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Nowthen City Council meeting, March 20, 2025

City Council

Thursday, March 20, 2025 · 6:00 PM

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Agenda

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What was on the agenda.

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Minutes

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One-line summary

The Council approved the agenda, met with Mike Humpal of South Central Service Cooperative to discuss the City Administrator recruitment and job description, and adjourned at 7:20 p.m.

What was on the agenda

3 items as recorded in the agenda and minutes, each with a short summary of what was at issue.

  1. 1Call to Order

    Call to Order; Pledge of Allegiance; Roll Call; Approve Agenda.

    Mayor Hybben called the meeting to order, the pledge was recited, roll call was taken, and the Council approved the agenda by a 5-aye roll call vote. At the end of the meeting, CM Breyen moved to adjourn and CM Glaser seconded, and the meeting ended at 7:20 p.m.

    The meeting was called to order, the pledge was recited, roll call was taken, and the agenda was approved by roll call vote.

    • routine meeting actions
    Approved
    p. 1Meeting City Council Meeting — Agenda (2025-03-20)1\. Call to Order · Pledge of Allegiance . Roll Call · Approve Agendap. 1Meeting City Council Meeting — Minutes (2025-03-20)Mayor Hybben called the session to order at 6:01 p.m. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited by all in attendance. Roll call by Interim Consultant Boyles. Present: Mayor Hybben, Council Members Breyen and Glaser. CM Swenson and CM Rainville attended live via Zoom as they were out of town. Absent: Interim City Administrat…p. 1Meeting City Council Meeting — Minutes (2025-03-20)MOTION TO APPROVE AGENDA BY CM BREYEN, SECONDED BY CM GLASER. VIA ROLL CALL 5 AYES (RAINVILLE, SWENSON, BREYEN, GLASER, HYBBEN) MOTION CARRIED.

  2. 2Meet Mike Humpal and Discuss New Administrator Recruitment and Job Description

    Meet Mike Humpal and discuss new Administrator recruitment and the job description.

    Mike Humpal of South Central Service Cooperative met with the Council about the search for a Nowthen City Administrator. He described SCSC's role, said the Council could expect updates every 7 to 10 days, discussed interview questions and the search committee, noted that thirteen applicants had already been identified, and took Council feedback on the job description, including the Council's desire for an administrator who is strong in finance.

    The Council discussed the City Administrator search and job description with Mike Humpal; no action motion was recorded for this item.

    • City Administrator recruitment and job description
    Discussion only
    p. 1Meeting City Council Meeting — Agenda (2025-03-20)2\. Meet Mike Humpal and Discuss New Administrator Recruitment and Job Description.p. 1Meeting City Council Meeting — Minutes (2025-03-20)Mr. Humpal went through what South Central Service Cooperative, or SCSC, has to offer briefly, before discussion the city's exclusive search for the Nowthen City Administrator. City Council can expect to receive a report from Mr. Humpal every 7-10 days of the search and hiring process.p. 1Meeting City Council Meeting — Minutes (2025-03-20)The City Council then went through the job description, provided their feedback, and expressed their desire for a City Administrator who is adept in finance. Mr. Humpal will take the City Council's thoughts and incorporate them into the search.

  3. 3Adjourn

    Adjourn.

    Mayor Hybben called the meeting to order, the pledge was recited, roll call was taken, and the Council approved the agenda by a 5-aye roll call vote. At the end of the meeting, CM Breyen moved to adjourn and CM Glaser seconded, and the meeting ended at 7:20 p.m.

    A motion to adjourn was made and seconded, and the meeting was adjourned at 7:20 p.m.

    • routine meeting actions
    Approved
    p. 1Meeting City Council Meeting — Agenda (2025-03-20)3\. Adjournp. 1Meeting City Council Meeting — Minutes (2025-03-20)MOTION TO ADJOURN BY CM BREYEN, SECONDED BY CM GLASER. The meeting was adjourned at 7:20 p.m.

Motions and votes

2 motions on the record.

  • M1MOTION TO APPROVE AGENDA BY CM BREYEN, SECONDED BY CM GLASER. VIA ROLL CALL 5 AYES (RAINVILLE, SWENSON, BREYEN, GLASER, HYBBEN) MOTION CARRIED.

    Exact transcript text

    MOTION TO APPROVE AGENDA BY CM BREYEN, SECONDED BY CM GLASER. VIA ROLL CALL 5 AYES (RAINVILLE, SWENSON, BREYEN, GLASER, HYBBEN) MOTION CARRIED.

    moved by BREYEN, seconded by GLASER

    Passed
    • YRAINVILLE
    • YSWENSON
    • YBREYEN
    • YGLASER
    • YHYBBEN
    p. 1Meeting City Council Meeting — Minutes (2025-03-20)MOTION TO APPROVE AGENDA BY CM BREYEN, SECONDED BY CM GLASER. VIA ROLL CALL 5 AYES (RAINVILLE, SWENSON, BREYEN, GLASER, HYBBEN) MOTION CARRIED.

  • M2MOTION TO ADJOURN BY CM BREYEN, SECONDED BY CM GLASER.

    moved by BREYEN, seconded by GLASER

    Passed
    p. 1Meeting City Council Meeting — Minutes (2025-03-20)MOTION TO ADJOURN BY CM BREYEN, SECONDED BY CM GLASER. The meeting was adjourned at 7:20 p.m.

Sources

Documents and recordings archived for this meeting, when available.

Show a sample of the transcript (559 segments, 1:20:14 total)
  • 0:04 still working on daily. We can see it. It's setting up our meeting on YouTube live.
  • 0:13 People can watch on YouTube live. Yeah. The city and the school district.
  • 0:28 We always did our stuff live, but I could never count it. Mike, we're gonna go ahead and get started. Okay. So, we're going to call this meeting to
  • 0:36 order. So, the date is 20 March uh at 6 Well, looks like 601. And we're going to start off with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the
  • 0:50 flag states for to the republic for it stands nation. All right, we'll start with roll call.
  • 1:05 Frank, are you going to do roll call for us today? Mayor H. Council member O'Brien here. Council member
  • 1:12 Glass here. Council member Rain here. Uh, council member Swanson
  • 1:23 here. Swanson. Swanson, pardon me. Council member. All right. Terrific. We also have administrative assistant.
  • 1:31 Thank you. Administrative assistant Stokal here who'll be taking notes. We have the manager of local government
  • 1:38 solutions, Mike Hemple, here as well. is contracted to do our search for city administrator and by myself I'm your
  • 1:48 interim consultant Frank Bo. All right. Thank you sir for taking roll call. Um so we're looking for a motion to approve the agenda. We only have one agenda item
  • 1:57 on there. So move second. Okay. So we'll do the roll call vote starting with uh
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