00:00:06,170	Welcome to the November meeting of the Bismarck Board of Park Commissioners. I will ask Julie to call the roll, please. Comm Gilbertson here Herzog here, Redman here Jesske here President Zimmerman, here I would ask if you wish to please join, uh, stand and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance

00:00:29,730	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. Thank you. Our next item agenda is the approval of the meeting agenda for tonight, Commissioners, so moved. Second. motion by Comm Gilbertson, seconded by Comm Jesske.

00:01:00,900	Julie, if you’ll call the roll please, Comm Gilbertson. Herzog, yes, Redman. Jesske, President Zimmerman. Our next item is our featured partners and programs this evening is Bizaret, and we have with us the operations manager for Bismaret, Lindsey Jungi. I hope I pronounced that right, Lindsay. Jung, thank you, OK, I’m sorry My apologies, but thank you. That is OK.

00:01:30,600	Uh, uh, Mike asked me to be here, uh, just kind of talk about things. I’m actually the president of the board. No. I’m no longer operations manager, so. stepped up a notch There how’s that? Oh, now you can hear me. All right. Anyways, yes, my name’s Lindsay.

00:01:44,500	Um, I am now the president of the board of directors. Um, I was the market manager for a couple of years. Uh, Bismaret is our farmers’ market in the area. We have, uh my gosh, we have cottage foods, we have produce, we have arts and crafts, uh, ready to eat food trucks, music.

00:02:05,270	kids, which it’s, it’s a great community thing that we go along with, uh, Parks and Rec. Thank you for all you have done for us.

00:02:19,630	Thank you for our meeting last week and moving forward and yeah, Mike just asked me to come and talk about it and answer any questions that you guys might have. So here I am. It’s my, it’s my first like month as president, so be nice to me. Go ahead. Well, we’ll, uh, certainly ask commissioners for questions and I’ll start with Comm Redman. Thank you, President Zimmerman Lindsey, thanks for being here. I love your use of Kiwanis Park.

00:02:38,970	I think when Bizaret first started, it was a few vendors winding through the park, and now you’ve certainly expanded onto the streets and, and use of Kiwanis Park is so nice, but also I love the way you, you, you are involving community with asking different nonprofit groups to be there at various

00:02:52,270	times and also um use of local artists to entertain and so it certainly has become a community impact event. And so just thanks for what you do every Saturday and people look forward to it. I’ve been nearby and don’t dare buy anything until the Horn goes off at 10 o’clock to.

00:03:07,530	The, the Horn honk, yeah. Yes, yes, so thanks, and Bismarcket really is a wonderful community event. So thanks for your partner. Oh, thank you. It, it became my heart and soul when I got hired who would know a former vet tech, the her.

00:03:21,800	her thing in life would be a farmer’s market, you know, but yeah, it’s been my heart and soul, so you do the best I can. Comm Jesske, thank you, President Zimmerman. Lindsey, just a couple of questions.

00:03:37,630	You know, is there a way that you can track the number of people who come there because I know I have, I have been there, I’ve, um, but I’m just kind of curious how many people you usually get in the summer. So, um, market Man does a account at 10:15, 11:15, 12:15. We’ve got little clickers, um. this year we averaged, I’m trying to think, almost 1000 people per market.

00:03:59,530	Uh, that was just average, you know, obviously in the beginning, I think opening day this last season was over 2000. It was our biggest attendance ever, the entire season we broke so many records this season in attendance in the number of vendors, sales, you know, it was just a lot bigger than any of us thought it would be.

00:04:17,470	It was a little bit of a surprise, but we do go around and counting and you know, it’s not probably 100% accurate, obviously, but it definitely kind of gets a number. And then Lindsay, do the vendors pay to participate? They do. OK. Yeah, they have a vendor fee depends on which side they’re on.

00:04:35,970	We have early bird vendor for the season up until I think April 1st, April 30th, I can’t remember. And then they pay full price or they can do per day.

00:04:53,170	And then, um, do you have, uh, max number of vendors that you take? or you’ll just take as many as the streets and all the way down to Alama Park. We have the whole street and uh I talked to like Kevin and them and we’re gonna kind of go into a little bit into the park this next season just to kind of keep it more. But yeah, it’s, we don’t, we don’t have a max number yet.

00:05:04,730	Maybe, maybe someday. I know Comm Redmand had talked about the variety of offerings, so you know I’ve gone there before and there’s been yoga in the park. Is that something that that they pay to have a vendor fee for that? or they just show up because it’s really a nice enhancement.

