All right. Good evening. With it being 06:00, 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. Can you roll call around the horn, please? Peterson, here. Bora, here. Steichen. Nash. With that, we have our agenda. We got a couple of corrections just in terms of dates for echo. Should be series twenty twenty six alpha.
And under general seven b, instead of transit services 2025, it should be 2026. We need to make those changes with, the motion for our agenda approval this evening. Motion to approve with the changes. A motion by Nash. Second. Second by Peterson. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, we do have our consent. Any questions, comments, or concerns with our consent agenda? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion for our consent agenda. Steichen. So moved. And a motion by Steichen. Second. Second by Borah.
All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does move us to number five, our public comment period. Peyton, has there been any formal request to speak before council this evening? None received. Alright. Once again, encourage the public to participate in our process, helps us make progress. With that, we'll progress to number six. Tonight, we have a recognition, under resolution twenty five seventy nine, accepting a donation for or pardon me, from Northwestern Bank for shop with a cop. And I noticed, Hunter is off keeping the public safe. So,
vice mayor Nash, Peyton? Yeah. We're Yeah. Obviously, a donation resolution, but I also put up here a picture from, the event that was held last week. And council member Nash has a little bit more information about this year's event. Yeah. So Shop with a Cop, you can see they had a lot of volunteers and a lot of, people that they were able to help. They had approximately 80 children that they, that participated with the Shop with a Cop. This was at the Doroth Walmart location. I know some other, divisions were at other, stores in the community as well. We had nine volunteers from our Doroth Police Department that were there.
They were joined by the Holly Police Department, Glendon Police Department, and four deputies from the Clay County Sheriff's Office as well as, a number of volunteers from the Morehead High High School Honor Society and the M State law enforcement program. That's pretty awesome. So great turnout, yeah, for the kids. Thank you, Nash. Peyton, anything else? That helps it. Alright. So with that, if there are no questions or comments, I will accept a motion for I'll entertain the motion for resolution 20 five-seventy nine. Motion to approve.
Motion by Nash. Steichen. Second. Second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does move us to number seven. Seven alpha, we have an update on our 2025 MAT bus operations, and we have Cole with us this evening, presenting on behalf of MAT bus. Do you wanna just hear? Yep. If you would, please. Thank you. Welcome, Cole. Thank you. It's pretty laid back. It'll be an easy moment. It'll be alright. I promise. Sounds good. Well, thank you all for the opportunity to come and speak with you today. I was here last year as our Morehead transit manager,
Lori Van Beek, was retiring. So, nice to see quite a few of the same faces. So, just wanna jump into it here, go through the couple of main points that we have for tonight's presentation. I'll be touching on the CARES Act and American Recovery Act funds, transit services provided, giving some information on statistics and costs, an update on our transit development plan, some information about the Walmart transit hub project cancellation, and then some 2025 accomplishments and 2026 goals. So to give a bit of a background on the CARES and ARPA funds,
A portion of CARES or Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act funds and ARPA, American Rescue Plan Act funds, were provided to the city of Morehead for transit services, around the time period of COVID. A portion of those funds were used to pay for Dilworth transit services from 2020 through 2026. Dilworth will receive will see billing resume for transit services in 2027. That'll be included in the 2027 budgeting process, and, Dilworth administrative staff will be included in that process to provide additional information to the
mayor and council. You can see provided here, estimate on, say, if the city of Dilworth was required to pay for transit services in year 2026. There have been, fixed route capital equipment costs that have been, charged to the city of Dilworth since 2020, but the operations amounts for both fixed route and paratransit slash senior ride services have been covered by those CARES and ARPA funds. So, again, an example for what it would look like in 2026. And then on to some information about the services provided.
Up there, you see information for Route 6, the route that services Dilworth and, connects to other routes at the Dilworth Walmart. Those routes connect to our main transfer hub at the Ground Transportation Center in Downtown Fargo, which correct or connects to the rest of the community. The service is provided from 06:40AM to 07:10PM, Monday through Friday, and 07:40AM through 06:10PM on Saturdays. We see a daily average boarding of 48 during the weekdays and 36 on Saturdays. The bus route is a thirty minute route that runs once an hour with an
extra trip at 06:10PM. As I'd stated before, bus hubs out of the Dilworth Walmart. Right now, that bus connects to Route 9, which services the southern portion of Morehead. So it alternates between those two routes. And then on the next slide, you can see a route map of Route 6. The Walmart hub allows transfers to Route 4, which connects to the downtown, ground transportation center to connect citizens of Dilworth to the rest of the community. The route services quite a few locations in Dilworth, including the community center,
the rail district, Hauge Estates, the City Hall post office, and, the Dilworth Walmart. And then providing some information on ridership from 2020 through 2025. Back in 2020, pre COVID, we did see higher levels of ridership. We saw that across the board for both Route 6 as well as other map bus routes. And as you can see, we're steadily seeing a return to that ridership post COVID. So far in 2025, ridership is looking very good for Route 6. We saw an increase of approximately 600 riders, slight increase in MAT paratransit services utilized by Delaware citizens by about,
a 130, and then about, let's see, 250 rides that were taken additionally on Metro Senior Ride this year compared to last year. And then from here, you can also see a breakdown of the different types of riders that utilize Route 6. We saw a decrease in adult ridership, but a slight increase in elderly ridership and a pretty significant increase in disabled ridership in 2025. Wanna provide an update on the MAP bus transit development plan. It is a plan that the City Fargo MAP bus conducts every five years,
hiring a an external, an external company to be able to evaluate the system and determine, service needs that we might not necessarily see internally, getting information from community members and stakeholders in terms of what the community would like to see out of map bus for the next five years. It accept or it assesses current transit operations and identifies community needs, establishes goals and performance measures, and implementation strategies for those goals. I won't dive into the entire plan so much, but just more or less how it connects to the city of Dilworth and the
existing Route 6. The plan itself doesn't have any proposed changes for Route 6 itself, but it does include a change to Route 4, essentially streamlining the route. The route connects to the Dilworth Walmart, but provides a lot of kind of meandering service into residential areas on the North Side Of Moorhead. This plan proposes a separation of Route 4 into two separate routes to provide faster service, but then breaking it into two separate sections, the northern portion of the Moorhead service that goes into the residential areas and then
one that streamlines straight to the Dilworth Walmart. And how that connects to Route 6, it would essentially offer a single seat ride to, Dilworth residents. So, say, you get on the route in Dilworth, you get to the Walmart hub, and then it automatically turns into the route that will take you to the downtown transportation center. And this covers more or less what I just explained there. There would be some slight name changes, proposed by the TDP. It was Route 4 and then the Route 4 express, but the Route 4 express was suggested to be changed to Route 6.
