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The Altoona City Council met on Thursday, March 13, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at Altoona City Hall. Mayor Brendan Pratt presided with Councilpersons Dale Stewart, Timothy Lima, Matthew Beeran, and Susan Rowl present; Councilperson Caitlin Leopold was absent. Attorney Sam Bach Hansen, Grant and Housing Program Manager Julian Emerson, Parks and Rec Director Chad Durkup, and City Clerk Cindy Bowers were present. A quorum was established. The meeting covered routine approvals, department reports, and several new business items including a police department annual report, a ballfield lighting bid, a FEMA storm safe room agreement amendment, a sauna lease, a street assessment resolution, and container park contracts.
City Council meeting meeting of Thursday, March 13th, the order. We have the pledge allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the case. Underground individual with liberty. We'll call for council persons, we'll call for department heads. Mayor Brendan Pratt. Councilperson Dale Stewart. Here. Councilperson Timothy Lima. Councilperson Matthew Beeran. Here. Councilperson Susan Rowl. Here. We have absent councilperson Caitlin Leopold. We also have present attorney Sam Bach Hansen. Grant and Housing Program Manager, Julian Emerson, Parks and Rec Director, Chad Durkup, and Cindy Bowers City Clerk. We have a quorum. All right. Citizen participation period, no more than 20 minutes unless extended by two-thirds vote for section 2.04.051B. Time limited to three minutes per person. So if there are anybody would like to speak at this point, this is your chance. Seeing there are none, Lima moves to close citizens participation period. We're all second. Okay. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed. Motion carries. Discuss, consider approval of the minutes of the February 27th, 2025 regular council meeting. Roll move approval. LIMO second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Stuber abstains. Okay. Motion carries. All right. We have report city officers, department head and the city committees. Mayor Pratt, members of council. I have a bunch of bunch of items to uh report on uh today. Um first off the Frosty Tuna Fat Tire Bike Race taking place this weekend at River Prairie along in the River Prairie Trail system.