00:00:11,930	Today is October 1, 2024. It is 5:30. And we are in the Bosch Frelich meeting room, Mandan City Hall. Mr. Neubbauer, would you please Take the roll. Commissioners roar. Braun Please stand for the pledge. Pledge. America Mm OK, we’re going to start out with announcements tonight and. Amy Berger.

00:01:09,600	Come to the podium I am going to. the OK OK So excited. To, can everyone hear me? Announced tonight our quarter 3 years of service for employees that have reached those milestones. So tonight, we have 6 employees that we’re able to recognize for this. And those range for 35,,,, 1520, and 30 years of service. So. Very impressive and excited to congratulate and announce.

00:01:54,530	Those names and I will call the names if you want to come up, um, our mayor will. Congratulate you with a certificate and then if everyone can stay up here, we’ll get a picture before. Uh, we let you go. So that being said, first is Angela Wicks. 3 years of service and a detective with Manda and PD.

00:02:29,730	Next is Sarah shoe lender, 3 years of service, our bookmobile Service Associate. We have Edward Ker. 5 years of service. Our public works seasonal labor. Next is Kayla Steinman. She is not with here today, but we want to recognize her and she is our library page and she has 15 years of service.

00:03:06,200	Next we have Shane Walt call. 20 years of service. Our battalion chief man and fire. Terry, 30 years of service. Fire department. Commissioners, if you want to come step down and get in the picture, that’d be awesome too. All right, this is a big one.

00:04:59,830	Congratulations to Dennis Rohr, recipient of North Dakota League of Cities Lifetime Achievement Award. Dennis Thank you. Well, you know, it’s been a summer, but anytime that we achieve throughout our lives, I’ve come to find out that. Any accomplishment we have is usually through the help and assistance and. And instruction and and benefactors that are given to us in life, you know, we get there through others.

00:05:22,800	We very seldom ever climb that mountain by ourselves and we try by ourselves, we still have to have other people help us to get there and. And so I’m very appreciative of all the people throughout the years that have been part of my life that have. Help me get along and uh.

00:05:40,330	Made my job easier. I know when I first came up here from Kansas, I moved to this place, didn’t know anybody. And Came up here we decide never to leave this place. My wife and I are still up here.

00:05:54,330	And one thing is when I left the police department in 2007, you know, I, I told my wife, I said, I never want to attend another meeting. Well, I have my purgatory to attend to yet. Yeah, well, I’m gonna, I’m gonna read some of your uh highlights. So you were 21 years as the Mandan police chief. And you’ve been a city Comm. since 2010.

00:06:17,170	Uh, You’ve been serving on a whole host of committees. Art in the park, music, musicians association. Um, You’re still active in the police chiefs association. You’ve been an adjunct professor at BSC. Uh, I’m halfway done. Uh, your handwriting expert. You’re an ordained ordained Roman Catholic deacon. And this year marks the 40th year that you and Vesta attending the. Uh, League of Cities conference.

00:06:49,730	And Drumroll please. You’re an experienced drummer. So you’re playing an old time rock and roll. Yeah, you’re, you’re in several bands too, so. Congratulations. Thank you. They’re all speaking to my age now. OK. Mr. Neubauer. Introduction of public works director Shane O’Keefe. Come over on this side so we can all get a good look at you.

00:07:32,430	John, John Q. Public will know this man very well. uh, Mayor Frelick and commissioners, it’s with pleasure to introduce our new public works director, Shane O’Keefe. Um, Shane, well, he is a Bismarck High graduate, so, um. We’ll just be.

00:07:58,370	We’ll just leave the maroon out of the picture tonight, um, he’s currently pursuing a degree through southern New Hampshire State University, has worked for BNSF for since 2012 as a track man machine operator, track inspector, assistant roadmaster structures supervisor and a project engineer, um, Shane started with us on September 16th. So like to introduce Shane O’Keefe. Forward to meeting and working with all you guys. Thanks. Thank you, Shane.

00:08:32,270	OK, the last item on the announcements recognition of fire Prevention Week and fire. Chief Bitz Good evening, Mayor, Commissioners, uh, just wanted to take a moment and remind the public of Fire Prevention Week is October 6th through the 12th.

00:08:54,130	Um, it’s just a Time set aside to really focus on things we can do to prevent fires and uh emergencies from occurring in the first place or men and women go out to the schools and uh do puppet shows and uh. Hunt for hazards and crawl through the smoke trailer and all that good stuff, but, to top it off on October 8th, we have an open house at our fire department downtown Station One Fire Department.

00:09:11,230	Uh, we’ll start the evening with a parade beginning at the Mandan Rural Fire Department at 6:30 p.m. And then it travels through the city, ends up back at St one where we’ll have a some free hot dogs and fire truck rides and get to spray your fire hose and come out and meet the firefighters and all of our

00:09:27,270	community partners that will be there to help us celebrate Fire Prevention Week and invite all of you, all of you as well to please stop by and check out the activities for the evening. OK. Thank you very much.

00:09:54,400	OK, has everybody had a chance to uh review the agenda? If so, I would entertain a motion to approve the agenda. tonight’s agenda. Second We have a motion to approve by Comm. Rohr seconded by Comm. Schoberg. Any further discussion hearing none, roll call, please. Consider approval of the minutes on the September 17th, 2024, Board of City commissioners regular meeting. I’ll entertain a motion to approve? Oh Second, We have a motion by Comm.

00:10:31,270	Brown, a second by Comm. Hain Chan. Any further discussion? He roll call. Comm. Braun. Consider approval of the September 23, 2024, Quorum of city commissioners. I’ll make the uh mo motion to approve the minutes of the September 23rd Corma City commissioners. We have a motion by Comm. Schoberg, a second by Comm. Braunun.

00:11:06,470	Discussion, hearing none, roll call. Comm. Comm. We have no public hearings or no bids tonight. Uh, under the consent agenda. You’ve all had time to review, but I will read it. Consider the water treatment plant phase 3 Coha Amendment. That is item number one, item #2, consider. Submitting the following 2027 transportation alternatives? TA Grant applications to the bizman.

00:11:42,270	Metropolitan planning organization with I A. TA Grant for 3rd Street Southeast Sidewalk Installation. Item BTA Grant from Memorial Highway pedestrian ramp realignment. Item 3, 2025 budget amendment for a canine vehicle. Item 4 consider change order one for the 2024 Street reconstruction project. Item 5. Consider approval of an employee request for unpaid leave.

00:12:17,470	Those are the items on the consent agenda. Looking for a motion, uh, mayor and fellow commissioners if You would allow me to pull. I’m number 2 A and 2 B. And jerk if you could maybe take the. The stand if you will. Um, this is an educational pull.

00:12:49,900	Um, and it’s in regards to um submitting the following 2027 transportation alternatives grant. Now again, this is for 2027. Uh Alternative transportation alternatives grant. Um, to the Mandan Metropolitan Planning Organization. And not, not the Mandan Progress Organization, correct. So could you please uh inform the people watching here and on Dakota Media access and so cable TV and so on and so forth.

00:13:18,430	What is uh transportation alternative grant. Um, mayor Comm., the Transportation Alternatives grant is a, um, grant program that’s facilitated by the NDDOT, they get um federal distributions and they um evaluate projects to allocate those federal distributions too and the transportation alternatives program specifically for.

00:13:50,970	Um, Multimodal type or multimodal type improvements, it’d be pedestrian improvements, bicycle facility improvements, um, things of that nature, generally not uh related to vehicular uh traffic, which most other programs would support. So this is something just to give the, the citizens here some idea that um this is for 2027. That is correct, do we apply for that now and then wait until 2027 to see if we receive the grants, Mayor Comm.

00:14:14,400	, we would, we would, uh, Receive notification if we were successful or not earlier than that, but the, the, the application period is now closes in about a month from now and it’s just how it, how it works, we have to do it 3 years, 3 years out, yeah. Thank you.

