The Fargo City Commission held its regular meeting on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at 5:00 PM in the Commission Chambers. The meeting covered a wide range of items including approval of consent agenda items, public hearings on a Renaissance Zone application and a zoning change, discussion on the future of the Fargo Civic Center, and resident comments. The meeting adjourned at 5:52 PM.
Meeting dates, times, and statistics are taken from the agenda, minutes, and transcript. Votes are as recorded in the minutes.
Oh well done by the dungeon. No, you wouldn't. Sorry. We'll call it order. We'll begin with Pledge of Allegiance. I invite you to join us. Underground with us. Roll call, please. Coal pack here. Capcorn. Strand. Here. Turnberg. Here. Mahoney. Here. Inspections. In 2024, the new construction of the city totaled $687 million, including 202 single family homes, 38 twin homes or row houses, and 441 multifamily housing units. The largest building projects in the city in 2024 were the airport terminal, worth 94 million, the airport parking garage worth 38 million. The downtown NP redevelopment project worth 49 million. The Alaska was housing project worth 14 million. The Von Murr Department store at 16 million. And the expansion of the John Deere plant worth for worth 10 million. Library. National puzzle. They would be celebrated January 18th at the main library starting at 9 a.m. Activities include a social, puzzle exchange, chess event, and puzzle completion. Pre-registration is required for that. Planning. The city is continuing to support the expansion of child care facilities in Fargo. As a member of the North Dakota Opportunity Fund, Fargo has provided letters of support to use this fund, which provides a match from the Bank of North Dakota interest buy down program. Support has been provided for five child care facilities and support for two more are on tonight's consent agenda. It's an important uh partnership with the city, the North Dakota Opportunity Fund and the Bank of North Dakota. On December 26th at approximately 6 p.m., a bus driving a bus driver, Zachary Armstrong was driving Route 15, which runs between downtown and West Acres in Walmart. When he noticed a female pastor who was slumped down in her seat and another passenger was trying to get her to respond. Zachary pulled the bus over, contacted dispatch to send emergency services to the scene. He then retrieved Narcon spray and with the help of another passenger administered the spray. The female passenger quickly responded to the narcon, and when emergency services arrived, they remove the female passenger from the bus. This is the first time a bus driver has utilized narcine spray, which is located on every bus. The city and the transit department would like to recommend Zachary or to commend Zachary for his quick thinking and assistance to this passenger. And John, it's a great story about Narcan, right? That we put it all over these cars, fire cars in the bus. It's another save. Yep. And then as part of the Faro's commitment to sustainability and response, responsible waste management. I'm excited to share a video with you tonight about the city's sanitary landfill reclamation project. This initiative focuses on excavating and modernizing the East Landfill site, ensuring environmental safety, reducing long-term liabilities, and maximizing the use of the city-owned land. It is forward-thinking project which demonstrates how the city can be innovative to protect the community and so where we're standing now is what was referred to as the old landfill. And it was the old landfill because it was an operating landfill between 1950 and 1980. So it was all 160 acres were full of garbage that was not in a line cell.