Right at the end of the public portion of the Forest Lake City Council’s Aug. 28 meeting – just a few minutes before the council retired to closed session to discuss labor negotiations – two councilmen got into a brief but forceful exchange during a discussion about council member residency, after Councilwoman Mara Bain and Councilman Sam Husnik requested that Councilman Michael Freer present evidence to the city that he still lives within the Forest Lake city limits.
After the meeting, The Times met with Freer, who presented The Times with his current driver’s license. The Times verified that the driver’s license has a Forest Lake address that is different from both his previous Granada Avenue Court address and his old address on Birch Drive, where he lived when he filed with the city to run for council in 2010 and 2014, which indicates that he is not using one of
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