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The City of Altoona Common Council convened on Thursday, September 11, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at Altoona City Hall. Mayor Brendan Pratt presided. Councilpersons present included Timothy Lima, Bruce Thielen, Matthew Beeran, and Susie Zilmer, with Councilperson Susan Rowe attending via Zoom. City staff included City Attorney Sam Bach Hansen, Assistant City Administrator Roy Atkinson, Director of Public Works Scott Quick, Planning Director Taylor Greenwell, and City Clerk Cindy Bauer. The council addressed the consent agenda, received a fiber network completion award from TDS, and unanimously approved two Certified Survey Maps (CSMs) for the Whitetail Woods subdivision.
Citizens Participation Period: No members of the public presented comments. Public Hearings on Whitetail Woods CSMs: Two public hearings were held for the Certified Survey Maps. No public testimony was offered.
Okay, we're good. All right, let's go ahead and call the regular council meeting of Thursday, September 11th, 2025 to order. Got the pledge allegiance. I put it to the certified and do the remote cover, which is one nation. Roll call for councilpersons' roll call for department heads. Mayor Brendan Pratt. Councilperson Timothy Lima. Present. Councilperson Bruce Thielen. Councilperson Matthew Beeran. Here. Councilperson Susie Zilmer. Councilperson Susan Rowe via Zoom. We can see her on Zoom. We also have uh present attorney Sam Bach Hansen, Assistant City Administrator Roy Atkinson, Director of Public Works Scott Quick, Planning Director Taylor Greenwell, and Cindy Bauer, City Clerk. We have a quorum. All right. No more than 20 minutes unless extended by two-thirds vote for section 2.04.051B. Time limited to three minutes per person. So anybody out there like to see. Okay. You're not on mute, Sue, so I don't know if it's on your end. Try drop and reconnect, maybe. She used sign language. Seeing uh seeing none, Bieron will make a motion to close citizen participation period. LEMO second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. I opposed. Motion carries. All right. Discuss consider approval of the minutes of the August 28th regular council meeting. LAMO move to approve the um August 28th, 2025 regular council meeting minutes. Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. I'm not doing opposed. Motion carries. We'll wait for a second here. All right. Report City Officers Department Heads City Committees. Kind of see how things are going, if there's things we need to improve upon. Those meetings have been going well, getting good feedback from them. You know, things have been challenging going into the fall. You know, they're seeing that you know operationally things might be a little different. So we're we're trying to get programming in there. We're trying to get them uh feet on the ground. So we're working on getting different events in that space.