00:14:39,470	Uh, number 2A, uh, the transportation alternative grant for 3rd Street Southeast, um, sidewalk installation. I went down there and and uh cruised around with my old pickup truck and uh. There are a couple of areas, but the one specifically that we talked about was west of 6th Avenue and that’s an improvement corridor, is that correct? 6th Avenue, 6th 3rd Street Southeast is, um, functionally

00:15:06,000	classified and, and facilities on this corridor would be. Um, Eligible for grant funding for this, yeah this would be on the north side of. Third Street Southeast between the convenience store and. Uh, essentially the residents on the northeast corner of of uh. Third Avenue and 3rd Street Southeast. Correct, Comm..

00:15:30,300	Yes, I do have it pulled up on um Google Maps right here, if that makes it easier for people to visualize. 6th Avenue Southeast is, um, right here on the right side of the screen. And the connection, the missing connection is between 3rd Avenue Southeast and this uh. Wash and fold laundry, um.

00:15:49,930	In right here. So that would be where we would, um, be proposing to make an improvement. This gets brought up quite a bit in, you know, just meetings around, uh. Around the city staff meetings and, uh, you can see clearly that it gets a lot of pedestrian traffic.

00:16:07,170	Um, I think it’d be a great connection to make in our community. So that’s, that’s if you will, a dead heart of former. Former path of the Hart River, correct? So would we then be required to work with the lower heart now. River water management folks. And possibly the Army Corps of Engineers on that.

00:16:31,670	Um, yes, we would, we would be exploring what, what, uh, steps we need to take to to make all of those organizations happy with them, with the improvement. This is just not a snap of the fingers we’re going to do it tomorrow deal, right? Absolutely not. OK And then we look at 2B as well? Yes.

00:16:53,200	This is an area that uh I have um. In my younger years biked. At With uh a real two-wheel bicycle. And it’s pretty scary actually to be in the middle there. If you can bring that picture up. Yes, I do have it pulled up here just to let everybody orient themselves.

00:17:16,530	Here’s Memorial Highway coming down to Memorial Bridge, and we are right here where that transition is made. And the particular ramp that we were talking about is right in the center of my screen right now. I’ll go down into the street views to make it easier to see the issue.

00:17:36,970	Um, High travel road, truck traffic on this road, and, um, The Kind of the entrance to Mandan from Bismarck. Isn’t very bicycle or pedestrian friendly. This location also gets talked about quite a bit as um being deficient and uh we would be proposing to basically relocate this further to the west. Provide more room for pedestrians to make that crossing. You’re, you’re very kind on that design there.

00:17:59,130	I found it quite frightening when when I was trying to get across her with a bicycle. So it’s something that that needs to be done and, and you’ll move that that finger point there, um. Back to the the. Next sign down, right, do not enter sign. Further to the west. OK Um, thanks for your help with the educational component here.

00:18:21,700	Uh, I think it’s important that people can see this on the screen and and not. Not have to think, think about where. Where is this pedestrian ramp at? I mean, it’s 2.5 mile long piece of chunk of asphalt now, right, so thank you very much. With that.

00:18:52,600	I entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda? motion by Comm. Brown, seconded by Comm. Rohr. roll roll roll roll roll roll call, Comm. Rohrberg. Mayor Frelick. Yes. Let’s move on to new business update on activities of the Bzman chamber EDC. Brendan Nagle. Alright. We should see that up on the screen very soon. Thank you very much for the technology.

00:19:40,600	Appreciate that I’m Brendan Nagle, president and CEO of the Bismarck Mandan Chamber EDC Mayor, Comm., thank you for allowing me the time here this evening on your busy agenda, uh, to provide an update not only for you, um, and city staff, but is, um, as, as well, the Mandan residents, um, because you, you do help us,

00:20:00,400	uh, financially, um, do the things that we do and, and we truly, truly appreciate that. So you’ve got a, uh, some new faces at the table this evening, so I think it’s timely.

00:20:18,070	Um, that we provide a report, um, and these are things that are going on on a regular basis and um hopefully uh this information will help you and, um, get you situated on what the chamber EDC is working on.

00:20:36,470	So we do a lot of things in the name of communication, um, and I think you can’t communicate enough, I think overcommunicating is, is really the key, and there was a period of time, probably back in the day where we were still trying to figure that out between the chamber EDC and the city of Mandan, um, but I’m really, um, proud to tell you that we have no problem communicating with city staff and, and with the, the folks, um, those of you, um, at the commission table.

00:20:54,470	Um, we’ve got a very solid relationship. Um, we communicate in a lot of different ways and as you can see on the screen, um, our board of directors, um, we, uh, have a seat at the board, um, for the chamber EDC is held by, um, the portfolio holder, um, on the commission.

00:21:13,530	And then right now that portfolio holder is Mayor Frelick. And so he started to attend our board meetings, um, pretty much right after he took office, and we appreciate his insight and participation. And so the expectation there is. That’s kind of the first line of defense, so to say.

00:21:32,130	And so with, um, Mayor Frelich being at the table, he can certainly bring things that are of concern, um, for the city of Mandan from city staff, um, but also on behalf of city residents and also bring the information back to all of you, um, that we discuss, um, at, at the board meetings.

00:21:52,100	We’ve got several different communication channels, um, that we utilize to stay in touch, not only with City of Mandan, um, but with all of our constituents Our city administrator, um, uh, your city administrator. See, I, I think Jim is my city administrator here so often, I guess he’s mine.

00:22:14,470	Take your Jim Yeah, um, we work really well together and we do have a friendship um relationship, um, but city administrator and staff members receive a variety of publications, um, on a regular basis from our connection magazine that, um, contains, uh, a lot of, uh, great information. In fact, the October Connection magazine, um, is all about what’s on the ballot, um, coming up here, um, in a few short weeks.

00:22:33,900	And so we’ve got profiles of everybody and all of the measures and all of those sorts of things. There’s also weekly emails, there’s regular, um, economic development updates that come out, and many of you received those as well as city staff and are passing those along.

00:22:53,630	We have our economic development committee that runs through the Chamber EDC, um, and we’ve got different, uh, staff members who participate on that economic development committee and provide great insight and ask wonderful questions about what’s happening or what could happen potentially in the city of Mandan. So again, another touch point that we can utilize on a. a regular basis. And then we have regular meetings.

00:23:13,070	Um, we have regular conversations with Carrie, with Madison, um, with, uh, Jim, um, as well as the mayor and, and anyone else who wants to have a conversation with us about what is going on, um, in the city of Mandan.

00:23:29,070	We want to keep those lines of communication open, um, so that we can understand what your needs are and you can understand what our needs are and where we might need your help as well. From an industrial and office park development.

00:23:44,130	I think this one has come up a few times and it’s one of those old things that we say, OK, when are we going to do something there, um, and we would love to do something here and we have a lot of those conversations with city staff, um, but the name of, um, the, um, effort there is definitely in collaboration. Um, if we receive, uh, uh, an inquiry from, uh, State commerce, um, which we oftentimes do receive inquiries from the Commerce Department, um, asking if we have a.

00:24:05,470	Ready sight if we’ve got an available space, whether it’s in Bismarck or Mandan, and truth be told, we, we really don’t look at the borders as far as are we talking about Bismarck or Mandan, um, we literally are looking at, at the map and seeing where logistically could this potentially sit? Does Mandown have the space? Does

00:24:24,800	Bismarck have the space? Is it a county issue, um, Martin or, or Burley. And so, um, we’re, we’re treating all of the, all of the spaces, um, very equally, um. But it’s a collaborative effort and it’s sometimes a lot of conversations.

00:24:43,830	Unfortunately, a lot of times those conversations end up with, well, you’re not quite the site we were looking for, um, but we keep trying, um, and we don’t give up very easily. We don’t give up easily actually at all.

00:24:57,470	Um, and so we, we just keep coming back to the table with all the different players and, and if we’ve got an opportunity to put in front of, uh, the city of Manda and we’re gonna be, um, we’ll bring it to you as soon as possible. We do a lot of business attraction and marketing.

