Point. With it being 6060 6, we'll 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. With that, could we do roll call around the horn, please? Peterson. Laura. Steichen. Nash. And Olson. With that, I have our agenda before us this evening. I didn't see any additions or subtractions. Seeing no additions or subtractions, I will entertain a motion for our agenda.
Motion to approve. Motion by Nash. Second. Second by Bora. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, we have our consent. Questions, comments? I would like to pull four echo off of the value of the, statement. I think it should be read aloud and acted separately. So with that, we'll move for echo to, we'll we're gonna call it I wanna go all the way to the bottom. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Eight c. We'll go eight c after right before. Perfect. So with that,
Mr. Steichen, does that work for you? Yes. All right. With that, we have that pulled off for our consent agenda and moved to 8C. Any other questions, comments, concerns? Hearing none, all those in favor of the consent agenda or pardon me, I will entertain a motion. Motion to approve. A motion by Nash. Steichen, second. And a second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, Peyton has moved to number five. Has there been any request to speak before council this evening? None received. Once again, encourage the public to participate in our process. It does help us make progress.
And with that, it does move us to six, item number six and six alpha is Resolution 2,547, authorizing the municipal lease an auction agreement to, the certificate of indebtedness, Series twenty twenty five Alpha Peyton, you, Perry, who's I'm going to let Perry take this one. So this, certificate of indebtedness is for the new delivery coming, December 5 is the latest we've got. It is I mean, my my looking at this, it's a note payable with Northwestern Bank. Interest rate of 3.9%,
five year term is what we're going to go with. So that amount is what we would borrow, dollars 475,000. The interest, over the five years, it comes to about $34,000, for a total of 523,611. And this certificate of indebtedness leaves the city owning the vehicle, so there is no security agreement. They the city owns the truck from day one. And, anyway, and they've been very side note, they have been very good to work with across the street at Northwestern Bank.
They knew all about this. Katie our the cities that are She's your attorney. She's worked for us. She also represents them too. So she, on this one anyway, she wrote up the agreement. And it's been a few years. I think it's been maybe five or more years since one of these was used by Dilworth. So that said, again, it's 475,000. The annual payment will be about a $103,103,000 and change. They will take that amount monthly out of right directly out of our checking account. So it'll be a real simple transaction,
for us to administer. But that is in the again, the interest rate, 3.9, which is, I thought, reasonable, reasonable rate. So with that, this the council has asked to approve this. I won't have this the the actual dates nailed down until we have that actual, you know, your delivery. Yeah. The delivery dates right now are moving target. I talked to our rep last week, and they haven't received the chassis yet. Once that chassis arrives on plant,
it goes right in production, and then it's usually six, eight, nine weeks out. So it could be into January is what he's saying. So Yeah. So and with that, I won't I won't actually get, borrow the money till maybe ten days, two weeks, as close as I can to to when we need that those funds. He needs to have deliver those funds when they take delivery of that truck. Yeah. So I don't need them a month ahead. Ideally, maybe two weeks ahead. I'm sure we'll have it narrowed down to that.
