321. Is that the Alright. Good evening. With it being 06:00, we'll call the 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. Quickly, roll call around the horn, please. Peterson here. Laura here. Steichen here. May I ask? And Olson. With that, we have our agenda. I didn't see any additions or subtractions. Alright. Thank you. I will entertain a motion for our agenda.
Steichen so move. Motion by Steichen. Second. A second by Nash. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, we have our consent. Any questions? There's a few things, but we have any specific questions? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion for our consent agenda. Motion to approve. Motion by Nash. Second. Second by Peterson. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, does move us to number five. Peyton, has there been any formal request to speak before council this evening? None received. Again, once again,
encourage the public to participate in the process that is a sure way that we get to make progress. With that, it does move us to number six in the fire department and six alpha, everybody's first meeting of the month. Favorite conversation, the pay request for where we're at in the Fire Hall. Good evening. Well, it's nice to come here when the sun is still in the air. But, yep, we're here, once again early in the month to request payment, $467,566.47. What we've been working on lately is the mainly concentrating on above ceiling work,
installing electrical devices, sprinklers, and, mechanical systems in the ceiling grid so we can get those signed off, inspected, and put the ceiling tile in before flooring goes in. They've wrapped up all the tile work. I would say we're 80 to 90% done with the painting. The apparatus space pretty much all wrapped up, and they were concentrating now in the tower section. And then, they have a few, accent walls to go back and do and then also the, graphics that are on vinyl wall covering. I think we're still kinda honing in on what those graphics look like, but once we get that,
we'll get them ordered and get them installed. Millwork should be showing up this week, so they'll be installing, that throughout the building. And that's what we've been up to in a nutshell. Any questions? Any questions? Looks good. I do appreciate the updates. Yeah. Next next month, we'll bring some more pictures and try to get some more pictures of the inside. So we'll have some of that finished items in there. It's looking really nice now with the tiles installed and the floors are polished. They're covered with protection and things like that so it doesn't get damaged. So Are you still planning a council visit to the we can plan that anytime.
You know, maybe, if the council wants to find a date that works for everybody and then go through Peyton or Scott, and then we'll get that on the calendar and have you guys do a tour. I think it'd be kinda nice because a lot of people ask about it. Yeah. We just repeat relay what you've been telling us. Sure. Yeah. Abs absolutely. Yep. I would say anytime in I think we were talking late February, early March when some of the finishes Yeah. Are starting to go in. It look really nice. Take some pictures and stuff. Perfect. Are there any other questions? Alright. Hearing no further questions, I will entertain a motion for pay request number 13.
Steichen, so move. Motion by Steichen. Second. Second by Borra. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much. Thanks. Have a good night. Thank you. You as well. With that, it does move us now to seven, planning and engineering. Seven a is the consideration of the preliminary plat of Red River Valley Cooperative Power Association for approximately 20 acre subdivision located on the corner of 30 Fourth Street and County Road 18. Who's starting this one, Peyton? That will be me. So last Wednesday at the planning commission meeting,
the planning commission held a public hearing to review a minor subdivision plat, here on if you go up 30 Fourth Street at the corner of 30 Fourth Street and Highway County Road 18, so far north portion of 30 Fourth Street. There's a an approximate 15 acre lot that's gonna be coming, about because of this plat for Red River Valley coop and for another commercial business on this five acre tract. Maybe a little challenging to see there.
Here's the plat itself, what we're talking about. Again, we're talking about 20 acres plus or minus. And, currently, this property is within Oak Port Township, but it is within our annexation agreement limits that we have, orderly annexation agreement that we have, with the surrounding townships and the city of Morehead. It's also currently zoned tier two urban expansion district. I believe this time or next week, I'm pretty sure there's a public hearing with the county planning commission to review the
zoning of this property, and they will the recommendation is to zone it to highway commercial, which will accommodate what the supported use of what they would like to have there at this location. And just as a recap, the reason why flats come to us even if they're outside the city limits within a two mile jurisdiction, it's to maintain an orderly semblance of subdividing land because at some point in the future, this land will be in the city of limits.
So it does allow us some level of control to ensure that the plats are being accordingly, appropriately sized and meeting all the subdivision requirements. The plat itself is meeting all the, you know, all of our subdivision requirements. Yeah. Here's sort of a better view up here. 2020 Eighth Avenue North and or, e, County Road 18, where this will all be located. There is a few bits and pieces to work out there as far as getting access to the property. That roadway is owned by the city of Moorehead.
Head. We do not control it. So there are some access requirements that the property owners will have to adhere to, and we've been working alongside with them to, help facilitate those discussions. A little bit more about the plat itself. A 20 foot utility easement along the perimeter of the plat is being requested. Again, this is just in a preliminary stage right now. We'll do another public hearing in either March or April to get the final plat, then it'll come back before you. The 20 foot designation around the perimeter,
we normally do a 10 foot, but given the size and scope of the type of utilities that will eventually be brought that direction, Again, there's no utilities there to the side today. The city engineer was recommending a 20 foot easement around the perimeter. We would also look for a development agreement with the property owner. So at some point in the future when we do deliver utilities up to the property just like we would for anyone else, they would bear some of the financial burden of receiving said utilities.
