00:00:16,500	Happy Easter! Today is April 7th, 2026. It is 5:30 p.m.. We are in the Bosch Prayer meeting room at Mandan City Hall. Mr. Neubauer, could you please take the role? Commissioners Schulberg. Hi, Sean. Here. Braun. Here. Roger. Here. Mayor Freilich. Here.

00:00:41,770	At this time, we will have Sergeant Attanasio of the Mandan PD. And Officer Saylor for the Mandan PD. Lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Gentlemen. And we will start with announcements.

00:01:16,900	April is child Abuse prevention Month, and along with that, you are encouraged to participate in blue day wear blue Day April 10th and Blue Day is a nationwide event created to create awareness all over the country. Citizens have worn blue as a symbol of the need to prevent child abuse and neglect.

00:01:41,000	Blue is a nationally recognized color for child abuse prevention, engaging in wear blue day raises public awareness and prevention advocacy for children across the nation. And again, that is April 10th. Uh, National Public Safety, telecommunications, telecommunications Week is April 12th through the 18th, and that recognizes our nine over 11 operators. And we’d like to thank them at this time.

00:02:07,570	And now we will have quarterly employee anniversary recognitions. Amy. You may stay up here. Hello. Good evening everyone. Thank you for being here. Always an exciting meeting. Um, every quarter we, uh, recognize employees that meet different milestones.

00:02:57,170	So, uh, tonight we’re recognizing quarter one, and we have ten employees who reached milestones from 3 to 25 years of service. Uh, so I will call your name to recognize you. And if you want to come up and take your certificate from Mayor Freilich, he will thank you. And if you want to stay up here, we’ll get a picture at the end. So I will get started.

00:03:19,100	Uh, we have, four employees that reach three years of employment. So the first one is Mateo Cardona, and he is a police officer. He might not have made it tonight. So next we have Justice Saylor, also a police officer. Tasha Scott, administrative assistant with the police department. Madison Cermak, our business development and communications director. Also three years.

00:04:04,530	Congrats. Thank you.. So now we are at five years of employment. We have Jonathan Fleischer, our senior real property appraiser. And Jared Attanasio, our police officer. Sergeant. Thank you. And Daniel Carpenter, also police officer. Hey, after ten years of service, we have Jason Ziegler, our chief of police. Thank you. And Colton Schmidt, the water treatment plant operator.

00:05:10,170	Three. Congrats. Last we have, uh, one employee with 25 years of service, Brendan Yocum, our part time firefighter. 25 years. Congrats. I think we can get along. Now to inform us on, uh, spring cleanup week. Shane O’Keefe. Good evening. Mayor. Commissioners, just another friendly reminder. Spring cleanup week is scheduled for April 20th through the 25th.

00:06:37,200	During this time, the landfill will be open to city residents free of charge, and our crews will collect bulky items placed on the boulevard on the residents regular garbage day items should be out by 5 a.m., no more than 24 hours in advance, and keep it separate from your regular garbage can.

00:06:55,330	Uh, we’ll collect items that can be safely handled by two people, such as furniture, appliances. As long as the appliances are cleaned out. Um, as a reminder, crews will not enter private property so residents in apartments or mobile home parks should coordinate with the property manager to place alongside city maintain streets.

00:07:15,870	This is a great opportunity for residents to clean up their properties and take pride in their neighborhoods. And with our countries celebrating its 250th anniversary, it’s a fitting time to show a little extra community pride here in Mandan. And if you’re holding on to something thinking you might use it someday, this is probably your sign.

00:07:34,330	Thank you. Shane. And with that, we’ll segue into Community Cleanup month of May. Kerry. Mayor and commissioners, just, uh, getting before you tonight to invite anyone that’s, um, watching or listening in the audience that’s interested in volunteering for our Community cleanup month.

00:07:57,270	We have 17 routes right now that we’re looking for people to volunteer to help clean up with. I think we’ve got about 8 or 9 of them already claimed. But if these 17 fill up, we have about five others that were willing to open. So go to City of mandan.com cleanup and sign up or contact me with questions.

00:08:14,870	Okay. Thank you. Kerry. We’ll move on to item number seven under announcements notice of Fire Department Sales Tax Initiative. Public information meeting. Battalion Chief Shane. Well, Nicole. Good evening. Mayor. Commissioners, I have a photo we could put up on the screen there.

00:08:35,700	Uh, the man and fire department will be holding its first of three scheduled public information meetings for the fire department sales tax initiative that will be on the June 9th ballot. Um, the first meeting will be held on April 13th at 6 p.m. at Red Trail Elementary School. This meeting is an opportunity for the public to come in and see exactly what’s being proposed.

00:08:54,300	Ask any questions they may have, and gain any understanding of how this initiative impacts the future of fire and emergency services here in Mandan. For those who would like information ahead of time, details are available on our social media pages in the City of Mandan website.

00:09:09,570	And if anyone has any questions or just wants to learn more, we’d be happy to visit with them at those events. Thank you. Thank you Shane. Now we’ll move to item number eight, the launch of the 2026 Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative with Gate City Bank and Capital Credit Union. Mr. Neubauer.

00:09:30,330	Mayor Froehlich and commissioners, we are very pleased that Gate City and Capital Credit Union have stepped up to the plate with some low interest loans for communities. As we talk about Spring Cleanup week and Cleanup month, it’s a good time also to maybe do some refurbishing of your property.

00:09:47,170	I know that we have Pam Bernard from Capital Credit Union here, or Gate City. Who knew I was going to mess that up? So, Pam, do you want to talk about your program a little bit? So many. Apologies. Uh, good evening and thank you for having me here. Uh, my name is Pam, and I serve as a mortgage and personal lender at Gate Citibank in Manhattan.

00:10:06,900	Arcade. Citibank. Our core purpose is to create a better way of life for our customers, communities, and team members. We’re incredibly thankful for the communities we call home, and we’re proud to invest in them so they remain beautiful for years to come. In 2026, we are happy to allocate $2 million for the Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative.

00:10:29,530	New to this year’s program, Gate City will be waiving all fees for this loan. Uh, qualifying projects will range from home improvements, safety, repairs, accessibility adjustments. Gate city has been supporting and investing in these programs for many of our local communities to 2003.

00:10:53,470	We can’t say enough how thankful we are for this opportunity to help create a better way of life for our friends and neighbors here in Mandan. Please note the deadline to apply for this loan is October 31st, 2026. Thank you again for having me. Thank you Pam. Thank you to Gate City. Mr. Neubauer. I don’t think Chris Nelson is here.

