The Downtown Bozeman board met on April 15, 2026, to approve prior meeting minutes, receive updates on a downtown parking vision plan, and hear two presentations: one from Montana State University's strategic planning team and another on proposed updates to the Neighborhood Conservation Overlay District (NCOD) design guidelines. Board members provided feedback during both presentations, and no votes were taken on the substantive topics.
Emily are the speakers on. Yeah, great. They're on. All right. Are there any disclosures from the morning? Changes to the agenda. I have none. Approval at the minute. We have the February meeting, March meeting minutes that we approved our fiscal year 27 working budget. We're looking for a motion in a second, and we'll do a vote. I move I move to approve the minutes from last meeting. Okay. Second. Great. And I'll do a vote. Eric Nelson. Hi. Susan Neybauer. Elena Angelin. Hi. Randy Schooling. Hi. Mark Kiki. Hi. Great. Thank you. Public comments. If you are in the room or online and would like to make public comment, please use the raise your hand feature or step up to the podium. We have no public comment. First up, we will have, she's not here quite yet, but we'll have Kate Sutherland who is with the MSU strategic plan team, and she is just kind of hitting different groups throughout the community. So she wanted to um take advantage of our meeting today while she is in town and get input from the board and kind of give an overview of the timeline. Ellie's been serving on the strategic plan team for MSU and Ellie, I don't know if you want to give any kind of background just while we wait until Kate's here. Yeah, and you know, I'll I'll let her get to this because she's the professional. But uh yes, I've been sitting on this. It's going to be a process that goes through the summer and early into fall. The plan is for them to write it in the early fall and present it to Board of Regents in November at the end of November. So that's the plan and their timeline. They have made their way through a lot of meetings and time of on campus. And this was with intention. They're attacking um on campus groups first, everyone from staff to faculty to students to graduate students and beyond, I can tell you. And um, and then they will do a lot of their sessions with uh community leaders to luncheons, uh, you know, breakfasts and also tabling at local events. And the target really is to get into the community through this summer and early into that fall time period. The committee is not writing this plan. Uh we are simply listening and and being there to to support Kate and her facilitating, and um and then she will compile compile all these key insights and so much data that she is getting together. She has a team um in the on the East Coast doing a lot of data compiling for her, and then she will come back and present that to um the president and his other kind of leadership team up there, and they will write it. So the plan is we are not writing this plan, we are we're supporting the efforts, and then they will go back and have professionals on campus actually rewrite the strategic plan that will be presented. So it's been pretty awesome to be a part of it. You know, I I did I should have maybe mentioned this during changes to the check the agenda. I had thought uh Emily was gonna have an E an EDD report, but since we had presentations, I assume you know we wouldn't have time. Just a quick uh parking update, because I know that's always a hot topic, and we have been working on this parking vision plan.