And then the portion that would serve Dilworth would be Route 6 a. Route 6 b replaces Route 9, which services the southern portion of Morehead. But, again, no changes would be made to the Dilworth route as proposed in the transit development plan. All same existing coverages will exist for both Route 4 and Route 6. It'll just be essentially streamlining the service for residents that want to go back and forth from the Dilworth Walmart to the main transportation hub in a faster manner. Again, similar to what I just explained for the route changes,
little to no coverage changes, but streamlining service. And then on this slide, you can see what the proposed routes are looking like. The eastern portion of the map is the current existing Route 6. The northern portion of the map is Route 4. Like I said, servicing some of the northern residential areas in Morehead. 6 b down there is the current Route 9, which services the southern portion of Morehead. And then the portion of Route 4, that goes directly to the Dilworth Walmart is that darker green line.
So, again, just simplifying the process for riders who want to go from Dilworth to the main transfer hub. Then moving on to the Walmart transit hub project cancellation. Dilworth had approved a resolution for 20% local match in 2019 for this project. Federal grants were approved for 80% of the cost of the architecture, engineering, and construction services for the hub. KLJ was contracted for design bid and construction management. They did do a design, that was provided to Matt Bus.
Unfortunately, construction was permanently suspended due to not reaching agreement for easement with the Dilworth Walmart. The Walmart corporation requested a ninety day notice to terminate the easement, but, unfortunately, due to FDA or Federal Trans Administration funding, if they put money into a structure, they wanna have federal interest in it. So, it wouldn't work for Walmart to give us a ninety day notice and then for us to move out of there. If FDA put a portion of their money into that structure, they would like to see transit services maintained there. So going on to the next slide,
just an image of where the shelter was planned to be placed. The shelter was purchased, but it was all through, MATBUS non Dilworth funds. So, unfortunately, we're hoping to get something put up there, but, we were not able to with that easement. Then moving on to list of twenty twenty five accomplishments. We purchased a handful of new vehicles, including paratrans and fixed route vehicles. We will be increasing our cash fares here shortly, from a dollar 50 to $2 regular fare and 75¢ to a dollar for discount fares effective on 01/01/2026.
We did see a number of route and service changes this year. Unfortunately, we did experience some, budget challenges on the City Of Fargo side, so we evaluated a couple of different routes. Link FM, which provided, service to downtown events, was eliminated, effective on 06/09/2025, as well as the industrial park on demand service, which provided, service out to industrial park through, like, an Uber or a Lyft style service was eliminated as well as well as route 16, a route that services 17th Avenue 17th Avenue South in Fargo.
It was more or less duplicate of service with another route that was in that area there. We didn't complete the installation of five new bus shelters in Moorhead, located at m State, Riverview Heights, the Moorhead Library, Target, and Lakeland Mental Health. We did complete a, deck overlay project at the ground transportation center. Unfortunately, through that project, we discovered, some additional structural damage. So we have begun a study to determine the facility's useful life. Hoping to have some more information on that here in the next couple of weeks. And, there was an A and E contract awarded for the metro transit garage or bus
garage facility for some smaller facility improvements. As mentioned before, we completed the twenty twenty six to two thousand and thirty transit development plan. And then a big portion of our time has been working with the state of North Dakota's government finance committee to, start a study to determine long term long term funding from the state of North Dakota to larger transit agencies such as ourselves, Grand Forks, Minot, and Bismarck in North Dakota. So, just looking to get some stable long term funding through, that ask. As for personnel and training,
another big project that we're working on this year is transitioning bus operators and management staff from contracted employees to City of Fargo employees. We're currently in the process of that. Officially, it transitioned over on December 22, but there's still quite a bit to do there. We're seeing some improvements already in that and, driver and staff morale, and we're excited to continue that. Then a few other things that we accomplished this year. We began the where's my bus SMS and IVR bus stop pilot program. So what that means is we have signs on a few of our bus stops,
for this pilot program that users can either text or call a number that's on that bus stop, enter in the specific code for their bus stop, and then they'll get accurate arrival and departure times. And then we also completed the 2025 Triennial Review. That is a review that the Federal Transit Administration conducts of us every, three years to ensure compliance for federal processes. So, we got out of that with only, single finding, which is pretty good for us. And lastly, looking ahead to 2026, we're gonna be getting the 2027 budgetary process,
starting with meeting with administrative staff from Dilworth, Morehead, West Fargo, and North Dakota State University to determine service needs, as well as what the budget will look like for 2027. We'll be continuing North Dakota legislative efforts to secure that additional state funding that I mentioned before. We're working on finishing implementing the contractor to city staff driver transition and then determining on or depending on the outcome of the, facility study at the Ground Transportation Center, we may be looking for a new transfer hub location.
With that, I'm happy to answer any questions or provide any additional information. Thank you, Cole. Are there any questions from counsel? Mr. Steichen? Thank you. Mr. Swangan, is that okay? Can you go back quite a few slides that talked about our share of the fixed routes, paratransit routes and the right there. Is that what is that the maximum and how is that determined? There a reduced fee for some of these, riders? Or is there a standard fee and then we make up can you explain that
a little bit? Yes. Absolutely. So, the maximum amounts here are more or less determined on state funding levels. Those will vary from year to year. So, the last couple of years, there has been a 5% local match from the state. I believe next year, it's increasing to 15%. This also calculates in, estimated local revenues, so fair revenues, things like that. So this would just be the maximum amount assuming that the state would, continue that 15% local match and then also estimating low on the revenue side.
So are those numbers easily reached, those maximum amounts? Or it a lot of it depends on the state funding. So, basically, we go to the state every year in a grant submission process in around June. At that point, we ask the state for a 100% or what we need from them to be able to fund at that 15% local share. The state may provide all that amount or there may be less depending on the rest of the needs in the state. So that would affect, that maximum amount.
