321. Alright. 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. Alright. With that, let's go roll call. Around the horn, please. Laura. Steichen here. Nash. And Olsen here. With that, it does move us to number three, agenda for approval. I didn't see any additions or subtractions. Are we good? Alright. I will Motion to approve. I have a motion by Nash.
Second. Second by Bora. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, we have our consent. Are there any questions, comments, concerns, considerations about the consent? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion. Motion to approve. A motion by Nash. Steichen second. And a second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does move us to the public comment period. Peyton, has there been a formal request to speak before council this evening? Never seen. Alright. With that with that being said, remember to encourage the public to participate in our process.
It is how we will make some progress. I can't believe with everybody standing here, no one signed up to speak. Mhmm. Maybe next meeting. Alright. So with that, it does move us, to number six. And I did have the opportunity to say that to our our construction engineers that we're here. This is the best meeting of the year as as we get to fill up the house for our twenty twenty four, volunteers of the year. And I think, Peyton, I'll just start off by by reading our proclamation, then we'll, get into the get into the event that brought everybody in here to this evening. So our proclamation states,
WHEREAS Volunteer Week provides us the opportunity to celebrate the contributions of those who generously give of their time and talents to improve their communities. And WHEREAS, this year's theme, Every Moment Matters recognizes the importance of every volunteer and their contributions, emphasizing their vital role in strengthening communities and Whereas volunteering brings people together, builds communities and creates a better society for everyone and Whereas volunteers share their time, skills, empathy and creativity, which are crucial for the well-being and inclusivity of communities and WHEREAS,
our volunteers are fundamental to meeting the challenges and contributing to the quality of life for everyone and WHEREAS, the City of Dilworth appreciates its volunteers and encourages citizens to become more aware and involved in their communities, neighborhoods, and local government. Therefore, I, Chad Olsen, mayor of Dilworth, do hereby proclaim April 20 through 04/26/2025, volunteer week. I urge all citizens to recognize the valuable contributions made by volunteers and our service organizations encourage others to serve in the community to improve their own life as well
as the lives of others. That was signed and will go into official record today. So that's the reason we're here. Right? It is. And it's the one time of year where we we fill the community our our our city hall with good news and positive vibes. And we're fortunate enough, today we're gonna go around the horn and, how we have it set up is, council members will read, the proclamation or pardon me, the the letter of recommendation, and then we will present the award to each deserving, volunteer of the year. We're just gonna go right around the horn as we do every day, and we'll go from there. So, miss Borra, please.
Alright. The letter I have was submitted from the Duluth Local Lions, and it looks like Kristen Johnson wrote a letter nominating Missy Hubbard. The letter reads Missy Hubbard has been chosen to receive Volunteer of the Year by the Dilworth Local Alliance. Missy is one of the newer members of the Dilworth Local Alliance and comes with a selfless dedication and unwavering commitment to volunteering. Missy demonstrates an enthusiastic and optimistic attitude towards our projects and events with along with many new ideas. We thank her for representing our club so positively and look forward to her continuing as a valuable member of the club.
Let me see here. Let me see here. Yeah. No problem. There you go. I mean, Thank you. Oh, no. Bacon, are you gonna do a group photo of all of them? Yeah. Yes. Okay. Oh, not mister Spiken. You're next, please. K. This is hot off the desk from the Dilworth Fire Department with fire chief Scott Payne and assistant chief Chris Kohler celebrating a hundred and ten years of service in 02/2021. It gives me great pleasure to do this. I'm as the liaison for the fire department,
so I realize how hard each and every one of them work and how vital they are to, having a strong and efficient and well working, fire crew. Mayor Chad Olsen, Dilworth City Hall. Mayor Olsen, the Dilworth fire department would like to nominate Lieutenant Jason Stewart as our 02/2024 volunteer of the year. Jason began his career with the Dilworth Fire Department in February and has dedicated the last ten years of service to the citizens of Dilworth Fire
District. He is also a legacy member of our fire department as his grandfather, Sylvester Sib Heichert, was a former fire chief four years in the early nineteen eighties and a twenty year member of the Dilworth Fire Department. Jason consistently goes above and beyond offering his help whenever and wherever it is needed. His dedication extends to volunteering for extra duties within the fire department. As a Lieutenant, Jason has embraced a leadership role, providing guidance and support to other firefighters while using his position to help the fire
department operations run smoothly and safely. In addition to his operational contributions, Jason has played an integral role in representing the fire department at a variety of community events throughout the last year. On multiple occasions, he has volunteered his time on weekends to bring a fire engine to these events and interact with kids and adults. The commitment to community outreach makes him an exceptional ambassador for both the Dilworth Fire Department and the City Of Dilworth. For these reasons,
we feel he is deserving to be recognized as a 2024 Volunteer of the Year. The members of the Dilworth fire department would like to thank the city council for their consideration, Lieutenant Jason Stewart for the City Of Dilworth 2 Thousand 20 4 Volunteer of the year. Signed, fire chief Scott Payne, Dilworth fire department. Yeah. Okay. So, I mean, all volunteers hold their place in our heart, but I get to do, Gerald Dimel, who I've known my whole life, and I know not just in 2024, to be a good volunteer in our community,
but someone who volunteers always. So okay. I'm not gonna make it through this. Yeah. Well, do math while you're reading. It's just Math? Okay. Do the math. It kills all of you. Alright. I am writing in response to your letter regarding Dilworth Volunteer Recognition Week. I would like to nominate one man who is an integral and essential member of our Dilworth community and members of Saint Elizabeth Catholic Church, mister Gerald Zimmel. Gerald has resided in the community for decades and has quietly amassed a body of selfless work, which is obvious not only in the community of Saint Elizabeth's Church,
but also within the broader Dilworth community. Gerald is the handiest of handymen, and whenever there is a project that needs addressing can be counted among a small handful of faithful and faithful men to get the work done. If I were to estimate his time commitment per year, I would not even hazard a guess because so much of what he does is in keeping with his personality of being gentlest of gentlemen and doing it all with a quiet confidence and a deep, deep spirit of service. It must be in the thousands of hours.
Gerald is a meticulous woodworker, master carpenter, a super dedicated maintenance related person. It is literally true to say that Saint Elizabeth and thus the whole Dilworth community would be so much poorer and less well cared for if Gerald were not a part of it. Of the many who I could nominate for this honor, I would be utterly remiss were I not to choose this amazing gentleman for all the work he does here within our own church community as well as the impact of his dedication and contributions made to the vibrancy of the broader Dilworth community.
It is my privilege and pleasure to nominate mister Gerald Zimmel for this honor, and this is, from father Auggie Gotham. Alright. I'm not sure. I'm fortunate to read the one from or the nomination from the Dover Lutheran Church. Dilworth City Council. It is an honor to nominate Brian Kristofferson for the Dilworth Volunteer of the Year Award. Brian is a leader and volunteer at Dilworth Lutheran Church. For the past four years, Brian has served with as our church treasurer on the church council and on the council executive team and manages the finances of our building project.
With Brian at the helm, our finance committee managed the largest and costliest building project in our church history. This included managing cash, securing financing, and undertaking regular communication with our congregation. Brian did this with wisdom, careful attention, and a sense of humor. Brian's deep faith and care for our church and community made possible our building project, a project which reflects the values and mission for the future. We thank God for Brian and the time, care, and faith he shares with Doris Lutheran Church and our community. Sincerely, Pastor Elizabeth. Where's Brian?
Did he make it? Brian? Yeah. Okay. Let's go. Or do you want there's oh, I don't know. There are quite a few of the nominees here. Like, the people who nominated them. Okay. So they'll stop answering those. But Yeah. I saw that last night. We can order if they want to do it. Yeah. I think Yeah. Three, two. Gotcha. Look. Good. Alright. If you would like to take a moment, there's there's family, there's friends, there's the nominating. If you would like to come up and take a picture, with your dad, your grandpa, that you're a lieutenant. Plea let's do that now. Like, it's it's an opportunity, and let's let's not be shy.
Let's not be shy. Can we think? Come again? Alright. Yeah. Absolutely. Zimmel family, come on up. Like, we see you. We have time. Pastor Elizabeth, you're not going anywhere. No. And if you wanted to say say thank you again, like, for a second. I mean, like, maybe when you're done, we can I just totally can see if you wanted to go? It's kinda awesome. I know. Right? Do you want me to take the picture? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll just take us into recess payment at 06:16. We'll come back. All right. With, the recess over, we're back into regular session at 06:20.
