00:00:12,800	June 17, 2025. It is 5. 31, and we are in the Bosch Frelich meeting room at Mandan City Hall. City administrator Neubauer, could you please take the role? Commissioner’s roar. Schoberg. He here Braun, yes, Mayor Frelich here. Now for the pledge of allegiance. United States of America. To the Republic for which it stands.

00:00:48,700	A nation under God. Invid all Thank you. If several announcements and recognitions tonight, uh, first announcement is uh congratulations to Madison Sermac. On being a new homeowner as of this afternoon. And, uh, another announcement. Congratulations to my daughter on her thirty-fifth birthday. Danny Frelich Miller.

00:01:38,330	Now we will have the quarterly work anniversary recognition, and Amy, Amy Berger, our head of HR, will come up here. Good. Well, hello, good evening. Uh, it’s exciting to see such a full room with everyone we get to introduce, uh, or. Uh, congratulates for work anniversaries and then new hires, so an exciting night for us.

00:02:21,530	Uh, we have 11 employees who have reached milestones ranging from 3 to 40 years tonight. Ah, so an incredible range across departments and years of service. We’re grateful for their dedication, their hard work, and everything they do to help make the city a better place.

00:02:40,930	Before we call those that are in attendance, we do want to recognize a couple that couldn’t be here tonight. Uh, so those would be Hailla Khalifa with the police department, uh, 3 years of service. Jodie Changua, uh, administrative assistant with Public Works 3 years of service, and James Falavic, Public Works. Crew leader with the street department. He also has 3 years of service, or excuse me, he has 15 years of service.

00:03:05,370	Uh, lastly, 20 years of service, David Gross at our wastewater plant operator one. So now for those that are here, we will call your name and ask that you come forward, uh, Mayor Frelich will give you the certificate to congratulate you and we’d ask that you would stay upfront until we’re done, uh, so we can

00:03:27,730	take a picture. So with that, we will start. We have 3 employees that are at 3 years of service and the first one is Carrissa Tuggle. Senior Rail property appraiser technician in our assessing department. Next we have Jaden Coons, utility operator one with our public works department.

00:04:05,370	And Shawna Marian Community engagement Coordinator with our library. OK, we have 2 employees that have reached 10 years of service. Uh, the first one is Michael Bride, our police sergeant with the police department. And then Cole Anderson, our part-time fire. OK, we have one at 15 years of employment, and that is Comm Rohr. You start being a professional politician. OK.

00:05:03,430	And lastly, we have one employee that has 40 years of service with the city of Mandan, and that is a major accomplishment and very amazing to call that name, so Daan Freeze. With the water treatment and. Right here, right there. uh and Stan stand behind. That More. to to But Yeah.

00:06:24,530	OK, now we will have the um Introduction of the new employees, and we will have department heads introduce the Their new employees. Good evening, Mayor Commissioners. I’m here with our new admin assistant, Ashley Newman. She joined us on June 2nd, and um she is coming to us, um, from college, she’s finishing up her bachelor’s degree in graphic design and communication at Bellevue University.

00:06:54,930	She will graduate in August and then she will be full time with us, so we’re excited to have her helping with administration, business development and communication. which means she is helping everyone. She pits, the mayor and Commissioners, uh, this evening we have two new firefighters we’d like to introduce, uh, the first one is Hunter Beckert.

00:07:23,730	And the second one is Matt. Zanon, did I get it right? OK, thank you. Uh, both firefighters have a little bit of experience, um, they both recently graduated from our Joint Fire Academy with the City of Bismarck, so we’re excited to have him on board for a long and prosperous career. Welcome. Mr. O’Keefe Good afternoon.

00:07:55,130	I got 3 to Announced today, one of them was unable to make it last minute here, which is our new admin assistant, Stacy Mos. She just started December with us. And then I have, if you guys want to come up here. Have Tate Schweigler and Tony Geeson equipment operators in the street department.

00:08:17,170	And they both have been here for between December and March. March yep, so. Getting along great. OK. Welcome. Chief Siegler. Mr. Mayor, how are you doing tonight? Just good yeah I’ve got 3 new employees, new police officers to introduce. Um, we got 2 of them there are in the police academy.

00:08:47,000	They just started back in June and then we have Alexander Price or Alex, uh, he hails from Grand Forks. He’s actually named after Alexander Ovechkin. So he likes that he’s a big hockey fan, UND hockey fan. And then we’ve got. Eric Corner, Eric is right here. He’s at the police academy now.

00:09:10,070	Uh, he’s also, uh, A, a father of a daughter, and he is, uh, in the National Guard, so, you know, I love seeing military people. I wanted the police force. And then ATN Herhholt, or as we all call him, ET. So he’s a former Marine just like myself. And uh he we took him from Metro ambulance, so he’s actually an EMT. So we’ve got, uh, well-rounded police officer in the making right there too.

00:09:33,600	So they’ll graduate, those two will graduate in August to the beginning of August. So whenever that comes up, I’ll let, uh, the commission know and if you want to attend the graduation, you’re welcome to come. Thank you. Welcome. Barb I would like to introduce, um, Jeff Christiansen.

00:10:03,330	He is a 19 hour, um, commute or building and grounds, um, worker and the day he retired, he came in for his interview with us, so I think we’re very lucky to have him around. Thank you and welcome to you all, um, now we will have uh a recap of buggies and blues, Matt Annando from the Man and Progress Organization.

00:10:32,730	Thank you, Mayor and Commissioners for allowing me to come here this evening and talk about, uh, buggies and Blus. I’ve had a good week of rest, so I’m Better to go back to these, uh, images and whatnot. Uh, Buggies and Blues was held on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of June.

00:10:48,200	He was the thirty-second annual Buggies and Blues, uh, we, uh, had about 28 to 30,000 people for the three days. Um, a lot of them on Sunday. Uh, we did, uh, a new kickoff concert on Friday with the band Shirts and Skins withdrew a pretty good crowd in for that kickoff concert.

00:11:09,270	And then we had um our Saturday night, Saturday afternoon block party and, um, And concerts as well. We had 4 different bands on Saturday. So we kind of expanded our music reach, um, if anyone that was at Buggies and Blues, you would have noticed that we moved the stage into the park, which did very well, allowed us to keep the streets open and traffic

00:11:26,600	flowing, which allowed us to bring in a new style event from the transitioning from the classic car parade to a, um, classic car cruise night on Saturday. So if you were downtown Mandan on Saturday, we’ve seen a lot of vehicles, uh, driving around.

00:11:46,400	Um, souped up ones, classics, um, for a good couple of hours on Main Street on Saturdays, so. I’m gonna just click through some of these pictures here. We had 14 different food vendors in the park for a quote unquote buggies and Blues Food Truck Festival. Um, you see the crowd there with their chairs out. I’m listening to the music. There’s uh shirts and skins.

00:12:09,870	Uh, we opened up Saturday with the Moon Cats, um, kind of a blues grass band. Um, and then they had another local band, Aventide as well. Um, and there’s some of the cruise night that was happening. So a lot of activity, uh, in Main Street and Downtown Mandan over the 3 days.

00:12:29,070	Uh, this is Pop Gun rerun was our headliner on Saturday night, did a fantastic job, um, hailed from um California, Orange County up here, first time in North Dakota for all of them.

00:12:43,530	Um, so we’re glad to have them, and then we had the car show on Sunday, which if anyone was down there, you had to hold on to your hats because it was pretty windy, but we had about 325 vehicles, um, that were parked on Main Street.

00:13:04,570	And um and about within that count, about 22, 22,000 people that came out on Sunday for the car show, so that was our recap, uh, Buggies and Blues next year will be over the, I believe the 11th, 12th, and 13th of June of 2026. Great job, Matt. It was a lot of fun down there. Thank you. And then we’re looking forward to the 4th of July, correct? That is correct. It’s 2 weeks away. OK And we’ll have you back. OK, Commissioners, you have the agenda in front of you. I would look for a motion to approve the agenda.

00:13:31,600	I move to move the agenda here for July June 17th. Second We have a motion by Comm Rohr, seconded by Comm Schoberg. Further discussion, hearing none, roll call. Messrs. Schoberg. Hi, Bra Roar Mayor Frelich. Yes. We’ll move on to approval of Bennett.

00:13:58,330	Consider the approval of the following board of City Commissioners meeting minutes June 3, 2025, which was a regular meeting. Make a motion to approve the regular meeting from June 3rd. OK We have motion by Comm Henshawn a second by Comm Brown. Any further discussion, hearing non roll call, please, Mrs. Hans. Hans Roar Schoberg, Mayor Frelich. Yes Approval of the June 10th, 2025 Quorum. Uh, pertaining to the uh special assessment District 236.

00:14:32,470	I’ll make the motion to approve the June 10th, uh, 2025 Quorum Street Improvement District 236 meeting as presented. Motion by Comm Schoberg, seconded by Comm Brown. A further discussion. on roll call, Comm Schoberg Roar Braun Haon Yes, we have no public hearings tonight, nor, uh, bids, so we’ll move on to the consent agenda.

00:15:04,400	Are there any items that you would like to pull from the consent agenda. If not, I would look for a motion to approve. I’ll make the motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. Motion by Comm Schoberg, second by Comm Rohr, seniority. There’s a tie. Any further discussion, hearing none, roll call, Commissioner’s roar.

00:15:36,070	Yes, Schoberg Henshaw Braun, Mayor Freeli, yes. We have no old business, so we’ll move on to new business, and that brings us to, uh, Brendan Nagle. From the Bismarckandan Chamber EDC to give us an update on their activities, Brenda. I can figure out how to. Get this back. There we go.

