The Fargo City Commission convened at 5:00 PM on April 28, 2025, in the Commission Chambers at City Hall. The meeting included a consent agenda with 24 items, presentations on homelessness and forestry, public hearings on zoning changes and liquor licenses, a police department annual report, and a key vote to extend the winter warming shelter for one month.
The meeting adjourned at 6:32 PM.
We call the meeting to order begin with the pleasure of allegiance. I invite you to join us. Roll call. Here. Here. Tonight we continue our effort to recognize and highlight the outstanding work of the city departments do every day to serve the residents of Fargo. Our team is dedicated to ensure operations run smoothly, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Tonight we are highlighting the City of Fargo's administrative team. The team includes the city administrator, the assistant city administrator, strategic planning director, and our commission office staff. Our administrators, Mike Redinger and Brenda Derek work tirelessly behind the scenes to bring together the efforts of twenty-two different city departments. They do an excellent job of communicating with city commission and all the city departments as they help commissioners and the city staff identify priorities for our community. We help the city commissioners as well. So we are legally required to send out our agendas. We're also legally required to create meeting minutes from the city commission meetings. The city commission office helps coordinate various meetings within our office space. The City Commission office is also a wayfinder for citizens with concerns or questions about various things throughout the community. The digit planning involves economic development, uh trying to bring new jobs to town, as well as trying to redevelop older neighborhoods and uh bring new development to the downtown. We work with uh Greater Fargo Moorehead EDC to bring more primary sector jobs to Fargo. That might be a manufacturing company, a distribution company, a medical device manufacturing company, but something that adds high quality jobs that boost our economy. So it's kind of fun to come downtown even on a weekend and see these different projects, see more places to park, see new businesses, see vacant buildings become occupied. And I hope we can continue that. So the city of Fargo is really a catalyst for a lot of regional projects and a lot of big big picture thinking in the metropolitan area. So Fargo is going to typically be that home where we talk about things like water supply. We talk about the the flood diversion project, the Red River uh Regional Dispatch Center. You know, we're really the home for a lot of some of that strategic thinking about partnerships across the two counties, the two states, and the multiple cities within this metropolitan area. And so we typically are convening from those conversations, we're hosting those conversations in our spaces, and then also providing that strategic leadership so that we keep things moving forward, not only in Fargo, but in Fargo Moorhead West Fargo and the greater Cast Clay area. We do more than just working up here with city commissioners and department heads. We do work with other boards and commissions. You know, working with the HRC with the MLK Day was extremely exciting, and I really enjoyed it. I have worked for the city of Fargo for 16, almost 17 years. I enjoy the people and the citizens in which I have um come to know. I've been with the city a little over 30 years now. I started as a community development planner, moved on to planning director, and I'm working in administration on these redevelopment projects. Um I just enjoyed working with the people with the city, uh working with developers and the people uh in the community that care about this community and want to make it a better place. I've been with the city now for 33 years, trained as a civil engineer, and then I was city engineer for a while. And I truly, I do. I truly love working for the city of Fargo and I'm just super proud to work here. And you know, to be honest, working at the city gave me the flexibility as an engineer to be able to raise my family, yet still do what I wanted to do and what I love to do. So I joined the city of Fargo in 2016. I got a great opportunity to come join this organization as the assistant administrator at the time. And so I've been very grateful, very thankful that this has been an organization that's been home for nearly the last 10 years of my professional career. And to have that opportunity to be able to stay here and to fulfill the city administrative role here has been quite meaningful for me. I'm very appreciative to the community, very appreciative to my teammates, and we've got a great, great crew here at Team Fargo. Time goes past, doesn't it, Kimber? 16 years. Holy cow. Good job. Is there a motion to approve the audit of agenda withdrawing item 5A from the consent agenda and adding extra item at the end of the regular agenda to present uh the 2024 police department's annual report? So moved. Is there a second?