City of Big Stone City Council Proceedings • February 1, 2021

February 1, 2021

5:30 p.m.

The Big Stone City council met in regular session on Monday, February 1st, 2021. Meeting began at 5:30  p.m. with Mayor Wiik presiding. Roll Call: Roscoe, Athey, Stoddard, Redfield, Brown and Longhenry present.  Others present George Boos, Bryan Austin, Bob Athey, Sheriff Deputy Orville Folk, Maria Loughlin, Stacy Froemming, Dan Behnke, Anne Lester, Julie Enstad, and Chris Folk.

The Pledge of Allegiance and the South Dakota State Pledge were recited.  Motion to accept the minutes from the January 4th  meeting was made by Brown and seconded by Redfield and Longhenry. All in favor, motion carried. 

The following claims were presented for payment.

Advanced Technologies, $162.81, black toner cartridge; Avera Occupational Medicine, $70.55, testing; Banyon, $990.00, System Support; Bernatello’s, $121.50; Big Stone Area Hardware, $23.95; Big Stone County Sheriff, $1,000.00, reimbursement for LETG maintenance; Border States, $699.15; Cintas, $158.06; Cintas, $180.74; City of Big Stone City, $5,242.47; City of Sioux Falls, $ 43.50, testing; Design Electrics, $ 19.99, Phone case; Electro Watchman, Inc. , $195.00; Ellwein Brothers Inc, $3,562.80; Ellwein Brothers Inc, $27.00; Ellwein Brothers Inc, $2,777.10; Ellwein Brothers Inc, $3,061.25; Ellwein Brothers Inc, $3,303.65; First District Association, $578.09; FS3, $34.66; Grant County Review, $90.64; Grant Roberts Rural Water, $8,179.00; Grant Roberts Rural Water, $6,031.00; Harry’s Frozen Pizza, $271.75; Hartman’s, $131.15, condiments and supplies; Health Pool of SD, $6,793.65, Health Insurance; Infotech, $435.00; Insurance Solutions, $42,782.13, policy adjustment; Johnson Brothers, $2,305.59; Johnson Brothers, $1,405.00; Johnson Brothers, $1,286.02; Johnson Brothers, $708.40; Johnson Brothers, $696.60; Johnson Brothers, $1,677.94; Johnson Brothers, $560.44; KDIO, $350.00, advertisement; MacDaddy’s, $291.12; Midco, $ 42.02; Midco, $42.02; Midco, $37.15; Midco, $479.33; Missouri River, $3,008.00, Misc. fee; Northwestern Energy, $110.83; Ortonville Independent, $591.00, advertisement; Porter Distributing Co., $226.00; Porter Distributing Co., $381.00; Porter Distributing Co., $155.10; Postmaster, $143.00; Postmaster, $91.00, Stamps; Quill, $51.26, cleaning supplies; Quill, $122.77, office supplies; Silver Springs LLC, $281.25; South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks, $22.00, fishing license; South Dakota One call, $4.48; South Dakota Retirement, $2,105.56; South Dakota Retirement System, $1,331.72; Sturdevants, $276.85; Terex, $970.51; Valley Office Products, $30.24; Valley Shopper, $486.40; Verizon, $140.58; Vicky Feuerhelm, $75.00, UB deposit reimbursement; Wesco, $63.00, cable tag; Wesco, $222.00; Wesco, $190.50; William Siminovsky, $75.00, UB deposit reimbursement; Xerox, $23.51, Xerox prints; General Fund 101, $8,292.62, January Payroll; Liquor Fund 601, $7,830.79, January Payroll; Water Fund 602, $1,712.73, January Payroll; Electric Fund 603, $4,365.52, January Payroll; Sewer Fund 604, $1,059.71, January Payroll

Motion to pay the presented claims was made by Longhenry and seconded by Roscoe. All in favor. Motion carried.

A motion was made by Redfield and seconded by Athey to approve Georgen’s resignations. All in favor, motion carried. Georgen’s police vehicles were discussed to get estimated and to advertise in the paper for the two vehicles for an auction sale. 

Anne Lester and Chris Folk spoke on behalf of the Little Lions on the development of where they are at in their building process of the new facilities. Lester and Folk presented to the council about the city considering donating to the Little Lions’ Learning Center. Council agreed to further discuss potential options on contributing to the building project. 

Deputy Orville Folk attended the meeting and gave the following report: Hours: 91 hours and 43 minutes with subject to call 24 hours per day. Written Warnings: 11, and Investigations/ events and incidents responded to two welfare checks, two traffic complaints, one vehicle accident, one security alarm, one suspicious person, one person arrested on several warrants and one felony arrest.

Dan Behnke of Waste Management presented the renewal proposal rates for residential garbage and recycling service. No changes to garbage rates, however recycling rates had to go up due to the cost of processing. A motion to renew garbage and recycling through Waste Management was made by Athey and seconded by Stoddard. All in favor. Motion carried. New contracted term March 1, 2021 to February 28, 2024. 

Stacy Froemming with the Irby Company presented on electric automatic meter reading infrastructure. Froemming provided a description on the automatic readers and put together an estimate on pricing. Further reports, research and bidding is to be continued regarding the automatic meter reading infrastructure. 

A proposal to establish a committee to  develop a municipal code was presented by Boos. A municipal code would establish an organization of the city’s ordinances. Further discussion needed. 

Being no further business a motion to adjourn the meeting was made at 8:20 p.m. by Athey and seconded by Redfield. All in favor, motion carried. 

/s/ Deb Wiik, Mayor

ATTEST:

/s/ Maria Loughlin

Finance Officer