00:00:09,460 S1: It's June 9th. It's 5:15. We're in the Tom Baker room of the city County building. This will be the board of city commissioners meeting. But first, if we can have invocation. Chaplain Crowley and also the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:27,380 S2: Bow your heads, please. 00:00:33,540 Heavenly father, S2: we come before you today grateful for the privilege of serving this community. Grant our commissioners wisdom that is steady, clarity that is fair, and unity that seeks the good of every neighbor in Bismarck. Guide their decisions toward justice, safety, and flourishing for all who call this city home. Bless this meeting with cooperation, Humility and integrity. Thank you, father, for your steadfast love. In Jesus name. Amen. 00:01:04,440 S1: Amen. 00:01:09,760 S2: 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. 00:01:23,920 S1: Thank you, sir. 00:01:28,480 S1: If we can call roll to call the meeting to order, please. 00:01:34,400 S3: Commissioner Risch. Here. Commissioner Zenker. Here. Commissioner Connelly here. Commissioner Cleary here. Mayor Schmitz. 00:01:41,480 S1: Here. All right. First, we have a couple of proclamations and celebrations. Um, so you might notice that we're all dressed a little bit uniquely tonight. And that's because we're going to honor a hometown hero and present a certificate of achievement to her, and also proclaim a day in the name of Britta Curl-Salemme. I hope I pronounce that correctly, but we're honoring her by, uh, we're going to give her a jersey at the Larks game next Thursday, and that's going to be her day. So I'll have a proclamation for that as well. But she started here in Bismarck, uh, as a very little youngster playing hockey, um, with the Bismarck Blizzards as she went through high school. Um, and was a leading scorer twice in the state and then ultimately moved on to college, had success there, where she was in three national championships with the University of Wisconsin. Um has collected Walter Club championships with the Minnesota Frost and is now going to be part of the new Detroit expansion team and the Professional Women's Hockey League. She was just selected over the weekend, I believe it was, um, but she also, this past Winter Olympics was a member of the 2026 U.S. women's hockey team in the Olympics, and we don't often celebrate our local heroes who have had accomplishments, and that's that's what this is about. So with that. 00:03:11,190 S1: Whereas Britta Curl-Salemme Salemme, proud native of Bismarck, North Dakota, has distinguished herself through extraordinary athletic achievement, community spirit, and national representation. Therefore, be it resolved that I am Michael Schmitz, mayor of the City of Bismarck, on behalf of this city Commission to proclaim June 18th, 2026, as Britta Curl-Salemme Day and encourage all residents to join in celebrating her achievements, hometown roots and ongoing legacy as a champion on and off the ice. It will be signed today, the 9th of June, 2026. I should mention I believe she's got a hockey camp next week as part of her being in town. 00:03:54,730 S1: And then we're also awarding her a Certificate of Achievement in recognition of her extraordinary athletic achievement, community spirit and representation. Your perseverance, leadership, and unwavering commitment to excellence. Continuing to uplift the community of Bismarck and its residents. Inspiring the next generation of young athletes through the capital city and across North Dakota. Your legacy is a champion. On and off the ice stands as a source of pride for your hometown, and a testament to what dedication and determination can achieved. We also are proclaiming another day for another resident, former resident of Bismarck, who went on to some success with the Minnesota Twins. So whereas Dave St. Peter, born January 3rd, 1967, in Bismarck, North Dakota, is a distinguished alumnus of the Saint Mary Central High School in Bismarck and the University of North Dakota. And Whereas Mister St. Peter began his illustrious career with the Minnesota Twins in 1990 as an intern, and rose to serve as the team's president and CEO. CEO from 2002 through March of 2025, guiding the franchise through its most successful era, including orchestrating construction and opening of Target Field and achieving record high attendance figures. Therefore, be resolved. That I am Michael Schmitz, mayor of the City of Bismarck. On behalf of this Commission, do hereby welcome St. Peter and proclaim June 25th, 2026, as day of St. Peter Day in the City of Bismarck, and on that day he is serving as a role temporary role manager president, something of the Larks. So those are the reasons for those proclamations. 00:05:39,550 S1: All right. Now we're to public comment. Public comment is restricted to items on the consent agenda or the regular agenda. That is not a public hearing or a prior city commission agenda. Anyone who wished to speak, please come forward, identify yourself and let us know what you're speaking to. Please. And also sign in. 00:05:58,240 S4: Trevor Vennett, uh, citizen, um, I'm here to support the voucher program for busway and transit, and I would just ask that you approve it. Things have been working well, and I think we got the kinks works out, and we just need to move forward. And we just need to get this done. People have been waiting for it. Thank you. 00:06:25,360 S1: Thank you. Trevor. 