00:11:13,730	I did not see him from Capital Credit Union, but they also have a similar program. So again, just want a big shout out to those two entities for offering this program to residents of Mandan. Yes. Thank you to Capital Credit Union. Okay. We’ll move on to item number nine. Celebrate 250 account announcements. Map with the Mandan Progress Organization.

00:11:38,200	Thank you, Mayor and commissioners, for having me here this evening. Uh, we are just under three months away from the, uh, America 250 and the 4th of July celebration.

00:11:59,600	So we’ve been actively promoting the, um, the events that are going to take place here over the, uh, Independence Day holiday, July 2nd to the fourth in Mandan. Um, for people that are out there that want to check on events, we did launch last month. A an official America 250 web page. Um, through visit Mandan.

00:12:18,400	So this is all of the different activities that are going to be happening and has businesses and community members, whether you’re hosting, um, um, a class reunion or whatnot, it get that us get that information to us and we will be putting it onto this website on all the different events that are going to be happening around town, not just the cornerstone events, but anything from

00:12:36,430	street dances to celebrations to, like I said, um, uh, graduation celebrations, things like that will all be taking place. We can put them on here. And so people have an idea of what’s going to be happening in and around the area.

00:12:57,770	Um, our cornerstone events, obviously, the Mandan Independence Day parade, um, the Mandan Rodeo, um, check out that. They’ve got a lot of great things happening over at the rodeo over the three days of the event. Uh, we have the Art and the Park Festival downtown, the Mandan, um, 4th of July road race will be take place on Main Street. And then we have our brand new America.

00:13:12,970	250 Mandan Independence Day. Pyro musical, um, taking place as well. Um, if you check out our page and you’ve seen it on Facebook, we are launching our promo campaign as well. It’s launched last. Month.

00:14:41,000	So, um, that launched last month and that will be going out on social as well as, um, through a lot of, um, uh, marketing platforms as well in the next couple of months here. So you’ll see that coming around. Um, people can expect the residents if they’re asking questions of what to expect. It’s going to be a pretty, um, once in a generation type of celebration with the parade.

00:14:58,430	Um, could see anywhere from 60 to 70,000 people here in the community for this event. With the parade, the rodeo, the pyro musical. Um, if anyone caught the I know we’ve talked about multiple times, but if anyone caught the New Year’s Eve celebration, uh, pyro show, um, this will be very similar to it.

00:15:17,170	Um, if you, uh, some bigger shell’s going to be happening, uh, with that one. But, um, the location has been announced, so we’ll be hosting that, um, fireworks show north of the Mandan Middle School up there.

00:15:31,430	So more details will come on seating and how to get to the site and whatnot in the next couple of months, but that’s where we’ll be hosting it. Um, today though, we did announce as part of our 250, we pull it up. Here. Our parade marshal for this year that just went out today for the 147th mandate Independence Day parade and will be honoring the Dakota Leathernecks as the grand marshal for the parade.

00:15:55,030	So they’ve been instrumental in the parade for a number of years, but it also is the 250th celebration of the, uh, Marines as well. So they’ll be honored at the Independence Day parade here for America. 250 so they are definitely excited and honored to be our special guests at the parade. So that was announced today as well. That’s a good choice, Matt.

00:16:16,470	Thank you. Okay. We will move on to public comments at this time. Mr. Neubauer. Mayor, I think we have one gentleman, Tom, who would like to make some public comments at this time. Okay. Welcome, Tom. Thank you. Uh, I’ll make this a three minute as close as possible.

00:16:45,800	Uh, Tom Stahl, I live in district two. Be district 244. 242 with a special assessments. I do want to make note that 50% of the owners did protest. Um, and I got the information off the city website and A2B website, which is not always correct. There’s some different things. I would also like you to consider.

00:17:12,530	Uh, removing parcel 65 576 9000, which consists of four separate properties, um, and they only get one property tax bill. Um, I will refer that to this number as parcel one and two from district um to be. I would also like to continue that the water and sewer project be uh, to move forward on that.

00:17:37,030	And I would also like to consider the one owner, one vote. Um, as you’ll see when I go through the, um, my speech, um, almost all the parcels, um, have been to be have been measured, plotted, um, have property stakes on them.

00:18:00,570	And they also have one property tax statement, um, and they will basically me two will receive up to $20,000 in specials plus interest every year. These parcels, one and two that I’m talking about, um, I believe have been assigned to a square footage and acreage size, um, because they haven’t been measured and their property size is 230,000ft, equal to about 5.2 acres of property.

00:18:26,730	And that’s about 33 times the property area, um, of my property. And these two properties are going to receive zero special assessments. Um, these two properties also, um, I feel have not been measured or plotted. Um, um, because if they were, they would have separate property tax.

00:18:52,830	And there’s four properties and they would have this property ID separate like everybody else does. Um, and if you do use that 230,000ft property, um, their property tax that they paid was less than $22. Um, before the discount they received. And my property tax is 2400.

00:19:18,430	Um, and over the last ten years, these property values have stayed the same or dropped along with their property taxes. Um. I tried to get the total information of how they figure this square, the area of each property, whether it’s the stakes of the property or whether it’s includes the sidewalks, whatever. I’m not sure.

00:19:45,630	There are also two other properties that aren’t going to receive any special assessments, and they’re, um, value. Um, and land is ten times greater than my property. And again, they won’t receive any special assessments. So basically there’s four properties that will be 40 times the size of my property receiving zero specials. And everybody else will be receiving 20 up to 20 thousand of specials.

00:20:14,000	And if this property is removed, I think the protest would win. Thank you. Thank you Tom. Any questions? If not, thank you. Duly noted. Thank you. At this time, we will move to the approval of the agenda. Commissioners. So moved. Second, we have a motion by Commissioner Brown, a second by Commissioner Schulberg. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call please. Commissioner Sean. Yes, Ron.

00:20:46,500	Yes. Roger. Yes. Hilberg. Yes. Mayor. Freilich. Yes. We’ll move on to approval of minutes. Consider approval of the March 17th, 2026 Board of City Commission meeting. Minutes. I’ll make a motion to approve the. March 17th, 2026 Board of City Commission meeting. Minutes. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Schulberg, a second by Commissioner Roger.

00:21:11,630	Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Commissioner Brown. Yes. Roger. Yes. Schulberg. Yes. Hine. Sean. Yes. Mayor. Freilich. Yes. Item number two. Consider approval of the March 30th, 2026 Board of City Commission special meeting minutes. Move to approve those particular minutes for March 30th at 26. Second.