This just more so formalizes the document. Anytime we annex property, we do have a responsibility to get utilities to someone, but those costs are generally borne by the property owner themselves. And this also again, this will go to the county planning commission for their review of the not only the plat, but also for the highway business designation that they have. There was no, you know, comments against this plat at the meeting. We did have representatives here from both the new property owners,
just here that did speak in favor of the application. Just give them a little more insight as to the size and scope of what their development would be like. Mayor, I don't know if I've missed anything else or anything else you wanted to cover from last week's hearing. No. Again, that's an an excellent synopsis. Great conversation was had by the planning commission. As we went through it, the questions were asked, and and ultimately, the planning commission gave unanimous unanimous approval for this, in its location and its concept and how it ultimately lends itself to the future
development of 30 Fourth Street Corridor and the city of Dilworth. And, you know, again, a unanimous, consent from planning as as it moved forward to us. Mr. Second. Mister mayor and Peyton, the, what they intend to do, is that very similar to what their plan was to do off of March? It is. And this should be far enough from any wellhead protection. So Mora Public Service shouldn't have much issue with it? No. They shouldn't. And, yeah, it's very similar. And then the business that they're looking to collocate with it
is a supplier of, a I don't know what the exact title is. Trans transformers? Isn't that what they said? Yeah. Well, it's just, related equipment to what an electrical company power company would need. It's just a wholesale I don't know if it's a wholesaler, but it's a supplier. Yeah. And and everything is it was warehouse and concrete. And and, again, it'll ultimately be right across the street from, you know, the sanitary or the lift station, the new kind of lift station, and then the lagoons or whatever.
I think the location and I'm not on that committee, but you would think with the new location, it should be well outside any concerns for the environmental factors, especially given the location, in proximity to those other pieces along 30 Fourth Street. Kevin? Let's face it. The the old location they had really wasn't very intrusive except the fact that they had an above ground fuel tank, right, and more public service. And the watershed district took issue with that. And now this is presumably far enough away that they won't derail it this time?
That's that's the I guess, are are they here to to speak? Can we have them answer that question? Oh. Once again. And and maybe this will give us greater insight. That would be appreciated. Thank you. Mayor Olsen and members of the council, my name is Melissa Beach. I'm the economic development administrator with Minn Kota Power Cooperative. So, Red River Co op is one of our owners, so we work on their behalf at times. I don't know that I can answer the the fuel tank, above ground tank storage question necessarily, but this location would likely be a bit more a bit larger than what they'd
previously planned and designed. And then the, actually, the parcels were, switched, Peyton. So the five acre is Red River Valley Co op. The 15 acre is, a company that's currently in in Moorhead Resco. It's a rural electric supply cooperative. So we're hopeful. We've discussed this pretty pretty heavily already with Clay County, so we're hopeful that, there aren't issues there with Moorhead. Moorhead's very much aware of the application as well. Good. Thank you very much, Will. Absolutely. Thank you. And again, mister Steigen? If I remember correctly, and I this came through on the county level as well.
I don't think there was fuel storage there at all. It was just whatever fuel was being in their in their vehicles. But it's so close to the ground the distance between the ground and the water table is so narrow there that, you know, it would contaminate it. If something did get in and they had all the, sewer type things remediated with tanks and all that. But there's just a possibility of, if I remember correctly, that, something could leak. And, you know, Morid Public Service is very concerned about the water
that could be a problem, and it does get to be a problem if there's but far as the fuel storage, I think there was no fuel storage, if I remember correct. Any other questions? And again, like like and through the process through planning, the zoning seems to work on our end and that's really the the focus of our conversation. And and do we support the business? Does it fit? Does it work? And, again, through planning, it was a unanimous yes. And and building that in and it fits with our future growth plan, and sets us up and from it for for the potential of a great partnership,
moving it forward. One last question, mayor. Mister mayor, When it comes before us on the county level, is there any issue you had planning had with the proposed site or changes you'd like to see or okay. Good. No. No. And, again, one of the schematics and one of the visuals, I mean, it's it's a really nice structure. It's a warehouse, but I mean, it's it's a modern warehouse that has, you know, the design qualities and everything. It's gonna meet the county standards, and that's that's the first step. Right? I mean, and as long as we're there, we'll we'll, continue the partnership from that point.