00:05:22,870	Yeah, we actually, we invite transition transitions yoga to come and be there at 9 o’clock. They’re usually there till August 30th. That’s just a partnership thing and then they, um, actually have like free will donations to they have 3 different charities and you can put it in whatever bucket you

00:05:40,070	want and that’s where it goes to. They also have free coffee once in a while, free will donation, coffee, so it’s just something we work with with them to get donations for the community. Yeah, well, thank you for all that you do and congratulations on your promotion. Well, thank you.

00:05:56,100	Comm Herzog, thanks, Comm Zimmermann and Lindsay, thanks again. I’m glad to hear that, you know, getting vendors has been good and that you might have you’re expanding and things like that, which is fantastic, and God bless you for doing it outdoor events every once in a while they’re, you look at the weather forecast now. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

00:06:12,000	But, um, what do you guys need going forward? Are there any like besides kind of the physical space, any other limitations? Do you need more power, more water, or things like that that you guys are looking at for future growth, right? Yeah, we, we definitely need more electricity.

00:06:26,370	Um, we are, we’ve actually had to turn a few vendors, a few vendors haven’t even, like they sign up, they want to sign up, but we can’t accommodate the electrical access, uh, so we definitely need more of that. Um, that’s probably our biggest thing, you know, we have a generator, but to pull that out.

00:06:44,000	every weekend for 2 you know, 2 vendors, it’s not really worth it. So elec electrical is probably our biggest thing. We’re just getting so big, so. yeah Lindsay, uh, I may have missed it. How many years has Bismar been, uh, operating? Uh, this was our 13th season.

00:07:14,430	Technically 12 as Bismzmarket, the first season was in Ser Toma, I guess they had like about 4 vendors, and then they became the the nonprofit and started actually becoming like a thing. It was just kind of a fun little like, here’s our community gardens, and we’ll just sell them some things and then it turned into Bizart.

00:07:35,870	It was part of Gozism goesbimark, yeah, and, uh, I’m still kind of learning the whole background of, you know, people that were in the beginning, aren’t necessarily around still, so I’m just trying to find that. But yeah, they, uh, they started 13 years ago. So this was our 13th season.

00:07:52,870	and next year we be our 14th, so I think we’ve been at Kwanas for 10 or 11 years now, so I would ask, uh, where are your vendors? They’re not all local. I know the one, community, I think out of South Dakota. The farm, the All, all of our vendors have to be North Dakota.

00:08:11,530	Uh, they all have to be North Dakota local, uh, they have to be, you know, from North Dakota, uh, we can have third-party vendors from outside the state, they have to get special permissions, pay special prices, and whoever is at their booth selling things has to have, you know, quite a bit of knowledge

00:08:32,370	for it, but it’s, we try and do North Dakota Local everything. That’s, that’s just one of our main roles. You need to be North Dakota because we focus very much on the North Dakota community. Well, thank you, Lindsay. I, I go there.

00:08:51,000	I, I know by the badge, it seems a couple of times I missed the caramel rolls. Yes. Yes, you have. But there’s some, there’s some great vendors there, I think you’re. There are evidently have a good reputation for the, you know, for folks to have their booth there to be able to, you know, make some sales.

00:09:06,600	So thank you and good luck in the 14th season. Yes, thank you. Yeah, we’re looking forward to it. We’re excited. We have very excited board members that aren’t just looking for next season, they’re looking forward, so. you know, it’s, it’s exciting. Yes, it is. Thank you. Thank you.

00:09:28,900	Our next item on the agenda is the consideration of a request to continue the management of the Burleigh County Parks. um, and we have with us this evening Burleig County Comm and former Park Comm, Comm Wayne Munsen.

00:09:48,270	You’re, you’re making me wish I was sitting on that side of the table, aren’t you? Well, President Zimmerman and Commissioners, uh, as Mark, uh, stated, I am Burley County Comm Wayne Munsen. Uh, I am before you today asking for your consideration, uh, to extend the agreement that we have. Burleigh County has with the Park District to continue managing our parks as well as our boat ramps.

00:10:07,270	Uh, I can give Dave and his staff a lot of credit, um, you guys have done a phenomenal job for us. Our parks are in phenomenal shape. Uh, the work that you guys have done for us has been excellent, uh, and I’m really hoping that we can continue that relationship. Question uh questions from commissioners.

00:10:30,900	because I know somebody’s got one. We got questions. I just don’t want to go first. Why don’t we, we I, I will. Go, go ahead, Comm Redman. Um, Comm Munsen, thanks for being here.

