With it being six we'll call our meeting to order and begin 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. With that, we'll just do quick roll call around the horn, please. Peterson here. Spike on here. Nash. And Olson. With that, it does move us to number three and our agenda. We are going to remove 9b, scheduled for a future meeting. So if you do if there are any other questions,
comments, concerns, or considerations, take them now. Otherwise, I will entertain a motion. I'll make the motion to approve the amended agenda. I have a motion by Peterson. Second. Second by Nash. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it's our consent. The consent is lengthy. Are there any questions, comments, concerns, considerations with I mean, great work keeping it to Z. That's outstanding. I mean, because you get to double A, I never know where I'm going. Hearing no questions, comments, or concerns, I will entertain a motion. Motion to approve. Motion by Nash. Second. And a second by Steichen.
All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. That's a lot. Alright. That now moves us to number five, our public comment period. Peyton, has there been any formal request to speak before counsel this evening? None received. Once again, engage and encourage the public to participate in our process. That is how we will continue to make progress. With that being said, it does move us to number six, six alpha. Clay. We have Cass Clay, interagency council on homelessness. We have Chandler with the FM Coalition to End Homelessness,
and Taylor with the United Way presenting this evening. That is good evening. Thank you for coming. Take care. Yes, please. Looks like some of our slides look a little Yeah. A little sideways, but that's alright. We will we will work with it. Thank you so much for the opportunity to visit with you all today. My name is Taylor Sivertson. I serve as the director of community impact with United Way of Cass Clay. And I'm Chandler Eslinger, and I am the executive director of the Fargo Moorhead Coalition to End Homelessness. Our focus for tonight's conversation will be primarily educational as we discuss the state of
homelessness across the region. And the region we're referring to is Cass County, North Dakota and Clay County, Minnesota. And we'll talk about the metro cities that are part of, that region as well as the rural communities that are part of this region. We'll also share a little bit more about what is the homelessness response system, the organizations that are working collectively to make sure that folks are, supported when they are, at risk of or experiencing homelessness. And then we'll also share our community's response through the coordinated initiative of United to
End Homelessness as we address both the short term needs in our community, the crisis that is unsheltered homelessness, as well as the long term strategy to build a community, comprehensive regional plan for our region. So United State Homelessness represents the joint initiative between our two organizations, United Way of Casclay and the FM Coalition to End Homelessness. And one of the most important things that we often start with is, naming and framing homelessness in and of itself. This is,
not simply what you might imagine as, an individual, perhaps an older adult male on the street corner living outside, but is a much more comprehensive, experience of homelessness, and that includes folks who are living in emergency shelter. It also includes folks who are unsheltered, living outside or in some other unsafe or uninhabitable inhabitable, excuse me, environment that's not meant for human habitation. And it also includes those who are forced to stay on a temporary basis with family or friends,
and this is what we refer to as doubled up. So when we think of that comprehensive definition of homelessness, this helps us understand how we address community needs in a more comprehensive way. With that, we know that on any given night in our community, about a 50 individuals are experiencing homelessness right now. Of that, our metro schools share that there are about 600 students experiencing homelessness, and we know that homelessness is on the rise across the nation. There's been about an 18% increase in homelessness nationally,
and our community is not immune to that. We've seen about a 5% increase in this community alone. With that, I'd love to, hand it over to Chandler Esslinger to share more about our organizations and coordinated response that helps support folks all across our region. Thank you. So as Taylor mentioned, on any given night in our metro area, about 1,050 individuals are experiencing homelessness. But that does not necessarily represent all of the folks who are entering and exiting homelessness throughout the year. That actually is a number that's almost triple or quadruple the number of people who
are experiencing homelessness on any given night. And there is a network of service providers that serve people who are both at risk of homelessness, people who are currently experiencing crisis, and then also folks who are exiting homelessness, and looking to, continue on in a more permanent housing situation. And so we have a number of different providers who are supporting people on that entire continuum of housing and homelessness and on the screen right now is a wheel that represents all of the different factors, all the different sections of our system that are required in order to have a
healthy homelessness response system. We're actually very fortunate in our community to have agencies that make up all five of the different wheels on this slide here. Many other communities actually don't have this kind of well rounded system, that responds to homelessness, but the challenge we have now is that some parts of our system are overburdened, they are overly responsible for, taking on the health homelessness crisis and there are other parts of the system that are under resourced that really need to be scaled up in order to see people move through the system as we hope making homelessness rare,
brief, and one time and seeing that overall systematic reduction in homelessness and sustained reduction over time as well. So, first we have what we call outreach and coordinated entry. This is how people enter into the homeless response system we think of it as the front door. There are some agencies that will be listed on each of these slides. This is meant to give you an idea of agencies who do this work. It's not necessarily completely comprehensive. There are many agencies supporting and partnering in this work. So, outreach and coordinated entry is how agencies are going out into the community and identifying
people who are at risk of or currently experiencing homelessness and then helping them navigate the resources they need. And actually, this is something our community is really good at. Oftentimes, we know people who are experiencing homelessness who are doubled up, sometimes even by name, but it is also part of our system that is overwhelmed. We have more people who are in need of services than we have availability of resources. And so, even though we're able to identify many of the folks who are in need or in crisis, we need to make sure that we have adequate resources to support them as well. The next kind of, slide or section of this system is emergency shelter,
and it is most commonly what people think about when we think of homelessness and the response to it. Emergency shelter is a critical intervention, that keeps people alive while they are experiencing homelessness and we have incredible shelters in our community that serve distinct populations and have unique programming depending on the needs of those they're serving. Some of our shelters serve families and youth, some of them only serve adults, and some of them only serve folks or primarily serve folks who are experiencing a
mental health crisis or a substance use disorder And so, it is this network of emergency shelter providers, that is really an incredible support system. However, we also know that this is a part of our system that is overwhelmed. On any given night, we have about three thirty shelter beds available throughout the community and there are more people, in need of shelter than who are able to access it. And so, when our system is overwhelmed, when there are more people needing services than we have available, shelter could become a bottleneck. Although it is a crucial intervention, we want to see people leaving shelter and moving into permanent housing.
And when that isn't scaled up appropriately and people can't move out of homelessness into that more permanent situation, people can end up living in shelters for weeks, months, years, and then ultimately sometimes, exiting shelter to the streets because they're not finding that permanent housing. So again, this is another example of our system that's currently overwhelmed. So some of the best, interventions we have for moving people out of shelter, moving people out of the crisis of homelessness, and into a more stable one is agencies that provide supportive housing or work to rapidly rehouse individuals experiencing homelessness.
And so this is a really crucial intervention in moving people down that pathway towards stability and oftentimes, folks have to, work to receive a voucher assistance in order to find a place to live they need to be matched with a case manager to help, minimize some of the barriers to attaining housing on their own. So this is kind of the the pathway that we see moving forward to address this crisis but this is one of the parts of our system that isn't scaled up to meet the need. People in our community who are actively searching for housing just don't have the ability
to, manage all of the complexity of that on their own, and if they were able to be matched with an apartment with some supportive services, that really is the key to success in moving people out of the homeless crisis. So these last two slides really go together, supportive housing, rapid rehousing, and then affordable housing and stabilization. They kind of make up a a similar sector. And so the agencies on the screen are those who are developing, maintaining, doing property management for a variety of different affordable housing units in our community. And again, affordable housing is a really crucial intervention to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
We need to ensure that the folks in our community can afford, a place to live and we know we do have a shortage of affordable housing. So again this is kind of another, sector section of our homeless response system that isn't quite scaled to meet the need. And then, last but not least we have prevention and diversion. So prevention and diversion, is another really incredible intervention that we do have in our community. A number of agencies work to identify people who are maybe falling behind on rent, maybe in the process of being evicted, and intervene early so they don't lose their housing.
