Good morning. Good evening. With it being 06:00, we're gonna 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. Yes. It is 2026. And with that, welcome to our first meeting. Just a quick note. If you haven't done so, please remember to sign in, as your, attendance is part of the public record. With that, it does move us to number two. Roll call around the horn,
please. Peterson here. Steichen. Nash. And Olsen. With that, it does move us to number three. We have our agenda for approval. I didn't see any additions or subtractions. Motion to approve the agenda. I have a motion by Nash By John Steichen. And a second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, we have our consent. Peyton, do we need to adopt this, as part of this be filled in later? The tabs? That's they'll be on that agenda. Okay. Perfect. So with that, any questions about our consent? There are a few. Motion to approve the consent agenda.
I have a motion by Nash. Second. Second by Peterson. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. That does bring us to number five. Peyton, has there been any formal request to speak before council this evening? No. Received. Alright. Once again, as in 2025, same thing in 2026. Remember, to engage or in let's engage our public in the process. Hopefully, we'll make some and continue to make progress, and let's progress to number six, planning and engineering. Six alpha, we have imagined the 2025 comprehensive plan.
We have mister Altenberg, presenting from MetroCOG. The floor is yours. And with me is Aiden Young as well. Good evening, mayor and council members. Thank you for having us tonight. Again, my name is Adam Altenberg, community transportation analyst with the Fargo Motor Metropolitan Council of Governments, and we're here tonight to present the Dilworth comprehensive and transportation plan. It's culmination of a ten month planning effort to look at, additional guidance, goals, policies for the city in the next couple years and beyond. So with that, I'd like to talk about what we'd like to discuss tonight.
So briefly, we'll just talk about planned contents. We'll touch briefly on some of the community input and key issues that we heard about. After that, we'll talk about some of the goals and policies that we've developed as part of this plan and then, just some, steps for the council to consider after adoption. So plan contents, you can see this is, divided into 10 different sections. So we started with a project background that talks about the planning process. Also talks about, some different planning studies that we, took took a look at that have been completed in the past, and their, relevance to the city of Dilworth.
Community profile looked at demographic trends related to, population, age, income, and education. Land use looks in looking at existing land use and future growth considerations, and that will be an item that we'll talk about a little bit more in-depth after, we get through some of the goals and policies here. With regard to the future land use, plan that would has been developed. Housing, looking at supply type here within the city of Dilworth. Transportation, that's looking at all modes, whether that's a vehicular, transit, bike, ped, and other, transportation needs within the city, public services infrastructure, parks and recreation with solutions to address,
some of the community needs and opportunities that we heard about, economic development, looking at existing economic conditions, natural and cultural resources and then finally, implementation, just looking at some of the prioritized actions and then, again, kind of monitoring, and updates to the planning process to the plan, after the planning process here is completed. So with community input, so we had a couple of different, community, input opportunities throughout this planning process. We had an online survey and interactive map that was open from April 12 to May 23. The survey, it had about 25 different questions. The interactive map was actually where you could,
go around the city of Dilworth. And then if you had, say, a roadway concern, you could actually put a pin on the map and say what the concern was. So between those two, key components, we had 86 unique responses. With that, we had, three, public open houses and pop up meetings. We had an open house on April 24. We We had a pop up meeting during local days on July 25 July 25, and then we had our final, open house, just last month on December 3. We also had a public comment period when we released the first draft here in November,
and that ran from November 10 to December 3. So, so some of the from the online survey interactive map, some of the kind of the key issues and themes that you heard about there were kind of apes that were reoccurring. Roadways safety and accessibility, that was the one that came out on top, and that was whether there, for example, crossing Highway 10, a number of people, expressed concerns about, additional safe crossings, also, additional bike ped facilities not within the city, but also that could connect to the city of Moorhead and other locales.
Parks and community amenities, that came in number two. And we'll talk about this kind of with the future, land use plan as well. But, just looking at what we heard several times was that, that idea of having some sort of regional park within the city of Dilworth. So that has been incorporated into the future land use plan. And then also just, Sorry. No. That's good. And I'll just lastly, the third that kinda came up on top was that growth and development. So making sure that, as the city grows, it doesn't lose its character. It's it's Dilworth is very much a bedroom community,
and the people that live here do have expressed desire to keep that, as as much as as much as possible. So with that, we've developed, a number of goals and policies. These are divided into six different topic areas. And if it's all right, I might just kind of read through these, very quickly. So the first was for land use goals and policies. Goal one, promote balanced orderly growth policies for that coordinating land use decisions with infrastructure capacity and encouraging infill development and efficient land use before expanding city boundaries and maintaining a mix of housing types that serve all age groups and income levels.
Goal two, support economic development through land use, reserving land for commercial and industrial uses in strategic areas, reimagining downtown as a mixed use corridor with employment and retail opportunities and then leveraging real access to support industrial expansion. Goal three for land use: preserve community character and livability. Policies for that require connectivity between neighborhoods, parks and community facilities, use buffers and design standards to minimize land use conflicts and then maintaining green space parks and trails as development occurs. Goal four for land use is planning for future growth.
Policies for that identify and phase future growth areas to align with infrastructure planning, coordinate land use decisions with school districts, utility providers and county partners and then using annexation policies that support logical cost effective expansion. Next group of policies relate to housing. Goal number one is to provide a range of housing types and price points. Policies for that is to encourage, the development of all housing types, supporting housing that serves a mix of incomes, ages, and household sizes, and then considering incentives to promote workhouse housing to fill housing gaps within the Dilworth
community. Goal two, promote housing quality and neighborhood vitality. Policies that enforce property maintenance standards to support housing rehabilitation policies, encourage high quality design and new residential development and then preserving and enhancing established neighborhoods through reinvestment. Goal three, address the needs of seniors and special populations, policies that support development of senior housing and assisted living facilities within the city, promoting accessible design and new housing, also known as universal design principles, and then coordinating with local and regional service providers to provide, support for aging in place.
