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Votes at a glance: Willmar City Council meeting (Nov. 18)
Summary
Council approved agenda and consent items; adopted preliminary budgets and contracts for 2025–26 street projects; approved a wastewater public hearing on Dec. 2; approved a $305,000 contract amendment and $2.9M preliminary budget for project 2503D; authorized an RFP for criminal prosecution services; motion and vote counts listed.
The Willmar City Council took the following recorded actions on Nov. 18 (all roll-call votes listed were 8–0 unless noted):
- Approve agenda as presented (motion passed). - Approve consent agenda including council minutes (11/4/2024), commission minutes, LELS MOU, planning commission draft minutes, municipal utilities commission minutes, preliminary/final plat for Mackenzie Estates, deferred special assessments and airport clear zone grant (consent agenda approved 8–0). - Adopt preliminary budget resolution for 2025 improvement projects (approved 8–0). - Approve professional services agreement with Bolton & Menk for 2025 street construction services ($463,118) (approved 8–0). - Adopt preliminary budgets and approve professional services agreement for 2026 design work with Bolton & Menk ($631,890) (approved 8–0). - Receive presentation of wastewater rate study and call a public hearing on sanitary sewer rate amendments for Dec. 2 (set by motion, approved 8–0). - Approve Amendment No. 3 to the 2022 engineering services contract for project 2503D for $305,000 and adopt a preliminary project budget of $2,902,700 (both approved 8–0). - Authorize release of an RFP for Criminal Prosecution Services for a new three-year contract (approved 8–0).
Several informational items were also presented, including an ARPA/CIP update and an operations budget transfer plan; staff offered a work session to continue budget and ARPA discussions.
