00:00:03,270 Oh, that’s a hard Good evening and welcome to the uh January 15, 2026 meeting of the Bismarck Board of Park Commissioners I called the meeting to order and I’ll ask Julie to please call the roll. Comm Gilbertson here. Herzog here, Redman here, Jessy here. 00:00:25,730 President Zimmerman, here, the second item on the agenda is approval of, oh, excuse me. Second item is the Pledge of Allegiance. If we would all rise, if you wish, and join us in the pledge. 00:00:47,630 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. Thank you for joining us in the pledge. Uh, now I would ask, uh, for a motion for approval of the agenda. Second, moved by Comm Jeske, seconded by Comm Redmand. Any further discussion? If not, Julie, if you’d call the roll, please, Mr. Gilbertson. 00:01:17,630 Herzog, yes, Redman, aye, Jessy, a President Zimmerman, a Next item on the agenda is our featured partners and programs. and we are, uh, honored to have with us this evening the interim president of Bismarck State College, Dr Dan Langang, and he’s going to appear before our board and the community and give us an update on the, uh, Bismarck State College Bavendic 00:01:38,070 Center. Good evening, Dr Langang. Thank you, President Zimmerman. Commissioners, thank you for allowing me to be here tonight and share out some, some good news about our progress and and really a another way to enhance our partnership that we already have in place, um. 00:01:57,070 I’m channeling the Green Jacket today as a billboard for Bismarck State College, but also one of my mentors, uh President Skogan, uh, who was a very instrumental in some of our earlier partnerships together, and he was always a, a very well-dresser, uh, snazzy dresser. I don’t have those opportunities. So when I have an opportunity, I’ll take it. So. 00:02:14,630 um, I’m here to share a bit uh about our, our building. I was asked to do a, a short presentation on the progress and maybe give some insight in terms of the facility and, and, and um what we have available for our public and our community. 00:02:33,870 And so with that being said, I’ll advance here. So our Bavendic Center. uh, is, uh, is our new athletic facility that will be on our campus. So, uh, north of 80,000 square feet. This will house most of our indoor, uh, athletic, uh, competitive events, uh, volleyball in the fall, basketball, uh, wrestling as well. 00:03:01,700 It’ll allow for our, our athletes to train indoors, and I’ll show some of those spaces, um, shortly, but essentially it’s, it’s an add-on to our campus and for this community. And what I mean by that is, uh, when we conceptualize this facility. We absolutely needed to do more work for our athletic programs. 00:03:23,500 uh, as you know or may know, are uh athletes are now competing at the NAIA level, uh, which is a shift just this fall, uh, from where we had been competing at the junior college ranks previously. The facility that we use for most of our indoor sports, the armory. 00:03:45,900 uh, well established in the community and, um, as, uh, has some limitations and, and as we’ve uh progressed over the years, some of those limitations became much more aware, uh, aware, uh, from facilities for showers, um, to just the, the court itself, um, having volleyball matches in that facility was always a home, um, crowd advantage because of the ceiling. The rafter monsters always grab that volleyball and it did us better than the other teams. 00:04:08,970 Um, the basketball court, of course, create, uh, a nice facility. That court is not regulation length. And so when you have some very large individuals running up and down the court and trying to move around. It was always seemed tighter for our home games versus when they’re on the road. 00:04:25,470 So having an opportunity to really take and expand what we can do for our athletes, but for our students and for the community. That was what set out this project. This is an auxiliary facility, meaning no state funds goes to this in construction. 00:04:44,630 We have, uh, private donors as well as student support, um, that went, uh, to the construction of this facility. Much like the student support that went in front of the aquatic center that was shared, shared facility that we have, um, our students contribute to that facility as well with student fees. 00:05:04,970 And so this, uh, facility is very anchored in terms of local support and, and usage uh is what we will definitely want to see. So a list of some of the um items that are part of this that I want to highlight for our community partners, um, facility-wise, I think most people, if they’ve been near campus, have seen the, the 00:05:24,170 building as it’s uh uh risen, um, to it where it is today. Uh, co-located with the Aquatic Center, uh, right across the parking lot. Also adjacent to the community bowl. So really, we have an anchoring now of 3, facilities that will only enhance and and support this community. 00:05:48,370 What we see for general community usage, uh, when we designed this facility. uh, certainly we wanted a larger one. You always want larger, and then the realities of, of the financing and the budget make the facility turn into what you want. or what you wind up with. 00:06:07,600 However, with the planning that we did put into place on the 2nd floor of this facility, it’s going to be a three-level, um, um uh building The first floor, uh, main entrance, uh, we’ll have a lot of our coaching offices, uh, and, um, you know, the, uh, we’ll have an e-sports, uh, location for one of our, uh, sports. 00:06:29,500 We’ll have a, uh, facility for our athletes to train and work out in. Um, and then also we’ll have wrestling, uh, training, uh, within that facility. So, currently our wrestling programs uh share space with um Matt Pack in town. 00:06:50,470 and, um, so we’ll be able to have, uh, a size, essentially a room large enough for two full-sized wrestling, uh, mats for the training during the offseason and during season. And then, of course, competition within the main arena. Uh, 2nd floor has, uh, uh, an interesting setup. 00:07:11,000 Uh, we have a nutrition bar, uh, similar to some of the things that we’ve tried to do within the aquatic center, uh, for community to have access to healthier, uh, drinks and food items. And, um, we also have a designed so that it essentially it could be a walking track all the way around, um, the facility. 00:07:28,100 Now, don’t ask me how long that loop is, or how many times you need to go around for a mile, but, uh, we want that type of um access to our community, especially indoor. We’ve had, um, uh, the need for indoor walking. We’ve seen some of that in the news even recently. 00:07:45,730 And so the ability for our community to have access to that space, um, that’s something we wanted to, we planned upfront for, and it will materialize. Um, also within that space, um, we have a climbing wall, and I’ll show some images of that. Uh, this climbing wall will make available for community during some of our events, or games that are there. 00:08:05,600 It’ll be certainly available for our students to use, uh, for different, um, activities, and then, um, on this, uh, building, the 3rd floor is where we’ll have most of our suites, so we have a number of suits, um, that, uh, are available and have been um reserved and purchased. We will have a food court up there as well as media access and locations for, for all of that. 00:08:29,500 So when you look at the entirety of this pro um facility. The main arena itself where, as I said, we’ll have the ability to do, um, you know 2000 seeding to have, uh, basketball, volleyball, wrestling, all within that space. 