Last goal is to encourage infill redevelopment. Two policies for that identify strategic sites for infill housing near Downtown and Highway 10 and then supporting mixed use development in key areas such as Highway 10 and the Rail District. Next group of goals and policies related to transportation. Four goals here. First one, ensure a safe and efficient street network. Policies for that, maintain and improve key corridors like Highway 10, 34th Avenue and 15th Avenue address intersection safety, signage and traffic calming across the community and then plan for long term road capacity and pavement maintenance. Goal two,
expand multimodal transportation options. Policies for that, develop and implement a citywide sidewalk and trail master plan, add bike lanes and off street paths to support cycling for recreation and community and improve pedestrian crossings in schools, parks and commercial centers. Goal three, improve public transit cross access and use. Policies for that is to work with Map Bus to expand service hours, frequency and coverage, explore options for transit stops and park and ride facilities near future growth areas and then promote transit use through education and coordination with senior housing,
schools and employers. Last goal, enhance connectivity and mobility across the city. Policies for that, create more connections between neighborhoods and between residential areas and commercial or public facilities, seek funding for overpasses or safe crossings across the VNS rail corridor, and also use land use planning to support walkability and reduce vehicle dependency. Infrastructure goals and policies, three goals for that: maintain and upgrade core infrastructure policies that prioritize investment in water, sewer and stormwater systems based on condition and growth patterns implement asset management practices and
capital improvement programming minimize system disruptions through proactive maintenance and continue partnerships with Intergovernmental and intergovernmental coordination with neighboring jurisdictions. Goal two, plan for long term growth and resiliency. Our policies align infrastructure investment with future land use plan coordinate utility expansion with phased development and annexation strategies and design systems that can withstand extreme weather events and changing climate conditions. Last goal, provide high quality public spaces, maintain the policies for that, maintain standards for police, fire and emergency response ensure equitable access to clean water,
sanitation, broadband, and solid waste services and evaluate and modernize public facilities for efficiency and accessibility. Onto the last two here. Next set of goals and policies related to parks and recreation. Goal one, provide high quality accessible parks and facilities. Policies for that, to maintain and upgrade existing parks to ensure safety, accessibility and relevance incorporate inclusive play and universal design in all new facilities, and use community input to guide design and investment priorities. Goal two is to expand recreational opportunities.
Policies for that support diverse recreation programming for all age groups, develop new parks and growth areas as development occurs, and explore facilities such as splash pads, fitness stations or other small indoor recreation center. These are some of the things that we heard through our, public input process. Goal three, build a connected trail greenway network. Policies with that provide missing links in the city's sidewalk and trail system, provide safe, separated bicycle and pedestrian routes across the city, especially across Highway 10 and near schools, Coordinate with regional partners to extend, trail access to Morehead and other destinations.
And then coordinate with regional partners to plan for and implement the Heartland Trail expansion across Clay County. Last goal, enhance environmental and community benefits. Policies for that incorporate natural features, pollinator gardens and native landscaping into park design, use parks and greenways as part of the city's stormwater management strategy, promote volunteerism and civic partnerships and park stewardship and continue park promotion from the Park Board. Last set of goals and policies, economic development. Goal one is to support local business growth and retention. Policies for that partner with the Chamber of Commerce and regional agencies to support local
entrepreneurs, encourage homegrown businesses, provide resources and provide resources for start ups and create programs that support business expansion and succession planning. Goal two, expand commercial and employment opportunities. Policies for that promote strategic commercial development along Highway 10 and within new mixed use areas attract light industrial logistics and manufacturing to industrial areas along the B And S Corridor ensure infrastructure investments support designated employment centers and also attract office light industrial to the 34th Avenue,
34th Street Corridor north of 15th Avenue. Goal three, strengthen Dilworth's identity and brand. Policies for that, development and marketing strategy positions Dilworth as a business friendly family oriented city, highlight access to regional markets, rail and workforce as part of business recruitment efforts, and revitalize and promote a walkable mixed use town center for main in for main street areas. Last one, coordinate with regional economic development efforts. Policy is to collaborate with the Greater Forum, Fargo Moorhead EDC,
Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, DEED, and also West Central Initiative. And then last, support regional workforce development initiatives, technical training programs, and infrastructure funding partnerships. So a lot of information with that. With that, I'll just talk about, after the plan adoption here. So it is thought that once this plan is approved, hopefully that, this won't just sit on the shelf. It would actually be a living document that the city council, planning commission, others would take a look at and then monitor and update, as needed. For example, if changes happen in the city,
consider revisions or amendments that are consistent with the plan's vision and recommendations. Also consider annual reviews, and then looking to, look at chances to track progress, evaluate priorities and then identify emerging needs to provide a basis for city budgeting when those, come around annually for project priorities. A lot more can be found within the plan, which is located on Metrocarrag's website at the moment. I know this is a very, very quick overview, but at this time, happy to take any questions.
Thank you again, Mr. Altman, for running through that. Any questions from counsel? Kevin? Could you go back to the one that I think it was the park board one where you you touched on the Heartland Trail? Was has there been any headway between Glendon and Holly? At the moment, no. Not at all. Oh, I mean, we did so you're familiar that we did Metricog did help to complete a study here Mhmm. In the last couple of months. There is a Heartland Trail task force that I believe the city is part of, that we've had a couple of meetings so far to make sure that we can
we kind of press communities to keep moving forward with some of the recommendations. But as of yet, there's hasn't been any additional infrastructure development as part of the trail network. Okay. Mr. Steichen, do you have a question? Yes. Thank you for presenting. The people that responded to the surveys, what was their what were they focusing on for the most part? It was a mix of, against, like, when thinking about transportation, it was a mix of some of the safety concerns, but also highlighting what they saw as what they what people were proud of within
the city. A couple examples of that I can that I can think of is that it's a safe, low crime city. There is several comments that related to, excellent city leadership. I'll say that. Administrative. Admit. Easy. But there's a safe, low crime city. That was the in house survey. Yeah. Yeah. And then and then, again, like, thinking about some of the parks and recs, some are simple, like dog parks, slash pads, and those sorts of those sorts of issues. So it was it was kind of a mix of, different comments. Again, some some were some were concerns,
some were just thoughts of what people would like to see, and then others were just kind of complimentary for for the city. Any other questions? Oh, please. I just want to make one remark, and we probably didn't bring it up tonight. But it is fascinating when you go back through and look at the goals and objectives that you set forth in every comprehensive plan when you compare and contrast it against what we had done eight, nine years ago, whenever we did the last one, to see how much actually does get done. I go into this and always think, Gosh, we've probably done one or two things. And you have a litany of items listed.
