[Music] call the meeting to order roll call mayor Reese here council member Osk here nelson here gilbertson here gardner here baggerly here davis here butterfield
here and should here nine present zero absent please stand for the pledge i pledge algiance 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 proposed additions or deletions to the agenda please mr mayor I'd like to make a motion for an amended agenda the city administrator has uh requested that item
10B be removed from the agenda police chief selection and so I will uh defer to her and present a motion for an amended agenda second all right do we have a second second okay we got a second discussion
roll call council member Osk i Nelson i Gilbertson i Gardner i Vaggerly i Davis i
Butterfield i And Shel I eight eyes's zero nos that motion passes next is the consent items and I'll call on our city clerk Verne Larson
we'll give you time Bernie it's okay Mr mayor and council members tonight I have for your approval and information the city council minutes of March 17 2025 the joint council minutes and planning commission work session minutes
from March 24th 2025 the Wilmer Municipal Utilities Commission retreat minutes from March 21st 2025 the Wilmer Municipal Utilities Commission minutes of March 24th 25 the Planning Commission minutes of March 19th 25 the Wilmer
Police Commission meeting minutes of February 3rd 25 the Wilmer Police Commission meeting minutes of February 12th 25 the Wilmer Police Commission meeting minutes of March 10th 25 establishing the 25 municipal state aid streets local government resolution
business development infrastructure application the agriculture land lease extension the home community theater Inc lawful gambling application and the accounts payable report from 31325 to 4225 and for your information I have the monthly building reports for March of
2025 and the new appointments to the boards and commissions all right we need a motion to approve the consent items so moved second we got a motion and a second discussion audrey um
yes i'd like to pull E I and K i just have a couple questions on each one okay anything else roll call council member Nelson i Gilbertson i
Gardner i Vaggerly i Davis i Butterfield i Shel hi and Osk i eight eyes zero nos that passes audrey uh well we'll turn it over to you for E for E yes um this is
regarding the Christensen major subdivision in a um I see that we're creating an additional parcel that is landlocked and that they're applying for some sort of easement to get to it do we
not care that that is landlocked mr mayor um members of the council Council Person Nelson thank you for your question the um just for a point of clarification this is a subdivision the bank is going to retain ownership of the southern par the southern portion of
that parcel for the retention pond um the front the northern part of that parcel would be accessible so they should be able to access it from 12 so the easement would be related to the to the storm from my understanding the
storm water pond the sub portion of it so do we we don't care whether we can get to a storm water pond or not i can look into it one more time for you um I'm looking at some of the notes here but my understanding is that it passed i
think we know we briefed planning commissioners on the um on the application and that wasn't brought up um so I I need to take a second if you will I'll take a moment and just research some of the notes from
planning commission is that okay you want to do I Sure um I'm supportive of of the um additional municipal state streets just curious if is that the only street that qualifies or can we only do one
refer that to Jared uh mayor councel no the the short answer to that question is no there's multiple streets that can be designated um the mileage that was available was approximately a quarter mile um that was otherwise sitting in the system without
earning any any needs so um those routes can be modified at any point um by council or anybody so there's multiple options I guess is the the So this is just taking advantage of what was available that's correct okay all
right i'll make a motion to approve i second a motion and a second discussion roll call council member Gilbertson hi Gardner i Baggerly i Davis
i Butterfield i should I osc I and Nelson I eight eyes's zero nos that motion passes audrey K k just a question all of the forms are blank and there are no um it says name
of leaseholder addressable lease holder insert legal description just wondering if it's ready for us to do mr mayor members of the council thank you for the question Council Member Nelson uh that was in inserted as a
example uh in the car uh there is a reference to articles 11 and 12 of the agricultural land lease uh so I wanted to be able to provide reference to that uh we have a current land lease agreement with this property owner uh
the action tonight would be the resolution uh the council wanted to move into that extension where we would amend that existing contract with those dates and only with the dates and the fee okay everything else would remain the same in
that current contract thank you for clarifying that i'll make a motion to approve that second i got a motion and a second discussion hearing none roll call council member Gardner i baggerly i davis i butterfield
i shoulders i o i nelson i and Gilbertson i eight eyes zero nos that passes christopher do you have what you're looking for i do mr mayor thank you
um there is private negotiations for an easement on the neighboring property to access the storm water pond um but that's out of the ranks of planning commission to decide on so if that would fall apart it doesn't
