City News, Ranier

The Ranier City Council will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Ranier Community Building.
Council business will include approving monthly accounts and hearing a request from the municipal liquor store to hire four part time bartenders. The store recently lost two bartenders and the city must approve the hiring of personnel.
The council will also consider a request from the water committee to have Kim Lessard, the Ranier city maintenance worker, purchase waterline supplies to be on hand for summer repairs.

RANIER — The Ranier City Council will ask residents to make their addresses more visible.
The council Monday approved a modified letter that will be sent to all residents regarding its 911 plan, with a request that they make their home addresses more visible to emergency service vehicles. The letter is an attempt to get citizens to comply with an acceptable emergency services standard to avoid further notification.

The Ranier City Council is expected to appoint Cheryl Granrud to represent Ranier on the Convention Visitor Bureau Board during its meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the Community Building.
It is also expected to approve the purchase of six yards of crushed rock, which is used for filling potholes by city maintenance.
The council is expected to approve the purchase of city office equipment and other bills. It is also expected to receive the operational statement for the municipal liquor store.

RANIER — Several residents marked the centennial anniversary of this city Monday evening with cake and fellowship in the Ranier Community Building.
It was 100 years earlier, to the day, that the Koochiching Board of Commissioners voted to incorporate the Village of Ranier on March 17, 1908.

RANIER — The Ranier City Council Monday approved a proposal to begin a preliminary engineering and environmental review for water system improvements at its meeting.
The proposal begins a process to assess and repair an aging water system that has suffered numerous failures in recent years.

The Ranier City Council will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Ranier Community Building.
The council is scheduled to consider a report from its Water Committee involving a preliminary engineering report from S.E.H. Engineering regarding the Ranier waterlines.
Also on Monday’s agenda is a report from the Buildings, Streets and Grounds Committee about other items and on protocol for advertising on the city’s sign.
The city’s Water Committee is also expected to report on the purchase of a magnetic sign for a maintenance vehicle.

Centennial, 911 signs, fire protection discussed

Ranier is 100 years old this year and the city plans to celebrate throughout 2008.
Chairwoman Diane Edens will lead a Centennial Committee comprised of Mary Ann Kasich, Naomi Woods, Mary Casanova, Dave Trompeter, Douglas Skrief, Tom Hall, Trustee Dale Klocek and Mayor Ed Oerichbauer, as approved by the council Tuesday at its regular meeting.

The Ranier City Council is scheduled to discuss the Rural Fire Protection Association and the 911 sign project at its meeting Tuesday.

The meeting will be conducted at 6:30 p.m. at the Ranier Community Building.

The board is also scheduled to hear a report from the centennial committee. Ranier is planning to celebrate its 100th birthday in March.

The board is expected to approve the January operating statement for the Ranier Municipal Liquor Store and handle any other liquor store business.

The board is also expected approve the payment of bills in the total amount of $60,500.

The Ranier City Council Tuesday passed an ordinance finalizing water rates for residents and non-residents supplied with city water.

The Ranier City Council is scheduled to complete its annual
designations for city attorney, city auditor, bank depositories,
official newspaper and acting mayor Tuesday.

The council is scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Ranier Community Building.

The council is also scheduled to make annual appointment to committees.

Also on Tuesday’s agenda is to take action on the Ranier Liquor Store’s
operating statement for December and to renew its pulltab lease until
2010.