But, again, it is the city's truck. There is no security agreement with this. Questions? Sounds like we're paying for the fire truck we ordered. That's what we're doing. Yes. We are. Any questions? K. Hearing none, I will entertain a motion for Resolution 20Five-forty7. So moved. Like no one wants to pay for the price. All right. Motion by Nash. Second. Second by Boro. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Barry. Thank you, chief. With that, it does move us to six bravo, resolution twenty five forty eight, authorizing dispatch and use of fire department equipment service by the city administrator in emergency
situations. Keith, you wanna tell me how this one works? Yes. Mister mayor, members of the council, back in June, we got a request from the Midgee fire to come and, you know, do twelve, twenty four hour shifts because of their, wind event that they had. They were looking for outstate fire departments to come and and basically man their stations while they while their departments did the cleanup and did did their safety services. It was a Saturday. They called me. You know, the Fire Chiefs Association has a has a calling tree or we have a Northwest
rep that calls and asked if we could provide that service. I'm like, I have no idea. So I called Peyton. We decided, basically talking back and forth, I don't think we would have provided that service because it's such a long distance away, but it got me thinking. So I called the sheriff because he knows everything about public safety. Talked to him a bit, and he said, it's probably a good idea. We tabled it. It was on, you know, the back burner for me. On September 22, our northwest rep, Ryan Muckow, who is the fire chief in Fergus Falls, sent out sent out the resolution you saw see see before you as a template
for us to do this, and I've I've brought it back up to the forefront, talked to Peyton. Yeah. This is a good idea. And that's where we sit today. Now just just so you're aware, this is not something that will happen regularly. We protect our city first. We protect our residents first. But if we can help in, let's say, Breckenridge or somewhere close, we should I feel, as fire chief, we should do that. And if I have the ability to do it with our men, our guys. You know because it takes what they requested was an engine, turnout gear,
SCBA and a crew of four. Well we have to have the ability to send those four. I mean they have to take guys have to take off work or something like that. So there's a lot of moving parts but what this resolution does it allows us in conjunction with the fire chief within conjunction with the city manager to make that decision on the fly instead of having to have council approval. K? This template is used across the state of Minnesota, and so it's nothing we're coming up with. It's already there. It's just a matter of we're buying into it. Now to request these services,
we don't need this resolution. We can request services anytime we need them, and then departments that have this interstate mutual aid have the ability to to help us out. There's no money there's no money involved for the city. It's paid through it's paid through whatever entity requests us, whether they get FEMA aid or whatever. It's gonna be a natural disaster, let me tell you that, or, you know, half a city's burning, something like that. I mean, it's gonna be something really big to do this.
This isn't a common event, but it's nice to have it in place. When it does happen, we'll be able to make that decision on the fly and and and help out. Julie? I mean, I read it, and it seems like it makes sense. I mean, you have to be able to do it in the moment. We can't anticipate with emergency. And so I would have guessed that we already have that ability, but having something that specifically states that we can do it seems to make sense to me. I agree that Bemidji is probably too far. You're not gonna find a lot of people to volunteer to go do shifts.
But, you know, given the right circumstance and based on your guys' experience, that that could be something. I mean, we we have Detroit. I I tried to think of the Kirkston, Detroit Lakes, you know, something close in in this Northwest corner, not in the middle of the state. That that's a long ways and a big ask. But you could with We could. Yeah. We could go to Duluth. It doesn't matter. Yeah. In the tornado. Right? Stuff like that. You could. We could. We could. The the my question, you know, looking at this, obviously, you're bringing it forward, so and you want to do this.
Correct? Absolutely. And and I'm gonna defer to your judgment and your decision making. I just tried to tried to think of, like, do we have duplicated equipment? Like, if if one truck goes, do we have another truck with the same capacity? That's that was the only thing that I was that that was going through my because I'm all in favor of of helping out and making that work. I was like, okay. If we send hours, what are we left with? But Yeah. We we do have duplication in trucks, engines specifically. But we also have our our our mutual aid partners also, but I wouldn't rely on those.
It'd have to be a special situation. If I'm chief, it had to be a really special situation where we could we could make a difference, because it's gonna a lot of parts have to fall, like I said. We gotta have four guys that have to that probably take off work. I mean, they were looking for twelve or twenty four hour shifts, plus it's a three hour drive. You know, it's it's not something that to to Bemidji, that was not something that was even I thought was even possible. It's just brought this up and brought it to the forefront that, hey. We don't have the ability to do this on the fly. So it it I mean, like I said, it has to be a really special situation.