00:08:49,800 The, uh, bleachers, of course, will retract and then you have access to two courts, uh, 2 basketball or two volleyball courts, that’ll be side by side. And so there’s opportunities for our partnerships to uh include, you know, things that I was involved with, uh, men’s league basketball to, uh, having different uh tournaments or events on our campus within this community. 00:09:09,470 Uh, we’re also looking to engage closely with schools, um, potentially hosting, uh, two different tournaments in that space. And so really trying to create a space that can benefit our community. 00:09:29,270 and then also not, uh, keeping in mind that access to the aquatic center and the community bowl in this facility, that proximetry will want to capitalize on that as well. So when you look at some of the images for this, and I hope this comes through to our viewers online, uh, well enough. 00:09:49,100 Some of these are renderings, um, what you see on the, uh, left side of the screen, you see the wrestling room, which will have two, full size wrestling, uh, matts in for the training. uh, at the, if I’m going counterclockwise, the, uh, the facility for working out, we will have not only the weights and the training equipment, but also a turf indoor track where they can do sprints and do groundwork like that. So that’ll uh be something. 00:10:11,900 for our track athletes when they’re indoor season, um, or indoor itself. uh is weather can be an issue in this city and this community. If you haven’t heard that before. Um, at the 6 o’clock of the screen, you can see in rendition of what the arena will look like in a basketball setting. 00:10:30,070 As I mentioned before, 2000 seating. um, this is gonna bring an environment that is, um, not super large, but for a lot of our events that we like to have, um, you know, you hear a lot of times, especially out east in, in uh Fargo when some of these uh, events are held in these 00:10:49,900 large arenas, it just seems so big and it’s so, you know, empty. And so this is what we thought is a great size for a very energetic environment, but also, um, we want to put good competition on that floor as well. And so our student athletes competing at that highest level. 00:11:09,600 And so again, you can see the setup with the seating all the way around and then, um, at the top level with the um sweets that are, uh, uh, set up. And then as you continue cloner clockwise, some of the seating options. 00:11:27,800 This is the, um, a, a view or rendition of the uh food court that would be, uh, food area that would be on the top level, um, that could be rented out to different organizations. 00:11:43,900 Um, we want to partner with a lot of nonprofits and different groups to not only encourage individuals to come to these games, but then get, get back to those organizations as well as part of the, uh, ticketing structure that we have when we highlight or, you know, sponsor some of these organizations. Um, and then locker room facilities, um, as such, the middle picture is, is where the court is today. 00:12:08,330 Uh, the painting, we, uh we’ve had some delays and um this is interesting. So my, my father was involved with Manan Public Schools for, for his entire career practically, and he was buildings and grounds, uh, focused, and I remember the court going, the, the court being remodeled and manned in high school with the woodcourt that went in at that time. 00:12:27,000 Um, what we’re seeing now with a lot of these courts that are being installed, and this is happening all across the country, is that they’re having difficulties trying to get the humidity levels in the facility to a certain point where they can actually complete and finish the court. So that happened to us. We got delayed and so. 00:12:47,270 where this Court is today should have been maybe a month and a half ago, and so just to get a sense of that, that impact. So we’re starting to lay down some of the lines, the paint for the, the uh basketball will be, the volleyball will go in next, and then you’ll see the bleachers 00:13:05,000 going in afterwards and everything that will finalize this project. Um, in the top right corner you can see the climbing wall, um, that is a picture of what it looks like today. And, uh, that’ll be a, a fun, uh, so I encourage any of you to come to that first game that we host. 00:13:23,630 I will definitely rig, I won’t rig you up, but I’ll make sure that you’re set correctly and then if you want to scale that wall, that offer is yours, and they’ll definitely be there to take pictures and watch from the bottom. 00:13:39,100 Uh, but this, uh, again, uh, as a, uh, sort of a, a community draw. um we know the role that Bismarck State College can play in the community in terms of, um, community building. 00:13:58,270 We want this to be a centerpiece for that, uh, it’s on the athletic side and, and the activity side and so we definitely are looking to continue to partner with, with Pars, with schools, and with those within the community to make this a special place for as many as possible, um, not to mention, of course, our students. 00:14:14,870 So again some of the benefits as we’ve mentioned earlier that, uh, nutrition bar, the walking track, I think that’ll be really, um, key, especially for those that are looking to be inside during the wintertime to get out and have a, a, a time together and, and, uh, to do that walk. Some of the hosting of events that we can do, uh, for sure. 00:14:32,630 Uh, the support, as I said, this was, you know, really surprising the students and the interest in this, uh, as, as I’m showing here, without student support, this would not have happened. Um, I dare say it would have been more difficult even for the aquatic center to happen without that student support. 00:14:52,370 and 80% of our students at that time voted for this, uh, facility. Keeping in mind that those students that did that vote will not be the students at the college right now. And so there’s that commitment to future and it’s more a commitment to what the community can gain from this. 00:15:09,330 Um, and so, uh, we will be looking to open this facility most likely in April. So the latest, uh, dates that we have is, uh, towards the middle to end of April, we’ll receive, uh, the facility, um and then our first event that will most likely be hosting in there will be our commencement ceremony on May 15th. 00:15:26,470 So this will be the, the, uh, the big event. We will have an open house and we’ll be inviting members of this group. and the community to that, uh, we’ll probably be doing that in early May. and, uh, we’re just super excited about this. So, I, I stand for questions. 00:15:45,100 uh, for many of you, and, um, like I said, just continue to look forward to our continued partnership, not only on this facility, but others. Thank you, Dr Lanang, uh, Comm Jesske Uh, thank you, Dr Langang, for coming here. 00:16:07,000 I have to say I’m so impressed with, um, not just this facility but also with the polytechnic, um, building. We’ve had a chance to tour with the business development team that I lead at Provera and, uh, phenomenal. I love some of the unique features like the polytechnic where you’re able to pull the um, bleachers back, you’re kind of doing the same thing here. 00:16:24,600 I, I think that’s a fantastic use of space, um and then also, you know, just to give you kudos too for Mystic Smiles, um, I think that’s a fantastic program that has been added to the community to help those pediatric dental patients that probably don’t have dental insurance to get that done. 00:16:43,430 One question I have for you, I know your enrollment is off the charts. So what is the percentage of student athletes that, um, participate at BSC and then also uh following up for the walking track. Is there a charge to walk in the track? OK, great question. So President Zimmerman, Comm, uh, Jesske, other commissioners. Great questions. 