00:00:12,100	It’s 515. We’re June 11th. We’re in the Tom Baker room of the City County Building. This will be the Board of city commissioner’s regular meeting. But First. I don’t know if I have a chaplain here.

00:00:38,830	If not, we’ll just start with the pledge of Allegiance then Allegiance to the flag of the United states of America and to the Republic for which it stands One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all So. We’ll call our meeting in order If, we can call roll. Mister Marquardt here. Comm. Zenker here, Comm. Connelly. Here Comm. Cleary here, Mayor Schmitz here. The first item is a proclamation for Juneteenth.

00:01:07,900	Whereas, the city of Bismarck has a heritage to continue to build upon and past and present and which will Informed June 2024. And whereas our nation is conceived on July 4th 1976 with the declaration of the independence proclaiming we hold these truths to be self evident that all men Are created equal and that all are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that

00:01:29,800	among these Our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Therefore be it resolved that I am Michael Schmidt’s mayor of the city of Bismarck, on behalf of the City Commission do hereby proclaim June 19th 2024 is Juneteenth in the city of Bismarck. Signed this day of June 2024. Next item will be, um, public comment.

00:01:57,100	It’s restricted to items on the consent agenda. Ex and regular agenda. Excluding those items which are public hearing anyone who wished to speak to a topic Please come forward State your name and sign in and tell us what you’re speaking to. Second call for public comment. Third and final call for public comment.

00:02:28,830	Hearing and seeing No one public comment period is now closed Commissioners where your wishes with regard to the consent agenda move to approve as presented second, any discussion. Hearing none will call roll. Mr Zinker? Yes, Mr Connelly? Yes Comm. Cleary. Mr Marquardt Mayor Smith Yes.

00:02:55,030	First item in the regular agenda is to consider the recommendation from the Vision Fund to support a flex pace program interest by on for the Hurt View Foundation, Uh, Nathan Schneider, I believe is gonna present I am. Thank you, Mr mayor. Uh, commissioners. I’ll try to be as brief as I can. I know It’s a big night. Everybody wants to get out of here.

00:03:13,700	So, um Uh, you have in front of you? A request from Heart View Foundation, uh, for a flex pay for the local match of the Flex pace being in order to go to flex Pace program. Um, I’ll get into the amount in just a second, but this will be to assist in a financing package.

00:03:31,100	Um, to purchase the facility or the building at 116 North Fourth Street. Um, currently, uh, heart view does have some admin positions in the facility right now, and they lease a portion of it. This would allow them to, uh, purchase the the facility or the the building outright. Move, uh, relocate and and, um, expand their admin positions.

00:03:52,730	Um, within that facility that would ultimately open up, Uh, additional facilities for services and that they that they currently provide, um for, um, addiction, counseling and And family services. I’ll Let the project talk a little bit about, um, the project itself.

00:04:18,330	I did wanna just mention real briefly so in the initial application, um, from from a heart view Foundation. The request was for $94,503.27. That was the And, uh, present value the community present value. Um, at the time at the time the project was considering utilizing Mita bonds. Um, they have since decided not to move forward with that option. So that did change the financing.

00:04:40,870	The overall financing of the project. Uh, in terms of what the bank would utilize or what the bank would do. And so that reduced the buy down period, which increased the the present value community portion. If that makes sense. I try not to Complicate that as much as possible.

00:05:06,900	So currently the amount being requested changed from the 94,005 03 27 to 100,675 65. This is it’s an increased in an increase in the request from the Vision Fund, but not an increase. Overall. It’s just a change in the present value due to the change in the by down terms. If that makes sense. So. The.

00:05:26,030	Total dollars gross dollars is the same is the same over the period of the it just the the Buy down period that was initially requested would have been for 120 months. It is now for 58 months and so at that time period of that those dollars spent at the bank in North Dakota.

00:05:43,930	Um, reduce the return that they could get and so increased the amount requested from the city. Um, yeah. If there’s any questions on that. I I know that That’s Complicated, but, um other than if there’s not any questions, I’ll bring up. Um Kurt Schneider from Um Hart View Foundation or the Vision Fund Committee did approve.

00:06:10,430	Uh, the application after the, um um initial meeting for going the the second application meeting. Um, just due to the the worthiness of the project that they felt, um it deserved to move on without that second meeting, so If. There’s no other questions.