We know it's easiest to keep people in the housing they're already in versus trying to have them go into shelter and then maybe get an apartment a few weeks or months later. And so when we can keep people in their homes, that keeps, families stable, that keeps students in school, and it really is a way for us to just divert a lot of unnecessary cost and keep people supported in the environment they're in. And then similarly, diversion is kind of that same concept. People are at risk of losing their housing. How can we divert them away from that shelter experience and having to lose their housing altogether? What are some ways we can maybe connect with friends or family to ensure they're
not having to turn to the street and can maybe stabilize and then eventually find another place to live? One of the incredible things about prevention and diversion too, many of the agencies on the screen are actually supported partners of the United Way, and we know that for every $1 spent on prevention and diversion, it saves our communities $5 in costly emergency services, and other interventions, so we we can bypass that altogether. That really is ideal. So, again, this wheel really does represent all of the pieces required for a healthy homeless response
system, and they all need to be scaled up to the right level. So if you'll move forward to the next screen. So this is really kind of the current state of our homeless response system. As you can see, each of them maybe seems a little linear but they really all do work together and all must be present and well resourced in order to be able to effectively prevent and end homelessness and see people moving through that system, in a way that allows homelessness to be rare brief in one time. The two parts of our system that are most overwhelmed are our outreach and coordinated entry, that front door and that emergency shelter.
And it really overtakes the scaling up of those three other parts of the system in order to ensure that we are preventing homelessness whenever possible and moving people out of shelter, out of crisis situations into permanent housing, as quickly as we can. And so in a desired state, I'd be able to just snap my fingers to the next slide, and it would look like this. We'd be able to scale everything we need, to ensure that our system is being is is healthy and is working for everybody. And this is the work of United to End Homelessness right now. We're so grateful to be able to point to all the partners who are doing
this amazing work in our community. They just need to be able to do more of it. And so what we're, working on right now, which I'll turn over to Taylor, is, some of the short term interventions required to ensure we don't see a drastic increase in unsheltered homelessness, and also that long term planning that we will be doing through the Cas Clay Interagency Council on Homelessness to ensure that ecosystem maintains health, and all of those services are well supported. And ultimately, maybe we need less of them if we're able to prevent homelessness, a little bit more effectively.
Taylor? Yeah, you can go to the next slide. Wonderful. So, Chandler mentioned some of these short term activities that United Ten Homelessness and our partners are engaged in. Really, what we're referring to there is over the next two weeks or in the in two weeks rather, some of the temporary programming that is stood up during the winter will be ending. And we know that when that temporary programming ends, there will be somewhere between fifty five and sixty five additional individuals who will be entering unsheltered homelessness.
So it is absolutely critical that while our system is already overwhelmed and overburdened, it cannot accept an additional 55 to 65 individuals. Those folks will be on the streets and in unsafe situations as a result of this temporary programming ending. We also know that in order to support those folks very quickly, we have to increase capacity in our system. And so one of the ways that we've been working to increase capacity is by working with a small group of 15 organize or 14 organizations and 15 individuals,
steering committee members who are subject matter experts. They represent many of the agencies you've seen on the previous slides To help us understand, first, what types of, human capital resources are we going to need? What type of staffing are we going to need to support these individuals? Next, what are the specific needs through a a individualized needs assessment process? What are the needs and barriers to obtaining and maintaining housing of these specific individuals? And then the third thing that we've identified is,
and are working to build is a set of quickly activated housing solutions. How do we avoid the street? How do we not overburden our system that could not accept additional individuals, but instead quickly move folks into a supported environment that is gonna allow them to, obtain housing very quickly? So this is what our our initiative has been focused on right now, and it's been critical for us to move quickly and to to make sure that, we're doing that in a very coordinated way,
not simply adding more shelter beds to our community because we know that shelter is not a final destination. That is is going to continue to exacerbate our community challenges, but instead move folks into, permanent supportive housing. We also have heard over as I'm sure many of you have as well, a desire from our regional community for coordination and strategy and leadership. And much like many of the other community challenges that we face in this region,
one jurisdiction, one organization, one individual cannot solve these community wide challenges alone. We all crisscross this river. It is not a a big old wall. It is a a fluid boundary that is very important for us to work together across. And we know that folks, simply do not live, and work just in the metro, but that this also, affects our broader regional community as well. And so there has been a desire from, the community, from civic leaders, from business leaders, and the homelessness response system for a coordinated response to end homelessness
so that we can see, our long term vision as a sustained and systematic reduction in homelessness over time. As part of that, you can go to the next slide, I mentioned those 15 experts who are collaborating on this steering committee. We've also identified a planning structure that will allow us to move towards that long term strategy most effectively by using our community resources, in a in a meaningful but effective way. Pairing those two things together will allow us to address both the short term,
needs of our community and the long term needs of our community. You may have heard, in, the the newspaper, that we are also raising financial resources to support this work. And those financial resources are in support of those short term activities, the staffing and the housing solutions that are going to support those 55 to 65 individuals right now, building capacity in the homelessness response system. Go to the next slide, I think. The, interagency council. Yeah. We should have had one more. Yeah. Nope. Nope. Okay. We'll go back to this,
the one with the 45 on it. Thank you. Sorry about that, Peyton. Thank you. So as that planning structure that is so critical to other community wide needs, we think about transit and dispatch and flood diversion. This has to happen in a coordinated space where we bring together some of the critical agencies, in, city and county government that are involved in this work as well as some of those coordinating and collaborating sectors who are also critical responders, to the the crisis of homelessness
while doing this in a way that is informed with the subject matter expertise of the nonprofit service providers who are doing this work every single day. We are leveraging the best practices of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness and taking the novel approach of our cross border environment that we all call home and are, launching. We launched on Friday the Cas Clay Interagency Council on Homelessness. It is the first council across state lines, but this structure exists in many other settings.
The state of Minnesota has a a count interagency council on homelessness, and many other communities work to pair city and county government or county and state governments to do this really effectively and have that shared, mutually reinforcing strategy. This planning infrastructure will allow us to create that comprehensive regional plan to end homelessness. So through the Cass Clay Interagency Council on Homelessness, you know, the overall goal is to ensure that we are representing all of the different sectors,
all of the different parts of government, who have a role to play to ensure that their voice is heard, and that we are maximizing our community's resources to ensure that we are seeing that sustained and systematic decrease in homelessness over time. Again, like Taylor said, this is a novel approach. No other community in the nation is pairing five city jurisdictions, two counties, and two states in order to address homelessness in this way. It's a unique burden we have as a cross border community, but it also is a really exciting time to see the level of support that we've had from both the homelessness response system elected leaders and other sector leaders like
health care, our our jail system, our police and sheriff departments, all of those individuals who need to come together and have a role to play. So we're really excited to share more information about the launch of that when the first meeting will be and how each, representative agency can determine who best to to sit on this council, so that information will be coming soon. Really, overall, our vision is to to create a community where everybody's basic needs are met and people are able to thrive. It is a mirror of a shared the shared missions of the United Way and
the coalition, and it really is this shared partnership that we have, this leadership that we will, bring as backbone agencies of this work to ensure that we have absolutely the right people at the table. Again, that our community's resources are being leveraged in an appropriate and effective way, that every dollar is being paired with a meaningful solution for an individual or household facing homelessness in our community and that is the way we will see that systematic and sustained reduction over time. So, that really concludes our presentation. We took up maybe a little more time than we intended,
but it is a lot of information to get through. We really wanted everybody to know just how deep this collaboration goes, and what we have planned for the future. So we would stand for any questions. Thank you very much. Are there any questions from counsel? Mister Steichen. I've heard, your report on this before at the the The Intercontinental Retreat? Yeah. Exactly. I was there, and I just can't remember your name. I imagine federal funding is always an issue, but even more so now. So I guess we don't need to even talk about that because we kinda all know where that kinda stands.
But you mentioned the best practices, the federal government interagency council. I kinda probably got it somewhat right. What I know you said you're unique and that you got five communities to say is that unique to the to the country or unique to how you're gonna approach it or and how does the federal government best practices, tie in with what you'd like to see done? Yeah. Absolutely. So, yes. It is you it is completely unique to our region to have an interagency council working in this manner with five separate jurisdictions,
five separate cities, two counties, and two states coming together. There truly is no community in the nation that is doing this work in this way modeled after the The US Interagency Council On Homelessness. So that is completely unique to our region. There are plenty of other types of collaborations that are occurring across city and county lines and those types of things but not kind of at the scale that's required here, even though we are kind of a smaller community when we think about the communities who are trying to solve homelessness. And then the second part of your question, what are some of the best practices from the United States Interagency Council?