Oh, my gosh, we've done a ton of stuff that checks a lot of these boxes. So it's always refreshing to know that this does serve some level of purpose, and it's in the collective minds of the planning commissioners and everyone who makes those decisions and forwards on recommendations to the city council. So it is kind of cool to track that progress as we go along. So here in a decade or when we do the next one to see where we are with some of these things. A lot of these are very lofty, you know, like as far as overpasses and parking trails and things like that.
They're probably gonna be more longer term. As long as we're taking active steps to get there with some of these projects and initiatives, that's all we can really be asking for, I feel. And, yes, kind of a cool process to think of when you reflect back on it periodically like we do and to see the progress that we've made. I'm just gonna kinda add to that a little bit. What and when we're look go back one more slide, please, please. Oh, sorry. No. That's alright. When we're looking at at the goals and we look at the policies, again, hats off to planning and hats off to City Council.
Like when you look at the policies that were set forth to achieve these longer term goals or even the short term goals, it does set the future of the city up, in terms of being ready to act if an opportunity presents itself. And that's, again, very again, my hat's off to the planning commission, and thanks to MetroCard for putting it all together and looking at, okay, you know, we are doing many of these things, you know, even the, like, the more obscure goal number four, coordinate with the greater Fargo Moorhead, development, you know, Corporation.
We're doing those things, working with Deed. We're doing those things, to make sure that we are ready. And I think it's just a testament to the collaborative nature and, again, the citizens who want to volunteer and help and participate in the process. So it's pretty great to see this coming forward as and gonna move us forward. So are there any other questions from council? I don't have a question, but can I make a comment? I mean, this is very nicely put together. I appreciate all the information in here and the the care that was put to, like, highlight specific parts about Dilworth that play into that,
plan as well. So thank you. So to that end, that does move us to, the resolution, 6B, Resolution 2,601, approval of the Imaduah 2025 comprehensive plan. And if there are no further questions, I will entertain a motion. Motion by Peterson. Second. Steichen. Second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. That does move us to six 6C, Resolution 20 six-two, the approval of the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map. Mr. Altenberg, was she on which one?
Yeah. Well done. We'll take that again. Thank you again, mayor, council members. So we've just approved the plan here. One of the items that was, part of the conference plan was a future land use map. We thought that we would take this separately, just to go a little go into a little bit more detail, and talk about that before approving that as part of the overall comprehensive plan. Future land use plan, though, serves as a foundation, for growth, provides long range vision for land use, guides decisions on housing, commercial development, infrastructure, parks and community amenities,
and other items as well here. So and I should have maybe broken this up into a couple of different sections. But, Peyton, if you don't mind, maybe zooming in a little bit. Okay. Okay. So this is the future land use, map that was developed here. I'll say that this was, we it was kind of a it was a planning process that included a small group of planning commissioners. We met and discussed several times here this summer. And over the course of several different meetings, this is how the final future land use map did kind of pan out here.
I suppose, yeah, we can start in Let's go. Yeah, start. Let's just go north to south. Okay. Sounds good. Sounds good. Yep. So I know this is another item on your agenda tonight, but, in the discussions that we had earlier this year, we did know that Dilworth was looking at potential commercial light industrial area that would be in the Northwest corner of the city of Dilworth. So we've incorporated that as part of this future land use map. And then just some high level thoughts for additional housing North of 15th Avenue,
buffering that commercial industrial area with medium density residential along 40th Street and then along 15th Avenue North and then just low density residential kind of buffered within contained within that area. Going to the south, if you recall, the city approved, an 8th Avenue extension study, last year about this time. Included that within that were a couple of different alignments for how 8th Avenue could traverse the city. So we took a look at all the three options.
We looked at the input that that plan received. And what this is a culmination of is I believe this was the option number one that was contained within that plan. The other two options, the the roadways were a little bit straighter. This is a little bit has a little bit more of a curvy linear nature to it. The the biggest thought about that is that it would actually help to, slow speeding that would possibly occur along that corridor. But it was also it was the option that was the most preferred option,
both with our the small planning group that we had as well as the, the recommendation from the public that participated in the planning process for that study in the past there. So you can see it's, we start 34th Avenue. It's commercial kind of and some of this is existing, so it's going from commercial to medium density. Then we have mostly low density residential with some pockets of medium density. One of the key things to note there, we did discuss this future land use plan at the,
planning commission meeting in December. And there were some concerns from the public about having medium density abut existing single family homes to the south between, I suppose it would be 9th, 9th Avenue, 40th Street, and then 7th Avenue, to the east there. So what we've included so for any of the medium density, we've included 120 foot, low density residential buffer. So again, so the existing neighbors, they won't abut some higher density residential developments in the future.
So we thought that was a good compromise. And we did discuss that with the planning commission last week, and they agreed with that as well. Another option to note is the, there is about four acres that are adjacent to the Summerwood addition. We talked about a couple of different thoughts, what the city would like to see for that area. Initially, we had thought that might be a good opportunity for medium density residential. But after further discussions, we kind of came to a decision that it's a good green space,
but it'd also be good for additional single family development that would complement the existing Summerwood addition. So we've actually incorporated both those designations within that four acre parcel so that when the decision comes time to or when it comes time to make a decision about what to do with that parcel, if that's if there's a development opportunity in the future, you could actually look at both incorporating either single family, low density residential, could incorporate parks and open space or maybe a mixture of both.
And then with that, just continuing that 8th Avenue corridor. Once we get past some of the existing developments within the city, We do move to more of, medium density buffer along both sides that would then connect, up to, 70th Street there. And we did move that roadway just a little bit up, so as not to, compete with compete with the the curve that comes, coming off the interchange on Highway 10 And 336 there. With Do you wanna make note of this one? Or I can do it if you need Sure. If you want. So this is another kind of a funky little pocket there.