The city of Fargo finance staff, unfortunately, can explain it a lot better than I can. That's good enough. Thank you. Peyton? I want to add to this just a little bit. My anticipation is we're still going to be relative this year, we're still going to be relatively low. So right now, we budget, I think, like $34,000 for a map bus line item, something around that. We've been been at that number for several years. And I don't wanna say fortunately, but how the timing worked with the bus shelter project and us trying to come
up with our balance of what we are gonna have to pay for the project, which I think it ended up for us being our local match, our 20% match locally was gonna be around $100,000 we'll call it. And when COVID hit, the amount of funding that we or, well, I should say the state of Minnesota was divvying out to local jurisdictions, greatly increased, greatly reducing how much we paid on an annual basis. So that was allowing us to kind of put back money for that project. Unfortunately, it didn't come to fruition as Cole mentioned earlier.
So we're running a pretty hefty balance in there, which is why we pulled back just a little bit in our final levy or budget amount on what we're budgeting for next year. I think we've dropped it back to, like, dollars 20,000 or something along those lines. But, we'll we'll continue to actually look at internally as far as, like, if there's any other local projects that we can maybe do because we do need to spend some of that, I would say. I mean, we can continue to keep the levy number lower for multiple years, but it does give us a little flexibility if there's some kind of local enhancement
that we would potentially need to do. I would anticipate that number, back to this, going back up, in 2027. That's what we're full anticipating fully anticipating. And each year that Lori provided to me a maximum number, and I'm just using Lori because she was the one there every year that would get that number, we never hit it. It was always we'd always come in much lower, but that was usually our baseline for what we were utilizing to set our budget on an annual basis. Thank you, Pete. Any other questions?
Kelowna, thank you for coming up. May I have a few I'm sorry, Mayor and Council members. I just I do want to make a few other comments in general. So do you want to talk well, I'm going to say a few things, Cole, and I want you to chime in. So this is really the first go around, first year of kind of working under this new joint jurisdictional agreement that we have between both sides of the river, okay? And so we're fortunate enough to have
representation on the MAP bus. What's it called, the MAP bus? The Coordination Committee. Yes, the Coordination Committee. And, you know, when we get a vote on that and everything, even though our contributions is relatively minimal, now the state of Minnesota subsidized a lot better than they do on the North Dakota side of the state. And I'm just going to say Cole and Jewel and I don't know others, but Cole and Jewel are the kind of the main two people that spearhead all the efforts for Map Bus. And they do an amazing job. And this last year,
if you've kept up with it at all, obviously, through especially on the Fargo side with some of their budgetary issues, and, they really had to put a lot of brainpower behind, what to do. You're trying to appease multiple different elected bodies here, and there's different funding levels. There are different advantages and disadvantages between one side of the river or the other. And I know it feels like we're all kind of filling it out as we go along since we're in sort of this year one phase of it all. But Cole and his team there did a tremendous job of trying to lead us all
through these efforts as administrative staff and some elected body members on this committee. So there's lots of different interests there being, you know, thrown out, but they do a great job of navigating all of that. And one other note here. No. That that's all. And I don't know if you wanna add anything to that call as far as, like, how the operational side of that is working and if there's, anything else you wanna add about sort of that cooperative spirit that you're having to, you know, kind of Yeah. Foster with it all? Absolutely.
So as Peyton said, this is our first year of really doing this under City of Fargo. With Lori retiring last year, everything in Morehead moved under City of Fargo. So, we created that Map Bus coordination committee to have Dilworth, Moorhead, NDSU, everybody who has any sort of stake in Map Bus and utilizes our services to have a say, with what we're doing both, you know, financially, operationally, just involving everybody in all of our processes. So, there's definitely been some growing pains there. I won't lie about that. But I think that when we're going into 2026 year,
now that we have a year under our belt, we're able to kinda see the things that did and didn't work, especially during the budget process last year, and make some improvements there. Again, all the local communities that, utilize the NAPA service and all their elected representatives and administrative staff are all wonderful to work with. So, it's definitely, like I said, some growing pains, and sometimes you have some different, interpretations of how things should be done. But, ultimately, we're finding ways to cooperatively work with all of our partners, and I think that the system overall is better for it.
And Council Member Deb White from Morehead, she's the Chair of the Committee, and she does an outstanding job of it really bring about perspectives of both sides of the river and identifying sort of pitfalls to avoid and all the it's really complicated. It really is because North Dakota compared to Minnesota, it's not a funded thing over there at all. And that's something that we as taxpayers in the State of Minnesota pay into a lot more,
but we get it back, whereas that's just not a hybrid priority in North Dakota. So trying to work out all these things through four, five different budgetary processes concurrently is is a challenging job. But yes, the team does a good job with it. And if you want to recognize Julie, I'm sorry, I didn't fully recognize Julie. Yes, absolutely. Julie Baumann is our Transit Director, director, oversees our operation, in tandem with Deb White and, the folks over at Metro COG. She helps run those, coordination committee meetings.
Again, it takes a lot to be able to kind of coordinate all that, as Peyton said. A lot of different things to factor in both, funding wise, priority wise, all of that. So, like Peyton had said, state of North Dakota, unfortunately, doesn't fund us quite as well as the state of Minnesota does. So, over on the side of the river for Morehead and Dilworth, it makes things a lot easier with state funding. So Julie is really heading that effort in the state of North Dakota and the legislative session that will be coming up here. So working with their subcommittees,
talking to everybody who has a stake in that, and hopefully, we can see some good improvements with that going forward. Mr. Steichen? This isn't a question, but it's kind of an interesting comment. At the turn of the century, I was doing a lot of reading because a lot of stories come out. It's nice that you it's great that Dilworth is included in part of the system. But at the when the trolley car system was going strong, Dilworth was a starting point. NDSU was the ending point. So it's interesting how you got NDSU part of it now,
and it went into Moorhead and far up Seventh Street to 12th Avenue. When they were doing where I work in that area, and where they were redoing the 7th Street and 12th Avenue, the trolley tracks still laid there. They just built over top of it. So I did see it, the tracks, but it's, you know, it's kind of back to where it was sort of originally started at Dilworth to because Dilworth's such an important railroad hub. So Yeah. Dilworth end issue and plus the city's gotten larger. So I just thought it was kind of neat that well, it's nice that you it's great that Dilworth is included.
