00:00:05,730	Good morning, everyone. Welcome. This is the, uh, April 10th meeting of the Bismarck Parking Authority at the, uh, Tom Baker meeting room. I see that we have a quorum present and I believe Uh, Todd is with us. Virtually is that Todd, are you there? Good morning. I’m here.

00:00:24,000	We will get the meeting under order with a review of the minutes of the March 13th meeting. Any changes or comments or corrections to those minutes, if not, is there a motion to approve? Motion to approve. And all the favorite say hi. Hi.

00:00:42,030	That motion carries, we’ll move on to the regular agenda, beginning with the review of the financials. Jeremy. Is there anything you would like to point out or members are there questions you have of management. Mr. Chair Authority board members, so, um, financials through March here, first quarter of the year, I have nothing exciting to report where.

00:01:00,230	Um I mean, exciting other than no surprises, I guess so, but we are on track on the income and the expense side of. Things, um. Some of the expenses that were more heavy for 1st quarter, obviously as the bills come in for elevator maintenance, uh, insurance, real estate taxes, but then, Um, but that was

00:01:16,270	already, you know, planned in in budget. Um, reserve account we did transfer 250,000, um. From operating checking account into reserve, so that brings our reserve balance total to 2,950,422. Combined with the 185,609 remaining and checking total, uh, funds 3,136,000. 32. could build a mini ramp. Pay cash for it.

00:01:51,000	Any questions of Jeremy on the financials, I imagine, you know, I see snow removal, but for 8000, um, That’s got to be, I mean, year to date, 21, 22,000, that’s got to be down from budget quite a bit, I would hope.

00:02:05,170	Um, so, yeah, we had, we had budgeted more of an average, uh, thankfully with, you know, it was limited snow this year we’ll take it while we can get it, but, um, still the highest cost of that is the hauling away of the snow from the surface lots. OK. I finally put my shovel away at home.

00:02:21,000	I didn’t want to jinx anything by leaving her by putting it away too soon, but Any other, any questions? Yeah, Jeremy on the health insurance line, I see it was 0. Is that just a time issue and we’ll maybe, Double up. Next month? Yeah, well, I forgot to write the check. Yeah, just a, yeah. It’ll be. My, my bad. Be handled next month.

00:02:40,570	Yeah. Other questions? Todd, anything? Nope, nothing. Is there a motion to approve the financials? Moved to approve. Is there a second? Second, is there any further discussion? Hearing none called roll. Josh, Jake, Todd. Yes Yeah. Yes, that motion carries item 3 under the regular agenda is an update on parking repairers timeline, Jeremy. Um, yes, Mr.

00:03:11,170	Chair, 30 board members, so the contract is signed with restoration systems, um, they’re actually putting their schedule together, so I was hoping to have, um, more of an update for you today, but that’ll be forthcoming.

00:03:27,300	They’re, they’re still working out their logistics, uh, timeline and, and those things, so I will keep you apprised. Uh, once I have that info. You have, uh, you remember start to finish once they do get started, how long it’s supposed to take.

00:03:43,170	Uh, so we put, um, it needs to be completed in 2025, but we had put, had let them know, um, preferably before the end of October when, before the season changes. OK. OK. Questions on that item? If not, we’ll move on to item 4, which is discuss engineering engineer rendering options for a potential new parking ramp. Uh, Mr.

00:04:05,930	Chair board members, I’d put this on the agenda, um, because of the, um, Uh, new ramp committee has, uh, floated the idea of if it would be good to have an architect put together just some renderings of Maybe some particular spots along the roster corridor, what that would look like as far as skyline and, uh, you know, with the surrounding buildings, uh,

00:04:26,470	just to kind of give, um. Uh, options and for the community to, um, look at what that would look like if, if and where a ramp would be added, but, um, of course, it’s not, you know, that it’s not free to have that done, so the park authority

00:04:41,930	would have to. Um, the board would, uh, have to make an, uh, motion to. You know, for us to go out for a bid on that sort of thing. If, if you’d want to go forward on it.

00:04:56,830	Um, it was discussed at the last meeting that being that we’re all visual people, it might be. Helpful if we had uh a rendering or two, given that Future ramps will hopefully have some main floor commercial space, uh, office space or retail type space.

00:05:15,830	Um As to Jeremy’s comment that it’s not going to be free, we don’t know that because we haven’t asked anybody. No, true. Um, yeah. Sometimes architects, engineers are willing to, uh, put together a sketch. Um I don’t know what what the board’s feelings on that are. We haven’t approached anyone or asked anyone yet, but. We have a One landscape engineer slash designer at the table.

00:05:37,830	What are your thoughts on that, Jake. Yeah, uh. As far as free work usually design professionals kind of frown on that unless there’s a guarantee that there’s a contract coming down the road, and it’s uh. On, uh, publicly bid projects like this. There’s gonna be an RFP, so.

00:05:58,730	I don’t know that anybody would be super excited about the idea of doing it for free, but I don’t think it’s a large cost to hire a consultant of some kind to to do this. It’s. 15,000 bucks at at something like that, I would think would be appropriate, but.

00:06:20,570	Um I assume we can always just go ask the The consultants, what they would charge us to give us a couple of pages of the sketches. Right? You could definitely get a fee proposal from, yeah, for sure. Yeah. Todd, any thoughts on that one? Yeah, I mean, I think it’d be interesting to see how much this is gonna cost, um, that’s.

00:06:41,930	Um, I guess Jake here, well, well aware of what what it would cost 15,000 seems like a lot of money, but. If I guess if the parking ramp’s gonna be a goal. I agree with you, Jim. People want to see it.

