Good evening. With it being six we will call our meeting to order and start with the Pledge of Allegiance. I 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. Alright. Good evening. Quickly, roll call around the horn, please. Peterson. Bora. Steichen. Nash. And Olsen. With that, we do have our agenda for approval. I didn't see any additions or subtractions. Motion to approve. Motion by Nash. Second. Second by Peterson.
All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, we have our consent. Any questions on the consent? Mr. Steichen. I'd like to pull four foxtrot off and address that on its own merits. Okay. So we can place that just want to go about 10B. Will that work? Yeah. Okay. Alright. Any other questions? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion with that adjustment. Motion to approve the consent agenda. Motion with from Nash. Steichen, second. Yes. Second by Steichen. All those in favor,
say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does move us to number five, public comment period. Peyton, has there been any formal request to speak before counsel this evening? None received. Alright. Once again, encourage the public to participate in our prog process. It helps us make some progress. Speaking of progress, number six gets us into our annual, Citi investment report. We'll talk about our economic progress, hopefully. Peyton, Kojo, are you taking over from here? Kojo's got this. All right. Good evening. Welcome, and thank you for coming.
Okay. So I will have Patience advance the slides. So thank you as always for the opportunity to come in front of the council and give an update on how things are going with the investment account that we manage for the city. With that said, I wanted to highlight some recent changes or updates. Obviously, as most of the council may know, Bremer Bank was purchased by Old National Bank, which is out of Evansville, Indiana. With that said, they have executive offices both in Chicago and in Minneapolis, Minneapolis St. Paul area with obviously myself and the team here continuing business as usual for the
organization and business as usual for the council in terms of the accounts. So I wanted just to highlight that in the first slide and then obviously the next one as well just for that name change. So Bremer Wealth is now currently known as eighteen thirty four at Old National, a division of Old National Bank. And some of the services we highlight there. With that said, we'll just kind of jump into the economic pieces here. It's kind of amazing how markets just changed so quickly. This report, which is as of March 2, when I kind of put it together and it already feels a bit stale,
to be honest, based on today's news, etcetera. But one thing I want to highlight on Page four is just economic growth, just my trend line point of view. And again, this report in terms of the quarter four number actually needs to be revised to 0.7. So obviously, we started the year out with just inclinations about the tariff situation. And so quarter one was a negative print for GDP, but then quarter two and quarter three were pretty strong in terms of just GDP production because just obviously, tariffs being worked out going through the system, etcetera. Unfortunately, with quarter four, things kind of slowed down quite a bit. And so that negative trend,
again, the $1,400,000 got revised to $700,000 for quarter $4,000,000 With that said, we still anticipate some good economic tailwinds potentially. Obviously, this temporary situation we believe it's a temporary situation we got going on right now with the conflict in Iran and how it's impacting energy prices in particular. But we believe it's a short term and doesn't override the kind of momentum we believe that will be ongoing for the year 2026. Couple of reasons is just with the one big beautiful bill and some of the stimulus opportunities built in there.
Obviously, we keep an eye on inflation, obviously, the employment numbers just to see how that is looking. And so the next page it looks at, we're going to look at just unemployment. As you may have as you noticed there, unemployment is in a situation where, if you notice, near the end, there's a kind of gradual rise up and then a hook down. A couple of things going on there. Obviously, labor force participation has kind of increased. Obviously, some jobs openings have come online as well. Currently, there's still about almost 7,000,000 job openings, so almost one for one for every every citizen or every resident.
There's a job opening there. At the historic high, it was about two for one, but now it's kind of come down. Just showing the slowing labor force, labor market. With that said, most employers are keeping or retaining the staff they have. And even in some places, we still continue to see staffing being a challenge or an issue. So you may have heard the term, no hire, no fire or just low hire situation. So we continue to watch that from an investment management point of view, which leads obviously to Slide six, which highlights the job openings that I was visiting mentioned in prior.
Page Slide seven talks about or looks at the yield curve. Again, that has changed a little bit, actually more than likely returned back to this. So with the recent conflict with Iran, what we noticed there was the yields actually increased, but obviously with the recent announcement yields have kind of come back down a bit. And so you may hear about mortgage rates going up more recently and then perhaps more than likely mortgage rates trending. Obviously, we have a kind of maybe a five day hiatus. We'll see how things play out in terms of the markets. But in particular, fixed income markets have been pretty robust,
have held on pretty strongly throughout this whole situation, which is a space obviously that the portfolio, per Minnesota State statute, kind of lands in. And for the most part, fixed income markets have been pretty solid. We haven't seen anything with the yield curve showing changes per se with how things are looking. So one thing you noticed there, if you go to the yield there, we are still above historic averages when it comes to the yield. So if you look at the orange diamonds, those are the average since 2009.
And obviously, the blue bar representing what the rates are or yield is currently. And so even treasuries and U. S. Ag, and we try and stay predominantly in the treasuries side of the equation for the portfolio. Obviously, it's come down from the 4% number, but it is still relatively attractive. It's still above inflation, which is always the goal to make sure the portfolio is above inflation for the account. So with that, we can jump into page 12, which is the actual performance for last year, so 12/31/2025. And so while you notice, obviously,
the beginning market value and obviously the end end market value, we saw about almost $118,000 in income coming for the year. We also saw market appreciation of about $95,000 And dollars And even with the recent situation, when I took a look at the portfolio for year to date, we are just down about $891 even with the situation that we got going on in the past few weeks, for the year to date point of view. So last year was a pretty robust year. As you can see, they're up 6.11, which is historically speaking, that's almost equity like in a very normal balanced equity portfolio.
That's almost equity like returns. Obviously, we've gotten used to the 2016% of late for equities, but that's not usually the case. It's usually that 6%, 7%. Obviously, as you noticed with the portfolio here last year was 6%, which is pretty much a recovery from 2022. As you probably feel fairly aware, 2020 was a challenging year when, obviously, inflation and interest rates were going up at the same time. And this is just a continued trend of those dollars coming back, earning those dollars back. And so that shows a pretty robust year for the portfolio.
If I did jump to Page Slide 13, Slide 13, I believe. This is the next one. Yep. This gives us an update on how the portfolio is looking. And so you still got the yield to maturity about 4.17, so it's still running above that 4% rate for yield to maturity in. And then our maturity audiation is about that four years. So we are, again, we're not going to see long out on the yield curve. We're still trying to see short intermediate on the yield curve, which we believe is a place a good place to still pick up yield for the portfolio and try and just enhance that income that comes into the
portfolio for the benefit of the city. Slide 14 just pretty much highlights what the anticipated or estimated income is for the upcoming years and also gives you a sense of how far out the portfolio is going. Obviously, we try to run this between five to seven years. The furthest out is 2035, but as you know, it's 2031 and obviously, some of this year, we have some maturities. But you notice also the income on the chart above, just the averages there and what we anticipate for the portfolio from an income point of view and also a market appreciation point of view.