So I appreciate that. Yeah. Absolutely. Transit's definitely something that's ever growing, ever evolving. Things that worked twenty years ago might not necessarily really work today. You see a lot of autonomous vehicles. I think that at some point, that may be in our future. Electric vehicles providing more fuel efficiency is another big thing. And then looking ahead to, like, any sort of Uber or Lyft type services, like door to door services versus our standard fixed routes. So it's interesting to see where we're come or where we come and where we're gonna be going. Any other questions? And thank you very much,
Cole. Safe travels, hon. Thank you. That does move us to 7B. We have the consideration for the operational contract between the cities of Moorhead and Dilworth for transit services in 2026. Any questions regarding, that contract? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion for that contract. Steichen, so move. Motion by Steichen. Second. Second by Nash. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Here's the easy driving in 2026, I guess. With that,
it does move us to number eight, consideration pay request. Number 22, fire hall reconstruction project. Final Well, I promised Perry that we would get this done before the end of the year, so there you have it. This is it. This is it. You know, there were a couple late items that came up, that we tried to fund through the general conditions on the project. Still had plenty to do the the work with and, still had some leftover on the job. So, yeah. So final. Final. Any questions? Kind of an exciting moment.
Not it'll be more exciting when it's paid for. But All right. So with that, thanks for the summation. I will entertain a motion for pay request 22, the final pay request on our Firehall reconstruction project. Motion by Steichen. Second? Second by Borra. All those in favor, say aye. Opposed? Motion carries. All right. That part of that project's done. All right. Bask in that moment, and let's move on to the next one. So with that, does move us to number nine on our agenda. Our community center nine alpha is Resolution 2,576,
the approval of plans and specs and authorization to advertise it for bids for the community center project. Gentleman? Yes. Thank you. I'll let Tony kick it off with his PowerPoint presentation that he has here. Yeah. We've got a few updated images. I think, a lot of you have seen most of these, but just thought we'd run through them real quick. This has been a culmination of of three a series of three, community, input meetings and, sharing, sharing information with the community. Also input from your staff and, the committee that you had kind of formed, prior to the vote for the community center.
So we've met with a lot of different stakeholders and a lot of different groups and community members and this has been the culmination of that process. On the site here, you can see, we've got the building, which is about 20,000 square feet right now, the required parking as well as saving some space for additional parking and, an additional addition to the building that could house a walking track and some gymnasium space potentially. Also planning for a small library, branch in the building as well. We're going to take an alternate bid for that future parking,
just because during events, certainly that parking lot is likely to fill up. So just to give you some idea of that cost and if it falls within our budget, we're going to take that, I would imagine. And then the couple of concepts of the design for the plaza, That's kind of that roundhouse, look. Again, that's an alternate. If that's within the budget, we're going to take that and finish out that plaza. Right now, it's kind of on the fringe of the site. So, it's there's no streets kind of blocking it in just yet. So that is something that is maybe a consideration for if you'd accept that at
this point or not. But again, it gives you an idea of where that where that's going to come in at the end of the end of the day. Just a couple more views of the exterior, landscaping and plaza. A lot of what you're looking at in these two views is base bid. Just kind of some of the plantings and everything up against the building there. The plan is pretty straightforward. On the south side, there's the large community room, activity room that's about 400 seated at round tables. Just to the north of there, we have the playground space that opens up into that, space. So we can activate that activity space even when,
it's not being used during the day. Kitchen, similar to your other one, next to it. And then two meeting rooms that are sized to house about a 100 when combined there. About 50 separate. Then some toilet rooms that are also sized to accommodate the next addition. Potentially, that would be the, the library edition. If you go for the full, build out, you'd need some additional toilets in that new addition as well. So a few, few more looks in the exterior here. Kinda has that, some modern touches and elements along with that kind of traditional, depot look that we've kind of been talking about.
So it's kind of playing with both, both ends of the spectrum there. Just a couple more exterior views here. You can see those colonnades rolling down the the length of the building. Here, we're looking from the Southeast at the the large activity space. A lot of natural light coming in through some some large, windows in there, those spaces. This is looking down that, front corridor. Again, kind of evoking that, the steel, the exposed structure, the the round globes of the lights, with evoking that feel of the the traditional, depot station. I got we have a small reception desk,
at the the front as well that, could be housed, have somebody sitting there directing traffic as people come in throughout the day. Another look at that, corridor down the front. Here's a space, set up with round tables. I can see some of the floor blocking. Again, we've talked that through somewhat, about what that could look like. And, really, that's, if you wanted to have, pickleball in there. The space is set up so that you could utilize those blocks of color, to delineate the different spaces. But when it's set up in, banquet form, you you really wouldn't perceive that's necessarily striping for activity like that.
So there won't actually be painted lines on the floor. Correct. It's more stained blocks. Here's kind of a look at that, indoor playground, and the exact pieces and colors and everything are still yet to be chosen, but just to give you an idea of, the scale of that space and and what that might look like. And then these, the meeting rooms here. That's kinda end of my presentation. Any questions on the design or thoughts? Again, it's been a great process. Really enjoyed working with the the city and the, community at large that attended the meetings. It was great to see a few familiar faces attend each one.
We're looking forward to wrapping this up from a design point. It's a bit of a problem. Design. Yeah. It turned out nice. Yeah. Thank you. Alright. Thank you, Tony. All right, counsel, any questions from counsel? Are you getting the numbers regarding The design or Yes. Just regarding like the design, what we're looking at right here before we dive into the numbers. No, I think it's from the feedback that they had to work with, I think that they've given us exactly what we've asked for, essentially. I mean, I personally have it's no secret I wanted to see a basketball court in there,
but I have my opinion. You guys have yours. I'm right, but it doesn't. I wanted two basketball courts until I saw the cost. But, I mean, it's for architecturally, yeah. I mean, home run. I like it. You know, if the building's well set up for the addition in the future, if Dilworth grows to the point where basketball court support, basketball court systems are needed, then they're there for you. Yeah. We really arranged it along that spine there, that hallway that's connecting everything, kind of be plug and play and just add on to that corridor basically, would really, complement the building,
just the more spaces you add on to it to make this a true community hub. Peyton, will you go to the one the aerial view, please, with the parking lots? I guess yeah. That one. And that and so when we're referring to pardon me, Tony, when you're referring to plug and play, that's what would come next, correct? Correct, yes. Right. And looking at the potential to build to the north, that second phase, right, a little bit more athletic opportunities in mind with basketball courts. Is this rendering on three or four acres?
