The Fargo City Commission met on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, starting with an executive session at 3:30 PM and a public session at 5:00 PM. The commission unanimously approved the consent agenda, denied a tax abatement request, approved the 2025 Transit Program of Projects, approved a rezoning and plat for the Grafstrom First Addition, and approved an RFQ for professional event curation services for the Civic Center. The meeting adjourned at 5:30 PM.
Call the meeting to order. We'll begin with Pledge of Allegiance. I invite you to join us. Roll call. Colpack here. Pepcorn. Here. Strand? Here. Turnberg. Here. Mahoney. Here. We came out of the executive session, and there was a motion that was suggested to move to authorized administrator Michael Redinger to negotiate with the parameters within the parameters as established in the executive session. Do I have that motion? So moved. Sir Second. Second. Any discussion. Roll call vote, please. Colpack here. I. Pepcorn. Hi. Strand. Mahoney. Yes. Library. The cooperative games night for teens will be February twenty-fourth from five PM to seven PM at the main library. The games are not so much about competition as they're about working together to beat the clock. Registration is not required for this event. Winter reading challenge ends March 1st. There's still time for area readers of all ages to read to earn books, prizes, and chances to enterprise drawings. Last week, the community came together to remember and honor Margo Police Officer Jason Mosher on the ninth anniversary of his passing. Also, we're honored to report that after eighteen months of recovery Fargo Police Officers Andrew Dotas and Tyler Haas are back on the street serving Fargo residents, businesses, and visitors. Prior to becoming a police officer, he was in the Minnesota Army National Guard serving two tours as an Army medic. They did a benefit game shortly after he died, and then a year later we did uh memorial game for him. And that was that was a sellout. And shortly after that, then we met his heart recipient. He was an organ donor. When we first met them, and we all got uh listening to Jason's heartbeat, which was pretty cool. Pretty good friends with them now. Like it's not lost on us right now as we're preparing to send you to college. Knowing that you were in third grade and he died and he's missed, you know, missed everything. Um because he would have been really proud of you, you know, making those decisions, and I know he would have wanted to be part of it. Um probably would not be happier gonna go up to UND instead of NDSU. I mean, those things are still really real for us all the time. And and other people can just, you know, I feel like it's not really ever moving on because you don't. Um you move forward and you find ways to just um there's something to deal with it. It's really real for us every day.