00:25:17,070	What this means is we have an ever growing list of people from outside of the state of North Dakota, who we’ve gathered over the, over the periods of time, people who have reached out to us to interact with us, um, people who have, um, asked questions, maybe they’ve received our communications at one point in time and asked to be put on our distribution list. But what happens with them is we are able through the the. Really spooky world of Google and everything.

00:25:36,830	We can tell who’s interacting with us more than others, um, whether they’re actually sending us an email back or by the traffic and, and how long they hover over, um, different things. And so we spend a lot of time kind of, um, re-engaging with them.

00:25:56,600	And so we’ll send them additional information because to us if they’re interacting and they’re looking at things, um, that means that they’re probably interested in something, so we then send. The additional bits of information.

00:26:18,670	We also send them um at some point in time after a certain amount of interactions, um, a little gift basket, um, from, from Bismarck Mandan, um, and, and the state of North Dakota, letting them know that we are a thriving, um, community of Bismarck and Mannan, um, and that we have things to offer and so it’s different ways for us to communicate and make connections with potential businesses and workforce, um, that may want to come, um, to either Modan.

00:26:39,430	Bismarck and those are in food and beverage industry, um, value added energy, um, value add egg, um, and value add manufacturing. So we’re not, we’re not strangers to any of those, um, and we’re, we welcome the conversation, um, with all of them. Business retention and expansion we we affectionately call these the brie visits because you know there has to be an acronym and a weird word for everything.

00:27:01,700	So this is the brie. Um, these are business visits and we kind of split these up in different ways and so, um, what happened with all of the information that I’m sharing with you this evening, as you know, Ellen was here for quite, quite some time and supported the city of Mandan in a um in a really

00:27:18,730	beautiful way. And then when she left in Madison joined the team. We sat Down almost immediately and said, OK, Ellen was doing this for a very long time.

00:27:34,370	How can we help you, Madison, um, be successful? How do we make sure we don’t run into you and you don’t run into us and how do we, how do we play in this sandbox in in the best way possible. And so this was one of the items that we had a conversation about.

00:27:51,700	And so the business list development, that’s a collaborative effort between City of Mandan and Chamber EDC staff, um, we’ll, we’ll pick out a list of. Um, of Mandam businesses and some of those Madison will go visit. Um, if they’re a smaller, um, visit or somebody that she’s got a great contact with, we’ll let her go visit with them.

00:28:12,130	Business visits such as, um, Cloverdale, NISC, um, those larger ones that we know that um that they’re members of the chamber EDC, um, and we want to have a bigger conversation about how’s workforce, what do we need to do to help you, um, in the, in the name of workforce.

00:28:27,130	Um, how can we help you? With leadership development, how can we help you with government policy and such, um, and so we’ll go together on those. So the moral of that story is we’re making several reach outs to the various businesses in the city of Moundown, um, to make sure that they’re aware that both of us are here, city staff are available. The, um, chamber EDC is available.

00:28:45,370	And if there’s anything that we can do to assist them, um, we’re, we’re working with them on a regular basis. And then mound down tomorrow, um, so there’s a couple of items that came out of the, um, the man down tomorrow, um, that are really in the name of creating, um business assistance program.

00:29:07,070	And so business startup 101 has been a great program for actually quite some time. And that’s where we partner again together with um city staff, um, to help identify, um, up and coming businesses or maybe new businesses or maybe even existing businesses that are just looking to get a little bit of extra.

00:29:24,170	help with how do I do this, how do I do that? How do I interact with city staff? How do I interact with my city commission in case I have a question. And so business startup 101 is really kind of a classroom style setting, um, but it’s really an educational piece that, that we work on, um, to help support, um, businesses in the city of

00:29:40,970	Moundown. And then the business pitch challenge. Um, that is a competition, um, because it’s kind of fun to put a competition out there. Um, it doesn’t mean that the people who take 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place, um, don’t go anywhere.

00:30:00,570	We’ve oftentimes seen that the winner of the business pitch challenge, um, certainly does well because they get picked, um, but oftentimes the runner up and the 3rd and the 4th place, um, business go on to be a thriving business in the city of Moundown, um, as well.

00:30:19,700	And so Pitch challenge, we, we gather a few people from around, um, city of Mandan city staff are our chamber, um, EDC staff, mostly Nathan from an economic development perspective, um, and they, they pitch their idea.

00:30:37,600	Um, it’s probably already a business idea that’s kind of got a little legs to it, but maybe needs um a little push over over the speed bump, so to say, um, and, and they’ve got a good plan and they really want to put it in front of some business minds to to get some feedback and insight.

00:30:53,870	Then they pick who is the best business, um, to come forward and so, um, it’s been some, um, really good opportunities, um, to see some of those businesses, um, in, in kind of a fun atmosphere, but also in a way to help push them forward and show them that the city of Mandan, as well as the Chamber EDC are very supportive of their efforts. We do a lot of things in the name of workforce development.

00:31:11,070	I don’t think you can talk to anybody in any city in the United States of America, but let’s boil that down to Mandan and Bismarck right now. Um, and so workforce, workforce, workforce, whether it is upskilling the people that you have or finding a new employee, um, we know that there are, um, difficulties and challenges, so we’re doing an awful lot of things to try to support that.

00:31:31,770	Um, we work, um, uh, with an internship network. So that’s a really great. program that our economic development team has implemented and what we do is we work with employers who bring interns from not just University of Mary and BSC NDSU and UND. We have interns in Mandan and in Bismarck from across the United States from different colleges and universities.

00:31:53,670	They may be coming here for an engineering, um, internship, um, some sort of, uh, um, IT technology internship, a lot of different, um, internships. Of opportunities. Some of those students are here in Mandown in Bismarck, um, for 3 months.

00:32:12,470	Some do their internships in a little bit different way, and they might be here for an entire, uh, summer. And when I say summer, it’s sometimes from April all the way into early September. So it really just depends on how their school schedule lands.

00:32:32,200	The beauty of that is that through this internship network we can kind of get our arms around this group of young people to not only say, hey, you’re here in Man You’re here in Bismarck, and you are learning about a particular business, whether it’s Cloverdale, whether it’s NISC, whether it’s one of the engineering firms, um, Bobcat, um, but what do you think about the city? And have you been to Mandan and have you seen the amazing things that they have going on in downtown Mandan.

00:32:54,570	And so depending on the type of year, um, that is the time of year that they’re here, you know, helping them understand that you’ve got beautiful things happening in Dykehorn Park and look at Main Street, um, in Mandan and look at all the opportunity and the things that you have to experience because the better experience

00:33:13,730	that that intern has when they’re here, the more likely they are to say, I I think I wanna um finish up my school, graduate, want to walk across the stage of my college, um, graduation, and I want to pack up a U-Haul and I want to move to Ma Dan because I want to

00:33:29,730	work at NISC where I did my internship or or whatever the business is. And so by us connecting with those interns and doing some different events with them. We, um, rented out the, um, baseball park, um, and did a lark’s night, um, with them. And we, there wasn’t even a game going on.

00:33:49,000	We just Be him some ballpark food and and let them kind of mingle with each other, um, because it’s important for them to not only know the people that they’re interning with, but other interns who are in the same, um, situation as them and so we want them to make some really great connections in that way and so we’ve been facilitating

00:34:06,230	that. This picture that you see here, um, we had a little event at Laughing Sun, um, I think it was in late July. We were expecting 20 students, 20 interns, and we had close of 50. That little entrance of Laughing sun was so packed and then they started throwing the axes around.

00:34:25,830	It felt a little dangerous at times, but what was beautiful about it was the interaction that those young people, um, were, were making with each other, um, and so we’ll continue to do that and make our next event someplace, um, over in Mandan, um, because we’ll continue to do those throughout the year.

