Special Board Meeting Minutes – July 1, 2024

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NORTHERN TOWNSHIP BOARD OF SUPERVISORS – Monday, July 1, 2024, Northern Town Hall, 445 Town Hall Road NW, Bemidji, MN, 5:06 p.m.

PRESENT: Supervisors Jess Frenzel, Gary Barnard, and Mike Kelly. Administrator Chris Lahn, and Clerk Mary Israelson. Absent; Curt Blumhagen.

The purpose of this meeting is to accept the applications received from the RFPs for engineering services that have been advertised for thirty day, and are for the proposed wastewater treatment system. One bid was received from Freeberg & Grund.

Lahn explained that this is being done as a requirement of the EPA, and directly relates to the grant that was designated by the Federal Government. They do require that there must be a negotiation with the potential engineer for their best price, and that it must compare against the standard for the work indicating fairness.

A motion was offered by Kelly, and seconded by Barnard, to select Freeberg & Grund (only bidder), for the engineering services for the proposed Northern Township Wastewater Treatment System. The motion carried unanimously.

A draft agreement will be prepared and must be approved by the EPA representative assigned to our project prior to the town board’s approval. Hopefully this can be done prior to the next meeting date of July 8th.

None of the soils or archaeological work has started, but will once this is finalized.

With no further business forthcoming, the meeting adjourned at 5:45 p.m.