The nice thing you also notice is the majority of the portfolio holds bonds which are predominantly over 3%. And so we do have a few stragglers, but most of them are maturing this year in the 1%, 2% range, but most of them are in that 3% to 4% coupon. And so we are equipping a good coupon for the city in terms of just income coming into that account. So I'll stop there and see if there's any questions from the council for me that I'd like me to expound on further. Questions from counsel? None. None yet. Okay.
And so that kind of pretty much wraps my, summary for the group today. Well, again, Kojo, thank you so very much. Like I'm just happy that we're in a decent financial situation with this investment because that provides us a little bit of security. And my question will be more for Perry, so we'll wait for that time. Are there any other questions, Peyton, anything that we're missing? No. No. I just want to say, Coger does a tremendous job for us. There's not one month that goes by that we're not in contact with him in some capacity. So we appreciate all of his efforts and for coming here this evening.
Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you very much. So with that, if there aren't any further questions and pain, we don't need any type of back service. No, I'm not needed. We can move on to number seven. We have our community center seven a. We have resolution twenty six nineteen, awarding bids for the community center project. Who's starting this one? I'll say a few words. So as Tony Adam gets settled here, we did open our bids recently for the community center project. I'm saying stressing the s part of the bids because it was a 130 some
odd, 135 Significant number. A significant number. A good number. So it's like an all day or or afternoon affair out there. So what I'm gonna have them first is just kinda run through what was bid out again just so the council can see some of the edits or things that were accepted as part of the bid process, that opening process, and then we'll get to after their presentation, I'll cover a few things on the financial end and also through the resolution of awarding the actual bids. Right. Yeah. Thank you,
Peyton. So we've got to have our updated presentation here with some updated imagery. I think you've seen a lot of it already, but, just a few, minor tweaks here and there as we were taking bids and getting ready to set everything up. So we, we took bids. This is the site plan we were looking at. We actually took a bid for that North parking lot as well, just to see where that would come in at and kind of prep you for the future. But the main building, the plaza, and the parking lot are really what we're focused on in this initial, bid approval. Click to the next one there. So the plaza, looking at it from the,
kind of from the street level, from the southwest corner there, really, just a large open space. There's a lot of pavement there as well, but green space where you can do multiple, have multiple events, kind of flex space and do different things in there. Make sure we're planting, the correct types of plants there. It's something that they can maintain and keep beautiful for years to come. This is kind of taking a look at some of the detail shots of the building, kind of again that that low canopy section that kind of emulates that, the depot look of the years past,
but then also that kind of modern expression at the entrance and the main the main event space there. Look at our plan here. Looks like we the we did enlarge the, playground a little bit, so that's not accurately reflected on this floor plan, but that got about three feet bigger. Just trying to, make sure we have enough space in there for the playground equipment, kids to run around and play around there. Also added a door going into the conference room space. So it really didn't affect overall your, your small meeting rooms to the north, the capacity. It but it really did help improve some of the the space around that,
that space. And to kind of piggyback on what Tony is referring to is this wall right here, we shifted up, I believe it was five feet total. So we took off two and a half feet plus or minus of for both of these rooms right here. And, again, just to provide more space for what our indoor playground area will look like. There'll be yeah. A door that's gonna be placed here. So if you're renting out this room for a party space for a birthday party, you would have access, through here and also a door that's gonna be right here.
This one makes it look massive. It's not that's not really how it's gonna end up being. It's gonna be more of a double door, top style there. This is from the original rendering, that we were looking at. So we're still fine tuning a few few things here and there, pass through window into the kitchen. But overall the plan stays pretty much as it is with that main corridor along the west side that could connect to some future additions on the North. And it also just kind of connects all those spaces again, giving that depot kind of sense of going to your spaces and coming back out
to the main space and kind of intermingling as you change spaces throughout the building. Some look to the front entrance of the building here. The main entrance with the, deal with community center similar to how the fire station has that type of signage. That'd be nice to kind of keep everything, in the family, so to speak, of the same look and same feel, through the town. But again, that depot, kind of canopy and section where you can there's that it actually elevates underneath that canopy about 18 inches. You can set people can sit there and kind of enjoy the green lawn,
enjoy some shade there underneath the canopy. A little closer look at that. And then the back area here, just kind of a nice expression with the, the eyebrow kinda hanging out over the top of that. The large glass. It does provide some shade, but also, just really wanted to try and connect the interior to the exterior. You can feel the vibrancy and the things happening inside when you're just driving by and, you can see the activity. This is looking down that main corridor connection, again, borrowing from some of the language of the depots from times past of,
some of that exposed steel structure, those round globe lights, just kind of paying homage to that throughout the building here. We have a reception desk upfront with some accent wood ceilings, right in front of that main entrance as you were looking where it said community, dealing with community center over the top of the entrance. And again, looking down that hallway, just a nice repetition. We took some alternates for like the seating on the left and then there's some wood kind of behind the columns and the the light that goes around the, perimeter. And and with the bids kit that came in the way they did,
we were able to accept that. So just some enhancements that take this from, you know, just another building to something that's, really something that would create a lot of pride for the city of Dilworth. And here we're looking at the main event space that's set up with, like, eight foot rounds. Again, some wood ceiling or some wood accent walls on the back wall between windows with some lights that, have some distance, some lengths that are, tuned into your, your train. What's the, word I'm looking for? The train It's ruined. You out at your park there, up by the depot that you have.
Depot. The the whistle stop? Yeah. Yeah. Whistle stop. Anyway, so just some, some nice details that, again, we were able to take with the, with the pricing coming in the way that it did. And, the pickleball courts, we set up with the stained concrete so that it would when he had tables over the top of it, you didn't really notice there was necessarily pickleball courts. It's not striping, two inch lines, just more blocks of space that you can tell this is where he is in and what is out. And that, the playground space, just an indication of what could go in there.
We're, again, we're holding money for that as well just to help select make a more of a selection later on when, we have a little more time here. And that's something the park board is currently looking into. Angelo has been collecting different options for them to consider the indoor space and what it can look like. And part of the alternate too was as well, correct? Like adding some of the seating and stuff Yeah. Those I guess important to point out. Yep. Those niches back there and the the seating and some cubbies for kids shoes and whatnot. This is the view of the conference rooms there.