And And again, we are very fortunate in our community to have, our citizens like Mr. Stewart, Mr. Kristofferson, Ms. Hubbard, and Mr. Zimmel, who represent scores of volunteers that do the things that, you know, often go unnoticed. And we're fortunate for the organizations, that they represent, and we're fortunate that they have their families to support them in all their endeavors. It is and will always be my favorite meeting of the year when we get to recognize our volunteers of the year. So, thanks, Peyton and staff,
for getting that all set up and doing the legwork to make sure we are doing the things to recognize those that make a difference. To that end, when we look at making a difference, our engineers also make a difference. And number seven is planning and engineering. Seven Alpha is discussion of our update on Highway 10 design, progress. Peyton, who's starting this one? I will start it off here. So we have members of the design team here this evening to give the council an update of where we are in the Highway 10 design process.
As you know, a couple years ago, via MetroCOG process, we'll say we had to initiate a corridor study that wrapped up not long ago. From there, we go into hiring a design consultant that actually deals with the actual design of the corridor itself. So since that time, I participate in a monthly meeting and a few other conversations with individuals here this evening, and I'll let them introduce themselves in just a moment. But they're doing a tremendous job in trying to take into consideration
the guidelines that they have to adhere to with the design with the and also balancing the needs of the community. So we're very appreciative of MnDOT's work with this project, and we look for a successful campaign here as this ongo keeps continue to ongo. And the intent is to get this to 30% design, if I understand correctly. I'm not sure in engineering terms why that number comes up. It's 30% design. They can probably explain that better than I can. And then but that pretty well gives you an idea of what it's gonna look
like. And so they wanted to solicit some input from the council to see, you know, what's been taking place thus far and what that preliminary layout looks like, and then they're gonna be going to the public next month at some point in, you know, getting feedback from individuals in the community. So with that said, I'll turn it over to you. I'm sorry. Introduce. Oh, okay. Mikayla Doudot, project manager with MnDOT. Brian Bosman. I'm the lead project manager for MnDOT in District 4. So, we'll be coming back periodically as the project develops over the years now
and be providing updates, answering questions in addition to our public outreach that we'll be doing. So we appreciate you letting us come here tonight and update you on where we're at with it. So with that, I'll turn it over to Michelle. And I'm Michelle Garrity. I'm with Isthmus Engineering, and I'm the project the consultant project manager working with MnDOT on the design. So I guess, yeah, we are just wrapping up. We're taking off from the corridor study, kind of scoped the project about the same time. And with that, we've kind of changed our limits. Initially, we're going from 30 Fourth to Seventh.
Now we're going out past, fourteenth with all the development and community needs that we've noticed to the North Side of Highway 10. And we're currently looking at construction in 02/1931 and 02/1932. We anticipate this project and the project that will be going to the west, West of 30 Fourth to be two years of construction since we are looking at reducing it from four lanes down to three for the majority of the corridor. Next steps, working through, yeah, the preliminary layout, getting that finalized once we do our public engagement, which we're planning for an open house at the elementary school May 20,
'5 '30 to 07:30. We're working on, all the materials for that. Also be coming up with cost participation, an estimate for, city's portion, but also the state's portion of the cost. We'll be working through access changes with the city and property owners once the final layout is developed. We will most likely be asking for municipal consent since that, it's due to alteration of access, but also reducing the number of through lanes. So we'll be seeking, you know, your signature on a, consent in a city resolution letter for us to,
finalize the layout and then further go into the 30% plans, which we're hoping to have by the end of this year. And then with that, then we'll go into a final design where we'll hire a consultant, and we'll continue through 60%, ninety %. We'll have final construction plans ready to build. So I think with that, we could probably jump right into reviewing the layout. Unless you have anything to add. Yep. I can walk you through this. We're gonna start on the West End, at 30 Fourth, and we'll just head east.
Oh, I'm sorry. You have to fish your feet in the bottom. Okay. Thank you. Yep. So we're gonna start at 30, excuse me, 30 Fourth and just head east all the way to Fourteenth. So currently what we're looking at now is, the intersection of 30 Fourth and there will be a new signal there. You can see this is kind of where we're tying back into the existing section, so we still we have two through lanes, here, but as we go to the east, that those will be cut down. So if you go to the next one, this is what we're calling the the frontage road there,
and we are proposing, a signal there currently. That seems to be the best alternative due to its proximity with 30 Fourth. We have looked at other alternatives there as well. We have not finalized anything, so I would say all alternatives are still on the table. Do we have the the next slide? Is that Oh, I can do that if you'd like for me to. So this is also another one we looked at at the frontage road, full roundabout there. So the purple areas are what?
Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. That are paralleling the roadway. Yeah. So on the layout, the the yellow is kind of the roadway. The red is a median or a curb, and the purple is, trail or walk. So you'll see there is New Walk on both the north and south side, from 30 Fourth to the east. And then moving on from the frontage road, we get to County Road 9. The the option we're showing right there is a single lane roundabout, and you'll notice the access on the south side,
is closed there just because of its proximity to the frontage road there. There wasn't enough room and really a a good geometric alternative to have a connection there. So that access is closed on the south side. These are also the alternatives we've looked at at County Road 9. The top left one is allows for a left turn to the north, but all other movements are all other left turn movements are closed there, and again, that connection on the south side to the frontage road is closed.
Michelle? Yeah. The top left would be impossible for the fire trucks to get out. I think we're kind of Yeah. Phasing that one out of our alternatives. Yeah. We did we did meet with, fire employees, and that was obviously a concern. Yeah. The top right is a signal, and the bottom one is a larger roundabout, let's say, more more complex. The signal is the only alternative that we've looked at that would allow for a connection to the the front end road on the South. All the other alternatives close that connection.
So you haven't eliminated the bottom one, or have you eliminated the bottom one? I think what the right of way needs, it's highly unlikely. It's not preferred. We started with that one, and then reduced the footprint down. Can I get clarification on that, please? Can Pete, would you mind going back one slide, please? So the top left is a no go for fire and safety. Right? And then the bottom is potentially, like, too big of a footprint. Mhmm. So, ultimately, we would be looking at a signal at County Road 9 and then access to
the front of the road. No. This one. The smaller roundabout that's shown currently on the screen. That's the next slide. Previous slide. K. Yeah. So what we're showing first is what is being, I guess, recommended for lack of a better term at this time with the preferred alter and then we show design alternatives, secondly, to just some just to show other considerations that were made through the process here. Yep. Thank you. There's just a lot of options on one board. Yeah. Yep. Does Does the council have any other questions about these two intersections?
I know they we we worked a lot on this one, especially the County Road 9 1, trying to come up with the correct, path there. Sometimes roundabouts are a little challenging to or or anything we say on paper to get a sense of how large of a space we're talking. Sometimes they look really constrained, but these are designed in a way as Michelle was mentioning. You know, we met with public safety, both police and fire, to ensure, you know, correct flow of traffic and everything, and it's suitable for fire trucks. And and the I don't know.
I guess you would you call that the median or whatever the center of it is also mountable to an extent as well, correct? Yes. So is one of the options a stoplight traffic control light at Highway 9? Yes. I thought MetroCOG said there doesn't wasn't enough traffic volume to justify a signal letter. Is that something different than what you understand it to be? So I think we their traffic volumes from the study are a little bit different from the ones that we have. We had to redo our, intersection control evaluations and come up with new traffic volumes,
but also I think I can't remember if the planning study was considering what we were gonna be doing east to west, like each intersection altogether, if they were looking at them very individually. We figured with the signal is an option that doesn't mean it's one that we like Sure. Especially with how close it is to the other intersections, but we wanted to compare what all these options would be at this intersection. So we looked at four different options just for this intersection, but when we look at the corridor as a whole, it probably makes more sense not to have a signal there,
if that makes any sense. Would having a signal there probably take the other signal off? I'm not sure what street that The frontage road? Frontage road signal. Yeah. We You can't have them that close together, obviously. It's Yeah. That's a good disaster. I know I'd received a couple calls about some of the businesses having troubles, you know, crossing Highway 10 to go the opposite direction, so they wanted some type of control at the frontage road just for better flow of traffic. But then also with County Road 9, I think a roundabout will,
it'll flow even better than a signal because you're not having to technically stop if there's no traffic coming. You can continue further just going through the circle, but yeah, as a whole, I think what we did was we wanted to show what intersections we see put together seems to make the most sense. So putting a signal at Frontage Road with a roundabout at County Road 9, It it just seemed to make the most sense with the traffic flows. Okay. And and did we talk to the business owner south of County Road 9? We will be. But we're also adding an access.
