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Elk River
Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO:
FROM:
ERMU Commission
Tony Mauren — Governance & Communications Manager
MEETING DATE:
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
December 10, 2024
2.4
SUBJECT:
Designate 2025 Official Newspaper
ACTION REQUESTED:
Designate Elk River Star News as the official newspaper for 2025.
BACKGROUND/DISCUSSION:
Minnesota Statutes Section 331A.04 requires the utility to annually designate a qualified
newspaper for the publication of legal notices. The newspaper must meet specific rules and
must be chosen based on their location.
The Star News meets those qualifications and is in the city so it must be chosen as the utilities'
official newspaper.
As a reminder, in January 2024 ERMU also initiated the process to establish its website as an
alternative dissemination method for bids, requests for proposals, request for information, etc.
per state statute 331A.03, subd. 3(a)-(b). After a six month transition period ERMU has officially
satisfied the requirements to establish the website as an acceptable publishing platform should
that be more advantageous to the Utilities than posting notices in the newspaper.
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