White Bear Lake, MN
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White Bear LakeMN averageUS Census ACS
Typical home value $356,378 +2.6% yr/yr · +12.5% 5-yr
Home-value trend 2000–2026 (Zillow ZHVI)
🗳️ Election results (6 races)
Local election returns — winner marked ✓.
Mayor 2025-11-04
Mary Nicklawske ✓ 2,767 · Stephen Laliberte 1,489 · WRITE-IN 6
City Council Ward 4 2025-11-04
Kevin L. Edberg ✓ 591 · WRITE-IN 43
City Council Ward 2 2025-11-04
Ellen Gurrola ✓ 868 · WRITE-IN 44
City Council Ward 5 2023-11-07
Steven Engstran ✓ 103 · WRITE-IN 12
City Council Ward 3 2023-11-07
Andrea West ✓ 444 · John Ficcadenti 394 · WRITE-IN 2
City Council Ward 1 2023-11-07
Bill Walsh ✓ 134 · WRITE-IN 12
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Wed Nov 18, 2026 · 18:30
City Council
City Hall - Matoska Room
Thu Nov 19, 2026 · 18:30
City Council
City Hall - Matoska Room
Tue Nov 24, 2026 · 19:00
City Council
Council meeting with only a test item on agenda
This is a regular City Council meeting with a largely procedural agenda. The only substantive item is a public hearing labeled 'Test Item for Agenda Creation Training,' which appears to be a placeholder. No other business items are listed.
- Public hearing: Test Item for Agenda Creation Training
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📄 From the agenda
Extracted text of the official agenda document (automated extraction — may contain OCR/formatting errors).
City Council Agenda: November 24, 2026
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF WHITE BEAR LAKE, MINNESOTA
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2026
7:00 PM IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS
Where lakes, connection, and small-town feel create a safe, welcoming
community that honors our past and is supported by exceptional services.
1. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
A. Minutes of the Regular City Council Meeting from Last Time
3. ADOPT THE AGENDA (No item of business shall be considered unless it appears on the agenda for the meeting. The Mayor or Councilmembers may add items
to the agenda prior to adoption of the agenda.)
4. CONSENT AGENDA (Those items listed under Consent Agenda are considered routine by the City Council and will be acted upon by one motion under this
agenda item. There will be no separate discussion of these items, unless the Mayor or a Councilmember so requests, in which event, the item will be removed from the
consent agenda and considered under New Business.)
5. PUBLIC HEARINGS
Test Item for Agenda Creation Training
6. VISITORS AND PRESENTATIONS
7. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
8. NEW BUSINESS
9. DISCUSSION
10. COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE CITY MANAGER
11. ADJOURNMENT
🗳️ How they voted — 1 divided vote
Named votes as recorded in the official record.
Consent Agenda
5 yea · 1 nay
Andrea West yea · Kevin Edberg yea · Bill Walsh yea · Ellen Gurrola yea · Steven Engstran yea · Mary Nicklawske nay
Wed Dec 16, 2026 · 18:30
City Council
City Hall - Matoska Room
Thu Dec 17, 2026 · 18:30
City Council
City Hall - Matoska Room
Wed Jan 20, 2027 · 18:30
City Council
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Thu Jan 21, 2027 · 18:30
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Wed Feb 17, 2027 · 18:30
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Thu Feb 18, 2027 · 18:30
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Wed Mar 17, 2027 · 18:30
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Thu Mar 18, 2027 · 18:30
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Thu Apr 15, 2027 · 18:30
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Wed Apr 21, 2027 · 18:30
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Wed May 19, 2027 · 18:30
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Thu May 20, 2027 · 18:30
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Wed Jun 16, 2027 · 18:30
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Thu Jun 17, 2027 · 18:30
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Thu Jul 15, 2027 · 18:30
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Wed Jul 21, 2027 · 18:30
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Wed Aug 18, 2027 · 18:30
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Thu Aug 19, 2027 · 18:30
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Tue Oct 27, 2026 · 19:00
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Wed Oct 21, 2026 · 18:30
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Thu Oct 15, 2026 · 18:30
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City Hall - Matoska Room
Tue Oct 13, 2026 · 19:00
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Tue Oct 13, 2026 · 19:00
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Mon Sep 28, 2026 · 19:00
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Mon Sep 28, 2026 · 19:00
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Tue Sep 22, 2026 · 19:00
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Thu Sep 17, 2026 · 18:30
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Wed Sep 16, 2026 · 18:30
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City Hall - Matoska Room
Tue Sep 8, 2026 · 19:00
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Council Chambers
Mon Aug 31, 2026 · 19:00
Planning Commission
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Tue Aug 25, 2026 · 19:00
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Thu Aug 20, 2026 · 18:30
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City Hall - Matoska Room
Wed Aug 19, 2026 · 18:30
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City Hall - Matoska Room
Tue Aug 11, 2026 · 19:00
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Council Chambers
Sun Aug 9, 2026 · 07:30
Police Civil Service Commission
Police Department Conference Room
Tue Jul 28, 2026 · 19:00
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Tue Jul 14, 2026 · 19:00
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Tue Jun 23, 2026 · 19:00
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💰 Federal awards (top 10 by amount)
Largest recent federal contract/grant awards to recipients in this city (2023–present), via USAspending.gov.
| $1.9M | TRANE U.S. INC. Department of Defense · A/C CONTROLLERS UPGRADE |
| $1.9M | TRANE U.S. INC. General Services Administration · JFK CHILLER REPLACEMENT JOHN F. KENNEDY FEDERAL BUILDING (MA0131ZZ) 15 |
| $1.8M | TRANE U.S. INC. Department of Defense · REPAIR CHILLERS IN BUILDING 600. |
| $1.6M | TRANE U.S. INC. Department of Veterans Affairs · FULL MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR SERVICES FOR THE HVAC CONTROLS AND BAS SYS |
| $1.6M | TRANE U.S. INC. National Aeronautics and Space Administr · BUILDING 1268 PNEUMATIC CONTROLLERS AND DIRECT DIGITAL CONTROL (DCC) R |
| $1.5M | TRANE U.S. INC. General Services Administration · DESIGN - BUILD CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT OF TW |
| $1.5M | TRANE U.S. INC. Department of Defense · B2059 MECHANICAL AND LIFE SAFETY |
| $1.4M | TRANE U.S. INC. Department of Defense · REPLACEMENT OF 2, 450 TON TRANE CHILLERS MODEL CVHE |
| $1.4M | TRANE U.S. INC. Department of Veterans Affairs · ALBANY CHILLER PLANTS OPERATION, MAINTENANCE & REPAIR |
| $1.3M | TRANE U.S. INC. Department of Veterans Affairs · CHILLER SYSTEM MAINTENANCE |
Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Treasury) — federal awards only, not city budgets.
🌐 County-level context (Ramsey 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 (2022)
Adults with low literacy16.9% (low numeracy 25% · 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.
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Recorded votes
$23.8M
Annual budget
$39.6M
Debt outstanding
6
Permitted housing units
The money — in
source: Census gov-finance & state comptrollerBudget
Revenue$23.8M
Spending$33.7M
Operating spending ran ahead of revenue this year.
Debt load
Outstanding debt$39.6M
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.