So if we continue east Okay. On the layout, we'll show you what we change. Okay. And just to bring a little perspective, this light right here, it's it's about equidistant if you compare it to the one on the other side of 30 Fourth Street. So 30 Fourth over, like, getting to Target and all that. It's about the same distance there to give a visual on that. So here we are going east from County Road 9, and the new access we have is at Fifth there. So we've opened up that access, and we've closed the one to the right fourth on the south just because those
two didn't line up. So now Fifth will go all the way through Mhmm. And Fourth will be closed on the South. So I know it's hard to see on the layout, but anyone who was using the access at County Road 9 can either go down to Fifth here on the East or can go down to the frontage road, which there will be a signal there, which will give them better access out of that frontage road there too. It's always a tricky intersection to maneuver. Which one? Highway nine Mhmm. 10. Yeah. Council have any more questions here? K.
So then moving east from Fourth, you'll see we do have a raised median there, through Fourth and third to control some of the access, so there aren't as many access points along the highway. We are leaving ones open. So you'll see can't see the names of the streets up there. So Third is closed there, but Second is open. First is closed. And then on the right, you'll see the intersection with Maine, and that's what we're calling, kind of a compact roundabout or an urban roundabout. It's a smaller footprint, and the,
the truck island, the inner circle median is completely mountable. So trucks that do need that extra space or fire trucks can mount it. And by that, you mean run it over? Like, what like, that that I'm kinda trying to figure out what your vocabulary means. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So, yeah, like, as they're turning their rear wheel path, we'll probably go over that center median. Okay. Whereas regular Thank you. They'll still make the regular movements. It'll be similar to Pelican Rapids. We have some in Detroit Lakes.
I'm trying to think what other ones would be kind of similar size. All the roundabouts that that we're putting in now have them on them both. Yeah. They're not they don't have that face on the curve as much. It's more of a rounded Yeah. For the trucks to be able to go through. And they do run turning movements and all these roundabouts to make sure that Trucks can get around here. Trucks can get through here. So and you could see at Maine, there's also, ped crossings across each of the legs, crosswalks, and gaps in those the center median for refuge for pedestrians crossing.
The other option we've considered at Maine is just replacing the signal. And will you explain to the council why the roundabout is a preferred option? Easier flow of traffic. I think the ICE reports recommended the roundabout over the signal. The ICE reports, showed that a a signal wasn't warranted And it's not even needed. At Maine because of the traffic. And by ice, you mean? Intersection control evaluation. So since the intersection is controlled, there doesn't need to be a control there? I'm confused. Yeah. But the traffic volumes,
they kind of considered, with the growth rate that there may not technically be a reason for the signal to be there. So then they were just it would just be fully open, but then that would just make it more difficult for traffic. So that's why we wouldn't it recommends a compact roundabout, but I think worst case scenario, we would be replacing the signal. And I'm just going to say, like, this is not a public meeting, so we're not the club. But I am gonna encourage everybody write it down, write your questions down because when we have a public meeting, I want you there, and I want every single question asked,
make sure it gets answered answered to your satisfaction. Please and thank you. So how much space is it gonna free up? You know, I'm thinking of the sidewalk on the south side. That's a big concern for everybody that has to maneuver it, walking or biking or snowing. Is that gonna free up a lot of frontage? I mean, space in front of their house for a decent sidewalk? Yeah. So there's room for sidewalks without light poles in them and an actual boulevard to
put those, amenities in. Yeah. How wide were we showing? I'm amazed someone has some maybe they have, but I'm amazed more people haven't been hit. Yeah. Some have to walk on the street just because there's no other choice. Mhmm. That'd be great. So through this kind of residential area, we've got, seven to eight foot boulevards, so just green space, and then six foot to eight foot walks depending on the location. It's a lot wider. And and before we go any further east, like, not being able to go north to get home, in a community that is predominantly north of Highway 10,
I think, is gonna cause some problems. So you're talking where there's median? Right. Like, if I wanna go north on second or whatever the where the red line says you don't get to go that way anymore. Mhmm. Yeah. I think we deemed that with the how close the blocks were to each other, that going those extra half block would be doable? You thought Fargo would have ceased to exist when they've gotten off the railroad intersections, And how can anybody exist without having 50,000
railroad crossings in a short distance? So people do adjust. That's not an issue. It's a change. You just have to get used to the change. And and to that point, there's conditions now that have already been created that if you were just drawing it from scratch, you'd be thinking, why in the world are you doing that? You know, it's just because that's part of our traffic patterns and what we're accustomed to today. Mhmm. Yeah. And I guess now too with there not being a center turn lane, people are slowing down and wanting to turn left in the left lane as people are trying to pass other cars, and that's more of a risk of crash.
So we're trying to eliminate some of the risk. I do it every day. Yeah. So again, going going east, same situation, the three lane section with the center turn lane. Keeping the parking in front of the businesses. Yep. Yep. Wide boulevards and walks continue, and then the selected medians, kind of every other block blocking off the left turns. Would that ultimately not line up Seventh Street in the county run? They kinda. What was that? I'm sorry. So we have that little jog over between Seventh Which street?
Seventh Street. Yeah. It's spring. It's spring. Last time we worked on it. Yeah. I don't know. It's better. It's I mean, we're we're inch right. And we do have an old Ariel on here, so you're not gonna see you see that, but the Yeah. The design ties ties into the new He thinks so. Realignment. Yeah. So, again, this is another compact roundabout here at Seventh. We did look at a larger roundabout here as well. It, took up a lot more property, we'll say. And, signal was not warranted here due to the traffic.
The larger roundabout, is that mostly for large vehicles to maneuver easier? Yeah. I'd say I'd say yes. You can go at faster speeds. I feel more comfortable rather than an urban one. But, personally, I feel like the compact urban ones encourage people to slow down, which isn't such a bad thing when you're in a residential area. And right here, this is another area that we discussed, with them a couple weeks ago with the fire department about having access into into this park here because as a if you're just looking at it right now,
you would have to take the roundabout, go north, then cut across, you know, through the back way up here. But these you you would make this median right here in a way that they could access that. Correct? Yep. Mountable, I think is the term. Yep. They can drive over it. Julie? Can just one question about, like, the roundabouts and all that. Is this gonna require us to take any properties because we are, going down to three lane with this design that it gives us enough room to do roundabouts then. Yeah. I think we'll be within most of it. There might be some some small areas for the sidewalk room be coming off.
But, otherwise, the roundabouts themselves will be within MnDOT right away. Yeah. Okay. All of the improvements are gonna be in MnDOT right away. Correct? Mhmm. There could be some there could be some right away. There could be some. I think Fine. Until we get our final construction limits when we go from a 30% plan to a 60% plan. That's when we get our final limits. We know if we can we might need a lot of temporary easements like Mikael was saying. And there could be a couple areas of permanent when you look at the sidewalks. Yeah. When we're coming around those radiuses for the roundabouts, we may need a little corner.
To tie into the city streets too. They'll do everything they can to minimize land acquisition. Yeah. And there are areas where the the city walk doesn't go all the way to 10. It stops. So this would be a good time if the city wanted to extend that to connect those walks up to 10. There's also the area of on the West end, the frontage the south frontage road. Our ADA group has recommended making some connections from the walk along 10 down to those businesses. That will be off MnDOT property.
So Thank you. And then moving east again. I'm sorry. Just give me one more comment. Yep. And all the I was gonna point you can see it up here. When we were originally working with this, as Mikaela was saying, Seventh Street used to be for the dividing line of the project limits here. But since we moved it a little further, you can see the design is even going out further with the three lane concept. So we just extend that out of it further east. Yep. So we go out Fourteenth. Yep. And I will point out, so we have ended the South Walk at Seventh,
but the North Side continues all the way to Fourteenth. And I know what the existing is right in, right out at twelve. That's correct. So you are proposing, you know, just showing it with the existing since that's what you're used to, but I know we also talked about making it full access. That's something we could look further into, if that's a city desire. But that maybe yeah. That's a whole another conversation we could have. It'd be great to get some public input on that one. Yep. And at fourteenth, we have, a full size roundabout. So as we're coming in from the West, the rural section ties into the roundabout.
Yeah. And then we go back from three lanes back out to the divided four. We did also look at a j turn here, which allows you to make left turns, but not out from Fourteenth. You couldn't make the left. I know. And then also a signal, which, after the the reports were done, did not meet warrants at Fourteenth. The j turns doesn't? The signal doesn't. Is this for projected growth or is this for the growth rate? The Projected. Projected. For the north side of the highway,
the the walking path kinda ends where it tapers into the blue? It then becomes a walkable shoulder. Walkable shoulder. Mhmm. That's kind of the recommended because we go from the urban out to the more rural section once it becomes that go back goes back to the divided four lane. So if somebody was biking along the shoulder, they could enter the Is that different than what exists right now, the walkable shoulder? I'm sure. On any particular part of how we can Oh, I'm not sure they call it a walkable shoulder, but Yeah. It might not be as much standard now.
