Minutes of the regular meeting of the Water, Light, Power and Building Commission of the City of East Grand Forks, Minnesota held July 6, 2004 at 5:00 P.M.

Present: Gregoire, Quirk, Ogden, Vetter

Absent : None

It was moved by Commissioner Ogden second by Commissioner Vetter that the minutes of the previous meetings of June 17 and 21, 2004 be approved as read.

Voting Aye: Gregoire, Quirk, Ogden, Vetter

Voting Nay: None

The following bills and payroll were recommended for approval:

CHECK #          VENDOR                       DESCRIPTION                   AMOUNT

25870     Acme Electric                Safety clothing                  $ 16.00

25871     AWWA                         Permits & fees                    67.00

25872     RW Beck Inc                  Professional fees                 2,597.46

25873     Border States Electric       Inventory; supplies               1,842.76

25874     Dan Boyce                    Expenses                          764.31

25875     Bumper to Bumper             Supplies                          12.52

25876     Burmeister Electric          Inventory                         3,790.34

25877     City of EGF                  Transfer; rent                    92,128.87

25878     Community Bank/RRV           Miscellaneous                     69.14

25879     Dakota Supply Group          Inventory                         34,954.90

25880     Digi Key                     Supplies                          37.71

25881     Eagle Electric               Repairs                           878.23

25882     Fargo Water Equipment        Inventory                         1,888.07

25883     Fed Ex                       Freight                           19.11

25884     Floan Sanders                Professional fees                 25,616.23

25885     GF Thur-O-Clean              Contracted services               405.00

25886     GMAC Payment Process Cntr    Installment                       3,965.68

25887     General Const Services       Professional fees                 17,826.50

25888     Gopher State One Call        May locates                       232.30

25889     GFS Chemicals Inc            Supplies                          172.27

25890     Graymont Western Canada      Wtr treat chemicals               2,012.33

25891     Hawkins Inc                  Wtr treat chemicals               975.88

25892     High Voltage Testing         Professional fees                 106.33

25893     Holweger Excavating          Professional fees                 35,261.67

25894     Home of Economy              Supplies                          60.31

25895     LMCIT Ins Trust              Insurance                         6,609.00

25896     Lumber Mart                  Supplies                          11.47

25897     Lunseth Plumbing & Heating   Mtce & supplies                   204.10

25898     M & W Services Inc           Jun 15-30 meter reads             2,326.95

25899     Madison Nat’l Life Ins        Life insurance                    252.70

25900     MMTG                         Dues & subscriptions              1,306.44

25901     MMUA                         Travel & school                   95.00

25902     Ondeo Nalco Company          Wtr treat chemicals               2,656.18

25903     NW/ECSU                      Health insurance                  12,832.50

25904     Ornamental Iron              Repairs; equipment                2,508.63

25905     Otis Elevator                Maintenance                       267.02

25906     Porta-Mix Concrete           Supplies                          93.19

25907     Power Equipment Shop         Supplies                          148.35

25908     Qwest                        Communications                    720.64

25909     Rydells                      Maintenance                       25.38

25910     Scott’s Electric              Professional fees                 11,412.25

25911     Tri-Valley                   CIP billing                       1,609.96

25912     Utilities Plus               Training                          741.96

25913     Verizon Wireless             Communications                    6.78

25914     Water & Light                Utilities                         10,326.34

25915     X-cel Energy                 Gas utilities                     971.38

          Payroll                      Total cost                        55,089.32

                                                                          $ 335,916.46

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

Voting Aye: Gregoire, Quirk, Ogden, Vetter

Voting Nay: None

It was moved by Commissioner Ogden second by Commissioner Quirk to ratify the power supply finalists to two organizations - Missouri River Energy Services and Minnesota Municipal Power Agency.

Voting Aye: Gregoire, Quirk, Ogden, Vetter

Voting Nay: None

Commissioner Quirk, supported by Commissioner Ogden, introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption:

BE IT RESOLVED by the Water, Light, Power and Building Commission of the City of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, that a Lawn Sprinkling Rate for water consumption be put into effect with the regular readings taken in May each year, and said rate to follow the current water rate schedule in effect. The rate is applied to any usage over the sprinkling base and no sewage is charged on this amount. The sprinkling base shall be the average monthly consumption of the October through April period for each account.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that where no base experience is available, that base average shall be a minimum of 8,000 gallons, and

BE IF FURTHER RESOLVED that this rate is to be available to all customers of the residential class except those notifying the Water and Light Department Business Office that they do not wish to have the sprinkling rate applied to their accounts, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this rate shall be in effect only during the sprinkling season and shall cease to be in effect with regular readings to be taken in September each year.

Voting Aye: Gregoire, Quirk, Ogden, Vetter

Voting Nay: None

The President declared the resolution passed.

It was moved by Commissioner Quirk second by Commissioner Vetter to approve the preliminary revised PKM Territory Agreement draft allowing further discussion to continue.

Voting Aye: Gregoire, Quirk, Ogden, Vetter

Voting Nay: None

It was moved by Commissioner Quirk second by Commissioner Vetter that the meeting be adjourned to July 15, 2004 at 5:00 P.M.

Voting Aye: Gregoire, Quirk, Ogden, Vetter

Voting Nay: None

                                                     Lori Maloney

                                                     Deputy Sec'y