00:34:43,530	Student Leadership Network is an opportunity to, um, expose our high school students, um, in Mandan and in Bismarck at the private schools and the public schools, to what it is that the Chamber EDC does, but more importantly, what are the career opportunities that are here right in Mandan? What right here in Bismarck, um, because we want those students

00:35:02,830	in high school to know that it’s important to do whatever it is that they want to do. Maybe they’re going to go learn to weld. Maybe they’re gonna go, um, learn to be an accountant. Uh, they’re gonna be an engineer.

00:35:18,130	There’s an awful lot of opportunities in higher ed, um, in our community, but we want them to also see early on that there are a lot of really great jobs in Man Down and Bismarck, and that they shouldn’t be looking elsewhere for those opportunities, um, to give us a shot first. And so student leadership network, um, we’ve got, um, 12 to 14 students in there.

00:35:37,270	Um, the, the high schools allow them the time away from their school schedule, uh, to come and join. And we talk about what does leadership mean at their level, um, and who are the different, um, possible employers and why should you be interested in them and so we spend time in Mandan and in Bismarck, um, to expose them.

00:35:58,930	Uh, regional workforce impact program, otherwise known as RWIP because there again there’s an acronym for everything, um, but we have received some RWIP grant funding at the Chamber EDC and we’re utilizing that funding, um, to create some really impactful videos that we can send out, we can share them with city staff, um, we can send them, um, to potential

00:36:19,100	people who are interested in the city of Mandan, um, in employment opportunities, and business opportunities. And so, um, it’s certainly, Um, it, it’s It’s Videos that we couldn’t create in our, I have an incredibly talented staff, but we really need some talent.

00:36:41,730	And so we’ve hired somebody to, to make these really impactful videos, um, with stories from Mandan, um, as well as, as Bismarck. And then finally, um, in the name of workforce development is the new Americans Leadership Program.

00:37:04,570	We’ve heard from employers like NISC, like Cloverdale, you know, Cloverdale has really written the recipe, um, so to say, on, um, on finding talent in probably the least likely places and so they’ve done some really unique things at attracting talent, uh, to keep Cloverdale, um, moving, um, in a forward direction. Other employers have done the same thing, Sanford, Um, and, and other folks have done that.

00:37:24,800	What we’ve also found though is that we are North Dakota nice, but we aren’t really good even in Bismarck and Mandan at really reaching out to these people and saying, do you know what it’s like to to be a citizen in in Mandan, um, and in Bismarck and did you know that you can actually go to a city commission meeting and you can shake the hand of our mayor and our city commissioners, um, and you can ask them questions.

00:37:41,670	They’re people just like you and I, um, and sometimes it’s. about banking. Sometimes they’re, they’re not accustomed to that depending upon the country that they came from and so the goal with the new American leadership program is to make sure that, again, not only do they love the employer that they’ve found their way,

00:37:59,970	um, to working at, but that they’re, they’re finding some real, um, substantial touch points in the community. Um, can we introduce them to someone in the school system that can better help them, um, and their kids feel like they’re accepted and, and. have what they need.

00:38:20,770	And so really making those connection points for those, um, new Americans, um, and helping them understand how, how a city ticks, um, and to keep them, um, here in, in the city of Mandan and Bismarck. Business development, so some of the numbers that are on here, well, actually all of these numbers that are on here are very specific to Mandown.

00:38:37,930	Now this compares um the numbers are based on the 22 to 23. These are annual numbers, so I don’t have 2024 numbers, but I think there’s some important information here. Mandan’s taxable sales and purchases were up almost 9%, um, from 22 to 23.

00:39:01,830	Restaurant and lodging tax collections were up, uh, over 14%, um, from 22 to 23 and city sales tax was up 8% from 22 to 23. That’s a pretty remarkable change. That’s actually higher than the city of Bismarck. Um, from 22 to 23.

00:39:18,470	And so often times when I talk to folks in Mandan and they’ll say well we don’t have the tax base, um, that you, that you do in Bismarck, um, but I think people flow across the river pretty easily and I don’t think people necessarily stop to think about where I’m buying things. I’m in Bismarck, I’m in Mandan.

00:39:36,030	Do you have some pretty large businesses over here so when you make a purchase in Mandan, it’s usually a pretty high dollar item, um, at least I know that, um, as a farmer’s wife, we make, um, bigger dollar purchases. on equipment, um, and things and so, um, and you’ve also got a lot of agriculture, um, in the surrounding area that comes into Mandan to make those purchases. And so those are pretty remarkable numbers.

00:39:54,800	Primary sector recruitment, I mean, we’re certainly looking at that on your behalf on a regular basis. And then the Williston Basin Petroleum Council, um, Nathan and I, um, spent, um, 3 days, um, at that event, at the event center, um, and made a lot of connections, um, on behalf of, um, Amanda.

00:40:13,900	Um, and, and really talk to, um, all kinds of people about what’s going on, um, in your beautiful community. Other things that we’re working on because there’s never a dull moment at the chamber, EDC, um, and so we’re, um, uh, Nathan participated in your steering committee for land development code. I know that you’re in the process of doing that. We did a divide and conquer.

00:40:33,530	Um, he’s, um, helping out with Mandan and I’m helping out with Bismarck. We’re both learning an awful lot about La code, more things than I ever wanted to know, but it’s actually quite interesting. It’s important work though, because it’s, it’s, um, feedback that we hear oftentimes.

00:40:53,400	developers and different people who will say, I, I don’t know when was the last time the cities took a look at the land code, um, because we’re trying to do this or we’re trying to do that, and I think it’s been a while and I think, um, if you’re to be commended for taking a look at that land code and making updates to it.

00:41:06,830	Uh, we are your voice for Keep it local property tax coalition. I don’t have to tell you, um, that measure number 4 is one that’s um very, very important, um, to us, our membership, uh, voted, um, to take a no stance on, um, measure number 4. we want to literally keep it local.

00:41:26,630	We believe that the people at this commission table, um, mayor and commissioners that you are the right people, um, to make the decisions on behalf of the citizens of Mandan with where those, um, property tax, um, dollars are spent and utilized.

00:41:44,330	Now we want to hold you accountable for making sure that you balance the budget, and that’s the responsibility of the citizens, um, and, and you, um, and who they elect on a, on a, um, when your name comes up on, on the, um, ballot, um, but it belongs at a local, uh, level around this table, um, not at the legislative, um, table.

00:42:03,430	And so we’re happy to be your voice, um, at, at those meetings. And then finally, we hosted the um EDS. which is the economic development in North Dakota, um, conference, um, focused on policy and legislative process.

00:42:23,070	Um, we had close to 100 people, um, who were in town and we had them in Mandan and in Bismarck, um, a couple of weeks ago, um, Madison did attend, um, the sessions. We focused there on teaching all of the economic developers from across the state.

00:42:40,130	How do you interact with the state legislators? How do you go to a hearing? How do you address people? How do you address the legislators, um, At a hearing to ask for the things that you’re there to ask for on behalf of your community and so we heard a lot of really great information and really it was an honor to participate in the education process of the next up and coming, um, economic developers, um, to make things better for their communities. And so that’s a lot of information.

00:42:56,730	Like I said, we’ve got a lot going on at the BismarckMan Chamber EDC we value our partnership and our collaboration with the city of Mandan, um, we joke around a little bit.

00:43:14,300	Um, we do have fun, um, but we do, we do consider staff and, and you, um, business friends, um, we, we know that we can call you when we need to, um, and that you can call us and so we’re, we’re. We’re here to, to support, um, all of your efforts. Any questions that you might have? Any questions? Thank you, Brenda. All right, thank you. If I can get this back up here. OK, we’re gonna go to.

00:43:49,470	Item number 2 underside street improvement District. 224 turn lane change order. Mayor commissioners, um, yep, before you today, we’ve, uh, change order 4 which is related to a. Turn lane improvement at the intersection of 1806. And, um, 37th Street. I will pull it up on the map so that everybody can orient themselves. I do have it right here.