00:21:38,270	Well, we have a motion by Commissioner Roger. A second by Commissioner Schulberg. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call please. Commissioner Roger. Yes. Schulberg. Yes. Hi, John. Yes, Ron. Yes. Mayor. Freilich. Yes. We’ll now move on to public hearing.

00:22:00,770	Consider the sufficiency or insufficiency of protests for Street Improvement District 243 that are known as Mandan proper. Phase one. Gericke. Mayor and commissioners. At the March 3rd City Commission meeting, uh resolutions were passed that initiated a 30 day protest period beginning on March 6th. That 30 day protest period ended yesterday at 4:30 p.m.

00:22:25,830	, and we have, uh, counted the land area, the land area percentage of the district and our our total ended up being 17.6% of the land area. And yes, I do have a map pulled up right here for anybody who wants to see the protest rate.

00:22:45,730	Um, uh, for this particular item, uh, we’re holding a public hearing, but ultimately our recommendation would be to pass a resolution finding insufficiency of protest and then to amend Moore Engineering’s contract to include final design and bidding services for this project.

00:23:08,600	But any questions for me before the public hearing? Any questions for Derek? If not, we’ll move to the public hearing. Thank you Derek. At this time, we’ll open the public hearing. Anyone to willing or wanting to speak on district 243 first call. Second call. Third and final call. Hearing none. The public hearing is closed. We will move to resolution and ordinances. Mayor and commissioners, um, I do want to just maybe read.

00:23:45,500	Uh, Riley had prepared this kind of statement, and I did want to read this just because I think that it is applicable not only to this item, but to several items in the future.

00:23:58,300	Um, he wrote, uh, due to the insufficiency of protests, we’re recommending to move forward with final design and bidding. This amendment adds design and bidding, which were intentionally left off of the original agreement until the district was in place. And we would we would anticipate a future amendment to Task Order ten, which would add construction, administration and oversight to the agreement if bids were awarded. So, um, that is our recommendation.

00:24:17,600	Um, this amendment to Moore Engineering’s contract is something that we anticipated this whole time and is just usually how we structure our engineering contracts. Um, but, uh, yeah, our recommendation would be to pass the resolution of insufficiency and to amend Moore’s contract. Commissioners.

00:24:41,030	I’ll move to determining sufficiency of protests or Street improvement District 243 and enter into a contract with Moore Engineering to complete final design and bidding. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Schulberg. Second by Commissioner John. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Commissioners. Schulberg. Yes. Hi, Sean. Yes, Ron. Yes. Roger. Yes. Mayor. Freilich.

00:25:08,130	Yes. With that, we will move to bids. Item number one. Consider bids for Street Improvement District 241. And this is near Red Trail Elementary. Jerrick. Yes. Mayor and commissioners, um, we opened bids for this project on March 27th, and we received two bids, one from Northern Improvement and one from Strata Corporation.

00:25:34,870	Um, the bids, the strata. The low bid was fairly favorable, coming in almost 4% underneath our engineer’s estimate. And we are, uh, recommending awarding a contract to Strata Corporation as presented. And then to also amend Moore Engineering’s contract to include construction oversight and contract administration. Um, similar to the previous recommendation. Okay.

00:26:03,670	Any questions for Derek? Hey, Derek. I’m just I’m at a loss at the difference of these two companies. The difference between the two bids. Yeah, yeah. Um, I think that in a lot.

00:26:23,200	And I think that, um, the, the, the wide gap between the two bids can be explained by the amount of work that each contractor already has on the books for the season in which, um, somebody who’s looking to fill up their schedule will usually submit a more favorable bid and somebody who already has a lot of work, even in our community, will usually, you know, submit something that’s, um, more worth their while. Okay. Thank you. Yeah.

00:26:46,330	Any other questions for Eric? Hearing none. Commissioners. What are your wishes? I move to award the construction contract, uh, to start a corporation and approved task order nine, amendment two with more engineering to provide construction engineering services for street Improvement district two for one. Second.

00:27:15,030	We have a motion by Commissioner Brown, a second by Commissioner Schulberg. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Commissioners. Hine, Sean. Yes. Ron. Yes. Roger. Yes. Schulberg. Yes. Mayor. Freilich. Yes. We’ll move on to the consent agenda. Commissioners, are there any items you would like remove from the consent agenda? If not, I would look for a motion for approval. I move to approve the consent agenda.

00:27:42,400	Second motion by Commissioner Brown. Second by Commissioner Roger. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Commissioner Braun. Yes. Roger. Yes. Schulberg. Yes. Hi, Sean. Yes. Mayor. Freilich. Yes. We will move on to new business. Item one was removed. We’ll move on to item two. Growth fund recommendation on additional business assistance for Memorial Highway during construction. Madison.

00:28:15,530	Yes, mayor and commissioners, you’ll get a little break from Jericho, so you’ll get me for now. So the Madam Growth Fund Committee met on March 11th of 2026.

00:28:34,770	An agenda item included a presentation from the Mandan Project Progress Organization of the Memorial Highway Gift Card Programs 2025 report, and as well as recommendations for 2026. And just a little refresher of the Memorial Highway Gift Card Program. It was launched and approved last year. Um, and it’s a program for locals to purchase a digital gift card or face value and have 25% of that purchase matched by funds allocated from the Managed Growth Fund.

00:28:56,100	The program’s funding structure includes $40,000 in the gift card incentive program and $10,000 dedicated to marketing and outreach efforts. The recommendations that the MPO came to the Mandan Growth Fund for were included authorizing $7,000 from the existing $40,000 funds to cover the buyer’s E delivery fee when purchasing a memorial highway gift card, as well as an

00:29:20,270	additional $5,000 to use towards marketing and outreach efforts on this change. The Growth Fund has a cash balance of a little bit over $73,000 for economic development, and the request is just for the $5,000.

00:29:46,970	The recommendation the Manor Growth Fund, had they voted 801 absent to recommend approval of an additional $5,000 be allocated to the MPO for marketing and outreach efforts to communicate, covering the buyer’s e delivery fees. And Matt Chandler is here with us tonight to Executive director of the MPO. And he can answer any questions. If you guys have any.

00:30:04,470	I just wanted to give a little tidbit that if you want to purchase the Memorial Highway gift card, you can go to visit Mandan. Com and then under the tab the Memorial Card. And you can purchase it there. Any questions for Madison or Matt? You wouldn’t be able to pull that up, would you, just to show the people at home.

00:30:35,330	Have you got a com. And then you just click right here. Oh look how easy that is. And so um, kind of the feedback that Matt and his crew got from consumers was the fee for when they bought the card online. We are now going to cover that e delivery fee.