Those really are the same kind of pieces of our system that need to be scaled up. Communities need to support prevention and diversion activities. The more we can prevent people from falling into homelessness, that kind of turns off that faucet of people who are falling into crisis. And then it's really, expensive and complex to solve someone's homelessness crisis. And so on the other end, what we know we also need to do is ensure that we're better scaling up those supportive housing environments, the case managers who can move people directly out of a homeless camp or a
shelter bed into a permanent environment. So scaling that up, minimizing the barriers that folks have to, getting an apartment, from a private rental unit, a private landlord in the community, whether that is through, the landlord mitigation fund, something that we can ensure landlords are receiving the support they need in order to, maintain their buildings and also individuals are getting the support they need in order to maintain permanent residents. And so those really are the best practices we're talking about and they mirror directly onto the needs of our community.
So those are some examples, but I certainly have plenty more that I could share. I learned a while back that if you're homeless, doesn't necessarily mean you're without a job. Mhmm. I mean, some of them just probably have a job for some of their necessities, but not for whatever. My that's why probably they're doubling up and but how do you appreciate everything that the the Cass County Public Health Building is used for warming and I think Dolores even used the community center a few years back for warming. So appreciate that. How do you you said nationwide,
it's 18% on the rise. Why is the area here only 5%? What what is what makes that, in a better better position than nationally? Yeah. There are truly a ton of different factors that we could point to. One of them is simply our size. You know, we just don't have the same rate of people falling into homelessness in our community. One thing, in our area as well is the rate of homelessness is really tied to the affordability of housing, and we know that we have a shortage of that. But it is certainly not a shortage at the scale that many other communities are
seeing. And so when we don't when we have that mismatch of the types of housing people need and can afford and that not really existing in their community, that's when we start to see rates of homelessness really rise. And so we really we know because of information we have from other communities that are struggling with this, when you have the housing available to meet the demand, you will be able to, see that reduction in homelessness. But it's also about leveraging and utilizing the housing that already exists. So there's lots of solutions, that we can we can implement without necessarily having to build a ton of housing,
although certainly, that is part of the solution long term as well. I know the mayors and vice mayor Nash was at one of your meetings, from a paper. What would you like to see communities like Dilworth move on? I mean, we got some areas we're gonna develop. Do you work with, developers? Because it's basically has to be market driven to make it workable for them. What what would you like to see in a community like ours? That's such a great question. And, you know, I really appreciate just, Dilworth, being interested and wanting a seat at the table in this conversation. I think historically, it's been hard to bring all of the jurisdictions together to see that the
community. And so I just really wanna thank Dilworth for engaging in this conversation. I think the number one thing that we know we need is participation. We need attention to this issue, because people are falling into homelessness throughout Cass and Clay Counties. Because we are the places where services are, it is likely that folks will be coming here in order to receive the services they need. So if we wanna stabilize people in commute in the communities they're living in, we need to ensure we have representation, from from those places, and we see Dilworth as a crucial part of that.
I think we wanna support and help, maybe advise on any of the development strategies as we can to ensure that, we're supporting the work of increased housing needs in the community, that it's being responsive to some of the needs of people experiencing homelessness. And however we can ensure that that is happening, getting the needs of Dilworth residents met, the needs of the council as well as what our region needs in terms of, supportive housing resources, I think that's what we wanna support. And then just listening very deeply to what you all think, the needs of your community are in order to prevent homelessness in Dilworth.
Thank you. Thank you, mister Steichen. Any other questions? Well, I'm gonna first, start by saying congratulations on really starting, the initiative. I mean, it's fantastic bringing all the people together to have the necessary conversation because, it is our community's population. They are our neighbors. They are our friends. And in some capacity, I'm sure we all sitting here know someone who's been in that circle, either homelessness that homeless themselves or in jeopardy of potentially losing their home. So there's there's opportunities across the board.
And and we have spent a lot of time recently talking about how we're gonna develop and how we're going to develop in terms of residential, housing units and how that looks like. And we hear the term affordable housing, like Mr. Steichen alluded to. I mean, a lot of it is market driven. And when you use that term and you presented your slides, is that what you're referring to, is market driven housing but something other than single family homes? Because, again, I want to make sure, like, when we're looking at this and we're planning into the future, affordable housing has a couple of different connotations, a couple of different terms. And if we're looking at comprehensive,
evaluation of how we're gonna drive the development of our community, I think it's important that we look at all of the aspects. Yeah. I think that's a that's a great question. And so, I don't wanna over complicate this, but affordability is also kind of a spectrum. Right? So there's a housing that is developed where an individual, a household pays 30% of their total income towards that housing. 30% is really what we consider to be what's affordable to someone based on their monthly income. Now that being said there's a diversity of housing types that we need. Some of those are, multifamily,
housing units you know, that missing middle that I know we talked a lot about in the, regional housing study from Metro COG. And so, yes, those can be private the market rate private rentals where somebody who has a housing voucher can then initiate a relationship with a landlord and find a place to live. That is a actually, one of the main ways we support people right now. It's not through large public housing units. It is through these individual vouchers that households receive where they go out and find a private landlord on their own and then move into that apartment.
And that is part of actually what's really challenging in moving people out of homelessness is finding a place to live, navigating through the background check, navigating through getting all your furniture, navigating through all of the different things people need in order to actually make a house a home. And so that is certainly an intervention, but it is a diversity of housing types that is required to meet the demand, in in this community and throughout the metro. Julie. And I'll just add to that because I'm glad you brought up the housing study because that was the one thing as I look through your list, you know, is Metro COG's housing study and and kind of,
connecting with them, but we also learned that the business and industry association Well done. Thank you. Has a real interest also. And so I would say, like, I know that's way, you know, future thinking maybe, but if they're not at the table, we can't get to that point. Right? So just a couple other ideas when you're thinking of putting things together. And I think that's what we hope the Cass Clay Interagency Council on Homelessness to assist in driving forward is some strategy around that conversation,
about what housing types are needed and why. And so this is one piece of that conversation. We need lots of different types of housing throughout the metro area, but we hope that we can help steward some of that conversation and really connect it to how do we, how do we develop in a way that also helps us end homelessness because they're not competing. Those are those are collaborative strategies. Any other questions? Well, again, Taylor and Chandler, thank you for coming out this evening. Congratulations, and I do look forward to seeing where this takes us, having the conversation. Thank you. We're happy to come back anytime you would like an update,
so thank you. Awesome. Thank you very much. So with that, that takes us from six a and moves us into seven, planning and engineering. Seven a is the final plat for Red River Valley Cooperative Power Association for approximately 20 acre subdivision, located up by, Corner 30 Fourth Street and County Road 18. Peyton? Yes. Thank you, mister mayor. So on April, a public hearing was held at the planning commission meeting for the final plat of Red River Valley, Coop as well as Resco, I guess we can safely say now,
who are looking to collocate there at that corner of County Road 18 And 30 Fourth Street. To give you an idea of where we are talking, little challenging to see, but this is Far North 30 Fourth Street, County Road 18. About 20 acres is being developed up there, 20 or 15 of the acres for Resco, five for, the coop. The property is currently in Oakport Township, but within the Tier 2 urban expansion district, which allows for commercial development.
And here's the plat, if you would. Yeah. Again, just a better aerial shot of the area that we're talking about. I know this area has been discussed in pre at previous meetings, somewhat in passing, serious conversation as well about this potentially being utilized for a light industrial corridor at some point in the future. From a staff perspective and I think from the planning commission perspective as well, we feel like this is a great use of the property to get this started even though it is within, the county limits.