This view did, did change with some alternates. It's it'll be an ACP ceiling, like, then that's in here. Yeah. So that we eliminated some of the soffit work. We took a look at the pricing and weighed out the pros and cons, and it didn't feel like it was necessarily worth it to spend the money on the soffit and some of the upgraded finishes in there, but you'll still have a really nice feel to the room. And these two rooms will also are able to connect like it's shown here or have that wall deployed and separated. That's the end of your presentation. Perfect. And, and and y'all can chime in here too as we talk through this.
So the bids themselves, we first brought this to the city or last brought this to the city council last meeting in December to go out to bid, and the estimate provided at that time was around was about $11,700,000. That did not include any of the alternate bids. So when we're talking about the plaza, some of those added features with within the activity space, benches down the pre function area and, the concrete finish on the outside just to make give it a little appeal outside.
Those are something that we would discuss separately. So after the bids were open here about three or February twenty six, we collectively got together with, the architect, construction management team, council member Nash and Mayor Olsen and I, we all and Perry all sat down, took a look at the numbers. In essence, how the bids came back, the it came in at around a little over $11,000,000 If you added in every single alternate that was bid out that day, it would have equaled up to that $11,700,000
that we originally were showing. However, in talking through it, there was only the ones that you see selected that just made mention of about the concrete finish, the plaza area, and the pre function activity area that were that's being recommended, this evening from, the group that met on that day and that gets us to around that $11,500,000 amount. So in looking at the timeline, kind of where we are with it all, looking for construction, get started here in the next couple of months. And then from a financial standpoint,
not long thereafter that, we'll do the issuance of My goal is hopefully to have this complete by 2027, plus or minus, somewhere in that time frame. I did wanna make again, we're not accepting anything this evening on the bonding front, but we did provide the numbers to, Nick and Ehlers just to kinda get a sense of what we're looking at the closer that we get to it. And so he plugged in the numbers at the $11,500,000 number just to take a look at kinda where we are.
And we reviewed this back in July, I believe it was. And at that time, that was based on a project cost of, like, 10 and a half million dollars, I wanna say. I think we obviously added quite a bit since then or, you know, kind of put the finishing details on it all. And so, basically, what you're seeing so what you're seeing right here, this would be for a twenty year bond issuance utilizing some kind of a ramp up amount, utilizing the fund balance that we have within the 2% number that we've been levying
for, for since going back to 2015. And, ultimately, what this is showing here is trying to get up to a levy amount of $508,000 by the time that we hit 2028. So it gives us a couple it gives us a well, it gives us several to 2031 to hit this number that we're looking at here, that your bond payment's $5.00 8 starting in 2028. However, this does utilize some of our reserves, through it all. This would leave a balance in the reserves about 350,000.
Another thing that two that has shifted since we last discussed this was the acquisition of the property. And so that equals out to, I think, it's, like, an $80,000 a year plus or minus for the next five years. So that number's included in this as well, the property acquisition. We felt like that was all part of the package. So this includes property acquisition of our land plus the two additional properties that we purchased north of town over the last three years since those are all contract for deed in a five year cycle,
since that was coming out of the 2% fund, we'll say. And so all that's wrapped into this right here. And again, that's at twenty years. That looks at an annual levy increase of $42,000 give or take. And so that's a little less than 1.5% that would have to be raised for the next five years just for that. Here's another example and so what the only difference between these two numbers that you see right here is just that first year of paying capitalized interest. So this year,
you can see the first year, our bond payment would be $381,000 In this scenario, it'd be already at that half $1,000,000 mark, so there's no first year of capitalized interest. It does lower your levy amount a little bit. However, the biggest difference is what you pay overall, for total levy over the duration of the bond. So this one's at, like, 9,900,000.0. This one's a little over 10,000,000. Dollars Honestly, the difference between the two is negligible. So I mean, if we were recommending one or the other just between these two, we'd probably stick with this one because it's just a little easier.
And plus, that doesn't account for money that we're keeping back, drawing interest on that first year. And so then there's a few other a couple of other scenarios that Nick ran for us to, and this is utilizing, in this example, a $500,000 down payment option. So this, you know, you take out a half million dollars, but it does lower your levy amount to that four sixty seven amount, but it does dwindle your reserves as you can see within this amount. The options, to obviously offset that is to raise the levy a little more than that $33,000
number. I'm just giving you an example of, what this could potentially look like. And this is doing $750,000 down payment. Again, pretty substantial savings in which you're setting your levy to here. And this bottom line number of the $8,800,000 however, you're really dwindling that reserve going in the negative at that point, obviously. So so you'd have to look to increase the levy fee substantially to make up for that. And, again, there's no decision being made this evening. You we ultimately don't know how we'll structure this until the actual bond sale itself,
but that's starting to paint the picture of what we're looking at here. Again, this is going back to what we'll call the worst case scenario. This is what this is in line what we'd originally shared with you and that was for a project of even smaller scale at that time. So that's just showing reflective of the bond market working in our favor from an interest rate side of things. So more info to come on that. But this evening, kinda getting back to our timeline and where we are with all this,
this would be the time to, you know, consider the bid package. We'll say that's within your packet and all the different, you know, different awards that would be made as part of this resolution. Is there anything else to add, gentlemen? No. I don't think, anything else to add right now. One thing I I might add just from a budgeting standpoint, I don't, Tony mentioned, you know, some of those things that are being fine tuned in the project right now, we do hold allowances on some of these bid packages just simply, you know, whether it be, you know,
the playground or what have you. We also hold allowances for other miscellaneous items too. So this is an all inclusive number when it comes to the everything you see is what you get. You know? It's just a matter of dialing in those things. So there's always potential for savings within those allowances depending on what choices are made on materials and products, but all of those are transparent dollars that go right back. So whatever isn't used in the project. That's all I have to add. And there's a contingency amount. I think I'd be remiss if I didn't make mention of this as well.
We did have one low bidder that ended up rescinding their bid after the fact. And that was actually added quite a bit to the project. We felt comfortable where the contingency amount was to Amazon lowering that a little bit to offset that number. So when we were originally meeting about this, we were hoping to be it was around $11,400,000 $11,400,000 $5,000,000 or something around that nature. But this added about $200,000 almost to their bid to the overall bid number there.
So we did offset a little of that with the contingency number, but it's still within a comfortable range. This is a has been described to me, a relatively lower risk project in the sense it's on a vacant piece of land. It's not like we're in between taking out a community center and working underground and some weird utilities like we were in the past. So we feel pretty confident in that regard. We can just collect on the bid bond, right? Good. Yeah. Process. Good point. Yeah. Alright. Anything else, Peyton? No. That's all. Adam, Tony? No.