You know what? I think we're around four right now. Aren't we Yeah. If you clued out to that, that road there. So this Correct. Correct. That's it's a little it's over four acres. Yeah. So without the fourth acre, where where does that line intersect? Is it at the does this does the southern edge of that building go over? Well, I think that the building itself easily fits on three acres. It's more about, yeah, which portion of the site would you not include. I think if you were to put a line on there from the south up,
you'd cut off maybe the north portion of the parking lot that we're designing still. I think you'd be right tight to kind of the edge of the building per se. Basically, everything that you see that's lit up here, that's the four point whatever acres it is as part of this project. So and that was one thing we'd actually Don and I were talking about and even talked about with the landowners too a little bit. Do we just go after or you can't see what I'm pointing at here. But do you say you cut it off here or even up top,
right, and just get the three acres for the time being. I think the thought process was we're gonna need it anyways. You know, that's gonna be ours eventually. And so that's why it's all included here as part of what we would be acquiring. Well, I guess my thought process is what if we butted the southern edge of the third acre up to the southern edge of the building minus the plaza? What does that look like for green space on the North side? How how far north does it have to move? Well, I can tell you that moving the building to the north just from a city
ordinances standpoint, we that the north, wall of the future gymnasium addition is really butting up to your setback up there because we have a residential zone across the streets. We have some increased, side yard there. So, the ease the setback. So really moving it to the North would mean cutting future possibilities out or reallocating the space accordingly. And it's not set up to build to the South. It's set up to build to the North. Well, I mean, you you could add to the South, but I think the the thought behind the design is that it would be built
onto the North, preserving that South space for community events and, also maintaining a lot of that southern exposure sunlight coming in there. Yeah. I'm just wondering if we can fit it on three and put class five out there for overflow parking until it is a necessity. We can we can also park on the grass. Right? Yeah. That's what Yeah. But, yeah, I see. I mean, crushed asphalt, whatever. And so this parking right here is to support what we have in this building right now, and that's correct. Right? Because I know that's yeah.
You add on a few parking space. That's right. And that is that has an alternate so that we can dial that in down the road a little bit more. Just hoping to get it all in as part of this if the numbers come in right. Presumably, we're going to be adding on eventually. And there'll be events, some events that would require the overflow. Not a ton, but every once in a while. Yeah. The the parking that's shown there is meets the city minimum for the ordinances. Yes. Sure. I have no problem with what you guys have put together. My this should come to the price of the fourth acre. And that's that's another conversation.
Right? We're gonna have that. Yeah. So we're gonna have that conversation as well because I think it's one way to add it. Do we own any of the acres right now? Does the city own any of this? No. And we wanna get we wanna put it out for bid? So the the premise The bid wouldn't be put out until the January, so there's still another four weeks. I don't know what your time frame is with the probably this is just finalizing design and spec. Correct? Right. Design spec and with authority to put it out towards the January.
Well, I bid. I appreciate that. But to me, why are we eventually putting a building out to bid on land that we don't own? Where we're at, that's a great question. And we have two things going on simultaneously. Obviously, this is moving forward and so too is the conversation with the landowner. And I'm not going to speak for them, but I think a good summation of where we are at is, ultimately, three acres was handshake agreed upon in terms of commitment to this project. Now it's not on it hasn't been a signed contract,
but I do take the landowner at their word when they said they'd be willing for to invest and and look at the three acres, that we started or that's where we started. I wanted 10. Like, I I said that from the beginning. But then again, I asked for probably more than reality. 10 would have been huge, but it would have been nice. Three has been where the landowner has been at from the beginning. And how we're looking at the fourth is depending upon where we wanna go and what we wanna see with the ultimate endgame in this. Where we're at right now, a little bit over four with just just the logistics and,
well, the re requirements based on the size of the building. Now if we don't wanna look at any future growth, we can definitely, you know future growth we're adding on to the to the building. That's definitely a conversation we should we can have maybe should have. But I guess that's why that's why we're doing the two things at one time. So we get this out to bid and then finalize the agreement with the landowner. Did I miss anything? Anyone else, Peyton? There there's a chain and egg to all this too. Keep in mind that what you see right here was not finalized until Yes. A few two or three weeks ago.
So we couldn't now that said, we've been negotiating with the landowner. They know where we are with all this. It's going through the planning in February at planning commission via preliminary and final plat review. Katie is working on the purchase agreement right now. So all these things have been working simultaneously with one another. But we wanna bid it at the January. I'll forbid at the January bidding February. Just so you I just wanna make sure we're all clear on the dates. Okay. And then I guess there's not a requirement to do that.
We can wait till the end of the transaction and then bid it out. That may impact the time line that we're working with or, you know Guess, whatever that timeline is. It just seems counterintuitive to build a building on land we don't own. I mean, we all know how that's gone. Right? Like Well, by the time we went to construction, we don't know. I mean, there'd be an agreement for the land, and that has to be I I get I 100% get what you're saying. Like, I I totally get it. Like and we're not gonna build it on land that we don't own, but we're still gonna continue the process of negotiations with the landowners.
That's not done yet. So what's the difference if we hold off until we work that out for the bidding? I mean, is that how I think you get better better bids in February, maybe March. January, February, March are your prime bid. One month, that's not gonna I can't say one way or another, but I think you're still in February and March are your prime bidding months. That's when a lot of projects go out for bid. A lot of people are looking for work for their next year. Yep. So that's why we kinda targeted the February, not really giving the land ownership any really thought in that process.
Right. I I do agree with you there is the best time we've been. I think I just feel more comfortable if we own the land we wanted to put the building on. Really? But if we don't end up coming to a deal with the land owner, we basically can't do the project. I mean, my next question was gonna be, what happens if that falls through when we go through it? Events. Just then, you know, we've gone out for bid. I mean, projects have fallen through in the past where, like, I don't anticipate that this will fall through, but, I don't know what our, obligation is, you know, to accept a bid.
And then you don't have any obligation till there's a contract. Right. So, I mean, so we have quite a bit of time between now and bidding process to make sure that the land we have a deal on the land first. But I would I mean, I I can interject just a little bit. I think, yeah, you have to go into it with the intention that you're gonna build the project because, if you bid it and then cancel it and then the next year come back because now everything's done, I don't think that you you'd probably get the same bids you would the first time. But man.
