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2. Pledge of Allegiance:
3. Announcement by Chair Nystrom:
Due to the current federal and state emergency declarations, the Minnesota directive to residents to stay at home, and guidance about limiting person-to-person contact due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this meeting of the Brainerd School Board is being conducted in accordance with Minnesota Statutes 13D.021 Meetings by Telephone or Other Electronic Means. Persons may monitor this meeting from a remote location by watching on YouTube live. This meeting is being recorded. Access to the recording will be made available on the school district’s website as soon as is reasonably possible.
4. Approval of the agenda as presented / amended:
Bestul to remain as acting Brainerd police chief through 2021
After the top two candidates chosen to replace outgoing chief Corky McQuiston, the council agreed to have Deputy Chief Mike Bestul continue on as acting police chief through at least the end of the year. 8:42 pm, Jan. 19, 2021 ×
Brainerd Police Deputy Chief Mike Bestul talks to community members during a search for a missing man in Kiwanis Park in Brainerd in 2014. Brainerd Dispatch/Steve Kohls
Brainerd will not have a new police chief until next year.
Chief Deputy Mike Bestul who was appointed as acting chief Jan. 4 will remain in that post through at least the end of the year, the Brainerd City Council decided Monday, Jan. 19.
Crosslake: Council agrees to continue to pursue local option sales tax
Tax would fund capital improvement projects. City initiated plans for approval of tax in 2020, but plans stopped because of COVID-19 Written By: Nancy Vogt | ×
The Crosslake City Council met Monday, Jan. 11, including council members Marcia Seibert-Volz (left) and Aaron Herzog, Mayor Dave Nevin and council member John Andrews. Council member Dave Schrupp attended online via Zoom. Screenshot / Nancy Vogt
The Crosslake City Council agreed to again pursue a half cent local option sales and use the tax to fund specific capital improvements.
Projects include wastewater plant projects and extending city sewer service to the County State Aid Highway 66/Moonlite service area and Daggett Lake service area.
“Putting him on the same step as Corky (McQuiston) is just confusing, even though we may have done it with Corky,” Johnson said Jan. 4. “I would expect an employee coming on on the same step as a long-term employee to not make one mistake, to hit the ground running day one, no learning curve because you are worth exactly what the outgoing chief is worth.”
With that said, Johnson also said he would reluctantly support the motion to hire Baloun at wage 6.
Council member Dave Pritschet said offering Baloun step 6 should be worth considering, given his master’s degree and 14 years of experience as a police chief.