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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday,August 8,2022 6:00 o'clock p.m. maintains insurance on. He stated this was approved by Long Lake in the past and Orono was just following the same protocol as what has been done. In his opinion it cleared things up in knowing that the vehicles belonged to Orono and would be loaned to Long Lake for free.Long Lake's response was that they wanted Orono to revert back to the conditions of the contract. In Johnson's research,with supply chain issues they are fortunate to be in a position to purchase and a letter of intent was sent on the vehicles. He thinks Orono should maintain their position, purchase these vehicles, and not put the fire fighters in a position of not having the equipment they need while the two cities jack around with the issues. Seals noted if something does not end up working out, Orono can always utilize the vehicles in other ways such as the police department. Walsh moved,Seals seconded,to purchase the vehicles in the City of Orono's name,bring them to the City and look at the fire department accepting the vehicles at a later date.VOTE: Ayes 3,Nays 0. CITY ATTORNEY REPORT Attorney Mattick had nothing to report. MAYOR/COUNCIL REPORT Seals is happy they received rain over the weekend. Johnson met with Seals as part of the negotiation team with members of Long Lake. Seals put together a list of areas where the two cities agree and Johnson noted while the Mayor of Long Lake is on vacation this week they agreed to keep working through this week to confirm those areas of agreement in both cities.He noted one piece of the entire conversation is to keep the fire department as a whole entity which is everyone's first choice.He hopes for some slight progress during the week and will continue working, and noted given the context of the contract, Orono needs to start making some hard decisions and they need to start moving ahead. Mayor Walsh shared about Corn Day on Saturday and shared that he attended his 40th reunion over the weekend. He spoke about an article regarding the parks by a group that thinks the Orono City Council is doing a terrible job and giving away all of their parks.He noted 10 years ago the City had no parks and no Park Commission, and they now have a great Park Commission of dedicated individuals who have done great things with the parks over the years.These include Bederwood Park and redoing all the fields, purchasing the property at Hackberry,parks at Saga Hill that have been completely reformed,Navarre Parks which were previously neglected,and the expansion at the Golf Course.Mayor Walsh noted the City has done great things and he looks forward to the Park Commission continuing that down the road. He shared the City may need to work at better communication about the great things that are happening. PUBLIC COMMENTS Brad Erickson,2485 Independence Road,thanked Mr.Printup and Mr. Crosby noting they had a very nice meeting the previous week for about 2 hours and 14 minutes with Mr.Rosha at his office at the Orono Station.Mr. Erickson thinks it was very productive and there were some admissions made that he found rather interesting. At the conclusion and under Mr.Rosha's tutelage it was decided that when Mr. Manson gets back from Alaska they will draw up a draft resolution for the City to adopt and vote on.Mr. Page 3 of 5