It's not within the city limits. It is within our annexation territory. So at some point in the future, it would be located within the city limits. The plat itself, again, was reviewed last week or a couple weeks ago by the planning commission. There was no one in opposition. This property owner up here did reach out to me stating their support of the plat and the potential development there by the two entities. The final Plat does have on it a 20 foot utility easement going around the
perimeter of it. Again, a little challenging to see. That's to accommodate for any future utilities that are extended up there on the water and sewer side that we would get there at some point in the future. We'd also have a development agreement that we would enter into when annexation does occur that they won't, you know, fight any type of utility extensions and bearing those costs. And that the we also wanna make sure that the roadway accesses are designed in place to allow for adequate distances. And I believe all these things are part of your suggested motion there and that
it meets all city and county platting city and county platting requirements. And, yeah, this is just a recap of it all. The mayor was at the meeting as well, the public hearing, so I don't believe that pretty well captures it all. The property owner or the applicants are here this evening to answer any questions. There's still maybe some minor tweaks that are going to have to be done to the final plat, so that's why we have the in the suggested motion to make sure it's meeting all city and county platting requirements.
Thank you, Peyton. Can you go back one side, please? Yeah. And in I think, you know, from the planning perspective, it does mirror what's happening on the West Side. So it it creates that light industrial corridor. It mirror it mirrors what's happening to our neighbors in Moorhead, and it's a nice fit. It passed unanimously. Great questions, great conversation, really addressing, like you said, the utilities and the transportation, and then what it will be ultimately with our ordinances once annexation happens, brought into town at that point. But again, 100% unanimous approval, great conversation and vetting through all the the specifics.
Questions from counsel? Mister Steichen? I know at the county, we talked about this. You know, they got these two plots identified here. But the county had to change it from agricultural to, light highway highway commercial. Correct. And that was it 80 acres across the top? That goes all the way from 30 Fourth Street to, what what's the one that County Road. County Road 9. Yep. So there's potential for much more development there without any changes in any, zoning. County Road 9. So all the way to the east?
Yep. From there. Just across twice across the top. Peyton, just, like Just highlight it. Yes. Alright. From there County Road 9 here. No. No. This is not. Or this is current. I'm just trying to sell one. North, South roads. Not one, whatever. It's just that John. Yeah. Yeah. 600 acres. All right. Any other questions? I was like, yeah, because I was like, no, yeah. No. All right. Well, here no, any other questions? Just again No. Hearing no questions, I will entertain a motion for seven. Motion to approve. I have a motion by Nash. Second. Second by Peterson. All those in favor, say aye.
Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does bring us to seven b. We have the preliminary plat, Eastview Tenth Edition, a replat of Lot 3, Block 1 of Eastview Ninth Edition 9 Hundred Center Center Avenue East. Peyton. Thank you, mister mayor. At that same public hearing or at the same, planning commission meeting, there's another public hearing that night for East View Tenth Edition, which is replatting a current parcel there into four different divisions, we'll say. So I think better look at the aerial first,
what we're talking about here, Where the Starlight Pet Motel or former Starlight Hotel was located, it's in reference to this particular piece of property and dividing it into four equal or not equal sized tracks, but four different tracks. And the pet motel is in this general vicinity. As part of this plat, there is a an access easement, and it would be a share in there's an actual agreement that has to be signed off by by each individual property owner because who knows who's gonna own these
into the future. So we wanna make sure it's all cleared up on that end. This plat is not meeting our city subdivision requirements, which is why it had to come before the planning commission for a public hearing. The main reason being there's no road frontage here, hence why the importance of having this access agreement in place. The actual size of the entrance oh, I'm sorry. I'm looking something on my screen. Give me one second. The shared access easement is for utilities as well, and that's 40 foot in width.
The road width itself is 24 feet, and this is gonna be in compliance with the future Highway 10 reconstruction project. Their design standards only allow for a 32 foot entrance, so that will certainly accommodate whatever however the roadway ends up being designed into the future. Like the other plat, it was unanimously approved. There was some discussion at the planning commission meeting about the concern of access of individuals maybe coming off of Highway 10 and going back to the storage units.
However, the planning commission felt comfortable with the property with the developer's intention of putting a dumpster area and really making it clear that it's not gonna be a through street when we want to ensure like that. We wanna ensure that, you know, Gap is closed there. Yes, mister Smith. Are you Dante? How are you doing? You're good. Go on. Well, the reason I was saying is because I brought up that concern. That was that was me and, like, overthinking things, maybe a little hyperparanoid or whatever. But, the the the plan is fantastic, and it creates a the road doesn't go all the way to the north end.
There's a significant break between the properties and the pavement in the, faster the pavement in the storage area. Again, when when I was looking at it, that was one of my concerns, but I I don't have that anymore. It was very well laid out to me and through the through the images, you can I got a I got a better visual, once it was set in front of me saying, here's where it stops? The access easement was addressed and and vent you know, so everyone will have access and and utilities. So it's a fantastic use of that, that area that's gonna potentially bring in,
more opportunities in the city of Dilworth. So that was my that was me. Like, I don't want people driving from Highway 10 to go to their storage units or vice versa, but there's there's a significant break in between the two in a dumpster. And, yeah, like, it's not a factor for me anymore. And the last thing I was gonna make note of, on this Northwest lot, we'll call it, there's the intent to begin construction on it, this construction season for the next phase. Awesome. Any questions for Peyton? Well, hearing no questions, I will entertain a motion for seven b.
Motion to approve. I have a motion by Nash. Steichen, second. And a Steichen second by Steichen. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does bring us to seven c, the public hearing on resolution twenty five twenty one, awarding a five year multifamily tax abatement for the planned unit development at 221 Twelfth Street Northeast. With that being said, it is, I'm going to say, 06:45. We will call the meeting to order and begin with staff presentation. Don? Mayor and council, developer of the Rail ten Apartments is applying for a property tax abatement,
on the Dilworth multifamily tax bidding program for the next phase of their of their project. The building will be located at 221 Twelfth Street Northeast. The building is anticipated to mirror the the first building, the first phase of 72 units. Same mix of units in that one. There'll be one efficiency, thirty one one bedrooms, thirty six two bedroom, and four three bedroom units. The project will assist in the need in our community for affordable transition and workforce housing. The developer's project is in line with what was originally proposed back in 2020.
As a part of their request for tax abatements, the developer is proposing to provide project amenities that would qualify them for an additional 5%, of tax abatement in years three through five, and those would be an on-site playground and basketball court. If approved, the developer would need to enter into a tax payment agreement with the city and, obviously, the first phase received approval prior approval by the council. Okay. Thank you, Don. With that, that ends our and do you have anything to add in terms of
staff presentation? Yeah. The only thing I was gonna make mention of the developers, and he and mister Paul can speak to it. They are looking to get started with construction here pretty soon. And, yes, we're really proud of the progress that's been made with the first phase. And so we look forward to what's to come. Okay. Thank you, Peyton. So with that, we'll move on to is there anyone here to speak in favor of the application for the tax abatement? No. I'm just any questions you guys might have. K. So second call in in to speak in favor? Hearing none, then we'll go. Are there anyone to speak against?
Second call, against? Hearing no one here or online to speak on behalf of or in favor or in opposition to this, we will call the public meeting closed at 06:47. And we'll begin with staff discussion, staff questions or council questions. Questions from council. I guess I got an easy one. Like, there's only four three bedrooms. Is that the same with the other one? Like, that that number to me was like when he when he gave me the breakdown, like, that's the easy question. Is that what and I don't remember Typically, the corner units,
it's just the way that they stack them and design them that way, I guess. They don't rent. Just efficiencies. That makes sense? Again, I didn't realize that. And we typically like, I mean, the smaller units are in more demand. Let's say the two bedroom units are the most demand. So that's what we try to fit them on what's there and fit the market. Mr. Steichen? Peyton, can you go back to the aerial picture of that property? So where the X is, where it's going, obviously. Is it going to be, you said, a mirror image of what's our for the most part,
everything that's the root of ONCELL one is? Yes. There's a lot of the discussion went into how that was all laid out prior to the project starting. No. Ed, we're still And everything is working fine and also embedded in the planning, obviously. So Yep. No. Every everything, knock on wood, went well, and hopefully, it won't go again the same way. So is there going to be an East West way for traffic to fly through there? I believe so, yes. Good. Thank you. I don't have the plans with me, but yes, I believe that there is. I guess, my my question is,
like, if you look at the access there, it's in that northeast corner, and they have to take the turn, but then they'd have to proceed all the way. And I'm going to assume that the the access is gonna be similar Like an s curve, so they're not just gonna be able to take a hard left. And and, right, there's there's a couple of turns that are gonna mitigate speed. Correct. I believe that's the plan. K. Yeah. Because then I was, yeah, I was like, oh, wait a second. Julie? Well, I was just gonna ask just because it's part of the additional 5% or whatever
just so I know, like, where are you envisioning the park area? I believe it's right there. That little square? Yep. Okay. Or below the square? Yeah. Below the square. Yeah. Because that's That's a city thing. That's what I thought. Yeah. That's a lift station right there. Right? Mhmm. Okay. So it would be near the lift station. Yeah. Okay. K. Thank you. Peyton? Mister Paul, can you speak to the occupancy of the other building or the success, how it unfolded once it opened up? Yeah. I mean, it was, it was it was a great success. I would say our, our tenant mix there is pretty evenly divided.