It's not it's you currently zoned single family residential. It's a really bizarre piece of land where you can't I mean, I guess, theoretically, you could put a single home on it. But trying to find pockets of medium density residential, we were thinking in terms of a good buffer between, right here, which is a manufactured home part crossing the ditch, getting to medium density, still creating sort of that buffer component, in the general area. And and I think maybe now would be a good time to have just to, highlight real quick as far as the and I know we talk about it all
the time, but the planning commission's desire to see medium density residential, but not going overboard with it and how it talks with the housing study that was done. Sure. So I can I can talk about that housing study first? Council members, may recall, it was about a year and a half ago now that Metro COG, completed a housing needs assessment for the community. Basically, what that study found is that, and this is going back to the data that was developed, again, a couple years back,
but, there's there's a need for an additional 16,000 housing units, within our community to just to just to keep up with the job growth that we've been seeing as a metro area. And one of the thoughts that came out of that study too is that every community should look at ways to increase their density. It shouldn't just be a Fargo or Moorhead issue. It should include all the all the communities within Cass and Clay Counties. And that was something that was conveyed by the to the planning commission as well.
So with that thought in mind, we were very strategic that we wanted to look at opportunities to include additional density where it would be most where we'd most see fit. But we didn't want to showcase a lot of, like, the high density residential. We do have a little bit that of that if you go south. But, again, it's keeping me in in the spirit of that housing study that was completed and also just to provide additional housing opportunities for younger families that maybe want to,
relocate to the city. I don't know, Peyton, if you wanna add No. I can guess. Okay. Yeah. Sort of a good encapsulation of it there. Some of this area too. Just, I mean, additional mixed use, community centers in that area as well. Yeah. That's just showing this whole new area that's being developed out there to 60th Street as being that mixed use that was recently adopted by the city council. And then the last area I'd like to focus on. So so looking at this area between, 12th Avenue South, 336, and then kind of buffered by 14th Street there.
We actually started out with three different scenarios for this area, with with with the thought that we we're aware that additional developments may be occurring to the south there. So we looked at a scenario that looked more predominantly at residential growth. So that just include a mixture of single or low density high low, medium, high density residential growth in that area. We also looked at a scenario that was solely commercial based. And then we also had one that was more of a mixed use center
that incorporated basic most of that area within contained within that boundary. And what we decided that we kind of went for a scenario that incorporated all three of those options. So what you can see here, you have commercial that lines along that's aligned along 12th Avenue 336. Within that, that is an area of high density residential. So that would that would include apartments that would probably be up to twelve thirty
six units, in in, in the number of units that they would hold. We also incorporated an additional mixed use area that could kind of complement the rail district that you're seeing to the north there, Again, with the thought that you we may be looking at a future overpass over the BNSF rail lines in the coming years. So incorporating some of those design features that you're already seeing in the rail district and then, continuing those as we go southward. And then, you see the aerial the arrow there, the connection to future I 94 interchange?
This is something that is being discussed by MnDOT right now. There there is there's actually a planning study that's being done that would look at a new, interchange that would, connect, both Moorhead and and the city of Dilworth. The the the thing with that, though, is that it is about, it's not quite aligned with 14th Street there. So what we've done is we've just kind of showed an arrow that would actually alignment remains to be seen, how that how that would work out. But it would be good to actually tie that interchange,
connect up to 14th Street, connect over the oil pass when and if that occurs, and then connect to, the rest of the city by the by those means. And there's physical reasons that it has to be jogged over like that between I guess, it'd be 34th Street and the three thirty six interchanges of where the airport is located, also trying to get out of the way of the new fuel facility that's being that's gonna be constructed there just west of where the airport
is located. So it has to be shifted over just a little bit to make room for all of that. So that's where it's anticipated to be, more closer to 34th Street, but I still think plenty of clearance to have another interchange. They're not gonna be on top of one another necessarily. And the only other thing I wanted to note about everything that you see sort of south of or up you know, down to 12th Avenue is the cooperation with the city of Moorhead. So this was shared with their planning department because we wanna make sure that lane
uses are talking to one another. You know, we wanna make sure if we're putting commercial right here across the street, not single family residential from them, and this all aligns well with their future growth area plan. And for and for those curious, the reason why we're reflecting everything that you see on this map that has, you know, colors on it, outside of our city limits that's just showing where our future annexation boundaries are. So like when we're doing our orderly annexation review here in just a little bit for the land north of town,
we have that same orderly annexation agreement for some of these other areas. So that's why the planning commission was evaluating all the land uses outside of our corporate limits. Is that everything, Payton? For me. Yes. Are there any questions from Council. For either mister Altenberg, mister Young. Or Peyton? I have a couple. Kevin? Can you zoom in, just to the North Side Of The Meadows there? It's all the Highway 10. That's as good as I can get to zoom in. I'm sorry. So we own that just to the North Side Are you talking of the tracks there?
I'm sorry. We're talking about, like, this Yeah. Area? That's all in city limits? Mhmm. Yep. And is that that first I'm just having a hard time seeing the road. It's really that Yeah. The road. The road goes Yep. The road curves around right here. Three houses That's right there. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. City limits. Yep. Okay. Yeah. It's kind of a wacky deal right there. No. Yeah. I yeah. I was thinking that was closer to 34th Street. That's why it threw me off. Mhmm. Got it. And then on the north side, we've got that little island that's not part of Dilworth,
north of Highway 10. Mhmm. Right there. Is is Right where? Yeah. On on by on County Road 9. Oh, on the okay. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, this right here, Kevin? Yeah. Yep. Yep. There's if at what point is there talks of annexation about that? Yeah. It's the same for this little bit right here too that we're not annexing at the same time. These are all Selfie and doctors? Resin. They're not all the rest of the they're they're south of there. Yep. So both of these pockets, we'll call them right there. They're both current residences.
Uh-huh. And we were a little hesitant to move forward with it at this time because, well, one, they weren't requesting annexation even though that we can require it at any time. It a lot had to do just with the availability of utilities because if they do come in, presumably, we provide sanitary sewer for them. And, you know, at this time, Resco and Red River Valley, they're not concerned with the sewer. So I think that's something we will have to evaluate at a future time. Uh-huh. It's just so, as long as we're prepared to do the whole sewer project,
and Andrew Andrew and I actually talked about that a little bit as far as we don't have sewer available right there to those properties on County Road 9 right now. You can do it, obviously, but it'd be a pretty Yeah. Penny for the time being. That makes that makes sense. Yep. We'll we'll get them there eventually. Last question. Why isn't it squared up on the Northeast Side? Glen Right here, you mean? Yeah. Glen and That's just go that way. Yeah. That's just how the orderly annexation agreement goes. It doesn't go all the way out to there. I don't know the histrionics beyond that behind that, but that's where it goes out to right now.