Peyton? One other note of sort of a tangent conversation that we've had at the planning commission level. I know we've mentioned it here at the city council level. This area is an area that we'll be looking at as part of our comprehensive plan update to ensure the future land use map is adequately designated. We talked about the potential of a as sort of like a light industrial type corridor in that area that maybe could go down,
the middle of that block there. So that is something that the planning commission will be taking into consideration as it works through this and part of our, you know, conversation that we've been having with Minn Kota and their team. Thank you, Peyton. Any other questions from council? Okay. Hearing no further questions, I will entertain a motion for the preliminary plat of Red River Valley Cooperative Power Association on that approximate 20 acre subdivision, on 30 Fourth Street and Kern County Road 18. Motion to approve. A motion by Nash.
Second by Steichen. And a second by Steichen. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does bring us to seven bravo. We have our Fifteenth Avenue corridor study. Good evening. Good evening. Welcome back. Thank you. Some people might see this presentation for a second time. I'm Scott Middaugh with KLJ. We were hired by Fargo Moorhead Metro COG to review the Fifteenth Avenue corridor just on the North Side of Dilworth. Corridor study looks at Fifteenth Avenue from County Road 9 on the West side all the way over to County Road 11 on the East side.
And what it looked at is there was a a study done on Trunk Highway 10 last summer, and that identified that there is, a need for more East West corridors throughout the metro. Fifteenth Avenue connects to Fargo over the Red River, and it connects to I 29 in North Dakota. So it was a logical, logical and a look like that, and that was identified. It it is gonna be a regionally significant corridor as the metro continues to grow. So what we looked at the goal of the study was to look at what feasible alternatives are out there when the corridor is improved, what the future ownership and maintenance looks like,
and then to review the existing ownership and maintenance. So with that, the existing roadway out there is under the jurisdiction of three separate townships. It's Oakport, Moorhead, and Muland. Oakport and Moorhead well, I guess, all three of them contract with Clay County to do the maintenance. But then there's another agreement between the city of Dilworth and Morehead and Oakport to pay 75% of that maintenance. So that's kind of the existing makeup of how that that road is maintained now and how it's how it's owned. It's just an existing township road now,
20 to 30 feet gravel road. Nothing nothing major. We did go out there over the summer and take traffic counts. We took through movement counts, and we looked at the turning movements at each intersection out there. As you can see, the highest is between, County Road 9 and, Fiftieth, and that's 285 ADT. As you head east, it just it starts to drop. So looking at it, the traffic counts weren't real big out there. So we couldn't just take a growth rate and multiply it to see what kind of traffic was gonna use that road in the future. One thing we looked at is the portion of Fifteenth Avenue just to the west
from 30 Fourth Street to County Road 9, that was paved in 2019. Before it was paved in 2017, there was 350 vehicles a day that used that road. They took counts again in 2020 after it was paved, and that jumped to 850. And so if it's gets been proved, people are gonna use it more and more. So we had to look at how are we gonna forecast traffic for this roadway in the future. So what we looked at is growth rate of the Fargo Moorhead area, the metro. We looked at land use changes, you know, using builders comp plan, and then we looked at what traffic is gonna divert from other roads out there.
And we looked at three different scenarios to make sure we kinda got a wide range of of what the possibilities are. So the first one is just looking at the traffic diversion. So this all uses the growth factor, but we looked at, 20 Eighth Avenue, which is County Road 18, what traffic would divert from there, what traffic would divert from Highway 10, and what traffic would divert from I 94 if the roadway was improved. So under our low volume, 25% of the traffic from 20 Eighth was diverted to Fifteenth Avenue, and I should clarify that. We looked at an origin destination study, so that's not 25% of the total traffic from that road.
That's 25% of the traffic that is using any one of those roads out there to go from the North Side Of Fargo Moorhead to Trunk Highway 336 and Highway 10. That area. That's kind of from there to there who's using that road. So again, on this low scenario, 25% from twenty eighth, '10 percent from Highway 10, And 0 from 94. So you can again see it's still dropping as you head east, but we're looking at a peak at about 2,700 vehicles a day, and this would be 2,045. We also looked at a mid range scenario, and that's 50% of the diversion from twenty eighth,
'30 '5 percent from Highway 10, And 10 Percent from I 94. And then we looked at a a a pretty robust scenario. This is the high build out. So this takes into account everything in the city of Dilworth footprint that's all built out. So it's all developed. So there's traffic there. There's new intersections there. And again, so this is now a % of the traffic would divert from 20 Eighth, 35 from 10, And 10 from 990 I 94. And the reason we wanted to look at that wide range is we wanted to make sure when we were looking at alternatives for future improvements that nothing kicked us
into needing more roadway capacity. Right now, under all three of these scenarios, one lane in each direction with some turn lanes at intersection meets the need. We just wanted to make sure that if if this development did occur in a pretty rapid pace, you know, do we need two lanes in each direction? We found we didn't. Again, as I mentioned, part of this too was to look at the future ownership. So long term, it was kinda you know, we met with the townships. We met with city. We've met with Clay County. Long term, it's looking like the city of Dilworth will eventually own this road as development is is takes place up there.