Yes, please. So but even at that, if we can't come to a deal on more than three acres, you could move that down. Yep. Like, eliminate the plaza, which was an alternate anyway. Right? It is still alternate. Right? You could still yeah. It is. And you could still have a portion of the plaza. It would just maybe change shape a little bit. Yeah. I mean, if there was an agreement for the four plus acres, I I don't know. What's do you know what the number is? Is it 4.5, 4.6? What do you know? Closer to that because when we're originally looking at it, it wasn't including this part back here. Yeah. That access.
So we added the access Right. To come all the way down. Basically, it's adjacent to this right here. That's where well, So if you said you need to get it on three acres, we'll get it on three acres, except you probably wouldn't have a plaza. Right. Might have a bunch. A bus stop. So it's a scaled down version. Yeah. Sounds like we have all the parts paid for already anyway. You can you can see how you could keep the the roundhouse piece there. It's just the the kind of lawn space to the to the side, you would eliminate that. And I've been involved in the conversations with the land since the beginning,
and I don't I understand the reservation, Kevin, but it's not a leap of faith. Like, when they look at you and say, you know, three acres, they're the landowner is committed to at least that. There are long I mean, I too have reservations, but it's also in their best interest, to make sure that this thing goes through. And and they've said that they they support the project, and they're willing to do the three acres. I don't know. I mean, outside of their name on the contract, that's really the next step, right, would be that. And I take them at their word when they say they're behind the project.
I would still like to see them behind the project at 4.256767 acres. What are we at? No. No. I won't. Let's not go there. Can we can we get that in the minutes, please? I would. I'd like, I mean, ultimately, 10 acres is too much, but I'd like as we're negotiating this, I'd like to see them donate the land for the community center. And I think that's a conversation that we need to have and ultimately work it out. But I don't think it's anything that needs to slow us down, potentially negatively impact bids, because I I I'm sitting here, and I have every intention of of making sure that this thing is is built.
Why else have we been doing this? Right? Why else do we pursue the the local option sales tax, which we are also collecting, and we're collecting for this. So to say, you know, this is gonna get billed. I totally get that. I guess, to me, it seems like we've had plenty of time to get some sort of agreement in place for where we're actually gonna build it to. But All of that is fine I mean, finalized. I mean, that has been approved through a planning park. I mean, how many people have looked at the general area? I mean,
we've had those conversations. It's just a matter of and you're right, the last step when it comes to the DIRTT is to actually get pen to paper. And as as we look at this, maybe once one of the things we do in the first first part of the year before we hit those bids. I mean, that's gotta be possible. Yeah? Peyton? We have pen and paper. Like, let's get the agreement out there so we know where we're at with land and have that conversation. And we can bid whenever you want. We don't have to bid the January. We but if we don't set a deadline for ourselves, we don't make the deadline.
So that's why we put January 31. If you need to push it to February 30 know how that goes. Twenty eighth, then, we will we can do that. Well, it's I think it's definitely in the taxpayer's best interest to get it out on that timeline. Just like to have more than a handshake, I guess. That's fair. That's fair. Well, definitely by the time of construction, which would be, what, May? May. Yes. I think that's the bigger deadline out there actually working on the property, which we should be more than fine meeting that timeline. A lot of things can change between now and May too.
I think you probably want your agreement done before you start signing contracts. Mhmm. Because that's Because if you start signing contracts and you're telling the person you got this and you start ordering materials and things like that start happening. And Yeah. Yeah. And we need to have the conversation about land. Yeah. So We like, at we, like, at the council level, we need to have that conversation. Be a priority, in my opinion. I agree if I'm really agreeing with those. So let's back to where at what? Looking at, plans and specs here. And then I think one of the things that we need to finalize maybe is
looking at how we set up the land conversation. No. Not yet. We're It's all being handled. Okay. Perfect. We're good. So then looking at nine a, the approval of plans and specs then advertising for bids going on January what did you say? We're look we're we're Hitting that prime. Hitting that prime. January or something like twenty sixth. I have one more question. Please. If we approve this for plan and spec, can we still move to three acres if we have to? Or if this gets specked out like this,
are we locked into this? Well, I think before we finalize the site plan, we'd wanna know where we're what it how many acres we're gonna be on if we've had a ship ourselves. Right. There's quite a bit of changing to do that Yeah. With the civil work and surveying and things like that we have to do. Prior to construction? Not not not Prior to setting setting. Right. Prior to putting bids out. So we wouldn't want our civil guy really going any farther unless you know that's okay to put the building there. Because if you have to shift everything to the one side, you have to work with the rest of other streets that are adjoining and Mhmm.
Extra structure. Make that building go up or down a little bit. So I think the big thing is just that we're approved, really finalize the the building plans and if wise. Yeah. If we need to have some kind of, resolution that pushes the site conversation out a little bit further, we can work with that. We just wanna make sure that we're heading down the right direction. We're on track with your expectations. All right. I'm good. You're good. All right. Are there any other questions from counsel? Any other questions, comments? No? Alright. So with that, we are back looking at resolution twenty twenty five seventy six,
the plans and specs for, the community center. Are there any other questions, comments, or concerns? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion for resolution twenty five seventy six. So moved. Motion by Nash. Steichen. Second. Second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, gentlemen. It's been fun. It's been a It's been a great process. Yes. We're looking forward to it. Yes. We're looking forward to it. I'm hopeful that we're kind of honing in on the budget. We're pretty close right now with our design development budget to our schematic design.
It was up about 5% on what it was before, mainly due to some knowledge that we got. We moved from having a pond. We're able to connect it to a different location, so that added a lot of utility, but better off on the on the site in general. So you don't have to do work so you have to tear out later. And then also, when we got the, soil borings, the building was set to a certain level. We decided to lower it a little bit to try to save some money from importing so much fill onto that site to support the building and having to do, soil corrections.