So, yeah, if you look at our living out there. That annexation map, that's all it's reflected above. It's just, to right there. Interesting. Yes. Okay. Any other questions for Peyton or for Mr. Altenberg or Mr. Young? There was a lot of time by the planning commissioners and the MetroCox staff as well, especially on the future land use map side of things. That's the most important document or element of the land of the comp plan that ends up being reviewed and adopted. So very appreciative of everyone that put forward, you know, efforts to come in extra time and devote,
you know, extra hours to making this a go? I I guess I do I do have one more. Please. Regarding the the low density buffer, I I think that's I think it's wise to get that in as policy now, right, so that there's no questions about it later or as the city grows. I think it's gonna be a good blueprint going forward. I like what I see here. I just have one question. On the South Side of town, there is some existing neighborhood there that you guys show future land use with the
I I think that color's medium density. Right? Talking here, Kevin? Yeah. Yep. Is is that, just a deal with it as we go thing? Or You know? I mean, I understand. You're you're gonna the the intention is to run 14th Street Yep. South of there, and you want to abut that with some medium density there. But you've got low density south of it, and I'm because it's like, why are they not allotted that courtesy as well, I guess? And I think to answer your question, yes, kind of it's going to be something that will be evaluated as we go along. Obviously,
we're talking years down the road before some of this comes together. And obviously, with it biting up to an industrial space there. But I think as for me, when I think about a future land use map, you want to make sure you're aligning to the best of your abilities, but you're always looking out for future economic, physical and social changes in an area that may dictate what a future land use map should look like. It's kinda like when we were doing our downtown
rezoning last year, the year before, whenever we did that and rezoned that to MU one. We took a look. The area has evolved. We know Highway 10 is gonna come through there and directly impact that area. So at that time, we redetermine, for lack of a better term, what the most appropriate land use is. So while there are pockets in there like this one that you're referring to that maybe makes sense to the PC, Planning Commission, to us at this time. It may evolve over time to say,
hey. We don't need that. Or it may say we need more of it. You know? I we don't really know at this time. So I think just, you know, with everything available at this time, they just felt that was the best use of it. But I think, yeah, it's obviously subject to evaluation as we go along, and the chances of us seeing development there before our next go around with this is probably pretty slim. Sure. Yeah. Isn't it? I did look in that one little gray square up there as Molland, and we don't have an orderly accent Correct. With Molland.
Yeah. So this is Molland Township. Okay. Mhmm. Yep. Yeah. Are there any other questions? So with that, I do want to say thank you, Julie, for attending that last planning commission meeting on Wednesday for me. So that was ultimately where this went. It was approved by planning. Any comments or just, update from PC, planning commission? Yes. I mean, there was a lot of discussion around, you know, where exactly, to have that buffer, how far extended, and then also a lot of good conversation about what might happen with that other
property that we, well, I'll say Adam came up with some crafty or maybe it was Eden, but, they came up with some crafty way to make it, work for options that we might have in the future. And so, lot of good discussion, but, there was consensus around going forward with this map. K. Peyton, anything else? Yeah. I I would just like I sat through this and had the opportunity to to hear this as it was presented to, planning commission last year. It has been a great discussion and and process to get it actually into place,
and now we have the opportunity, tonight to support it go forward. It's definitely a testament to the process, and making sure that, you know, our committee is heard. They actually built in that subcommittee. We had citizen participation, and that gets us to where we're at where there's there's an opportunity to continue positive, and pragmatic growth for the city of Dilworth. It's interesting that we don't have an agreement with Mullen Township. So, you wanna cover where this goes from here? GTC and Oh, so, yeah, one of the one of the last steps that we'll do is we'll probably bring this to our Metro COGS transportation technical committee and policy award in February,
just to get their final approval. But that shouldn't preclude any any recommendations for approval here tonight. So k. So with that, I will entertain a motion for resolution twenty six zero two, the approval of the comprehensive plan future land use map. Motion to approve. Motion by Nash. Steichen. Second. Second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Once again, thank you, gentlemen, for all of the efforts along the way and get this moving forward. Appreciate it. Have a good evening. You too.
Thank you. That does move us to six Delta, right? Resolution 2,603, the orderly annexation pursuant to the orderly annexation agreement between the City Of Dilworth, the City Of Moorhead and Moorhead Township. Peyton? Last Wednesday, the planning commission did review the proposed annexation or pending annexation is probably a better way of putting it, of all the land to the Northwest West of the community where Resco, Red River Valley Co op are going to be going, as and as well as all the parcels in between.
So if we're looking right here, everything that you see in green the first resolution that you're reviewing is these parcel these two parcels. And then the second resolution, twenty six zero four, for the next agenda item, we'll be handling everything North Of 15th Avenue. To so how the orderly annexation process works, we take it to the planning commission more as a formality just to alert them that we're doing this. They give their blessing. And, again, this has already been agreed upon between both Moorhead and Oakport townships
where this annexation is going to take place. So it's not as if they can come in and object to it or file any agreements or anything like that. It's already been negotiated years back. So to initiate both processes here, there is yeah, you adopt a resolution, we put the finishing touches on it, we have to fill in the numerical values. I just wanna have Katie review that one more time. And so how it works, we have to, over the course of the next two years, pay back township taxes only, not county taxes,
but just what they would normally collect. So, several just several $100, I guess, you know, between all the parcels up there, that has to be paid back over the course of the next couple of years, which is the same thing we've done with all the other annexations that we've recently instituted. It's not that large a fee necessarily, but, Katie will review that one more time, fill in the blanks accordingly. We'll get that shipped off to the Office of Municipal Boundary Adjustments or whatever it's called down there, the Saint Paul.
And, yeah, then it'll be in the city of limits. Thank you, Peyton. Any questions for Peyton? Okay. Hearing no questions, I will entertain a motion for resolution twenty six zero three, the orderly annexation pursuant to the orderly annexation agreement as stated in our packet. Motion to approve twenty six zero three. Motion by Nash. Second by Steichen. Second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And all of that holds true for that second twenty six zero four, Payton? That's correct.
