The Jeffers City Council met on the 10th. Council members heard the clerk present an Engagement Letter for bookkeeping from Burkhardt & Burkhardt. After reviewing and discussing the council approved the Engagement letter. Lance Holmen, Maintenance presented estimates for tree removal from Crown Tree Service for $34,850 and Keck Tree Service for $13.275. Keck Tree Service’s estimate was accepted to remove ash trees from city properties. Hunter Ekstrom and Frank Kerkvliet There was a request to the council from two individuals that are interested in opening a car dealership in the LA Motorsports building, in which the council requested the parties to attend the next council meeting on March 24th. City wide cleanup day will be on Saturday May 17th and residents will be asked to pay a $20 fee for the service. The council then reviewed a complaint letter from a resident. Mayor Prins reported he has called and gotten no response from Clint from Pinpoint Consulting.
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Meetings today include:
- Mountain Lake School Boad will be meeting at 5:30pm at the school in room 101.
- The Mountain Lake City Council will be meeting at 5:45pm in Mountain Lake City Hall.
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Did you know… the Windom Area Schools Arts and Athletic will be able to use Ag2School Credit to help with cost of the new facilities? Ag2School Credit which is in state aid will cover 41% of the Arts and Athletics Project in Windom if approved by voters on May 13th. In rural Minnesota, according to Superintendent Jamie Frank, we are fortunate to have access to funding from the state called Ag2School Credit. Frank went onto explain that this is a tax break for those who own agricultural land because ag land make up the majority of real-eastate in rural districts. Ag2 School credit has been around since 2017 and has grown in state contributions over time, at this time, it covers 70% of the agricultural land’s tax increase due to school projects such as the new Arts and Athletics Project. According to Frank, “60% of the schools tax base is farmland. 60% or the 27.5 million is $16.5 million, which would be the amount of ag land owners would pay, but Ag2School accounts for 70% of the ag land increase. So 70% of the $16.5 million is $11.5 in State Aid which is approximately 41% of the project. Of that $27.5 milliion, $11.5 million will be covered in state aid through the Ag2School Credit. So in the numbers world. Windom Schools Arts and Athletic project would leave taxpayers only $16 million to fund for a $27.5 million worth of facilities.
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I am pretty stoked about hearing this past weekend that the fireworks for Riverfest on June 14th, are being moved back to Windom Area Schools!!! Now don’t go getting all defensive because I totally enjoyed them at Tiegel Park with Cottonwood Lake reflecting the lights off the water. Last year, I took my shoes off and dug my feet in the sand and not going to lie literally soaked in the atmosphere and left feeling a little melancholy. Now with that said, I LOVE having the fireworks at the school! I love that atmosphere too! When we first moved here I was in total awe it truly was an amazing celebration. I absolutely love walking out my door setting up my lawn chair, watching the ooo’s and ahhh’s and then walking right back in to the house and going to bed! My family comes to visit and it is awesome to have bathrooms, blankets and snacks right there!!! I absolutely love seeing all the lawn chairs and the parking lots full and being the hub of the excitement during this part of Riverfest. I understand that there are going to be a lot of fun events some old some new and I am gearing up for the small hometown celebration!
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