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Council signs off on library and liquor‑store bond steps, adopts drone policy and approves several routine purchases and contracts
Summary
The council approved preliminary steps for issuing bonds to pay for a library roof and a liquor‑store roof (one via CIP bonds, the other via a tax abatement structure), adopted a police drone policy aligned with Minnesota statute, increased animal pound fees, and approved several routine contracts including panic‑alarm monitoring and software licensing.
The City Council on Nov. 4 approved multiple administrative and capital items: preliminary authorization for general obligation bonds that will fund a library roof and an abatement bond for a liquor‑store roof, a required drone policy for police operations, fee increases for the animal pound, and a set of routine contracts and renewals.
George Eilertsen of Northland Securities told the council the library roof project is roughly a $100,000 capital improvement and the liquor‑store roof is roughly $210,000; staff explained the library portion will use general obligation CIP bonds…
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