00:00:10,870	Welcome. Today is May 19th, 2026. It is 5:30 p.m.. We are in the Bosch Froehlich meeting room at Mandan City Hall. Mr. Neubauer, could you please take the role? Commissioner Heinsohn here. Braun? Yes, Rohr here. Sjoberg here. Mayor Froelich here. And at this time, we will have Commissioner Rohr lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

00:00:34,830	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. Dennis. At this time we will start out with announcements. And, uh, we got Jarek on the construction project updates.

00:01:03,700	Evening, mayor and commissioners. Um, I do have a little presentation pulled up here. Uh, got seven projects to talk about today and always at the top Memorial Highway. I like to keep this one up front just to remind everybody.

00:01:22,030	Memorial highway split into two phases, often talked about as phase one, phase two, or the east half and the west half. And those the the the split between those two project phases is at 32nd Avenue or right by the bowling alley. Um, on the east half or phase one paving is occurring on and off the roadway.

00:01:41,000	People might notice a lot of a lot of roadway pavement going down in huge sections. Um, there’s also, uh, you can see at the top left of this picture, a ten foot shared use path, um, going in on kind of the south side of the roadway, um, intersection work at 43rd started today.

00:02:01,870	Um, this, uh, the 43rd on the north end is going to be closed starting, uh, starting at 10 a.m. today. There’s an alternate alternate route, uh, using 19th and then would like to just note again that 19th Street has been patched, and it should be a good route for people to use. Um, kind of another look at the, uh, East half project.

00:02:21,400	Uh, here on the right. Um, phase one should be complete at the beginning of July. We just had kind of a schedule update today reiterating that we’re still on track for that completion date.

00:02:41,200	Phase two, we’ve got Main Street intersection work going on, and, um, people can still expect traffic pattern shifts to continue as the contractor kind of hops around to different sub phases with that Main Street work. Um, I do have a couple pictures here.

00:03:02,330	We were able to get drone pictures of the Main Street intersection for people to just get a bird’s eye view of what’s going on there, and then this portion of the project, uh, should be complete in June, and then, uh, the rest of phase two will be completed in 2027. Uh, we have our first street reconstruction project going on, uh, last week in phases one and two. There was a lot of water main installation happening. Uh, and then this week we have, uh, sanitary sewer installation happening in phase one.

00:03:21,530	And then in the near future, we can expect sanitary sewer to continue to be installed, as well as storm sewer. And then grading and base will follow. That curb and street will follow that. And then as things close with Urban street, other areas will open. So then they’ll move on to phase three.

00:03:37,000	And then and then they’ll close something behind them and move on to phase four. So that’s kind of the the progression that we can expect for this project.

00:03:52,530	Did get the police department, uh, went and flew this project for us today, and we were able to get some pretty good, uh, drone footage and drone photos here too. So appreciate police department doing that for us. Um, there is a newsletter that went out on May 11th. Um, I think that the contractor has been doing a pretty good job at, uh, keeping people informed and, uh, doing a lot of public engagement.

00:04:12,370	So I just wanted to mention that there are newsletters available for people. I think the distribution list can be expanded if people are interested in receiving that, um, Collins Avenue reservoir. Nothing super new going on.

00:04:37,030	They’re still working on the finishing up the retaining wall work and, uh, doing site grading and, uh, reservoir painting should start here soon so that that project’s kind of coming to a close should be done mid-summer this year. Just another viewpoint. There. Uh, we have a downtown concrete project going on. This is 60 locations, um, at different spots in downtown.

00:04:56,330	Um, we have an interim completion date for mid-June on this project or a completion date for mid-June on this project. And we are currently tracking to meet that date as well. Um, eighth Avenue Northwest and 27th Street. We had our first public input meeting on that last week. Um, on Thursday, I believe. And that was at Mandan High School. Um, a lot of discussions.

00:05:15,900	Um, at this first public input meeting about how people can get involved with these projects, how people can, uh, let us know what their concerns are in their neighborhoods. And through that, it would inform the scope of the project and therefore the cost and stuff like that.

00:05:32,400	So we can get a really good price before we start talking special assessments. We have our second public input meeting scheduled for June 25th, um, at Mandan High School, and we have it scheduled for the PLC room as well.

00:05:47,000	Same location, but it was pretty cramped in there, so we might try and find a larger location at the high school if we can. Um, our intention, our timeline, intention with our timeline is to bring this for district creation. At the June 2nd meeting. We would want letters to hit people’s mailbox on June 2nd or maybe June 3rd.

00:06:10,230	Um, letting people know about the second public input meeting, as well as estimated special assessments and, um, what the protest process looks like. So, um, people in that area can expect, um, contact soon. Um, water and Sewer District 65. This is up by Lewis and Clark Elementary. Um, right now most of the work has been concrete work.

00:06:30,300	There’s been a lot of kind of diamonds, uh, put around some of the above ground utilities, like manholes and gate valves, as well as Ada ramp work in the area.

00:06:44,330	Um, last week we did a we had a start up of our pressure relief valve at the corner of Sixth Avenue Northwest and Monte Drive, so that that went well. And then, um, we’re kind of at a hurry up and wait point right now where we’re waiting for school to get out. That should that should, uh, they should get out this week, Thursday, and then, um, more of the pavement work will begin after that.

00:07:03,630	Um, Street Improvement District 241 up by Red Trail Elementary. Uh, traffic control is being set up in that area. And then concrete work has started along 47th Avenue. Um, you can see them working, uh, I believe, this morning. And, uh, once again, we will stay away from the elementary school until school is out.

00:07:20,770	So next week, people can expect that work to kind of expand to the east. And then once again, all of our projects, we try to keep our websites up to date, and people can either scan this QR code or visit our web our city website at city of Mandan projects to get updates on these projects, plus more.

00:07:39,970	And then, um, I guess I did want to mention this isn’t a city project necessarily, but, it does affect a lot of our residents. Uh, MDU is active with gas line replacements around town, and, uh, they they are doing, uh, underground boring with kind of this yellow pipe looking material.

00:08:07,600	And then they’re following that, closing up holes with asphalt or concrete and stuff like that. And right now they’re active in the, in that Monte Drive, Lewis and Clark Elementary area, as well as just east of the post office. So we do get a lot of questions around that. And it is a separate effort, has no special assessments associated with it is impactful.

00:08:23,630	We acknowledge that. And we do try to work pretty closely with Michaels and MDU to to sort out the issues related with that one as well. And the. Duration of that project is.

00:08:42,200	That is split into kind of seven subprojects that are, uh, I think MD was intending to complete over seven subsequent years. And I think we’re in year two of that effort. So, okay. Any questions for. Jerrick Mayor Jared, back on Memorial Highway in the East End, you say completion in July sometime. Does that include the medium or the center things and the and the associated landscaping on the sides as well? Uh, mayor, Commissioner Rohr.