00:16:05,000	Technology is great when you know how to use it, right? All right. Uh, Mayor Commissioners, uh, thank you for allowing uh the Chamber EDC, uh, to give a report of what we’ve had going on, um, to be clear, I think Mayor Freli knows an awful lot of this information, as he does sit on our board of directors as part of his portfolio, um, but we

00:16:35,270	want to make sure that everybody is very much aware of um what we’ve got going on at the Bismarck Manan um Chamber EDC and some things that are kind of out there for the future. And so I’ll entertain any questions, um, afterwards, but hopefully we’ll, uh, razzle dazzle you with my update here.

00:16:54,470	So, um, some of the things, a lot of the things that we have been doing of late are really in the name of workforce development. And some people might say, well, isn’t that just a buzzword? What is that all about? If, if we don’t have people um to fill the positions that we all have open.

00:17:12,770	Um, it makes it very difficult for us to move business forward as we say it, um, economic development is incredibly important and having a workforce that is educated and ready to, um, do whatever. it is that needs to happen in the various businesses, um, it is mission critical.

00:17:32,800	And so we take that work very seriously at the Chamber EDC. Some of the things that we’ve been doing, um, is working with an internship network. And so this was a new um activity last year, and it really, uh, took off.

00:17:56,330	And so what we’ve been, what we’ve been working on with our economic development team is We’ve contacted many, many employers in Mandan and in Bismarck and asked for who are your interns? Um, who’s here for the summer? And what we found out last year and already this year, is that the majority of the interns who come, um, to Modan, to Bismarck, um, to our communities, they are actually coming from outside of the state.

00:18:17,730	Um, their college or university of choice has sent them here to the various businesses that we we have, um, to learn and to do their internship. The worst thing that we could do is not recognize that they are here in our community.

00:18:34,200	We want them to see all of the great things that Mount Shenando and team in Mandan are doing. Um, we want them to experience what is Mandan like as a community, um, to live in, to work in, to raise a family. And so connecting with those interns really gives us an opportunity to show them what about living in Mandan or Bism. Mark.

00:18:55,100	Um, and so we invite, we do 3, events throughout the summer. We invite interns, um, from across the, the work arena, um, some people will send one intern, some will send as many as 15 depending on how big their organization is and what they’ve got going on.

00:19:14,300	But again, it’s a great opportunity for these young people to say, OK, I’m here for the summer. And I really, really love the community. We want them to go back, graduate from their college and university and say, I can’t imagine living anywhere else. I want to go back to North Dakota.

00:19:34,070	I want to go back to Mandan and I want to work at that place, um, that, that I did my internship at. And so, allowing them to experience the different things. Um, the first one that we had for the summer, um, you’ll see here that it was scheduled for June 11th. It was the kickoff session. And we had about 50 some young people at 24/7, um, send it.

00:19:53,870	And when you give young people free food and an opportunity to have some fun and make some connections with other people. Again, interns connecting with other interns so that they can envision themselves, um, what would, what would this look like to, to live in this community.

00:20:11,400	And so we’ve got a couple of other events going on for the summer with that group and um we’re pretty pleased with the outcome. Um, 94%. that we surveyed from last year, felt that they learned more and became more connected with the community through these types of events. So we’ll continue to do them.

00:20:31,330	Um The Welcome initiative is something that Mayor Freli was very involved and we were grateful for that. Um, it was kicked off um in Man Down Bismarck, um, and, you know, we hear a lot of things from a lot of people that say we’re, we’re North Dakota nice, but are we really, if we know people were pretty nice to each other, um, but if you’re a complete

00:20:49,000	stranger, have we gotten to the point where we’re maybe not quite as open and friendly, um, to folks. And so the welcome initiative Kicked off in May and it was an opportunity for both mayors, um, to really encourage um the communities in which they live, um, to, to reach out to the new people in

00:21:08,670	town, um, help, help them understand how it, what it takes to be connected to their community. Come to these meetings. Understand what’s going on at the city government level. Go to your park board meeting, go to your school board meeting, um, learn who your neighbors are. Maybe invite.

00:21:32,670	some people over for a backyard barbecue or invite somebody to coffee, um, but it really was just an opportunity for, um, both communities to embrace all of the new workforce that is in, um, Mandan and Bismarck, um, and for the two mayors to do that together, we were incredibly grateful. I don’t think people understand that the collaboration between the two cities is alive and well.

00:21:52,970	Um, that wasn’t always the case, and we are very, very grateful for that. Um, we have a, a Facebook page, um, that we’ve started with the information about this welcome initiative, and we’ve had nearly 20,000 visitors or views to that Facebook page, so people are definitely interested, so we’ll be waiting for Mayor Frelike to

00:22:14,300	have a backyard barbecue at, at his place soon. More to come on that. Sorry, I didn’t mean to put you on the spot there, Mayor. All right, so, so more in the name of workforce programs, um, educator experience actually kicks off next week and, um, summer, um, who um works with all of our workforce development efforts,

00:22:37,230	um, she’ll be leading that 24 educators in um between Mandan and Bismarck will be convening together to learn more about the workforce. Um, what is needed? What, what types of jobs are out there? What should they be teaching? the young people that they’re responsible for in their respective schools about the jobs that are available in Mandan and

00:23:00,670	Bismarck. And so they’ll be taking the proverbial field trip, um, to a lot of really great places and showing um the educators, what it’s like to be working in these different environments so that they can take that information to their students, even at a young age.

00:23:19,470	We need to start connecting with the young people as early as 3rd and 4th grade is what um is what we’re being told. and we hear that as parents, we know that our kids are being bombarded with making decisions earlier and earlier.

00:23:42,330	Um, but these 24 educators will be um gaining an experience by, um, looking at some options in engineering, architecture, healthcare, media, and um, communications, criminal justice, and more. So it just arms those um wonderful teachers. They’re already great, um, but if they can learn a little bit more about the jobs that are available in our community. They can help. um, kind of shuffle our, our students along in in certain directions. Leadership Bismarck Mandan just graduated in May.

00:24:03,130	We will be taking applications for the next cohort. Those applications, um, are open now. We encourage citizens, um, in Mandan, um, to get engaged with leadership Bismarck Mandan. Um, it’s an incredible program that allows everyone that’s in it, um, to just get a not just a bird’s eye view, but a really up close and personal, um.

00:24:23,470	of what it takes to run a community, to be a part of a community, um, and encouraging them, um, to be engaged. Um, one particular project out of leadership Bismarck Mandan called the Rewind.

00:24:47,470	It’s a podcast, um, that some of the cohort, um, have started and there’s, um, looking and visiting with local retired individuals with the goal of learning more about the population and finding opportunities for them. More and more we are finding that people who retire don’t really retire.

00:25:07,200	Um, they’re just looking for what that next thing is, and they might be moving at a slower pace, meaning they’re not working a 40 hour plus work week, but they still have plenty to give and so by connecting with them through these podcasts, we can understand how they can better give back to their community and and continue to be a part um of, of the community in which they live.

00:25:26,030	Talent attraction is something that we’re constantly doing, so it’s not only a about trying to keep the young people and and the existing population, um, that we have, but how do we attract talent from outside of the state of North Dakota, um, into, um, the community of Mandan, um, in Bismarck. And so the Makeymarkbizman.com website has seen nearly a 30% increase in traffic.

00:25:49,400	Now some of that has to do with that welcome initiative because they’re seeing things going on, but we’re also doing some very targeted marketing to people. outside of the state of North Dakota to let them know what it is. We have great things happening here.

00:26:07,570	Um, City of Mandan has amazing things happening in Dykeshhorn Park on a very regular basis, and it’s not just in the summertime, it’s all year long, um, and we have great employers in this community, um, and we’ve got a very welcoming, um, governmental process and so we want to make sure that people are, are comfortable, uh, with reaching out and finding out more information about what’s going on.

00:26:26,770	Um, we find that the top states that are interested, North Dakota for obvious reasons cause we’ve got people locally who like to check that out, but some interesting stats, there’s Virginia, Minnesota, Texas, and Colorado, um, tend to be the states that are primarily um looking at what we’ve got going on.

00:26:47,670	And then business attraction and development, kind of along that same line, um, is how do we help the businesses that are here, um, and the existing, um, organizations. So, um, Nathan, our vice president for economic development and his team members attended Epic, which is the energy progress and innovation Conference, um, earlier this year, um, they were able to connect with um over 1000 attendees and 200 exhibitors to tell them about

00:27:13,730	the community of Mount Ann and Bismarck and help them understand what we’ve got going on here. We’ve got very business friendly, um, policies, um, and we are the place to, to do business. And so those are great opportunities for us to make those connections on behalf of the community.

00:27:30,800	And then business boot camp is something that we’ll hear more, you’ll hear more about in the future, but I just want to kind of hang the teaser out there for you, um, business boot camp is something again that our economic development team has really been working with.

00:27:48,530	We’ve heard from our small business and, and other business, um, people that they really need some additional support and so we’re looking at putting together a multi-stage, um, developmental program that’s built to guide the people who are in the program through a complete process of starting a business. Some might say, well, that’s easy.

00:28:06,530	You just go to um the uh Secretary of State and you get a business name and you file your papers and away you go. It doesn’t quite work like that, and I think people that start a business, they realize When they’re already into it that I probably should have a CPA or an accountant or I probably should get some guidance from an attorney on how to incorporate myself.

00:28:23,070	What do I need to know about employment law? What does it take? Do I need to stand in front of the city commission and ask for a permit if I’m gonna be opening up a new business and so really trying to help folks understand what does it take to launch a business and then how do you sustain that business because

00:28:39,130	we as a community members want to see a business start. We almost more importantly want to see them thrive, and we want to see them in our communities for a long period of time. And so I’m, I’m looking forward to that, um, boot camp, and there will be more to come on that.