00:31:07,070	So Madison, how many are Matt? How many businesses do we have participating on Memorial Highway? Mayor. Commissioners, we have about 21, I believe businesses that are listed as a part participating business right now on the within the assessment one and two district of Memorial Highway. How many times does the card been used? Um, I don’t know that number exactly of specific uses.

00:31:35,300	Um, but with the report, we had about $15,000 in economic spend in 2025 through the card. That’s not the match. That’s what people bought and then got a match to that. So the match was right around 3000 for the 25%. Okay. So how is the interest this year? Um, it’s been very, very strong.

00:31:58,630	Um, um, January, February and March have all shown, um, high numbers in use of the card. Um, our newest spring promotion just started here in March with the with the, um, zero fee. And we’ve seen that have an increase on the consumer use of it. Okay. Any other questions for Matt? Okay. Thank you. Matt. Commissioners.

00:32:25,330	I’ll move to approve an additional $5,000 be allocated to the Progress Organization for marketing and outreach efforts to communicate, covering the buyers delivery fees. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Schulberg, a second by Commissioner Roger. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Commissioner. Roger. Yes. Schulberg. Yes. Hi, Sean. Yes, Braun. Yes. Mayor. Freilich.

00:32:54,130	Yes. We’ll move on to item number three. Consider amendment to engineering service agreement with HDR for construction oversight of Memorial Highway. Jerick, you got your break and you’re back. There we go. All rested up. Um, mayor and commissioners, um, this is in an amendment to our contract with HDR.

00:33:19,830	HDR has been providing design and construction oversight services for the Memorial Highway project. Um, recently, we approved the bid for the west half of the Memorial Highway project. And the amendment today would would incorporate the construction oversight necessary for that west half of the project, as well as some services that support some changing, changing conditions on the east half of the

00:33:45,500	project. Um, this is once again something that has been anticipated and was included in our cost estimates at the outset of the project and the creation of the district.

00:34:02,770	So, um, although the number we use at the very beginning would almost definitely isn’t exactly this number it was the estimate was close to this number and shouldn’t have too much of an impact. Okay, so this is just the natural order of this process, right? Correct. Okay. And again, it’s not adding anything to anybody special because it’s big number. Mayor. Commissioners. Yes, it is a big number. Um, it is a big project too. So. Right. Yep.

00:34:24,930	Any other questions for Eric? If not, what are your wishes? I move to approve the amendment to the engineering service agreement with HDR for construction oversight. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Rohrer. Second, by Commissioner Schulberg. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Commissioners. Schoenberg. Yes. Hines. Sean. Yes. Braun. Yes. Rohrer. Yes. Mayor. Freilich.

00:34:56,930	Yes. Item number four. Consider entering into an engineering service agreement with Clay for construction oversight on Street Improvement District two, 36 first Street Improvements. Riley. Uh, good. Evening, mayor and commissioners. Uh, so this project was recently awarded on March 17th.

00:35:19,970	Um, and this would be the reconstruction of First Street, fourth Avenue and Fifth Avenue. Um, and this item before you today is just the agreement amendment to Clay’s engineering service contract for them to perform construction oversight and public and community engagement, along with the project. Do we have a start date on this project? Not yet. We’re still waiting for some submittals from the contractor.

00:35:38,930	There will be a pre-construction meeting coming up soon where we’ll kind of hammer out some details with the contractor, and we’ll get some community engagement out in front of the project to let people know, hey, Construction’s coming. Okay. Any questions for Riley? Okay. Hearing none.

00:35:58,970	What are your wishes? I’ll move to enter into an agreement with Clay to perform construction oversight for phase one of the first street improvement project. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Schulberg, a second by Commissioner Brown. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Commissioner Sean. Yes. Braun. Yes. Roar. Yes. Yes. Mayor. Freilich. Yes. We’ll move on to item number five. Consider water treatment plan. Phase three optimization changes.

00:36:26,270	Change order. Jerrick is back. Mayor and commissioners. Um, yes. This change order encompasses several changes that have happened on the project. Um, and uh, the total effect on the contract cost is a decrease of 80,000 $83,885.

00:36:52,830	This type of change order is something that normally doesn’t make it to this portion of the commission meeting, because decreases can be administratively approved. And therefore, when we come to commission meetings, change orders always seem to be increases.

00:37:16,900	Um, we thought it was maybe a good opportunity to bring an example of a change order that decreases overall project cost that normally doesn’t see the light of day and isn’t very, isn’t highlighted. Um, under normal circumstances. So, um, I just wanted to highlight this. These are pretty, uh, run of the mill changes that happen over the course of a project. And they resulted in a decrease on this project cost.

00:37:33,470	And we are recommending, um, approving change order G2 as presented, but just wanted to bring it as kind of an educational item. Okay. Thank you. Any questions for Jared? Jared. This is a good thing. Yes. I moved to approve change order G02 as presented. Second motion by Commissioner Brown. Second by Commissioner Schulberg. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Commissioners. Braun. Yes. Rohrer. Yes. Schulberg. Yes.

00:37:59,570	Hi, John. Yes. Mayor. Froehlich. Yes. Item number six. Consider raw water intake. Project change order. This is a decrease to Gericke. I’m afraid not. Take it back. Um, mayor and commissioners, uh, this change order would encompass, um, something that we have been talking about for several months.

00:38:25,800	This would, um, incorporate kind of a a midterm or a mid, mid range. Um, fix for some of the, um, sediment issues that we’ve been having at the new raw water intake site. Um, it includes airburst, the installation of an airburst system, as well as some bank stabilization and some other kind of, uh, smaller items.

00:38:48,730	Uh, Laith has a presentation prepared to kind of not only go over the change order, but just to give a general update on the status of the project. And then I’ll come back up to try and answer any other questions. Okay? Yeah. Welcome. Laith. Thank you. Jared. Thank you. Mayor. Thank you. Commissioners.

00:39:08,670	Um, as Eric mentioned, this is really an extension of some information that was presented back in early December. Uh, if you recall from that, um, provided an update that some sand had migrated over to the intake screens and was starting to restrict flow, uh, through some different approaches. Um, dredging, using some commercial divers.

00:39:29,230	And along our backhoe, uh, we were able to maintain service ultimately, a little later in the season, we took one of the screens off, extended it further down. Uh, that has been working. Uh, continues to work. Uh, these are some photos that were presented, uh, before the December commission meeting.

00:39:49,570	Uh, you can see the pump station, um, along the riverbank. The intake screen structure is just off the bank. And then you can see the sandbar mass. It’s kind of moving. Progressing. Uh, this was shortly before ice over. And then these were more recently taken.