00:06:23,930	I can always come back up to, but I’ll like I like to bring up Kurt, uh, to talk to you a little bit about the project. Thank you, Uh, Mayor Schmidt’s, uh, Comm.. Good evening. Uh, my name is Kurt Snyder. I’m the executive director of the Harvey Foundation, Uh, the Hervey Foundation was established in 1964 over our 60 years. We’ve looked different over the years, but in 2011 Harvi had 113 bed facility and 33 employees.

00:06:51,030	Today. We have a total of 100 and 65 employees and 61 total residential beds that we offer. Uh throughout. Can do Dickinson and Bismarck. Uh, actually, 29 of those beds are in Bismarck. We are headquartered in Bismarck and 100 and 20 of our 165 employees are here in Bismarck.

00:07:14,500	Last year, we served a total of 1199 patients, and this was an increase from 755 the year before. Ah for this project due to a rapid pace of our growth. We are out of room at all of our locations. Currently.

00:07:37,070	We are renting the second floor of the 116 North Fourth Street, and this is between the brick oven and one of the toasted frog used to be. About half our administrative team already shares offices and we were we were really put in a position where we either had to, uh, lease more of the building. Move or, um, buy the the the building.

00:07:59,870	Um, the bottom two levels have been vacant since we moved in there three years ago. Expanding would allow us to move more administrative staff from our other locations to our fourth street location, making room for us to hire more clinical and administrative staff and expand services. The Fourth Street facility could also be used to train our, uh, employee workforce as well as host and expand a family programming.

00:08:26,500	This is not a signed deal, however. The Hart View Foundation board of directors met yesterday and did approve us to move forward with this project pending the Flex pace funding. Approval. Um, the benefit to Bismarck. You know we are currently projecting this project would create 10 full time jobs and two part time jobs.

00:08:51,830	Uh, with, uh, administrative staff fundraiser and accountant. Clinical staff would include addiction counselors, medical provider director of nursing case managers, and it would also allow us to train additional students to add to our workforce. More importantly, however, this will allow us to serve more community members.

00:09:17,770	Individuals of substance use disorders are often unemployed or underemployed from 2021 to 2022 Hart View surveyed 305 of our opiate treatment program Patients. At baseline and admission 32% of the patients were employed. After one year 70% of the patients were employed and their mean wage almost doubled.

00:09:44,100	Every business needs workforce, but her view is in a unique ability that we will all we will add, uh, workforce to our own, uh, business, but we were also Help to increase the workforce for other businesses within Bismarck, Mandan. The. More people we serve, the more people will be able to rejoin the workforce. Uh, I gladly stand for any questions. I have questions. Comm. cry necessarily a question, Kirk but more of a comment.

00:10:09,070	We just, um, had a meeting earlier this week about the communities. Uh, health needs assessment that has been going on and I think mental health is a topic that got brought up in every subgroup.

00:10:25,170	That was there, so I think that just to echo what you’re saying? I think the Har view is doing some really great stuff in the community. Bringing. Those jobs is great, but also the work that you’re providing, I think is so valuable when we look at like the health needs in the community and you know me. Reading.

00:10:40,670	Those mental health needs, so I just, uh, wanted to say thanks for what? You the growth that you’ve had, I think is has been great for Bismarck. Thank you. Any other questions. Thank you, Kurt. Any questions for Nathan? Doesn’t look like it. So commissioners. What are your wishes? Move to approve second. Any discussion. Just confirming it’s 100 and 1006 7565. Yeah, that be the NPV the same gross dollars to do the buy.

00:11:07,870	Now, Just make sure Thank you, Comm.. Any other discussion. N will call roll. Mister Connelly? Yes Comm. Cleary? Yes Comm. Marquardt? Yes Comm. Zinker. Yes, yes. Thank you. Next item is a, uh, public hearing on Whispering Ridge second division, storm water and drainage easement. Good Evening, mayor and commissioners.

00:11:57,900	Knuts and homes, and Rodney and Katherine Fraelich are requesting approval to release the current 20 ft. Storm water and Drainage easement over lots one and two block one Whispering Ridge second subdivision in conjunction with recording a new store, modern drainage easement to the north of the lot to construct a single family dwelling in the center of these lots.

00:12:18,970	The property is located northwest of Bismarck west of 28th Street, northwest and north of Bent Creek Drive on the west side of Nicholas ST Nicklaus Drive. The original easement was granted to the city of Bismarck and the public with the plot of Whispering Ridge Second subdivision recorded October 24th or 2019. Since. These lots are within Bismarck’s extra territorial area.