00:10:50,170	And also, um, thank you for your heart for public parks and recreation, um, I know your experience here has carried over into the Burleigh County Commission, and I appreciate, um your desire to educate and advocate for Bismarck Parks and Recreation.

00:11:08,170	It’s a duly noted, but I also know that after a vote is said that you go forward with one voice as you of course are as professional as you are, so I appreciate that um the timing of your request, of course, is, is a little difficult. Oh, yeah. Uh, because of, um, unfortunately in October, the county commission voting to discontinue the recreation levy.

00:11:27,000	So it’s, it’s, it’s a little tough because, um, the feeling that recreation is an important, um, to the Burleig County Commission is a little tough, um, for us to, for, for not speak for the board, of course, but tough for us to for me to swallow right now.

00:11:42,000	So um that’s probably what I’m just gonna stop at this point and see what my my fellow commissioners have to have to say, but it’s a, it’s a tough ask right now. Comm Redman, I completely understand. I am one of 5 uh, and, uh. I can be kind of loud, um, but being loud doesn’t make any difference on the vote. Um, I can advocate as much as I can.

00:12:05,530	I can hope for a better turnout at the next election, uh, and I can pray that we can make this better. Um, I have no guarantees. Of course, I understand, and I, well, I always do my best.

00:12:29,970	Uh, my heart is with the Park District, um, when I was elected, uh, Burleigh County, that was the first portfolio I was going after of of my uh relationship with you and that being said, I don’t expect me to sway your decision. This is a decision between the Bismarck Park Board and Burleigh County Commission. Uh, so please don’t take it that I’m here asking. Burleigh County is here asking and so there’s not gonna be any hard feelings depending on how this vote goes.

00:12:53,900	Um I do know that we are, now here’s where the politics comes in, right? I do know we’re in a much better shape with Bismarck Parks taking care of our parks, uh, and so I really do hope. we can continue that I’ll go to Comm Gilbertson. Did you have questions? Sure.

00:13:16,270	Um, yeah, I mean, I in visiting, you know, with executive Director Clip Feld, um, I mean, I do share a lot of the, um, same concerns that Comm Redman has um the, the timing is not great, especially when, you know, comments are made, um. various comments are made. It’s, it’s tough to, to think, well, you know, like that this is a valued.

00:13:50,530	a valued partnership, um, the um the, the recreation levy is an important thing, um. it’s. it’s, you know, I mean, it’s, you know, it’s, it’s levied only against the citizens of Bismarck, and it primarily goes to um improvements and things in the city of Bismarck.

00:14:20,970	but I feel that sometimes um there may be some people that forget that the citizens of Bismarck are also residents of Burleigh County. 78% of them. Yeah. And, um and the, I mean that is, it’s it is difficult. It is difficult and to know what this, you know, what this, the park District has done in the county and yes, there are some pretty major things in the county that.

00:14:53,000	are run with agreements with the Corps of Engineers or the Burleigh County, um, water, you know, that wouldn’t be affected, but, but there are also some, some pretty major things that, um, uh, that, that would be affected and um you know, to and to say, you know, for our.

00:15:20,700	budget and and such to take a hit to provide those resources and those opportunities within the county I mean, to me, that’s a big assumption. That’s, that’s a real big assumption, given the fact that every um taxing entity. is, is feeling.

00:15:49,700	pinch right now, you know, based on things that the legislature has done, federal government, all that stuff, and, and, um, you know, I. again, personally, you know, from having sat on this side of the table, um, people can say what they want about fiscal management of the park district.

00:16:12,630	It’s, it’s good and it’s strong, and all you have to do is spend 15 minutes listening to Kathy and director or finance director Kathy and, and executive Director, um, Clifffell talk and you know, you, you know that um that it’s, that it is, it is a it’s, it’s, it’s run on a conservative budget.

00:16:46,800	They are managers and directors do amazing jobs and um it is just, to me it feels, um, as a Comm, it, it feels it, it feels just grossly assumptive to, to think that this isn’t going to have any impact on, on, on what we do. I know it’s going to have an impact. So, that’s why I said don’t, don’t, don’t,, don’t look at Wayne here.

00:17:09,270	No, no, and this is Burleigh County Commission, and that’s, and that’s where I’m directing it to. And I understand that walking up here. I’m, I’m directing it to, to the, uh, the, the Burleigh County Commission that it’s, it is it’s. it’s, it’s egregiously assumptive, I think so.

