The Fargo City Commission convened in public session at 5:00 p.m. on April 1, 2024, following a closed executive session (4:03 p.m.–4:34 p.m.) to discuss threatened litigation regarding 501 Main Avenue. The regular meeting adjourned at 6:15 p.m. Commissioners Denise Kolpack, Arlette Preston, John Strand, and Mayor Timothy Mahoney were present; Commissioner Dave Piepkorn was absent. The meeting included resident comments, three public hearings, approval of a consent agenda, and a vote on a ceasefire resolution.
Call the meeting to order. I invite you to begin with the Pledge of Allegiance. I invite you to join us. Pledge of allegiance to the United States America. Roll call. Cold pack here. Preston? Here. Stran? Here. Mahoney? Here. Hell. Fargo Cast Public Health is holding a special is holding a spring spot social on April 30th at five to six thirty at the main building. Community members are invited to attend and learn about Fargo Cast public health programs and initiatives. Library. Guidelines, rules, and information are all available at the library's website. This presentation brings together collaborative minds of the landscape architect and emergency management to showcase the power of design to mitigate the impact of disasters. Most of the competition was more coastal and maybe larger systems. So like to me, it's it's sort of like the movie Hoosers, you know, we're kind of the underdog and kind of the newcomer in the membrane field, but it's uh it's a very neat experience. I think it's really the result of long-term planning by the water utility. It's a planning over about 20 years and implementation of that plan, including the membrane plant. So keep trying to get better and better at it as we move on. So some of the stuff that's contributed to us winning this award is uh we've been trending towards a lot of uh online instruments, now doing the manual test and trending a lot of the water quality parameters here at the water plant. We've done a lot of upgrades for reliability and safety here at the water plant, uh, including our pump stations. We put in a new UV system and a new water tower. So a lot of these projects have kind of contributed to uh us winning this war. I think you're very uh grateful, appreciative to the support that um the current city commission and past city commission has given us as a utility, not just water utility, but other infrastructure across the city to help us help us out and improve our systems, and it's really about you know the quality service we provide to our customers. It's a good good overall award for our our staff and the water treatment plant and the city as a whole very good, thank you. Uh Tri already noticed you guys wear jeans, so you get your pants dirty all the time working on a water plant. It's kind of ironic that that happens, but that was interesting. Is there a motion to approve the order of agenda? So move. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carried. So a motion to approve the amendments of the March 18th, 2024 regular meeting. So moved. Sir second. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries. So a motion to approve the consent agenda items one through 30. So second. Moved and seconded.