So, so it's been a good exercise to try to get that number back to where it was, and I think we're pretty close. I think we'll make that difference up in bidding, no problem. So We're going to have any more helical pylons that are being driven in the future. Shouldn't have to worry about helical piles. Those are pretty cool. Yeah. Thank Thank you again. I appreciate it. All right. Thanks, everybody. Yes. Thank you. Have a great New Year. Thank you. Happy New Year. You too. That moves us to number 10. Maintenance 10 alpha is resolution 2578. The approval of task order with Moore engineering and approval plan inspection authorization for bid
for the Woodbridge and Summerwood Pond dredging project. Anyone? Anyone? So as Andrew works his way up here, we'll talk a little bit about this. So the two ponds that are looking to be dredged are the Summerwood Pond, as well as the Woodbridge Pond. These ponds have been in existence for quite some time now. You may be a little more familiar with the age of the ponds themselves, not counting the newest addition onto the Summerwood Pond that was done back in 2018,
2019 as part of the Summerwood Third Edition. And just a little bit about why we do pond dredging as far as removing sediment from the ponds. It's just part of being an MS4 and part of, overall stormwater improvement within the community itself, preventing flooding and reduction of algae and odors. And so as everyone knows, our stormwater ultimately finds its way into the ponds where it then gets goes up to, you know, one of the ditches,
Ditch 50 or Lateral 41, then is shipped over to Fargo and ultimately makes its way to the Red River, goes north, and wherever it goes from there. But we do have a responsibility to make sure that what we're putting into the system is a healthy and clean water. And as far as the project itself, it's estimated at around $575,000 This is something we've been talking about doing now for multiple years. I'm sure we've all discussed this different budget time and other times as well. We're kind of now just bringing this full circle.
And how this will be paid for is through the collection of our stormwater fee that we've been doing now since 2010. In total, that number is collected about $1,150,000 And we've never done any type of major infrastructure project with the stormwater utility fund. We've paid for little bits and pieces every now and then out of it, but it's been relatively untouched for the most part. Now, that said, we've done some major stormwater work in town. So you think about 7th Street,
we did a major culvert that went in. Or when Keystone went in, you build a new pond. But all those are just new infrastructure that's paid for as part of those bonding processes. This is more of a maintenance issue to our existing system out there. So technically, we have the right to go out and specially assess for it, but that's why this fee was put into place, for us to go out and do this, we'll call it semi routine ish maintenance work, on the ponding system. And how long, Andrew, would you say, or how often would you say you would need a pond dredging?
This will be the first time for both ponds. If I recall correctly, the Woodbridge Pond was right around the 2000 ish time frame when that was constructed. Summerwood, I think, was 2003 or 2005 when that was initially installed. And so, you they're 20 to 25 years old at this point. Pond design and construction has changed since then. Even those two those two ponds were not designed the same. The Woodbridge Pond is very shallow. It's about four feet deep of water storage and it does not have any room
for sediment accumulation. In other words, the outlet of the pond is right at the bottom and there's any sediment that accumulates in the ponds reduces the storage volume. In the Summerwood Pond, there's about two feet of volume at the bottom of the pond to allow for sediment accumulation over time. We were out to check the sediment depths a little over a year ago because there's a process that we have to go through to check the sediment depth. We've actually had to sample the sediment to make sure that there's no hazardous materials
that have been migrating into the pond. The samples came back clean and so we're good to dispose of this material from the bottom of the pond. The Summerwood Pond is about 50% full of its sediment volume after twenty ish years or so. So we don't expect the activity around the Summer Wood Pond to change, so you know another twenty-twenty five years of of life, would be expected,
I would say, out of that pond. As part of this project on Woodbridge, and I apologize I'm jumping back and forth a little bit, we're intending to excavate two additional feet out of the bottom of the Woodbridge Pond for two reasons: to provide a little additional volume, but also really to provide that sediment volume so that as sediment accumulates, it's not negatively impacting the water quality and the water the the purpose of the pond itself. So I can't even I'm sorry. I can't even remember what the question was. I got off on a little bit of a tangent there.
Frequent. Frequent. I would twenty five years. Twenty five years. And the reason yeah, can you kind of go over why we do this now, this time of the year? Yeah, so the ponds have actually been drained as much as possible to get rid of the water. As much of the water as possible. And if you think about going into the bottom of a pond and taking the sediment out, that is a wet, muddy mess. And so the idea of doing it in the wintertime is to prevent as much slop and mess on the streets,
it's not going to be a clean process, but to keep it as clean as possible so there's not water running around. The water is hopefully frozen at this point. And so these projects are actually done in the wintertime as much as possible for that reason. And there haven't been too many projects of this nature, you know, up in this area. Our experience as a company has largely been down in the metro area where there's a lot more, stormwater detention ponds and a lot more, and they've been around longer. And so they've the need has has crept up sooner in that area.
I have reached out to the city of Moorhead to ask for the contractors that they have used for any of their cleaning projects so that we can reach out to them and let them know that this project would be coming. Questions? Seems appropriate. It's maintenance. Mhmm. What's your second? Mister Ockrey, just out of mostly curiosity, are these clay lined ponds? Yes. Not so much that they are there's a specific clay liner that's been installed. It's more of a natural clay liner at the bottom of these ponds.
There was no specific, like you would see on a wastewater pond where there's specific requirements to build a certain thickness of impermeability. Those don't exist on these stormwater ponds. But in reality, there is clay down there at the bottom of the pond. So on the Woodbridge Pond, you're gonna dredge out roughly two more feet? Yep. You'd be digging digging down into the clay then? Yes. You just the clay will still Yes. Be deep enough where and then I always wonder, where do you haul it to? Who's was there any value in any of the sediments?
I can't speak to the value. This we're gonna we're expecting about 10,000 yards of material. And in conversations with Mike, they are planning to take the material at the, shop site and use it for other purposes. They may decide to depart with it, but that's where this is going. It does not need to be landfilled in a specific location because of the, material check checked out. So it's clean, so to speak. Any other questions? Been on marketplace.
Let's see what we can get for it. I assume we'll see approval of task order in June to seal Cote D'Ivoire's. No, I'm not going to answer that. Are there any questions about the POND address? I will say as far as on the financial side of things, so when we're always talking about our overall reserve balance, this would end up being this is actually a general fund number that's part of that whole package, that $1,150,000 that we have. So this effectively eats into that by half of it or more,
however you want whatever the numbers come back as. But keep in mind, how much does it bring in on an annual basis? It's $140,000.13000 dollars a month, dollars 142 a year. Yes, dollars 142 a year comes back in for that fund. And we don't have any other significant stormwater projects? No. Our infrastructure is solid throughout? It's in, yeah, relatively solid shape citywide. With the fund now, I think this does allow us setting up a fund to more accurately prepare for things and for Mike to better budget for projects.