matter if we approve it with that not being done correct i it should be you are able to still approve it and those things are to still be worked out there's um an letter here from our engineer and that
specifically calls out the easement that's needed for it but that is under private negotiations between the two property okay all right i'll make a motion to approve it second we had a second yep okay we got a motion and a second
discussion roll call council member Faggerly i davis i butterfield i schultz i osc i nelson i gilbertson hi and Gardner i eight eyes zero nos our motion
passes next is the open forum and I have one person uh Bruce Dlique three minutes bruce as you know give your name and address good evening
Bruce thank you Mr mayor um Bruce Dlake uh 6221 19th Street Southeast um as you know I spent many years at the council table uh next to you and I've been also on the
municipal utilities utility commission for many years as well i'm raised tonight to speak in support of the utilities commission and the many things it brings to the city of Wilmer
and the benefits that there is to have a utilities a public power utility commission um within the city and the benefits it brings as far as the um local
control the um benefits of the transfers that are given to the city um you know I think we're transferring a little over $2 million a year to the
city finances um that are raised there's the uh street lights that are transfer that are paid for by the utility and we're always work in cooperation with the with the city and the utilities
so just wanted to raise you know the support of the utilities and we're been involved with a building projects but was actually started back more than more than uh 10 years ago
it's been on and off the table we've pushed it off to the side as far as future projects um in lie of some of the other projects that uh were on the table and we had we
took care of as far as power supplies and uh substation projects that were had a higher priority versus the building projects now it's now it's time to try and move our facilities all under one
roof and come together with a uh with a building with a building project uh so I guess I'll leave leave the project details up to our general manager but just would like you to support and uh
support our public utility thank you thank you Bruce and thank you for your years of service to the council and to the MUZ thank you all right we go to the public hearing
for the Gorton Avenue rightway vacation and I'll call on our uh public works director Justin Deleo good evening Mr mayor good evening council uh on the agenda tonight is a a right-of-way vacation on Gordon Avenue
Northwest um so along with vacating that property is a public hearing um just for a a brief review during the construction of Gorton Avenue in 2023 a property owner had raised concerns regarding curb and gutter placement uh it was
determined that there were discrepancies between the property owner's previous agreement with city staff and what was on uh record um written record on file um so after continuous discussions and negotiations with staff um an agreement
was reached um part of that agreement is vacating uh part of the rightway to the property owner and that's why we're here for the public hearing um after the hearing is closed um there will be two resolutions for council consideration um
so at this point Mr mayor if there's any questions I'd be happy to answer them otherwise I would ask that you open the public hearing i will open the public hearing if you want to speak give your name and address when you come to the podium anybody want to speak to this
issue anybody wanted to speak to the issue if not I'll close the public hearing bring it up to the council we need a motion motion to approve the resolution vacating a portion of uh Gorton Avenue Northwest Public
Rightway and uh yeah second okay we got a motion and a second discussion roll call council member Davis I Butterfield I should I OC I Nelson I Gilbertson I
Gardner I and Faggerly I eight I eyes's zero nos that passes now we need a motion to approve the resolution approving the ex the acceptance of the easement agreement so moved
second got a motion and a second discussion Roll call mayor oh I'm sorry no this will be added on to the title or so we're not running this again correct after after this passes we'll get the proper signatures and bring it down to
the county to get recorded okay yep okay is that it roll call council member Butterfield i shelders i os i Nelson i Gilbertson hi Gardner i
Agger Lee i and Davis i eight eyes zero nos that motion passes thank you thank you Justin this next one it's still good isn't it the Fisher okay it's xed off on my copy so I didn't know what the deal
was there i don't know what it was yeah um Fiser first edition zoning map amendment proposed ordinance and replat i'll call on Christopher Corbett our planning and development director right Mr mayor members of the council this
item came um before you on March 17th if you recall it is for two parcels to be reszoned from residential 2 to general business 3 um with this came a conditional use permit that Mr fischer
apply for and that was approved by planning commission as well back in February um the presentations um we're not showing today but um in your packet and last council meeting we had we showed
you the two parcels and that the the request to reszone it to general business 3 is aligned with the parcels um just north of Mr fischers um two parcels which will be in line with what the current zoning is which is general business
3 but I'll stand for any questions that you may have all right i think I'll open the public hearing okay and anybody wishing to speak i'll speak all right i'm I'm Mr fischer um I just wanted to talk to you one want
