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Mahtomedi council approves 2026 appointments, meeting schedule and administrative designations
Summary
At its Jan. 6 meeting the Mahtomedi City Council unanimously adopted the city’s 2026 organizational appointments and consultants, set the meeting schedule and designated financial depositories and the official newspaper; the council also declined to waive statutory tort liability limits and adopted the updated IRS mileage rate of 72.5 cents per mile.
Mahtomedi Mayor Richard Brainerd and the City Council met Jan. 6 and unanimously approved the city’s annual organizational business for 2026, including council leadership, commission liaisons, consultant appointments, meeting dates and a series of administrative designations.
The council voted to name Council member Lilly Melander as Council President/Acting Mayor and assigned liaisons for Finance, Parks, Planning and Environmental Commissions and to neighboring municipalities and agencies. The council also authorized advertising for openings on advisory commissions and approved four consultant designations, with motion language clarifying those consultants are independent contractors for 2026.
The appointments set the city’s governance and administrative support for the year. City administration recommended the consultant slate and the council adopted it: CliftonLarsonAllen for accounting/auditing; Kennedy & Graven (Bridget Nason) as city attorney/general counsel; Eckberg Lammers Briggs Wolff & Vierling as prosecuting counsel; WSB & Associates (Amanda Sachi) as engineer and WSB/Planner Hannah Rybak as planner; and Ehlers & Associates as fiscal consultant.
In other administrative actions the council designated the White Bear Press as Mahtomedi’s official newspaper for 2026 and approved a list of authorized depositories (including Wells Fargo Advisors, the 4M Fund, US Bank, CitiGroup Global Markets, Morgan Stanley/Smith Barney, Ehlers Investment Partners, Oppenheimer, Peoples Bank Midwest and RBC Capital Markets). The meeting schedule for 2026 was approved, with regular meetings generally on the first and third Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m., and the Local Board of Appeal and Equalization was scheduled for Wednesday, April 1, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.
The council also addressed two finance-related staff recommendations: it approved the League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust (LMCIT) liability coverage waiver form and accepted staff’s recommendation not to waive the monetary limits set by Minnesota Statutes 466.04. The council adopted the new IRS business mileage reimbursement rate of 72.5 cents per mile, effective Jan. 1, 2026, following staff’s notice of the federal change.
All of the listed motions were moved and seconded on the record and the minutes show they passed by unanimous vote. The council adopted the Standing Rules of Procedure for 2026 and adjourned at 7:53 p.m.
Votes at a glance: approve agenda (unanimous); approve Dec. 16, 2025 minutes (unanimous); approve consent agenda including schedule for Board of Appeal (unanimous); adopt LMCIT recommendation not to waive statutory tort limits (unanimous); adopt IRS mileage rate 72.5¢/mile (unanimous); appoint consultants and liaisons and adopt standing rules (all unanimous).