It's not gonna be, hey. We're gonna be doing this all the time. Mister Steichen? I talked to the chief about this. It makes total sense. Obviously, Bemidji is kind of, out their ways. But, just right across the county border, I mean, that could be used, you know, a whole lot easier than, obviously. But it's nice to know that there's something in place that you don't have to wonder and think whatever you and the city administrator can figure out. It it makes total sense to me and our discussions. I didn't feel anything
negative against going forward with this. When you send them, chief, I support you. I don't care if it's into Moorhead or Morris or Mora, whatever. Like, I want you to have that ability. If you have the crews that want to go and want to help, send them. Thank you. Any other questions, comments? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion for resolution 22,548. Steichen would move for resolution 2,548. Motion by Steichen. Second. Second by Nash. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed?
Motion carries. Thank you, chief. Appreciate that. With that, it does move us to item number seven. Our finance seven alpha is resolution 2,549, the 2026 preliminary tax levy. And I'm just gonna say this now, rather than at the end of the meeting before we get started. I appreciate all the effort that has been put into this, obviously, by management and staff and full time, full time employees, like, just making this work. And the the conversations that we've had getting us up to this point,
I do I do appreciate the the effort and the candor that's put in to get us where we are. So and, again, thank you for your the additional hours we as we prepared for this. Any questions of what we've been discussing for the last August, September, October now? Penny, do you wanna anything for us, Perry? Nothing? Alright. With that, any are there any questions, comments, concerns? If there's none, I'm gonna hear the motion. I I would just like to comment that $9.07 1 is the highest it can go, and we still have the the the option and the ability to come lower than
that with the final levy increase. That is the rule. That is the law. So to that end, was that a motion, Kevin? I'd I'll I'll motion to accept the preliminary levy. I have a motion by Kevin. Second. Second by Borra. All those in favor of the preliminary levy, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does move us to number eight. It feels nice. Eight alpha is resolution twenty five fifty, disposition of real property outside of the City Of Dilworth corporate limits on 30 Fourth Street. Peyton? Thank you, mayor, members of the council.
Over the summertime, we went to closed session to discuss the former City Of Dilworth landfill site on South 30 Fourth Street, which is actually within the City Of Moorhead corporate limits outside of our city limits. Properties just south of where the bridge, I guess, you call it a bridge right now, whatever's being constructed out there. Currently, that'll be open here in the next few weeks. But there is a potential development that's gonna be going in this location.
So I was contacted by Craig Holdings about potentially acquiring this piece of land from us and then reviewing it with the city council and internally checking with the MPCA. Legal did their due diligence. We have before you a resolution to sell the property, and a purchase agreement's been put together by Katie. We're set to close on the property November 10, contingent upon the approval today. The cost or the sale price for this land is $10,100
plus all expenses that will incur, like, on the legal side preparing documentation and and such. So I know from a maintenance perspective, they're excited. Now they don't have to go over there and mow this land, so this will be the final center of mowing this property. So with the council's authorization approval of the resolution, we will get this property disposed of. Any questions for Peyton? Alright. Hearing no questions, I will entertain a motion for resolution twenty five fifty. So moved. A motion by Kevin. Second. Second by Julie.
That was really close, by the way. So, all those in favor of disposing the property or the disposition of the property? Different words. Say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does move us to eight b, resolution twenty five fifty one, the cooperative agreement with MnDOT for traffic control signal installation on Highway 10 Frontage Road. Payton? Mayor, members of the council, resolution twenty five fifty one gives us the authorization to enter into an agreement with MnDOT for a traffic signal at Highway 10 Of Frontage Road.
So out front where Kwik Trip is currently being constructed on this property, Pizza Ranch, over here, wherever it is. So we all know what we're talking about, tractor supplies on the other side of the street. Based on the recent traffic counts that were done as part of the Highway 10 corridor study, it reflected it warrants a streetlight here at this particular intersection. MnDOT wanted to move on this before the official opening of Quick Trip, which is slated for that towards the November.
