Crookston City Council will meet on Monday, March 3, in the Council Chambers at City Hall. There will be a Proclamation after the Open Forum for the National Child and Adult Care Food Program taking place March 16-22, 2025.
The consent agenda consists of approval of the City Council Minutes from February 18, 2025, and a resolution to approve the City of Crookston Bills and Disbursements for $375,953.96. There are three task orders on the consent agenda for Monday’s meeting that are continuing service agreements with AE2S for incidental work. First, for AE2S Task Order No. 14 – 2025, On-call for Instrumentation and Control (I & C) for general support. The second is AE2S Task Order No. 15 – 2025, General Engineering Services: On-Call general engineering services. The third is AE2S Task Order No. 16 – 2025, Funding Support: On-call funding support services.
Also within the consent agenda is a resolution regarding a 70/30 match for a Wind Cone Proposal for the Crookston Airport, a resolution regarding Short Elliot Hendrickson (SEH) being authorized to request for bids relating to the T-Hanger Construction, and approval of a rehabilitation loan program and mortgage satisfaction on the property owned MK Properties and Management LLC, Michael Butenhoff. This rehabilitation loan has been verified as satisfied by Finance.
On the regular agenda is a resolution to approve the re-zoning of the parcels in the southern most block of the central business district from Commercial to Residential. This change is in-line with Crookston’s Comprehensive Plan and the Downtown Master Plan.
The other item on the regular agenda concerns the approval of the Crookston Water Supply Aquifer modeling. This will help provide information needed to identify the capacity for Crookston’s municipal supply, which can help the city evaluate its participation in the planned Regional Water Program. Council reports will close out the meeting.
A Ways and Means meeting will follow immediately after the City Council Meeting, with three discussion items. The first is a request to amend the City purchasing policy, specifically to increase the limit for the City Administrator to $25,000 and limit department heads to $10,000.
The second discussion is an update to the city’s travel reimbursement policy. Travel reimbursement right now is $58 per day. This is the lowest tier for the General Services Administration. City of Crookston staff would like direction from the council on implementing the full GSA scale which would allow staff travelling to high-cost areas to get/ reimbursed for actual cost of meals instead of having to subsidize while on city business.
The final item of discussion for Monday’s Ways and Means meeting will be a discussion on developing a policy that any funds allocated or reserved for any grant application be fully secured and funds fully identified prior to the approval to move forward being granted.
