Abby Nadeau
Staff Writer

Effective immediately the city has enacted a sprinkling ban with specific watering hours for all residents with city water.

Currently the city states that “those homes with even numbered addresses will be able to sprinkle their property on even numbered calendar days. Those homes with odd numbered addresses will be able to sprinkle their property on odd numbered calendar days.”

Now the lawn sprinkling ordinance states that “the sprinkling ban allows sprinkling only between the hours of 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Due to rainy weather during the first weekend in June, The Laker’s 4th of July fund raising events have been rescheduled for this Friday, June 15.

Starting at 3 p.m. and continuing until midnight, The Laker will be holding the events that were rained out on June 2.

Food will be served as people enjoy the dunk tank, bar stool races and dance the night away at the street dance.

City Audit

Prior to the regular city council meeting, a special meeting was held to listen to a presentation on the results of the 2006 city audit.

Matt Mayer, presented the council with the findings from Kern, DeWenter and Viere who performed the auditor’s report on legal compliance.

The Minnesota Legal Compliance Audit Guide for Local Government covers seven categories when auditing local government agencies that include contract and bidding, deposits and investments, conflicts of interests, public indebtedness, claims and disbursements, miscellaneous provisions and tax increment financing.

All of which were in compliance with Minnesota State Statutes Section 6.65.

Mayer also presented a Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and said the general fund performance revenue came in at $7.3 million, “a little over than anticipated.”

He said expenditures came in at $8.8 million, just over what the city had expected.

Mayer said the expenditures were greater than expected because of unanticipated “legal fees with an annexation, accounting software, fiber network and timing of the fire truck purchases.”

However, Mayer said, both the “financial statement and legal compliance are clean.”

Other News

Council member Judy Bull shared with the council her findings after attending a recent environment conference.

Bull said that she believes the city can do more to support the environment and climate control. She suggested the council create a committee that would find ways to make the city environmentally friendly.

The council agreed and voted 4-0 to create an Environment Advisement Committee. Details about the committee will be discussed in upcoming meetings.

CNH Architects and Heinen Construction, currently working on the former bowling alley site, presented the council with their latest plan for the dilapidated bowling alley building.

Quinn Hutson, the architect from CNH, presented the council with a plan to completely level the current building and rebuild.

In its place a new 21,830 square foot multi-tenant commercial building will be built into two “retail bays.”

The next city council meeting is scheduled for Monday, June 25.

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