00:44:18,170	So this is the new Sunrise View Eates, uh, development. And this is the new Rockwood development they went to in together on a single street improvement district project. I think it’s SID 224, yep.

00:44:35,800	Um Early in the early in the process, uh, it had been asked of the DOT if they were going to require turn lanes as a part of this, uh, connection at Thirty-seventh Street. The initial answer was no. The second answer was we need to evaluate it further. And the third answer was it is required. So, um.

00:44:57,200	Uh, the last time that this, uh, item was before you, we had, um, approved in engineering service agreement, amendment with more engineering to go through the design process on this turn lane. Uh, they went through that design process and they got it approved by the NDDOT and we’re returning for the uh the actual construction change order for this project.

00:45:19,470	Um, the improvements would be done immediately and all of the costs have been, um, calculated into the special assessments that we’ve been, uh, going through the verification process on this summer. So, um, they would be special assessed back to the, uh, the benefiting development. Um, I could answer any questions that you might have, but I would recommend approval of the change order for, as presented.

00:45:37,830	You Bring that up again and just zoom out just a little bit. New high school is right down here. So it’d be just north of that. That helps Our new lift station? Is at that same intersection. Thank you, Jarek. We Move to approve change order 4 for the street Improvement District 224. Second The motion by Comm. Brown and seconded by Comm. Schulberg.

00:46:19,770	You know, the discussion, hearing non roll call, please. Comm. Schoberg Mayor Frelick. Item number 3, consider capital improvement planning CIP assistance, task orders, additional attachments. Uh, Jarek. Mayor commissioners, yes, sorry, I was, uh, I had included that note on the pre. Pre agenda, um. So we’ve been working with um finance over the past few months to, um.

00:46:52,970	In the interest of expanding our long range, uh, financial planning from 3 years to 5 years. Part of this, um, is going to be identifying and prioritizing uh infrastructure improvement projects.

00:47:17,700	Um, right now we have 2 consultants that kind of have their, uh, that have a really good grasp of different parts of what a capital improvement plan will entail. We have E2S who has done a lot of our master planning for underground utilities and um a lot of modeling. Uh, for us that would kind of point to where there’s a deficiencies based on. Um, volume, um. For, for some of the facilities. And then uh we’ve also been working with more engineering to uh.

00:47:41,170	Kind of come up with a. Street improvement plan, the street improvement plans, um, have also include water and sewer improvements and mirroring those two, improvements together to, to make sure we’re doing it as intelligently as we can.

00:48:07,870	Um, Anyways, so we thought, we felt that it was most appropriate to engage both of our consultants in this world to try to put together a robust capital improvement plan that we could, uh, Set a solid foundation to build off of in years to come as we try to expand this further and further. Um, I can try and answer any questions.

00:48:24,230	Greg might be more appropriate to answer some questions and we also do have representatives from A to us and more here, but um, my recommendation would be to approve the uh task orders presented in the packet. Any questions? Jak on the, so if I understand this correctly. We had already.

00:48:50,530	Had a level of funding of 25,000 with AE2S and we’re asking for basically an additional 10 there and then the 384. Uh, more, is that correct? Um, Mayor Comm. Hahn, um, no, that would, this is separate from that, um, task order 2, I believe, um, with the increase of 10,000.

00:49:13,570	This is a kind of a combined item, combined capital improvement uh item that I had, um, I had missed an attachment initially to us’ portion of the attachment. And the only other second thing is, is it a 14 week assessment I saw on the war? Um, yes, that sounds correct to me. I don’t know the number right off the top of my head. A similar probably for the A2S. Timeline, very similar.

00:49:40,000	So Jarek the extension of your, uh, and, and, and, and Greg, the extension of the The uh From the 3 year Budgeting, uh, time frame to a 5. Um, although that might. Um, Cause some additional expenditures in the long run. Is it your opinion, uh, Jerri and, and Greg as well that we will be may be able to better forecast, um. Planning, engineering.

00:50:17,930	Um, I noticed in, in reading, um A2S and and more engineering’s information in the packet. Uh, I was literally astoed at not being an engineering type Guy. The amount of work that you guys do and Gels um to make. This city grow.

00:50:42,030	And um You know, we’ve got, we’ve got a developer in the back there, Arthur, and, and, uh. You know, uh, when we all work together and we have 2 extra years to plan. Um, Mm Mm Although it might cost a little bit upfront now is it gonna pay dividends long run financially uh and.

00:51:10,230	Um, In planning when we we work together as a team with our engineers and with fire and with police and and with uh. Um, developers like, uh, Arthur Goldhammer there in the back. To uh make the city grow in in a more cohesive fashion. Uh, uh, Mayor Frelick, uh, Comm. Schober, Commissioners, I would say that, um, the collective response from finance and engineering would be yes to all your comments.

00:51:36,930	I think adding, um, 2 additional years, yes, there will be a cost in. Modeling that out, but I think the long run is that it’ll make wiser. Decisions that we’ll be able to, uh, forecast the, uh, the effect of the decisions and the recommendations that come forth from the CIP.

00:51:59,570	This will also give the city commission the opportunity to, um, see the recommended priorities from staff and then for the city commission to review those priorities and maybe come up with your own. Um, but I think it would, um, allow staff in the city commission to be on the same page? And and.

00:52:23,330	Again, the, the long term goal is to accomplish a 5 year CIP for infrastructure once we have successfully developed and rolled that out, um, then we would graduate to the next level and we would look at 10 years and then after 10 years, we would then, um, look at 15 years. But I think 5 years is a is a um. Um, reasonable start.

00:52:46,830	Um, I do think that, um, um, it’s going to really set a a road map and it’s gonna give us some mild posts. Along the way to be able to to um. Achieve and be able to uh quantify with those, um, investments are going to be in our community when we look at um.

00:53:11,970	Uh, underground utility infrastructure and aboveground infrastructure for transportation needs. I think it’s going to allow the city to make wiser decisions. When it comes to the public dollars and the investment thereof. Thank you, Greg and jerk. Thank you, Greg. Thank you, Jarek.

00:53:34,900	Premier, I agree some of these things I’ve seen over the years, they’re long in making and maybe the idea comes up and then um. Before it was actually carried on getting getting on the ground, it could be 5. 10 years. Yeah. How many years uh Memorial Highway’s been a thing they water intake thing, these are long term projects, you gotta look way down the road. Yes, so Jared. Revisit. You recommend.

00:54:03,970	Um, recommend approval of, I think, I believe it’s task Order 7 and task Order 9, but both tasks, task orders submitted by the consultants, um, as presented in the packet. Um, mayor fellow commissioners, uh. If I may move to approve the capital improvement planning assistant Task Force orders with AE2S and more engineering.

00:54:29,400	And approve a 2024 budget amendment for $73,405 out of the sales tax fund. Your motion. The motion by Comm. Schoberg seconded by Comm. Braunun. discussion Hearing none, roll call, Comm. Hanan Braun roar. Item number 4.

00:55:05,870	Consider a 2024 budget amendment for task Order 2 services supporting water distribution, Jarek, uh, mayor commissioners, we have a, um, active master service agreement with AE2S. I think that is on a three-year rotation, um, and that allocates $25,000 per year for the purpose of supporting public works and engineering staff related to water distribution. Um, Support, general support. It’s uh not uh. Sometimes it could be modeling, sometimes it can be uh.

00:55:33,370	Uh, intended use plan applications, um, this year, we had that apartment fire and in response to that, we did quite a bit of modeling. Um, and just recently we did hit that $25,000 cap. Um, we do have some uh needs left for the remainder of the year that we would normally um achieve using this task order. Um, so we are asking for a $10,000.

00:55:55,170	Uh, budget amendment for this to, um, Get us through the end of the year. Um, I’d recommend approval, but Stan for any questions too. Mayor J just the term modeling, what does that refer to specifically in terms of the action or what you’re undertaking when you talk about modeling. Um, Mayor Comm.