00:28:54,200	And then just some of our marketing efforts um in the first quarter of 2025, um, these are the avenues that we use to reach out to people, um, without being all creepy about how we, um, follow them around and things, but when they check in on our LinkedIn when they, they like something or they

00:29:11,800	share our post. That gives us the ability to do a little bit of tracking through some, um, marketing online and we’ve, you can see that we’ve reached, um, almost 97,000 different, um, businesses and individuals, um, through all of that, um, those marketing efforts and so no lack of, um, reach out and connections because once we’ve

00:29:33,900	got those connections, then we can continue to communicate with them, make sure that they’re receiving the regular email, um, updates that we’re providing. Which, um, I believe all of the commissioners are receiving as well as the administrative staff. And so that’s our update.

00:29:56,000	I tried to keep it short and sweet and to the point, um, but we appreciate the support from the city of Mandan. We can’t do this without you. um, and we, we welcome your commentary, um, your questions, um, we, we also very much so welcome your support. Lunch on the patio, um, by the weight, Commissioners, is July 10th.

00:30:15,270	Um, and so please, if you have an opportunity to come over and do some networking with some, um, businesses on our patio. We’d love to serve you some hot dogs and, um, and hamburgers. Any questions? Thank you, Brenda. Yeah, any questions? Dennis, did you get that lunch? July 10th July 10th, Dennis, I know you’re usually there and I appreciate seeing you there.

00:30:36,070	It’s getting pretty close to 25 years, isn’t it with the uh city man and with Bismarck, if I go back and it is 90 roughly when we, so we’re almost entering if we’re not 25 years already, the chamber and thank you for that historical um knowledge, um, I, I think it’s important to celebrate that.

00:30:55,730	Um, it hasn’t always, uh, you know, I think there’s at sometimes people are like, well, what about Mandan or what about Bismarck and how are we working together? I think the fact that the two mayors.

00:31:14,530	are coming together on many, many items, um, and, and that we’ve got, um, Mayor Freli on our board, um, to listen and provide feedback, um, as we embark on the many things that we do, um, it, it says an awful lot about the city of Mandan, um, and the mayor’s presence, um, and, and all of yours at, at many of our events. We appreciate it. It’s a work in progress.

00:31:31,300	It’s definitely a work in progress, but it’s been very, very positive. Thank you. Any other questions? No questions for Brin. Thank you, Brenda. Mayor Commissioners, thank you for your time. OK, we will move on to item number 2. Consider a Mandan Growth Fund recommendation to provide $15,000 prize. In the form of a forgivable loan for the 2025 business pitch challenge.

00:32:03,070	New homeowner Madison. Yeah, American Comm, there’s a party at my house afterwards, and Dennis, your band is playing, so. Can’t wait. All right, so a little background, the goal of the Man business pitch challenges to support entrepreneurs who are seeking to launch or expand businesses in this community.

00:32:23,800	Individuals with an early stage or recently established business are encouraged to apply. A selection committee composed of professionals from the Mandan area reviews all applications and selects 4 finalists. Finalists are evaluated by the selection committee based on the range of criteria, including but not limited to research, innovativeness, market fit, impact on Mandan, scalability, and planned use of their prize money.

00:32:49,730	Finalists who advanced past the selection committee phase, spend about 2 months refining their business plans and preparing their final presentations. On pitch night, a panel of judges evaluates the finalists using the criteria criteria, I just have mentioned as well as the following presentation delivery, which is the C Clarity, logic and effectiveness of the presentation, including the use of visuals.

00:33:12,470	Q and A performance, the ability to answer questions with clarity, depth, and expertise, and bankability. This is ultimately whether the concept is bankable or investable. Would you approve a loan for the business? What do you invest your own money into it? The current funding structure and proposed changes we have in the past, only the business pit challenge winner

00:33:31,900	was eligible to receive a forgivable loan from the Man and Growth Fund. That was $10,000 if the winner’s business was open and operable in a commercial location in Mandan or the surrounding 10 mile radius in Martin County. Or $5000 if the winner’s business was open to operable in a residential property area.

00:33:49,900	In Mandan or 10 mile radius in Morton County. Ms. Barkmanden Chamber EDC and collaboration with the City of Mandan Business Development Department have proposed increase in the total available growth fund award to $15,000 to allow for a broader support of entrepreneurial efforts. The first place winner would still receive the same $10,000 or $5000.

00:34:15,470	But the second place winner would receive $3000 and now the third place winner would now receive $2000. The fact of this, we believe that the additional amount will either A, promote prize equity by recognizing multiple high performing businesses, not just the first place winner, and be adjust the man in business pitch challenge award structure to better reflect inflation

00:34:35,270	since the program’s inception about a decade ago. So the recommendation of the Manor Growth Fund, um, they voted 70, to absent, to recommend providing a total of $15,000 to be split as allows.

00:34:54,000	The first place what were to receive $10,000 the second place winner would receive $3000 and the 3rd place winner would receive $2000 all in the form of forgivable loan for the 2025 Buss pitch challenge. And with us tonight, we have Nathan Schneider here and he is also he was uh. The starter of this whole program, so. He’s the ancient one that can tell you all about it. If you have any questions, you can.

00:35:16,330	Any questions for Madison or Nathan? put Nathan on the spot. Yeah. If none what are your wishes, commissioners? I’ll move to recommend providing a total of $15,000 to be split as follows first place winner would receive $10,000..

00:35:38,400	2nd place winner would receive $3000 in the third place winner would receive $2000 all in the form of a forgivable loan for the 2025 business pitch challenge. Second We have a motion in a second. Any further discussion, hearing none, roll call, please. Comm Schoberg, yes, Haha, yes, Ron, roar. Mayor Frelich. Yes, motion passes. I remember 3. Thank you, Madison. Item number 3. Consider a request for 35,000 in matching.

00:36:06,000	Funds for the Mandan Art Alley Project, Mister Neubauer, Mayor Frelich and Commissioners, it is quite interesting that I get to present this to you tonight because I have about as much artistic talent in my little finger as non-existent is about it, so, um, on behalf of the Mandan Visitors Committee, the, um, the request is for $35,000

00:36:27,800	to complete the Mandan Heritage Art Alley Project. This project aims to transform an underutilize Downtown alleyway into a vibrant public space. featuring large scale murals and initiative will enhance the visual appeal of the Downtown Mandan and promote cultural tourism and support the community engagement through public art.

00:36:49,800	So this project actually was before you on February 18th of 2025, which included the acceptance of a $35,000 Northern Plains National Heritage Area, um, Grant and a $5000 contribution from the Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation.

00:37:14,870	I believe the call for artists was quite successful, and we had not planned on bringing a request to the Visitors fund at that point in time, but due to the large interest and the, the artists that were. Um Engaged with transforming this project and also submitting projects to, uh, the committee. I think the, the ask came in that we would like to do phase one and phase 2 altogether and therefore the request for $35,000 from the Visitors committee.

00:37:34,600	I know that Aaron Barth is here if you have questions for him regarding this project, um, former planner Andrew Strommi was instrumental in getting this moving along too, and I think he was part of the judging committee, um, that did some of the artists selections, so.

00:37:51,170	Again, do the, to the success for the call of artists they’re looking to do phase one and phase 2 yet this summer. So if you have any questions for me, but again, I will invite Aaron up to tell you more about this project. OK, Aaron, you got visuals? I, I do not have visuals, uh.

00:38:10,600	Right now, but uh Jim, do we have any? And here’s where I’m going. I just want uh everybody to see what, what it’s possibly going to look like. Oh sure. Let’s see, maybe Jim has. We’ll find I think they were Slides J3 No, it’s. Here we go. Are those visible to everybody? OK.

00:39:00,530	Yeah, Mayor and commissioners, thank you for Having me here this evening, um, See if I can operate this mouse too. OK So some recap to uh the Mandan Art Alley phase 1 and phase 2, were asking or requesting here, putting this before uh we put it before the Mandan Visitors fund and or visitors Committee and here we are before the Mandan City Commission.

00:39:24,470	The funds already secured before the ask is presented before you is $52,950 and to give a bit of an orientation uh of what are, what alley we’re. Talking about is the oops, how to hard boil eggs there. I’ll, my mouse is sliding around here. Sorry.

00:39:49,300	Well, we’ll, uh, it’s what the East West Streets are uh First Street Northwest Main Street and the North-South streets would be 1st and 2nd Avenue Northwest. So that would be phase one of the art alley, and I believe Phase 2 may go beyond that, um. Which would be the request before you. So yeah, uh, big broad brush stroke. The fund’s already secured a 52,950.

00:40:07,870	The *** could hear tonight would be for 35,000, so that would bring it up to Who has a calculator, right? Uh, 80. It’s 87,950. Yeah, it’s a historian trying to do math here, so I can get in the general vicinity, right? Um. With before the uh Commission asked before you, there’ll be already 5 murals that are go, um.

00:40:33,530	And the background on the project as Jim provided, we had a big, uh, sort of formally informal meeting on May 9th of 2024. There’s over 30 attendees from the business community, I believe, Comm, I saw Comm Hainon who was at that, that meeting as well is great, um.

00:40:54,270	And then that same evening, uh, the Mandan Progress Organization Matt Shenando is there as well. He rolled out a Facebook post and, you know, blow up the 74 likes and 8 shares. I’ve got a whole bunch of different data. I just kind of went down uh Facebook memory lane to see what the waypoints were at this, um.