to know my question was is the property over there that I want to do this with and redevelop and all this stuff why it takes so long to do this kind of property i mean I was I was promised when Justice Walker was done did this he
promised to change this to R3 a long time ago and then whatever happened there then I went in to uh talk to Jason Zwagermanman and uh he said "Did you get it in writing?" And I said
"Really?" And then now it's down to this point and I went and talked to these boys and they said "Well let's just fill this out quick and get this done." But it's still taken two month i did this on January 22nd and it's still taken over two months and the price increase to uh
what I've occurred already just from you know the tariffs which we nothing we can do about but if I had done this in January like or before it would have been done I've already lost $40,000 just in the price increase of the stuff that I want to build in this property so my only thing is why does this stuff take
so long it's kind of like it's backwards we're going I'm going in reverse i have to do all this other stuff and spend money to make it and then they said he told me "Well I need you to put a to do a um civil engineering permit or
uh have it drawn up before I'll even look at you putting a permit in." I said "That's backwards i should you know either I either you give me a permit to put it up with these regulation or stipulations in there but he made me spend $8,000 for a civil engineering
permit that he still could say no on." At least that's what he told me anyway so that's I'm just wondering why it takes so long to do this and this property that I'm building on it's a half a million dollar project I want to put up there nothing's done been done on this project since the 70s in this area
right here i'm the first one that's done anything in this area from the people I don't know how far back it goes it could have been before that but the farthest back I could go was in the 70s there was a um a floral greenhouse a greenhouse there that's the last thing that I
anybody can tell me that was a business there otherwise it's just been a catch-all lot for all sorts of garbage it took me it took me a whole day with four trucks to haul the stuff all out of there so it's just been a disaster but I I don't know why it takes so long you
know at an expense of me to me 40 grand you know i'm not I'm not Walmart i'm not Block 25 and all them guys you know and when we did the Block 25 they they said "Oh we'll work with you who do all this stuff cuz they wanted me to sell them that building so that they could finish
that well then that got done well then they just threw me out i'm They forgot about me so that's the point I'm at right now i just don't know why this stuff takes so long to put a building up that's going to be tax you know you're going to taxes on it on an empty
lot and it's going to be a half a million dollar project and why it takes so long to get this pushed through is my big question so other than that thank you all right thank you anybody else want to speak if not I'll close the public
hearing call for a motion to approve the ordinance for zoning map amendment so move second we got a motion and a second discussion audrey um my question i'm supportive of
this but um my question is on the house that's sitting on the Lichfield Avenue that's been there for a long time and hasn't do we have a permit a building permit on that property and how long are our building permits good for
this has been there for a long time if I understand now that's being changed into a into a triplex triplex mr fischer did that's and the reason that he got a conditional use permit in order to do so but the resone of the parcels has to
come first so the conditional use permit is good for one year and then we will explore building permits what about the permit that he got to do to get it this far cuz that he it was only a building only they let me put the basement in
with the building up i have to get a permit to to finish it off so you didn't need a permit to do what you've done so far on this property the original ground permit what do they call that i don't I'm not sure because we moved the house
was a house move that's my question how long a time frame do we give people to do that because this has been sitting for a long time i'm supportive of what you're doing but I'm just curious about about when you got the original how long do we give people to do that because we've had multiple places around town
where projects are started and aren't finished and so my concern is just how do we get things finished and how long did they have you know how long were they given before and now we're working to get it done i get it so I got an answer to that the original thing was
all I had my permit was originally just to move the house put the base up then I got to get a permit to build the triplex okay that's when Justice Walker was all here and said "Okay we're going to change this whole zone to R3." And then he left and so then I went in to say I need to get my permit to build a triplex
and Jason's waterman said you can't you can only build a duplex a duplex so I think I I heard part of what you said was your intention was to do a triplex when you started this project you didn't change course partway through it was
originally was a Okay all right i'm still just curious with how long we give people to finish no that not you but Justin miss Christopher christopher that's okay um so it will be um depending on the
permit usually it is a one-year permit um but applicants can request an extension on on a permit so they can do up to 18 months they can do longer too um with our building official always doing inspections or being in