00:09:04,200	Yes, that is final completion. That would include everything. Um, they are being held to their original completion date, and they are on track to meet that original completion date of everything. Okay. Well, good. I hope the weather and everything else. Yeah, we still need the rain, but I hope things cooperate to help that come to that end.

00:09:25,500	As well. Any other questions? Not thank you. Jerrick. At this time. And do we have a picture for the scholarship winner? Okay, then I will just announce it. Um, we’re announcing Aaliyah Leingang is the first recipient of a scholarship from the Bismarck Mandan Mayor’s Committee for people with disabilities. Uh, we met with her yesterday, took a picture.

00:09:58,070	We were day early, but that was okay. Um, and Aaliyah plans on attending, uh, BSc to pursue a degree in psychology. So congratulations to Aaliyah. And now we will move on to the fire department. Public information meeting. Chief Bitz. Good evening, mayor and commissioners.

00:10:24,800	Uh, just to announce that, um, we’re going to host our third public information meeting on June 1st at Fire Station one at 6 p.m.. And again, it’s an opportunity for citizens to come out. Um, uh, sit through one of our boring PowerPoints. No, it’s not boring.

00:10:43,630	Um, but for us to share some information about, uh, where we sit as a fire department and where our strategic plan is taking us to help the voters make an educated decision on the June 9th, uh, decision of whether or not to continue that sales tax that’s set to expire for the Starion Sports Complex to reallocate towards the fire department.

00:10:58,700	So we had one a meeting last night at Fort Lincoln Elementary. We had a handful of citizens that came out and had very good dialogue and conversation. Um, which is exactly what we want in those situations. So we encourage people to come out June 1st at 6 p.m. at our downtown fire station on Collins Avenue. So, okay. Thank you.

00:11:14,430	Thank you. Chief Bitz. Now we will we will move to, uh, Matt Schanandore Mandan Progress Organization to give us a, uh, overview of touch a truck. Good evening. Mayor.

00:11:38,470	Commissioners, uh, thank you for having me here tonight to talk about touch truck and the fun we had over the last weekend. So I’ve got some photos from the weekend here that we have. I’ll get this full screen here for. There you go. Um, it was a great weekend. Weather turned out very, very nice. Uh, we had just about our estimates between 94 to 2600 people that attended the event.

00:11:57,130	And, um, um, took in Main Street, the parks, the food trucks, the trucks themselves. Um, we had just over 50 businesses that were involved with it and about 75 vehicle pieces of equipment that were on display. Um, with this. So it was a big, big event.

00:12:16,930	We had about eight food trucks and a handful of vendors, and Dijkstra and Park, along with inflatables and things like that. So just kind of pull through some of these here. The truck ones, um, some of the most notable, um, vehicles we had, uh, were some of the big kind of digger pieces of equipment. We had, um, on display.

00:12:43,070	Um, central, central West Services made an M with their, uh, um, pumper truck at the west end of main. There you can see some of the inflatables we have. Um, huge thanks to all of our sponsors. We have a little over 50 sponsors that helped, um, contribute and fund the event.

00:13:05,500	Um, and provide the free bags, the coloring books, uh, the crayons that we gave out the horn bingo was a, uh, a very large success of people going around and filling out bingo cards. And then they got a free treat from Culver’s or, uh, chick fil A as well. So, um. A couple of other events here.

00:13:24,700	We had a fun, uh, mini Tesla on site. A lot of photos in there. Uh, Tesla was the, uh, the highlight of the day there. You can see the M in the background from Central West Services.

00:13:42,970	Um, but a lot of people on Main Street, a lot of people enjoying their time. Um, huge shout out to the Mandan Public Works for helping get all the barriers up. Uh, Mandan PD for helping kind of close the streets down and put in the barricades. Mandan Fire is a huge, huge community effort to kind of put this together.

00:14:00,170	So that’s great to have all these partners come together to help with everything. That’s probably one of our favorite ones in there. So great event. Um, there’s got a nice, uh, few, uh, a few weeks here and we’ll be at the, um, we’ll be back at, um, the buggies and blues and windows.

00:14:20,230	What does that start? Buggies and blues. Buggies and blues is, uh, June 12th through the 14th. So it’s a Friday? Yeah. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We’ll have, uh, Friday music kickoff in the evening. Saturday, we’ll have our block party.

00:14:36,800	We’ve got four different bands on Saturday, and then we’ll have the car show, music, food and stuff on Sunday. So big event coming up. Uh, a few things are taking place in Dykstra Park. If people are are seeing some changes.

00:14:55,170	We do have the, um, uh, bandshell is getting a little bit of an upgrade, um, as part of some visitor funding money that we had to kind of get it ready for the force. So this is a mock up of what it will look like, um, shortly here this month, working with Heritage Exteriors here in Mandan to kind of spruce it up and give it a fresh new look for the summer season.

00:15:08,870	So that should be ready by buggies and blues. If not, um, a week or so after that, but it will be ready for the 4th of July celebrations when we have the art and the park, music and entertainment on the stage. Okay. Thank you Matt. Good job this weekend. Thank you. Now we will have Kari talk about community cleanup.

00:15:31,770	Evening, mayor and commissioners. Just going to pull up, um, some information here on the screen just to say a thank you. Um, we do have basically, um, 16 of 17, plus another route claimed for community cleanup month. A lot of these routes have already been cleaned. Sorry.

00:15:53,300	And, um, some of them will be done this week and this weekend and next week. But things are really moving. So I just want to give a shout out to Girl Scout Troop 87058 Capital Credit Union. Delphine Marshall, Sharon Johnson and Annette Carey, a U.S., and Robin Kalinowski, uh. More engineering.

00:16:16,600	Abra Auto Body First Community Credit Union, Prairie Rose family dentist. Deb and Tim hop off and Niki Hellman, citizens Church Interstate engineering James Gustafson and friends, Cub Scout Pack 153. NISC center incorporated HDR and Martina Dvorak and her friends. Um, this is a big undertaking for the community. I think we have almost 200 volunteers for all of these routes.

00:16:45,500	I do believe route 11 will get cleaned before the end of the month or early June. Um, and if anyone is still interested, we do have other routes. We just don’t publish them because these are the routes that we want to get cleaned first, and then we have other routes that we would add on.

00:17:02,130	But if anyone’s looking to still sign up or for more information, at city of mandan.com/cleanup, any questions? Any questions for Kari? What’s that. One announcement? Oh, I want to make an announcement. The mayor, um, to remind people, too, that the summer band, concerts were consciousness will be held at the bandshell starting. I think, either first or second Monday in June.

00:17:27,770	And I looked at the entertainment list and like that there’s going to be some great entertainment down there. All different types of music, variety, you name it.

00:17:42,730	And of course, we have a big band that starts in every Monday night, I believe as well, but it’s a it’s a time for to get out and get away from the normal process of being home in the house or, you know, get down to the old fashioned way of enjoying life and outside and, and music and the talented people we have in the area.