00:40:07,730	Uh, the angles are a little skewed, so it doesn’t give quite the same perception of where things are at. But as you can see, uh, sand continues to migrate. So it’s something that we’re continuing to monitor and work with city staff on. Uh, this figure shows the intake screen extension that was put in place last fall.

00:40:25,570	Uh, everything has been operating off of that over the last 4 or 5 months. Things have been going well. Um, or stable. Anyway, uh, continuing to monitor and then, uh, we do have a commercial diving company coming out on a regular basis. Uh, they came out in December. Again in February. They’ll be back, uh, this week or next week.

00:40:45,030	Uh, they’ve been just given a size on the ground, I guess, underwater in this case, to make sure that the things are looking okay, making minor adjustments as needed. Uh, then we’ve also started working with staff to start flushing the the lines and things like that out.

00:41:01,800	As we’re operating, we’re currently pulling a little bit of sand in, so trying to get things flushed out as much as we can and ready for summer demands. So then that brings us to the agenda item for today.

00:41:19,930	So as Derek mentioned, some of the short term things that we’re looking at doing are adding additional tools to help with operation and maintenance. One of those being an airburst system. So, uh, an air compressor basically fills a cylinder with a volume of air.

00:41:41,100	And then we’re able to release that at the screens to provide kind of a compact burst of air and that burst of air helps remove smaller amounts of sand, debris, ice that might accumulate on it and is something that was considered during design, but for different reasons. Ultimately, it wasn’t incorporated, uh, based on current funding packages that made sense in light of what’s going on right now to incorporate it.

00:42:01,030	And then the bank stabilization piece is really armoring the the shore that was ultimately modified when we were doing some of the efforts from last fall. Uh, we’re calling these near-term improvements because ultimately, this isn’t necessarily the long term. We’re not sure exactly what Mother Nature is going to do. Um, so I’ll get into that in the next few slides.

00:42:19,070	Um, so while I said it can move some minor amounts of sand, it doesn’t ultimately move large amounts of sand. It’s not what it’s intended to do. The contractor has been given the okay to order the equipment. It had a relatively long lead time. Uh, so that equipment was ordered, I think last August.

00:42:36,100	September? Uh, it’s currently scheduled to show up on site mid-May. Uh, the change order is in front of you for consideration tonight. That would give them the okay to start installing it once it shows up.

00:42:56,400	And then it also has a pretty significant wet side, uh, effort where they’re actually installing the lines, uh, out in the river, connecting it to the screen itself. And there is some sand removal so they can, uh, anticipating that we’ll need to move some sand to actually get to the structure to get it installed.

00:43:13,500	Uh, the way the current schedule is planning out looking at July, August for that and then all work will be completed this fall. Uh, so is Jericho mentioned looking at just over $1.4 million for the change order? It is large number. There’s a lot of very complex things going on with this one. Uh, just a reminder that this is currently funded through State Water Commission. Up to 60% amounts. Marathon is a partner in this project.

00:43:37,170	So they’ve been splitting any cost beyond that 5050. So then that table gives a general idea of what the city, uh, is considering tonight. Uh, the long term improvements. This is actually a consent agenda item that was approved previously.

00:43:58,300	So looking ahead to try to improve resiliency for the intake. Um, the next step that we’ve been working with the city on is doing a study. Uh, the study will allow us to get some stakeholder buy in. We’ve been actively communicating with the refinery as well, and they’re on board with this.

00:44:15,430	Uh, it also allows us to start engaging some of the permitting partners and other stakeholders that will need approvals for and then trying to find the best way to move forward, make things as affordable as possible. So the study phase itself is looking at what can we do with what things currently look like.

00:44:39,530	Um, with the intake will consider modifications to try to improve flow, uh, keep things flushed out. Uh, also look at a river jetty, try to shift or angle parts of the river, um, across the the structure itself at all different flow ranges. And then also looking at, uh, adding a second location in similar part.

00:44:56,000	So if we’re not in the deep part, uh, this year, maybe we can be have a second one and a deeper part. Um, so now our eggs in one basket. And to do that, there’s a pretty extensive modeling piece.

00:45:15,770	Um, so as we mentioned before, the location wasn’t just arbitrarily picked, uh, used lots of historical imagery, did several, uh, river surveys to try to document and map changes to the bottom, uh, so that information, along with some additional data that would be collected this summer, would get put into a basically a hydraulic model that could help predict and recreate what we’re seeing now and then that model,

00:45:34,970	once it’s developed, will then be used to try to test and accurately or best predict what would happen. As we’re looking at some different improvements or modifications, we could make. The study itself is roughly $225,000, as presented in the consent agenda.

00:46:00,230	It is simply commission approval to submit a cost for application. That’s not a guarantee of funding, but that is the first step. Um, if approved, this is the potential breakout for those costs. If not approved, which is a possibility. Uh, that’s kind of the lower table. And based on commission approval, the application would be submitted this month.

00:46:26,800	The process goes through pre commission meeting and then consideration at the State Water Commission which is scheduled for a meeting in June. At that point we would come back to the city Commission for consideration. Uh, we would know whether funding was available or not.

00:46:42,270	And then ultimately, uh, the commission, you guys would be able to decide whether to move forward with it or not. Uh, the study itself, looking at roughly 6 to 8 months. Um, so a lot of the data will get collected this summer.

00:47:00,430	Uh, the model would be developed and kind of put through its paces this fall, and then that study would be available, uh, early next year. And then, based on what is ultimately selected as the final path, there would be a final design permitting bidding and construction piece to that as well. Um, so with that, uh, I guess Swanberg change order is up for consideration, and I’d be happy to answer any questions. Any questions? Is there any indication or.

00:47:33,530	Yeah. I’m not looking for concrete anything here because we don’t have control over Mother Nature. Obviously. Is there any indication that there might be a channel opening up along that bank from, from the north to clean out the sandbar? Uh, mayor.

00:47:49,770	Commissioner Schulberg it does look like there’s a little more flow in that area. It’s it’s very hard to tell. Okay. We don’t know what caused the sandbar to suddenly appear where it had. Not in your historic data bin. Right. Uh, mayor, the river is incredibly dynamic.

00:48:13,670	Um, we had homeowners in the area that had indicated that they have never seen anything like this in the time that they’ve lived in that area. There’s a lot of things that have changed with River continue to change with the river. So that would be very difficult to say. Exactly. One thing was likely a combination of different things. And in regards to a jetty, what are. I don’t see that happening.