K. Any questions from counsel? Kevin? What was the the alternate for the plaza cost? That was one of the like, when we talked about that originally at council, I was pushing a million dollars initially. But now it got down about a quarter because we they really can you go back to the image, please, please? Yeah. We're This is one of the conversations that that we went around the table a lot quite a quite a bit in terms of what are we you know, a million dollars, it would have been a no brainer. We would not have done it. I think what this is about 250,000
now? I got $2.13 $8.50. Yeah. So super I mean and that that gets us a finished product. It'll give us a little k. I mean and that was that was a huge savings from my advantage. I mean, yeah, we're still spending, but that'll give us a completed southern exposure. Let's make sure it looks like that. That's the goal. Yeah. I think Agreed. Agreed. About the people. Yeah. When we were talking a million dollars, there was a a small amphitheater, a nice, you know, a a corner feature that was vertical. There's quite a bit of additional detailing that we've kind of pulled back so we can make sure we get the plaza in.
Sure. I think the time we bid it out, we're around the half million dollar Yeah. Mark. I think that's the one that we went into the pre bid number with. It's about half the cost. We're less than that. That's substantially less than I thought it was gonna be. The I would I would say, from my advantage, that's why it's part of the project because it is it is substantially less, but it does give us substantially more in terms of a fully completed project. Right. Julia, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cut you off. No. That's good. Because just kind of adding on that, and this isn't necessarily about the visit.
Think about the fact that we put that plaza or we can accept that now. With that concrete loop on the backside on the east side of that, Was that idea to use that for kind of the same space as this? Or Yeah. It could be some additional space where you have, you know, additional vendors or, you know, kind of spillover space, especially during your, local days. Just gives you additional room to kind of, play around with. We also looked at doing some, trellises back there. You could have a nice backdrop with some some shrubbery someday,
to for weddings and that sort of thing. So it just gives you more room and more ability to kind of flex back over there. Okay. Thank you. And, Tony, can we talk about the concrete finish just a little bit? How where to look you're gonna give some latitude to the contractor. Correct? So just let me look at this image right here. Can you kinda describe what that means? Yeah. There's we were looking at, a couple of options with some exposed aggregate, and just thinking long term in our climate with salts as they are already, that probably isn't the most ideal. So we're looking at and we had some rail details through there and thinking about
again kind of emphasizing on the, the train theme here. But ultimately, we're looking at different options. We want to work with the contractor to come up with some options that that get us some of that feeling of the long, stripes of the, the railway without compromising the integrity of your concrete. So we're still working out a few details there. Joe, another question. Got a couple. How does the local option sales tax offset or how does it work with the bonding? Mhmm. And that number is incorporated within that. So he takes off that $5,400,000.
Still have to bond at 500 k a year. Yeah. So really how it works is you have this big pot of money. And so Nick's looking at it like we're dumping 40,000, $45,000 into it a month, you know, and then takes into account his money that or the money that we're bonding for. And that's how he structures the payment with all that in mind. Did I answer your question? Yeah. This seems a very good double hit. The bankers will definitely be coming on ahead of the I mean, well, again, right? I mean,
interest rates. Another question. Yeah. Possibility for the July 2027 completion? As far as I know, yes. Sweet. I think that's that's kind of the end goal because I understand, you know, same with the fire station. You wanna have the the local days as part of the closing ceremonies of the project. So that'd be our goal as well. Yep. Push as hard as I can. I know. Weather's always a thing. I'll be in the ground as soon as the frost probe goes all the way down. Appreciate that. Mhmm. Any other questions, Kevin? No. I'm good. Any other questions, mister Steichen? Is there going to be is there a road that borders the south of the,
plaza? So what we did not at this time, but what we do have is a well, of course, this road comes in to this point, but we did plat that additional roadway. Remember when the recent community center addition? That was one of the things that the landowners did grant us. So it's already been platted. So at any time, there is additional development. We have that right of way ready to go for us. Any other questions? One step closer. Counsel, any other questions on any of this in terms of and can you go back
to the, overview, please, with the roads? Because this is now how my brain has been taught to function. Is that the right location for the access in the intersection? Is there enough stacking? And did our engineers say, yeah, that's a good spot as we're looking at a t intersection into a driveway? Yeah. Actually, I think that was their preference was to come off of the street. So Just the conversation. Just wanna make sure that that's that's how it all comes together. And that's again, we're we're good according to our traffic people. So we're Yeah. That's that was their preference is to come in at that entrance.
Just out of curiosity, like, is it there what is the second means of egress out of there? Well, with the future north edition of the parking lot, there wasn't, egress kinda mid block there. Yeah. Okay. Right like that. So, eventually, it'll be a second one. Right? Eventually, we'll have to make that decision. Yes. When the when the We're gonna comply with the state fire code, we're gonna have to build that. When the gym addition is Like right now? Kinda more in plan. We should. The parking lot will have to get extended for additional parking,
you know, building size increases. Ask Scott. And so does the parking lot environment. Hold on. We should know that. We already did. So as we build out the second phase that North access would be put in. That's the plan, long term plan. Okay. That's a good point. And that was one of the alternates that was reviewed. Right. And I'll extend the parking lot right now. And and that was one of the conversations that we had at length as to do we wanna do this, but then the investment would be in a parking lot that our facility doesn't need. Yes, it would be it might it'll be cheaper to build the parking lot now,
but the idea is that we can park on the grass until until we're, actually need the parking for, future growth in the activities piece. Other questions? Alright. Hearing no other questions, I I wanna thank, Gertz again for helping us out. This has been I mean, I'm it's been an exciting process. It'll be it'll be interesting to see how this one goes because July 2027 seems ambitious. But May would be good because then there's some graduations that might stay on. I mean, if he graduates, I guess, I don't know.
We'll see how that goes. He's got a year left. If there aren't any yes, Peyton. Yes. Last thing, just to kind of piggyback on that point, yes, the team has done an amazing job on both the design and construction management side of things. We're right on target with what our anticipated time line was going back to when we were promoting this in 2024 for the local sales tax. So to be still hitting all of our deadlines at this point because it seems like things always get pushed off on down the road there.
So really happy to see that we've stayed on target the entire time. Alright. And now we have verbal confirmation. This will be open before local day, so we're good to go. That's what now it'll be done. Right? Yep. Pending weather. Yep. I didn't hear that part. Yeah. Last quick question. Yeah. Mister Seitz building lend itself to prefab at all? To a certain extent. I mean, there's several different building types going on within the structure. So some of it is prefab, but a lot of it is on-site build. Yep. There's efficiencies in both, and we'll be kinda utilizing that in the space. So a little different than the fire station.