00:56:19,870	Rohr, um, in this modeling could be taking, um, roughness of pipes, lengths of pipes, and, uh, uh, running simulations and identifying areas that have low pressure, something like that, uh, insufficient pressure and then.

00:56:43,670	Um, for the, uh, for that fire response, what, what uh E2S had done for us was look and see how our pressure reducing valve had reacted to the increased flow. And what that event, what they found or what they, um, I guess theorized was that was creating kind of a water hammer effect and this the cat and cast iron water mains around town.

00:57:04,770	Couldn’t handle that water hammer, so that those are the types of things that, um, just because they have a lot of modeling experience in house and they have. The software required to do it and the know-how and so we, we, we lean on them for that type of analysis kind of problem detection, correct? Correct I just wanna make sure when we talk about something I. I’m on the same vocabulary. Absolutely.

00:57:22,930	Derek, what was the problem that that morning? Um, April 11, uh, for the fire, um, we, we believe it was related to a a. Uh, pressure reducing valve that was essentially would open and shut rapidly. And how did it manifest itself? Um, I guess I might not be equipped to answer that question. I’m, um, what, what, what explain? Oh.

00:57:50,100	I think there were 5. There’s 5 around town. OK, so when you shut the water hoses off. Ah, shut them slowly. Shut them off slowly. Yes, OK. Chief Bits Mayor Fra the Comm., uh, just to go a little bit further on that, um. So what when? Fire suppression was initiated that night.

00:58:20,130	There was such a large demand of water on the system that are pressure valves tried to open up. and too much pressure through the system. Um, that the old pipes couldn’t handle, so it wasn’t so much shutting down. It was when we were initiating operations starting to flow large volumes of water.

00:58:39,900	That the system had to dump or our automatic valves dumped extra water into the system, which they needed to do to suppress the fire, but when we had old pipes, they weren’t able to handle that pressure, so do we know the age of those pipes? Uh, it, uh, engineer, uh, Jarek Wigness says that they’re 1970 vintage pipes. Is that 70 years old, I’m sorry.

00:59:02,170	So that would be 1950s, 1951 to 55. OK. Thank you. Uh jerk. Yes, in, in, in my review of the the. The Engineering, uh, tasks. is Referred to earlier. I did attend a public hearing at Roosevelt School. On a street improvement district. Um, and that engineering company and uh and you as well.

00:59:40,100	I did an absolutely superb job with the PowerPoint that was developed and that that’s a component of this engineering relationship that many people. Um, don’t really see is that. Fair to say. Um, Mayor Comm., I’d say that’s fair to say, yeah.

01:00:00,000	OK, so a lot of the stuff the, the engineering guys and gals do, um, Yeah, I, I, I like to water the flowers from behind the curtains, you know. But I think it would be fair to say that that’s what these fellows do as well. Yes, we are very appreciative for what they can provide the city. Thank you.

01:00:28,170	You Measures Make a motion to approve entering the amendment number one for task order number 2 with A2S for the engineering services related to the water distribution and storage hourly assistant. presented. OK. We have motion by Comm. Han Chang and seconded by Comm. Rohr. Any further discussion? Hearing non roll call, please. Comm. Braunun hror Frelich. Thank you on to. Resolution and ordinances.

01:01:02,800	Second consideration of ordinance 1454. Planned unit development amendment for the shores at Lakewood Andrew? Good evening, Mayor Felich, and commissioners, this item is back for its second consideration. It’s the PUD amendment for the shores at Lakewood subdivision.

01:01:22,200	I have a location map in my packet for the property, I believe, and if not, it’s uh the development on the west end of Mackenzie Drive southeast, um. Developing into a residential subdivision. We’ve made no changes since it was introduced to the planning commission and uh for the first consideration of the city commission. I do apologize.

01:01:40,170	I have to call out a change that does need to be made, um, it’s no substantive in nature, part of the original PUD. It’s just a typographical error. In section. Let me see here of the ordinance section 5, it states Street side yard for alley loaded homes.

01:02:00,530	That should just be a front yard reference, as I stated the original PUD did allow for the homes that will have their garages in the back with the front yard to the street to have a reduced setback. This is not a component of the PUD change repeat just the mere typographical error when the ordinance is printed for signature, it will be updated to be a front yard measurement.

01:02:23,370	Do you have any questions for me? Mayor Johnson, uh, when you talk about a 5 a side yard 5 ft setback. I mean between two residents there would be 10 ft. Oh Mayor Frayer, Comm., that is correct. I never get to be a problem where people want to get into their backyard and get excavators back there.

01:02:43,270	Different things I noticed that some times where it seems like it gets pretty narrow. Uh, when you people have to get to the backyards and maybe have to use their their neighbor’s property to do things back there. Mayor Freer, Comm., I, um, I would imagine it could introduce some challenges with larger equipment does need to get into rear yards, um.

01:03:01,400	However, Yeah, we have a problem with it, put it that way. Not an issue to the city, of course, um. I think contractors should have the flexibility to be able to deploy equipment to get back there. OK Any further questions, Andrew? If not, would entertain emotion.

01:03:31,000	I move to approve second consideration of ordinance 1454 contingent upon a development agreement. Second, A motion by Comm. Schoberg seconded by Comm. Heinchan. Any further discussion? Hearing none, roll call please. Comm. Rohrberg. Item number 2, consider resolution creating a street improvement district for the Memorial Highway project, Jarek. Mayor commissioners, um, yes, before you have a street improvement district uh resolutions, um.

01:04:03,870	Prior to that, um, we’d like to do a little project update for the Memorial Highway reconstruction. Um, and this is a. Big project with a lot of moving parts and um. Predates me significantly, so I may mis miss some things and I may, uh, need some help filling in some gaps, but uh.

01:04:24,170	Uh, I’ll do the best I can right here. Give a high level overview. Would you be able to share with me? Perfect. So, um, Generally, the project is full, full, full depth reconstruction of Memorial Highway.

01:04:47,100	Um, adding sidewalks, um, sidewalk to the northeast side of the corridor and adding a shared 10-foot wide shared use path to the southwest side of the corridor. Um, it would be a 5 lane urbanized section. It would include improved uh drainage by, I guess it would be lowered by 2 ft to encourage better drainage off of the adjacent parcels and then would, uh, better propagate that drainage to the. To a better areas.

01:05:11,630	Um, it would provide safe access improvements and um the pavement is absolutely at the end of its useful life. So that would be a big piece of it too. In addition to that, we would be doing, we would be uh. Doing underground sanitary sewer and water improvements, along with the project and MDU is also engaged in.

01:05:33,130	Lowering overhead lines and putting them underground. Uh, along the corridor. At the end of the day, We have typical sections that would, uh, look like the one I’m showing on the screen right now. It’s a 5 lane section with a center turn lane. We have a 2 ft concrete buffer on the edges.

01:05:53,300	Uh, generally, I believe the 7 ft boulevard, 10 ft wide shared use path and. Um, on the backside of that, we’d have our businesses. Um, on the, on that northwest side or northeast side of the corridor for portions of it, it would be, we would have no sidewalk but for.

01:06:11,900	Um, a significant portion we would have a 6 ft sidewalk on this side as well. At the intersections, we would have medians with uh. Turn lanes and um. I believe this would be the uh section view for most for 40th and for 3rd and for. Uh, those might be the only two intersections on this project.

01:06:38,100	Um, Memorial Highway reconstruction project, I think it’s talked about a lot in, um, uh, a lot of different ways above ground, underground, at one point in time, it was split in three phases, um, most recently we’ve been talking about it as a two-phase project, the east half and the west half. Phase one is uh what is scheduled to be bid. In November this year.

01:06:59,300	Um, and that includes construction, reconstruction, uh, above ground and underground improvements from 32nd Street to the east, um. This is projected to be a 2-year construction, that would be mainline improvements in year one and then kind of the secondary median shared use path improvements, uh, in year two.