00:41:12,930	Mayor, you’d asked to just see the visuals potentially of what the How many artists are going to be involved in this and, if approved, there will be 14 artists that’ll be involved in this. Um, the highlight that you see before you indicates either a man down resident or they have studio space in Mandan.

00:41:33,270	Um, the other artists are uh over in the city of Bismarck and surrounding area as well. Um, I’ll scroll down here as well. So in the artist, so the there’s themes that were created for the call for artists and the themes aligned along um I got this on my phone. That’s what I’m looking at my notes on my phone here.

00:41:56,200	Um, the 5 different themes are honoring indigenous traditions and contemporary expressions. Uh, the second theme is waves of immigration and cultural convergence. The third one was land, water, and community. The 4th 1 was shared histories and contemporary connections, and the 5th 1 was a future sort of look at youth innovation and cultural continuity.

00:42:17,130	Um, the leadership committee members, so, so the, the trained artists that were reviewing the proposals that the artist submitted, uh, included Travis Elbers, a local educator and basketball coach, uh Rebecca Engelman, she’s a retired North Dakota counsel in the Arts, Education Director and Grant administrator.

00:42:39,000	Andrea Fagerstrom, who is a BSC professor of art, a trained artist, and practicing artist, Molly McLean, who is also an artist to practicing artist and administrator, Kayla Schmidtz with the Mortman and Public library, outreach and program coordinator, Prairie Rose Seminole is a filmmaker, researcher and writer, and a tribal citizen of the MHA nation, uh, Andrew Strammi, city man and planner, and Tobias Sigmund, who is also a North Dakota Council of the Arts across the prairie

00:42:59,200	engagement and practicing artists, so had a good review team to, to sift through all the artists and they’re the ones who threw a rubric ranked the art submissions, so you see the artist with 66 votes. Nicole Gaggner, Paul Newt. And a local woman team and also Andrea Falcon.

00:43:19,500	And you can get an idea of these are representative samples of either the artists that have already Uh, completed a work of art that won’t, that’s not what will be in the art alley, but, uh, a representative sample and then there’s a paragraphs on the side, uh, giving the general outline of, uh, for example, Nicole Gagner, uh, she’d like to reference important cultural foods and

00:43:40,900	folk art traditions in the area, including native foods, uh, farmed and foraged seeds saved, brought by immigrants, beating, quilting, and embroidery, um. A lot of the detail is is included in the agenda packet. This is the same detail that was. Sent out for the agenda packet to Paul Newt, um.

00:44:04,870	He’s also, uh, he’s done that iconic North Dakota. Painted map with all the counties and the Got to have a bison if we have the northern plains, right? Um And then here’s the local women team of April, Melanie, and Shawna.

00:44:26,770	And they have a uh a nod to indigenous women who have always been the backbone of our communities and have played a crucial role in the conservation and transmission of ancestral traditional knowledge. Um, so their mural would serve as a tool for storytelling, preserving traditions, establishing pathways towards healing and creating connections between past and present. Uh, here’s Andrea Falcon.

00:44:49,970	Um She would like to do a native North Dakota plant life, um, and the women who have shaped the state’s history. Um, and then scrolling down further, we have artists with 5 votes, so Uh, Melissa Gordon. And she has a mural idea sketch that is a nod to the, the 1883 rail bridge and uh past and present locomotives. Uh, Victoria Ah Lebchenko, who lives in, she does live in Mandan, um.

00:45:23,330	And she has a portraits of unspoken truth, um. And Muriel will be a celebration of cultural identity, quiet strength, and human dignity, and I believe Victoria just was invited to do a showing over at a uh art exhibit in France, um. Not Paris, Texas, but Paris, France, right? Uh, Linda Roche.

00:45:48,470	Um, she has her idea sketch. I see a Western meadow lark there. Emily Murphy Ah, her idea is Prairie landscape with a wide open blue North Dakota sky. Danielle here Um, a another large scale uh landscape mural. And then we get to the artists with 4 votes. And so, uh, her.

00:46:25,370	The uh Lannay and Matty say we would love to illustrate this amazing story of how North Dakota settled through images of a beautiful steam train as a centerpiece, as well as tracks through a North Dakota landscape with references to German Dutch and Norwegian settlers. Here’s Liz White.

00:46:49,870	Ah, brave, so Liz’s vision of the mural centers around the idea of a braid as a connecting feature between cultures and heritage. Braids have been used in hairstyles by people throughout history and across vastly different cultures. An artists with 3 votes here. So Jessica Water. She does have her studio in Mandan. Uh, Jessica Wachter does those very large scale uh. Paintings on canvas.

00:47:15,530	Ah, she wants the mural to be a vibrant tribute to the place she calls home, a reflection of the spirit of resilience and stories of this community. crystal tret bar. Uh, tie in with the star quilts, uh. Well informed by the star quilts of the MHA nation.

00:47:45,970	Elizabeth Fur I’ll capture the light shadows, trees, and layers of a view driving south on Highway 6 in a viber and abstract way. And then uh yet to be, uh, maybe this will be phase 3, Richard Lohan. And uh there’s still Still have him back and forth with Richard alone, but the 14 prior That you see there would be mobilized in this. With the funding, if, if accepted and approved by the Mandan.

00:48:14,130	Visitors committee and the before you hear the Mandan City Commission. Hopefully that provided a good overview mirror. Yes, so why should we approve this? What’s the significance of it, uh, this artwork, uh, in connection with other cities across North Dakota. Right, yeah, no, that’s a good question.

00:48:37,230	Thank you for the prompt, uh, the question prompt Mayor and Commissioners and uh this is, you know, this is something that we’re seeing pop up not only in the urban communities with these public murals. You know, just to reference, uh, the city of Bismarck did their art alley in 2015, but we’re seeing this pushed out more and more into the rural as well.

00:48:56,270	Uh, several artists in this cohort here have helped Mors uh throughout North Dakota. One was last summer was in Grafton, North Dakota. If you see their Carnegie, historic Carnegie library, there’s a big beautiful mirror there to, but to get to the underpinning of your question here, the philosophical why Mayor is, uh, there, there’s numerous things, these murals, they express the

00:49:16,070	values of a community. Uh, they do, uh, form an expression of pride of community of place, um, during this committee, we had people say things like, well, Rapid City has a cool art. You know, Art Alley that people go and travel to and visit to the, you know, I don’t know the exact footprint of the square.

00:49:37,470	mile radius of the range of people that come there, but we’re up here. People are referencing Rapid City, so it’s, uh, I’d say it’s, you know, just another one of those places that people are going to identify as a spot to come to to view the murals, right? And uh you may have seen in the

00:49:54,530	Bismarck Tribune this morning, uh, the Bismarck Expressway tunnel mural was finished. I’ve had a chance to be at that, uh, on site helping with materials. Uh, I don’t want to get anywhere near painting. I’m with Jim on that, um, but.

00:50:12,770	I can tell you that uh people when they enter the tunnel or when they exit the tunnel are far happier than when they enter the tunnel, and it’s because of that, that art, right? Um, we have yet to develop a sort of a barometer or mass spectrometer to see how much more spending people, you know, people increase in spending, uh, but I can just broad brush strokes say that

00:50:31,070	when people are happier, uh, they do tend to want to. part with with funds, right? uh spend money in your, in your town, that sort of thing, so it does have that economic impact as well. So we’ve got an artistic expression of our culture, um. Possible tourist attraction. Absolutely, yeah.

00:50:55,930	So we’re going to spend $87,000523. Um In an alley. Uh Are we going to see graffiti? Yeah, that’s another really good question, and Uh, I always appreciate that question because it, it’s, it’s a natural sort of, well, if we paint beautiful art, how is it protected, right? And there’s, there’s two different, uh, things to touch on with that.

00:51:21,570	The first is that uh well these murals will be painted by local artists, and there will be another mural, uh, one of the murals within this larger mural will be one of the community murals as well.

00:51:39,830	And by that, uh, they’ll have a process by which Community members will be invited to paint that this is going somewhere too. We invited to paint that mural and thereby have ownership of that mural once it’s installed. So we did this on the Missouri River Heritage Mural, which is on the I-94 bridge.

00:52:03,870	Um, and there’s hundreds of people that painted that one of the expressway tunnel mural, there is 780 or 688 people that helped paint that mural. And so they, what they’ve seen over 20 plus years, this process has been developed, uh, grew out of Philadelphia to tell, uh, clean up blighted neighborhoods and that sort of thing.

00:52:20,930	And they found that one community members actually paint the mural, and the mural goes up, they become defenders of that mural, right? Uh, they, they have ownership of it. The second component is very easy to understand technical, it’s uh there’s a couple of coats of uh anti-graffiti paint that gets uh clear cod over it, and it’s called uh the stuff works so good they, they call it this stuff works.

00:52:42,330	TSW, so, uh, we have a, a team that Knows how to apply that. I think you put it on the 3 mil spec, uh, 3 mils, and then it dries and We will help We’ll be the maintainers of the mural too when If in the unfortunate Something happens where it does get tagged or something, yeah.

00:53:02,500	OK, and the average life of these murals, they’re seen 20 years out of these murals, yeah, OK, yep. All right, any other questions for Erin? Mayor Aaron, on, you know, we do have mors and you can drive down, I think there’s 3 businesses, and you know, the Eagle and our places in Mandan, uh, I do have mals up to this point in time, which,

00:53:19,000	uh, business that I’m trying to place my mind because it’s been a while since we’ve seen a graphic of this. Which business would be a budding these mors right now.