00:17:58,330	So, you know, I encourage people to come down and be a participant in that, because by being a participant more, you get down to more enthused. The Musicians Association is to keep sponsoring this and keep that entertainment going. I think it’s very important. Yes. Are you playing.

00:18:18,270	Well? Not this year, because, uh, our our band was maybe on verge of not getting back together, but then the guitar decided to get back together again. But by then we got the schedule all made out, so I won’t be signing autographs this year. But you guys are as old as the Rolling Stones, so. Right there. Uh, I think I was before the Rolling Stones. I gather Moss before that. Okay. All right. Thank you.

00:18:36,030	Kari, wherever you went, um, we’ll move on to public comment, Mr. Neubauer. None. No public comments at this time. So we will go to the approval of the agenda. I move. To approve the agenda for tonight’s meeting. As presented. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Schulberg. Second, by Commissioner Heinsohn. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call.

00:19:03,700	Commissioners. Braun. Yes. Rohr. Yes. Sjoberg. Yes. Yes. Mayor Froelich. Yes. We’ll move on to the approval of the minutes. Consider approval of May 5th, 2026 Board of City Commission meeting minutes. I’ll make a motion to approve the May 5th, 2026 Board of City Commission meeting. Minutes. Second motion by Commissioner Heinsohn.

00:19:31,000	Second by Commissioner Brown. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Commissioners. Rohr. Yes. Sjoberg. Yes. Heinsohn. Yes Braun. Yes Mayor Froelich. Yes. We will now move on to public hearing. Consider a preliminary plat for Lakewood Commercial Park, seventh edition. Jordan. Good evening, Mayor. Froelich and commissioners.

00:19:53,370	Uh, two public hearings for you tonight. The first one, uh, the preliminary plat for commercial Lakewood Commercial Park, seventh edition. Um, I have that plat pulled up on your screen. Just get this zoomed in here so you can see a little better.

00:20:18,670	Uh, this this plat is down off of 40th and just south of Shoal Loop, next to Discovery Monastery. Just to give you an idea of where we’re where we’re talking about, um, this, this plat has, uh, had significant work between, um, the applicant and city staff to finally come to what you see in front of you.

00:20:43,030	Um, just as of note, this is separated, and we did this intentionally from the special use permit that will be coming later. So this is what you’re looking at is just for the plat. Normally we have other things like the special use that come with it. But we separated that intentionally. But, um, Mr.

00:21:02,870	Mittleider is purchasing this or has from the city and then is adding this to his. Um, we have significant things happening in the back yards for those off of the east side, which would be Nash Lane. And um, this is in work with them and a lot of different parties to, to get to where this plat is.

00:21:22,530	Um, the total acreage of this preliminary plat is 2.9 acres to be platted into lot one, lot two, lot three, lot four, lot five and six, all in block one. So, uh, that’s the configuration that we have. This was brought to the Planning and Zoning Commission and was approved on April 27th.

00:21:44,570	Uh, you may have questions on it, and I can answer any of those. Other than that, we would, um, as staff ask for recommendation from the board and also to have a public hearing and go from there. But I can take any questions you’d have on this one specifically. So you alluded to it.

00:22:05,270	So everybody to the east across the fence, everybody’s good with this. Yes. With the plat portion. Yes. We are good with it. Yes. Uh, we still have discussions with the special use which is coming and other things in the future. But this would be it. And there is a, a split.

00:22:25,530	We have um, in the kind of the backyards and they’ve worked that out. So. Okay. Any other questions for Jordan? If not, we will proceed to a public hearing. And at this time, we’ll open the public hearing for comments on the preliminary plat for Lakewood Commercial Park, seventh edition. First call. Second call for comments. Third and final call. With that, the hearing is closed. Commissioners..

00:23:04,530	Go ahead. I move to approve the preliminary plat for Lakewood Commercial Park, seventh edition, second. We have a motion by Commissioner Brown, a second by Commissioner Schulberg. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Commissioner Sjoberg. Yes. Heinsohn. Yes. Braun. Yes. Rohr. Yes. Mayor Froelich. Yes. Second item.

00:23:31,730	Consider a preliminary plat and zone change for School district, eighth edition. Jordan. Good evening. Mayor. Commissioners. The second of our public hearings tonight. Consideration of a preliminary preliminary plat and zone change for the school district.

00:23:56,800	Eighth, this is the existing high school site, and you can see the plat on your screen that also has the brave center, the ASA also in this plat. Now, if you look really closely, you’ll notice there is a lot going on here. Um, maybe underneath the surface. One of the reasons that we have a new plat with this is the amount of different utilities and different things associated with this site.

00:24:17,330	There was a lot of existing work. And um, for those that have driven by, they’re mostly got the old high school tore down and a lot of the underground work is being taken place. Now that spring is kind of here. And, uh, this is the result of that.

00:24:33,830	Uh, I know there’s been a lot of questions just on let me pull up the other the zoning map of this. Now, the one thing that we’ll note is this was what we have and the reason we have the zone change is because this entire site, which was owned by the school district, uh, was zoned

00:24:52,870	agricultural. And because of the existing parks, properties and school properties that are now on there. And they’re to stay, we felt that as staff necessary to change that. So you’ll see, um, them located as CC commercial districts which they would be compliant in what they currently are today.

00:25:16,400	So that was important for us to get that in there. Um, we also suggested and, and rightly so along seeks to have another commercial lot along with the 3.2 to the south. This is seventh down here and then R7 to the west.

00:25:34,530	Um, this is all in in the change, but this is not what it can or I should say what it may be. Um, this was a suggestion from city staff to have these different type of zoning districts. Could there be something different in the future? Absolutely.

00:25:56,400	But we we put this tag as these different zoning districts on there for school district to be able to bring this plat with the zone change, obviously, so that they’re able to, in my understanding, in the future, sell these lots, um, to either developer, whoever would like with the existing ones that are the school districts.

00:26:14,370	Now, there’s two existing ones up here, and it doesn’t show the overlay map, but this CC one up here would be that what is now the skate park. And then the city obviously owns this and has it as a grass site currently. So there’s a lot of different things going on.

00:26:31,930	But just the backstory on that is that we put zoning on it because it was agricultural and it it didn’t make sense to keep that. So as staff, we kind of suggested this. Could that change down the road? Yeah, someone may come in, but if they change that obviously another zone change brought to you as well. But this is our suggestion.

00:26:49,070	This is what they have. The one thing I’ll note is, um, we do have in the. Um, just staff comments of different things. The, the four ways intersection and it would be in your, um, recommendation for being contingent upon inclusion of a roundabout.

00:27:14,570	Uh, we just wanted a little extra space and maybe the corners to be able to possibly have that in the future. So once again, one of those things, it’s going to be down the road. But for now, this is what the school district is wanting in this preliminary plat to be able to sell those lots and, and move on from their existing property.

00:27:34,170	So, um, with that, you have your recommendation suggested motion, and I would answer any questions you might have. Any questions for Jordan. Jordan. Um, I talked with a. few people. On Saturday and they were concerned about this roundabout issue. I met with City Engineer Gericke and he provided me with the map that was developed in November 7th of 2023.