That was a single type of construction for the most part. But That was fun to see that the shell come up fast. You haven't lived until you watch them swing a wall in from the road. That was fairly impressive. All right. Anything else from council? Any other questions? To that end, hearing no further questions, I will entertain a motion for Resolution twenty six nineteen, awarding the bids for the Dilworth Community Center project. Motion by Nash. Steichen, second. Second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Great. We'll talk about that. Thank you very much,
gentlemen. We appreciate it. It's going to be a great two years, I think. It's going to be fun. It's going to be fun. Nerve wracking and fun. Thank you. It's been a fun design process. We're looking forward to getting it built. Yes. I absolutely appreciate you guys. Thank you. Thank you. So now that it's coming, yes, I'll bring this up and have this. I'll write this down. Give me one second. Where am I at here? Alright. Sorry about that. I just needed to make a couple of notes. So with that, we do move on to eight. We have planning and engineering, and eight alpha is resolution twenty six seventeen, awarding the bid for the 34th Street North Water main extension project.
Good evening. Good evening. I was sitting through that prior presentation thinking to myself, there are no nice three d renderings, no visualizations. This is pretty boring from that standpoint, but that's my life. Yeah. You're like, yeah, we appreciate the schedule. Okay. In all seriousness, we had, bid opening last, Tuesday and received six bids, very competitive, very good bids in my opinion. Low bidder was J. R. Furchi. It's on the screen in the amount of 630,000.
All six bids actually were very competitive, so very pleased about that, and well under our feasibility study estimate, which was right around a million dollars last fall. So just looking at looking at the bids, I mean, the water main is the the the largest piece of this, and the price for the water main just came in very, very competitive. So all all in all, real good news from the standpoint of getting a, water main project in the ground this year. So, J. R. F. Furchi is out of Rice,
Minnesota which is down by the St. Cloud area, just north of St. Cloud. They have been active in our Fargo Moorhead area for the last few years and so they are relatively familiar with with working in the area. Been on some diversion work here in the last, couple of years. So it's drawn a lot of interest from the surrounding region. So any questions for me? You wanna talk about the timeline just to Oh. Where we are? Yeah. From a timeline standpoint, I have, I have not been able to actually talk with the contractor yet.
We have communicated through email and we've got a meeting set up for 11:30 tomorrow morning to talk about the schedule a little bit. So unfortunately, I don't have a I'm anticipating that this is gonna be you know, we were expecting a mid, or late July completion date, and so I think, we'll talk with the contractor to make sure that we're on on track there. But I don't see this project I mean, once they get in the ground, you when we talk about an open field, there's you know, we got a we got a bore underneath the drain, which will which will take a little bit of time.
But there's not a lot of conflict. We're not tearing through any of the roadways or anything like that. So it's it should go fast once they get started. And SRF is currently working on all the acquisitions that we need, temporary construction easements. And so what did she what did they say? Katie said earlier today in that process where The paperwork was going out to the property owners. To make the offers. Yeah. To make the offers on the tenth. Yeah. They just wrapped up the appraisals. Yep. And that's the that's the same company that we use for 34th Street. Same okay.
Thank you. So the only other thing I wanted to make note of is so just to kind of break down the numbers a little more. So what you see over here in the green, this is getting into the specials conversation as far as like what's going to be paid by each of the land owners. With the exception of the top two, the numbers will and everything ends up being deferred. But the overall project cost that we were looking at before this was bid out as part of the preliminary engineering report was about $1,300,000
The total project cost now is $925,000,000 so a substantial difference, about $1,000 per acre less. So that was encouraging to see. And so Resco's number, for example, dropped about $18,000 in what they have to pay overall. Keep in mind that Resco and Red River Valley Co op, they have agreed to, in principle, to pay for their share upfront. In addition, Resco has agreed to foot the bill or not foot the bill, but pay they what we'd originally talked about was an additional $25,000
fee for the upsizing of the line. We didn't Donna, I don't feel necessarily that we would go that route since the number did come in back, you know, backed off a little bit based upon where the bids are. But we're working on a contract with both of them. So So that'll be coming for the council here pretty soon. But you can see a pretty substantial difference in what will end up being specially assessed. Perry and I will continue to evaluate as far as, like, how to fund this.
A lot of it, we're considering just doing strictly out of reserves. There may be out of the utility reserves, water reserves there. There may be a bit of it just depending upon kind of where we are and as we evaluate the numbers, maybe doing a small loan just with Northwestern Bank, something along those lines. We want to go through the whole rigmarole of, you know, next process of bonding. We can go around and get this pretty fast and turn it around. So but more to come on that once we get a little closer to construction
as far as the best route to go, as far as financing the project. Questions, Jabin? I just got a quick one with that. I mean, if we're going to utilize reserves, then would the taxes go right back into replenishing the reserves? Is that the plan? Almost like an interfund borrowing. Is that the strategy of doing it that way? Yes. One way That's one way of doing it. One way of doing it. I mean, is that what we're kind of proposing in doing that? We're all options on the table. Not saying yes. Not saying no, we can't do that though. If we feel like we want to replenish that, we can. So the loan possibility,
just similar to what we did with the fire truck, it's, there's minimal fees involved, to take out a loan from Northwestern, and it's a 3.5%, 3.7% interest rate. So we'll you know, it'll be a combination, something like that, reserves and a small loan. Yeah. And when you're saying replenishing, you're talking about what we would generate off of property taxes to go back into that. Yeah. Correct. Correct. K. I mean, again, as as we get close, we weigh the options. I just I wanna make sure I'm tracking where the money's coming from. So what I guess, we'll find out when we make that determination.
Yes. Literally, we yes. Well, next six weeks, we'll nail that down. Okay. Yes. Any other questions? We do feel a lot better based on where the bid numbers are going. Yes. And the water fund, I mean, the reserves there are very healthy, too. So again, been lucky and conservative keeping those reserves in a more than healthy state too. So And this and then and to mention about the down payment part from Resco and Red River Valley, dollars 60,000 or whatever it ends up being, that's, you know,
pretty substantial for us to help us out there too. Okay. And I got mister Steigle. Mister Mayor and mister Aaker, how do you the the difference in what you're expecting it pre bid and the post bid, What were there any what surprised you? I mean, what what made the big change in cost? The just looking at the the the bid tabulation, with six bids, we get a we get a varying a variety of of unit prices. And our estimate last fall was kind of at the top of of each of
the bidders for each item. The top the highest price for this contractor was kind of where our estimate was. And so when you factor that all in, that's how our estimate was a little bit higher. The fact of the matter is it is a very competitive bidding environment right now. Projects we've also got projects in neighboring communities that are being bid. And right now, we're getting fantastic bid prices for for everything. So, yeah, exactly. Contractors are very hungry for stacking up work.