I would say maybe a little bit more. I would say it's maybe 40% retired people, Middle families and then young single professionals is probably the the the balance of it. But I would I would say that there's there's a better mix of older people in their retired age type people than than anything, which was a bigger which was kind of a surprise. We thought it would be more the younger family type things. But we'll see what happens on the next one. But we've had pretty much a waiting list since we started. Mister Steffen? Was there any opposition at the planning at the,
planning oh, no. No. I'm just lost for words tonight. You're good. Public hearing. Because last time, there was some stipulations the residents had behind there that is that is that a nonissue now? Well, this did not go before planning commission. It did when it got its previous approval, but the both units were approved as part of that, or not units, but both buildings were approved as part of that PUD process in 2020. And everything's everybody's happy back there now? I can't speak for that. We do not receive complaints or
and we do not receive any we very minimal complaints, I would say, from Good enough. Yeah. We didn't receive any complaints. And everything from the first agreement with the screening and the the planting of grass and trees and all that holds true, right, to that satisfied many of the, concerns, right, for the neighborhood, and we'll continue to follow that through the second phase. That's I'm operating under that assumption that what happened in the East will happen in the West and will maintain that level of expectations and professionalism. And I hope it fills up just as fast.
It's interesting, little nuances to these projects make all the differences. So when we included, I'm saying we, they did the sidewalk all the way across to 12. They just created another pedestrian network to go all the way around. I know I utilize it all the time coming down, but I always see people traversing across It just brings about more connectivity, and we feel the same about this next addition. We'll hopefully add more connectivity. Any other questions? With that, we'll end our questions from counsel, and we'll call the question.
I will entertain a motion on seven, C, the awarding of a five year multifamily tax abatement. So moved. A motion by Peterson. Steichen, second. And second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. Thank you. Looking forward to watching it go up here. I did find that amazing. We'll have them on the way. I like it. Thank you. See you, guys. Alright. So with that, it does move us to seven d, consideration with the memorandum of understanding with Farmers Union Oil Company for the temporary construction
easement for the 30 Fourth Street reconstruction project. Peyton? Thank you, mister mayor. This is the second temporary construction easement that was needed to get the 30 Fourth Street project up and going on our end by obtaining this easement from Farmers Union that allows us to get all of our documentation submitted to the state via the for the federal transportation dollars that we'll be utilizing, and that agreement's here before you. I think the total amount's $3,600
on that. The staff report, filled up. That's what was anticipated from the get go when we brought the original SRF contract to you. They agreed to it, signed off on it. We're good to go. And hopefully, this will be bid out here soon. Just waiting for concurrence from the DOT folks, and this will get bid out. Looking forward to the project. Perfect. Questions for Peyton? One step closer. Hearing no questions, I will entertain a motion. Motion to approve. Motion by Nash. Second. Second by Peterson. All those in favor,
say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. That moves us to number eight, fire department eight alpha. Consideration for pay request 15, fire Hall reconstruction project. Here we go. I can Good evening. Home stretch. Home stretch? Yep. Past the home stretch. Yeah. Things are looking on the up and up. The total due every month is getting a little bit less, so that means we're getting closer and closer to being done. So I'm not gonna check your math, but I think the total due keeps on getting more and more and more because these little numbers are adding to the whole. Right? Well, I guess It was well,
I'll give you a brief update on what we've been, working on last month. All inspections were completed last week. So we, and then we received the certificate of occupancy last Wednesday. And owner is moving in as we speak, working on some owner hookups of some of their equipment. That'll that's also taking place this week. So that's what's going on in the building. I think everybody's happy. It looks beautiful. Super happy with everything that's been been happening there. The on the old building, we're gonna start, decommissioning that building this week,
and that just means we're just kind of getting the power taken off, getting the water taken off so that, Scott and his crew can start, tearing up some holes in the building and, doing some practice, demo work, and training for their for their guys. So, our anticipation is, demo of that building starting May 5, Cinco de Mayo. And then that's where we're at with that. Some owner training taking place, the week of the twenty eighth for the new building. And oh, that's the owner demo. Sorry. Week of the twenty eighth. And, we have one to two weeks of demo, and then we'll start working on the parking lot.
Any questions? Well, we do have pay request number 15. I will entertain a motion for pay request number 15. They are getting fewer and fewer and We'll be here a few more times, but, luckily, it's just for the parking lot. Motion to approve. Motion by Nash. Second by Steichen. And a second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And that brings us to eight bravo. Consideration for the change orders for the fire hall reconstruction project. What do we got working now? Alright. Well, I'll just, just, start at the top of the list here and work my way through.
If there's any questions, just let me know. First of all is the siren relocation. This change has been taking place over quite some time. When the toward the end of the design, when we put it out for bid, the the discussion was we weren't sure if the siren needed to have a study or something like that. So we just took the siren down, and we're gonna turn it over to the owner. It was decided there was a location on the premises that would work for the the siren, so we obtained bids and some numbers for installing the the pole and the and the,
reinstallation of the siren itself. And that, basic I don't have that number on here. It's up here. It's up here. Oh, it is. Okay. About the total. Yep. The total. So that's that's the total for that work. Yep. The next one was we were asked to get some numbers pulled together for a privacy fence around the patio area, which is on the west side of the building. And, so that's what the next one is for. The next one is a hoist, the the hose hoist. Again, that was one that we weren't sure if the owner or the contractors were gonna
provide that piece of equipment. So it was determined that they wanted us to get that. We just figured out did all the calculations on how much hose, how much weight, things like that, and we the design team put together a, a proposal for putting in the hoist. Go ahead. You first. I was gonna go back to the one before that. So Okay. My my question is, is this the one that you're gonna pull up the hose to dry them? That Yep. That's so slick. Great idea. Yep. Alright. So you got all the hooks on the side where they come to that shaft? Okay. Yep. That makes that was pretty I was like, that was pretty cool to to think of that.
Like, I just thought that was fantastic. Julia, I'm sorry. No. I'm just gonna go back to the other one about the privacy fence. Yep. And so, like, I was reading in the thing. It said, like, you know, we had to have a lock or what. I was trying to understand what was going on. You have a lock and being able to get in quickly. I noticed there was The, they wanted it enclosed and and lockable so that people couldn't come to the facility and do things on the patio behind a fence. But the doors that come out of the building are fire doors, so you have to have a way to egress through the fence. So you have to have some special door hardware to do that.