00:17:33,800	Comm Jesske, President Zimmerman, um, Wayne, we appreciate you standing up here, um, sometimes when you are an elected official, you have to have broad shoulders, thick skin, and short toes. Um I don’t know about that side of it. The other two I’m good.

00:17:53,530	But you know, for us, this is for me personally, this is really difficult because I’ve always really prided, uh, taken a lot of pride in the fact that the Park District has been a good partner with the school board, with the county, with the city, um, so we don’t want to make an a motion that um impacts our citizens deeply. but we also need to make sure that we protect the park district.

00:18:17,470	what we do. So and I know you can appreciate that and yeah, some of the, I’m gonna reiterate what’s Comm Gilbertson has said some of the comments that have been made are um they’re hurtful you know, um, and we’re not doing this. I mean, we’re, um, this is not about revenge.

00:18:42,500	but this is about making sure that we are being fiscally responsible to the park district and you know, we, we have a lot of work, um, and we’ve enjoyed our partnership with the Burleigh County, but I think sometimes maybe absence makes a heart grow fonder and maybe in a year

00:19:04,000	or two, if there’s new boards, you know, might be an opportunity to revisit this, um, deciding how we move forward, and I know there’s a a a opportunity to cancel this contract at any point to this agreement, but um, yeah, like I said, just put a lot of thoughtful consideration into this because

00:19:26,470	I don’t want to see a decrease in some of the good, um, services that we’ve been able to provide to the Burleigh County Park District or the Burleigh County, um, citizens, but yeah Thank you for coming here and taking the bullets that was in the JPA. Um. You know, it goes both ways. Comm Herzog.

00:19:48,730	President Zimmerman and, and Comm Munsen. I, I, I won’t repeat what, what, what these folks have said, um, I will say I just wanna say thank you. I’ll watch those meetings, um, when it came around to that JPA situation.

00:20:05,000	I believe your vote was absolutely not, which is not one you hear all that often, so I appreciate that um you’ve just been a huge supporter obviously you’ve sat in in these chairs and Comm Woodcock as well, I was able to chat with him a little bit. So I appreciate both of your your guys’ support and understanding of what we do here, um.

00:20:22,330	and I just wanted to say that to you because you’ve been a great advocate and I watched those meetings and listen to you and you yeah, you can be loud in a good way.

00:20:35,170	I knew you, I knew you were here because I could hear you laughing when I was coming down the stairs, but, um, yeah, I, I just appreciate what, what you’ve done, um, in this partnership as well. So I just wanted to say that. Thank you very much. Comm Munsen, I consider you a friend as well as a colleague. So I thank you for attending the meeting tonight.

00:20:55,000	I think you knew what the uh tenor or the opinion was, but I appreciate your willingness to clarify that, um, all good comments from all the commissioners, and that’s my pleasure in serving with them. They say it a lot better than I do.

00:21:10,100	My one thought would be, um, whatever the motion is here is that there would be a chance to revisit. There’ll be a new park board in a year, perhaps there’ll be perhaps new county commissioners, and a chance to, uh, step back and revisit it. So again, I appreciate uh you being here this evening. Uh, any other comments from commissioners or executive Director Klipfel.

00:21:34,070	Do we have a motion President Zimmerman, I would move that we, um, that the park board Comm of Bismarck, not renew the contract with Burleigh County and let it lapse. I will second that motion. We have a motion by Comm Gilbertson, seconded by Comm Jeske.

00:21:58,630	Any further discussion? Comm Herzog, just maybe a question for Executive Director Clipfel, because again, I’m, I’m the newbie here, so I wanted to know, you know, does this affect our staff? How would, you know, we do our staff member that’s doing that, you know, in terms of a budget, um, consideration just so the folks that are listening understand maybe what we’re talking about a little bit better, yeah.

00:22:18,700	And if I might add Comm Herzog can you let the citizens know what what will be affected Yes, President Zimmerman, Comm, Comm Herzog and, and Gilbertson. So, uh, staffing wise, we, there will not be any change in staff as far as letting anybody go.

00:22:39,170	Um, our staff person that was responsible for this area, uh, spent about half of his time, um, dedicated to Burleigh County Parks. Um, we have more than enough things for him to do.

