Minutes of the regular meeting of the Water, Light, Power and Building Commission of the City of East Grand Forks, Minnesota held April 20, 2000 at 5:00 P.M.
Present: Ogden, Tweten, Quirk, Beauchamp
Absent : None
It was moved by Commissioner Tweten second by Commissioner Quirk that the minutes of the previous meeting of April 4, 2000 be approved as read.
Voting Aye: Ogden, Tweten, Quirk, Beauchamp
Voting Nay: None
The following bills and payroll were recommended for approval:
MMPA Energy/demand $176,937.98
American Crystal Sugar Earnest money 3,190.00
Ryan’s Potatoes Inc X-miss line easement 7,458.90
Jim Hilman Overpay final bill 13.99
Acme Electric Motor Tools; parts 76.60
Aggreko Inc Generator return 7,215.00
Air Touch Cellular Service 100.80
Ameripride Linen/Apparel Services 297.90
AWWA Miscellaneous 114.00
Border States Electric Supplies 1,280.00
BNSF License fees 5,000.00
Carlson Builders Est #4-chlor scrubber 12,150.00
Cellular One Monthly charges 107.31
City of EGF X-fer; acct’g fees 212,253.82
Clarklift of MN Repair 58.00
Clay County Health Water tests 120.00
Commercial Water Hauling Apr 1-15 meter reads 1,066.89
Commissioner of Revenue Sales; use; grbg surchrg 25,157.00
Construction Bulletin Mag Advertising 275.90
Dakota Electric Supply Inventory 851.55
Dyce Chemical Wtr treat chemicals 1,475.57
Eagle Electric Services 391.51
Ethanol Products Wtr treat chemicals 737.10
Exponent Advertising; publishing 1,787.00
Finest Auto Trim Balance 10.00
Florian & Sons Services 290.00
Gabriel Construction Generator rental 4,000.00
Gaffaney’s Rental; supplies 183.01
Gopher State One Call March locates 52.50
GF Welding Supplies 13.98
Graybar Electric Inventory 6,384.57
Hardware Hank Supplies 330.26
Harco CPS Waterworks Service contract 305.00
Hawkins Water Treatment Wtr treat chemicals 2,352.70
Hugo’s #5 Distilled water 5.68
Gary Hultberg Clothing allowance 117.50
IBM Corp Maintenance contract 232.85
KBM Inc Services 32,113.64
KCNN Advertising 459.00
Jim King Clothing allowance 117.50
Veronica Kostrzewski Clothing allowance 117.50
L & L Cleaning Service Services 246.79
LMCIT Ins Trust Workers comp 2,119.00
League of MN Cities Wrkshop registration 60.00
Karl Lindquist Reimbursement 19.50
Lunseth Plumbing Services 98.07
Maury’s TV & Appliance Batteries 63.89
Metzger Electric Services 1,791.57
MN Dept Nat’l Resources License fee 390.00
Monarch Travel Airfare/Hultberg 397.50
Nalco Chemical Wtr treat chemicals 1,028.95
NSP Facilities/distribution 4,809.38
NSP 99 joint pole rental 45.50
Ornamental Iron Services 50.00
Pamida Supplies 21.78
Mike Quirk Expenses 869.15
Radio Shack Supplies 19.15
Red River Overhead Door Repair 600.00
Rural American Bank-EGF Mar ACH charges 38.70
Rydells Maintenance 617.14
Service Bureau Mar collection fees 362.18
Terry Spear Clothing allowance 117.50
Simonson’s Lumber Repairs 3.70
Stamart Fuel 87.50
Tony Dorn Inc Service agreement 43.82
US Link Distance Phones/long distance 1,147.38
Valley Truck Parts Maintenance 1,955.54
US Filter Distrib Group Inventory 102,606.17
WAPA Current 83,612.51
Water & Light Service 5,137.84
Payroll Total cost 48,376.36
$761,939.08
It was moved by Commissioner Quirk second by Commissioner Tweten that the bills and payroll be allowed as recommended and the Secretary issue checks for the same.
Voting Aye: Ogden, Tweten, Quirk, Beauchamp
Voting Nay: None
It was moved by Commissioner Quirk second by Commissioner Tweten to check with Border States Electric to see if they will honor their bid for a stepdown transformer; and, if not, we will rebid the transformer.
Voting Aye: Ogden, Tweten, Quirk, Beauchamp
Voting Nay: None
It was moved by Commissioner Tweten second by Commissioner Quirk to authorize a local award of $100.00 to the MMUA scholarship essay winner.
Voting Aye: Ogden, Tweten, Quirk, Beauchamp
Voting Nay: None
It was moved by Commissioner Tweten second by Commissioner Quirk to reject all of the watermain replacement bids.
Voting Aye: Ogden, Tweten, Quirk, Beauchamp
Voting Nay: None
It was moved by Commissioner Tweten second by Commissioner Quirk to accept the base bid from North Holt Electric for the 2000 electric distribution construction and not award the alternate bid.
Voting Aye: Ogden, Tweten, Quirk, Beauchamp
Voting Nay: None
It was moved by Commissioner Quirk second by Commissioner Tweten to accept the bid from Dig American for the Red Lake River bore.
Voting Aye: Ogden, Tweten, Quirk, Beauchamp
Voting Nay: None
It was moved by Commissioner Quirk second by Commissioner Tweten to accept the base bid from A & S Construction for the railroad bore and not award the alternate bid.
Voting Aye: Ogden, Tweten, Quirk, Beauchamp
Voting Nay: None
It was moved by Commissioner Quirk second by Commissioner Tweten to declare 100 wood poles
surplus.
Voting Aye: Ogden, Tweten, Quirk, Beauchamp
Voting Nay: None
It was moved by Commissioner Quirk second by Commissioner Tweten to declare scrap metal surplus.
Voting Aye: Ogden, Tweten, Quirk, Beauchamp
Voting Nay: None
It was moved by Commissioner Quirk second by Commissioner Tweten to declare vehicle #764 surplus.
Voting Aye: Ogden, Tweten, Quirk, Beauchamp
Voting Nay: None
It was moved by Commissioner Quirk second by Commissioner Beauchamp that the meeting be adjourned to May 2, 2000 at 5:00 P.M.
Voting Aye: Ogden, Tweten, Quirk, Beauchamp
Voting Nay: None
Bonnie Abel
Sec'y