The Ranier City Council is expected to pass a resolution supporting the Ranier Post Office when it meets Monday.
The council meeting is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Ranier Community Building. An agenda is considered tentative until the government body begins the meeting and makes additions or deletions to the proposed agenda.
The proposed resolution will prompt the council to send a letter to the area’s congressional delegation about the U.S. Postal Service’s plan to cut window hours at the Ranier Post Office. The letter will ask the delegation to send staff to meet with the council, Koochiching County Board and post office officials about the process used to consider hour reductions.
On Nov. 7, U.S. Postal Service officials met with Ranier residents to discuss a plan that will reduce the Ranier Post Office window hours from eight hours to four hours Monday through Friday. The change will go into effect sometime in March or April.
The meeting was presented as a way to gather public input, but instead was an announcement of the plan to reduce hours, which generated frustration among residents and local officials, who said the process was flawed.
In addition, the letter would address the fact that just 269 surveys were sent to Ranier’s newly annexed population of 605 residents. And that the International Falls Post Office has not changed the addresses of the newly annexed residents to Ranier.
In other business Monday, the council is expected to consider a building permit request from Pat and Kate Miller.