But in the short term, that's not that's not the the case. In short term, we came down to two ownership options. It could either retain as a a township road now under the three different jurisdictions or it could become, Clay County Road. We did meet with Clay County. They're open to the the possibility of taking over that roadway, but they would wanna make sure that they limit their financial risk. They're not taking ownership to pay for everything, pay for any future improvements, but they do understand that they do have the resources in house to facilitate any improvements. That that half mile just to the west,
that was a partnership between Oakport Township and Clay County. Clay County actually did the design. They kind of administered construction, but they helped Oakport Township apply for the grant. So then we also looked at alternatives throughout there. We we kicked around a lot of different alternatives right away. We kinda narrowed it down as we went. Initially, we did look at some urban alternatives. But, again, with the city of Dilworth not taking this road over till far into the future, an urban alternative with curb and gutter just didn't make sense. It's not the townships in the county aren't set up to maintain a road like that. So we looked at,
alternatives kind of based on the funding. And so if the townships were to stay the owner of the road, they don't have the financial resources just to make these improvements, so they would need to look at possibly grant opportunities, things like that. And that dictates the design standard. And so the the narrowest section of road we can get in there is that one on the the top there. That's typical section two. That's two eleven foot lanes and two foot shoulders. That's the narrowest roadway top we could get in. If Clay County was gonna take over the road, they would need just a little bit wider shoulders.
They follow a different design standard, and so it would be 11 foot lanes and four foot shoulders. Through our initial public outreach, we asked people what they wanted to see out there. Do they want us, you know, do they want to see improvements, any other features they want added to the road? And we did hear a lot of people respond back with pedestrian facilities. A lot of people now with the low traffic volumes, they run out there, they walk their dogs out there. If it was improved and speeds increased, that may mean there's not enough room for pedestrians. And so we looked at, the possibility with Clay County, that section to add a shared use path or for both those sections.
And so that would push everything to the north since the drain is acting as a a barrier on the south side of the road. So, again, that's the the one on the right or on the left there. That's the the shared use path with the Clay County section. I'm sorry, on the top top right. The other thing we we looked at is when we reached out to the public, there's two landowners that directly front Fifteenth Avenue within the corridor study area. Both those landowners were opposed to, having their property impacted by the project. And so what we looked at is, well, to avoid that, what do we what do we have to do?
And so we looked at a couple alternatives that would shift the drain and the roadway to the south to not impact those properties. And it would just be at the intersections of Cassaw 9 And Sixtieth. The rest of the road would would be shifted to the north where there's just agricultural land, but that would introduce some curves into the roadway. We did look like that. Look at those. Those are more costly alternatives. There's box culverts out there for the drain, more right of way costs, things like that. But we did look at it, and then we looked at it with, with the shared use path as well. We took all this information, bundled it up,
and took it to the public in November of twenty twenty four. The the image on the left there, that's actually just we had some stickers there, and the people that showed up at that public input meeting, we asked them what did they prefer out there. And their preferred option was no shared use path, the Clay County minimum. So 11 foot shoulders or I'm sorry, 11 foot lanes and four foot shoulders. On the flip side, the people that took part in the survey online, they actually liked the Clay County minimum with the shared use path. So we have consensus on the the roadway typical section, but it's just with or without a shared use path.
The other thing that was interesting is we wanna know what was important to people out there. Cost was up there, but the most important thing that people wanted was roadway reliability. As I mentioned, that that portion of road, to the west, that was that was paved because the township could not keep up with maintenance any longer. In the summer, if it was hard rains, the road would wash out, people would get stuck. In the winter, snow coming through, and people get stuck. So they eventually had to close the road. So looking forward, what we looked at in the study is just made some recommendations to for next steps going forward.
And one of them was a memorandum of understanding between the townships, city of Dilworth, and Clay County. And that's basically just to keep the conversation going. Traffic is gonna continue to increase on that road, and so, you know, be proactive. You know? Is there funding opportunities out there? Who's gonna take the lead? Things like that. Just keep that conversation moving so that it's not a panic of, wow. We've had to close this road several times this summer, this winter. What are we gonna do about it? Be more proactive than reactive. The other thing is develop a a timeline of improvements. So there's a couple factors in this. Trunk Highway 10 at the earliest is gonna be reconstructed in around 2030,
and that'd be at the earliest. Regardless if that's maintained during if that road is open during construction or if it's detoured, I would venture to guess traffic on Fifteenth is going to increase cause they're gonna it's path of least resistance. Right? People are gonna use that. And so that that's a factor in when this should be when this roadway should be improved. The other thing is that that 350 ADT, I mentioned that was paved in that portion of was west of paved in 2019. That was because of the maintenance. They had 350 ADT out there. The counts we took last summer show it's this road is at 285.
