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MINUTES <br /> <br />City Council Meeting <br />City Hall Council Chambers <br />Monday, April 1, 2024 <br />7:00 p.m. <br /> <br /> <br />Call to Order <br /> <br />Mayor Weidt called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. <br /> <br />Roll Call <br /> <br />COUNCIL PRESENT: Klein, Miron, Petryk, Weidt <br />COUNCIL ABSENT: Strub <br />OTHERS PRESENT: City Administrator Bryan Bear, City Engineer Mark Erichson, City <br />Attorney Dave Snyder, Community Development Director Rachel Juba, City Clerk Michele <br />Lindau <br /> <br />Approval of Minutes for the City Council Meeting on March 18, 2024 <br /> <br />Petryk made motion, Klein seconded, to approve the minutes for the City Council meeting held <br />on March 18, 2024, as presented. <br /> <br />All Ayes. Motion carried. <br /> <br />Approval of Agenda <br /> <br />Weidt made motion, Klein seconded, to approve the agenda as presented. <br /> <br />All Ayes. Motion carried. <br /> <br />Swear in Tom Kaspszak as Chief Engineer on the Hugo Fire Department <br /> <br />Tom Kaspszak had been a member of the Hugo Fire Department since November 2016. At its <br />meeting on February 5, 2024, Council approved the appointment of Tom as the new Chief <br />Engineer of the Department. Fire Chief Jim Compton officially swore in Kaspszak at the <br />meeting. Kaspszak thanked his family and all the officers that helped him along the way. Mayor <br />Weidt thanked him for his willingness to serve. <br /> <br />Hugo Fire Department Annual Report <br /> <br />Fire Chief Jim Compton, Jr. presented the 2023 Hugo Fire Department Annual Report. There <br />were currently 27 firefighters on the staff, and they responded to 380 calls in 2023. Mutual aid <br />calls were up a little bit due in part to the agreements Hugo had with seven other departments. <br />Other departments were called into Hugo 12 times in 2023, and the Hugo department responded <br />to 41 mutual aid calls outside of the City. Of the 380 calls to the department, calls to assist <br />MHealth was the highest at 139 calls, and calls for alarms was next at 100. This was their fourth <br />year assisting MHealth. Compton said they meet with them monthly to discuss operations. <br />MHealth also provided free training including the four training courses necessary to keep up with <br />annual certification. Including mutual aid, there was a total of 109 fire and service calls last <br />year, mostly for structure fires.