It's set to be bids are set to be open on September 30 for this project. And, how how it works with MnDOT and these agreements when you have a local roadway and a state and trunk highway running through it. It ends up being a fifty fifty split between the two agencies. And so you can see our estimated share up there is about $83,000 that can go up or down, I guess, depending upon the level of bids that they receive. So, effectively, how I understand it,
our responsibility is we'll call it, like, the north south lights, the ones that are on our property that are outside of the highway. They're directing traffic from our land to the trunk highway, then they do the east West, components of it. There will be some synchronization that goes on with the city of Moorhead and their systems. So they operate, along with the state in conjunction with the state, the 30 Fourth Street stoplight and also the 30 Second Street stoplight that goes in
at where where Target is located. So there'll be some timing efforts that have to go on. They will handle and administer all of that. Yes. Will that does that include ours, or is that too far out? Excuse me? Like our stoplight, so we can hit all of the stoplights going in, like or is that too far out? I got a legitimate question, like This one here. This one here. I think that one's triggered by cross traffic. Oh, yeah. It's waited. Thank you, mister Steigen. Correct. These are just on a timer. K. It's bad right now. Julie? So I'm trying to remember back to the project,
you know, the study we did with MnDOT. Does this basically lock us into a traffic light there when they haven't decided what they're going to do with the entire road? Regardless, the only no. The what they're putting in right now, yeah, is gonna be more of a temporary like nature. The recommended alternatives that the state has been working on right now is to show a signal at this location. They spec'd out, the roundabouts. I don't think the geometry was working at all, so there would not be a roundabout here as I understand. There would only be a traffic signal, which that is slated to go in as part of the 2031 project.
So it's just temporary till '31, and then we're gonna Get a better one. Get a get a better one. Will we have to pay twice then? Probably. That sounds fantastic. Thank you. If you said no, would they do it anyway? You bet they would. And well, they even even in this case, kinda to your question, they're they're not gonna do this until we sign off on the contract. Yeah. Yeah. Put it out there. And and I did make a note in here, and this is something I conveyed to them. I was, a little disappointed in the timing of all this because this is something that since Kwik Trip bought the property three years ago,
now they've owned it for several years. It's not like they just came in this season and built, you know, took out a building permit and didn't know they were, gonna move on it. So I think back in '22, '21, '22, when they purchased the land, we started having discussions even at that time, with the state and knowing that this is going to be going in. TAC was already open. They've already complained I shouldn't say complained, but raised concerns with the state multiple times, especially once 30 Fourth Street got cut off. That's the only way to get in and out,
through there if you're going back to the you know, going back south. So, this is something that's been on the radar for several years now. And, you know, it's just unfortunate with the timing that this came about where we had a conversation about this last week. You know? It's like, okay. Now we're gonna do this because they're gonna open out there. And so this really started to come together really about two or three months ago. I don't know if they were fully understanding that Kwik Trip was gonna be coming online this year. And so it moved up their project schedule list all of a sudden,
but this did not allow us, obviously, to budget for this project. This would have been a new improvement as well. I think that would have reserved the right if we we wanted to specially assess on both sides of Highway 10 to our commercial businesses. So this, prohibited us from going that route because of the timing of it as well. So it's just unfortunate in that regard. But with that said, we'll figure it out. And, it's gonna be a great safety improvement and hopefully move traffic much better through this intersection. And, hopefully, if all goes according to plan, they should be in place before a quick trip opens.
So we're shooting for it at least. Any questions for Peyton? Awesome. With that, thank you, Peyton, and I will entertain a motion for resolution twenty five fifty one. Second. A motion by Kevin. Second. Second by Julie. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Peyton, could you please pull up, the resolution for the truth in taxation, please? I was trying to do the math. I mean, because do we do do we get credit for thirty fourth for that one and then the one on on eighth? I mean, where are we at? Two and a half. You're saying the proclamation that we Yes, please. Mister Steichen sorry.