And we've been really just holding off on it for several years until we knew we had a healthy enough number in here to do this type of project, and we feel like we're at that point now. And it can have a more robust system or whether it be buying a lift station. I don't know what it would what else we would potentially buy. But, I mean, Keystone Pond will have to be done here at some point. Twenty years from now. Correct me if I'm wrong. Like, on the isn't like those first and that is just something I remember Dan telling me. It's like those first years of the pond is like really when the huge amount
of sediment will start to build up in them. So on that twenty, twenty five year cycle, that's once you get it cleaned, yes. That's correct. But really, it should be done, I think, on the front end the first go around a lot sooner. That's how I always understood it to work because people are tracking mud and everything as things are being constructed. We're we're looking at our newest pond that's not even halfway full of sediment yet. So I think as we look at that, I mean, I'm I'm okay with it taking twenty years. I mean, I think You're exactly right, Peyton. If you think about the construction activity that that occurs and and the tracking and
the debris that washes into stormwater inlets, that's what's getting carried into the ponds. Now I will say that if you think about the stormwater, prevention, the pollution prevention plans and the SWIP, all those things that are in place now that maybe weren't as strict twenty, twenty five years ago, the construction methods have improved and so the likelihood of a lot of sediment getting washed into those ponds is reduced. But you're 100% right. It's largely the beginning stages of those ponds when a lot of the sediment gets
washed into them. And assuming that expedite gets built on. Right. Go ahead, Calvin. In your opinion then, as we create new ponds the field in the future, should we budget in a dredging on the front end for the first five years? I don't know that that is necessary. I I and the reason I say that is because if everything is followed, they're designed to handle some, but if all of the permitting is followed and the stormwater pollution prevention measures are in place, in theory, the settlement's not getting to the pond.
Now we know reality that's not 100% correct. But as things as we go forward, the intent is that we're not pushing that sediment into those ponds. It does get there, but it it's getting better every year. And and this makes sense. But and I understand, like, hey. During construction, there's gonna be more sediment pushed in there. But we also, like you just said, have all these preventative measures that we're taking. And if they're implemented, that will also help. Correct. So I this need I this has made it to needs to be done, for sure. I have a conversation about the next ponds after we get the measurements on the
sediment. And we've actually thinking back to a few like I said, on Chatterdewell, we've been here. When we did the summer with third edition, we actually got a cost to do dredging of that pond at that time back six, seven years ago because we've always had issues with, you know, algae buildup and odor and things like that, especially in the dryer years. And we have installed the fountains, which does help, but they don't it's not a foolproof solution, to hopefully, this will help it more than anything.
Any other questions? To that end, I will entertain a motion for Resolution 20 five-seventy eight. So moved. Motion by Peterson. Second. Second by Nash. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does move us to number 11. Thank you, Andrew. Appreciate it. Customer's concerns, many updates around the horn? Okay. Yes. The only concerns I have is I think we should own the land we're gonna bid the community center on, and I think we should seal coat the roads next summer. That's all I got. I just wanna remind everybody to keep your fire hydrants clean.
We got a lot of snow, keep and clear so the fire department can get in there and and your sidewalks. That's all I had. Mister Steichen. Been fairly quiet, but I wanna thank the Shop of the Copy event and everybody involved with that, the, public works, getting the roads cleaned up. So it's all appreciated. So, hope everybody has a great New Year's Eve and a great 2026. Thank you, mister Seiken. So I attended the quick trip ribbon cutting, and Hunter was there to receive his big,
what he calls Happy Gilmore chat. I see. That was impressive to see, how they, run it as a kind of family operation and and the, commitment they have to their employees and the communities that they're in. So, very nice event and happy to be there to be a part of it. Update, we also did interviews for the police department for the one position we have open, and so we are working our way through the process of putting an offer in for, a new police officer. So Awesome. More to come. So that's it. Thank you, Julie. Peyton? On the seventeenth,
I attended a meeting with City of Morehead's, Clay County, and, Downtown Morehead Inc. We met with a couple of Clay County commissioners and couple members from, some of the surrounding townships regarding the White Earth Casino. We just provided them with an update. And then on the next night, would have been on the eighteenth, I was at the Glendon Township meeting getting our resolution support for our LRIP grant. That's all it's on the agenda. So I offered to hang around and answer any questions for them as well.
So the short end of it, there's not a lot to report, since the last any update that you've had with it. It's sort of a slow trickling type thing. You know, in working with the tribe, they have their own processes they have to go through as well. But we continue to have backed off a little bit from having weekly meetings, but meeting every two or three weeks. Myself and my counterpart in Moorhead, Downtown Inc, and Clay County just, just check ins to see if there's anything to report on.
But those conversations are ongoing. And that's all I have on that, and happy New Year, y'all. Thank you, Peyton. I wanna quick you talked about, mister Steichen, you thanked Matt Bus for us being a part of it. I just wanna give a nod to Jim Austinas real quick, because Jim Austinas is one that really championed bringing Matt Bus to Dilworth, a former council member here. That was that was one of his his goals, and and he actually made it work. So I was thinking thinking back on the history of Matt Bus, former council member Austin was was a champion for that one. 2026,
looking at our portfolios, we will have the same council members, for the year. So unless there's, a significant change that you wanna see, my initial thought is moving with, the status quo, maintaining, the assignments for the year. But if there are some desires to wanna try something different, remember, let me know. We can see how we can, move responsibilities around. I do wanna thank, the I'm gonna just call it the community center committee for lack of a formal formal term. But we had a lot of voices, and a lot of participation, whether it was the formally organized committee or it was the open house and public
comment. I I I think, like, Kevin, you said, like, with the direction they were given, they did a fantastic job of of putting it on paper and giving us a tangible outcome, for our community center. And And I and I do I think I think what they put together is remarkable. I'm excited for that piece. And I also agree with you, Kevin. I I wanna make sure that we do have, a deal together for the land as this is coming to the finish line and putting up a plant inspection. It only makes sense, to have that control of the land before we, as we move this forward at the same time.
So, that needs to be our one of our priorities, as we move into the new year. And with the new year, on the horizon, I hope everyone has a a safe end of the year as we wrap up 2025 and look at an enjoyable 2026. So with that, it does move us to paying the bills. Any questions on the bills? Hearing no questions, I will entertain a motion to pay the bills. Motion. And a motion by Peterson. Second. Second by Nash. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And with there being no further business before council this evening, we'll call this meeting adjourned.