00:28:03,470	Um, which contains graphic reference, a concept. And that’s all this is, is a concept at this point. Um, however, this concept, in essence, um, mirrors the zone change that we’re going to be voting on tonight. Mayor Froelich Commissioner Sjoberg, I think mostly there might be a few changes and just go back to what you’re saying.

00:28:31,800	We did have a placemaking grant, um, through a brownfield grant that was to the city. And and for this site specifically just to look at future ideas. We knew the school was going to, you know, obviously be moving on from that. And, and to, to bring that forward.

00:28:48,330	What is on that concept are a few things that, um, we, we just on the north side, you would notice they had the roundabout instead of where it would currently be located. And part of that is just the non feasibility of, of the topography.

00:29:09,370	Um, to the north and to that west side, there’s a lot of hillside. So that was moved down. And um I mean that’s still on our website. I don’t have it pulled up now, but just as you said was concept level. Um, could be could not be.

00:29:27,800	I know, I know people have different and I’ve heard things about, oh, is there going to be a parking garage? It was part of a concept. And um, something that we felt, uh, might, in the future help somebody, uh, that would be looking for different ideas and, and different things for the site to, to develop, grow and continue growth in the city of Mandan. So thank you.

00:29:50,230	Any other questions for Jordan? If not, thank you, Jordan. And at this time we will open the public hearing regarding the preliminary plat and zoning change for School District eighth edition. First call for public comments. Second call for public comments. Third and final call. Hearing none. The public meeting is closed.

00:30:27,030	Commissioners, what are your wishes? I move to approve the preliminary plat zone change for School District eighth edition, contingent upon, as it stated here. Now, the inclusion of the roundabout. Is that correct? Second. Second motion by Commissioner Sjoberg. Second by Commissioner Brown. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Commissioners. Heinsohn. Yes. Braun. Yes. Rohr. Yes. Sjoberg. Yes. Mayor Froelich.

00:30:54,430	Yes. We will now move on to bids. Consider bids for the 2026 Striping Project. 2026-21. Riley. Uh, good evening. Mayor and commissioners. Uh, we received one bid on, uh, May 15th from SE in the amount of 306 360. Um, this is roughly 25% over our original engineer’s estimate.

00:31:20,930	Um, the way we’ve kind of set up this motion is going to give you two options tonight. We’re leaning towards awarding the bid. Um, but we’ve also set up in a way that we could possibly re advertise the bid to. What’s the timeline to advertise? Uh, it would not be done before the 4th of July.

00:31:39,870	It would be post the 4th of July. Commissioners, any questions for Riley? Riley, if if we, um. Decided to go with the option to get everything done prior to Mandan hosting the 250th anniversary parade, is it feasible for the bid award company to work with the concrete repair company that’s working now, an

00:32:28,930	interface with those who are working on the Memorial Highway project on the east end of Main Street and Memorial Highway? Absolutely. TS is actually already working on the Memorial Highway project, so they would be pretty easy to mobilize just further west, as well as the concrete contract would not

00:32:46,000	interfere with them at all, since they’re mainly in the sidewalk curb area, and this is mainly happening in the middle of the street. Okay. And then there’s two in the packet. There’s two due dates. One is June 26th and the other one says July 4th. Is that to allow for, uh, whether. Yep.

00:33:05,630	We would make sure everything is done by that July 4th date. But we put another interim completion date in there to really enforce. Hey, you need to get this done as soon as possible. Okay. Thank you. Liquidated damages on this project are $5,000 a day, so it should really enforce them to move quickly. Okay.

00:33:22,130	So that’s what they pay us if they don’t complete the project by the 4th of July. Yep. I got June 26th date is. June 26th, five grand a day? Yep. Okay. Mayor Riley, the, uh, striping project allows for striping certain areas. Now, we don’t do this every year.

00:33:43,030	Isn’t it true that some of these, the paint’s being used and the is not done every year? It lasts a period of time. And maybe what? The new paints can last up 3 to 5 years. Is that correct? Yep. So this is, uh, typically on roadways you’d have different types of striping.

00:34:01,130	So the kind of basic striping you’d seen a lot of residential areas is just paint that’s simply painted on theirs. Um, so there’s not high traffic. It’ll last quite a while in more high traffic areas like Main Street, we tend to do these grooving epoxies, so it actually grooves down the roadbed and puts an epoxy tape

00:34:15,100	in, and that tends to last a lot longer in these higher traffic areas. So we could have a life expectancy of anywhere from I would say probably at 3 to 5 years, or even more than that, depending on where the traffic flows. So we wouldn’t.

00:34:28,600	And I’m spending over $300,000 next year because we’d have a lot of this already down there, wouldn’t be eligible for repainting for a year or 2 or 3 years. Yeah, we would definitely wait until we’d see kind of those where signs.

00:34:43,000	And right now we’d revitalize all of Main Street, and then probably our center lines wouldn’t need it for probably that five year range. But then those turn arrows are driving on them consistently. That would probably be your shorter lifespan. Okay. Thank you. And this is just, uh, striping. There’s no painting of curbs or anything. Nope. This is just kind of that main line striping.

00:34:59,500	So I talk about the center of the roadway. It’s kind of your centerline stripes as well as your turn lane stripes and the arrows and crosswalks. So it does include some crosswalks on First Street as well. For those people who kind of park, um, on that street, they can walk down to Main Street easier.

00:35:16,430	Mayor and Riley, um, have they given a timeline of the duration of the project? How long does this take? They have not provided a timeline with us. That would kind of happen further into the contract. We’d get the contract on the timeline roughly at the same time.

00:35:32,370	Uh, but like I said, we do have those interim completion dates, so we would be really hard to you have to have it done by these dates. Otherwise those liquidated damages would start applying and we would have repercussions. We would track their progress to and monitor it internally and say, hey, look, they’re going to meet it.

00:35:45,600	Do we need to possibly say, hey, you need to have more crews? That’s something engineering department to track internally and make sure that they’re on track to meet their deadlines. Commissioners, what are your wishes? And, commissioners, I’m I’m kind of looking at the amount of money that will save if we rebid it. Potentially save.

00:36:13,030	So that’s kind of where I’m leading. This was advertised in what, three state, four state area. Um, in terms of like advertising for the bids. Bids are we advertise on quest, which is an online bidding environment. So people from California could look at if they if they really wanted to.

00:36:33,330	Um, we probably won’t take care of it from there. But we do do online bidding. So anybody could look at it. Yeah. I 25% is pretty significant. Um, and I’m, you know, I’m about sprucing up and having everything look great for the 250. Um, but that that’s pretty significant.

00:36:59,130	And only having one bidder. Um, to the mayor’s, you know, question, I guess that I’m surprised that only there is one bid. Um, is there in our history, have we had multiple bids for projects like this, and is it you feel it’s related to the timeline? Um, I do feel that these bids are related to the timeline.

