Hawley, MN
Recent Hawley public meeting topics include contracts & procurement, budget & taxes.
Topics found in recent meetings
Get Hawley meeting alerts
One email when Hawley posts a new agenda or minutes. Free, unsubscribe anytime.
Official website pages
Our record for Hawley may be out of date. The most recent record we hold is from Mon Aug 3, 2026. (61 days ago) Newer meetings may not have been published to the official portal yet, or may not have been collected by us yet — this is a statement about our record, not about whether the board or council has met. Check the official portal before concluding nothing is scheduled.
Recent meetings
Mon Aug 3, 2026
Council
Council to vote on SRO agreement and $46,017 hangar payment
The Hawley City Council will consider approving a three-year School Resource Officer agreement with Hawley Public Schools and a $46,017.14 payment for the multi-bay hangar project at the municipal airport. The agenda also includes consent items (minutes and meeting calendars) and committee reports.
- Approve School Resource Officer (SRO) agreement with Hawley Public Schools for 2026-2029
- Approve payment request of $46,017.14 for Hangar Project at Hawley Municipal Airport (04Y)
- Consent items: July 20, 2026 minutes and August/September meeting calendars
- Bills for approval
school-resource-officerairportbudgetpublic-safetycontracts
📄 From the agenda
Extracted text of the official agenda document (automated extraction — may contain OCR/formatting errors).
HAWLEY CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
Monday, August 3, 2026
6:00 P.M. - COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1. Call to Order
2. Citizen Comments
-Please limit comments to 3 minutes per person. Items brought before the Council here shall be
referred to the appropriate committee for consideration. No Council action or discussion will be held on
these items.
3. Amendments to Agenda
4. Committee & Staff Reports:
-EDA/EDA Advisors — (Mork)
-Public Safety — (Mork)
-Approve SRO Proposal (M)
-Personnel Committee — (Mork)
-Development/Water Committee — (Mork)
-Liquor Committee — (Mork)
-Government Services — (Eldred)
-Development/Water Committee — (Eldred)
-Public Safety — (Eldred)
-EDA -— (Eldred)
-Public Utilities Commission — (Eldred)
-Liquor Committee — (Asleson)
-Personnel Committee — (Asleson)
-Public Works - (Asleson)
-Public Safety Alternate — (Asleson)
-EDA — (Asleson)
-Public Works - (Riedberger)
-EDA & EDA Advisors — (Riedberger)
-Planning Commission — (Riedberger)
-Airport Commission — (Riedberger)
-Approve Payment Request for Hangar Project of $46,017.14 (M)
-EDA — (Ness)
-Government Services — (Ness)
-Park Board-(Ness)
-Heartland Trail Extension
5. CONSENT ITEMS. (NOTICE TO PUBLIC) All matters listed in this form are considered routine by
the council and will be enacted by one (1) motion in the form listed below. There will be no separate
discussion of these items unless good cause is shown prior to the time the council votes on the
motion to adopt.
A. 7/20/2026 Minutes
B. August & …
Excerpt truncated on this listing page. Full text →
💰 Federal awards (top 6 by amount)
Largest recent federal contract/grant awards to recipients in this city (2023–present), via USAspending.gov.
| $90,145 | COMMAND & CONTROL CONSTRUCTION LLC Department of Veterans Affairs · FLOORING IDIQ TASK ORDER |
| $49,204 | COMMAND & CONTROL CONSTRUCTION LLC Department of Veterans Affairs · FLOORING AND INSTALLATION SERVICES TASK ORDER AGAINST IDIQ CONTRACT 36 |
| $35,822 | COMPUTER AIDED TRANSCRIPTION SERVICE, INC. Department of Justice · GRAND JURY & DEPOSITION COURT REPORTING |
| $9,605 | U A S SERVICE CORPORATION Department of Agriculture · IIB 1241 REPAIR NEED TO REPAIR TWO NIRT MASTER INSTRUMENTS FOR THE PR |
| $5,774 | COMPUTER AIDED TRANSCRIPTION SERVICE, INC. Department of Justice · GRAND JURY COURT REPORTING |
| $4,841 | COMPUTER AIDED TRANSCRIPTION SERVICE, INC. Department of Justice · GRAND JURY & DEPOSITION COURT REPORTING |
Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Treasury) — federal awards only, not city budgets.
🌐 County-level context (Clay County)
County-level context — from BLS, IRS, FEMA, HUD, Census. These figures cover the whole county this city sits in, not just the city itself.
Traffic fatalities1 (2024)
Adults with low literacy11.5% (low numeracy 19% · 2017)
Sources: BLS LAUS, IRS SOI, FEMA, NHTSA FARS, Census CBP, HUD, NCES PIAAC
City profile
Everything below is drawn from this city’s own public record and primary-source government data. AI-written summaries are a finding aid, not a citable quote.
1
Recorded votes
$3.8M
Annual budget
$6.0M
Debt outstanding
33
Permitted housing units
The money — in
source: Census gov-finance & state comptrollerBudget
Revenue$3.8M
Spending$6.0M
Operating spending ran ahead of revenue this year.
Debt load
Outstanding debt$6.0M
A debt-load indicator (national percentile of debt, deficit & aid-reliance) — not a solvency verdict. Cross-checked against official state fiscal-stress scores where they exist.
Outcomes — economic mobility
source: Opportunity Atlas (Harvard) · research useFor kids who grew up here in low-income households, their adult household-income rank (0–1). The average hides a gap by race:
Research-only layer, shown here for context — not included in the CC BY 4.0 bulk download.
Where it’s happening
geocoded land-use decisions🗺 Interactive map
Every rezoning, development approval, and permit — explore the geocoded records in the research explorer.
Meeting archives
- 2023 (6 meetings)