KINGSFORD — A contract with GEI Consultants of Iron Mountain for engineering on Kingsford’s third planned water and sewer project will total $517,500, about 7% of the proposed $7.38 million construction cost.

City Manager Mike Stelmaszek noted this is consistent with the city’s agreement on the other projects and below the industry norm for these types of engineering service.

This project would be in the Ford Addition and Breitung Avenue areas of Kingsford and overlap partially with the project in the Ford Addition/Heights area that is expected to start next summer and be completed over two years. The city council approved the contract Monday.

In other business, the council:

≤ Learned that 14 deer have been taken so far in the managed archery deer cull by 14 hunters.

≤ Heard from administrative assistant Jennifer Castos that 2,000 pounds of documents were shredded during the paper recycling shred event Saturday at TRICO Opportunities in partnership with the Iron Mountain-Kingsford Community Credit Union.

Those who attended were able to tour the TRICO facility and meet the Public Safety Department’s new K-9, Scout. “I think that it went really well,” Castos said.

≤ Received a thank you note from the Menominee Range Historical Foundation for the city’s donation of a Ku Klux Klan stamp. It is the only physical evidence of KKK’s presence in the county.

≤ Approved a request for proposals seeking qualified auditing firms to conduct the city’s audit for a four-year period — fiscal years ending June 30, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028. The current contract with CliftonLarsonAllen LLP of Green Bay, Wis., expired this year.

≤ Approved sending Kingsford Public Safety Director Brandon Rutter to the 2025 Winter Professional Development Conference, planned Feb. 5-7 in Grand Rapids. The conference is sponsored by the Michigan Chiefs of Police Association.

The conference costs $280, plus meals and lodging. The conference will also cover many changes coming through Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards that will affect the department, Rutter said in a memo to the council.

≤ Approved payment number six in the amount of $826,245 to Payne and Dolan of Gladstone for the water and sewer project in the Heights area. The project is nearly complete.