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Hugo City Council Meeting Minutes for October 16, 2017 <br />Page 3 of 5 <br />Approve Appointment of Kim Luchsinger and Matthew Derr to the Planning Commission <br />On October 2, 2017, the Council interviewed three individuals for two vacancies on the Planning <br />Commission due to the resignation of Chantell Knauss and Bob Rosenquist this past June. <br />Adoption of the Consent Agenda approved the appointment of Kim Luchsinger and Matthew <br />Derr as new members of the Planning Commissions with terms to expire on December 31, 2018 <br />and December 31, 2020 respectively. <br />Update on Hopkins Schoolhouse — History Intern Olivia Schiffman <br />History Intern Oliva Schiffman provided Council an update on the Hopkins schoolhouse, located <br />at 5970 170th Street North, beginning with a brief history on the structure. The schoolhouse was <br />built in 1927 on land donated to the school district by the Hopkins family. The district changed <br />multiple times ending in the Forest Lake School District. It served as an ungraded one room <br />elementary school, teaching Grades 1-6 until it was closed in the spring of 1962. After that, it <br />was used as the Oneka Town Hall in the late sixties and early seventies, and more recently was <br />used by the boy scouts as a youth center in the early 2000s. Olivia spoke about the open house <br />held on September 8, 2017, where approximately 33 people attended to provide input on what <br />the future of the structure should be. Oliva explained the City received an $8,000 Legacy Grant <br />through the State of Minnesota and the MN Historical Society to hire a contractor to come out <br />and evaluate the historic value of the schoolhouse. The City could then be eligible for more <br />grants for an in-depth analysis on the building and possible inclusion on the National Register of <br />Historic Places. If it's not seen as historical on a national level, the City could seek money <br />through the Legacy Grant to preserve it on a local level. City Administrator Bryan Bear added <br />that the Historical Commission will be making a recommendation to the Council in the future <br />concerning options for the future of the schoolhouse. <br />Discussion on MN Department of Health -Advancing Safe and Sustainable Water Reuse in <br />Minnesota <br />City Administrator Bryan Bear informed Council the MN Department of Health had released a <br />draft report regarding water reuse in Minnesota. The City has been using stormwater reuse tools, <br />and there has been some difficulty getting these projects through. The MN Legislature had <br />recently removed the appropriation permit process with the DNR to allow reuse project without <br />requiring their extensive process first. State agencies have been grappling with how to regulate <br />these activities, and an interagency work group had been formed with its primary objective to <br />eliminate barriers. WSB Engineering had provided Council their review on the report, and Bear <br />explained there was an opportunity for the Council to provide comments to the state agencies <br />and legislature on this issue as well. <br />City Engineer Mark Ericson explained the Minnesota Legislature directed the Minnesota <br />Department of Health to "prepare a comprehensive study of and recommendations for regulatory and <br />non -regulatory approaches to water reuse for use in the development of state policy for water reuse in <br />Minnesota," with funding through the Clean Water Fund of the Clean Water, Land and Legacy <br />Amendment. The MN Department of Health had completed its final draft of the report on <br />Advancing Safe and Sustainable Water Reuse in Minnesota. He talked about the group's main <br />objectives: to define successful implementation of water reuse; identify current conditions that <br />