00:48:37,600	Uh, because you’re going to change the course of the river to the other side, correct? Uh, mayor, I agree it will definitely be a challenge. Okay. Any other questions? No question. Mayor, sand is an abrasive material.

00:49:05,830	Have there been much problem with the sewer system now where sand is causing abrasion of parts? Mechanical things like that? Or is they? The system right now is pretty much filtering out that particular type of problem. Uh, mayor. Commissioner. Or great question. I know that the refinery has put some, um, maintenance money into one of their pumps that they’ve been running, and I know the city staff is keeping an eye on it. Okay.

00:49:29,800	Any other questions? No refinery pumps. They operate at a consistent volume versus any peak loading that we might experience on the city side. Is it, uh, mayor. Commissioner Schulberg, you’re absolutely right. City, uh, fluctuates during the winter.

00:49:49,600	They don’t use as much water, and they shut off for a period of time every day. And then summer they use a lot more water. Uh, refineries, pretty much 24 over seven at a pretty consistent rate. And over the wintertime, we have not experienced any, any, um, quote unquote, emergency responses required for anything referenced. That 400 foot extension. Uh, no, we have not. Okay. Thank you.

00:50:24,800	What are your wishes, commissioners? I moved to approve the change order with Swanberg. Construction related to the raw water intake project as presented. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Raw. Second by Commissioner Brown. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call please. Commissioners. Roger. Yes. Schulberg. Yes. Pynchon. Yes. Ron. Yes. Mayor. Freilich.

00:50:53,070	Yes. Thank you very much. We’ll move on to item number seven. Consider a recommendation for the Mandan Visitors Committee from the Mandan Visitors Committee. Mr. Neubauer. Mayor for Lake Freilich and commissioners.

00:51:15,570	The visitors committee met Monday afternoon to consider two requests, one from the Mandan Progress Organization, for items related to the celebrate 250. I let I’ll ask Matt Shenandoah to come up and talk about those a little bit.

00:51:34,230	And also from the man and police department for additional Archer barriers to help protect all of the folks that do attend festivities in our downtown area, not only from the 4th of July parade from to the touch of truck to buggies and blues art in the park. Pick your favorite. Um, just another security feature for us to have available to, again, keep our visitors safe while they’re attending such events. So, Matt, if you want to talk about the MPO, request.

00:52:05,730	Um, so our request to the Men and Visitors Fund was for, um, basically addressing a few different, uh, needs and just things that we see happening with the America Celebrate 250. Um, this coming summer, um, obviously, we deal with a lot of the events that happen in downtown.

00:52:28,200	And one of our biggest, um, initiatives over the last few years is to really push for safety and security for our attendees that come down to the event. Oftentimes, our larger events, we have Main Street closed.

00:52:49,100	And so one of the portions of our ask is for additional, uh, money to put towards traffic signage and safety, um, around our closure spots. So currently right now we, we partner in and work with the Public Works Department to bring in barrels and some signage.

00:53:09,830	Um, the Public Works doesn’t have a lot of that necessary signage that we need to safely, uh, close the streets as well as indicate that the streets are closed. So we’re looking at extending that in and putting in, investing some money into those closures from three tiered signage barrels, um, to dealing near cones as well as other areas that we can help to close off the avenues and whatnot and assist with the Mandan PD in

00:53:31,700	securing that downtown corridor. Um, another portion of the ask is really towards the visitor experience, as we’ve used the parks heavily over the last, um, five years with these events, we’ve seen increased needs in, um, adequate seating or seating in the park, particularly benches.

00:53:54,870	Um, some additional, uh, trash receptacles as well to just help with that day to day, um, use that we’re seeing as well as an increase in, um, picnic tables for our events. Art in the park, we see a huge demand during our food services that we’re seeing.

00:54:10,830	And art in the park used to be the one and only event that we saw a lot of food service, but now buggies and Blues and Touch trucks are both seeing increases in, uh, food truck vendors as well as people, um, partaking in eating and sitting in the park.

00:54:26,100	Currently, right now we have 36 tables that we use in our ask as additional 50 tables that we can bring down to the park and help to give adequate seat, adequate seating, and table space for attendees at Art in the Park and buggies and blues and other events that we we have in that area.

00:54:45,900	Um, the another portion of that ask is related to just the assistance that the MPL can provide to the city with helping to move tables, um, things like that. Bringing in crowd fencing, um, bike racks to help with the and help and improve the safety initiatives that we have that we need downtown as well.

00:55:03,570	Um, and so with some equipment purchases that we can make, we can actually my team at the MPO can help to offset some of the asks that we have of public works to come down and move tables and, and move equipment and some of those bigger things that we have that we rely on

00:55:17,970	them a lot more now that we have, um, over the years, with the increase in events and increase in the activities that we have going on down there, um, with the America 250, we want to just showcase Mandan at its at its best that we possibly can.

00:55:37,170	So, um, we’ve asked for some money to replace the banners that we use on Main Street for the 4th of July, with some, um, non faded banners that we have right now, but get them spruced up. Um, and really showcase Mandan for the 4th of July. Um, the banners that are currently on Main Street.

00:55:54,700	We would work with Public Works to use those in other arteries that come into downtown from both Sixth Avenue Southwest to some of the other major streets, that we are able to put banners on. Um, and then the other portion of the ask is to do some up upgrades and just some cosmetic fixes to the bandshell. Um, bandshell has seen some, some better days.

00:56:16,300	It does need some re shingling and some other cosmetic upgrades and updates to it. And so part of that is to get that done. So the bandshell is nice and clean and looking nice for the 4th of July celebrations. Any questions. Yes, yeah. You got quite a shopping list there. We do.

00:56:36,370	And I’m looking. Are you talking about the same tables, those big heavy green ones. Have you been using. Yes. That’s correct. And you want 50. That’s 400 more people. That sounds like quite a few tables. And we’re going to store all these things. You know, that sounds like a.

00:56:50,300	You may be overemphasizing the table need there for my experience down here. Yeah. Currently we do have enough space where we currently store the tables. Um, near remediation. We’ve used that um, fenced in lot is where the tables have been historically stored.

00:57:05,830	And we do have enough space in there to store these additional tables in there. Um, during our in the park, we’ve seen a massive increase in those tables. We we just we we don’t have enough tables to actually seat even a quarter of the people that are there.

00:57:25,570	And, um, this year we’re doing a little bit of a change in our, in our, in our food service setup. Um, we’ve actually maxed out the infrastructure that we have in Heritage Park, um, last year with water and power services to the, the food trucks and, and food vendors that are there, there, just as trucks get bigger, they have more power, they need more water.