communication with the applicant so it just depends okay mhm okay so this should be a good cleanup for what's not finished I believe so all right thank you any further discussion justin thank you Mr mayor uh Director
Corbett could you um the questions raised by Mr fischer about the timing um it occurs to me that I think maybe even more like proactively in the future could you kind of give the public a general sense of like how long should they expect you know some of some of
this process to take there's certainly a process things go through your department there's a planning commission there's the slow grinding bureaucracy of the city council um what should the public expect when they when they request something like this so it
depends it's case by case scenario based on the application that a person applies for um but we are we take stat state statute where we have to announce if there's a public hearing both at planning commission or
at um city council and that state statute it has to be posted within 10 days and so if we have to post um it has to fall in a certain calendar because our local paper prints on certain days and so that does add some delay to it
but we are we have streamlined a lot of our processes and um you know we are trying to work more efficient through planning commission before it comes to city council so I understand I empathize with Mr fischers on the time um and there there's just some things out of
our control to do so so if you're waiting for that public hearing uh delay uh for publishing that with the paper that's at least going to that's going to happen twice correct and it's got to come to the city council and then we have to call the public hearing and then you've got so I mean it's going to take a month almost for the council to act
similar time for the planning commission so this is something that's not going to happen quickly right so we're looking at usually 45 to 60 days okay thank you you're welcome thank you Christopher you're welcome Mr mayor one two more things um sorry Mr mayor if I may we
need two/3 votes on the three motions that um well for the resoning uh and I didn't share the motions with you but we're looking for a motion to approve the proposed ordinance for the reasonzoning um to publish the ordinance by summary and to approve the first
edition preliminary and final plat of Mr fischer's property any further discussion okay so twothirds vote yes roll call council member Schultz
i ask do we have a motion we do yes okay it was the motion was made by council member Butterfield and seconded by council member Faggerly okay thank you uh I Nelson I Gilbertson I Gardner I Begorly
I Davis I and Butterfield I eight I's zero nos that motion passes now we need a motion to publish ordinance for summary does that have to be two/3s also no okay just majority it
does for the reasonzoning the publishing of the ordinance it does yeah the vote to publish by summary requires six council votes to approve so move second we got a motion and a second discussion
roll call council member Osk i nelson i gilbertson i gardner i beer Lee i davis i butterfield i and I eight eyes zero nos that motion passes
motion to approve the Fiser first edition preliminary and final plat second okay we got a motion and a second discussion hearing none roll call council member Nelson i gilbertson hi
gardner i aggerly hi davis hi butterfield hi shoulders i an Osc eight eyes's zero nos that motion passes thank you Christopher you're welcome thank you
next is Wilmer Municipal Utilities Commission meeting uh minutes of February 24th and I'll call on uh Municipal Utilities General Manager Jiren Smith oh you're going to go first okay okay Mr
mayor yes good evening mayor members of the city council tonight uh before you is the continued um action on the resolution that the Wilmer Municipal Utilities Commission took um at its
meeting back in February of this year um as the council is aware on March 3rd uh by resolution the council deferred approving the meeting minutes ultimately to take more time uh to examine and review the uh resolution to purchase
property uh for the utilities um new site over the last month staff have continued to meet uh internally and with utilities staff uh to examine the request to purchase extend and install
utilities on a parcel outside city limits um again throughout our meetings with utility staff uh we've done a a preliminary look at the wastewater treatment facility uh fund and the rate study that was completed in the fall of 2024
during that initial review uh the balance of the fund is limited uh to adding any additional uh capital improvement projects outside of the already 18 identified projects from 2025 to 2030 without really without risking dropping below the required coverage
amount needed to uh for projected debt services again out of the waste treatment fund now uh we have not gone through the due diligence period uh the council has not approved uh to move forward um with this action so this information is limited and not and
should not be considered final by the council but uh from what we know that is the information that I have to present to you uh this evening um if the council does decide to move forward um a final review would be completed during the due diligence period of the purchase
agreement uh also new to your packet this evening uh general manager Jiren Smith has provided the city council with an updated memo uh for your consideration uh Mr smith is present uh this evening and I believe is willing to
answer any questions from the council u regarding that memo lastly uh we do have um an action that council will need to take
tonight so according to uh city charter um we are at the council is at its at its time for a decision to be made uh there are really three options laid out in front of the council uh one is a resolution to adopt