Anything else for stacking? Nope. Any other questions? To that end, hearing no further questions, I will entertain a motion for resolution twenty six seventeen, awarding the bid for the 34th Street North Water Main Extension Project. Motion to approve. Motion by Nash. Second. Second by Borra. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you both. Appreciate it. With that, it does move us to number nine, and nine alpha is the update on the Freightliner fire engine. Does that mean it's delivered? Yes. It's in her fire station.
Oh. That's my update. No. Mister mayor, members of council, we finally have received our engine 41. Be, like, probably six to eight weeks before we get into the service. We got a lot of stuff to put on it, starting with the radio. And we have to we have to hand drill all the holes to fill the compartments, that type of thing. So it's a little bit more involved than just throwing it out there. So, we received it. It's in good health. Salesman's coming out tomorrow night to go through it with us.
Basically run through the pumping procedure and those types of things for those that didn't go to Florida. And then we'll get it into service as quickly as possible. I just estimated four to six four to eight weeks. Just I don't wanna put a date on it because I don't know when it's gonna happen. So but it is sitting in the back of Bay 1. If you wanna see it, feel free. It's a it's a nice piece of equipment. I I wanna give hats off to the committee and everybody who had input into it. We used every cubic inch of that that, truck for something.
And you can and, you know, just to, show you how we did that above each back wheel well, there's two places that are just dead space that we put in tanks that we can carry extra tanks, not just one. On one side, there's three on three in each front and back of that wheel well, and on the other side are two packs. So this truck will go out with four people that are packed up and the ability to add two more packs for people arriving. The other thing we did with this or the committee did with this is they
added the which I didn't take a picture of, but, you know, we'll have we'll you'll see it at some point, is adding the lazy Susan in the back corner that you see there for the rescue tools. So now we bring our rescue unit with us instead of having to wait for rescue and fire to to go inside, which is which is huge. So I'm looking forward to doing to putting that into service. And that's all I have. I'll take any questions. Any questions for the chief? I just wanna drive it. Mister You and everybody else. Mister Steichen.
I did, I did get a tour of it. Yep. I heard. I heard. And what caught me was those compartments of front and back of the wheel wells where you can store those tanks. I thought that was pretty ingenious. And they showed me the other things that, don't need to get bogged on any detail, but it all was definitely planned out. It was all well thought out, and I think there's a few changes that took place during the process. But it's pretty amazing how everything all fits together, works together, and and the thought process that went into it.
So I give you guys and the committee kudos because they they did their job well. Oh, thank you. Yeah. They did a they did an outstanding job. Yeah. So Then the check was cut, received, and it even cleared. So that's good. That's the best. I ask that question a lot. Well done, Greg. Good, do we? Any other questions for chief or for Peyton? Congratulations, Chief, on that one. I guess we move on to the next one. That's fair. Better order it. It took around three years to get this one, so we better order it in 2032. Or maybe in 2031.
So Thank you, chief. Yep. Well He's not kidding. Yeah. Well, I've I've four or five years now. That's what they're saying. Yes. Like, so it does make sense. Like, I was having the conversation. I think it and maybe I'm, I don't know, making sure that we've identified, like, the updated process and the time line, for when the next purchase does need to be to be brought to council and those decisions made. And and remember, like, I I love how it turned out. I like the confidence that, instills that piece of equipment instills in our firefighters.
You can see it in their faces just looking at them right here, right now. So, again, it's it's a process. It's costly, but the investment is worth every single penny. So, thanks for that, chief, and and all the, men that are involved in that process. It was a good one. It does move us to number 10 in City Hall. First and foremost, 10 Alpha. We have our public hearing on resolution twenty six twenty, miscellaneous assessment for replacement water meter. It is six fifty seven. We will open the public hearing and begin,
with staff presentation. Peyton? Yes. This is for an unpaid invoice. All right, thank you. With that, is there anyone here to speak in favor or opposition, to this assessment? Second call for public input? Hearing none, we'll close our public hearing at 06:58 ish and move on to counsel discussion. Any questions or comments from counsel? I said a general question on this. Tell me how the the cost for replacement water meter. What what initiates that? Several factors go into that.
Often, it is, I'm not sure of this situation, Angela may know. Just in general. Yes. Oftentimes, it's we have to go out and maybe turn off water or turn the meter. We realize that it's damage or repair, and that's the responsibility of the property owners. That's how we catch those oftentimes. We have other means with some of our software to know when meters aren't working properly. And, yes, so that's just the responsibility of the property owners. We send them a letter saying you have x amount of days to get this repaired. If you don't do it,
then we will hire someone and send you a bill for it. And if you don't pay the bill, then it comes to you for collection at that time. Any other questions? Nope. Thank you, Mr. Steichen. Hearing no further questions or comments, I will entertain a motion for Resolution twenty six twenty. So moved. Motion by Peterson. Second. Second by Nash. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does bring us to 10 Bravo. We took, for Foxtrot from our consent agenda.
Mr. Seckin, do you have a question or comment? Well, every time I see a proclamation, I think it's worthwhile when four cities have signed off on it, to, read it out loud. Sure. So as we're looking at this, we have the official proclamation of the cities of Moorhead, Delaware, State Of Minnesota, and the cities of Fargo and West Fargo for the state of North Dakota. And as we look, it's whereas, the aesthetic beauty and wonder of natural night sky is shared among common cultural focus of all humankind and whereas 90% of the world's population, including many in the Fargo Moorhead area,
live under a dome of excessive artificial lighting at night that disrupts natural darkness and whereas light pollution has scientifically linked consequences to human health from disruption of circadian rhythms and day and night cycles, including increased rates of cancer, obesity, diabetes, sleep, and eating disorders, mental health issues such as bipolar disease and dementia, and whereas light pollution represents a waste of natural resources, with a 2022 Department of Energy report stating that less than 1% of all outdoor
lighting reaches the human eye and that over $3,400,000,000 would be saved annually if smart and sustainable lighting systems were installed across 75 of the country, all of which would contribute to energy security in our communities and nation. And whereas North Dakota relies economically on a robust agricultural sector and studies have shown that soybeans and other crops are sensitive to exposure of light pollution in addition to high risks of pollinator species such as honeybees and moths.