00:17:02,100 Uh, thank you, uh, and thank you for the call out and Mystic Smiles. I remember us speaking at that, uh, opening event and again it’s more of a theme of what we’re trying to do as a, as a member of this community. It’s, it’s, it’s all about sharing and and engaging in the community and that’s what the college is all about. 00:17:17,470 So first of all, to the easier question, I think with the, um, walking track, no, there would not be a charge to access the facility to come on in and, and to do your walk, um, and so, you know, as we get to logistics of it all and you 00:17:30,430 know, the access to the building, there won’t be a charge for that. Um, regarding the enrollment trends, and yes, our enrollment um continues, uh, so we just started, uh, the spring semester, uh, just this week, and so Bismarck State College, and I could talk all day long about this. 00:17:51,630 I’ll I’ll try to keep this really tight, but, uh, we, we have enjoyed a very solid, uh, period of growth at the college. Uh, we’ve had 7 semesters back to back to back where every semester we’ve risen in enrollment. 00:18:16,170 Um, this past fall, we had our highest enrollment by headcount ever at the college and this spring, so typically in colleges and universities, typically the fall enrollment compared to the spring enrollment, the, the spring enrollment drops a little bit because students maybe stop out, maybe they transfer to another institution. There’s, you know, some sort of uh disruption. 00:18:37,000 We have not seen that, so we’ve had 7 semesters in a row where the fall enrollment was high, Spring was higher, then the next fall was higher than the previous spring, and the spring was higher, so we’ve had that 7 years in a row or 7 semesters in a row. And right now this spring we’re projecting to be about 8 to 10% higher. 00:18:51,530 We’re already at goal, uh, in 4 weeks is when we have our, our goal for enrollment or measurement of enrollment. So we’ve seen continued growth and it’s connected to a lot of different things, as you mentioned, I think polytechnic mission change is one of those. As a proportion of our, our students. 00:19:11,600 So our headcount for students this fall was at, uh, just north of 4500 students. That’s headcount. Now keep in mind that’s not all full time. We have a lot of part-time students as well as full-time. We had about 299, almost 300 student athletes. at the start of the fall semester So you get a sense of what that percentage is. 00:19:34,070 For other colleges that we compete against in the state of North Dakota. We’re very low number ractio wise of athletes to total students. Um, but we will continue to grow. We know that. We have enrollment projections where our goals put us nearer to 6000 to 65, 100 students by 2030. 00:20:01,330 That’s our, our enrollment pattern and growth, uh, goals and with the introduction of football. fall of 27. a football team, you can just safely say about 113 to 120 student athletes. They bring a number of people with them. Just that change again is going to be another jump. 00:20:23,800 Um, not to mention the number of students that are also from a traditional historically as a community college, now we have more 4-year programming. We’re going to see many more students at the 3rd and 4th year level, living in Bismarck, staying in Bismarck. uh, taking advantage of, of our facilities in Bismarck, and it’s just a big change for our campus. 00:20:41,900 So long answer to your, your direct question. I apologize because I can, I get excited about this. Um, we don’t have a very large percentage, uh, which is, is a good place for us to be at, so you’re not over reliant on, on that population. and women’s wrestling, uh, that’s new this year. It is. 00:21:02,800 Thank you for the question. Yes, this fall, first season fall ends spring. They’re competing right now. And, um, we have had some great success. Uh, I think we have some potential national qualifiers for the very first year and keep in mind that many of these athletes are freshman. 00:21:25,630 wrestling against juniors and seniors potentially, so, um, they will continue to, to grow in strength, so it’s very exciting. My cousin’s daughter. uh, Alexis Schneider. Yes. Yeah. So there’s experienced her first loss. Superstars. That she’s ever had. 00:21:44,370 She went pretty much her whole, I think since freshman year to senior year went undefeated and Napoleon and she experienced her first loss to my aunt said she took it a little hard, but she said she always learns when she loses. I hope she doesn’t like that. Yeah. And then turns it, right? You don’t want to do that. 00:22:01,630 So, um, yeah, she, she said she used to wrestle against the, uh, the boys just to, you know refine her skills a little bit, but yeah, she’s really enjoying the program, so Wonderful St student athletes. 00:22:17,000 Uh, we love them, uh, just because they’re focused also on, on the school, and that’s what’s really what’s, you know, I enjoy as a, as an educator myself to see that passion for, you know, not only competing at the highest level, but having success also in the classroom. Thank you. Yeah Comm Redmand, just more of a comment. There’s never seems to be a dull moment at Bismarck State College. You can really feel that, um, on campus just, um, being there and, and feeling the excitement. 00:22:34,700 So Bavendic Center gets open and then we’re gonna be starting on a new dormitory, and we’re really excited for that too, because hoping all those students will want to, of course, work at the aquatic center because they can just walk right over there. 00:22:45,800 So just wanted to congratulate you on all the successes at BSC. So thanks for your partnership. Thank you. Dr Lanang, again, thank you for, uh, presenting this evening. I would, what I enjoy is if I go up to the campus and you drive down by the bowl. and you look back east to the Bavend Di Center. 00:23:05,170 It’s a pretty good view. You got the bowl, you got the Bavendic Center, and you got the Aquatic Center there as well. So 3 good facilities right there. So, if you’re out driving around on our nice winter mornings or winter days here just drive up there and take, take a look. Thank you, Dr Langang. Thanks for coming out this evening. 00:23:21,630 Thank you all. Appreciate it. Next, we have our own Spencer Awnie is going to give us an update on Flurryfest. and he’s talked to the National Weather Service, and they’ve promised winter weather. Good evening, Spencer. 00:23:47,270 Good evening, President Zimmerman, Comm, executive Director Klipfel, um, I don’t know how well we trust the weather service, but we can hope, right? Um Flurry Fest is our celebration of winter. It’s our opportunity to really encourage people to get out and enjoy these cold months we have. Holidays have passed, Snow and ice is still on the ground. 00:24:08,600 So we kind of just have to embrace it, um, our goal is really to provide free or low cost opportunities for everyone in our community, different skill levels, different interests, different ages, um, just give them options to try something new, try something different, get out, be active during these colder months. 00:24:29,900 Uh, a few of the highlighted events that we have going on this year are always popular citywide treasure hunt is going to run February 16th to 20th. Um, I know Dana is really hoping that there’s a little more snow on the ground this year, so it makes hiding it a little easier. 