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Waite Park council approves consent items, pays bills; member questions $132,000 contract line
Summary
The Waite Park City Council approved the meeting agenda, consent items including 2025 street improvements and Ledge trench repair, and voted to pay city bills by voice vote; during consent discussion a council member raised a concern about contract language listing $132,000 as an 'hourly' figure, which was clarified as the total estimated project cost.
The Waite Park City Council moved through routine business and approved several consent items and the payment of city bills by voice vote.
The presiding officer moved to approve the agenda "as presented," and a council member seconded; the motion carried with an affirmative voice vote. The council then presented a consent agenda that included approval of 2025 street-improvement construction administration and approval of Ledge trench repair. A motion to approve item b (the Ledge repair) was moved and seconded and carried by voice vote.
During discussion of a consent-agenda contract, a council member flagged language that appeared to show a $132,000 "per hour" rate. "When I was reading the contract, I noticed that one of the hourly rates for the project is $132,000 per hour," the council member said. A respondent clarified: "No. ... that's the total estimated cost ... we're gonna bill you hourly up to a 132,000," indicating the $132,000 figure was a ceiling for total billing rather than a literal hourly fee.
The council also moved and seconded to pay city bills; that motion was approved by voice vote. Later in the meeting the council read a proclamation recognizing Rick Miller's decades of community service and noted that city offices will relocate, marking this meeting as the last in the current council chambers. A motion to adjourn passed and the meeting ended at 6:54 p.m.
The transcript records voice votes and does not include roll-call tallies for the recorded motions; no formal dissenting votes were recorded in the excerpt.
