CITY OF NERSTRAND, MINNESOTA
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING MINUTES
APR 14th, 2026
7:00p.m.
221 Main Street, Nerstrand
1. Call to Order/Pledge Allegiance
2. Roll Call: Karla Ingersoll, Todd Evavold, Betty Voge and Pam Caron are present. John Harris is absent.
3. Public Hearing: N/A
4. Public Forum:
5. Consent Agenda
(All items on the Consent Agenda are considered routine and have been made available to the City Council in advance of the meeting. The items will be enacted in one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a council member or citizen requests, in which event the item will be removed from this agenda and considered in normal sequence.)
A. Regular Meeting Minutes of March 10th, 2026
B. Committee Updates
C. Payment of Claims
Betty made a motion to accept the consent agenda Karla seconded the motion and all voted in favor.
6. Staff Reports
Clerks- No notices were sent out. 1 payment plan paid in full. 1 still making payments. Thank you cards for donations. Fire Department has moved to using Microsoft forms for their time sheets. This will dramatically reduce the time the clerks need to calculate hours for Fire Dept. What is the topic for this month’s work session? Policy and procedures, Hearing Officers, and Ordinance Review.
Clerks had also requested the purchase of Copilot. An AI software from Microsoft to help aid the clerk. A motion was made by Karla and seconded by Pam and all approved.
The clerks received notification that John Harris has resigned from council effective 13 April 2026. A motion was made by Karla and seconded by Pam and approved by all to accept his resignation. A resolution was requested for the may meeting to announce and start the process to fill this vacancy.
In addition to John leaving Council, his wife Amy Harris also submitted her resignation to leave the Zoning Committee. A motion was made by Betty and seconded by Pam and all voted to approve.
We would like to thank this family for their time and dedication to the City of Nerstrand. We appreciate all that you have done and wish you the best in your future adventures.
PW Director- Steve presented the estimate to council to re-establish the water connections to the business that suffered the water main break this winter. The bid is $6200 and is necessary.
He and Jacob meet with the Mn Rural Water to discuss upcoming projects that we have been working on with Bollig.
Discussed water tower location and land owner he may need to reach out to to see if we may be able to locate the new structure on their property.
7. Ordinances
A. Tobacco Ordinance-Updates
The city will need to retain two Hearing Officers in the event that there is a violation. They will be the ones to look over the evidence and determine if there was indeed a violation and penalty is warranted. Work session will put together a job posting and what the potential pay may be.
B. Alcohol Ordinance-Updates
The city has made progress with the Sunday sale, and it is with the lawyer. But recent applications have identified changes that need to be made to the ordinance specifically in regard to insurance requests and line of credit.
C. Ordinance to City Council-Updates
This ordinance is scheduled for public hearing that will be with the May meeting.
8. Resolutions
A. A resolution accepting the donation from Northfield Hospital and Clinics
A motion was made by Betty and seconded by Pam and all approved.
B. A resolution accepting a donation from Dennison Lions
A motion was made by Karla and seconded by Pam and all approved.
C. A resolution adopting the City of Nerstrand Official Emblem
A motion was made by Betty and seconded by Karla and all approved.
D. A resolution accepting the certificate for license approval
A motion was made by Karla and seconded by Betty and all approved.
E. A resolution granting Wildwood temporary grandfathering of previously scheduled events until April City Council meeting
A motion was made by Pam and seconded by Karla and all approved.
F. A resolution directing the city clerk and deputy clerk to track work hours by category
A motion was made by Karla and seconded by Betty and all approved.
9. New Business
A. Introduction of Lawyer-Andrew Teide GDO Law from White Bear Lake came as a meet and greet to council and residents. With all the ongoing ordinance updates it was nice to have Andrew take the time to attend and see how our council runs and meet the members.
B. John Harris-Nerstrand IT and Telephone- John Harris touched on this briefly but with his resignation informed council he would be sending things to Karla to take over.
C. Food Truck Application-RBar- A motion was made by Karla and seconded by Todd and all voted to approve.
D. Alcohol Application-Wildwoods- Wildwoods applied for the Annual Consumption and Display License. A motion was made by Karla and seconded by Betty and all voted in favor of approving.
E. Spring Clean by CSG- Todd will greenlight CSG to begin the Spring clean up work around the city.
F. Work Session\Meeting Reschedule- May work session is rescheduled to May 19th due to conflict in schedule.
G. Paint for City Hall Grant- Sent confirmation that the painting would indeed be done by volunteers and this should ensure us receiving the award! If you would like to volunteer to help paint City Hall please email the clerks at cityclerknerstrand@gmail.com.
H. USDA loan progressing forward waiting Bollig’s next steps-This update was rolled into Steve’s. Steve is taking the lead and contacting Bollig to determine first steps. He has also read through some of the documentation and had questions. Awaiting further support from Bollig.
10. Unfinished Business
A. Snow Removal Bid Request Review-Time frame, shoveling, sand/salt, and spring cleanup- We are breaking this into two bids. One for Plowing and another for shoveling. The plowing bid is ready but we will be needing to create a shoveling bid. Clerks will work with Steve to get this completed.
B. Changes to the Map per Zoning-Zoning Committee members absent from meeting. Did not discuss.
C. Park Electrical Trenching- There are some trenches around the park this is for electrical to be run. To be completed within the week.
11. Adjourn
A motion was made by Betty and seconded by Karla and all approved.
Next City Council Meeting is scheduled for May 12th, at Nerstrand City Hall.
