With the Public Works building nearing completion, Grand Marais City Council received an update from John Haggenmiller at its Wednesday, October 25 meeting. Haggenmiller is the site superintendent for McGough Construction, the firm contracted by the city to be in charge of the $4,692,345 project.
With the building up, Haggenmiller said there was a minor amount of work to do on the exterior land which includes some grading and seeding, and a crew was working on completing the fascia. The painting is approximately 90 percent completed, and the mechanical and electrical work is ongoing. The cabinets are in, and the start-up of equipment will start next week.
“Lockers were shipped this past Monday and should be received Friday or Monday,” said Haggenmiller, adding that the floors and walls would be cleaned starting early next week.
As far as putting solar power panels on the roof, Hagenmiller said the “Solar is being priced right now. Hopefully early next week we should have the pricing.” He also said the cold storage building was up.
In other matters, council approved a permit for the “Ole Night” fireworks display that will be held Friday, November 24 at 5:30 p.m. in the tourist park near the animal shelter, the usual location they are sent skyward from. The Christmas Parade and tree lighting in Harbor Park will take place just before the fireworks display. There will also be some caroling at Harbor Park after the lighting of the tree takes place.
During council and staff reports, Arrowsmith-DeCoux said he recently attended a library board meeting where there was a discussion about strategic planning. He also noted that the board felt the mission statement didn’t accurately reflect the full mission of the library, so a new mission statement was created.
The library board also added four taglines: Explore, learn, create and connect. “I think that’s cool,” said Arrowsmith-DeCoux.
Next, the mayor talked about meeting with some members of the Historical Society board and its director Carrie McHugh, to discuss “how we are going to plan for the Coast Guard station property,” when and if it ever becomes available.
The mayor also said he met with downtown business people to discuss plans for the winter. Topics discussed were the buy-local program and how the businesses could work together better.
Grand Marais City Administrator Mike Roth told the council that the library board approved the purchase of a copier for $5,000 from Metro Sales, but they needed council approval to go ahead with the purchase.
Arrowsmith-DeCoux motioned with Dave Mills making the second and Tracy Benson voting to approve the purchase of the copier. Neither councilors Anton Moody nor Tim Kennedy were in attendance at the meeting, which lasted about 20 minutes.
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