00:24:44,470 Um, our movie on ice, we’re gonna do up at VFW rink 3 this year. Um, we’re gonna show Mighty Ducks 2, kind of with the theme of the Olympics. So, throw that in there, we’re going to do that on February 17th, the day that there’s no school. Uh, we had really good success the last couple of years doing it that way. 00:24:58,700 Um, those give those kids a few different things to do on those days off. Um, we have our S’mores walk, skiing Glow, again, both weather very weather dependent, but also very popular if the weather’s good, um, our skate with the Bobcats on February 15th. 00:25:15,800 Always a fan favorite, um, that one, luckily we do have the indoor option if it come, if it comes to it, so that’s in place too, so we will be able to do that regardless of weather, but it is always more fun to do that one outside. um Another fun one, we’re going to try this year. 00:25:32,000 We’re going to partner with the Rocking Cloggers, the Rock and Cloggers, which is a local clogging group, um, so they are welcoming us into a little intro to clogging, um, on February 12th, if anyone wants to try it, just want to see what it’s about. Um, they said they’d love to have anyone. They’d teach any skill level of any coordination level. 00:25:51,170 Um, so I think that’ll be a really fun new partnership we can kind of start with, um, but yeah, then there’s a bunch of other events going on. This is still a draft. We have a few more things to finalize. Um, before we’re gonna push it out, but it should be pretty close to final as is. 00:26:08,630 And I love this event just so much, just because, like July celebration incorporates all aspects of the Park District, indoor, outdoor, um and it gives an opportunity for everyone, whether you’re whatever your enjoyments are, whatever hobbies you have, um, this just gives an opportunity for anyone to try something new, try a new 00:26:29,100 facility, or just go out and do what they love, so. any questions at all Questions for Spencer I have a comment. I have seen the rock and cloggers, that they came to German days, and they do. They rock and they’re super fun and wear cool outfits. 00:26:47,100 So people should take it in. It, it is a good, good time, but thank you for everything you’re doing and everybody, for getting all the events ready to go for, for Flourryfest. Spencer, I have a question. 00:27:05,270 uh if folks, I, you know, I see like uh ski and glow and you know, the various events that would be weather or snow conditions. they call the district office to check if they’re still on or canceled or what, what can we say to give folks, you know, how they can make sure what’s going or what might be canceled. Yeah. 00:27:25,000 President Zimmerman, Commissioners, um we’re going to do our best to keep the community updated, whether that’s Facebook posts, um, alerts across our website. Anyone is welcome to call in, um, and ask for me. I will gladly give them the best answer I can at the time. 00:27:39,470 Um, but being so weather dependent, the best thing to do is keep an eye on our websites and Facebook pages as soon as we make a decision, the answer will be up there. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Spencer. And I, yeah, I guess folks, uh, we all hear often that, oh, there’s nothing to do in the wintertime. Well, here’s a whole month’s worth of activities, so please avail yourself of that. 00:27:57,600 Our next item on the agenda is uh South Bismarck flood control project update and we have with us this evening city engineer Gabe Schell and uh Gabe, uh, thanks for coming out this evening and uh let’s have an update on that project. All right, thank you for having me. 00:28:25,470 Uh, thank you, Comm President Zimmerman, as you mentioned, my name is Gabe Schell, here to speak to you on behalf of the city of Bismarck on our flood protection project we have in South Bismarck. Uh, before I begin, I just want to maybe reiterate our thanks of, of the coordination that we’ve had to date. 00:28:37,870 Uh, we’re super appreciative of uh, the energies that your staff has expanded to to work through scenarios as we try to find out what solutions would work with, uh, for us, uh, to provide FEMA certified flood protection and South Bismarck. So we thank you for that. Uh, we’ll do a, a short refresher. 00:28:54,330 The last time I was before you, I think was April of last year. So just kind of give a refresher of, of where we’re at, uh, some of the things we’ve done since then, and then uh we’ll get into some of the details of our alternative that we have selected and then what our next steps will look like. 00:29:09,000 Uh, so as a refresher, uh, this is the crash course highlights Cliff note version. Um, you guys have seen it before, but just to kind of refresh everyone’s memory here, uh, in 2024, FEMA updated the flood plain, mapping in South Bismarck in particular, uh, but really throughout, uh, Bismarck, 00:29:23,470 but in South Bismarck, we added about 950 structures to the flood map in those structures, as you see here in the list of a variety of types of structures, some single family homes, some schools, some infrastructure facilities. Uh, if that structure is a structure that is backed by a federal mortgage. 00:29:46,070 It is required now to pay flood insurance for, for that structure until I guess indefinitely until the flood plain changes either through an infrastructure improvement like we’re trying to do or through some other, other matter. 00:30:05,900 Uh, thankfully, the city of Bismarck was awarded a $50 million grant through FEMA to remove many of these properties from the floodplains through some of the improvements that we had noted. Um, so the picture on the left is what the floodplain looks like now. That’s our effective floodplain as the 2024. The picture on the right is what we were shooting for when we applied for that money, uh, for in that grant program with FEMA. 00:30:22,800 The initial alternative that we developed was a concept that looked like this with focuses on, let me skip those. highlighter here Um, all of our improvements will have something on the South Washington gate structure where, where the South Bismarck drainage ditch crosses South Washington Street. 00:30:43,000 This particular improvement had a stormwater pond on some airport property as well as then that being interconnected to the storm sewer system to help create really what was effectively one large pond that would then hold back water during a flood event and then this pump station would pump that water out during the times when that gate was closed. 00:30:58,000 As we continued our coordination and and spoke with our partners at the FAA and at the state level in the air in the Bismarck airport. Uh, there was concerns about, uh, air strikes or the ability for a bird to strike an airplane. So that’s why we pivoted at that time to the Bismarck Expressway option, which is shown on the right hand of the screen. 00:31:15,600 So my next slide will get to more details about what that Bismarck Expressway option entailed. Uh, this is pretty much the time at which we as the city started engaging with you as the park board because we saw impacts would be in Clem Kelly. Uh, we initially looked at some ponds within Clem Kelly. 00:31:31,270 Eventually we’re able to come to an alternative that increased the sizes of the pipes along expressway, uh, to minimize the impacts to Clem Kelly, but all that obviously comes with a cost. 00:31:44,600 So that cost was was allocated there, uh, and then the last I spoke to you would have been last April where we said we, we found a solution that would still need some land from the Park District. Uh, but we’ll be able to push much of that infrastructure to the south side of Park District property and, and have a temporary impact during construction, but then be out of your hair once that improvement is done, we can put 00:32:00,270 grass back on top of whatever that infrastructure would look like. So the activity since then, uh, would have been the, the, the finding final touches of the North Dakota legislative process, so we worked with the North Dakota legislature to, to secure some funding for this improvement, um, since that, uh, 00:32:15,000 since session ended, we’ve also had a lot of coordination, particularly with the North Dakota Department of Transportation, Bismar Expressway is their corridor, so we, we started coordinating with them of what their expectations if we put this large pipe for this large conduit in their right of way, what will they need to do and 00:32:30,900 what rules do they need to follow? So those, as we started, uh, every, every conversation we had with someone, no one really said, here’s something that’s cheaper that we found. It’s always more expensive. Here’s another thing that we have to add to the budget. 