Baxter council approves consent agenda, including license for King Tobacco Baxter LLC

At its regular meeting, the Baxter City Council approved a multi-item consent agenda that included minutes, commission reports, several professional-services contracts and business/licensing actions.

The consent agenda approved the city council special minutes from May 4 and work-session and regular minutes from May 5, 2026; accepted utilities and planning commission minutes; and authorized several professional services and construction contracts. Among the items approved was issuance of a lower-potency edible registration for the period May 20 through Dec. 31, 2026, for King Tobacco Baxter LLC. Other approvals included a not-to-exceed $15,200 AE2S professional-services contract for a 2026 W911 software upgrade, a construction-phase services contract not to exceed $130,000 for the 2026 Novanti Road street and utility improvements project, a $15,000 SHB amendment to update the Evergreen Drive traffic-impact study, and a $1,700 professional-design-fee amendment that revised a Witson contract to a total not-to-exceed amount of $134,454. The consent list also included acceptance of the EDA amendments and authorization to pay bills and receive the finance report.

A council member moved to approve the consent agenda; a second was given and the chair called the vote. The motion carried and the items were adopted without separate discussion or individual roll-call votes recorded in the public portions of the transcript.

Because these items were passed on the consent agenda, there was no extended debate in the public meeting recorded in the transcript and none of the consent items was pulled for separate consideration. The written public comment submitted by Ryan Naylor of the North Lindale neighborhood (seeking further information about using Minnesota Statute 429 to finance private hookups) was placed on the record and provided to the minutes and media.