The Crookston City Council will have its final meeting of 2024 on Monday, December 30, at 5:30 p.m. at Crookston City Hall’s Council Chambers.
The meeting will start with two presentations. The first is a Service Award for Council Member Wendy Ault. The second is from Diane Hayes and John Wynne regarding the Small Cities Development Grant (SCDG).
The consent agenda includes the following items – Approval of the Truth-in-Tazation minutes and City Council meeting minutes from December 9, approval of bills and disbursements for $396,528.10. The council will also be asked to accept a donation of $5,169 to go towards the Crookston Community Pool and a $200 donation from the Iris Eisert estate to the Crookston Fire Department.
The council will be asked to designate the 2025 Election Precinct polling location (Wards 1, 2, and 6 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, and Wards 3, 4, and 5 at the First Presbyterian Church), and a resolution regarding surplus property for the City of Crookston.
The City Council will also be asked to approve a resolution regarding the purchase of radios and equipment for the Police and Fire Department, the amendment of the School Resource Officer contract with the Crookston School District, and amending the contract with Scruffy Tails.
The busy consent agenda wraps up with an independent audit of Body Worn Cameras of the Crookston Police Department and the first amendment to the lease of the Crookston Municipal Airport-Kirkwood Field, ASA-B Radio Station Site SV263-01.
The regular council agenda includes the following – adopting the fee schedule for 2025, approval of an increase for water and wastewater rates in 2025, the new Fire Fighters Labor Union contract, adoption of the five-year capital improvement plan from 2025 to 2029, adopting the property tax levy of 22.2% increase in 2025. The council will also be asked to adopt the 2025 budget, approve an intermediary re-lending program loan request from Vertical Malt, and the approval of policies for the Small Cities Development Grant program. There will be a closed session to discuss the purchase of real property, with the meeting opened back up with a summary of the closed session to wrap up the meeting.
The full meeting agenda packet is available below-