00:32:42,100 And so we take that into account with as many contingencies as we can when we’re planning, but as we start eating those contingencies, then we’re now just adding real costs on top of what we’re planning for. 00:32:55,470 Um, same could be said for some of the adjacent private landowners as we looked at ways to minimize costs and minimize impacts to the traveling public. Uh, we could put some of those costs on or, or improvements on, let’s say the Kirkwood Mall parking lot or in the ID Ford parking lot and those negotiations were were good and everyone was willing to work with us, but when it comes to 00:33:08,270 those things and you have to start moving a sign, those things have costs. So things that we might do to lessen the public impact, might have an increase to that project cost in order to do so. 00:33:23,170 Lastly on here has been a lot of coordination as well with our state and federal regulatory agencies both from, I should say bothre regulatory perspective and a funding perspective. Many of these are, are doing double duty in that way. 00:33:39,900 Uh, North Dakota Department of Water Resources, we have funding through the state that’s administered through the Department of Water Resources and the state Water Commission, so working very closely with their staff on understanding what’s eligible in their cost share formulas, uh, as well as taking their feedback to heart in terms of what those alternatives, uh, how they fit into their funding systems, uh, that North Dakota Department of Emergency Services is the pass through agency, uh, that we would receive our FEMA dollars through. 00:33:56,870 So that’s the state agency that receives FEMA dollars, so we’re working with both NDDES as well as FEMA directly as F E M A finishes the environmental impacts of of what this alternative would look like and works with us on some of the funding components as well and as we can see, any, anything that’s federal at this point in time comes with a little 00:34:11,800 sensitivity of knowing, is this gonna be here? Uh, and we have at least at this point in time no indication that this funding is, uh, at risk of, of not being funded. 00:34:26,270 This is a program that was, is still there and it’s still being funded as far as we know, but things change very quickly sometimes at the federal government level and state government and even local government and so I can’t make any promises that that, that I won’t have a future update that, that changes that statement as well So this is, was the summary of what we were sitting at at the time, uh, that we went through 00:34:39,070 legislature that would have been probably a similar number that I shared with you last April, uh, of what the project looks like. Um, we have that FEMA dollars that were granted initially was for the design work and we have until July of 2027 to really finish our design and have our project 00:34:54,530 ready for bid and, and have our maps completed and have everything ready to go to start construction. Uh, that would be by July of 2027. Um, as we look at the, the graph on the right, that’s the funding break up that would, that match the $172 million that we had spoken before with 50 of that coming 00:35:10,530 from FEMA. We were able to secure $17 million during the legislative process. That’s that light green, um, I guess medium green, we’ll call it on this particular map, that there’s also a 2. 00:35:27,100 4 really light green, but that did still leave a $53 million request that we would have for the state in a future biennium, as well as a pretty hefty local share of $49 million for this improvement. So really it was about this summer, you know, June, July time frame that we said, well, before we finish this Bismarck alternative, this Bismarck Expressway alternative. 00:35:43,630 Let’s just make sure that we have uncovered every loose stone that might be there and let’s make sure that we have the best alternative to move forward with because we’ll get to a point that we need to have something done by July of 2027, and we don’t really have any more time really to, to go down a path that we can’t finish. 00:35:55,730 So before we do that, let’s just, let’s just reset one last time. And through that process uh, we, we came back to another option that we had previously discarded, uh, because of some of the downstream impacts that this might have caused, but this option here and I’ll have some slides later that’ll get into more details, really focuses the improvements to the 00:36:15,630 existing South Bismarck drainage ditch. So it takes the ditch that’s there, uh, and even initially when the ditch was master planned, uh, you’ll, you’ll note that the right of way that’s there, the the piece of land that the city owns is much wider than the actual ditch. 00:36:29,900 The ditch is a portion of it then the trails a portion of it, and there’s just a lot of land out there. So it was always envisioned and always programmed that an entity like the city could come in and remove a bunch of this, uh, extra dirt that’s down there and widen the channel to make 00:36:43,470 more capacity and make additional improvements in that area. So really we’re just taking advantage of what the, the original master plan would have been for this area to use it for flood protection purposes, so we would still have a, a now even larger South Washington uh Pump station, uh, we to, to cover this because in the 00:37:01,630 previous iteration we were offsetting some of those flows by pulling them off of Bismarck expressly, but now all this water is going to come to this area. So we have to have a pump station that could adequately handle it. 00:37:14,370 All the purple area that we have here is the widening and just be all to the north is, is really where it would be. So everything to the south, the ditch kind of goes up to the property line, but to the north, there’s, there’s flat land within there. 00:37:28,900 And then we would be improving in the capacity of, of the South 3rd Street crossing as well as the Wachter Avenue crossing, and when I say improving the capacity, I mean removing the box culverts that are there and replacing them with bridges is most likely the choice that we will select so that we can have one just really large pond that has a lot of great conveyance between the two, between all of 00:37:40,900 the reaches of this facility, uh, that can then make that pump station be as efficient as it can be, um, to move that water out of there. Um, hopefully this comes across and might zoom in to these ones here. 00:38:06,900 So this, this next slide just was a series of typical sections showing what that cross section looks like of the existing corridor. So we’re showing that 200 ft wide piece of land that the city owns some trees on the north side, the trail on the north side, uh, and then the existing drainage way kind of shown there uh more so on the south side of the corridor. 00:38:24,270 What we’ll find during our proposed conditions is we’ll go out and excavate that north portion of it. We’ll keep the bottom of the ditch the way it is. We’re really not changing, um, the elevations of anything. We’re just adding capacity and storage is what we’re trying to do with this improvement. 