00:06:36,200 Anyone else who wish to speak? S5: Hi. My name is. 00:06:39,360 S6: There you go. 00:06:40,480 S5: Probably don't want to hear too much loud anyway. Um, my name is Jeff Stewart, and, uh, I'm here tonight to address the seventh Street, uh, across BHS becoming a school zone. My granddaughter was hit October 27th and drugged on that street. She received a very, very serious injuries. Uh, broken femur, uh, broken broken ribs, broken arm, broken pelvic, uh, lacerated spleen and a collapsed lung. I think people drive way too fast and they don't pay attention. And I know we have crosswalks with the flashing yellow lights, but, um, I've become pretty close to the fire and rescue people over this whole deal and learned a lot about what they do in this town and what they serve. Um, and it's this was a life changing experience for these guys. Um, we're very fortunate to have Jaden today. And believe it or not, today is a birthday. So, um, I would I would really, really appreciate it. The community would really appreciate it if we do something about this. Um, you know, I've talked to a lot of people in the city, uh, And I've talked to a lot of the engineers. Um, I actually had one of the engineers tell me that they did a survey, and it was acceptable to drive ten miles over the speed limit. Um, I'm sorry, but I don't think that's right. The speed limit is for a reason. And if we're going to do that, then I guess it's okay to shoot somebody in the leg as long as they're not dead. Um, probably. Probably a bad woman, but I just got to say that these flashing yellow lights, these kids trust them. Lights. And the people that are driving down these streets, that I'm guilty as well. They drive too fast. They're not paying attention. They're oblivious to what's going on. Yellow has become a caution. It's not a stop. Um. The fire and rescue told me they changed that. Their lights and their trucks to blue and white. They've gotten a lot bigger response from those lights than they ever did from yellow or red. Um, I know a lot of this boils down to money, but you can't put a price tag on a kid's life. Um, and that's why I've been such a champion on this is because I don't. This was a near miss, and I don't want to be vulgar, but this is not. If this isn't considered a school zone, then I consider it a kill zone and that we came really close to this one. There was also another one, December 24th at the stoplight that was a hit and run. There was another kid hit up at century. Uh, you know, we we've got big problems with the traffic in this town, and I know we're growing and so on and so forth, but I think this is so important that we take care of our kids. Uh, so that's all I got to say. 00:09:22,100 S1: Thank you. And we are addressing that topic. 00:09:24,420 S5: Yeah. 00:09:24,740 S1: You are in a public hearing as well. 00:09:26,780 S5: So, yeah. And I want to thank Julie. I don't know where she's at. 00:09:29,460 S1: She's right. 00:09:29,820 S5: Over here. Julie. Thank you. She's a champion for this. 00:09:32,780 S1: So can you sign in to your record, please? And that I believe it's actually item D in the regular agenda. 00:09:42,900 S1: Thank you sir. 00:09:43,660 S5: Yep. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. 00:09:54,350 S1: This is public comment. Anyone else who would wish to speak, please come forward. 00:10:01,990 S1: A second call for public comment. 00:10:09,310 S1: A third and final call for public comment. 00:10:14,630 S1: Seeing no one else coming forward and I don't hear one online. So public comment period is now closed. 00:10:24,350 Commissioners, with regard to the consent agenda, what are your wishes? S5: Move to. 00:10:24,710 S2: Approve. 00:10:24,990 S7: Is presented. 00:10:25,670 S3: Second. 00:10:26,830 S1: Is there any discussion? Hearing none. We'll call roll. 00:10:34,070 S3: Commissioner Zenker. 00:10:35,070 S7: Yes. 00:10:36,150 S3: Commissioner Connelly. Yes. Commissioner Cleary. Yes. Commissioner. Risch. Yes. Mayor Schmitz. 00:10:42,150 S1: Yes. Moving to regular agenda item A, consider a request from the transit board to establish a bus voucher program. Deidre, I know you've got a presentation. 00:10:51,810 S8: So yes, just a short request. And then I did bring some supporting information to hand out to you all. Good evening, Mayor Schmitz. And commissioners, thank you for the opportunity to address you this evening on behalf of the transit Board at the February 24th City Commission meeting, Ministry on the margins submitted a request to utilize a portion of the public transit sales tax funding to purchase Cat bus passes. In response, the Commission asked that the Bozeman Transit Board help facilitate a voucher program to support the community's need. The transit Board discussed the proposal at the March meeting, and tabled the item for further review until the May board meeting to ensure we fully understood the scope and the implications of the request. The Bozeman Transit Finance Committee met with Mayor Schmitz on May 7th to discuss the board's concerns and explore a workable path forward. Following that productive discussion, we are presenting the following recommendation. The Bozeman Transit Board recommends that the Bismarck City Commission authorize the use of $5,000 in public transportation sales tax funding for the purchase of Cat bus fixed route passes. Under this program, the City and City Commission will determine which agencies are approved to apply for and receive the passes. Agencies receiving the passes will be fully responsible for tracking their distribution and reporting any required data to the city. Bozeman Transit will serve as the facilitator of the program by distributing the pre-purchase passes in accordance with the City Commission's direction. Lastly, Bozeman Transit will not be responsible for determining approved agencies, establishing trip purposes, setting ticket limits, or creating the program rules. This structure allows the city to maintain appropriate oversight and control of the program, while leveraging Bozeman Transit's operational expertise to efficiently distribute the passes. We believe this collaborative approach will provide meaningful support to vulnerable members of our community, while maintaining clear lines of responsibility and accountability. We respectfully ask for your approval of this recommendation. Bozeman Transit remains committed to working closely with the City Commission to make this program a success. Thank you for your time and continued support of the public transportation in our community, and I welcome any questions or discussion. 