00:37:19,270	Also, when we did the engineer’s estimate, we looked at, um, dot projects, which tend to be bigger and have longer timelines. So those bid prices are lower. Uh, this is a shortened timeline, and it’s a very urban area. Um, so we do our best guess.

00:37:33,270	Not a best guess or our best effort to get those engineer’s estimate as accurate as possible. And we felt it was pretty accurate. Um, but it’s possible that this is just the price you have to pay for striping in downtown areas. Yes. There is the potential for cost savings. Um, however, if we do rebid it, we might not see those cost savings. Um, I know Brian.

00:37:50,730	Dirk. Uh, with public works, uh, when he has done starting projects in the past, he has West River striping, and TS typically has two bidders. Um, we did not see West River bid this project. So if we rebid it, you would change the parameters of the bid. You would.

00:38:15,230	You would, uh, change the duration of completion? Yes, we would extend that. We would have them start after the 4th of July. That’s not interrupt anything going on during that time. Um, and then we’d have interim completion dates, uh, likely in September or October. Give them a very long span to complete this project. Okay.

00:38:41,370	I’ll go. I reject the bids for the 2026 stripping project and authorize the engineering department to advertise for bids with an extended timeline. I’ll second. We have a motion by Commissioner Brown and a second by Commissioner Heinsohn. Any further discussion? Roll call, please. Commissioner Brown. Yes. Rohr. Yes. Sjoberg. No. Hang. Yes. Mayor Froelich.

00:39:15,600	Yes. We will now move on to the consent agenda. Are there any items you want would like remove from the agenda? If not, I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. I’ll make the motion to approve the consent agenda as published. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Sjoberg.

00:39:48,670	A second by Commissioner Rohr. Any further discussion? Hearing? None. Roll call. Commissioners. Sjoberg. Yes. Rohr. Yes. Heinsohn. Yes. Braun. Yes. Mayor Froelich. Yes. We’ll move on to new business. Presentation of the 2025 Annual Statistical Report. Chief Zeigler. Mr. Mayor and Commission, uh, what I’m presenting to you tonight is the 2025 Annual Statistical Report.

00:40:17,830	Uh, this is a report that’s compiled of information that we collect over the year of 2025. Uh, I want to thank Kari Schmidt and Tasha. Um, Scott, who’s my administrative assistant for really doing a lot of the the nuts and bolts in this report.

00:40:39,430	Uh, it’s really kind of a continuous labor because you constantly got to check the numbers and make sure that they line up with the, the numbers, numbers and everything else that we submit to the state. Um, what I’m going to do is I’m going to go through this and I’m going to highlight a few things, kind of explain a little bit what the report is.

00:40:55,400	And uh, if there’s any questions, uh, I will answer those. We’ll skip over this here. So the first one that we’re going to come up to and talk about is the call volume. So what you see here is from 2022 to 2025, our the little chart down at the bottom shows over the years.

00:41:21,870	The one at the top shows last year. And it shows that by month. So you can see in January we handled 883 calls for service. A call for service is any call that we receive at the police department that we would respond to, um, whether we take a report or not.

00:41:40,800	And then you can see as, as it goes, it it peaks in the summertime. Um, and then in December, it usually starts to go down. But last December, it kind of spiked back up. Um, and the reason for that, it’s the holidays. Uh, families are together. Different things happen. So that could cause the spike. There.

00:42:03,530	So you can see those. Now, the other one, the orange line right here. What that is, is those are what we call CRS case reports. And those are calls that we respond to that we actually take a physical report and investigate it. So for this year, for 2025, our calls for service did slightly go up. Uh, from 2024.

00:42:27,830	But our call our reported reports are called um, CRS. Our case reports actually slightly went down. So that means we went to more calls, but we took less criminal reports. So that would that would be, uh, for the calls for service in the case reports.

00:42:48,730	And I can answer any questions if you want me to, per thing I discuss or do you I can go through the whole thing and then answer questions. It might be easier if there’s questions on this here, so I don’t have to file back to it. Uh, if there’s any questions on the calls for service. If not, I’m going to move on.

00:43:07,330	So group A offenses these are the more serious activity crimes that you can see. Uh, we have to report these to the, uh, to the FBI under our, uh, requirements under neighbors. So you can see over from 2022 to 2025, you can kind of look at and see the different numbers.

00:43:29,300	And that’s the actual number of case reports that we took in those years. So like arson it started out in 2022 with eight. Then it drops down to two five and two. And those are only reported crimes. And then as you can see, as you go down, the salts were down. Uh, burglaries and Break-Ins stayed the same.

00:43:48,000	Uh, the big highlights there is, is when you look at the vandalism, dropping narcotics, uh, and drug offenses did go up. Uh, fraud offenses went down a little bit, and theft and larceny went down slightly. So you can see that everything is, is kind of on a downward trend with the seeing.

00:44:07,300	Those numbers are class offenses have went down 10%. This is a two year trend that we’re in. Um, and you can see that our where the homicides were in a three year trend on homicides. No homicides which is good. And as you can see, homicides are calculated by neighbors by the incident, not by victims.

00:44:26,870	So one instance with five homicides inside that one instance is going to show up as one. It’s not going to show up as five. Any questions with the class A offenses. And we’ll move on. And then then underneath it, it just kind of describes what they are. And it gives the actual definition.

00:44:45,030	Uh, per century code, what each of those crimes are on the big highlighted crimes up there. And then it talks a little bit about the national incident based reporting system. If you’re interested in learning about what neighbors is, uh, we explain that to you so the reader can get a full grasp of what they’re looking at.

00:45:05,870	Then we move on to the four year crime statistics of comparison of the class B group. So B group is is you’re lesser crimes. You can see in there, you know, bad checks, disorderly conducts, DUIs, drunkenness. And you can see that there is a slight uptick in some of them.

00:45:26,730	Uh, so our our B group has one up about 4%, approximately a lot of them are, you know, like your liquor violations and drunkenness and stuff like that. DUIs. Um, if you can see, because of our staffing is almost at full staff. We’ve one up in DUIs.

00:45:48,000	Officers are having more time to go out and do those traffic enforcement things. So any questions with the B group? And again, add some explanation down there of what that is. And then these here are just other offenses. These are ones that aren’t tracked with inside the A groups or the B group. And so that’s just they the numbers just listed as other offenses.

00:46:10,400	So you got your child neglect, uh, court orders, domestic disputes, no assaults. So you can see those numbers and it’s up a little bit, uh, a 2% uptick on the other offenses.

00:46:28,070	The big thing, when you’re looking at the crime statistics, that what we want to see is the downward trend or the stabilization of the A group as the city grows, as long as that number stays pretty, pretty level. Um, it’s it’s where we would like it to be because we understand that even as as we stand here today, there’s something going on out there that we really don’t have control over.

00:46:47,930	And so to try to get to keep those things stabilized is very important. This is code enforcement. Code enforcement. We had a really kind of a difficult time getting good people in that position. They would stay there. A lot of them became police officers and different things like that.

