Minutes of the regular meeting of the Water, Light, Power and Building Commission of the City of East Grand Forks, Minnesota held November 4, 2003 at 5:00 P.M.

Present: Ogden, Gregoire, Quirk, Beauchamp

Absent : None

It was moved by Commissioner Quirk second by Commissioner Gregoire that the minutes of the previous meeting of October 16, 2003 be approved as read.

Voting Aye: Ogden, Gregoire, Quirk, Beauchamp

Voting Nay: None

The following bills and payroll were recommended for approval:

MN Section AWWA                        Travel & school                          $ 715.00

Acme Electric                          Supplies                                  6.35

AWWA                                   Renew memberships                         409.00

Bert’s Truck Equipment                  Supplies                                  63.69

Big Jim’s East Side Tire                Mtce & repairs                            111.38

Border States Electric                 Inventory & supplies                      4,193.74

Dan Boyce                              Expenses                                  243.60

Bumper to Bumper                       Supplies                                  92.61

Cal Pacific Carbon                     Wtr treat chemicals                       17,160.00

City of EGF                            X-fer; rent; acct’g fees                   101,547.84

Mike Coauette                          Expenses                                  48.88

Dakota Supply Group                    Inventory                                 320.57

Diamond Cleaning Supply                Supplies                                  246.66

DTI                                    Communications                            115.38

Dynequip Inc                           Supplies                                  294.15

Exponent                               Advertising; publishing                   1,238.40

Fargo Water Equipment                  Supplies                                  383.40

Firestone Stores                       Repairs                                   24.50

Floan Sanders                          Professional fees                         770.00

Forklifts of MN                        Mtce & repairs                            204.05

GF Thur-O-Clean                        Professional fees                         232.88

George’s Quick Printing                 Supplies                                  123.54

Gopher State One Call                  Sep locates                               328.60

GF Welding                             Supplies                                  51.15

Graymont Western Canada                Wtr treat chemicals                       1,806.97

Hawkins Inc                            Wtr treat chemicals                       3,161.40

Impressions International              Supplies                                  68.00

Insight Technologies                   Supplies & repairs                        2,334.92

Interstate Companies Inc               Mtce & repairs                            692.37

Paul Larson Construction               Repairs                                   590.00

Lystads                                Supplies                                  24.09

M & W Services Inc                     Oct 15-31 meter reads                     2,095.95

McDonald’s                              CIP billing                               403.31

Madison Nat’l Life Ins                  Life insurance                            268.55

Midcontinent Adv Sales                 Advertising                               576.00

MMUA                                   MAPP fees; training                       3,158.60

MN Section AWWA                        Travel & school                           285.00

Northern Water Works                   Supplies                                  92.15

NW/ECSU                                Health insurance                          11,186.27

Orchard Oil Co                         Fuel                                      1,416.55

Pitney Bowes Inc                       Maintenance contract                      1,028.79

Qwest                                  Communications                            724.87

Qwest Interprise                       Communications                            87.54

Radix Corporation                      Maintenance                               130.00

Reliance Telephone                     Communications                            5.33

Rydells                                Maintenance                               25.38

SimplexGrinnell                        Inventory; supplies                       386.07

Strata Corporation                     Professional fees                         8,618.45

TigerDirect                            Supplies                                  307.26

Tri-Valley                             CIP billing                               15,110.48

Underground Contract Serv              Professional fees                         14,475.44

US Postal Service                      Postage                                   10,000.00

Veit Environmental Inc                 Contracted services                       2,762.50

Verizon Wireless                       Communications                            14.16

US Filter                              Supplies                                  53.25

Water & Light                          Utilities                                 10,528.39

X-cel Energy                           Gas utilities                             496.38

Payroll                                Total cost                                55,056.62

                                                                                 $ 276,896.41

It was moved by Commissioner Gregoire second by Commissioner Beauchamp that the bills and payroll be allowed as recommended and the Secretary issue checks for the same.

Voting Aye: Ogden, Gregoire, Quirk, Beauchamp

Voting Nay: None

It was moved by Commissioner Beauchamp second by Commissioner Gregoire to approve Aerial Contractors Inc Change Order #2 for the Industrial Park Substation Rehab project.

Voting Aye: Ogden, Gregoire, Quirk, Beauchamp

Voting Nay: None

It was moved by Commissioner Quirk second by Commissioner Gregoire to authorize payment of North-Holt Electric Inc. invoices #1942 and #1945 for a total amount of $6,328.18 toward the new civil defense siren system.

Voting Aye: Ogden, Gregoire, Quirk, Beauchamp

Voting Nay: None

It was moved by Commissioner Gregoire second by Commissioner Quirk that the meeting be adjourned to November 6, 2003 at 5:00 P.M.

Voting Aye: Ogden, Gregoire, Quirk, Beauchamp

Voting Nay: None

 

 

                                                           Bonnie Abel

                                                           Sec'y