black-line version of the codification of the city codes. He explained that this is a draft and the wording that has a black line through it would be deleted, the wording that is underlined would be inserted and the bold and italicized were changes that Hugh made in the wording. He said that the council should go over this document and make notes if they have questions and then we will walk through it with Hugh again. He said that he would encourage the city to do this process every five years so that it doesn’t become such a big job.

Hugh stated that since we have reached this point with the codification he will now move on to working on the Comcast agreement for the city and will come back in March for the meeting to discuss Comcast.

Pat Stadick approached the council about the possibility of getting a break on the hook-up fees for the lots in the Courtland Plains 2 addition. He said that he and Jim Scheman have purchased the 5 acres that have not been platted and also 4 of the lots that are in the second addition. The council stated that the hook-up fees are the same for everyone no matter who is developing the addition.

Poehler made a motion to approve Resolution 09-102 for the Courtland Recreation Association to move their gambling to the community center for a day for the annual fish fry. Bents seconded the motion. The motion carried with all in favor.

Schabert gave a report on the LGA money from the state for the next two years. He stated that next year we could lose $9000 and the following year we could lose $20,000. This is just an estimate and it is possible that we could lose all of our LGA.

Schabert made a motion to approve a donation of $200 to the Region Nine Renewable Energy Task Force. Retka seconded the motion. The motion carried with all in favor.

Poehler made a motion to adjourn the meeting. Bents seconded the motion. The motion carried with all in favor.

The meeting closed at 8:50pm.

A signed copy of the minutes is on file in the office of the city clerk.

Respectfully submitted,

Bonnie J. Hubert

City Clerk