00:53:37,230	Right down the alleyway there, the couple that come to mind is the one on the gym to help me, help me to, uh, Big Stick Cigar lounge, I believe, and then, uh, the business just in the North, which is that Vicky Vicky’s. Um What the remediation building as well, and we did uh reach out and get signatures of uh building owner approvals as well. That they’re comfortable doing this.

00:53:59,700	There’s a couple of other business owners that said they really love this idea, but they’re going to wait to see, they want to wait to see it happen and they want to be involved in the subsequent phases as well, so. Um Yeah.

00:54:18,470	What about preparation of the surfaces, I mean, there’s some pretty rough spots down there right now, is there going to be something done to, uh, make these a good canvas, so to speak, right, yeah. No, that’s a great question, Comm Rohr, and some of the services, you’re right, they’re, they’re, uh, the texture of them will either have to find a, an inert solid material like plywood or something and, and mount it on it. We have uh uh.

00:54:37,130	technical ability to do that, uh, other surfaces of its historic brick. We’ve done this before as well where it’s pressure washed and you put a couple of coats of masonry, good masonry primer on there, and that, that’s your surface as well.

00:54:53,030	So we’re absolutely taking that into account too because in my mind, uh. I consider the uh. You know some of those areas downtown the business alleys that are just rough looking and what have you to where they take on a whole new View, a new atmosphere and that’s conducive to these paintings and stuff like that, they, uh, when you’re all done, they don’t look like a, uh, the rough

00:55:13,270	alley that was before. Right, yeah, we’re, we’re trying to make it a little less or a lot less Mad Max sort of Fury Rode feeling and more of like, hey, I want to be here, right? So, exactly we want them to look like really North’s boxcars that come through town. Traveling murals, right? Yeah.

00:55:30,070	OK, so if approved, when would they start? Uh, yeah, no, thank you, Mayor. Uh, the team is ready to go, so OK, they’re standing outside. All right. Thank you, Erin. Yeah, thank you so much, Mayor and Commissioners.

00:55:54,400	Mayor Frelich and Commissioners, um, important to note that the man and the visitors funds, um, are to be spent only on visitor attractions to town, so they can’t be spent on roads or sidewalks or curbs and things like that, so one of the qualifications there, um, there are adequate funds in there, um, to support this project the uh visitors committee when they met last week voted 4 to 0, um,

00:56:12,130	with one individual absent in support of recommending that this uh request be honored. Mayor Jim is the beautification committee here make recommendations for that as well, or are they not involved? Um, I’m trying to remember, but I think this has been discussed at the beautification committee.

00:56:36,070	I don’t, I think the, the folks that were selecting the artists were not a part of the beautification committee, but I think they’re fully supportive. I could probably say with great certainty that they would support, um, this project as Aaron indicated, um, a lot of this, it’s not. Um, you or I Walking down with a gallon of paint and painting on the side of the building.

00:56:54,770	These folks know what they’re doing. They’ve done it before. They know what kind of paint to use. They know how to prep the surface, and they know what will last, and they also know, um, if, if there is graffiti. On the the artist’s work.

00:57:12,570	How to get it off and I think we’ve heard time and time again that um if you put public art. Up The up the chances of it being vandalized are slim because artists don’t like to wreck other artists’ stuff, to be honest, and it’s, you may consider graffiti artist as graffiti artists, but they don’t want to wreck other people’s things.

00:57:32,700	So usually that’s a way to kind of clean things up and, and keep them prominent and keep them looking good. And you’re, there’s good support from the business community. I presume the chamber for this type of thing, and others that would, uh, promote and support this type of project. Frelich and, and, uh, Comm Rohr as Earn indicated, it was what, May of 2024.

00:57:52,970	I think when there was a a a meeting held and a lot of it was about creating a downtown entertainment district. And this is one of the ideas that came from that meeting and you know, nothing moves very quickly in government, and this is, this is originally brought up in May in 24.

00:58:10,400	We’re in June of 2025. That’s moving pretty quick for a project of this nature. So again, um, it, it has been supported we would. Um, or remediation building that is down in one of the alleyways will be the focus of a couple of the uh murals that will go on that too.

00:58:34,730	OK Jim, um, having spent a lifetime in, in public safety, I, I think. This needs to be addressed as well because the, the, the, the greater, uh, The traffic. Um, the greater the destination draw. Um, maybe some more landing or whatever that will come in time.

00:59:04,400	I, I think the uh the issues with people perceiving alleys as uh ugly places to perpetrate criminal activity will diminish, uh, having lived in, in, in the Near North side of Chicago, um, alleys were a favorite spot of of ours in in the in the block in Chicago, they called them gangways, um.

00:59:25,130	And I, I see only good things coming out of this, uh, Chief Zeigler, I don’t know if you’ve had any experience with this from where you used to practice law, uh, enforcement and in Florida. But, um, from this seat’s perspective, this is only going to, uh, enhance the safety of our downtown area enhanced walkability and garner more citizen support for our downtown businesses.

00:59:52,500	Frelich and Comm Schober, I certainly agree with you and, you know, you touched on lighting and that was another one of the items that was brought up at this meeting is, um, you know, clean the alleys up and, and let’s work on some additional lighting in there too, so which also helps deter some of the nefarious activities that may

01:00:07,630	go on. Thank you. Any other questions? He none, I would entertain a motion. I moved to approve the Mandan Visitors Committee recommendations. For to 0 with 1 absent for the authorization of up to $35,000 for the Mandan Art Alley Project. Second A motion by Comm Schoberg, seconded by Comm Henon. Any further discussion? Hearing none roll call, please.

01:00:43,230	Yes, yes, Roar. Yes, Schoberg, yes, Mayor Frelich. Yes. Thank you, Erin. Thank you, Mr. Neubauer, now we will move on to item number 4. Consider applying for the Department of Homeland Security. Staffing for adequate fire and emergency response, Grant. Chief Bits. Good evening, Mayor and Commissioners.

01:01:08,430	Um, as you mentioned, uh, we’re requesting this evening to apply for a safer grant uh through Department of Homeland Security, um, the safer grant is specifically designed to help departments increase or maintain their number of trained in frontline firefighters available. Um, this will allow us to bolster our staffing levels in response to increasing service demands within the city.

01:01:30,200	The current grant cycle, um, offers funding for salary and benefits over a 3-year period and we’re, we view this as an excellent opportunity to address our personnel needs without placing an immediate financial burden on our uh current residents. We’ve worked with our finance department and our administration and at this time we’re recommending that we make application for 6 firefighters.

01:01:52,100	Um, this higherring would be in alignment with our strategic planning efforts that we’re undergoing as a city and as a fire department. Excuse me If awarded, we feel that we do have some options, uh, and some long term funding tools that we could, uh, adjust to sustain this hiring, at least on our uh

01:02:12,870	5 to 10 year horizon that we’ve been working on, so, um, in short, the grant is structured, um, the 1st 2 years, year 1 and 2 federal government pays 75% of the firefighters’ salary and benefits, and then year 3, the federal government pays 35%. then the balance on their, uh, get a local share.

01:02:41,770	Um So the grant deadline we have to make up, it’s very quick. It just opened up a last about two weeks ago and the grant opened up and it’s grant submissions are due by July 3rd, so it’s a quick turnaround on this one, and then we would expect to know, um by the end of September whether or not we’re

01:02:58,270	successful. Uh, the total project to hire 6 firefighters, um. For 3 years is about $1.7 million. Mandan’s cost of that would be just under $700,000 in the federal portion would be, uh, just under a million dollars, so it’ll be a million dollars of Uh, federal money that would be applied for this and So currently we have 18

01:03:23,330	line uh shift firefighters and if successful with this grant, it would bring us up to 24 shift firefighters, which would allow us to staff both Station 1 and 2 with 3 firefighters 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Kind of threw a lot of information at you and my throats.

01:03:42,700	crackling on me, so I’ll take a break and uh answer any questions you may have it’s the uh. Just so I understand the, the way the grant works as well. You, you get the firefighter, let’s say you hire.

01:04:01,930	You know, the 6 firefighters and you have them, then you get reimbursed over a three-year period than at the end of the 3rd year, then the city would have to pick up the full cost, correct? Mayor Frelich, uh, Comm Rohr, that is correct, at the end of the 3 years, but then as time goes on, what happens then if let’s say a certain deficiencies come about or things and you still have to keep them on for a certain

01:04:20,100	amount of time, no matter what. Is that a one year requirement after that? Uh Mayor Frelich, Comm Rohr. I I’m looking through our documents real quick, I’d have to double check on that, but I don’t know that there’s a commitment beyond the 3 years like the Grand Chief, uh, you, I think you’re, there’s a requirement and

01:04:40,630	you’re very similar, I’m sure that, that you, you got to keep in mind. I mean, you just can’t wait till 3 years. OK, thank you and goodbye. I think you have to keep them on for at least one year after the expiration of the grant if I, if I remember correctly anyway. Is that right, Chief Ziggler.

01:04:56,300	OK I just want to clarify that. I Mayor Frelich, Comm Ros, I’ll double check and I’ll circle back with you on that. I’m relatively sure on it, but uh. Just for a point of information anyway.

01:05:23,500	Mayor and Chief Betz, if we apply for 6, is there a chance we only get Awarded for 3 Mayor Frelich, Comm Henshaw, that’s possible, um. We, it’s been a few years since we’ve applied for this, uh, specific grant, so I’m not exactly sure um what the structure is, uh. But it’s very possible, yes.

01:05:46,630	Mayor Chief Bitz, I think it’s important to understand that um our community is, is, is growing quickly every year, uh, thanks to the input of uh. The, um, construction industry, uh, realty industry, so on and so forth, um, rapidly growing to the southeast and rapidly growing to the northwest. Um, currently, if memory serves me right, um, Several of our, our notable um structure fires, uh, first engine in had two firefighters.

