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East Grand Forks council approves free student pool passes, bridge work, lift-station contract and hiring
Summary
At its May 6 meeting the East Grand Forks City Council adopted resolutions to provide free single-day pool passes to K–8 students for the 2025 pool season, enter a joint bridge rehabilitation agreement with Grand Forks, order bridge improvement plans, award a $34,155 lift-station contract, hire a parks specialist, and authorize routine claims and payments.
The East Grand Forks City Council on May 6 adopted a package of resolutions covering parks programming, infrastructure work, a utilities contract and a personnel hire.
The council approved Resolution 25-05-33 authorizing the parks and recreation department to issue a free single-day pool pass for the 2025 pool season to every kindergarten through eighth-grade student in the city’s three schools. The measure passed on a roll-call vote after a motion by Council Vice President Tim Riael and a second by Council Member Karen Peterson.
The council also approved Resolution 25-05-34 to enter a joint rehabilitation agreement with the City of Grand Forks to provide engineering, bid specifications and construction supervision for the 2026 bridge rehabilitation project (Minnesota Bridge No. 60506 and North Dakota structure GFO2), and Resolution 25-05-35 ordering the preparation of plans and specifications for that 2026 project. Both measures passed by roll call.
For utilities work, the council adopted Resolution 25-05-36 accepting and awarding the 2025 city project No. 3 (Lift Station No. 13 rehabilitation) to ICS, Inc. for $34,155.
On personnel, the council approved Resolution 25-05-37 to hire Brena Matias as a parks and recreation specialist at $24.98 per hour. Council Member Dale Helms said he would vote to approve the hire but asked for future discussion "on our scale" and "how they want to go about doing this" and urged more use of the pay scale when making future hires.
The council also authorized the mayor and city administrator to send a letter of support to Congresswoman Fishbach requesting preservation of the federal tax exemption for municipal bonds, approved a claims item noting Council Member Tim Riael had a personal interest in a $40 purchase from Border States Trophy (Resolution 25-05-38), and authorized payment of recommended bills and payroll.
All motions and resolutions taken up during the new business portion were adopted by roll call. Counts on recorded roll calls show the motions carried unanimously as recorded by the clerk.
The council handled the items as routine agenda business and did not hold extended public hearings or undertake amendments to the resolutions at the meeting. Next procedural steps for the bridge work will include finalizing plans and bid specifications as directed by the adopted resolutions; the transcript records no additional implementation dates or external approvals.