Suppose it could. But is it walkable shoulder? Does the design create something that's different than exists right now if you went on there right now? No. So so the the trail ending at the shoulder is is really just a way to get people off of Okay. The the sidewalk. So a couple other things that we didn't mention, we're also looking at hydraulics along here, changing it in the existing condition. Most of the the roadway has ditches. We're looking at, putting in storm sewer, making it urban with curb and gutter,
catch basins. There's still probably some ditches and portions and swales, smaller ditches. But for the most part, we're looking at putting in an urban storm sewer design along here. And since we're doing a full replacement with the storm sewer, we were also I think there was talk about maybe water main replacement, so we'll have to maybe have more discussions on that and what the city's plans are for water main. And other utilities, I guess, is the city still planning to continue owning the lighting? Might be something to work work through. Yeah. Yeah. But we have to.
Yeah. And then I guess there was also I think, John Gilders leaving our permitting and right away, department was wondering about other city properties that we I think there's a couple of Casey's or maybe an old Casey's that was city property or up for discussion? Up for discussion. Okay. That's that's probably all I should reveal by now. That's fine. Yeah. He just wants to know if there's any future plans we need to be taking into consideration, but that can come into later plans too. Right. And and we did a good job at the whole process too when you're talking
about the future projections, looking at specifically on the East End of town, what this what we're thinking this area is gonna look like with the community center, another apartment, you know, starting construction here in the next few weeks, and other commercial development in the Rail District. So they take all those things in consideration as they're developing this and making sure that it's a steady flow of traffic, both for pedestrian and vehicular access throughout. I got a question that I'm sure it's on everybody's mind, and I'm not afraid to bring it up.
If this is a two year construction project, how are you gonna deal with, you know, Metrica is working on studying the Fifteenth Avenue. Mhmm. What do you expect, propose, help with, ideas for getting traffic moving east to west? Yep. That'll come more to as we finalize the layout and we know what the plan is if we're for sure going forward with all these intersection, roundabout roundabouts, if we can do half of the highway at a time and still maintain traffic for, you know, a portion of it. If we'll have to construct it in phases and split it up and do,
you know, so many blocks or streets at a time. I know we did talk about Fifteenth, that that could become somewhat of a detour, So I guess, you know, that will have to be developed and if it can handle the traffic, I know there's, you know, different maintenance, portions where I think the state's able to contribute so much if it's used as We'll really dive into that when we get into the final design portion of it. We're at the preliminary design stage, but we'll definitely be working with the community on how we're gonna stage this Mhmm. Businesses.
Ideally, if you could jump from Sixtieth Street up to Fifteenth Avenue or go from 336, that'd be in a perfect world, that would be Yeah. Very accommodating. But Yeah. We have to our detours have to maintain our 10 ton limit, the one right, so we can't run them. You know, we have done city detours for, you know, just the private cars. And then the commercial, we route different ways. There's a lot of there's a lot of different options to look at, but we'll wanna work with the community, the businesses, and the residents on detours as the plans do develop.
But that's a very good question. Mhmm. Any other questions? Like, we got to the East Side. Yep. So there is there is the project in theory. So as you can see, we're looking at not only the safety of the roadway, we're also looking at pedestrian, bikers. How do we get people through safely to get out of the community? Hopefully, you know, we we wanna address not only trucks and cars, but, heads and and bikes too. So I think we're on the we're doing that here. Were some of those stretches going to increase parking along the street?
I think we're just maintaining that Maintaining what's there? Station. Yeah. Because I always talked about it one time. Okay. Yeah. So as like, for my own peace of mind, as we go through this and continue to go through this, because we talk about parking, I'm thinking about of our traditional downtown. Those employ those businesses, part of the conversation, gonna be invited to the next round of conversations in terms of going from four to three on street parking and the benefits that you're proposing they'll have. Yep. And then, residents as well. Because I know there's there's questions that I'm not gonna be able to answer, and the last thing I wanna do is answer them incorrectly.
And and, again, just giving our residents, you know, what they deserve is that that answer, in terms of what is planning on happening and then what is the benefit as perceived moving forward. Yep. When do we anticipate our next public meeting? So where Say it again. May 20? May twentieth. May twentieth. Yep. And that's gonna be where? At the elementary school. So, again, I know there are a handful of you here that are are interested in in this and encourage everyone to participate. Make sure you get to the public hearing in the at the elementary school,
May 20 at 06:30. Is that what you said? 05:30. Five thirty to 07:30. Yep. Public meeting. We'll make sure we get that posted online and all the information out there. You have questions tonight, please make sure you bring them to the meeting, and we'll just kinda move it forward. Are we forgetting anything, Peyton? I just have one other question. When do you anticipate probably being back to the city council for the municipal consent? So once the final layout is ready to go and we've reviewed it internally, so it'll probably be closer to was it August, I think we were proposing? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Full time. Mhmm. And here's just a fun question to to ask. You come out with the with your thirty, sixty, 90 percent order. What if the municipality doesn't consent? Just that matter matter of course. Like, I wanna like, just I'm not saying I don't. Like, I get it. But what happens then? Like, I'm I also like the processes. Hopefully, we don't have to go down that path. Does the state trump the municipality? I think there's certain processes if there is a disagreement, and we can certainly find out. I'm not an expert in that, but we do have people that do work with that.
So we're hoping we can work with the upfront and get it. But, I mean, there is there could be that possibility. Oh, and and Mindon has been fantastic to work with in terms of the city of Delworth. We we had, like, some, like, access closures and things like that. MnDOT has been nothing but, great to work with communication, come to come to the solutions. But I just had that question. Like, what happens if we don't? I understand. I mean, because that's where my that's how my head works is, like, the process and the We'll definitely only answer that question when we come. Or probably by the public open house, we'll have that for you.
Perfect. But, there is a process, I think, for disagreement on how to work through that. So I'm not a % sure what that is. Through it. Yeah. I'm glad you asked me. I had the same Well, I mean, it's just a logical question. Right? Like and there is there there is an option for cities to even though you have the municipal consent ability, there is an option to waive that too even though we say upfront we need it. The cities that we have had communities that have waived that too and just move along, but that's totally up to the city. Yep. Totally up to the city. Is there some cost share that we have to get involved with?
Yep. What's what's typical? So 10% of that parking lanes is typical with the reconstruct. So 10% of the parking lanes, if you want any additional, aesthetic items, so decorative lighting would be an extra cost. If If you want benches, if you wanna upgrade instead of having grass to maintain in the boulevards and you want concrete, that's a portion. I'm trying to think of what Lighting? Yeah. And then your own utilities, if you decide to do any of those, it would obviously be Yeah. In there. So we'll get into all of that too, and I have a presentation for you in turn.
Once we get to that point Yep. We'll develop an exhibit just like this that has all cost sharing elements in there with a map that a layout that shows you what percentage Mhmm. Is cities, and states. And then you There's obviously a maintenance component of this too of the Yeah. Sidewalks and all of that stuff, which she gets to be This is easy to follow for me when I see your vision. That's what we do for cost participation too. We'll come back with a color map just like this. So you'll be able to have that for reference. No. Are there any other questions from counsel?
Again, thanks for all the work up to this point. It was great to have you come in. I look forward to seeing you on the twentieth. It'll be good. I look forward to answering the question. It's interesting. Right? We're gonna do something brand new that's been here for a while. Yeah. So there's got there's gonna be some conversations, and I really look forward to having them. So thank you very much for coming. Thank you. Have a good evening. Thank you. Do you just wanna yes. Just put them back on the Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Before we get into number eight, please, if you have not done so, please make sure you sign in in the back of, City Hall Chambers as a matter of public record to make sure that we have
everyone in attendance, as we continue to move forward. And thank you for being here this evening. To that end, it does, almost fitting, since we're gonna have these new roads and sidewalks and multi use trails. We're gonna have to maintain them, so we need to make sure we have, the manpower to do so. Number eight a, authorize the hire of a new maintenance worker. Mike, the floor is yours. Hey. We're we're we're we're going more comfortable. Right? Conversation with you. Hire Corey Felt. Short and sweet. A local resident. Yep. He's, I guess I don't know how many years he's been in town, but he's been in town for a while and knows his way around.