01:06:15,800	Am I correct or wrong on that? The 15th Street and and uh the, the current or recent uh fatality fire southeast. Mayor Frelich, Comm Schoberg, um, you’re correct, uh, currently station one and station 2 are both staffed with a minimum of uh.

01:06:42,130	Two firefighters at station 2 and a minimum of 3 firefighters with recent two hires that were introduced this evening we’re now able to go to 3 firefighters minimum at station one. 90% of the time, there are rare exceptions where we do drop to 2 firefighters at each station still, so, um, these, this.

01:07:01,300	This hiring process is critical to ensure that we do have at least 3 firefighters on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at both fire stations. So to paint the picture for those who are watching, first in Engine Company has 22, firefighters. One of those firefighters runs the pump. And has to stay there. Second firefighter runs a hose line. One firefighter does not take a hose line inside the house.

01:07:24,670	Is that correct? Mayor Verla, Comm Schoberg, uh, that’s correct, so the, the standard is there should be 22 out, um, if you send 2 firefighters in, there should be 2 firefighters on the outside of the structure with equal or greater uh resources available to him or her to uh initiate rescue those firefighters if the, if the

01:07:44,100	need arises. That’s correct. Now we still have to take into account sick leave and, and vacation leave. That’s correct. So I see no option but to approve this. Any more discussion? If not, that would entertain a uh Motion I’ll move to allow staff to apply for the DHS Safer grant to hire 6 additional firefighters.

01:08:14,270	Second Motion by Comm Schoberg, seconded by Comm Rohr. Any further discussion? Hearing none roll call. Comm Schoberg, yes, roar, yes, yes, hi Sean Mayor Frelich. Yes Item number 5. Consider a development agreement for the shores at Lakewood 2nd edition. Mr. Neubauer. Mayor and Commissioners, um.

01:08:46,330	This is a request to come before the commission by developer Art Goldhammer and, uh, we have been working on a development agreement for, uh, uh, quite a while, numerous discussions with the developer. We’ve just reached points where we have, uh, maybe reached an impasse with the developer and are looking for some direction from the commission, um, the points would be, uh, one approve the development agreement, issuing

01:09:08,400	directions on any unresolved items authorized the immediate latt recording. Shore’s Lakewood 2nd. Uh, direct staff to proceed with bid and financing preparations and allow staff and legal counsel to finalize the language whereby consensus exists without delaying essential next steps.

01:09:34,370	There seems to be uh roughly about, I think 4 main points of contention in the development agreement, um, those being one, the special assessment period for the aboveground infrastructure, uh, developer has requested that we um Finance at over a 25 year period and in general we do 15 year assessments for streets that are in asphalt.

01:09:56,730	We will go up to 20 years on streets that are in um concrete condition, uh, developer has indicated there are a few communities in North Dakota that are assessing over 25 years of Fargo and West Fargo, and we believe that to be true. Um, we also know that there are issues with stacking assessments. We don’t like to get into, uh, putting assessments.

01:10:14,600	On a street That are um brand new and coming back in, you know, 7 to 8 to 9 to 10 years doing a a chip seal which we may need to do, um, that would be OK, but if we have to do a reconstruct after 15 or 20 years when that original street is not yet paid for and doing another assessment on top of that

01:10:30,570	original assessment we, you know, generally try our best not to do that, um, and that’s what the problem that we see with financing a 15 a asphalt street over a 15 year over a 2. five-year period. Pardon me. Um, we also have an issue with future lift station upgrade.

01:10:49,130	We believe that as this development um is built out um need for a larger pump in one of our existing lift stations. I believe that cost to be about $75,000.

01:11:09,530	And we’re asking the developer to upfront that amount, uh, developer has resisted that we’ve, we would offer maybe an option or a couple different options would be one at times we have done a Um, kind of like put in a financial interest instrument with the city of Mandan and the developer as co-signers, such as a CD held at a local bank, when that $75,000 pump is need to be. Um, Re replaced or upgraded.

01:11:30,800	We would then, uh, have those discussions with the developer to release that money in which to pay for that upgrade. Again, this is an upgrade that is, uh, being caused by that development and the additional, um, services that are provided.

01:11:52,630	Another option might be when shores 23, and 4, would be completed, um, that a $25,000 payment be made with each of those, um, when, when 2 is done, we are started, we do a $25,000 payment when 3 is started, we do a $25,000 payment. And when F forest started, we do a $25,000 payment.

01:12:11,570	The developer has asked or is requesting that we um That as lots are sold in this area that we would be able to special assess the cost of that, um, upgrade to the pump. Um, we think that over 2 to 3 to 400 lots that may be developed in Shores 23 and 4 that the administrative costs. Of putting a couple $100 on a special assessment would not be worth doing.

01:12:33,270	And that’s why we’re we’re resisting that because we think it’d be just easier because this development is again creating the need for that additional flow, additional flow translates into a larger pump that’s needed during the buildout. Another area of contention would be the, uh, there is a full lift station that is needed in the development.

01:12:53,630	Um, we are asking that be funded as part of the underground infrastructure by the developer developer is asking that we special assess the cost of that, um, in general. Um, again, lift stations are normally funded, um, by the benefiting properties in this case, we feel that there is one owner of all the property that this listation would benefit and therefore we would ask that this lift station will be

01:13:13,000	funded, um, upfront by the developer or as it is completed and then not special assessed to the benefiting property, so I think those are the 3 to 4, and we got 3 real big issues. We got another issue with a uh grass area which I think we can grass collection site, which we think.

01:13:29,370	We can certainly work out, um, as we move through the process, but in essence, we are looking for direction from the commission on these items, um, with that direction, then we’d be prepared to, um, fully move forward on completing the rest of that development agreement with um City Attorney Oster’s help and the developer’s help.

01:13:50,270	So I know a developer, uh, Goldhammer is here if you have any questions for him or if you have any questions for me. Any questions for city administrator Neubauer. I agree, uh, Jim, that We do not on an asphalt road. Want to go past 15 years. That’s just I don’t think that’s good business. Any questions. Good evening, May and Commissioners.

01:14:37,070	Arthur Goldhamer with TRX Developers. Thanks for having me and entertaining us and thanks to South too for working through this. I know it’s been pretty complicated and you know, ultimately we’re here just trying to get the project to work as best as it can for the city for, for us and for future residents.

01:14:54,730	I heard uh testimony earlier about economic development and uh firefighters to pay for and other things of that nature and, you know, some of you may have seen in the packet. And the information that was sent to you that, uh, you know, our shores development. You know we’re roughly at about $2.5 million annually in tax revenue, um, which is pretty significant.

01:15:13,430	You know As a developer, we’re also a home builder and we have quite a bit of experience selling homes in the area and one of the biggest constraints that really helps. Or actually keeps people away from homeownership is the special assessments as. Interest rates rise. Monthly payments rise, uh.

01:15:33,830	Special assessments are a big deal to people. Whether the developer pays for it on a three-way agreement or it’s a city special assessment, it’s still a cost, um, that needs to be dealt with.

01:15:52,530	You know, in our research we’re trying to find ways that how can we make this more palatable for our future residents and to attract more owners to the city of Mando. And you know we looked at our experience in Wells Fargo and Fargo and like well. You know what are those differences is what is driving that growth, um. The comment made by stacking special assessments. I’d largely agree with that. It’s not a wise idea.

01:16:12,130	However, as in my research, uh, you know, it did come up with Colliers who’s, I think the city of Manan has worked with um. The municipal bond adviser, you know, there is provisions in the century code.

01:16:33,630	I believe that allow that maintenance period or maintenance fund to be included in an initial special assessment district when you look at the development costs of a street project. Agree that there’s gotta be some maintenance to the asphalt, the curb and gutter, the subgrade, uh, the storm sewer street lights, uh, most of the. Infrastructure definitely has a longer life cycle than you know 7 to 10 years.

01:16:57,230	Uh, we believe that with a maintenance reserve fund baked into the initial special assessment district that would prevent the stacking of special assessments in the future while those maintenance items are. are handled and funded without the need to cause another special assessment district in the future on top of one that’s currently existing.

01:17:20,470	are numbers that would save homeowners about $2200 a month on a $40,000 assessment, um, or annually I’m sorry, that’s quite a bit of money when it comes to, you know, you got your house payment and your all your other household expenses and it could be really significant in helping more people achieve home ownership and being more attractive, uh.

01:17:38,700	Man down in Bismarck, I know it’s setting somewhat of a precedence, but I feel like it’s been proven in the state and it’s a viable solution. Aside from that, I, uh, I guess the regarding the upgrading pumps on 40th I. Think we could be palatable to spreading that $75,000 out over the three phases, I think that’d be a great. Step for us and I.

01:18:01,570	Wouldn’t have a Issue with that. Um, It’s, I think probably through some of our later amendments to this agreement that some of the items work themselves out with corrections we made after meeting with city staff the last time, uh, which I’m glad to hear. So thanks again everybody for For that. The aerialist station, um.

01:18:28,730	That’s when we just had to ask for, kind of figured that’d be a. Don’t go in that it would likely be. Requested to stay on the three-way agreement with the water sewer Project, and we would be amenable. To that, uh You know, if that’s how what the commission feels, um.

01:18:50,270	Ultimately our, our, our asks here I think are pretty light. We’ve worked through most of our challenges with city staff and you know have came to uh. Pretty large consensus on, you know, most of these items again, we just need some. City direction to staff to how to proceed because in this plot was approved last fall, um.