00:12:49,570 S1: Other questions. So I'm going to ask one just for clarification. As we talked about it when I met with your finance committee. Part of the reason for us to not just give the money as a grant, so to speak, to Bismarck Transit is it would cause some issues for your federal grants, correct? 00:13:05,610 S8: Yeah, there would be kind of a sticky situation, whether it's fair money. Is it sales tax money? How are we recognizing it? If we're recognizing it as a grant, then there's a lot more stipulations on what we can do. We need to provide something that's equally funded for the Ada passengers. So rather having a bulk ticket purchase and us simply facilitating distributing those passes makes, um, a lot less of a headache for us and a lot less potential issue come our triennial time when the FTA is reviewing. 00:13:33,450 S1: Okay, I just to make it clear as to why it's orchestrated this way versus and then to have the city have the oversight. 00:13:41,570 S3: Yes. 00:13:41,930 S8: And I have done quite a bit of research on other agencies that have done similar things, and there's not a ton of them out there, but I do have kind of a basis for what that agency application may look like. Um, how they plan to be tracking those funds, how they're distributing them, things like that. So I can absolutely hand out, um, these as well so you guys can review that too. 00:14:00,500 S3: Okay. 00:14:14,860 S1: You're just a follow up question, I think. So at one point in time, there was a voucher program used. What was the usage like? So I guess we had an idea how long maybe $5,000 would last. 00:14:25,460 S8: So that was facilitated through the Homeless Coalition. Um, the first program, I lasted about six months. The second program was about half that time, so about three months. Um, you we did see a lot of agencies repeat request, which if they're using them, that's great. At that point, there was a limit on how many tickets could be requested by agency. Just. The whole goal is to not have one agency come and submit a request for $1,000 worth of tickets, and then sit on them forever. We wanted them to be able to distribute them and actually use them. So we had a limit of $500 per agency could request. So it was about three months. Most recently, I would anticipate if this is something ran by the city with a bit more exposure, we might be within that time frame, but obviously it's hard to say. 00:15:13,640 S1: Add to the dollars. 00:15:14,800 S8: Absolutely. 00:15:15,320 S1: Pretty. As long as they fit within the parameters of what the sales tax collections meet. Correct. Commissioner. 00:15:25,720 S9: Yeah. How the initiated measure rate is to keep in mind the status of elderly, disabled and people of low socioeconomic status. 00:15:37,840 S8: Yeah. And within that application, there is kind of that mechanism that would need to be tracked. So if the city was looking for particular information on how many of these passes are being used for education, how many are being used for medical, you could request hypothetically that the agencies who are getting these passes need to, you know, kind of take that upon themselves to report either back to you or me. And if I, you know, create a report. 00:16:01,260 S1: Commissioner Zenker. 00:16:02,860 S7: Uh, so I just got one question. So this is just for 2026, and then you'll go through the budget process for 27 with the same amount, or you think you'll change that or. I'm out of curiosity. 00:16:14,300 S8: Sure. I think hypothetically, this is going to have to be viewed as a pilot program because we don't understand, don't fully know the number of agencies that are going to use the service. I do also recommend limiting limiting it to only distributing one day or one way passes, because that makes tracking a lot easier when you're saying the most you can get is a $6 pass for each individual, the money might last a little bit longer. With the Homeless Coalition, we allowed them to do 30 day passes, but again, you don't really know what they're actually using those passes for. So if the goal of the commission is to actually get that information. My recommendation would be just stick to the one day, one way passes. 00:16:48,800 S7: Okay. Thank you. 00:16:50,240 S1: And I do think this is this would be a 2026 action right now. But it may be additional funding later this year and budgeting through 27. Are there other questions? Um, I'm going to ask Daniel to come up if he wouldn't mind, because I'm going to pose something to him because he's got actually a committee that might actually help serve in a role for the city on these particular requests. 00:17:29,800 So, Daniel, can you tell us about the Community Development Advisory Committee and do you think this would be something it could assist the commission with vetting those applicants? S7: Sure. 00:17:30,200 S10: Thank you. Mayor. Commissioners. So the Community Development Advisory Committee, it's a new committee that was appointed by you this last year in 2025. So they were formed early 2026. Their primary role is helping us select projects for HUD, for our CDBG Community Development Block Grant funding. So we get applications in and they use the performance criteria and help select those applications. That only happens once a year, so their role is pretty limited any other times of the year unless we have changes in that. So they could certainly be involved in this if you would wish. And it could be a similar process to how they function with HUD. 00:18:07,570 S7: Okay. 00:18:08,730 S1: Thank you. Commissioners. 