City Commission - Regular Meeting

Okay. It's like three companies that can't think of what do we actually use Andrew?

Didn't mean to ask a hard question.

Community Pass. Community Pass. Okay. But Community Pass is owned by Capture Point is owned by another company and it's just a, it's a mess. Sounds like a cluster. Yeah. Believe me, when the parent company sent me the invoice, I ignored it because I thought it was a scam.

YEAH, I THINK SO. YEAH, I THINK SO. I THINK THERE'S MAYBE JUST A COUPLE OF WORDS I DON'T HAVE, BUT I THINK IT'S A NAME.

I THINK THAT'S A NAME. RIGHT?

YEAH. SO IT SAYS, PLEASE GET THIS LETTER TO AN OLDER COUPLE, RON, JAN, LARSEN, WITH LOVE. ON THE EAST SIDE. IT MAKES YOU WONDER IF YOU CAN SHOW IT TO AI.

I do think we know.

Yeah, even since I got involved with ARTIS. I do like using Google AI. It requires heat shields. Years ago, I worked with the first members of NASA on Cape Canaveral. Then it makes it Christina Rocha-Reed Weisinger, and then Vieta Hansen, then Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II.

I think he's looking for an older couple. I think he's looking for an older couple. No, there isn't. There's a phone number. Oh, there is? Yeah. Oh, no, all that questioning.

We're not going to get ahold of them.

7 o'clock. Okay, so call the meeting to order.

Okay.

Before we move on to our city business, I would like to have a moment of silence in remembrance of 9-11. And as a result of 9-11, 2,977 people lost their lives that day. 343 of them were firefighters, 60 police officers, and eight EMTs and paramedics. So please join us in a moment of silence in remembrance. THANK YOU. MOVING ON, ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS TO THE CONSENT CALENDAR?

MOVE TO APPROVE THE CONSENT CALENDAR.

WE HAVE A MOTION, DO WE HAVE A SECOND?

SECOND. COMMISSIONER GARVERS? AYE. PETERSON? AYE. YORK? AYE. CARLSON?

AYE.

MAYOR LUNDSTROM?

AYE. AT THIS TIME, ARE THERE ANY VISITORS TO BE HEARD TONIGHT ON ANYTHING THAT IS NOT ON THE AGENDA?

My name is Paul Norley. I live at 120 West first street. And I just wanted to first thank you for raising those manhole covers at the intersection of first and Cedar. I don't know if you realized it, but that took care of, it helped take care of some of the flooding issues because they were about four inches low at that point. And it was perforated manhole cover, which allowed water to run directly into an open sewer. So as a matter of repair, I guess it costs about $20,000 to do that work to about 13 animal covers in town, which is great. I think that should be commended. The other thing I'd like to say is I was a little miffed because when they did raise that, they didn't do anything to replace the manhole cover that was perforated. There was 14 one-inch holes in it, 12 through the center and two on the side. It would allow about a stream of water, four to five inches to go in there. And being four inches down, if the road was top, that meant that it had a five-inch head above it pushing water straight into an open sewer. Now you might not say that's enough to flood the houses, but I know on that intersection two years ago, every house except for mine was damaged with flooding, including the apartments. Cedar Manor, I think it's called. I did notice that last week somebody did come by and put in a sanitary sewer cover on that. I want to say thank you for that. That's something that needed to be done probably decades ago. However, In my own survey of the town, we have several more of these manhole covers that should be replaced. They're open straight into a sewer main. And if you would take a drive one block to the east of my house, you'll find one there that's an inch and a half low. I don't personally watch that intersection to see if it gets topped. But if it does, that means you're going to end up with a two-inch head dumping water straight into an open sewer again or right into an open main. There are several of these covers that are on the lower part of town, on the south side of town, which probably don't matter too much because it's down very low. But at the top, when you start putting that much water into a system, you can just imagine how that gets overwhelmed in hardly any time at all. I realize we have an aging infrastructure. I realize it's going to cost lots it cost $20,000 to raise those manhole covers. 12 years ago, I put $17,000 into my basement, so I wouldn't have to deal with sewer coming into my basement again. So as an individual, I would put 17 grand into it. As a city, you put 20,000 into doing some work on that. I would like to see as soon as possible what the hydrologist studies say and i'd like to see a forward action plan on how you're going to handle the situation in the future i guess that's all i have to say other than mrs mayor i'm sorry for jacking you up at the grocery store the other day and the other commissioners i'm sorry for giving you a hard time but all these things need to be addressed we're a small town in a conservative state We need to take care of things because if the people don't do it, that's the government's job to help the people with their civic affairs. Well, flooding, I consider a civic affair when it affects so many of my neighbors. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Anyone else on anything that is not on the agenda? Okay, if not, we'll move on. I have a proclamation to read tonight. for Lois Tweet Day, and I will read that now. Whereas Lois Tweet was born September 15th, 1926 in Pine City, Minnesota to parents Arvid and Hannah Johnson. Hannah immigrated from Norway in 1922 and Lois grew up on a farm near Pine City and graduated from Pine City High School in 1943. And whereas Lois had many jobs, including being a county treasurer at Pine City Courthouse, working for a publishing company and the Evangelical Free Church headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And whereas Lois married Donald Tweet on June 12, 1965, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and moved to Beersford, South Dakota, to become a stepmother to Linda, Carol, and Randy Tweet. And... Whereas Lois continued to live in Beersford for 25 years. Donald passed away in 1989 and in 1991, she moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Linda passed away in 2007. In 2024, Lois became a resident of Good Samaritan Care Center in Canton, South Dakota. Whereas Lois played the accordion and piano, she loved singing and was in a woman's quartet. Lois is well known for making small quilts well into her 90s and giving them away to family, friends, and charities. And whereas Lois is a wonderful stepmother to her children, four grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. And Whereas Lois turns 100 years old on September 15th, 2026. And Lois family is having a celebration for Lois's 100th birthday at the Good Samaritan Center in Kansas, South Dakota on September 13th, 2026. Now, therefore, I, Sandra Lundstrom, Mayor of the City of Canton, do hereby proclaim Tuesday, September 15th, 2026 as Lois Tweet Day and urge our community to recognize her achievements and celebrate her 100 years, dated this 8th day of September 2026. OK, now we'll move on to new business. Thank you. We have a special retail malt beverage and wine dealers license hearing. Okay. And for St. Dominic Catholic Church, they submitted an application for a special retail malt beverage and wine dealer's license for October 11th, 2026 at 800 East Walnut Street. It is noted on the application that people must show proper ID and will receive a wristband and no outside beverages allowed. So after we'll do this hearing right now. Okay, this is the time and place for the hearing on the special event retail on-sale malt and beverage and wine dealers license application from St. Dominic's Catholic Church. The public hearing is now open. The purpose of this hearing is to hear the request for a special event retail on-sale malt and beverage and wine dealers license for St. Dominic's Catholic Church on October 11th. at 800 East Walnut and to take in public comment. If any member of the commission has a conflict of interest with this issue, they should so state and abstain from participation in this hearing.

