November 17, 2025 City Council Minutes

 MINUTES

MOUNTAIN IRON CITY COUNCIL

November 17, 2025

Mayor Anderson called the City Council meeting to order at 6:30p.m. with the following members present: Councilor Ed Roskoski, Bradley Gustafson, Alan Stanaway, Julie Buria, and Mayor Peggy Anderson. Also, present were: Craig Wainio, City Administrator; Tim Satrang, Director of Public Works; Anna Amundson, Library Director/Special Events Coordinator; Amanda Inmon, Municipal Services Secretary; Al Johnson, City Engineer; Sgt. Grant Toma, Sheriff’s Dept.; Bryan Lindsay, City Attorney; and Eric Monson, Fire Department.

It was moved by Buria and seconded by Gustafson the consent agenda be approved as follows:

1. Approve the minutes of November 3, 2025, regular meeting.
2. That the communications be accepted and placed on file and those requiring further action by the City Council be acted upon during their proper sequence on the agenda.
3. To acknowledge the receipts for the period November 1-15, totaling $2 60,973.04 (a list is attached and made a part of these minutes).
4. To authorize the payments of the bills and payroll for the period November 1-15, totaling $334,542.60 (a list is attached and made a part of these minutes).

The motion carried (No: Roskoski; Yes: Gustafson, Stanaway, Buria and Anderson).

It was moved by Roskoski to amend the original motion to remove the bills from Lanyk Electric in the amount of $872.00 and O’Reilly Auto Parts Virginia in the amount of $129.00 from the consent agenda for separate consideration. The motion failed.

Public Forum:

• Joe Lalonde and Ron Dahl, Parkville Cribbage Club members, spoke regarding items that were taken from the Senior Center, requested small round or square tables for them to play cards at Nichols, as well as possible coffee maker installed

The Mayor reported on the following:

• Attended Nichols Town Hall reopening – several attended

City Administrator:

• 1^st meeting in December – Truth and Taxation hearing
• Thank you to Anna for the great job on Nichols Town Hall grand re-opening
• Wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving

Director of Public Works:

• Transformer change out at City Garage
• Several house shutoffs at US Steel properties

It was moved that Roskoski that the following items be put on the Streets and Alleys and Public Works 2026 to do list; put streetlight back up at the corner of Mountain Avenue and Main Street, replace all faded, non-readable street corner signs; get all missing Kinross road signs up; replace all broken downtown streetlight globes; level dips on Unity Drive from Park Drive to Emerald Avenue; and do all spring road street patching, street stripes and direction arrow painting.  The motion failed due to lack of support.

Library Director/Special Events Coordinator:

• Holiday Lighting Tour
• December 12^th & December 13^th
• Mountain Iron, Buhl, Kinney/Great Scott

City Engineer:

• Mineral Avenue Alley work – suspended for the winter due to weather, will be finished in spring

Sheriff’s Department:

• No formal report

City Attorney:

• No formal report – continuing to work on Planning and Zoning enforcement action requests

Fire Department:

• Several mutual aid calls – including recent Holmes Recycling fire
• 294 First Responder calls throughout the year as of the end of October

It was moved by Gustafson and seconded by Stanaway to approve the quote from Macqueen in the amount of $26,866.55 for five sets of Fire Department Turn out gear. The motion carried unanimously on roll call vote.

It was moved by Roskoski to approve the Fire Department report as presented. The motion failed due to lack of support.

Personnel Committee:

• Employee survey next steps discussed

It was moved by Stanaway and seconded by Roskoski for the Personnel Committee to set a meeting and invite Councilor Gustafson to attend to go over what has been researched so far, any explanations that are needed, any explanations that anyone else can straighten out and clear it up . The motion carried.

Liaison:

• Councilor Roskoski
• Thank you to staff for Nichols Town Hall grand re-opening, open for reservations
• Councilor Gustafson
• Thank you to City Staff and Anna for the great Nichols Town Hall re-opening
• Attended Housing meeting November 14^th in Duluth
• Thank you to the Laurentian Chamber of Commerce – raised funds and food for Quad Cities Food shelf

Big thank you from Councilor Stanaway for Nichols Town Hall grand re-opening

It was moved by Stanaway and seconded by Buria to approve Resolution #27-25; CDBG Application, Downtown Sanitary Sewer Rehab project (a copy is attached and made a part of these minutes). The motion carried unanimously on roll call vote with Councilor Gustafson recusing.

 It was moved Roskoski and seconded by Buria to donate $500 to the Mountain Iron-Buhl High School Class of 2026 for their “Annual Chemical – Free All Night Graduation Party,” monies to come out of the Charitable Gambling Fund. The motion carried.

The MIB Hoops Club requests contribution for their 2025-2026 MIB Basketball program. It was moved by Buria and seconded by Stanaway to donate $500 to the MIB Basketball program for the 2025-2026 Season, monies to come out of the Charitable Gambling Fund. The motion carried.

Announcements:

• Thanksgiving Holiday – November 27^th & November 28^th – City Offices Closed

At 7:20p.m., it was moved by Buria and seconded by Stanaway the meeting be adjourned. The motion carried.

Submitted by:

Amanda Inmon

Municipal Services Secretary

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