00:18:14,610 What are your thoughts? S7: I'll make a motion to approve is presented. 00:18:17,890 S1: Second okay. We have Commissioner Connelly. 00:18:22,250 Do you have comments? S9: This is a good start. We have some flexibility with this funding source. And the nice thing about it is, is that with the history of transit and just keeping, um, managing their resources well, it's been a long history. It's been a bumpy road. Um, we can grow into a special place. There's a lot of needs that aren't getting met. Still, when ministry on the margins came up and presented, there were people losing their jobs because they couldn't get to, um, bobcat, for example. And sometimes transit can't be, um, flexible into that. So but our transportation committee found that there weren't a lot of people providing services. So we're in a little bit of a crux. So we're still moving forward. This is a good way to move, um, finding other ideas to where we can start meeting some of those needs that both transit can facilitate and maybe other answers. We still have to keep the foot on that gas pedal. 00:19:21,910 S1: All right. So first thing, would it be the thought of the commission that we use, like the committee that Daniel has available to do the vetting to then also gather information for the commission? 00:19:34,030 S11: What about the transit board vetting them? Wouldn't that be more. 00:19:36,990 S1: That causes them some? They had fact said no. 00:19:39,850 S7: Okay. At this point, I think we allocate the funds and whatever admin deems necessary to manage it. Manage it. Okay. 00:19:48,210 S1: All right. 00:19:50,130 Any other discussion? S11: My only comment in the scope and relationship to the size of the transit budget, $5,000 is really modest. I don't know how many trips that will actually get them on transit. 00:20:00,970 S8: It depends on if they're purchasing one day or one way passes. It's going to be, you know, probably 2000, 3000 trips. 00:20:08,050 S11: There's quite a few. 00:20:09,010 S3: Okay. Okay. 00:20:11,250 S1: Any other discussion? Hearing none. We'll call roll. 00:20:16,570 S3: Commissioner Connelly. 00:20:17,690 S7: Yes. 00:20:18,650 S3: Commissioner Cleary. Yes. Commissioner Risch. Yes. Commissioner Zenker. Yes. Mayor Schmitz. 00:20:24,650 S1: Yes. Thank you. Deidre. 00:20:28,690 S1: Item B, consider recommendation from the Vision Fund Committee to support a flex space program endorsed by town for Maximized Chiropractic. NOAA will present And then I believe the applicant is also here. 00:20:41,110 S12: Yes, that's correct. Mayor. Mayor Schmitz, commissioners, you have in front of you an application from Maximized Chiropractic for a Vision Fund match of a flex pace program from the Bank of North Dakota. The city's portion of the program will be structured as a loan. The loan will be exactly $107,000. 692 and $0.36. 00:21:04,510 S12: Project will comprise of the purchase and remodel of 1728 Boat Drive. Um. The Vision Fund did recommend approval on May 28th of last month. The project is here. They have a short presentation for you. They will stand for questions after. I am happy to stand for questions as well. Okay. 00:21:30,470 S13: Mayor Schmitz, commissioners, thank you for your time tonight. I'm doctor Alex Coleman. I'm the owner of Maximized Chiropractic here in Bismarck. My wife and I opened in 2013. We're Bismarck natives. Graduated from century. Came back after school and wanting to bring our talents to Bismarck. And we've grown explosively since starting. We are now in our second location and we've expanded out of this one. Also, our our clinic has doubled in staff over the last two years, and we have plans to double again in the next two years with this expansion. We are unique in that we are not a traditional. What you would think of when you hear chiropractor. We are a prenatal family and pediatric clinic. We have three specialized chiropractors. We have two nurses. We have an IB, CLC, a CLC. We have we have just expanded into pediatric occupational therapy as well. And over over the last few years we have um, this is the last slide. 00:22:39,060 S13: Over the last few years, we have realized that there are disconnected care loops with the pediatric population in our town. When a family is struggling with something and is having to see a provider and a provider at this part of Bismarck, a provider across town at a different clinic, these providers aren't able to collaborate care. They're not able to communicate with each other as well, and the parents get taxed and stressed. Having to manage schedules across town when is mine could have to be where? So we are trying to solve some of this chaos by bringing this all under one roof in regards to therapies with pediatric, occupational, physical and speech therapy. On top of this, every year Uma is graduating around 100 therapy students from their programs, and many of these students are leaving because the salaries here are either too low or there are not enough jobs in the niche that they're wanting to specialize in. So I know this pain personally. One of my sisters and one of my best friends, both of them are from Bismarck, graduated from you, married ten years ago and moved away from the OTT program. Moved away because there was North Dakota's kind of known as a low salaried therapy state. So they found jobs elsewhere. And we're trying to to increase the revenue for or increase the salaries for these employees because our clinic, since it's already well established, high volume chiropractic office, all of our overhead is already distributed very well. So when we add therapies, the expenses do not