February 18, 2020 at 6:30 PM - City of St. Paul Regular Meeting

1. Mayor Bergman calls meeting to order, with the "Pledge of Allegiance" and the "Open Meeting Statement"

2. Submittal of Requests for Future Agenda Items

3. Reserve Time to Speak on an Agenda Item

4. FOLK, LLC Telephone Conference at 6:30 p.m. regarding a discussion on the City's (1) Brand Platform Strategy & Tagline revisions and (2) the Website Strategy and Sitemap revisions.
Discuss - Approve / Deny the City's Brand Platform Strategy & Tagline revisions, along with the Website Strategy and Sitemap revisions.

5. Discuss - Approve / Deny the Treasurer's Report regarding January 2020.

6. Discuss - Approve / Deny the five (5) Special Designated Liquor applications for the St. Peter & Paul Church Life Center at 713 Elm Street regarding the Easter fish fry's on March 6, March 13, March 20, March 27 and April 3, 2020.  The event will be from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., with identification being checked on all occasions, along with wristbands being utilized for underage drinking.  Chief of Police Paczosa approved the applications.

7. Discuss - Approve / Deny Resolution #2020-2; whereas the City of St. Paul, NE is calling the outstanding General Obligation Water Refunding Bond, Series 2015 in the amount of $365,000.

8. Discuss - Introduce Ordinance #1006 authorizing the issuance of General Obligation Water Refunding Bonds, Series 2020 of the City of St. Paul in the principal amount of not to exceed $380,000 for the purpose of paying off certain outstanding bonds of the City; prescribing the form of said bonds; authorizing Officers of the City to designate final terms for said bonds within stated parameters; providing for the levy of taxes to pay said bonds; providing for the sale of bonds; authorizing the delivery of the bonds to the purchaser; approving post-issuance tax compliance policies; and providing for publication of this ordinance in pamphlet form.  The cost savings in refunding the bond is approximately $15,000.
b. Waive the three (3) readings of ordinance at three (3) different occasions , with second and roll call
c. Final passage of ordinance, with second and roll call

9. Discuss - Approve / Deny gWorks change order to "SimpleCity Physical Asset Management" Project No. 0996-001 to add additional data storage of 5 GB to 500 GB, costing $300 annually.

10. Discuss - Approve / Deny the amendment to the LB 840 Loan Agreement and Promissory Note entered into between Sarah (Call) Townsend dba Escape Tanning and the City of St. Paul, NE.  The City will lend Escape Tanning an aggregate amount up to Ten Thousand ($10,000) as evidenced by the Promissory Note; the additional amount is $3,052.39.  The interest rate of 2.75% will remain the same and the last scheduled payment will be on February 15, 2024.  Any payments ten (10) days late shall be assessed a late charge of $20. Documents were emailed to City Attorney White for his approval.

11. Discuss - Approve / Deny hiring a City Police Officer (Law Enforcement Academy training begins Monday, May 4, 2020)
 

12. Discuss - Approve / Deny City Police On-call pay (Chief of Police Paczosa).

13. REMINDER: An IBEW 1597 Union negotiation special meeting on Thursday, February 27, 2020; 5:30 p.m. meeting for Mayor & City Council members and 6:00 p.m. for the IBEW 1597 Union members to join. 

14. Utility Superintendent Helzer updates

15. Chief of Police Paczosa updates a. Nuisance & Incident Report

16. Council member updates

17. Mayor Bergman updates:
a. The City of St. Paul received $5,033 in proceeds from the Membership & Attendance Distribution from Public Alliance Community Energy (ACE); Mayor Bergman is allocating the funds to the Park's Dept.
b. Nebraska Municipal Clerk's Institute & Academy Scholarships: Deputy Clerk Royle received full scholarship of $443 and City Clerk Beck received $100 off of the amount of $273 regarding Clerk School.
c. Housing Authority Annual Report from July 1, 2018 to July 1, 2019.  If Council members want to review, the Financial Statement can be seen at the City Office.
d. Piper Jaffray Anticipation Bond regarding the payment for Howard Avenue, the Kendall West repair and other projects that have a contingency on them.

18. Public Comment Period - restricted to items on the agenda

19. Public Announcements

20. Closed Session: The City of St. Paul reserves the right to go into Closed Session when it is clearly necessary to protect the public interest or for the prevention of needless injury to the reputation of an individual; or pending litigation

21. Mayor Bergman adjourns City Council meeting.

22. Informational Items:
a.  Certificates of Deposit January 2020
b.  Receipt sheet January 2020
c.  Legislative Bulletin #5: Special Articles:  (1) LB 1155, LB 794, LB 866 - Urban Affairs Committee holds hearing on bills dealing with housing (2)  LB 781 - requiring continuing education for Municipal Treasurer's;  (3) Support LB 242 - would return a portion of the state portion of the sales tax on water and wastewater to Municipal Utilities;  (4) LB 1046, LB 960 Transportation & Telecommunications reduces budget revenues; and (5) LB 898 Transportation & Telecommunications Committee hears testimony on bill to further restrict Municipal ability to regulate cell phone towers