00:06:54,830	They want to see what it’s gonna look like and it’d be a lot easier to sell. OK, are there anything else, Josh, Kate, did you want to weigh in on this topic at all, yeah, I’d go get some proposals. Right Jason, anything on this one? Good, yeah. OK.

00:07:20,300	It might be helpful to outline, um, kind of the scope of work, whether it’s uh test fitting a, uh, parking ramp on define the number of sites that you’re gonna look at, and then also define what the deliverable is, is it a rendering, uh, 3D rendering? Is it just a plan view, um, I think it’d be important to have those details kind of ironed out before you approach consultants.

00:07:34,730	I want some elevations. Whether 3D or As well as Plan view and I think Although any potential ramp’s not gonna fit, uh. You know, round hole square peg type of a thing, but I think it could be almost a generic, you know, similar in size and scope to the new 6th Street ramp which was new 12 years ago.

00:07:56,100	Um, we know how many cars we want to fit onto a site and. We’ve got some sites that have been talked about, uh, but nothing definitive yet, so, um, Mary, do you want to add anything to? Uh, my only, again, I don’t think we try to pick out the

00:08:09,570	names at Correct. It would be more. you If it’s a midlo. versus a corner and roughly the square foot. Yeah OK. To tell them this is Some kind of visual to look at whether it’s. 3D is easier.

00:08:33,470	See that Well, maybe the next step would be to uh go back have Jeremy. Put together a just a, an email to the the engineering and architectural firms and ask them for a fee proposal. For a future parking ramp and you, you know, you’ve got the details, 500 cars and the size and.

00:08:52,100	Location to be determined and see what, uh, by the next meeting. If we get some proposals for Uh, renderings and we can act on them. That’s all my Make sense to everybody? OK, let’s do that. Anything else on that topic? It’s gone way faster than I thought it would. Jason, did you have anything this morning for us. Thank you. OK.

00:09:15,570	Do you want to add anything to it or not? OK. If No, no. No, I’m catching a flight a little bit later this morning, so. This is fine with me, um, Kate, any reports from the Downtowners? Oh Uh, chair authority members Kate from the Downtowners.

00:09:35,470	I just got here on a flight from, from Philly, and it’s warmer here than it is in Philadelphia. So this is delicious. Yeah, we got in at like midnight last night. Well cheesesteaked out, a little little tired, but um just wanted to chat about a couple of things, um.

00:09:54,000	You know, in terms of, we talked about this last time and, and Todd put me on the spot a little bit, but we will have some construction downtown, particularly that 3rd Street corridor, but 3rd Street going south. So, um, just FYI that. Because the ramp is right in, right out on 3rd Street just to know that that could be.

00:10:11,830	I don’t know, maybe a little bit of backup or some, some issues with accessing that ramp right in right out if they’re coming from the south to the north. So, um, just wanted to let you guys know about that. We’re gonna It’s spring now, we are gonna jinx it. We’re gonna swap out the winter banners for the spring summer banners.

00:10:26,770	Um, so if anyone wants to help, you sure can. We’ll put BSE’s banners up as well. We do their banners in the spring. We do you may use banners in the fall, um, just to support our Higher education institutions.

00:10:43,100	Uh, one thing I did want to ask you all, um, we did take our power, uh, distribution out of the ramp, um, that we had up for the months for Christmas and then forgiving Hearts Day, um. Uh chair Christiansen, you talked about maybe wanting to look at um.

00:11:03,770	Lights that could switch colors or something in in 3rd Street ramp or curious if you guys want help with that from us or if it’s something you guys think you can do. I know there’s not a lot of electrical in the 3rd Street ramp, and that’s probably the The issue is you don’t have a lot of conduit that’s running on that corner, particularly the 3rd and Maine.

00:11:19,100	So if you guys want help with that, we certainly can help, um, if not, that was just the only question I had, be fun to have them change colors as well that we can do things through different holidays and seasons and stuff like that. So. What are, what are the wishes of the, uh, parking authority.

00:11:34,230	I think when we talked about this, it was the consensus that it would be nice, you know, it’s been very successful lighting up the, the, the parkade, um, for the Christmas holidays. season and the thought was that we would extend that to the 3rd and main route and have them both. Have some level of uh lighting.

00:11:51,000	Um, what are your thoughts on that? So we asked Jeremy to get some. Prices to put in some conduit at the 3rd and main ramp for. Um, Mr. Chair, authority board members, we actually, we’re, um, in planning stages already that, uh, just in talks with some electricians to figure out the best options where that

00:12:08,200	conduits, so that is in the works I guess the, the only hope would be if, um, you know, types of strand lights, I guess, but we can cross that at a different time. kid would be happy to help you with that, I would be.

00:12:18,900	Uh, we would provide the electricity, but we don’t have it in that for that ramp. That’s the only reason this one’s a little bit different from the last one, so. OK. OK. Any questions for me? Any questions for Kate Todd, do you have anything? Nope. Nothing. Thank you, Kate.

00:12:35,900	Anything else for the good of the order? Any other business today? Anybody? as Chair, if I may, uh, just one pay request, um, from Walker Consultants for the remaining 10% of the construction documents, um, smaller invoice, uh,, $2,367.50. Is there a motion to approve the Walker invoice that’s presented? What would you approve present? Is there a second? Second.

00:12:59,530	Any further discussion? Hearing none call a roll on that one, please, Sue. Josh? Yes. Jake? Yes. Todd. Yes. Jim, yes, that motion carries. Thank you. Um, if there’s nothing further, anybody have anything else? Todd anything? No, no. And if there’s no objection, we stand Adjourned until May 8th. Thank you