00:22:51,900	In fact, with things, the way things have grown over the last 2 or 3 years, we have some duties that we think that we could assign to that position and keep him more than busy. Um and so the, the, the pieces of the agreement, uh, for the Burleigh County Park, uh, agreement, the, the pieces that we managed for Burle County, the Burle County Commission, Burle County Park Board was the Missouri Valley complex, so we did all the scheduling out

00:23:07,900	there, um, and maintenance and, uh, the community gardens, and then we managed the boat ramps in the county for that, and that was the big pieces of, of the agreement, um, and then Comm Munsen was talking about Driscoll Park, which is another one they wanted to add to the list this year because, uh, the

00:23:24,430	group that was taking care of that part for them in the past was unable to do it anymore. So that’s would be the affected uh pieces of property. Commissioners, any further questions? If not before the vote, I just want to mention I checked with our legal advisor here, uh John, and we will, uh, whatever the

00:23:44,870	motion is here, we will draft the letter accordingly and have it sent out at proper timeframe. Julie, if you’d call the roll please, Comm Gilbertson, I. Herzog, yes Redman. I Jesske, a President Zimmerman, I again, thank you, Comm Munsen for appearing this evening.

00:24:07,330	We appreciate that and we’ll have the letter sent out. Comm Redmand, I just wanted to make a note, operations Director Dave Mayory, would you please pass our thanks on to your staff for the good care that was taken care of as Comm Munsen mentioned of the Burleigh County, uh, areas that are, are, are part of this contract, but good care, Mr.

00:24:25,330	Gering took care of for the past 10 years. I appreciate that very much. If you’d pass that along from the commissioners. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Comm Redman. Uh, next item on the agenda is a disposition of bids.

00:24:41,430	And again, for the folks uh watching the meeting, I want to review those and the commissioners have questions. I know we have staff here as, as well as executive Director Clip Fel can uh provide any additional information. We are looking uh under the discussion of disposition of bids is the sanitary sewer system in Ser Toma Park. There is a, a memo that was provided to commissioners.

00:25:02,100	and then also the Riverwood Golf Course Concessions and facilities and programs Rector Mike Wald provided a summary of the bids and proposed agreement for the commissioner’s consideration. Again, if Commissioners have some questions that they feel should be discussed more here publicly.

00:25:25,100	Please feel free to do so, and we’ll ask uh executive Klip Fell, and I see Mike is here. All right, and we have a, OK, very good. Susan, I’m sorry. So am I I know what you’re going to say here, yeah. I’m sorry, I thought you were just available if you want, you know, if we had questions. Oh, well.

00:25:40,100	Susan, thank you for, uh, coming back up here. So, please, uh, proceed. Uh, thank you, President, um, and Commissioners, I, here we are again with Sir Toma Park restrooms, um, we did not receive any bids. We have both, um Mr.

00:26:05,100	Clipfel and I have, and Dave have talked to as many contractors as we could about this project, and uh not gotten. constructive criticism or decent feedback on this. It’s I don’t have a good excuse for this.

00:26:31,470	This is you had the quote from Denny’s in the spring, but Denny’s didn’t bid either time, um, the one bid we did get earlier this year was outrageously high. This time we got no bids at all um I just don’t understand it. I, to me from a technical standpoint, this project is not that complicated. Hm Uh, we did get some comments from Dennis today that we’ve, we’re gonna discuss that um my initial perusal of those comments.

00:27:00,100	Forgive my bluntness, but it’s kind of BS. uh, I appreciate that. Yeah. Thank you. So, I want to see how that’s going to come out in a minute. Oh, I, we will certainly continue to work with the Park District to get this done somehow.

00:27:32,700	Uh, there are limited options in that location, so that’s where we stand Susan Fields, take a couple questions? Certainly. Comm Jeske, President Zimmerman, so Susan, thank you. um. so define Bs for me.

00:27:53,000	So really, I, I understand what yes means, but, but what were some of their concerns or some of the rationales they gave for either not bidding or coming back, and then what’s executive Director Clipfel, what’s next steps? Do we put this back out again? Hopefully people are a little bit more hungry in 2026.

00:28:11,700	Um but it just kind of want to get some feedback from you on, on what were some of Denni’s concerns? Um, some of Denni’s concerns, and I did print off this list so I could address them. Um, they wanted to reduce the overall depth of the package lift station. which the list station has to be a certain volume to handle the amount of flow it’s going to receive and you could make it less deep, but you’d have to make it wider.

00:28:28,730	So you’d have to dig a bigger hole, wide. a wider hole, just not as deep. To me that’s a horse apiece. That’s a strange answer, yeah. They wanted to reduce the warranty from 5 years to 3 years, which I don’t recommend that.

00:28:54,900	They did note here that they wanted to, um, they wanted us to allow alternative manufacturers for the package station, which if you read the specs we based it on what we got from Dakota Pump, but if you could provide a approved equal it’s in the specs that you can do that.