Kids go to school here, so I think he'll be a good asset. K. Any quest Peyton? I was gonna say we had multiple applicants for this position, which is good. Had some worthwhile, interviews. Went through that whole process, and Corey stood out. So we'd like to extend the offer to him. Do you guys who you want him? Yes. Outstanding. It's gonna be my next question all the time then. Do we have any other questions, comments, concerns? Mm-mm. When is he starting? He started today, actually. No. He wasn't I mean, today's pro bono. Yeah.
So No pay. Comp pay. Pay for it. Pay. Okay. So I guess I will entertain a motion for for hiring, Corey, who's already started working. So moved. I have a motion by Boro. Second, second. And a second by a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. That's outstanding. Please stick around, Mike. We yeah. Congrats. Honestly, I'm I'm glad, like, because I know that was a quick turnaround, but, it also moves us to eight b consideration, for the new canopy for the for the municipal pool. If any of you have driven by the pool, you see it's torn and tattered.
I've been trying since last fall to get a new canopy. It's not as easy as it seems. We're actually it's a company out of the cities that gave me a quote. Nobody around here will really do it. We've I actually looked at taking it down ourselves, but that thing's a behemoth. It's 14 feet wide and 22 feet long. So So, are they replacing the infrastructure or anything or just the just the They'll actually they'll remove the whole thing, cut it in half, or do what they have to do to get it hauled down to the cities or buy the cities. Oh, wow. They'll build the canopy, bring it back,
assemble it, put it back together, and then put the tarp back over it. Alright. Like, answers my question. Any other questions for Mike? I'm glad. Solid color? Yellow color? We could go solid, or we could do multicolor again. I thought you had that planned out already. That's I'll let I'll let you decide. I guess not really matter to me. But Would the lighter colors wear better last longer? I honestly, I have no idea. They probably would somewhat sun wise, but I guess I don't know how old that one is. But 19. I noticed last year last year was starting to get little holes in it.
So I thought, well, it's gonna be I I didn't think it needed this soon, but Maybe they'll know what the best color option is. Who knows? Like, I'm And they I think their specialty is actually, like, store awnings. Oh. So they do a lot of that. It's kind of a shady business. All day, ladies and gentlemen. I don't wanna take another recess. No. Any other any other question? Alright. Here we go. We're gonna move this forward. I'll entertain a motion to, update the new canopy for the municipal pool. Motion to approve. Been saving that one for weeks. I have a motion by Nash Second. And second by Borah.
All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Let's get that done. Thank you. Thanks, Mike. With that, it does move us to number nine. Police department nine alpha, resolution twenty five twenty four, accepting donation from UC Hope for lunch with a cop. Chief, you're up here twice? Yes. Let's go. Alright. Mister mayor and council members, we received a donation from UC Hope for $500 for lunch with a cop for the summer. So another great program for UC Hope. They do a lot for us. So just wanna say thank you very much to UC Hope. Alright.
Any questions with the chief? Twenty four. Hearing none, I will entertain a motion for resolution twenty five twenty four. So moved. And motion by Nash. And second. And a second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does move us to nine bravo, resolution twenty five twenty five, accepting the donation from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. Chief? Yes. BNSF was nice enough to donate us for a community outreach program, $1,500. So a lot of events coming up. Kite day, some other events coming up down the line. So we have money that can be well used and,
again, a lot of support for the police department. So just wanna, again, say thank you to BNSF and UC Hope and everyone else has given to the Delworth Police Department. K. Any questions for the chief? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion for resolution twenty five twenty five. So moved. Motion by Nash. And a second, Steichen. And a second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, chief. Thank you. With that, it does bring us to number 10. Fire department, we have 10 alpha, resolution twenty five twenty six, accepting the donation from MRGA.
Chief? Excuse me. Last week, I was notified by Kim Bender from Maple River Grain and Agronomy that, they wanted to donate $5,000 to the fire department. Mhmm. The reason there's two resolutions on there is it's a matching from their bank. Dollars 2,500 will match $2,500 from Maple River Grain and Agronomy. So So first things first, any questions about the donation from Maple River Grain and Agronomy? Do you have some project you want us? This is so new. I mean, it just came in last week.
I mean, I've decided on that. Before, do you? Well, I I do have we always have needs. We always have needs. I don't wanna say that. But it it'll go towards equipment. I'm sure. Maybe personnel equipment. I know that you no one needed to be very fiscally responsible for it. Yeah. We'll find something that that will be impactful for safety. I think that's kind of what we do. Sure. So firefighter and and, homeowner. Alright. Thanks, chief. Any other questions for resolution twenty five twenty six? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion. Steichen so moved. Motion by Steichen. Second.
And second by Nash. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does move us to 10 bravo resolution twenty five thirty. Chief? Oh, you already did that. Oh, that was both? Yeah. Yeah. That was for both. Okay. This is the that was the matching one. Correct? Yeah. That was the matching one. Alright. Just wanted to make sure. I was looking for twenty five, twenty seven, but here we go. Any questions about that one? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion for resolution 25, 30. You have to both, right? Yeah. A motion by Steichen? I guess if you need another one. Yeah, Steichen's move. Second. Second by Nash. All those in favor,
say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, congratulations chief and chief, excellent leadership moving us in the right direction. So thank you for your efforts. With that, it does move us to number 11. We have the request for a letter of support from the White Earth Nations application to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to transfer two eighty acres of land in Clay County into a trust for tribal gaming, and other related initiatives. Gentlemen. Before you start, Pete, do you have the other mic? Good evening, gentlemen. Thank you for coming. The floor is yours as we're here to to listen to you.
So Okay. Thanks for coming. Ani and Boozhoo. Mike Larocque. I'm the secretary treasurer for the White Earth Nation. I'm sitting in for Chairman Fairbanks today. He was, he's on travel, so he asked me to sit in for him today. So to talk about this, this letter of support, in this economic development opportunity that we're coming through. And, I guess I first of all, I'd like to thank you, mayor and the council, for giving us this time here today. So what we could do is we have a presentation. I have I brought Nate Matthews. He's our, our executive director from our, tribal tribal utilities commission and Jacob Severson,
he works he's our THPO and our he works in our land department. So if there's any questions that that I can't answer, these guys are gonna be able to answer. And I got Roman Hanks back there from our government. And I got not Roman Hanks, Richard Hanks from our government relations and Roman Hanks over here from our communications director. So what I'd like to do is I'd like to turn turn it over to Nate Matthews, and he's gonna present to you guys today. Thank you very much. Thank you, mayor and council. We have about 10 slides to go through with you tonight to talk about the kind of the high level vision the White Earth Nation has for the property.
Just south of the tracks there, as you know, we purchased 280 acres and we're requesting support in the form of a letter of our of our tribal trust application. The White Earth Nation has maintained a deep connection to this region for generations, and we're committed to the well-being not only of the tribal members but to the long term prosperity of the neighbors. We respectfully request your support as we pursue the development of a tribally owned gaming operation on this land. We have thirty three years of experience in successfully running gaming operations.
And we feel that this is a good market and would be a good fit for our nation and also for this region and market. This is a very big and long process that is before us. When I say us, it's the tribe and also the community here. We need to before we can do a firm analysis of exactly what this facility looks like, need to get some understanding if it if it appears that the trust application is going to be moving forward with the Department of, Indian Affairs. And Jay can answer those kinds of questions if you guys have some of the
mechanics behind those. Next slide is kind of a high level executive summary of what we're looking at. We're looking at a full scale casino with class three gaming, luxurious style resort hotel complex facility with this, north of 200, two 50 rooms attached. We will have dining establishments inside this facility, which will also include a conventioning facility and a convention center wrapped into it. It will require a parking garage and quality landscaping stormwater management services around this facility.
We believe this facility will create a minimum of 500 jobs in this area. It will have a payroll of $23,000,000 This is a first high level estimate of what we feel facility would be like here. We do believe this facility will be a boost to the tourism and some cultural exchange for people to grow in their understanding of Anishinaabe culture and in the rich culture that is here in the Fargo Moorhead area. We do believe that this kind of investment will have opportunities for scholarships,
partnerships with charitable gambling, health care initiatives, conventioning, professional development for many people. There's a lot of legal and regulatory considerations that come into a project like this, not only with, obviously, the Gaming Commission, and the state of Minnesota and federal government, but locally as well with our local city and county partners. High level view of what the casino would be, it would be about a 90,000 to 110,000 square foot gaming floor. What that size of a floor provides is for about 900 to 1,200 games.