01:07:25,600	Phase two would follow up, uh, I think with bidding late next year, fall of next year. And that would also be a 2-year project. Um, with the first phase being off corridor improvements, storm sewer improvements. On the west side here, along with the improvement at Main Street, and then your two would be mainline improvements. So that would be 22-year projects with an overlapping year.

01:07:49,230	In the middle for total disruption of 3 years is what we’re kind of anticipating at this point in time. Cost Um, the project at this point in time, our most recent estimate was $119 million. Um, We’ve been kind of looking at this, uh, through two lenses. We have roadway and storm, sewer improvements. This is, this is the.

01:08:16,070	The DOT’s project. This is essentially the DOT project that we’re participating in. They have between the west half and the east half, they have $73.7 million of federal funds. They are contributing $14.8 million of state funds, and we have, uh, local responsibility of $5.6 million related to. Street and storm improvements. This $5.6 million. Under normal circumstances would be $9.

01:08:46,770	4 million but the state and the city agreed to capping the city’s local responsibility. At a point when that project was, must have been an estimate of about $56 million so we have uh. We have uh benefited a lot from entering into that agreement. Um, Of our local responsibility. We are proposing, um, a two-tiered assessment, one.

01:09:13,430	Tear or yeah, I guess three-tiered assessment. One tier would be A citywide. Assessment. Um, right now we’re proposing a $500. He partial assessment over a 20 year period translates to About $25. Per year for the next 20 years,, , $2.02 dollars a month and change.

01:09:41,100	Um, We would also have a, we have, we’re proposing an assessment for what we’re calling tier one properties. This would be on corridor properties. They have frontage on Memorial Highway. They have benefit that exceeds, um, the rest of the community. And then we have two tier 2 properties and these are properties that are within a quarter mile.

01:10:00,900	Of the corridor, uh, less benefit than tier one, but still greater benefit than the rest of the community. The other portion of the project is the underground utilities. Um, And we don’t have that large federal cost share associated with the underground utilities. So this is where the most of the local expenses are going to be coming from.

01:10:20,500	Um, right now, the way we have everything split up for for our proposed. Funding Is we have Uh,,,, $12.4 million of assessments to those. Tier one and tier 2 on corridor and just off corridor properties. Based on the benefit category that they’re receiving. We have some properties that are getting a new water service.

01:10:45,570	They, they would have the highest water improvement benefit, and then we’re having, we have some properties that are getting no water service they would have. And uh no benefit or reduced benefit and um we’ve calculated. Benefits based on, based on that kind of methodology. Um, we’re anticipating 60% cost share on the water main improvements associated with this project.

01:11:10,100	And we are planning on obligating $3 million of ARPA. For this project, and as I mentioned before, MDU is making a significant investment. Um, Converting their above ground power into underground power. Um, Along the corridor, but uh. I should mention that this is only for.

01:11:38,630	The kind of the main lines, anybody, any properties that have Uh, that want to take advantage of that full underground conversion, they’ll they’ll likely have to make improvements on their own property on their own dime to, to, uh. Uh, alter that connection point. Oh, when I go over this a little bit, um, for the road and storm sewer, that 5 that capped $5.

01:12:01,270	6 million we’ve got proposed proposed funding sources of street Improvement District and sales tax fund. And then for the water and sanitary sewer, uh. Portion we have funding sources, ARPA funds, uh, state water commission state water commission 60% cost share on the water. Um, we would be trying to take advantage of NDDEQ SRF loans, which are low interest loans, and we’d be passing.

01:12:22,670	You know, trying to borrow it as low of a cost as we can, and then we would have the street improvement district to cover. Uh, some of the local costs for the utility improvements as well. Um, I went over this a little bit briefly. We would be proposing a citywide uh citywide, uh.

01:12:43,700	District boundary And most majority of the parcels we would be proposing a $500 per parcel. Assessment And with the remaining. Uh, going to the tier 1 and tier 2 properties, kind of shown here, the tier one are and shown in red and the tier two are shown in blue. And uh the $12.

01:13:05,170	4 million that are planned to be assessed would also be going to these tier 1 and tier 2 properties based on their benefit category. Um, That’s, that’s all I have. Right now I’d, I’d be, I’d welcome questions, I’d be happy to answer questions, um, anything that I can’t answer, Jim might be able to fill in. We also have Craig from HDR.

01:13:26,670	HDR is the consultant engineer designing both the east half and the west half projects, um, and he’d probably be able to answer questions better than me too. Sorry, I’ve got uh a few points. You covered a couple of them, uh, and these all come from. Citizens of Mandan. Um, number one, you already covered versus the east and west half divisions, um, basic timetables.

01:13:53,000	Uh, you also covered the reduction in height of the roadway. By 2 ft That was a serious concern of a couple of folks, so the entire roadway width will be, I shouldn’t say entire because there has to be some undulation. To promote Positive stormwater redirection. Air Comm.

01:14:19,970	, correct, yeah, I, it wouldn’t be a flat too 2 ft decrease, but at at points I think it’s up to 2 ft lower, OK, um. And then the, the below ground electrical, um. You covered. Um, during construction. Will there be at least 2 lanes of opposing traffic open? Mayor Comm., that is true.

01:14:48,170	The proposed work zone traffic control plan includes the kind of the construction of temporary road surfaces that would include, um, one travel lane in each direction as well as a center turn lane, and we would be, they’d be providing access to all the businesses’ll still have that left turnly correct. OK. Um, the entire roadway, uh. 2.5 miles roughly will no longer be asphalt that’ll all be concrete.

01:15:12,230	Mayor and Comm., I believe it is all concrete, yes. OK Um, And I, and I’m kind of confused uh the, the shared youth path or shared um. Use path. Um, That would run Yeah, so you have curb and gutter, then you’ve got a little bit of a boulevard, grass Boulevard, and then you got the shared youth path or

01:15:40,500	shared use path, sorry, um, is, is that gonna be if, if, if, if you will, um, if you’re traveling east, that would be on the right side, kind of the southwest orientation.

01:15:59,900	Yes, this, this, uh, this image that I brought up before, this would be facing east, this would be so it would be on, yeah, on your right side. Excellent Um, Just scribbling these off here as we go along. Um, the new water main, um. You had mentioned something with the electrical uh options for Belogra and on on on par personal or private property. How about With the new water mainor they’re going to be, for example, Stubs. For each.

01:16:30,700	parcel of land Mayor coming off from the. Water main Air Comm., yes, we are proposing, so it is a 16 we’re replacing our 12 inch, um, ACP asbestos cement pipe with a 16-inch PVC pipe, and we’re proposing six-inch stubs brought out beyond, I think to that outermost. Brought out the outermost travel lane.

01:16:57,970	And then it would be reduced down to whatever service line that the the properties have there, but the, uh, the intention there is to provide. Um, Future Business owners that are looking to expand the ability to connect up to. Um, Fire, fire lines without impacting the roadway. So we’re we’re trying to think ahead and in providing.

01:17:23,070	Uh, large diameter service lines to these properties, uh, knowing that this improvement to this corridor might spur development in We might need more in the area. OK Uh, no, um. reference, I mean, I’ve heard talk and other peoples have too that, that, uh, excuse me, people.

01:17:46,570	That this has been going on for 20 years, um. Uh If we don’t start. Construction on this project in 2025. Could there be a loss of federal and state? Money Um, Mayor Comm., yes, um, it has been, I believe that federal funds, uh, Authorized for this project have been Carried over from year to year to year to year, several times.

01:18:19,100	And the. Uh, I think that the state is getting a lot of pressure from the federal government. To get this project done or risk losing that $73 million that we have currently secured for the project. Um, and what that would probably end up being is instead of a two-phase. 2.

01:18:40,900	5, 3 year project, it would, it would then be a. 15-phase project. For 5/15 years just because we aren’t, we wouldn’t be able to get that big chunk of uh federal funds and we’d have to. Make the improvements piece by piece, um. And um.