00:29:18,900	um to they also said to reduce the requirements of the anti-flotation base to manufacturers’ requirements and you’re in a high groundwater area and a flood zone. reducing an anti-flotation device is not really a good idea. um and uh so yeah, that’s it in a nutshell. and then executive director Cliffel Woo next steps? What do we do? Try again? 3 strikes were out.

00:29:45,530	President Zimmerman, Comm, Comm Jesske, um, we, I think we want to sit down. These comments weren’t what Denny’s Elector got from their underground service companies. They had, they were trying to work with two different underground service providers and so I think we need to set up a meeting with Denny’s and these providers to find out, you know,

00:30:02,370	maybe dig in a little more detail to what their concerns are and if we can talk through them and make them feel comfortable with what we’ve laid out or at least make some, find some common ground there.

00:30:15,630	um you know, we’ve talked about alternatives, you know, we could put a drain field in that, in that for that facility which we already have, but you, you would take out a lot of trees. You can’t replant trees in that location.

00:30:28,370	So we didn’t think, we thought this was the best solution to the problem is to try to hook it up to the sanitary sewer system, so, and, and I would like to, um, if, if the board so uh approves that we would like to, you know, meet with those groups and try to figure out what the solution is and try to bid it out again so that we can get it done sometime.

00:30:47,500	Thank you. Comm Herzog. Thanks, President Zimmerman, and thank you, uh, uh, your two-letter comment. I understand, um. I guess my question is, uh, I’ve, so we get these, you know, or happen fairly frequently and then I’ll reach out to contractors and say, are we, do you not like, you know, working

00:31:07,270	with us or what’s the, you know, hanging out with us, so let’s get some bids, um, and, and the only thing they said was, you know, it’s been such a nice fall as well that they’re just kind of rushing to get like, even though this would be done, you know, next year and stuff.

00:31:21,630	Their crews are all great. We’ve got some extra warm weather. We’re just gonna keep pounding away on finishing projects this year and stuff.

00:31:36,900	So I feel like if we bit it again and and you go through those issues, and we might get luckier just from a timing perspective, if we bid in the next like I don’t know about Christmas, but you know when they’re before they’re committed in 2026, but what after they’ve kind of finished up this unusually nice warm fall as well. So thank you for everything. Comm Gilbertson The only thing I can think of is that the bathroom’s haunted, nobody wants to, to, to do it.

00:32:00,430	The, um, but I, I would make a motion to um direct uh director Cliff Fall and the appropriate staff to um meet with the um yourself is appropriate, but, um, meet with the uh the contractors and um come up with um a workable, viable plan that we

00:32:27,430	can, um, send to be rebid at an appropriate time. I’ll second that. Motion by Comm Gilbertson, seconded by Comm Redmand. Any further questions of Susan or uh director Klipfel. If you’d call the role Julie, Comm Gilbertson, I Herzog, yes Redman. Hi Jesske. Hi. President Zimmerman.

00:33:01,730	And again, Susan, my apologies for not recognizing you as you came up. But thank you for coming out. Thank you. And, uh, Mike Wald would, uh, stand at the podium for uh review and questions on the concession contracts. Good evening, Mike. Good evening, President Zimmerman and Commissioners, um, the Bismarck Park District opened 3 bids for Riverwood Golf Course Concessions on September 23rd.

00:33:25,070	The bids were from M K Ats, Bismarck Food Service, Dirty Bean LLC, classic Rock Cafe. We interviewed the top 2 candidates, um, Bismarck Food Service and Dirty Bean LLC on November 6th to discuss their plans for service of the Riverwood Golf Course.

00:33:51,730	The minimum sales percentage for food and beverages sales included excluding, excuse me, vending machines and alcoholic beverages after local and state sales tax was set at 15%. Dirty Be LLC bid 23% and Bismarck Food Service bid 22.2%. The minimum rent payment for the bid was $8800. Dirty Bean LLC submitted an amount of 28,500 each year in Bismarck Food Service submitted the amount of 27,000 each year.

00:34:24,270	Um, after reviewing the rent and sales percentages and interviewing the two vendors, stafff recommends the board accepting the bid provided by Dirty Bean LLC Classic Rock Cafe for the 26th and 27 golf season along with the proposed agreement in, in your packet. Thank you, Mike. I’ll ask if any commissioners have questions. We’ll start with Comm Gilbertson.

00:34:48,370	It, it’s awesome to see more than one come in on a concession thing that I don’t know that how many times that that’s happened, not very many. Um, are there any going to be any um specific or vastly noticeable changes in.