00:57:42,630	And so we’re going to be spreading those food trucks out between both Heritage and Dyke Storm Park. Um, so you’ll have a line of food trucks and, and food vendors behind Heritage Parking have a line behind Dijkstra and Park.

00:57:59,100	And with the additional tables, we can then line those in those parking lanes on both parks, both Heritage and Dijkstra, and giving adequate seated seating for people that are attending those larger events. Why do I know the bandshell could use fixing up? I mean, on Musicians Association? I know that there’s been discussion on that. Um, you know, I look at the 325,000, it’s quite a substantial amount, you know. Yeah, it.

00:58:22,430	Is a miscellaneous things are, um, are these items have been pretty well put together, thoughtfully put out. Just seems like quite a bit of money. The money is there. Fine. But, you know, if there’s some question about the amount of money, then I’d question the the amount compared to the need that’s being requested.

00:58:40,800	Um, yeah. We did a lot of thoughtful processing. This has been probably a year in a year in the works of, um, knowing that the America 250 SEL ratio is coming, looking at areas that we can enhance the visitor experience downtown, um, as well as enhancing our safety and security for people that

00:59:00,200	are attending. Um, last year we did a lot of, um, increases with the uses of buses and, and things like that to block Main Street. Um, and with adequate signage that we can provide for these events. That gives us the opportunity to really sign these corridors correctly.

00:59:23,000	Um, with up to date signage and safety apparatuses. That helps to indicate that these roads are closed. Um, and then in partnership with what? Um, MPD is requesting as well, that helps to offset. We’re doing our portion and then they’re doing they’re bringing their portion with the, the barricades and things like that to really harden down.

00:59:43,770	And we really want to make downtown Mandan during these events a very safe space to come and celebrate with these larger events. I hope that the North Dakota weather systems allow for the accommodations to make the thing successful because, you know, sometimes it’s bad weather. These times can also put a little crimp in the plans. They can.

01:00:04,070	Mean how many people attended the MPO events. Just the MPO events. Um, last year we estimated about 160,000 people attended a MPO event over. There. Okay. And there are other events in the park. I know Global Neighbors is, uh, in between buggies and blues. And the fourth there picnic. Yes. That’s correct. Yeah. It’s late June.

01:00:29,270	Okay. So and they’re looking at 1000 to 2000 people. So when you’re, when you’re talking about the additional picnic tables, it’s just the use of it is not just confined to the MPO events. There’s all sorts of events in the park all summer long. Correct? Correct. Yes.

01:00:53,170	And and we’re seeing a, a larger demand from outside. Um, or event organizers to host events in Dixon Park as well. Okay. So this is about safety and comfort for anybody visiting Mandan. Correct? Okay. Any other questions for Matt? I do Matt. So I suspect Art in the Park is the the biggest of all of these events.

01:01:19,570	And we’re adding the tables and there’s more vendors coming in. How about the individual sale huts? Are we seeing a are more coming in as the years go by? Is that going to interfere with some of the places that these huts would sit on? Um, are you referring to the food vendors or just overall craft vendors, food vendors? Vendors? Yeah.

01:01:38,530	Um, our craft vendor is um, attendance has been increasing since Covid. It was it took a obviously a drop during Covid. And over the last five years we’ve been seeing that increase with the the redesign of of Dike Storm Park. We were able to get all those food vendors or craft vendors in there.

01:01:58,830	And then we’ve been utilizing a majority of Heritage Park, which does give us we do have additional room in Heritage Park to put more craft vendors as well.

01:02:15,900	Um, but with the movement of the food vendors, we actually gain some space, um, some usable space in the parking lots that are both behind, like Shawnee Heritage Park for, um, table space, as well as additional craft vendors that can butt up against the sidewalks in there. Currently.

01:02:34,700	Right now with, um, in Heritage Park with the vendors kind of in a what we call food alley, the vendors that are butted up against the park, we lose all of that square footage and the grass because of all the the hoses and plugs and everything they’re running into that sidewalk. So we tend not to do vendors along the grassy area. That is on the kind of butts up against the parking lot and Heritage Park.

01:02:52,370	Do any of these new tables, or even the old tables, have the umbrellas for. The umbrella holes in them, so it’s definitely something we could look at down the road. Is is looking at umbrellas. We do bring in a tent, um, that we have done historically in the past. Um, and put the tables underneath it.

01:03:10,970	And we’re working with our, our tent vendor to see how we can accommodate two locations with some either smaller tents that aren’t as big as the big one that we put in. So we can we can use some of that, that, um, grass square footage that we have in Heritage Park for vendors. Thank you. Yeah. Any other questions for Matt? Question.

01:03:32,300	Taking this amount of money out from the visitors fund, what kind of balance is left? Mayor Froehlich and Commissioner Rohr, important to note is that the visitor’s fund dollars are not general fund dollars. They are what commonly referred to as bed and booze and food sales tax revenues that come in from those that buy North Dakota Century Code.

01:03:53,130	There are specific items that these dollars can be spent on. It’s not a general fund issue. These are again, to increase the attractions and increase the amount of visitors that are coming to your community.

01:04:09,270	Um, the balance, if this were to be approved, I think it would still, if the request for the 325,000 from the MPO and also the 100, up to $180,000 for the Archer barriers that are being requested by the Mandan PD, there would still be about $800,000, 7 or $800,000 left available in that fund. So that fund is reasonably healthy.

01:04:29,200	But again, it’s important to note that, um, items, the sales tax, the food, the beverage tax that are collected have to be spent on the visitor fund issues. We can’t use them for a water line or a sewer line or a road. So, um, the balance in that fund is is fairly healthy.

01:04:47,670	We do have 3 or 4 other projects that we think are coming online. So we want to make sure there are available funds to do some additional things. Um, one note, Matt hit on a little bit is that some of the equipment that the MPO is asking for, um, will reduce the burden on our public works and our grounds

01:05:04,700	maintenance crew. Um, that’s a really big thing for us because the MPO events are usually evenings. Weekends, really, really busy times when Matt’s crew are working on those events. And our crews may not be in town or those are holidays and weekends and things like that.

01:05:23,570	So this will relieve a lot of the burden on our grounds. Maintenance crew and public works. If some of these if these items are acquired by the MPO. So it’s kind of a win win situation for both.

01:05:42,200	Um, the MPO has the capability and the the time frame in which to do this, and they can probably do it more efficiently when they do it versus when we come down. We’re trying to fit in and schedule those things, and it’s a little easier to do if the MPO has some of this equipment for themselves to use. Yeah, I appreciate Jim.