We love state of the art games, traditional games, but also new games, games that are easier for people to understand and learn. We also have table games, 10 to 12 live action games associated with the facility of this. Obviously, there's support services and offices associated with this and, like I mentioned, a pretty robust garage structure or some sort of way to manage the traffic and parking of this facility. The hotel associated with this, like I mentioned, would be 250 to 300 rooms. It will be connected. As you know, when you go to conventions and conferences,
it's really convenient to have those attached hotels, especially in the Northern part of America. And so it's it's convenient for banqueting, convenient for the gaming, convenient convenient for the conventions as well. We'll have dedicated amenities in this facility such as a pool, hot tub area. The convention center itself would right now be scoped at 100,000, one hundred and 20 thousand square feet. That's very similar in size to what the Shooting Star in Menomon has. That provides a lot of opportunity for large events or those movable partition wall types
of events so you can have multiple events at one time. Additionally, the tribe does envision entertainment to be booked at this facility. So as design would unfold, I think it's reasonable that the design professionals the tribe would ultimately hire would discuss what makes sense in this market as far as scoping a convention meeting room to have entertainment built into it, too. Sometimes, when you try to build entertainment into a convention room, they don't work as well. So I think they're gonna try to take a look at how to wrap that all in together well. This facility would have catered,
meals, plated meals as part of it, state of the art for conventioning and conferences. Like I mentioned with food and beverage, the tribe envisions about three to four restaurants in baked into this facility, quick food, casual dining, fine dining, all different options for people. Hard to know exactly what, but those are typically what you'd see in in a newer casino resort complex. There'd be a main bar, here open to the gaming floor as well, and that's where other, smaller acts and other events could could take pace as well. Typically, these facilities also have a themed bar,
sports bar, or sometimes a theme bar with them. One of the things the tribe has noticed, on this side of of of Moorhead and Fargo that there isn't a substantive convenience store. When we met with the county last week, we talked about that as a potential truck stop. We realized that there was some failed truck stops in the years past or something. And so I think knowing that, we're not exactly sure if it'd be a truck stop, but I think that's one of the things that we identified could work here. I think it's safer to say convenience store.
It could be a truck stop. Who knows? But we just know that, having something there potentially with the franchise fast food connected to it does does look like it would make sense and also be another thing to be a magnet to drop people in as well. So, that would also be evaluated as part of this project. So that's that's just a high level summary of of what the tribe is envisioning here. And like, secretary mentioned, what we're doing right now is preparing for what's called the trust application to put this property into trust. Gaming cannot occur here unless that is allowed or is accepted by the the feds
to have a disentrust property status. And so we're seeking input and seeking, support as well from from you. And, we have any questions or any concerns, anything you'd like to talk about. Are there any questions from counsel? Mister Steichen. Thank you for coming before us. Is it more proper to address you as as the tribe or the or, the reserve The tribe. Tribe. This tribe is fine? Okay. So I don't I don't wanna be disrespectful. So and I know you're very concerned about the water and the air and taking care of the land.
That's that's kinda your Mhmm. Your focus on a lot of issues. And I'm glad to hear that, hopefully, the truck stop is off limits. I mean, if you can get rid of I know Morin Public Service is very concerned about that. It's nothing you're not aware of, but they they have a big interest in having that aquifer, and there's been a problem in the past with, contamination and its cost. The Superfund, it cost $40,000,000
or whatever cleanup. So so I guess, hopefully, that is could be off the table or or convenience store, I guess, could be a possibility. But, you got all the infrastructure. I see you know, there's a lot of things have to come in. A lot of work has to come before you before you can, you know, start doing what you wanna do. Kind of the gist of the question is, do you need our blessing to create the application for trust? I I'm sure it helps. Yeah. I think I don't think we need your blessing,
but, I mean, it would help. It's a it's a support letter, you know, with our and I got Jake here can talk about the feed of trust process. You know, there's one way we coulda did it. We coulda just went and put the application and not not met with anybody. And then what the federal government woulda did is they woulda reached out to you guys anyway. So we're trying to be as transparent as we can to to go out and talk to all the the neighbors and all the communities to see what their thoughts and what they think about it, you know. Because this is a this is very, very, like, say, infancy stage.
It is. You know what I mean? There's a couple different things that could happen with this. If we don't get the, fee to trust in for gaming and we decide to do something else with that property, like maybe just put a hotel, a convention center, and a restaurant there, you know, because, we know Moorhead in Dilworth. We've met with Moorhead, a couple weeks ago or even a month ago, and they talked about not having a convention center in this area, not having a big enough hotel to really do the things that they would like to do as far as weddings and all kinds of bringing conventions here and all
that. So so there's there's a lot of things on the table with this. We also, as a nation, have to go back and talk to our own people and talk to them a little bit about it and have community meetings with them also before we before we move anywhere. This is a big if this happens, it's gonna be a big project. It really is gonna be a big project. And you're right. We are water protectors. We wanna make sure that we're not contaminating any water there. And, I wanna say that they they snuck that truck stop in underneath it. I didn't I didn't really no. I'm just joking. No. I'm just joking.
The convenience store part of it was so and then somebody mentioned truck stop. And I think that's why those two the truck stops had been taken out of there because of the aquifer, I heard. So Well, yes. That was a huge problem, you know, a while back. No doubt it'd be a huge boom for the area. I mean, there's definite need for convention center. You know, like you said, I mean, there's really nothing too major on this side of the river. So, the you got a lot of land to work with there, and I I imagine you got different ideas with,
because the you know, if it's a casino and hotel Mhmm. That's not gonna take up 280 acres. So I suppose it's you don't need to reveal anything. It just it's it's yours to do with what you want if it comes to that. So but is, are you up for, signing and memorandum of understanding for certain things? And is that binding? And is that in perpetuity? Because this is gonna create, if it's a good thing or bad thing or a different for generations many generations to come,
is that gonna be enforceable, the MOUs or different contracts that you agreed to? You know? I would say yes and yes. I would mhmm. Yeah. Because I think on the letter of support, we did, mention you would be looking at cooperative aid agreements. So that that could be towards fire, EMS, you know, property taxes, all that stuff. And those MOUs are are different. There's a lot of tribes that have done that across The United States, and a lot of them point to all those things you're worried about. And those can be fifty year agreements. You know?
So, yeah, we'd definitely be looking at that. Yes. I know you I helped build your project in Manoomin there at the time. You build beautiful places. I've been to other places around the country when I hauled freight. So that's not an issue. I know you'll make it look nice. Mhmm. There's no tax if it goes into a trust, you don't pay taxes, but you got payment in lieu of taxes. Is that is that is that capped, or is that generally make up the difference? I know there could be development around it. Does the payment in lieu of taxes sort of cover what the county is not
getting, school district school district is not getting, township is not getting? That's where the agreements would come in place. You know, there is there is CELT payments, and we do understand that on the federal level and the state level, the CELT payments are really not not as much as everybody would like them to be. But that's where the agreements come between us and and the schools and everything else and the districts and all that to be able to provide that our own PIL payment towards it. So that's binding too. So once you submit to the Bureau of Indian Affairs down to the city as
it gets forwarded on to the federal government, What's a typical time frame if you got our blessing or don't have our blessing? What's a typical time frame before you'd receive some sort of response if it's moving forward or not? Typically, I I it would be about eighteen to twenty four months would be my estimate. That's my best estimate. But, like, I you know, the federal government right now is going through a lot of cuts, and they're hitting a lot of and I think they're going right now. They're going through the interior department, which would be, you know, like your NEPA individuals, people that process these applications.
So right now, we're not a % sure how fast or how slow it would go. But my best guess would be up to twenty four months, and that would be probably with at least some support. You mean, like, financial support? No. Just, like, just a letter of support. There's no financial support from the federal government for this? It's all on Correct. Correct. All on us. Yeah. Other other questions from counsel? So if everything does go your way, get July's approval, they when do you think you'd be breaking ground on this? Just rough guess. We're thinking three I I mean,
I would I would guess maybe three to five years. Three to five years. I would say that would be my best guess. Do you see any housing for Yes. I was gonna mention that too also. We were looking at maybe doing some employee housing and stuff like that, you know, and and maybe putting, you know, partnering with some some other some other entities that would be maybe provide some employee housing, some low cost employee housing there for people that because I know in at Morehead at the meeting of Morehead, they asked about how are we going to fill 500 jobs, you know, when when when they're having trouble filling jobs around here,
You know? And, obviously, some of our membership from the Monoma area and the White Earth area would probably come over here and work too. They'd be driving back and forth. Or we could or we could provide stable housing for them, please. My next question. Do you see people coming from Monoma and down here? So okay. Based just a quick follow-up on that. Talking to the casino executives as well, once the trust looks like it's it's something that's realistic, that's when they would move forward on a deeper economic business feasibility development plan, and those usually take about three to four months on that part of this.