00:35:16,870	in um in going with with Dirty Bean, um, President Zimmerman, Comm, Comm Gilbertson, I think, you know, reviewing, um, Dirty Bean LLC’s menu was more robust, bigger, um, offered different varieties of food and breakfasts, so I think that’s probably where you’re going to see the biggest cool. Thank you Comm Redmand. No, nothing. Sorry. Comm Herzo Comm, thanks, President Zimmerman.

00:35:45,000	Kevin or Mike, um, so when we look at the monthly rental fee, it’s May through it was August, right? Um. or September, excuse me, in the, in the months that are not. May through September, um. and they do we have an opportunity to do anything else because they don’t have to be open necessarily right in those off months. Correct me if I’m wrong. I’m still new.

00:36:06,330	President Zimmerman, Comm, Comm Herzog, um usually what’s happened is if the course opens earlier, the, the, the vendor opens as well, or if it’s, if we happen to stay later or able to play later, excuse me, they. look at staying there Oh.

00:36:28,700	Uh, executive Dr Klipfel, President Zimmerman, Comm, Comm Herzog, and the one thing that we, we package the rent rates based on we, we know the golf, I mean, shouldn’t say this. We know the golf course is going to be open in May.

00:36:42,630	We know it’s going to be open through September and so that’s when we concentrate those payments knowing that the golf season in October and April could be a little suspect. OK. I guess my other question with that is, if we ever get snow and we can.

00:36:58,730	do cross country skiing, it’ll be nice sometimes if, if that’s open for other, you know, I don’t know, hot chocolate or something like that or opportunities to do that, um, if there are folks down there on those off months, so other than that, did you guys feel comfortable you interviewed the others, you feel comfortable with having somebody new. President Zimmerman, Comm, Comm Herzog, yes.

00:37:21,530	I’m ready to make a motion if there’s no further I’ll, I’ll entertain emotion. OK. I will make a motion that we accept the um concession vendor agreement from Dirty Bean LLClassic Rock Cafe for Riverwood Golf Course for the 26th and 27 season. Second. motion by Comm Jesskes second by Mr. Gilbertson. Any further discussions? If not, Julie, I’ll ask you to call the roll, please.

00:37:51,000	Comm Gilbertson. Hi. Herzog, yes, Redman, Jessy, I, President Zimmerman. All right, thank you, Mike. Thanks, Mike. Thank you for the presentation. The next item on the agenda is consideration of the human resource policy and procedure handbook updates. Our administrative service manager Julie Formschell will review the proposed updates for this handbook for consideration.

00:38:22,470	Thank you Julie, thank you, President Zimmerman and Commissioners attached in your packet, you will have the proposed changes to the HR Policy and procedure handbook.

00:38:41,730	Um, that has been reviewed by executive Director and myself and executive team members and the changes are to clean up the language to reflect the handbook’s development date with the most current approval date. It got to be kind of wordy when we had every approval date that’s been ever approved for the handbook. Also to update the Vision Mission and Core values as they were updated during our strategic planning session earlier this year.

00:38:59,730	Page 20 contains information about the seasonal and part-time employee benefits card. We implemented that in 23 as a trial basis, and now we’re adding that into our HR handbook Um, on 2 pages 23 and 25, we talk about, um district employees.

00:39:23,700	Well this handbook is for Park District employees, so we’re just taking out the word district and page 67 is just some formatting on that page that has always kind of, it hasn’t been consistent with the rest of the handbooks. I’m just proposing that we update the formatting. There’s no verbiage change on that page. So if you have any questions, I’ll be happy to try to answer them. Thank you, Julie.

00:39:40,330	Any questions for Julie? I move for approval of the proposed changes to the Park District’s, uh, HR policy and procedure handbook. One second. Motion by Comm Redmond, seconded by Comm Jeske. Any further discussion If not, Julie, if you’ll call the roll, please, Comm Gilbertson, I Herzog, yes, Redman, Jessy, I, President Zimmerman, I thank you, Julie, and and uh executive Director Klipfelld

00:40:10,230	for putting that together. It’s good to keep it up to date. Our next item on the agenda is the consent agenda, and please allow me to read our procedure on that. A variety of items have been placed in a consent agenda.

00:40:27,270	a consent agenda may be approved by one motion or an item or items can be removed for additional discussion and separate action. Staff recommends the approval of the following items. consideration of the October 16, 2025 board meeting minutes. Consider accepting the land donation from the Silberneel family, Sil Silver ranch Edition 18 LLP.