00:47:11,330	So we were operating with most of last year with just one code enforcement officer, uh, in about April, May, we got two young ladies that have really, uh, lifted our, our statistical data, their go getters, and they go out there every single day. And they’re doing a very, very good job.

00:47:29,670	So even though you see the down tick, that’s because there was only one code enforcement officer for the for most of 2024 and into 2025. So trying to keep those numbers where they’re at is, is good. You can see where our weed and grass and our nuisance calls are one up. But the weed and grass has went down. Um, vehicle trailers have went down significantly.

00:47:50,930	It’s because one person was doing most of the job. I this is just my going to be my guess for 2026 is you’re going to see those numbers go up because we are full staffed and code enforcement, uh, parking authority is also still part of code enforcement.

00:48:09,600	So, uh, the you can see where the young ladies, uh, when they get out there and they start hitting the street doing parking enforcement, it goes up. But for most of last year, um, for half of last year, we were sitting at just one coast code enforcement officer that was doing parking and everything. So that’s why you get a downward tick.

00:48:27,700	The other reason why, we’ll see parking authority downward tick would be for the construction areas. We lift parking restrictions and construction areas. It’s kind of unfair to start tagging people with parking fines if, uh, there’s no place to park. So.

00:48:51,370	So you could see a drop, potentially, with all the construction going on downtown, especially in that First Street area. But the rest of the city is still the downtown area, is still enforced. Any questions so far? Mayor? Chief just went back on the nuisances. And I see there’s quite an increase over the last several years on nuisances.

00:49:10,830	What is your definition of this particular type of call? Uh, Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Rohr nuisance calls would be anything that would fall outside of the weeds in the vehicles and the trailers. So, uh, junk and debris, uh, you know, we get those calls constantly. We’re people, you know, park their or have an unlicensed vehicle parked in front of their house.

00:49:31,200	Stuff like that would would fall under the nuisance thing. So mostly those are going to be your junk and debris calls. Okay. Because I was looking at property maintenance, I thought that’s maybe that would be the area described there. But, uh, I couldn’t differentiate. You know, in my mind what those differences were.

00:49:52,400	Yeah, they’re there and there’s probably a correlation between the two. But we do get like a lot of just like nuisance calls, like somebody leaving their trash can or they got, you know, a trash bag sitting in the front yard, stuff like that. Your property maintenance or is more it could, could also fall into the grass and weeds.

00:50:08,030	But the property maintenance, when I think of property maintenance, I think of it’s the, the, the major, um, situations where we have to actually go in and, and cite them and take them into court and stuff like that, because they’re not taking care of the maintenance of their property.

00:50:22,400	It could even fall into a, you know, this, not shoveling the snow off your sidewalk could be a property maintenance. Um, so there’s there’s a, you know, overlapping on some of these, but the nuisance calls are more of the, the, the base, nothing.

00:50:43,530	That’s like going to take a lot of time, but it does take time to go out and handle those. Well, this is one area I feel is very important for police to enforce, because I’m a strong believer in the broken window theory that, you know, if you let things degenerate, look bad in neighborhoods, starts looking bad, and at least a lot

00:50:57,070	of other minor crimes, you know, and two other issues as well. And I think that’s one thing that we need to keep on top of is to to maintain that level of, of quality of life and, and aesthetics and how the city looks to keep pride in the city and, and also to keep a degeneration from happening.

00:51:17,970	Yes, sir. Next slide is going to be animal control. And so this is another part of code enforcement’s job is, is uh, keeping track of all the animals that are running around our city and violation of leash laws and all the other different animal violations.

00:51:43,230	And along with that comes the impounding of animals, whether it’s because of a dog bite investigation or whatever it may be. So you can see that our impounding of of animals has dropped, um, pretty significantly. But but we’re returning them to their owners about the same rate. And then adoptions of animals, uh, is a little less.

00:52:03,800	And a lot of that is probably because of the intake of them was was down. So we try to reunite animals to their owners as much as possible. Um, and of course, the adoption is important to. So you can see total overall we are down uh, quite a bit in that area, about 17%. Traffic enforcement.

00:52:25,830	Um, this one here is always an interesting one to look at. As you can see, it’s gradually just starts to go up in 2024 then. And now we’re in 2025. We’re up around 6500. Traffic enforcement. About half of those calls or those stops result in written warnings. So we’re not writing everybody.

00:52:46,530	The, uh, you know, a ticket that cost the money, uh, where you see most of our significant increases in the speeding, um, we have been focusing a lot on our school zones and trying to make it safer out there and reducing the speeds out there to make Mandan a much safer place to travel.

00:53:07,530	Uh, we are known for a bike city and everything else. A lot of walking paths. Um, so we really, really try to focus on, on keeping our traffic, uh, in compliance. Uh, and again on this one here, it also shows the DUIs which are up the does or does which is driving under suspension.

00:53:28,870	That’s people who are, uh, their license has been suspended by the state, but yet they still choose to drive. And then when we stop them, we cite them. And those usually go in front of a judge. Any questions with this one? Okay, I’ll move on. This is crash report summary. These are just reportable crashes.

00:53:56,070	And so you can see that our reportable crashes are down. No fatalities last year. And then non reportable crashes back in 2024. The state did not require us to start to track them anymore. So that’s why you see the the asterisks there is that we no longer track that statistic.

00:54:16,800	So eventually as 22 and 23 fade off of this, that line will disappear on the annual report. And community engagement. Um, this is, uh, one of the things that I, that I think, uh, is possibly one of the most important things that a police department can do with its community.

00:54:37,270	It’s the, you know, the actual doing, the crime fighting and all that stuff is what we’re expected to do. These are the things that we put together to bond with our community, to let our community get to know us and to open up doors when crime has been committed for them to reach out to us.

00:54:54,130	Because basically, policing is a community effort. Uh, the police can’t do it by themselves. We need our good citizens to help us in everything. So to thank our our citizens for everything we do. An annual growth. A cop will be doing it again in August this year.

00:55:13,400	Um, so be watching our Facebook for the the date on that. And that’s where we get a bunch of hot dogs and hamburgers and bratwurst and sodas, and we do a huge community feed. We also do a trunk or treat, uh, in an effort to get to give the kids a safe trick or treating area out in front of the LEC.

00:55:32,630	Uh, we do this with in cooperation with the sheriff’s office. Um, city Hall actually is getting involved with it. So everybody kind of comes together, and it’s a really fun time for all families at these events. A new team that just started up here in 2025 is our community engagement team, or CERT and CERT is is a grant funded team.

00:55:56,070	We got a federal Cops grant hiring grant to get this team together. So you can see here some of this is a little bit of what they’ve done. They started in April. So you can see April to June. So they’re just getting started.

00:56:10,530	And as you move down you can see that they’re getting more involved and more involved. So uh you’ll see them out in the community. Uh, on on electric bikes this summer. Uh, so and they do a lot of what we call business contacts, where they talk to our local businesses and find out what issues and problems are going on in, in the business districts.