And whereas North Dakota is located along the Central Flyway and the border of Mississippi Flyway, both significant neotropical migratory pathways, which are approximately 400 to four fifty million birds migrate through North Dakota in the spring and fall season, as with as as many as 35,000,000 birds in flight on peak nights, over half of North America's breeding birds are migratory. With more than 80% migrant at night and during migration, lights can cause birds to collide with windows or walls,
causing injury, exhaustion, confusion, or death. And now, therefore, that we, the mayors of Moorhead, Dilworth Fargo, and West Fargo, do hereby proclaim April 13 through the twentieth twenty twenty six to be International Dark Sky Week. Hear hear hear. Turn off the lights, gentlemen, ladies. So just so typically how proclamations come about, these have been around multiple years. So we normally get contacted as a City Hall staff, all the City Hall staffs collectively,
and we all kind of coordinate together because you get multiple proclamations through a year and not everyone is signed off on necessarily. You know, if there's communities that don't feel strongly about certain matters or whatever it may be. But then there's other ones that and they're really interesting. I thought this one was really interesting when it came when it was first, brought to us about I think it was like three or four years ago originally when this proclamation came. And at first, I didn't I was like,
I'm not signing off on this. You know, it's when you just first read, like, what the title of it is and then you start researching a little more and what it's about. So there's due diligence done by all the communities as a whole. So it's actually a good testament to how we all coordinate together on these things and get input from the mayors on them to make sure that they're all on board with it. For me, having grown up in the country, I know what darkness is. And people that have never essentially lived out of the city do not know what darkness is. So it's a huge contrast in what we've known,
I guess. So other than conservation ideas, it's when I first saw it, I was thinking, well, it's kind of interesting until I read through it, and it made sense. Any other questions or comments? No. So I will entertain a motion to, I guess, receive and file the proclamation Yeah. As 10. Steichen, so move. Motion by Steichen. Second. Second by Borah. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does bring us to number 11, council members' concerns, committee updates, are on the horn. K. I I only ask because we
did a little, apples to apples comparison or so we think, on the fire department as far as the relief is has COJO as their investment report. Administrator. I don't know exactly what his title was, I guess. And what we found was that there were some other entities that were getting a little bit better return than we were. So am I and I'm not insinuating that they're not doing their job, but is it pertinent and responsible for us to maybe explore other options?
And and maybe they are the best too. But, just curious when the last time maybe we shopped around a little bit was if we've done some some apples to apples comparisons on other cities, our side with similar, investments and, and who they're using and how they're doing. So, I'd be curious to see how that goes. Just to quickly address that, Kevin, we did, this last year, we went the fee the fees with Bremer are just a Scotia hire. Then, we put and I think I spoke about this maybe back in,
I don't know, November. So we put $2,300,000 with with the Ehlers Group. And they're and so that's We have diversified. So I thought I went I added another one. Yes. Nice. Yep. And and I'm always looking at at the fees. The two the the unique thing with with Bremer, 1873 and and and Ehlers is is we're in municipal bonds and agencies, so we're in public debt. And, as opposed to CDs, etcetera. Sure. So so So there are some nuances. Right.
So I did take, but I'm always open to and looking for for fees. I appreciate that, sir. Great question. Yeah. That's that's all I got. Thank you. Amber? I just wanna say the people over in Woodbridge doing the pond, they are cleaning up. I've been my kids have been asking tons of questions. We drive by and look at it constantly, but I see them out every day cleaning everything up and making it look nice. So I I had no doubt that they would do that, but it was just good to see it. And it looks like they're kinda getting close to maybe being done. They are. I was gonna make note of that. So they should be wrapping up activities here in the next couple of days now,
with the pawn, or pawns, I guess, I should say. Yeah, we've taken multiple inquiries on the pond activity, but they seem to be doing an amazing job of keeping the debris as minimized as possible off the street. In addition to that, it's a well oiled machine they got going on. You watch them, it's just one truck right after another. It's it's kind of interesting to watch, but they did a really nice job. But we're really proud of what the they've been able to accomplish. Same. Yeah. Just gonna add one one item to that.
Just a reminder, we, asked them to not stabilize with with the reseeding and things of that nature until, really towards the April. Oh, that's good to know. Just because, it's a volatile time from construction still at this point, and right now it might be okay, but there's when we were setting this up, the timing of getting that done, we just don't want them to make a mess when they're restoring the ground. So there will be a little bit of a delay before the site gets reseated. Okay. That's good to know because I know I've got a lot of stuff.
Going on here. Yes. People have definitely been asking. My son loves it, the little guy that cleans up at the end and the little machine. He thinks it's fun because we're coming home from day care when he's leaving. Get a wave every day. But, no, they've been doing a good job. It's fun to watch them. That's all I got. Alright. Thank you. Mister Steck? I just, was at the, Maple River transmission line open house this afternoon over at the TAC, and there's three other places it's gonna be held after today. The line is coming close to Dilworth. I was kind of curious where it's gonna where they have it planned,
not the final, it's where they plan to put it. And it's going to be North of Dilworth and it's going to drop down east across 10 towards Glendon Warsaw. So the process is there's two permits. One permitting is for the need. The other permitting is for the, actual build, I guess, is you know, kinda encompasses a lot. And they're trying to, combine the two lines so they're they're kinda hopefully border or parallel another line so they can share some of the easements.
So that makes sense. And they did a great job of explaining how the transmission lines work with their different unit, companies work with each other and share power and transmit and change and everything like that. So, it's still a few couple, three years out at the earliest. So it's quite a project, coming from North Of Fargo over towards, Brainerd area there. So that was kinda interesting. Yeah. The safety fair at the school was neat. I like that.
At a showing local of fire and police. And there's a lot of things. There's a lot of hands on things, a lot of demonstrations, and there's a lot of profit to nonprofits, talking about what they do. So it kinda encompassed a lot of lot of, different assets of health and safety. So one of the things that the, police had on display was these impairment goggles. Never went on before. And you're supposed to walk this little carpeted map.