00:40:56,270	A letter was included in the packet, uh, asking the Park District to accept a donation of some property approximately 5.85 acres. The letter outlines from the Silberneel family, all the land would be developed and used. Next item was consideration of super slide extension addendum.

00:41:23,370	The owners of Super Slide have provided a letter to the commission confirming their intention to continue their agreement to operate the superslide amusement park within Ser Toma Park for year 6 through 10. The proposed operation addendum was included in the Park board of packet. Next item was a request authorization to select consultants for the 2026 projects.

00:41:50,630	Request board authorization to call for portable toilet bids, and operations Dave Director David Bearer has provided a memo a requesting authorization to call for bids. The last item is consideration to approve consultant for General Sibley Day. Use Area Road project consultant.

00:42:17,270	The park district has received funding of up to $300,000 from the special road fund program to assist with this project and the Park District needs to match 40% of the total project funds. It has been budgeted for the Park District for 2026 and the proposed budget will provide an asphalt overlay of the existing roadways, parking, and boat ramp within the day use portion of General Sibley Park. Commissioners, your wishes on the consent agenda. I move, uh, approval of the consent agenda as presented The second, a second.

00:42:47,170	Comm of motion by Comm Gilbertson, seconded by Comm Redman. Any further discussion? I just have if I may, um, we’re just. Comm Herzo? We’re missing a zero on the park district has received funding of 3, We’re missing 101 there, but I’m sure I’m.

00:43:09,630	They’ll send the check for the Approval of the consent agenda as presented with the addition of the appropriate 00, yeah. Last bullet. I got it. Any further discussion or comments? Before we take the vote, I just wanted, on a couple of those, um, I, I think more, I know the commissioners are certainly aware of the generosity of the Silberneagle family as we

00:43:33,270	develop our properties in the Silver ranch, um, division east of the city, but uh for folks to know that the Silberneel family has been, uh, working with of course the developers out there, but as well as the park district, uh, with their intent of developing some green space and some parks at Silver

00:43:52,900	Ranch. I would also like to publicly thank, uh, the families that, uh, Super Slide. um, that for continuing what I think is another gem in our park system.

00:44:11,000	It’s not operated by the park district, but certainly in Ser Toma Park and that has been a long standing great place for families to come and I’m glad to see that that family, uh, will continue operation at the super slide. I, I would ask, uh, we’re looking for a vote, but if any other commissioners wanted to make comments, that was quite a lengthy consent agenda.

00:44:30,230	Anyone else If not, Julie, I’ll ask you to call the roll, please. Comm Gilbertson. I Herzog, yes, Redman, Jesske, aye, President Zimmerman, I that, uh, concludes, uh, we have approval of the bills. Some moved. Second, motion by Comm Jesske, seconded by Comm Gilbertson. Any questions? If not, Julie, if you’ll call the roll, please. Comm Gilbertson, Herzog, yes, Redman.

00:44:58,000	Jessy. I, President Zimmerman. I before we Adjourn the meeting, I wish to thank our staff that are present here this evening and all of our, uh, staff, we had a uh recognition luncheon on Tuesday and I and all the commissioners, uh, appreciated the opportunity to uh visit. Oh, representative. There you go.

00:45:24,170	I had school Comm Gilbertson, I had, I had some pretty important school stuff to do. He’s at school. I, I had I had, uh, some previously scheduled meetings. You had to stay after it. Yes. Yes. That I, that I couldn’t get out of, yeah.

00:45:39,730	But yes, thank you to the staff, uh, it was enjoyable to, uh, to see all of you there and uh recognize some of you for your long service to the district. It certainly is evident in our programs and our facilities, the Bismarck Park District, and to everyone I extend a uh wishes for a joyous and thankful, uh, Thanksgiving, uh, holiday.

00:46:01,000	Any other commissioners wish to make any comments? If not, sorry, I know Halloween was a long time ago, but, uh, President Zimmerman, Commissioners, I got, I don’t think Spencer’s here, but I got to volunteer at the Halloween thing, which was awesome, uh, the Halloween carnival at the World War Memorial Building, and, um, Spencer was there.

00:46:21,870	There’s people running all over the place, so I just want, appreciate everybody’s time and either setting that up or tearing that down or volunteering. It was a, it was a fun event. So thank you guys. Thank, thank you.

00:46:38,430	The next regular board meeting of the Bismarck Board of Park Commissioners is December 18th, 2025, at 5:15 here in the fabulous Tom Baker