00:56:27,900	They can they also go out to the residential areas. They do a lot of school visits and presentations. And in fact, our CERT team, uh, also provides the lobby security for commission meetings. So they’re a pretty active team. And they’ll be down there at Dykshoorn for the band nights and stuff.

00:56:49,770	So those rowdy musicians down there, when Commissioner Rohr is down there and partying it up, uh, we’re there to take care of those issues. And we’ll move on down to that still, uh, special operations, the drug task force. This is all done to metro area narcotics track drug task force. So, Mandan, Bismarck, Morton County, uh, Burleigh County. We all in BCI bureau criminal investigations.

00:57:21,000	We form a task force. And that’s who does all the drug enforcement. So there’s some of the statistic overview of what they’ve done last year from, you know, the 1500g of cocaine that they’ve seized or £3.4, um, you can see the, uh, marijuana seized on there.

00:57:42,000	This is everything that they seized in 39 illegal firearms that they’ve taken off the street. And then they got the dollar Amount. Of what that value is. The street value of those drugs on the back side of it. So when you’re reading it, you can see approximately how much money has been taken out of the criminals hands with this, with this information.

00:58:03,700	Mayor, chief? On the drug task force, your department donates or contributes to one person, right? Mr. Mayor and Commissioner, that is correct. We provide one drug agent to that. It’s based upon population and stuff. But the city of Mandan receives the the full service of the drug task force.

00:58:29,270	So, like Bismarck, I believe, gives five of their police officers much bigger metropolitan area. Uh, but Bismarck police officers come over to help us do our our policing of our streets with the drugs. So that’s a it’s a combined unit. I’m just trying to point out what we contribute in terms of manpower to that particular organization.

00:58:47,370	Yes, sir. This next one is what we call saturation reports. Uh, excuse me. Patrols. So we do one in the springtime and one in the fall, and we don’t let people know that we’re doing them, because that kind of takes the surprise out of it. But this is the statistics that we have.

00:59:08,300	Uh, accumulated over doing these saturation reports. So you can see that that’s what this is about, is, is trying to get out there and getting into areas that where there’s issues and problems and stuff like that.

00:59:28,530	And we, uh, saturate the area with efforts between, uh, Mandan Police Department, North Dakota Highway Patrol, North Dakota probation, parole goes out, Morton County Sheriff’s Office also comes out in to assist with this. So it’s a multi-agency. Uh, we host it and organize it and do the operational plans on it.

00:59:46,670	And as you can see, it’s a it’s actually a pretty successful, uh, evening for us whenever we go out to try to curve, um, crime in certain areas throughout the city. This one here is one this is what I call an eye opener. Uh, slide. So this shows you the drug overdoses that we’ve had in our community. The one that that always just is alarming is the yellow one on the chart, which is the death.

01:00:08,600	Uh, we had five deaths last year, 20, 25. Um, one is too many. And it’s, you know, even though this report doesn’t say exactly which one the overdose was from, what type of drugs, you can see, you know, the opioids, um, are probably the highest amount of drugs that we take off the street.

01:00:32,600	And then the other, like methamphetamine, alcohol and prescription drugs, uh, you know, so we see some of those things and then unknown narcotics, um, those are just where we get no report of what type of drug it was that they were taking. And the individual lives.

01:00:50,730	But we just we just don’t have the toxicology report to tell us what type of drug. So it goes under unknown. As you can see, in 2025, we didn’t have any of the unknown drugs. And then of course, the last one is the Narcan use.

01:01:08,930	That’s where officers actually use Narcan to revitalize somebody or attempt to revitalize somebody who has taken an opioid, which would include fentanyl. So that that just shows you that it does exist in our community. Um, even though you look at it and you say, well, you know, 30, you know, like I said, the five deaths are probably the most alarming part of it. Warrants, uh, we do have a US marshal.

01:01:34,530	We’re part of the US marshal, uh, task force here in the metro area and in the state of North Dakota. We our our one warrant officer is a deputized by the US marshal so they can go really anywhere in the state or in that fact, probably in the country to help with that stuff.

01:01:55,870	But they they very rarely take them out of the area on the High Plains. Uh, Fugitive Task force. But you can see, uh, that our warrant officer has been busy. Uh, the felony warrants at 153, misdemeanor warrants at 87 federal warrants, 17 and doctor warrants.

01:02:15,800	That means, the Department of Corrections has put a warrant out on somebody, and they’re looking for him. Uh, and that person was collected within the metro area. So our warrant officer made 260 warrant arrest. Um, last year. Then our beloved K-9 unit, uh, Cooper, retired, uh, back in October.

01:02:39,670	So he is enjoying his retired life, uh, with, uh, Sergeant Scherrer and his family. Who was his handler? Uh, Medved still out there and patrolling right now. So he’s got about another, another year, year and a half before he will hit his retirement. Uh, we did budget for another canine to come on board in 2027.

01:02:56,730	If that gets approved, uh, then we will add another canine to this list, and Kupper will will retire officially from the annual report. And the new K-9 will take its place. So this just gives a little bit of information on the canines themselves.

01:03:15,100	And then our drones, uh, we do have a drone team. They were deployed approximately 43 times in 2025. Um, they would have probably been deployed a lot more if we had more drone pilots that, uh, we lost a couple of our drone pilots, uh, left our department. So we were down to only about three drone pilots. One detective, the, ah, my deputy chief is a drone pilot.

01:03:34,330	So he got tasked quite a bit to go fly missions and stuff. But that’s not an idealistic, uh, thing for a deputy chief to do, though. He loves doing it.

01:03:54,500	I know that, um, so we currently now have eight certified drone pilots, and, uh, so our missions are being flown daily now, and, uh, like, like Riley said that, uh, we actually flew a mission form earlier today to get the first street project, uh, video and pictures, but they also get deployed out on, on many other things, like missing, uh, juveniles or person cases.

01:04:16,330	Uh, if there’s anything that is, uh, uh, you know, traffic related or we’re looking at, uh, looking at areas where, uh, barricaded subjects and stuff like that, we also work in concert with Bismarck, because Bismarck does have a pretty robust drone program compared to ours. Chief. Yes, sir. Just so the folks at home know, these aren’t the nickel and dime. Um, hobby store drones.

01:04:40,330	Uh, correct. Mister, Mister mayor and Commissioner Sjoberg. That is correct. These drones are about $8,000 apiece. Uh, we have two of them that are about $15,000 apiece.

01:05:00,230	And these this one that you see here on the, uh, picture here is we’ve got three of those, uh, one of them is at end of life, uh, so that one will probably need to get replaced here in the near future. And we got another one that’s down for maintenance. And then so this one here is we got one that’s flyable right now.