So it's getting close. That 350 vehicles a day is the turn tipping point. There's not a lot of time left. And then just, you know, you could see through the traffic counts, it'd be best to improve east or from east to west. With that, I know in 2029, the city's been working with Metro COG to secure some money, 1,150,000.00 for the improvements between Casa 9 And Fiftieth. So there's there's some money to help improvements there. With that, I kinda rushed through. Is there any questions? Thank you again, Scott. Questions, comments, concerns from counsel?
Mister Steichen. Mister mayor, nobody knows for sure where the Heartland Trail is gonna go, but does that figure into your idea there? Great question. So we did coordinate with the Heartland Trail study. There's a couple factors in that. Currently, the Heartland Trail is gonna enter Dilworth on Twelfth Avenue South, and it'll go all the way to 30 Fourth Street and go over the railroad tracks along 30 Fourth Street and end up at the intersection of 30 Fourth And And Fifteenth Avenue North. In the long run, it's desired to have the trail run along Fifteenth Avenue North,
and it would it would cross at, I believe, it's Fourteenth when there would be a future railroad overpass. It's unknown when that'll be in the future. So what we looked at is if you want to incorporate a path with the roadway project, that's kinda what we looked at if you're gonna have that path north of the train. The Heartland Trail has also got an alternative that you could build the the road without a trail, and they're looking at they could put a trail on the south side of the drain. So that's what that's what their study is looking at. So they're both going on concurrently, so it was hard to make definitive decisions, but we we tried to coordinate as best as possible.
Thank you. Peyton. And one thing I want to point out, mister Steichen, is that whenever this roadway is set to be improved, the the twenty twenty nine STBG monies that we have, the application that we put in, we assume it's going to have a trail, the shared use path off to the side on the south side of the roadway. That's how we submitted the application. That will obviously not be the Heartland Trail at that point, but hopefully, we'll get that designation there at a later time. So hopefully, we will be able to construct all that as these improvements are being made.
Not only would we have those monies for County Road 9 over to Seventh Street, but we would also look to put in the shared use path on the existing parallel in the existing roadway from 30 Fourth Street over at the time. It only makes sense. Does the construction of a shared use path, would that be matching with what the Heartland Trail would like to see? Or is it okay. Yep. So, yeah, as Scott was saying there, right now, coming in on Twelfth Avenue South,
that's the per that's the desired location. Long term, once the overpass comes in, the actual Heartland Trail designation will be over Fourteenth Street. And so right now, we're basically just creating the spur that's gonna go around as a temporary measure until we're able to get the overpass in. And then the Heartland Trail would, you know, cross Highway 10, go up Fourteenth Street, connect at Fifteenth Avenue. But the the path and the Heartland Trail, the construction would be would be well,
you you wouldn't have to redo it if you're No. Okay. I was worth looking at 10 foot wide paths. Gotcha. Thank you. Any other questions? Alright. Again, thank you for coming out again, Scott. We we do appreciate it. Yes. Take any time. Thank you. Did you have anything much? I'm sorry to interject unless you want to add something. I would just say if we could just get, maybe a quick motion just to formally support the project. We will be bringing this, to Metro COGS Transportation Technical Committee and Policy Board for Action. The TTC meets on Thursday, and the policy board meets next Thursday. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you,
Mike. Again, this was before planning on Wednesday as well, and great conversations with regard to how do we line it up. Where does that where would this tie into the Northside Park that we have, and how do we make that walkable as it lines up to what is going on on Fifteenth is it Fifteenth Avenue all the way through, Moorhead? And then, of course, it does link up on the 30 Fourth Street running north and south already. So there's a potential to tie into existing infrastructure and existing projects that is really well executed with some of these ideas, putting us in in a good position,
to move it forward. So, do we have any other questions for Scott or for Mike or for Peyton? Hearing none, I will just entertain a motion to, accept and receive and file the Fifteenth Avenue corridor study, that was put forward. So moved. A motion by Nash. Second by Steichen. And a second by Steichen. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Again, thank you very much gentlemen. We appreciate it. That does move us to seven Charlie, resolution twenty five zero four, authorizing a temporary construction easement for the 30 Fourth Street reconstruction project. Peyton?
Yeah. Quickly here. So the temporary construction easement process being gathered by SRF is moving along at a solid rate here at a solid clip. So all the preliminary appraisals have been completed. Next will be a they're they're requesting a resolution from us so that we can give them the authority to use this amount of money, the $12,000 amount there to go after the, actual east construction easements out there. So this is just giving SRF the saying that you're you're signing off and giving
them the authority to negotiate and move forward. Any questions for Peyton? And this is in line with what we talked about at previous meetings. This company's taking care of that legwork. Hearing no questions, I will entertain a motion for resolution twenty five zero four. 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 number eight, and we have the recommendation from the buildings and grounds crew to hire the architectural design firm for the community center project. Yeah. I'll start off here.