Oh, so it'd be like one of the the push door on Right. Oh, makes perfect sense. Got it. What was the and then in the lobby ceiling was there was a minor change to some ceiling work that had to be done. It was if you look at the ceiling plan, it looks like the the light is a pendant type of a light, except it's a a recessed light. So they had to redo the ceiling a little bit, and there's a little bit of extra labor to do that. And then lastly, out in front of the building, there's a column where we moved some of the it was just a better location to put the card reader and the handicap push button access,
without having the door open into those people, and it just kinda closed, made a nicer look to the front of the building without having just a small column. So, the change orders, that I've talked about here equal a total of $63,006.54 30. And then Peyton asked me just to kind of run through, basically, where we're at with our change orders to date and what we have left in contingency. And today, if we add both the design and construction contingencies, we this is not taking that out of this yet. So we're at
287,000 and some change. So we'd still have right around $220,000 left in contingencies that, you know, if something comes up in parking lots that we may need to do, we also still have that little bit of buffer in the, buffer in the, excavation number for the redo of the parking lot if we need to do that. And once we get the building out and see what's below the building, see what's below some of those other areas, we'll determine if we need to use any of that. Yeah. I don't know. Just I'm sorry. I just when you start thinking about let's let's dig a hole and see what comes up, that ought to be fun. Well, in in they know they have to dig it out to the bottom of the
foundation. Yep. And once we see what's there, obviously, we can do soil bearings there. We got close, but, there's always surprises in the ground that lurk. So Any questions first about the change orders? Hearing no questions about the change orders, I will entertain a motion for, eight Bravo. Motion by Steichen. Second. Second by Nash. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. I I wanna say thank you. I think this is fantastic. Like, we got the tour a couple weeks ago, and that's awesome. Like, seeing it, then I got to understand, like, when you start talking about the the the hose thing or whatever.
Like, I I just remember standing up there and saying, oh, that's absolutely brilliant. So I don't know, you know, who nerded out on that and said, hey. This would be a great idea. But it's fantastic to have that insight to allow us to do the little things upfront that are gonna pay dividends in the long run. So, I know I get I get excited about that kinda that kinda stuff, I guess. But, I look I look forward to it. And, you know, we start talking about 300,000 inside of a $10,000,000 budget. I mean, that's it's worth the price of admission. I mean Yeah. I don't know how to done it. In a whole has gone great. The city working with the city group and also the the,
fire department's been really everybody's been great to work with, and I appreciate it. And, you know, GRPS Construction Services appreciates you guys choosing us for do your project and look forward to more in the future. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Project in a hole or at no wrong hole, but I'm just looking forward to digging up Maybe we'll find some more. I was like, let's see what's underneath this. Maybe we'll find some more artifacts. Yeah. There we go. We'll we'll we'll put them in. Put them in. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. Have a good evening. Thanks, Dan. Thank you, Dan. Thank you. With that, it does bring us to eight Charlie. Consideration change order number one for the purchase of the Freightliner pumper truck.
Now I can't say fire truck because it's different. Right? Yes. See, look at me learning. We'll get you there again. I appreciate that, chief. I appreciate that. This one's all yours, chief. Okay. So we went down to Florida as a group, to go through the options of the truck. And when we did that, we went through 414 of the options that were available, and we were sitting with, design engineer. And so the way the process works is prior to prior to ordering the truck, you sit down with the,
salesperson, and they're they're somewhat of a design engineer. They help you get to the point where, hey. We want this. We want this. We want this. They put the truck together. And then when we purchase it, then the real design engineer comes on board, looks at it and says you can't do that or this doesn't work here or hey, we should do this. And that's what this meeting was down in Florida. We found out things like I got a list here. We found out things like both parties missed, SCBA bracket holders for the back of the truck. We needed to add that.
We didn't have exterior water gauges. We needed to add that because that's very, useful. There was a there was a compressor or, actually, a prime unit, a priming unit for the pump that was discontinued. The designer engineer pointed that out. Well, they discontinued that. We have to go with a different model. It costs more money. So that's what these change orders basically radiate. The other change order other part of the change order that we found out was any striping on the truck is not included in the base price. It's also a change order because you get to choose it,
and and so things like that. The last part of the change order, and it's not the the change order number one, because that's on Pierce's side. The lazy Susan is actually on McQueen's side, the distributor, and that was for our extrication tools. And the reason we need to put that in now and we didn't do it before was we didn't have the extrication tools that we have now at the time that we ordered the truck. And so we just put in a general compartment with some shelving, and that's not the most efficient way to use that compartment or the most efficient
way to use that in a response situation. So what we did was we sat down with their design engineer, and we figured out we asked, you know, what do you normally do? And he says, well, we do a lot lot of different things. He gave us a bunch of options, and we chose the lazy susan. So what it is is a 500 pound tray that holds 500 pounds up to 500 pounds that pulls out, and it's got a a central circular unit that we set our tools in, and we can rotate it around. And what that also gives us in that back part is we can put our struts right next to it.
And that's huge because everything we have for extrication is in that compartment. Okay? So when we respond, it not only creates efficiency, but it also basically, response time is is taken down. We have to search, go to the three, four different departments. We go to the back truck. We do our response. So all in all, we've used every cubic inch of this truck to our advantage, and that's what those change orders represent. And I'll take any questions on that part. Any questions for the chief? If you have any. I got one. Oh, go ahead.
Yeah. Go ahead. More of a comment, I guess. Yes. As fun as it was to go and shoot PD's optics, we also got to try, the extrication tool. So we all know how heavy they are Oh, yep. And why you can't just lift it over the other tool to put it away. Yeah. And and that's what we do now. You know, they're not in any they're just in a compartment. So, yeah, it it's very functional. Number one, we wanted functionality. Number two, we wanted efficiency, and that equals, you know, faster response and better response for us. Any other questions for the chief?
Because I I just got one. Nope. Go ahead, Peyton. Can you update the council on a timeline of how this will unfold from here? Oh, yeah. So, once once the change orders are approved, then we get our spot in line for production. And once that spot is secured, they start moving forward, and we should have the truck hopefully, by November. Okay. So that that's on-site here. Okay? Prior to November, we need to inspect the truck in the I and I remember seeing it,
but I didn't know the wording. But actually in the bid and the purchase agreement, we have fifteen days to to notify, Pierce of any defects or anything, you know, that isn't right with the build. And to since it's built in Florida, we are need to travel back there and do that inspection on-site. So we will be moving four four people to Florida to do that again like we did for the the pre build meeting. Then after that's done and we go over that and we do have experience doing that because I'll tell you a story in a minute.
But, what happens then is they will drive the truck up. Okay? They have some I mean that's in the price. They drive the truck up, they want to put miles on it because they'll have they might have problems, you know, to McQueen in the cities, and then they go through it with a fine tooth comb and put the lazy susan on. So doing it that way, having McQueen do it, instead of the we saved $6,000 We saved half the price. So, you know, there was some, like, haggling there, and and that was and that was totally the salesman. He's like, we should do it this way rather than having having Pierce do it in Florida.
So, you know, that interaction with the design engineer and the having the salesperson there and our group made that work. If you don't do that, you're gonna get a product you don't want, and you paid $720,000 for it. Okay? Now getting back to the inspection part, we actually inspected Newtown, North Dakota's truck because they didn't come down and it was sitting on the floor going out and so we went through it and there are they do have problems. They miss I mean and Tylen Grimley is great at it.
He's got a great eye. He noticed on the top right above right above the tank there was there was four screws that had popped through and you could see them and they missed it because they do the pre inspection and so just little things like that that, you know, they're gonna fix it, but they couldn't fix it if the truck was here. So we have to do it when it when it's down there. That's just the process that Pierce uses. So Any other questions? Chief, you just oh, go ahead, Joel. Yep. I was just so I'm sorry. I was probably thinking and whatever.
But so the second trip to Florida is not covered by them at all? No. Two two people are covered each time. Two will come out of my budget. Okay. Alright. Anything else? Because a few of mine are answered, but I wanna walk through them in my head because you said you're going back down there, which is when you get there, when your team gets there, do you, like, do you run the truck? Like, do you do all the fire We're gonna pump the we're gonna test the pump. So you'll put it through it We'll put it through its phases. Okay. Perfect. We'll do that. But then you don't have to drive it back. They're gonna drive it. Of course. That's perfect.