Yeah. The eight Charlie, the the approve, the truth in taxation here we go. I'll just read this quickly. The proclamation, mister Steichen, that you would that you pulled off, one that read says, whereas our community is made up of people from every nation on Earth and, who declared equal, but on not only in freedoms, but also in justice, both which are essential for a healthy human civilization, and whereas the Indian Child Welfare Act was established in 1978 with the intention to protect indigenous children and to promote stability and security of tribes and families,
the act establishes minimum federal standards for the removal and placement of indigenous children in homes that reflect the unique values of their culture and whereas the establishment of the Indian Child Welfare Act served as a legislative action that led to the, dissolution of the routine practice of placement of indigenous children in residential boarding schools and adoptive homes and, whereas in 2013, Residential School Supervisor, Phyllis Jack Webster, shared the story of having her new orange shirt taken away from her on her first day at boarding school.
Since then, orange has been a reminder of how no one cared for her or other indigenous children. This story was told during, Saint Joseph Mission Residential School commemoration project and reunion, event in Williams Lake, British Columbia and served as the inspiration for what has become known as Orange Shirt Day. And whereas the House of Commons in Canada has established an official day of remembrance for the children and families affected by residential boarding schools, This is part of the reconciliation process with the First Nations,
Inuit, and Metis people and is observed annually on September 30 and whereas reconciliation efforts such as the recognition of Indigenous Peoples' Day locally have led to a renewed hope for Indigenous Peoples' to feel a sense of worth, care, and cohesive belonging in the communities throughout acknowledgment of events in the past. Now, therefore, be it resolved that we, Doctor. Timothy Mahoney, Mayor of Fargo, Bernie Dardis, Mayor of West Fargo, Shelley Carlson, Mayor of Moorhead, and Chattels, Mayor of Deworth,
do hereby proclaim Tuesday, 09/30/2025, as Truth and Reconciliation Day. In the cities of Fargo, North Dakota West Fargo, North Dakota Moorhead, Minnesota Dilworth, Minnesota and all cities commit to remaining vigilant in the efforts to facilitate continued dialogue with parties who wish to work collaboratively and address racial inequalities in our metro community. Thank you, mister Steichen. Any questions or comments with regards to that? Paul, my wife and I were in Ottawa when this kind of all started developing some
years. Well, it's been going on quite a while. And we've seen the protests up there. And it's not just it's both Canada and U. S. Were affected. And there's a lot of people still alive today that were directly affected by it. And when you read more about it, it's just amazing what had happened to some of these families and how lost, I mean, they weren't even told what happened to their children. They just disappeared off the face of the Earth, essentially. So, I thank you for reading that. Well, thank you, mister Steichen, for,
pulling it off the the consent and us having the ability to give it the the opportunity and respect it deserves. So thank you very much. With that, it does move us to number nine. Councilmember's concerns oh, yeah, we do have to approve it. We didn't approve it with the consent. Thank you, Julie. With that, I will entertain a motion, to approve the Truth and Reconciliation Proclamation. Steichen so moved. Motion by Steichen. Second. Second by Nash. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, now we move to number nine. And again,
thank you, Julia. I appreciate that. Council members' concerns, committee updates are on the horn. Yeah. Thanks for pulling that. That was absolutely worth reading aloud, and and thank you, Chad, for, for getting on board with that. I was gonna ask Mike, but he's not here. So, Peyton, can you run me through the road projects we have going on and potential timelines, specifically the ditch culverts and then also 30 Fourth Street? Yeah. I'll do my best to obviously, those are not City of Dilworth projects. But Agreed. So starting with, the Ditch 50 project,
three culverts that are being replaced. And we're actually I was in contact with Andrew this morning and Mike because he talked with the project engineer on it because all of a sudden, it's like all three intersections, the crossings were closed. It kind of hijacked us. Yeah. Exactly. And as, I understand from Brent, I believe, is his name. I apologize if that messed up. They're supposed to be getting some classified down right away today to ensure that the the Fifth Street Northwest one remains open.
