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Brainerd City Council approves personnel, service and project items; holds stormwater award for more review
Summary
At its Jan. 5 meeting, the Brainerd City Council approved multiple committee-recommended items — including a joint misdemeanor prosecution agreement, a combined water/wastewater operator position and memoranda implementing Minnesota PFML for IBEW units — approved several project pay requests and planning items, and voted to delay a $33,510 stormwater engineering award for additional staff review.
The Brainerd City Council on Jan. 5 approved a slate of committee-recommended actions and asked staff for more information on a proposed stormwater engineering award.
Council members voted to approve a three-city misdemeanor prosecution joint services agreement and to adopt a combined water and wastewater operator job description, authorizing staff to negotiate wages with the IBEW bargaining unit. Personnel and finance committee chair Gabe Johnson said the prosecutor-hours allocation used a three‑year rolling average and noted the city’s court-fine revenue offsets the city’s share of the contract.
The council also approved memoranda of agreement to implement Minnesota’s Paid Family and Medical Leave for city IBEW public utility and administrative-service employees; the agreements confirm the employer and employee each pay half of the contribution rate, consistent with existing city practice.
In public-works business, the council approved change order No. 4 for the Trunk Highway…
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