01:19:08,730	You know, we’ve got some pretty large special assessment and tax payments and you know that we that we gotta finish project to get. Out to uh the residents that have purchased lots and people have purchased homes in 2nd edition that uh we obviously can’t. Start until the plot’s recorded, um.

01:19:29,070	We ask for your guidance and leadership, and I would stand for any questions you may, you may have. Any questions for Art? Mr. Dubo, could you talk on the maintenance maintenance reserve fund and the uh prevalency of that. Within cities. Um, mayor and, and.

01:20:04,970	Comm Again, we It, it’s almost like you’re including the cost of a future potential special assessment which we right now would not know the cost of. We won’t have a bid out in order to um even to special assess something we have to have a public bid.

01:20:25,130	And we Have to have that process gone through in a public award and things like that, so I question whether we can legally do that or not again just because of the public bid requirements on a special assessment and also assessing. Um, you know, if you’ve got us, we’re building a new street and the assessment on that new street is $20,000 and now we’re going to add on. Additional money To create that maintenance fund, I.

01:20:47,700	I’m not confident that that we can do that legally. OK. Art Aaron Comm, I’m not an attorney. I’m not claiming to be one, but I do believe that North Dakota Century code 40-22-01 does allow the inclusion of all improvement costs, including reserves and assessments. I wouldn’t ask the city to do anything that wasn’t.

01:21:19,700	Above gra and legal and. You know that there wasn’t a mechanism in place for so my ask with this would be for the direction. Providing the legalities of it and function to. Entertain the 25 year assessment. Greg Thank you, Art. In art, I’m not an attorney, so we’re going to have to defer to Amy and.

01:21:49,030	A Commissioners on Neither am I a licensed bond attorney, um, my understanding of the United States Treasury regulations is when you sell a bond. For the improvements that that bond is for.

01:22:16,730	Uh, you have, uh, approximately 3 years to spend those bond proceeds, and I’m not aware of anything in North Dakota Century code that would allow you to take those bond proceeds and use them for future improvements. Years down the road for maintenance, uh, Treasury gives you that 3-year window to spend those original bond proceeds. To Here I’m looking, you know, kind of a broader context here and, you know, sometimes there’s a.

01:22:46,800	Push, pull between residential developers, you know, the residential development and got in, they got to buy the land, you know, they make a big investment there. Uh And they got to develop it and in some cities, uh, the city allows for certain types of development, you know.

01:23:06,930	Upgrades, for example, some place they may put in the the lower swore and some places the developer has to do it someplace to the cities allow the streets and place in the, the developer has to do, but there’s that, that push pull where, you know.

01:23:23,170	Where I think in this situation that the developer here says, OK, I’ll do this here, but you know, there’s a lot of money involved, a lot of shares, so. I need some I wouldn’t accidentally call it assistance, but, you know, some Business agreements with the city to facilitate this development. And, uh, you know, we have the. One with the uh streets that have to be. Be done and kept up the lift stations, things like that and.

01:23:45,400	Say to the developer, OK, well, you know, you put your own streets in, you do your ownliation stuff like that and lot of developers probably couldn’t afford that. But the same sense, you know, I think, um. We have to be cautious as a city about how far do we go with this business relationship.

01:24:05,130	And allowing a certain Promotions To the developer And uh And you know, doing this project. You know there’s a give and take both, you know I did developer will say, OK, but yeah, you, I’ll put the development in and we’ll have 10 number of residences, but guess what, you’re gonna get 10 number of taxes, property taxes

01:24:24,330	out of that too, so that’s the other side of the argument that developers will have. So I’m just looking at this whole thing and I’m trying to weigh these things out. And uh And this one here, you know, we’re looking at a specific case here.

01:24:42,000	And uh I, I, I’m not in favor of uh the 25 year thing there and, and I’m not sure. With the uh Lit stations to how far. The city needs to get into. Putting it on for special assessments by the city and those type of things, that kind of support, so. Just to my comment. OK, thank you, Comm.

01:25:01,370	Any other comments? Mayor, I would I, I, I like the. Arts agreement here with the the 25,000 on the future lift, I think we to spread that out helps him a little bit, um. This maintenance thing, I’m a little intrigued by because I We’ve done things very well for a long time.

01:25:33,800	But I, I think Looking at a potential to see if it, if it’s legal and if it fits, I, I think we should. Considereed taking a look at that. Um I it, there seems to be more questions here if, if it is possible. So I think we should consider looking at that.

01:25:56,770	Mayor Frelich and Comm Hainon, um, if that is the direction, we can certainly work with attorney Oster and, and, and more fully develop. That, um, like I said right now, our opinion is we don’t think we can do that, um, developer says I have instances where it can be done, so we need to kind of figure out that, um, but the

01:26:17,030	real question I think is also the spread over 25 years versus 15 years also. I know they go, they kind of go hand in hand because if you’re, if you’re able to build in some money. On that assessment Or a chip seal or a mill in overlay on, on over 25 years.

01:26:37,830	Uh, it’s It’s a little different than saying we’re just. You know, I think we flat out can’t do that. And therefore would recommend the 15 year assessment on on the new construction as we as we do.

01:26:56,200	For the life of that asset uh rather than try and build in a maintenance fund, but you know we’ll take the direction that you would like us to go. This is also an HOA correct art? OK. Anybody got emotion? I don’t feel comfortable, um. Where we’re at. I think we should continue to look at things as Comm Henschon said, but I don’t feel. Comfortable with these 3 items.

01:27:36,000	Mayor Freli Commissioners, I might offer that, um, in, in what hearing what Mr. Goldhammer said tonight. We’ve got kind of two of those issues. Could take care of, right, the 25,000 per year as shores 2nd, 3rd, and 4th come into play. We’ve also got the lift station wasn’t ask. And I think the direction is we, we know it wasn’t asked, but we’re.

01:27:54,670	We understand that it should be part of the three-way underground development. The only issue then that would be left. Well, there’s some other side issues with um some things in the agreement, um, but I think then the main issue would be the 15 or 25 year, um, we could probably work on that. Um, in the next week or two.

01:28:12,270	Looking at attorney Oster to see what her time availability is like. I know that the developer would like this to be done as expeditiously as possible, um, but again, I know that Colliers, which might be Bond council when they sell their bonds can look at us and say, you know, we can write.

01:28:29,870	What y’all want to do. As long as it’s legal and as Greg said if it meets the the treasury and the bond requirements, those funds have to be spent within 3 years. Therefore, the idea of us going out and borrowing money. And we don’t spend that money until the 7th or 8th year.

01:28:52,570	On a Gipp seal and then spending more of that money in your 15 as a meal in overlay. I don’t know how those two marry up. And, and our Doable right now.

01:29:13,670	If you would like us to continue to work with the developer, um, we can iron kind of those 2nd and 3rd items out and then we, we, we work on that first item. OK. I, I know if there, if there’s some reservations on part of our staff that has to deal with this all the time, uh, I think we should reconcile that because, you know, our expertise is rather limited in some of this and uh.

01:29:31,330	So if there’s things that can be worked out and. Made more amenable for us. More understandable to than I’d be all in favor of that. OK, so are you making a motion of some? What do you want to do? I need a motion. Well, would the motion be the tableless until negotiations negotiations, uh, or further movement is made.

01:29:57,200	Comm, Comm Rohr Comm, Comm Rohr, um, Mayor Frelich. Administrator Neubauer and, and, uh, Mr. uh, Goldhammer. Um This is way above my intellectual capacity to be brutally honest with you.

01:30:31,770	So taking it down to brass tacks, um, I guess, and, and basing on My observations in the past almost a year now and previously attending commission meetings back to December 1st. I’ve been able to see some things work out to a very Amenable uh uh resolution between our professional staff here, uh, Mr. Goldhammer’s, uh, Company Um Or, or I don’t think her legal team was involved before, but I continue to be impressed with the professionalism exhibited by all parties.

01:31:05,900	Uh, Things that I’ve heard tonight. Lead me to believe That, um, Mr. Goldhammer and the city. Uh, and based on what I’ve seen from the past, everybody wants to, uh, see the, uh, Progress. Continue for Mr. Goldhammer’s business. As long as it’s compliant with state statute, um, and the advice of, of our finance director, Greg.

01:31:40,600	I know this can be worked out because I’ve seen you guys work it out before. Um I, I like the professionalism, uh, I like the street smarts. I like the honesty that I’ve seen here tonight as I’ve seen for all parties before. I think this can be worked out, um.

01:32:01,470	Therefore, I’m going to err on the side of um as with Comm Rohrr to continue working, um, the city continued to work with, uh, Uh, Mr. Goldhammer and come to a resolution, uh. Hopefully in the next 2 weeks. So if what we need to do then is to go with the suggested motion here.

01:32:25,500	In front of me on this, uh, smarter than Craig computer thing here. I guess that’s what we can do. I OK. Um Open for suggestions because I’m kind of lost on this deal, to be honest with you. No, I think we all want to move this forward and uh. I think it’s uh. Imperative that the departments work this out with. Mr. Goldhamer’s soul.

01:32:49,930	Uh Make your motion. OK, here we go. I’ll be the good Guy or the bad Guy, depending on what side of that thin blue line we all are on, so the recommendation is to continue working with the developer and finalization of the development agreement after input from the city commission.

01:33:11,270	Which is special assessment number one special assessments of above-growing infrastructure will be financed over. 15 years, or do we need to add something to offer some flexibility here. I mean, maybe I’m out of out of order.