So last week, the building and grounds team held interviews for our new community center project. In total, there were 10 different firms that submitted proposals. We ended up, interviewing five of them, and I don't think it was January 23. That's not right, is it? No. One week later. Whatever. But, Zurburg Architects is the firm that we ended up providing a recommendation for, this evening. And we have,
Tony here with Zurberg to just introduce himself, to the the city council team. And I don't know if there's anything else you wanna add, Julie. No. I mean, it was we're pleasantly excited about moving forward with this. We had a lot of wonderful applications. Yours, obviously was supported by the entire group. But, it was an amazing process to just hear what everyone had to say and be a part of that process and we're just excited that, you submitted a proposal and to be a part of this.
And it's yeah. Yeah. Thank you, mister mayor and and members of council. We're really excited for this project. As Peyton mentioned, I'm Tony Wolf with, Zurburg Architects, more of the principal architects there. Be on the project from the beginning of the project through the end, so you'll see my face the next couple of years here. So really looking forward to it, though. We, we're really excited. When we got the, proposal, or the RFQ, we were really excited to put a proposal in because we think, building community is part of our our, DNA. It's part of our nature. It's what we do on day to day basis, and we're really excited to engage with you all and with the community,
moving forward. So yeah. Any questions or anything right off the bat? Questions, comments from council? Again, thank you, Julie, for and the buildings and ground crew for that. Was it Thursday, right, on Thursday afternoon conversation? All day. All day? Wow. That's how it rolls. That is a good thing. So for now, what will happen, we'll bring back a formal contract at the next city council meeting. That'll get approved. And then at that point, we may start this before hand, but we'll we're gonna get things kick started right away.
They're ready to hit the ground running. I'm ready to get building, so let's do this. That's right. K. Any questions from counsel? I just maybe just one since then, Peyton, you might be able to answer this. Obviously, we're we're building community center, and Tony just brought up building a community. Does that where do we fall in line with, once we end going back to the public to get some input? Is that part of your design process? And how does that again, just how does that work so we can get ready for that that piece as well? Yeah. Do you wanna speak to the public engagement part of it? Yeah. So initially, we'll have a typically, we'll have, like, a a a key stakeholders,
group of people who are, again, kinda forming committee to help guide some of the direction. But getting out there and having public meetings where we pull, the community in and, get input and, opinions about what what this building should be, how it should feel, the the style of the building, that sort of thing. You know, very similar to some of that, you know, the the dot, voting. You know, we do some of those exercises when we do these, these meetings. But, really, it's just getting on the community, engaging with them, and connecting up with them a couple of times so we can make sure we're getting
the correct, or getting all the input that everybody wants to give give us on that project. Awesome. Awesome. Thank you very again, go ahead, Julie. I'm sorry. No. I was just gonna add to that. That that was a key piece of our interview process was that we had promised that we were going to have engagement from the community before we decide what this community center is going to, encompass. And so that was a key piece of what we were interested in hearing more about from, everyone too. And so we're very excited to make sure that that is, you know, a forefront as we begin the process. So I appreciate your focus on that.
Yeah. You bet. Yeah. We did. We do a lot of them with schools, and and really it's just connecting and engaging with the community is is key. Alright. Well well, thank you. And, again, thank you and con congratulations. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Pete. Thanks, Dawn. So with that, Peyton, you need a formal recommendation, to hire the architectural firm? Yes, please. I will entertain that motion. I will make that my current recommendation. I have a motion by Nash. Second. And a second by Borra. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And with that, a formal congratulations. Now it's a matter of record.
So thank you very much. I look I look forward to to our next steps. Stay here. That does move us to number nine. Gives us council members council member concerns and committee updates around the horn. I I'm I got nothing. Thanks, Kevin. I was just gonna remind everybody to sidewalks, put snow on them, keep them clean, fire hydrants, and then chief left. But I've seen one of our officers helped, residents shoveling, so that was that was awesome to see. Just wanted to give a shout out to the police department. That's all I got. Thank you. Mister Steichen. I got a couple of things.
Mayor Olsen, vice mayor Nash, and I, and community development director Don Larson. It's not the it's Building Industry Association. Is that yeah. It's not the home builders, but that's kinda how we all Mayor Olsen did a great job talking like he always does, highlighting things about Dilworth, what we've been doing, what the purpose of community involvement and not running things down people's and getting their input. So it's good to keep reinforcing it because a few times I've heard people sometimes
people think it's already been decided. So it was just fun to see the we'll see. Julie's gonna talk about this. No. You're not. I don't wanna duplicate things, but, I'll let vice mayor Nash work on that a little more. But the other thing that was pretty interesting was the intergovernmental retreat in Clay County run by the Moorhead School. Vice mayor Nash did a great job talking about Dilworth, highlighting different features that, we're working on. You know, fire hall is, you know, real visible sign and plus the,
local office and sales tax for the community center. So but in part of that whole event was a lot of discussion was centered around homelessness and the recovery. And then they had, everything from opioid to how they deal with how law enforcement, when law enforcement comes upon a situation, how they deal with it, where they send them, and those kind of things, I didn't realize some of these things were kinda in place. And they had a case social worker from,
a clinic setting in Morehead and talked about the issues that they have and and, how do you balance that with what they want, what they can, what they not allowed to do. And then the Moorhead Police Officer was there talking about his side of things. So but the big thing on the event was the psychiatric residential treatment facility, PRTF. There's only, I think, four that exist in Minnesota, and most of them are down by the cities in that area.