As far as the timeline goes, I was thinking it would've been done by now because that started local days week, actually. At least other two intersection are they're leaving another one open for the time being, which they just started on it there. As far as when it will be done, I can't say for certain. But looks like they're making a lot of progress, just not fast progress there. On 30 Fourth Street, I've not gotten an update from Clay. That's the assistant, city engineer over in Morehead. I know the bridge project the bridge portion south of Highway 10 will say was supposed to be completed by the September.
That's gonna be a lot of work to accomplish to get that done by the September. I saw them pouring concrete today. Yeah. But that would but that's been their intent all along, was to get that part open. In fairness, I've not been able to see what's going on on the other side of the hill, which I think they've been focusing a lot of efforts down there to Fourth Avenue from what I understand. That's probably why you haven't seen as many crews. But now on the north side, they're gonna have to shift over and do the other side of the our side of the road, correct? I think it's our side, yes, to finish up that project. So crossing my fingers that the September,
September 30 date plus or minus October, at least the bridge will be open. It also ties hand in hand with our street like project that we were talking about because I'm we're discussing this last week when we were talking with the state. We wanna make sure there's no safety concerns or other issues going on because you already can't make a left hand turn. Now all of a sudden, we're gonna be because they're gonna be shutting down traffic to do the street light at some point and knocking that down to one lane or two lanes, however, they're gonna maneuver that or redirecting around.
So I'm hoping this will all be done before then to ensure a clear and safe mode of travel. So a long winded way of saying, I don't know if you got answers to any of your questions. I'll take what I can get. There you go. Sounded like anyone else talking about that. Thank you. And and, you know, obviously, these are all gonna be, you know, good improvements when they're done. It's growing pains for now, and it's, it's been a a summer of of melee on the local roads this year. It's been tough to get around town,
so I'll be we'll all be happy when everything's put back together. Okay. That's good. That's all I got. Thank you. Amber? Yep. Dave, thanks for having that hold off to be read. I think that's a very important thing that people should hear every year. So thank you for doing that, and thanks, Chad, for reading that. I just wanted to say Paws and Park. I thought it went well. That's awesome. Angela, thank you for all your help with that. Peyton, all the departments, thank you guys for coming. And sheriff's department, k nine unit, you guys everybody came together and made it a wonderful event. The kids loved it. Dogs loved it.
The corgi races were amazing. So I just wanna thank everybody for their efforts. That's all I got. Thank you. Mister Steichen? Yeah. Couple things here. Mayor and I attended the, solar garden ceremony at the school with, some kids singing some cute song, and, its Ideal Energies, based out of the cities, was behind the project. And the project had, well, there's a grant along with the, the funding of the project. So the school for those that don't know, the top of the school is covered probably 75% of the roof is covered with
solar solar panels. I had a chance to go up there and take a look at it. It's pretty amazing. It's very low profile. Hopefully, the snow doesn't create issues, but, I wasn't able to figure out how much it generates, but it was it came online, in August. And so there's no cost to the school district at all, so they're they're creating, they're they're reducing their energy usage by using the solar panels right now. So it's it's pretty neat. My big concern was the fire department. Hopefully, they know how to deal with those things. I certainly don't.
If there's issues, I'll have to figure that out prior, with the persons that would be in charge of it. The, improving social, improving service deliveries, a third of our meetings on that. And some of the highlights they talked about was, there's certain things they're always going to support and there's certain things they're not going to support and it's, kinda not too, not not by much surprise, but for the cannabis, they're gonna support local more more local decision making in the process, local government aid.