um a resolution approving the municipal utilities commission meeting minutes or resolution number nine more specifically which is approving the purchase agreement the second option is for the council to adopt a resolution over ruling the utilities resolution number
nine or three uh is to take no action which ultimately has the same effect as an approval i do have uh copies of that resolution available for the public and for the council i will ask
for pass um but before we get to that if I will Mr mayor I would happy to turn it over to general manager Smith if the council Well first I'll ask if there's any count any questions from the council from the information presented you said it was approval overrule and
what was the third no action no action which would ultimately have the same effect as approving okay so if there's any questions for me Mr mayor I'll happily answer those otherwise I will turn Anybody got questions for manager
Kyle all right Mr smith chair Mr mayor members of the council thanks again for the opportunity to speak in front of you on this topic um just to really briefly summarize the memo that I have in your packet I'm asking you to
make an informed decision tonight in our previous conversations it seems like there's been two issues in front of you one the location and two the cost i'm very firm that confident that this location will allow us to serve the
community better than we do right now the cost I don't have a good answer for you on that right now and the purpose of the contingency and the purchase agreement is so that we can work with city staff to determine if this is a good solution if this is a cost-effective spot for us to carry out
our mission to serve the the utilities to this community so I would ask you if you have enough information to make that decision tonight um and if not you have those three options in front of you but I will stand for any questions that you
may have any questions or motion justin I make a motion to exercise our authority to override the Municipal Utilities Commission resolution number nine second okay we got a motion and a second to overrule the
action discussion roll call council member Gilbertson i Gardner I Baggerly no Davis I Butterfield I shoulders I
OC I and Nelson I seven I's one no motion passes all right what's Audrey I'm I'm just wondering and this has been really difficult i'm wondering
if we should be requesting a some sort of joint session with the municipal utilities um to talk about um I voted the way I did i didn't think it was the right location plus I didn't think the city could afford it but I also find out they
don't have any plans they don't have any drawing plans i thought they did they don't i'm wondering if we should try to work together to have a better understanding of what it is um to help them find another location and those types of
things so I'm just wondering if we should be looking at doing some sort of joint session with the commission to kind of um help us both move forward from this i feel that this has created a division and I think we need to work together and um and find a solution to
this for our community um I'm not sure about the meeting if as council and MUC is going to help this move along i think if staff from the city and staff from the MUC sit down together and
identify locations uh I think that's should be sufficient yes Leslie i can speak to that i believe that last Thursday when MUC and the staff were gathered they had our staff
had reached to MUC and said that they would be more than happy to help them find a suitable place for them and work through this process with them um and continue to look and so I we have I
believe we all have that understanding that we would be working together to find a suitable spot for them i think we leave it at that i I'll just voice my concern there's a division here i don't know what it is
but it's been there for a while and I have um a concern and I don't want to go through what we just went through again that they go ahead with something else and we have to come back and and say no again um I think there are are things that we should perhaps be just reviewing
to make sure that both the city and the utilities are moving forward in the best best manner so if we want to wait and see but um the fact that they don't have building plans um some of those types of things I think um is concerning with um
what they were pushing for right now so yeah I'll I'll um support Council Member Nelson's request for a meeting with the commission i think um this process has raised a lot of questions i think it's interesting like the the last rail
traffic study that was done uh was in 2016 i mean those are things that I I want to see a new study done before another property comes up um I think it would make a lot of sense for the council to sit down with the commission and have conversations because if if the
questions and the desires that we at this table um have aren't being addressed this is just going to happen again and again and and I agree that's it's not been a fun process it'd be nice if we were on the same page um so I too
would like to see a joint meeting tom uh I'd echo your concern Mayor um I don't think that there needs to be um this joint too many hands in the pot mixing it up i think uh I applaud the
commission for working hard on finding a place and getting their ducks in a row um from the point of uh getting a purchase agreement unfortunately the resounding uh community uh felt it was maybe not the best location so outside of that I I think I applaud the
commission uh for for getting uh and finding a location um it shows that they want to get things done so Tom Well back uh Council Member Gilbertson Mayor on this I believe the biggest