North Of 15th? This completes it's between both annexations, we're about 383 acres of land. Alright. Any questions on twenty six zero four? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion for resolution twenty six zero four. Second. Motion by Steichen. Second. And second by Nash. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Wow. So with that Amazing. Yeah. With that, it does move us to six, Foxtrot consideration of the pay request for, pay request number one for 34th Street Reconstruction Project.
Is this gonna be as easy? I'll start it off here. It doesn't look like it. Yeah. It is. So the 34th Street reconstruction project is a project that we're doing in conjunction with the City of Morehead. As you know, our portion is the northbound lane from Highway 10 up to Ditch 50 Ish, just a ish, south of there right now. The majority of the work is done, and you can probably provide a little more of an update as far as how much work, remains. So this is the first pay request that's come in in the amount of about
$177,000 The actual pay, app, it's about $900,000 worth of work. If you remember, we received quite a bit of federal funding that gets applied towards this project that we applied for with the City of Morehead. So in total, we're about 170 yes, dollars 7,000 for this request. So I don't know if you just wanna get an update quickly on as far as the progress of the project. I'll do the best I can. Yeah. Yeah. Just to, reiterate, the total contract, and Morehead has the lion's share of it's about $6,500,000
This particular pay estimate is through, it's close to the October. And so there was still, I think, a little bit of work that happened after that point. Moorhead is is administering the contract. And I so I I'm I think it's it's approximately substantial complete, whether or not all of the work has been paid for or not, it might be a different story. But this covers about 60% of Dilworth's share, even though the project's more than that. A large component of the cost is the bridge and the work on either side
of the bridge. So, the project is open to traffic at this point. And, so this is, Dilworth's share of the first pay estimate. How this is working is Morehead is doing the day to day, and they're covering the initial costs. And then periodically, they will invoice Dilworth its share of the project cost. Looking through the the pay estimate, I don't I don't see anything out of the ordinary. K. Any questions for Andrew? Outstanding. Hearing no questions, I will entertain a motion for pay request number one for 34th Street reconstruction project.
Motion to approve. A motion by Nash. Second. Second by Peterson. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does bring us to 6 Gulf. We have a change orders for the 34th Street reconstruction project. I packaged all these together into one normally, I'll do a change or change orders for 34th Street have been I just don't want the consent agenda. They're normally relatively minor. And my general rule is there's no written rule on how to do this. I usually apply the $25,000 standard.
Anytime we have change orders over $25,000 we'll take it before council instead of me to sign it off on it even though these have technically already been done here. But I thought it was important to at least update the city council on where we are with all of these, various change orders because a couple of these are rather large in nature. So, I put them up here on the screen. Some of them have some savings about them too. So I don't know, Andrew, if you do you mind talking through some of these a little bit here and
just, discussing, you know, what these entail? Sure. I'll just I'll go through them quick. Number nine had to do with the streetlights. Moorhead Public Service was gonna install them instead of the contractors, so there was a savings. One of the nice things that Moorhead is is being generous, I feel, in this case, they're self performing some of the work. And Dilworth is not being invoiced for the vast majority of it. So they are passing some of those savings on to the City of Dilworth. And this is an example of that,
up to the tune of about $15,000 Number 10, is related to some additional traffic control. If I recall correctly, there was some additional signage for business access that was added after the project got started to help facilitate traffic movements to the local businesses. Number 11 was a bus shelter salvage and reinstall. That's a tongue twister for me. That one was on the order of about $1,400 It had to do with, and there were a couple of issues that we had plan wise on this project.
And, we have made some changes as a result of this because, some of this slipped through our quality control process. This is one of them, but there was a grade differential between the sidewalk that was going in and the existing shelter and so that shelter needed to be relocated a little bit to accommodate, pedestrian traffic. So that was change order 11. Number 12, and I would say this is probably the biggest one, there's some storm sewer on the on the western side of of 34th Street, north of Highway 10,
that, protruded or extended into the pavement section itself, which didn't allow for as much, gravel aggregate base and pavement section as we're comfortable with. And so we, needed to go in and reevaluate and redesign a portion of that roadway to accommodate both the vehicle traffic and the storm sewer. And so this process involved relocating a couple of structures and revising, some curb and gutter layout and the lane layout and how the medians worked,
which ended up being quite extensive. That's that's what this change order is is reflecting is is the the work. There was a lot of changes to quantities, because we were switching out some pipe sizes, some curb and gutter sizes and, revising some of the storm sewer layout to make sure that everything works appropriately. The good news is we got to a point where the design and the construction would work together and accommodate the existing storm sewer that was there already.
And so essentially, the biggest problem was the large diameter storm sewer was thirty six and forty eight inches The size of it didn't get fully accommodated appropriately on our cross section so when we were looking at it, it didn't show that it protruded into that typical section till we have equipment out in the field. So I'm not very proud of that particular, situation, but, we fortunately worked with Moorhead to get through it and worked with the contractor, to minimize the disruption and
get it constructed. Number 13 actually ties I think it actually ties into that is the relocation of an inlet, again to accommodate that design change. Change order 14 was temporary striping due to cold weather. When you're dealing with with striping late this season, there are some, striping, products that are temperature sensitive. And so in order to accommodate the multiple phasing, if you recall, there was probably seven different iterations of phasing to get everything striped and safe for both pedestrians and vehicles. There were some minor changes that needed to happen to striping.
And then Change Order 16, again goes back to what I was talking about earlier. A lot of Change Order 16 was discrepancies that we had on our plans where quantities were either not accounted for when the plans went out to bid or in a couple of cases we had incorrect quantities, so this was to straighten it out. In a situation like this, if we had accounted for them correctly, the bid would have reflected it from the start. So it wasn't new work or anything like that. It was just work that the contractor needed to get paid for.
