The Fargo City Commission met on Monday, July 7, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. in the City Commission Chambers. The meeting began with an executive session from 4:06 p.m. to 4:58 p.m. to discuss litigation and negotiating strategy regarding Northdale Oil, Inc. and Eastdale, LLC. The public session reconvened at 5:00 p.m. with all five commissioners present: Denise Kolpack, Dave Piepkorn, John Strand, Michelle Turnberg, and Timothy Mahoney. The meeting adjourned at 6:13 p.m.
Call the meeting back to order. Roll call, please. Call pack here. Pepcoin? Here. Strand? Here. Turnburg. Here. Mahoney. Here. I invite you to join us with the Pledge of Allegiance. I invite you to join us. You have a motion from the executive session. Uh, Mr. Chair, I make the motion. I move to direct the city attorney to work with the city auditor to present an ordinance with specific terms and conditions to add a license class for liquor licenses for property in the extra territorial jurisdiction of the city of Fargo upon annexation of the property. So moved. Any discussion. No. Turnberg. Aye. Hi. Tonight we're highlighting the work of the Fargo City Auditor's Office. As many of you know, the auditor's office is the first floor of City Hall, right next to the main entrance. The staff at the auditor's office provides customer service that is true, truly second to none. They make sure everyone gets the help they need. If they aren't able to help someone, they find the department that can. They go the extra mile every day. Along with utility billing of four for thirty-five thousand customers, the auditor's office handles the laundry list of government functions. From pet licenses to liquor licenses. The list goes on. But they also are in charge of our city elections, and they keep track of all the city contacts and many other important records. The auditor's office manages all these duties with a lean team of staff members who are dedicated to serving our community. We will now share a video that spotlights the work of the Sargo City Auditor's Office. The auditor's office is the public-facing department in the city. But I'd say the primary interaction that people have is with the utility billing. Paying utility bill, there's lots of different options you can do. You can pay with cash, money order, credit card check. You can go online and pay or come into the office. You can mail in payments. So to keep all that straight and to stay with, you know, in contact with the businesses. And then relationships with customers. So working with the customers that are having troubles making their payments and that type of thing, providing them guidance on where they can go get some assistance. I try to assure them that it'll be the last time you're transferred until we know that we get you to the right place. Election Day is you know run by the county now. We've got an agreement with the county that they'll do that. But it's our responsibility to have all city measures and any candidates that are properly filled out their paperwork, put together and get that over to the county so that they can print their ballots and then conduct the actual election. There are occasions when we will have a special election and the city office here will have to conduct the election ourselves. And it feels good when you're able to help someone understand.