00:38:38,800 But in doing so, there would be trees that would be impacted because we’ll be looking at all of this in order for us to to find the that Goldilocks moment of impacts of what we can take out without taking out a tree unnecessarily, but there could be tree impacts as well as the existing multi-use trail that’s there. 00:38:55,730 That’s another thing that’s being considered, uh, in terms of if we would, um, impact the trail or just grade right up to the trail. It’s still something that we’re trying to figure out what we would do, um, if in, in a situation where the trail was impacted, we would be restoring it, you know, further north, 5 00:39:09,100 ft 10 ft, whatever it might be, uh, but there, and regardless of if it’s impacted or not during construction, it would likely be closed even if the payment itself was fine, that’ll be the middle of the construction zone during that time. 00:39:24,630 And when we are done we would expect something that looks like this, um, so still no, no right of way acquisition required from the adjacent properties, you know, impacts to any of the trees or or anything outside of the city’s property, but the trail will be reestablished. 00:39:38,100 Uh, we put a tree in there, smaller this time around because you recognize any mature tree that’s out there, we’re not going to be putting back a 40-foot cottonwood. We’ll be putting back a smaller thing that will grow again to be that in the future. Uh, but then we will have a lower regulatory flood plain by 3 or so feet with this improvement is what we’re ultimately aiming for. 00:39:56,600 Uh, my last slide related to uh impacts here. This is a zoom in view of the South Washington gate structure where we would be removing the triple cell box that is currently, uh, crossing the, the, the box culvert if you’re, uh, or the, the cool, excuse me, the, the drainage ditch. 00:40:13,230 If you’re driving on South Washington, you might not even know that you’re going across it as you just drive across. There’s not a bridge structure, it’s just box culvert’s underneath the road. 00:40:27,600 We would be replacing the triple C cell with uh something that has 5 cells wide, so we’re improving once again the the conveyance through there and putting a closure structure at this location so that when it is flooding and the river is at a high elevation, we’re able to close those gates, uh, but not flood ourselves out from interior. 00:40:40,370 If we have a rain event while it is in a during a flood stage, we’re able to use these pumps to then evacuate the water and pump it out from the ditch and then onto the, the high side or the riverside during that event. I do want to note a couple of comments, and this is where we’ll, we’ll focus on our impacts as it relates to parks, facilities. 00:41:01,230 do So we recognize that moving the uh, the north side of the embankment through here would have impacts to the existing trail or the, the bridge that crosses the the creek or the, the drainage ditch at that location. 00:41:16,870 We’re still evaluating what it would look like to replace that bridge outright, uh, modify the bridge just to add length to it so that it can stay in its location, but just have a longer span because now that north side will need to expand another 30 ft or whatever that length might look like. 00:41:31,700 Uh, we’re also looking at options of incorporating the concept of that crossing just into a wider bridge crossing or box culvert crossing so that it’s not independent of the, the trail network, uh, and the South Washington, but we’re just pulled the trail in closer to South Washington. 00:41:45,730 Uh, we’re kind of playing through all those numbers at this point in time to see what the costs are, if it’s more effective or or impactful to widen the box culvert a little bit more to make that accommodation compared to resetting the bridge. 00:42:03,370 Uh, we’re also looking at opportunities if, if that bridge is reset, where could it be reset to? Are there other locations, other drainageways, other park district property, uh, or even city property that could use a bridge of that length that could be implemented or integrated somewhere else into the community so it’s not just scrapped or salvaged in that way. 00:42:20,730 So that is something we’ll be continuing to work with, uh, your Park District staff on potential options there and I guess it’ll be, uh, at their discretion, at your discretion to figure out how much of those types of decisions come, come back to you as a board and how much of those are more at a, at a staff level, um, some of these types of issues. 00:42:38,000 So my last, uh, slide on costs is that thankfully we’re doing all these changes and we do see uh I guess dramatic cost savings and doing it this way. So we’re not seeing the improvements. 00:42:50,970 If you’re driving on Bismarck Expressway when we’re looking at some of our models, uh, the rain will go up to the same elevation that you see today, it might only be there for one hour instead of 2 hours, so there’ll still be an impact and a benefit to the public, but if we get done with this project and the public says well it’s still flooding on expressway, we’ll, we’ll have a large amount of us is, is public 00:43:05,230 information to explain what this project will do and won’t do. So even though we might build this huge thing and get all these properties out of the floodplain. 00:43:16,800 There’s always a bigger event and there’s always a stormwater event that would cause flooding in the streets, and that’s just how Bismarck is and that’s how every community is. You can never build it big enough to take care of all of your problems, or else it’s, uh, financially, uh, consequential. So our new cost estimates that we’d say, see here is still that $50 million from FEMA. 00:43:31,370 Uh, we would be back to the state with now a $10 million or a little north of $10 million request for the typical funding patterns, uh, that the state can employ at the next session and then leaving a $20 million local cost for the city of Bismarck to, to fund locally. 00:43:50,000 So our next steps, these are kind of our, our at least next couple of months’ worth of work here. Uh, we’re working diligently now on our 30% design now that we know what we want to do and what it’s going to look like. 00:44:03,470 We can start getting into more of the the nuts and bolts of, uh, those plans sets and plan sheets and getting better cost estimates prepared. Uh, we’re looking at our quantifying the impacts, similar to what I mentioned before, like the, the bridge impacts or the, the trail impacts and then looks, look for ways to either, uh, avoid those impacts or mitigate them if they’re unavoidable. 00:44:21,070 Eventually we will be finalizing or working with FEMA and finalizing their environmental document, um, because we are not impacting any private property, it will be dramatically easier in, in that way from FEMA’s perspective, but there still are impacts we’d be still working with uh Bismarck Public School District on securing the right to put a lift station or a pump station on their property, so we would be converting some, some 00:44:37,170 government land to other uses just in a different way than what we were talking with you about. um the last couple of things we would be updating our reports with FEMA, and then obviously ongoing coordination with our state and federal regulatory and funding agencies, all leading up to what we hope is a 2027 construction start, and 00:44:53,530 this will be a multi-year construction process, and that’s the other piece of this that we got, uh, better understand as we, as we get further into it, deciding what do we want this to look like when it’s done, and then getting into the nitty-gritty of, well, how do we build this 00:45:04,170 in a manner that doesn’t remove South Washington, South 3rd Street, and Wachter Bridges all at the same time. OK, that, we can’t do that. OK, how are we going to do this in a way that works for all the parties involved, uh, in a manner that kind of works for us and for the public and the contractor 00:45:16,700 and everyone that that’s, that would be impacted by this, uh, significant infrastructure improvement in our community. Um, so I guess with that, uh, once again, thank you for, for having me and I’ll take any questions that you may have on this. Thank you, Gabe, before I ask commissioners for questions. 