go up very much, which means that the expenses per provider stay very low. So that translates to higher salaries for our therapists. The one that we have already is already at 30% over the North Dakota average for occupational therapists for salary, and she's working 30 hours a week. So our goal is to be able to to expand this into other therapists and other modalities down the road. So the remodel is 1720 burnt boat. This is what I consider an iconic Bismarck building. Bill Claremont built it back in 79 for his personal office, and it's a little weathered and a little past its glory days. So we're going to on top of the purchase price of of. We're still negotiating the numbers, but around 1.6 million. We will be injecting somewhere between 6 and 700,000 immediately in renovations. Some to the interior, some to the exterior. The goal is to make the exterior more modernized and up to date and looking sparkly new. The interior. Our goal is to make a kind of a universal floor plan that works very well for us, but also can be an asset for Bismarck long term and isn't just specialized to us. 00:25:32,780 S13: So this expansion will help us expand our retail footprint dramatically, which will increase some sales tax revenue. But the biggest two are new skilled job creation. The first phase of our expansion is going to create four skilled jobs for high paying jobs for therapists, and also keeping new grads from marry in Bismarck. So the goal is to be able to create these new jobs, keep kids in Bismarck for longer. 00:26:02,280 S13: After our first expansion in about 2028. More leases will be terminating and we'll be able to absorb the entirety of the building. And our goal at that point is to expand and double again with more positions available. 00:26:17,760 S13: So lastly, a big corporate business has never been our goal. But we are we have a vision where our community can have access to preventative health care, especially with the young families in our community, to help them reach the the health care providers that they need. 00:26:36,370 S13: Is there any other questions that you guys have for me? 00:26:38,290 S7: Go to Commissioner Risch. 00:26:39,850 S11: Uh, Mr. Mayor, doctor. Um, my concern oftentimes is we subsidize one business or contribute to one business that's competing with other businesses. It creates a competitive advantage for the one we're we're helping out. 00:26:57,850 Are you saying that you're unique? You're doing things that other chiropractic clinics are not performing? S13: Right now, it's my knowledge there is no chiropractic office in the city of Bismarck or the state. Honestly, and any that I know of anywhere that encompasses all of the modalities that we have in one business. So we are unique in that in which there are no chiropractors that have also a team of therapists, nursing staff and lactation counselors under one roof. 00:27:17,970 S7: Okay. 00:27:19,810 S1: Commissioner Connelly. 00:27:23,130 S9: It's a good endeavor. And that I know of another chiropractor that was going to take a swing at that, and they just couldn't get all the parts to come together, and they found some deficiencies in our communities in that same area. I work in medical as well on a different venue, and we at the we're competing for providers in different areas as much as we're running in significant shortages. Um, similar to what Commissioner Risch was saying as far as, um, one business against another and not showing like a winner or a loser. I've probably been the hardest on these type of programs of anybody at this table. Um, but I like what you had to show as far as the remodel to where it's not just internal. We have a lot of buildings to where they, um, address only deferred maintenance and don't do anything to the outside, so it looks old and aged and that and, um, with that, I would motion to approve. 00:28:25,870 S7: Second. 00:28:27,230 S1: Do we have further discussion? 00:28:29,230 S7: I guess one. 00:28:30,230 S13: Commissioner. 00:28:31,730 S9: This isn't like a tax incentive to where a person's getting tax breaks. This is an actual loan. So, um, that's also one thing I like about it. 00:28:42,370 S7: Yeah. 00:28:42,730 S1: Okay. Any other discussion? 00:28:46,410 S1: Hearing none. We'll call roll. 00:28:50,410 S3: Commissioner Cleary. Yes, Commissioner. Risch. Yes, Commissioner. Zenker. 00:28:55,090 S7: Yes. 00:28:55,850 S3: Commissioner. Connelly. Yes. Mayor Schmitz. 00:28:58,850 S1: Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Noel. 00:29:04,170 S1: Item C. 00:29:08,010 S1: Is public hearing on ordinance 6665. Zoning map amendment from agricultural mar industrial districts to Mar industrial districts and ordinance 6666 annexation and the J Mark J. Mack industrial second edition. Major subdivision final plat. Go ahead Daniel. 00:29:28,850 S10: Thank you. Mayor. Commissioners. So this is a request of Yukon Investments LLC. Uh, there's a few other property owners in this area as well involved, and they've all consented to the application. That's Ron Knudsen, City of Bismarck and Burleigh County. So it is, as you mentioned, both a final plat and a zoning map amendment and also an annexation. So there's really three separate requests in here. And one, I'll go through each of them. The location of the project is in the north side of very north side of Bismarck is east of highway 83. It's at the intersection of 71st Avenue Northeast and North 19th Street. Uh, this area was platted ten years ago now. So in 2016, with the original J. Maxx industrial second edition, although it's largely been undeveloped since then. So this plat would continue that and and make a couple of changes. But it would also facilitate the development of this, including improvements of the of the streets, the um the zoning change. extent is fairly