Belgrade city council agenda

The Belgrade city council will meet in regular session at 6 p.m. on Monday, October 20, at the city hall meeting chambers. The meeting is open to the public. The meeting agenda is being posted below.


1. Consent agenda: September meeting minutes, ACH payables, Belgrade Commercial Club Purse Bingo lawful gambling permit application, October 13 public hearing minutes.
2. Public forum.
3. Belgrade Fire Department: DNR grants.
4. Belgrade-Brooten Police Board.
5. Belgrade Public Works: need of storage for sweeper and 2 snow haulers with lease agreement; tire quotes for irrigators; tire quotes for the PW pickup; fall clean-up is October 27-31.
6. Belgrade Zoning: planning commission follow-up on October 13 public hearing; request letter from the Belgrade Co-op to be able to combine parcels.
7. Belgrade Economic Development Authority.
8. Belgrade Museum.
9. Next meetings: Belgrade Fire Department meeting with local townships on Monday, October 27 at 6:30 p.m. at the fire hall; and regular council meeting on November 17 at 6 p.m.

Brooten city council agenda for October 13

The Brooten city council will meet in regular session on Monday, October 13 at 7 p.m. The meeting agenda is posted below.

   7:00   Mark Torkelson – Explore Program Training – Fema Grants

   7:15   Sidewalk Review - Hatton Street by Trinity Lutheran Church

   7:30   Resolution 2025-16 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING DONATIONS TO THE CITY

   

7:45   Approval of September Minutes

   8:00   Approval of Bills   

   8:15   Approve Transfer of Funds

   8:30   Approval of Interim Bills   

   8:45   Hazard Mitigation – Review of Prior Goals

   9:00   Boyce Fischer – Maintenance Update

   9:15   Other

Oliver Kelley Farm Field Trip! Middle schoolers are heading east (VIDEO)

The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 6th and 7th grade classes of 2030 and 2031 are heading east on a middle school field trip. The destination is the Oliver Kelley Farm in rural Elk River, which is a Minnesota Historical Society site. On this field trip, students will experience the original 1860s era work that took place on this farm over 150 years ago. They will get an up close view of animals and gardens while learning a little about Kelley, who was a highly-regarded farm activist who helped found The Grange movement in America.

The Oliver Kelly Farm also includes nature trails that wind along the Mississippi River where students can explore woodlands and restored prairie.

Our bus drivers today are Howard Johnson and Dave Bertram. We departed the high school parking lot at 9:19 a.m. Wish us luck!

10:55 a.m...we arrived at Oliver Kelley Farm and entered the welcoming center, which had air conditioning! The bus ride got hot! The sun is shining strong.

Here's students providing grooming care to draft horses:


The field trip included education sessions at four separate stations. At one station, students learned how pioneers made sauerkraut. Part of the process was having the cabbage sit out in the open for a 6 month period while it cured!

Before 1 p.m. and after the students ate their lunches, the buses were loaded, and Howard and Dave began the drive back to Belgrade. The trip was a great success. We arrived back to the high school at 2:30 p.m. safe and sound.

City council agenda postings got off track!

They got off track in a big way in the last 2 weeks of September. I am not sure if I'll get that caught up, or if I will just dive straight into the October council meeting agendas in future blog posts.