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Hermantown council approves series of routine resolutions, deputy‑chiefs’ contract and large arena payment
Summary
The Hermantown City Council unanimously approved a package of resolutions including a tentative agreement with deputy chiefs (2025–2027), two easements to Minnesota Power, a three‑year softball fields agreement, arena change orders and pay request No. 11 for $2,490,592.60; the consent agenda and all resolutions passed on roll call.
The Hermantown City Council approved a slate of routine and substantive items on the agenda during a single meeting, taking unanimous roll‑call action on a consent agenda, labor agreement, easements, contractor change orders and a major construction pay request.
Key approvals included:
- Consent agenda: approval of continuation minutes (04/21/2025), work session minutes (04/28/2025) and general city warrants for $283,440.04.
- Resolution 2025‑72: a resolution honoring National Police Week and celebrating 50 years of service by the Hermantown Police Department.
- Resolution 2025‑73: approval of a tentative agreement with the deputy chiefs (their bargaining unit formed late last fall) covering Jan. 1, 2025, through Dec. 31, 2027. Mulder told the council the parties met multiple times and used mediation to reach the tentative agreement.
- Resolution 2025‑74: a three‑year agreement for use of the city’s Rose Road athletic fields with the Hermantown Summer Softball Association.
- Resolution 2025‑75: a development agreement updating the previously drafted 2024 agreement for a Stebner Road planned unit development (10 buildings, 20 units) to substitute VMAX Incorporated as the developer; staff said other contractual terms from 2024 remain in effect and estimated a roughly 1½‑year construction timeline.
- Resolution 2025‑76: authorization to contract with Northland Consulting Engineers to perform an ADA inventory and begin the city’s ADA transition plan; staff indicated the city reached the full‑time equivalent threshold that triggers the transition plan work.
- Resolutions 2025‑78 and 2025‑79: acceptance of two easement agreements to Minnesota Power for parcels associated with park and Maple Grove Road properties; utility director Trish Figo described a widening of an existing easement on park property and a smaller easement on Maple Grove Road that includes wetlands.
- Resolution 2025‑80: approval of change orders 21–23 for the North Star Ford Arena in the total amount of $27,072.27 (grading adjustments, railing material change, roof‑access door modification).
- Resolution 2025‑81: approval of pay request No. 11 to Krause Anderson Construction Company for $2,490,592.60 covering work through April 30.
All items listed above were moved, seconded and approved on roll call at the meeting. Where motion makers and seconders were recorded in the transcript (for example, the consent agenda was moved by Councilor LeBlanc and seconded by Councilor Gelli), the meeting proceeded without recorded dissents.
What’s next: items that require further proceedings (for example, the Road Improvement District discussed in detail elsewhere on the agenda) will return for public hearings or subsequent council action; contracts and pay requests proceed under the approvals granted.