Like, I I wanna get like, to me, that makes sense. Like, oh, okay. Now it does. Let them drive through Chicago. Yeah. Right. Well In the fire truck. Well, it only goes 65 miles an hour. So it'll take three or four days to come back. Yeah. Take three or four days. And that and that makes perfect sense. And like I said, so, ultimately, that's the test driving. Do the test drive on-site, then they fix it on-site, then they drive it up to Minneapolis. They put the lazy Susan in, and then we get it from there. Those are my questions. So what was the did you get what you want? Absolutely. That's that was my last one. Perfect. And and being able to see the production floor really,
like, solidified, hey. We need to put these switches here, and we need to do this because that's what's part of the part of the placement of those types of things in the cab. They don't have on paper. You you do it there. Right? So Yeah. And and, again, now that at the end of the day, like, when I ask you if you got what you want, because I know that's what we need. That's what your what the crew needs to keep safe so they can do their job and keep our citizens safe. So that's fantastic. Thanks for your leadership on that one, chief. I I do appreciate it. If there aren't any other questions, I will entertain a motion for eight c,
the change order number one, for the, Pierce Freightliner Pumper Truck. Motion to approve. And motion by Nash. Steichen second. And a second by Steichen. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does bring us to number nine. Thank you, chief. Thank you. We have the consideration for the reshingling at the Dorothe Municipal Pool. Peyton, do we need to reshingle the pool? We do From recent wind damage, I don't think the shingles on the pool were doing that great to begin with,
and some recent wind damage put it over the top. And so Mike feels adamant that we need to get this corrected right away. As you can see in your staff report and up on the screen, what the cost of it to repair the roof is. However, Perry and I were recently talking because we still have some TIF dollars that we have to dispose of. We utilize a lot of it to pay for our communications project or communication strategy for the sales tax, promotion, and we are suggesting or offering,
I guess, as a suggestion to utilize that remaining balance because we'd like to get that closed out anyways. Felt like this is a good of use as any benefits to the community as a whole to be applied towards this. I think it's about $8,900 plus or minus something in there. So part of the suggested motion, obviously, approving this quote, but also the utilization of the TIF dollars. In the staff report as well, I also explained that a purchase of this amount doesn't necessarily have to come before
the city council. However, the city council authorized the purchase of the sand filter that was faltering several months ago. It's not gonna be brought into us or finalized until May right before the pool season gets going. So at the end of this program this dollar has to be programmed into a line item, talking about the sand filter dollar, and it'll end up going where this line item is. So it's one thing if the line item at the end of the year is, you know, $2,000 or $3,000 over, things, you know,
kind of fluctuate given on a a year. But when it's $8,090,000 dollars over, we just thought it was a good, you know, form to at least rent to the city council, to be aware of that and to seek authorization. And and remind us that we said it was okay. I believe so. I have to double check the minutes. So that way Yeah. Alright. That that makes sense. And and I do I like the idea of utilizing the funds because it it does save Mike's budget a little bit. It does. And also made mention of in the staff report as well,
Mike, if you've seen over there from this recent wind damage, it the canopy is in disrepair as well, and he is getting a new quote for it. He had gotten a quote to replace it. It was close to this amount, actually. However, if you remember the one over there right now, it's multicolor, and he's gonna I was like, well, I'll need to get one that's one solid color. I don't know if we're tied to having a multicolor and he's saying it's gonna cut the cost in half or so. So we're waiting to get back that quote. So hopefully, we'll be bringing that to the city council next meeting.
Any questions? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion for the reshingling of the Deworth Municipal Pool. Staken. So moved. Motion by Staken. Second. Third. Second by Nash. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. What that does bring us to 10, our police department and 10 alpha is resolution twenty five nineteen, accepting the donation from River Valley Church for community outreach. Chief, four is yours. Alright. Just a couple donations for the support of the Dilworth Police Department and its community outreach programs. So just another great special thank you to,
again, over here, for the Red River Valley Church and also for the Dilworth Mobile Home Community. So both presented us with a hundred dollars, so that was fantastic. I would be remiss to also, we also got another check from UC Hope, but that'll be on the next council packet as council agenda. So just a thank you for the support that we have from the community for our community outreach programs. Outstanding. Thank you very much, chief. With that, we do have resolution 20 five-nineteen. I'll entertain a motion, please. Motion to approve. Motion by Nash. Second. Second by Peterson. All those in favor,
say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries with that. It does move us to 10 b. We got the rundown from the chief and the information and the thank you, from, from the chief, for the donation made by the Dilworth Mobile Home Community. Motion to approve. A motion by Nash. Steichen second. And a second by Steichen for eight or pardon me, for 10 bravo. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. With that, it does move us on to number 11. And 11 city hall, 11 alpha, we have our public hearing on resolution twenty five twenty three,
a miscellaneous assessment for unpaid water valve repair, at 711 Eighth Avenue Northeast. So here we go. It is 07:19. We'll call the public hearing to order and start with staff presentation. Peyton? Unpaid water valve. Sent a bill that's not been paid. We encourage people to pay their bills. Perfect. Is that the end of the staff presentation? Yes, sir. Thank you. Is anyone here to speak in favor of the resolution? Second call in favor? Hearing no one here or online to speak in favor of the resolution, we'll move to the opposition. Anyone here to speak in opposition?
Second call in opposition to the resolution. Hearing no one here or online to speak on the resolution, we'll close the public hearing and begin, council discussion. It is 07:20. Council, any questions, comments, concerns, or considerations? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion for resolution twenty five twenty three. So moved. 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 12, council members' concerns and community updates. Around the horn. Kevin. Mike's not here,
but I think we should take a look at either talking with the owners or come up with some resolution for the end of Oakview Drive where we've put up barricades to boulders. And the people are continually going around them. There's a park right there. I I I receive a lot of correspondence of concerned citizens with that issue, and it seems to me like barricades just,
they work for for an amount of time, but people who have decided they're gonna drive through there are just gonna drive through there. So I don't I don't know what the right answer is, but I feel like we need to start having those conversations to figure out what the right answer is there. If we can connect the road through there and just be done with it, put a stop sign there, but I don't know. Anything to keep people from driving in the park. We we green lighted some big projects tonight. Well, one for sure. But, I mean, tax abatements are a great thing, but I think that we need to make sure,
and it's incumbent on us, that we are are really keeping track of what we're what we're doing and how those things are being recorded and what we can if there's anything we can do as far as what our recourse is if buildings aren't built to the criteria that are set forth in the language of our contracts with them. We can have some conversations off the record. I've got some ideas, but there's some glaring concerns that I have.
Aside from that, toy box stuff, curb day is coming up quick. So please please wait, but make sure you get your junk ready for for Mike and the guys. So with that, I'll yield my time. Thank you, Kevin. Dave? The, city and county meeting held at law enforcement center was it was interesting about some of the things that the county is struggling with, money, I guess, money on mandates, things that are coming down for the social service programs that need to be implemented and the extra cost per case on each case workers.
So but this the county commissioners have been down there, and they've been working very hard at stating their position on all these things. So I just showed my support for them at the meeting. So it's interesting to hear, different people's perspectives on their departments as well. I mean, it's we're kinda all related to their their work in some fashion. So, so it was good. It was it was a good meeting. Fire hall tour, I've been in a few times,
but every time I'm there, it looks even better than time before. I mean, everything that they have planned, every part is used efficiently and, you know, space for some future things to happen along the way. So I give a shout out to the chief and his crew for working. It's like a once in a lifetime thing that they're going through. So it's and it's it's pretty amazing that, it's come together so quickly and be exciting to see them actually operating out of
there. So thank thank you guys for everything you've done and your officers and your, you know, mister Peterson as well. So, it's just fun to see it all come together. Okay? Anything else, mister Steakle? That's it. Thank you. Julie? Yeah. So and with the rural cities, meeting, it was at that too, and they were talking about whoever wanted to host again. And so, kinda thought it would be a good idea to host it in the Fire Department Meeting Room 1 time once it's up and running if Mhmm. That's okay with the fire department.