01:05:56,030	Let the people out to know how the moneys are used and that it is a a healthy fund. And the other issue I would ask is, uh, who operates or who oversees and who administers and decides the appropriations and fiscal appropriation for the visitor’s fund..

01:06:18,870	Is there a special board? So the people out there know how this thing is managed? So Mayor Freilich and Commissioner Roger, the visitors committee, um, reviews all the requests that come in from for this funding source. And then the final say comes to the city commission. So the visitor’s committee voted four zero yesterday to move these requests forward with approval through the commission.

01:06:39,700	Um, they asked a lot of questions similar to what you’re asking. You know, how do these pieces of equipment that the MPO may buy, how does that relieve or how does that lessen the burden on our public works crew? Those were answered again.

01:06:55,700	What is the available balance for funding in this? Those questions were answered to. And like I said, at the end of the day, um, Matt’s crew will go out and procure those services and that equipment, along with Mandan PD, putting in an order for the Archer barriers and the trailers that package to go along with that. Um, they’ll get billed.

01:07:14,530	Those receipts come in to finance. Finance says, okay, we’ve got we’ve got the approval to pay for these, and we go from there. How many people are on that committee at the present time? Right now, we have four members. We have one opening.

01:07:29,370	The visitors committee will meet, I think, within the next month and select a new member and bring that recommendation forward to you for your consideration. Another one of those good, very important functioning committees that we rely upon that people have to get involved and help us out with.

01:07:50,330	Commissioner Aurora, I agree, they’ve you know, these dollars that are collected are have funded a number of really good projects over the past many years. And so, like I said, a lot of the improvements that you see, whether it’s Dykstra and Park and the library, um, Harmon Lake, Mandan, rodeo grounds, the um, partially funding the boat ramp, we’re usually funding things in cooperation with another entity. So those matching dollars really go go a long way..

01:08:13,700	No further questions. Thank you. And there is no ask for for the PD tonight. I think included in this request is the $325,000 to the MPO, or up to 325,000, and also the includes the Mandan PD, $180,000 for the Archer barrier. So a total of 505,000.

01:08:39,870	Could you give a quick, quick overview of an Archer barrier for a viewing public? Um, I’ll. I don’t want to step on Chief Ziegler’s, but I think that the the archer barriers we have I think 8 or 9 of them right now that we acquired last year, they are they are able to stop a large vehicle in its tracks again.

01:08:57,970	We will procure enough of them to make sure that the alleyways and the streets and the visitors that are coming to town and our residents have a safe experience so that we have seen, um, over the country and around the world, a number of instances where someone loses control of their vehicle.

01:09:15,570	And we saw one last week where the individual was intoxicated and ran into several people that were attending an event. Those were the things that we’re trying to prevent from happening.

01:09:32,770	Nothing is 100%, but we want to make sure that we are taking the appropriate steps to ensure, to the best of our ability, that those kind of things are minimized. You know, like I said, you can’t prevent anything, everything. But we’re trying to do our best to minimize the events of those things happening.

01:09:49,870	So if we have a a bad actor or someone wants to drive through a crowd of people, um, let’s do our best to make sure that that that is a very difficult thing to do. Mayor Jim, be a lot better than those buses we’ve been using. We had on West Lane, we had buses as as a barrier. I think these would be far more functional than those buses.

01:10:06,530	Mayor Freilich and Commissioner Rohr, um, last year, I think was the first year we utilized or the M&M progress organization in cooperation with Harlow’s. You saw a lot of yellow buses, and we had a lot of questions on what are all the buses doing? And they were really, um, they were really an effort to prevent traffic from going where it’s not supposed to go.

01:10:27,070	So the Archer barriers are not going to replace all the buses, with the Archer barriers, uh, are key for is like a sidewalk, but it doesn’t obstruct the whole sidewalk. And they’re very mobile. Um, chief Ziegler. Mr. mayor and commissioners. Uh, the question.

01:10:52,200	About the Archer barriers, they’re about £750 each, and there’s going to be a total of 24 with these that we’re going to be purchasing. And their design, they can be on sidewalks or they can be in the roadway. Uh, they’re required to have the, uh, at least eight of them connected together in order to be considered, uh, safety certified by Archer.

01:11:12,500	The US military actually uses them to protect military bases across the world. Um, so. Uh, the the totality of using them isn’t going to replace the buses directly. They’re going to be put in places that will maximize their efficiency to protect pedestrians crossing the street, not the side streets.

01:11:38,700	The side streets will probably still be locked down with buses and large vehicles. That way we can restrict the flow of of, uh, vehicles into that area. Okay. And so for smaller events, uh, we can deploy them, uh, to create a safe space because what it is, is an L. Correct.

01:12:00,170	And if the bumper hits the top of the L, the bottom flips up and tears the engine out, disabling the car. That is correct, Mr. Mayor. And so staff versus a jersey barrier. That’s 4000 to £10,000. Staff can tip them back and wheel them easily into place. Where? Safety? Yes, sir. Mr.

01:12:24,070	mayor, even though there’s £750, they’re easily moved by one individual can actually move barriers. So if we have to open up a street fairly quickly, we can to get like emergency vehicles in that aren’t currently with inside the perimeter of the safe zone.

01:12:41,630	Um, so it gives us a lot of flexibility to be able to move stuff where if you have a bus, it would take a lot longer, possibly to get somebody up there that has the skill set to take a put the bus into drive and to move it out there where these Archer barriers can actually be moved fairly quickly. Any questions for Chief? Thank you, chief. Okay. Your wishes.

01:13:11,570	I’ll move to approve the recommendation from Mandan Visitors Committee. Funding to the the request from the Mandan Progress Organization. Up to 325,000 for items outlined in the request. And the Mandan Police Department for Archer barriers up to 180 grand, $1,000. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Schulberg, a second by Commissioner Brown.

01:13:35,070	I would just like to say that there are monthly meetings, uh, for planning, for safety. Uh, between the MPO and the police department. So the city of Mandan takes this extremely, um, serious in protecting everybody that comes to town so that they have a safe and pleasant experience. And with that, any further comments? Hearing none. Roll call please. Commissioner Schulberg. Yes. Sean? Yes. Ron.

01:14:05,470	Yes. Roger. Yes. Mayor. Freilich. Yes. There is no other business before the commission tonight. Future meeting dates for the Board of City commissioners are. Tuesday, April 21st, 2026 at 530. Tuesday, May 5th, 2026 at 530 and Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 at 530.

01:14:34,630	And with that, be kind to yourself. Be kind to your neighbor. And it is onward and upward. Man down. Meeting is