Anyone?

Okay. Absolutely have a representative. Okay, does anyone on the board have any questions they would like to ask the representative here tonight? If so, go ahead.

we do this last year didn't you do this last year uh the year before year before okay i thought we had done this before i'm not aware of what it is that you're doing like we're just doing a social community event up at st dominic's everybody's invited we just are going to have uh we'll just have beers basically what it is but it's free will donation but just in case so if somebody says oh you gave money so therefore you paid for it and basically what we're just doing to kind of cover Yep, that's about it.

Okay, any other questions?

Okay, are there any proponents to this issue? Are there any opponents to this issue? Okay, if there are no further questions, hearing nothing further, the public hearing is now closed. And I would now entertain a motion regarding the application for the special event.

I'll give him more. I'll second. The motion is second.

Commissioners Peterson. Aye. York. Aye. Carlson.

Aye.

Garbers. Aye. Mayor Lundstrom.

Aye.

There you go. Okay, hopefully we see you on the 11th. Thank you much. Bye.

Okay. Next on the agenda is to advertise for a full-time police officer. We needed to advertise for a full-time police officer position vacated by Travis Valdez. A motion and a second is required to advertise for the full-time police position. I move. I have a motion. Do we have a second?

I'll second.

Okay. Is there any discussion?

If not, you want to call roll? Commissioner Zyorg. Aye. Carlson? Aye. Garbers?

Aye.

Peterson? Aye. Mayor Lundstrom?

Aye. Okay, next is the health insurance 6.06.1 for Medicare. And a change to the personnel manual is needed to reflect the option for employees to carry Medicare while still working and be reimbursed by the city the out-of-pocket cost the employee has paid. And a motion is needed to approve this change in the personnel manual.

I brought this up with you briefly. If somebody is with us long enough to qualify for this for Medicare and they switch over to it and we cover the cost of some of their optional parts that they can add on to it, it will always still come up cheaper for us than what our health insurance costs for the city.

Okay. How long do we plan to do this for the individuals?

As long as they stay employed. As long as they stay employed. And that's written in there? No. I mean, this is a benefit. Health insurance is a benefit while you're employed.

Yes, but I guess what I'm trying to say is what's the end? Whenever their employment's up. Their employment, okay. Yep.

IT WOULDN'T FOLLOW UNDER COBRA BECAUSE WE COULDN'T DO THAT.

NO. YEAH.

IT WOULD JUST BE. YEP.

THE DAY THEY QUIT OR WHATEVER.

he decided to do it are we opening ourselves to pay for it because we simply would i see what you're saying our intent was for it to be clear that we're paying for the out-of-pocket costs associated with the medicare program not for medical treatment for the premium right yeah

And maybe it should specify the word for the out-of-pocket premium.

I just don't want to get caught that cost. You said we pay for it.

So do you want to amend it right here and now and make a motion to accept that to change it to premium?

OK. Yeah, I understand what you're saying.

So the motion has been made. Is there a second? I have a question.

Come up here.

Yeah, come up here.

Otherwise it doesn't pick you up. So you're talking about the out-of-pocket expense for Parts D and the supplement.

