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Solar array screening revised; Fire department receives water rescue team funding
March 25, with Council Member Nikki Battles absent, the four-member Chisago City Council moved swiftly through its agenda with one exception.
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Chisago City seeks bids to extend Old Towne Road trail, chips in $35,000 to upsize gas line
The full Chisago City Council Feb. 25 worked its way through an inch-thick stack of agenda documents. These ranged from revised personnel policies and lawn mowing contracts, to a new massage therapy ordinance, a gas franchise fee dilemma, and time-sensitive plans and advertising for bids for the Old Towne Road Trail Extension Project.
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Chisago City Council acts on sewer, water rates, Ojiketa fees; county to handle retail sale of cannabis licensing and compliance checks
The Chisago City Council began its Jan. 14 meeting by swearing in three familiar faces who won seats in the November election: long-time council member Jeremy Dresel, now mayor; former council member Mark Anderson, who returns after a brief hiatus to the fill the council seat vacated by Dresel; and incumbent Marie Rivers, re-elected.
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When public works requests $644k vehicle, council takes time to consider
The Chisago City Council on Nov. 12 moved swiftly through a busy agenda but applied the brakes when the public works department requested a $644,760 vactor truck.
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Firefighter pensions on agenda, new dates for November, December Chisago City Council meetings
The Chisago City Council on Oct. 22, approved a resolution to join the Statewide volunteer firefighter pension plan administered by Minnesota’s Public Employee Retirement Association (PERA). This means PERA will administer Chisago City firefighter pension funds on behalf of the Chisago City Fire Relief Association.
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Chisago City levy set, up nearly 8%
The Chisago City Council on Sept. 24 voted to send a proposed 2025 tax levy of $4,028,960 to the county auditor by the September deadline. Chisago City levied a total of $3.75 million in 2024. (The city can reduce the proposed levy before the end of the year but cannot increase it beyond the amount certified to the county in September.)
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Public brings an abundance of issues to Sept. 24 council meeting
The normally brief public comment segment of Chisago City’s regular council meeting dominated discussion on the night of Sept. 24. Four individuals brought a wide range of issues to the council.
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Chisago City considers ATV ordinance
The Chisago City Council came early and stayed late for its Aug. 27 meeting.
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Festival Theatre celebrates its return to restored St. Croix Auditorium with performance of ‘The Spitfire Grill’
I made a journey across the river to Wisconsin last week. My destination was one I’d visited often in the past, the old Auditorium Theatre in St. Croix Falls.
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