Of course, it has to be but, anyway, so I did offer that as a location so that everyone that uses our services might be able to see what the facility looks like. Do we get to set the agenda then? Yeah. Yeah. It'd be nice to have a little say so on that. Maybe not. But, yeah, that's a great idea, Julie. Fantastic. Fantastic invite. Sorry. You understand? What else do you have? No. I I forgot about that until you were mentioning it. So I was, like, better I I just thought it'd be a great opportunity with what we have coming up this week showcasing it to also showcase it to our neighboring communities to see,
what facilities we have is the great way to do it. So, yeah. And so it was great to be a part of the proclamation last week as well, about the driving through in the Oak View when I was out door knocking. Saw someone do it while I was door knocking. They, like, drove right by me, and you're like, are you kidding me? You know, like, right around the barrier. And and so I don't know, again, to go with that, if it's something we have to have, like, maybe the apartment property, help us deal with if we can't address it on our side.
But, anyway, I I will say I also did see it in person happen when I was out walking around. The Ally Connect is live with our police department, so that service went live last week, I believe, or two weeks. Okay. This last. And, and if you were sad because you missed kite day because it snowed, we moved it. So I shouldn't say we moved it. The police department moved it to May 3. I had nothing to do with it. The nation moved it. I know. I was happy you you did that. I I was getting my snow boots ready, but I was really happy you moved the date.
And it sounds like there might be some turkey legs there if you wanna come over and eat. And it's also the same day as the baseball is doing their five k. So it's a it's a nice way to kinda connect different events in our community again. So it's it's a great, I guess, way that it got rescheduled, and it'll be wonderful. Let's see. Oh, and we're gonna the PDU will also, be hosting the Minnesota State Patrol for training here. So it's kinda nice to have them in our community. So we welcome them to do the training. Showcase our renovation.
Right? Showcase your renovation. I know. So that's good. And, just wanted to acknowledge that there was, our sergeant Danhof and officer McClain Hayes were involved in an attempted life saving incident, and I just wanna acknowledge, their efforts. And, yeah, just wanna make sure we acknowledge that. That's all I have. Alright. Thank you, Julie. Peyton's gone, so I'm really tempted just to hammer this one post. No. Just real quick. We do. Like, when we're looking at, our policies and implementing and growth,
whether it's a change order for our fire department, renovations for our police department, things like that. Obviously, safety is one of our primary concerns and one of the driving factors. And as we develop, as we build roads, right, safety has to be a priority. As we approve, housing and infrastructure for the missing middle and for the next wave of development, we have to be cognizant to make sure that our policies are progressive, but they're also protecting, citizens. There has to be a reasonable expectation that when they're moving into to Dilworth, whether it's single family,
multifamily, that that we have done our due diligence to make sure that our community is safe. And I appreciate everyone's insight as as we continue to move the city forward. That's all I have this evening. Peyton, questions, back to you. I didn't forget about you, although I did want to start by Yeah. I did later run out of battery there, so thank you. And, yeah, that we're we filled it, obviously, the same concerns regarding the Oak View and people traversing across the land. It's a it is somewhat of a complicated situation in that, you know, our right away ends,
as you can see up here on the screen. You know, this is our property, and beyond that's not our property. And so we we've put up or we've worked with the property owners before up here and putting up barricades and other devices to keep people from coming through, and it's worked to some degree. The people still are gonna drive around, And, yeah, and and at some instances, they've gone around our barriers or barricades there and gone through people's yards or their
right away across their sidewalk. It's very frustrating. And I guess a lot of it spends on the level of investment the city wants to make from building a, I guess, a true fence or barrier all the way around this. And, yeah, there's lots of different things that we could potentially do there that area. Yeah. We are somewhat limited, though. But, yeah, we can continue to look at that. And I know the police department's met with them. Mike's met with them, both of them multiple times there. I'm assuming, Peyton, it's not the property owners that are driving back and forth.
You're correct. Can we zoom in, please? Because I I'm a very, very and and we've kinda already started this. Like and I hate to say this, but can we bring in bigger rocks? Well, look at it's already I know. It's clogged. So can we bring in bigger rocks? The more rocks, like, I I mean Can we just entertain the like, what's it gonna cost for us to continue that road to meet up to the west side of that garage? Like, if we have to annex land or if we go half and with it with
the property owner to the west of us, but, like, to me, until those roads connect somehow, it's it's not gonna stop. Well And I realized that's a parking lot. You know? And I don't and I don't know that we own the dirt in front of the road, do we? Like, it that's still the property owner if they decide to take that road north or they wanna take that do we even have control over that? This is us right here. That whole thing. That's how I under that's how this reflects it at least. Right. That's how it that's how it's reflected. And this is our property too because that's the Well, that part is. But, again, if you run the road to the west, do we own that?
And I don't know that we do. I'm pretty sure we do. I I'm pretty sure it's how it's reflected. Oh, so that'd be the first question. West of the red line. Yeah. And I follow. And and, again, I don't know if we can solve it. Just worry about it right now, but I understand there's, What's the dollar number? What's it gonna cost? Yeah. And and also having them sign off on wanting access there, the property owners. I'm not sure if they want it either even though with, yeah, it's a I'm sure it's a lot of the same people driving through there on multiple occasions, and we've had some,
I think, injured their vehicles, we'll see, going across, some of our barriers and stops. There's no telling how much we mitigate it, actually. That's the sad part about it all. And, yeah, and at this time of the year, it seems like it gets bad because the barricades get removed during the wintertime. The, over here, they end up pushing the snow up here, and that acts as a natural barrier. So the wintertime, I don't think it's horrible as I understand. But once things start to melt, you know, there's nothing out there at that time. And so Mike and others and us, you know, we engage the property owners,
and they have allowed us to come out and put up the temporary barriers that, you know, people end up just driving around, when it's all said and done. But, yeah, we can we can bring some different solutions, permanent solutions, we'll say, there at that location and see what we can come up with. The second thing I wanted to make mention of, the audit was just oh, I guess it's not. It's still ongoing, but the auditors were here last week. Last week was the main showcase event. And, you know, I I I have the opportunity to engage with the lead staff on the audit.
That's about my extent of being involved. The auditors are very complimentary of this the staff, and that really gives a shout out to Perry and Jessica both for their work, not just last week, but in the year leading up to to making sure all the efficiencies are in place, all the checks and balances are properly accounted for. That make it makes their job so much easier, and it holds us accountable as a city. So thank you to both of them for all their hard work and and other
staff as well. We all touch the financial system, with you you know, in some capacity, but they do a lot of the heavy lifting with it throughout the calendar year. Hiring for mowers. If you know anyone that'd like to come mow some yards for us during the summertime, please apply today. Right before this meeting I would just like to make a note of this even though it's not in our community. We're all in this together as Chandler and Taylor were talking about earlier today. But I went to a opening for a new Habitat home,
this one in South Moorhead. Every time you go when they had that key ceremony, it's just very touching and rewarding. And knowing that the city of Dilworth plays a part in that as part of the collective of the metro area just it warms your heart every time. And it's just more of a personal thing for me. I really because I I'm over here, you know, playing DJ the whole time during the meetings, going scrolling back and forth, and I'm just really proud of our improvements that we made on the camera and
microphone front. It's so much more professional looking, and I think it gets the job done for a community of our size. You know, it's not like we have a public access channel or anything, but it really provides a great service. You can actually hear people now. That's a positive. And see people as well. So very proud of that. And we're also able to upload, you know, various events, and then we have a couple things later this week that we'll be able to record and upload on there. We got to do our police award ceremony recently on there.
It's just cool to be able to showcase it and to have that YouTube channel and the improvements here at City Hall. Thank you. And you brought that up. I can give a shout out to former council member Ryan Mulliken who he and I, a long time ago, wanted to take and broadcast and publicize our council meetings, and it only took this long to to get us where we are. So And it's evolved. Right? 100%. Like, we don't need a channel anymore. Right? You don't need to have cable access. Like, yay, YouTube. I mean, that's simply outstanding. So with that,
thank you, Peyton. We have our bills this evening. Any questions on the bills? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion for 13 alpha and pay the bills. Motion to pay the bills. Motion by Nash. Second. Second by Peterson. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And I'm glad you two made it to the end of the meeting along with me. Otherwise, we would have had to quit because we went out of quorum. That's a nightmare. So to that end, with there being no further business before council this evening, call the meeting adjourn.