That is a very quick rundown of the change order. Peyton, did I miss anything that you'd like me to to add? Okay. Okay. I will I'll take any questions if you have them. Do you have any questions from counsel? I guess mine's more for Peyton and maybe counsel can refresh. And when we're looking at this, the revenues for this for our interest? I'm just trying to remember where the money is coming from. Yeah. So this one, we're paying for out of reserves. It's also a specially assessed project that is split fiftyfifty between so we're getting federal
funding, then we're gonna have a special assessment process where our special assessment district goes all the way over to County Road 9, and then that's broken down on a per acre cost. Obviously, these, the change orders will up that a little bit. I'm not sure what the final numbers will be at this time. But that's yes, that's how it's going to be reflected long term there. Yes. And then where do these put us in plus or minus contingencies? Great question. So after the bid, the after bid analysis,
we showed $150,000 plus or minus in contingencies. Total all of these up to Dilworth, and it's about $80,000 So it's a little over half of that contingency number. But more within that? We had a few other we've had that started at nine, so we've had other ones. But I think they bought most of them have been relatively minor. I think we're still within the contingency realm there. We're getting there, though. All right. Any other questions from counsel? Alright. Again, thank you for that. I just wanna make sure with no further questions, I will,
entertain a motion for the approval of the change orders on the 34th Street reconstruction project 6 Gulf. So moved. Motion by Peterson. Second. Second by Nash. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Andre. I appreciate it. Thank you, Peyton. It does now move us to, six hotel resolution twenty six zero five, awarding the bid for Summerwood oh, correction. For the Woodbridge and Summerwood Pond dredging project. Peyton, Andrew, who's taking this one? Andrew. Mike? Mhmm. So okay. Andrew? I'll jump in.
We opened bids this morning on this, pond maintenance project. We received seven bids that ranged from about $333,000 as the low bidder all the way up to, a little over 3 quarters of 1,000,000, was the high bid. The design estimate, the one that we shared with you back in December, was about $450,000 So very favorable bids. Three bids came in below that that number, and then four were above that number. The low bidder is KPH,
Kindred Plumbing and Heating. They're actually out of, South Fargo. Their bid was $333,937 I will also, I'd like to mention that we received substantial interest on this particular project. I think the bids reflect that. Took a lot of questions from contractors last week and and even received, interest from as far as way as the Saint Cloud area. So, very favorable bids, and, we are recommending award to the low bidder KPH. I will take any questions you might have.
Any questions from the council? No. Alright. Hearing no questions, I will entertain a, motion for resolution twenty six zero five or in the dredging of Woodbridge and Summerwood Ponds to KPH Incorporated. So moved. Motion by Nash. Steichen. Second. Second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, thank you again, Andrew. You should have a good evening. That does move us now to number seven on our agenda. A few more things in general.
We have seven Alpha consideration. For the designation of Securities, Choice Finance Group, American Federal, Ehlers, and LMC four m as official depositories for the 2026. Again, in general, we got a lot of housework to do here. Questions or comments? Annual appointments? Annual designations? Hearing no questions, I will entertain a motion for six alpha or pardon me, seven alpha. Motion to approve the in order depository for 2020. A motion by Nash. Second. Second by Peterson. All those in favor,
say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does bring us to seven bravo consideration for the 2026 acting vice mayor, that being Julie Nash. And I will make the motion, for the consideration for the 2026 acting vice mayor being Julie Nash. Second. Motion by Olsen, second by Peterson. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Yeah. I gave you another chance. So there it was. You had two weeks and one day. So, what this thing. It's like no thank you. Unopposed. Yeah.
I was waiting for Kevin. There was an opportunity. I gave it. Alright. So that does move us to seven Charlie. The twenty twenty six city council appointments. And, again, at our last meeting, we talked about this, for the upcoming, year. Everyone okay with their assignments? Hearing no strenuous objections, part of me wants to say it doesn't matter. But hearing no strenuous objections, I will entertain a motion. Motion to approve appointments. A motion by Nash. Second. Second by Peterson. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it moves to seven delta.
We have the consideration to the designation of Fargo Forum as the official newspaper in 2026. I will entertain a motion. Motion to approve. Motion by Nash. Steichen. Second. Second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, we also have seven echo consideration, for adjusting the date of May 25, city council meeting. Peyton, where are you taking us to the twenty sixth? That'd be Tuesday. Mhmm. Questions about that from council? That's the only, adjustment for this calendar year? This spring? The only one this past year too.
Yeah. This is 01/2001. We just moved the one in December for Yeah. Just one. Funsies. No. Watch us do this. Alright. Any questions, comments, or concerns regarding that one? One? This moves us to Tuesday. Motion to approve. Motion by Nash. Steichen second. Second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. That does bring us to number eight, council members' concerns and committee updates around the horn. Kevin? Well, Well, I was gonna give Mike an attaboy, but he's out talking in the hall right now. So I'll just tell the folks on Facebook.
Yeah. No. I just, a a compliment to the city maintenance department on the condition of the roads right now. I think there's blacktop everywhere. The intersections are in good shape. So thanks again to Mike and the maintenance department for keeping up on that. Felt it necessary to say just a heartfelt thank you to Hunter and the police department with all of the the angst and anxiety that has kind of been following the state of Minnesota lately. So just it's hard to do I can imagine that it's hard to do your job normally,
but with the extra pressure in the spotlight, you know, hats off to you and your crew. And the last thing I have is that, the the Dilworth Fire Hall was recently used regionally by a firefighter one, firefighter two class. That's not and, so the commitment that, you know, our our tax dollars have made, you know, is helping communities all around us train up firefighters as well as our own. So, thanks to everybody on that. That's all I got. Thank you.
Mister Steichen? Well, thanks to mister Altenberg and mister Young. I do understand the process more now that I'm involved with that. So it's interesting to see how the process moves along and the steps that are involved. So thank you for your all your your work on that. This is probably for Mike back there. Is there someone is couple people have asked me, and it's not it's an ongoing thing. Where County Road 9 crosses or Croche's crosses County Road 9.
There's a car. Didn't get a lot of snow, but a car a little car got stuck in there, and it stayed there all night long. I mean, it was there all night long. And, is there a way has it ever been discussed about possible snow break to the Northwest of that? Or or someone is wondering what could be done, so that's why I'm asking the question. I honestly don't know what could be done. I mean, we we try our best when we do have snow, which we don't have enough now, but we try to over there,
we haven't really done much. But you try to get in the field and make snow breaks. We don't own any land. So for us to put up a fence or any of that, we'd have to get a lease or some kind of agreement. And I don't think the city can afford that. So we've been as you've probably seen along 7th, we usually push snow out, try to make a big wall. And then in the spring, we knock it all down so it doesn't hold up planting in the spring. But other than that, we're pretty limited on on what we can do. Well, I understand. It's like a big funnel that Yep. And you got how many miles Yeah.