Yes, the supplement.

But you're not talking about the initial payment that's just directly taken out of this, you know, like Social Security. Okay, why don't you put in something that says that a drug that's not on the formulary might be denied?

Well, because we aren't actually paying for the drugs at all.

Okay, as long as that's stipulated clearly. Right, just like... Because, yeah, I mean... That's why we changed the word to premium.

We're just paying, reimbursing for the premium, they pay for the insurance. After that, all the costs associated with

cancer drugs that are just tremendously expensive.

We have a motion. Do we have a second?

And call roll.

Commissioner Scarlson.

Aye.

Garbers. Aye. Peterson. Aye. York. Aye. Mayor Lester.

Aye. Next on the agenda is a raffle ticket request for the Bruce Short Cancer Benefit. Mickey Hoekstra submitted a raffle request for Bruce Short's benefit. The price of the ticket is to be determined. They will be sold from September through November with a drawing on November 21st, 2026 at Gate City. Prices include guns, currently they have a couple of guns, but maybe, that may expand to other items so the prize values are to be determined. The event will include a bake sale, free will donation, supper, silent auction, and possibly a raffle and an auction. So motion is required to approve the request for this raffle.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Okay, I'm going to call roll.

Commissioners, Garbers? Aye. Peterson? Aye. York? Aye. Carlson?

Aye.

Mayor Lundstrom?

Aye. We have another raffle request from the Canton Rotary Club. Brian Launderville from the Canton Rotary presented a raffle request. Tickets will be sold from August 25th to September 15th. At $25 per chance, there will be a $50 weekly prize. Dates of the drawings will be after each Monday night football game in the 2026-2027 NFL season. So this requires a motion, a second as well.

Okay, is there a second? A second. Okay, do you want to call roll?

Commissioners Peterson. Aye. York. Aye. Carlson. Aye. Garbers. Aye. Mayor Lundstrom.

Aye. Next we have first reading for the 2027 appropriation ordinance. And Kyle will present the 2027 appropriation ordinance. And a motion is required to make any amendments and give the first reading.

Yes, you all see your packets at the proposed ordinance. Andrew and I spent a fair amount of time balancing this to bring a zero budget. We have cut spending back from what was requested to based on what was this year's with sales tax being kind of a slump issue. We didn't feel we could go any more than what we did for this year.

DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY?

NO, IT WAS JUST EXACTLY WHAT KYLE SAID. THE ONLY CHANGE WOULD BE OUR COMMITMENTS ON STEPPING CREASES AND COLA ADJUSTMENTS, BUT ACTUAL DEPARTMENT LINES WERE HELD THE SAME AS THIS YEAR. LIKE KYLE SAID, SELF-SAX IS DOWN ONE AND A THIRD PERCENT SO FAR THIS YEAR. WE'VE HAD REALLY HIGH MONTHS AND REALLY LOW MONTHS, AND IT'S STILL BOUNCED OUT TO BE A DOWN YEAR FOR US RIGHT NOW.

Okay, so motion is required to make any amendments and first reading. We just need a motion.

I'll make a motion for the first reading.

Okay, thank you. Okay. You don't need a photo for that, do you? No. Okay, next on the agenda is resolution to set a hearing date for special assessments. And this is for nuisance abatements. As part of the nuisance abatement process, the city incurred costs of hiring contractors for bowing and yard cleanup. By law, those bills that remain unpaid can be assessed to the property. The special assessment process provides that the governing body, one, set a public hearing and two, notify the property owners of the hearing by both sending notice and publishing the notice of the hearing. The notice calls for the public hearing to be held on October 5th, 2026. Following the public hearing, the city commission will adopt a resolution approving the special assessment role with any adjustments. And a motion is required to approve the resolution to set the hearing date and the time for the 5th of october 2026 at 7 00 p.m so that concludes everything that we have on the agenda SO WE'LL GO COMMISSIONER DUTTON.

CHRIS, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT?

I DO NOT.

SARAH? I DON'T SEE ANYTHING COME UP IN MY CALENDAR. I DON'T THINK I HAVE ANYTHING.

You, Carol? Teresa, you're on the committee for the e-bikes or whatever they are. Have you guys been meeting at all? Do you have any updates?

We haven't had any more meetings. I have a couple people interested in it to go on the board and help out.

Nobody was interested anymore?

I do have a couple of them.

I did see that Harrisburg adopted one and I have not read it yet. It's lengthy.

Is it lengthy? I have not read it yet. I just saw that they were very detailed.

Okay. Chief, do you have anything you want to say tonight? Yes. Football. We played Dell Rapids here at home. Go Seahawks. So, Do you want an executive?

Yeah, let's do it.

Okay, we are going to go into executive session in South Dakota Codified Law 1-25-2. Nope, nope, nope, change that. It's about the economic development in South Dakota 9-34-19. Okay, motion. Do we have a second? I'll roll.

Commissioner Scarleson.

Aye.

Garbers. Aye. Peterson. Aye. York. Aye. Mayor Lestrom.

Aye. So thank you for coming, everyone.