concern here was the $3.2 million to build it out there if it wasn't for that cost I think we would approved it i think we have better ways we can put that money towards you know for our taxpayers and move it out there i that's why I voted no was it was too much a
burden on every citizen in Wilmer to for that type of money when we have streets as bad as they are right now so I think uh I would have voted yes if it was right in there and we just had to hook hook them right up yeah I would have voted yes for it but with cost of
putting water sewer lights out there it was too much for the city to take on right now and that's why I voted against anybody else steve yeah i mean Tom I'm sure that's that's a good reason to vote no
it's good to read as any but um we had petitions from the people in the in the neighborhood that was a resounding we don't want the utilities in our backyard i mean it wasn't just us saying no they they were soundly rejected by the people
that live there and and that that was a big factor in why I voted no that and like like Audrey said there was no plan and there was no hey here's a drawing that shows how the building would fit and here's a comparison drawing how it won't fit um the whole industrial can't
be in the industrial park was crazy business to me you know because they're what they do fits perfectly in the industrial park so I think it's more than just the money and that's a big part of it but also there was a sound rejection by the people that would be
their neighbors including all of the adjacent property owners there's no further Oh Audrey yeah I I want to say something positive here because I have attended the utilities has done a great job they do an once a year tour of their facilities for their
commission and they have invited the council and administration to come with I've attended those they are very helpful however the concern that I have is that something broke this was not communicated there were plenty of questions that
weren't answered i just want to get us back on the right track and if that's meaning taking another tour or doing something like that as as us getting together I think that's totally appropriate if we don't want to sit down and have a work session that's that's
fine but my concern is we need to fix the broken communication that has taken place between the two of us well I think uh staff has already said that they're going to work with the utility staff and that'll be a matter of
record so uh I think we can move on from there with with that understanding all right next is uh calling city engineer Jared Vogi over the uh 253C technology
drive improvements good evening Mayor Council and closing in your packet this evening are the results of the March 26th bid opening we received three bids for the technology drive improvements project number 253-C uh the bids ranged from a low bid
in the amount of $746,51 to a high bid in the amount of8 um excuse me $829,115 there are a couple resolutions in your packet this evening the low bid was submitted by Dunc Inc in the amount
of $746,51 uh by way of reference related to the um funding components associated with this project this project represents a 0 um% levy impact and with that mayor council I'd be happy to answer any questions that you might have
it's 7:46 i've got 726 on my agenda but that might be 74651 [Music] okay I'll change this all
right call for a motion to approve we got a motion to approve and second discussion tom uh when this was first getting started Midwest talked to me
about the manhole covers are they going to be replaced or are we going to be using the existing ones out there that was one of their concerns the um so the there's storm sewer structures with covers that are going to be
replaced any existing um storm sewer or sanitary excuse me which is a private um Midwest utility um those are going to be re um reinstalled if they're not broken or dilapitated so okay i know
that was one of their biggest concerns was that uh they felt they were in pretty good shape so Yep okay Tom uh complexity of tunnels underneath this road as they're running machinery and so forth has that been taken into account
for these bids and everything else absolutely there are special project procedures outlined in the um specifications related to work around the tunnels any other Justin yes thank you Mr mayor um you said a 0% increase to lobby correct
how is that possible uh based on the funding that is a state aid route um there are assessments associated with the project so okay that's good news any more discussion roll call
council member Gardner I baggerly I davis I butterfield I shoulders i nelson I and Gilbertson I eight eyes's zero nos that motion passes
i'll call for a motion approving the ASB bid budget for 253C so moved second got a motion and a dis second discussion tom one more question about
those tunnels if there is damage to those who's responsible uh currently it is set up that it is the contractor's responsibility per the agreement or the contract okay any further discussion
roll call council member Faggerley i davis i butterfield i sheldis hi osc i nelson i gilbertson i and Gardner i eight eyes zero nos that motion passes
thanks council next I'll call on public works director Justin Deleo in regards to the bioolids tanker purchase thank you sir good evening good evening council uh for your consideration tonight is the purchase of a bio excuse
me a bioolids tanker for the wastewater treatment facility this is the unit that the staff uses to haul away our bioolids from the plant um the city has always had a unit of their own however in 2023
we had a rollover accident and um the truck semi was able to be uh repaired but the trailer was totaled um since that point we've been renting a uh trailer and rental costs in the year