And then there would be, of course, design professionals the tribal council would hire, which would take that's another six to eight months of how this would work. Those conversations at least could be that long because they would have to take into consideration, access issues, utility availability, conversations with, Moorhead because this our state is part of the annexation agreement area, and that's where, lots of those conversations would happen, council member, through that time. And so it's it's multiple years out, as the secretary mentioned. So Speaking is there talks with the city of Glendon then on this or just
Dilworth and Morehead? I think we City of Glendon? No. Yeah. No. I don't think we Kind of John Winter, he shows up at all our meetings. Is he here? The township show. John Winter's been he's he's actually his dad is from an omen, so he's been following us around. So But, obviously, the environmental impact study as well would need to take place and satisfy everything that they're And, Julie, did you have a question? Yeah. Well, yes. Thank you for being here and answering or presenting and answering questions. But, I'm thinking more like timeline of what you need for letter of support.
I'm a grant writer, and so I understand all these, like, letter of support issues. When when are you I feel like all of our communities are like, how do we work together? We're really appreciative of the fact you're coming to the table to be like, how do we do this collaboratively and make sure we do that. And just, so part of it is because we're part of that, once Morehead goes out, Door's involved, and that's why we're all part of, you know, how do we, support what you need out there. So it's gonna be part on us, part on Morehead to get there. Mhmm. But, like,
timeline for, when you need something from us, I have a feeling we wanna give some thought to what Morehead is, because, of course, we wouldn't be like, oh, yes. Support if Morehead doesn't Mhmm. You know, want. But that's why I'm like, just kinda give me a timeline of when you need the documents you need to make, to move your I was really thinking, kind of the way you hired that maintenance guy. Like Oh, yeah. He's he's been waiting for he's lived at network for, like, twenty five years, so let's not No. No.
No. I'm just I don't have to wait. I'm just joking. No. No. No pressure. No pressure. I know Clay County said that they were gonna weren't gonna give us an answer right away. Morehead just talked about it after our presentation. So, I mean, it's if if you three get together and talk about when an appropriate time would be if you were going to support this, I mean, we'd be open to I mean, we our trust application, we haven't put it in yet. We're just preparing it now. So Okay. And that and that that could, Yeah. So it all we're just kind of leaning on the local communities to see what
their timeline would like to be. Would they like to have more community meetings? Yes. Or would they like to know more? Or would they like to work out mutual MOU agreements prior? Yes. Yes and yes. And I think those are our key points. And gentlemen, I think this is awesome. Thank you very much for coming tonight. Thank you, for the excitement you're bringing to the region, some brand new news that can move us in the right direction. There I have I still have, like, I have questions about the process and and all of it. Like, there's so much that I don't know that I wanna make sure I understand. And I and I love the upfront,
hey. We wanna come and talk about this. And and I because I do I believe in the public process, and I like those conversations. I like the hard questions so we can get, you know, to the to the truth of the matter, and how do we, you know, know, make decisions based on complete transparency, borrowing your words. And I think that's that's great because if this does happen, I I understand where it's located. It's not in the city of Dilworth. Like you said, we didn't necessarily need to come here. So being here, to me, is is a fantastic step before we're gonna develop partnerships. I think that is I I I know. I know for a fact that the strength of our region is in fact the
partnerships that we have, whether it's municipality to municipality, municipality to county, or state and municipality. It's It's fantastic because, we have this shared vision of doing what's right for our communities and having those conversations. And I'm really looking forward to having this conversation, and moving it forward so when we make a decision, we we do what is right. I I I do I think this is an excellent opportunity, but we do need some time to like, how does our mutual aid for fire operate?
How does it operate for for police? And and, you know, how were we able to do water, sewer, and everything like that? Because what happens in Moorhead, we're directly impacted by because they're our provider of water and sewer. So those are the conversations that we really need to make sure we have before we engage in any type of letter of support, recommendation, or whatever it may be. But I also think it's important that we have it with you there. Mhmm. And so we can ask the hard questions like water consumption, flow rates, all that stuff.
What do you need and how does that impact us? I think this is fantastic. It's exciting. I'm I'm really excited to see where it takes us. Mhmm. But we have some questions, I think, that are important that we that we answer or get answered. Julie? Absolutely. And and, again, I I know we're focused on the trust the letter of support for the trust and all that and understanding, and that's where I think maybe there's opportunity to get together as small like, some work group or something with the other communities to kinda talk about, you know, full parcel trust or, like, how do how do the mechanics have to work for you to be able to
do the piece you need to do and then to do what we need to do for communities. Yeah. And and maybe, too, and and we let full time staff take the lead on that one so it can happen rather than on just every other Monday night or whenever councils and elected officials meet, but to start gathering the information, that are relevant to each municipality or each or each level of government to see, you know, what what the next step and what the understanding is because that would ensure that we're continuing to make progress even if we're not meeting here on a Monday night.
And I think continuing the conversation and continuing the questions is going to be essential so we can get this done as quickly as we hire a maintenance guy, I guess. Maybe not quite that fast. Mr. Mayor, I'd just like to let you know that Richard Hanks back there, he's our government relations person. So you'd be working with him on any future meetings and that we would have and all that stuff. But I really appreciate you guys listening to us today, and I think this I think this is pretty big. This is really big, and it's, I'm glad, you know, all the the Clay County, Moorhead, all of and maybe we should go visit with,
Glendon. Maybe we should go visit with them next. I mean, that would be that would be cool, you know? And they'd appreciate it. I think so too. Yeah. I I definitely appreciate you coming here this evening, being willing to to have the conversation. You know, like you said, you could have filled out the the the paperwork without us, but I think the partnerships start the right way when we all move it forward together. Are there any other questions from counsel? Gentlemen, thank you for coming this evening. We'll see you in the future. Thank you very much. Thank you, gentlemen. Appreciate you coming this evening. Thank you. Just quickly on that note, Peyton, are you I mean,
do you do we need to do a formal recommendation? I mean, can you reach out to Morehead, Clay County and just to We're good. So Okay. I I didn't I didn't doubt that, but at least now we can say we officially asked you to to move in a specific direction, and, we don't need to move it. I appreciate that. I I really do. So thank you. That, that does move us to Number 12, City Hall. Alright. 12 alpha is the public hearing on resolution twenty five twenty seven, the miscellaneous assessment hearing at eleven or pardon me,
111 Main Street North. We'll call the public hearing, we'll open it at, what, 07:37? And what, six? No. Seven? Seven thirty three? Wrong focal. 733. We'll move that. 733. Begin with staff presentation. Peyton? Yeah. This is just for an unpaid utility bill. Is that the end of the staff report? It is. Alright. Thank you. With that, is there anyone here to speak in opposition? Second call in opposition? Is there anyone here to speak in favor? Second call in favor? With there being no one here to speak, on the resolution, we'll close the public hearing at 07:34.
Council discussion? Hearing no discussion, I will entertain a motion for resolution 20 five-twenty seven. Steichen, someone. A motion by Steichen. Second. And a second by Borah. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that it does move us to twelve Bravo public hearing, on resolution twenty five twenty nine with it being 07:35. We'll open the public hearing and begin with staff presentation. Peyton? Yes. This is just for an unpaid utility bill. Is that the end of your staff report? It is. Alright. Thank you. Is there anyone here to speak in opposition?
Second call in opposition? Is there anyone here to speak in favor? Anyone here or online to speak in favor of the resolution? Hearing no one to speak in opposition or in favor, we'll close the public hearing at 07:36 and have counsel discussion. Any questions, counsel? All right. Hearing no questions, I will entertain a motion for resolution 20 five-twenty nine. So moved. And motion by Nash. Second, Steichen. And a second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Second. Motion carries. With that, it does bring us to 13 council members' concerns.
