June 10, 2021 at 1:12 p.m.
Tri-City Paving selected for Pine River streets
This approval is contingent on the city of Pine River also approving the contract winner. Engineering estimates had anticipated the cost to run $905,000.
The project will involve portions of Park, Fir and Norway.
The commissioners authorized installing "No Parking" signs along County State Aid Highway (CSAH) 58 between 67th Avenue and Highway 6 by Outing as a part of the improvement project on CSAH 58.
State standards would require an 8-foot shoulder if parking were to be allowed, according to County Engineer David Enblom. A 6-foot wide shoulder is being planned in this project.
The board authorized Enblom to purchase a $55,000, 750 Bobcat Skid Steer loader from the state bid and $10,000 trailer for it. Enblom said savings on other equipment purchased this year has left enough in the highway equipment budget to cover this purchase.
Enblom said he rented this type of loader last fall and found it improved maintenance workers' efficiency significantly. Current staff already is trained to operate it, he said.
The board authorized Enblom, Commissioner Scott Bruns and Laura Hadrava, county construction/design engineer, to represent the county at the annual lobbying fly-in to Washington, D.C., in June.
Enblom said the number of Cass federal aid-designated road miles usually qualifies the county to receive about $1 million of the $3 million distributed to Region 5 counties. The next project where he hopes to use that funding will be on CSAH 77 by Gull Lake.
The commissioners also approved out of state travel for Auditor-Treasurer Sharon Anderson to represent the county and state on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission Standards Board and Board of Advisors, meeting in late April in Williamsburg, Va.
The federal government pays travel and per diem costs for that meeting. Two representatives from each state participate.
No members of the public spoke for or against at a public hearing on an off-sale liquor license for Arthur's Restaurant, Arthur's Ten Mile Lake LLC.
Ben Graves of Graves Hospitality, who will manage operations when the restaurant and attached liquor store opens later this spring, said the liquor store will not be a large full service store, but rather mainly a site where people who enjoy craft beer in the restaurant can purchase the same beer to take home.
The newly built restaurant was constructed over winter on a site where former restaurants known as Arthur's and as Ten Mile Inn had been located on the east shore of Ten Mile Lake along Highway 371 north of Hackensack for many years.
The property had been vacant for about six years. The original restaurant building had been torn down.
North Country Electrical Services offered the low bid of $97,491 to install a new fire alarm system for the Cass County courthouse in Walker. Bids ran above the county's $85,000 estimate, so the board did not take action on an alternate bid to connect the new system to the county's Honeywell Enterprise Building Integrator.
Central Services Director Tim Richardson said the alarm will be fully operational without that tie-in. If it were added at a later date, it would give a more direct alarm to maintenance personnel rather than to have emergency responders alert them to an alarm.
The board voted to cancel the county's cleaning service contract for health, human and veterans services building in Walker with Marsden Building Maintenance and replace the contract with one May 1 at a lower cost from Ultimate Cleaning Team of Pine River.
The county has been paying Marsden $2,625 per month. The Ultimate Cleaning contract will be for $2,375 per month. Ultimate also currently has contracts with the county to clean the extension office in Pine River and land department building in Backus.
Commissioners Neal Gaalswyk and Bob Kangas have served as a committee of the board to review the county's solid waste and recycling programs. After the board approved new cardboard recycling contracts with all providers this winter, Eric Loge of Waste Partners appealed to the committee for improved payment for his services to the county in 2014.
Tuesday, Gaalswyk and Kangas recommended and the board approved an additional $18,292.50 payment for 2014 services to Waste Partners after hearing Loge's explanation of his costs involved in collecting and transporting cardboard to the Pine River recycle center.
"The process worked," Gaalswyk said of the appeal. Loge thanked the board for considering his appeal.
The commissioners voted to extend for one year Ron and Cheryl Brown's contract with the county to inspect individual subsurface septic treatment systems for the county at $75 each.
They authorized the environmental services department to hire retired environmental resource specialist Retta Freeman at $27.24 per hour from April 15 to May 15 to train a newly hired replacement employee for her position.
They approved a contract for the county attorney to prosecute offenders for the city of Walker, replacing a former city attorney.
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