2024 were $41,600 um and that's why we're asking for uh the purchase of a new tank this was identified in the 2025 CIP um it will be funded through the wastewater treatments
operating budget um we've talked to the financial adviserss we will still be above that debt threshold we're confident with that number um we asked or um solicited seal bids by public notice we received one bid from
Courtland Waste Hauling Inc in the amount of $210,600 and that um with that Mr mayor I will stand for any questions you may have okay I'll call for a motion first motion to approve second got a motion and a
second discussion any discussion roll call council member Davis i Butterfield i should I
Nelson i Gilbertson i gardener i and Faggerly I eight eyes's zero nos my motion passes thank you Justin thank you next is a resolution to acknowledge
donations in the first quarter of 2025 city clerk Veret thank you Mr mayor um tonight I'm asking the council to acknowledge the and pass a resolution acknowledging the first quarter donations for 2025 from January
1st to March 31st these donations have been acknowledged by the city administrator and uh expressing our community's appreciation so for tonight I would like you to approve a $5,000 donation to the from the community giving for the purpose of the community
growth events $2,500 from community giving for the Wilmer community growth events another $2,500 from community giving for the Wilmer community growth events $5,000 from Prime West Health for the Wilmer community growth events $500
from Candy Candy County Fair Association for the community emergency response team $1,200 from Hormeell Geneo for the Earth Healthy Earth Healthy Kids event $1,568.75 from Wilmer Firefighters
Association for the Fire Explorers $250 from Marcus Construction for daddy daughters formal $400 from Waltz for the daddy-daughter formal $300 from Doulie's Petroleum for the daddy-daughter formal $750 from Theresa Terresa Halberta's
Insurance Agency for the Daddyaughter Formal $750 from West Central Steel for the Daddy-Daughter formal $500 from the Wilmer Area Arts Council for the International Heritage Event $68 from the Friends of Wilmer Community Center
for the Wilmer Community Center $60 from the Friends of Wilmer Community Center for the Wilmer Community Center $2,500 from the Charter Communications for the Wilmer Community Center $20 from Cheryl Helguson for scholarships $500 from
Coburn's Inc for scholarships $7474 from the Wilmer takedown club for the youth wrestling singlets and $339.17 from Daniel R drevllo and Charles Schwab and Company in Inc for
the community cent's wood shop call for a motion to approve the donations so moved second we got a motion and a second discussion roll call
council member O i nelson i gilbertson i gardner i faggerly i davis i butterfield i and Schultz i eight eyes's zero nos our motion passes i'll call on our city
administrator to tell us about the work sessions coming up yes so this year we want to we're going to be staff has already been developing the capital improvement pro plan for 2026 budget we're working on snow and we would like
to invite the council to attend a improvement program tour on April 17th we would start at 10:00 a.m and we would finish roughly anywhere from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m um we will also provide lunch at this
during the tour time also so we haven't set out the complete route yet but we will in the next week here we'll get that all nailed down and um but we would like the council to see the structures like last year we had approved having the civic arena wall repaired and things
like that so we want you to see those up personal and u have a guided tour by each director that is looking for their um projects to be approved in the upcoming year
okay any other announcements anybody that's we have a second one we have the 23rd April 23rd workshop also which will be at 4:00 at the fire hall
um training room and this is going to be reviewing the comprehensive plan do we have another option for that i'm not going to be able to be there at 4 and I've already heard a couple other people not being able to be there first what um
what Nate would work best for council then would Thursday the 24th work was there a conflict with that yeah I won't be there it'll be in Portland i already at the last work session we said the 20 You said the 22nd
in your slide set didn't you we did um Council Member Gardner there's a conflict um for another event for human rights which is an annual meeting so we did have to push our work session back
we're available to do anytime that week or if we need to push it back to May um but we're in the process of making final edits and we want to go over some of the the remaining chapters that we didn't focus on uh the first time around as well as go over implementation so we can
get ready for our budget requests [Music] can we go to the next week sure are we for the council meeting i can do May 1st in your May basket
may 1st is that a Thursday correct good for you i'm good what time what time do you want to meet can we keep it at four or would you like to move it back four clock's fine four o'clock's fine
i'd like to see it move back a little bit maybe five might be the soonest I can get there if that's all right May 1st then 5:00 at the fire station if available we have to double check that
was it we'll let you know so we have the two upcoming work sessions then um the April 17th we'll have the capital improvement program tour and um we will
have a bus available and then on May 1st we will have the review of the comprehensive plan all right any other announcement if not u we'll call for a motion to
adjurnn so move we're adjourned