Not that easy. Then there's different levels. So, so what and it gave me a NOS. Kinda made me, dizzy for a while afterwards. So I'll have to go to the mostly highest distorted one too, so I can't just leave it at minimum. So so thanks for the for whoever participated and put it on. It was great. Well worth it, and there's other things going on that weekend as well, so it it all affects everything. The, trip to Saint Paul was I always like these trips. The league, Minnesota league had their part early on and but the FM Chamber did a fantastic
job of organizing legislators and rooms and places to meet, and so that's a huge task on their part. And and this year, Detroit Lakes tagged along. So the group got pretty decent. And it's kinda fun to have a group large enough where they can see a real presence and to kinda have a unified voice on, what it is they were you know, if it's border city with from Warhead, our social district and tax exempt for construction and all that. But everybody's asking for money,
like always. Not the best time to be asking for money, and it's kind of fun to hear the ideas on what what some might feel is going to be bonded. Some thought for sure it would. Some weren't quite so sure. I like the one, lady from the agriculture department. She didn't say she didn't say green, yellow, or red. She goes, I see a flickering green. So she does have some little bit of optimism. So, it was all good. Well, the mayor and Payton can talk more about the inkatric inkatric inkatric inkat
In it. What do you check? Intricacies of that. So Nuances. Easy for me to say. But it was good. I made some other connections when I was down there. So I got to be a long day the second day. So, so thank you for sending for sending me and all that. So the, one thing they said, don't let us stall out. It's basically tie and, you know, essentially a tie, so they need one vote to cross over. But they said if you can say one thing, don't, and this one, sent me a message. In short,
differences in opinion, when properly channeled, are an asset to the intellectual discussions. And it's a sign of vitality. So hopefully nobody just digs your heels in. There has to be some compromise and that usually happens towards the end. So they went on to a few other things about, their philosophy on how we hopefully all work together and we'll see how that does. But, the weather was good and, people were friendly and, you know, it was it was a good time. Thank you. Thank you, mister Steichen. Julie? Yeah.
Thanks to police fire for showing up and for the police department for coordinating that health and safety fair. That was I mean, there was a lot of effort, and I'm sure staff here as well put in to that event. And the vendors were great, the information sessions. I just appreciate all the work that went into that. It was, yeah. And next step will be the kite day, so that's coming up. Other than that, a lot of community center stuff. I don't have any other updates. Thank you, Julie. Peyton? We'll see what comes out of that.
I've, since our last meeting, I've had a couple meetings with the city of Moorhead and Matt Bus just talking about the future transportation needs of the area, maybe implementation, some of the recommendations of the TDP. There are gonna be some upcoming changes that we'll see to our route. Nothing materially, But, like so right now the bus comes off of Highway 10 into Hoeghien Estates and it gets pretty convoluted right there. There's a lot of multiple accidents and they try their best to stay off of
private property or within parking lots. They're not really designed for bus traffic so there'll be some rerouting of things. Again, it's not gonna really change or impact the route itself. They'll still be picking up individuals from Hokey and hopefully and then when you're talking about the future of like where the the community center's gonna be located, maybe that will alter that route a little bit. As well as the change with the roundabout going in at 8th Avenue when we were talking about all the work that we were gonna do with the shelter a couple of years ago.
That involved potentially having a shelter right on 8th Avenue. So we're gonna have an opportunity to revisit that as part of the whole process. I'll yield the remaining of my time to mayor Olsen to discuss everything that went on about the tone and tenor of Saint Paul. Thank you. The tone and tenor of Saint Paul. Everybody has an excuse for not getting something done in Saint Paul. The best comment was senator Kupak when he walked in, and he said that he was being rushed from one committee meeting to the next and to go present a bill. And he's like, I'm sorry.
A minute late. Everything that was everything had been said, but not everyone had a chance to say it. You know? I thought that was just appropriate, and that sort of sets the tone of how everything works down there. They did seem to be moving at a frantic pace. So we're fortunate working with the Chamber to leverage our voice with our region. And I think the big one of the big takeaways is by the time we went back to work on Monday, there was legislation for our social districts that potentially can impact Moorhead,
Dilworth. And, actually, it it read like it was gonna be if a city wanted to adopt it, it was gonna be possible. So, again, for festivals and things like that, block, you know, a block party at, in the rail district if they wanna do it. I mean, there there's applications in the process, but to have it turn around that fast, and we'll see where it goes, I mean, again, it's it's it was good to see it move. It was good to have, tangible and immediate results, and not everything has to be about money. That that worked out, and I'm I'm optimistic. It also leads us into the Chamber had,
Civics on Tap event on Thursday, and I was fortunate enough to attend. And that was all well and fine. I got to speak with the city of Delworth. But the cool part was there was a couple of developers there who, you know, just talked about our new industrial park. Again, unbeknownst to me, not prompted, but the word is out there. Again, making Dilworth a marketable place to do business. I thought that was exciting. That was fun. And again, completely unexpected, but again, gives us an opportunity to leverage partnerships, relationships, and continue to move Dilworth forward.
Always listening, and I think, listening bringing it back to the conversation about our community center, I'm glad to see they put that kitchen window in there. I mean, having that in the plans was good. And again, just listening to some of the comments, and I don't know how this will work, Payton, as you visit again, but one of the elements that was brought to my attention, I said I have no idea, would be like a mother's room in the event that we have all this play space, so we have a new mother, maybe nursing and stuff like that is, I don't remember seeing in the plan. Maybe there's a potential to modify or something like that,
see how it might work out. I said I would ask the question, so I'm asking the question. So, again, just being able to listen and have the conversations and and and build from there, gives us opportunities to do better. So, my other question and my other comment, too, really comes to Perry as we're into the right, we're wrapping up the 2026 already. And I'm glad that we're moving things forward. Bids are coming in lower or at where we expected them to be. One of the things, I guess, I'd like to be able to see is is where we're at with spending and
and obligations as we're looking forward to next projects and what's coming in. Another conversation that is held in Saint Paul, but we hear it all the time, is affordability. And so as we're doing these things, these things are gonna cost us money, and we need to make sure that we're, not pricing us out of being affordable in Dilworth. And if we need to do projects, that we're doing everything we possibly can to be as fiscally responsible as possible. So if we could see kinda like where we're at, what what we're projected at, when it's appropriate, like, as we're as we're looking through this. And then just a general question for
a later update too. I don't expect an answer now. But, like, what's the most fiscally responsible, choice for us to do with our investments? Kevin, you made a great point with, like, trying to maximize the return on our investment. Are there other vehicles out there? But at the same time, if we're generating this revenue, what do we see as the goal to deal with it? And where are we going to invest it? And we can have that conversation maybe in an update in six to eight weeks whenever we think it's but that was always going through my head, and then we can visit off offline if if we need some more direction.
But those are, again, a little bit of Saint Paul, a little bit of, real life too when it comes to the affordability these days. So, with that, thank you everybody for all the things that are happening in the right direction. It does move us to number 12, and 12 a is payment of the bills. Any questions on the bills? I will entertain a motion to pay the bills. So moved. Motion by Nash. Second. Second by Peterson. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And with there being no further business before council this evening,
call this meeting adjourn.