01:33:32,800	Do we need to include some flexibility in this or not, Amy? I think this suggests emotion is fine, um, and certainly I’ll work also with staff on the, on the legal questions as we sit here today, I’m not. Aware of anything that would allow us to do that, I’m happy to look at it.

01:33:47,270	I’m also happy to look at any specific examples, the developer might have, um, but I think there is a suggested motion just to continue working with the developer, um, and then to bring it back to the commission, and I think that’s sufficient unless anyone else has other thoughts. Just continue reading what we have in front of us here. Sure. So to repeat, uh, number one special assessments of above-grown infrastructure be financed over 15 years.

01:34:05,970	Number 2, future list Station upgrade will be funded by a developer either through upfront payment. Oh boy. No, sorry, just to interrupt. Just the motion, which, as I see it, and maybe I have an old version, is to continue working with the developer on finalization of the development agreement after input from the city commission. Thanks, thanks.

01:34:29,130	Um Until all issues are resolved. OK. Thank you, Amy. Uh, so I’ll repeat the recommendation is to continue working with the developer on finalization of the development agreement after input from the City commission. And right now I’ll uh. Deny everything until resolution of this matter can be. Taken care of between the two parties. That song Halfway Intelligent.

01:34:57,000	Sure. Second have a motion by Comm Schoberg and a second by Comm Brown. Any further discussion? Roll call, please. Commissioners roar. Schober, yeah. Ron Mayor Frelich. Yes. Motion passes. Item number 6, consider increasing administrative approval.

01:35:32,270	For the Memorial Highway reconstruction approval of change order 9 Jare Mayor Commissioners, I have a sort of two items on this item, two subitems. Um, the first is the, um, request to review and possibly approve change order 9 on the Memorial Highway project.

01:35:53,600	This change order is related to the design of the temporary asphalt surface, um, the current design is 3 inches of asphalt over 4 inches of aggregate base, and this would change this change order would modify that. to be 4 inches of asphalt or 8 inches of aggregate base with Geogrid. Um, this just offers a stronger, more, um, predictable section. Um, for the traveling public, that is more likely to last the length of the project.

01:36:17,600	Um, the total amount of this change order is $673,000 which is just Under 2% of the project cost. Um, it was a $38 million project. Um And it’s our recommendation to approve this change order.

01:36:42,200	Um, in addition to this, um, this change order is being made under what what’s being called subproject one and subproject one is the main line paving of the Memorial Highway project, and that portion of the project we have a cap from the state on, so we have no exposure to change orders made in that subproject of the Mor Morland Highway project. So we’re requesting um my signing authority to be increased from $25,000 to $100,000 specifically for change orders made in subproject one.

01:37:05,170	Um, and this would just be to make it, um, make the department more flexible and more um able to react to kind of evolving situations on the project without having to. Um, bring it to commission every single time. Um, those are my two, recommendations and I’d be happy to answer any questions if you have any.

01:37:24,430	Any questions for Jarek? Yeah I don’t know where I’ve been, but is this, is this for the portion that they’re working on now? Is this for the whole Memorial Highway strip.

01:37:43,100	Um, Mayor Comm Braunn, yes, this would be for the, the entire, um, the entire east half of the project as well as, um, there will be a temporary road constructed soon, and there will be another temporary road constructed in the future so it would apply to both of those temporary roads. Oh, so this is this is not the finished product. This is just a temporary so they can do the work. Correct. This is just temporary.

01:38:03,800	Any other questions? hearing none, I would entertain a motion to approve change order 9 as presented. I move to increase the city engineer signing authority of $100,000. For change orders uh within subproject one of the Memorial Highway Project. Second Motion by Comm Brown, seconded by Comm Hendon. Any further discussion? Hearing no roll call, please, Mrs. Schoberg, yes, Hans, yes, yes, Roar, yes, Mayor Frelich, yes. Thank you.

01:38:32,230	Uh, item number 7, consider extension of street closure for WBI Energy Jarek. Mayor and Commissioners, um, WBI Energy is doing a boring project to upsize a twelve-inch uh gas main to 16 inches just along the west side of the new high school.

01:38:54,530	Um, they had, we had previously come to the commission to request a 3 week and 1 week, uh, road closure, um, to occur between May 27th and June 20th, I believe, um, WEI due to unexpected circumstances has not been able to make those closures and make those improvements yet. So we are um coming back to the commission to request, uh, a shift.

01:39:21,330	Of those dates to be, uh, between June 10th and July 10th. Um, everything else would be would remain the same. They they provided a road closure, um, map for us, and we would, um, expect the same. Um, provisions, um, Mike with WBI is here and available for questions, but I’d be able to answer any questions too. It’s our.

01:39:45,270	Recommendation to um approve as presented. Jerri just for the folks at home, um. Do the unforeseen circumstances uh are are rain related and the construction company has lost I’m guessing just over 2 weeks of construction time. For that, uh, progress. Um, for the people that, uh, Don’t get out and about. This is an absolutely huge. Huge project.

01:40:16,770	I mean, they’re they’re pushing line under I-94. You know, they’re going north along 8th, uh, they’re, they’re taking this further north, um. Anybody can drive up 1806 and see the huge amount of technology employed by WBI to get this thing done. Um, So You lose 2 weeks plus due to rain. Got to make that up somewhere.

01:40:47,800	You’re all set. Moved to approve the extension of the street closure for WBI Energy. Second, Motion by Comm Brown, 2 by Comm Rohr. Any further discussion? Hearing none Yes, yes, yes, Schoberg, yes, Mayor Frelich, yes. Item number 8. Update on various construction projects throughout the city, Jarek.

01:41:20,800	Mayor and Commissioners, I do have a few updates to um present to the commission tonight. Um, first of all, Memorial Highway, uh, just as we talked about on the last item, um, the temporary roadway is expected to be completed or to be started on soon and completed hopefully within the next week, um, and we would expect traffic to shift after the 4th of July.

01:41:41,700	Um, the 21st Street closure is still going on to ins install stormwater infrastructure. And the detour route along 19th is still um effective. In effect, um, for a 2024 reconstruction, uh, project, the, uh, shady Lane in East Main intersection were opened last week.

01:42:06,830	Uh, or was open last week and water main replacements continue in the low straiter area. Uh, for the 2025 reconstruction project or the Monte Drive project installation of the new water main began today? Um, and that started with the tie in to the 20-inch transmission at Boundary and 6th Avenue Northwest. And then the upcoming work includes installing an upsize 24 inch line along Sixth Avenue Northwest.

01:42:35,070	Um for our rapid rectangular flashing beacon project, uh, 3 of the 4 locations are active and we do have an update meeting tomorrow afternoon, so, um, my, my information is about a week old, um, cust at the location right next to Cusster Elementary was delayed, um. has a delay caused by an unexpected gas conflict.

01:42:57,030	MDU is expecting to move that line, um, next Monday or Tuesday. At the at the Saint Joe’s location, everything is on track and they are planning on pouring concrete this week. And the 2nd Avenue Northwest location crossing Main Street, concrete is expected to be finished this week and should be finished before the 4th of July. I checked on that specifically.

01:43:17,800	Um, for our Collins Avenue reservoir project, the foundation Phil is complete and Dean tanks, the actual tank manufacturer, will be mobilizing in next week. And they will be working on the foundation.

01:43:38,070	Uh, starting after the 4th, um, along with this project, the site piping is complete, and we’re expecting a water main tie-in to occur over the next few weeks and during this uh during this tie-in, there could be, um, some low water, some periods of low water pressure, um, around the community, so people should just be aware of that. Um, I do also have an updated, see if this works.

01:43:58,330	Updated Ariel for everybody to take a look at if They’re interested in it. Yes Oh. Maybe technology isn’t working with us right now. Oh That’s OK. I can continue on. OK. Yeah, um, and then I guess the last project that we have going on our, is our water treatment plant phase 3 optimization project, um, demolition of the existing concrete around a groundwater lift station has started, and

01:44:55,200	that’s pretty much the only thing that has been active on that project so far. Um, if there’s anything more specific, uh, that you wanna know about, I can try to answer or if not, I can find answers for you. After the meeting Any questions? If not, thank you, jerk. Yes.

01:45:19,570	We’ll move on to uh resolution and ordinances, second consideration of ordinance number. 1466 and 1467 related to the management of trees and shrubs, Shane. Good evening, Mayor and Commissioners. Tonight I’m, I bring Second consideration changes to ordinance 1466 and ordinance 1467. Which propose updates to the city of Mandan’s forestry-related code provisions.

01:45:51,530	The primary goal of these revisions is to streamline and standardize tree and boulevard maintenance procedures. These revisions reflect Current forestry practices and improved transparency and communication with residents. In in cases where a tree or shrub poses an immediate public hazard, the city may act without prior notice. Consistent with existing, existing policies.

01:46:17,130	We recognize some residents may have concerns about what these changes mean personally, to be clear, these revisions are intended to clarify enforcement standards, not to expand or change the scope of enforcement while the timeline for compliance, such as reducing the requirement from 20 days to 14 days to submit a plan or complete tree removal or trimming has been adjusted, the purpose is to promote more timely and consistent application of existing safety

01:46:40,670	standards in the city. And I will take any questions. Any questions for Shane? Moved to approve the second consideration of ordinance numbers 1466 and 1467 as presented. Second We are motioned by Comm Brown is seconded by Comm Schoberg. Further discussion, none. Rollal Comm Schoberg Rohrhr Bra, Sean. Yes There is no other business tonight.

01:47:11,670	The future meeting dates for the board of City Commission. July 1st, 2025 at 5:30. July 15, 2025 at 5:30. August 5th, 2025 at 5:30. As always, be kind to your neighbor. It’s onward and upward, man, Dan, and this