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Votes at a glance: Mercer council approves minutes, bills, tractor lease and other routine motions
Summary
At its Oct. 22 meeting the Mercer City Council approved minutes and bills, approved a tractor lease, added its new auditor to bank accounts and adjourned; listed bills and amounts appear in the minutes.
The Mercer City Council approved several routine motions at its Oct. 22, 2025 meeting in Mercer City Hall.
Key recorded motions and outcomes: - Approval of Sept. 26, 2025 special meeting minutes. Mover: Dan Gardiner; seconder: Randy Zinke. Vote: Gardiner, Gary Volochenko, Erika Lorenz and Randy Zinke voted aye; motion carried. - Approval of bills as presented. Mover: Erika Lorenz; seconder: Randy Zinke. Vote: Gardiner, Volochenko, Lorenz and Zinke voted aye; motion carried. Bills listed in the minutes include Wild Prairie Solution ($3,360.50), Otter Tail ($769.48), ND North Publications ($163.61), McLean Sheridan Rural Water (multiple charges, including $1,508.19 and $1,900.55), WRT ($188.18), ND Dept of Health ($27) and Waste Management ($1,190.25). - Approval of a John Deere tractor lease (Oct. 2025 ' June 2026). Mover: Erika Lorenz; seconder: Dan Gardiner. Vote recorded: Gardiner, Volochenko and Zinke voted aye; motion carried. - Motion to add newly hired auditor Katherin Volochenko to all city bank accounts. Mover: Erika Lorenz; seconder: Dan Gardiner. Gardiner and Lorenz voted aye; Zinke voted nay. Motion carried. - Motion to adjourn. Mover: Gary Volochenko; seconder: Randy Zinke. Gardiner, Volochenko, Lorenz and Zinke voted to adjourn. Meeting adjourned at 8:15 p.m.
The minutes contain the recorded tallies as listed above; the record does not always show every member's vote (for example, some motions were recorded as a list of aye votes without a named no or abstention beyond what is listed).
