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Huron commission approves consent agenda and awards event-center concession to 1 Oak Events LLC
Summary
The Huron City Commission approved routine consent items and awarded the event center food-and-beverage concession to 1 Oak Events LLC (Kevin Tompkins). The meeting also approved a bail-bag purchase for the new baler, a one‑year clubhouse lease, a liability waiver with Northwestern Energy and the annual toboggan-hill lease renewal.
The Huron City Commission on Nov. 24 approved its consent agenda, including minutes from Nov. 17, personnel changes and routine departmental purchases, and voted to award the event-center food and beverage concession to 1 Oak Events LLC.
Brenda Jager and staff recommended 1 Oak Events LLC based on the proposer’s experience operating food service at the event center; Kevin Tompkins was identified in the meeting as the principal of the awarded business. Commissioners moved and approved the contract without further amendment.
Other items approved under routine or near‑routine action: the commission accepted a bail-bag supply bid for the new baler (total cited $78,912), with Solid Waste Superintendent Dale Fortin explaining tariffs and higher recent tonnage have increased annual bag needs to an estimated 8,000 per year and that lead time for orders is about three months. The commission also approved a one‑year lease for the Rodland Creek Golf Course clubhouse with Ben Drought that preserves the existing pricing and adjusts the seasonal utility obligations, and authorized a liability‑waiver agreement with Northwestern Energy allowing holiday decorations on city streetlight poles (the waiver runs five years with annual billing information to be provided).
Chad Schroeder and Parks staff secured a one‑year renewal of the Slide Hill/Toboggan Hill lease to allow winter recreation use while the city attorney reviews longer‑term lease language. All motions in this group passed by roll call.
The meeting concluded routine business and moved on to more substantive agenda items: a change order for the street milling project, a plat and TIF proposal for a hotel site, and a water and sewer rate‑study presentation.
