Council Meeting Minutes 4/21/25

MINNEOLA CITY COUNCIL MEETS                                                April 21, 2025

The Minneola City Council met in regular session on April 21, 2025, in the Civic Connection. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m., with the following Council members present: Marvin Jensen, Dustin Laudick, Chad Kirk, and Debbie Buckley. Mayor Carol Sibley presided. Also present was Tyler Knox, City Manager, and Brenda Stewart, City Clerk.

Luke Jaeger, Minneola citizen, presented an idea for the open lots on Spruce Street. Thoughts and suggestions were discussed. The Council liked the idea and asked Luke to look into it further and come back with a proposal. The Council thanked him for his vision and initiative for Minneola.

Marvin made a motion to approve the adjusted minutes from March 21, 2025, with changing the date in the first paragraph. Debbie seconded, motion passed 4/0.

Financial Reports for March 2025 were reviewed. There were no questions. Brenda noted that in the March/April 2025 Kansas Government Journal that everyone received, are the current mill levies for cities, counties, and USD. A spreadsheet was passed out showing Minneola mills and mills of other surrounding towns.

Manager Update:

• Tyler will check with Joel at EBH to verify that the revised Cedar Street drawing was submitted to the Register of Deeds.
• The pool chlorine room is going up and rafters are almost done. There is a small portion of concrete that will be poured next week.
• Sergio will attend the CDL theory class on the 28^th. Tyler will take the driver training on the 29^th. Both classes are in McPherson.
• To cost to repair Well #5 is $14,212.79. Chad made a motion to proceed with the repair, Marvin seconded, motion passed 4/0. There was discussion about using Well #4 and Well #5 for a short period of time each quarter to keep parts moving and to verify that they are still functioning.
• Cats in Action Day was successful, and several projects were completed including cleaning the shop grounds, removing sand in some street dips, cleaning up the tree boxes on Main Street, and work in the City Hall park.
• Tyler mentioned an incident by City Hall and that he is going to look at installing cameras in the front and back of the building.

Carol stated she spoke with Morgan Koon, Attorney, concerning Sunrise Addition. He plans to contact Ranson Financial about a few options.

Spring clean-up day will be April 26. Our code officer will be inspecting the town on the following Monday or Tuesday.

The community annual garage sale will be on June 7. Notices and sign-up sheets will be posted in May.

An After Prom thank you note was passed around for the Council to read.

Ordinance 2025-02, revising the Fire Department reimbursement for runs and meetings, was presented. Marvin made a motion to approve Ordinance 2025-02, Debbie seconded, motion passed 4/0.

A Snell-Nelson insurance spreadsheet, previously emailed out, for 4/1/25-4/1/26 insurance was reviewed. The City has added some items to the insurance in the last 6 years and some items have been deleted, but insurance costs have doubled in the last 6 years. The deductible for wind and hail is now $5,000, so it is not worth insuring some items. The Council asked Tyler and Brenda to review the insurance to see what can be deleted to try to lower costs.

In Municipal Court, Judge Whitney approved Resolution 2025-R01 for Court Case C22-01. If the property is not cleaned up by May 5, 2025, the City may proceed on May 6, 2025.

Carol sent an email to Appleton Township concerning the Norton Bond, and they will be dropping a check off at City Hall.

Reminder that election forms for 2025 are due by noon on June 3, at the County.

The bills were reviewed. Marvin made a motion to approve the bills as presented, Debbie seconded, motion passed 4/0.

Marvin made a motion to adjourn the meeting, Chad seconded, motion passed 4/0. The meeting adjourned at 9:10 pm.

City Clerk