00:45:33,600 I just want to say thank you and your staff for working with the park district staff at whenever I’m visiting with Kevin, it seems like you’ve always been very transparent, very upfront. It’s never been any surprises or, you know, big disagreements. So, I thank you for that. 00:45:52,270 Uh, you’ve got a lot on your plate, so thank you for your, uh, work with that as well. And I’ll start with Comm Redman. Well, I’ll start with Happy Birthday to Gabe. You hear it. I hope we can get you out of here so you can get home and have a cake and ice cream or something, so I’d rather be. 00:46:05,600 Oh, and that’s that’s not true, but thank you for being here. We appreciate it. You said a couple of things that I just had to write down because um they spoke to me. 00:46:18,970 Um, so first of all, adding capacity and storage because that’s the endgame, right? We want to be able to protect, um, South Bismarck, and I, I’d really hate the governmental word structures because there’s people’s homes here and so I just want to really reiterate that, that, that, that is the ultimate goal is protecting South Bismarck and people’s homes. Um, I really like that when you said we really need to re-establish the trail. 00:46:36,600 So I really like that a lot. Um, and then, of course, to continue to work with the staff on all these options. And so, um, I appreciate all the work that’s gone into this. 00:46:50,470 We’ve had to turn ourselves inside out in public input and getting a lot of partners, um, worked up about this and so this just seems to come down to a really good option and so I’m happy to see that and so thanks for your continued work and future discussions will happen, and I appreciate that so much so thanks. for your work. You’re welcome. Comm Herzog. Oh, thanks. 00:47:07,000 President Zimmerman, Comm, just want to say thanks again, Gabe and um I know last time when when HB 10, I think it was 10:20 came up um hopefully whatever that bill number is and we can, if we, if this board chooses to support and send a letter of support again, that I think. 00:47:25,700 would be helpful if we can help, um, let us know that process as well, so we can get involved. Thank you. Ga a question, what, what’s the plan for the city’s share of this project. How were we, how are we going to finance that? Sure. 00:47:44,900 President Zimmerman, Comm, um, I think the closer we get, I mean, ultimately we will have to make that decision and by the time we get to our 2027 budgeting process. It’s been always something that’s been out into a future CIP that we really didn’t have to identify the, the where is that going to come from? But we are now to a point that we’re going to have to both decide the where and the how much, uh, by defining 00:47:58,970 this alternative and understanding what our local cost is, that will make it easier for us to identify the funding source or funding sources to use. Um, I know we’ve mentioned previously we’ve looked at concepts such as the sales tax that we have currently. 00:48:13,730 There’s a 1% sales tax that can be used for infrastructure projects that we’re currently using a lot of that, those dollars to subsidize our special assessed, uh, road maintenance projects, but there could be just as we take a look to see what is the need, um, how many, you know, millions of dollars could be attributed to a project like this over what period of time 00:48:28,730 and what does that impact on some of our other systems that we have, uh, but sales tax would be something we would look at from our existing tax roll that we have, um, we would look at other options as well, our street, excuse me, our, our stormwater utility, maybe a partner in paying for portions 00:48:42,530 of this one, the utility bill that we have, uh, hate to say it to you, but the concept of special assessments is also out there, uh, depending on, um, what decisions are made that could be something that could be used for the benefiting properties as, as defined as either the properties that are 00:48:58,470 no longer having to pay flood insurance or potentially those that are just contributing to stormwater in South Bismarck could also be noted as benefiting. So short answer is we haven’t decided. Long answer is what I just said, but in reality, we’re going to have to decide real soon, uh, by the 2027 timeframe to make that final decision. 00:49:15,530 Well, thank you again, Gabe. I appreciate your, uh, as I was involved with it early on in all those as Comm Redmond said, uh kind of the contortions of what we were going to do and you and your staff were very, uh, again, very forthcoming and provided all the information. I think it was very worthwhile exercises. 00:49:38,530 As I said to you earlier, I wish we’d get like new restrooms and all of that out of this project, but not to be. But. But thank you, Gabe. We’ll get a new trail, if nothing else. That’s right. There we go. That’s. 00:49:57,170 Thank you, Gabe The next item on the agenda is a disposition of bids. We have a two bid dispositions to consider and uh facilities and programs Director Mike Wald is handling both of those. So good evening, Mike, and let’s start with the, uh, port portable toilet servicing bizs. Good evening, uh, bid project. 00:50:21,800 President Zimmerman Commissioners, um, bids were received on December 18th for um the 2026 portable toilet, um, bids. Um, we only received one from Spiffy Biffs, um, so staff recommended, recommends accepting the bids or bids, excuse me, by submitted by Spiffy Biff. Um, the prices will be effective starting February 2026 through December 2027. 00:50:53,870 Any questions, Commissioners, uh, any questions for Mike? uh Comm Jesske, thank you, President Zimmerman. So Mike, is this pretty consistent with what we’ve seen before in terms of pricing and then how many portable toilet companies are out in Bismarck. I only know a spiffy Biff, to be honest with you. 00:51:16,800 President Zimmerman, Comm Jesske and Commissioners, yes, the prices are very comparable to, there’s a slight increase, I’m going to say compared to the last couple of years, um, as far as the number port potty bathroom providers in Bismarck, I’m not sure, um, off the top, I wish operations Director David Mayer would be here. 00:51:36,000 He would know, but, um, Spiffy Biffs has been, uh, um, a big provider for us in the past and you see them all over town, so. Thank you. Comm Herzog President Zimmerman Commissioners, I think there is only the one. There might be a small one, but I know we’ve always looked for additional ones as well and they. 00:51:54,730 not out there, so let’s not be I mean, it’s a good business, but maybe not crappy. Oh yeah, but not a, maybe not as fun to be in, but if they do a great job calling and those guys. So I moved to approve the, uh, portable toiletservicing, uh, bid from Spiffy Bip. I’ll. 00:52:13,870 Most bike Comm Herzog, uh, second by Comm Jesske. Any further discussion? If not, Julia, if you’ll call the roll, please. Comm Gilbertson. Hi. Herzzog, yes, Redmond, aye, Jessy, I, President Zimmerman, I Mike, you also will be a update on, um some of the, uh, equipment bids. If you take it, take it over, please. 