I'm just very briefly hitting these. They want it tied to inflation. They're gonna promote funding for EMS services around the state. Bonding. They're still working on bonding, projects. They've seen they were I think they were in the area today, just looking at projects that hopefully get on their radar. Emerald Ash Borer, they're promoting, funding for some of those, cities that have big problems with the Ash Borer problem. And the other one is local decision well, there's others, but local decision making, they're going to oppose legislation that's going to erode local control and local decision making
process. So, a lot of these come about because there's probably some valid situation, but to have a blanket statement to cover the whole state just doesn't seem quite practical. So, that, that end of that, it's always fun listening to ideas. And Peyton is on there as well. He's part of, he's part of that committee as well, so, it's good to, good to hear things from around the state. The one I'm going to end with is the longest table event that a few of us are there. I always enjoy this, Chief was there too,
I always enjoy this event. For those that aren't familiar, it's it's it's a no cost free meal. Whole idea is to create conversations, get ideas. I hooked some couple people up with CAP LP, which you guys are familiar with, and and they're actually interested in coming and talking to us to see what to make sure everybody understands what, what they're all about. And they do some amazing things, with, creating community among in in among the community and,
helping people out in their daily and whatever issues they might have. So there's some great sponsors, like every other year, that was able to fund this and put it on. So, I found a family that I'm, we're becoming good friends with now. They're, part of the family is very new to The US and part of them, part of them has been here for a while, so, I just need to learn to speak a few words in a new language to, to actually integrate a little bit and just so it looks, so it, I mean, some of them don't speak English at all.
And, but it's great that this, these things exist for us to be a part of and it broadened me a lot and it, it puts some of the other people at ease when they know there's people in the community that, that care about, getting them situated, oriented, make them feel comfortable and not feel totally lost coming into a new country. So, it was great. I enjoyed it and I'll continue to promote it as long as I can. Julie? Thank you, mister Steichen. Julie?
Yeah. So, I mean, thank you to everyone that like, we've had a number of community events with Paws in the Park ball festival. I still wanna see some pictures from the pie eating contest, but, no. But and The Longest Table. I mean, that was about food too. So, I mean, the whole conversation was around food, and it was great. Anyway, I know a lot of effort goes into making sure you're there, so I do appreciate that. I have another question too about roads just because someone asked me about all the curb work that's going on in the Northwest Side. Yeah. And, I mean, I knew what was going on.
I just didn't realize it was taking this long. Do you know why or what the timeline I know Mike's not here again. But, what the timeline is on that, especially since some of the driveways have been, like, not accessible for so long. Usually, with projects, we give people access to their property, and so I was just curious as so I could respond, I guess. Do you happen to have an update on that, Perry? Honestly, I don't is this the Crotus? Yes. I don't I haven't talked to Mike about it for if we paid we did pay for one half the one side,
and the other side was maybe what we're talking about. Because we did pay a bill for one which ever is north or south side that was done. The other side was so maybe we so, no, I don't have an update on I mean, it's I didn't know it wasn't done. Yeah. I I it's been a long time. I don't know why the it's taking so long. Anyway, usually, a curb goes in pretty quick. That's why I didn't know if there was some issue over there or why it was taking so long.
But cut. I know they were cutting in in selectively. I haven't been up there. But were saying they were selectively cutting in in selectively. Starting and stopping and doing the stuff too. They're still working on it. They haven't stopped. Yeah. Can we lean on it a little bit, see what's going on? I mean, is that is that a thing? Like, ask some questions? We can call. Like, I can we can call a vendor tomorrow morning. That might help. Let me just at least have some insights so we can provide an intelligent answer. Thank you, sir. Anything else, Julian? I'm sorry. Nope. That's it. Yeah. And if there's any every time or any questions or anything, Mike is awesome. He'll ride out to your house and meet with you, anything like that to go over it,
with clients or customers, citizens, whatever you wanna say. So yeah. Yeah. I apologize. I don't know off top of my head in the direct answer to that. Thank you. Anything else, Peyton, for updates as we're going around the horn? No. I'm good. Thank you. Alright. So with that and we started talking about roads and ditches, and I feel like I am two hours too late with this question. Do we anticipate seeing any increase in our ditch assessment, for all the construction work that they're doing? And how will that impact our budget that we just set?