There's nothing up in this part of the state. So it's pretty exciting that the county is being proactive in, working at this. For those that remember, don't know, I think we had a resolution from the council sent by Jenny commissioner Jenny Mojo that we supported their position on this. And, it's all comes down to get funding from the state. This is gonna be a tougher year than most years, but they found a way to make it cheaper than a lot of people would have thought. They're not gonna create a whole new brick and mortar building for the
psychiatric residential treatment center. They're gonna use the juvenile detention center now and just with some minor modifications and renovations. They can use that because it works really well. And then they're gonna build off-site, non secure, they had a name for it, but a setting for the juveniles to be in and divided by male and female and all that. And it would likely be really close by. But they're fortunate enough to get Steve Summers, one of our local residents here, part of solutions behavioral health care professionals,
to to basically be a part of running it. And, he's very excited to take over. This the county is very excited to have someone take over and take the lead on that, I guess. But it just comes down to getting funding, and it's right around the $25,000,000 20 6 million dollars it's going to take. So but I think everybody knows that, health care is a huge issue in every level of society now. So, if you can get some of these, people the services they need
and it comes with a cost, but now there's nothing at all close by that would even do the job. So they're gonna keep plugging away. And, and then they had a panel of, senators, representatives, and US senators representatives there talking about the issues in the political scene these days, and a lot of it was centered around, at the time, how Minnesota House was having struggles with meeting, getting getting that, which they kinda got it figured out now.
But, they all agree that it's valuable to have this, but, you know, the money is gonna be a problem or an issue, and I shouldn't say problem. It's gonna be something I really have to work on. So, then the other thing I'll stop with this comment on this event. For those that were at the, housing study and those of us that were at the housing first study here a couple years back, you know, the housing first was I think, a police officer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin that came and spoke. We were at a few of his meetings.
Very good things they're doing in Milwaukee. But when you come to this area, you got two states, got two counties. Two major cities, and it's not easy to get things working together sometimes. But people are very amazed by the, the municipalities and entities in this part of the country that can actually work together quite well. They gave an example of a city in a different state, larger city. Roughly, the once half of this East West type,
naming of the city, they really can't be in the same room, let alone work together. So, people were very excited that what what happens. And it has a lot to do with the mayors and, you know, the staff and the county level as well. So, and Chandler Eslinger well, and Quinn Jaeger from the county. But Chandler Eslinger, she's part of the FM Coalition Danhomas. She spoke about it, and we did talk to her after the fact. And she's one that wants to get that to continue in some capacity if possible.
So, it's kinda sad that it kind of was I shouldn't say it ended, but it really haven't heard much about it for quite a while. So that was a fun event. That was always fun just to get to meet people and see people again. My first meeting on Metro COG. I realized I have a lot to learn. Just learning what the acronyms are is a good start. It's just overwhelming with but it's amazing how they work with federal and the state. And everybody wants a little part of what they have going.
And, they all seem very cordial to me, and I I don't come in knowing so I come in and told them I don't know a lot about what you do. So vice mayor Nash, she always has glowing comments from the people there because she was very much on top of things. So, I'll have to be talking to her once in a while about, things I do know. But it's, quite an undertaking. You know, it's, you know, it's all important. Everything we do is important. But, you know, it's, takes a little bit more work than not complaining, but it takes a little more work than I thought it was.
I think I think I should stop there because Julie vice mayor Nash is gonna speak on the, home builders or the building in this industry. So that's where I'm gonna end. Well, so, yeah, I mean, we've had a couple of great opportunities where I mean, I think we're fortunate to again, like you said, like the collaboration, but to be able to go to these events and be a part of it, you know, I'm appreciative of that because we do have great relationships with the other members of the other councils, and their staff. And so being present at those events really,
you know, goes a long way. I mean, even when we're at BIA and sitting and just chatting beforehand, those relationships mean a lot. And so, again, that was great, your speech on it's fun to hear the mayors do their talk, and I always appreciate that. Again, you can see the relationship that you guys have and the collaborative, network. But it was really interesting. The speaker they had I mean, again, getting to be a part with the, building industry. But when they bring that speaker in to talk about what drives, you know, our communities and what's important and,
again, this was a supply side economist. So, I mean, when they're talking about housing and everything, I mean, yes, it does drive it, but then, you know, like, we know in our community what, you know, different areas we need, to look to. But it I really enjoyed what he had to say and wanna take the time to go and, you know, see the report that he was talking about too to learn more, and and also the IGR. Again, wonderful opportunity. I didn't know about these collaborations that were happening between some of these groups. And so to be a part of that and to be present and to get to meet the people and see them,
and know what's happening in our community, I'm glad I took the time to, you know, be there and be a part of that. And I'm appreciative to everyone that, was there to be a part of those panels too because they provided us with a lot of information. Did you want me to I didn't go into anything more with BI, or is there anything else you want to add? I covered it quite well. And, the only other thing I'm just going to point out is I noticed we have a lot of, officer training coming up, and I think that's great. It means that we have staffing so that they can go to training, which is very exciting, and to see the commitment to do that.
