It's five I have 515 on the 13th of January.

We're in the Tom Baker room of the City County Building.

This will be the Board of City Commissioners meeting.

However, before we'll start, I would like to ask Chaplain Carr to come forward for invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance.

And maybe he wants to make an announcement about the per breakfast.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

And it's an honor uh to be able to do this, and we thank you for letting the chaplaincy continue to do this at each meeting.

We appreciate it.

And also we appreciate you letting us uh host the mayor's prayer breakfast.

And I'm happy to announce that date as May 20th, Wednesday, May 20th of this year at 715 a.m.

So we hope to see everybody there.

Let us pray.

Heavenly Father, I s I just want to thank you for uh this commission and the men and women that make the decisions to make Bismarck the great community that it is.

I thank you for giving them the wisdom that they need to make the right decisions every time.

We may not always agree with those decisions, but Father, I believe they're your decisions as well.

So thank you, Father, for these men and women.

Thank you for all of our workers in our city and our county.

Thank you for all of our first responders.

We ask your protection upon them as they do their job that they are called to do.

Uh Father, be with us tonight.

May everything uh that is done in this building uh just uh make Bismarck a better place.

And again, we give you thanks in the name of your son, amen.

Amen.

Please stand.

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.

Again, thank you.

Commissioner.

All right.

Um if we can call a meeting to order by calling roll, please.

Commissioner Rish.

Here.

Commissioner Zenker?

Here.

Commissioner Connolly?

Here.

Commissioner Cleary?

Here.

Mayor Schmidt.

Here.

Our first item tonight is public comment.

Public comment is for those items on the consent agenda or the regular agenda that is not a public hearing or anything from the prior agenda.

Anyone who wish to speak, please come forward and tell us what your topping talking to and sign in.

Good evening.

Uh for the record, my name is Dustin Goverlow, Bismarck resident.

Uh I'm speaking on regular agenda item number uh letter D regarding the street utility fee.

Uh I'm not going to get into policy on it.

I I just want to make a few comments about strategy and timing.

Uh and uh urge the concept of not letting the this and the uh sales tax get too blurred together.

Uh they are very complicated discussion points.

And I know that uh I think next meeting there will be more discussion on the sales tax side of things.

Uh and hopefully that gets ratcheted down significantly as far as the expectations that come out of that.

Uh but I I think that uh in my opinion, strategically to be able to best explain these uh separate uh measures to the public if that's where it's going.

Uh that uh having them be rushed is not necessarily a good idea, and that uh having them at the same time on the same ballot is not necessarily a good idea.

Uh with that, I will stand for any comments or questions.

I mean any questions for Dustin.

Thank you, sir.

All right, this is public comment.

Anyone who wish to speak, please come forward.

A second call for public comment.