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Eveleth City Council approves routine agenda, adopts columbarium rates and advances design for former school property
Summary
At its Aug. 4 meeting, the Eveleth City Council approved multiple routine items: sending an officer for taser instructor recertification, accepting an EMT retirement, adopting new columbarium rates, awarding a code‑enforcement contract, authorizing a FEMA‑funded storm‑sewer bid packet, accepting a donation for fire‑prevention education, approving fall refuse dates, funding benches/trash receptacles for pickleball courts, and moving forward with KA for design work at the Carl Sanderson school property.
The Eveleth City Council on Aug. 4 approved a slate of routine agenda items and moved forward on planning and infrastructure actions for the coming year.
The council voted to send one police instructor out of town for annual taser‑instructor recertification required by the post board; the officer will return and provide department‑wide training paid from the department training budget. Council also accepted the retirement notice of EMT Chuck Larson and asked staff to send a memorial letter of thanks for his years of service.
In a noncontroversial resolution, councilors adopted a new schedule of rates for the city’s new columbarium. Staff told the council the last broad cemetery fee update was in 2011 and that the committee compared peer jurisdictions; the adopted rates are intended to be low‑end and to allow the city to break even on the new facility. Council members discussed landscaping and bench placement near the columbarium.
The council approved an independent contract with Brian Leis for code‑enforcement services; Leis abstained from the council vote on that contract because of role overlap in the packet. Council also authorized staff to prepare a full bid packet to replace a collapsed 15‑inch concrete storm‑sewer structure by the city garage, work that staff said will be funded in part by FEMA. The packet authorization follows storm damage from June 24, 2024, and an engineer’s estimate reported in the packet (transcript text: “28140,000”); staff said final bid amounts will determine the actual cost.
Separately, the council accepted a donation from a local Subway franchise to support fire prevention education and approved the fall 2025 refuse and yard‑waste schedule (largely unchanged, with extended evening hours). Councilors approved procurement of four to six benches and the placement of wheeled trash receptacles at the new pickleball courts as a trial (bench unit price referenced in discussion: $495 each). Finally, the council voted to move forward with KA to provide exterior design/pre‑design services for the Carl Sanderson school property, with the consultant asking the city to transfer existing consultant materials and to convene a small committee to kick off the work.
Most motions passed with unanimous support from voting members; several routine votes recorded a 4–1 pattern where one member abstained. No public commenters spoke during the meeting. The council adjourned with the expectation that time‑sensitive items may return in two weeks for further action.