minimal. The colors actually don't come in very well on this, but trust me, the use of labels. Ma industrial is existing and Ma industrial will be the proposed. The only difference is there's a strip of land in between as currently agricultural, that's being added to this plat, which would be become industrial as well as portions of the North 19th Street. Right of way, I should say, with the zoning change, we're in kind of an interim period right now. You've adopted the land development code, but it won't become effective until October 1st. So the way this ordinance works is it actually uses both the new and the old. So once the new ordinance becomes effective in October 1st, this will become the IG Industrial General Zoning district. So you're really voting on both of those at the same time here. The. 00:31:21,280 S10: The future plans do support this change. We show industrial the Indy area for most of this, so it is intended to remain industrial into the future. You can see the major street plan. So that's that blue dotted line that is North 19th Street, which eventually will connect all the way from Divide Avenue up to 71st Avenue Northeast. This is the final connection that needs to be made. This plot will facilitate improvement of that street. The street will be developed from the north, first downward, and it eventually connects to the south. Um, after that, the, uh, there will be a development agreement in place that will dictate the timing, the financing, the construction of this North 19th Street. So you will see that it will come before your desk when that is ready, from the developers and the city. The one of the main purposes of that development agreement will be to determine how much development can occur prior to full buildout of the street network, including connections to the east along North Star Drive connection to the south. How much of that can occur before we really need that secondary access to to facilitate emergency response for that development? So no building permits can be issued in this plot until that development agreement is secured. So that is forthcoming. 00:32:45,720 S10: This is the plot that you're reviewing. One thing to to note that the plat does realign the intersection, that right of way with North 19th Street and 71st. So that is something this plot will take care of. 00:33:01,560 S10: And the final part of the request is an annexation. Most of this area has already been annexed. That did happen in 2016. That little strip of land, 43ft in width, as well as portions of the North 19th Street right of way, had not been annexed during that previous plat, so those are included within the plot would be annexed, and so that strip of land would just be included within the lots within this plot. There is an access easement that will be dedicated on top of that strip. The Planning and Zoning Commission did hold a public hearing on all three of these requests in October. I'm sorry, April 22nd of 2026. And they did vote to recommend approval of all of them. There is one condition to mention that they gave. That is a waiver for a cul de sac that is shown in this plat, as well as a greater block length beyond the standard 1320ft. That is required by ordinance that was already in place with the existing subdivision. But we're also asking for a waiver for for this one as well. If you have any questions I can attempt to answer, or I know an applicant representative is here as well. 00:34:07,420 S7: All right. 00:34:08,300 S1: Any questions commissioners? If not, I'll open the public hearing. Anyone who wish to speak, please come forward, identify yourself and sign in, please. 00:34:20,060 S14: Thank you. Mayor Lana and I will Swenson. Hagan representing on this one. Just a few notes to to add what Daniel had talked about, that that 40 foot strip that that is purchased for the part of this flight is more of a cleanup at this point. That was the only piece that was not annexed into the property. This is zoned AG, as he had mentioned before. We're bringing that into conformance with the rest of it. Some slight changes to sort of how the lots are laid out, what the developers feel is more, more marketable for them. So some changes in the lot lines. But generally speaking, the the second edition here it is basically mirrors what was happening in the first edition as well. It just gives a little bit more room on the north end of 19th for some future turning lanes. And then as we move forward with the developers agreement that will determine, you know, per fire code, per building code, things like that, how much actually gets developed in that first phase. But I can certainly answer any questions if you have them. 00:35:07,550 S1: We have questions for Leonard. Thank you. 00:35:10,230 S15: Thank you. 00:35:14,470 S1: Again, this is a public hearing. Anyone wish to speak? Please come forward. 00:35:20,910 S1: A second call for public comment. 00:35:24,930 S1: A third and final call for public comment. Seeing no one and hearing no one won the public comment period. Now closed. 00:35:32,570 Commissioners, what are your wishes? S11: Now move. We approve as presented. 00:35:34,570 S7: Second. 00:35:35,690 S1: Is there any discussion? 00:35:37,090 S7: I will say one thing. Mayor, um, this is good because we need some industrial shovel ready land. So I just want to thank the developers and getting to be able to get this thing done. So yeah. 00:35:47,210 S1: It's a good it's a good site to see. Any other discussion here? None. Roll call. Roll. 00:35:55,370 S3: Commissioner. Risch. Yes, Commissioner. Zenker. Yes, Commissioner. Connelly. Yes. Commissioner. Cleary. Yes. Mayor. Schmitz. 