And so, I mean, that was really kind of fun to see again that happening. So awesome. But that's all I have. K. Thank you, Julie. Peyton? On February 24, we'll be doing our strategic planning session that afternoon. And as we go into that, there'll be some specific things that we'll deal with, most notably, like, on the transportation front, like future road rate projects. But in terms of bigger picture thinking, I just want you to
be marinating on as you come into this meeting. Just be thinking about, like, large scale abstract type things. You know, what makes Dilworth a great community? What in your mind can we improve upon, what things do we do well in providing services and delivering those to our citizens. So just be thinking about just in terms of that as we go into our February 24 session. Anything else, Pete?
That's all, sir. Alright. Thank you. Quickly, I'm gonna work this backwards. Thank you, Julie, for for stepping in for the IGR. It did give me an opportunity to go watch some more hockey, and allows me to marinate on some things. So I think I was texting you about the different community centers and the different rec centers I was in in watching these things, and it's everything from sheets of ice to full size soccer fields that are part of these community and rec centers and and again like focusing on that community and that that's a central place, a central place for people to go and and be a part of town.
So it does allow us another opportunity to build our community. And that's, you know, so we're talking about the BIA or the home builders. And I wrote that word down right away relationships because when I first had the opportunity to represent the city of Delworth, we just ran into the issue with Summerwood where it came all the way back to the city of Delworth, and we had 70 empty lots that were now the responsibility for the city of Delworth. And it was the partnership then with Bryce,
right, the CEO or whatever her if I'm if I'm not getting her title wrong, I apologize. But a phone call to Herb brought builders in to Dilworth, and and we showed them, Summer, we showed them Dilworth. And we and we started the relationship. And and, again, we are fortunate to be there, to be invited, and and to allow Dilworth to be represented there. And it's an honor for me to do so, and and mister Steichen, I I think you're too generous in your comments of my speaking ability. And I I do wanna say this because I think one of the things that the other mayors did exceptionally well and I failed at is they recognized everybody else.
I talked about the city and how great our city is and everything like that, but the other mayors represented or brought up their staff and talked about their staff and I did not do that and I should have, because our city is great because of our council members, because of our management, because of the people who work for us and and in addition to the people that live here. And when mayor Shelley started bringing up, I was like, okay, well done mayor Shelley. But again, and and so thank you council members and staff who who go through the efforts to make sure, that when people are coming to Door to to build houses, that the house is built and then that and the people become part of our
community. So So again, I wanna say formally thank you to council members across the board for their commitment to the city. And those relationships are important, continuing that. I had the opportunity to meet with the mayors afterwards, last week. We had dinner. Having those conversations about the difficult con con or the difficult issues that, we face, whether it's, you know, we we see the cooperation and issues with homelessness and and drug abuse and the opioid crisis, and those are ongoing. I look at the the I looked at the agenda for the IGR, and that's circa six years ago,
seven years ago. I mean, it's the same, you know, the same time. It's because it's not going away, and it's something that we constantly have to work at, to to hopefully improve and and eliminate if if that's at all possible. So, again, it's highlighted across the board, and I often, talk about exercising those relationships. Again, dinner with Jordan Schware. He was concerned about our funding from the, from the federal level. And, you know, it's a thing. Those relationships are important. Having people look out for our interests at the various levels nowadays is very important.
Another potential $115,000,000 coming in, from the federal government for transportation. As long as everything continues to go smoothly, I mean, it's it's in a we're in a different time now where state issues and national issues can impact the revenues and and and plans for the city of Delaware. So keeping those relationships in mind is very important. So I'm gonna end quickly and and and say two things. It was great to talk to JT and and it gets to a guy that I met at the V. I. A.
Looking to come and do work in Delworth because he, you know, again, just buys into what we're doing. And and I think, as, as Boris said earlier, like, it shows up in the little things like the police shoveling sidewalks. Again, Amber had mentioned that, but, chief, you're back now. Again, it's buy in. It's buy in across the board. And with that, I'm gonna say thanks for another great week and a start to to the year. It's gonna be awesome. We have a lot of things happening, and the twenty fourth is gonna be fun. It does bring us back into our agenda and paying of the bills. Any questions on the bills?
Let's I'll entertain a motion to pay the bills. Motion to pay the bills. Motion by Nash. Second, Steichen. And a second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And with there being no further business before council this evening, call this meeting adjourned.