Committee updates are on the horn. Tonight is always one of my favorite nights of the year. I love hearing those letters from the volunteers. It's so heartwarming to hear what they're doing in their community, and just wanted to thank everybody who got an award and everybody who wrote the letters. Those are the best part of hearing how they impacted everybody's lives enough to write a letter. It's all good. Thank you. Mr. Steichen? Same thing that Council Member Boras said. It's always fun to that's what makes the community whatever community you're in,
is the people that keep it going, people that donate your time and efforts. And so thanks to everybody that received them and nominated them. And those that, probably did as much and weren't nominated or whatever. So that's great. I I was invited to a, like, a worldwide day at Morehead State University or MSUM. That was probably the funnest event I have ever been to. Didn't have to do any work. Just show up and visit and learn about probably 25 different cultures from around the
world. And they all had their traditional foods and dance and and their I'm not sure of costume, not their traditional wear, clothes. Then they had demonstrations of what's what they do in their country for entertainment and dances. That was great. Governor Waltz showing up at the fire hall, was great and we had council members, city staff, Clay County Commissioners. You know, Governor Waltz did such a fantastic job working with us and it's it's a long
process, getting the thing getting the money and the bonding bill to actually happen. So, it came up in many of his speeches, throughout the last few years, and and he highlighted the need for different that the rural community shouldn't be overlooked. And we all know this is the fastest growing community or county outside of the metro area. So along with the other, politicians that were there, they were instrumental. It's great. And then I was at the town hall meeting at the office center, in by at Concordia after the fire hall meeting,
and that was packed. It was absolutely packed. People love to well, it's nice to get to see their governor and see their leaders and ask questions of them. So that was great. So mayor and and vice mayor Nash were there, and Amber, then and they can speak if they wanna add anything to that. My well, Chezzy has been filming a documentary for the new old fire Hall. Got a lot of video from that, got video from the new hall, got, one on one interviews with the governor and different people involved.
So, and there's filming gonna take place tonight, is filming gonna take place next Monday, is filming gonna take place whenever they get this house burn figured out, when that's gonna happen. So, he does a fan it's my boy, Luke. I told him, you're probably not gonna get paid anything for it, but, he just felt it was worthwhile doing. So and he does fantastic work. The the other thing was, if I can read my writing here. Oh, MetroCog meeting at the depot on Thursday,
talked about events related to safety, biking, houses in Dilworth, and, maybe Peyton can talk a little more about that because, obviously, he spent the whole night there. So, it's good to show up at those events. However many people attended, it's it's good to get their input. So I guess, that's kind of my last two weeks in a nutshell, so that's why I'm gonna turn it over to vice mayor Nash. Thank you, mister Steichen. Julie? I'm we've had now that you're reminding us all that excited, we haven't had a lot of events in the last couple weeks.
Busy. So but that was fun to I mean, initially, being able to show the firehouse even though I mean, there's still a little bit more to be done and move over and all that, but it was great to have everyone there. And, yeah. Also exciting to see we hired another fire candidate, I guess we call them at this point, right, and maintenance workers. So it's kind of exciting to have two new onboard. Oh, now I'm gonna get don't forget kite day. That's this Saturday. There'll be turkey legs there, so come eat turkey. What leg? One hand turkey legs.
I know. I know. I think the baseball crew has their five k going on too at the same time. And then, I hear that chief Rosslyn is gonna be on Valley News Live on Monday talking about mental health with our news. So that's that's pretty exciting. I'm glad you're doing that. And then let's see. We've got some training coming up with the police department too. We're having, officer Moonen, who used to work with us, come. So that's, been doing that. And, if you really wanna look on the horizon, we have, law enforcement appreciation week coming up.
It starts right before our next city council meeting. So that's all I have. Thank you. At the Metro COG level, we're nearing completion of the Heartland Trail Routing Analysis. It's really exciting to see that coming together for so at this point, the whole document is going to come together they're going to present to the Planning Commission, present to the City Council, all the other involved agencies within Clay County. It's about having a vision, a larger vision of the entire metro obviously this is gonna support us, but this will also tie in nicely with the diversion trail once that goes in
providing those amenities within the area. It's an attractive feature. So when we have a group having the trial come you know looking at relocating here housing 500 however many people that's going to end up being people look at those amenities having the Heartland Trail in place is part of that and so I'm really excited about where that's going to take us so a lot of it from now is gonna once it comes together, strategizing how to attack this at the state level to secure funding,
maintenance responsibilities, state trail versus regional trail and a few other details being worked out but really excited to see that coming to a close. If you go over to the depot now there's some remodeling work that has taken place and we'll continue to do some of that. If you go into the kitchen area it looks totally different now. New set of cabinets in there it's really opened up the space we actually received a letter right a Thinking Ogre I guess you would call it that just someone
appreciative of the work that we've been doing over there so it's always important to maintain those facilities. Cleanup week is next week don't forget that and my little plug with cleanup week is always to remember if you have items out there that you're looking to dispose of that are usable and in good condition also consider there's other organizations out there that will take those items for you that could be used for someone else you know in need.
So, just be thankful you know thinking about that as you're going through your you know going through your closet or whatever that may be and you're looking to just throw all this away, you know, Habitat, you know, will come pick up items, the Mission Furniture, Furniture Mission. You you know, there's a lot of different organizations out there that are looking to take in these household items. And I did the proclamation reading for Earth Day last week that's always a lot of fun so I got to go over to Clay County I think it was during the middle of their meeting when
they were hearing about all this but it's always fun to go over there to the Resource Recovery Center and see what's going on, and they do an excellent job at their facility. It's always fun, you know, all all the other mayors and me I guess we're over there but we got to it's fun to their amazement when they see that facility over there about what all it has to offer and the repurposing of items that they are able to do as well. So it's it's really cool that we're and we're we're incredibly fortunate to have such
a tremendous facility just a mile up the road from us. Anything else, Peyton? I think that's it. I'm glad you're able to work in that resource recovery because that that's an that's kind of a, like, hidden gem. Like, I had no idea until you went in there. There's there's all kinds of, like it's an interesting place. It's it's a great opportunity. It is and I will say this again. It is my favorite meeting of the year. When we get to talk about, our volunteer of the year and our volunteer of the week, proclamation, it's it is pretty awesome. And I like the emotions. Like, you should you should feel it because that's really what
What buys us binds us, into our community. So, again, and it's our neighbors, that that support us and get us through, and it's our friends and our families that that help us all thrive. So I think, again, this this meeting and this week is is is pretty special every single year. You know, mister Steigan talked about the the governor coming, and I just wanna thank staff, from top to bottom. And honestly, he'll if the governor actually is listening or whatever, it was a complete dog and pony show, and he would appreciate that comment,
because we made it happen. Not we. I did not make our staff made it happen. I mean, they they made it so there was a tour and equipment and, jumped through countless hoops to to actually pull off an excellent welcome for the governor. And it was last minute because we never know when he said, hey. I'm coming. So my hat's off, to staff, for what they were able to put together and employees. Like, you know when you're involved and if I'm missing anybody, my apologies. But that's what really made it happen.
And what what I like about that is it it does highlight partnerships. And they're important because we're gonna have big conversations coming up very soon in terms of, partnering with our municipalities and other, you know, government agencies in in how we move forward and what we move forward with. And the trust and and cooperative nature that we have built up, over the years is gonna be essential as we move forward, and I think it's gonna be awesome. It'll be some great conversations, some tough questions, but I think at the end of the day, we've been elected to, do the right thing in order to move our region forward.
And whether it's it's Highway 10 or whether it's, you know, potential casino events, I mean, that that's that should be energizing. We should all get excited about the opportunities. And then I'm just gonna wrap up with with a couple of things. One, as we're getting into our new spaces and new places, I do think we have to look at at policies that are gonna minimize our exposure for, having private property in public spaces. Just looking around, it's not something that is done frequently, or at all. And I think we need to make sure that we're we're protecting ourselves, to make sure that Dilworth isn't liable for things that aren't ours.
And again, Peyton, please help me out with this. And if like, I'd like Peyton to look and see what other municipalities do. I think it's in our best interest to make sure that we're doing right by I mean, we're going to invest, you know, 7 to $9,000,000 in a new facility. We wanna make sure it's done right, but we also wanna make sure it's operated right, and we and we do right by our, our constituents and and their money. I I think that's important. And and policies for the places is one thing, and then training for our people is another. I'm glad you brought up, the chief's mental health initiative because that's what we need to be looking for,
is what type of training and what type of opportunities across the board we can look at for our employees. How they're where they're working in their work environment is so very, very important. The greater the working environment we have, I think that goes a long way to recruiting and retention. So we come up with new and innovative ideas or something that's worked for a long time in other places. If we want to try those things, we need to embrace our management and say, okay. Let's give it a shot and see where it goes, and we'll figure it out from there. I like the trainings. I like the opportunities. I love Dilworth, and and I I want to ensure that Dilworth is a great place to work.
We've got a lot of things to do, and it's it's gonna be awesome. Thank counsel for all the things that we do. Thanks to staff for making it easy for us to do it. And that's all I have for right now. So with that, we're gonna jump to 14 alpha. We do have bills. I will entertain a motion to pay the bills. Second. I I got Nash, by a second for a motion. I got Steichen, coming in a close second for the second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And with there being no further business before us this evening, we call this meeting adjourn.