00:12:42,930	City and county staff have determined that the new easement should be dedicated to Burle County. The burly County Commission accepted the new easement at their June 3rd 2024 meeting. This will be recorded in conjunction with the release of this easement if the Bismarck City commission approves this request, relocation of any storm, water and drainage infrastructure will be required prior to

00:13:05,430	issuance of the building or occupancy permit for the proposed building. By city policy release of an easements other than franchise utility easements require a public hearing with the City Commission, owners of adjacent properties have been notified of this request as a result of all findings contained in the staff report.

00:13:24,670	City of Bismarck staff find that the release of the storm water and drainage easement in conjunction with the dedication of a new easement would not adversely impact the public health safety and general welfare and is consistent with the comprehensive Plan Bismarck Code of Ordinances. And relevant state law. Staff recommends approval to release the current 20 ft.

00:13:45,370	Storm water and Drainage easement over lots one and two block one Whispering Ridge second subdivision with the condition that the new stormwater and drainage easement, which was accepted by Bartley County Commission on June 3rd be recorded in conjunction with this release. Do. You have any questions for me at this time? No. Thanks, Lauren.

00:14:07,670	This is a public hearing. So. Anyone who wished to speak to this. Please come forward. Second call for public comment. Third and final call. Erin and seeing none. Public com appears all closed commissioners or your wishes to prove as presented. Second Any discussion. Hearing none will call roll. Mr Cleary? Yes, Comm. Marquardt? Yes Comm.. Yes, Mr Connelly. Yes, yes.

00:14:44,670	Next item is to receive and consider bids for Airfield Painting Project. Mayor Comm.. I had to wait to get through traffic. The aisle there. You called an air traffic control. I could see it. Sorry sorry to keep you waiting. Um yeah, So tonight. We’ve got a little, uh, maintenance project. Uh uh.

00:15:15,670	I handed out a a bid tab at your workstations. Uh, just a little annual, uh, painting and marking at the airport. This is gonna be for tax away. See, um, part of the commercial apron and our terminal boulevard loop and in front of the terminal.

00:15:36,570	We’re removing some of the, uh, pavement or, uh, paint that’s been layering up and flaking off. Um and, uh, We received bids on this on June 10th. Uh, we received five bids. Uh, the low bid was submitted by Ostrom painting for 100 and $14,213.04 are engineers estimate was 100 and 37,189 20. Uh And.

00:16:02,430	We would recommend, uh, award to the low bidder subject to our review in checking Commission Marquardt mayor and commissioners Greg. So. Why. The. Large dollar amount difference between Um Especially on the first two items. Items one and two Um it. It’s a great question, and we’re seeing this a lot across the board. Uh, we were actually surprised that we got, uh, the bids that we did.

00:16:27,600	Um, I think, uh, some of the local Well, I guess traffic safety in West River are local, Uh, highlight is actually out in New York, but they do a lot of work in in our area. Seems like every year, uh, probably highway work and stuff.

00:16:44,170	They’re probably loaded up with work, and this is one of those hail Very Bids and if we get it great. If. We don’t you know we’re fine already? Um, so I guess Austin was just a little hungrier. As was, uh, foreigner, You know theirs was a little bit higher than the engineer’s estimate. But. Uh, we are seeing painting, Uh, prices. Going up.

00:17:07,900	Uh, also crack ceiling. Across the state at at all the airports right and I just would hate to see a change order come through if they missed something, you know, later on because, like I said, there’s there’s significant amount of difference between There is those those numbers So I mean? Great, you know they came in under what our

00:17:26,370	engineers estimate but I would really hate to see a, uh Uh, something come through later, as far as the change order we’ve worked with a before, and they’ve done good work as well as a foreigner the next highest bid.

00:17:42,830	But like I said in my recommendation to you awarded subject to our review and checking. We’ve. We got it. We’ll go through everything. Make Sure. There wasn’t anything missed or anything? Um, uh, out of line Sounds. Great. Thank you, sir. Any other questions. Move to approve his presented second. Is there any discussion? N will call roll. Mr Marquardt. Yes Mr. Zenker. Yes, Mr Connelly? Yes. Comm. Cleary. Yes Mayor Schmitz.

00:18:13,500	Yes, thank you. Thank you. Uh, Next item D. There’s a request. From Public Works service operations for executive session. Commissioners. Um, move to go into executive session under North Dakota century code section 44-04 Dash 19.2 regarding contract negotiations and strategy. Second Is there any discussion? Here. Then we call roll, Mr Zenker. Yes.

00:18:52,230	Mr Connelly? Yes Mr Cleary? Yes Comm. Marquardt Mayor Schmitz.