We've already increased it the past several years to pay for this. But we're we're confident we shouldn't see From what we've been told. We did get a number from them just like we did last year, but I didn't do that. Oh, is this the latest number? Right. Shit. They they gave us the one that they approved at their For the project and and No. No. For their final hearing for the year. Right. They've set their budget for the year. Okay. So we're I can't say going forward, they're not going to have more charges. But this year or I'm sorry, 2026, we're good to go at least.
Yes. So that part is a 2026 issue. We're good for 2026. We can have the conversation again. '27 later. We got eleven months before we start having that. They're always good about giving us an increase when we least expect it. So seriously, like didn't was I the only one that just kind of got a little nervous? I was like, wait a minute, what are we going to see? So that's that's good news. So with that, again, thanks, everybody, for the budget process. I know it's it's long, and we're not done. And I do wanna have that exercise. I know I said that last year,
and I I do when we're talking about what does another percent or 2% look like. And during our conversation, like, what does that mean, we would ultimately do without? And I think that's a good exercise in austerity to see how tight this budget really is and what the impacts of another round of reductions would look like. Again, I do think it's a good exercise for management and for counsel to say, okay, Here's where we're at. If we want to take the next step, here's what we would do without. And we've made some serious concessions,
including but not limited to growth and development. So, we're not quite done yet. I wanna see where we go. And with that, I have nothing else in terms of council members' concerns or updates. So we can move to number ten and ten alpha. We have our bills to be paid. Any questions about the bills? Hearing no questions, I will entertain a motion to pay the bills. So moved. Motion by Nash. Second, Steichen. Second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Gentlemen and ladies in the audience this evening, thank you for coming. As we move,
into or onto item number 11, we are going to go into closed session for eleven a. We have our annual administrative performance review in accordance with Minnesota State statutes 13 Delta zero five, Subdivision three. We will move into closed session at this time. We're good. Alright. It is 07:09, and we are back into our regular scheduled, council meeting after our closed session based on on all of the relevant state statutes. That does move us to number 12,
12 alpha. Mayor Olson, regarding, city administrators' performance review and consideration of contract renewal. And I'm just going to start by saying, the council is in agreement that it was a pretty solid review. And to that end, I'm also gonna turn it over to council member and vice mayor Nash to I sent you the email. You're supposed to read the statement. You sent me an email? Didn't it was a text. You're gonna read the statement. Yes? I can read a statement. Yeah. You have the statement. Okay. So vice mayor Nash is gonna read it read the the official statement.
Okay. So the performance review forms are submitted to, from council members, staff, and contractors in regards our city administrator, Peyton Mester's performance over the past year. Results of the surveys indicated that Peyton continues to exceed expectations and meet expectations in all aspects of his performance on which he is rated including professional knowledge, leadership, communication, planning and innovation, managing results and resources, problem solving and decision making, community and staff relations, intergovernmental relations,
and city council relations. There were no unsatisfactory ratings or areas noted for desired improvement. And a sincere thank you again to you, Peyton, for your leadership and direction over the last year, and we look forward to the continued work with Peyton in the years to come or in, you know, growth in his direction. Thank you, Julie. Appreciate that. And so, Peyton, you wanna say anything for the record here, or are you good? I'm good. Thank you, mayor. Alright. Just offering you that opportunity. So to that end, that does bring us to, number 13. And with there being no further, well,
no further business before, council has seen you do a call this meeting adjourned. Approve the contract? Yep. Oh, we have to approve this like, are we gonna say no to that? Are we doing Oh, we we could We could see all that. Record? We gotta oh, okay. Well okay. So with that, we also have the the review of the consideration of the of the contract renewal. Was that right now? I thought that was more toward the end of the year. Motion to renew the contract. Second. Motion by Nash and a second by Bora. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And I do apologize for that, Payton. Just kinda figured it just just happened if we kept on moving.
So, with that and there being no further business before council