00:36:03,570 S1: Yes. Next item d a public hearing on ordinance 6667 to amend section 120308 of the City of Bismarck. Code of Ordinances related to Violations of registration provisions, and to enact section 120512 of the City of Bismarck. Code of ordinances related to Speed in school zones. This is a public hearing. Anyone who wished to speak. Please come forward, identify yourself and sign in. 00:36:35,230 S1: A second call. 00:36:42,870 S16: Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Commissioners. Jeff Knott, superintendent from Bismarck Public school. You've already heard a kind of a passionate grandfather speak tonight about some concerns about this. I just want to share our support that as we have worked very collaboratively with the city. Mr.. And his staff to address some concerns around school zones. And that's really all the schools in the community. Um, we always are focusing on safety. Um, you hear it? And the questions we're asking tonight in the election, we have many issues dealing around safety and safety of our kids. This is just another one. And we would support changes to allow the city engineer to make those revisions when it's appropriate. And so we'd stand and support the revisions. 00:37:23,010 S1: Thank you, Commissioner Connelly. 00:37:27,370 S7: Uh. 00:37:28,650 S9: Superintendent. Uh, um, has anything come up? I know, like, when around horizon, there was, um, some initial with the reconstruction. Um, the walkway on the west side of the roundabout. Has there been any concerns? I haven't heard any. As far as kids crossing that way. So I was just curious, since you've been here, because I remember the night that it was proposed, there was a lot of questions. So since we have it in front of us, might as well ask. 00:38:01,370 S16: Um, Commissioner Connelly, members of the City Commission. I have not heard any there. Now, I do hear on occasion concerns just about middle school kids in general and how they walk home. Um, but nothing that specific to that location. Um, I think I think it was addressed earlier in public comment. The ones that have been addressed to us as of recent has just been speed and traffic around VHS, also at century have been both a concern for us and again, a tremendous support. Just, you know, from your your workers at the city level, Bismarck PD have all been very responsive as those concerns have been raised. 00:38:36,500 S7: So thank you, Commissioner Risch. 00:38:39,620 S11: Thank you Jeff. I'm reading the proposed ordinance language and it says the posted school zone speed limit shall be effective during school recess, although children are going to or leaving school during opening and closing hours. I see our distinguished our principal at Bismarck High here, David Weiskopf. When I go down seventh Street, either there's students walking across the street all the time, not just before and after school or during recess. And to be fair, I don't know what time recess is, you know, so high schools don't have these things. Well, high school doesn't have. No, no. But for the other schools it does. But typically what I've seen in the past was, um, 15 miles an hour when children are present or something to that effect. So I as a driver, I see children, I see the sign. Of course I'm going to reduce speed, but I don't know. I'm just concerned about having the thing of where recess is. 00:39:35,520 S16: I can tell you when recesses are scheduled. Commissioner, but I agree with Mr. Commissioner Zenker. This is a high school, so kids are passing all the time. I'm not. 00:39:45,640 S11: Day. 00:39:45,840 S16: Long. It's all day long. If we could slow traffic down around our schools all day long and all my schools, regardless of recess, that's a win for our kids. That helps them. So I'm not an engineer, and I didn't stay at the right hotel last night to be one. Um, so I would leave that up the engineer and I think that's the that's the provision in front of you. If we give that authority to our engineers, let them have the discussion. 00:40:08,680 S1: Attorney Mees has got a comment on that. 00:40:10,640 S3: Yes, Commissioner. Risch. Mayor. Commissioners, the language in the proposed ordinance is directly. 00:40:15,120 S17: From the Century code. So we're just using the legislature's language regarding school. Times and when children are present. 00:40:22,620 S1: So if they're present, that means they're present. So it doesn't really matter what time of day it is. If they're present on the school grounds, it's not opening and closing only. It's so like it high school. When they're coming and going all day long, they're present. So school or the speed ordinance would apply then. 00:40:39,660 S11: So Mr. Mayor Julie, so if we pass this as is written, the city engineer will be able to look at seventh Street next to Bismarck High and say, okay, um, specifically address the speed on seventh Street. 00:40:55,540 S3: Yes. 00:40:56,340 S11: Okay. 00:40:59,020 S3: Okay. 00:40:59,740 S1: Is there anyone else who wish to speak? 00:41:04,940 S1: A second call. 00:41:09,500 S1: A third call. Seeing no one else and hearing no one else. The public comment period is closed. 00:41:16,940 S3: Commissioners move to approve. 00:41:18,520 S11: Second. 00:41:19,440 S1: Okay, so my only 112 comments one this applies to all schools. So whether they're public or private. Two I want to make sure we fund it. So we actually get the signage in this the lights in place. So if that requires ultimately Gabe or Chief some additional funds that we don't have in our budget, I would like us to find that out so we can secure that, because I think that's really part of what we need to do. 00:41:46,280 S7: Wouldn't the signs be measured? Wouldn't the signs be installed by public works, right. 00:41:51,440 S1: Or whichever department? 00:41:52,840 S7: Okay. 00:41:54,640 S1: But I just want to make sure we don't pass an ordinance and then don't actually take care of the issue. 