To the north where there's nothing. So, I mean, snow just blows in for miles, and it is what it is. It's there isn't a whole heck of a lot we can do. Well, I was supposed to bring it up, so I Yeah. No. That that's what I I wish we could do something. I mean, if you look along the interstate, those fences do work. Right. But it's also a lot of money. So and then it takes up the farmer's field because then he can't get in there in the spring for who knows how long till that snow melts and everything dries out also. That makes sense. Thank you. Yep. Anything else, mister Stecker? Alright.
Thank you. Julie? So we're still working on, hire with our one police candidate, so that's still in the works. And, I think both the police department and the fire department are doing Hometown Heroes coming up up this next week and Saturday. This next Saturday. So we'll see them out and about. And then a shout out to chief Rawson, who was elected as region four police chief chair and region rep. So he will, be representing, us in that capacity. So congratulations on that election. Yes. Yep.
Thank you, Billy. Thank you, mister mayor. The mayor did an amazing job last week at State of the Cities, if you didn't hear. That's what everyone was, talking about, following the event. There was a buzz throughout the entire crowd for his performance. So we really appreciate him representing the city as well as he does, each and every year. So great job, mayor. Oh, it's such a fun event because it gives Chad an opportunity to highlight the community and recognize staff and others.
And, all the mayors do a wonderful job. So thank you for the Chamber for including us in on that process, obviously. At the end of the month, you probably got an e mail today or Angelo will reach out to you about a couple of events upcoming, IGR, January 30. That Friday, that's gonna be held at the law enforcement center. So if you wanna go to that, let Angela know. And the registration for the chamber event, down at the Capitol Moorhead area days Moorhead Dilworth area days down at the Capitol
is, ten or not tentatively set. I think it's officially been set for March 1112. We will have a couple of items down at the state level this year. We can talk about more in-depth at a later meeting if need be, but I think we've talked about them before. Number one is our sales tax exemption for building materials for a new community center project. You have to have legislative approval to do that, as well as being approached by businesses in the Rail District about implementing or having some,
social districts, which is a mechanism that allows for communities to designate areas of town so that you can carry alcohol from place to place. It's not just an open container thing where you take bottles of beer around. It's not like that. But it does provide an opportunity to have coordinated efforts amongst various businesses in an area of town. Has to be and it comes with limitations, right? It has to be in a certain type of a mug, you know, only designated certain times of the year, whatever that may be.
But there's a lot of city there's three cities in the state right now that have this carve out. They're allowed to do this. Well, there's a lot of cities beyond that that want to be able to do this and just provide other opportunities for local communities to, deliver service and provide for more entertainment value within their districts and towns. So, strategizing with the City Of Moorhead and also some of our other regional partners. We've met recently with, Senator Kupak and Representative Joy on how to get this started.
And so hopefully more info to come because I think it's going to be a big statewide initiative that's going to end up taking off. And so really proud of that. And so hopefully we can deliver this and be the ones stairheading it all. So, looking forward to that. And just to kind of buffer what Councilmember Petersen was saying regarding the police department, things going on right now, hunters on top of it, right? You know, we're going back and forth earlier today and during meeting this morning about, you know, just evaluating the role of what local agencies' role is,
throughout the entirety of the state, but also having our own policy set forth. And so, really excited to have that level of leadership looking out for our, dedicated police officers to make sure they're safe and sound and everyone in the community is safe and sound as well. Thank you. Thank you, Peyton. Anything else? That's all, mister mayor. Thank you, Peyton. And thanks for the the comment of, the state of the cities. Like I said, one of the one of the highlights was the city of Dorothy being called the, low drama. Is that right? It was the yes. The low drama sibling.
Yeah. The low drama sibling of the metro. So and and we I take and and the thing about that, to me, that is just an extraordinary I think it's a great compliment because the amount of effort that it takes to be low drama is significant, and I think our staff does it exceptionally well. And and that's what that's what we owe it to. And I think that I think that's fantastic. It's a testament to the people that work in the city of DeWirth every single day. So I think, I think we should all get shirts for Loco Days that says low drama. Alright. That'd be outstanding.
But but here we go. Yeah. Right. Loco days, low drama. So and just real quickly, joint powers on the thirtieth. I will be in Duluth, unfortunately. So the speaking role will have to fall to the vice mayor, for that event should she be attending. That is a good point. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I neglected to say not that, but that, we will be asked to give a presentation. So whoever is in attendance that would like to do it. I know Dave, you did a few years ago. I think you've done it too. Right, Julie? Yeah. Yeah. Are you put your not in town? No. I'll be out of the country,
so I can zoom in if necessary, but I will not be available, that Super convenient. On that day. Yeah. It it I honestly, I'm at the I'm at the mercy of, junior gold hockey schedule, so I'm gonna go to a hockey tournament that that weekend. So I I'm not gonna lie. I can go watch my kid play some hockey. So we can have a conversation about that, but that is still happening, vice mayor Nash. So, just a shout out to, like, when we talk about our legislator meetings, thank Peyton for putting that together. It's it'll be interesting to see, how this session unfolds,
but, I'm gonna borrow the the words of an of, another of a great mayor too. Like, the closed mouth doesn't get fed. So having, something in the to to discuss and ask in Saint Paul keeps us on on the radar. And to me, this is, again, low drama, but it has high value for for our residents and our businesses. So I'm kind of excited about this this session to see where it goes. And, again, it looks like 2026 has has great promise. It's gonna be it's gonna be another great year for the city of Delworth. So, as of today, that's all I have right now.
But it does move us to number nine. We have nine alpha, our our bills to be paid. Any question on the bills? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion to pay the bills. Steichen so moved. Motion by Steichen. Second. Second by Peterson. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. That does move us to number 10 as we go into closed session. But before we go into closed session, can we do, like, a five minute recess, Payton? You want to? Yeah. Let's do a quick recess as we yeah. Let's take a quick recess.
It is 07:18. Let's go into recess till twenty three.