00:52:43,000 President Zimmerman Commissioners, after our December 20th, 2025, um, board meeting which we presented the 2026 equipment bids. Um, it was brought to our attention that two of the items, um, did not meet spec specifications, excuse me, 11 item C1 Fairway Moor. 00:53:08,370 Item F1 bunker rake that both of those items were awarded to Van Wall equipment that, and again, they did not meet specifications. They’re fairway Moor did not meet the specifications of a seven-inch diameter Ford swept wheels and the bunker rake did not meet the specifications of a hydraulic power steering. 00:53:31,970 So with that said, staff recommends the following board actions Reject the Van Wall equipment bids listed above, which totaled $1,250,150 and accept the bid from MTI for one fairway more. in the amount of $103,729.86 and also accept the bid from Turf Works for one bunker rake in the mount of $30,350. 00:54:01,800 The items from MTI and turfWorks were the lowest bids that did meet all specifications, and the total for the new items is $134,079 866 cents, which still um is within our budget amount for 2026. Thank you, Mike. Any questions, uh, Comm Jeske? Well, my biggest question is going to be probably for executive director Clipfel, would you need one motion on this or 3 separate motions? President Zimmerman and Commissioners, Comm Jessica, you could just make one motion. 00:54:27,370 There’s no questions. I’m going to make a motion that we reject the Vanwa equipment bid listed for 125, 150, we accept the bid from MTI for the one Fairway mower in the amount of 103,72986 and accept the bid from Turp Works for one bunker rake in the amount of $3,000,350 for second. 00:54:56,270 The Motion by Comm Jesske and seconded by Comm Gilbertson, any further discussion? If not, Julie, if you’ll call the roll, please. Comm Gilbertson. Hi. Herzog? Yes, Redman, aye, Jessy, I, President Zimmerman, I. Thank you, Mike Thanks, Mike. 00:55:19,730 The next item on the agenda is the consent agenda, and I’ve been advised that I maybe I should read this a little faster, so I won’t I will attempt to do that A variety of items have been placed in a consent agenda, a consent agenda can be approved with one motion or an item or items can be removed for additional discussion and separate action. 00:55:41,100 Staff recommends approval of the following items consideration of the December 18th and December 22, 2025 board meeting minutes. Those were included in your packet. Designation of bank depositories. Select consultant for Century Avenue to Sunrise Park Trail. Request board authorization to call for bids for VFW Sports Center, Tom O’Leary Golf Course Concessions. 00:56:08,870 consideration of consultant agreements for 2026 projects and approval to call for bids on the following projects municipal Country Club restroom is the Endeavor North Design PLLC McDowell Dam shower Building, Bartlett, and West, Paul H. Walkter aquatic complex Pool Mechanical updates, prairie engineering PC. What are the wishes of the commissioners? I move the acceptance of the consent agenda as presented. 00:56:32,900 Sorry, I didn’t mean to Comm Jesske has a. Um, I’d just like to open this for discussion. I would like to maybe request that we remove the um designation of bank depositories and brought on a separate motion because I would like to make sure that I am excluded from voting on that one because the employer that I work for is listed. 00:56:52,100 Would you, uh, do that as an amendment or do you want to withdraw your motion and I will amend my motion. to withdraw the bank depository. part of the agenda. Second as well. Second as well. Any further discussion? If not, Julie, if you would call the role as the motion. 00:57:18,270 Comm Gilbertson, Herzog, yes, Redman, aye, Jessy, I, President Zimmerman, I then we will take up as a separate item the designation of bank depositories. and there is a list of those within your uh packet. um Comm Jeske, do you wish not to vote or do you ask for the permission to vote. I would just prefer not to vote. 00:57:38,070 I’ll abstain from voting Any discussion? If not, uh, do we have a motion? I would move that we approve the presented designation of bank depositories. 2nd. Second, uh, motorbike Comm Gilbertson, second by Comm Herzog. Any further discussion? If not, Julie, if you’d call the roll, please. Comm Gilbertson. Hi. 00:58:05,730 Herzog, yes, Redmond, Jesske, I abstain, right? Oh, abstain, sorry. I abstained. President Zimmerman, hi, sorry. OK. Um, Comm, any comments you wish to make? I have a couple, but I would certainly open the uh floor here to any comments in our New Year. To, uh, want to do the the bills as well or approvals first? Yeah. OK. 00:58:29,970 I move approval of bills. So you get that? she’s hanging on Motion by Comm Gilbertson, second by Comm Jesske for approval of the bills. Uh, Julia, if you’d call the roll. 00:58:51,700 Comm Gilbertson, I Herzog, yes, Redman, aye, Jesske, a President Zimmerman, I thank you to remind me of that Just a couple comments if I might, uh, want to perhaps anybody watching us this evening, uh, this is an election time coming up here, uh, in June. So we know that there are uh open seats on all the city, county election. 00:59:11,370 I’m just taking this opportunity to say if you have an interest with be a park board or any other uh elected office within the city of Bismarck and or Burleigh County, please get involved, uh, know that you have the opportunity to sign a petition to visit with those individuals who may be running for any of those offices. 00:59:31,730 Secondly, I wanted to, uh, as all of us, I think as commissioners want to give a shout out to the staff. I, uh, again, I’ve had the opportunity to be out and about. I use the trails a lot, and I wish to, uh, publicly express my thanks to the staff to get out, keep the trails open. 00:59:48,800 Yes, there’s some icy spots, and I’ve heard from folks that, yeah, on the shady side of a trail, yeah, you’re gonna have some ice, but I want to compliment the staff publicly for getting out there, keeping the trails open. 01:00:06,470 I’ve also had the opportunity to stop by several of the fac il ities when events have been going on and again my compliments, um, at the, uh, ice arenas at the Aquatic Center. Even I stopped the other evening at the World War Memorial Building and the place is just buzzing with activities, so I just want staff to know that I, we all appreciate the work you do. 01:00:25,700 It’s a very busy time as people spend time indoors now that the VFW arena, I just amazes me how much activity there is in, in all of the, those three rinks up there. So. again our thank you for all of that work, Comm Jeske and we’ll start with Comm Jesske. Thank you, President Zimmerman. 01:00:44,530 I’m sure you’re going to bring this up too, but we are looking for input on our community survey. This will be used to help us plan, do our strategic plan, so there’s information on the website where you can go on and complete the community survey, and I don’t know if Dana wants to talk about that 01:00:58,970 at all, but please, we really encourage you to take this opportunity to provide us with some input as we move forward to, uh, get our strategic plan figured out for 2026 and for years to come. Comm Herzog? Oh, thank you, President Zimmerman, Comm. 01:01:16,530 I did want to mention, and I took it takes, it doesn’t take super long, so if you can go on and grab it, but, um, just wanted to say thanks to Dana and everybody else for the website. I mean, I’m sure you’re still working on it and things like that, but it’s been switched over and it’s working hopefully pretty good for you. 01:01:30,370 So I appreciate the extra time and effort that you guys have put into the the website. change. Thank you Great. All right. Well, thank you all. The next regular board meeting of the Bismarck Board of Park Commissioners is February 19, 2026 at 5:15 here in the fabulous Tom Baker meeting room, meeting Adjourned.