01:19:01,230	So I, I’d say that there’s a lot, there’s a lot at stake if uh it doesn’t get bit out this year. OK, definitely to our advantage to start in 2025. Absolutely. Thank you, gives the EDC something to work on bringing new industry or commercial commerce, whatever. Thank you, Jarek. Appreciate your time. Any other questions? Hearing none I entertain emotion. Quickly.

01:19:27,930	I’ll move to, I’m sorry, do you wanna go ahead, Mike? I’ll move to approve the resolutions necessary to create street improvement District 239. We have a motion by Comm. Schoberg seconded by Comm. Braun. Any discussion, hearing none. Roll Roll Roll Roll Roll Roll Roll Roll Roll Roll Item number 3, consider the resolution necessary to create water and sewer improvements 65. commissioners, hello again. um.

01:20:05,830	So this is a late addition to the agenda, um, we’ve been tossing around the idea of making of creating a water improvement district for the, what we’ve, I guess we’ve been kind of calling the Monty Drive area, this would be the neighborhood just west of Lewis and Clark Elementary.

01:20:24,030	I have it pulled up on the map right now, so this might be hope, helpful for people oriented orienting themselves. Um, and what we’re talking about is this kind of triangular. Neighborhood, uh, with Boundary Street on the north side and division on the south side. Um, this is an area we of uh.

01:20:44,870	Very, very frequent cast iron water main breaks. I think that um during that apartment fire, I think 4 of the 5 water main breaks occurred on Monty Drive in Linda. Um, We have been our public works department does a really good job of tracking water main breaks. And since 2008, there’s been 26 water main breaks.

01:21:07,170	On this, uh, in this neighborhood. And um I did. Put, put together a little trend based on dates and cumulative water main breaks, and you can see that it is. Accelerating since 2022, there have been nine water main breaks and in the last 12 months there’s been 5. So, um.

01:21:29,200	It’s becoming more and more critical that we make some improvements in this area. Um, I guess I should mention that the most recent water main break was on Thursday last week, which is what kind of Uh, brought this to the forefront of everybody’s minds, um. This would be, this was kind of a, this was evaluated as part of our um.

01:21:50,970	Project uh decision document that we’ve been going through with more engineering. And um with 2B being protested out, we are uh proposing to pivot to this Monty Drive area, make water main improvements and the above ground improvements associated with closing that water main trench up properly. Um, I’d be able to answer any questions, um.

01:22:15,570	Or and uh we have more engineering here as well. They might be able to answer more specific questions. Questions? How’s the financing coming? Um, I guess it needs to be worked out a little bit more. It would be a similar financing mechanism as the 2B uh proposal, uh, I think I had it broken out in here.

01:22:41,100	Um, so it would be 60% cost share from the state water commission on water eligible items, um, and we would be matching that with a $1.2 million out of the utility fund. We’d have a 20% buy down, um. That, that, uh, amounts to about $1.

01:23:02,730	1 million of infrastructure fund and the remaining 2 million would be assessed to the benefiting properties. And that translates to what we have right now, kind of a preliminary estimate of about 10,000, 11,000 per parcel, so. Um, We do think it’s the correct way to go about this, though. I think they’re, I think there would be ways to.

01:23:22,300	Um, reduce those projected costs, but it, it would be at a, at a there would be trade-offs, um, long term comp I’d say you’d be compromising some long term maintenance, uh, if you wanted to do it as cheaply as possible and we’re trying to do it correct. As uh Former firefighter boots on the ground type Guy.

01:23:45,300	I know what it’s like to run out of water, especially in Mandan Rural Fire Department where the the water we brought, we carried on our backs in the fire trucks because we didn’t have many hydrants out there, so it’s. Water, water is often a thing that’s taken for granted, um.

01:24:09,230	So the way I, I, I, I look at this, um, is that it’s a health and safety issue to get rid of those 70 some odd year old. Cast iron pipes. Um, Uh. To be honest with you, I certainly wouldn’t want to be drinking that water. Because they’re either called cruttered up with rust. Or. They’re failing in the process of failing. So they’re.

01:24:40,700	They got Stress cracks, rust little rust holes. Um, Engineering guys, maybe you can help me here. I, I think prolonged exposure of water to. Um I don’t know so much about. Cast iron, but with concrete, uh. I’ve read where it can produce, um. Like an H2S.

01:25:10,100	Type situation Chemically I don’t know if there’s anything like that with cast iron, but I think we need to. kind of examine all avenues there to update this stuff. Yes, I, I believe it it is it’s a health and safety issue on, on several fronts, um. During these water main breaks, people are going without water for extended periods of time. That’s an issue. These water main breaks are happening during fires.

01:25:30,470	They coincide with fires that cause. They are caused by fires in some instances, it’s a health and safety issue, um, and yeah, whether or not there are health implications to drinking out of seven year old water pipes. It definitely isn’t fun to look at and think about when you see them come out of the ground, so. Yeah.

01:25:46,970	Thank you. Well, Comm. Schoberg, I’m gonna one up you. Living in the neighborhood, I do know what it’s like to run out of water, and it’s frequent. In fact, mine was uh. Broken my yard last year. This time so.

01:26:14,170	Um, Get a motion on this? Move to approve the resolutions necessary to create water and sewer improvement district 65. OK We have a motion by Comm. Braun and seconded by Comm. Rohr. Any further discussion? Hearing none, roll call please. Mayor Frelick, yes. That concludes the resolution and ordinances any other business? Seeing none, Future meeting dates for the board of City commissioners October 15th. At 5:30.

01:26:58,200	November 5th at 5:30 on November 9th. At 5:30. commissioners, I’m sorry, I missed my. Like you Jim, could I get you to stand up and talk a little bit about the improvement on our mandann heel. Do you have, do you have any pictures? Would you like me to send them to you? Um, Mayor Frelich and Comm. Brown.

01:27:25,270	Yeah, we’ve had a a citizen kind of took some initiative um to improve. The letters on Manon Hill, the ones that are concrete and painted white or I guess what’s left of them. Um, we have had, um, several interested parties in that, um, for folks that don’t know and for those of us that do, um.

01:27:46,500	We, the city of Mandan owns the A and the N. And 3 affiliated tribes has the MAND, so it’s sometimes a challenge to get up there and and do some clean up on that hill. We have received permission from the Chair Fox and three affiliated tribes. Uh, we have had, um, bobcats, um. Has been very generous and.

01:28:13,300	Donating both folks, people, and equipment to do a lot of trimming around the letters and last week did a serious job of cleaning up the, um, I’ll call them scraggly trees that had grown up over many years.

01:28:30,200	Next step in this project is, so if you haven’t been up there to look, you can take a look at it and it actually looks pretty darn nice, so they did a great job, um, and I. Huge thank you to them. The next step would be to paint the letters um we do have, um, their. They’re in need of. Some serious.

01:28:50,230	Touch up not only on paint but in concrete, I think for this fall the project would be to, um, scrape them and paint them and then plan for a larger project next year which would involve um kind of fixing a lot of the areas of the concrete that has deteriorated to a point where there’s no concrete left, um, so I think initial will be, um,

01:29:09,970	let’s get them scraped and painted, and after that will be a a. A more significant project next year. So appreciate all the community’s interest and support in doing this, so like I said, there’s a lot of parties involved and the fact that um we have permission from three affiliated tribes to go

01:29:26,670	up there and do work on this hill has been very um. Appreciated and welcome. So I don’t have any pictures on me right now. Um, I do, but uh. hard to get them up on the screen, so we’ll get that figured out as the project continues, um.

01:29:47,170	Big thanks to Uh, folks that are, we’ve got the Mandan PD that has flown, uh, their drone up there and taking some shots before and they’ll be taking some shots afterwards and um again, I think Marlo Anderson has also flown his drone up in that area.

01:30:03,930	So shout outs to them, but again, um, the move has contributed, I think $1000 towards paint and supplies to date and there are other interested. Businesses and contributing more as we move the project forward. Yeah, Anything else? Entertain a motion to adjourn. I can Motion