3 businesses in Alexandria fail tobacco compliance check – Alexandria Echo Press

ALEXANDRIA

— On July 30, three businesses failed a compliance check for tobacco and e-cigarette sales to minors – King Tobacco, 307 N. Nokomis St.; Casey’s Grocery Store, 700 Voyager Drive; and Ebacco, 410 30th Ave. TO.

Administrative fines were imposed on all three businesses. Both King Tobacco and Ebacco had their licenses suspended for three months.

There was a recheck of the works on November 5th and Casey failed again. All Casey’s locations have a common license to sell tobacco.

At its meeting on Monday, Nov. 25, the Alexandria City Council fined the clerk $50, the store $1,000, and suspended Casey’s tobacco license for seven days. Since this was Casey’s third violation in 36 months and 15 days and his second violation in 24 months, the council had grounds to impose a fine and restraining order, according to the city attorney’s office.

Casey has the right to challenge the violation at a hearing.

Tobacco licenses issued on Monday are as follows:

Alexandria Golf Club

Casey’s Market, 700 Voyager Drive, 3373 South Broadway, 716 3rd Ave. TO.

Cash Wise Liquor

Dollar Market

Ebacco

Cenex

Fleet Farm, Fleet Farm Fuel

Alexandria Tobacco Shop Plus

Holiday Station, 320 3rd Ave. E., 650 50th Ave. W., 5310 Hwy. 29 S., 785 N. Nokomis NE.

Puppy Foods

Midwest Tobacco and Vapor Inc.

Brothers Market

Racetrack

Alexandria Gas and Convenience Store

Simonson Station Shops

Alex Tobacco

Spinning Leaf

walgreens

Walmart

bully

Electronic delivery device (e-cigarette)

CBD Center

Ebacco

MN Publication

Spinning Leaf

Viking Pawn

Two new public streets – Snowbird Lane and Seasons Drive – are now officially part of the city.

Snowbird Lane is located in Burgen Sunrise Third Addition and Seasons Drive is located in Summer Meadows First Addition.

The streets, the construction of which started this year, were completed, inspection records and test reports were examined, and the streets were officially accepted and opened.

As the streets will be added to the city’s system, regular maintenance and repair will be required.

The process of using naming rights to help pay for the renovation and expansion of the Runestone Community Center took a step forward Monday night.

The council agreed to hire Blue Tricycle of Minneapolis to assist with naming rights deals for the main arena and west arena.

Working with the city’s naming rights consultant, Front Burner Sports, Blue Tricycle was determined as the company with experience in the naming rights process. He has more than 25 years of branding experience.

“It is important to be able to implement a single vision to brand multiple partners,” City Manager Marty Schultz said in a memo to council.

The cost for design services is $5,950 for site branding and $4,550 for two areas that are part of the current process. It includes logo concepts, revisions, improvements, both external and internal. Arena branding can include an ice logo, dashboards, scoreboard signage, digital logo branding displays, marketing, print, digital, uniforms, etc. Includes logo variations for.

Blue Tricycle suggested a total cost of $19,600, but that included branding for the new third arena, and because that timeline is uncertain, the city is not proposing to proceed with design services for the third arena at this time.

The current recommended cost of design services is $15,050. The money will come from $220,000 the city has set aside in its project budget for furniture, fixtures and equipment.

Front Burner Sports, the city and Blue Tricycle will work together on the design and location of the branding throughout the winter.

In other action related to the Runestone Community Center, the council voted to increase the RCC project’s guaranteed maximum price by $170,788.

The new guaranteed maximum price is now $13,024,944. Council member Scott Allen voted against it. If the city continues to increase the guaranteed maximum price, he said, it’s not actually a guaranteed amount.

Additional work includes strengthening the barrel roof. This option was chosen because the municipality did not want to have wooden poles covering the entire mezzanine level of the existing facility.

According to Schultz, the change order and price change do not affect the overall cost of the project as they relate to funds that are part of the overall budget approved by the council.

Currently, approximately 41% of the first two phases of the RCC project are completed. The next part of the project will be demolition of the south end of the main arena’s lower level this spring.

The council gave preliminary approval to amend sections of the city’s “constitution,” the Home Rule Charter that governs how the city operates.

The changes proposed by the Alexandria Charter Commission would change two sections of the ordinance:

Section 7.07, Contracts and Purchases.

Section 10.03, Powers of the Board.

Both changes were the result of discussions held while ALP Utilities was purchasing the property and entering into agreements for construction management services for its new campus.

Chapter 7.07 adds a sentence stating that nothing in the section dealing with bidding requirements prevents the municipality from authorizing alternatives to municipal bidding authorized by state law, according to City Administrator Marty Schultz.

ALP is using an alternative contracting method, the “construction manager at risk” method, on its new campus.

The amendment to Section 10.3 clarifies the role of the Public Utilities Board and council with respect to alternative forms of municipal contracting. A new section states that, except for use easements, all purchases, sales, leases and other real estate contracts for the board’s purposes shall be subject to council approval.

Under the process used by the council, an amendment to the charter can only be adopted by ordinance if it receives a unanimous affirmative vote by the council and is approved by the mayor and published in the same manner as other ordinances.

Since Mayor Bobbie Osterberg did not vote on the amendment, her approval or rejection is determined by whether she signs the ordinance after the council unanimously approves it.

The second reading of the regulation is planned for December 9. If approved on second reading, citizens have 60 days to submit a petition that would force a referendum on the proposed change. In the absence of a petition, the amendment takes effect 90 days after final acceptance.

The council voted to officially create a seasonal public works hauler position to help clear snow when needed.

This is a part-time position; a position the city has used for several years. Main responsibilities are to assist in snow removal throughout the city to ensure safe and accessible roads, sidewalks, and public spaces during winter weather events.

According to the job description approved Monday, the position involves operating snow removal equipment and collaborating with the public works team to maintain efficient snow removal. The position may be assigned to any of the public works departments and may include regularly assigned duties individually or as a team.

The city’s Personnel Committee met on Nov. 20 and recommended approving the job description and hiring snow haulers. Salaries will range from $23.77 to $29.71 per hour.