00:41:59,400 S7: Just get it done before August 1st from school. 00:42:01,200 S1: Right? 00:42:01,560 S7: Right. Perfect. 00:42:03,160 S1: So is there any other comment? 00:42:07,040 S1: Hearing none. Call roll. 00:42:12,200 S3: Commissioner Zager. 00:42:13,400 S7: Yes. 00:42:14,520 S3: Commissioner. Connelly. 00:42:15,520 S11: Yes. 00:42:16,360 S3: Commissioner. Cleary. Yes. Commissioner Risch. 00:42:19,050 S11: Yes. 00:42:19,970 S3: Mayor Schmitz. 00:42:20,730 S1: Yes. Item E is public hearing on ordinance 6668 to amend title 701 of the City Code of Ordinances relating to the Purchasing threshold. This is to match the policy that we approved a couple of weeks, a couple of meetings ago. Probably, yes. Go ahead. Eric. 00:42:41,330 S18: Mayor. Commissioners. This one's pretty easy. Like you'd mentioned, mayor. Uh, we passed the procurement policy on May 12th, and we had the, um, call for public hearing on May 26th. We advertised in the Tribune. Um, for tonight for the public hearing on May 30th and June 6th. Um, the only real changes to um section seven 103 is cleaning up the language and the dollar threshold. So that way it aligns with our newly passed procurement policy and is primarily taking the $50,000 threshold and moving that up to the $100,000, um, to match the procurement policy. Okay. 00:43:25,710 S1: Thank you. This is a public hearing. Anyone who wish to speak to this, please come forward. 00:43:35,590 S1: A second call for public comment. 00:43:39,670 S1: A third and final call for public comment. 00:43:43,830 S1: Seeing no one. Hearing no one. The public comment period is now closed. 00:43:46,710 S3: Commissioners move to approve as presented. 00:43:49,950 S11: Second. 00:43:51,150 S1: Is there any discussion? 00:43:54,790 S1: Hearing none. We'll call roll. 00:43:57,350 S3: Commissioner Connelly. 00:43:58,790 S11: Yes. 00:43:59,710 S3: Commissioner Cleary. Yes. Commissioner. Risch. 00:44:02,070 S11: Yes. 00:44:03,350 S3: Commissioner Zenker. 00:44:04,310 S7: Yes. 00:44:05,110 S3: Mayor. Schmitz. 00:44:05,910 S1: Yes. Item F is considered request to release part of the stormwater and drainage easement on lot two, block one of the Frank addition. Good, Daniel. 00:44:15,970 S10: Good evening. Mayor. Commissioner. So Molinaro Properties, LLC is making this request. The stormwater and drainage easement was placed on the plat within Frank edition. You can see on the screen right here this when the site plan came through and they started designing the site, placing the building placed in the parking lot, it just turned out that having an additional two feet for the parking was advantageous for the site development. So during that process, they reached out and spoke with City Engineering, and the engineering department approves a release of that two feet just to allow the parking space to extend into that easement area. So the this does require city action because it does change the plat that has been recorded. And so we record the resolution which is in your packet to that effect. So the this is a public hearing. As with all easement releases other than franchise utility easements. Staff do recommend that you approve the release of the West 2.5ft of the East, 57ft of the North, 105ft of the storm and drainage easement on lot two, block one of Frank edition. 00:45:20,470 S1: Any questions? 00:45:22,470 S10: It's on the. It's on the record. 00:45:25,870 S1: Okay. Any questions? All right. Public hearing. So anyone wish to speak to this? Please come forward, identify yourself and sign in a second call for public comment. 00:45:39,390 S1: A third and final call for public comment. Seeing no one and hearing no one, the public comment period is closed. 00:45:45,910 S7: Commissioners move to approve is presented. 00:45:48,510 S1: Second, is there any discussion? Hearing. None. Roll call. Roll. 00:45:54,670 S3: Commissioner. Cleary. Yes. Commissioner. Risch. 00:45:57,190 S11: Yes. 00:45:57,830 S3: Commissioner. Zenker. 00:45:58,790 S7: Yes. 00:45:59,310 S3: Commissioner. Connelly. Yes. Mayor. Schmitz. 00:46:01,630 S1: Yes. Moving to other business. Do we have other business commissioners, Commissioner Risch? 00:46:06,030 S11: Yes. Mr. Mayor, commissioners, I've been getting a number of complaints from citizens about e-bikes and e-scooters that are going far too fast, and children that are perhaps too young to be riding them. The police have been getting a lot of reports, uh, down the sidewalks, through the red lights, all kinds of things. So I've asked the police department and our crack legal team to look at perhaps drafting an ordinance to address the issue. This technology has really gotten ahead of our ordinances. And and I have a neighbor two doors down, her e-bike failed and she went down to one of our local businesses. They gave her a loner bike. It goes 45 miles an hour, she said. It's just astounding that ride this bicycle can go 45 miles an hour. So I've asked our department and Julie and her folks to look into some suggestions for the possible ordinance. I was discussing it with the mayor earlier, and he said Dickenson has got a pretty good ordinance, and I reviewed that as well. So that's something we'll be working at. And I just want the public to know that we've heard you loud and clear. This is a concern. We're working on an ordinance. And please, parents, don't put a 9 or 10 year old kid on a cheap cycle that will go 40 miles an hour. That's just that's just unsafe. 00:47:23,700 S9: Commissioner Connelly well, I'm glad you brought that up, Commissioner Risch. I had four bird scooters parked at the end of my driveway, and you try to remove those by hand. They make all kinds of noise, and they they're heavy. It. They don't like being moved. 00:47:42,420 S1: Is there any other business? Hearing none. We stand adjourned. Thank you everyone.