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Beresford council approves September financial report, supplemental appropriation for fire truck repairs and several routine items
Summary
The Beresford City Council approved the September financial report, adopted a supplemental appropriation ordinance for fire truck repairs and passed a series of routine administrative items, including a pay request for a utility extension and a part-time library hire.
Beresford City Council approved multiple routine financial and administrative items during its regular meeting, including the September financial report, a supplemental appropriation related to a damaged fire truck and a pay request for a Seventh Street utility extension. The council also authorized personnel and equipment actions and set dates for upcoming meetings.
Key votes and approvals
- September 2025 financial report: Council approved the financial report. Finance staff highlighted payments made in September, including $125,000 to Site Works for the Sanger Wastewater Treatment Facility, $15,667 to Metro Construction related to BOC housing development, $266,792 to Musson Brothers for sanitary sewer improvement work, and combined SRF loan payments of $27,792 for prior drinking-water and clean-water loans. The city also recorded storm-related invoice totals of about $53,810 for cleanup work.
- Supplemental appropriation ordinance 2025-07 (second reading and adoption): The ordinance, tied to an insurance claim after a fire truck was damaged and repairs made at Jerry's Auto Body, was adopted on second reading by council vote.
- Pay Request No. 5, First Rate Excavate (Seventh Street utility extension): The council approved payment of $79,435.84 (discussion noted a submitted figure and a later corrected figure of $79,004.35 in packet paperwork; the packet reviewer characterized line-item 9 as a credit). The council approved the pay request after staff review.
- Hire: Council authorized the immediate hire of Leanne Barnes as a part-time librarian at $17.91 per hour; the hire is for an on-call/fill-in role with an expected small number of monthly hours and no benefits.
- Surplus equipment: Council authorized removal of obsolete digital cable boxes from service and designated them surplus for recycling.
- Travel requests and training: Travel requests for the local-road conference (Sioux Falls), a TOC planning event (Fargo) and the annual safety/loss-control training (Nov. 12) were approved.
- Payment of bills: Council authorized regular payment of bills.
- Special meetings and negotiations: The council set a special meeting to discuss the 2026 budget for Oct. 30 at 6 p.m. and scheduled Teamsters Local 120 contract negotiations for Nov. 3 at 5:30 p.m. (a repeat of the union negotiation timeline referenced earlier in the meeting).
- Executive session: The council voted to enter executive session on personnel and legal matters at 7:40 p.m.
Ending
Most votes were routine and passed by voice vote; the meeting included multiple committee, departmental and administrative updates. Several items (notably the Axon contract and the 2026 budget meeting) will require follow-up and inclusion in the 2026 budget process.