01:05:18,800	Uh, so then our two, uh, lemur drones, which are, uh, tactical drones for indoor flights, um, you know, they’re they’re still operational. We need some software updates on them and stuff like that, but, uh, there’s still operational. In the FAA, has a ton of governance rules that that we need to abide by, including the officers who fly them. Need to carry a active form 107, which is basically they have to complete a pilot, um, flight school.

01:05:42,300	Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Sjoberg, that is correct. All of our pilots are 107 certified, and we do not have a line of sight waivers. So when we’re flying at, the pilot has to be able to see the drone flying, um, on most missions, we’ll have an observer with them to help observe the, the flight of

01:06:00,970	it so the pilot can take care of what the pilot needs to take care of. Thank you. Yes, sir. Use of force. Uh, we’re almost there. We’re getting close. Uh, so use of force. This is where we track. How how much force our officers have used out there.

01:06:21,530	As you can see, uh, the 119 uses in 2025 is up slightly, is up a little bit from, um, 2024. But when you look at the actual statistical numbers of what they, what they’ve done, it looks pretty comparable to, uh, this the year before. Uh, Osprey.

01:06:47,530	I’m surprised we had one deployment, but we had one last year. But you can see most of it is weapon challenge and soft hand, which the definitions of each of these are right there.

01:07:03,470	So you know weapon challenge basically as an officer has to draw their gun and they point it in the direction of somebody and give them the command for compliance. So that happened 59 times out of 119. Use of forces. What’s interesting is when you go down this next chart, you look at it compared to the arrest rate. And because that’s where most of our use of forces come and play is, is when we arrest people.

01:07:25,370	So you can see our arrest went up from 2024 to 2025 pretty significantly. But our our percentage, our percentage went up slightly. So you can see that our officers are making good judgment calls. Uh, and uh, what we like is when we see that zero at the very top, which is the deadly force one.

01:07:51,470	And this is training, we have to go through 75 hours of training every three years. So we have to provide training. This just tracks the total of training percentages that we’ve went through over the year for training. And it breaks down from the administration patrol to field training.

01:08:10,670	Field training is the officers, the new officers that have to get certified, uh, before they actually get out on their own and get their own patrol car. That’s just more on that. And employment opportunities, operational definitions. These are just the definitions of what’s inside here. So if you’re interested in learning more about certain things, go to the back and you’ll be able to look up the operational definitions, the summary. And that is it.

01:08:35,700	Is there any questions? Any questions for Chief. Where is this information posted on the city website. Mr. mayor, it will be on the police department’s website and I’m sure we can get a link on the city’s website. Also. Do we have one? Mr. Dunbar should be posted on the city right? Mayor Froelich and commissioners.

01:08:58,330	The police department kind of maintains their own website that is linked to our city of Mandan page. So yes. And it will be published tomorrow. So I wanted to present it to the commission before I published it. Mayor. Chief, we thank you for a very comprehensive good report. You’re welcome. Yes. Thank you. Any other questions for Chief? Okay.

01:09:23,270	Don’t go away. I’m still standing there. Uh, we’ll move on to resolution and ordinances to approve the first consideration of ordinance 1486 to amend and reenact article two, chapter eight of the Mandan Code of Ordinances Relating to Alarm Systems. Chief Zeigler. Mr.

01:09:45,830	mayor, um, when we were looking at our alarm ordinance, we realized that we do no longer monitor alarm systems. And there’s a an annual fee that people $15 that people would pay for this monitoring. So alarm systems are now either self monitored or monitored by alarm companies.

01:10:04,700	So as we were diving into this, I worked with the city attorney and with Chief Bitz to get this to where we felt it was a satisfying and it did what we wanted it to do. So basically what we did is we took out the the monitoring fees because we don’t do that anymore.

01:10:22,730	We left in the false alarm fees, um, which can be adjusted by city commission resolutions. So if the fee needs to go up or down or however whatever you guys want to do with the fee, that’s up to the city commission. Um, so those are for false alarms over three.

01:10:41,330	So basically it’s a cleanup of this one here to take off the, the, uh, $15 annual monitoring fee and to, um, just kind of clean it up and make it more applicable to today’s, uh, what we, what we’re doing currently. Okay. Any questions for chief? Yeah. Mayor and chief, I got a few questions.

01:11:05,930	Um, so are we saying that we collect 11,000 in annual fees or annual fees plus false alarm fees? Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Heinsohn, that is a combination, if I’m not mistaken, of of everything. It’s not just the $15 that we’re collecting.

01:11:29,800	So if I’m not, if I recall right when I look at those, I want to say we it’s around that 8 to $9000 a year was the $15. And then the rest of it would be for false alarms. And even like on the police side, the the burglar alarms and stuff that we would monitor. Those have dropped down to almost zero because of the alarm companies that monitor it, take care of it.

01:11:49,530	And before we even get called. I said, so a couple other questions. So what in the ordinance update, it says that a person could still register with the police department and or fire department.

01:12:13,400	What would be the benefit it to registering for a business if we’re not charging a fee? What’s the benefit to the business for registering those. Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Einhorn, the benefit is, is that it gives us an emergency contact.

01:12:29,070	So if something does happen at your location, not your your resident or your business, that we we have somebody that we can contact and say, hey, you know, your house has been broken into or your business is broken into, um, because the alarm company is going if if it’s an actual physical alarm, um, the alarm company is going to call us.

01:12:49,330	But if our officers are patrolling and they see something, uh, and they ask, okay, we need an emergency contact to contact for. That’s what that would be for. So we would know who to contact in case of an emergency. Very good. Um, so the only other concern I have is this is this is only alarms.

01:13:14,470	And I guess my question kind of tied to, um, the section eight 2-2 with connection to the city’s 911 emergency system. And my mind was going to. What about panic buttons that directly call police? But that is not part of this. This is only monitored alarm systems. This doesn’t have to do with the the panic buttons that I would imagine are registered as well. But that’s a different ordinance.

01:13:36,830	Is that correct? Uh, Mr. Mayor and Commissioner Heinsohn, those panic buttons are monitored by a separate company that then would call us. It’s not tied into our system. So what this would say is that you can’t personally have your alarm system tied into the city of Mandan or to Centcom, that it has to be monitored by somebody separately. Okay.

01:14:01,370	They have to have the third party in between all the time. That’s correct sir. Okay. Thank you. You’re welcome. Any other questions for Chief? Thank you. Chief commissioners. I’ll move to approve the first consideration of ordinance 1486 to amend and reenact article two, chapter eight of the Mandan Code of Ordinances Relating to Alarm Systems.

01:14:27,570	Second motion by Commissioner Sjoberg. Second by Commissioner Heinsohn. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Commissioners. Sjoberg. Yes. Heinsohn. Yes Braun. Yes. Rohr. Yes. Mayor. Froehlich. Yes. With that, there is no other business future meeting dates for the Board of City Commission are. Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026 at 5:30 p.m..

01:14:53,200	Tuesday, June 16th, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. and Tuesday, July 7th, 2026 at 5:30 p.m.. And with that, be kind to your neighbor. Be kind to yourself and it’s onward and upward.